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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-08
By WILLIAM F. KRUSE.
ecial DAILY WORKER CORRESPONDENTS. }

PETROSAVODSK, A. K. S. S. R., Sept. by MaiD
This northernmost of the national republics included
in the R. S. F. S. R. still has many economic and social
problems to solve-but of oney the evil of unemploy-
ment, it is happily free. That problem which hangs
like nightmare the working class of almost all
Europe, but especially darky the workers of the
little "Potato Republics" of the Baltic border is I'M
known here Whereas in neighborng bourgeois coun-
tries from 10 per cent to 70 per cent of the workers
looked upon "surplus"-in Socialist Kareia the
tempo of potential industrial development measured
by the supply of available labor power.
The Soviet Union is big place and that little sec
ton of it called the Autonomous Karelian Socialist
Soviet Republic" is not such baby in size when COM
pared with it's neighbors. 1t could all of Latvia
and Esthonia combined and still have enough left over
to make blanket for Switzerland In it is almost
equal to all of New England but in populaton-there
where the rub comes nyou could put thirty Karelias
into Greater New York Geologicaly it is blood
brother, should probably say "stone-b brother to
Scandinavia and Labrador here also the oldest rock in
the world crops to the surface and underes land of
pine and birch forest and endless chains of lakes and
of farylandke beauty It's climate is rather
like that of southern Alaska-short hot splendid
in which the nights "whte" and where the
northern limits truly Gland of the midnight SUM-"
Then months of cloudy autumn while the days get
shorter and shorter until in December real winter sets
the benign influence of currents which
find their way into the Arctic at Murmansk.
More than four-fifths of its quarter-mion popula-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-08
The First Day In Siberia

College, which is just being COM
pleted, This building when finally
finished and opened on October LIST of
this year will give 300 young Siberian
peasants thoro four years training
in scientific agriculture. $50 of these
peasant students will be housed with
in the university, the rest in outside
dormitories.
New Home For the Party.
The large stone building housing
the Ispoleom of the Soviet of the
Siberian "Kry" &C. E. c. of the ST.
berian Soviet) and the Central Exec
utive Committee of the Communist
Party of Siberia, was also completed
in 1925. 1t also is beautiful white
walled stone building which can take
its place in any modern American
city. A few other buildings either
now being constructed or completed in
1925 are the Social Insurance build
ing "Gos-Strach," finished in 1925;
large new market now being built
on the site of an old bazaar; the State
Bank building, a large stone struc-
ture completed two years ago, the
textile building, also recently built
of stone, numerous rooming houses
and workers quarters, several large
cooperative stores and the "circus," a
large new theatre also recently com
pleted.
Many Other New Buildings.
There are in all 700 new buildings
being constructed in this town which
in 1898 was nothing but forest land,
the greater part of these buildings
being of stone or brick. The money
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-08
Philadelphia Leather Workers.
Editor, The DAILY WORKER:

GultoT, ne DAlLN WOkhER:
Philadelphia has some of the
largest Morocco (leather) shops in the
United States but the only men or
gained are the glaciers. There is a
lot of dissatisfaction among the other
workers as to pay, hours of labor and
working conditions. Every day / hear
them saying that s hours is plenty to
work and that $1.00 per hour should
be the rate.
Organization, however is handi-
capped by the fact that there are so
many men who have worked in the
industry even as long as twenty-five
years and who do not yet speak
English. Polish is the predominant
language, most of the leather workers
being of that nationality.
Something should be done about the
conditions in this industry. But
there is little to be hoped from the
A. T. of L. organizer, Joe Richie,
who recently endorsed Harry Mackey,
the conservative who has the backing
of ell thc big firms, for mayor of
Philadelphia, What this town needs
badly is an organization campaign
in every line of work. ama a fig$tinx
Labor Party--A- xacsnaflk. Phlla.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-08

| Figures from Nos. 90 of statistical
bulletin published by the Siberian So
viet-January-April, 1920
At present the city is growing at
very rapid rate. The speed of
building is only rivalled by the speed
of increase of population. In one
day automobile excursion thru the
town as guest of the Central Com
mittee of the Siberian Gray" Soviet,
(Kray meaning the entire territory
of Siberia), l jotted down a few of
the important new buildings, when
they were build and, in some cases
the cost.
Magnificent Lenin House.
Let US look at few. First we take
the immense and beautiful "Lenin
House" on one of the main streets of
the town. 1t cost one million rubles
and was completed in 1925. 1t very
much resembles the famous Lenin
Institute building in Moscow, which
stands on the Soviet Square, off the
Tverskaya, being of the same size
and of the same material. This build
ing houses the City Soviet, district
Soviet and the City and district or
CARNATIONS of the Russian (All
Union) Communist Party. Across
the front is printed in gold letters
"Lenin inner, Jeive Leininismus"-
Lenin is Dead, Leninism Lives"
Schools of Communism
Second the "Dvorets Truda"-Pal-
ace of Labor, large white building
covering several New York City
blocks, surrounded by a garden, it's
lowered piles rising up in pleasing ir-
regular contours. 1t cost 100000
rubles and was completed in 1925. We
went into two large meeting halls,
one seating thousand, a kino
(movie) a theatre seating another
thousand and a number of smaller
"Kabinets" for committee meetings
etc, and into large white restaur-
ant looking out into the garden. The
price of a complete dinner here, is
so kopeks $50 cents), for members of
the cooperative which runs the res
taurant so kopeks US cents). Across
the front of the building, printed in
large letters is the statement, "The'
trade unions are the schools of Com
munism."
Training Siberian Peasants.
Next, the four-story Agricultural
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-08
Letters From Our Readers

the company's advice and purchase
their homes by instalment, they
now find that the Ford family has shed
it's pretended interest in their social
welfare. Now when an appeal is
made by these deluded slaves to the
company for help to save their homes
from foreclosure and the consequent
loss of equities amounting in many
cases to two and three thousand dol
lars, the reply is, "sorry we can do
nothing for you"
| know of many Ford workers who
are reduced to restitution by the long
period of part-time employment, and
then by the latest 12-week layoff, and
with no prospect of jobs in the near
future.-Dave Miller, Detroit, Mich.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-08

given out by the Soviet for building
in Novo-Sibirsk was as follows: 1924
-2,150,000 gold roubles; 1925,
100000 gold rubles and 1926-6,300,-
900 gold rubles.
We visited some of the great CO.
operative stores built new on the
basis of the American department
stores. (The Siberian Soviet knows
how to apply American technique
the auto we travelled in was of
American make, and we saw Ameri-
can sewing machines and type
writers). Here were well stocked
shelves of textiles. We were told
that the prices were set by the ALL
Russian Textile Syndicate for the
whole of the Soviet Union, so that
the textiles are sold at one standard
price all over the Union. The soap
on sale in these cooperative stores
was manufactured in Novo-Sibirsk
and is one instance of the effort of
the Soviet to develop industry.
Of course there are small peasant
houses in Novo-Sibirsk. But the
construction of the City by the Pro-
letarian State is going forward with
such giant strides that the small
traders, kulaks and petty shop
keepers are being left far behind.
Nowhere else have l been so i'm
pressed with the rapid advance of
Soviet Russia in building her agri-
cultural and industrial economy to-
ward Socialism as in Novo-Sibirsk,
where the forces of revolution have
transformed a village into large
n1odayo oity
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-08
Many Other New Buildings.
About the Ford Slaves.
Editor, The DAILY WORKER:

| want to correct the erroneous
impression created by the reference
to the new Ford model and condi-
tions of employment. The statement
quoted that "the plant has operated
on a five-day schedule since last
Spring" is only partially true, as
most of the departments only run
two and three days since last Fall,
and have been totally closed down
since the second week in May.
Thousands of employees of these
departments have been idle for IA
weeks and are still out of jobs. 1t
is the privilege" of the company to
give out whatever figures it chooses
as to the force employment, but we
who are on the inside know that the
$4,000 figure is grossly exaggerated,
and that most of those who have been
recalled are being given two days
work week.
Workers Losing Homes,
In the balmy days Of the Ford
Company, when some of the workers
actually believed that job with Ford
gave them fair measure of security
and thereby enabled them to act on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-08
I. L. ID. Gathers Proof
of Police Guilt
Continued from page II

Continued from page ~
refreshments. All of it was taken by
tho cossacks, and while they were
having their fill of the stolen food
and drink Of the miners, they washed
Ehc blood off their riot clubs in the
Tao where the soda pop was kent
packed in ice.
Begged for Baby.
Babies shoes were picked up on the
GROUNDS, lost while their mothers were
trying to carry them to safety. One
Isother got down on her knees and
begged q trooper who had seized her
baby by the hair and dashed it to the
ground, for mercy. His answer was
. blow in tho head with his club.
knocking her unconscious.
In many places, men, women and
children were piled up against the
Ilarbed wire fence surrounding the
grove, and, blinded by the tear gas
69sabs, were dubbed into insensibility
~ the mounted brutes. Over a hun
dTcd broken and bloody hats were
picked up in the grove the day after
Inc attack. 1t was found, later, that
spies had been placed at various
points in the meeting, and at a sig
nal, the eosaacISg, who had quietly
surrounded the audience, attacked
without warning using tear gas bombs
and riot clubs. A single opening was
tho only exit from the meeting and
Inc hundreds gathered there were
forced to run the vicious gauntlet.
The Chcswick case will be one Of
thc important issues dealt with at the
Third Annual conference of Interna-
tional Labor Defense to be held in
New York City, November 1918, to
organize the national fight against
the frame-up system, Of which Ches-
wick Is another striking example.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-08

posed child labor amendment will be
a part of the constitution of the Uni
i ted States. :"
What the exploited children are to
do in the meantime is not stated.
THE continuing lack of success of
the executive council in congress
and the state legislatures in improv-
ing the status of labor, the admitted
tact that the labor movement has no
legal standing, the equally obvious
fact that state and federal iniunctions
have outlawed strikes, picketing and
boycotts, the increasing hostile ac-
ton of the supreme court shown bv
the Bedford Cut Stone Company and
other decisions, the fact that 43 state
legislatures are hostile to a measure
like the child labor amendment,
furnish overwhelming proof of the
bankruptcy of the 'nonpartisan"
political policy.
PUT the executive council casts all
rules of evidence to the winds on
Page II and under the head Of
political" says:
The successes of the non-partisan
political campaign have been
gradually becoming greater. A
larger number of wage-earners every
year sees the benefit of non-partisan
action and this, it is believed, will
make them greater factor in the
coming election than they ever have
been heretofore"
RUT still more significant than this
= paragraph is the manner in which
the executive council appeals to the
leaders of the two capitalist parties
to rescue them from the results of
the establishment which absence of
achievement on the political field is
spreading among the union member
ship.
Only the feeling that they cannot
preserve much longer the fiction of
the efficiency of "nonpartisan" action
without something in the way of
concessions from the parties of big
business could produce such a frantic
sos as the following on Page II:
"The experiences of 1924 should be
a warning to both parties. Both
parties ignored the plea of labor. The
platform of neither party was ac-
ceptable to those who were looking
forward as was evidenced by the fact
that nearly 100000 PROTEST
VOTES were cast for a third candi-
date"
WHAT the executive council really
" IS saying here to the bosses is:
Throw the mob a few sops or all
this talk about labor party in al
lance with the bankrupt farmers may
develop into something that will wreck
our non-partisan policy"
Only labor leadership that is part
Of the machinery of American i'm
perialism would arrive at the con-
clusion that complete failure of a
policy indicates that it should be con-
tinued. This is exactly what the
executive council does when it deals
with the political activity of the
American labor movement.
IWE give this leadership credit for
" enough intelligence to be able to
draw conclusions from such potent
facts as it submits in its report of it's
political campaigns.
Only one reason, therefore can
prompt it to recommend a continue ?
ton and extension of this suicidal |
policy lie. its desire to draw the
American labor movement still more
closely into the strangling network
Of the capitalist parties and at all
costs prevent the rise of a mass party
of labor opposing the parties of the
bosses on every front.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-08
The First Class Order of the Sacred Treasure" For
American Bankers

Let be said again Japanese no sense
humor even If the joke is them
The japanese has conferred upon J. Ppont
gan the First Class Order of the Sacred treasure Thomas
Lamont has received the Second Class Order Of
ue Mortimer Sehiff Kuhn and Co and Charles
E. Mitchell Of the National City Bank of New York
The Third Class Order of the Rising San has been
upon Otto Kahn while George f. Baker of the First National
The Second Class Order Of the Rising SUM-
SnA tina Of Ninpon has been added by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-08
Jobs For All In Soviet Karelia

NOTE TO OUR READERS We present today
the first of series of five news letters from
correspondent, who is visiting the relatively
little-known Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic
of Karelia. Following articles will deal with in
naturalization, agriculture, homesteading exper-
fences of former American workers, Party problems,
etc. Upon the conclusion of this series we expect
to arrange for similar treatment of other republics
of the USSR visited by Comrade William F. Kruse.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-08

Morgan loan of $15000000 the decorations without sig
ncance The lavish almost proiscuous which deco
aons have been handed out following banquet rendered Thorn
W. Lamont by leading Japanese bankers and government Of
ca Oct d would indicate that the Japanese treasury is
running low sacred treasure and another loan needed
Not only in China and the Philippines but Japan well
is American financc-capal finding Investment field Each
adds the burden the workers and peasants of the
East who pay tribute to the that exploits the
American masses.
Not parrong OF the yellow peril slogans of the ruling
class but solidarity of The of America and the Far East
is the line for the American labor movement follow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-08
By KARL REEVE.
The Chicago of Siberia"

SIBERIA (By MaiD.-Nova ST.
brisk, the capital of Siberia is called
by the inhabitants ''The Chicago of
Siberia" and not without reason. The
growth of this city in population, pea
SAINT economy, wealth and in building,
I have never seen duplicated, even in
America. Here are the figures for
the population of Novo Sibirsk:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-08
The SSNoapartisa11s''
Draw q Blank

The Years Political Record of Executive Councs Com
pee FaiureOne State Endorses Child Labor Law OPP
pose 1.-THE Petty Character Of Legislative Demands
The Attitude Toward Foreign-Born Workers-Some
Concrete hstances-The Appeal to the Capital
ist Partes-The Reason the Executive
Council Loves the "Nonpartisan" Policy
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-08

Figures from Nos. 90 of statistical
bulletin published by the Siberian So
viet-January-April, 1920
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-16
We Offer Only Valuable Merchandise
AT GIVE-AWAY PRICES!
THE SALE CONTINUES

This Great Hosiery Sale con-
tinues today and tomorrow. Re-
tail quantities at mill prices are
offered on fresh, Grade-A Hos
iery. There are no seconds.
These are the stockings that you
have paid from S1.OO up per
pair for.
Come early-plenty of park
ing space.
9 A. M. to 6 p. M.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-16
WHAT PEOPLE THINK
ABOUT IT

On Thursday morning, the first
day of the sale, people were
waiting in line before 9 o'clock,
waiting for the doors to open.
In one hour, from 9 A. NJ. to 10
A. M, over 100 sales were made.
THE PEOPLE APPRECIATE
OUR EFFORTS, and they are
showing us their appreciation.
They believe in creating a home
market for home goods.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-09-16
WHY WE DO THIS


We are presenting first quality,
fresh merchandise, direct to the
wearer at mill prices. This Hos
iery is made in your own COM
munity, by one of your own fac
tories. This mill employs local
people and contributes to local
welfare.
This merchandise would be re-
sold in other cities, but we prefer
to give people at home the first
chance on home manufactured
goods.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-01-28

and at Clinton. The evidence is far
in probability. 1t sounds like Lincoln,
which the words might appropriately
have been used.
But If Lincoln never spoke this
clever apothegm, then it would almost
seem possible to fool all the people all
the time; for all the people, virtually,
believe these words to have been Lin
coins
If 1.-The people" remember that Lin
coin said they couldn't be fooled all
the time, because they like to believe
that, then 1.-The public" well remembers
that 1t was once damned by a Wander
bilt, probably because of popular preju-
dice against Wall Street and men of
money. The public be damned
phrase is one over which there has
been much dispute. 1t is usually, and
enormously, ascribed to Commodore"
Cornelius Vanderbilt, and members of
the Vanderbilt family have often de-
MED that it was ever uttered by one
of their number. There has also been
some dispute as to the circumstances
under which it was uttered, but the
facts in the case are these:
In 1882 William H. Vanderbilt, son
OF the Commodore" was on his way
TO Chicago on special train. The
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-01-28
Robertson Given Fresh
Chance in Big League

Charley Robertson, American league
pitching discard, comes back to the
majors next season for another trial,
this time with the Boston Nationals.
Robertson, it will be recalled,
jumped into fame during his first full
season with the White Sox. On April
30, 1922, he shut out the Detroit
Tigers, then regarded as the hardest
hitting club in the American league,
without hit or run, not man reach
ing first.
Making the performance all the
more remarkable was the fact that the
Detroit club harassed Robertson
throughout the entire game by claim
ing he was doctoring the ball.
When Chicago asked waivers on
him, the Browns claimed him. He
met with Indifferent success there and
was sent to Milwaukee in trade.
In that league he was big winner
and many major league scout reported
favorably on him. Five major league
clubs claimed him in the draft. He
was awarded to the Braves.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-01-28

an appropriate gesture and say, la
fayette, we are here!" That yarn orig
mated when Colonel Stanton of Per-
shings staff stood before the tomb
and said, Lafayette, nous somme la !"
But it was soon tackled onto the COM
handing general, and even President
Wilson in speech before the French
chamber credited it to Pershing The
general himself has denied that he
ever said it, as he has denied that his
offer of American troops to General
Foch was made in the form of the his
toric, "All that we have is yours"
However, he did say in 1917, Ser
many can be beaten, Germany must
be beaten, Germany will be beaten"
When a British admiral asked Adj
miral William S. Sims when the first
division of American destroyers could
be ready for business, he replied, "We
can start at once. We made prepara-
lions on the way" Or so the news
papers reported it at the time. But
in letter to the New York Times,
dated February 81, 1919, from London,
the admiral denied positively that the
question was ever asked him or that
he ever made that reply.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-01-28
Popular Grid Games

Reports from Des Moines, where
the Missouri Valley conference held its
meeting, would seem to indicate that
intersectional games are going to be
more popular than conference cham
pionship contests. Several teams were
unable to complete schedules because
other colleges In the conference were
signing up for intersectional matches.
Nebraska was notable example when
it picked out games with University
of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh and New
York university at Lincoln.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-01-28

History and legend are vague in recit-
ing the details Of their personal his
tory. The lovers festival is appar-
emily to be connected not with the
birthday of these holy men but with
an early pagan festival that was part
Of the Roman Lupercalia. The medic
val custom in England and on the
continent was to put the names Of
young men and women in Jar and
draw them out on Saint Valentines
eve. Those whose names were thus
linked had to make presents to each
other and agree to be each others
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-01-28

'You can fool all the people some
of the time, and some of the people
all the time, but you can't fool all the
people all the time"
late John Dickinson Sherman, feature
writer for the Western Newspaper
Union until his death in 1925, then
Hyde Park correspondent for the Chi
cago Tribune, and his friend, Clarence
P. Dresser, Hyde Park correspondent
of the City Press, succeeded in board
ing the Vanderbilt special when it
stopped at Michigan City, Ind, for
water. After the train was on its way
they were admitted to Mr.. Vanderbilt's
private car and granted an interview.
In the course of the interview Mr..
Sherman put this question to the rail-
road magnate, do your limited ex-
press trains pay or do you run them
for the accommodation Of the publicT
Accommodation of the public!" ex-
claimed Mr.. Vanderbilt, "the public
be damned! We run them because we
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-01-28
Payne Whitney and Son
to Start Racing Stable

The turf gains by the entry of
Payne Whitney and his son, John Hay
Whitney, into active racing. Their
colors will be seen this spring on New
York and other tracks.
Mrs. Payne Whitney, leading turf
woman of the world, is veteran in
the sport Of racing, and her stable, the
'Greentree, races with success on all
the first-class tracks Of America and
Canada. The main division of her
stable is now at New Orleans. Later
her horses will appear at Tia Juana
and on Florida tracks. Her horses
are trained by Clyde Phillips.