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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-27
1o1Un of Odessa,
Where Youth Is the Ruler

Childrens Town in Odessa is an
experiment in the creation of great
children's commune, the laboratory
of new social order and new laws
Of living.
The town consists of dainty cot
tages scattered in gardens and along
shady alleys and streets planted
with chestnut trees and acacia. 1t
is kept in model order and spotless
cleanliness by the youthful inhabi-
tants themselves.
Own Industry.
Little street cleaners on regular
duty may besseen sweeping the side
walks and carrying off refuse in
cans, while other children are hur-
rying hither and thither with
wheelbarrows, bags and baskets. In
the gardens before the cottages
groups Of children through with their
work are lying on the grass, play
ing, reading books and pottering in
the flower beds.
The town counts a population of
2,100 and there are five local schools,
including one with seven-year
course and a separate vocational
school, as well as five workshops:
q tailor shop, carpentry shop, a
locksmith's shop, shoemakers'
shop, and a bindery. The bindery
is famous in Odessa for it's neat
work and is always kept busy with
orders. The towns requirements are
very well provided by it's own bak-
ers, tailors and locksmiths.
Truck Garden.
There Is an irrigated truck gar
den of 81 acres, sowed and titled by
the children themselves, and there
is also a seed-grain farm with a
lives stock breeding division. Two
hundred children work steadily from
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-27
CIExhibit NeedsC Copy
Of Lenin's "Infantile
Sickness" CP Papers

Any comrade who has a copy Of
Lenin's "Infantile Sickness of
Leftism,' in the edition published
by the Contemporary Publishing
Association in 1920, is asked to
send it at once to the National
Office, to Comrade Max Bedacht,
for forwarding to the Exhibition
Of the 10th Anniversary of the
Comintern, to be held in connec-
ton with the coming Plenum of
the G. I.
This material will be used for a
permanent exhibition in connec-
ton with the Revolutionary Mu-
scum in Moscow.
Also comrades who have copies
Or files Of the Revolutionary Age,
The Communist, etc, ETC., are
asked to send them in for the
Comintern exhibition and the 10th
Anniversary of the American
Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-27
Communist Party of Mexico
By Fred Ellis

regions will fall into the hands of
the rational bourgeoisie and of the
imperialists, but the central regions,
naturally protected, can grow the
necessary cereals for its nourish-
nent where they can also work the
factories. They can sustain them
selves under a workers and agra
rian government.
Party Must Grow.
"14.-But these fights cannot take
place if the Mexican c. P. does not
increase its organization and does
not convert itself to a mass Party
and does not fight with surety and
energy on each of its two large
fronts, in the workers movement
and in the agrarian movement. In
either case, with one or the other
of the perspectives, the Party must
take the necessary organizational
steps in order to place this in a
state of being able to undertake the
tasks and keep contact with the
masses. The Plenum instructs the
c. G. of the Party to take all the
necessary measures in order to look
after our organization and contacts.
"15. The Plenum instructs the
G. C. to give special attention to
the agrarian question. Without or
ganization of our Party from be-
low among the agrarian masses it
is impossible to have real ard eff
fective influence among the masses
of main Importance to the revolu-
tion."
; In conclusion / may say that an
adequate estimate of the c. P. of
Mexico shows that it has made ire
mendous progress within the past
few years. 1t is no longer propa-
ganda sect. 1t is now the most i'm
portant factor iE a big revolution
airy movement. 1t has definitely be-
hind it one-half million adherents.
1t is in control of the most import
ant revolutionary movements in
Mexico. The very ripe situation
opens zip gigantic opportunities to
The Mexican Party. This places the
Mexican Party today in very crit
ical situation, since it must solve
problems never solved before, and
lead the masses Iii the revolutionary
movement. But there is every indi-
cation that tine G. P. and the Y. C. L..
of Mexico will live up to these his
toric tasks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-27
The Main Campaign of the Party;
The Agrarian Revolt

90 A rigorous and adequate or
ganizaticnal preparation for the
coming and open sharp struggles
that face the Mexican people at the
present time.
Party Perspectives.
The Party has the following per-
s9ective, as given in its thesis
40. The armed conflict between
the different bourgeois groups will
launch in the fight the agrarian
masses who will want to seize the
land. We foresee that the conflict
between the groups will conduce
later on to a conflict between these
groups and the agrarian masses,
first, and later with the working
masses. The role of the Party is to
unite those discontented and to
unite the fight of the masses in or
der to reach a united front against
the bourgeoisie and imperialism.
I'll. The first task Of the Party
must consist in separating the work.
ing and agrarian masses from the
leadership of the bourgeoisie and
the small hourgeoisic. The second,
to organize these masses within one
organization which will unity them
for action. This task the Party must
take up with full energy.
"The Comintern at our April con-
ference has fixed the method and
the organization The method is a
class program which could mark
clearly the difference of the objec-
tives between the bourgeoisie and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-27

day to day on the 1900 acre farm
under the guidance of an agrono-
mist, develop the production of high
grade seed for the neighboring peas
ants, and breed pure strain hogs
and poultry. The economic enter
prises of the town bring in an an
nual revenue of 10000 to $4,000
rubles. Farmers come to it from
long distances for selected seed.
The Children's Town has an ex-
celltntly organized system of self
government with an Executive Com
nittee at it's head. Numerous sub
divisions of this committee are at
work on all branches of life inside
and outside of the houses. Each
cottage has its own council or soviet.
Cultural life in the community
goes forward in a healthy and Wig
orous manner. In addition to what
may be called central municipal
club, there are local clubs and each
house has it's own "Red Corner"
and billboard newspaper.
lake Lesson.
The c.,ten city is shady and
flowery. 9'he plots Def re the holsts
are colorful with blossoms and we'll
cultivated by the little town inhabi-
tants.
The town possesses a library of
$1,000 volumes, which is assiduously
utilized by the inhabitants.
Relations between the children
and the adult teaching personnel are
splendid. A healthful community
discipline prevails. The older peo-
pie are almost never heard or seen
and, nevertheless, there are neither
squabbles, nor quarrels, nor din. In
this regard "grown-up" cities might
profitably take a lesson from Chill
dren's Town.
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the proletariat and the agrarian
masses. The organization is the
Workers and Agrarian Bloc.
Agrarian Revolt.
"12. The perspective which the
Party has is the following: On the
initiation of the fight between the
different bourgeois factions begin
ming with the military group in the
north, to develop the agrarian re-
bellion. In this, whether due to the
disorganization of the workers and
agrarian elements, the Right wing
obtains a military victory and in
this case the organizations will fall
into illegality with all it's conse-
ouences INSTRUMENTATION, terror,
etc. or whether the elements of
the Left organize themselves and
adopt clear program which takes
i'll all of the large worker and agra
rian masses, in spite of momentary
military victories, the rebellion of
The large masses will extend.
"13. This last perspective is the
one which the Mexican C. P. must
see in all it's magnitude and in all
its consequences. The position of
Mexico permits fight of ample
historical perspectives. A reyolu-
ton of a proletarian and anti-im-
perialist character can sustain itself
VIGOROUSLY in Mexico with the ac-
tive collaboration of the working
masses IN Latin America, and with
The solidarity of the American work
ers and agrarian toilers. Whole
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-27
By ALBERT WEISBORD.

The Communist Party of Mexico
stands at the crossroads of it's his
tory. Like the Communist Party of
the United States, only more so, it
is in transition period, having shed
its cloak of isolation on the one
hand, and on the other hand having
not yet become truly mass organ
ization. Yet within the past year
the C. P. already has made astound-
ing progress. Considering the men,
bership figures alone, last year the
C. P. had 1,005 members, this year
the Party has $500 members; last
year the Party had 10 districts, this
year it has 81 districts. OF the
membership 65 per cent are indus
trial workers in the basic heavy in
iustries (railwaymen, miners, oil
workers, etc.,, SO per cent are
agrarian toilers, of which per cent
are agricultural workers. Only 2
per cent therefore are Intellectual
workers. From these figures we
can see the basically sound compost
ton of the Mexican Party and its
great growth.
Main Campaigns of the Party.
The chief campaigns of the Party
are
"a Political campaign.
(2l The trade union campaign.
(3) Mopr international Red
Add.
In all these campaigns the Party
has been singularly successful The
fact of the matter is that the Party
has taken the initiative and actually
leads all mass movements which ]
have described in my several ar
ticlcs, published before, movements
which have a minimum Of 100000
actual adherents. The Party not
only leads the Workers and Agra
rian Toilers Permanent Political
Bloc. it rot only leads the new trade
union movements in Mexico, but
when matters come to more direct
and open clashes with the govern
mental and imperialistic forces,
when the matter takes the form of
civil war, the Mexican c. p. with
out doubt will be in the leadership
as well.
The Mexican Party has one news
paper, Ell Machete, with a paid cir
culation of $4,000. However, this
circulation by no means reflects the
influence of the paper, since 5000
papers so To 5000 separate COM
munes, where all the workers to-
gether chip in to subscribe to the
paper (since no worker has enough
money to pay for the paper him
self and where the paper is read
aloud to all the people in the COM
mune. Thus actually the circulation
is closer to 175,000 than $4,000.
With this paper there correspond
regularly almost 400 workers and
agrarian correspondents. The paper
mas over 400 agents, the majority of
whom arc not Communists. In the
United States alone there are 1000
paid subscribers to Ell Machete.
simultaneously with the growth
of the Party, the Young Communist
League of Mexico also has grown.
Last year 900 members We're in the
Y. C. L., this year there are 1900
members. A monthly paper is put
ont with a circulation already OF
$500, and already is becoming an
influential factor among the toiling
youth in Mexico.
The tasks Of the c. p. in the pres
ent period must be-
"a Greatest concentration on
attacking the Mexican government
as agent Of American Imperialism.
(2) Greatest Qualification Of
class lines SO that definitely the in
dustrial proletariat has the hege-
mony.
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Copyright, 1929, by International
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HA Y WOODS
All rights reserved. RepubticG. Nb< ~
ton forbidden except BY permission. HE ~
The Publicity Flight of the Mine Owners
and Counter Attack by the Union;
u. S. Senate Used by Both

precious chapters Hayood told of his early life IN Utah,
Neuada Idaho cobo homesteadr and mner of the
earning daily leadership the Idaho mines his Advance
head the Western Federation of Miners Of the w. F.
M the and militia of Colorado He has
telling of the great Cripple Creek strike Of 1905 He
speaking hou Senator Patterson undoubtedly oh keep
ing popular miners brought their the IT, s.
NopU 90 reading.
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Association, containing the s0-caeu OTIHHaI hecUTu
of the Western Federation of Miners. l at once
started to prepare a counter document, the Cate
CORY of Crime of the Mine Owners Association"
which we called the Screen Book" We hurried this
up that it ready. for distribution before the
Red Book was off the press.
In his concluding articles this writer said that
the Federation was "unclean" and that dared not
permit committee from the American Federation
Labor to audit books. When this appeared in the
Chicaqn naner Ed Nockels secretary of the Chicago
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-27
DIsPATCHERs WIN INCREASE.

ATLANTA, Ga, (By Mail)-Train'
dispatchers of the Seaboard Air Line
have won an increase of $12
month.
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PART xLvII

NEWSPAPER writer Colorado to write about the industrial
the W. F. M office, and seemed to be
friendly organization He the proof sheets of the
Book pamphlet being issued by the Mine Owners
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N. Y, Telephone, Stuyvesant
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.si -
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-13

Nitrogen is used to control fruit
ripenlng.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-13
STREET CAR men
Face Opposition of New
Orleans Officials

New Orleans.-The city admins
tration is using every power to pre-
vent free jitneys being patronized by
sympathizers Of striking street car
men.
Officials defend this activity by
the claim that city ordinance pro-
hibits jitneys that operate for hire.
These busses collect no fares. Judge
Mark NJ. Boatner, of the civil district
court, ruled that the jitneys do not
violate the city ordinance and he re-
strained city officials from interfer-
ing with them. The order has been
suspended by the supreme court and
hearing will be held in the near
future.
Even though the Public Service and
its political agents win this court
fight, the publicity is proving disas-
trous to strike opponents, and like
wise encourages the workers and
sympathizers, who resent the COM
pany's refusal to arbitrate or medi-
ate the dispute.
Street car traffic has dropped 80
per cent, although the strike has been
on since last July.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-13
Low MINING WAGES
BAR PROSPERITY

Columbus, Ohio.-"You have tried
the non-union plan and many of you
are ruined" said David Fowler, inter
national representative United Mine
Workers, in an open letter to business
men of this state.
The trade unionist drives home to
these merchants that bankruptcy fol-
lows the coal owners low-wage sys-
TEN. He reminds them that they ac-
cepted the plea that low wages would
bring steady work for miners and
prosperity for ALL The reverse is
true.
Coal production in Ohio is less than
so per cent of normal, even with star
walton wages in effect. Many mines
are working day or two a week and
many others are not working at all.
Fowler suggests that business men
consider a change of policy and agree
that the coal industry can be stabil-
ized through goodwill relations be-
tween miners and owners.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-13

Chicago (ILNS).-A strike of 800
musicians in 800 movie and vaude-
vile theatres here was avoided
through a compromise agreement
reached at five-hour conference.
James C. Petrillo, president of the
Chicago Federation of Musicians,
represented the union at the confer
ence. The Chicago Exhibitors Asso-
citation was represented by Jack
Miller, the president; John Balaban
and Mort Singer.
The new agreement provides for
an increase of $5 week in wages
and some changes in the working
rules. The union had asked for an
increase of $40 a week. The exhib-
itors made counter demands that the
union contended would be equivalent
to 20 per cent decrease in wages.
In future musicians will receive
four weeks notice of discharge. The
rule that musicians be paid 81 day
for every day in the year they have
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-13
PULLMAN PROF
IT'S UP; CAN'T PAY
LIVING WAGE

Chicago.-The Pullman Company
reports a profit of S3,924,208 for the
months of April, May and June this
year.
This is gain of nearly 100000
over the previous three months.
These profits are announced after
charges, depreciation, federal taxes,
etc" This means that large amounts
of income are Sc taside for various
funds, and after accountants ex-
haust their ingenuity in concealing
net income, profits are announced
The Pullman Company is resisting
efforts of colored porters and maids
to secure a living wage, rather thar
depend on tips. These workers are
affhating to the A. F. of L.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-13
UNUSUAL
Labor Day in Anti-Strong.
hold

Minneapolis Dedication of the &C.
story Foshay Tower, and the first ap-
pearance of Wilbur B. Foshay as a
labor orator was the Labor Day fea-
ture in this city. Mr.. Foshay is one
of the leading financiers of the nroth-
west and he erected the unique office
building that for 80 stories is fash
ioned along the simple lines that mark
the Washington Monument in the ma
tion's capital.
The dedication was especially sig
nificant because Minneapolis is-or
was until this Labor Day-one of the
few remaining strongholds of the
Citizens Alliance.
This anti-union organization has
maintained bitter opposition to or
ganized labor. Bombs, injunctions
and thugs, backed by vicious pub
licity, was their method of warfare.
The Foshay Tower was built by
union labor, and to add to the anti
unionists' woes, the owner made the
principal address on Labor Day, when
the building was opened to the public.
Forty states sent delegations to the
dedication, and several governors and
lieutenant governors were included
among the visitors. Paul Smith, A.
F. of L. organizer, represented Presi-
dent Green. The speeches were
broadcasted, as was concert by
Sousa's band.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-13
A. F. Of L. President Declares Unemployment,
Displacement of Workers By the Machine and
Discrimination Against ToiIers For Age Are
Problems Which Nation Must Meet and Solve

Baltimore, Nd. (ILNS). - Estab-
lishment of the fve-day work week
is one of the chief detectives of the
American labor movement, President
William Green, of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, declared in speak
ing at Labor Day dinner here cele-
brating the 4Oth anniversary of the
Baltimore Federation of Labor. Mr..
Green's speech was broadcast over
the National Broadcasting Company's
chain reaching vast numbers of peo-
pie throughout the country.
Pointing out that the report of the
committee appointed by President
Hoover to study recent economic
changes in the United States COM
pletely vindicated the position taken
by organized labor in its advocacy of
the shorter workday and the five-day
work week, Mr. Green said that the
power and influence of the labor
movement will be steadily exercised
in securing for working men and
women, in all trades and callings, the
realization and enjoyment of the five.
day week, which he called a great
economic reform.
After reviewing progress of the
labor movement this year, Mr.. Green
turned to problems which confront the
nation and the workers, saying in
part:
There is no condition more dis
tressing and more deadly in its effect
than unemployment. Those who have
not suffered from unemployment can
not comprehend the feeling of de-
spair, disappointment and distress
which grip men and women who are
suffering from continued unemploy-
ment. 1t paints the future in rts
darkest colors. 1t dwarfs romance
and imagination, and creates a feel
ing of resentment against the exist
ing social order. There is no figure
more tragic, pathetic or solitary than
that of man or woman suffering
from unemployment. The task of or
ganiZed labor and of society as we'll
will never be completed until we
bring about a solution of this impor-
tant problem. Until all men are guar
anteed work security with reasonable
wages, humane and tolerable condi-
tions of employment we will not have
discharged our social, moral or
political obligations.
"The practice of discrimination
against workers who are 40 or As
years of age has grown to the point
where it is causing grave concern
and serious consideration. The organ
lied labor movement protests against
this practice because we regard it as
barbarous and unhuman We believe
that if the public conscience can be
sufficiently aroused to the dehuman-
izing effect of this practice it will
protest so vigorously that large cor
porations and large employers will be
compelled to discontinue it. 1t is in
conceivable that society would toler-
ate practice of this kind particu-
larly when it reaches a serious stage.
1t is the purpose of the American
Federation Of Labor to deal with this
problem, to secure remedy and to
publicly proclaim it. When we have
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-13

Before the year is out hydro electric
power from the River Jordan will
supply Jerusalem.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-09-13
Pay Raises, Not Pay Cuts,
Remedy For 0verproduction,
Women $ Bureau Head Urges

Washington, ID. C. (ILNS).-The
remedy for overproduction is higher
wages, not wage reductions, Mary
Anderson, director of the women's
bureau, United States department Of
labor, declares in Labor Day mes
sage. Miss Anderson says:
What is really needed in solving
the problem of overproduction is not
reduction of wages, but an increase.
Experience has shown that the effect
of wage cuts is not really to lower
prices or even to lessen labor costs in
desirable way, but to reduce pur-
chasing power and thus to cause the
market to shrink. Manufacturing in
terests in the country searching for
foreign markets, have within our own
borders the possibility of a much
greater home market for the CON-
sumption of our national products.
In every nation the working class
forms by far the largest group Of the
population, and the United States is
no exception. An increased wage
scale is the lever which would act as
an open sesame for this big and de-
srable market to absorb our sur
pluses.
I'VE believe therefore that increas-
ed wages mean increased buying
power and point the way to prosper
ity for both labor and capital. We
believe especially in the need for in
creased wages for women since they
have for decades been exploited as