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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1931-07-07

It's the optimist who gets the green l'sh's'
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1931-07-07
Good evening.
O-O-o
JUST A BREAK

JUST A BREAK
World debts take a holiday,
They've done the thing up fine,
l long for moratorium
ON NINE.
Golf is one game in which you've
got to get in a hole in order to make
good.
There are fewer flies this
year than formerly, at least
that's the dope. Perhaps the
depression has laid 'em off.
600
Many man has such a hard job
getting on Easy street that he's I'M
able to live long enough to enjoy
the change.
Who'll save the life savers
life If the life saver can't save
his own?
Dizzy Dorothy. the towns intel
lectual idiot, thinks a fishing smack
is kiss between male and female
anglers.
o-O-o
Many a man is color blind
until it comes to distinguishing
green backs.
600
It's all right to drop hint but
sometimes it's done so carelessly
that the resultant noise is disturb
ing to all concerned.
o-O-o
Girls spend 500 during the
summer vacation to get 4 coat
of tan and $3.50 during the win
ter on bleaching creams to get
rid of it.
Out in the jungle, there's also a
danger lion.
Speaking of the unusual,
there's the girl who got stuck
on the son of glue manu-
facturer.
The practical joker is merely an
impractical clown.
o-O-o
DING, DING.
Pity the back scat driver.
Imagine how you'd feel,
If you found yourself giving orders
To Il dumbbclI at the wheel.
O-O-o
With the auto manufacturer an
nouncing new modess and Henry
Ford opening an Inn it begins to
look as if Old Man Depression is
getting ready to go in his hole for
another seven years.
O-O-O
Now they've discovered that
IL III
merely sting. A rose by any
other name costs just as much
in a flower shoppe.
O-O-O
One swallow doesn't make a sum-
mer, but too many will bring stag
gering fall.
O-O-O
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1931-07-07

World debts take a holiday,
They've done the thing up fine,
l long for a moratorium
ON NINE,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1931-07-07

Pity the back scat driver.
Imagine how you'd feel.
If you found yourself giving orders
To Il dumbbcll at the wheel.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-09
Unemployed Council
of West Pullman
Holds Large Meet

CHICAGO, Ill.-At meeting called
by the Unemployed Council Of West
Pullman the hall was overlooked,
and more than two hundred workers
gathered outside, where all could par
ticipate. 1t is significant that many
young workers were in the crowd,
and they showed the greatest enthu-
siasm. All the applications to the
Council were filled out, sixty new
members being obtained, many of
these, too, being young and ne1, "a
ments.
At the next meeting OF the Council
last Friday, two of these new mem
bers were added to the Executive
Committee. Several young workers
are asking to join the Young Com
munist League. They spoke with the
greatest enthusiasm and this is an
other instance of the masses getting
ahead of our comrades. The Council
is now planning another meeting in
large hall, as well as a series of
open-air meetings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-09
New York.

NEW 1OTk.
Comrades:
During the election campaign, in
particular, and as a medium Of
bringing our message to the work
ers at all times, the open-air meet
ings are of primary Importance.
1t is therefore imperative that our
meetings should be conducted in a
manner that will not only reflect our
ability to convey our message to the
workers, but will also show a dis
cipline that will impress them with
the true meaning of organization of
which we speak SO much.
So far, although my experience as
a public speaker on the platform Of
the Communist Party covers less
than three months, the few incidents
noticed during the meetings have
proven to me that unless more eff
cient methods are used a great deal
of the benefits supposed to be de-
rived from such meetings will be
lost.
The meetings seldom start before
8 pm, although the speakers as
signment reads 8 pm. Most chair
men have little, if any, experience in
introducing the organization or
speakers. Often they spend 10 to
80 minutes on the platform while
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-09
Must Organize More Efficient Election
Meetings
Meetings

the speaker waits to be introduced.
While the chairman is speaking there
is no comrade to see that the meet
ing is orderly. Seldom, if ever, are
there sufficient comrades with lit
erature to sell Some of the COM
rades stand with the literature in one
place, hoping that some workers
would go over to buy it. At no time
have I seen the chairman or speaker
offer literature from the platform or
membership cards for workers to
sign, although they always speak of
organization and for them to join.
In order to overcome these many
shortcomings until the speaker can
take course in public speaking, the
District should demand that each
Section call a meeting of all speak
ers, chairmen, agit-prop. A capable
speake., such as Carl Brodsky,
should be assigned to address these
meetings on how to conduct an open
air meeting, the duty of the chair
man, speakers, literature, agents, etc.
A leaflet should be issued there
after containing all the instructions
given by the comrade.
Only thus will our meetings reap
the benefits for which they are ar
ranged
Shiller, Unit 8, Section 5.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-09
King of England's Gesture Mocks
Slash in Jobless Workers. Dole

the king for his sacrifices" during
the war when hundreds Of thou
sands of British workers were being
slaughtered to secure the royal and
capitalist parasites profits.
This stage play, along with the
sham opposition of the Henderson-led
labor party is put on to keep the
workers from fighting. 1t is not ac-
cidental that it takes place on the
day that Parliament is set to open
with Macdonald sponsoring the pro-
gram of sacrifices" is, sacri-
fees that slash the workers stand
ard of living and leave the capitalists
profits intact.
At the sessions Of the Trade Union
Congress in Briston. the union lead
ers, erstwhile close supporters Of
Ramsay Macdonald and now fol-
lowing in the train of Arthur Hen
derson, every effort was made to keep
down indignant protests and ques-
lions from the few workers who got
by the strong guards and the careful
sitting of visitors. The capitalist
news reports admit that Arthus Hen
derson faces a hard task defending
his actions and that he will be forced
to answer many questions The New
York Times report says about this !:
There was q disposition today to
hunt for more scapegoats than those
whom the general council was dis
posed to send into the wilderness.
and when Arthur Henderson attends
the congress later in the week he
will be speaking partly in his own
defense against suspicious which
were only half formulated today in
quickly stifled questions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-09
WARNS THAT THE COLLAPSE OF ~
CAPITALISM IS APPROACHING
Workers Now Look To Soviet Union, Says
German Economist

the first instance in Germany and
adjacent countries"
The workers in Germany and in
Great Britain and in the United
States are learning rapidly what the
capitalist system has to offer the
working-cla They are learning
that this crisis is an inseparable part
Of capitalism ard that the only way
in which the working class can be
assured a decent life and be freed
of starvation and disease is through
/ the overthrow of the capitalist sys-
ter that necessarily breeds this
misery.
The collapse Of the capitalist sys-
/ TEN is nearest in Germany and it is
the task Of the capitalist class to
crush the revolutionary struggle Of
the German working class. In this
smashing of the revolutionary strug-
gle of the German workers America
could render not only (capitaIst)
! SC4 many DuJ Oil VI NCdsiJ4bd4IobJ 6u~
rope a priceless service" he says.
The capitalist class knows that it
cannot prove to the working class Of
the world that it has more to offer
them than the workers and peasants
Of the Soviet Union are gaining
under the dictatorship of the pro-
letariat. The capitalist class is de-
termined not to combat the Soviet
Union by these means but by war.
It is for the attack on the Soviet
| Union and on the revolutionary
working-class of Germany under the
leadership Of the Communist Party
that Beckerath warns the capitalist
class of the United States. The
American capitalist class is preparing
for this attack by building even
greater ornaments and war supplies.
The working class must defend their
fatherland in the Soviet Union and
defend the revolutionary struggle Of
the German workers against the
capitalist class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-09
Telegraph Business
Off: Operators On
Part Time Every Day

CHICAGO, Tilt is possible to
get an accurate guage of existing
business conditions through the traf-
fic handled by a telegraph company.
At the postal telegraph things have
fallen off alarmingly. Operators COM
ing down to work at nine in the
morning are told to report back to
work at ten. Then if they are put
on at ten a. m. they are most likely
sent home at noon. Often at nine
o'clock at night there isn't tele-
gram to be sent in the place. The
Postal continues to dock each en-
ployed $3.50 a month and refuses
to answer the workers queries as to
what this money is taken out for.
Workers! We should demand an i'm
mediate stop to this robberyl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-09
SCOTS RUN MINERS RESTRIkE
UNDER NMU;; NEED RELIEF TOWN

cent wage cut. Practically every
steel worker in the Pittsburgh and
Ohio Valley districts has had his
wages cut Many have had their
wages cut three or four times in three
months.
Strike talk is in the air. The work
ers are threatening to strike against
further wage cuts, and the speed-up
that is making one man do three
mems work They will be the next
victims of the cossacks' clubs, Of in
timidation by the courts, of tear gas,
of evictions. Many steel mills are
already shut down. Their unemploy-
ed workers will join in the mass pro-
test against hunger and against work
at starvation wages.
Workers relief organizations must
begin now to store up q surplus
against these impending strikes. Re-
lief based on the solidarity Of the
workers is one of the strongest wea-
pens in the hands of the strikers. If
the steel workers are confident OF
support from a united working class
movement, they can carry on their
battles against the barons of iron
and steel with hope and success.
Every worker is involved in these
wage cuts whether they affect him
now or not. Nearly all workers have
had their wages cut and their work
ing conditions worsened by their
bosses during the present attack on
the working class. Those not yet
cut are slated for early attacks. Rail
road men, so far affected only by
slack work, are threatened with wage
cuts as soon as the present effort to
raise freight rates is settled. Build
ing trades workers have had their
wages cut. Many have been forced
to pay a rebate to the foreman to
keep a job. From the highest to the
lowest there have been attacks on
wages and working conditions. The
bosses are trying to save their prof
its by taking the costs of the panic
out Of the hides Of the workers.
Every possible resistance to this at
tack on the workers slows down the
attack. A strong working class move
ment can stop the process entirely
Workers must stand back Of every
strike against starvation, whether in
mines, mills, factories, on road Jobs
or farms. The present strike in oosl
and textiles are but slzirmi1hes in the
general war on the workers. Strong
resistance now will slow down and
maybe stop the attack entirely, The
whole strength OF the workers mus.
be rallied back of each group or
strike.
Relief must be poured in from
every corner of the country to thc
strike areas. to the WIR and the
miners relief committees to suppae
these strikes. Show the bosses tha
the workers are behind any man wiz
goes on strike against starvation ar.
slave conditions Send relief to Z,
! Penn-Ohio-W. Va.-Ky. Striking NJ s
ers Relief Committee, room 205, 81.
! Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, Pa
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-09
Former U.M.W.A. Secretary Banquets With
Mine Superintendent

the miners have to pay 10 cents to
ride in this bus.
Charley Makoko, the former secre-
tary of the U. M. W. A.; Bob War
den, assistant superintendent of the
Warden Mine, and the rest of the
stool-pigeons of Blythedale, Pa, re-
Gently held an expensive banquet at
the home of one of the stool
pigeons They were discussing how
to terrorize the miners and break
the strike. The miners in Blythe
dale are working three days a week
and the company keeps sending more
miners home to terrorize them more
Most of the members of the National
Miners Union are blacklisted.
Workers, yes the bosses and their
stool-pigeons will try to terrorize
you. Why? Because you are unor-
ganizsd. fogro and white miners
must 1g.aire togeshcr and stop
this terror OF the bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-09

for somebody, just so he were a re-
publican or democrat. In the final
return for Letcher County the vote
showed the lightest ever, and prac-
tically all for the coal company man.
Terrorize Miners
Such is the way of this capitalist
system. The coal companies grind
the fear of hell into their men in
the mines-out Of the mines, and
they only have to hint their wishes
to get them done. There is no other
recourse for them, if they fail to take
the hint-they are moved out very
rapidly. 1t may be dirty coal, or it
may be a thousand and one different
things, yet really he is fired simply
because he has shown opposition to
the wishes of the employer. And
no wonder they own the courts, the
law and everything else that goes
with it.
Boys, we have a great consolation
in the faclt that we have them on
the go. They know that we are get
ting ready for the one great fight,
The one that really counts. Build
your Red unions, your party and rush
your aid and sympathy to the big
and little strikes now going on all
all over the nation, as they are the
vanguard of your battle front. Act
today in mighty protest against
unemployment and starvation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-09
Socialist" Macdonald
Praises Royalty's
War Deeds

to hide the hypocricy Of the social
ist' takers.
An example of the equality of bur-
dens" is shown by an interview with
a representative of the British Daily
Worker and unemployed workers at
the Labor Exchanges. The following
is how the unemployed feel about
having their meagre unemployment
insurance cut: One of them said :.
I'D pour petrol over Macdonald and
Thomas and burn the bastards,
traitors that trey are"
Another showed what cut meant
for him.
"Out of $3.75 week. he said, II
have to pay sl.85 for rent and 80
cents for insurance, so you see / have
the magnificent sum of SLIGO to feed
and olothe myself.
eff they do cut this sum, I'd knock
something off and go to Jail. Some
body would have to keep me then
(The British moneyhas been trans
lated into American dollars.-Ed)
While Mcdonald, the socialist"
premier proposes to cut down the
$1.60 that worker is supposed to
feed himself on for a week, the king,
helping out the campaign of lies to
befuddle workers, now tries to make
the workers think that the royal
family too will suffer" along on
over $2,oOo,Ooo a year.
Ramsay Macdonald In accepting
The kings otter 50 lar as 10 praise
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-09
Chile Navy Revolt
Ends, Jail Many
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)

shutting the blacklist reaction in the
face of a revolutionary working class.
Original plans for the surrender OF
the fleet provided that the fleet
should put in at Valparaiso, one OF
the leading industrial cities, but I'M
doubtedly due to the fear Of a mass
demonstration on behalf of the sal
lors, the government at the last min
ute changed plans and ordered the
navy to put in at Port Tongoy, port
owned by the Bethlehem Steel Co.,
a Wall Street corporation.
The Associated Press which credits
the bombardment Of the fleet by the
air service for the end of the up
rising tells with great pride how the
aviators we're trained by Yankee and
British Imperialism, emitting to
mention, of course. that many of
them are American and British army
officers. The Associated Press says:
"The air force, to which credit
for suppressing the revolt is being
given, is directly under the control
of the President and has no con-
nection with either the army or
navy. 1t is the largest in Latin
America and is exceptionally wen
trained. Its pilots have all received
training in the United States or in
England, Colonel Ramon VeTgara,
chief Of the air corps, is a cousin of
the commander-ir in chief Of the ma
tionaI defense. General Vergara."
In order to draw sharp division
/ between the leaders of the mutiny
and the sailors who supported it, the
Chilean government capitalist news
papers in the United States are try
ing to make it appear that only a
small group of Communists forced
the sailors to revolt and that large
part of the navy was loyal. This
canard is being spread by the navy
officers to cover up the fact that the
great majority of the sailors were
Fundamentally in back of the upris-
ing. and that they endorsed the revo-
lutionary demands put forward by
the navy.
There is little doubt that hundreds
of sailors will be executed in an eff
fort to terrorize the rest and to wipe
out the tradition of this working
class uprising in Chile. However
with the growing crisis, driving ever
more thousands to starvation in
Chile, with the greater pressure OF
the imperiaiist bandits, the Chilean
masses learning from the events OF
the past week will be able to carry
forward the struggle for the success
full overthrow of imperialist domi-
nation and its system of hunger and
/ misery.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-09

cialist parties had supported the en-
ployers, the first two actually shoot
ing down the workers on the picket
lines and the socialists clubbing I'M
employed in Milwaukee and helping
to starve the striking miners by driv-
ing relief workers from the streets
in Reading. He called for support of
the Communist candidates in the
mine fields on election day, Mary
Heimoff pointed out that Leo
Thompson was member of the
Young Communist League and en-
dorsed his declaration while on trial
in Washington: 1.-THE duty Of Com
munist is to be in the front ranks
in every fight of the workers against
the employers"
A resolution presented by the Wash
ington branch of the LID. was read
by Griffith and adopted by the con-
ference. 1t calls for each miner to
be responsible for raising so cents
to create fund to be used for moth
ing else but bail and legal defense.
The resolution also urged that Ne
gro counsel be added to the defense
staff, and that a fight be made to
have Negro workers included on all
juries trying miners in this county.
A strong resolution was passed
unanimously demanding the release
of the worker prisoners, and this
resolution was ordered sent to the
governor, the judges, prosecutors and
press.
The defense committee met imme
diately after the adjournment of the
conference and organized itself and
ASSIGNED tasks. and voted to meet
again in the Relief Kitchen at Tyler
dale on Sunday at 10 am.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-09

CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)
Day rolls around, the nation will be
dislodged."
WELLSBURG, West Va, Sept. T.
The following miners have been ar
raigned and held for the grand jury
by Squire Howard of Brooke County:
Alex Dorsey NEGRO leader of the
National Miners Union, Alex Fur
bee, Ed Dennis, Charles Fill, Mike
Mare, Joe Vansnick, Matt Turk,
Mike Spular, Felix Trent, Gene
Hauck, Steve GarnocH, Mike Koseocc,
George Fokar, Ben Murray, Allen
Greenlee, Ralph Long, Matt Badnach
Ed Alexander John Jones, Walter
Miller, Angelo Much and Fred Berry.
The charge against them all is
based on the Red Men Act"
This quaint statute gets its name
from the opening clause of Section
7, Of Article of Chapter 81 of the
Code of West Virginia, as follows:
"If two or more persons under the
name of Red Men," Regulators, !"
vigilance Committee" or any other
name or without a name, combine
and conspire together for the purpose
of inflicting any punishment or
bodily injury upon any other person
or persons, or for the purpose of
destroying, injuring, defacing or TAX
ing away any property, real or per-
sonal, not their own e" and so
on for most any offense any person
could think of. The Red Men act
practically duplicates the whole code,
forbidding murder, theft, arson, may
hem, etc. You might wonder why
all this duplication, since these
crimes all have their own part of the
code, until you come to that part of
the Red Men Act" which reads:
eff upon the trial of an indictment
hereunder, it be proved that two or
more persons, the defendant being
one, were present, aiding and abet-
ting in the commission of the offense
charged therein, it shall be presumed
that such offense was committed in
pursuance of such combination or
conspiracy in the absence of salts
factory proof to the contrary. And
all persons who were present, aiding
and abetting, at the commission of
any offense herein mentioned, shall
be deemed conspirators within the
meaning hereof"
And since in the code Of West
Virginia it is particularly specified
that all persons in such a group
shall be tried separately, it will be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-09
Wages Cut Workers Fired in Terre Haute
Fnameling Plant

Workers Industrial League.
We also held a successful meeting
in front of the Louden Canning Co.,
where girls work under the most ter
rible conditions. Three hundred or
more of the workers cheered the
speaker, Don Wilson, who made an
open statement that he left the yell
low socialist party and Joined the
Communist Party.
At the meeting the bosses called
the cops, who came, but appeared
afraid to do anything. This is the
beginning of the end of the social
list party in Terre Haute. The work.
ers are looking to the Communists
to lead them in their struggles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-09

NEW YORK.-As a signal for a
mass wage cutting drive against the
British workers, King George, and
the rest of the royal house, go through
the mockery of voluntarily giving up
$4,000 pounds ($250,00O) out of their
swollen purses. A tstter written by
F. Ponsonby, Keeper of the Privy
Purse, or the kings TREASURER, to Ram
say Macdonald states hat the royal
family believes the national crisis de-
mands sacrifices.
This stage play is an effort to get
the British unemployed and the
workers to forget about th.N drastic
cut in the unemployed insural re pay
ments and the forthcoming wage
slasheS.
What the Keeper of the Privy
Purse fails to mention is the fact
that the king draws $2,350,000 yearly
from the public treasury and that
the self denial still leaves him over
s2,000,000 from this source, as well
as $350,000 from revenues from the
Ducky of Lancaster, not counting the
hundreds of millions of dollars that
the royal house has invested in vari-
Gus industries. Thus the cut in pay
for the workers will bring back the
kings s250,000 MANIFOLD by squeezing
down the workers living standard.
The step taken by the royal para
site is an attempt to add weight to
the hypocritical declaration of Ram
say 4MacDonald that Sacrifices"
should be squeezed The royal family
which is maintained as symbol of
capitalist rule in England is now be-
ing brought into play as a pageant
far uagP cutting as the Sn,nke 7SGraaa