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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-06
SOVIET WORKERS RISE
AND CHEER AS DEATH OF
WRECKERS IS DEMANDED
Krylenko in Seven Hr.
Speech Hurls Defiance
at Imperialists
'BlOOdy War PIotters'
Poincare's Rise Brings
Intervention Nearer

MOSCOW, U.S.SR., Dec. 5.-Tre~
mendous APPLAUSE from a tense audi
ence of fifteen hundred workers and
cries of Long live the Soviet Union"
Long live the Prosecutor" this aft
ernoon greeted the concluding words
of Krylenko's speech, in which he
demanded the death penalty for all
eight Of the counter-revoIutionaries.
Rising spontaneously from their
seats, the audience which filled every
part of the magnificent hall of the
House of Trade Unions, gave a stir
ring, unforgettable answer to the lies
and ISLANDERS of the imperialist in
terVentionists and hired press thru
out the world, and demonstrated con-
clusively that the Soviet workers are
determined to wipe out all counter
revolutionary bands, defeat any inter-
vention, and fulfill task of building
a socialist society over one-sixth of
the earth's surface.
Seven-HOur Speech.
In a brilliant speech lasting over
seven hours and extending over two
days, Krylenko showed the historical
significance of the trial. He anaylzed
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the work of the accused as a whole
and individually in sabotage. He
showed the concrete preparation for
intervention, making clear the con-
nection Of the accused with the
French government circles, including
the French general staff, secret
agents and Torgprom
He exposed the true worth of the
denials by Poincare, and quoted,
"Voz-rozhdenya," white guard paper
published in Paris, anr speeches of
Deterding, which contained open in
timations of intervention plans,
which substantiate the statements of
the accused.
General Staff Orders.
Krylenko discussed in detail the
sabotage and intervention work in
each industry, piling evidence upon.
evidence of the tremendous damage
done by the accused, on instructions
from the French general staff. (In-
cidentally many bourgeois CORES
pondents, at first sceptical, have been
forced to change their line under
pressure of overwhelming evidence.
Nevertheless, counterplans of the
working class have defeated the
wreckerS who achieved success only
in light industries, especially textile.
Workers Overcome Damage
(Today's "Pravda" brings concrete
proof Of the tremendous achieve
ments of the counterplans. In Don
has, where the wreckers were partic-
ularly active, October coal produc-
ton was 31.4 per cent over Septem-
Der. Also there was a record electro
energy increase of SO per cent?
Krylenko stressed that the wreck
ers, contrary on reports in the capt.
talist press, didn't tell all in theil
original statements. For example,
the operations in border areas which
served to facilitate intervention were
admitted only when witnesses blab-
bed. "The proletariat Of the Soviet
Union protest against the accused and
their imperialist masters. We have
shown that all workers and peasants,
big and little, men and women, rally
to defend our country with arms, and
when conflict comes, the result will
be such as the invaders don't expect
Analysing the defendants individ-
ually, Krylenko described Ramzin as
a crafty politician, a man never loyal
to the Soviet government, saboteur.
spy, organizer of intervention and
traitor. He ridicules statements of
Ramzin, Charnovsky, Kalinnikov, La
ritchev and otehkin, that they got
no money for their work. He dis
cussed each accused in turn, merci-
lessly exposing his physiological
anatomy and characterizing in un-
mistakable terms in every case, his
cotlnter-revolutionary activity.
Clash Is Near.
Eyes flashing with flames, he citcrs
-. gcontiaxed on Page Eiyal
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American Engineer, Workers
Expose Vile Anti>Soviet Lies
Four us. Roadmakers
Return With High
Praise of Soviets
No .JObless in U.S.S.R.
Standards of Workers
Improving, They Say

MIDDLETOWN, N. Y. - In sharp
contradiction to the yarns of "con-
Wet" labor, starvati and misery in
the Soviet Union which the war
makers are spinning in all big capt.
talist papers, the actual report OF
four American skilled workers, road
makers, who went from small New
York state town to work for the Sea-
brook Engineering Company, which
has road contract near MOSCOW.
The four are Clarence Van Gordon,
his son Bud, A. E. Wallingford, and
Jesse Wallingford, all of Glen Spey,
N. Y. An interview with them APP
pears in the Middletown Times-Her
aid Of MiddletoWn, N. Y, issue of
Dec. 4, 1880. The Middletown Times
Herald editor hasn't realized that all
capitalist papers are supposed to
rally to the patriotic task set them
by the finance imperialists of Amer
lea and Western Europe.
So instead of running a screamer
headline about "Slave Labor in Dark
est Russia" he prints headline,
"Says Russia Is Not As Black AS
She Is Painted" and under that, he
lets the elder Van Gordon tell of
rapid construction, of conditions i'm
proving overnight, of sufficient food,
and the very reverse of convict"
or forced labor, except that the
former millionaire class, which would
be lolling at ease in a capita ut
country, does have in Russia, the
choice between working or starving.
Says Van Gordon:
Russia has no unemployment prob
Russia has no unemployment
problem and there is work enough
for everyone, and everyone must
work. True, the average Russian is
leiSurely and refuses to hurry, but he
works and one finds the former aris-
tocgat doing his daily toll along with
the meanest laborer Many former
Continued on Page Five)
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chanic receives SIG for the week; the
helpers $13, and unorganized labor
ers starve on So or SO per week wage.
Advice, But No Relief
The directing officers of the COM
pany have put their parasite wives
and daughters forward as relief
workers under the name of WON
ems Club of the Chicago and North
Western Railroad" Each worker in
the employ of the road is to be
"docked" one-half of one per cent of
his wages each month, and this mon
ey is to go into fund ostensibly for
the relief of needy cases, although
the fund is not to be handled in any
way by workers committees but by
company officials and bosses.
Lately the foremen have been Wis
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-06
DEFEND SOVIET
UNION MEETING
Foster Speaks at Mass
Gathering, Thursday

NEW YORK.-A mass meeting fol
the defense of the Soviet Union, with
speakers of national prominence is
arranged for Thursday, 1880 p. M, In
Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Place and
18th st.
Among the speakers will be William
z. Foster, who flung defiance into
the faces of the war mongering Fish
Committee before whom he was
called for inquisition yesterday. ".
o. Amis will also speak. and others
will be H. Harvey of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union, and H. t.
II.
This meeting is part Of the mass
campaign against the war which
capitalists of all countries are try
ing their best To get the workers 20
support
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Hugh Cooper Says That
Soviet Workers Are
Learning Skill
Workers Are Inspired
Soviet Wants Peace;
Must Fight War Plans

NEW YORK. When the New
York Posts articles against Russia
got around to description of the Dnie-
prostroy project yesterday, it was no
longer possible to overlook the pres
ence in this city of the American con-
sulting engineer ON that job, Colonel
Hugh L. Cooper And Cooper, being
interviewed, remarked, according to
the Post himself, that as long as the
writer of the articles, Knickerbocker.
merely described what he saw his
story was alright, but that for some
of his differences and conclusions he
Ought to be spanked"
Cooper stated that 10000 workers
were putting through the Dnieprost-
roy damn and hydro electric station,
that it would cost $110,000,000 when
finished, that $60,O0O,0o0 had already
been spent, and the project was IS
per cent finished. Things are going
ahead of schedule, year, or perhaps
a year and a half having been Topped
off the time expected to finish the
work.
Willing and Enthusiastic.
Cooper said
"The young Russian worimen
have learned TO become skilled
w0rkmen much more rapidly than
we expected, although they still
lack great deal of being up to the
American standard. They are viii
ling and tremendously enthusiastic.
OF our 10000 only about $50 may
he Communists, they all are loyal
to the program for betetring the
condition of all. They feel that
their living conditions are substan-
TALLY improved over what they
were.
} Their projects and their equip
ment inspire them and nothing
could be more positive and visible
than the enthusiasm that this
great project has created. 1t is
Continued on Page Five
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ers, seven leaders were sent to the peniten-
tiary for AZ years each for the crime of or
ganizing a union.
In Gastonia, workers who defended their
homes from the midnight attack of an armed
mob are sentenced to be buried alive behind
prison walls, repeating again the history of
the infamous Centrala Washington, case.
In Danvile, Virginia, the textile workers
striking against starvation wage of So to
$40 week are subjected to martial law
Mooney and Billings, victims of proved
frame-up, after IA years have again been
denied pardons by those who framed them.
In Atlanta, Georgia, the ruling class de-
mands the death penalty for six workers
who had the "audacity' to attempt to exer-
else their constitutional right of free speech
and assembage in order to organize com
mon meetings of white and Negro workers
to consider their common problems.
In New York, Steve Katovis was shot
down in cold blood by policeman for pick
citing. The Negro worker, Levi and the
Mexican worker, Gonzales, were murdered
on the streets of New York by the police
for taking part in workers demonstrations.
The Negro worker, Mason, in Chicago, was
beaten to death by the police for the crime
of speaking on the street.
In every city these same police, who club
the workers and throw them into prison, are
exposed before the whole world as a set of
gangsters, who are bound up with the or
ganized criminal underworld on the one hand
and the inner circles Of the capitalist class
on the other.
The recent exposures of the New York
police and courts preying upon women on a
wholesale scale is only brief glimpse of
the rotten mess that is repeated in the DO
lice and judicial system in the whole United
States
Rottenness and Decay.
1t is an example of the rottenness that
has penetrated into every phase of Amer
lean society, and is the natural result of the
operations OF the capitalist system.
The same judges that send the workers to
jail are one by one being exposed before the
whole world as themselves grafters. who
purchase their own jobs from the political
machines and make great profits from these
by extracting graft from everyone whom
they can drag into their net
What Communists Do.
The Communist activities in the United
States consist in organizing and leading the
struggle of the masses of workers against
these intolerable conditions. If the Fish
Committee wants to investigate the growth
OF Communism let it investigate the mis-
cradle situation under which the masses live
and from which only Communism shows
them the way out
What 1t Means to the Negroes.
AS part of this general starvation and
oppression of the workers, the rulers of this
country apply special oppression and per-
Continued on Page 81
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Chicago North Western R. r.
Workers Hunger; Fake Relief

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Dec. S. Over
8,000sChicago and North Western R.
R. workers are suffering the pangs
of hunger and privation, according
to statement released to the capt.
talist press by Fred w. Sargent, the
president of the road. Sargent makes
the significant announcement that
the company is not to stand the bur-
den of the fake relief program which
is to be put into operation in the
Chicago shops.
After layoff lasting seven weeks,
approximately 1000 shop men were
returned to work on Nov. 8. They
are victims of the Hoover "stagger"
system" and are employed only for
three days a week. A small force
is maintained in the round houses
on five days per week schedule.
Under the "stagger system" a me-
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Last Minute Loans and Donations
Make Today's DAILY" Possible
SATURDAY AND MONDAY WILL BE VERY CRITICAL DAYS

AGAIN Daily Worker of
"a from comrades
both
the receipts for the
sufficient the the
insint
o III to the Daily Worker
already collected $50 the
leave for Soviet Russia The
peners leaving Soviet
ship that they substantial greeting
the Daily Worker before
have issued statement supporting
worker sends in check FOR $40 stating "smpIy
d
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Mexican boy Is
your organizations but
receive at home Sundays
10
Emergency Fund and the spend
Daily Workers.
Comrades! These
these not sufficient condition The
Commission at which testified
concse that
workers The Daily reaches the
workers
the ' e
Comrades tho Daily Finds
must be rushed Immediately Use the attacbd
coupon and mail all donations Daily Worker e 18th st. New
York City = ~ "
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-06
Foster Reads Communist Party
Challenge TO Fish Committee
Exposes War Plans of mpras Against the Soviet Calls
Workers Rally for Soviet Defense

Cites Bosses Wage Cutting Drive and Failure Suffering
of Unemployed Calls Workers to Organize and Fight
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-06
MORE COME OUT
AT EAGLE PENCIL:
MASS PICKETING
Big Meetings Tod a y
and Tomorrow.

NEW YORK.-Almost continuous
picketing yesterday afternoon while
group after group of workers left the
line and went into the Eagle Pencil
Co. to collect their pay, always one
week behind, and came back to the
picket line, featured the strike of 900
there against the wage cut of 10 per
cent.
The police tried in vain to prohibit
mass picketing. to prohibit singing of
Solidarity" and "On The Picket
Line" to keep strikers from yelling
at scabs When the police ordered
only eight pickets at each gate the
strikers marched before the gates in
parade of groups of eight.
The number of scabs coming in
limousines was less by half yester-
day from what it was the day before.
The number working in the box shop
has now been reduced to 35 or 40
There may be another 40 or so scat
tered through the huge factory, I'M
able to work and only marking time.
Many of these have promised strik-
ers who visited them at home yes
terday and the day before to come
out now Visiting will go on today
and tomorrow.
Factory Tied Up.
The company is still trying all pos
sible tricks to intimidate the strikers,
and has put up a big sign telling
them that he would hire others
Monday" The strikers know that
this is impossible, as long as picket
ing is kept going good, and have in
side information that when Richards,
the factory boss, called his foremen
together and asked them if they
could break in new crew, they pro-
tested that this could not be done
within two months, even if they had
the men,
Meanwhile the Christmas orders
are piling up Particularly the boss
needs the. fountain pen department
workers, and that department is
struck solid.
Biedenkapp Speaks.
; Two rousing meetings were held
yesterday, one after the morning
picketing and one after the afternoon.
Fred Biedenkapp, of the Smash The
Injunction Committee of the Trade
Union Unity Council and leader of
the great shoe strike here spoke, and
was enthusiastically cheered when he
showed how solidarity and organiza-
ton lead to victory.
One girl striker, absent from the
picket line in the morning, joined 1t
at noon, and told of being in Jail
and fined IS afterwards remitted)
for clash with two girl scabs.
Today there will be no picketing
as the factory does not try to work
Saturdays, but there will be a big
mass meetings of strikers in the La
Dor Temple, Second Ave. and 14th
St., at $50 a. m.
Sunday there will be similar mass
meeting in Irving Plaza Hall, 18th st.
and Irving Place. at 80 p. M Bied-
enkapp will speak again.
Tickets to the Needle Trades Work.
ers' Industrial Union Ball Friday
|night were given the strikers.
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Speed the Signature Collection CAMPAIGN
for the Unemployment Insurance Bill
Unemployment Insurance Must
Be Won Now!
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Rush Your Order

Next Wednesday the full in
dictment by the Soviet Union
State Prosecutor, giving in de-
tail the amazing story of the
wreckers' activities and the i'm
perialists' war plot, will be pub
lished in the Daily Worker in
an SPACED tabIoid-size sup
plement. Order heavily for
wide distribution. Rush!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-06

WASHINGTON Dec 5Wm T. Foster, when called the
by the Central Committee the
Their the conditions the American workers and the
calls
the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-06

TY1HE Fish Committee is supposed to be
investigating Communist activities in
the United States. 1t is impossible
to understand Communist activities unless
one knows the conditions Of the working
class in this country, upon which these ac-
tivities are based.
Today more than million workers are
unemployed and deprived of all means of
living. There is nothing left for them eX-
cept the bread lines and miserable charity
crumbs. Thousands upon thousands of work
ing class families have been thrown out of
their homes because they can no longer pay
their rent Those who are still employed
are having their wages slashed and are being
speeded UP beyond the limit of human en-
durance.
In the streets of every large city, workers
are dropping dying and dead from starva-
ton and exposure. Every newspaper in the
country constantly reports suicides of these
workers, driven to desperation by unem-
ployment and starvation. The Communist
activities are the organized protest and
struggle Of the masses against these con-
ditions.
Why 'Starye?
cry and hardship of the millions of workers
/ in the United States? Is it because some
great national calamity has destroyed the
food, clothing and shelter available for the
people? No, on the contrary.
Millions of workers must go hungry be-
cause there is too much wheat Millions OF
workers must go without clothes because the
warehouses are full to overlooking with
everything that is needed. Millions of work
ers must freeze in novels and cellars be-
cause there are too many houses. Millions
of workers must freeze because there is too
much COAL This is the logic of the CAPT
talist system which the Fish Committee is
protecting against the protests of the
workers.
Confronted with the demand of hungry
and homeless unemployed masses for bread
and shelter, the rulers of this country an
swer with policemen's clubs, gas bombs and
savage prison sentences
Bestial Brutality.
For the past year every newspaper in
America has been full of cases of the most
bestial and bloody attacks upon crowds of
defenseless workers by the police.
Only last Monday on the steps of the capt.
toll building, police clubs and gas bombs were
used freely to break up delegation of work
ers coming to exercise their constitutionally
guaranteed right of protest against proposed
further legislation to suppress the workers.
The Bosses Answer Is Terror.
Almost every demonstration of -unem-
ployed workers has been brutally smashed by
police terror. In Imperial Valley, California,
where agricultural workers attempted to or
ganze to get relief from the unbearable
working conditions of the vegetable farm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
MACFARLAND QUITS
CHURCH POSITION
Council Accepts Resignation Of
Secretary Who Served
Movies.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 26-The admin
istrative committee of the Federal
Council of the Churches of Christ in
America yesterday accepted the resig-
nation of Rev. Charles S. Mcfarland
as general secretary, to become effective
on January l, 1881.
The committee decided that he be
requested to continue in his position
until the end of the year.
DR.. Mcfarland submitted his reSig-
nation last month, with a view to
relieving" he said, the councils policy
committee of embarrassment over
services rendered by him to the motion
picture industry.
In announcing the resignation at the
time Bishop F. j. Mcconnell, president
of the Federal Council, said the policy
committee reported that, while &C
cepting fully DR.. Macfarland's good
faith in his course and in his ex-
PLANTATION of that course, in its opinion,
Dr. Mcfarland committed a very great
error in taking pay for services rem
dered the motion picture producers
while acting as q salaried officer Of
the Federal Council"
Another action taken by the admin
iStrative committee today was adoption
of resolution urging members OF
churches throughout the country to
give their support to ratification Of the
London naval treaty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
OUTBREAK
THREATENS Town
Florida Troops Ready After
Four Are Arrested for
Ambush Attack.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
STARKE, Fla, April ga company
of National Guard Infantry was placed
under arms here last night and held in
readiness, pending word from Gov.
Doyle E. Carleton to quell any disturb
ance which may arise as the result OF
what has been termed an old feud be-
tween two prominent families In the
Raiford community.
Four men, alleged to be members OF
one faction, were in widely separated
jails last night as the result OF two
shootings from ambush, in which the
life of Postmaster Lewis Ritch Of Raj
ford and members Of his family were
jeopardized.
The National Guard was asked for
by States Attorney Hollis Knight. who
acted upon an anonymous telephone call
received by Casper Duncan, county tag
agent of Lake Butler. Duncan told the
him to get his tags and other records
out Of the store of State Senator E. D.
Andrews, at Raiford, as mob intend
ed to burn the store and then go to
Starke and lynch Senator Andrews"
Senator Andrews IS the father Of Ben
Andrews and the grandfather Of Carl
Andrews, two of the four men who are
being held for investigation as result
of the attempt on Postmaster's Ritch's
life. The others held are Tuck Tomlin
and H. r. Mobiles.
Tomlin was placed in the Union
County Jail suffering from wounds he
received in a pitched battle with Of
ficers who approached his home late
yesterday to arrest Ben and Carl An
drews. The Andrews escaped at the
time, but later surrendered to officers.
States Attorney Knight said bad feel
ing has existed between the Andrews
and Ritch families several years as the
outgrowth of trial of one of the mem
bers of the Andrews family on charge
of robbing a post Office. Postmaster
Ritch was said to have testified for the
prosecution in the trial.