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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-21
Quotati0ns

Police should not be prejudged on the allegations of criminals themselves or those accused of crime. President Hoover.
 People who have money wouldn't t have 1t long if they did not ask how much things cost before they buy. Doris Duke, heiress
 Men fall in love only before 30 and after 50. @
 -Viscomte Alain de Leche.
 We must not scorn, but study Russia. We must think along new lines.
 President Farrand, Cornell
 Economies is still in the back ward state and economists have not yet earned the right to be listened to attentively.
 -John Maynard Keynes. British
 economist.
 We are surrounded by traditions which were once living and now are dead. --Haveiock Ellis.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-21
TODAY IS THEA ANNIVERSARY SGeAA
REVEAL SECRET NOTE

REVEAL SE(hEI NOlE
 On September 21, 1917, the sec retary of state made public a note from Ambassador Bernstorff to the Berlin foreign office, dated Jan uary 22, 1917, in which the am bassador asked for $50,000 to be paid to influence congress to pre- vent war.
 The note said:
 T request authority to pay up to 50,000 (fifty thousand) dollars in order as on former occasions to influence congress through the organization you know of, which can perhaps prevent war.
 "I am beginning in the mean time to act accordingly. In the above circumstances, a public of- ficial German declaration in favor of Ireland is highly desira ble, in order to gain the support Of Irish influence here"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-21
IT WAS EVER THUS
Over the hill to the poor house,
 lis nl1uaNS fhn end 0f flln frail

Over the hill to the poor house, It's always the end of the trail, Squandcring money in youth-time, Means old age with its vail.
 o-O-o Schools open one week from to- day. Good morning teacher, here's an apple my mother sent you"
 o-O-o
 Life may put a mask on all of us but it takes Halloween to bring out the false face.
 o-O-o A noted woman economist says dish washing can be made an art. Why stop at dish washing, there's stove polishing as well.
 o-O-o
 Suggested national song for the vets who want their likker back, Come On, My Booze'm Friend" o-O-o It's always the little merchants who try to pose as big business men.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-21

Connecticut duck hunters may be inter- ested to know that the 1891 season will be one month as is being universally established by advice of President Hoover and other interested agencies. Extermination of our wild fowl has been threatened of late years. Hunters think nothing of securing their legal limit every day of the season. The birds can't resist their natural enemies and man, too There had to be halt
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-21
Good evening.
 O-O-O FALLING LEAVES

 The boar frost of the season hears,
 Falling leaves. Nature gives a million piers,
 Falling leaves, Falling slowly to the ground, Tears of summer all around, Filling tombs quite easily found,
 Falling leaves. SlcN ly natures garb is shorn,
 Falling leaves, Yet with pride it has been worn,
 Falling leaves. Twisting in their rustling flight, Sometimes silent as the night, Altar of the seasons blight.
 Falling leaves. How like life we live each day,
 Falling leaves, Years just bloom, then drop away,
 Falling leaves, One by one they quit life's tree. Stripping us of memory, Till we reach eternity,
 Falling leaves.
 O-O-U Fair weather is here. The one at Springfield opened yesterday.
 O-O-O Whats in a name. COTTAGE cheese is a popular dish with APARTMENT dwellers.
 O-O-o I suppose the back seat driver considers herself a steering com mittee of one.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-21

We were reading recent bulletin from the Bartlett Tree Research in Stamford. It commented upon the disappearance of many birch trees in this state. particularly the weeping birch which is highly ornamental and an addition to any lawn. An insect
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-21

High tide at Milford. Tuesday, Septem Der 22, 9:44 p. m. Daylight time) low tide, 3:H a. m. Daylight time).
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-21

Maybe martial law like that in the Texas and Oklahoma oil fields, applied in the cotton belt, could turn swords into ploughshares and blow under every third row of cotton.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-21

Gandh is accused of playing politics. Pretty good politics, too, we'll say,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-21

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 7:23 o'clock daylight saving time) tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-21
Personal Health Seruice (By William Brady, M. D.

Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not disease diagnosis or treatment. will be answered by Dr Brady. Address him, care of the Democrat sending stamp and addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-21
ELECTION MOUTHINGS
'The best things in life are frec,' Let's sec what things are there, Free speech of course is one of
 them,

''The best things in life are frec," Let's see what things are there, Free speech of course is one of
 them,
 We're due for some hot air. Cigarettes were introduced into this country by soldiers return ing from Mexico. What a Lucky Strike that was.
 o-O-o
 It's getting chilly on the fringes. The gals in the Denis city room are wearing smocks again.
 In about another week they'll fold up the ice water bottles and electric fans. Yep. when such things be-. can winter fail to show its hand.
 Everything comes out in the wash-even the buttons.
 o-O-o Great Britain has suspended the gold standard. No more silver among the gold, eh.
 o-O-O
 DlNG, DINU The actress cried increasingly, The tears just wouldn't stop, The tabloid passed her picture up, And used a traffic cop.
 o-O-o The feet of young women are becoming broader, according to a noted shoe expert. The better to step on the gas, m'dear.
 o-O-o
 What the world needs is the |. old five cent trolley ride back again.
 It is reported the American Legion at it's Detroit convention will vote on the wet and dry issue. If they wrap the vote in cello phane it may be moisture proof.
 o-O-o
 OH DEAR ME Modern shirts have collars, And men just shout with siec, No longer they search for buttons, While crawling on knee.
 O-O-o "Drive Slowly" says a new high way sign, 'There's Nothing So Permanent as Death"
 o-O-O
 The Good Book tells us that in heaven the righteous will wear crowns. A lot of us are crowned on earth, so it will be nothing new up there.
 O-O-O Croquet is merely a lazy mans golf, says Dizzy Dorothy. the towns intellectual idiot.
 o-O-o
 OHMIGOSH Johnny bought some oil stock, It quickly fell from grace, And wouldn't buy enough fresh
 oil.
 To fill his cars crank case.
 o-O-o The only thing hot about poli- tics are the stories some Of the reporters are knocking out.
 o-O-o This concludes our opening pro- gram of the week. It came to you over DBD and was broadcast by the Waterbury Evening Democrat. pioneer in this type of newspaper work. We are signing off at this time. to be back on the air again te -morrow evening at the usual hour.
 o-O-O Good night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-21

Bicycle thieves are busy In Bel fast.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-30
Russky G0los and Fairy Land

Farmers Group" was to report. But the farm
ers" who reported for it appear only as three
names One is a gent named Homer Sewell, also
said to be a representative of the Southern
Pacific"-though that railway company dsowns
him, we find upon inquiry.
Another reporter was N. C. Shupinski claim
ing to be an "agronomist" In prospectus put
out by the Rodna Realty Co., Shupinski is
quoted as testifying-in an affidavit-that in
Arizona, "the farmer gets good prices for prod
ucts grown on this land"-which is marvellous
nothing less! And "due to assistance of the
marketing cooperatives which work without
profit to themselves, the farmers in the Southern
part of Arizona are growing rch!"
Think of it. you other American farmers! You
who have seen prices falling and falling, you
never knew that man named Shupinsk has
discovered that in Arizona farmers get good
prices" and are growing rich!" 1t is secret
discovered only by Shupinski, we are sure! And
he reveals it in an affidavit but takes good care
that the secret is impaired only to foreign-born
workers in New York City, far far away from
Arizona!
And more, when asked about prices in Arizona
by representative of the Communist paper in
the Russian language, the Novy Mir, the sly
Shupinski denies knowledge of the prices of farm
products in Arizonal
Still another reporter, apparently coming from
that weird Initiative Farmers Group" was "
F. Kruklyak. Now to readers of the Daily Work
er, Kruglyak is only a name, and not such a
pretty one at that But we assure you that
Mr. Kruglyak is a person, although how he is
identified with a farmers group is hard to
say. For this person Kruglyak is none other
than the head of the Rodna Realty Col
But we must not pass over Mr.. Shupinsgi so
lightly, For Shupinski which is also rnereIu a
name to our readers is not just an "agronomist"
. Indeed, no! Mr.. Shupinsk is an "agronomist"
with tradition. And as the Russky Golos
which takes ads for the Rodina Realty Co.. which
company seems to be so intimately connected
with Shupinski, declares strenuously that it is
hot to defend and not to defraud the Russian
workers, since it pretends to be friend" Of
the Soviet Union, we must inform it, as well
as the Russian workers, precisely who this Shup-
inski is who is advertised in the Russky Golos
as an expert who assures them Arizona is O
paradise for those who will buy land there
In the prospectus put out by the Rodina Real
ty Co., we find that Shupinski in his aforesaid
affidavit admitted, in an unguarded moment,
that he was-was, not is-"Owner of an estate
OF over $4,000 acres, which cultivated myself %
near Moscow" And then-ah, then! He says:
Due to the revolution vas compelled to leave
my fatherland."
SO, alone and with his own hands, he cul-
ttyated $4,000 aoresa With starving and whipped
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-30
THE COMING
ELECTIONS IN
NEW JERSEY
By ]. S.

The coming elections in New Jersey are of
special Importance to the Party. 1t gives us a
splendid opportunity to mobilize wide sections
of the workers behind the Party. With the many
fights carried on against wage cuts lay offs etc,
the many unemployed demonstrations, and the
Trenton Hunger March, the Party's influence
has grown tremendously amongst the workers.
In the coming elections this influence must be
registered with a big increase in the votes cast
for our Party candidates
In this years elections the Party is penetrat-
ing into a lot of new territory The Party is
putting up candidates for city commissioners in
New Brunswick Trenton, Bayonne, and Hoboken.
In all these cities elections will take place in
May, and the Party is busy collecting the neces-
sary signatures to put our candidates on the
ballot In all of these cities it is the first time
we have put up candidates. In the fall there
will be city elections in Linden for Mayor and
four Councilmen and the Party is preparing to
enter the campaign. In Linden the Socialist
Party through Yeager, its leader in New Jersey,
is entering the campaign. This means that our
Party will have to carry on a sharp fight here
against the socialist party. In the fall there
will be elections for Governor and Board of Free
holders and for the General Assembly in the
various counties. We will have candidates for
the first time in Middlesex, Mercer Union and
Hudson counties for the county officers. Can
didates are put up also in Essex County The
comrades are busy now collecting the necessary
signatures to place the above candidates on the
ballot.
This election campaign should result in
strengthening the existing units, building new
units especially in the small industrial towns
we expect to penetrate into, such as in Carteret,
Midtown, South River, Camden, Harrison,
Kearny, Irvington etc. We intend to reach the
unemployed workers with our program, also the
copper, metal rubber OIL and marine transport
workers of these small towns. The Trade Union
Unity League, the auxiliary organizations and
the Party press must be built during the cam
paign.
A mass State Nominating Convention is be-
ing prepared for June in Newark and our per-
spective is 400 delegates from throughout the
state at this convention. survey is being made
of all comrades able to speak to be used in the
campaign to penetrate new territory and carry
on lively campaign. State campaign platfrom
is being prepared dealing with the issues of New
Jersey in connection with the present situation
in general.
The immediate job before now is the COL
lection of the necessary signatures to put our
candidates on the ballot in the various Cities
counties and the state. Our task in the election
campaign is mighty. We need the help of all
comrades and militant workers. This campaign
must result in organizational gains for the Party.
Forward to the election campaign. Will we
prove to be equal to the tasks before us?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-30
ARTICLE 2.

ARTICLE 2.
ONCE March g. we have until now been I'M
~ able to continue our correction for the bene-
fit Of the unprincipled sheet known as the
Russky Golos a New York daily in the Russian
language which pursues devious ways in trying
to sit two, or even three chairs-to be friend
ly' to the Soviet Union and to support American
capitalism.
In the meantime, Russian immigrant workers
organizations in many parts of the country in
Guiding right here in New York, have vigorously
condemned Russky Golos for supporting Amer
lean capitalism and having its lawyer threaten
to take legal action against the Daily Worker
because, in our issue of Feb 20, we mistakably
said in headline that Russky Golos was in a
scheme to swindle the Russian workers, when the
fact was that it merely took money for adj
vertising the said swindle scheme, perfectly
legitimate practice under capitalism.
In our March 9th article we promised to give
some further details on the scheme, designed to
induce foreign-born workers in New York to buy
Arizona land at $3.50 per acre. sponsored locally
by the Rodina Realty Co., ISL Avenue A, in New
York whose advertisements Russky Golos pub
lished. Explain as it will, why it prints such
ads, Russky Golos is finding that its threat to
invoke the capitalist courts to attack the central
organ of the Communist Party meets with in
in this country.
To play ostrich, and by avoiding mention of
the Communist Party of this country in order
to keep Russian workers from finding and join
ing it. to hide its existence from the workers,
is something of a feat. Rather stupid dis
guise for ennity against the Communist Party.
But when Russky Golos resorted to threat of
capitalist law against the Communist press, it
exposed itself to the workers as its direct enemy.
Coming on top of endorsing Hoover's starva-
ton policy against the unemployed and praise of
Mayor Walker of Tammany Hall, it was the
straw that broke the camers back
But we have here the duty of explaining the
character of advertising not only carried by
Russky Golos, but defended by it as quite all
right. This paradise nook-Arizona" as one ad
stated, is the most marvellous land under the sun.
There, said one Russky Golos ad, blessed toll.
secures you and your family happiness and
health" Something new for workers under capt.
talsml This ad, as many others, is given as
Statement of some mysterious Initiative Farm
ers' Group" which seems to exist solely for adj
tertising purposes.
To sanctify this smelly land scheme, another
Russky Golos ad calls everybody to come to,
church for an Arizona Evening" in the hall of
the Church of Christs Resurrection, on Feb. !,
last.
In still another adj, on Feb. and 4, another
Arizona Evening" reveals that the Initiative
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-30
Chiang's Successful Defeat

AS told in the NJ Y. Times Of March a. in
two separate stores printed under the same head
line: "Peiping -Hankow Road is Cleared OF Reds"
the victorious setback occurred as follows:
SHANGHAI Narchc %, Especial Gable to the
New York Times)-It is officially announced that
the first through Peiping Hankow trains were
operated today since the Communist seizure OF
part of the railway fortnight ago, the Marking
Government having rushed $4,000 troops to the
affected area to repel the Reds" L-----i
Then below that, another story:
"HANKOW, China, March % associated
Press Communists have looted numerous
villages within thirty miles of Hankow in the
last few days. Farther north, near the Honan
province border, they again cut the Peiping-
Hankow Railroad"
Go on now, remembering how many times the
Soviet at Moscow was overthrow" even as late
as last summer in the N. Y. Times, and take
your choice as to what Chang Kai-Sheks
victory" is worth.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-30
PARTY LIFE
Conducted by the Organization Department of
the Central Committee, Communist Party, US.A
Workers Ex-Servicemen's
League
TO BE CONTINUED

A NEW form of organization of struggle is de-
n veloping with the new methods adopted by
the Party at the present period Around the
issues of the bonus agitation involving about
100000 World War veterans, and the fact that
there are about 100000 unemployed war vet
Grants, makes it possible for the Party to win
over to the support of the class struggle the
militant and more class conscious war veterans
as well as other workers who have seen military
service.
The limited experience of the Workers Ex-
Servicemen's League in New York City shows
the possibilities for this work.
In The Election Campaign last year. of which
the Workers Ex-Servicemens League was one
of the united front organizations committees of
ex-servicemen made it possible, united with the
other workers, to overcome the resistance in
New Brunswick
On the line of the hunger march to Albany
when the Unemployed Councils were unable to
hold meetings in Yonkers, city near New
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-30
A. F. of L. Leaders Betray
Tom Mooney
By BURCK

appeared in the pages of this publication devoted
to organized labor in the United States"
The American Federation of Labor with hun
dreds of thousands of dollars in its treasury, has
never given a single penny for the defense of
Mooney and Billings. Just before the close of
the 1917 Convention of the A F. of L. in Buff
falo, a resolution demanding new trials for
Mooney and Billings was so amended that the
punch from the resolution was taken out.
Among the matter extracted from the original
resolution was a request calling for financial
assistance to the defense
AS a result of baseleSS charges made at the
1919 A. F. of L. Convention in Atlantic City, E.
D. Nolan made the following statement in part,
in answer to- the charges made against the
handling of the Mooney case by the Defense
League: "In reply to question asking the at
titude of the Defense League in connection with
the reported charges OF disruption at the A. F.
of L. Convention, the Mooney Defense forces
represented by Trade Unions which have con-
Quoted the defense of the Mooney case do not
feel that it is at all necessary, after the clean
and clear fight of nearly three years, to reply
to the jealous and carping criticism of the dis
gruntled old grandmothers in the American
Labor movement. Tom Mooney has realized
since his first day in Jail that the reactionary
gang of officials who are responsible for the
charges OF dlSrupClOn against the defense are his
enemies, and that he would stand better show
for life and liberty from Fickert and the Cali
fornia Junkers than from such personal enemies
as Frey and his kind of extreme reactionary
group on guard at Atlantic City,"
For three years. 1926-27-28, Tom Mooney, in
an attempt to arouse interest in the case, sent
mimeographed sets of documents, which concu-
sively established Billings and his innocence to
many persons of influence. A set mailed to
President William Green of the A. F. of L.
brought forth this warm and encouraging an
sWer from Washington, D. c.. April Is, 1927:
please accept my acknowledgment of the
receipt of your. letter of April II, with enclo-
sures. Very truly yours
In January, 1928, Mooney again wrote to Pres
ident Green Two and half months later
Green replied and among other things asked:
will you also advise me if you still maintain
the position that you will not under any cir
cumstances accept parole, but that you insist
upon complete pardon'?"
Green's attitude is clearly that of man who
has his opponent down. and is energetically adj
ministering severe beating with the demand
to know if he has had enough. Needless to say,
Mooney has not changed his position and will
today as ever, accept nothing less than COM
plete and unconditional pardon.
TO BE CONTINUED
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-30

York, without danger Of breaking the line Of
the march, the Workers Ex-Servicemens League
was able to break through and hold a very large
demonstration, one of the largest ever held in
that city. IF
On the entire march to Albany, and in meeting
interference in Albany, the ex-servcemen made
possible the organization and discipline Of the
hunger march and afterward were active In the
defense of the hunger marchers.
Every district must work out concrete pro-
gram for the formation Of ex-servicemen's
leagues The basic problems are:
!. The immediate demands, among which are,
full cash payment Of the bonus without interest
to prevent the stealing Of so per cent Of the
Tombstone Bonus still due the war veterans;
better disqualification treatment and the right
of a war veteran to choose his own physician at
the expense of the government; no jim Growing
of ex-servcenen, unity with the workers in an
their struggles, struggle against imperialist war
and supporting of the workers who are now in
the armed forces in their demands for better
treatment and conditions while in the armed
forces. -
@ In addition to fighting for these, to strug-
gle against and to expose the American Legion,
Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Disabled War
Veterans, in order to win over the workers from
their influence and to the support Of the other
workers in their struggles; utilize the ex-ser-
vicemen organization in united front activities
picket lines and in carrying on the every -day-
struggles in the Unemployed Councils -----
g. To form branches of the Workers Ex-Ser-
vicemen's League with the aim in view to form
a national conference and organization.
A. To Immediately establish national maya
zine around which to mobilize the ex-servicemen
This work is of major Importance In m TIE
er ex-seryicemen into Acknowledgements nssgssa !
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-30

This is the fifteenth instalIment of Tom
Moneys own description of the betrayal of
Mooney Billings case by the A. F. L. labor
leaders,.
In the last installment he gave evidence that
the California union czars fought to prevent
the pardon of the two framed militants, and
told the governor that if he had to let them
go, they should be paroled instead of pardoned.
Parole would mean that their fight against
evil influences in the labor movement would be
hampered. Mooney continues, below.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-30
A ''Fait AccOmpli"

Which is highbrow for an accomplished FACT
1t being in this case 'fait accompi" confront-
ing j. H Sexton, a farmer at Galesburg, Ill,
on whose farm % pound meteor fell.
Trusting farmer that he is, he loaned 1t to an
interested person, who passed it to member OF
the Naval Reserve who promptly cadged 1t and
sent it to the Great White Father at Washington.
And the Great White Father, after looking it
over and finding that it was valuable, sent the
farmer a letter expressing the hope that he would
take pleasure in donating this to the Gov
eminent, as we are going to keep It,"