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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-26
By JACK SODERRERG

CThe first part of THO report on
the Atlantic Coast United Front
Conference of Longshoremen, Just
held in Philadelphia, told of the as
sembling Of delegates from the
main Atlantic ports, with over half
those present Negro workers. The
conference paCsed a resolution in
structing the National Committee
of the Marine Workers Industrial
Union to Immediately take steps to
prepare for strike. TIE conference
tok up then the demands and pro-
gram of action. Now read on.)
(Continued.)
Comrade CARLOS is now given
the floor as a fraternal delegate
from the Communist Party. He
points out that just as it is neces-
sary that the workers organize on
the economic field so it is neces-
sary that they organize on the
political field through the Com
munist Party. He speaks of the
election and points out that a
worker who votes republican and
democratic at the coming election
is scabbing on the working class,
just as he is scabbing during a
strike. His speech is given an en-
thusiastic reception.
The conference now gets down
to discussion on the program of
action. Delegate after delegate
takes the floor and denounces the
fake agreement of the I. L. A.
The Philadelphia delegates, Negro
and white, are especially emphatic
in their denunciation of Polly
Baker and his ally, the I. W. w.
1t is brought out during the dis
cussion that these two organiza-
lions have formed a united front
to prevent the M. w. I. u. to or
ganize these workers. It is brought
out how both of these organiza-
tons are backed and subsidized by
Murphy, Cook and other steve
dores. The stevedores' contractors
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-26

Peoples Conservatives have been
practically wiped out. 1t is even
doubtful whether they will scrape
in their chief leaders. The Hugen-
burg party has lost in a catastrophe
fashion. The "Voewaerts" blames
those who frivolously broke down
the government of the Great Coali-
ton for the present situation. Per-
haps it would have been better for
them if they had shown little bet
ter will to come to an agreement
with the social democracy.
The "Berliner Tageblatt," the
great daily of the democrats is dole
full and entities its leader BLACK
Sunday for Germany" The new
German State Party has not had
good fortune. It's poll was lower
than that of the Democrats alone at
the last election. In Baden where
1t put up a joint list with the Peo-
pies Party the result was so mega
tive that Reichs Finance Minister
Dietrich may not get in there at
all. In this Reichstag Bruening is
still more emphatically in the mi
nority. Bruening will have to think
out some new combination which is
capable of governing. A govern
ment of the right-wing black with
the inclusion OF the National Fas.
cists as strongest party can hardly
prove inviting for Brueping, and ali
that remains is the Great Coalition
government with the social democ-
racy. This combination would have
only small majority and be faced
with an opposition of uncomfortable
vehemence, but there is no other
way. The growth of the poll of
Bruening's own party will hardly be
a sufficient consolation for the fact
that the remainder of his following
has been so hardly used.
The "Berliner Morgenpost" OJ1l.
stein concern) points out that the
tremendous growth of the fascists
mas not taken place at the cost of
the so-called Marxist parties, but at
the cost of the middle parties and
the German Nationalist.
The left wing bourgeois "Montag
Morgen" declares that the result Of
the elections is worse than the most
confirmed pessimist could have
prohpesied. The only solution was
government on the basis of a
close alliance of the Catholic Centre
and the Social Democratic Party ir-
respective of minor difficulties and
disagreements.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-26
Socialists Aid
Bosses.
Wage CmtDyive
(WUele88 By Inprecorr)

BERLIN, Sept. 24.-The metal
bosses are negotiating with the
Socialist" trade union representa-
tives for fifteen per cent wage
cut. The red trade union group is
modifying the Berlin metal work
ers' meetings everywhere, and is
calling conference of delegates
from the metal industry to confer
Oct. End on the situation.
A strike has broken out in the
Meyer factory of the German Cen
eral Electric Co. in protest against
dis h ar ing revolutionary shop
stewards.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-26
SMASH TALE Of
USSR SLAVERY"
Continued From Page "

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sailors sure were happy and made
US so happy on the trip. We saw
the Krassin in Leningrad. We
stayed one day and one night in
Leningrad It the Hotel D'Europe,
the best and biggest hotel in Len
ingrad. We stayed only a short
time in Moscow.
Please tell T. ''hello" for us and
Civ them our address; thell them
to write to US. We are very busy
now, so we can't write to them.
Mama works in the American res
taurant. She teaches them how to
cook American style, because the
Americans are not used to the Rue
sian style. Alice works as cashier
there. l expect to get job in the
factory. :"
SixHour Day.
The second letter say, in part:
"Stalingrad, Tractorstroy.
Dear Comrade F. and Friendc:
"Are you working yet? We wish
you were here with us. You could
learn almost anything here. Even
the girls learn to be engineers, ship
captains and to run aeroplanes. The
girls that work in the morning go
to school in the afternoon, and the
ones that work in the afternoon go
to cchool in the morning. Last
night they had a big conference
here to decide if they work 6
hours day and four days a week.
They are now working seven hours
a day. We are sending you a pic
ture of our factory. The picture
shows it, but not complete. 1t
looks nicer than it does on the
picture. Stalingrad used to be
called "Zarizyn" before the revolu-
ton. Stalingrad is the future big
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-26
will WIN LARGER MASSES FOR
COMMUNISM" SAYS GERMAN C.P,
eve Shall Not Rest CO intent With the Results
of the Election"

Notwithstanding on the re
suits the "Rote Fahne" declares
that the hopes of the communists
have been more than realized. The
rate at which the cause of COM
munism was progressing amongst
the workers of town and country
had proved to be greater than had
been anticipated.
Four and a half million votes had
been pOlled for Soviet Germany!
The party of treachery and murder,
the Social Democrat Party of Zoer-
giebel and Severing, has suffered a
defeat. The fascists have gained
considerably and have now more
seats in the Reichstag than the Ger
man nationalists had before them.
The National Fascists have be-
come the strongest parliamentary
party of the bourgeoisie. Hitlers
triumph is the beginning of the end
for the fascists. Their career will
end in the petty bourgeois morass
and in the ministries of capitalist
Germany. The election results show
the deep crisis of postwar Germany
and the complete bankruptcy of par
liamentarism and democracy. The
traditional parties of the bour-
geoisie are in a state OF decomposi-
ton,
The leaders of the fascists will be-
come ministers of the Young Re-
public, the last political hope of the
capitalist class. The election shows
clearly that the German workers are
faced with the alternative: fasmism
or proletarian dictatorship? Young
Slavery or Soviet Germany? The
decision will be made in the coming
great mass struggles which the Ger
man proletariat will carry on under
the leadership of the Communist
Party. We Communists are the real
Victors of the 18th of September, be-
cause our victory is the beginning
of new wave of mass struggles IN
der the leadership of the Communist
Party. We shall not rest content
with the result OF the elections. We
shall work to win larger and larger
masses of the workers to overthrow
fascism and to destroy the Zoer-
giebel party.
The social democratic "Vor-
waerts" is depressed and declares
that the chief characteristic of the
election is not the decrease of the
social democratic votes and the in
crease of the Communist poll, but
the defamation of the parties which
are capable of governing. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-26
VOTE COMMUNIST! ak

embargo. He is also director
of the Wheeling, "Half Dollar
Savings Bank" with ID per cent
per year dividends and capital of
$1,824,92S.
Booze and Religious Dope
Another Bachman, Wheeler H.,
is a high Official of an assortment
of china, coal, realty, banking,
etc, companies, with capital high
in the millions.
This Wheeler Bachman is pres
ident of the Wheeling Y.M.C.A.
But Jimmy" Bachman, Con-
gresham Carts uncle, is notori-
Gus all over that part of West
Virginia as a big bootlegger, with
charges Of dealing in narcotics,
gambling joints, and many vari-
ties of illicit enterprise.
Others of the Bachman family
are neither ignorant nor innocent
of "Jimmy's" part in building the
family fortunes. On December %,
1928, a disastrous fire took place
in Wheeling, which the capitalist
press of the time openly records
started in the explosion of two
100 crolJop ooy,o M oro;o1 boo+1oo,
stills in house owned by the
most respectable Charles Bach
man.,
With a storm of publicity from
the business interests, whose ad-
miration for money making does
not cover a natural dislike for fire
risks, raging about his head,
Charles alibied by saying that the
store where the stills were located
had been leased to one "Bill
Varsica." Prohibition director
Bradley, after interviewing Bach
man, was openly skeptical about
the alibi.
Fish ssociate Drew Lease.
"Bill" was never caught, and
nobody ever believed he actually
existed. 1t was freely charged
that the lease was drawn merely
to protect the Bachman boot
Logging activities. And that lease
was drawn up by Carl Bachman,
then as now a congressman-the
same Carl Bachman who, as mem
Der of the Fish Committee, ap-
pears at its hearings with the
convicted bootlegger and notorious
gambling joint owner, the white
guard Russian Bernadsky, consults
Familiarity with him throughout
the sessions of the Fish Commit
tee, finally assists on while Ber-
nadsky is made official interpreter
of the House of Representatives
Especial Committee to Investigate
Communist activities in America"
"Birds of feather flock to-
gether."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-26
TAM N ANY RObS|
WORKING MASSES.
Continued From Page II

on a site that Iweed's gang
"donated' to the church for 1888.
Behind that very church today,
in the vicarage on Madison ve.,
occur meetings which to anyone
IMMERSED in the machinery of cap
italism would appear unbelievable.
Nevertheless, it is fact that in
that vicarage representative of
Tammany, the catholic church and
gangland gather to divide Doodle
collected from the purveyors of
the 101 varieties of crime in New
York.
Wherever exploitation exists, the
church is not far away. Wasn't
it Pope Calixtus, or maye Alex
ander vi who collected weekly
tribute from 1000 prostitutes in
fifteenth century Rome?
And wasn't it only last week that
the catholic party in Germany Of
fered to support the socialists" if
the latter would contribute several
million marks to the erection of a
huge cathedral in Berlin? And
didn't the Socialists" willingly
agree? And at this very moment
isn't it true that Mayor Hague,
'boss" of catholic Jersey City, pays
a weekly salary to almost every
priest in the city?
The same O'Shea, who promises
to "free" the schools from Commu-
nism, forces his principals to buy
six hundred thousand of his text
books. And the same Tweed who
bought an entire state senate at
from $4,000 to $4,000 a vote for
the Erie railroad, was member OF
a Board of Education that also sold
its own textbooks to the city and
once charged crippled girl SIS for
a teaching job that paid $500 for the
year. Tammany and capitalism can
not change while Tammany and
capitalism are in the saddle.
"Honest John" Kelly Takes Control.
When the members of the Tweed
Ring fell out over the division of
the spoils, Honest John" Kelly took
control. Kelly's nickname, of
course, was chosen by himself. One
of his first moves as leader of the
Hall was to systematic the collec-
ton of graft. There we're to be no
more Court House scandals II he
could prevent them.
Kelly was quite as shrewd as his
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-26
BOSSES OFFER
GARBAGE RELIEF
Must Fight for Real
JObless Insurance

Continued From Page ~
let the workers rummage through
their garbage pals, and to give
them, as Mayor Walker did, their
cast-Off clothes.
The employers plan is clear.
They will not set up unemployment
insurance this winter, or ever, I'M
less we compel them. They talk
about unemployment relief and they
appoint commissions to "study" the
question. They open fake employ
ment offices, take lynching censuses
of the unemployed, propose misty
buildin programs, organized COM
pany unions, unemployment schemes
in respective industries, etc. And
meanwhile great masses of workers
starve.
A. F. of L. and Socialists
Betray You!
The A. F. of L. and Socialist"
party, tools of the capitalists, fall
right in step with this dastardly
program of driving the working
class into the depths of misery and
privation. The A. L. of L. spreads
the employers lies that the indus
trial crisis is about over; it sup
ports every fake relief scheme of
the capitalists and the government;
it brazenly combats the workers
demand for unemployment insur-
ance. The socialist" party follows
the same general line. If with
words, is speaks for unemployment
insurance it is in order only the
better to betray us. The hypocrisy
of this socialist" party demand for
unemployment was exposed by
Waldman, socialist" candidate for
governor of New York, who in the
same breath that he asked for a
special session of the state legisla-
ture to consider unemployment, has
tened to assure Governor Roosevelt
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-26
Chicago, I'll.

chicago, Ill.
Daily Worker:
When collecting signatures
found a remarkable rehabilitation
among the workers.
Four out of five were willing to
sign, showing their appreciation
of the opportunity. Many would
help me get several names.
Two workers,-skope of thorough
disgust with the old parties, VOW
ing they would never vote again
for them. One of them signed the
three petitions I presented.
One man said he was working
in the city hall, and could not
sign as he might lose his job, but
he told his wife and brother to
sign.
Many Sign.
In one family three signed and
the mother said she understood
now that all the radio propaganda
against Soviet Russia was false.
In one neighborhood, strange
little girl took an interest in me
and guided me to side doors, up
back stair-ways, past barking dogs
and thus helped me fill up my
lists rapidly.
One worker who signed recog-
nized me as one who had distrib-
uted leaflets and Daily Workers
at the Deering Harvester Works.
He was Hungarian and had
been in the struggles with Bella
Kun in Hungary. He informed
me that the Deering plant where
farm machinery is manufactured
would be closed down from Octo-
Der Is next month"; to February
1881.
One worker told me he heard
from a very reliable source that
four workers were taken from
Grant Park on the Lake Michi-
gan front, where thousands of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-26

political descendants today. Tam
many's own men, he considered,
might suffer defeat. The scandals
had been just bit too much. Kelly
decided to use a front" in the cleo
lions. Some respectable" tool who
might be able to sway the masses.
Norman Thomas and his brother
Socialists" are capitalism's ere
spectacle front" today. Capitalism's
own representatives are slightly tar
nished. Despite the desperate at
tempts of the capitalist press to
hide the shrinking corruption, the
masses are beginning to suspect the
true conditions. What is the re-
suit? Norman Thomas, Waldman,
Broun. If Roosevelt, Pratt, futile
don't get elected, the Socialists"
will. Is there any basic difference?
No. Both the bosses and the Daily
Worker agree on that.
Let us examine one of these
fronts" of Tammany in the "pre-
socialist" days. Hugh Grant is as
good an example as any other. In
1884 it was proved that 20 out of
81 aldermen took $4,000 each to
vote a valuable street railway
franchise to a large corporation.
The one alderman who refused to
take the graft was Hugh Grant. His
honesty" was trumpeted far and
wide. Women wept when they saw
him and children gazed at him as
if he were god" Tammany, with
a great show of virtue, ran Grant
for mayor and shed crocodile tears
at the prospect of losing so much
honest graft while Grant was in
office.
performer" Exposed.
What happened? AS might be
expected. Grants regime was shot
through with corruption 1t was less
open, true, than Tweed's, but its
ramifications were deeper and
wider And Grant himself was
later proved to have paid Richard
Croker, Tammany boss, $4,000 for
a job as sheriff the very year that
he was supposed to have tus1ed
down the $4,000 bride from the
traction company. Another of the
respectable 'front.' type was Mayor
Van Wyck, who admitted that he
took 100000 in stock from the ice
trust at the same time he was push
ing legislation that would have
made the SLING of five-cent piece
of ice Illegal.
Strike against wage-cuts; de-
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Strike against wage-cuts; de-
mand social insurance!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-26
HUNGER, MISERY, SUICIDE is RIFE
AMONG CHICAGO JoBLESS WORKERS
Worker Correspondent Sees Growing Radical
ization of Working Masses

unemployed sleep every night.
They were starving and were
removed to the County Hospital.
The next Tuesday morning five
other workers were taken out of
this park in starving condi-
ton, one of whom died. They
were young men the report has
it. The capitalist press is do
ing its best to keep these oc-
currences secret.
Grant Park faces Michigan
Blvd. on the west, which has
the brightest lights and the
most magnificent sky-scrapers
in the world. And this is called
civilization!
A woman worker told me that
along the Chicago River near
Canal and Madison SITS. (which
neighborhood is called the slave
market, which all migratory
workers congregate) the bodies of
two or three workers are fished
out of the water almost every
day. These are ,jobless suicides.
You do not read this in the cap
italist press.
Mike, a strong, tall husky
young building trades worker
offered to work in a factory at
so cents per hour. He was al
most desperate, having been
out of work for more than a
year. A job was promised him
but when he came for it the
foreman told him he had given
it to married man with a
family at 35 cents an hour. |
told Mike that in Soviet Russia
they pay more to a man with
family of children, while here
they pay less.
Take it from me, we need
Unemployment Insurance badly!
A WORKER CORRESPONDENT.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-26

gect industrial city of Russia. They
have here some very large factories.
Some of them: 'Krasny October a
steel plant, Barikady,' another big
plant, cannery, a shoe factory, a
big bluing and mustard factory and
then a lot # smaller ones. Our
factory is the biggest here-there
are 10000 people working in the
factory and there are 81 different
nationalities.
eve cure saw a lot of surpris-
ing things here. In Stalingrad
there is a market about five blocks
long and about four blocks wide.
The farmers bring all kinds of
fruit and vegetables there by cam
els and oxen. They are building
thelargest electric plant here. By
this time you are probably worry
ing about coal for the winter, but
we don't have to worry because the
power houce here is going to heat
all the colony.
"Best wishes to all comrades.
"Yours,
"a. NAZRAK."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-23
These Are Other Representative Values
in Living Room Suites at About 40% Off

A sofa, club chair and wing
chair, upholstered in rust
mohair. Three pieces. Value
$475. Sale priced
S275
A 3-piece suite, sofa, club
and wing chairs, exception
ally decorative, upholstered
in gold damask. $500 value.
Now
S295
Three lovely pieces, a sofa,
club chair and high-back
chair, upholstered in antique
mohair. 1915 value. Sale
priced
1910
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-23

A 3-piece suite, sofa, club
chair and high-back chair,
covered in figured velour.
$475 value. Sale priced
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-23

An elegant suite of three
pieces, sofa, club and wing
chairs, covered in rose da-
mask. $3.50 value. Now
$500
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-14
.SNOOK'S PETITION
IS RECEIVED HERE
Appeal Will Become Moot by
Execution Unless Stay
Is Obtained.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
James Howard Shook, the Ohio State
University professor, under sentence to
die on February %, for the murder of
Theora HiX, who was a student in the
university, today placed with the clerk
of the Supreme Court the papers he
will file with the court when it re-
sumes its sessions February "a.
The Supreme Court of Ohio, on jan
uary 81, stayed the execution until
February % to enable Shook to present
his petition to the United States SUI
preme Court, which was then in re-
cess.
It is understood that counsel for
Shook will ask the Ohio State courts
for further postponement of the ex-
ecution as soon as the papers formally
are filed here. Should they be unsuc-
cessful, they are then expected to seek
a stay from some justice of the Supreme
Court here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-14

Shook unless a stay beyond February
% can be obtained.
In the brief prepared in support Of
the petition for review SHOCKS counsel
asserted a case involving claim of
denial of due process of law because of
the conduct of States officers had been
presented to the highest court in the
famous o-VanZetti case from
Massachusetts. Such claim now is
being made for Shook. In the Massa-
chusetts case an effort was made to
obtain a review by the Supreme Court
here. but the men we're executed before
action on the application could be
taken.
Counsel for Shook will urge the high
est court to grant review, so it may
lay down a standard OF conduct for
State officers which will be controlling
in subsequent murder cases.
Claim Third Degree" Punishment.
It is claimed in behalf of Shook
that he was subjected to third degree"
punishment, in which the prosecutor
from him a confession. It will also
be pointed out that he had objected
to going to trial last July and had OBJ
jected to the entire panel of Jurors
available to try him on the ground
that sufficient time to prepare his de-
Tense had not been granted. 1t also
was claimed the public mind was in
famed to such an extent that it was
impossible to obtain fair trial at
that time.
The Supreme Court will be informed
that during the trial it was brought
out that Shook had been attacked bv