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AMERICAN CREW
STILL MISSING
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Under international law a vessel
may be seized when more than half
the cargo Is absolute contraband
and consigned to a belligerent.
Hull reiterated yesterday that the
United States was reserving all
rights under international law, thus
paving the way for strong represen-
tatiors.
The British have worked out ar
rangements with shippers to call at
specified ports for inspections OF
cargoes, and have instituted no prize
court proceedings against any
American ships or shipments.
President Roosevelt said he hoped
the vessel would be returned. He
added that 1t would not have beer
seized had the neutrality law been
revised to impose q cash and carry
trade policy with belligerents and
prohibit American vessels sailing
into combatizones. The White House
emphasized that the vessel was or
a perfectly legal voyage from the
American viewpoint.
Observers doubted that the Flint
would be the last ENHANCEMENT Of
American shipping. with the sea
warfare intensity mounting daily.
1t was expected that within the
next few days the Russian govern.
ment would be asked to release the
Flint, and that If the crew has me,
with injury or mistreatment, strong
representations would be made t.
Germany, in the light Of whatever
facts are developed by investigation
now under way.
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attack must start.

~"~~-NO-- -----@-
The entire German press reflect
ed the Nazi viewpoint that Won Rib
bentrop's speech was in effect the
German declaration of war to the
death with Great Britain.
THE foreign minister's recapitu-
lation COT events leading to war;
constitutes Q political turning
point" the National Zeitung said,
adding that all of Adolf Hitler,s eff
forts for peace with Great Britain
had been rejected with insulting
arrogance"
Berlin, Oct. 25-(UP)-Adof Hit
Ter received Gen. Wilhelm Keitel,
chief of the German high command,
Col. Gen. Walther Won Brauchitsch,
commanders n-chief of the army,
and other military leaders today for
long conference following For
eign Minister Joachim Won Ribben-
trop's Danzig speech.
The belief had been expressed
abroad that Won Ribbentrop's adj
dress would precede a German land
offensive in the west, but despite
today's military conference, well-in-
formed Nazis doubted such action
was imminent on the French front.
1t appeared more likely, they said,
that the conference was concerned.
with preparations for an intensifi-
cation Of air and naval action
against Great Britain.
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|NAZIS CLAIM TO
SEEK FOR CREW
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garding the City Of Flint, although
the embassy repeated its inquiries
today to the foreign ONCE and the
Hamburg prize court.
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uuiries both In Germany and in
Moscow regarding the ship and had
been promised Information If avail
able. The embassy here. however,
was not advised of the German nego-
tiations with Moscow.
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of those guilty for causing war, but
alone on the hardness of weapons
England IS threatening our ex-
istence and our vital rights. Now
whether she wants to or not, she
must place at stake her world DOM
nation, her empire.
Guarantees for peace, we want to
assure England and the world, will
not be argued out at a green table
They will be fought out with q
sharp sword"
Whatever the effect abroad Of
Ribbentrop's argument that Britain
was the Gillian, and dragged re-
luctant France into q war which
Germany was forced to accept, il
seemed plain that Germans believed
him.
The German man in the street
seems convinced that the French dc
not want to fight. He cited the
recent voluntary withdrawal oi
French troops on the Western Front
and rumors that French soldiers
were displaying placards to the Ger
mans: Don't shoot at us = SHOOT
farther left where there are British
troops" This particular rumor has
circulated for weeks.
Prime Minister Neville Chamber
lain was saddled with the war gull
by most of the newspapers in theil
comment on Ribbentrop's speech.
Bombing In Prospect
Berlin, Oct. 25-(UP)-The news
paper National zeitung, which is
close to Hermann Goering, COM
mander of the German air force,
limited editorially today that extern
sive bombing of the British Isles is
in prospect.
1.-THE moment has come" the
newspaper said, when the war
which Britain wanted must shower
down on the British Isles them
| selves"
Weapons must speak," the news
paper continued, adding that For
eign Minister Joachim Won Ribben-
trop's Danzig speech marked the
moment after which the German
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MERCILESS WAR
ON ENGLAND

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Ihoms Faces Charges
OF Alleged Bribery
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on the last possible day Tor intro
ducing bills at the session-Feb. 1.
Atty. william Haggearty, Of New
Britain, at that time a State Sem
ator, presented the measure at
Cooney's request, the witness relater,
and he further said the bill had
been. prepared following a confer
ence between Spellacy and himself.
He said that Mayor Spellacy APP
peared at the public hearing on the
bill in its behalf.
At this point Prosecutor Acorn
attempted to have Cooney admit
that Leary had conversed with
Spellacy on the bill prior to
Cooney's conference with Spellacy,
but Attorney James w. Carpenter,
representing ThornS, objected on
the ground that Cooney was not
present at the alleged converse
ton.
Senator ally Present
When the trial opened at 10 o.
clock this morning In the Hartford
county courthouse former State
Senator Matthew A. DAILY Of New
Haven, one of the four accused
legislators, was present in the court
room. His trial follows that Of
Thoms', as do those of ex-State
Senator Joseph H. Lawlor Of Water
bury, and former Rep. Daniel F..
B. Hickey of Stamford. A fifth
legislator accused was former State
Senator Nathan A. Spiro Of DAN
bury who pleaded guilty in June,
1898, and was fined $500.
The first witness was Leon She
folde. principal clerk in the office
of the Secretary of State. He
identified the House journal OF the
1885 legislative session.
He took the stand Immediately
after Atty. Carpenter had attempt
ed to file demurrer on the ground
that the states charge of bribery
was not shown in the charge filed.
Judge Comley overruled it, just as
it was a year ago by Judge Rob-
ert L. Munger.
Members Of Committee
Shefolde also testified as to the
members of the committee on pub
lie health and safety of the 1885
legislative session, among whom were
Lawlor and Spiro. He related how
the bill was rejected and also that
two substitutes were thrown out.
Finally, the witness said, commit
tee on conference, of which Thoms
was house member, drew up a bill
which was passed.
Following him j. Edgar Wahlberg,
supervisor of retirement In the state
controllers office, testified that
Thoms had received his salary Of
$500 as representative in 1885, plSs
mileage from Waterbury to the state
capitol of $534.60.
Judge Albert Bill of West Hart
ford, clerk of the senate in 1885, now
secretary of the Republican state
central committee, was the fourth
witness. merely identifying the SEN
ate and house journals Of that ses-
sion.
He was followed by Judge Stanley
Traceski of New Britain, house clerk
in 1895, who did the same thing.
Others To BE Called
Also subpoeraed as states wit
nesses were former House Majority
Leader Noah Swayne Of Darien, and
State Police Commissioner Edward
j. Hickey, investigator on States
Attorney Alcorn's staff prior to July
of this year.
The charges of bribery against the
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NO MORE CABINET
SHIFTS EXPECTED
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would go. now, apparently, they will
remain.
| Similarly, Secretary of Labor
Frances Perkins, first woman in the
United States to attain cabinet rank,
has her job for the duration of the
Roosevelt administration. And if the
president contemplates putting At
torney General Frank Murphy in
the next vacant supreme court
bench, there has been no intima-
ton of it fro mthe White House.
But the navy appointment is
pressing for attention either by pro-
motion of Acting Secretary Charles
Edison or by nomination of someone
to take over the department from
him. The navy is one of the admin
istration hot spots these days with
neutrality patrol far at sea and re-
sponsibility ashore for spending
around $1,000, 0O0, 900 a year to ex-
pand the fleet
Edison Has Been Acting
Illness had incapacitated the late
Secretary Claude A. Swanson long
before his death so that Edison has
been secretary Of navy in fact, if
not in name, for year or so. But
! the rank and Prerequisites are being
withheld from him and the word
here is that the president probably
will put someone in above Edison
expecting the latter to continue in
the secondary role.
Secretary of Commerce Harry l.
Hopkins illness has ended specula-
ton that arose widely year ago
when he was promoted from the
works progress administration. It
was necessary to move Hopkins be-
cause charges of political pressure
through the federal relief organiza-
ton had antagonized enough con-
gressmen to store up trouble for the
administration and its chief If he
came again to Capitol Hill seeking
funds. Speculation over his promo
ton, however, centered on the pos
sibility that Hopkins was being CIV
en- spot where he could make a
name for himself with business lead
err and become available as the New
Deal presidential nominee in 1910
Such talk ha' not been heard for
months now, nor is 1t likely to come
up again.
But Hopkins, i'll or well, Is secure
In his job on the basis of precedent
whereby Mr.. Roosevelt kept Secre-
tary Swanson as head of the navy
department long after he was unable
Ito discharge the duties of the post
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MAYOR HAS NOT
YET DECIDED

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Sterilizer Company. which he iden-
titled as a New York firm.
He Knew MIR. Leary
he admitted knowing that Mr.
Leary had large holdings in the
concern, but could not say If he
was q director. He said he had pre-
pared contracts in connection with
patented devices Of the company
causing instant steam cleaning OF
toilet seats-which were nanufact-
ured by the Grey Telephone Com
pany of Hartford.
Atty. Cooney testified that when
the sanitation bill calling for steri-
lization Of all toilet seats in public
lavatories was filed in 1885 it was
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-10-25
DIR. MORSE APPOINTED

Hartford, Conn.,, Oct. 25.-(UP.-
The state tuberculosis commission
today appointed DR.. L. Rogers Morse,
40, resident physician at Uncas-on-
Thames sanatorium to succeed DR..
William M. Stockwell, So, as super
intendent and medical director OF
Cedarcrest tuberculosis Sanatorium
Newington. DR.. Stockwell retires
Dec. 81 after 20 years of state serv-
Ice. DR.. Morse formerly practiced at
BRIDGEPORT,
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Germany Promised to
Build Up Russian Navy
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Of Germans to go to air raid shell
tiers, thereby interrupting thousands
who were listening to Ribbentrop's
speech.
The newspaper said that the
Hamburg radio station stopped
broadcasting the speech while the
British planes were overhead.
The airministry had announced
that British planes few over the
cities mentioned last night.
The R. A. F. flight was the deep
est penetration yet made on flights
over Germany.
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former state legislators are the out
growth of the sensational grand jury
report filed in Waterbury in May OF
1888 which charged that legislation
was being bought for favors. 1t is
alleged by the state that Attorney
Thoms, who was house minority
leader at the 1888 and 1885 sessions,
received 200 shares of the Electric
Steam Sterilizer company stock IN
reutrn for legislative aid.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-10-25
BRITISH PLANES OVER
GERMANY

London, Oct. 25.--(UP)-British
Royal Air Force planes new over
Berlin, Magdeburg and Hamburg
last night while Joachim Won Rib
bentrop, Nazi foreign minister, was
speaking at Danzig, the Evening
News said today on "ofiicial" au-
thority.
Reports circulated In high quar-
tiers here said that the r. A. r..
night caused enormous" numbers
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-10-25

The famous silent
Glow with built-in
double burners. /.
Beautifully finished
and grained. You save
HALF Thursday, g. A.
M. to 9 p. NJ. BE early:
they'll sell fast!
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tCOntlnued Tom Page II
and the mayor and his friends have
feeling of deep resentment.
"Wishful thinking" reports that
the Independent Republicans would
offer q complete list of candidates
in the city election have proven
groundless. Reports that Attorney
General Francis A. Pallotti had
ruled informally that additional
candidates could be named though
the legal deadline has passed have
been found false.
Montana labor news., 1939-12-07

continue only under democratic in
stitutions, but the democratic insti-
tutions can continue to progress in
safety only SO long as there is a
labor movement.
your committee recommends
that Education Committees and
Labor everywhere watch carefully
the conditions under which our
public schools are administered. The
American Federation of Labor has
ever and will continue to support
teachers and other employees of our
public school system and higher in
stitutions of learning in their de-
mand for complete freedom of or
g"anization."
The committee recommends that
President Green and the Executive
Council give all possible support to
the American Federation of Teach
ers and to other labor bodies seek
ing reinstatement of teachers in
such cases as are exemplified by
these mass dismissals.
The recommendation of the COM
mittee was unanimously adopted.
Montana labor news., 1939-12-07
Your Part in the Nationwide
DOnnelley Campaign

Your part in the Donnelley campaign is
to stop the sale Of Donnelley products in
your community. The following magazines
are among the more important publications
printed by Donnelley, and the publishers
have consistently refused to remove them
to a union shop:
Donnelley Prints 'Time"
Time is published weekly by Time, Inc,
800 East 22nd Street, Chicago, Illinois, and
is priced at 10 cents a copy. If you have
been purchasing this magazine, please dis
continue doing so and notify the publishers
Of your reason. Ask the members of your
family and other friends of organized labor
to do likewise. Time has a wide circula-
ton in barber shops and physicians and
dentists offices. If your barber, physician
or dentist is p%atronizing this magazine, please
request him to discontinue his patronage. It
is suggested that readers of Time" switch
to any n Of the magazines listed below.
Substitutes for "Time"
These magazines have features similar to
those found in Time" and, while one of
them does not bear the union label, they are,
nevertheless, all printed under union condi-
lions.
"News Week" published weekly by
Weekly Publications, Inc, $50 Dennison Ave
nue., Dayton, Ohio. Priced at 10 cents per
copy.
"The New Republic"-published weekly
by Editorial Publications, Inc, 40 East 49th
Street, New York, N. Y. Priced at Is cents
per copy. This publication bears the union
label.
"The ation"-published weekly by The
Nation, Inc, SIS Fifth Avenue, New York,
N. Y. Priced at Is cents per copy. This pub
LEGATION bears the union label.
DonneIIey Prints "Life"
Life" is also owned by Time, Inc, 339
East 22nd Street, Chicago, Illinois. It is pub
lished weekly and sells for 10 cents a copy.
Life" too, has a wide circulation in barber
shops and physicians and dentists offices.
You are urged to take the same action
against this magazine as that requested
against thine"
Montana labor news., 1939-12-07
Over twenty-five Million Dollars Paid
In Trade Union Benefits

The tremendously important service per-
formed by trade unions in protecting their
members from want caused by unemploy-
ment, various types of disability and in pro-
vision for their dependents in case of death
is strikingly visualized in the report OF the
Executive Council of the American Fedora
ton of Labor to the annual convention of the
Federation held in Cincinnati, Ohio. The
report showed that during the twelve months
covered by the Councils report 1926 1885,
288.58 was paid by National and Information
al labor organizations to their members in
out-of-work, disability, pension, death, sick,
and miscellaneous benefits" Commenting
on this creditable achievement, the Execu-
tive Council said:
This vast sum of benefits paid, however,
does not cover the total amount paid by all
National and International organizations and
local unions during the past year. It repre-
sents the amount paid by National and In
ternational organizations and other organ
lied units which reported to the American
Federation of Labor.
MANY local unions chartered by organiza-
lions affiliated with the American Federation
of Labor and federal labor unions, chartered
directly by the American Federation of La
Dor, have established funds out of which
benefits were paid locally. Thus there should
be added to the total amount set forth in this
report of benefits paid to members of organ
lied labor, many millions of dollars more
paid by organizations not reporting and by
local unions chartered by National and In
&o.1o@;ooo1 rOn.;7o4io ,rhfo1 1ov,o 0c4oL
lshed local benefit funds for the protection
of their membership"
A breakdown of the total of $25, $50, 288.58
which the Executive Council reports the
union paid in benefits reveals the following
Montana labor news., 1939-12-07
VIOLATION OF
TEACHER TENURE
A. F. of L. Convention at Gin
cinnati, Ohio, Oct. 2-13, 1899,
Protests Mass Dismissal of
Teachers in Florida and
Montana.
Excerpt from the report of the
Committee on Education)

ASNNS AOA ~ A&ROAN bAN
Committee on Education)
President James Graham of the
Montana Federation of Labor at the
recent convention of the American
Federation of Labor held at Cincin-
natl, Ohio, brought to the attention
of the organization the dismissal of
the professors at the University of
Montana.
The committee of education in
making its report to the convention
had this to say about the situation;
1T was also reported to the COM
mittee by President James Graham
of the Montana State Federation of
Labor that several outstanding union
teachers at the University of Mon
tana have been dismissed in a high
ly autocratic manner and that the
Montana State Federation of Labor
is at the forefront in a battle to pro-
tect the State University from po-
litical domination and control by the
enemies of organized labor"
The committee of education also
took note of other alleged violations
of teachers tenure. An excerpt from
the report is as follows:
The committee desires to call
special attention to a serious prob
lem presented by Delegate E. c.
Valentine of the Jacksonville, Flor
ida, Central Labor Council. Brother
Valentine reports that forty public
school teachers of Duval county, in
Guiding all the officers of the local
Teachers Union, have been dis
missed from their positions, without
presentation of any charges what
ever. It is reported that some of
these teachers have served as long
as thirty years in the public school
system of Duval county and that
the average length of service is ten
years. 1t is also reported that the
only reasons expressed unofficially
for the mass dismissal of teachers
are ~ that the teachers had been
active in the work of the Teachers
Union with a membership of more
than 300 and (2) that this group
had been active in attempting to
establish a teachers tenure law for
Duval county. 1t should be empha-
sized, however, that no official rea-
o whatever has been given by the
Board of Education for refusal to
renew the contracts of these forty
teachers.
The Central Labor Council of
Jacksonville has given w%holeheart-
Montana labor news., 1939-12-07

ed support in seeking reinstatement
of the group and President Green
has sent a communication to all To-
cal labor bodies in the state urging
their support on behalf of the
group. The Board of Education,
however, has steadfastly refused to
open the case to present specific
charges or grant hearings as pro
vided in sound principles of tenure.
In a statement issued by the
Board of Education to all teachers
on September 20, 1899, teachers
were warned Of the consequences of
affiliating with the Teachers Union.
We quote from the report:
1.-THE administration, however, de-
sires to make it clear that individ-
ual teachers who by their activities
of any organization, must ~necessari-
ly assume responsibility for the acts
and activities of the organization to
which they lend such support"
Therefore, it becomes necessary
that individuals must recognize the
fact that the responsibility is placed
upon those who by their approval
or acquiescence create policies and
not upon those who actually carry
out the policies of their organiza-
ton.
Individual teachers can i'll afford
to grant authority for themselves
for acts which may be carried on by
those outside of the system, but
which may be nevertheless APP
proved and endorsed by those with
in the system, and furthermore,
which may be reasonably construed
to be in violation of the terms of
the teachers contracts"
Since the RECOMMENDATION of the la
Dor movement and control of the
public school system are two of the
first steps in the destruction of
democratic governments, and since
mass dismissal of public school
teachers without specific charges, is
an ~undemocratic procedure and not
in the public interest we recommend
to the convention emphatic con-
demnation of such action and urge
all labor bodies of Florida to rally
to the support of these teachers who
have been unfairly treated.
The American Federation of La
Dor has repeatedly declared its po-
sition in favor of sound tenure laws
for teachers and freedom for teach
ers to affiliate with organized labor.
The convention at Denver in 1887
declared:
1.-THE American Federation of La
Dor was one of the pioneer agencies
in this country in the establishment
Of free public instruction. It has
ever jealousy guarded the funda-
mental democratic development of
our public school system since its
inception. II must continue to do so
for it is not only true to say that the
labor movement can progressively
Montana labor news., 1939-12-07

items: Death benefits, $13, 125, 1888; sick
benefits, 81 1906, 1919; unemployment bene-
fits, $685., 542.87; old age benefits, $5,334,-
2O6.54; disability benefits, $1,641, 090.88; mis-
c~ellaneous benefits, 81 ,595, 827.12.
1t is evidenced from these figures that the
unions affiliated with the American Fedora
ton of Labor are vitality concerned with a
much larger field than that encompassed by
wages, hours, and work conditions.
Montana labor news., 1939-12-07

Suitable ivory for billiard balls OF
genuine quality is found in only one
elephant tusk in fifty.
Montana labor news., 1939-12-07

Honesty is the first chapter in the
book of wisdom.-Thomas jefferson.