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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-21
New England
Tradition
By a Worker Correspondent


HILLsBORO. N. H.-The little
village Of washington, New Hamp-
shire. has come into the nmelight
in this state. With no industry,
and the farms the sort which can
only support a few moneyed New
York retired coupon clippers, the
Selectmen and Oyerseer Of the
Poor come forward with a glori-
GUS tradition. They feel that the
people of Washington can stand on
their own feet. and that the viii
lage will go on record as the one
town in the state which will not
apply for state or government re-
lief.
The other side Of the picture
Is not so CHEEKY. There is worker,
a former navy man, who is now
past seventy and too feeble to
work. living with his aged wife far
of on a back road. who has no
means Of support. There is the
family Of five children. husband and
wife, with no industry, no place to
farm that will support them. There
are some fifty families in Wash
ington and at least a dozen Of
these are stranded. being barely
kept alive by neighbors who are
in nearly as bad a condition as
they. The few families who keep
the little church painted white and
have no worries, come only when
the weather is comfortable and are
away now.
Today the unusual spectacle was
seen in Washington of a delegation
of ten marching down the elm lined
and snowy street to see the Over
seer of the Poor and demand that
they get fed. This group was
brought into action through the
initiative Of local residents, Charles
Chase and Harold Blanchard. They
had notified the Overseer, and he
called upon the Selectmen to have
the Town Constable on hand. But
when we arrived there was only
the Constable; Overseer Warren
Adams proved himself too yellow,
as one of the committee put it,
to face the music.
Then and there the delegation
voted to return to the square Sat-
urady when the Selectmen are in
session and to demand the removal
Of the Overseer and what is more
to insist upon relief for every
family in Washington who is in
need, tradition or no tradition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-21

We have not forgotten for a
moment the nefarious role which
Otto Bauer played in the fight
against the Bolsheviki, against the
Soviet Union, the aid which he
rendered in throttling the January
strike in Austria in 1918, his active
aid in overthrowing the Hungarian
Soviet Republic, his articles. his
pamphlets: "Bolshevism or Social
Democracy" The New Policy" etc.
1t was not the Noskes and Scheide-
MAINS who were the most danger
GUS enemies of the Soviet Union.
They would have accomplished very
little among the working class if
their campaigns had not been ideo-
logically supported by Otto Bauer.
The master of sham Marxist Left"
phrases, Otto Bauer is more respon-
sible than anybody else for the
fact that Wells and Leipart sue
ceeded in helping AdoIph Hitler
to obtain power, that fascism tri-
umphed in Austria. But he goes
farther. He wants to play his dis
astrous role right up to the end.
After history has given the social
democratic workers plain answer
to the hypocrtical question, Democ-
racy or Dictatorship?-with which
no man juggled more than Otto
Baeur-and they are now begin
ming to follow the path which
Lenin and Stain pointed out and
are still pointing out, Otto Bauer
comes forward hypocritically and
prophesies, the world victory of So
cialism with the moral aid OF the
Soviet Union In five, ten or fifteen
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-21
MiIitancy Wins
Foundry Strike
By a worker Correspondent

MASON CITY. Ia. - The strike
that was called at the Potter
Foundry at Albert Lea, MINI, on
Monday, Feb. 4, was won late Sat
urday of the same week after a
great battle.
The local sheriff and deputized
company union scabs were unable
to break the picket lines which
were supported by the unemployed.
As there were not enough members
of the Independent Union to hold
the lines, they asked the unem-
ployed for support.
The workers won all their de-
mand with the understanding that
the Independent Union of All
Workers would represent them.
During the course of the strike.
the Albert Lea authorities wired to
Mason City, Ia. for machine guns
with which to fight the pickets.
They got the machine guns, The
strikers learned of this and called
to Austin, MINI, where almost the
whole town is organized under the
Independent Union of All Work
ers, and told them to send all the
men they could to help fight the
machine guns.
They surrounded the Jail where
two OF the pickets were held on
trumped up charges of melting to
riot and told the sheriff to come
out with all his machine guns and
fight it out with them.
Before the Austin boys came, the
sheriff struck one Of the pickets
with rubber hose with some lead
at the end of it. The hose is now
in glass frame in the workers
hall at Albert Lea. The boss at
the foundry refused to walk out Of
the Office when the strikers told
him to, so they put him out with
the result that the boss got a black
eye for his stubbornness.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-21
Strikebreaker's
Reward
By a Worker Correspondent

HAINES CITY, Fla.-Mr. Hall,
the strikebreaker, who in last years
strike at the Gentilie Brothers Cit
rus Packing House, when 95 per
cent of the workers walked out,
scabbed, was recently fired by the
Gentilie Brothers.
This scab endangered the lives
Of several of our militant ladies
and children who helped in the
strike. This Mr.. Hall was sent for
some scabs by Gentilie Brothers in
one Of the company's cars. When
he returned with these scabs he
went through our picket line at a
speed of fifty miles per hour. Sew
ersl workers were bruised trying to
get out Of his way.
Now this Mr.. Hall admits to
people that he will never scab
again for he has learned that the
bosses have no use for scabs after
the strike is settled. We are glad
that this fellow learned a lesson
and we are sure that it has taught
other workers a lessen. too.
So, next time Mr.. Hall use your
militancy for the working class and
not for the bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-21

Repair Shop
Speed-Up
BY a Worker Correspondent

PORTLAND, Ms.-The Cumberl-
land County Power and Light Co.
repair shop went through several
changes since last year.
With the abandonment of the
Westbrook shop, the repair work on
the Westbrook cars was transferred
to the Portland shop, but the force
was not increased. Jut tLe oppo-
site happened. Since then approx
imately IS men were released" and
no help has been hired.
There are two A. F. of L. locals
here, motormen a nd electricians,
but they are old age and insurance
societies and little else. The locals
are more occupied in fighting each
other than in helping the workers.
The men used TO work 50 hours
week. With the coming Of the NRA
the hours were cut to 40, and so
were the wages. Then the COM
pany announced 10 per cent in
crease. with the result that the men
are receiving so per cent less than
they did before.
Of the four winders that used to
work there, one has been released"
and the work stretched among the
remaining three. The same was
done in the painting room. Which
room is next?
The Central Maine Power Co.,
which is operating in the Eastern
part of Maine, is affiliated to the
Cumberland County Power and
Light. 1t is charging 10 cents per
kilo and pays its linemen very
dangerous work which includes
climbing posts) % cents per hour.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-21
Soviet Workers Describe
Election in Metal Plants

From the Moscow 'Freser" Plant
Dear Comrades:
No doubt you have already heard
of the elections which took place
recently in the Soviet Union. All
workers 10 years old and UP have
right to vote in the elections for
candidates to the Soviets. This year
nineteen million young workers
voted for the first time.
In this letter we want to tell you
of the way in which the elections
took place in our pdant, ''Freser,"
where 1000 workers vote. At the
opening of the election campaign
for the Moscow Soviet, we heard
the report of a representative of the
Moscow Soviet and the Stain Dis
trict Soviet. Since our factory is
in the Stain district, it is called
the Stain Soviet.
Everyone of us knows of the
colossal achievements of Socialist
construction in our country.
Nevertheless, when we heard the
report of the results of the work
in the past few years, we were sur
prised as you will be, and we asked
ourselves the question: When were
we able to accomplish all of thisl
Let US take, for an example,
Moscow, and first of all the city
budget.
In the past four years. the popu-
lation Of Moscow grew 1.3 times
from 2,724o0O persons to 3,62S.0OO
Moscow now ranks after New
York, London, Paris and Berlin. Old
Moscow, mercantile Moscow, con-
sisted mainly of low buildings or
wooden houses. Workers found
shelter in the cellars or in dirty
lodging houses, so well described by
our proletarian writer, Maxim
Gorky, in many of his stories. Old
Moscow is unrecognizable now. Dur
ing the three years from 1881 to
1883. 1671 900 square meters of liv-
ing quarters were built and occupied
In 1884, another l,550O 900 square
meters were constructed. During
these three years, 1857 new houses
were built. supplying half million
workers with beautiful, comfortable
| homes.
The workers of our factory also
received new homes. On an empty
lot, where cows used to Craze, three
large flye-storey apartment houses
were built, totalling 440 rooms, and
II other houses, each containing IL
apartments.
The workers receiving these new
homes wanted to furnish them we'll.
When you look into one of these
houses, it warns your heart to see
how much better our living condi-
lions have become: gas ranges, hot
water, sunny rooms, lace curtains
on the large windows. mirrors,
divsns, bookcases. How many
workers we're there before the
] Revolution who had their own book
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-21
Pledges Solidarity
To N.B.C. Strike
By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK; am worker in
the Sunshine Biscuit Company. I
want to send a message to the
workers of the National Biscuit
Company from my fellow workers
in Sunshine. We are watching
very closely the strike in NB.C.
and are all behind the NB.C.
strikers because we know that
their fight is our fight. We can
fully appreciate their militancy
and courage.
Because Of the strike in NB.C.
the Sunshine Company has in
creased its orders and also its
profits. But as usual the only eff
feet this has had on us workers is
more speed-up. The machines are
running at full speed and 1t is all
We can do to keep up with them.
The machines are set at a speed
Of Is TO 10 pans minute. You
wouldn't think we we're human
beings the way we have to work
There is one machine, however,
which is set at normal speed Of
about 10 or II pans minute. But
are the bosses interested in saw
ing our health? I should say not
This normal machine is never
used!
Oh, yes, we have our grievances,
too, and that's why we can sympa
thize with the workers in NBC.
who are striking for better condi-
lions. We too are preparing for
strike.
Many of the workers in Sun
shine would like to contribute
towards relief for N.B.C. strikers.
We would suggest that a committee
be sent over from the NB.C. strik-
ers so that the raising Of relief
funds from the Sunshine workers
can be properly organized.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-21
NOTE:

Every Thursday we publish let
ters from farmers, sharecroppers;
agricultural, cannery and lum-
Der workers. We urge farmers
and workers in these industries
to write us of their conditions
and efforts to organize. Please
get these letters to us by Mon
day Of each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-21
Farm Leader Held
By U. S. for Protest

MINOT. ~ D., Feb. 19,-The drive
against the Communist Party and
the militant farmers of North
Dakota continued with the arrest of
K. Heikilla and Hy Wallace, farm
ers' and Party leaders on a charge
of intimidating a Federal court"
The arrests were made on the
basis of protest wires demanding
the release of seven Divide County
farmers arrested on charges OF
'conspiring TO defraud the United
States government" for participa-
ton i'll Sears Roebuck" farm sale
in 1888. The indictments against
the seven had been quashed, but
they were held on order of Federal
Judge Andrew Millar of Fargo,
North Dakota, for the next grand
jury.
Heikilla and Wallace are held
under $500 and $1,000 bond, re-
spectively.
NEW YORK-Telegrams protest.
ing the holding of the seven Divide
County farmers, and demanding
their release and the release of
Heikilla and Wallace, we're sent to-
day by Anna Damon, acting ma
tional secretary of the International
Labor Defense, TO Judge Andrew
Miller and District Attorney P. w.
Lanier, both at Fargo, North Da-
kota.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-21
A RESOLUTION

The following resolution should
be sent to:
Dist. Attorney N. McAllister.
Att. General U. S. Webb.
Governor Frank f. Merriam,
Superior Judge Dial Lennon.
All at Sacramento, Calf.
I (we), the undersigned, pro-
test against the frame-up of IS
workers in Sacramento, Califor-
mia, under the vicious anti-labor
Criminal SyndicaliSt Law.
1 (we), demand their immedi-
ate, unconditional release; and
further demand that the Grim
inal Syndicalism Law be wiped
off the statute books of the State
Of California.
This law denies workers their
fundamental rights to organize.
strike, and picket, and the right
Of free speech, press, and as
semblage.
Individual or Organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-21

Burck's cartoon book, Hunger
and Revolt" is now offered in a
81 edition with renewals and new
subscriptions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-21
Can You Make En- Yourself?

Pattern 1892 is available in sizes
6, 8, 10, II and IA. Size 10 takes
Us yards So inch fabric and "a
yard 3 inch ribbon. Illustrated sew
ing instructions included.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-21
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Ann Bartea

THE most current example Of the
bosses old trick Of fesding cir
cusas to the workers instead of
bread, the exploiting TO the fullest
extent Of every detail about the
Dionne quintuplets, leads a Cali
fornia friend to write us. He sends
along a San Franciso Scripps-How-
ard newspaper which editorializes
about the quintuplets. The other
Dionne children, the editorial
states, are commonplace youngsters.
The quintuplets are superior babies
in every respect. and it all goes to
show what can be accomplished by
environment. Mothers, it said,
should not have withheld from them
the means to translate love into
the very best treatment for her
child. The editorial ends with a
wisecrack that makes a thinking
person groan. Many a child is
raised" it says without being
elevated" It does not trouble to
ask why.
OUR California friend says I'VE
y here, at various times, have dis
cussed the publicity and ballyhoo
given by the press to the Dionne
quintuplets.
Anyone who is normal, responds
warmly to the attractive pictures of
these children. But how many
newspaper readers realize that it is
their special treatment that is the
economic basis back Of their deveI-
opment. Biologically quintuplets
are unusual. but after they are born,
what difference Is there between
the needs of a mother with five
children Of the same age and a
mother with five children Of diff
fersnt ages? Why not as much
attention to all the five children
families in the United States?
THE exploitation Of the Dionne
quintuplets is becoming so OBJ
viovsly raw that the family is al
ready complaining of the neglect
OF the older children. Last night
the local Scripps Howard San Fran
cisco News let the cat out of the
bag in the editorial which I have
enclosed called "Quintuplet
Query"
The damndest thing about the
editorial is that the writer doesn't
even mention the millions of other
babies in the U. S. that have not
proper food and care on account Of
the systeml
We here, think that it is most
opportuna right now for the Daily
Worker, New Masses, and Working
Woman to grab by the neck the
continental interest in the quintu-
plets and focus it upon the economic
story underlying and surrounding
these children (their food. care and
training). Their story should be
compared with that of the other
mothers and children in this coun-
try and with the mothers and chill
dren in the Soviet Union. Pictures
showing the many, many nurseries
and child-en's hospitals in the So
Wet Union could be set opposite the
one hospital for the quintuplets that
has caused such a sensation, and
featured also could be the many,
and undernourished babies and
many pictures available of starving
children in the city and country
slums Of America"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-21

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-12
Two Wars

:. 1t IS always worth While to remember / Abraham Lincoln his character, his 1. work and his words. Perhaps it is more { so than usual just now. Three-quarters of { a century ago he was laboring to save our { Political Union. Today the nation is lab I might be called our Economic Union, :. which is a union of Capitalism and De- z mOcracy. Lincoln always sheds light. : Listen: "A house divided against itself
 cannot stand. I believe this government
 cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expet the Union to be ;. dissolved. I do not expect the house to z fall. But do expect it will cease to be di :. vided.",
 , To a congressman who recited "Why 1. should the spirit of mortal be proud": !. My dear sir, l see no reason whatever" To fighting Joe Hooker: Beware of !. rashness, but with energy and sleepless ; vigilance go forward and give us victor .. ies."
 ]. Replying to. resolutions adopted at a mass-meeting in New York city, where 7, Governor Seymour had asked "whether this war is Waged to put down rebellion in the South or to destroy free institutions { in the North: "The resolutions are' re- 7 solvable into two propositions,-first,t the :. expression of purpose to sustain the :. cause of the Union, to secure peace . through victory, and to support the Ad- ministration in every constitutional ana
 lawful measure; and secondly, declara-
 tion of censure upon the Administration for supposed unconstitutional action. And from the two propositions third is de- , duced, w hich is that the gentlemen
 composing the meeting are resolved on sf fhoip ort fn maintain
 ernment and country, despite the folly of
 wickedness, as they may conceive, of any
 Administration. This position is emin-
 ently patriotic, and as such I thank the . meeting and congratulate the nation for : it. My own purpose is the same, so that i. the meeting and myself have common
 object, and can have no difference except ! in the choice of means or measures for effecting that object"
 From the Gettysburg Address: "That
 we here highly resolve that this nation,
 under God, shall have new birth of
 freedom, and that government of the
 people, by the people, for the people, shall
 not perish from the earth"
 In reply to the mass convention" of
 about 400 people that nominated General
 Fremont for president in 1864 (reading
 from the Bible on Lincon's desk) And
 everyone that was in distress and every
 one that was in debt and everyone that
 was discontented gathered themselves un-
 to him; and .he became a captain over them, and there were with him about four hundred men,"
 From the second inaugural address: ."Let us strive to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nations wounds to care for him who shall have borne the
 battle, and for his widow and orphan-to
 do all which may achieve just and last ring peace among ourselves and with all nations"
 How many of these are living words today, touching living issues.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-12
Flooding the State

The appropriations committee of the General Assembly was informed last week that bootleg gasoline is flooding this state. It seems almost unbelievable that this is so, yet statistics gathered in recent years by private oil companies substantiate the story. In fact for good many years these same companies have been able to furnish upon demand all sorts of data to show that even in state like Connecticut, where the gasoline tax was only two cents (plus one cent federal tax), the .bootlegger has found' a market.
 Most of the time public officials and others accepted this story at it's face value, but privately said to themselves that it was merely bit of propaganda to prevent the gasoline tax being raised, as has been attempted for the last few ses- gions of the Legislature Fortunately for this state we have kept our tax at low figure and as a consequence had less trou- ble from the gas bootlegger than neigh boring states
 When Motor Vehicle Commissioner Mi chael A. Connor comes before a legislative committee and asks an additional depart nent inspector to cope with the bootlegS ging situation, then we must admit that the danger is at hand and despite all our precautions we are being invaded. It is an incentive to retain the present low gasoline tax rate It is an incentive to en- list all enforcement agencies in drive to keep the state clean of bootleg gasoline.
 The bootlegging occurs by water, as it is practically impossible to bring in boot leg gas by rail without detection. There is little effort to check cargoes at ports
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-12
BURLESQUE CLOSING OR OPENING A MATTER FOR
 THE POLICE.

Feb. II, 1885 Editor of the Democrat:
 After reading today's issue of the Waterbury Democrat and finding no gate-enriching headlines for burlesque clean-up, tainted money, baby's milk and who knows what. was at first prone to conclude in the vernacular of printers row that you were "scooped" by the op. However, on closer scrutiny of your columns in sane pres entation of the news. read that Superintendent Mclean, the city's proper vested authority to pass upon the merits or demerits of such enterprises, was in touch with the situation and saw noth- ing to call out the marines as yet. but would if conditions war ranted.
 Now that Is about all think the public desires in the way of as- surance. There's a limit even to clean-ups or at least who shall do the "dirty work" This whole bur lesque episode brings to my mind what think, if I recall rightly. what the late Father McGurk once said to bunch of reformers who wanted him some years back to help weed out the boot-leggers of prohibition times. I'm no police man. that's their job."
 So, too, I think 1t is with bur lesquA. movies. obscene literature and the like, if you have a com. plaint, register 1t with the police and if don't miss my guess, think Joe" Mclean will tend tc 1t if 1t needs attention. That's about the way your story put 1t and I think 1t was about right.
 PUBLICAN.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-12
So They Say

Make it snappy; l must look nice for the girls -Capt Ivan PoderJay' to photographers.
 
 The rugged individualist is the only one who has anything to contribute to the flock. He is d rare bird and nothing should be done to suppress discourage him.
 -Iresidcnt George E. Cuttcn, of Colgate Univer- Sty.
 
 believe that in future the flying of long dis tances belongs to the stratospherc
 Capt James Mollison, famous flyer Both trees and mon are living rncchanisrns more complex than any political state. Both are controlled by deccntralizcd powers, from which messengers as of the gods transmit the signals TOT balanced action to all parts of the organism --Dr D. T. MacDougal of the Carnegie Institution