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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28
MINIMUM 10 YEARS FOR
CENTRALIA BOYS JULY |

CENTRALIA, Wash, June 81
BY any manner of reckoning the
minimum ten-year prison sentence
for second degree murder will have
expired July 1 for the Centralia
unionists who defended the I. W. W.
hall from American legionaire
lynchers on Amnesty Day in 1919.
The parole board which has been
sitting on their case has kept its
recommendation secret.
If release is not on the program
legal action will be started for a
writ of mandamus after July to
compel freedom on the ground that
the good behavior of the prisoners
entities them to release even though
they were sentenced to rs years.
Most of the jurors have sworn that
they were inundated into turning
a plain case of self-defense into
second degree murder because Of
the lynching atmosphere produced
by the legion and the lumber trust.
One defendant, Wesley Everest, had
in fact been dragged out of Jail by
the legion mob, castrated with a
razor and then hanged from the
Centralia bridge. The jurors were
afraid of similar fates if they did
not convict.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28

COY Turned $4,000 illiterate
workers and peasants into literates.
(1O) Mailed to villages 100000
copybooks, 100000 pencils and
1900 radio receivers.
I'D Opened a culture home for
children and a children's univer-
sity.
(12) Collected 1000 rubles for
the International Penny Fund.
(13) Presented the Red Airfleet
with an airplane, "The Leningrad
Pioneer"
GA Are helping to carry
through the Five-Year Plan in four
years.
To the next International Flock
Together we will bring $4,000 new
members.
From April IS to April % we
organized red caravans for the col
lection of all kinds of breakage and
papers and the money to defray
the expenses Of our next Flock To-
gether.
The Pioneers of Vyborg worked a
day and made 1870 rubles for the
same purpose.
Harry, we elected you as our rep
resentative from Leningrad District
to the next international Flock To-
gether of Pioneers. We will de-
mand that you be let out of prison
to go to Germany as our repre-
sentative.
Courage, Harry! Be of good
cheer! Keep up the struggle for
the working class. Remember you
have lot of friends-the Pioneers
of the Union of Socialist Soviet
Republics and the whole world are
with you.
And the hour is nigh, comrade,
when the international proletariat,
under the leadership of the Com
munist International, will overthrow
the bosses, rule forever.
Hail to the Pioneers of the world!
Long live the American Pioneers
who raise such brave fighters for
the working class!
Hail the fighter of the Proleta-
rian Revolution, Harry Eisman!
Leningrad District Flock of
Proletarian Children.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28
Albert Thomas Echoes BRAND

GENEVA 27n dealing with the worldwide his
concluding the labor and bosses international labor
Albert Thomas French
the socaed international labor office said that the
serious because complicated by extraordinary
conditions and the danger especially Europe of fierce competition
rom the andf from the
Mr. Thomas evidently echong his Aristide
other leaders of French Imperialism making double
against American impast Competition the
the Soviet Union the Communist menace and competition from
cials industry from the
The position of French ascsm naturally reflects
French Imperialism which, shown by the attempt
United States of Europe the talk about bloc
pursuing persistent policy of organizing the European capt.
tal bloc and position leadership the attack
against the Soviet Union This bloc partly
greatest capitalist rival Europe the United States America
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28
LENINGRAD YOUNG PIONEERS SEND
GREETiNGS TO HARRY EISMAN
Call on Him to Keep Up the Struggle for the
Working Class

The following letter was sent 10
Harry Eisman, who is serving a
five-year term for participating in
the March 6 unemployment demon
strI ton, by the Leningrad Section
Of the Young Pioneers:
To the brave fighter Of the work
ing class, Harry Eisman
Pioneer Greetings!
Conrade Harry, as soon as we
learned Of yom arrest we straight
away called a series of protest
meetings in schools, shops and fac
tories.
Dear Harry, every worker here
man and mountainous Of your
arrest. The workers know that you
are imprisoned because you are
fighting for the working class.
The children and workers of Len
ingrad and the whole country are
indignant over the bosses AFRO
gance and stamp it as the most
shameful act ever perpetated upon
a young worker.
Looking up to you as an inspira-
ton for ourselves and other work
ers-young and old-we put our
shoulders to the wheels of our great
Revolution and performed a series
Of tasks in competition with Mos
cow and the Ukraine. Below is
only partial part Of our balance
sheet, What do you think of it?
G) The Pioneers Of Leningrad
carried through successfully two in
naturalization days.
~ Two caravans with metal
breakage and paper collected from
all over the city gave the land fiji
teen tractors.
(33 We fulfilled our share in the
third disqualification loan of 120,-
600 RULES.
CN Drew $4,000 workers into
the shock brigades.
~ A quantity of grain, repre-
senting 10000 tons, was inspected
and experimental with.
60 Made 5000 starting cages.
I'd Sent Y shock brigades to
villages.
80 Organized a commune school
for proletkids in the Lushsk Dis
trict.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28
IMPERIAL VALLEY.
By IRVING S. KREITZBERG.

It's hotter than hell down in the Imperial Valley,
A blazing desert continuously burns overhead,
The mercury jumps to unheard of heghsand stays there
hundred and the shadeand all the shade be
found cantaloupe field enough TO shelter desert
It's hel-bu not entirely only that of natures
Here the manmade hell has put natures brand to shame,
fifteen thousand workers slave in fields packing Sheds
Americans, Mexicans, Filpnos, Negroes, Orientas
Slave from daybreak to shutdown for two to wO-y daily
Back and knee jobs-piece work,
Piece work in a blazing
Piece work in fields without drinking water,
Drinking from irrigation dches they wade and sweat in,
Sweating from the strenuous labor,
CoIapsng from the inhuman strain
They built a union down in the Imperial Valley,
A militant agricultural workers industrial union,
Americans Mexicans, FlipinOs Negroes Orientas
Fighting united front of ranchrs police clergy and
labor takers,
They recruiting drive and prepared for struggle
Struggle to put end to their intolerable slavery
raroaded the union leaders, down in the Imperial valley
Threw them into Jail to bust their union,
Charged criminal syndcalism and armed nurrecon
Smashed defense meetings with armed tugbu not their unon
Brought them o a court of justice,
Where reign Judge twelve cantaoupe minded men and
women, good and true
Good and true-but not for agricultural workers,
Agricultural workers only trust their unlon
Workers in the fields, mines and factories,
Rally to the aid of the Imperial Valley defendants
Fight and smash this infamous frame-up!
Smash this effort crush militant union!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28
DONATE TRACTOR
TO SOVIET UNION

"A complete tractor to further the
collectivization work in the Soviet
Union-this is the magnificent gift
of S. and B. Rubin of Minneapolis,
Mimi, to the Russian peasants. The
tractor costs 1892 and is being sent
to the U.S.S.R. by the Friends of
the Soviet Union which is now con-
Quoting a campaign in cooperation
with the Workers International Re
lief to send 40 tractors and trucks
to help the Russian workers and
peasants fulfill the Five-Year Plan.
The tractor will have riveted to
it steel plate with the following
inscription: "This tractor donated by
S. and B. Rubin to the First Pro
letarian State to till the soil for the
International Communist Soviety."
The two donors are leaving shortly
for the Soviet Union to present the
tractor in person. They urge all
workers and workers organizations
to intensity the campaign for 40
tractors and trucks and to send all
funds to the Friends of the Soviet
Union, IT'S Fifth Ave, room 511,
New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28
Disarm Workers, Arm Fascists, Social-Fascist
Plan

BERLIN OPSThe Prussan social democratic minister of the
interior Dr. Wang has Ooperad with the minister of the interior
the Reich Dr. Wirth working law making the
all clubs
dagges nuckusters and knives far the blades firmly
fixed the hes made double the pocket
knives dependent the granting police license This
officially directed against the street terror but the "Ro Fane
all such the instance the prohibition
of the walking sticks demonstrations have directed
exclusively against the revolutionary working class and there
believe will be the
of h clubs dgge knuckusters The Rote Fahne
with the prohibition the murder
citing their followers workers, the
deprived of those slender possibilities they of defending them
selves againss the fascist revovers"
The possession of firearms is dependent the granting of police
The result the whilst
literally supplied with modern pistols
either with police without it, whereby the police
effective efforts to disarm them
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28
SOVIET WORKING WOMEN SUPPORT
UNINTERRUPTED WORKING week
Produces Wonderful Results and Raises Cult
ural Level of Workers

took place on Sunday, with the re-
suit that, in spite of all the efforts
of the traffic authorities, trains and
tramcars were overcrowded; there
were also too many people in the
museums and palaces to make SUCH
visits enjoyable. Thus the continu-
Gus week creates quieter atmos-
phere on these excursions.
If we turn our attention to the
theatres and concert halls, we find
that throughout the winter season
they were always well attended, and
that the audience consisted mostly
Oh workers. Thus the continuous
week has enabled US to develop con-
siderably our cultural work by MAX
ing it also continuous.
Not so long ago, on April 7, our
worker correspondents brigade Wis
tied the "Krasnyi Mayak" factory.
They say that il their conversations
with the women workers they heard
no complaints about the continuous
week. There is also no absenteeism
on the part of the older women
workers on Sundays, in order to at
tend church services. The women
W 1rkers pointed out to the CORES
pondents an old woman worker who
used to be very religious. Now she
never absents herself either on Sun
days or any other church holidays,
of which there are many.
The Sunday Circus.
l will give you an example to
show to what extent the difference
between Sundays and weekdays has
disappeared; l was going to meet
ing in tramcar, and when we were
passing the circus we saw an encr-
nous crowd streaming out of its
doors. At first we could not under
stand what this meant, but then 1t
dawned on US that it was Sunday,
and a children's matinee had taken
place. We had a good laugh at this,
saying: "Where has the old Sun
day gone to? 1t has left US alto
gether."
The working woman next to me
said: "The continuous week is fine.
After four days work / can rest.
This has done me no end of good,
and I have been able to put my
household in order"
In conclusion, l would like to say
that you should watch the develop
ment of socialist construction here,
and that we are following with the
greatest interest the development of
the revolutionary movement in the
western countries, and are hoping
that the moment of your emancipa-
ton is not far distant.
Say what you like, this depends
greatly on yourselves. Comrades, it
is worth while not only to make eff
forts, but also to give ones life for
the splendid, morally free life we
are leading. Even if there be short
age of necessaries of life, even if we
have to go hungry, we are prepared
to sacrifice our lives, to give every
drop of blood to maintain our Soviet
power, regardless of the hostility Of
the imperialists.
With Communist greetings,
T. KARNEYEV.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28

The uninterrupted working week
in Soviet Russia means that in each
factory where it has been adopted,
while each worker works four days
and has the fifth off, the factory as
a whole is never idle, except on the
few national holidays.
From a Russian Working Woman.
Dear Comrades-In this letter |
wish to tell you how the uninterrupt-
ed working week affects the life
of a working family. When we first
heard of it our first thought was:
Glow will it work out? Won't it
be a regular mix up, one at home
and another at work? And then,
won't these frequent rests have
bad effect upon the workers?"
But when the uninterrupted week
was put into practice it gave Won
derful results. In our cultural de,
velopment, Sunday was great him
drance - making visits, receiving
guests, drunkenness and useless talk
and, on the next day, absence from
work.
The age-long habit that one must
drink on Sunday is so strong that
it prevails even now in spite of all
our efforts in the cultural domain.
Thanks to this, one sees frequently
on Monday children playing at be-
ing drunk. When the teacher asks
them where they have seen such a
thing, the children answer: eve had
visitors yesterday and everyone was
drunk" We ere justified in saying
that the continuous week has dealt
blow to this relic of the past
Husbands and Wives.
We are told that on the rest
days husband and wife can hardly
ever be together. But, comrades,
you must not forget that we have
a seven-hour day. There are branch
es of industry where work is over
at 8 or p. m. at the latest. Surely,
from 3 or p. m. and the whole
evening should be enough for any
husband and wife to be together
Moreover, arrangements can be
made with the management for 'hus-
band and wife to have the same
rest day if they so wish it.
1t is also pointed out that the
continuous week interferes in the
summer with the family excursions
AMI country walks. But, dear COM
rades, you must bear in mind that
a cultural and collective develop
ment of the working class family is
going on here, and this does not at
all imply that husband and wife
should go perhaps with another
friendly couple to the country on
Sunday, taking with them a lunch
basket, and, o. course, drink. We
intend to fight and are fighting
these individual outings.
The excursionists visit palaces and
museums in these country places.
They take with them a band, and
after the museum or palace has been
visited, the young people dance on
the lawn while the older people read
newspapers and discuss events.
| The continuous week will enable
us next summer to improve con-
siderably the organization of excur-
sions. Formerly, all the excursions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28
Radek Condemns Author of "All Quiet

above question, says the. following
about Remarque's silence:
Here is a man who made the
death cry of his comrades ring loud
and dreadful in the ears of the
whole world. From that cry, Re-
marque, you can find no refuge in
the plea that you are pure artist
painting picture of what you saw
and lived, and only that. You must
answer, Remarque-you must say
frankly where you stand unless you
wish your comrades to die again
more horribly"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28
Famine Threatens China

SHANGHAI I,P.S.).-There is a
great shortage of rice in numerous
districts in southern China. Prices
are climbing rapidly. The, prov
inces of Kiangsi, Kwangtung, XII
angsu, Chekiang, Anwei, etc., are
affected. A number of collisions
have already occurred in various
places and the general unrest is
steadily growing. Eight rice riots
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28
European Grain Bloc Plan Is Anti-Soviet

aspect, is carefully avoided by the
capitalist press.
The great success of the Five
Year Plan and the astounding
achievements of collectivization in
the Soviet Union undoubtedly
aroused much fear in the minds of
the European bourgeoisie and land
lords. They were afraid of the COM
petition of Russian wheat in the
world market as well as of the in
spiration which the success of
building socialism gives to the mill
tant labor movements in the CAPT
talist countries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28

PARIS, June 27-With the
American tariff providing an i'm
petus and excuse, the attempt of
the European bourgeoisie and land
lords, under the leadership of
France, to form a European grain
bloc is gaining momentum, al
though the project is reported to
be still in the Conversational
stage"
The real purpose for the forma-
ton of such bloc is clearly anti
Soviet as well as anti-American, al
though the anti-Soviet aspect of
the plan, which is the more serious
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28

Two kilograms were addressed to
Erich Remarque, the famous author
who made 100000 from his widely
read book "All Quiet On the West
ern Front" The kilograms con-
tain the question: "What would be
your attitude in the event of war
against the Soviet Union?" He
has so far kept deadly silence on
this important question and has not
answered the kilograms. Accord
ing to capitalist press reports, Karl
Radek, in a long comment on the
answers of various authors to the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28

SHANGHAI.-From latest re-
ports we learn that million people
died in the Province of Shansi since
1927. Two million people are suf-
fering from acute starvation at the
present time and are doomed to
perish unless something is done i'm
mediately
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28
Soviet Rail Output Leaps Upward

MOSCOW.-The Soviet industries
must provide four hundred thous-
and tons of rails during the cur
rent Soviet year (which begins in
October). Only one hundred and
fifteen thousand tons were deliv-
cred so far, The tempo Of rail pro-
duction is rising by leaps and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28
Gandhi With the Princes.

LONDON, England.-The Indian
Daily Mail publishes a statement
from Gandhi in which he calls upon
his followers not to spread the dis
obedience campaign on TIE terri
tory of the Indian potentates.
"If the subjects of the Indian
potentates wish to break the salt
monopoly" says Gandhi, "they must
do SO on the territory of the Anglo
Indian government"
Concerning the attitude of the
nationalists to the Indian nobility,
Gandhi says: at would be desir-
able to work out an agreement with
them"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28
Japan Ship and Textile Workers Strike

forces of police succeeded in de-
Tending the factory and arresting
many of the attacking strikers.
Twenty-three workers have gone
on strike in the aeroplane works
Kavanisi, in Kobe, against the VIC
limitation of three workers. The
strikers also demand a 10 per cent
increase on all piece-work rates.
The factory is being guarded by the
police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28
Crisis Deepens in Holland

AMSTERDAM, Holland, June q.
The world economic crisis is hit
ting Holland hard. A general de-
cline in the economic conditions in
Holland has already set in. Dutch
agriculture is suffering severely
from low prices. Cotton goods are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28
Chang Hsueh-liang Spurns Marking Offer

port of Marking. As long as the
United States is supporting Nan
king, there will be absolutely no
possibility of Marking getting the
support of Chang Hsueh-liang.
Japan will never allow its agent to
strengthen the tool of American
imperialism in China
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28

MUKDEN, June 27.-Chang
Hsueh-liang, war lord of Manchuria
and agent Of Japanese Imperialism,
has definitely refused the appoint
ment of Vice Commander of the
Army and Navy which the Marking
offered to him as a
means Of drawing him to the sup
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28

TOXIC Ups. ).-One hundred
and forty workers at the Maxine
sima shipyard in Fusan, in Korea,
have gone on strike against a wage
reduction of 10 per cent.
A strike is in progress at the
textile factory Kisiwada, in Osaka.
A party of striking workers at
tackled the branch factory in Horum
and attempted to demolish it. Large
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28

Xygen of speech revived it. The
fleet of the stimulant has begun to
year off, Brock Pemberton in N.
Y. Times.
THE talkie industry is beginning to
experience the violent commissions
that come with imminent collapse
During the past two weeks facts
have come to light that neither Mr.,
Hays nor the clustering moguls OF
filmdom will care to deny.
at is reasonable to assume that
in 1880, as in the past, the public
will continue to extend that support
which the ever increasing quality OF
our motion pictures warrant"
So wrote Billy Hays in the month
of February of this year. Yester-
day (June 9, 1930) the stock of the
two leading film combines, RKO ana
Warner Brothers, lost 65$ and
83S points respectively. 1t is officially
stated that for the first time in tn
history of the American cinema .
picture can actually lose money,
something that was not true Of the
silent film in its worst days. Holly,
wood producers are agreed that their
bog of tricks is now exhausted and
are looking for a new fad to fill an,
other movie cycle. The musical
comedy no longer appeals and every
available mystery and detective
story has been filmed. Almost every
foreign country has curtailed the i'm.
port of American talkies. Warne4
Brothers are investing in the legiti-
mate field. Variety acts are coming
back (the traditional Oxygen" to
bolster up declining movietheatre
attendance.) Almost a thousand the
aires have closed this year! Pare
Lorentz reports that several chains
have been forced to re-instan or.
chestras in the pit. A grand debacle
if ever there was one.
But we will not jeer Hays for his
short-sighted optimism. Mr.. Hoover
long ago set the example for the
Coue auto-suggestion stuff. And the
louder they shout, the more cruelty
disappointing are the facts.
The motion picture industry which
at one time was able to hold its own
in the midst of severe economic de,
preston is now going the way of ali
industries in a crisis. The present
movie slump is due not only to the
present crisis, it is also a result Of
the inherent rotteness of its output,
a weakness that will not be remedied
under capitalism. The masses need
something more than the kitsch that
is handed out to them. But Holly
wood cannot give more. At the
present juncture the American mo-
ton picture is affected by both the
present deep-going economic crisis
and the exhaustion of story material.
This double dose will surely be fatal.
Father Thomas Walsh, member OF
the special Compression Committee
to investigate Communism in this
country, included the investigation
of Soviet films in his plan presented
to that committee the other day.
Perhaps the pious old fascist has dis
covered what's wrong with the home
film product. Maybe the Soviet film
is undermining our vanishing pros
perity and thereby indirectly slam.
ming our celluloid factories. Who
knows?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28

have taken place in the province of
Kiangsi.
According to the Picking and
Tientsin Times, the Shansi troops
have occupied the whole of the
Shangtung province north of the
Hoangho River. Their entry into
Tsinan, the capital of the province,
is expected during the next few
days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28
Two Million Starving in Shansi

On account of the war Of the gen.
erals it is impossible to transport
food from other provinces.
Starving people sell their girls
for food. Two hundred thousand
women ranging in age from eight
to thirty were sold recently in Tun-
guam
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-28

bounds. Thus while the production
for October was only above ten
thousand tons in March it was way
over twenty thousand tons, in April
much over twenty-eight thousand
tons, and in May over a thousand
tons per day. The aim is over two
thousand tons per day.