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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-11

"a S the victories of the workers over capital
n ism approaches, as ever wider sections of
workers taking up the struggle of the
working class against the capitalist system, the
need grows ever greater for organized defense
organizations of workers for the protection of
the working class. The machinery of the capt.
tallst class does not protect the workers. 1t
organizes all forms of legal" and extra legal
attacks and unscrupulously even with regard
to the capitalist laws employs all means against
the workers. The workers cannot seek protec-
ton from capitalist state or capitalist courts
The workers must defend themselves The
conference therefore, intellectually approves
the first efforts for the organization of work
ers defense.
workers defense must be organized on a
mass basis. The success of workers defense
depends upon the ability of the working class
and its organization to draw hundreds and
thousands of workers in defense. The confer
ence therefore, calls upon workers in every
shop, in every union, in all fraterna and aux
iliary organizations, workers groups sport or
CARNATIONS, minority groups in the American
Federation OF Labor, ETC.. youth organizations,
women organizations etc, to form groups for
the purpose of defense, these groups to become
a part of the general defense organization
The workers defense organization shall in
clude all workers regardless of race, color, or
nationality, who recognize the need of militant
struggle and the necessity of self defense for
the working class. Both men and women as
well as youth shall be included. The confer
ence endorses the election of a provisional
committee representative of various organiza-
tons. 1t instructs this committee to act until
such a. time another conference will elect
permanent committee for the organization.
The conference instructs sthe provisional
committee to call another conference in the
month OF May, this conference to be as broad
as possible and should have a substantial rep
well as from other working class organizations
specified above.
I'm the meantime the conference instructs
the provisional committee to arrange all regu-
lar meetings for defense groups, these meet
ings to take place week. The provisional
committee must draw up plan of organization
for workers defense groups. The provisional
committee must arrange for an outing on Sun
day, April IL and must make this mass af-
fair.
Workers defense groups shall be used for
the defense of all militant struggles, organiza-
tons, demonstrations, etc., of the working class
Particularly does the conference Of April
greet the coming first of May The confer
ence intellectually endorses the May first
demonstration and pledges all in its power 20
protect this demonstration from rcactionary at.
tacks of the fascists and the state apparatus.
The conference pledges TO build ~ powerful
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-11
Recruits Mutiny in Poland
(By Inprecorr Press Serviee)


According to report from Wilma 300 Polish
recruits on their way to join their regiments
in Wilma got out of hand and demonstrated
violently against the Polish fascist government
and in particular against the preparations for
war on the Soviet Union. At all stopping places
recruits made speeches against fascisnae and
against war and in Byalistock where the train
halted for some time a mass meeting was held
outside the station to which workers Gwarmed
from all the surrounding streets. The police
tried unsuccessfully to soothe the recruits and
persuade them to go back to their carriages.
They did not dare to attack them. A similar
meeting also took place in Grodno.
In the meantime the telephone wires had been
humming franticaly and when the train drew
into Orany the recruits found small army
drawn up to receive them and machine guns
trained onto the carriages. A large force Of
armed gendarmerie attempted to storm the
carriages, but the recruits barricaded them.
selves in and theoretically resisted arrest. Vol
leys of shots were fired and number of per-
sons killed AMI wounded. The railway carriages
were devastated. In the end 81 recruits were
arrested and taken to prison in Orany whilsb
the remaining recruits as far as they were not
killed or wounded, were taken on to Wilma UNI
der armed escort
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-11
BY NJ. ALI.

By NJ. ALI.
HcTRIKES are inevitable as long as capital
ism and imperialism lasts. Our
struggle is against capitalism and imperialism.
Workers of the G. P. I. Railway, you are
fighting as vanguard of all the railway work
ers of India" Thus writes the Railway
man. the organ of the G. P l. (Great-lndian
Pennsula) Railwaymen's Union which is lead
ing the present strike of the $4,000 G. P. I.
Railway workers.
This estimation of the present railway strike
I gives a true picture of the situation in the
contemporary working class movement of In
da. The Indian proletariat is carrying
heroic struggle against its class enemies the
British imperialists and their allies, the In
dian capitalists. That is why the Bombay
workers raised aoft their red banner on the
26th of January last when the bourgeoise had
staged scene of their independence day"
while ready to sell themselves and betray
their independence for Every simple but
vital needs of the Indian bourgeoisie as for
example, reduction of the rupee ratio, pro-
lection to their cotton and shipping industries,
ETC., the demands put forward recently by
Gandhi. The Bombay workers declared that
"the Congress Flag could never be the real
flag of independence" it was a flag of betray-
al, of compromise with British imperialism.
That is why the Meerut trial was started by
the Tory imperialists and carried out by "la-
Dor" imperialsts. That is why the Indian
bourgeoisie refused to help the Meerut pris-
oners legally and materially. On March Goth,
a year has elapsed, since 80 leaders of the In
dian working class arrested and thrown
into the prison of Meerut, small and remote
town in the North The farce of trial is not
yet finished. The class justice awaits them in
the form of heavy sentence of conviction
with hard labor.
At Meerut is being tried by British imper-
ialism not only the working class movement in
India, but the international proletarian move
ment, standing for the overthrow of capitalism
and imperialism. The chief accused in the
trial is the Communist International
Faced by the revolt of the Colonial slaves
British imperialism attacks the Communist In
ternational, arrests and subjects to cruel tor
ture the leaders of the working class move
ment, with view to check its growth But
in spite of depriving the working class of it's
leaders by repeated arrests, the movement is
going forward. New leaders are springing up
to take the place of those who fall victims as
prisoners in the class war. The strike of the
125,000 G. l. P. railway workers carried on
in face of terrorization by imperialist armed
forces, treacherous tactics of the nationalists
and social-reformsts shows that
The strikers are being arrested, the voun-
teers who picket the railway lines are terror
lied by the police, the workers are being forci-
bly, elected from their. quarters, their water
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-11
STRUGGLE OF THE INDIAN
RAILWAY WORKERS
World Py0letayiat Must Aid

supply is being cut off, their meetings are for
hidden and convicts from prisons are being
used as scabs All this is being done by
the Anglo-Indian Government, the owner of
the Railway, under the instruction of Mac
Donald's Labor Government The agent OF
the railway has declared that all those on
strike should consider themselves to be dis
missed from work. Scabs paid double
wages to replace the strikers.
The treacherous nationalist and social
reformists are helping MacDonalds agents to
break this strike. reformist union, COM
posed of the superior grade employees of the
CLIP. railway has refused to join the strike.
At the head of this union stands, as president,
Mr. Jammadas Mehta, who along with Java
harla Nehru and Subbas Bose is leader of
the Independence League"
The workers rejecting all efforts of COM
promise and Cancellation with the capitalists.
The All-India Trade Union Congress, now
under the militant leadership of the Left
Wingers, of the Red Flags Union, stands at
the back of the strikers. Appeals are being
made by them to all the railway workers to
declare sympathetic strikes with their COM
rades They are closely watching the situa-
ton in order to see that the strikers are not
deserted and betrayed by some of the pseudo
left leaders, as the president of the CLIP
RaiIwaymen's Union, who has been showing
such signs. Thus, bulletin issued by the
Workers and Peasants Party, of Bombay lead
by the leaders of the Red Flag Union of Bonn
bay, says:
"The Workers of the CLIP. railway must
see that Mr.. Rukar president of the
CLIP. Railwaymen's Union) stands by the
strike and does not begin to retreat Mr..
Ruikar has sent cable to Macdonald. 1t
is very wrong again for him to appeal to
the imperialst premier to use the strike
breaking machinery of the Trade Disputes
Act. :. The G. l. P. men should 60 to
the B. B. & c. I. (Bombay -Baroda and Cen
trail India) Railwaymen and appeal to them
to join the struggle. Men on the B. B. & c.
1. line your conditions as bad as those
of your comrades on the CLIP. line. Your
grievances are the same. Join the struggle"
on the struggle for the cause for which the
Meerut prisoners fought. Their cause is the
cause of the international proletariat, the over
throw of capitalism and imperialism. They
are fighting against odds the colonial regime
of Macdonald aided by it's Indian agents, the
reformists. Their victory or defeat is the vic
tory or defeat of the international proletariat.
The international proletariat, therefore, should
come to their aid By helping them they will
be helping the Meerut prisoners and the cause
of the revolutionary workers of the world,
fighting against capitalism, capitalist ration
aization, fascsm and the imperalst prepara-
ton for war. ."'5> ~'-.'ce'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-11
The Bolshevik Spring

News is pouring in from the southern parts
OF the U.S.S.R regarding the successful de-
velopment of spring field labor Members of
collective farms go about their work enthusiasts
tlcally, they are disciplined and well organized.
The spirit pervading the collective farms is
spreading to- the individual poor and middle
peasant farms, which have not yet joined COL
lective farms.
In Karasan, big Mennonite village in the
Crimea, the peasants who have not Joined the
collective farm have decided to do their whole
sowing in common
To the efforts of the kulaks to impede work
on the fields, the collective farm members
reply by extending considerably the sowing
area.
In the Guenitch district (Crimea) the collec-
1--WE farms have already done their sowing,
having exceeded the plan by 8 per cent.
In the Stalingrad district (Lower Volpa).
the spring sowing area is being extended by
81 per cent compared with last year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-11
The Bank of International
Settlements and the Interna-
tiOnal Cooperative Alliance

THE general secretary of the international Co.
operative Alliance, H. j. May, has approach
ed the managers of the bank branches of the
biggest cooperative organizations affiliated to
the International Cooperative Alliance regard.
ing their views about the attitude to be taken
up to the Bank for International Settlements.
One can see by the replies which have been re-
ceived, that the managers of the financial in
stitutions of the cooperatives of the German
workers through the Bank for International
Settlements, but are endeavoring to take
an active part in this exploitation.
Of the replies received from managers of
cooperative banks and bank branches of the
wholesale societies, we give the following as the
most characteristic.
The manager of the French Cooperative
Bank. the social-fascist CASTOR Levy writes:
"The cooperative movement cannot be in
different to new form of credit, and it must
endeavOr to participate in this organization"
This participation is to take the following
form: the national cooperative organizations
must endeavor 'to participate in the raising
of the required capital, in order to secure in
this manner seat and vote in the general
meeting of the bank
The manager of the bank of the English
Wholesale Society, Davies, expresses himself
somewhat more cautiously as the financially
strong cooperative movement of Great Britain
would not willingly give up it's strong position
in the international cooperative movement, and
is therefore frustrating the establishment of
an international cooperative bank which has
been as everyone knows, for years in the pro-
gram of the I.C.A., ad is also afraid of the
eventual transference of international settle
ments to the BIS. Davies writes therefore:
"If the cooperative banks of the individual
countries open an account in the Bank of Inter-
national Settlements, the experience gained
through it and the volume of business transac-
lions would probably provide a valuable dis
cussion basis for the problem of the proposed
International Cooperative Bank"
These statements show that the cooperative
bureaucrats of all countries far from repudat-
ing, on principle, participation in the exploita-
ton of the German proletariat through the
BIS. Through exclusive raising of loans on the
one hand, and through extortion of interest on
the other HANDY, are looking for ways and
means of making palatabe to the proletarian
sections of the cooperative movement of their
own countries participation in the spoliation Of
German workers under various pretexts (gan-
ing experience, profitable investment of CAPT.
tai, etc..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-11
A Workers Delegation to the
u. S. S. r.

The managing committee of the foresters
and agricultural laborers union of Norway, has
decided to send this. spring a delegation of
active members of the union to the U.SS.R.
The delegation will consist of Is members who
will be elected at the workers general meet
ings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-11

mass defense organization which will receive
its first test in the coming first of May demon
strations and will be tempered and steeed thru
its participation in working class struggles
into an even more powerful instrument Of the
militant working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-11

terms equal to those which Wall Stree: offered
Together with this $15O,OGo 900 loan will go
not little pressure to cure Ir;goycn's "sore
throat"
At the same time the antagonsms and rival
rics become tenser, sharper, bitterer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-11
Workers Defense

The first preliminary conference for the
organization of a Workers Defense Corps
IN Los Angeles held on April adopted q
resolution 1ghich declares in part:
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-17
"Pinching" for Arm Beauty

girls and women would like to have.
their arms more rounded. but in the
majority OF cases such thinness
needs TO be corrected all over the
body. However. many women have
upper arms that are a bit too large
when the rest OF their body Is per-
fectly proportioned and IL IL with
this problem that we will deal first.
Il IS definitely understood that
the upper arms must be firm for
beauty. F~labbiness not only bespeaks
inactivity but tends TO add years 10
ones appearance. Therefore. fab
bineSs must be corrected and IN do
ing so many OF you will find that
the tightening up OF the muscles
and skin eliminates the oversize
without additional treatment. Such
flabbiness usually occurs on the
u~nderside OF the arms. between the
shoulder socket and the elbow. and
offers its most serious detrtment 10
beauty when the arms are slightly
pressed 10 the sides.
q correction OF such flabbtness
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-17
Hobbling Mary.

Please. do not mistake me-" /
said when ! had told her that /
wished her 10 know where Mary was
every minute OF the time that / was
away from the house. My niece IS
a high-minded girl. incapable OF any
w~rongdoing. But she is ~adventur-
u and high-spirited. and she might
think II was a romantic thing I o 20
for q moonlight walk along this
country road"
Nothing would happen to her II
she did" Mrs. Hasbrouck said with
a little smile Its too late for the
Summer vacationers. and we're not
on the beaten path Of the bootleg
gers, 20 she'd be as safe as II she
were parading the hall in here"
I'm sure OF that" I told her.
butt can't explain very we'll
desperately flogging my Imagination
for an excuse which would seem
plausible to her-'it's connected with
some property matter. but it's nee
essary that somebody be able TO tes-
tify as TO her whereabouts and con-
duct during every hour Of the day"
II understand Mrs. Hasbreuck
answered promptly. Its like those
cases I've read OF where q girl is TO
inherit a lot OF money II she doesn't
smoke cigarettes or drink for q GER
tain number OF years. But just enc
drink or n cigarette will throw her
out OF the property. and OF course
the other heirs are watching her like
hawks all the time"
Her glance at me Is che finished
was one OF inquiry. and I nodded,
feeling that Sapphire was not only
my middle name as Harry Under.
wood would have said. but my first
and last as well.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-17
Lillian Is Ready.

ct can see how you wouldn't want
her walking out alone" Mrs. Has
brouck went on. land I'll look out
for her every minute that you're not
here yourself. Let me give you some
more OF this meat pie"
Not another morsel." ! stipulated.
II have eaten far more than ! ex-
pected to already"
well. 1 don't know what you ex.
pected." my hostess retorted. "a 1T
tie hirdseed. / guess-you haven't
eaten much more than that But I
know there's no use doing anything
with you until after you come back
from Cosgrove's. Then ! warn yeu,
I'm going TO stand owe you with q
blacksnake whip IL I can't make you
eat any other way"
You won't need anything but
your food" / told her placatingly as
/ left the room with her promise 70
send Mrs. Underwood's tray directly.
A half hour later. with Lillian at.
tired In Robert Savarin's favorite
frock under her big coat, and forti.
fled by the hot tea which ] had made
her swallow. I went again 70 the
Cosgrove home. and leaving Lillian
with Mrs. C~osgrove. made my way
upstairs TO the room where the nurse
had prepared Robert Savarin for my
coming.
CONTINUED Tomorrow
oOsyr1ght, 1854. Nswspspsr Feature ssrsca fss
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-17

kis remarkably simple II you follow
the plan outlined below.
Hold the arms out At the sides on
a level with the shoulders. Clench
the hands into a tight fist WITH
THE THUMB INSIDE THE FIST
not on the outside. BY placing the
thumb inside the fist the muscles
themselves are not worked as much
and so there Is less chance OF de-
veloping them. To eliminate fab
btness we simply want TO shake off
any superfluous fat and tighten up
the loose muscles without override
velopment which would increase the
size OF the arms while firming
them.
After the arm position has been
taken. hold the arms rigid and then
tremble them by shaking the tightly
, clenched hands back and forth. keep
Ing the actual action at the wrists.
You will see how this movement
shakes the loose flesh on the upper
arms and IL you do this for three or
-four minutes. several times each
day. the flabbiness will disappear
within a couple OF weeks.
At least once each day apply the
camphor and alcohol lotion which
will be given At the end Of this
article.
II the arms are solid instead Of
flabby. O. different method OF pro-
cedure should be followed.
Smooth q liberal application Of
cleansing cream ever the arms and
then pinch them gently. NJ least five
minutes should be devoted to each
arm, then after removing the cleans
ing cream. apply the camphor and
alcohol lotion.
The fat cells must be broken down
when the arms are too large. but
this must be done carefully or else
more harm than good viii result.
Exercise would tend to develop
rather than reduce such a condition
so that pinching Is substituted.
Pinching works directly upon the
fatty tissue but does not 70 deep
enough 10 work on the inner mus
cles. therefore, the fat cells are
broken I'D and reduction naturally
follows. BUT you must remember
Take large pinches and generous
ones. You must use cream on the
skin first TO prevent brutsing not
VH4g W ZIG G4LE1 AfC1L4 P4A ~ GIw
tissues underlying the skin.
The camphor and alcohol lotion Is
made as follows:
Cut up two mediurn-sized cakes of
camphor, to make II dissolve moro
quickly, and add this 10 n quart Of
alcohol. let stand in m alright
glass Jar for a few hours and IL Is
then ready for use.
You will have TO use N good
quality rubbing alcohol. since pure
alcohol Is not procurable. The rub
bing alcohol Is perfectly good. how
ever. and serves this purpose just as
we'll. The cakes OF camphor and
rubbing alcohol can be had In any
drug store.
In using the camphor and alcohol
lotion PAT II on, do not rub II into
the skin. Rubbing may cause u
slight irritation and although this
does not have harmful effects. Il IS
unnecessary. Just Faturate a pad
OF cotton with the lotion and pat this
over the armas
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-17
Loves Reawakening
Lillian, Anired in the Old Frock Robert Snparin Admired
Steels HERSELF For the MomentousM Meeting.
BY Adele Garrison
after Lill,an+and beamed a

TVOR q long minute after Lillian
said that only Providence could
help her and direct her what
TO say 10 dying Robert Savarin,
there was silence in the room where
she and I stood facing each other.
II WIS a tremulous silence. and ]
was glad when Lillian broke IL with
an apparently calm query.
What do you wish me to do
first?" she asked docilely.
"Lie down." ! returned promptly,
sand relax II you can while 1 20
down to supper and until your tea
tray m up. No" as she flung
out her hand with n shuddering lit
Gle protest at the idea Of food-'it
Is not a meal, only q pot OF tea and
n bit Of bread and butter-just medi.
cine as IL were. which you must
swallow for me- Then you are 10
rest again for a few minutes, and
then I'll help you TO get into that
dress which Robert loved. II will be
30 covered UP by your coat that
only he need see II. and so there
viii be no comment, oral or un-
spoken. TO annoy you. Come. now,
the first part OF the prescription"
I drew her toward N bed and
made her lie down. taking off her
shoes and covering her lightly.
Try to sleep IL you can I ad-
5ured her. but as / hurried down 10
my waiting supper / knew that the
admonition was SC much wasted
breath. But I hoped that she could
relax the tension OF her nerve for
n few minutes. or even seconds.
You don't want that tea tray sent
up until after you've had your sup
per. do your" Mrs. Hasbrouck asked,