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tives. 1t is significant, however, that
some executives who have the conf
dence of organized labor to an I'M
usual degree, were included among
those who made the report" Willard
has not denied this.
THE interview with Labor proves he
defended the report. He played the
role of trying to convince the labor
movement that the plan was not
harmful to labor. He was used by
the railway executives to sugar-coat
the pill. That is his role in the drive
for the ten hour day. If Willard did
not endorse the report, he had a
month to say so. He knew that the
Machinist Journal claimed ignorance
as to his stand He knew that rail
way Age" said that he with others
made the report. He has had, plenty
of time to explain himself. The
Machinists Journal had plenty of time
to find out. But their claim Of ignor-
ance is pretense. They know that
Willard was for the report, and they
fear to come out with it.
The Shop Craft Unions Silent.
MOT only is the Machinists Journal
~ silent, but the other unions in the
shop-crafts on the railroads are
similarly silent All are tied up with
the B. & o. Plan of union-manage-
ment cooperation.
If they can get away with their
campaign of silence, the operators
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-01
Labor Leaders Silent on lO-HOur Day Offensive

owill have plenty of time to prepare
the ground for their ten hour day
drive. They will initiate campaign
of publicity, and more important, will
take steps in the shops to insure the
Successful" introduction of the ten
hour day. Silence by the unions aids
the companies in their plan.
The Ten-HOur Day Must Be Fought.
WHAT is needed is to arouse the la
W Dor movement as to the reality
of the danger. What is need is to
strengthen the resistance of the
unions involved, through amalgama-
ton. What is needed is an immediate
Joint campaign of the unions involved
for the defense of the hour day.
But the shop crafts unions are asleep,
Nothing of this is done. On the
contrary, the union leaders go farther
along on the road of class collabora-
ton. They attack those of their
members who sound the call to arms
who demand preparation for war
against the introduction of the ten
hour day. The union leaders weaken
the organizations, ideologically and
organizationally, rendering them inn
potent, before the companies on
slaught.
Nothing but a well prepared cam
paign for struggle will defeat the ten
hour day. Communist must take the
lead Progressives must fight. The
ten hour day must be defeated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-01
BY V. Q.

10y "
A MONTH ago, articles in the DAILY
II WORKER exposed the ten hour
day drive planned by the railway
companies, as set forth in the report
of the American Railway Executives,
under the guise of Sterilization of
employment" The writer pointed out
then that the Machinists Journal,
while shouting nothing doing" in
formed the membership that there
was no danger of the plan going into
effect, as far as the union men were
concerned. 1t pretended ignorance as
to the attitude of President Willard
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
whose name was signed to the re-
port, and who was chairman of the
committee which prepared the report.
The writer proved by reference to an
interview recorded in Labor" of July
End, that Willard defended the report.
But the Machinists Journal which ap-
peared fully a week after this inter
view denied knowledge as to Willard's
attitude.
Willard Like the ReSt.
WILLARD's signing the repor t
showed that he used the B. & o.
Plan to fool the workers into increas-
ing production, when the road had a
deficit. 1t showed that. the plan of
union-management cooperation or
(worker-employer cooperation) was
all bunk. The officials of the In
ternational Association of Machinists
will not admit this, so they are silent
on Willard.
If they didn't know Wizards at
titude for the July issue of their
Journal, they could have found out in
a months time. A month passed. The
August issue is out. 1t continues to
preach class collaboration, with ar
ticles on the benefits in apprentice
training on the B. & O., and on
Nash's fake Golden Rule" plan in
the clothing industry. But not an
other word on the threat of the ten
hour day. Still no word as to Will
lard's attitude.
Do They Want More Proof?
HALLWAY AGE" the organ repre-
~ senting the railway company
executives, in its issue of July 9th,
boasts of the fact that executives
friendly to labor made the report. 1t
says: Some branches of organized
labor are apparently suspicious of the
suggestion for an elastic working day
recently made nv a SnaoiaI con1nittee
of the Association of Railway Execu-
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By ESKEL ROM. and
MATTI TENHUNEN.

MOSKOW, August 31.-At the
Fifth Cooperative Congress of the
Cooperative League of America, we
were elected as delegates to the Con-
gress of the International Co-opera-
tive Alliance to be held in Stockholm
Study Soviet Unions Coop.
Desiring to get better acquainted
with the co-operators in other coun-
tries and to learn from their expert
ences, we planned to visit various
countries before the congress. So we
decided to visit the Swedish co-opera-
tives and the Finnish co-operatives
first, for we knew that they had de-
veloped the co-operatives to a high
degree. Then we wanted to visit Sow
let Russia, and thus get a picture of
the two extremes so far as perfection
of organization, efficiency of manage
ment, etc. was concerned.
Highly Developed.
In Sweden and Finland we were
not disappointed for we found the
highly developed organizations that
we expected For one who comes from
America and who has read the reports
that fill the newspapers about the
conditions in Soviet Russia, who
comes prepared to see chaos and dis
order, the actual conditions are sur
prise, very true to US they were a
pleasant surprise.
Coming from American conditions
one cannot of course help but see the
differences in the form of architec-
ture, the styles of clothing, but what
especially attracted our attention was
the general appearance of the people.
There was not that display of the
extreme rich and the extreme poor
that is so PREVALENT in our country.
There seemed to be a standard of life
TO which all were subjected. We found
contented happy people, and the youth
one Immediately noticed. Their bouy-
snce and healthful appearance must
be due to the work that is being done
to preserve the welfare of the chill
dren and young workers.
u. S. S. R. Workers Best Off.
We have visited hundreds of fac
tories in America and must say that
the. working conditions, and the clean
illness we found in Soviet Russia is
above the average American factory.
This no doubt is due to the fact that
all the workers in the industries are
organized, having their union office
connected with each large factory.
Eight-hour work-day, with vaca-
ton of two to four weeks at full pay,
full pay while sick, are something the
American worker does not even dare
to dream Of.
Comparing the cooperative stores,
factories and restaurants of Soviet
Russia with the hundreds of co-opera-
tives and private similar institutions
we have seen in America, we must
confess that they are equal to these.
Some of the stores were the finest
we have ever seen. We found the
shelves stocked with merchandise, Of
all descriptions, excellently displayed,
clean and the personnel appeared to
be courteous and efficient. We visited
the large city stores, the small town
stores, and the peasants stores, and
in all we failed to find the chaos and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-01
Editor, Daily Worker:

The yellow press in the United
States is devoting yards of space to
telling the workers in the industrial
centers that the farmers are prof.
teers. In the farming sections they
are devoting an equal amount of space
to telling the farmers that it is the
workers in the industrial centers who
are the profiteers. The money inter
ests have been preaching for forty
years that the farmers interests and
the workers are not the same. But
the fact is that their interests are
exactly the same.-N G. Farmhouse,
Comertown, Mont.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-01
Letters From Our Readers

9destroyed by the capitalist police, and
finally Miss Vanzetti's illness and
desire not to have the ashes go with
out her that made it impossible to
bring the ashes last Monday.
In the second place, such adjectives
used in connection with a person like
Mary Donovan, who has given her
entire time and strength without pay
to the Sacco-VanLetti cause, who lost
her job as state factory inspector be-
cause of her activities in the case,
and who on the very day that Mike
Gold penned his spiteful lines was
sentenced to year in prison on
framed-up charges by representatives
of the same group who murdered Sac
co and Vanzetti, are absolutely in
excusable. l know Mary Donovan
well because we have worked to-
gether and fought the police together
and | admire her courage and her de-
votion to the cause for which she
fights so ardertly. | have never seen
anyone who was less interested in per-
sonal publicity or glorythan she is.
While I would be the last person
in the world to deny anyone the right
to criticise policies for the sake of
analyzing mistakes and thereby i'm
proving tactics, and while l feel that
there are certain policies and errors
for which the Boston Committee can
we'll be criticized, still I must de-
nounce such untrue and vindictive
criticism as that INDUCED in by Mike
Gold. Because it is so obviously I'M
true and unfair it convinces no one,
alienates many, and helps to make
impossible any attempt at united
front against capitalism which many
of us are working for.-Powers Hap
good, New York, Aug. 81, 1927.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-01
Hapgood Disagrees With Gold.

Hapgood Disagrees With Gold.
Editor, Daily Worker:
l was much surprised and incensed
at the vindictive, narrow, and untrue
statement of Mike Gold in The DAI-
LY WO6KER for August both that
MARY Donovan, an obscure spiteful
female with great lust for publicity
was responsible" for the ashes of
Sacco and Vanzetti not coming to
New York for the demonstration
Monday In the first place, it was
not Mary Donovan at all, but circum-
stances over which she had no con-
troll such as the necessity Of getting
permits from four states to trans
port ashes, the unwillingness of the
committee to take the risk of trans
porting them illegally because of the
likelihood of their being taken and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-01
KARLIN DIsOBEYs ORDERS.

A significant fact about the Sacco-
Vanzetti memorial meeting in Union
Square Tuesday was that William
Karlin, former socialist assemblyman,
spoke from the central platform in
defiance of August Claessens, secre-
tary of the local socialist party.
AS the socialists attempted to sab
otage the protest strike on the day
our comrades were killed, so they tried
to keep workers from a memorial
meeting even tho it seemed certain
that Sacco and Vanzetti's ashes would
be brought there.
Capitalist Press Applauds Claessens.
All of the capitalist papers, anxious
to gloat over any division in the ranks
of labor, anxious to have the masses
soon forget martyrs of the class
struggle, were informed by Mr.. Claes-
sens that the socialist party would not
pay last respects to the ashes of Sac
co and Vanzetti.
Claessens also charged that the
Memorial Committee had not been au-
thorized to announce that William
Karlin would act as a member of Mrs.
Sacco's guard of honor and later
speak at the Union Square meeting.
The announcement of William Pick
ems, secretary of the Society for the
Advancement of Colored People, that
he Thought a representative of the
socialist party" would speak, was
greeted with sneers from capitalist
paper reporters on the porch of the
nearby park house. They had seen
ClaesSens!
Police Surprised.
But when Karlin stepped to the
front Of the platform and, standing
beside William w. Weinstone. secre.
tary Of the Workers (Communist)
Party, began to speak, the reporters
and police officials on the porch
leaned forward in Management.
The Industrial Squad head, John
Broderick, could not believe his eyes
at first, and then muttered, "Well,
we'll" A uniformed police lieutenant
said, 81 did not expect this after the
way the socialists kicked Gold off the
platform at the other meeting"
"Karlin's only speaking as an in
dividual, he was not authorized to by
the socialists" Edward Levinson, of
the New Leader" explained. Then he
admitted Karlin told him early in the
afternoon that he would speak.
Karlin, however, was not Just
speaking "as an individual" He rep
resents large element in the social
list party who are dissatisfied with
the American Federation of Labor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-01
Violence Brings Violence.

Dear Comrade:
Sacco and Vanzetti were sentenced
to die before their trial by Governor
Fuller on the floor of congress and
by Judge Thayer on the golf links
and elsewhere. The evidence is plain
The governors respectable" advisory
board did not deny it.
The legal murder gang of capital
ism has declared a war of violence
against the workers. They have beat
en-, arrested and fined peaceful pro
testers against this violence. They
have maltreated all who dared to pro-
test. The ruthless plutocrats have
not learned that violence brings vio-
lence. A capitalist victim.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-01
DELEGATES TO CONGRESS OF INTERNATIONAL
COOPERATIVE ALLIANCE REPORT ON SITUATION

disorder which we had expected. The
fact that they are conducting these
stores at a gross profit of IL per cent
and expenses of from to 9 per cent
esready prove conclusively that there
must be order and system. In Amer
lea which is highly developed the priv
ate stores are charging IS to 20 per
cent with an expense of from Is to
Is per cent. And one must not lose
sight of the fact that the Russian CO.
operators only work hours a day
compared to the 10 hours or more of
the American store clerk.
Good Reading Room.
To find the reasons for the spirit
that prevails among the workers you
will find-th answer by looking over
the club-roons attached to every fac
tory and cooperative store. General
meeting places are provided with spe-
cial reading rooms co=operatiye COR
ners for cooperative propaganda,
trade union corners, hygenic corners,
and Lenin- corners where the govern
ment brings its messages of the de-
velopment of the country and the var
ious tasks to be performed before the
workers. The workers are taught to
stick together. Their united problems
they jointly discuss. To talk organi-
cation they do not have to go around
sneaking to the homes of their fell
low workers. Is it wonder that the
workers are so solidly behind the
trade unions, the co-operatives and the
state?
To really understand the tremen-
dousness of. the development of the
cooperative movement in Soviet Rus
STA, one cannot do it by simply read
ing their reports and figures, but one
must see the organization in action,
to feel the throbbing pulse of this gil
gantic movement Eleven million
heads of families organized in one
movement, doing 48 per cent of the
business of the entire country, that's
what these Soviet Russian co-opera-
tors have done. Such development
in few years is only possible because
their movement is highly centralized
through district unions into the Cen
trosoyus, and the close cooperation
that exists between the cooperative
movement, the trade unions and the
workers SKATE. 1t is absolutely i'm
possible for any cooperative move
ment in a capitalistic state to make
such strides forward.
The development of the country we
feel assured will progress still faster
if the Soviet Russian workers are al
lowed to pursue their work in peace.
The Russian worker realizes this for
he sees the progress that has been
made in the past few years, and so
it IS to be understood why everywhere
the workers confronted us with the
plea keep your government from
attacking us!" The earnestness of
their plea brought to us what an
enormous task the co-operators and
the workers in general have to pre-
vent their imperialist government
from making war on the workers of
Soviet Russia. 1t is the duty of CO.
operators to arouse the workers in
all countries so that they will stop the
onslaught that threatens Soviet Rus
STA today!
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work in the fight against the capital
list class.
Sorry we cannot send mora just
now because there are in this COM
munity less than twenty poor farm
ers and about ten wage workers. But
if in future you want our help just
give your order and let us do the
rest.
Yours for the working class revolu-
tionary movement, Vaino Pelto.
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Poor Michigan Farmers and Workers
Send Aid.

Enclosed, please find the money or
der for $101.30 which is the net prof
its from two entertainments held I'M
der the auspices of the Community
Club of Dukes Siding, Mich, for the
benefit of our paper The DAILY
WORKER.
In return we do not ask nothing
else but that you continue your great
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-01
Editor, Daily Worker:

We can already see some f the
many lessons which the Sacco and
Vanzetti case will teach. It has brot
the international workers together
for one cause. 1t has shown us our
potential strength. The judges, edu-
Gators and bosses are class conscious,
they stand united against the work
ers. Let US learn from them and
prepare for the fight. Our cry should
be: Sacco and Vanzetti have not died
in vain!-Susan H. Calkins, Deming,
New Mexico.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-01
Knew Fighting Daily at Once.

Dear Comrade:
Just the other day l got hold of a
Daily Worker by accident and was
instantly interested in it. So I've de-
cided to send in $500 for three
months subscription, for that's the
best / can do just at this time.
(Mrs.) Geo. Simko, Masury, @
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-01

Mae West is ready to do it again.
The author and star of Sex" has
written another called "The Wicked
Age" which she is planning to show
on Broadway. The reformers who
closed up Sex" are already shifting.
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played here last season, has COM
pleted his second play. 1t is a comedy
drama, and is titled Children of
Darkness"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-01

Edwin Justus Mayer, whose bright
and merry play, "The Firebrand'
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Mrs. Thomas Whiffen has been en-
gagged by Joseph Santley for Gust
Fancy" in which Mr.. Stanley is to
make his debut as an producer
late in September, This will be Mrs,
Whiffen's first appearance in must
cal comedy, although this grand old
lady of the stage" has been before
the public since 1865, when she made
her debut in London pantomime.
Her most recent appearance was as
Mrs. Mossop IN "Trelawny of the
Wells" Mrs. Whiffen, is eighty-two
years of age.
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adam the Creator" by
the Capeks to be
Seen Here

A report from Prague says that
New York will see the new play of
the brothers Capek, adam the Gre
ator," some time during the coming
theatrical season. adam the Gre
ator" deals with humanity, as did the
two plays which made the brothers
Capek famous, with a type picked
out here and there to illustrate the
authors philosophy. In its symbol
ism and type psychology the play re-
sembles the plays of the Robots and
insects. The motivating idea behind
this latest of Capek products is the
creation of new world by Adam.
Arthur Hopkins is co-author with
George Marker Waters of "Burles-
que" play treating that phase of
the show business, and which is
scheduled to open at the Plymouth
theatre tonight. Mr.. Hopkins is both
producer and director of the new pro-
duction.
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Trustees Sale of Valuable Two
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