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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-01
SOCIAL IST PRESS
FORCED To ADMIT
Z RED SUCCESSES
German Takers Say $50
cialists" Weaker

BERLIN.-With very few excep-
tons, the social democratic provin-
eial newspapers which are in closer
touch with the masses of the work
ers than the Berlin ''Vorwaerts," ad-
NIT roundly the social democratic
defeat at the elections. The social
democratic "Silesian Volkswacht"
("People's Guardian") writes:
But the victory of the communists
is also great. They have succeeded
in increasing their seats in the
Reichstag by almost 40 percent, al
though the total increase of members
as a result of the considerably in
creased poll was only ID percent. All
other parties, with the exception of
the Centre (Catholic) Party, and of
course, the fascists, have suffered
defeats. The social democracy has
also suffered a defeat, and this de-
feat is not negligible, but a very
serious one. In the new Reichstag
the Social Democratic Party will have
only % percent of the seats, as
against 81 percent in the last Reich
stag. That is very serious weak
ening of the position of our party.
In this situation the attempts of the
"Vorwaerts" to present the situation
in rosy colors are more than uncalled
for. Instead of advancing we have
retrogressed, and that in a period
when it counts very much
The social democratic 'Leipziger
Volkszeitung" writes:
THE Social Democratic Party has
gained nothing by the growth of the
poll. The party has lost about 7O0,-
600 votes and this is a very serious
reverse. The communists have won
% seats and the greater part of their
gain is at the expense of the social
democracy. Still further, they have
made progress amongst those who
are usually non-voters."
The remainder of the social dem
ocratic provincial press writes in the
same strain. Only the "Vorwaerts"
tries to pretend that all is well with
the social democracy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-01
WINTER Face SarvaHO
J Insurance MEwyW V@
American Sailors Story of
His Trip In Soviet Union
Have Interesting and Surprising Experiences,
and Get Many New Ideas of Workers
and Peasants State

wages automatically increase also.
Judging from the appearance of the
workers themselves, one can truth
fully say that they are more than
contented. At no time in the past
have they been so well off as they
are at present. This year 4,000, 900
roubles are being spent on the farm,
the plans next year calling for 160,-
600 hectares to be cultivated. In
view of such evidence one can hardly
say that Socialism cannot be carried
out successfully in practice as well
as in theory.
Ono Surprise After Another
We were told before leaving Gigant
that meeting would be held in
Salisk that evening and that our
presence was requested. The trip
so far had been one surprise after
another with each fresh surprise sur
passing the last one. The biggest
We're yet to come. Just as we were
embarking aboard our truck for the
return trip to Salisk, four troopers
galloped up. They infrmed our in
terpreters that regiment of cavalry,
which turned out to be one of Bu-
denny's crack regiments Budenny
was former corporal in the Czarist
armies, now Commander irf Chief of
the cavalry of the Red Army-had
been waiting in Salisk to greet us
and as we were long overdue was
now on its way out to meet us.
6 We asked ourselves, who were we
to be so signally honored? Just COM
mon sailors. But at present in a land
where the ruling class is composed
of workers and where the hand of
friendship is extended to the workers
Of all nations. Ahead of us were
several trucks loaded with people
from Gigant bound in to Salisk. Sud
denly a sound of cheering drifted
back to us on the breeze. We craned
our necks to see what it was all
about and a long line of cavalry and
field artillery appeared strung out
over the plain. AS we approached
nearer the cheering and hurrahs were
renewed and it gradually dawned on
our bewildered minds that we were
the main cause of the excitement!
AS we drew level with the column an
other and louder outburst greeted
us. Did we return it? I'll say we
did. The Prince of Wales in his
most exalted moments never received
a more genuine and spontaneous a re-
ception than this!
ITO be Continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-01

usually reveal that Mathew Woll has
turned newspaper correspondent
again.
Vaccareli and Mathew Woll
1t is in the nature of capitalist
things that Woll and VaccarelIi
should be colleagues. Their ends are
the same. Each profits personally by
helping the $50" drive Americas
workers deeper into the hell of capt.
talist exploitation.
Their methods vary but slightly.
Vaccarelli is the "strongarm" man.
Woll is more refined" in his tactics.
Vaccarelli uses blackjacks and bull
let's. VOL uses cunning and conse-
quently is able to mobilize the en-
tire capitalist press, the New York
Times in particular, whenever he
needs it. But the point is that they
both need each other and they both
use each other and each others or
CARNATIONS.
Last years annual picnic of the
Loyal Labor Legion was held on
Labor Day. The guest Of honor was
Mathew Woll. He was accompanied
by Congressman La Guardia, Edward
f. McGrady, Special Organizer of the
A. f. of L. Amid a great deal of
speechmaking and backslapping, Nc
Grady was rendered the gold medal
offered every year by the Legion to
the prominent labor representative
who has done outstanding work in
the interest of working people and
organized labor in general" Let us
examine this Outstanding work."
WoII Destroys Union
When the Fur Workers Union was
under left-wing leadership, Woll de-
cided to destroy it and reorganize 1t
as q company union. The '.reorgan-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-01
$1,000 Bail for
Eating Zoe Food

(By a Worker Correspondent
CHICAGO.-Hungry, roaming the
streets in weary trudge daily, was
John Shields. Hunger gnawed away
at his stomach, making him feel
weak. But still the endless rounds
and fruitless search.
In Scollay square he saw a lunch
room, and now. desperate with
hunger, he walked in and dared only
to have a chicken sandwich and a.
cup of coffee. He had no money and
told the proprietor so.
Arrested, taken before Judge Duff
of municipal court, the farce of a
$1,000 bail was placed against him.
He is charged with larceny.
Thus the courts of the bosses throw
hungry, jobless workers into Jail for
20 cents worth of food, while rack
eteers, gangsters and the big bosses
who rob the workers revel in lux
ury. This is the government of
Thompson, Of the Chicago bosses.
The jobless fight is clearly a fight
against the capitalist parties and a
fight for Communist candidates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-01
Continued

The experiment at Gigant was
commenced in 1928. The original
program called for 10000 hectares.
Gone hectars is roughly two and a
half acres) The program was ex-
ceeded by 1900 hectares. Three hun
dred thousand roubles were spent for
building purposes. In 1929, 10000
hectares was plowed by unframed
men. This yielded poor harvest,
due to severe drought. Three mil
lion, three hundred thousand $780,
OOo) pools were produced Ga pood is
So pounds) an average of 55 pools
per hectare. This was much below
the normal figures, but the expert
ment was proving to be a success.
For the same year the smaller col
lect1ve farms produced 40 pools and
the peasants only 80 pools per hec-
tare. Seven thousand $4,000 workers
were needed for the harvest. These
were scattered around in different
base camps and had to b fed by au-
tos. Small tractors, Cletracks and
Internationals mostly We're used.
These have now been replaced by
60 horsepower caterpillars. The total
income was 100000 roubles. After
wages, oil, machinery, cost of seed
grain, upkeep, depreciation, etc, had
been deducted, there remained a pro-
fit of 100000 roubles. Eighty five
percent of the grain was used for
seeding. The remainder for sale and
consumption. One million, three
hundred thousand 1,3O0,O0O) roubles
were spent for building purposes and
improvements. In 1880, 114,0o0 hec-
tares were cultivated and the cost
of seeding was cut down almost so
percent; from III roubles a hectare
to 400 roubles. Six hundred trac-
tors, 450 harvestors, 230 combines
and $50 binders are now in use.
Although the area cultivated is al
most twice that of last year, only
half the number of workers are re
CURED. The remainder, profiting by
the experience gained last year, are
now establishing other state farms
in various parts of the country. The
crop this year is a good one of high
grade grain. The units we saw be-
ing harvested were yielding IS pools
per hectare. The average wage of
a worker this year is SIS roubles per
month plus living accommodation, So
cial insurance, clothing, etc. AS the
profits of the farm increase, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-01
AF RIDI ATTACK
STILL WORRIES
BRITISH bosses
Drive in Kurran, India,
Alarms British

LONDON-The attack on the inn
perialist forces in the Kurram re-
gion of the Indian Northwest Frontier
is continuing, and is causing the i'm
perialists considerable alarm.
Reinforcements of militia have been
sent TO Kharlachi, at the head of the
kurram Valley. Repeated and heavy
attacks have been launched on this
post from the Afghan side of the
frontier. Nine men of the Kurram
Militia and three villagers who were
fighting on the British side were
wounded here on Sunday.
Troops and guns have also been
rushed from Kohat to Peiwar and
Kotal. The situation is described by
London Times" SimTa correspondent
as "the most perpIexing the gov
eminent of India has ever had to
face there"
The inperialist Press correspon-
dents are now talking of a heavy
military campaign" The conference
of military and administrative chiefs
at Peshawar on Saturday speedily
terminated, and the participants have
returned to their stations.
Their recommendations are to be
considered by the Labor Government,
which has already amply demon
strated its readiness to use all the
forces of imperialism against the re-
volt.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-01
MIL WAU. JOBLESS
MUST FIGHT BOSS
JUDGE, VOTE RED
Bosses Use Their Judge to
Evict Thousands of Job
less Workers
Milwaukee, Wis.
To the Editor of Daily Worker:

To the Editor of Daily Worker:
From day to day the workers of
Milwaukee are learning that while
in words the capitalist politicians are
advocating" unemployment relief,
in practice jailings and evictions are
the order of the day for the jobless
workers. Even the capitalist papers
of this town are forced to admit 1870
families have been "forcibly evicted"
in the first six months of this year
which is double the number of last
year.
Judge Page, who has been on the
bench of the local district court for
more than a dozen years, and who
makes it a practice never to hold
court more than two to three hours
a day, has just returned from a much
needed vacation of two months,
handing out with renewed vigor,
| savage sentences to unemployed
workers on charges Of "vagrancy,"
begging" and the like.
One worker, after looking for
job until his last penny gave out,
ready to drown himself in the lake,
walked into a lodging house and
asked to be allowed to stay there for
a week until he got a job. The owner
answered by calling the police, and
when the worker appeared in court,
he was sent up for 80 days on
charge of begging to the house
Of correction which is already over
crowded to double the capacity.
Negro workers brought into Pages
court are convicted even before they
appear as is shown by the case of one
Negro worker, although employed,
was given 80 days on a charge of
'vagrancy" without a trial. These
are only examples of the treatment
the workers, get from the. bosses
courts in Socialist Milwaukee"
The Communist Party in the pres
ent election campaign is exposing
the fake unemployment relief which
the "progressives," socialists and re-
publican politicians talk about in
their campaign speeches. The work
ers Of this city are learning that their
only solution is follow the leadership
Of the Communist Party and organ
ize for struggle against the system
which breeds unemployment, suicide
for the workers and more luxury for
the bosses. j. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-01
34% OF BRITISH TEXTILE
WORKERS UNEMPLOYED

NEW YORK. Sept. Sony view
is that the bottom is gone out of our
export trade" said Arthur Shaw of
the Bradford, England, dyers and
finishcrs union, arriving to discuss
the best means of scabbing at the
A. F. OF L. annual convention in Bos-
ton as fraternal delegate from the
British Trades Union Congress. I'm
the textile trade there are 456,00O
operatives wholly or partly unem-
ployed, or "a percent of the 1,315,oOO
operatives in the country. The ex-
port industries are suffering worst
and there are no signs OF improve
ment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-01
G. O. p, Tammany and socialists"
Join Gunner in Strikebreaking Club

ers, for it is generally believed by
those who know him that when big
ger bullets are fired at strikers, Vac
carelli and his Loyal Labor Legion
will fire them.
VaccarelIi and Green, Comrades
Vaccarelli, who is of course, presi-
dent of the Legion, never makes
move without consulting the crooked
misleaders who control the A. f. of L.
A letter written about two months
ago by Vaccarelli declared that "at
a recent meeting the names of some
prominent men were put forth by
members of the Loyal Labor Legion,
among them a very prominent inter-
national president, but we wish to
withhold the names at the present
time, as / have communicated with
President William Green of the Am
erican Federation of Labor, and other
high officials of the labor movement.
IN ORDER TO BE SET RIGHT AND
NOT MAKE ANY MISTAKES BE-
FORE THE FINAL AWARD is
MADE" Emphasis ours)
Into this picture of gunner, strike
breakers, rumrunners, Tammany
chiefs and supreme court judges
steps none other than Mathew VOL,
vice-president of the A. F. of L., the
ruling 1898" chief red-baiter and in
ventor of two-thirds of the care
stories concerning Soviet Russia.
When the New York Times next
publishes a story to the effect that
the .Five-Year Plan has collapsed, or
that revolving workers have set up
barbados in Odessa, or that high
Soviet officials insist on the right to
own at least thirty wives, or that
hordes of starving children clutter up
Moscow streets and interfere with
traffic. a little detective work win
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-01
SOLIDARITY" IN GOOD NUMBER

Articles on the latest development
in Latin America, the unemployment
crisis and the recent fascist attacks
on the Workers international Relief
Children Camps feature the October
issue of Solidarity, just off the press.
1t sells for five cents a. copy.
The magazine, which is the official
monthly organ of the w. I. R., has a
cover drawn especially by Jacob
Burck of the Daily Worker. The
articles include Latin America-An
Imperialist battle-ground" by Harry
Cannes; "They Fear the Eight
Million" by Ann North; Build the
w. I. R. Children's Scout Camps" by
Beatrice Carlin, and Solidarity with
Unemployed Is w. I. R. Slogan by
Marcel Scheror. The articles are ac-
companied by timely photographs of
the class struggle.
Subscription rates is so cents
year. They should be sent to Soil
darity, Room SIC, 949 Broadway,
New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-01
Boss Parties
Speed World War
Oakland, Cal.

OdhldIluy Sdf.
Daily Worker:
Local news on war preparations.
The VS., one OF the two largest sub
marines the U. S. Navy has just
launched at the Mare Island Navy
Yard. 1t is nearly 400 feet long
twice as long as the older S-Type. 1t
mounts two large guns and has a sur
face speed of 21 knots.
The annual armistice Army-Navy
football game, played by local teams
in the University Of California sta
dunn, will be twice as big an affair"
as any previous one, according to the
Coast Army and Navy officials. This
Is no idle boast; this purely military
advertising event has grown more
elaborate each year lately.
The boss government preparations
go on, fast and furious. This is a
vital issue facing the workers in the
elections. The parties of capitalist
wars. Republican, Democratic, $50
cialists," raise pacifism smoke screens.
Only Communists fight bosses war.
w. c.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-01
Jobless, Broke,
Shoots Self Thru Head
(BY a Worker Correspondentl

(By a Worker Correspondent
DENVER, COLO-'T shot meself
am broke and out of work. Good
by
Thus driven to black despair and
not knowing of the need for fighting
the hunger system, Peter Metcheff,
an unemployed worker, wrote the
above on an envelope and then shot
himself through the head.
Thousands here are jobless, but
suicide won't solve the question. It's
a fight for life now. The Republican,
Democratic and Socialist" parties
are sworn to perpetuate this. The
jobless must swing into the election
campaign and send their reps, the
Communists, into the halls of Con-
gress to tear bread from the grip of
the bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-01
Wage-Cuts in
Buffers Domain
(By Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
BOSTON, Mass.-A ten per-
cent wage slash was presented
200 salaried workers of the
Within Machine Works at Whit
insviIIe.
The men are working two days
a week in the blacksmith, foun-
dry and scratch department.
This is Buffers state, where
wage cuts and Iayoffs are piling
up thick, with the A. F. of L.
takers, as in New Bedford, help
ing the official boss parties
carry out this program.
The Massachusetts workers
have got to swing into the cleo
ton campaign and line up be-
hind the Communist candidates
to fight for their interests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-01
BY ALLAN JOHNSON

When Paul Vaccarelli, strikebreak-
er extraordinary, convicted gunman,
rumrunner, -prizefighter, gang
leader, saloon-keeper and intimate
friend of governors, mayors, and De-
partment of Labor executives opened
the new clubhouse of his Loyal Labor
Legion at 3427 White Plains Avenue,
among the more prominent of the
gunner and politicians who accepted
invitations to the affair were:
Governor Roosevelt, Mayor Walker.
Aldermanic President Joseph Mckee,
Supreme Court Justice John MCGEE
han and Bronx Borough President
Henry Bruckner. Included in the list
Of honorary members of this gun
men strikebreaker organization are
Joseph Miller, Borough President of
Manhattan, and appointed to the
Supreme Court bench just few
days ago; Borough President Henry
Bruckner; Commissioner William
Weber, of the Board of Education;
the Reverend James Gaffney, and
Alderman J. j. Hanley. r
Gold Medals to Labor MisIeaders
Every year the Legion proudly an
nounces it awards gold medal to
the prominent labor representative
who has done outstanding work in
the interest of working people and
organized labor in general" Organ
lied labor, Vaccarelli forgets TO mem
ton, is only one of the interests of
the Legion. According to it's consti-
tuition, the primary function of the
club is to promote good feelings be-
tween employers and employees in
organized labor"
Vaccarellis definition of good feel
ings" doesn't coincide with that of
workers, particularly striking work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-01
Chicago Workers Rally
Against Fish War Plan
(Contlnued from nage 1l

Continued from page j.
f1insiness of the accusations made
against the Soviet Union and show
wherein they are simply another at
tempt. similar to the religious at
tack of a few months ago, to stir up
public sentiment in favor of an
armed attack upon the Workers
Fatherland.
Still Preparing War
The Fish committee, with the help
of the news columns of the capitalist
papers, whose policy is in this usual
ly at variance with their own finan-
cial writers, continues to try by
propaganda questions to make a
basis for war on the U. S. S. r. by
proving that sales of Soviet wheat
on the Chicago market We're intended
to ruin the farmers prices"
In Chicago, as in New York, Fish
is having trouble whipping the grain
brokers into line. Joseph p. Griffin,
former president of the Board of
Trade Chicago wheat pitt and Chi
cago representative of j. S. Bach &
Co.. testified yesterday before the
Fish committee, the same as Bach
did in New York, that the Soviet
sales were made in a way not to in
fluence the price, and that the 7,67S,-
600 bushels sold could not lower the
pTice anyway when sales were run
ming 60,000,000 bushels a day.
Brokers Revolt
The committee yesterday sadly
heard President Bunnell inform them
that the investigation ordered by
Secretary of Agriculture Hyde had
brought out only that the whole
transaction was the acme of legality
and normality, and that the Board Of
Trade had forbidden further govern
ment participation, partly because it
was now opposed to any government,
even the u. S. government" enter
ing the market in competition to pri-
vate traders.
John L. Lewis, president Of the
shattered United Mine Workers, took
the stand to denounce Communists,
and so did M. S. Winder. executive
secretary of the semi governmental
(Hyde-controlled) American Farm
Bureau Federation. The war makers
have less difficulty in rallying to their
use these takers and betrayers of
labor and of the farmer than they
do the big business men themselves.
Vote Against Warmoneers
The Communist speaker at the
Friends of Soviet Union meeting win
urge the workers present to show
their practical opposition to the war
plans by voting Communist in this
election and thereby striking a blow
at the capitalist imperialist system
itself.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-01
BOSTON LID. FALL FESTIVAL.

BOsTON.-The Fail Festival ar
ranged by the Sacco- Vanzetti branch
of the I. L. d. will take place on
october IS, at Norton, Mass. Trans
portation from Boston and meals are
included in price of tickets, $3.50.
Tickets must be purchased in ad-
vance. Proceeds for the defense of
the Atlanta workers. Order tickets
from Sara Silver, treasurer, Fall Fes-
tival Committee, 27 Bradshaw street,
Dorchester. Mass.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-01
LEAGUE AND FRANCE
PLOT USSR EMBARGO

PARIS, France, Sept. 80. - The
League Of Nations assembly at
Geneva has voted a general "investi-
cation of dumping" directed not only
against the Soviet Union but against
U. S. and other grain exporting coun-
tries.
The French landowners and grain
capitalists are calling on the govern
ment to impose prohibitory duties on
Soviet wheat which is lowering the
price of bread. The government can
do this without new legislation, by
arbitrary executive order under a
century old law.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-01
WARNS SWEAR PLAN WORKS

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Secretary
of State Stimson woke up September
29 to the necessity that he read an
article in the October Scribners,
written by John Carter, economic ex-
pert in the Division of Western
European Affairs, on "Russia's Chal-
lenge to American Business" For
Carter declared that the Soviets'
five-year plan of industrialization is
working. He warns American CAPT
talists that it is unsafe to gamble on
the failure of the Communists to
make big business operate in their
way.
State Department officials said
Carter had not shown his article to
his superiors before publishing it,
and that he would probably be adj
vised against publishing anything
more.