The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-02
The Shrine of the Little Flower

at the Fish Committee, admitted that the Ford
Company has its own private police force to
watch the Ford workers. If you look at the
Ford plants, you will also see enclosures with
high wire fences"
Clearly, Bolshevism has indeed reached De-
troit! Every worker has number, just like in
a penitentiary, too. And big, brutal cops, even
outside the enclosures" to repel any attempt
of "reds" to rescue the prisoners" The evil
dence is overwhelming, and Ford's cars should
be banned from shipments from Michigan into
the United States
The N. Y. Times Helps Out.
But the N. Y. Times helps us out. 1t always
does. 1t says that perhaps one shouldn't call
all Soviet labor exactly Convict labor" but
that it is all right for Matte Woll as clay
man" to refer vaguely to "conscript' labor,
or some American manganese corporation, poor
abused things, both of them, to talk in general
tiles about forced" labor "under conditions"
and soon.
Because, says the Times, when the Soviets
had timber shortage, and there were erich
peasants" (kulaks) being put out of business
(by the efficiency of the collective farms
which took away the basis of the kulak-a
little matter the Times don't mention) peasant
labor battalions," so the Times says, were
drafted to the timber forests" 1--WE are glad
that the Times specified that the forests" were
of timber" otherwise might think that
they were ham-and-egg forests).
But this solicitude for farmers is rare. Here
in the "free" U. s. A, if the Times only could
forget about the sorrows" of Soviet inhabt-
ants long enough to give some attention to
the subject. between 1920 and 1880, some five
million of the farming population, making
around some one million farmers, were driven
off the land, bankrupted, ruinel, foreclosed
hnyh clnA
to seek work in the cities. These poor but
"free" farmers of America were "liquidated"
but the Times has tears only for the "rich
farmers" being liquidated in the Soviet Union
We will not mention the forced labor of the
company towns" in American coal mining
and lumber regions, where the church, the
school, the post office, the Jail, the Father
Coughlins, the school teachers, the postmasters,
the police chief and all, are the property and
the servants of "The Boss" where none may
go, and none may come, without permits"
where even Company Money is the only kind
that passes.
We will pass over, with only mention of
the widely known no 1ors of peonage in the
southern states of th rec" country, where
men AMI boys are beaten - death in turpentine
camps, and where hund S of thousands of
S 9, both Negro and white, are polit ,ly
called "shal croppers," many of them in con-
ditionS according to the n. Y. Times itself,
that can be said to be nothing less than "feud-
! all subject to the dictates of a plantation
superintendent" but little less cruel than
Simon ! zee, who deere evo;y phas of their
lives, prohibits thei ;erg garden or poultry
nes them to sell :. part of the cotton
or tobacco to him, or through him, for his profit
''"'t Manganese.
d. We will pass over these things, since it is
clear that not one of the "Shrines of the Little
Flower" give tinker's damn about the work
ers or farmers of these Unite States, but
only hiding ant-Sovet propaganda behind tech
ncalities of Tariff Laws about imports.
Let US first take up the matter of manga
nese. According to everybody, the U. S. uses
some 100000 tons of manganese yearly. Less
than 100000 is produced in the country. The
best kind comes from the Soviet Union. which
supplied some 100000 tons last year The bal
ance comes from India and Africa Now why
is it. that the U. S. rnanganese producers sud-
derly come to life along with Matthew Wo
end brock into sohs over the "'~'- - ~or "
tions' Of the manganese miners in the Soviet