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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-05
ASKS COMMUNIST PROBE.
Former Army Investigator Wants
Propa ganda Looked Into.

NEW YORK, November S (P.-Edwin
Marshall Hadley of Chicago, former
president of the Military Intelligence
Association, in speech at the Govern
nlent Club last night, demanded a SEN
atorial investigation into communistic
propaganda and the extent to which it
is disseminated In American public
schools.
And let's see that the investigation
is made by the patriots and not the
radicals of the Senate" said Mr.. Hadley.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-05
AIRPLANEs migrate"

Southern Winter Business Attra cts
Flyers.
MIAMI, Fla. [D.-Like birds, many
airplanes migrate to, the South in
Winter
They are drawn by the Winter COL
onies of Florida and other places In the
South where business is booming dur
ing the Winter season. Aviation activi-
ties here are two or three times as great
in Winter as In Summer, many COM
panies and individuals taking planes
there for the season.
One operating company plans to
bring 10 planes to Florida for the COM
ing season and Is busy now obtaining
passengers to fly from New York TO the
Southern resorts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-05
JUDGE NAMES DRY AGENTS
AS PROBATION OFFICERS
Hammond Defendants Who Ad.
mitted Guilt Are Released in
Care of Federal Raiders.

BY the Associated Press.
HAMMOND, Ind, November 5.-A
new policy in prohibition enforcement,
that of naming Federal prohibition
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-05
o'Neil Scores Hit Again.

BERLIN, November 5 (P).-Eugene
O'Neil, American playwright, scored a
new hit here last night when his
Strange Interlude" opened to q packed
house. The performers, among whom
were a number of the best German
actors, were generously applauded.
The daily worker., 1929-01-11
ROCKEFELLER TO
PUNISH STEWART
Indiana Oil Head Aided
Sinclair, Johns Rival

John D. Rockefeller, Jr., altho a
minority stockholder in the Standard
Oil Co. of Indiana, is campaigning
thru a letter sent by him to each
stockholder, to get enough proxies
to oust Col. Robert w. Stewart,
chairman of it's board of directors.
Stewart admitted last year that
he got quarter of the S3,000,000
Continental Oil Co. Liberty bonds,
which represented a profit from the
fake oil sale put thru by the Con-
tinental concern to establish a big
slush fund for Sinclair, then en-
gagged in securing the Teapot Dome
lease from Secretary of the Interior
Fall. The profits to Continental
were loss to other companies, in
cluding the Standard Oil of Indiana
There are indications that the
prosecution Of Sinclair was Rookie
feller campaign to eliminate rival
and that Stewart was regarded by
Rockefeller as traitor. His resig-
nation was demanded but he did not
resign.
The daily worker., 1929-01-11
CEC Asks Members
for More Articles ON
the Party Discussion

The Central Committee re-
ceived a good number of articles
on the Party discussion which we
are printing now and which we
will continue to print up to the
day of the convention. At the
same time the Central Committee
desires that more articles be sent
in, particularly by comrades ac-
tive in the field. in the factories
and i'll mass organizations deal
ing with all phases of Party ac-
tivity, Party life, Party expert
ence and the controversial ques-
tions before the Party.
The Central Committee would
especially welcome articles ex-
pressing the Opposition's view
point, in view of the fact that to
date the Central Committee has
not revealed any articles en-
dorsing the standpoint of the OPP
position.
CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COM
MITTEE, WORKERS (COM-
MUNIST) PARTY.
The daily worker., 1929-01-11

finds support in the international
capitalist environment of the US.
S.R.).
"The Conference wholly and en-
tirely approves the wages policy of
the Party, which is strongly sup
ported by the trade unions. Par
ticularly, the Conference approves
the decision of the April Plenum of
the Central Committee of the C.P.
S.U. which rejected the totally in
correct and harmful proposal of the
Opposition concerning wages; this
proposal, in the severe economic sit
uation prevailing at that period, and
in view of the rising commodity in
dex, must inevitably have led to an
increase in prices, to depreciation
of the chervonetz and by that, to
further fall in real wages. The
Conference equally approves the de-
cision of the Central Committee of
the C.P. U. and the Council of Peo-
pies Commissaries to increase
wages on the basis of the prospects
that have arisen "a good harvest,
increase in productivity of labor,
etc., as we'll as the general instruc-
tion given to level up the wages of
the lower paid categories and of
those branches of industry which lag
behind generally, as a first and i'm
portant step towards removing the
glaringly abnormal differences in
The daily worker., 1929-01-11

1 the paragraph dealing with wages, il
which it says:
"The C.P.S.U. as the Party of the
working class, which guides all the
forms of proletarian struggle un-
til final emancipation is achieved
has always considered and consid-
ers now that its principal task is to
improve the economic conditions OF
the working class to the utmost ex-
tent. Under the capitalist system
where political power and all the
instruments of production are in the
hands of the capitalist class, the
Communist Party and it's members
must support every demand made by
the workers upon the capitalist en-
ployers for raising their standard of
living from the point of view of a
Party interested in the abolition of
capitalism. Under the dictatorship
OF the proletariat, in a State, 'in
which the toiling peasants under the
guidance of the workers are build
ing up Socialism, resolutely reject
ing the guidance of the capitalists
(extract from Lenin's letter to the
Fifth Trade Union Congress) the
Communist Party, as the vanguard
which carries out the dictatorship
OF its class and guides the work of
building up Socialism, is vitally in
terested in the rate of Socialist ac-
emulation, which is at the same
time the rate of building up Social
ISM, and which, in it's turn, deter
mines the further improvement of
the material and cultural level of
the proletariat.
In the interests of the whole of
the working class and with the III.
innate aim of securing the uninter.
rupted improvement of the material
conditions of the proletariat, the
Communist Party must strictly har.
monlze its wages policy with the ac-
tual economic situation prevailing in
Soviet industry, with the growth of
productive forces and resources. and
at the same time see that Socialist
accumulation shall proceed at the
rate necessary for the victory of
Socialism (now being built up) over
private capital, which is fighting for
its existence and DEVELOPMENT land
The daily worker., 1929-01-11

the wages of various categories of
toilers.
"The Party and it's Central Com
mittee, with the energetic support of
the trade unions, will continue in
the future to exert every effort to
raise the material and cultural level
of the working class definitely in
accordance with the economic state
of the whole country, and the sue
cesses achieved in building up So
cialism, while resolutely rejecting ir-
responsible, demagogic politics in a
matter so important for the work
ing class and the Communist Party"
The Resolution of the August PIE
mum of the Central Committee and
the Central Control Committee.
"8. In accordance with the instruc-
tlons given by the Fifteenth Party
Conference concerning the system
attic raising of wages, in co-ordina
ton with the general improvement
of industry and increase in the pro-
ductivity of labor, it is necessary to
secure in the ensuing economic wear
a further increase in wages for the
lower paid categories of workers,
and also further reduction in re-
tail prices. Parallel with the inl-
provement of the material conditions
Of the workers employed in indus
try, further measures must be taken
IN 1929 to combat unemploy-
ment." ITO be continuedl
The daily worker., 1929-01-11
ATF0RM OF THE TROTSKY OPPOSITION IN THE SOVIET UNION

the peat industry, loading and un-
loading, ETC., are not being taken.
"The average rate of wages Of
young persons as compared with the
average wage of all adult workers
is steadily declining: In 1928 it rep
resented All per cent; in 1924, As
per cent; in 1925, 43.4 per cent; in
1926, 40.5 per cent; in 1927, 39.5 per
cent. GA Review of the Economic
Conditions of the. Youth in 1324-25
and in 1925-26.") In March, 1926,
49.5 per cent of the total young per-
sons employed received less than 20
roubles per month Central Bureau
of Labor Statistics). The abolition
Of the extra quota and the reduc-
lion Of the quota" is a severe blow
to the youth and to working class
families. Unemployment among
young persons is rapidly increas-
ing" Extract from the Opposition
Platform.)
Every factory must take def
mite quota of apprentices.
THE FACTS.
According to returns of the Peo-
pies Commissariat for Labor, the
average daily wage of woman
worker, as compared with male
workers, in all industries has re-
mained almost unchanged during
The past two years, and in March,
1924, represented 64.5 per cent, and
in March, 1926, 63.4 per cent. The
inconsiderable reduction in the pro-
I ortion is due principally to the
larger influx of women workers into
the textile industry.
The comparative rates of wages
Of women workers and men in the
same trades in various branches of
industry is indicated in the follow
ing table:
The daily worker., 1929-01-11

Here it is necessary to make a
"slight" correction of the figures of
the Opposition. According to their
platform the average monetary ben
efits paid by the insurance fund to
the unemployed is 11.9 roubles. The
official statistics show, however,
that the benefits for the first cate
CORY range from IA roubles to "a
roubles, and for the second cate
CORY from IA to 27 roubles. It is
evident, therefore, that the State not
only is helping the unemployed, but
strives it's utmost to increase this
assistance as far as possible.
The Opposition's Proposal for In
creasing Wages
The immediate task is to raise
The daily worker., 1929-01-11
LOCAL STRIKES IN
CHE MNITz MILLS
Reformist Agreement
Ignored by Workers

BERLIN, Jan. 10.-The refusal
of the employers organizations in
the textile industry in the Chem
nitz district, to grant the demands
of the workers for a wage increase,
has been met with an outbreak of
numerous localized strikes.
These kept increasing in number
despite the fact that the reactionary
leaders of the unions reached unsat-
isfactory agreements with the en-
ployers. Employers trade journals
express the fervent hope that the
new agreement will finally end
these strikes.
The strikes are still growing in
number and are fast paralyzing the
production of hosiery, tapestries and
artificial flowers in addition to
crippling the manufacture of the
more staple products.
Militant workers insist on their
demand that a general strike be
called to alleviate the miserable con-
ditions under which textile workers
are now compelled to work.
The daily worker., 1929-01-11

/ the adolescent destitutes fill the
ranks of the pugnacious street
gangs, degenerate into anti-social
clements, and, in view of their prox-
unity to considerable section of
the working class youth and even Of
the less stable stratum cf the Com
munist youth, contaminate the lat
ter with their mentality"
This very resolution, however,
points out the ways by which the
conditions of the working class youth
can be improved. The resolution
says that the following primary
measures must be taken:
81. To proceed in a most busi-
nesslike fashion to remove the desti-
tute children and adolescents from
the streets and to place all the chill
dren into the social maintenance
schools. All the proletarian public
organizations must be enlisted for
| this work. The trade unions must
take the major part of the work up
on themselves and enlist the widest
strata of the proletarian masses in
to the work.
"2. To render every assistance
in placing working class children
(young persons and adolescents) in
factories. The trade unions and the
Young Communist League must
supervise the strict fulfilment of the
quota for young persons, which is
frequently infrlnged.
"3. The Peoples Commissariat
! for Labor, the trade unions, and the
economic departments, must proceed
to organize in the industrial districts
| special courses and schools in which
unemployed children of workers may
acquire elementary skill, and in
this way help them to obtain en-
ployment.
"a. The trade unions must devise
number of measures to help to
draw the unemployed proletarian
youth into the cultural work they
conduct permission to join clubs,
physical culture circles, day courses
in clubs, etc.,"
Apart from this, the Opposition
distorts the facts of this problem
when it declares that the average
wage of young persons is declining
and that the number of young per-
sons employed is diminishing Gre
duction of quota"), as the following
! tables show:
Number of Young Persons Employed
in Industry.
According to the returns of the
Central Statistical Administration,
the number of young persons en-
ployed III the rated industries (en-
terprises employing over 16 work
ers and utilizing power) was as fol-
slows:
The daily worker., 1929-01-11

unemployment. AS matter of fact,
simultaneously with the measures
taken to eradicate the fundamental
causes of unemployment, i. e., over
population of the agrarian districts,
by the intensification of agriculture,
the Party is adopting serious mea-
sures for dealing with the unemploy-
ment already existing. In the pres
ent economic year 80,600,000 roubles
have been assigned for the purpose
Of assisting the unemployed. This
sum has been distributed in the fol-
lowing manner:
Roubles
Social insurance fund. . sc, 100000
State budget ........... 100000
Local budgets ......... 6,500,000
About 100000 unemployed are re-
ceiving unemployed benefits. Ten
million roubles have been spent this
year on public works. A consider
able number of unemployed are as
sisted by the organization of special
workshops, the number of which is
steadily increasing; for example,
during the IL months from 6-1-26 to
6-1-27, the number employed in
these workshops increased from
sS,832 to 9S,500. This year an addi-
tional 10000 will obtain employment
in these workshops and for this pur-
pose an additional sum of 100000
roubles has been appropriated. If
we remember that the staffs en-
ployed in these workshops change
about twice year, we may calcu-
late that from 250,000 to 100000 un-
employed workers are given employ
ment in them.
The daily worker., 1929-01-11
Close the Ranks Against
the Cannon Remegades

today from the textile mills. You
cannot break those young comrades
i, the jails of Washington or Penn
Standardization Schmidt, Mooney
Billings, Jim Mcnamara, the Cen
tralia boys, Porter in Leavenworth.
All seem giants besides you and
they spurn you.
Answer by Closing Ranks.
No post-mortems as to your
past" will save you. So much more
shame to you because you knew bet
ter. 1t is too late to save you. But
we, the Communists still marching,
still fighting, pledge ourselves to
rally the youth to the coming revo-
luton under the banner of Soviet
Russia-the leadership so successful
in the past and so wonderful in its
achievements today.
And now just word to our mem
bership as to our present RESPONSE
bilities. The answer to Trotskyism
is this-"We shall rally oar entire
membership to prevent any breaking
of the ranks" We must not dwell
on past mistakes, they have been
pointed out to us so many times, we
can recite them over and over again
Let US remember our achievements
In spite of mistakes, in spite of
treachery of former leaders, in spite
of the most bitter onslaught of Or
ganized capitalism, we have reached
thousands of workers and farmers
during the past year.
Youth Fighting Imperialism.
In spite of the tremendous growth
of imperialism in America, we have
organized thousands of American
young men and women to work out
together plans to fight imperialist
and the tremendous war danger.
The children are marching with
US in every field. Our women are
awakened as they never were be-
fore.
And now at our coming conven-
ton, let US determine to use the
greatest opportunity to mobilize all
our forces for our immediate anc
tremendous tasks. To crush Trot.
skyism-to help build and strengthen
the militant new miners union and
the national textile union, to make
nationwide campaigns to defend and
free our class war prisoners-and
atove all to build our party, to or
ganize nucleus in every factory
every mine in the country. We shall
at our convention discuss the best
methods for these campaigns of or
ganization. If we do this, nothing
can stop us.
The desertions of the weak soldiers
from our ranks can be overcome only
by closing up our ranks. Shoulder
to shoulder, we fight the enemy. M
more waste of strength or ammuni
tion in fighting each other. Together
we fight our deadly foe: organized
imperialism.
& This title to Wolfe's article
was not written by Wolfe, and
attention was called to this error.
EDITOR.)
The daily worker., 1929-01-11
Textile Workers Pay
Falls, ,FederalReserye
Bank Report Admits

Textile workers and textile prod
ucts workers wages have decreased
further in the Seventh Federal Re-
serve District, according to re-
port made by the Federal Reserve
Bank of Chicago on Jan. /. The
survey was made by asking infor-
nation from the manufacturers in
the industry, and even their figures
show decrease of earnings of 6.8
per cent.
Further tabulation was made of
ten industrial groups and the re-
suit obtained again demonstrates
what is taking place in industry,
namely, that the number of work
ers in these industries had increased
and that the wages-including the
added workers-shows a decrease.
The bank places figures at: in
crease in workers, .3, and decrease
in combined wages, IL per cent.
The daily worker., 1929-01-11
By ELLA REEVE BLOOR.

/
When l first read the statement
put out by those maudlin "militants" "
I(?) Cannon, Abern and Shachtman,
it impressed me as being so flag
rlntly anti-Communist-and counter
revolutionary in character-it was
hard to conceive that they could get
even corporal-guard to follow them
on their march to perdition. Wolfe
has called them "3 Generals With
out an Army"* but even without an
army, these men are utterly I'M
worthy of the term general" How
ever, as one of the older comrades
in the revolutionary movement, |
feel it my duty to emphasize to the
younger comrades, the new recruits,
in our army-how false to the re-
volution and traitorous to the work
ing class, these defenders of Trot-
skyism are.
Can't Harm Soviet Union.
Their premises-that Trotskys de-
fense was suppressed-ar absolute
| ly false. The Investigations, trials,
ETC., were published verbatim in the
international Press Correspondence
in at least four different languages.
l read it in English. 1t was wide
spread in the press of the Soviet
Union. The Soviet Communist Party
is absolutely capable of taking care
of these vital problems. We can
safely trust them to be iconoclasts
when the unity of the Soviet Union
is threatened, as it was by Trotsky
and his followers-but what shall we
say of these puny champions of
counter-revolution in Soviet Russia
when they drag their documents
through the younger American
Party, circularizing thousands of
unions, and all kinds of unsympa-
thetic organizations. Cannon and
his troupe cannot hurt Soviet Rus
sia, but they can weaken the faith
! of the youth just awakening to the
revolutionary progress of the class
struggle as typified by the success
of the Russian revolution.
Thousands of struggling miners,
weavers and workers in all indus
tries, are ready to march with us
now, because they know the Com
munist leadership alone can lead
them to victory. We can only liken
these Trotskyists to buzzards, how
ering over battle fields, waiting for
their victims to weaken and die so
that they may fatten on their heads.
Helping them to die-killing them if
possible.
We say to you "buzzards of the
class war" you cannot hurt Soviet
Russia. You cannot kill the faith
and courage of our great army OF
miners now so bravely fighting face
to face with the enemy on their
battle fields-and back of the
trenches building their new defenses
in blood and sacrifice.
You cannot, with your pulling
drivel, touch the brave spirits of our
seven hundred leaders facing prison
The daily worker., 1929-01-11

wages at least to the level reached
by the increase for the productiv-
ity of labor. 1t is necessary to go
in for a systematic increase in
wages parallel with the further in
crease in the productivity of labor.
1t is necessary to level up the wages
of various categories of workers by
Systematically raising the rates for
the lower paid strata, under no cir
cumstances lowering the rates of the
higher paid categories."
Extract from the Opposition
Platform)
Whence Did the Opposition Copy
Its Proposal?
1t copied this from the resolution
! Of the Fifteenth Party Congress,
The daily worker., 1929-01-11

wages of young persons were 1913
per cent of the wages of adults in
1926 and 40.S per cent in 1927.
The Opposition and Unemployment.
"The slow growth of industrial
ization is felt most painfully in the
sphere CT unemployment, which has
now spread to the main ranks of
the industrial proletariat. The num-
Der of unemployed officially regis
tered in April, 1927, was 1,478,000
("Trud,' ("Lcbor") 8-27-27; the
The daily worker., 1929-01-11
Women's Wages as

RetuTnS OIL tne Geople 5
On the basis of the returns for
March, 1924, 1925 and 1926, it may
be stated that the difference be-
tween the daily wages of women
workers and those of men in the
same trades, skilled and unskilled,
is still less than that indicated in
the above table for all industries
taken as a whole. On the whole the
wages of women workers, as COM
pared with those of men in the same
trades, represent between 80 and
so per cent. The wages of women
weavers in the principal branches of
the textile industry range between 30
and 95 per cent of the wages of
men weavers.
The Wages of Unskilled Laborers.
In view of the inferior physical
strength of the unskilled woman la
borer and the large supply of un-
skilled women labor, their wages
lag considerably behind that of men.
The average monthly rate of wages
of a male unskilled laborer in March,
1926. was Al roubles, that of the
unskilled woman laborer was 1876
or 67.1 per cent of the wages of the
man. In the printing and provision
industries, in which physical strength
is not required to the extent that it
is required in the metal and mining
industry, the wages of an unskilled
woman worker were SO per cent of
the unskilled male worker.
These facts shatter the arguments
Of the Opposition concerning the al
legged depreciation. of the wages of
women workers.
The Conditions of Young Persons.
The Opposition is trying to take
advantage of the severe conditions
of the young persons in order to at
tack the Party. But the Party it.
self sees the problem and is attempt
ing to grapple with it. The Fif-
teenth Party Conference passed a
resolution from which we quote the
following:
"The problem of unemployment
among the proletarian youth (young
persons and adolescents, principally
the children of factory workers and
the lower grades of office employes)
il extremely acute. This proletarian
youth, not having the opportunity
to study in educational institutions,
or to learn trade in the factories,
are doomed to long periods of unem-
ployment and compulsory idleness.
In view of the fact that they remain
outside of the sphere of influence of
proletarian state institutions (Which
carry on their work principally and
almost exclusively in the factory or
office) and of their cultural and ed
ucational work, the youth becomes
morally corrupt and together with
The daily worker., 1929-01-11

"Whnt is the Soviet of Workers
and Soldiers Delegates: It's class
Significance is outright power.
There is no such liberty anywhere
as we now have in RUSSIA. Down
with the war" does not mean we
must throw away our bayonets. 1T
merely means the transfer of power
to another class. The important
thing of this whole situation is to
teach this thing" From speech by
Lenin soon after overthrow over
czarist power. Lenin memorial
meeting, January 10, in Madison
Square Garden.