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The people's voice., 1939-12-06
A Letter To
The Governor

October ID, 1889
Honorable Roy E. Ayers
Governor of Montana
Helena, Montana
Dear Sir:
While do not expect to receive
reply to this letter, as ! have
never received the consideration
of getting reply from the pres
ent governor of the state, | take
this opportunity to say that GER
tainly hope that your health con-
tinues to improve and you will be
physically fit to enter the pri
maries in the coming campaign,
because | want to have the priv
iege of helping to give you one
of the soundest defeats that any
democrat has ever gotten in the
state of Montana. | firmly think
it can be done and do know that
many of us boys will put our
shoulders to the wheel.
think you are we'll aware of
past conditions when you first en-
tered the congressional race and
from then on up to your election
as governor, and while do not
claim credit for electing you to
this responsible position, ! do feel
that without the help of my asso-
cates and myself you certainly
would never have had a chance.
You have been able to inveigIe
few of the weak sisters into your
fold by giving them jobs but the
rank and file you will find are
xery much disgusted with your
present set-up, including your ad-
ministration under the so-called
Hitler bill.
Respectfully yours,
(Signed) E. B. COOLIDGE.
The people's voice., 1939-12-06
Jersey Weighs
Changes In


TRENTON-(FP) ALI of the State
Federation of Labor's proposals for
improvement Of the state unemploy-
ment insurance law have been dis.
cussed by the New Jersey Unemploy-
ment Compensation Commission at
hearings during October and Nov
ember. Legislative action will follow
a report of the commission to the
governor and general assembly next
January
The AFL proposals included more
complete coverage of workers, in
crease in the weekly benefits from a
maximum of SIS to a maximum OF
$40, raising the benefit period from
the present average of 10 to 20 weeks
year, payment of benefits to part
time workers and elimination of merit
rating.
Merit rating of employers contri-
buttons and continuance of the
workers 10 contribution were the
two main questions discussed at the
hearings. Elimination of employe pay
ments has already been approved by
the lower house of the legislature but
action on it was held up in the senate
The merit system provides for diff
ferentiation of employers contribu-
tions, ranging from 12@o to 40. The
greater number of employees out of
work, the higher the tax paid by the
employer. Under the New York sys-
TEN, which is considered more just,
all employers pay the same percentage
toward unemployment insurance.
The people's voice., 1939-12-06
HOW A SYSTEM WAS BUILT

The Odium to these schools was the
pauper's OATH In 1888 it was esti-
mated that in the entire United States
| 100000 children between the ages
of 5 and Is were not in any school,
and, out of these, $4,000 lived in the
state of New York. The next year
the number of illiterate children in
the United States was 1,250,000 (Com-
mons History Ed. Vol. l, P. 1922
1.-THE peasant" argues the National
Gazette of Philadelphia, must labor
during those hours of the day which
his wealthy neighbor can give to abb
stract culture of his mind. Otherwise
the earth would not yield enough for
the subsistence of all. The mechanic
can not aband the operations of his
trade for general studies. If he should,
most of the conveniences of life and
objects of exchange would be want
ing. Langour, decay, poverty, discon-
tent would soon be visible among all
classes. No government, no states
man. no philanthropist can furnish
what is incompatible with the very
organization and being of civil So
ciety" Later from the same paper:
"The scheme of universal equal edu-
virtually agrarianism. 1t would be
compulsory application of the means
of the richer for the direct use of
the poorer classes; an so far an ar
bitrary division of property among
them.' documentary History Vol. v,
pp. 108-110.)
Due partly to the pressure that la
Dor brought to bear and partly to the
knowledge of the ruling class that
after all mental slavery, seeped in the
opiates of loyalty to the ruling class,
could be accomplished through the
public school system. So the COM
mon people won the first skirmish in
education, only to be defeated in the
end. For the actual thing that they
were fighting for-knowledge of facts
was not given them. So today we
have compulsory public school sys-
tenn that compels every child to at
tend up to a certain age or certain
standard of education. The studies of
the history of our country are false
and misleading and the great major
ity of the students finish out their
life span without ever learning the
true facts that their forefathers were
crucified in mind and body by the
ruling class in order to build and
maintain profit system. Honest,
workable economics have never been
introduced in our schools. In fact
books containing such information are
censored and not allowed to be put
before the students.
Our fight for education is not over
by any means, but has just begun.
1t is one of the most important fights
facing the working people today. 1t
is the right and duty as citizens of
this country for the great under-privi-
legged majority to know the true facts
of the working of their government
and municipality which they depend
upon for protection and knowledge.
We would like to know something
about wars and depressions - profit
and loss Are they controlled by the
moon as l have heard? Or is it by
a divine hand? Or, perhaps, they are
and could be controlled, if
not eliminated, if we were acquainted
with the facts that bring them about.
The Peoples Voice will bring to you
from week to week true facts on eco
nomics not carried in other papers.
The people's voice., 1939-12-06
Time TO LOOK
lat own PR0BL EMS
WPA HEAD SAYS

WASHINGTON.-(FP)-"I is time
our attention is redirected to this side
of the Atlantic" Corrington Gill, as
sistant WPA commissioner, declared
in an address prepared here for del
livery to the Pennsylvania school OF
social work in Philadelphia recently
Gill said that some people expect
the war trade to be so vast as to do
away with practically all our un-
employment. That notion he termed
fantastic and absurd
1T is no doubt true" he declared
sarcastically, that our country should
actually enter this war and send mil
lions of our young people to the battle
field, then there would be little or no
unemployment-for a while, until, the
survivors poured back home.
"And of course if there were but
few survivors. returning home, our
unemployment figures would remain
low until new generation grew up.
But am sure that nobody proposed to
cure our unemployment by killing off
five or six million bl le- d e d
workers."
At present, Gill said there are about
nine million unemployed and, IL the
country remains at peace, there will
me nearly that many unemployed next
spring.
He vigorously defended the WPA
program and declared that its great
weakness was that it did not provide
work for enough of the unemployed
"WPA funds as appropriated from year
to year by congress permits us to pro-
vide work only for the most desperate
ly needy segment of the unemployed,
he said
81 am sorry to report the fact" he
admitted, (which has been shown in
extensive studies, that the highest Sc
curity wage paid by the WPA to un-
skilled workers in any city in the
country is less than the minimum re-
quired in that city to support an un-
skilled manual laborer's family of
four at basic maintenance level"
The people's voice., 1939-12-06
Chrysler Officials
Sell 2l,3OO Shares
Since September |

WASHINTON-F FP)--Sale of 21,-
300 shares of Chrysler Corporation
common stock by officials of the cor
poration since the first of September
was revealed here by check of Sc
curities and Exchange Commission
records.
Chrysfer Corporation workers, ae
cording to the United Auto Workers
(CIO), were locked out October 8 and
the union is still dickering with the
corporation in an effort to end the dis
pute. The corporation, according to
reports here, is attempting back to
work movement in an effort to break
the union.
Observers here declare that Chrysler
officials who sold the corporations
stock in September and October could
make a tidy sum if they buy the stock
back after the strike is over inasmuch
as the price of the stock on the New
York stock exchange declined nearly
seven points between October and
November 27.
According to SEC records, K. T..
Keller, president of the company and
director, sold 1900 shares of the
COIDOldllOI SlOCh III tOCptCilDcI anu
an additional total of $500 shares on
October 23, 25, 27, 80 and 81. Joseph
E. Fields, vice president and director,
sold 400 shares on October in adj
dition to 400 shares in September
o. B. Shelton, according to SEC
records, sold 200 shares on October 8
and an additional 100 shares on Octo-
Der TO- A. Van DerZee, vice president,
sold one-forth of his holdings, 100
shares, on October "a and Fred M.
zeder, vice chairman of the board of
directors, sold 100 shares on Septem-
Der II and 400 shares on September
H.
On October 2. Chrysler Common
stock was reported as selling at 92l
on the New York stock exchange, hav-
ing gained over three points during
the preceding week. On November 27
the high price was S5 5s, drop of
nearly seven points. The high on
August 29 was 81
1t was reported on November II by
Federated Press that representative
of the U. S. government had declared
that officials of the corporation were
wilfully prolonging the lockout as
part of a wall street struggle for
control of the corporation
The people's voice., 1939-12-06
Guild Offers $1,000
Reward, Conviction
OF Hearst Culllnen

| CHICAGO.=FP)- P)-Members of the
| Chicago Newspaper Guild (CIO), on
strike for a year against William Ran
dolph Hearst's Herald-American have
offered $1,000 reward for information
| leading to the arrest and conviction
of company gunner and sluggers who
have been conducting a campaign of
violence against strikers and their
families.
Police are attempting to trace the
gun used by hoodlums who tried to
kill strikers Alex Meisinger and Mike
Milewski, members of the Guild sound
car crew.
The attempt to ambush the strikers
was made in typical gangland fashion.
A black sedan, loaded with goons,
curbed the Guild car and a hoodlum
leaped out with pistol When Meis-
niger suddenly started the Guild car,
the gunman fired The bullet pene-
trated the left side of the Guild car,
" inch below the window glass. Re-
covered by police, it was turned over
to ballistics experts.
James Crane, Hearst slugger, has
been fined 81 and costs on disorderly
COuuuCI Clldl SCo, SlOWlnS OuI VI LllC
slugging of striker Nate Aleskowsky
as the latter distributed strike liter
ature at 63rd and Halsted streets. The
fine was levied by Municipal Judge
Stephen Adamowski.
Two other strikers, Joe Kordick
and Martin Weldin, were assaulted
the same night when hoodlums halted
a second Guild sound truck and at
tempted to wreck it. Englewood po-
lice broke up the melee and seized
a Hearst slugger. He was released,
however, when witnesses failed to
identify him as one of the hoodlums
who struck Kordick and Weldin.
Three other hoodlums and Eugene
Brender, striker, were picked up by
police after the Hearst trouble MAX
ers snatched handbills from the hands
of CIO unionists All were later re-
leased without charges. A fourth
striker, George B. Meyers, was beaten
by several men when he reached the
door of his north side home about
midnight
During the Guild handbill distribu-
tion on Nov. 25 at least 100 Hearst
sluggers were in the vicinity of 63rd
and Halsted streets. Extra police de-
tails from Englewood station were
on duty.
The people's voice., 1939-12-06
'CIO Halls
Apex Verdict

WASHINGTON (FP) Action OF
the Sd circuit court of appeals in Phil
adelphia, in reversing a lower court
judgement against the American Fed
GRAFTON of Hosiery Workers (CIO) was
described as a further vindication of
the CIO stand that antitrust laws do
not apply to labor unions engaged in
the struggle to establish collective bar
gaining" in statement issued here
by Lee Pressman, CLIO general coun-
Gil
The court unanimously threw out a
judgement for more than 100000 en-
tered by the federal district court
against the union on the plea of the
Apex Hosiery Mills for alleged viola
tions of the Sherman act committed
during the CIO strike
1.-THE decision clearly disposes of the
claims in the widely publicised suit by
Tom Girdlers Republic Steel Corp
against the Steel Workers Organizing
Committee and the CLIO for $500, 600
damages" Pressman said.
The people's voice., 1939-12-06

Dies committee, a former chairman,
VIM. w. Hinckley, received telegram
from the committee just Is hours ago,
Informing him he would have an op-
portunity to be heard" McMichael
pointed out.
He also challenged the authorities
on the youth congress who had ap-
peared before the committee. He listed
them as Homer Chaillaux of the Am
erican Legion who makes his living
by Snearing individuals and organi-
cations with the stock label, com
munistic,' j. B. Matthews, a promoter,
cast out of church, labor and con-
sumer organizations and now special
investigator for Mr.. Dies by virtue of
these qualifications, and Walter
Steele, editor of an inconspicuous
magazine"
An intimation of what was coming
was given in the morning when Mrs.
Roosevelt visited the White House for
lunch. She reappeared before the youth
congress people took the stand and
sat interestedly during more than two
hours of testimony. She would make
no comment following the hearing.
The people's voice., 1939-12-06
NOON Meal is
4UNAME ERICAn"

ELGIN, Ill. - (FP) - It's un-Ameri
can to expect meal at noon. Sc
declared the Elgin school board when
it suspended the serving of free gov
ernment lunches in the Edward H
Abbott Junior High school. The board
voted to to refuse food given by
the Federal Surplus Commodities
Corp.
The reason given by the board is
one of the strangest ever used to
make hunger an attribute of patriot
ism. 1t seems the trustees believe
school children should be taught self
reliance. c. Roy Dougherty, president
of the school board, said:
Some of the board members
thought it wasn't proper to accept
surplus food from the government.
They thought it was un-American and
would give the children the idea that
the government owed them a living.
Some members even said it would
make WPAers out of the children
They pointed out that there is too
much stress these days ON govern
ment help"
Mrs. Alma G. Tobin, president of
the schools Parent-Teacher Assn,
which sponsored the free lunch plan
protested the boards action She
said the government food provided
lunches for 100 to $50 needy children
among the schools 400 pupils. The
meals cost the school nothing, she
added. Mrs. Tobin reminded oppon-
ents of the free-lunch system that the
board did not refuse government aid
to build school additions.
Members of the board who voted
against the plan were Vincent Cole
man, investment business; Charles
Flora, plastering contractor; Mrs.
Harold Pearsall, and DR.. o. G. Prid-
eaux, dentist.
Relief officials said that about $50
Illinois schools are receiving food
from the FSCC.
The people's voice., 1939-12-06
YOUTH PLACEMENT IN
INDUSTRY INCREASING

WASHINGTON (FP)-Placemen
of youth in private industry during
October 1889, through the Junior Place
ment Services operated by the Nation
al Youth Administration in coopera
tion with state employment services,
showed a 1870 increase over the cor
responding month last year, it was an
nounced here by Aubrey Williams
NYA administrator.
The people's voice., 1939-12-06
EDITORS Note: This is the first of
a series of articles by Mr.. 6entley.)
By J. B. BENTLEY

Three years of untiring, logged,
persistent work have been put in to
accomplish one of the most valuable
enterprises for the common people
that has ever been undertaken in the
be gala day for all those who be-
lieve in free speech, free press and
the right to assemble, and for those
who believe in dealing in facts and
truth about our government, state and
city. Such an organ is The Peoples
Voice. It's policy is to deal in facts
not fiction, truth-not lies. 1t is a
teacher of human rights-rights that
have been exploited by the vested in
terests through their lackeys for so
many years.
The aristocracy of 1870 knew well
the danger of education for the
masses. In that year Governor Berk-
ley wrote to the authorities in Eng
land:
"But thank Cod there are no
free schools, nor printing, and |
hope we shall not have them
these hundred years. For learn
ing has brought disobedience and
heresy and sects into the world,
and printing has divulged them
and libels against the best gov
ernment. God keep us from
both!' (Simons, loc. cit. p. 49,
In 1880 the workers of New York
declared that, "After life and liberty
the next most important thing is edu-
cation" At this time many workers
looked upon the establishment of the
public school system as a cure for all
social ills. 1t is true that even then
there were so-called free schools,
at the expense of the state
treasury, but they were only for chill
dren whose parents had not sufficient
m cans To send them to nriuata Schnnls
The people's voice., 1939-12-06

You cannot control what you do
not own
The people's voice., 1939-12-06

but the possibilities suggested by the correspondents
actually removed from the realm of humor The
suggestion that President Roosevelt might consider naming
aborhang protagonit of the privileged his acceptable
will disturb the least the great OF under
standing liberal supporters of the president.
No. Boob. You may introduce ring gailed wonder of
social security establish yourself progressive
We still know that swallow doesn't make summer
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-10-10
CONVENTION IN
FINAL SESSION
Connecticut Manufacture
ers of Beverages to Elect
Officers Today

Following the annual dinner last
night, the two-day convention of the
Connecticut Carbonated Beverage
Manufacturers Association will
come to close today In Bridgeport
today with election of officers as
the principal feature. Two Water
burians are among the present Off
GERS of the association, President
Emil Mascolo and Secretary G. r.
G. Schirmer.
The first business session was
opened yesterday by Bridgeport's
Mayor McLevy. Feature Of the dim
ner last night was the presence of
members of the executive board of
the association, such as William B.
Hatfield of Brooklyn, John Leary,
of Newburyport, Mass, and Joseph
Gochros, of Bridgeport.
At yesterdays business session
Mr.. Schirmr advised dealers to take
q franchise for only one speciality
drink and not to fall for every new
drink offered"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-10-10
MRS. JULIA WALSH
DIES SUDDENLY
Prominent Local Resident
Victim of Heart Attack
in N. Y. Hotel

Mrs. Julia (Downey) Walsh, wife
Of Maurice A. Walsh of 16 Merrill
street died last evening as the re-
suit of a heart attack at the Hotel
Lincoln in New York City where she
had been registered for a few days.
She had been visiting in New York
with Mrs. x. L. Connolly of Fall
River, Mass, a close friend.
A native of this city she was the
daughter of the late James and
Margaret (Tobin) Downey. She had
always made her home here and
was well known and highly re-
spected especially among the resi-
dents in the section where she made
her home. She was a communicate.
of the Blessed Sacrament Church
and was willing supporter of the
affairs of the parish.
Mrs. Walsh is survived by her
husband who conducts restaurant
in this city; one daughter. Mrs. Mel
son Kast of Syracuse, N. Y, one
son, John Harold Walsh of this city;
two sisters, Mrs. William Murphy
and Mrs. Stephen Kelley of this city
and a brother, Lawrence L. Downey
of Staten Island, N. Y.
Funeral arrangements have been
tentatively set for Thursday morn
ing, but a definite announcement
will be made when the family arrives
from New York.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-10-10
Fiore Massucci Picks
Kelly AS Strange Man
Continued from Page u

Agent Whalen was proceeding when
court adjourned shortly after noon
with Atty. Navin directing questions
at him. One caused a brief explosion
when Atty. Navin sought to imply
that Whalen had told him that
tEere had been stupid handling of
the case by the Waterbury police.
Whalen denied this vehemently
but admitte saying to Navin that
if he had been called in earlier on
the case fingerprints taken would
have proved of more benefit, posi-
BILE evidence had been handled by
too man. persons when he sought
to check the fingerprints, he claim
ed.
Lieut.. Hobart Testfies
Lieut.. Patrick Hobart of the en-
Urgency squad, called to the stand,
told this morning how on the eve
ming of December u, 1888, he, to-
gether with Patrolnan Cavanaugh,
had been assigned to guard Mayor
Hayes home at the corner of Pros
pect and Grove streets. The reason,
he testified, was receipt of threat
ening letters by the mayor.
He said they arrived at the house
about p. m. and between 11:15 and
1880 p. m. saw a man come up
Prospect street and turn into Grove.
He continued along until he came
to the driveway at the rear of the
Hayes residence. He was observed,
according to the witness, to pass
through the gate into the garage
passageway. He only was in there
minute or two when he emerged,
returned to Prospect street and
started down it towards the Green.
Hobart remained on guard at the
house, while Cavanaugh trailed the
man down the street. Hobart from
the witness chair positively identi-
fled Massucci as the man he and
Cavanaugh had seen enter the Hayes
backyard. He said visibility was
good at the spot due to the proX-
unity of a street light.
Agent Whalen Follows
Federal Agent Whalen followed
Lieut.. Hobart to the stand and re-
lated how he had been requested
to come to Waterbury by the police
on December 81, 1888. He said that
he had talked with Massucci then
both privately and in the presence
of Chief Inspector Joseph P. Stew
ems of the detective bureau.
He related Massucci's account of
what happened as follows: On De-
cember "a Massucci met a strange
man" at the corner of N. Main and
Cooke streets. The man, according
to Massucci's story to Whalen, asked
him if he wanted to make some
money. The two got in a car, des-
cribed as the Chevrolet coupe, and
drove to Willow street where the
driver pulled up at a gas station.
While in the gas station the
stranger asked Massucci if he knew
where Mayor Hayes lived and upon
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-10-10
PATIENT CLAIMS
$4,000 DAMAGES
Local Dentist, Defendant,
in Civil Action; NegIi-
gence Alleged

Trial Of the 5000 damage suit Of
Mrs. James Calvin Of this city
against DR.. August Reed, local dem
fist, was started this morning in
common pleas court before Judge
Miles r. McNiff. The woman is SUI
ing On the grounds that the defend
ant was negligent and careless in
the treatment Of her teeth during
February Of 1888.
DR.. Francis Hayes u this city and
New Haven was the first witness on
the stand this morning and his tes-
tin1ony took up most of the morn
ing's hearing.
The woman alleges that she was
under DR.. Reeds treatment for sew
eral weeks. She claimed that she
permitted him to I'LL two teeth after
he had advised her not to have them
extracted. She claims her Jaw be-
came infected and a surgical opera
ton followed which confined her to
st. Mary's hospital for six days in
June Of last year.
In her complaint the woman al
leges that the two teeth in question
later had to be extracted and that
parts of the filings used by DR.. Reed
remained embedded in her jaw.
Attorney Hugh j. McGil appears
for the plaintiff while Attorney John
E. Whale.i Is defending.