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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-06
N. Y. ATHLETIC
CARNIVAL TO BE
SPEECHES. DAY
All for Sport and Fun
at Aug. 10 Picnic

Especial to the DAILY WoRKER) .
NEW YORK, Aug. 5.-Final arrange
ments have been made for the August
10th Athletic Carnival and Picnic to
be held by the local New York Work
ers Party. The Young Workers
League and the Junior Section are
helping to make this one of the great
est events in the history of New York.
The Park will be decorated in a
novel way. A running track has been
built specially for the athletic events.
The American Section of the Red
Sport International will show their
athletic propensities on that day.
After the athletic events there will
be a baseball game between the Young
Workers League and the Workers
Party. The Young Workers will
have in their line up amongst others,
comrades Holland, Darcy and Fam,
who will slip them over against the
Workers Party. In the Workers Party
lineup will be found Ben Gitlow, the
candidate for Vice-President of the
w. P. ticket, Arthur Leeds, Nessin,
Krumbein and others. Harry NJ
Winitzky, who got his experience
umpiring games at Sing Sing will
decide balls and strikes./
The facilities of the park are well
suited for the affair. Located Just at
the edge of the Sound it will enable
the poetic souls to watch the waves.
Numerous benches, all in deep shade
and under large trees will give COM
fort to the crowd. There is plenty of
grass for those willing to get closer
to earth.
Swings and merry-go-rounds prom
Use days Of Joy for the kiddies There
will be dancing in covered pavilion
as we'll as in the open for those inter-
ested in another movement. The
Finnish South DrooAiyn Brass Band
will supply the music for the occasion.
Food will be dispensed in a generous
and efficient manner.
There will be no speeches.
The park is easy to get from any
part of the city. The Bronx Park
subway, eastside or westside to 177th
street, then change for the Unionport
street car to the east end Of the line.
IN eight minute walk or bus will
bring you to the park
Admission is rs cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-06

A awful lots been sed Of late that
workers should cooperate and share
Industrial gains and losses by hitch
ing up long side the bosses.
Now I'm prepared to show you
guys that such a scheme is fur from
wise. The lambs and lions do not
share a distribution that is fair. The
poor lamb soon is lost to sight to feed
the lions appetite, and ends life
that's somewhat FESTIVE by filling
cavities digestive. The pussy cat
has the last word in conversation
with the bird.
There's profit-sharing, for example,
which is a very modern sample OF
kidding workingman to think that he
is an investing gink. There's schemes
TO sell us guys block OF litho-
graphed and pale pink stock, by
which we make the boss a loan, and
not a damned thing do we own. They
give US stock for what we've lent,
but hug their flfty-one por cent and
keep the buslpess as ? whole under
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-06

their unperturbed control.
II you have bought the bosses
stock and wanna get a life-sized
shock, just walk into stockholders
meeting and offer your hard paw in
greeting. and take a movie of their
looks when you have asked to see
the books. Just say you're taking nc
big bets that there amt some con.
cealed assets, and ask to have 'em
type real neat showing Of the bal
ance sheet.
Say, guy, before you hit the door
you'll know that you don't run no
more of that there business and its
caper than il your stock wuz wrap
ping paper.
The comp'ny union is the prize to
smash the worker tween the eyes.
II your skull bone is extra thick just
join a union with no kick. where
bosses pull the hidden string and
bum stool-pigeons run the thing.
Cooperation is a fake. A good
stiff fight you gotta make I'm teli-
ing things TO all you dubs; workers
don't join no Rot'ry clubs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-06
Party Activities Of
Local Chicago
BRANCH MEETINGS
Wednesday, August 8


Roumanian Branch-2254 Clybourn Ave
Douglas Park, Jewish-8420 w. Roose-
Terra Gotta. Italian--27o7 N. Marsh
field Ave
zecho- Slovak, Cicero-Masaryl
School, 57th Ave. and 22nd Pl., Cicero
Mid-City, English-Emmett' Memorial
Hall-Ogden and Taylor Streets.
Englewood, English-6414 S. Halsted
Czecho-slovak No. s-254s S. Homar
Avenue.
Thursday, August
Finnish-Imperial Hall, 24O9 N. Halsted
Street.
Eleventh Ward. Italian-24ss S. Oakley
Thirty first Ward. Italian--511 N. San
canon Street.
South Side, Engiish-a2o1 S. Wabash
Russian No no. 1Miso2 w. Division Street,
Blvd.
Friday, August 8
Scandinavian-South Chicago, GAL z.
61st Street.
Lettish-4359 Thomas Street.
Czecho- Slovak, Hanson Park-Bohe-
milan Freethink School Rovnost, Mans
field Ave. near Grand.
Saturday, August 9
Daily Worker Agents Meeting - 2:sO
D. m, at lll3 w. Washington Blvd
Press Picnic COMMITTEES Meeting-l66
w. Washington St.. Room 307, 3 p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-06
WAGE CUTS TO
COME AS FALL
CAMP AIGN ENDS
Unemployment Crisis Is
Severe for Machinists
(sy Federated Pressl

WASHINGTON, Aug S. Unem-
ployment is steadily gaining on the
mill and factory industries turnout
the United States, and organized la
Dor must expect another wholesale
wage-cutting attempt as soon as the
presidential campaign is over, says
P. ]. Conlon, vice-president of the
init. Assn. of Machinists. Hundreds
of thousands of metal workers are
employed this summer on the farms,
he finds. AS plants have reduced
their force or have closed down alto
gether, the mechanics have gone to
the farms and have temporarily
found work. But when the harvest
is in and cold weather arrives, these
men will return to the towns-to find
that general reduction Of employ
ment in their various trades has been
developing.
This is one Of the most serious
problems with which the Machinists'
convention, meeting Sept is in De-
troit, will have to deal They face
the possibility that there will be
fewer jobs next winter than at any
time since the spring of 1921. Hard
times are ahead, and not merely for
the metal trades New York states
shows a reduction in factory employ
ment of per cent for April and May.
There were 10 per cent less jobs in
the industries of the country in May
this year than in May Of 1923. Tex
tile workers are worse off than the
metal workers, but almost every
group except the building trades has
a share in the depression.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-06
Socialist Traitors in Austria
Also Rallied to "The FatherLand'

IRON the "Arbeeztuns"
4 August s. 1924.
"Let the iron die be may,
devotion triumph Of
the holy Of the German people, The
Rechsag presented the nation today
the the
down In history the mighty uprising
German SOUL One after the other SoeaDemocrats
In favor Of making the public loan Like the
socademocracy party Jewel oruaniza.
ton the eIassconscous proetarlt
nents Of Of the unity
and solidarity the
land In that the national
Is threatened socademocraey
country and the naoness Vaeabonds' the gang
sanderousy
tunes Of the working classes
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are getting thirty-five (35c)
They averaged it up this way
IF we work about fifteen hours
day we will nearly have as much
as we did when we were working
eight hours a day." They did mol
realize that they were working
nearly two shifts for the same
price.
Even the over-timer went 10
church. They would come from
work on Saturdays very late.
Next morning he could get up and
go to church, and stay till twelve
o'clock. After he could eat his
dinner he would go to the movingl
pictures. These are good social.
lists, aren't they?
Ny father said, "They are such
a crazy, dumb set of people" Sc
he decided to move. We settled in
little mining town in among a
good set of people. There was
only one certain socialist and a
scab. This socialist was on a
mine committee of the local union
Of the United Mine Workers OF
America. This committeeman
lost all the cases that he had to
settle. The people got mad and
called him COMMITTEE. John
The'scab was strikebreaker. He
broke the local union at Norton,
w. Va, or some town close there.
lie was a mine-foreman rather "a
mine-sucker."
"Committee-John" worked in
the same mine that my father did.
He worked in the next room to my
father. The "mine-sucker" and
"Committee-John" were good
friends.
One day "Committee-John" got
nine cars to load the coal in while
my father only got four. Another
day "Committee-John" had to
shut down some coal after four
O'Clock. The "mine-sucker" told
the driver to wait for him. Next
my father had to shut down the
coal and was too late to catch the
trip, so he had to walk out. The
"mine-sucker" didn't wait for him.
You can find many Of these kind
Iot people Socialists and scabs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-06
Workers, outIIne ii science.

To the DAILY WORKER: / main
tain that until the workers have ia
miliarized themselves with the scien-
tiic conception Of the inorganic uni
verse and life, including mind, as a
phenomena of nerve and brain opera
tons, they are not likely to endorse
the teachings of scientific socialism,
tho from their own social conditions
they may have sentimental leaning
towards Socialism.
The fundamental facts of modern
science which ought to be, but are
not, common knowledge, may be
briefly summarized as follows: The
indestructibility of eternity of matter
and its evolution from nebulae suns
and planets and eventually their dis
solution to nebulae, cyclic process
without beginning and without end.
Then a description of the solar sys-
tenn, as an example; how it grew out
Of nebulae, its size and probable age.
Then our earth it's immense age; the
formation of rocks. This followed by
what is known of the beginning of
life and its evolution from lowly be-
ginnings; also what is known of the
nature and evolution Of mind. Then
an account Of human society, its evo-
luton from Primitive Communism
through chattel slavery and, in Eu-
rope, Feudalism, to capitalism and it's
probable evolution to Socialism. Also
an explanation of what is meant by
Socialism.
Now this knowledge is absolutely
necessary for a proper orientation to-
wards proletarian advancement, for
the worker must give up medieval
ideas and become familiar with the
truths of modern science.
II you could get series of articles
on the above subjects written in
popular style and publish them in your
paper, and afterwards if demand was
created by their publication publish
them in pamphlet or even book form,
it would be laying a solid, unshake-
able foundation for the truths of So
cialism based on concrete knowledge
not mere sentiment as too often hap
pens in our time. The trouble is often
to get a competent writer who at the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-06
LEFT WING WILL |
FIGHT ID. 6 O."
AT CONVENTION
Machinists to War On
Johnston Reaction
tnx The Federated Press,

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-Ten points
OF attack upon the policy of the ad-
ministration in the Init. Assn. of Ma
chinists by the cleft wing" delegates
in the forthcoming quadrennial con-
vention at Detroit, are being studied
by the leaders of the administration
element. They anticipate a spirited
discussion Of all features Of the or
ganization during the first week Of
the proceedings. Emphasis is laid by
the left element upon the alleged
company union" character of the
plan of cooperation in management
with the B. & 0. Railroad company,
which the administration insist has
stabilized employment and bettered
the conditions of the men on that sys-
tenn. The convention Of lodges on the
B. & o. unanimously endorsed the
"B. & o. Plan" according to Vice.
President Conlon, and it has resulted
in a definite strengthening Of the
union on that road.
The amalgamation issue will again
be to the fore. The administration
points to it's program for amalgama-
ton of all the metal trades, which is
baked by the smaller metal trades
unions. The opposition is demanding
amalgamation of all the railroad work
ers, under the st. Paul plan. It also
protests the present line drawn be-
tween craftsmen and helpers, and de-
nounces the drawing of the color line
against negroes.
officers of the l. A. Of M. admit that
while they took the white" qualifca-
ton out of their constitution, at the
demand of the A. F. of L., many years
ago, they put it back into their obli-
cation oath, so that no Negro is rec
commended for membership. This is
due, they say, to the racial prejudice
Of members in the south, who former
ly numbered some $4,000 when there
were only about 10000 Negro machin-
lists eligible otherwise for union anil
iation. The situation is met by send.
ing Negro machinists to the Station
airy Firemen and Oilers union, which
welcomes them. With this discrim.
nation the left element is not salts
fed.
Finally there is the issue of attempt
ing to secure the 44-hour week. The
left wants it done now. The admin
istration counsels delay until condi-
tions are more favorable; it points
out that employment is bad and is
likely to get worse this winter.
The left demands that the 20 gener-
al organizers now appointed by Presi-
dent Johnston be made elective, and
that the 5 men expelled from a lodge
in Toledo and the two expelled in Los
Angeles for Obstruction" be restored
to membership
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-06

| causes and in mitigating the effects
OF the famine. The president of the
section carried out a comprehensive
survey Of the cultivation of grain II
the Ussr.
About year ago the section tool
in hand the closing up OF the "scis
sors"-the discrepancy between agri
cultural and industrial prices. 1t is
insisting upon the urgency Of increas
ing the purchasing power Of the peas
ants and developing grain exports. Il
is also engaged in the colonization Of
certain sparsely populated areas, the
restoration of agriculture in the fam
inc areas, the supply Of agricultural
machinery, and the development Of
agricultural credits.
Fuel.
Like the transport section, the fuel
section had to deal with terrible
legacy of material ruin and admins
trative bureaucracy. Only about 60 to
20 per cent of the estimates drawn UT
in the early years for fuel were actu
ally attained. In 1922, however, 90
per cent of the Caspian estimate was
actually fulfilled, and in 1929, so
per cent.
Largely as result of the work OF
the fuel section, the output of coal has
increased by about SO per cent in
1929, compared with 1920-21, and
that of oil by % per cent. The cost
Of production in the Donetz has de.
creased by nearly so per cent during
this period, and the productivity of
labor is now about twice that in 1920.
At the same time the quality of the
coal is better.
Other Work.
The transport system, whilst still
laboring under many difficulties, is in.
comparably superior to what it was
three years ago.
In addition, the caspian contains
foreign trade, statistical, budget and
electrical sections. These sections
assist very materially the state de-
partments concerned, and help to CO.
ordinate the various branches of the
national economy.
The original purpose of the Soviet
authorities, to bring the whole of the
economy of the country into single
economic plan, is very far from being
accomplished. The Gosplan,N however
has taken the first necessary steps
towards a rational organization of the
national economy.
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THE VIEWS OF OUR READERS ON
LIFE, LABOR, INDUSTRY, POLITICS

same time can write SO as to be easily
understood.
Yours truly, FRANK SUTHER,
LAND, Innisfail, Queensland, Aus
tralia.
EDITORS NOTE: The DAILY
WORKER has before printed a plea
for simple scientific articles for work
ers but had to announce also that ii
would not be able to pay for such
articles. The DAILY WORKER is
glad to have the writer's opinion and
would be glad if he could himself
send in contributions or if anyone
else would, under the conditions
stately
To the DAILY WORKER:-I was
interested to read the figures concern.
ing the widespread unemployment
that exists in Detroit, Mich. Recent.
ly, on my way from st. Paul I stopped
in Detroit. While riding in one of the
trolley cars ! noticed the following
sign which was placed so prominently
that no one could fail to see and read
it.
The Ancient Order Of Paraders.
This is the season of parades.
These parades will be held on the
principal streets Of various cities,
resulting in various Interruptions to
electric railway service and the
Companies will be blamed for these
delays.
If the public understood exactly
what a parade meant in the way of
interruption to street car service
it might diminish the enthusiasm
for the spectacle. Should the rail-
way suffer breakdown such that
no cars moved for couple Of hours
an cutlery from the angry populace
would be heard from one end of the
town to the other.
Criticism of the trolley system
would be on every tongue. 1t would
be considered an outrage that peo-
pie should be deprived Of transport
tation for so long time.
wondered at the time if this was
one of the means of preparing and
creating a hostile state Of mind
against possible unemployed demon
STATIONS. What do you think?
Rose Pastor Stokes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-06
Connecticut
Party Activities
Membership Meetings.

To line up the membership for the cleo
ton. campaign, and other work of the
party, District Organizer Sinons will ad-
dress series Of membership meetings
as follows:
Tuesday. August S. Waterbury; Thurs
day, August Z, Bridgeport; Friday, Au-
gust 8. Stamford; Tuesday, August r.
Springfield, Mass; Wednesday, August
Is, Hartford; Thursday, August IA, An
sonia.
These meetings are intended to put into
practice locally the. Program of Action
so well explained by Comrades Foster
and Ruthenberg at the splendid member
ship meeting held July 20 in New Haven.
Local political and industrial problems,
circulation of amalgamation papers in
the metal trade centers like Bridgeport
and New Haven, broAdcasting the DAILY
WORKER, will be few OF the subjects
to be taken up.
All members instructed to attend.
Sympathizers will not be admitted.
The place Of meeting can be found out
from your branch secretary or the CCC
Secretary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-06
"SCABS AND SOCIALISTS"
BY FRANK VALENTINE.

Two years ago / lived in a town
of Thomas, West Virginia. Later
my father moved to Girard, Ohio.
Six months later we moved to
Meriden, West Virginia, a little
mining town. And now we have
been four months in Cleveland,
Ohio. z
In every town / go there are
Slovenians, Socialists and scabs,
church members and moving pie
ture-ers. Pardon me, l do not
mean that all of the Slovenians
are this kind. At least 1 am not.
Those that read the DAILY
WORKER are not, I am sure.
They are not counted.
In the town of Thomas there
were many Slovenians in the
Great Coal Strike in 1923. Before
the strike the workers were get
ting one dollar and fourteen cents
($1.14) on a ton of coal. Now the
Slovenian scabs are scabbing for
forty-fve cents (45c) a ton. That
is the last wage-cut.
Ny father didn't want to be a
scab, so he had to move. He went
hunting a job. He got one in
Girard, Ohio, a mighty poor one.
1t was only thirty-five cents (35c)
an hour. He wasn't making
enough to keep the family.
/ soon found out what kind OF
people lived in Girard. A saloon.
keeper was a socialist. He had a
rIgh price on "Raisin-Ja ck."
About three foremen, who got
their jobs by being scabs in the
Ohio Leather Company Strike in
1917. They were foremen, but
they only got ten cents more than
my father did. The amount of
what we're their wages? Why,
forty-fve cents (45c). They
worked three times more than
my father did. These were all
Slovenians. But Slovenians are
Slovenians.
All they had in their minds was
work, church, and show. The
fools were getting seventy-two
cents an hour in 1917. Now they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-06
RUSSIA'S STATE
PLANNING BOARD
UNIQUE IN WORLD
"Gosplan" Coordinates
Soviet Economic Life
Rosta News Agency.

Ever since the revolution the au-
thorities have aimed to organize the
industry and agriculture of the whole
Soviet Union in accordance with a
general comprehensive economic plan.
During the period of military COM
munism, when industry and trade was
concentrated entirely in the hands of
the state, the functions of economic
investigation and planning and of CO.
ordinating the work of the various
state enterprises were carried out by
the Supreme Economic Council itself.
With the establishment Of the new
economic policy. and even before its
formal inauguration, it was found that
the Supreme Economic Council, which
controlled only the state enterprises,
could not well function as a general
planning agency for the whole of the
country.
A Single Economic Plan.
The idea of a single economic plan
for the whole of the country was not
abandoned with the introduction of
the new economic policy. The work,
however, was referred to a special
body, the State Economic Planning
Commission (Gosplan). The first ses-
sion of the Caspian took place on
April 8, 1921, although it had func-
toned previously as the State Com
mission for liberalization.
~
the work Of co-ordinating the whole
of the industry and agriculture of a
country like the Soviet Union would
have been immense. The attempt,
however, was begun after the country
had gone through the World and civil
wars, the Intervention and the block
ade. Further, 1921 was the year of
thu famine. The Caspian has also
had to reckon with the backwardness
OF the peasantry; the primitive meth
DDS of agriculture employed before
the war; the fact that only some 270,-
100000 acres are under cultivation out
Of total possible 5,400,000,000 acres,
and the backwardness of industry.
many IL mas Hdu 10 take INTO ac-
count the traditions of corruption and
bureaucracy inherited from the Tsarist
regime.
Naturally. therefore, at first the
Caspian was more successful in the
drawing up of plans than in their
execution.
Estimates Five Years Ahead.
Taking all these difficulties into
account, however, the actual work &C.
complished by the caspian during the
three years of it's existence has been
very considerable.
The reports of its various sections
show clearly that the caspian is get
ting an increasingly firm grasp Of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-06
Work In Farm District.

WILLISTON, N. d., Aug. s. An
important meeting was held here Sun
day for the purpose OF organizing Q
sub-district of the Workers Party on,
of Northwestern North Dakota, with
Comrade Andrew Omholt in charge
of the work in this territory.
In this section are found some OF
the most militant farmers in all the
West, and while they have been
ground down fearfully by the capital
ist system in the last few years and
lost almost all hope, there is no doubt
that the message Of Communism will
Eiye them renewed courage.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-06
To Get Ex-spy's Body

WASHINGTON, August 5. - The
United States cruiser Trenton, now at
Naples, will proceed to Bushire, Per-
STA, to receive the body of Major Rob-
ert M. Imbrie, the slain American vice
consul, and bring his body back to the
United States
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-06
Gales Going to Europe.

Ell PASO, Tex, August 5.-General
Plutacre Elias Gales. conceded presi-
dent-elect of Mexico, will start Sunday
from Sonora border for New York
where he will take steamer for his
European tour.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-06
Reading Falls In Line Too

READING, Pa, August g. The
Reading Farmer-Labor Party organ
lied here about three months ago to-
day endorsed the Workers Party
Presidential ticket and issued a vigor-
GUS statement against La Toilette and
his program.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-06
N. Y. Halls To Rant.

Meeting rooms and lecture hall for
rent; reasonable. Workers Hall, 1347
Boston Road, Bronx. New York City.
B. Robbins Section Secretary.