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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-08
BY l. AMTER.
Written in Jail)

THE most stimulating story that has come
L from the Soviet Union, encouraging the
American workers to assist the Russian work
ers and peasants in building Socialism and to
launch more aggressive fight against CAPT
talism at home, is the telegram sent by Rus
sian workers and American engineers, mechan-
les and assemblymen from the Stalingrad
tractor plant on June 18th, to Comtade Stain,
General Secretary of the Communist Party OF
the Soviet Union.
We promise with our tractor bombs to eN-
plode the remnants of the bourgeois world
and build for Socialist cOIlectvzation. Amer
lean workers and engineers are proud to
take part in this work and also promise TO
give their maximum effort to assure sue
cess on the industrial front. Hail to the
leader Of the Communist Party, Stalin."
Capitalists, A F. of L.-Green, Vol & Co.
the socialist party and the renegades Lovestone,
Cannon & Co.. are carrying on a slanderous
campaign against the Soviet Union, telling
of defeat, terror, hunger and what not. Amer
lean engineers and workers, 500 in number,
working in Stalingrad in erecting the new
tractor factory and installing the machinery,
together with the Russian workers Of the fac
tory and tens of thousands of other workers,
saw the first tractor leave the factory amid
great enthusiasm on June II. By October,
1881 a capacity of $1,000 tractors will be
reached with an ultimate production of $4,000
a year
In Charkow, Ukraine, $4,000 tractors are
being produced in the Putilow Works in Pet
rograd, many thousands John Adler, an Amer
lean, is supervising the construction of plant
in Cheliabinsk, in the Urals, which will have
an annual output of $4,000 per year.
These figures are all the more astounding
when one realizes that in the United States
amer decades of tractor production, with many
large-sized farms in operation, less than $780,
900 tractors are in use.
The intensified production of tractors has
been made possible and necessary owing to the
tremendous collectivization of agriculture which
has taken place in the Soviet Union. Two years
ago to 3 per cent of the agricultural area
of the Soviet Union was under collectivized
production. Today, 40 to sc per cent. of the
area is cultivated by collectives!
In the spring Of 1928, 3,750,000 acres were
cultivated by the collectives; this spring, rs
to 81 million acres were cultivated This year
the collectives and State farms will supply the
predominating portion of the grain for the
market
Thus, collactivized agriculture-the peasant
is following the line of Socialist construction
Socialism has won the land!
Let US take look at industry. Figures will
tell the story of the Five Year Plan. The
gross production of all big industry will have
increased SO per cent. in two years-although
an increase of only 43 per cent. was provided
in the plan (The A. F. of L. and social-dem-
ocrats called the plan "Utopian.")
Heavy industry increased SO per cent. (the
plan foresaw only So per cent?; machine in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-08
By JACK TOMBSTONE.

ACCORDING to the decision at the last meet
"A ing of the Trade Union Unity Council the
next meeting of the Council will be devoted to
self-critical analysis of the weakness of the
membership drive. The Unions and Leagues
will be asked to replace all delegates who have
been absent from two consecutive meetings.
The more than 10000 workers that partici-
pated in the mass funeral demonstration
against the police murder of Comrade Coma
lez, the eagerness with which the workers all
along the line of march received the Party and
T. U. U. L. literature, again very clearly
brings to the front the organzational posi-
bilities of our Party, the Trade Union Unity
League and the revolutionary industrial unions
of becoming real mass organizations. While
the demonstration was very we'll prepared we
cannot be Satisfied. In spite of the revolution
airy Importance of the Fifth World Congress
of the Red International of Labor Unions, to
be held August Is, not one mention was made
either in the literature, the signs carried in
the demonstration, speeches made at the
funeral.
This cannot be considered as an incident of
omission, but emphasizes the fact that the cleo
ton of the 80 Trade Union Unity League
delegates to the Fifth Congress has not and
is not being made an integral part of our cam
paigns. Again, one could not see a single
slogan or banner in the demonstration about
the drive for 10000 new members for the
T. U. U. L. This is another warning to our
Party that the Party fractions in the unions
are not on the job, and that the small num-
Der of comrades who do carry on work in the
T. U. U. l.. are doing their work, to say the
least in a slovenly manner. and that the cam
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-08
T.U.U.C. of Greater New York
Meets to Discuss Errors

paigns of the shop and street nuclei are still
disconnected from the campaigns Of the revolu-
tionary unions and the Trade Union Unity
Council of Greater New York
The central organizational weakness, which
has profound political contents, is the weak
ness of the tt ade Union Unity Council, which
has not developed leadership in the struggles
of the workers and has not yet firmly rooted
itself even among the revolutionary industrial
unions and leagues, let alone among the unor-
gained and unemployed workers. The fact is
clear that the membership of the Party in New
York has not taken seriously the organizing
of the unorganized, as the central task of our
Party, which means the building of the Trade
Union Unity Council, the industrial unions,
leagues and unemployed councils.
The self-cr;tical discussion that will take
place, on the weakness of the T.U.U.C. men,
bership drive, at the next meeting of the Trade
Union Unity Council, to be held on July 10,
will not be an abstract discussion--every or
ganization is being called upon to explain why
they failed to reach their quota of new men,
bers-whey they have not reached their quota
of 5000 new readers for Labor Unity--whai
have they done to popularize the decisions of
the Fourth Congress and the coming Fifth
Congress of the R. I. L. U.--and action will be
taken to correct the errors made and to give
added impetus to the campaign to organize
the unorganized, which is the central task of
the Trade Union Unity Council
The shortcomings in all Of the campaigns
of the T. U. U. c. is also expressed in the non
attendance of more than so per cent of the dele
gates to the Council meetings. Among those
guilty Of this gross negligence is a large num-
Der of Party members. who, instead Of giving
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-08

assurance that policy of direct action will
not be advocated at this stage.
Civil CD Aviation in India.
In order to create Reserve Air Squadrons
for eventual military use, Civil Flying Clubs
are being formed in all Indian cities for the
purpose of training aviators and importing
airplanes. These Civil Flying Clubs are sub
sidized by the government For example,
Civil Flying Club has just been formed in
Madras and the government Of india has de-
cided to support it by an immediate grant of
airplanes and an annual subsidy of RS.
10000. Further sites of landing places are
also being considered at Mysore, Cochin and
Travancore, while the government is planning
to make Madras the starting point for air
lines to Bangaore 600 milesl, Trichinopoly
goo miles,, Octacamund (275 miles) and
Hyderabad (45O miles).
Strategic Railway.
In order to facilitate the rapid transporta-
ton of troops an important Indo-Burma rail
way link is being effected, as reported in the
April 28th issue of the Hindu" by the ex-
tension of the line south-eastwards from Chit
TAGGING towards Akyab on the coast of the
Gulf of Bengal. This is a most important
connection between West and East India, and
according to the latest New Burma" the line
is now being extended from Rangoon to the
Siamese frontier.
Trouble in Afghanistan.
The British government in India has been
systematically fortifying for the past several
months the Indo-Afghan frontier. AS already
reported the former independent territory of
Waziristan has been occupied. The revolu-
ton in India gives the British a further pre-
text of dispatching still more troops there
The secretary of state for India announced
in the House of Commons that 80 additional
quarters would be available before April and
that he was in constant correspondence with
the Indian government on the question of fur
Their extending quarters for the army on the
North West Frontier. These measures con-
shutting menace to Afghanistan (Which Bri-
tain is seeking to make base for future oper-
ations against the Soviet Union) have caused
very great uneasiness in Afghanistan.
The Peshawar correspondent of the Calcutta
daily Advance" reports under date of April
21st, quoting from the Peshawar vernacular
paper. "Sirhad," that in the Afghan army re-
organization scheme particular. attention is
being devoted by King Nadir Kahn to the
defense of Afghanistan at the Indo-Afghan
frontier. All military posts on the Indo-
Afghan frontier have been strengthened and
some new posts have been established on the
Chitral and Bajore border. Further, accord
ing to the "Srhad," Afghan troops here are
reported as having occupied strip of strate-
gic land which in the past has been treated
as a neutral zone and where neither the
Afghan nor the Indian government has kept
soldiers. Nadr Khan in a recent speech re-
lating to the defense of Afghanstan at the
Indian frontier has called upon the Afghans
"to make all possible preparations against the
enemy"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-08
Collect the Names OF Our Dead

fight; it will bring to the front more expert
enced, better armed and holder leaders,"
What caused the Obukhov workers to strike
in 1901? The same conditions that cause work
ers in Amer to strike and have mass dem
onstrations in 1880. Lenin's analysis of condi-
tons in Russia in 1901 applies to conditions in
America in 1880. Listen to this from the
same article, Another Massacre" in the
Iskra: "There was time not very long ago
when workers rebellions were rare exceptions
called forth by very special circumstances.
Now things have changed. A few years age
industry flourished trade was brisk and there
was great demand for workers. Nothwith
standing this, the workers organized a num-
Der of strikes in order to improve their condi
tons of labor. But the boom has given way
to depression. The manufacturers cannot sell
their goods, their profits have declined; the
number of bankruptcies has increased; produc.
ton is being cut down; workers are being dis
charged wholesale and flung on to the street
without crust of bread. The workers have
now to put up a desperate fight, not for the
Improvement of their conditions, but for thei
maintenance of the old conditions, and to rel
sist the attacks the employers are making upon
them in forcing them to bear their losses.
Hence, the deepening and widening of the
labor movement. But the passing Of the
boom and the coming of the crisis will not only
teach our workers that united struggle has
now become necessity for them, it will also
destroy the harmful illusions that began to be
fostered in the period of the industrial boom.
In some places, the workers were able by
means Of strikes to compel the masters to make
concessions with comparative ease, and the
significance Of this economic struggle began
to be exaggerated; the workers began to for
get that trade unionism and strikes, at best,
can only enable them to obtain slightly better
terms of sale for their commodity-labor
lower. Trade unions and strikes become i'm
potent when, owing to depression, there is no
demand for this commodity They are unable
to remove the conditions which convert labor
power into commodity, and which doom the
masses of the toers to poverty and unemploy-
ment. To remove these conditions, it is neces-
sary to conduct a re 'olutionary struggle
against the whole existing social and political
sy1tem, and the industrial crisis will compel
many, many workers to realize the truth Of
this"
The workers here are realizing the truth Of
this They have shown on March g. on May /,
in militant strikes, in street fights, in demon
strations led by the Communist Party, their
consciousness Of their growing strength, and
their readiness to fight. We must intensity
our organizatonal work. We must fortify our
ranks from the shops and mines. While hon.
oring the memory of our dead comrades, we
must build up strong proletarian vanguard
and "prepare for the decisive battle against
the police government for the liberty q the
people!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-08
(Cont!aued/

For the general lowering of the wage stand
ard through the substitution of low paid wom-
en- workers for higher paid men workers in
the rationalized industries, the union bureau
Gratis seek to turn the responsibility not upon
the capitalists for paying starvation wages to
women workers.
They do not try to organize struggle of
men and women workers together for higher
wages for both and equal pay for equal work,
but rather they seek to throw the RESPONSE
bility fol- the unemployment of the men work.
ers upon the women workers, encourage
split in the ranks of the workers between
the men and women, and try to turn the re-
sentiment of the men workers against the
women workers instead of the capitalists.
The result of this policy is of course not to
restore either work or higher wages to the
men workers but to aid the employers in still
further driving down the conditions of the
women workers, who are thus not only left
without organization but are deprived of union
protection and support, and this undermines
also the wages and conditions of the men
workers.
This reasonable policy of protecting and
aiding the employers and dividing and defeat
ing the workers is the basis of the present
drive of the Amsterdam leaders.
The social-fascist bureaucracy of the Am
sterdam international will continue to do lip
service to the slogan "equal pay for equal
work" but in practice they have long deserted
it, indeed never supported it, and never less
than at the present time when the practice is
everywhere and at all times unequal pay for
equal work"
The gap between mems and women's wages
is retained in all collective agreements nego-
tiated by the bureaucracy. No demands are
made for special raises for women workers to
level up their wage standard to that of the
men, On the contrary, wage demands, whether
per cent increase or flat raise, result in main
tanning the gap and usually in increasing it,
for smaller increases are usually demanded for
women workers.
Equal Pay for Equal Work.
general view of the wage standards pro-
vided in the collective agreements worked out
by the union bureaucrats in Germany and Eng
land shows wide and growing disparity be-
tween mems and womens wages. This policy
is carried through by incorporating special
clauses in the agreements unfavorable to the
women workers or by concluding separate
agreements without the support of the men
workers. Or else, as is most often the case,
the women workers are not organized at all or
included in any agreement
The responsibility for the great and growing
disparity between mems and women's wages
and for the terribly low and declining level of
women's wages rests squarely upon the social
fascists, social-democrats and trade union bu-
reaucrats. Their tactics against the women
workers in all fields are connected, and one
aids in carrying through the others; sabotage
and defeat of the organization and struggles
of women workers, challenge of the right to
work and unemployed relief, discrimination in
social insurance, reduction of the wage level
and cooperation with the wage cuts of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-08
Side-Lights On Indian Struggles

THE World League Against Imperialism and
For Colonial Independence, of which the
All America Anti-Imperialist League is the
American section, has issued from it's Berlin
headquarters a number of bits of news which
show what is really going on in India These
were gathered from Independent sources Of in
formation, and are not allowed by the Bri-
fish censorship, in most cases, to be sent di-
rectly from India to papers abroad. Several
are as follows:
Gandhi and the Workers
Almost the last important act of Gandh be-
fore commencing his march to- break the salt
monopoly in connection with the campaign of
civil disobedience was to settle dispute be-
tween the Mill Owners Association of Ahmed
abad and the Labor Union. The Labor Union
in Ahmedabad is fully dominated by Gandhi
and recent note of the government of Bonn
bay states that for the harmonious relation
between capital ana labor III Ahmedabad in
contrast to the situation IN Bombay and the
absence of strikes in Ahnedabao che has to
thank the Ahmedabad Labor Union and Gan
dhi. On March Mr. Birla, president of the
Federated Chambers of Indian Commerce and
the principal spokesman of Indian capitalism
in the Legislative Assembly, came down from
Delhi and had long interview with Gandhi
He also attended a meeting of the mill owners
and the workers representatives presided over
by Gandh At this meeting Seth Mangal Das
on behalf of the mill owners passed resolu-
ton expressing regret at the arrest of Valla-
bahai Patel, the principal lieutenant of Gandhi
In an interview granted to the special cor
respondent of "The Hindu" at Ahmedabad on
March II just few minutes before COM
mencing his march Gandhi stated that India
was no congenial soil for Communism and in
anv case canitaIist nroduction had vat roIa
to play in the country" This particular part
of the interview, The Hindu, the leading organ
of nationalist opinion in southern India in its
issue of March 18th published in thick letters
and conspicuous makeup.
EDITORS .Note-Yes, this is the same Gan
dhi whom American liberals and some Amer
lean workers think is trying to establish
freedom and independence in India.)
G. i. P. Workers Betrayed
The G. l. P. railway strikers who resumed
work upon the counsel of the G.. |. P. Rail-
waymen's Union, headed by Winwala, who is
also the president of the All-India Congress,
were assured that the company had consented
to grant all the demands of the workers and
that there would be no victimiZation now see
the extent to which they have been betrayed
by these leaders. A "Free Press of India"
message reports that hundreds of strikers are
now homeless. Eviction from quarters is con-
tinuing and hundreds more will be homeless
in the Bombay suburbs and all over the line.
The strikers are not even allowed to enlist
their names in the waiting list and the admin
istration is determined to discontinue their
services. According to the Bombay Chron-
icle" $4,000 of the strikers have been thrown
out of employment. Ginwaa is reported as
having given N the Railway Fedora ton the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-08

leadership and strength to the T. U. U. c.,
constitute danger by their acceptance of
tasks that they have no intention of doing,
satisfying themselves by tipping their bats to
Party policy. The Party must ruthlessly ex-
pose and eliminate from the ranks of the Party
those comrades who are guilty of this criminal
negligence. The fault, however, does not lie
entirely with the delegates of the T. U. u. C.
the Party comrades who are leaders in the
T. U. U. c. unions and leagues still very seri.
ously underestimate the role of the T. u U. C.
and therefore the necessity of building it as the
leader of the economic struggles in the city
of New York, and the Party units scarcely
know that such an organization is in existence.
The fact that the Trade Union Unity Coun-
Gil has been set up for months, holds it's meet
ings regularly every second and third Thurs
day, and that there is still considerable mum.
Der Of Party members elected as delegates that
have not as yet attended a single meeting,
cannot be ignored. At the next meeting, to be
held Thursday, Judy 10, the Council will ask
the various organizations to elect new dele
gates to take the place of those not in at
tendance, and Party members dropped in this
manner will be asked to explain to the Party
why such drastic action had to be taken against
them
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-08
By CLARA HOLDEN.

"HOMRADES! Collect the names of those
killed and wounded on May 7. All the
workers of the capital must honor the memory
of these men and prepare for the decisive battle
against the police government for the liberty
of the people!" So wrote Lenin in June, 1901,
in the Iskra.
Ella May Virgins, Steve Katovis, Alfred
Levy, Gonzalo Gonzalez, Herzel Weizenberg-
Ella May Virgins and the six Marion, N. c.,
textile workers, strikers, shot and killed be.
cause they dared to build union in the South;
Steve Katovis, food worker, shot in the back
and killed by policeman, while picketing dur
ing a strike; Alfred Levy, Negro marine
worker, slugged and killed by police, at meet
South Gonzalo Gonzalez a Mexican, unsked
laborer, shot to death in cold blood while at
tempting to prevent policeman from clubbing
another worker after street demonstration;
Herzel Wezenberg, murdered by A. F. of L.
gangsters, just prior to great meeting of I'M
employed workers in Chicago, called by the
Trade Union Unity League.
On May 7, 1901, at the Obukhev Works,
steel plant near ST. Petersburg, 200 workers
went on strike. They succeeded twice, although
unarmed, in beating off the attack of the po-
lice, the gendarmes and mounted guards. The
Omsk infantry regiment was called in. Two
workers were killed and eight wounded. Lenin
said: "The government emerged victorious.
But victories like these will bring the govern
ment to its ultimate defeat. Every fight with
the people will tend still more to rouse the
workers to indignation and stimulate them to
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-01
CHURCH
MEETS AT CHURCH

The federation Of church women
met last Thursday in the basement
Of the First Methodist church.
Mrs. George Trissler Of Sharyland
presided. with DR.. Minnie Parrish Of
this city secretary. Mrs. Bushey
gave the devotional. Mrs. Harry
Keves the t~reasurer's report.
Church roll call showed 10 pres
ent from the Methodist congrega-
ton, II from the Baptist. II from
the Presbyterian. nine from the
Christian and five from Sharyland
Union.
Upon motion Of Mrs. T. 3. Sam
mons the society voted TO donate
$500 to the Red Cross fund for the
Texas storm sufferers.
AT the conclusion Of the business
session Mrs. Hober Smith took the
program over. announcing a pa
triotic address by S. l.. Hardin.
Mrs. Calen Bushey gave a reading.
Mrs. Humason a piano solo. Miss
Nardelle Parks a reading and Mrs.
Sammons concluded the program.
leading in the responsive reading
with the audience.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-01
PERSONALS

Captain and Mrs. Walter Hamil-
ton motored TO Mission and Nc
Allen Saturday.
Lieutenant and Mrs. Raymond
Palmer left last week for Browns
vile where they expect 70 spend a
few days Of Lieutenant Palmer's
three months leave or absence.
they will not return TO Ringgold.
Lieutenant Palmer having been or
dered TO report TO Fort Riley 10 the
Cavalry School on September /.
The Planners will be greatly missed
az Ringgold where they have been
very popular members OF the or
fetal personnel. They have also
made numerous friends in the city
and county during their stay here.
Mrs. Fred d. Guerra and daugh-
ter Miss Frances. left Tuesday eve
ming for Rochester. MINI. where
Mrs. Guerra will enter Mayo Clinic
for several months treatment.
Mrs. Elodia Monroe has returned
from Brownsville where she was
the guest o. her daughter, Mrs.
Miguel Garcia.
Mrs. G.. Soils and Miss Alicia
Soils motored to Mission Monday.