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§ FOR ROLLS, “BAKER 15 SCAFE Way to Hart- " e o A 5=°n and woman giving their Mames as M. and Mra. Harold An- derson of McKecme, Pa, were Mranded on East street yectorday en reute to Hartford, where they Lad empigyment awaiting them, and their hunger was so intense that Anderson “bummed” a dozen rolls trom Clarence Larson of 16 South strest, Eimwood, who was delivering bakery in the neighborhood. YTarson reported to Officer John Kennedy that the man asked him for the rolls and he gave them to him but ‘received no money. When he asked for it, the stranger handed the rolls back, and Larson claimed to | Rave noticed something protruding from a pocket of his coat in which he had his right hand, much in the | manner of a revolver, so he hur- riedly gave him the rolls again. fearing he would be threatened with violence if he did not do so. Officer Kennedy, accompanied by Larson, made a search and found the couple on East street, but man had no revolver on his person. The officer brought them to the po- | lice station where Detective Sergeant W. P. McCue questioned them and satisfled himself that they were hungry hikers and meant no harm to anyone. They had made their way from Pennsylvania afoot and by “hitching” rides, they said. Mjas Cora M. Beale of the Wel- fare association was notified by Ser- Weant McCue and she checked their story and learned that they actually ‘were t0 go to work when they reach- od Hartford. Anderson denied that he had meant to frighten the baker. and’it he held his hand in the man- mer ‘described by the latter, it was entirely without significance, PAINTERS STRIKE " FOR 5 DAY WEK (Continued from First Page) are net working is unjust and since | the ‘request is one for hour changes rather. than salary it is unlikely that & chmpromise will be reached. . 'Newe of the New Britain master painters have given in on the propo- Mitien, he said. He added, however, that he had heard of one contractor Wwho acceded to the demand of his only émploye, but he expects the old drrangement will again be in\vogue | in oase the painters lose their | fight: Although the strike is considered $ne.for less hours the hourly wage @cale would be increased under the lan. 8hould ‘the painters receive | $4¢4 for 40 hours of work they will be given $1.10 an hour or $8.50 a day. & ° No Delay At Temple The only employer who has ac- €epted the demand is the Muirhead Whops of Meriden, Inc., which has | 20 painters employed at the Masonic femple on West Main street. Wheh the. foreman icarned of the demand e told the painters that the five-day achedule would go into effect. The striking painters held a meet- ng_today and will continue to mect every: day -until the dispute is set. tled. ‘Efforts to gaia informaticn from its leaders were unsuccessful. B was stated that within a day or two some information for publica- tion will be ditributed. A statement was made by one of the striking painters to the cffect that painting 18 considered a scason- able job with much “slack tim during the year. By making an ef- fort to obtain a five day week, it is felt the jobs will bc made to last much longer. Father vs, Son An iInteresting sidelight to the strike is the fact that the leaders .BY CLAUDE CALLAN ‘“Our daughter Betty's #tty cousin Lucq is visitin' r, an’ Ma’s havin’ a time arrangin’ things so Betty's besu won't be alone with [ "Capyright 1925, Publishers Syndicate; Before buying your future home let us show you some of our de. sirable listings. For Quick Returns Use Herald Classified Acs the | | 14th of April. { enforce MAY DAY OBSERVED on both sides are in the same fam- ily. James W. Manning is business agent and president of the Painter. union and his son, Frank A. Man- ning, is president of the master painters. The elder Manning has been a leader in the labor move- ment for several years and has been president of the painter: union for more than 10 years. His son is proprietor of one of the leading paint concerns in this city. First Strike Here in Decade According to information reccived from an ofticial in the Central Labor Union this is the first strike in this city in more than 10 years. The last The union is assured of the back- ing of the national organization and will be able to carry on for a long period, it was learned to It is strong ‘inan . it was said by a leader today. Expects Early Ending Frank A. Manning said today that he did not expect that the strike will last long. He explained that any member of the master painters’ association, of whom there | are about 15, could mect the demand | for a five-day weck. The association | | has not taken a vote on the pro- | posal and is not bound by a unit | agreement. It is reported that the sociation met about a month ago and considered the prospects for a | strike. The chief objection to grant- | ing the five-day week it is reported is the fact that journcymen painte; on their day off, might accept wor The five-d | week schedule is in effect in Hart- ford. Boston, New York and other | cities. | trom property owners. May Day Has No Significance Bridgeport, May 1 (®—John J. Egan, secretary of the Connceticut Federation of Labor, said today that May day had no significance in har- mony and we know of no strikes in- volving unions affiliated with us. d 1 do not expect any during the day. May day as a strike day does not concern us. Many working agreements expire on April 30, not as many now as formerly, and we are gradually working away from that date. sonal trades now ne- gotiate for new agreements at a [time when they can be consiuered with the least waste of time. The building trades try to make up their agreements in the winter so that contractors who are figuring ahead on plans made in the fall by archi- teets can determine what their labor costs will be. Recently in Bridgeport the painters’ agreement ended on the The men struck on the 15th and the disagreement was settled on that day. What differences exist today in the state it will be found are due simply to the fact that agreements have expired and not because labor set May day as the day on which to lay down ts tools.” Portsmouth Carpenters Strike Portsmouth, N. H., May 1 (®— About a hundred union carpenters went on strike in this city today t demands for a five-day week and a $9 a day wage. A vote to sfrike of 30 to 19 w taken last night at a meeting of the union, Local 921, carpenters and joiners. The men had heen receiving $8 a | day and were working 44 hours a week. Their demands were present- ed to employers in February but they were refused and the contrac- tors instead formed a master build- ers’ association, IN QUIET FASHION (Continued from First I'age) expected nothing untoward in lLon- don, Paris, Rome, or the South American capitals. Parades and cutdoor and indoor meetings were scheduled in New York and other cities of the United States but no disorders was feared. The day was a holiday in most of Spanish Ameri-s, with the news- papers suspend +d and such essentials as tay d restaurants not operat- AUNT HET BY ROBERT Qintt “Me an’ Pa never would of agreed when to cut off our but he an’ played children ad.” Copyright 1929, Publishers Syndicat) iy INSURANCE REAL ESTATE Commercis! Trem Tel. 6000 A | worke {two d NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1 The demonstrators were finally put to flight when police began fir- ing into the air. An order late last night reiterated the warning to women and children 1o keep off the streets today. 15,000 policemen were mobilized for the occ: demonstrations of any sort were for bidden to workers for the first time since 1918. Three demonstrations were prom- ised Mexico City, with the once all powerful federation—taking sccond place to the “Red Syndicate of Mexico.” fed- eration of communist organizatons. The communist newspaper k! Machete said a demonstration would be staged in front of the American embassy. An editorial attacked Ambassi dor Morrow, saying that it w. neither General Calles nor the pro- visional president, Emilio Portes Gil, who governed Mexico, but the American ambassador. “Down with American imperialism.” the article concluded. xtra detachments of republican guards and soldiers were brought in from the provinces and stationed at strategic points of Paris and its sub- urbs a precaution against dis turbances. General meetings of com- munists were forbidden while the general organizi by police. Twent suspicious for- cigners” were expelled from after a quiet roundup during the just past The celebradion had double signifi- cance in Vienra, where the day was also the tenth anniversary of the founding of a socialist government in the once monarchistic stronghold. A huge parade of youths was held last night as a prdlude to today's demonstrations. President Yrigoyen dec holiday in Argentina. Workers, com- munist and socialist meetings we scheduled in Buenos Ayres, Rosario, Cordoba, San Juan and Mendoza. No disturbances were expected although there was to be unrelaxed police vigilance, Additional police were assigned to duty in Rio De Janiero where a huge labor demonstration was to place at Maua square with a parade to follow. red a On Guard in New York New York, May 1 (P —Five thous- and policemen one-third of the cit force have been assigned to special duty today to protect city officiais, prominent persons and public buil ings from possible May day dis- turbances. Policemen have been assigned to guard the homes of John D, Rocke- feller, Jr. J. P. Morgan, Mayor Walker, and of cily, state and fed- eral judges and many public and municipal buildings. Police have been ordered to stop any illegal dis- tribution of hand bills and to rx-. amine any suspicious looking pack 3 meetit gs were both so ist and communist ganizations, the latter receiving permit to hold a parade for the first time since 1916. The permit was granted by Police Commissioner Whalen on the promise that no in- cend placards would be carricd and that the American flag would be borne aloft at the head of the procession. planned by in Paris Paris, ¢ 1 —The number of preventive arrests and temporary locking up of various persons until midnight totalled 2.283 at 1 o'clock this afternoon. Numberous for. igners ameng those detained will be xpelled from France because of the lack of proper identification papers. A score of men wanted by the police for various crimes also were found among those arrested. Trouble in Antwerp Antwerp, Belgium, May 1 (®)— Trouble broke out at a communist meeting here to celebrate May day. between partisans of Stalin and partisans of Trotzky, representing two corflicting tendencies in the communist party. The police inter- vened and recstablished order. Two Stalin supporters were arrested. Denmark Quiet Copenhagen, Denmark, May 1 () n. Open air | rom"— | Mexican labor | ecretary of the communists | | e or- | 1—001«: but sunny weather brought |out the working populace of the city |today in a peaceful parade to vari- lous parks, where speeches were made and traditional labor sonis | sung. The new socialist premier Staun- ing, with his collcagues, watched the processions. The citizens with their | ramilics enjoyed the outing as a | picnic. There were no disturbances. | No Parades in Spain Madrid, May 1 (®—May day was celebrated today throughout Spai but without parades as the govern- | ment forbade public gatherings, to | prevent possible disorders. In Madrid, business houses were | | day, with the exception |closed an {of restaurants and cafes. | In Barcclona business ceased for |the day. Trolley cars and buses ran, but taxis and private cars were not- ably absent from the streets. Numerous groups of workers went on outings and picnics. Clashes in Berlin Berlin, May 1 (®—Numerous clashes between police and commu- nists took place at various points in | Berlin this afternoon, about 200 ar- rests being made. The communists, after meeting in different halls, formed processions and marched through the streets. | Mounted police intervened and dis- |persed the crowd. meeting resis- |tance, stones and nottles being {thrown at them. In some cases they fired a few shots before scat- tering the demonstrators, several of | whom were reported to have been | wounded. | The streets presented a normal as pect except for the presence of nu- merous police patrols ready to check |immediately ‘any attempt by com- | munists to disobey a governmental |decree forbidding the holding of May Day demonstrations. Wilhelmstrasse, where the | |government offices and President | Von Hindenburg's residence are sit- |uated, was strongly guarded and no | emblages were allowed in the streets within a mile of it. | Trolley cars, busses and the sub- | way were running normally, but in | some of the larger factories only a ! |small percentage of workers ppear- ed. Socialist and communist meetings were held in various hall§ through- | cut the city but those attending were | permitted to approach the mceting places only in small groups. | No scrious collisions were report- 'ed, but 32 men were arrested after |the police had dispersed communists ho were attempting to form a pro- cession. Vienna, May 1 (®—*"Red Vienna,” | as the Austrians call their once im- perial capital, blazed today ved banners, red buntings, matory posters, and echoed to the fanfares of trumpets and brass :hundx and the fervor of revolution- with | inflam- socialists promised to keep fect order and not a single un- toward events marked the da Indeed the c: | ebrations were like a great national picnic in which tens of thousands « f | working men with their wives, fam- lilies and even their houschold pets, | participated. Cold lemonade, hot dogs and Pils- |ner beer, which hawkers peddled everywhere, refreshed the vast crowds on a perfect spring day. | For seven solid hours, stalw sons and daughters of labor and so- | cialism in variegated dress pa t the historic city hall 20 abre e crowd was huge. Over the portals of the city hall | was a socialist placard: “We seck only bread and work, a place. in schools for our children, decent liv- ling quarters for our families and | pensions for our old and infirm.” | The 400 huge model tenements of | |the socialist municipal administra- | llion were ablaze with Chinese rnd“ lanterns, flaming crimson flags and | | may festoons of flowers and red dra- | | pery. } | EYES EXAMINED Frank E. Goodwin | | Optical Speciallst | 327 Main St | Glasses Fitted i All the theaters and cinemas of Austria were specially chartered to- night by the social democratic party and gave performances appropriate to labor’s great holiday. Stockhelm Postpones. Stockholm, Sweden, May 1 P— Because of very bad weather today, Stockholm’s socialists and commun- ists agreed to postpone their May Day processions and demonstrations until Sungay. No disorders were re- ported in any part of Sweden. Constantinople, May 1 P — May Day was calm in Turkey. The only incident was the arrest of a small group of tobacco factory, hands, in- cluding two ‘Turkish women for holding an organization meeting in contravention of the government's taboo on all May Day manifesta- tions. Tokyos' Celebration Wet Tokyo, May 1 — A heavy drizzle dampened the ardor of May Day celebrants and the day passed with tew incidents. Fifteen thousand paraded acrcss the city while 3,000 police watched them closely and 150 participants in another labor demonstration were taken into custody and shortly after- ward released. The government forbade mem- bers of the proletarian political or- ganization to participate. At Osaka 10.000 persons staged a parade after a mass meeting. The holiday was obscrved on a smaller scale at Yokohama and Kyolo. Moscow Celebrates Moscow, May 1 (®—The roar of the Kremlin batteries, the humming of air gquadrons, and the clatter of | masses of cavalry, artillery, infan- try and numcrous tanks. blendad with the blare of huge bands, the deafening hurrahs of marching troops and the quaint chimes of the | Kremlin made this May day one of the most impressive and strangast | symphonies ever heard in Red | square The demonstration differed from all previons ones insofar as the for- cign military attaches, in front of | Lenn's mausoleum, were given ample opportunity to witness the army's achievements in keeping abreast of KATY LEVINSKA STANLEY Superior Court, County of Hartford, May 1, 1929, ORDER OF NOTICE Upon complaint in said cause brought said Court, at Hartford in said Coun- v, on the first Tuesday of June, A, . claiming a divorce and that the ntff's name be changed to Katy a, It appearing to and heing found by the msubscribing authority that the whereabouts' of the defendant Stanley Levinska is unknown to the plaintiff. URDERED that the notice of the in- stitution and pendency of said complaint | shall be given to the defendant by pub- lishing this order in the New Britaln Herald, & newspaper published in said ew Britain, on May 1st and May Sth, 1929, Dated at Har D. 1929, RAYMOND G. CAl Assistant Clerk of mid rd this 1st day of May, A | —60 1bs. , 1929. the world’s most modern war tech- nique, Twenty-five huge black tanks, many more baby tanks and armored motor cars of recent construction drove by, causing a wave of en- thusiasm as they progresscd. ST. CECILIA SOCIAL Members of the St. Cecilia choir of the BSacred Heart parish, and their friends were the guests at an impromptu social and card party last evening in the clubrooms ofse last evening held in the clubrooms City Advertisement Printing specifications for 1929. New Britain, Conn., May 1, 1929, MUNICIPAL RECORD Page—S8ize 4x6, type page 2% x4%. Type—8-point leaded. Paper stock—25x38—G0 1bs., ma- | chine finish book. Quantity—1,000 copies. 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