 For his efforts, Older was called a communist, a Wobblie, a syndicalist and traitor, but Hearst backed him.Older died a few years before Mooney was pardoned by California Governor Culbert Olson in 1939.Older was also an early defender of prostitutes, having published a story at the "Bulletin" in 1917 entitled "A Voice from the Underworld, by Alice Smith."