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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-27
CHARITY AND UNEMPLOYED

Protestant Churches and Jewish synagogues
prayed for the soul of Bolshevik Russia! The
League asks that resolutions be passed at
churches and meetings on that day appealing
to President Hoover to start public works
after Hoover spoke about the blessings of
well-beng!"
Whom does the National Unemployment
League wish to enlist in this work? The
church, governors of 48 states, mayors of $50
principal cities, chambers of commerce, social
welfare bodies, civic groups prominent citi-
zens and labor and industrial organizations.
This sounds familiar. Last November, these
peope-including labor organizations repre-
scented by the fascist leaders of the American
Federation of Labor, Green and others went
to Washington at the call of Hoover and
formed educational Business Council with its
''labor' appendage. This council took charge
of the unemployment situation and then de-
MED the existence of serious unemployment,
as did Hoover on April 14th in his speech be-
fore the D. A. R.
Later it is true the fascist Green stated
before a Senate Commission that there are
3,750,000 unemployed and there must be re-
lief for them revolution!
All this sham for a very good reason. Just
as these same people-the imperalst govern
ment and the fascists-used the church on
March 18th to brighten" the Soviet govern
ment in it's campaign to liquidate the kulak
and bring enlightenment to the masses on re-
ligon, they plan to brighten" the masses
from the leadership of the Communist Party
and the Trade Union Unity League.
In vain! Since October, all these people
have shown their attitude regarding Work or
Wages for the unemployed, reduction of hours
and improving the conditions of the employed
They have dsregarded the unemployed, call
ing them "seasonly unemployed" They have
wantony cut wages and worsened conditions
for the employed despite their pledge" to
Hoover.
They have done this with the support of
the fascist leadership of the A. F. of L., who
pledged to conduct no movement for wage in
creases; with the support of the sociai-fascist
socialist party and Mustetes, who looked to
Hoover to tackle the situation; with the sup
port of the renegade Lovestcne;f.s and Trot-
skyites, who have openly acted as police agents
against every militant action of the unem-
ployed and employed workers led by the COM
munist Party and Trade Union Unity League
March 6, International Unemployment Day,
placed the question of Work or Wages, Unen-
ployment Insurance, 7-hour day, 5-day week,
struggle against imperialist war preparations
and for defense of the Soviet Union, squarely
before the masses. and in the United States
they rallied 1,250,000 strong to the call of the
Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity
League.
What does the National Unemployment
League propose to do on Unemployment Sum
day." April 9th? 1t proposes to "appeap
for funds to replenish the depleted treasures
of charitable agencies" and to appeal to
Hoover.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-27
significance Of Imperial Valley
Case

And in the situation of worsening crisis, mass
unemployment, preparations for war, ETC., the
workers are becoming radicalized. They are
meeting the offensive of the bosses with an
effective counter-offensive. They are learning
the Importance of united mass action. The
Communist Party and T.U.U.L. are guiding
this revolutionary force into effective struggle.
The Party co-ordinates and leads the activities
of all workers. organizations and centralizes
the workers struggle into an organized strug-
gle against the entire capitalist system and its
defensive body-the state.
Capitalists Attempt to Intimidate Leaders.
The capitalist class, realizing it's inability to
solve the situation, and also recognizing the
growing revolutionary mood of the American
workers. attempts, by force and intimlda-
ton of the leaders to brighten the workers
into submission But the working class--ex-
plotted and persecuted--meets blow with blow.
And it is for this time that our Party must
prepare. Internally, through an intensified
process of bolshevization and a Tightening OF
the Partys disciplinary apparatus, and ex-
ternally through roofing into the basic indus
tries, can the Party prepare to carry out its
role of being leader and organizer of the toll
ing masses.
Just as Gastonia, the case and the defend
revolutionary movement the roofing of the
Party in the South; just it signifies the
Crossing of the Mason-Dxon line" and the
rehabilitation of the exploited Negroes; just
as it has succeeded in bringing Negroes and
whites together in the coming struggle, so does
the Imperial Valley case and the nine convicted
workers now serving AZ years stand out in
the struggles of the American working class
with great significance.
We can record the roofing of the Party in
one of the nations most basic industries-agri-
culture and among one of the most exploited
and Disseminated against sections of the work.
ing class--the Mexicans. In the Imperial VAL
ley where there are thousands of Mexicans,
Japanese, Hindu, Filipino, and American work
ers working and struggling together against
the great agricultural and railroad trusts the
Party has great tasks to perform.
Conviction Symbol of Class Struggle.
I The conviction of these nine workers syn1-
bolizes the sharpening of the class struggle
and the extent of the increased persecution by
the State. The use of the C. S. law at this
time is of great political significance to the
Party and to the American working class as
a whole. States which have dormant C. S. laws
on their books will now begin to use them.
States which have no such vicious law, as yet
will vrry shortly pass them. We are facing
the beginning Of vicious drive to force the
entire Party underground and to attempt to
completely annihilate it,
Only intensified activity, strengthening of
our ranks and the mobilization of the entire
working class can crush this attack of the
ruling class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-27

IN Imperial Valley, the largest agricultural
center in the world, the mellon season has
arrived, from Brawley, FL Centre and other
small towns--which comprises the Valley
train loads of cantaloupes are being shipped
to all parts of the U. S.
The mellon season means work to about 49,
600 workers every year. Mexican, Filipinos,
Hindus, Americans, Negroes, fill the pool halls,
restaurants and jungles looking for work
thousands are working and thousands are look
ing for work. Those who are working will
be able to pay the debts they incurred while
waiting for the MELONS to ripen. The others
will be living on the rejected cantaloupes, which
they get from sheds. The Americans are most
ly working in the packing sheds, from four
teen to Is hours day; they making big
money and push themselves to the limit, while
hundreds are laying around nthe jungles,
living on rotten cantaloupes. The Mexcans,
Filipinoes, Hindus, with their families, are
working in the field under intense heat-be-
tween 100 and 100 in the shade-between II
and ID hours day and longer-and are MAX
ing S. to Sc day, working piece work, at
rate of 13 to Is cents crate-and the foreman
is the one that counts the number of crates
and in most Of the cases he gyps them out
There is no drinking water in the fields. The
workers are forced to drink water from the
irrigation bitches. Many of the wokers are
dying in the fields due to intense heat and rot
ten conditions.
In Brawley alone, between four and five
thousand workers and their families exist
clustered together in tin and wooden shacks,
tents or anything to shelter themselves, have
lived year in and year out with no chance for
lettering their conditions. They are segregat-
ed in what is called mexican town." Their
whole life is like the Negroes in the South
They are parked together in those areas like
sheep in a stock car, families of six and seven
living in one room, evil smelling, sinking
kerosine lamps and stoves, no bathing facili-
ties, no toilets And in that intense heat which
prevails in the Valley, the workers are forced
under these rotten conditions to slave their
lives away.
Last winter the conditions got so bad, that
the workers couldn't stand it any longer All
over the Valley a spontaneous strike broke
out against the rotten conditions, but the
workers were unorganized and without the
right leadership. The Mexican Mutual Aid
Association, headed by the reformst leader
shin from the CROM working hand in hand
with the fruit growers association, succeeded
in breol1ng the strike and made the workers
GO hack to work under the s2s,ea 7itions.
n {1 MON Unity Leaf II was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-27
Soclal-Fascist Leaders of Workers
Gymnastic and Sport Alliance

workers, MANY of them former members of
the Red Front and other revolutionary organ
lzations in Germany. Until the present econ
onlc crisis they were content with their social
fascist leadership which provided them with
sports for sports sake. But the crisis has also
affected them, with the result that many of
them are unemployed, the wages of those still
working are being reduced, etc. This is fore
ing them into position of struggle for the
defense of their interests. Consequently they
are demanding not only sports, but also to
take part in the every day struggles of the
workers in economic and political life.
With this process of rehabilitation taking
place among them, the members are demand
ing a revolutionary leadership and sports con-
nection with the Labor Sports Union of Amer
lea.
But the leadership of the Workers Gymnastic
and Sport Alliance, being part and parcel of
the social fascist party, wants to divert the
revolutionary energies of these workers into
harmless channels. 1t hopes to do this better
with the official support of the socialist party.
But it will fail as the members are seeing more
clearly each day the social fascist face of their
leaders, and they will throw them into the
discard where they belong.
The tasks of the revolutionary workers with
IN the Alliance now is to consolidate their op-
position ranks; explain clearer to all the work
er-members of the alliance the significance and
meaning of this maneuver on the part of
their leaders; to use this case as an example
of the fact that the Workers Gymnastic and
Sport Alliance is no more an independent sport
organization but an organization of the social
list party. They must explain to these workers
the connection between the present acts of
their leadership and the mass expulsions of the
revolutionary workers sportsmen from the Luz
cerne sections, particularly of the German Sec
ton. They must also point out the connection
between this social fascist disruption of the
workers sports movement and the danger of
an irnperiaist attack upon the Soviet Union.
The only workers sports organization in the
United States that follows a real militant
working class line in sports is the Labor Sports
Union of America. All worker sportsmen
should belong to this organization of class
struggle in S, orts.
Down with the social fascist disrupters of
the workers sports movement!
Forward to united workers sports move
ment throughout the world under the leader
ship of the Red Sports International!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-27

in the fields and in the sheds. Concentration
was mostly on the towns.
2. Many comrades were sent into the fields
just because they were willing to go, without
considering their abilities and capabilities. The
result was that some of them were absolutely
useless.
8. Not quick enough response from the
TU.U.L. to the comrades in the field.
9. Considering discussion of the issue of
strike call two weeks ahead of the time it
was called, this gave the fruit growers and
the state ample time to prepare to break the
strike.
u 10. The calling of political strike to re-
lease the comrades in Jail would have proved
a disastrous move for the T.U.U.L and the
Party.
II. Proposition to call strike at the date
Of the trial (by the writer) losing sight of
the entire objective situation which prevailed
in the Valley at that time.
The lessons in Imperial Valley must serve
us as a guide FOR our future work in organ
izing the agricultural workers not only in the
Imperial Valley. but all over the country. And
with the proper guidance of the T.U.U.L. and
revolutionary sef-criticism we will build a
strong ANVIL
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-27
BY WALTER BURKE.

ACCORDING to the report printed in the June
- 18th issue of the New Leader, the socialist
party held labor sports parley' on June T.
where they discussed the building of a''labor"
sports organization. The purpose of the con
ference as stated by Louis Stanley who is in
charge of cultural and sports activities of the
socialist party, was, "to bring together or
CARNATIONS and individuals engaging in labor
sports so that they might arrive at common
basis of action" Among those present at
this conference were Emil Hertzog and Karl
Keinath secretary and chairman, respectively
of the Workers Gymnastic and Sport Alliance
What is this common basis of action" for
which the social fascists gathered? To unite
with the bourgeoisie in a struggle against the
Labor Sports Union of America, a section of
the Red Sports International and the revolu-
tionary opposition within the Alliance.
The socialist party, through its agents in
the workers sports movement endeavored to
unite it's few scattered sport clubs last January
at the convention of the Workers Gymnastic
and Sport Alliance, by sending there their rep
resentative renegade from the Labor Sports
Union of America, R. G. Palm, member of
the Chicago district committee of the socialist
party. But their scheme was frustrated by
the fact that the worker delegates at this con-
vention were informed in time of the trick
which their leaders intended to pull off on
them. Palm was there representing the non
existant Labor Sports Union of United States,
an organization formed in opposition to thu
Labor Sports Union of America section of
Red Sports international.
Failing in this attempt to consolidate their
forces, the social fascist leaders of the Work
ers Gymnastic and Sport Alliance decided to
call another convention this August where they
will again make an attempt to force the Work
ers Gymnastic and Sport Alliance to join the
Palm Labor Sports Union" of the United
States.
In order to prepare against the eventuality
of being in the minority at this convention thu
socialist party is organizing for Common basis
of action"--tho building up of an apparatus
for the establishment of an open social fascist
sports movement in the United States.
The membership of the Workers Gymnastic
and Sport Alliance consists mostly of German
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-27
The Imperial Valley Case

late in coming into the strike field, played
part in that strike. 1t gained the confidence
amongst some of the workers and to some
extent the leadership of the strike among the
Philippines. month later, about one thousand
shed workers (Americans) struck under the
leadership of the A. F. of L. The strike was
! led in typical A. F. of L. way. Workers were
told to stay home or in the pool halls, no
mass pcketing was done, while the scabs were
working in the sheds, with the result that the
strike was lost once more, due to the treach-
erous policy of the A. F. of L. and the rest OF
the misleaders in the Valley. Since than the
TU.U.L. has been in the field organizing the
workers in the Agricultural Workers Indus
trial League and preparing for general
strike in the cantalope season. A union hall
was opened in Brawley, mass meetings were
held, some farm committees established and
our organization work went ahead very rap
idly. The fruit growers noted the growing
power of the ANVIL. in the Valley and were
determined to stop the organized power of the
workers. With the aid of stool pigeons, which
have penetrated the ANVIL. they have ar
rested 100 workers Eleven of them were placed
on $4,000 ball. charged with criminal syndi-
calism, but this did not stop the work OF the
ANVIL. New organizers were sent in and with
more vigor and determination to organize
the organization in the Valley proceeded While
the ANVIL. can register many gains in the
organization drive, yet it is absolutely neces-
sary to analyze our shortcomings, this Will
guide US in our future work.
/. Although our orientation for strike
during the cantalope season was correct, the
comrades were hasty in talking about dates
for calling a strike, without adequate prepare
lions. They were influenced too much by the
possibility of spontaneous strike, and they
based their preparations on the idea "that
the workers will strike anyway"
2. We did not study accurately enough the
conditions and the movement of the cantalope
crop SO that we could hit the bosses harder at
the opportune time. Several dates were pro-
posed due to lack of understanding of condi-
lions in the Valley.)
g. Not sufficient study was made Of STRAIT
egg in an agricultural strike which due to area,
migratory workers, seasonal work, ETC., en-
wolves different approach.
4-We did not establish an underground APP
paratus to take care of the organization dur
ing an attack, which proved disastrous after
the arrest of the leadership of the ANVIL.
s. Not sufficient attention was paid to the
tenant farmers who are. in tim eof strike, used
by tho bosses as strSebreakers, sherrifs. etc.
6. Not sufficient preparations were made
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Workers! Join the Party of
Your Class!

Communist Party u S. A.
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mas Il checks Worker Yk
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-11-27
yUGOsLAyIANs PREPARING
FOR CHRITMAS SEAL SALE

To find preparations fer sale Of
Christmas Seals in Yugo Slavia was
surprise to Mrs. Bethesda Beals
Buchanan, Executive Secretary of the
Washington Tuberculosis Association
who is now in Europe making sur
vey of tuberculosis and general public
health educational activities as travel
ing representative Of the Pan Ameri-
can Sanitary Bureau Of Washington,
D. c.
1.-THE Yugoslavians held their first
seal sale in 1929" writes Mrs Buchan-
an, land are now busily engaged in
preparation for the sale this fall. All
the money is being used in education
al work, or propaganda as they term
it. The sale last year was only about
81 10000, but was conducted in only
five of the larger centers. Each seal
sells for one fourth of diner which
is about one-half cent. This year 1t
is hoped to reach more places and to
greatly increase the amount. Seals
were sent out by mail as in Washing
ton, and few were placed out in
stores.
Their educational methods inter-
ested me greatly continued Mrs.
Buchanan. Public days, usually three
are set annually when talks are made
in the streets and motion pictures on
tuberculosis prevention are shown.
Ninety such lectures on tuberculosis
prevention are shown. Ninety such
lectures were given in zagreb by doc
tors and public leaders last year in
this period. The postman gives out
leaflets to every home in his district
and each school child in the whole
kingdom also received one. These are
distributed by the teachers and taken
home by the children.
tuberculosis is the leading public
health problem in Yugo Slavia and
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-11-27

concerned, the old men, wear wells as
a protection against lipstick paste.
Courts of Love" are described as
strange institution in the account OF
what is going on in Africa.
1t declares that these Courts OF
Love" are held in all seasons, every
where. Young women, married and
unmarried, assemble In tent, the
usual home of the Touargs. Young
men often come from great dis
lance to pay court to some girl of
great beauty, wealth or rank"
Is this not what happens at shin
digs, husking bees, taffy-pulls, hops,
dances, parties, ice cream socials and
all similar affairs whether In the
backwoods or OH Broadway They
are all Courts of Love. Even the
bachelors parties are dominated by
the ladies. In this country the women
even decide who is to be invited. In
Hoggar Courts of Love appear to be
more free-for-all affairs. The women
give all men a chance in Africa, but
he has no Chance in this country, ex-
cept to be picked off by some woman
1.-THE highest reward" 1t is stated,
that can be given to man is per-
mission to kiss certain girl"
This will be a reminder to the
members of the older generation of
the game Of postoffice at a taffy
pulling. Casual observers of petting
parties in automobiles of the present
day are forced to the conclusion that
the flapper does not give the flaming
youth permission to kiss her. If she
wants a kiss she takes it. The youth
or the man has nothing to do with it
whether 1t be kiss or solemn act
of matrimony at the altar.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-11-27

dren take her name and not that of
the father
AS II woman does no. marry whom
she pleases In this and all other coun-
tries. The favorlte deception Of
clever woman when she has selected
mate is to create the impression that
she is carried off as the wild men did
in the Stone Age. Moreover, the
bride groom consclentiously believes
that he Is pursuing when he is pur-
sued.
In the same paper appeared an &C
count Of how prominent oil execu-
tive recently drove golf ball which
struck a charming young lay over the
heart. The dispatch concludes by
stating:
"As q consequence to this novel In
PRODUCTION the couple today announced
their marriage for next month"
OF course the guileless creature of q
man thought that 1t was all an acct
dent. 1t never occurred to him that
the lady might have put herself "On
the spot" in her campaign to get her
man.
| "She controls her property" says
the report from Africa. Surely this Is
to be preferred to the alimony system
in this country. 1t is true that man
is supposed to control his property
but its income is used to support his
wife and family. They enjoy the in
come and the man has the worry o.
keeping his creditors from getting it
In the event Of a divorce, the woman
can spend the cold months at winter
resort and the hot season at a sum.
mer resort, while the man has hi
neck under the yoke of business try.
ing to keep up the payments on hi
alimony and his business out of thu
hands of receiver.
Again, the report says:
1.-THE woman, moreover, although
Mussulman, goes unveiled, while TIN
tall, fierce looking, war-like, Tourel
man keeps his face covered, from tn
eyes down, awake and asleep, ever
while he eats. He is called 9TH
Yelled man of the desert"
The young man of today does no
have veil to protect his face iron
the smear of the makeup of flap
per when he kisses her. Here is
suggestion for a great health reform
Let the young man, or as far as that