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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-23
KIWANIs CLUB GOLF
 MATCH AT COUNTRY CLUB

The members of the Kiwants club met at the Country club to- day and induised in . golf match with the Kiwanis club of New Ha- ven. The meeting at the Elton was transferred to the country club and the golf matches followed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-23
By WEBB MILLER limited Press Stan COrreSpOndeI

l (Umte0 PrcSS Stau OOrreSpOuucutp
 London, Sept 23.-(UP)-Lon- don's Stock Exchange opened to- day with industrial securities con- siderably above "black Saturdays s closings but below Tuesdays curb dealings.
 The exchange was packed by Britishers deeply interested in the possible reaction of the market to the suspension of gold payments decreed by the government while the exchange was closed Monday and Tuesday.
 Jobbers adjusted prices of gov ernment securities to correspond with foreign exchange. War loan five per cents were quoted at 94; Consol four per cents at S2; Fund ings at 83h; conversion hve per cents at 99.
 Compared with Saturdays close. the figures represented respective drops of three and one-halfs three, five, and three points.
 Gold mines, cables, and textiles were strong.
 | At 1O:50 o'clock, U. S. Steel was quoted at 97h; A. T .& T. at 1Sb' Pennsylvania Railroad, Ss' :. An OIllCldi dnhodhSShaSAs s1ssa that Messrs Urling and company were unable to comply with their obligations. It was believed to be minor failure and was attributed to severe adjustment of prices oi gilt edged securities.
 Opening exchange rates showing a slight drop in the pound sterling were:
 Dollar. cable, s4.14h to the pound sterling; (par before sus. pension of gold standard, $4.s7 h y
 Canadian dollar, $4.56;
 French franc, 104M;
 German reichsmark, 1874. | MONTREAL EXCHANGE
 Montreal. Sept 23.-(uP)- Trading on the Montreal exchange And curb market during the frsl hour this morning was restricted Ito a handful of Issues. Montrea bore the brunt of the selling if BrazilLan Traction yesterday but Iwith the opening of the London } exchange to-day, activity in this is' lsue decreased materially. , No change was noticed durina
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-23

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-23
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-23

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-23

An eisht-year-old child, John McMahon, son of Mir and Mrs Jos- eph McMahon of Thomaston, was rushed from the Waterbury hos
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-23
Gold Standard Had
 Closed It Two Days
(Continued from Page D
By United Press)

London stock exchange--re- opened to-day after two days of closure because of the sus- pension of the gold standard .-is by a United Press corre- spondent, who succeeded in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-12
Graft and Gangsters
Melon,s Phi!adeIphia Grafters Small Town Rackets.
BY HARRY CANNES

MA Mayor Mackey of Philadelphia for while
also broke away from the Ware machine, but
this was played up and used to advantage with
the upright citizens" Behind the scenes a true
was patched up and Ware held his own.
All judges are Ware appointees. Judge Nc
Dewitt, who issues injunctions against striking
hosiery workers, shoe workers, needle trades
workers with automatic regularity. is Ware
man and depends for his election to Office on
the Ware gangster machine.
Al Capone's Asylum.
When Al Capone sought to escape death at
the hands of the Bugs" Moran gang In revenge
for the ST. Valentine Day massacre in Chicago
he came to Philadelphia, arranged TO have a
concealed weapon found on his person (this job
of carrying weapons Capone usually leaves to his
personal gunmen) and was given fine treat
ment for year in the Philadelphia prison, Sc
creted and protected from his avenging enemies
While the surface indications in Philadelphia
like Boston, and some of the other cities where
all seems quiet" are not quite so hectic as those
of New York. Chicago and Detroit, the system is
the same; the alliances of the gangsters and the
big politicians and capitalists is firm throughout
the whole structure.
Small Towns, Big Graft.
The smaller industrial cities and towns have
their grating politicians and gangsters but it is
only natural that the best and most efficient
gravitate toward the larger cities.
In Oak Park ILL.,, on March 20, 1881 when
James M. Feron, police magistrate was tried
for robbing $4,000 from city funds, he was
merely told not to graft so openly and placed on
probation for six months. During the past year
tens of thousands of unemployed workers have
been given Jail sentences from six months to
life for stealing bread or other food In Buffalo,
N. Y, young unemployed worker was shot
dead for taking loaf of bread. For the crime
of being unemployed, workers are arrested on
vagrancy charges and sent to the chain gang.
But the small town capitalist grafters get a rep
rimand and their liberty for being so foolish as
to dabble in just thousands of dollars.
Typical of conditions in the highly industri-
allied towns is Chester, Pa. In has population
of $4,000. Many important industries such as
the Sun Ship and Drydock Co., the Viscose Co.
Gayon, the Baldwin Locomotive Works the
Ford Motor Co., the General Steel Casting Co.,
and numerous textile mills are located there
The Mcclure Republican machine runs Ches-
ter, as well as Delaware County, In which Ches-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-12

Czechoslovakia exported the same sugar at 80
Crowns per 100 kilos. In Poland for instance
a product which was sold at 400 Zloty IN Po-
land was exported by Poland at only 800 Zloty.
The same was the case in Germany where
sugar was sold on the home market at from
% to "A Marks per so kilos, whilst the Ger
man sugar-exporters were selling the same
sugar at from 5.S to 81 Marks per SO kos.
These are generally known examples of agrl-
cultural dumping.
OnIv few weeks ago Mr.. Hotovetz, who
was Minister for Trade in Czechoslovakla for
some time declared that it was pharisalcal to
charge the Soviet Union with dumping, whilst
neither Czechoslovakia nor any other capital
list country was free from this sin. To prove
his contention he quoted examples from the
sugar and iron trades. | also have occupied
myself with this question, not only because we
have been charged with dumping but be-
cause the permanent policy of forming mono
poles on the home markets in order to obtain
artificially high prices there, and to utilize the
surplus to further the export trade, represents
as | have already pointed out one of the fac
tors which complicate and aggravate the world
economic crisis The high prices hinder the
consumption of the piled up commodities. They
are maintained by those organizations which
exploit their monopoly in order to export at
dumping prices. The great disparity between
the export prices and the home prices OF the
same commodities has been dealt with in the
report of the economic organization OF the
League of Nations, but this report made no
attempt to give any explanation for this dis
parity, or to draw any conclusions from It,
The fact that despite the fall in grain prices
by 483 per cent on the London market IN the
period from March. 1929, to March, 1881, and
despite the acute agrarian crisis the grain
prices on the Berlin market increased by 2S.5
per cent, and on the Paris market by l2,9 per
cent shows clearly that this price policy re-
duces the purchasing power It the masses,
which is in any case low still further, and
complexities and aggravates the present crisis.
The French Project.
The only effective way to secure solution
of the crisis would be to facilitate the growth
of the purchasing power of the masses and
in this way to secure the absorption OF the
stored up commodities by the market.
However, the proposals which have been
made in this Commission positively tend to
aggravate the special factors which prevent
anv amelioration of the crisis. These pro-
posals are calculated to support the policy OF
high prices, although this policy is one OF the
most serious aggravating factors at the mo-
ment Where can the proposal of the French
delegate Monsieur Francois Poncet to extend
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-12
Party Life
Conducted by the Org. Dept. Central Com
mittee, Communist Party, U. S. A.
By P. P. Greek Buro)

BY P. P. Greek Buro)
THERE are great possibilities for the organiza-
i ton of shop nuclei in the small industrial
towns, if only our districts begin to take advan-
tage of the different connections that we have,
particularly readers and subscribers of our diff
ferent Communist papers. OF course, this work
must be done carefully and with system
At the same time the different language buro
organizers who are touring the districts can help
considerably in securing contacts in the shops,
mills and mines in the districts, and in building
up the Party in the different small industrial
towns. Many language buro organizers are COM
pletely isolated from the general Party work, and
in many instances, when they come to the dis
trictS they do not even find it necessary to re-
port to the district office. The old conception
that language work is not Party work is abso-
utely wrong Language work is part of general
Party work and must be considered as such
The language organizers therefore are Party or
ganizers and their specific language work must
be closely connected with the building of the
Party.
In W, which is a small company town, the
Pittsburgh district had no connection at all;
but not only this to many leading comrades
this small steel town was altogether unknown.
Through two subscribers of the Greek Commu-
mist weekly, we succeeded in getting together
six steel workers, all Of them working in the
W Steel Co., four Greek workers, and two
South Slavs. The meeting was called in the
room of the workers, and after an explanation
of the tasks before the revolutionary workers at
the present time, the structure OF the Party
unit and the role of the Communist nucleus, all
of these workers joined the Party, paid their
dues, and a buro of three was elected. This new
unit decided to order Immediately 10 copies of
the Daily Worker daily.
All these new Party members are very en-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-12
We Told You SO

Not long ago we foretold the present PEN
oicular fall in the price of wheat. 1t fell OIL
nearly IS per cent in one day, wednesday.
WHY was that? Well, because the Farm
Board really stopped buying wheat wednesday.
Why did they stop buying wheat wednesday?
Let the N Y Times of Thursday, June 4, tel
you:
at Farm Board headquarters 1t was said
that the early and heavy movement OF the
new wheat crop from the Southwest had
prompted the sudden withdrawal of govern
ment support. Mr. Stone and MIR. Minor
we're reported to have agreed on the move
by teIephoning last night when heavy ship
ments from Texas began arriving at terminal
markets.
So in other words, when the farmers are
selling wheat to the grain SPECTATORS the gov
eminent Farm Board takes immediate steps to
demoralize the market (what they accused the
Soviet of doing, falsely, last year,, so that the
farmers-who have to sell in order to meet
mortgages-get a low price from the spectators.
After the wheat is almost wholly in specu-
lators hands, the Farm Board will discover a
terrible necessity of protecting the market"
and buy wheat as long as money holds out, at
price that allows the spectators huge profit.
Then Secretary Hyde will point with pride
to the tariff and the Farm Board as "saviors
of the farmers" If the farmers keep on being
saved like that, they'll have to go home in
barrel.
This game was played in 1929, and again in
$780, the Farm Board last summer swearing by
all that was good and righteous that it would
not buy any wheat. Then in November it be-
gan buying from the spectators Ito protect the
market" BY staging little horse-play "oppo-
sition by private grain dealers" it is aimed to
hoodwink the farmers into thinking that the
Farm Board is the cats meow for farmers.
Farmers who are tired of being robbed can
find out what to do about it by writing to the
United Farmer" Box "a, Superior, Wisconsin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-12
@aa~.A
A Good Red Gone Wrong
By JORGE

lie was-and still is-a Section Organizer.
Not a bad one either no doubt. But he pulled
a boner that made us feel like sending him along
with Mr. Knickerbocker's beloved kulaks
lie had been instructed to call Daily Work
or Readers Meeting, and he called it. So far
so good But he had also been instructed all
about what to do there He had been told to get
these readers together and invite them to form
themselves into a Daily Worker Club.
We said invite and we mean 1t. Because
Communists do not command the workers, but
explain the Communist position and win them
to it.
Well our Section Organizer didn't exactly
command tlem-the 100 workers who came, IS
of them Negro workers-to form Daily Worker
Club. In fact he forgot all about a Daily Work.
err Club, and instead-rnade a fine speech urg-
ing them all to join the Communist Party!
We are not against workers joining the Conn
munist Party Far from it. But to get over
hasty about it, to try to rush things, to get so
"dizgv with success" at getting such large
number of Daily Worker readers together as to
violate the Party policy laid down in an editorial
on June 4. and try mechanically to corral every
one who reads the Daily Worker into the Party,
repeats the mistake of the Communist Party OF
France. a mistake which was warned against
in the editorial mentioned
we want our readers to get together In Daily
Worker Clubs, and we will be willing to walt
until those who want to join the Party manifest
such desire of their free will. If they don't
want to do so, if they aren't really anxious to
oin the Party. we will not lose patience nor try
to force matters,
And we will be extremely angry with any
PARTY member who shows the least sign of snob-
bishness or scorn toward workers who want to
belong to Daily Worker Clubs but who, for rea-
sons which are their own business do not wish
to join the Party.
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Delivered at the Session Held on May Is, 1881

the present practice of the international or
ganization of industry lead? The enlargement
of the steel and copper trusts did not prevent
the development of the crisis. On the con-
trary, the extension of the cartels and the
fact that they maintain high prices despite
continual overproductiOn, have resulted In the
throttling of sales and the development of the
present crisis to greater extent than former
crises.
The proposal Of the French delegation leads
only to an extension of the policy of political
blocks to new fields. The proposal cannot do
anything else but maintain the present high
prices and ensure that the monopolists con-
tinue to pocket their excessive profits. 1t
seems to me that this Commission might have
expected exactly contrary proposals with
view to amelorating the crisis.
In view of the Importance of this question
and in view of the baseess charges of dump
ing which have been made against the Soviet
Union propose that the governments repre-
scented at this conference should adopt Joint
declaration which could later on be turned
into an international convention, aiming at
abolishing the disparity between home and
export prices and containing an undertaking
not to permit prices on the home markets to
exceed the export prices for the same COM
modities.
We deny categorically the existence of So
Wet dumping, and we should certainly not re-
fuse to take part in an international discus
sion and an international action on the lines |
have Just sketched. Such an action would
have a most beneficial influence on the eco
nonic situation of the broad masses of the
people because it would increase their pur-
chasing power, make possible the absorption
of the stored up commodities and thus con-
tribute to a solution of the crisis.
have done my best to point out the course
of action which would lead to an ameloration
of the crisis. The first step necessary how
ever is that false measures should be aban-
doned, and | must stress strongly that the
right way to solution of the crisis is not to
be found in an attack on the Soviet Union, or
in the suggestion that this attack represents
the only possible means to free the world of
the crisis from which it is suffering.
The Campaigns Against the Soviet Union.
A campaign against the Soviet Union may
seem advantageous to certain interested cir
cles for the moment, perhaps even to certain
countries which need not necessarily be Euro
pean countries or competitors of the Soviet
Union in the supply of raw materials to the
world market But in any case such cam
paign can have nothing to do with the inter
ests of Europe as whole. To deprive Europe
of such an important market as the Soviet
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ter is situated in the interest of the bankers and
these big corporations. AS payment for their
skillful brutality and terror against the work.
ers, the Mcclure machine is given free reign to
exploit all vice and graft possibilities. The pay
Of the company gunner is not all in the checks
they get for strike breaking; they are allowed
free reign in running bootleg joints bawdy
houses. dope dens and gambling joints. The city
is honeycombed with these places. There is at
least one speakeasy TO every 70 inhabitants.
Mcclure gets his weekly percentage from all
these places The city police are paid IS night
to protect the truckoads Of rum taken off the
boats Chief of Police Vance and Mayor Turner,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-12
Gentlemen Prefer Mortgages

The American Federation of Labor local papers
are some of the most horrible of horrible ex-
emples of what labor" papers should not be.
We just picked up a copy of the Southern
Labor Review" of Birmingham. Alabama, which
says it is "owned and controlled by A. H Gather,
member of Typographical Union No 104"
Under its editorial masthead" it has, within
quotation marks not such an awfully bad slogan:
Workers, Plowmen and Craftsmen Shall Con-
stitute a State" In fact the OAR and the
War Department might figure out that such
a slogan is dangerous Bolshevism." But under
it, in the editorial column, it runs the following
fool lie:
"Soviets now forbid all music not Of dis
tinctve Communstic flavor. Henceforth, all
lovers of fine art should bar the ugly Com
munistic IDEAS"
1t surely appears that the editor of the South
ern Labor Reliev' has barred all ideas wouldn't
recognize an idea of he had head-on collision
with 1t.
But since he seems so thoroughly satisfied
with everything as it, we looked through his
paper. And we found six pages out OF sixteen
pages were to notices of mortgage sales of fore
closed property! One of the ugly Communists
ideas is that the poor farmers and workers who
are being robbed of their little property by bank
ers, should not be fooled by bankers into think.
mig that the Bosheviks would do the same
The Bolshevks would declare all those mort
cages cancelled, and let these poor workers ana
little farmers occupy their homes and farms so
long as they exploited nobody else without rent.
The land might belong to the nation and they
couldn't sell it, But they could use it for Tier
home until better homes, more attractive 10
them, modern collective homes and collective
farms, took their place.
If that Communist idea Is ugly to AlabanA
workers and farmers. we'll eat your hatA
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as we'll as Chief Magistrate Berry get their
share SO great is the riot of vice in Chester,
that the Vare-controlled Daily News of Phila-
phia expressed its disgust with the rawness Of
the methods used.
Recently several constables and city officials
tried to break away from the Mcclure machine
and go into business on their own hook. For
their pains they were framed-up again an easy
natter and received short Jail terms.
$500 for Badges.
There are thousands of other small industrial
towns where vice runs wide open, where gam
blers, gangsters. beer runners and grafters flock
worse place than Gary, Ind, owned lock, stock
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-12

and barrel by the United States Steel Corpora
ton, exists hardly anywhere; Hammond, Ind,
South Chicago, South Bend, are similar nearly
every city and town in the state of New Jersey
is cesspoo of crime, vice and graft In Hack
ensack, N. j.. Sheriff Reilly sells police badges
to any crock who wants one at 81 piece. In
Vernon. Cal. near Los Angeles. the prosecuting
attorney, Woowine had brother who owned
nearly every house of prostitution in the city
1t was on this monopoly that the prosecuting at
torney based his power In return he for long
time guaranteed his brother a lone hand in the
bawdy house business.
Ito be continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-12
FROM EDITOR TO READER
Why Not A DailyWOrker Club?

fair both pleasant and helpful to start off your
own Daily Worker Club!
Every reader in Williamsburg (and this goes
for other places as wellD should bring his shop
mates or neighbors. Have some music, maybe
some ice cream, and lots of time for discussing
the Daily Worker. Have somebody read or re-
view an important feature or article of the Daily.
let all who have criticisms or suggestions speak,
note them down and send them in to us We
want to know what the workers think of the
Daily. We will answer them and possibly some
one from the Daily will be there personally.
We will try to correct our faults The workers
will recognize the Daily something vital to
their interests They VIII want to help 1t, to
get subscribers, to persuade others to read it, 10
make collections in the neighporhood, to send in
stories about their shop conditions and distribute,
the Daily in their shops
The Daily Worker Club will always have some
thing interesting to do. 1t will live and grow as
ain organization attractive to all interested in
the revolutionary press.
If, in its meetings, someone reports that in his
shop the workers can't read the Daily because
they understand only italian, the Club will get
some Italian Communist papers for them. 1t
will canvass the neighborhood for the Daily
Worker but when its members visit house
where the family reads only Jewish. it will tell
them about the Freiheit and give them the ad-
dress of the Jewish Workers Club to help that
too!
The neighborhood Daily Worker Club will
grow out of the initiative of the readers of the
Daily who get their shopmates and neighbors
interested in the paper and multiply the influ-
euce of this fighting paper of the working class
dozen times overl And they will do it for the
pleasure 1t gives them, not from discipline or
command Trust the initiative of the workers