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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-27
COLLECTIONS TO
Be CONTINUED
ANOTHER WEEK
Police Threats Fail to
Halt the Plans of
Communist Drive

Because she demanded the
return of the Workers Party
campaign fund collection box
full of coins which the police
had confiscated, Jennie
Kliedman had her suspended
sentence recalled and was or
dered held for trial today by
Magistrate Flood in West
Side Court.
Continuing the threats of the De.
partment of Public Welfare against
workers collecting for the Red
Election Campaign Fund, James w.
Kelly, deputy commissioner of the
department, has issued a statement
explaining" the action of Commits
sioner Bird S. Coler, who previously
had denounced the drive and melted
the police to take a hand.
simultaneously the Workers
(Communist) Party has announced
that despite police persecution the
drive would be continued through
out the week of August 27. It was
originally scheduled to be held only
from Aug. 20 to 25. In a statement
issued last night explaining this
move, John ]. Ballam, acting dis
trict organizer, declares:
"The returns thus far from COL
lectors who have gone out among
the workers in behalf of the Red
Election Campaign Fund indicates
that there is tremendously favor
able sentiment for our party at this
time. This favorable sentiment
must be tapped and utilized to the
fullest extent.
Difficulties.
Certain objective difficulties have
arisen, which have prevented us
from capitalizing sufficiently in the
Red Week arranged for August 20
to 25. The postponement of the
Sacco-Vsnzetti demonstration has
Continued on Page T1oo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-27
CANCER KILLS WORKERS
Highest Death Rate Among Workers

and in open-air work in the midst
Of great industrial centers like
Pittsburgh, are affected by the dis
ease much more rapidly and seri-
ously than those employed in other
and lighter activities.
Although the statistics for many
years back had shown that the
death rate from cancer was high
est among the workers and poor
people living in the slums, no ac-
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-27
DENGUE EPIDEMIC

ATHENS, Greece, Aug. 26 (UP).
The epidemic of dengue which has
taken large toll of lives in Greece
recently, continued unabated last
week and the heat wave today gave
no indication of relief.
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that of capitalism"
This, and the fact that in
dustry in the Soviet Union is
81 per cent socialized, was re-
vealed in a statement by E.
Varga in report to the forty
first session of the World Con-
gress of the Communist Inter
national, now in progress in
Moscow.
Other highlights of the
report show the Soviet state and
cooperatives now control 81
per cent of industry in the z.
5. S. R.; that the kulaks, or
rich peasantry, control only II per
cent OF the harvest and represent no
real danger to the poor peasants,
and that the five-year plan provides
for ID per cent increase in pro-
duction; an increase in agriculture
of from 80 to 40 per cent, and an
increase of fifty per cent in real
wages. The text of Vargas report
follows:
The economic situation in the So
Wet Union and the existence of the
U. S. S. R. has proven the existence
of capitalism unnecessary. Indus
try, with the exception of iron and
steel is long past the pre-war level.
Since 1921 agriculture has been de-
veloping faster than elsewhere, as
also industry.
Better Standards.
The capitalist states took great
loans in order to carry out recon-
struction, but the Soviet Union
managed practically from its own
forces. The U. S. S. R. accumulated,
not including the peasantry, thirteen
milliards of gold roubles. The stan
dard of the life of the toilers has
considerably increased.
The yearly population increase
totals three millions Mortality is
rapidly decreasing, Cholera has
been wiped out, typhus and tuber-
culosis greatly diminished. There
is tremendous cultural develop
ment on the part of the former op-
pressed nationalities.
Soviet Union industry is divided
into socialist and private. The for
mer is growing much quicker than
the latter.
The socialist share of the industry
is eighty-one per cent. The CO.
operatives are growing rapidly. Pro-
duction and the means of production
are growing more rapidly than is
normal in industry. Real wages
are 134 per cent of the pre-war
level.
The situation of the peasantry is
considerably improved. The capi-
talist contention that the workers
are living at the expense of the
peasants is a lie. The Kulaks con-
troll only twelve per cent of the har-
vest and represent no serious
danger. The poor peasant is the
ally of the proletariat, the middle
peasant hesitant. The Kulak is
hostile, but without the middle pea
SAINT not powerful factor. Despite
the plan of economy difficulties
exist. There is an essential differ
ence between the U. S. S. R. crises
and capitalist crises. The richer
capitalism is, the more crises, the
richer the U. S. S. r., the fewer
crises.
Capitalist unemployment is caused
by superfluity of means of pro-
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-27
YOUNG WORKER
JAILED 8 TIMES
(Special to the Daily Worker)

(Speciul to the Daily Worker
KENOSHA, Wis, Aug. 26.-For
the ninth time in the last two
months, Samuel, A. Herman, a
member of the Young Workers
(Communist) League, has been ar
rested by the boss-controlled police
force of Kenosha.
Herman was speaking at an
Iopen-air meeting arranged by the
Young Workers (Communist)
League in front of the Nash Motor
Company here during the noon
hour. A crowd Of over 400 workers
were listening attentively as the
league speaker exposed the repub-
]ican, democratic and socialist par
ties as organizations opposed to the
interests of the working class.
The speaker was in the midst of
an appeal to the workers present,
urging them to support the candi-
dates of the Workers (Communist)
Continued on Page Three
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REAL WAGES FAR ABOVE
PRE-WAR LEVEL; BIG GAIN
IS MADE in AGRICULTURE
World Congress of Communist international
Hears Vargas Report
Rapidly Improving Conditions of Peasantry Is
Also Pointed Out

MOSCOW, Aug. 26-"With real wages in the Soviet
Union l34 per cent of the level with industries ex
ce the iron and steel long the prewar level and agr
culture developing more quickly than all capitalist countries
the economic condition in the Union of Socialist Soviet
publcs clearly
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FIGHTS TO FREE
JAILED HUSBAND

E, Wash, Aug. 26.--Dur-
b, visit here of Mrs. Eugene
wife of Eugene Barnett,
\ the leading Centralia l. w.
w. prisoners now confined in Walla
Walla, Washington, penitentiary,
who came at the invitation of the
international Labor Defense and the
Centralia Liberation Committee,
many meetings of labor organiza-
tions were arranged at which Mrs.
Barnett and her young son, Cliff
ford, spoke, urging support to the
campaign now being conducted for
the release of the eight men.
WHEN Mrs. Barnett visited the
" hall of the |. W. w. to speak
there, and thank the members for
their past support to the campaign,
ContinueG en- Page Nree
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ATLANTA, Ca, Aug. 26.-Teach-
ers in Fulton county schools secured
a pay raise through the activity Of
.he local Federation Of Trades.
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THE u. .S.S.R AND THE KELLOGG PACT
Declaration OF Foreign Coussay Tciche1n to the Press

Pep for og Of the o
e pr
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-27
TO HOLD DEONsTRA T7ONS AGAINST KELLOGG PACT TO-DAY

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED
FOR THE 40-HoUR WEEK
FOR A LABOR PARTY
FOR WORKERS AND FARMERS
GOVERNMENT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-27
2. @. Tries to Suppress
The young Worker"

An attempt to suppress the young
Workers." official organ of the Young
Workers (Communist) League of
America, is now being made thru the
United States Post Office. A letter
received at the National Office Of the
Y. w. L., IS East 125th St., New
York, signed by postmaster J. ].
Kelly, threatens to revoke the Young
Workers second class mailing privi-
leges. The excuse given is the ir-
regularity of the papers appearance.
Since the majority of the young
Worker" readers are on the mailing
list, this revocation would mean either
large extra expenditure on postage
or no mailing list at all. The young
Worker" is appealing to all young
workers to overcome this legal at
tack on the only fighting working
youth organ by helping in the current
young Worker" drive for 5000 sub
scriptions and sustaining fund of
$4,000. The only thing that prevents
more regular appearance of this pa
per is the lack of funds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-27
DELEGATION Will
SEEK U. S. LOAN,
WORKERS CHARGE
Liberator's Name Used
AS Blind

A delegation of over 500 fascists
of the Horthy regime in Hungary
had just left that country to parti-
cipate in the unwilling of monu-
ment to Louis Kossuth on Riverside
Drive and 18th ST., scheduled for
March Is. The expenses of the trip
win be borne entirely by the Hun
garian government, it has been an
nounced.
Under the guise of erecting the
statue to the Hungarian liberator
Kossuth, the party of fascist mobiles
and estate owners, who have perse-
cuted the Hungarian workers, will
come here to spread the propaganda
of Horthy and to seek a loan from
the Hungarians of this country by
the use of Kossuth's name, 1T is
charged by Hungarian progressive
workers in New York.
Members of Delegation.
In the delegation are such enemies
of the Hungarian workers as Baron
Sigmund Perenyi, wealthy landown-
er and supporter of Horthy; Paul
Petry, minister of education in the
Horthy cabinet; Count Paul Bethlen
and several bishops representing
Prince Primate Seredi, who recently
wrote to former officer in the i'm
perial Austro-H Hungarian army ex-
pressing the desire to see the return
of the old Austro- Hungarian empire.
All the members of the delegation
favor a monarchy for Hungary, it is
said by Hungarian workers here.
With Coolidge Influence.
The delegation has been granted
permission to enter this country as
a result of the influence with the
Coolidge government of Count SEE
ehenyi, the Hungarian ambassador
at Washington Szechenyi was re-
Gently connected by the Anti-Horthy
League of America with the forgeries
Of Jacob Nosovitsky, an international
spy, by which Szechenyi prevailed
ON the United States government to
deport thousands of Hungarian
workers to Hungary, where impri-
sonment and often death at the hands
of the Horthy government awaited
them.
Plans for a gala reception of the
fascists no their arrival by city and
government officials have been made.
The speakers at the unwilling will
include Secretary Of Labor Davis,
Senator Copeland and Theodor Roose
Welt.
Progressive Hungarian workers in
this country have expressed their de-
termination to expose what they de-
scribe as conspiracy under the
cloak of Kossuth.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-27
Hungarian Fascs Way Here to Attend Umvelg OF Statue
Box Makers Demand
Recognition of Union

The Paper Box Makers Union is
demanding that the manufacturers
recognize the union, establish closed
shop and minimum wage scale for
all workers and grant a So increase
to workers now being paid below the
minimum scale, as well as Is per
cent increase for piece work and time
and half for overtime, it was an
nounced last night by Irving Free
man, manager Of the union.
The drivers, who are 95 per cent
organized in the union, have taxed
themselves SIS in case the unions de-
mands are refused. They have also
elected a special committee of 20 to
help unionize the unorganized men.
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Open new COOP.
BLOCK OF HOUSES
Continued from Page One)
tive League of America, and others
spoke to the big audience.

(CoRtinued from Page One)
tive League of America, and others
spoke to the big audience.
E. Wattenberg was chairman.
The United Workers Cooperative
branch of the Freiheit Singing So
ciety, made up of parents and chill
dren living in the cooperative work
ers' homes, gave beautiful renditions
of several songs.
A dramatic sketch was the last
number, the subject being a strike.
At the close the actor-strikers march
ed thru the audience which joined
them in singing the International.
When the strikers" returned to the
stage, the .'bosses" ran away in
fright.
The Cooperative United Workers
was organized in 1922 with the open
ing of small camp, Camp Nitgedai-
get. At that time there were only a
few hundred members. Today the MEM
bership has increased to 1900 and i'll
addition to the original camp, which
now accommodates 800 persons and is
fully equipped all year round, the
cooperatives also include two blocks
of cooperate dwellings, in New York
as well as other camps in Philadel-
phia, Chicago and Boston.
Offers Many Advantages.
The Cooperative offers many cul-
tural advantages to its members.
These include free lectures, free
classes for children and adults, and
musical and dramatic clubs. In the
cooperative colony many other fea-
lures are offered to the tenants in
addition to the fact that they obtain
modern apartments at low rates.
There is free kindergarten, a health
center conducted by DR.. Liber. a
dental clinic and a fully equipped
gymnasium and sports club.
The cooperators receive their divi-
dends not in money but in cultural
and educational benefits.
External Work Done.
In addition to all this internal
work, however, the Cooperative has
contributed much toward other pro-
gressive labor organizations. Last
year they donated $4,000 to the
Joint Defence Committee by giving
them all the proceeds of the camp for
one week. They have raised funds
for the striking miners, are con-
tributing to the Jewish Aid organi-
cation in U. S. S. R., and sent a trac-
tor to the colony Nitgedaiget there
last year.
The first group of cooperative
dwellings, were opened in the be-
ginning of 1927. Now, only one year
later, the second block is open. Work
has already been started on the third
and fourth blocks of houses while
land for fifth and sixth has been
secured. When these are all COM
pleted there will be a total of 1900
workingclass families living in the
colony where they will derive the
many benefits of their cooperative
organization.
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Give Piece WORK
FOR 4O-HR. week
Workers Will Not Gain
By Speed-Up System

Certain information is available to
the effect that the New York organ
ization of the Amalgamated Cloth
ing Workers will put forward the
demand for a 40-hour week in the
coming conferences scheduled before
the expiration of the agreement with
the bosses. The request, it is learned
from reliable tho unofficial sources,
viii be made on the basis of the
Amalgamated officialdom's promise
to grant the employers the piece
work system.
Established in Shops.
1t is definitely known that many
shops nave already installed the piece
work system with the help of the
Abraham Beckerman machine, which
controls the New York Joint Board
In these shops piece work was grant
VIII Speed Up Production.
Aside from the fact that produc-
ton will be speeded up to break
neck pitch by the piece work system,
as is proven by the condi ions in the
shops already working under these
privileges, the members of the union
point out that, prices per garment
will be lowered as the time for its
production is lessened. Thus, say
he workers, the 40-hour week, under
piece work system will come to
mean nothing but working on a part
time schedule.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-27
WORKERS PARTY
ACTIVITIES
Secretaries Attention.
VIEW YORK ---N z W JERsE

Secretaries Attention!
All announcements for this column
flee before 6 D. IN. on the day before
publication.
Membership Drive Leaflets.
The membership drive leaflets are
now obtainable at the district office,
10S K. 18th st.
Section IA.
Distribution of The DAILY WORK
Err is being made every Monday In
Subsection ga. Members of Unit and
should report to 10S E. 1ith St. Mem
bers of Units 3. 4. and will get
their papers at ie W. 21st St.
Subsection BE Executive.
The enlarged executive committee Of
Subsection SEE will be held tonight at
els p. m. at iol w. 27th ST.
Subsection BE Meeting.
Subsection BE will meet tomorrow
at 6:15 p. m. at 101 w. 18th st.
Paris Commune Celebration.
Sections and will celebrate the
Paris Commune at an entertainment
at New Star Casino. 116th St. and
Lenox Ave.
Affair For Daily Worker.
Section 5 will hold a concert and
ball Saturday, March 8, at 2075 Clinton
Ave. Proceeds will go to The DAILY
WORKER.
War Danger Meeting Tonight.
The Lower Bronx Section of the
Young Workers League will hold a
mass meeting on the war danger to-
night at SIS p. m. at Ills z. 13Sth St
The speakers will be Phil Frankfeid.
Sam Garrison, Jim Rosen and Miriam
Pearl.
Night Workers.
A general membership meeting of
the Night Workers Branch will be held
Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock, at 60
st. Marks Place. A member of the
c. E. c. will report on the Plenum
Presence of every member is obliga-
tory. 49,.
Book Found mt Dance.
Anna karenia found at the dance at
so st. Marks Place will be returned
to its owner. See Hofbauer at section
headquarters.
Spanish Fraction Meeting.
The Spanish fraction of the Party
will meet Wednesday at $3.50 D. m. at
lab E. 103rd ST.
Subsection &c.
Subsection &C will meet tonight at
o'oV U CLOCK at lVI w. ZIth st. Ray
Ragozin will talk on the Party mem
bership drive.
I'D International Branch.
International Branch of Subsection
I'D will meet Wednesday at 60 ST.
Marks Place at 1880 p. m.
Section z.
There will be meeting of Section z
Wednesday at p. m. at 1910 Benson
Ave. A preventative of the district
executive committee will reort on the
recent plenum of the Party.
2-F I'D.
An educational meeting of Unit 2-F
I'D Will be held tonight at $50 o'clock
at so st. Marks Place.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-27
CHILDREN HELP
Miners RELIEF
Money Rushed to Aid
Coal Diggers

Two more section Children's Mn
ers' Relief Conferences were held over
the week end, one in the Bronx at
1347 Boston Road, and the other in
Harlem at 143 E. 103rd St.
There were rs delegates present at
the Bronx conference representing
many children's organizations includ-
ing the Pioneer Youth, the Young
Pioneers of America, the Boy Scouts
of America, various clubs in Monroe
High School and also many classes in
the public schools. There were 20
delegates at the Harlem conference.
Announcement of another tag day
for the near future was made.
Workers Contribute.
The immediate effect of the recent
conference for miners relief held here
by the Pennsylvania Ohio Colorado
Miners Relief Committee, 799 Broad
way, the Workers international Re-
lief cooperating, was seen in the large
number of individual contributions re-
ceived during the past week.
Raise $500.
Over $500 was raised for miners
relief at benefit performance given
at the Arion Theatre of Middle Viii
lage, L. J., arranged by the Miners
Relief Committee of the community
of Middle Village. At performance
at the New Playwrights' Theatre,
$3.50 was collected after an appeal
was made by striking miner. At
the Provincetown Theatre collection
was made which totalled S3S.21.
All workers organizations of New
York, including trade unions and
workers educational and benefit So
cieties, are organizing for the special
collection drive of March 2, 8 and A.
The full membership of these organ
izations is being modified.
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ident of the Amalgamated Clio hing
Workers of America.
After a statement by Arthur Bris-
bane, a Hearst editorial writer, in
which he quotes Hart as saying that
the only reason that kept him in
active business till the age of rs was
not his desire to make profits but
his desire to provide work for his
who would otherwise be
without work; Hillman declared that
"it was his (Hart's) execution of his
own and Mr.. Schaffner's plans that
has helped raise the conditions of
the clothing workers, thruout the
United States"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-27
Political Prisoners

Political persecution of workers in
Italy, Spain, Hungary, Macedonia,
Poland, Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela and
Bulgaria will be discussed by several
speakers at meeting at the Civic
Club, Is E. 10th St., tonight at 8:15.
Roger N. Baldwin, director of the
Civil Liberties Union, will talk on
the Soviet Union. John Haynes
Holmes will preside.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-27
Soccer Game Tie

The Claremont Soccer Club and the
Red Star Soccer Club played l to
1 tie at the Thomas Jefferson field
in Brooklyn yesterday afternoon. Abe
Breitbard scored the Claremont's goal
while Will Lefkowitz scored for the
Red Star team. Both clubs are af-
filiated with the Metropolitan Work
ers' Soccer League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-27
Hillman Praises Boss.

Among the comments made in the
press by various capitalist editors,
bankers, merchants, and other bust
ness men on the recent death of Max
Hart, the largest stakeholder in the
mems clothing firm of Hart, Schaff-
ner and Marx, is also to be found the
statement of Sydney Hillman, pres
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-27

RACINE, Wis. Feb. 26.-Fifteen
workers in the Racine Screw Com
pany here were burned when dip
tank containing inflammable material
exploded yesterday. Four of the
workers may not live. Sixty other
workers barely escaped injury.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-27

HARRISON, N. j., Feb. 26.-Roc-
co Cuchino, worker in the rolling
mill Of the Crucible Steel Corporation
here, received serious injury to his
foot yesterday when a 30O-pound
piece of steel fell on him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-27
Coney Island Concert.

The Coney Island Section, Freiheit
Singing Society. will hold n concert and
dance Saturday, March 8, at Puthian
Han. 1864 w. 21st St. Coney Island.
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Labor and FYaterwaI
Organizations

All announcements for this column
must reach The DAILY WORKER Of
flee before p. m. on the day before
publication.
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Journeymen TaiIors' Union.

Journeymen Tailors' Union, Local l,
will meet tonight at s p. m. at Bo-
hemian National Hall, 321 w. 73rd st.
the local and the nominations of can
didates for general secretary will be
on the order of business. A referen-
dun on holding a national convention
will also be taken up.