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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-03
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Naugatuck, April 3 - Warden Frank T. Green was renominated to head the democratic ticket as the candidate for warden at the party convention held last night in the borough court room.
 With the exception of changes in the nominees for borough treasurer. registrar of voters and selectmarl, the balance of the nominees are the present office holders. These changes are John Kiernan for bor- sough treasurer, in place of the pres ent treasurer, John Brannigan. Treasurer Brannigan refused to ac- cept the nomination Dennis M. Lins- key was nominated the candidate for registrar of voters. he succeeds, Jer- miah Callahan, the present registrar and Alfred Meir was nominated for selectman to succeed D. J. Carroll, present selectman who refused re- nomination.
 MT Meier was a candidate for bur- gess from the third ward at the party caucuses but was defeated by Bur- gess John Sheridan.
 The convention last night was dominated by the delegates from the second and third wards, the first ward, the stronghold of the party being ignored in the naming of can didates, verifying a rumor that was prevalent in the borough long before the, convention that a deal had been made between the second and third ward delegates. This despite the fact that 1t is in the first ward that the party must get their strength if it is to be successful at the polls. The third ward has never been known to go democratic and the second Is always doubtful
 The convention voted to change the party rules in relation to the number of members. on the town committee and increased the num- ber from five to nine, naming three mem bers from each ward.
 John Kiernan who was named on the committee from the second ward and also named as the party can didate for borough treasurer is said to be slated for chairman of the town committee at their organization meeting to be held next Thursday night when officers of the town com- mittee are to be chosen. MT Kier- nan is reported to be the choice of Borough Attorney Martin l.. Cafne for chairman of the committee.
 The convention last night did all of it's actual work in a private meet ing held previous to the regular con- vention, when the delegates assem- bled in the borough court room Il
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ard Hegarty, First Methodist church. :. seventh word, Rev Roses R. Lowell. second Congregational church.
 stainer's cantata, "The Crucif,x- ion," will be sung at St Johns church this evening at 7:so o'clock
 The Litany. Penetential office and Pro-Anaphoral was said at Trinity church at 9:3O o'clock this morning They were followed by the Three Hours devotion from 12 m to 2 D. m.
 There was a German communion service this morning at the First Lutheran church and an English communion service this evening. Good Friday services will be held thls evening at the Swedish Luther. an and St Johns Evangelical Luther. an churches, and service at inc tlrst Methodist church this evening ion. iuh-
 There was a preaching service Win communion at the Grace Meth odist church this morning: Christ chapel will have prayer service ana address this evening at 7:30 o'clock. ."o
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Special Good
 Friday Services
Churches Thronged To-day in Comnlemoration of the
 CruciixiOn

The regular Good Friday services in all the Catholic churches were held this morning and afternoon There will also be exercises this eve ming.
 The three hour Good Friday ob- seryance at the St Johns Episcopal church began at noon to-day. The sermons, entitled, Seven Last Words were given as follows: First word, Rev Robert c. Batchelder, Jr, St Johns church; second word. Rev Joseph o. Todd. Union church. Mill Plain; third word, Rev Ridgway F. shinn, West Side Methodist church; fourth word, Rev David P. Gaines, First Baptist church; fifth word, Rev James D. Gregg, First Congrega- tional church; sixth word, Rev Rich-
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FUNERALS

The funeral of Mrs William J. Dermody is to be held tomorrow
 morning at S:45 o'clock from her
 home, 153 West View street to St Francis Xavier's church, where ser vice will be conducted at 9:30 o. clock. Burial will be in old St Jo- seph's cemetery. A solemn requiem
 mass will be celebrated at that
 church Monday morning at 8 o'clock
 for the repose of her soul.
 | Funeral services for Beach H
 Baker. who died Tuesday in Toronto
 Can, were held this afternoon at 2:3G
 o'clock at the Alderson funeral
 home, 70 Central avenue, Rev David
 P. Gaines officiating. Burial was in Plainville.
 The funeral of Mrs Alexander Ropelewski is to be held tomorrow
 morning at 9:15 o'clock from her
 home, II Walnut street to St Stan
 islaus church at 10 o'clock. Burial
 will be in Calvary cemetery.
 The funeral of Genevieve Mikaitis will be held tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock from her home, 46 North Leonard street and burial will be in Calvary cemetery. Rev Joseph Val dambrini will conduct services at the house and at the grave.
 The funeral services for John F. Carney were held this morning at 10 o'clock at the funeral home of Arthur J. Lunny. 25 Central avenue. Rev Thomas Hanley of St Thomas church officiating. Burial was in Calvery cemetery, Corp Coyle Post of the American Legion being in charge under the command of Wal lace J. Englis. Taps were sounded by Bugler Earl Benson. Sergeant John Parker was in charge of the firing squad which consisted of Corp Gerard Milot. Sergeant Edward Lane, Gordon Daines, John Sheehan, William Anderson and Leo Cum mings. The pallbearers in charge of Sergeant Joseph Garyey, were Corp Joseph R. Mccarthy, William Farrell, George Ayotte, Warren Wells William Acceto and Philip McGivney. The flag which draped the coffin was presented to the fam fly by Past Commander Wallace J. Inglis. A requiem mass for the re- pose of his soul will he celebrated Monday morning at 8 o'clock at St Thomas church.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-03
War Fund Goes To
 Unemployed Vets
Ex-Drunlmer Will Benefit By Judges Ruling in Con-
 tested Case-S5,O24 Involved

The much discussed war fund balance was disposed of, amicably, yesterday in superior court. Judge Frederick NJ. Peasley presiding at a hearing at which all veteran organ izations of the city were represented. ordered the fund, $5024, turned over to the treasurer of the mutual aid unemployment fund of Water bury with the understanding that 1t is to be used to furnish employment or relief to the ex-service men of the city.
 In the first application made to the court for disposition of the fund. Attorney William E. Thoms, asked the court to direct the balance of the United War Work Cam paign fund. in the hands of Lewis $. Reed, war time treasurer of the fund, to the city's unemployed fund. Judge John Rufus Booth who heard the petition declined to rule on the case. but recommended that the at- torney general be cited in. The at- torney generals office agreed to come in and asswer to the petition over to the American Legion post
 
 to be engaged in relief work.
 Immediately the other veteran or ganizations filed petitions to be cited in as party defendants also. At the hearing yesterday. all veter- an bodies agreed to withdraw their petitions so that the fund could be turned over to the unemployment fund of the city.
 Lewis $. Reed took the stand yes- terday and answered several ques- tions concerning the fund. He said the money he had in his name, was not really the balance of the United War Work Campaign fund, but the balance from the expense money set up by the committee before the &C., tual campaign was started. He said $1O,000 was set aside to cover ex- penses and that part of it was used It was MT Reeds opinion that the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-03
WATERBURY EVENING DEMOCRAT. FRIDAY. APRIL 3. Ie3I
NAUGATUCK DEMOCRATS APPROXIMATE GREEN
SEDER NIGHT

Prosaic miles of streets stretch all round Astr with restless, hurried life and spanned By arches that with thund rous trains resound And throbbing wires that galvanze the land; Gin-palaees in tawdry splendor stand;t The newsboys shriek of mangled bodies found; The last burlesque is playing in the Strand In modern prose all poetry seems drowned Yetain ten thousand homes this April night An ancient People celebrates its birth @ M To Freedom with reverential mirth With customs quaint and many hoary rite, Waiting until, it's tarnished glores bright
 Its God shall be the God of all the earth
 ISRAEL ZANGWILL,
 In the Passover edition of the Connecticut Jewish Ledger
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-03

KASAKAUSKAS-M Veronica
 Kasakauskas, age 60 years, widow of Casimer Kasakauskas. who died a month ago, died yesterday at her
 home 100 Buckingham road, Water town, following short. illness. She leaves one sister, Mrs. Marcella Ber- tulis; one brother. Tadeusas Saknai-
 tis, both of Lithuania, and a nephew. Anthony Bertulis of this city The funeral will be held Monday morning at 9:30 o'clock from her
 home to St. Joseph's church, this city, and burial will be in Calvary cemetery
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interests of everyone would be best served by turning this s5000 ball. ance to the city's unemployment fund.
 Attorney J. William Carroll rep rsenting the V. r. w. objected on the ground that as ex-service men out of work would not be able to get a job if a member of his fam fly were working. Attorney T. k. Conway. representing Corp Coyle post and Mary Gormley post of the American Legion. pointed out that the legion has had special com
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-03

The first female aeronaut was one Madam Tibe or Thible. She Joined the painter Fleurant aboard a hal- loon called the Gustaye which ascended at Lyons, France, on lime 4 l7S4. in the presence of the royal Sweden. e VI
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-03
FULL WEATHER REPORT

Washington, April 3.-(UP-Fore- cast for Friday and Saturday:
 Maine: Rain late tonight or Satur- day. not much change in temperature.
 Vermont and New Hampshire: Rain tonight and Saturday; not much change Tn temperature.
 Massachusetts and Rhode Island: Rain 'to-night and Saturday; not much change in temperature
 Connecticut: Rain tonight and Saturday; slightly warmer tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-03
CARD OF THANKS

CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our many kind
 friends and relatives and especially Departments two and four of the Wa terbury Farrel Foundry and the em- ployes of the Miller and Peck Go, for their many kind acts of sympathy
 shown us during, our recent bereave-
 ment, the death of our dear mother. Signed,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-03
A MARKET PRORTEM

on, MT Pot, perhaps you can tell me--what does it cost to ii. other?" ah-
 I'm sorry-I don't know the present rate exchange."-Tt-Bi
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-03

relief work and be the proper ex- perienee to confInuss
 Other 0rgalfs..sl. {. us represented were the 304th fnfaDtry asy0ciatis,n,. by Judge T. V. Meyer, and the I'D association represented by Attorney Carmine Cipdiano.s
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lTcANDREws--In New York cItv April 1. 1881 Mrs Isabelle Martin McAndrews of New York City. cemetery, New York city.
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day with burial in Calvary cemetery in New York city.
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DTORIO-In this city April 3. 1881 Mrs Emanuel Diorio of 120 Ridge St. Funeral Monday morning to Our Lady of Lourdes church. Burial in Calvary cemetery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-03

REICHENBACH-In this city April 9 1881 Raymond F. Reichenbach of Bucks Hill. Funeral Saturday after noon at o'clock. Burial in Bucks Hill cemetery.
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this city April 2, 1881 Maurice Marcoux of 35 Vermont St. Funeral Saturday afternoon at 1880 o'clock to St Anne's church. Burial in Calvary cemetery.
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DIED.

KASAKAUSKAS-I Watertown April 2, 1881 Mrs Veronica Kasakauskas of 100A Buckingham road. Watertown. Funeral Monday morning at 9:30 o'clock to St Joseph's church. Burial in Calvary cemetery
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MADIGAN-In this city April 2, 1881 James Madigan of All North Main St. Funeral Saturday morning at S:3o o'clock to St Thomas church. Burial in Calvary cemetery.
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TEMPPERATUREs.

Washington, April 3.-tUP)-High- est temperatures yesterday and low lest last night in 20 cities were re- ported by the weather bureau to-day
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-03

But observation teaches that as man cannot be cajoled into buying q suit of clothes more than ne can be scolded into do- ing so.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-03

IF pLATITUDEs WOULD SELL MEMS CLOTHES HOW EASY IT WOCLD HE TO EIli, THE ADVERTISING COL UMNS AND EMPTY THE SHOWROOM.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-01
Vagrancy and Chain Gang

labor and discrimination by the Red Cross and
local Florida relief bodies.
Cases of wholesale peonage as shown above
can come out only infrequently Individual cases
continuously crop up, though all do not get into
the papers. Almost every week, for example,
cases OF shooting scrapes between planters and
choppers are reported in the press study of
these shootings show them to be over division of
the crop and that if the planter kills the CROP
per all is well but that if the cropper kills the
planter, he is lynched
In March 1880, James E. Piggott, prominent
planter OF Washington Parish, louisiana pleaded
guilty to holding Negro farm hands in peonaee.
Piggott told Federal Judge Borah that II ham
died Negroes in the same way every one else in
the South handles them" He admitted that on
occasion his workers escaped into Mississippi and
that he and Louisiana State officers went into
Mississippi in violation of the law and brought
them back
% On january 81. 1881 Ards Waller Bossier
Parish, La, planter, was charged with violation
OF. the Federal Peonage Act, the third such case
To be filled there recently. On January %. 1881
j. M. McLemore, prominent planter of Coushat-
Ia, La was charged with holding Negroes in
Peonage. The investigation disclosed that Nc
Lemore habitually carried pistol with which
to shoot anyone attempting to escape. Another
case for this year is that Of Frank Young of Ell
dorado, Ark, who escaped from the farm of Bill
Laring in 1880. This ease with affdarits has
been filed with the Department of Justice but
has never been made public
10 BE CONTINUED
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BY WALTER WILSON

A big calamity as food or drouth makes the
best investigator of peonage. In 1927 the Mis-
sissippi River and its tributaries flooded a vast
stresch Of country from Cairo H.. to New Or
leans LATHE very heart of the peonage coun-
try! Several hundred thousands white and colored
workers were thrown the doles of the Red
Cross. The planters refused at first to let their
Negro troopers be taken to the relief" camps.
The Rcd Cross then made bargain with the
planters to deliver, by force if necessary, the
troopers back to the plantations from whence
they came.
The Natioan lGuard was used to herd the Ne
groes into pcrs ard force them to work without
pay on levees and private business enterprises.
When the flood waters subsidized, the Red Cross,
ms N@ticldl Guard end the plantation overseers
rounded r. iii cc.is, loadcd tl,cm on boats and
resUncd $500 to'ts- plantations '''4.4s''
Conditions during the Florida Hurricane which
occurred in 1873 were similar A special conf
mttee was organized by the American Negro
Labor Congress, now the League of Struggle for
Negro Rights, to take care of Negroes in this
disaster In its appeal for funds, this relief
committee warned the working class to 'remem-
Der the record of relief organizations in the
Mississippi Flood in 1927 when virtual slave pens
were established for workers who we're forcibly
r1tnrned 10 the plantation owners" and of the
Ne-so workers 'vl'o we're teuoii7ed, whipped and
shot BY gualds.rc Nm investigator for the
committee reported hundreds of cases OF forced
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letarian elements. Tbe membership now felt that
they have a leadership. Before leaving we held
a meeting with the newly elected buro at which
the buro organized itself and appointed the
various department heads Some kind of Plan
of Work was adopted. Not complete Plan
of Work, but enough to give the comradec
lead as to what their immediate tasks are.
In Columbus we did the same thing, only on
a smaller scale, as the number of comrades is
much smaled than in Cincinnati. The comrades
were made clear on how we are to proceed
to build our movement by coming out as the
leaders of the unemployed workers, helping the
unemployed to work out their immediate de-
mands and leading them in an organized strug-
gle for securing them. 1t was necessary to knock
out of the comrades heads the idea of dem
onstrations for demonstrations sake" and this
we did. The comrades of these cities are nov
carrying on their work with little less splash,
but leaving some organisational results behind.
COMMENTING regret that the previous
article which was obviously intended to play
a role in re-vitalizing these sections was print
ed too late to be Of service, but the problem
of sections that are Giving In the past is
not only the problem Of the Ohio District.
There are many such sections scattered
throughout our Party We welcome COmrade
Gerjoy's quick comeback answering the ques-
ton "'Iow?" and shall be r,ad 80 rrcciTc ar
t'~'-., "~~', rag in o. cr Il ',.'e TIM
Ger T~v- 'ccs in rc-,daizins socscns that
are living in the past"
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In his last instalment of his exposure of the
treachery of the officials of the A. F. L.,
Mooney told how Scharrenberg and Woll
jockeyed through the 1927 convention of the
A. F. L. in Los Angeles resolution which did
not demand the release of Mooney and Billings,
but left all future action to the discretion of
the executive council of the A. F. L. and to
President William Green. Green and the
executive council did nothing for Mooney and
Billings, and discouraged others from doing
anything. Now Mooney goes on.
INSTALLNIENT II.
THE recent Boston A. F. of L. Convention
clearly demonstrated the potency of the Los
Angeles resolution, when used by the intriguing
A. F. of L. leaders militant Worded resolu-
ton on behalf of Mooney and Billings was in
troduced by Thomas Slavens of the Newport,
r. l., Central Labor Union. The resolution af-
firmed the 'indisputable evidence submitted dur
ing the last year to prove the innocence of these
two noble labor patriots" and directed that
telegram be sent Governor Young urging i'm
mediate pardon, and notifying the two in1pris-
oned labor men cf the conventions action. Mat
thew Woll as Chairman of the Resolutions Com
mittee slashed and cut this resolution until moth
ing remained but simple statement, that the
A. F. of L. reaffirms action taken at the Los
namely. the safe burial of the entire question in
the graveyard" of the A. F. of 1.-The Execu-
tive Council
Matthew Woll who mutilated Slayens resolu-
ton, is not only Chairman of the Resolutions
Committee of the A. F. of L. but its Vice-Presi-
dent as we'll He is also acting President of the
National Civic Federation, notorious anti-labor
organization whose specific function is to fight
for the Open Shop. What is Matthew Woll
doing among bankers and large industrialists?
Is he there in the interests of Labor? Or does
he merely act representative of the open
shop employers lust for the fun of it,? Can
Matthew Vol be expected to lead workers when
they are locked out by employers, and they are
compelled to strike? Can this friend of the
bankers, brokers and large employers be ex
pected to lead the unonists who pay him to pro-
tect their interests? Of course notl What does
Matthew Vol care about the workers? Can
Matthew Vol be expected to protect and de-
fend militant trade unionists when they are
framed? OF course not! What does Matthew
Vol care about innocent imprisoned workers
such as Mooney and Billings? His task is to de-
ceve the workers, do the bidding OF the bankers
and open shoppers, and at all times safeguard
the interests of the National Civic Federation
No wonder the Is Scripps Howard newspapers
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had a chance to stir the nation in display Of
militant action, and had they. seized this oppor-
tunity, many working men walking the streets.
jobleSS, hungry and ill-clad, might not be suf-
fering today
ED NOCKELS-REAL LEADER OF LABOR.
Unlike the California misleaders, Edward
Nockels, Secretary of the Chicago Federation
of Labor, early understood the larger import
of the bomb case, and in Chicago. thousands
of miles from the scene of the trial, followed
the court proceedings with keen understanding.
Nockels, who knows more about the labor move
ment than dozen California leaders" soon
became certain the case was an out and out
frame-up, and was in the forefront of the fight
to help Mooney and Billings. 1t was Nockels,
in April 1917 who secured the Oxman letters
to Rigall, conclusively proving that Oman had
suborned perjury and who in February, 1921,
directed and paid for the efforts of the men
who obtained McDonads original confession
in Trenton, N. j. Again. 1t was Nockels who
first got in touch with the Baltimore author
tiles when Mcdonald (the key witness) was
again located on July II, 1880, and who accom-
panied him across the continent in order to
have him appear before the Supreme Court to
repeat his confession.
Finally, it was Nockels that sat through all
the hearings of the court, the only labor leader
who was watching to see that the interests Of
the absent prisoners were protected. The Cali
fornia leaders were conspicuous by their abb
sence but Nockels stayed on the job alone,
watching listening and actively representing
Tom Mooney and Warren Billings. Well can
Tom Mooney say: ed. Nockels is the foremost
and most fearless leader of organized labor in
America. If he were President of the A. F.
of L.. Mooney and Billings would not be in
prison today
TO ZEE CONTINUED
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PARTY LIFE

Conducted by the Organization Department of
the Central Committee, Communist Party, U.S.A.
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TO BE CONTINUED
NocKELs NOW A REACTIcNA..-.

Ed. Nockels, in spite of the praise that
Mooney pays him, has shown while secretary OF
the Chicago Federation of Labor, a savage re-
dictionary attitude towards all militants in the
Federation or any of its affiliated bodies. 1t
was Nockels who led the crusade against the
left wing needle trades delegates and had them
driven from the Federation at the orders Of
the I. L. G. w., when these same left wingers
we're regularly elected by the local I. L. G. w.
ORGANIZATION. Nocl,els is now the professional
red b. trc Of the Federation, whenever Nelson
is busy elsewhere -EDITOR. DAILY W0RKm
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-01-15

engagements will be made for entering
the missionary work III China. Rev,
Anderson. who was born In China, will
rejoip his father, who is still in the
work there.
Mrs. Paul Moreland, of Letheridge,
Alberta, Canada, spent the past week
with A. j. Marsh. Mrs, Moreland is III
Seattle for her health, and is much
delighted with the Island.
John Metzenberg returned TO work
Wednesday after siege with an in
fected hand, He reports that both he
and DR.. McMurray had lots of fun
during the three days he spent at
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. @. Whitfield OF
Tacoma spent several days last week
visiting friends and relatives on The
Island.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. E. Ramquist spent
the week end with relatives in tht
city.
Miss Katherine Parker spent tn,
! week end with the home folk a
Broadripple.