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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-24

As a result of activity of Eng lands radio sleuths 10000 re- ceiving-set licenses were taken out Tn few days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-17
On the Carrying Out of the
18th Plenum Decisions
FOR CONCRETENESs IN TIL E STRUGGLE AGAINST
SOCIAL DEMAGOGY

Always our aim must be to vancouver these
people into position from which they cannot
squirm out by means of phrases but which
demands Of them definite action on some issue
before the working class. BY such manouvers we
can contrast their actions against the working
class with their demagogc phrases Only by
seeing these people in action will the workers
learn their true role.
The greatest danger in our struggle against
social demagogy in the Milwaukee section as
see it, is that our comrades may develop the
theory that the activities of the socialist party
among the workers is of a two-fold character:
that while on one hand its aim is to prevent the
development of mass struggles on the other
hand its effect is to certain extent to political
ize and develop the workers and make them
more able to understand our program and pre-
sumably more responsive to it.
The danger of lack of clarity in this ques-
tion is indicated by the fact that several weeks
ago in a very excellent little Monograph paper
issued by the Unemployed Council, THE Hun
ger Fighter" there appeared headline in which
the socialists wre referred to as fascists On the
other hand, in the discussion at the member
ship meeting in Milwaukee there was advanced
the idea that the years of socialist propaganda
in Milwaukee have somewhat educated the work
ers and made them more political-minded
This opportunist theory is not new one in
our movement. If one starts from this premise,
the logical conclusion to be drawn is that the
activity of the social fascsts insofar as it "edu-
Gates" the workers, is a good thing 1t must
inevitably lead to a relaxation in our struggle
against the social fascists and against social
demagogy. The section and district leadership
must see to it that any such dangerous tenden-
cies are smashed as soon as they raise their
heads.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-17

There is however one more reason predeter-
mining the policy of partitioning: This is the
struggle Of the imperialists against the actual
unification of the country by the Chinese toiIing
masses under the leadership of the proletariat.
The heroic struggle of the worker peasant
masses against the imperialsts and their gen.
earl-Kuomintang Iackeys has already assumed
enormous proportions. The south of China and
the valley of Yangtse are flaming in the fire of
civil war. The red banner is already waving over
the Soviet regions in the north of China The
soil is burning under the feet of the Marking
cossacks, the Canton hangmen and other general
rulers"
The Kuomintang, that is the block Of bour-
geoisie and the landowners, is ready to sell out
all of China, it selling it out up until this
time in parts to the imperiasts in exchange for
the defense from the Chinese Soviets. The i'm
perialsts have supported and are still supporting
the militarists and the Kuomintang through
whom they are basically conducting the policy OF
colonial ensavement of the Chinese people But
the foreign imperialists and the Chinese slave
drivers are not slow to understand the real
situation. The broader the front Of struggle for
the worker-peasant power becomes the stronger
thunders the storm in south and central China
which is shaking the blood regime Of the Kuo-
mintang, the more distinctly approaches the
udUe OF Jne real un1IlcaClOn OF emma. Inc I'M
peralists are, fastening to forestall the events,
to tear into pieces the body Of China, to crush
the victorious worker-peasant movement and
thus to "solve" the Chinese question
This double purpose of the imperialists has
been unequivocally formulated by Mr. Broxton-
Reed. This American agent OF the Japanese
colonzers in "the Far Eastern Review" which
stands all the time for the co8pertion of Am
erican and Japanese imperialism in China says:
1.-THE Chinese problem may in the present con-
ditions be solved only through the creation OF
several separate compact states within the limits
of China. Another century will pass before the
Chinese people prepared for the basic ele-
ments Of self government . Manchuria al
ready constitutes separate unit and this fact
will have to be realized sooner or later
Neither the Kellogg Peace Pact, nor the League
Of Nations nor any other similar institution viii
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-17
PARTITIONING CHINA
Heading Editorial of the Moscow "Pravda" Of
October g. 1871

Heading Editorial of the Moscow, "Pravda" Of
October 3, 1871
The crisis which is shaking the entire capitalist
world has already led to an abrupt Sharpening
of the contradictions between the separate i'm
perialst countries and groups of countries in all
corners Of the globe. The danger of new wars
for the repartitioning of the world becomes ever
more apparent from day to day. The Manchu-
rian events are not only reminders of the fact
that in the diplomatic offices and general staffs
of capitalism preparations for war are going on.
From the fields of Manchuria already sounds of
cannonade are reaching us.
The toiling masses of China have even here
tofore experienced upon themselves all Of the
horror Of the imperialist oppression and exploit
tation, of the partitioning of their country into
spheres of influence" concessions treaty pos
sessions" the seizure Of economic and political
rights Of the country by the capital
The Kuomintang could not unity China The
national unification Of the country is possible
only a result Of the victory Of the anti-im-
perialists and the anti-feudal revolution. The
puny efforts Of the executioner of the Chinese
workers and peasants Chang Kai Shek to unity
the country within the limits OF the domination
of Imperialism over China with the retention or
the feuda1 and semi-feudal agrarian system,
could not but suffer shameful defeat Foreign
capital mas curing Jne donnlnatlon OF the kuom-
intang conquered new positions in China The
Kuomintang-miltaryg groupings are merely pup
pets in the hands Of one or other imperialist
powers.
The ceaseless wars Of generals have been at
the same time wars between the imperialsts for
the partitioning Of the spheres Of influence in
China. Now the Japanese military clique is
coming out openly for a new repartitioning OF
China. Now the hypocritical phrases about the
sovereignty and territorial unity" of China are
being discarded. The sharpening OF the i'm
perialist contradictions as result of the crisis
the enormous Importance of the Chinese market
and the struggle for the hegemony in the basin
of the Pacific Ocean have entered into the
period when the actual partitioning with all OF
the resulting consequences becomes the basic
form of the further extension and strengthening
" the imperialist position in China. :. ~r
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-17
Two Souls With But. Etc.

In the Brownsville district Of N Y City a
socialist" party candidate for alderman In this
zSrd Assembly District sociai-fascist named
friedman, was speaking to cop at the edge
OF workers meeting:
Wen fix these Communists" he confided
to the Tammany bull, you fellows and we So
cialists will fix EN-" .ta
The scene changes 1t is Union Square on
the day when the "socialists' and other social
taSclsts were holding their Mooney meeting"
Quite way from the speakers and across tbs
square one of the Red Builders was selling Dali
~ Workers. nattily dressed gent with no
jaw but lots of lip, sided up to him and spoks
in terms of official authority glibly, threaten
ingly
You're not allowed TO sell THAT paper
around here, SEE! Beat IT. or wen run you
I'M"
And that gent, workers, was Bert Wolfe, who
was kicked out Of the Communist Party as
renegade, but who still poses as a Communist
Fake socialist" and fake communist" both
of them with the police against the Commun-
ists against the workers. Now do you sayvy why
they are called social fascists1?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-17

If Washington "withdraws" its warshps in the
same way Toxic "withdraws' its troops from
Manchuria, you can expect that some of these
days some unauthorized" gunplay will take
place, and if a u S. sailor is killed, national
honor" will demand war on Japan.
We thought of that, when we read an ASso-
cated Press dispatch from Augusta, Ga, about
the Reverend j. M Williams, pastor of the
Methodist Church at Rochelle Ga.
1t seems that the Reverend was hard up hav-
ing been gambling in the cotton market. SO,
having son. Raford Grady Williams, "bone OF
his bone and fresh of his flesh" who is sailor
in the U. S. Navy, this Methodist preacher muir
dered his son and collected the life Insurance.
of $500. The boy was home on a THROUGH,
and was found dead shot through the head, on
a road.
The preacher had planned the murder long
in advance. He arranged the furlough on the
excuse that there was sickness at home, and
bumped off his own son for $2,5oo But the US.
won't go to war against the Methodist Church.
Oh, mol
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-17

local demonstration out Of every struggle against
evictions, out Of every local hunger march. new
recruits must come into the Party, composed
of the most important workers. This can be
done only, II we Immediately take the necessary
steps to build the Party Fractions in the Un.
employed Councils, strengthening the existing
ones, to carry through the Plenum decisions Of
assigning capable Party forces to the unenl.
ployed work. The National Hunger March must
be brought in to every Unit OF the Party. into
every Section, and involve every Party member
in the activities Of the Hunger March.
Let's do everything in our power right now,
so that when we write the resolution on the
Hunger March, we shall not repeat the well
known sentence, which we have repeated so
many times in the past, I'VE underestimate
the building of the Party, etc" -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-17
A Mad Marinero

What is waterfront FORE" asks j. j.,
deep-sea fish from Philly. Daily Workers sold
uptown. Literature sold, but not to marineros.
Meetings held, but not where the Delaware flows.
Union organizers looked upon as the head OF the
General Defense Corps general leaflet dlstr1bus
tor, and janitor of 1877 Pine st.
when I arrived here month ago, the Ma
rine Workers union hall was used follows
Monday night the LS.N.R. dn spite of the fact
that it is the regular meeting night OF ths
union); Tuesday, Unity Bureau wednesday,
Unit; Thursday, Union Executive Committee:
Friday Czecho- Sovakian LID; Saturdays and
Sundays for tag days.
"An are evicted. I am called an anarchist but
the union is holding its membership meetings,
two seamen's meetings. union executive meetings
and an open forum every week and is growing.
Some spitooners say we are off the line be-
cause we occasionally ask the seamen themselves
what they want. Quite few can't understand
why the seamen wouldn't fight for free gas.
"Still the old trouble Nobody wants to d.
TUU.L work except us politically urdevc' ped
ones. It's below their dignity. I'll s,y one thing,
thought we got darned good T.U.U.L. start
here, only not enough concentration on the
waterfront But the T.U.U.L. is not to blame be-
cause the full timers can't be in hundred places
at once otherwise, it's as bad as Hudson wrote,
only sometimes worse But it isn't the district
leadership so much as the section and units
"Of course know you won't print this. You
didn't print anything about New Orleans ana
Galveston. But suppose we got to put up with
some editors until the revolution"
Yeah! We're lot of barnacles on the ship.
mebbe But you didn't remember that our liver
fell down on us some months ago. and We
couldn't do our duty by the Marine Workers In
dustrial Union-long may it wave!
However, about what Hudson wrote: 1t was an
o. K when he kicked about the Party not pay
ing any attention to the nlarineros on South
Street But hanged if we weren't surprised to
learn from VOL. organizer down there thae
some of the bozos think that they have mo-
nopoly on asking marineros to join the Party.
Yet they've let lot Of EN- go unasked ana
one who is said to have been doing all kinds q
work and trying to break into the Party for two
years, is given the cold and unfeeling eye and
put off until the poor chap is utterly dishearts
ened
If you want the Party on South Street, recrj&
| members into IL!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-17

OF the Soviets, delivered June 22 1917.
You know that war between Japan and AM
erica is imminent, 1t has been prepared for dec
AIDES it is not accidental, and it does not matter
who will be the one to fire the first shot. 1t is
ridiculous You know full that both American
and japanese capitalists are equally predatory
Still, there would be talk about national de-
fence" on either side; it would be either a crime
or terrible weakness, defence" of the in
terests Of our capitalist enemies. This is why
we say that the schism among the Socialists is
irreparable. The Socialists have completely
deserted Socialism, they have gone over to the
side Of their governments, their bankers their
capitalists, this they have done in spite of their
verbal remuneration and condemnation of the
latter. 1t is matter of condemnation
You call upon other peoples to throw off their
bankers, yet you support your own bankers!
Speaking of peace, you have not said what kind
Of peace! When we pointed out the glaring
contradiction underlying the conception OF
peace on the basis of status quo, we received
no answer. In your resolution which deals with
peace without annexation, you will not be able
to say that it is not status quo. You will not
be able to say that status quo means the res
toration Of pre-war conditions. What then?
To deprive England of the German colonies?
Just try to do it by peaceful agreements The
whole world will laugh at you Just try to take
away from Japan, without a revolution, the
stolen Kiachow and the islands in the Pacific!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-17

Good News from London"
BY JOReR

This was the title Of an editorial In the
Boston Daily Record" on Sept. % And the
long-eared editor started off in the first line:
The news that Great Britain has repudiated
the gold basis is the best news that has come
out of Europe for a long time
Maybe some of our Boston connections might
kid the Record editor on whether or not it was
an un1nixed blessing in view OF the painful bowls
now coming out of Wall Street and washington.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-17
War Between America and Japan
Has Been Prepared for Decades
By N. LENrN.

from his speech on war to the First Congress
Of the Soviets, delivered June 20, 1910.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-11
HAPPY HOMES
 CUTS NUMBER
 OF CROUCHES

Seattle, Wash. Good house- keeping and management fosters pleasant family relationships and minimizes gr0uches in the home.
 This epit0mized one of the many vital points stressed in a 12,00O- word report to President Hoover's conference on Home Building and Home Ownership by Miss Effie L. Raitt, chairman of the committed on household management.
 Miss Raitt is connected with the department of home economies at the University of Washingtons Seattle
 The report centered around the theme that ''the ultimate aim of household management is the well fare of the family"
 Miss sRaitt's committee pointed out that household management before the machine age required laborious processes and exhausting work with meager tools. But it warned not to lose sight of com pensati0ns of pre-machine days.
 The report said approximately 9,OOO,O0O people were concerned with the problem of urban housing. Estimates were that the average annual income of wage earners and salaried persons who form 90 per cent of the gainfully occupied was less than $2,500.
 The report recommended that all states, where urban housing si a problem, should consider adoption of a housing law similar to that adopted by New York state in 1926.s It said the law made possible con- struction of well-built homes that provide adequate sunlight, ventila- tion and play space for children.
 Outstanding trends of household purchasing include hand-to-mouth. buying of smaller units and foods in packages instead of bulk, the re- port indicated. It said the trends developed logically since families and homes were smaller and that families spent less time than for merly in their homes.
 The vacuum cleaner and better laundry equipment were designated as great time savers for house. wives.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-11
FRENCH SHOW
 HUGE DROP IN
 AIR CRASHES

Paris-security in aviation has advanced to such an extent that there was but one accident for every K4O,59s miles flown in France during 19O3O. That encouraging indication was contained in a sur vey published by the Ministry of Air, which reported 50 per cent less accidents in 1890 than in 1929.
 Improved motors. better con- struction, the invention of safety appliances and better pilots are credited with this reduction of fatal accidents. The Ministry be- lieves that accidents can be prac- tically eliminated within a few yearsfi, when more mechanical ap- pliances are perfected to stabilize, mechanically pilot and guide planes.
 The rapid progression of secur- port:
 Commercial and airmail lines: One accident for 210,O0O miles flown in 1922; for 190,000 miles in 1928; for 333,000 miles in 1929, and 540,598 miles in 1880.
 Training Center (civil Aand mil- itary): One accident for 1,40O hours of flight in 1928; for 2,648 hours in 1929; no deaths for 3,573 hours in 1880.
 Military aviation: One accident for 2,633 hours of flight in 1929, for 3,40O hours in 1880; sixty deaths in 1929, thirty in 1880.
 Naval aviation: One accident for 2,2S2 hours of flight in 1929; for 3,74S hours in 1890.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-11

KEEP TRAFFIC LIGHTS OFF
 FAMOUS BOSTON STREET Boston Boston recently bought $125,O00 worth of traffic lights with the idea of installing
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-11

Knox, 22-year-old stenographer, contralto, Kearny, N. J.; Jay Alden Edkins, 24-year-old music student bass, Somerville, Mass.
 Midwest District--Miss Lillian Meyer, 21-year-old college senior, dramatic soprano, Jamestown, N D.; Eugene Byron Morgan, \22-year old music student, baritone, Gainesville, o.
 Dixie District Miss Thelma Gaskin, 25-year-old school teacher, coloratura soprano, Orlando, Fla; Austin Summers Butner, 23-year- old blind piano tuner, dramatic baritone, Nashville, Tenn.
 Southwest District-Mrs Lavon Graham Holden, 24-year-old house. wife, contralto, Pittsburg, Kan; John Bennett Metcalf, 20-year-old student, baritone, Austin, Texas.
 Far-West District-Miss Eleanor Coryell, 20-year-old calculating machine operator, soprano, Santa Cruz, Cal; Andrew B. White, 19- year-old university student, bass baritone, Tucson, Ariz.
 Each of the first place winners, one young man and one young woman, will receive $5,000; two years tuition at any recognized
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-11

American institute of music, or with a recognized teacher of voice. and a gold medal.
 Awards to the two winners in each of the other classifications follow: Second place.. $3,000. one years tuition; third place, $2,000, one years tuition; fourth place, $1,500, one years tuition; fifth place, $1,O00, one years tuition.
 The radio audience voted on the contestants during the months of preliminary additions, but the jury of distinguished musical experts is to grade the singers in the final addition. The jury will base it's verdict on the natural beauty of the voice and its adaptability to training. The object of the annual contest is to assist promising anna teur vocal talent.
 The ten contestants will face microphones in the New York NEG studios, but they will assemble in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-11
ASKS FOR RECEIVER
 TO COLLECT RENTS

Appointment of receiver to coll 1ect rents in the defendants pro- perty is asked in a petition filed in the common pleas court to-day by the Citizens and Manufacturers National Bank. It is slated to come up for hearing some time to-day. The papers claim the defendant, Angelina Minicucci, collects the rents in the property on which the bank has mortgages, but failed to maintain the proper care of the property.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-11

Ten young slngers-five women
 and five men, six of whom appear aboye-chosen as the best of thou
 sands of amateur vocalists through
 out the United States, will com pete in the finals of The Atwater
 Kent Foundations fifth annual radio auditor over a nation wide INBC-WEAF network Sunday, De- cember 13, at 9:15 p. m., E. s. T. They will share $25,000 dollars in cash, musical scholarships and
 medals after competing for months
 in preliminary local, state and re- gional additions. The vocalists will come together in the New York NEG studios from widely separated localities. After the
 singers have been heard, their rat ings as determined by jury of eminent authorities will be an- nounced to the radio audience.
 The complete list of finalists fol- lows:
 Northeast District-Miss Saida
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-11

Washington Friday December 11) to be presented at the White House. and see the sights of the capital.
 The sponsorship committee of the national radio auditor is com posed of the following artists and authorities on voice: Mime Louise Homer, Mrs Otto H. Kahn, Mrs Elmer James Ottaway, Mime Ernes- tine Schumann-Heink, .Charles Wakefield Cadman, Glenn Frank and Reinald Werrenrath.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-11

them along aristocratic Common wealth avenue, in the Back Bay. But stop and go lights will not blink on that famous thoroughfare, it seems.
 Some of the residents of the avenue objected strenuously to Mayor James M. Curley's traffic light plan and in the ensuing con- troversy it developed that 8 tech- nicality probably would forever prevent the city from carrying out such a project.
 Persons who purchased property on the avenue a half century, or more ago, retained a special right at law in the Commonwealth Avenue roadway, and thus the lights cannot be installed without their approval.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-11
SINGING MICE DISCREDITED
 BY PROSPECTOR'S RADIO

Tonopah. (UP)-They tell strange tales in this desert country where men wander the lonely wastes alone, searching for gold, but Clyde Terrell captured the whopper prize. Q
 Terrell has been mining in the Kawich range east of here. He
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-11

Stockholm, Sweden, has aban- doned all plans for new municipal buildings.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-11

came into town recently and de- clared that while prospecting on Southgold hill, he discovered a nest of singing mice.
 Sometime ago." Terrell said, 1T picked up piece of rich float on the south side of the hill and was digging around trying to find the ledge it came from when my pick opened up a nest of mice. They were great big fellows, and how they should sing!
 "One big fellow sat up on his hind legs and sang Happy Days Are Here Again-and, well dis covered later an old prospector, camping close by, had radio in Ihis tent"
Nogales international., 1931-10-21

Augustine Escobosa, proprietor of
Escobosa's Cafe, is wearing a broad
smile of contentment, due to the
arrival here from Los Angeles, of
his wife and three splendid sons.
The Escobosas have taken a resi-
dence on North Morley Ave, where
they are "at home" to their many
friends all of whom welcome them
back to Nogales where they resided
many years before going to Cali
fornia.