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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-16
RUSSELL RESIGNS
AS COMMISSIONER
OF CHICAGO POLICE

Continued From First page.l
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-06
The Political Report Of the Central Committee the XVI Party Congress
ohe Communist arty of the Soviet Union

geois press of every degree, from the notori-
ously capitalist to the Observation-Disclosures,
shrek as from one throat about the prosper
ity" of the capitalist countries and about the
decay and financial and economic collapse"
of the Soviet Union.
What, we ask, are the results of an analysis
of the situation here in the Soviet Union, and
there, in the capitalist countries?
Let us enumerate the most important and gen.
orally known facts
Among the capitalists there prevails an eco
nomc crisis and a decline of production, both
in industry and agriculture.
In the Soviet Union there is an economic adj
vance and a growth of production in every
branch of national economy.
Among the capitalists a worsening of the
material situation of the workers, reduction OF
wages, increasing unemployment
In the Soviet Union an improvement of the
material situation of the workers, rising wages,
decreasing unemployment.
Among the capitalists an increasing number
of strikes and demonstrations, involving the
loss of millions of working days.
In the Soviet Union an ;.bsence of strikes,
and a growing enthusiasm for work among the
workers and peasants, bringing economic
system millions of additional working days.
inner situation, the growth of the revolutionary
movement in the working class against the
capitalist regime.
In the Soviet Union the consolidation of the
inner situation and the rally of the millions
of the working masses around the Soviet
power.
Among the capitalists increasing acuteness
in the national question, the growth of the
national liberation movement in India, lndo-
China, the East Indies, in the Philippines, etc.,
developing into national wars
In the Soviet Union the consolidation of the
bases of national fraternity; secure national
peace, and the rally of the millions of the peo-
pies of the Soviet Union around the Soviet
power.
Among the capitalsts-confusion and the
prospect of further worsening of the stu
alton
With us, in the Soviet Union, confidence in
our own powers and the prospect of further
improvement of the situation.
There is much talk of the decline" of the
Union, of the prosperity" of the capitalist
countries, etc. Would it not be more correct to
speak of the inevitable decline of those who
have been drawn so Unexpectedly" into the
whirlpool of the economic crisis and who are
still unable to free themselves from the quick
sands of their decay?
What are the causes of this serious failure
among the capitalists, and of the striking sue
cess in the Soviet Union?
1t has been said that the status of national
economy largely depends upon the superfluity
or shortage of capital. This is of course true.
Are the crises in the capitalist countries and
the rise of the Soviet Union to be explained
by our surplus and their lack of capital? Ger
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-06
H. The Increasing Progress of the BudngUp of Socialism
and the Inner Situation of the Soviet Union.

to work. for they have changed the conception
of work from a degrading and heavy burden
to a matter of honor, of fame, of virtue and
heroism.
In the capitalist countries there can be moth
ing similar to this, and there is nothing similar.
In these countries, among the capitalists, the
object most worth striving for, the object uni
versally approved, is to possess pension, to
live on the interest of ones money, to be free
of the work which is regarded as despicable
occupation. Here in the Soviet Union the
matter is reversed. and the universal wish, the
wish approved by all, is to become a hero of
work. hero of the shock troops, to lead in
the work which casts an aureole of honor over
millions of workers.
Another no less remarkable point about the
socialist competition is that it is beginning to
extend to the village, and has already reached
our Soviet and collective farms. The numerous
facts of real working enthusiasm among the
million masses on the Soviet and collective
farms are known to all,
Who would have dreamed, two years ago.
of such successes on the part of socialist
petition and the shock troops?
The Party further modified the financial
resources of the country for the development
of the Soviet and collective farms, supplied the
Soviet farms with the most capable organizers,
sent $4,000 class conscious workers to aid in
the collective farms, placed the most capable
peasants in the collective undertakings at the
head of these, organized a network of courses
of instruction for the members of collective
farms, laid herewith the foundation for the
training of experienced and steadfast cadres
for the collective farming movement.
Finally, the Party reorganized its own ranks
to be ready for the fight, re-equipped the press,
organized the struggle on two fronts, shattered
the remains of Trotskyism, swept aside the
Right opportunists, isolated the conciliators,
thereby securing the unity of their ranks on the
basis of the feminist line, unity necessary
for the successful offensive, and organized the
correct leadership of the offensive by calling
to order both the "cunctators" from the Right
camp and the LEFT" sectarians of the collective
farming movement.
These are the fundamental measures taken
by the Party whilst conducting the offensive
along the whole front.
1t is well-known to all that this offensive
has been crowned with success in every sphere
of our work.
We see here the reason why we have been
successful in overcoming large number of the
difficulties arising in the reconstruction period
of our national economy.
We here the reason why we have been
successful in overcoming the greatest difficulty
of our reconstruction the difficulty of bringing
about the decisive turn of the peasant masses
towards socialism
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-06
MusteitesS Sell Out Hosiery Workers
By BARD

and wage-cut that has ever been attempted in
the industry.
The new wage schedules force direct wage
cut of Is per cent upon the workers. The argee-
ment also puts into effect at one stroke the
vicious two-machine system. Hitherto the
ganized hosiery mills, constituting 40 per cent
of the industry, have been, through the mill
fancy of the rank and file union members, the
main bulwark of opposition to the increase of
machines per knltter which has been carried
out in Kenosha, Nazareth, Aberle of Phila-
delphia, and many other unorganized mills.
(The leggers in the Aberle are now running
four machines each.) The Musteite officials
have gone over the head of the workers who
for years have been fighting bitterly against
the speed-up. The fake progressive" Music
ties have capitulated completely and on a ma
tional scale to the naturalization plan of the
manufacturers in its entirety. The hypocrtical
excuse of the officials, with which they attempt
to up their betrayal, is: "To compensate
the knitter for the lowered rates. he will be
permitted to increase his earning capacity by
operating two machines"
Drives Out Half.
The officials, in cooperation with the bosses,
are thus driving so per cent of the knitters
out of the industry. Another feature of the
new agreement will drive out of the mills at
least 1000 young male workers in Philadelphia
alone, and thousands more in other sections.
In view of these facts, the big noise made
about unemployment at the convention was
clearly fake gesture to deceive the masses
of hosiery workers who are demanding action
on the unemployment question.
Furthermore no unemployment relief is to
go into effect until year from now, and then
it is to be administered by the bosses out of
fund raised costly from the workers!
Can't Become Knitters.
One of the most significant features of the
new agreement is it's vicious discrimination of
the unskilled young workers, both men and
girls. The knitters, who are the skilled workers
operating the machines, have one helper per
machine For years these helpers have been
young male workers, Who are taken n as
apprentices and become knitters themselves in
two or three years. Under the new agreement,
these boys are to ~opaced by girls who will
be paid ION paper) SIS week and will not
be allowed to become knitters. All these girls
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-06
Chicago A. F. OF L. Leadership
Completely Social-Fascist

the unemployed. At the very first demonstra-
ton of the Party in connection with March 6,
Durkin, the vice-president of the building
trades council, urged the police to break up
the demonstration of the unemployed.
Provocateurs.
On the eve of the National Unemployed Con-
vention in Chicago Durkin pronounced all the
coming unemployed delegates as hoodlums and
once more urged the police to break up the
demonstration and arrest the unemployed dele
gates. Oscar Nelson, ce-president of the
Chicago Labor Federation of Labor and an i'm
portant figure in the Thompson fascist admin
istration also happens to be the head of the
Judiciary committee of the city administration
1t is no accident that the demands of the Chi
cage Unemployed Council and the delegation
of the unemployed council were referred to Mr.
Nelson. The bosses administration delegated
to the leaders of the A. F. of L. the active role
of fighting the organization of the unemployed.
AS chairman of the judiciary committee when
ne finally, after mass pressure of the Chicago
unemployed workers, compelled to receive
the delegation, he carried through the strike
breaking role to perfection.
The aady growth of unempl ynent tn T.
out the - 80 in the big industries con-
centrated in T~go, the growing (but far
from what the situs ion demands) activ les
of the T.U.U.L. and Party amongst the I'M
employed confronts the bourgeoisie with the
necessity of using the social fascists of the
Chicago Fedel alton e DO as a break in the
struggle of the unemployed and particularly
to prevent the Party and T.U.U.L from gain
ing leadership in those struggles.
In the July 18th issue of the Federation
News on unemployment we come across the
following interesting statement: g. but |
believe our listeners will agree that there is
nothing more dangerous confronting the nation
work in vain, and if they are forced to accept
starvation wages, the problem is not solved by
long shot"
This sentence brings to our minds also the
statement of Green to the Congressional Com
mittee Threatening" that the growing unem-
ployment will lead to revolution. The Chicago
Federation of Labor is out to save the nation
(bosses) from this owing danger. They are
therefore making all sorts of gestures to give
the workers the illusion that they are fighting
unemployment and primarily taking steps to
fight the T.U.U.L. One Of these gestures and
steps were announced by the Chicago Fedora
ton of Labor in connection with Labor Day.
At its last meeting, Secretary Knuckles re-
ported: g. now the price of admission has
been made nominal (referring to Labor Day
meeting at the Stadium--S.D) because of the
unemployed situation an because we want to
get birds eye view of how much the people
of this city and country are interested in the
unemployment problem and if we fill the sta
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-06

dunn we can call attention as in no other way
to the fact that we are seriously interested in
unemployment and things cannot go on as
they have been" 1t is quite clear that if the
unemployed workers begin to fight and the
TU.U.L. organizes them, the A. F. of L. be-
comes seriously" interested in the unemploy-
ment problem. Seriously interested in for what
purpose? For the definite purpose-through
fascist methods to actively break the move
ment of the unemployed workers and to chal-
lenge our leadership amongst them. This is
the meaning of the recent gestures of the
Chicago Federation of Labor.
We Must Act!
We must not adopt fatalistic attitude.
The unemployed workers will not of themselves
go and ask for leadership. If we do not go to
them the gestures of the social fascists will
fool and betray the workers. Nor will we sue
coed in organizing the unemployed and en-
ployed workers merely through propaganda.
We must go out to them and organize them
and that means, first of all, the building of
the T.U.U.L. and unemployed councils.
The social fascists propose to utilize Labor
Day as day in which they will, through their
gestures, expect the unemployed to come under
their influence and thus prevent them from
struggling. Labor Day must be turned into
day of unemployed demonstrations that will
surpass all of our previous ones and when we
say surpass we mean better and more organ
izaton. We cannot possibly establish our
leadership amongst the unemployed and en-
ployel workers if this is not linked up with
decisive struggles against the social fascist
STRUGGLES which must be carried on in the
open with the broadcast mass support of the
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-06
prosperity Around the Corner"
in Chicago

lied sign: "No Help Wanted" On the appH
cation cards some of the men stated they were
out of work for year and the numbers de-
pendent on them range from one to seven.
At the Universal Atlas Cement, subsidiary
of the United States Steel Corporation, they
are introducing the eight-hour shift, until now
they are working a tweve-hour shift. The
eighthour shift is not being introduced because
the steel trust is becoming more human. but
because they are curtailing production. The
official explanation for the change is that this
sis in accordance with the eight-Lour policy
of the Steel Corporation" But all who remem-
Der the steel strike remember how workers
were shot down and killed in Hammond in the
struggle for the eight-hour day, how machine
guns were planted in the streets of Gary to
prevent the workers from obtaining the eight
hour day. But now the steel trust claims the
eight-hour day its policy. Many factories
have "policy" of five-day week and
less. Many workers are now working only a.
few days week.
Headlines and Financial Sections at Odds
AS glazing example of the faxed prosperity
in the headlines of the capitalist press we read
in the Chicago Tribune financial section: July
Building Gains 81 Per Cent Over Previous
Month";" and in the financial section of the
Daily News we read the following about build
contracts let in the period from Jan. to July
25 amounted to S74016,300, against 1925 1926,
700 in the same period last year, according toS
the F. w. Dodge Corporation" Not many
workers read the financial pages of the capt.
talist press and many of those who read them
will fall for the fake headlines about prosper
ity waiting around the corner.
In the meantime the unemployed workers are
starving. A child died this week in the home of 4
an unemployed worker for the lack of food and
medical aid. The parents had no money for h
the doctor, and no food for the other chidren.3
Some of the unemployed are committing sui 4
eide for the lack of food in the richest coun-
try in the world where the government Off 4
Gals are advising the farmers to cut down the
production Of wheat, because we have had too
much food. The last jobless victim to commit
suicide is Frank Schmitz, carpenter, who
swallowed poison. II
Class Conscious Workers Organizing
But the class conscious unemployed workers.
are not going to commit suicide, nor will they
starve They organizing into Councils of
Unemployed to fight for and demand WORK
OR WAGES from the exploiters who made
their profits from the toll of the workers,
who are now unemployed and starving. They
demand all the funds assigned by the govern
rent for ornaments be turned over for the re-
lief of the unemployed.
NOT A CENT FOR WAR = ALL FUNDS
FOR THE UNEMPLOYED
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will be forced to join the "union" and pay
high dues, all dues having been raised by this
convention. The policy of the officials is to
bare themselves more exclusively than ever
upon the highly paid skilled workers by attack
ing the young and unskilled workers, and to
play off the older and skilled workers against
the masses of young and unskilled workers
who are more militant.
Ready to Rebel
The mood of the hosiery workers has been
expressed in deeds during the past year. At it's
previous convention year ago the officials
of the Federation granted the double machine
system on 80 Egg" machines and "equalized"
wages by means Of series Of wage-cuts. The
workers in the mills were generally opposed
to the decisions of that convention! Spontane-
Gus walk.outs occur ed in various departments
of many union mills. The recent important
Aberle strike in Philadelphia also expressed
the mood Of both organized and unorganized
workers Today the hosiery workers are ready
to fight the attacks OF the bosses in slite Of
their sell-out officials demand for gen
eral strike against the new waga~cpi and the
two-machine system is erovig amog the or
ganized workers.
ITO he continual
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-06
By SAM DON.

IN the killing of Comrade Weisenberg, the So
cial fascist character and role of the Chicago
Federation of Labor came out very clearly.
The July 18th issue of the Chicago Federation
News in the most outspoken and brazen man
ner writes: RED agitators looking for trouble
on the street in the vicinity of 10 W. Adams
Street, Local lat of the Painters Union
holding a peaceful meeting found what they
were looking for One of them was killed and
another received injuries which will probably
keep him from doing any agitating for some
time" Tiny emphasis). The answer of the fas-
cist leadership of the painters union to the
organizing activities of the T.U.U.L. amongst
the building trades workers (where unemploy-
ment is daily on the increase and wage cuts
the order of the day. is numbering and slug
ging in order to prevent the T.U.U.L and its
members from doing any agitating for some
time
The killing and smuggling was done with the
open protection of the police department. This
is even limited, if not admitted openly, by the
Federation News. They state, "No arrests
were made by the police who certainly had no
reason for protecting anybody who might be
responsible for what happened" The killing of
Weisenberg once more demonstrated the fas-
cist character of the leadership of the A. F. of
L. and its complete merger with the govern
ment and the bosses.
The Crisis.
The building trades workers, in many
poets being most affected by the growing crisis,
show the greatest number of unemployed. The
rank and file membership of the A. F. of l..
building trades union begins to fight and in
its struggle against the bosses it naturally
also turns against the strongest ally of the
bosses, the trade union officialdom of the
A. F. of L. And it is precisely because of the
growing pressure from below on the part of the
building trades workers in the A. F. of L.
unions that the leadership of the union is in
creasing the fascist attacks.
The T.U.U.L. must particularly increase it's
activities in the building trades unions of the
A. f of L. The answer to the fascist attack
of the leadership of the building trades unions
must be increased activities and the organiza-
ton of the building trades workers, mobilizing
them for open struggle with the social fascists.
The merest beginnings of the activities of the
TU.U.L. and the Party in Chicago amongst
the unemployed, the organization of IL func-
tioning councils Of unemployed (Which is merely
scratching the surface) the holding of the Ma
tonal Unemployed Convention in Chicago lin
spite of the lamentable preparations) stirred
up the unemployed in Chicago The Chicago
Federation OF Labor leadership, fearing the
growing influence and organizationa activities
of the Party and TU.U.L. among the unem-
ployed in Chicago, responded by increasing its
activities social fascist activities amongst
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-06
By MARTIN SAILOR

cINCE the unemployed demonstrations in Chi
cago the capitalist press is trying to bolster
up the morale of the petty shop keepers, little
and big bosses, and also attempting to fool the
unemployed and starving workers with fake
stories about the coming prosperity. The actual
facts are hidden behind fake headlines. But the
facts especially on the financial pages, speak
louder than the fake headlines.
Prosperity Uses" Police to Turn Away Hungry
Thousands of unemployed flock every day to
Evanston, the suburb of Chicago, where some
of the "better class" live. asking for food. "Hun-
cry hordes" are besieging the st. Francis hos
pital begging for food reported DR.. D. l..
Hedburg to the chief of police. He asked for
police protection against the hungry unem-
ployed workers. Two policemen were stationed
at the hospital to keep the hungry away.
A veterans employment week" was declared
in Chicago, in an attempt to pacify the veter-
ans of the world war who fought for "democ-
racy and prosperity" and starving today
ticipated in the unemployed demonstration
Something has to be done about it, so "vet-
erans' employment week" was declared. The
city council passed resolution urging the en-
ployers ITO help those who helped the country
in time of war by hiring vet" And how aoout
the hundreds of thousands of other starving
workers? From eight radio stations they asked
for jobs for the veterans, but on most of the
gates of the factories they have the Hoover