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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-02


The decree Of the 9th August
concerning the introduction of the
uninterrupted working week is, one
may confidently say, of world his
torical importance. 1t represents
an alteration of the economic meth
DDS taken over from the bourgeoise,
it represents an improvement which
must be adopted in every country
where the proletariat is victorious.
With the application of the uninter-
rupted working week, it will be pos
sible to increase the production Of
all mechanical ana similar produc-
tive units by fourth and even a
third. So
The emancipation of the prole-
tariat from the yoke of capitalism.
the abolition of exploitation and Of
anarchy, the abandonment of the
traditions and prejudices of tho
burgeois order will make it possible
for the proletariat to offer toiline
humanity considerably higher
standard of life with the same
amount Of effort. In consequence
Of its socialist systemisation of the
economic leadership Of the country,
and the useful application of tre-
nendous resources which We're for
merly wasted unproductively by the
Lourgeoisie and the rich landowners,
the Soviet Union has already
achieved quicker tempo Of develop
ment.
The growth OF the feeling of social
responsibility amongst the toilers and
the real successes which have al
Grady been obtained, now make it
possible to take new step and in
troduce the uninterrupted working
week into the factories and offices.
The gradual introduction of the un-
interrupted working week into all
state and other bureaus in the Sow
let Union would in any case be the
inevitable result of the uninterrupt-
cd productive activity of industry.
All institutions serve in one way or
another industry or the persons &C.
cupied in industry, and the working
methods of these institutions must
correspond to those prevailing in in
dustry. The introduction of the un-
interrupted week in all factories and
offices this becomes . part Of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-02
Lehigh Valley Toilers
Celebrate 18th Year"
at Allentown Nov. 16

ALLENTOWN, Pa, Oct. 31.-Ter-
rorism of the Bethlehem Steel Trust
will not prevent hundreds of local
toilers from crowding Leiderkrantz
Hall, git N. Second st., at 1880 p.
m. Nov. 16, to celebrate the success
full 18th year of the Bolshevik Revo-
luton.
The outstanding feature OF the
celebration will be steps to be taken
by the Communist Party to fight
against attempts of the Bethlehem
Steel Trust to illegalize the Party
throughout the Lehigh Valley.
Speakers will include Rudolph
Shohan, of Philadelphia, Jane Croll,
representing the Party here. and
Martin Russak, of the National Tex
tile Workers Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-02
The Red Train Of Lugansk

had produced 40 extra coal cars, be-
sides the number they were ex-
pected to make. And the coal mine
also had mined in excess of their
program. So the locomotive and tho
do cars are being festively loaded
with extra" coal by brigades Of
Young Communists, giving their
time to the work as part of town
celebration, and the train is being
decorated with wrcaths and banners
and sert to Moscow, to inform the
world that Red Lltgansk did more
than it was asked to, and is sending
the extra train of cars as a present
t. the nation.
What is one locomotive ard 40
cars of coal in The building of a ma
ton? Not very much, but it's quite
a lot for the town of Red Lugansk.
And all over the country other
groups do likewise.
Red Grain PouFs In.
In the very next column of the
paper is an account of the Red
Grain Offerings, accompanied by a
picture showing long procession
Of peasant carts, also decorated with
flags. They are bringing into the
railroad center the extra grain
grain over and above what they
owed the government for taxes and
in return for loans, | read that or
Sept. 20, five villages of a certain
southern region brought in 750 tons
Of grain. 1t took LABS peasant
carts to carry it all, and made a
mighty procession.
It reminds me of the good old
booster campaigns in the West. Only
here as a boom without real estate
agent or any get rich quick schemes.
In the same paper read that tho
Third Industrial Loan has already
been subscribed to the amount OF
688,814,000 rubles. Think of that
over S3O0,00o,000, drawn in less
than months time from the land
which S years ago was ruined and
famished. and which even now has
no class of rich investors, or even
Ct we'll paid workers as America
ccounss wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-02

agrarian population falls to the
share of means Of production and
IS per cent to that personal require
ments. In the Soviet Union the re-
spective proportion is % to 7S per
cent, though in 1888 it is more likely
to figure at 1926 to 67.5 per cent.
Outstrips the World.
AS regards the national income
per head Of the population, the
present figure Of 1890 roubles sis
to increase by 1882 to 256.5O
roubles or by 56.5 per cent. In the
United States the increase at the
time Of the business boom was So
per cent. The annual accretion of
the national income figures in
America at as per cent, while in
the Soviet Union it will amount to
at least IL per cent. In some pro-
gressive capitalist countries the
accretion is considerably smaller;
in France, e. g., it is barely 0.8 per
cent per annum.
The realization Of the five-year
plan will make it possible for the
Soviet Union to reach and outstrip
the technically and economically
most favorable years of their devel-
opment, the capitalist countries have
recorded an increase Of production
by from to 10 per cent, whereas
the five-year plan of the Soviet
Union provides for a growth of
production by ~ per cent per an
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-02

the posi- liltieS OI tHe lpCiSdoeu VI
production are over 81 per cent.
Proletarian Masses Building
Socialism.
What is the chief error of the
right-wingers? This error is that
they underestimate the role Of the
emancipated proletariat in the So
cialist constructive work. The
right-wing comrades forget that the
proletarian masses in the Soviet
Union have overcome difficulties
far more serious than the lack
(Which, by the way, is only rela-
tive) of building materials.
1t W as much more difficult a
task to create a Red Army out of
the ground, than to overcome the
10 to Is per cent deficit in building
materials. If the normal economic
methods are not sufficient to solve
a problem, then the problem has to
be solved with abnormal" revolu-
tionary economic methods. Accord
ing to all the laws of military
science, the Red Army ought to
have suffered defeat during the
civil war because of the superior
numbers and equipment of the
enemy. But the Red Army was
victorious.
Just as the masses were mobil-
lied against the class enemies, they
will now be successfully modified
to overcome the economic Difficult
ties which are being used by the
class enemy Of the revolution. Not
individual experts and scholars take
up the struggle against the lack of
building materials and for the
overcoming of the other difficulties
of the constructive work, but the
masses themselves.
By the socialist competitive
scheme, by a series of creative ideas
1.-THE continuous working week, etc.
and by q real heroism in the carry
ing out of the economic work, and
by the mobilization of all those in
whose interest socialism is being
built up, the masses have once
again COMPOUNDED the pessimists and
achieved wonders"
And here lies the riddle of those
"class mathematics" which permit
the builders of socialism, the class
conscious masses which are fighting
for socialism and fighting for the
carrying out Of the Five-Year Plan,
to build up many things foI which
others, even the pessimists in our
own ranks, have insufficient build
ing materials"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-02
WORKERS BEAT FASCISTS.

MELBOURNE, Australia, Oct
81 (UP).-The Victoria State gov
eminent was defeated today when
the House of Representatives passed
Z motion Of dissatisfaction with the
governments unemployment policy.
The vote was 81 to so.
II was understood that dissolution
of Parliament would be sought to-
morrow. The defeat was due to a
combination Of labor AID independ-
sncs members against the govern
-1nent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-02

thought the works could produce, if
they were reasonably lucky.
Then the locomotive workers me:
in assembly and Joined what is
called Socialist rivalry" pledging
themselves to break records. And
on the first of October, which was
the end of the production year, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-02
By Anisee

by AniSee
SOCHI, Black Sea--(FP)-Three
or four items in today's paper indi-
cate the forces that are vitality a:
at work in today's Russia.
The first is about the red train
from Lugansk. / remember Luz
gansk well, a mining and steel town
down in the Donetz basin, not very
large, with a moderate-sized loco
motive and car works, a pre-wai
munitions works, and another fac
toyror two. During the civil Wa,
Lugansk was taken back and forth
score of times. The workers in
the munitions works divided in two
division, one to hold the hills agains9
the White Guards, and the other t.
keep on making shells. They kept
this up till both groups had to flea
together northward only to reor-
ganize and fight anew.
I saw Lugansk years ago, whaan
its was already called "Red Lu-
gansk," and its workers were dis
cussing with Rakovski, then presi-
dent of the Ukrine, the problem
How to get industry going again.
1t was a problem agitating all Rus
STA, and very hot were the comments
made by local workers about bu
reaucracy in Moscow and how it was
running industry. Many of their
comments were incorporated into
new policy.
And now Red Lugansk is sending,
"red special" to Moscow to take
part in the twelfth anniversary of
the revolution. 1t happened like
this:
They Beat the Experts Plan!
The government experts a year
ago worked out a program for the
factories of Red Lugansk as they do
for all factories. They told the To-
connective works that during thu
year it ought to make as many as
10 locomotives. Il is not a very big
works, as you see, and besides, to
make oven one locomotive is quite
job. Similar plans were laid down
1or the car works and the coal
mines. These programs were as
much as competent engineers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-02
NEWS FLASHES.
Czech Coal Strike Strong
Wireless bu Imprecorr)

PRAGUE, Oct. 31.-The Bruch
coal strike is going favorably for
the workers, who are determined to
continue but are hampered by the
organized social fascist scabs, gov
eminent persecution and weak ele-
ments in their own organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-02
Four Big Soviet ;,
Railways Start
Seven Hour Day
lWireless ba Inprecorrl

MOSCOW, Nov. -Four large
railways of the Soviet Union are in
Producing the Seyen-Hour Day this
year. The output of building ma
terials, shortage in which the
Right Wing leaders dolefully pre-
oicted would difeat the Five-Year
Plan, is far greater than the esti-
mate. There were 275,o00,000 rou-
bles of this material produced in
stead of the estimated amount Of
Se,o00,0 900 roubles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-02

41st locomotive rolled proudly into
the town of Red Lugansk. 1t was
an Extra Locomotive, an unexpected
child of the works, born of the extra
energy CT the workers. 1t was all
decorated with wreaths and banners,
and sent forth by great mass
meeting of delegates from all round
Red Lugansk.
Loaded With Extra Coal,
At the same time the car works
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-02
Polish Miners May Strike

tWTeteSS DY iHtPieCof'/
KATTOVITZ, Poland, Oct. 81
The miners conference here repre-
senting II mines of three Polish
coal districts has unanimously de-
cided to proclaim a general mine
strike on Nov. 5, unless the mine
owners grant their wage demands.
Assassinsted by Police
wireless by Imprecorr) n
WARSAW, Oct. 31.-The worker,
named German, shot at the LODI
textile mass meeting, is dead. The
assassin is proved to be police
spy. The body is being buried Sc
cretly to prevent a demonstration
by recsntful workers. Crowds
around the hospital where the
worker died, were dispersed by
police.
BERLIN PLUMBERS
Wireless By Inprecorr)
BERLIN, Oct. 31.-The striking
Berlin plumbers have decided at an
over-crowded meeting to call off
the strike. A unanimous resolution
states that tho German Metal
Workers Union, to which they are
affiliated, openly aids scab service.
It tells how the labor offices, tho
ministry Of labor and the social
democratic police, arrested strike
pickets and strike leaders.
The resolution declares that the
government officials declared bind
ing the scale Of wages made by the
treacherous union leaders, thereby
throwing tn state power against the
strikers. The plumbers say they
appreciate the international solidar-
ity shown their struggle by workers
in the Soviet Unicn and other coun-
tries, and will renew the struggle
later on a larger scale.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-02

per cent. Today, 1t transpires that
the possibilities of the increased of
production are over 81 per cent.
Proletarian Masses Building
Evening star., 1929-06-24
Health Hokum.

In the Stete Of New York there has
been law. enacted in 1915, requiring
400 minutes q week Of physical train
Ing, games and hygiene education for
every pupil In the public schools. But
leave 1t TO our educators to duck the
spirit Of the law, whatever hokum they
may employ to follow the letter Of it.
This law means 20 minutes Of physical
education or health education in each
school day. Do the pupils get that?
They do not. They get one or two GYM
nasium periods o week, and all the
rest Of It Is baloney.
All over the country unhygienic
practices I'm the public schools are
arousing the concern Of intelligent par
entS and Of the physicians and health
authorities. The (health) ignorant
teacher. principal and superintendent Is
destined to encounter more and more
resistance on the part Of citizens who
have some regard tor the health Of the
future generation. offer this hint
to prospective teachers: The old fogy
pedagogues, with their afectation Of
contempt for hygiene, are giving you q
wrong attitude toward your lfework,
no matter what line OF teaching you
may elect. Mems sana is less than the
half Of it: you'll find that In corpore
san0 Is quite as important when you
begin your Job of teaching.
The North Carolina State Health
Board published q warning about the
detrimental effect Of the long school
day In October, 1927.
Evening star., 1929-06-24
PSYCHIC ADVENTURES OF.
GREAT MEN AND WOMEN
Sir Richard Redmayne and the Durham Miners Dream.
J.
BY J. r. GLASS.

In his explorations in South Africa,
Richard A. 8. Redmayne, the noted
British mining expert, a colleague of
the distinguished scientist, Sir Oliver
Lodge, and several years ago knighted
for his achievements, had a peculiar
experience.
Redmayne had gone into a remote
district prospecting for mines, accom-
panied only by o working miner from
the Durham district of England, a man
named Albert Tonks.
Week after week passed, during
which they diligently. pursued their
ship. Sensibly, however, they kept
fell, and so kept a day of rest which
they would enliven with games.
One Sunday morning early In Octo-
ber, however, Tonks declined to join
in the usual game. Pressed by Red
mayne for an explanation, he replied
that he did not feel up to it. Finally
he said:
"In tell you, sir-my mother is dead.
CT saw her early this morning lying
ing around the bed. She said she would
never see me again be1o1S che died."
Redmayne could not refrain from
laughing at his comrade. How could
the man be so certain of this event?
They were thousands of miles from
England and utterly cut of from any
visible means of communication. He
ridiculed the ViSion-or whatever
Tonks' experience was.
The miner did not forsake his con-
viction that he had received a true
intimation of his mothers end. In
deed, he seemed to think his expert
ence q wholly natural one-an attitude
quite in keeping with the traditions of
Evening star., 1929-06-24
A Child's Garden.

II you live where your children can
have gardens, let them have them. A
garden is . fine activity for q child.
Digging, preparing the ground, setting
seeds, cultivating, wedding, harvesting,
all Of the various gardening joys are
precious experiences for children. But
too often the child's garden experience
Is more harmful than otherwise.
First, he is given the poorest possible
bit Of ground, away on back in the
shade, in poor soil, far from water.
That won't do. If the gardening is to
be q success the conditions must be
right. II the child is to get right ideas
about gardening, about plant life in
general, the conditions must be good.
No child can dig and prepare virgin
soil for garden. That must be done
by q garden laborer, an adult, whose
to the task. Nor can any child prop
erly prepare sod for seeds. He must
be helped with the choice Of the soil,
with the sitting, the smoothing and
the dampening Of 1t. Again the serv-
ices of the experienced adult are needed.
All this is very troublesome to the
grown-up gardener. The best way out
Is to share a garden bed with the chill
dren Let them help the grown-up
gardener.
When they can set plant let them
do so; when they can firm the earth
about one let them do that. Talk to
them as you work 30 they win 1nsen-
eibly learn the reason for all the many
tedious steps taken. When they are
in their early teens, II there IL any
gardening sense in them, they win
show profit from their experiences and
want to have the fun Of doing things
all by themselves. Then give them Q
little plot Of good garden soil, well
Evening star., 1929-06-24
Tomatoes, Oranges

The important things to remember
concerning vitamin c is that it is the
vitamin found most abundantly in
oranges and other citrus fruit, that it
Is TO great extent destroyed by heat
and Is therefore best in raw foods and
that the lack of IL produces scurvy.
For this reason 1t has long been known
as the antiscorbutic vitamin. 49,
The importance of this vitamin as
O preventive Of scurvy was recognized
years before any one had ever thought
OF vitamins and ships going on long
voyages kept supply Of lines Or lem
ons on board to keep sailors from suf-
Iering from ScurYy.
On an ordinary diet there Is practi-
cally no chance of lacking vitamin C
entirely - hence the infrequency of
scurvy, which does not appear usually
until after four months entire lack of
this vitamin. But an insufficient
amount Of vitanin (Which is espe-
cially likely to occur In the Winter
time-causes sallow complexion, lassi-
tude and susceptibility to diseases. In
some way vitamin G helps coagulation
not getting enough OF 1t may be sub
ject to hemorrhages. Cuts and bruises
also heel very slowly.
Oranges, lemons. raw lettuce, cab
bage, apples and bananas, all are good
sources Of this vitamin. Potatoes also
contain it-though potatoes boiled for
an hour or more, or reheated, have less
than those cooked only long enough to
make them tender. The unique im-
portance of tomatoes as q source of
vitamin G is due to the fact that the
vitamin content is not diminished
through cooking or canning. The sup
ply Of this vitanin Is variable in milk
and is thought to be lacking entirely
In pastueriZed milk. For this reason
orange juice or tomato juice is a valua-
BILE addition to the diet Of the child
taking pasteurized milk. ;@
Evening star., 1929-06-24
OUR CHILDREN By Angelo p.,ri

prepared, and let them 20 to work. Hut
don't tell Q child that he can make q
garden Of his own back there under the
trees, where nobody can see his mess
and leave him to it. If you do he will
never learn to know the Joy Of garden.
And he viii have stored o series Of ex-
periences that are not true.
Nobody likes to have children tramp
ing down Q garden But Why should
they tramp 1t down? They can be
taught garden ways as well as other
ways and the ways of a garden are
as valuable as many others they are
taught as a matter of necessity.
Every garden club ought to have
Junior club. There ought to be O COM
mittee interested In helping the chill.
dren Of community to make gardens.
II that were done, II children were
made to enjoy rearing lovely plants,
removing weeds and rubbish, creating
beauty spots, things would be easier In
the suburbs than now.
Take that dirty place on the high
way, where the Ileighbors threw what
they did not want. Take q few bows
and girls In their teens and plant that
spot with iris, or sunhowers, or golden
glow. or field lilies. It can be done.
We can train children to create beauty
spots and to love gardens II we wish
to do 80. It takes just little work.
tCopyright, 1922
Evening star., 1929-06-24
LITTLE BENNY
BY LEE PAPE.

i was sitting on Mary Watkinses
frunt steps tawking to her about diffrent
subjects, and her mother looked out the
frunt window saying, Don't go away,
Mary, suppir win be ready soon.
+ And she took her he'd back agen and
Mary Watkins sed, My goodness you'd
never CESS the awful stuff we're going
to have for suppir, trankferters and
sowerlraut, can you imagine anything
Why, whats q matter with them, q
wiz like them, their one of my fav-
orite things, especially the frankferters.
and the sowerkraut too, as far as that
goes, I sed, and she Sed, Well, diffrent
people have diffrent thawts about diff
trent food, sippose. 1t seems common
and vulger to me, must say. cant
barely bare to think Of even smelling
It.. O well, what's diffrents, I don't
what IL Is, so 1t RELY wont be much OF
change If don't eat anything at all
tonite. Food has no intrist for me,
must say, she sed. Sometimes I'm
almost serprised stay alive, she sed.
Well @, no wonder. sed. Your so
much like q angel CESS you RELY VIII
be one for reel some day, sed.
Q now. your fiattering me, Mary
Watkins sed.
Wtch just then nef oinner Dell rang
for suppir and she started to 60 in the
house, saying, mite as well 60 in and
at leest be sociable, suppose, as LONG
as they expect me.
And she shut the door and herd
her mother tawking to her, saying, Now
Mary, / hope you won't make a little
piggy of yourself tonite the way you
did the last time we had frankferters
and you ate Z of them.
Ne thinking. G good mite, whats you
know about that?
Proving even the bewtiest looking
gerls need nourishment.
Evening star., 1929-06-24
PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE
BIZ WILLIAM BRADY, M. d.

DR.. James F. RAgs.c Of the Federal
Bureau of Education said in an onicial
statement: "It needs to be remem-
bered" e. passive way Of saying you
school superintendents, principals and
teachers must renember) that it Is
just rs fallacious to sfhrm that the
more we school q child the better edu-
Gated he Is, a. TO believe that the more
we exercise his muscles the stronger he
viii become, or the more we feed him
the bigger he win grow" imagine DR..
Rogers earned good spanking at the
hands OF his superiors for that.
considered the subject so important
that q place on the program Of the an
nual meeting In 1927 was given to the
discussion Of "Occupational Disorders
of the New York Public School Child"
These suggestions were made:
The keeping In" Of school children
after school hours should be eliminated.
Noon recess should be not less than Ia
hours. Not more than one-half TO ~
hours Of homework should be assigned,
according to the age Of the pupil. A
New York City physician said: 81 have
found that when a study period Is
scheduled for the following day. addi-
tional homework Is frequently assigned,
and occasionally that period itself is
employed by the teacher for other pur-
poses. Home work should not invade
the child's inherent right to its share
of sunshine, fresh air and play"
On these very grounds I base my
opinion that home work should not be
tolerated at all, If the school day is i've
hours long