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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-15
United States
 Gives Her Side
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Officials emphatically disclaimed any warrant for interpreting the present course as indicating any fundamental change of policy, un- precedented though attendance at the League Council meeting may be.
 While it is anticipated that some question as to the governments policy toward the league might de- velop when congress assemblies, of- ficials believe the importance of preventing war in Manchuria is sufficient justification for cooper ation.
 The tenacity of China and Japan in their struggle for possession of Manchuria is due to the fact that China regards Manchuria is her promised land" where millions of famished are finding a chance to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-15
BY HENRY WOOD Limited Press Staff COrrespOnfif

>,Se' se~~A- OOAANokSOAANACAAll
 Geneva, Oct 15-(U. P.)-League of Nations officials studied the pos sibility to-day that Soviet Russia might ask participation in settle ment of the Manchurian question if the United States is asked to join the councils deliberations.
 Further action of the council awaited instructions from Tokio to the Japanese delegate regarding American participation in a con- sultative capacity.
 It was admitted that the Soviet position was analogous to that of the United States. Russia is a sig natory to the Kellogg anti-war pact, participates in numerous league activities including the Eu- ropean Economic Union, and has been invited to the 1882 world dis armament conference.
 In addition, the Soviets control the Chinese Eastern Railway and have great commercial interests in Manchuria.
 French. activities here centered on reducing the Ssa-Japanese con- fiict to minimum proportions where direct negotiations would become the only logical solution.
 French Foreign Minister Aris-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-15
Japanese Are Much
 Embittered At U. 5.
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would be necessary. To invite the United States against Japan's s wishes, however, would be deemed a serious affront to Japan.
 }. To use concession by the league on the United States invi- tation to bargain for concession by Japan on Manchuria. which, however, is regarded here as be- heath the dignity of the league.
 Japanese sources said Kenkichi
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-15
Atty Martin Was We'll Known Here
Practiced on Different Oc- casiOns Before Local
 Courts

Charles J. Martin, A, prominent Connecticut attorney, who yester- day committed suicide at his home in West Haven was well known tO members of the Waterbury bar. Attorney Martin practiced occas- ionally before the local superior and common pleas courts.
 Local court officials and lawy- CTS today expressed regret at At torney Martins death. They were all visibly surprised and grieved to hear of his untimely demise. It is expected that representatives of the Waterbury bar will be present at the funeral services.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-15
Arguments for
 DistefanO
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 Torkomian and James Sullivan, were found guilty of criminal as- sault on a 16-year old girl in the superior court here last March. The appeal filed for Distefano main- tains that the penalty given him is unusually harsh and is in vio- 1ation of his rights under the state
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-15
Three possibilities were open ir the present situation:

1. To abandon the idea cf American participation. which, 1t was felt. would amount to hu- initiating confession of weakness.
 2. To decide that the invita- ton to the United States is merely a question of procedure. and not matter of policy, in which case merely majority vote of the coun- cil and not an unanimous vote
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-15
ii FORECLOSURES BEFORE COMMON PLEASE
JOSEPH RUSSO IN
 AUTO ACCIDENT

Joseph Russo, A, of GA Mill street, this city, is a patient in the Meriden hospital as the result of an automobile accident near Mill- dale yesterday afternoon. A bus on the Milldale-Meriden line crashed into a telephone pole, injuring Russo, who was a passenger in the machine. He is not believed to be seriously hurt, but X-rays have been taken to determine whether he is injured internally.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-15
JUDGE E. J. FINN
 RESERVED DECISION

Judge Edward J. Finn of the court of common pleas yesterday afternoon reserved decision in the cases of Joseph Borinski against Giovanni Gizze and Giovanni Gizze against Joseph Borinski. The suits were heard jointly. Each party seeks $200 as the result of an auto accident on the Thomaston road. One charges the other with being responsible so it is up to Judge Finn to decide the question.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-03
e Church Blesses ImperaGst War and Armed Intervention

fetal for all parties concerned or it may be used
as an instrument of injustice and exploitation"
(Our emphasis)
These Church pacifists are not against Imperialism
They only against bad" imperialism. But this is
nonsense Imperialism is imperialism: it is robbery
rape murder and spoilaton of the colonial peoples
The rule of American Imperialism in Latin America
not be made beneficial for both the United Fruit
Con@any and the agricultural workers and peasants
whom it exploits The peoples of the Caribbean coun-
tries desire neither good bad American rule They
want the Yankee imperiasts to get the hell out of
their countries And they are perfectlAright.
But the Church pacifist has mission to perform
He has got to sugarcoat U S. imperias rule for the
exploited of the colonies; and he has got to
deceive the in the imperialist countries to
the real nature of imperialism. In the first instance
he helps break up colonial revots In the second in
stance, he helps to mobilize the for imperias
by %Softening" their opposition to imperialism
The pacifism and anti-imperiaism of the Church
is fake and swindle.
Church Socialism Is a War Measure.
The Church is undertaking to fight real Socialism
with fake Socialism The Protestant Churches of the
United States showing how The Pope is bringing
up the rear The Socialist Party of America is greet
ing the Conversion" of the Pope to Socialism, while
the labor takers feel strengthened in their eacherou
activities by the moral" support of the Church
What is this so-called Church Socialism? 1t is,
first of ALL effort to hold the to the Church.
the that flocking away from the Church.
The Church undertakes to dress itself up in false
cast puage in order stop the hungry disillusoned
and revolutionized from going to the real
Socialism, to the Socialism that is being built in the
Soviet Union
But above ALL this Conversion" of the Church to
Socialism is a 1t is a measure to revive
the Church crusade against the Soviet Union The
Church has found out that it can't the
against the Soviet Union in the name of God and Capt.
talsm. Hence, it is trying to do the same trick in
the of-Socialism The Church is trying to
pair its damaged standing among the masses and in
doing strengthen capitalism and the imperialist
preparations.
Matthew Woll-arch-labo -faker monger, and
Observation-Disclosures his hands with satisfaction Speak
ing about the latest Encycca of the Pope he said Il
endorse his views that neither capital labor has
right to demand all the fruits of their colaborative
labor" Vol makes it especially that the share
of the capitalists shall not be decreased.
The Socialist Party of America speaking through
Waldman, says:
1--WE welcome the Popes conversion to doc
trine of Labor"
Thus we witness the harmony and unanimity be-
tween the Church. labor takers and Socialist Party in
the work of deceving the tong masses, in the work
of paving the way for imperalist and military in
tervention in the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-03

definite division Of labor exists between the
capitalist governments, the hand, and the
Church, on the other. The capitalist governments by
of the army, police, courts and jais are keep
ing the body of the worker chained down to the present
system. The Church by means of religious preach
ings terrors of hell promises of the hereafter
keeping the soul the mind of the worker chained down
to the present system.
The methods" of the church are, therefore, some
what different from the methods of the policeman,
Judge or governor. But they pursue the aim.
They the same master namely, the wealthy the
rich the capitalists, the exploers.
The Role of the Church in the Late Imperalst War.
Peace is the most common and popular word
the lips Of priests and cergymen. Peace and good will
But it is sinister sort of peace that the Church
breaches is the peace of surrender to capitalist and
inperiast exploitation Tt is the peace of surrender
TO capitalist and imperalist exploitation. 1t is the
peace of submission of robbed masses to the i'm
perast system of robbery and oppression The Church
Is for peace but only SIDE, on the side OF the
exploited masses
The Church will occasionally utter a mild word of
warning or reproach also to the master class. 1t will
speak OF the misery and starvation of the masses
But it will do when the themselves ere On
the to secure better conditions, when the Church
feels that capitalism is in danger of b2i1g oVerhroWn
by the revolutionary struggles of the ers Then the
Church speaks up. but with two voices The one to
the master class is suave, mild and pleasing drawing
attention to the danger confronting both capitalist
eminent and capitalist Church. Inc OGher voice IS
directed to the masses This is stern. threatening
and angry. It invokes all the terrors of God and
Caesar" to keep the from fighting and to
the existing system of hunger and capitalist terror.
What did the Church do in the imperialist slaugh
ter of 1914-1913? Everyone old enough to remember
will recall that the Church of all denominations and
religions gave its blessing to the doing its bit to
win the for its respective capitalist class.
Naturally the Church did this in its own way,
Church should. It Gid not. for instance rattle the
saber. like the Generals doing because the nsru
and method of the Church is not the saber but
God" Religion" "Non-resistance to Violence" and
obedience to Constituted Authority Of course these
persuasive efforts of the Church greatly fascih
by the secular of capitalism. which is always
the corner such the soldiers rifle, the po-
hcemen's club with the judge and jailer not far in
the background.
The Church also did lot Of signing" and "sor-
rowing Is it not the repository of capitalist con-
science? It talked about the snfuness of lin
era" 1t spoke its adherence of bloodshed also in
general But it made nevertheless that the given
imperialist be carried and be for the capt.
talist class of its country The Church. clergy and
priests the effective auxiliary to the War
Department of each imperast country in the late
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-03
Biblical Arithmetic

Now we know where Hoover got his 80 wear
plan" The Saturday Evening Post, official or
gan of Trotzky and Eva Garrett Grady, gave us
the general idea in trying to make fun of the
Five Year Plan.
But the bible didn't say anything about the
Five Year Plan at all What it was talking
about was Hoover's 20 year plan. You see, 1t
was concerning Laban who invented the 20 year
plan before Hoover had stopped being a demo-
crat.
Laban, says the bible. was such mean guy
that when Jacob asked to marry Laban's young
est daughter, Laban said: IF you like Rachel
so much, you'll have to work for me without
wages for seven years"
Prosperity was coming back in sixty DAYS.
you see.
So Jacob not having read the Daily Worker,
swallowed the promise Of Laban, and endured
seven years of forced labor. At the end of them
when he thought he was going to get Rachels
shoes under his bed darned if Laban didn't
switch girls on him after turning out the light
and gave Jacob the oldest and ugliest daughter
he had, gal named Leah
But Laban set up a wood Commission for
Maintaining Employment" so to speak. and
bid Jacob be of good hope, because it was all
and accident, and Jacob could work for no
wages for another seven years and he sure
Woula get tne flghC girl at the finish, and some
sheep and cattle besides
JACOB worked another seven years without
wages and then six years more besides trying
to argue Laban into giving him what he was
promised 81.
But at the end of the two times seven years
plus six, that is to say, twenty years., Jacob
realized he was stung and trapped off the
ranch without Rachel or any of the good cattle
or sheep, and only few goats and wife whoss
face would stop camel train
And that, brethren, is not near SO bad as
what will happen to you if you wait for Hooyers
go year plan" of peace and prosperity to como
true And that, also, is proof that Hoover got his
year plan from tthe old skinf1int, Laban.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-03
R!4@;~.&
More Charity Grafters
BY JORGE

From the Detroit News of June %, some COM
rade sends us clipping that tells of the follow
ing from Pontiac, Michigan.
Willis NJ Brewer, former State Commander
OF the American Legion, embezzled $4,000 given
by the County in 1929 supposed for the Ameri-
can Legion Childrens Billet at Otter Lake, of
which he was trustee" He got a six year SEN
tence, but if he pays $500 he can get out lots
sooner.
FLOYD B. Babcock, former postmaster for "our"
government at Pontiac, pleaded guilty to "tak-
ing $50 the paper puts it, $1,050 of County
money which otherwise would have gone to the
Oakland County tuberculosis Sanitarium of
which he was business manager. He gets three
and half years, but can get out in less than
six months by paying 500 within ninety days
Brewer and Babcock are not foreign sound
ing names" No, 100 percenters
They will not be Doaked.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-03
An European WolIfish

Recently in Europe, so we are informed by the
Friends OF the Soviet Union, the whole capital~
list press published what a notorious priest,
Father Muckermann said about the awful Cheks
(now the Gaypayoo) did to prisoners According
to this liar, the Gaypayoo placed rats on the
prisoners bodies, covering these with earnthen-
ware pots, which were then heated by fire The
rats, thus tormented by heat, had eaten their
way out through the bodies of the hapless VIC
Tins of the Bolsheviks.
Cornered with a demand to produce proof
Father Muckermann, an apostle of the One True
Church, said he had been told this rat story bv
big German capitalist named Arnold Rechberg.
who is Fishizing Germany Rechberg cornered
in turn, squirmed out of it by saying he had
been told the rat story by an agent of the Brit
ish Intelligence" service.
Meanwhile, somebody discovered where the
rat story came from. 1t seems that literary
journal in Paris, called Les Nouvelles Lit
terares," on January 3, 1881, published review
of book on the atrocities of the Spanish Gath
olic) Inqusition of the year 1885, from which
the following juicy recipe for Catholics to make
hereticS uncomfortable, is TAKEN
$. they must be laid on table, basin in
verified on their belly and rats placed beneath it
Fire must be made on the basin, so that the
heretics) entras"
So you see that Father Muckermann had to
borrow from the history of his own church to
get material for the "holy crusade" against the
Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-03

in the second paragraph of this very letter
These syInpathizers state that they are unable
or un~illing to do work in the shops-the most
important place where revolutionary work must
be done. But they do not see that this is
fault in themselves instead they criticize Com
Amter's article. They want the Party to change
to suit itself to their Menshevik ideas. They
think the revolution can be accomplished with
out some sacrifices. And they cover this up
with the fine phrase that "every revolutionary
is active when he sees fit" But this is Just the
point. Real revolutionaries Communists are
active when and where the Party sees fit. Fin
ally. it is necessary for the comrades to learn
how to work in shops without exposing them
selves and getting fired except when the work
makes this unavoidable.
If, as these sympathizers say, they feel they
cannot live up to the requirements of Party
discipline. they can still he of use to the move
ment by taking the advice of the Daily Worker
and building Daily Worker Clubs, or becoming
active in relief or defense work In one of the
sympathetic organizations where the require
msnts as to activity and discipline are not as
stftct as IN the PARTY
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-03
Rr HAIRY CANNES.

TN the midst of his plan of war debt postpone
1 ment" President Hoover finds plenty of time
to take hand in an effort to crush the strike
Of 10000 Pennsylvania Ohio and West Virginia
Miners The leading figure in the debt maneu-
yering is heavily interested in the Penn-Ohlo
strike Andrew Mellon, Secretary of the United
States Treasury, is in Europe forging an anti
Soviet war front, but Mellon is the richest man
in Pennsylvania
Nearly every coal mine pays him or his fam
lily tribute Every penny stolen from the miners
in short weight, by showing wages down to
the starvation level, is shaved to fill Andrew
Melons pockets. On larger scale Mellon is
doing a Governor Pinchot stunt in Europe He
is seeking to smash the European masses who
are fighting against the hunger system just as
Pinchot the United Mine Workers and the coal
company and their gunner are seeking to
drown in blood the fight against hunger of the
10000 striking miners
Nearly every one of Melons banks factories,
mills, public utilities is directly connected up
with this strike. Three-fifths of the bituminous
coal in the United States is used by the steel
companies, the railroads, the public utilities and
the coke plants. Mellon is interested in all of
these types of industries. He has millions in
vested in the Pennsylvania railroad which makes
money out of the transporting of coal, which
uses coal and which mines coal.
glance at some of the leading Mellon in
terests will show how much interested Mellon
and Hoover are (as well Pinchot and the
u. M. w. A. in numbering miners, cracking the
skulls of others and failing hundreds more.
The Mellon family control the Mellon National
Bank of Pittsburgh. Money for the gunner
comes out of this bank. The same is true of
t1,a Jloio IN pf
The Pittsburgh Coal Co. is Mellon
poration but there are hundreds of other mines
run by Mellon. For instance, the Jones &
Loughln steel Corporation which cuts the
wages of steel workers and starves thousands Of
miners, is run by the Mellon family Here are
more Mellon corporations interested in COAL
steel and public utilities Pennsylvania Water
Co.. Chicago By-Products Coke Co., Crucible
Steel Co. Gulf Oil Corporation Unietd Gas I'M
provement Co., Aluminium Co.. Baltimore Car
and Foundry Co, Bartlett-H Hayward Co, Butler
Bolt and Rivet Co., Forged Steel Wheel Co.
Federal Aviation Co., Richmond Works. Stand
2rd Steel Car Co, steel Ger Forge Co., Union
Switch and Signal Co, and Westinghouse Air
Brake Co.
Any wonder the U. M. W. A. is brought in to
crush the strike and Pinchot's gunner do every
thing to keep the strike from spreading to the
steel workers The necessity &C united acton
OF all the workers against thar common enea,I
Is strikingly shown in the list Of corporal TORS
owned by the Melons
In Pittsburgh the capitalist press soft-pedalg
- TNfssx Mellons name In connection with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-03
The City Unemployed Conference
in San Francisco

membership. The unemployed movement is the
most important part of the class struggle. En-
ployed and sympathizers must give the councils
the fullest support. When the immediate needs
for the membership are solved, more pressure
must be brought to the governmental bodies
for immediate relief of the big families and the
demand for social insurance. The social insur-
ance bill is also vital demand for part-time
workers
The coming winter months will be worst than
ever. We must prepare and build our orgariza-
tional strength. The workers are starving, the
workers are discontended, the workers accept
leadership if the leadership understands and
expresses the desires of the workers. Thousands
of hotel rooms are vacant every night and sew
eral hotels only used for sex exploitation,
protected by politicians, landlords, and police
forces. While several hotel buildings are only
used for ser-pleasure, the unemployed worker is
forced by the capitalistic law and order to tramp
the street, to sleep in box cars or vacant lots
Let the convention expose the rottenness of
the political system, let the workers understand
that capitalistic law only protects property and
its owners, that the right to live is ignored, and
that the claSs-War cannot be completed through
the ballot box. This year more solidarity than
ever must be the slogan of the convention.
p. S., Fillmore Branch, U. c.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-03

war and advocacy of disarmament" is of the same
hypocritical the official pacifist
of the imperiast governments The Church helps the
governments to hide the preparations for and mill
tary intervention.
This is in way contradcted by the fact that the
Church is actively engaged in various movements for
peace and international goodwill On the contrary.
The the Church talks of peace the safely"
can the imperialist governments prepare for war.
Especially vicious are the so-called liberal church
men, who trying to cover up the reactionary
of the Church with humanitarian and pacifist
phrases. In this way they hope to keep the
with the Church order that it may effectively
the spiritual guardian of capitalism and reaction
One of these is Charles E Jefferson, of the World
Alliance For International Friendship Through the
Churches He is preaching pacifism of the Church
iety Hence, the first thing he does is to try to par
ayze the will of the to fight against He
says that Boshevism and Communism 'mischievous
and deadly" For capitalism and imperalist war; of
course But this he doesn't say Instead he plays the
symphony of the spirit the spirit of good will, aim
ing to attain its objects by violence but by gentle
ness"
And to whom is he playing this symphony? Not
to the imperalist makers not to the capitalists
and bankers who mercilessly crushing workers
strikes-as in the Coal Strike today-king numbering
and manning The bankers and capitalists, according
to the Church pacfst all peace loving and gentle
souls. Listen:
"In regard to the use of violence all employers,
all the members of the Chambers of Commerce, and
all the members of the Boards of Trade and all the
Directors of the great corporations all this
country pacifists." (Our emphass)
Now you have it, on the authority of a Church
pacs that all exploiters of labor pacifists On
the authority, the Steel Trust the Muniten
Manufacturers and all the imperialist gang that is
preparing the next warthat all these don't believe In
violence. They 100 per cent pacifists. The
clusion is clear If all this gang of murderers and
is nJs ha1t
a screen to hide preparations, weapon of i'm
periaist war preparations just much navies,
poison gas, fighting planes etc. And this is what
Church paeifism stands for.
Some churches undertake to speak against
Imperialism But how? Listen to the National Com
mttee on the Churches and World Peace Having de-
fined imperialism "as the control Of the people of
country by an alien power" it goes on as follows:
ut is obvious that this external control may
be exercised in way that is constructive and bene