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rHos. }. OWEN SON. AUcTIoNEERs.

FIVE-ROOM AND BATH COOPERATIVE
APARTMENT SUITE AT AUCTION:
BY order Gf the board Of directors Of the
Creston Apartments, Inc, and in compliance
contract between this company and its
stockholders, we will sell at public auction
snvasfH snavfaasiHrfHn1 1853 Ar Two q 1eseESoS6;K oeEo6K PM
stock certificate No. l2l for s4.3l shares OF
the common stock Of the Creston Apart
ments. Inc' representing the right ei oc-
men: No, II. containing i've rooms ana BATH
loeated In the Creston Apartment honSe'
1415 Columbia road northwest, washington.
d. G. Subject to conditions set IorIh N
uniform contract between this company ana
its stockholders.
Terms: Cash.
THoS. j. OWEN e. SON,
mh26, n. .29. 3I,Ap2.4,7 AuetiOneers.
rEIOa fa.uRAI 4 nonz AIIc.rIORLEERS.
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ADAM A. wEscHLER & SON, AuctiOnssrl

DWELLING. NO. gaia SHERMAN AVE-
NUE. NORTHWEST,
reaordea sy Es1'qs Is Il IDsr ef No. sass
OF the land records of the District of Column
Sa Sy Ss ind at rsSSsssd q
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I'M. the following described lsnd and prem.
ises, situate in the District Of coinmbis., q, to
Sf S' lots 0f In V block fs Todd and bro%ns sub
Gysion Of Mount PieasNan H9 snd sb
yeyor for the District Of Columbia; r IN ni2er Per
purposes OF assessment and taxstion rs
square asts. ..,.. ,.on.r.v w,,, h. sold sub.
ject It to prior deeds Of trust sGErsEsting
tssn q saef of IpnrcSsser At
sale li ali S eonVeysncins. sSgT Tseordins and mo-
tsrial fees st cost Of purchaser. Terms n, to
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sht to resell property st Gs ssk dSys SSseT
fisemsnt OF such resale in some newspaper
published in Washington. y, Gu, -
mh2L2sapi.s.S '-D " Trustees.
THOS. J. OWEN & SON. AUCTIONEERs.
1881 EYE ST. NV.
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ROOMS AND TILED BATH. iNCLoeED
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PORCH, HOT-WATER HEAT. HARD
WOOD FLOORS, LARGE FRAME GA
| EAGE: ASn:r LARGE LOT, NICELY LAND
recorded In Liber No. eS2l. foIie SIS ct SEQ
| ot the land records of the District of Co
lnmbia, aHd et the request OF the party
| premises, on MONDAY. THE SEVENTH
FAhRT2 oekock sRR tss iSso' foIiov,na Az SEys Nde
| scribed land and premises, situate in tht
l District of Columbia and designated as and
being lots 10 and II In square 1850 in John
| ID: Garmans subdivision OF parts OF a tract
| National City Heights" as per plat record.
| tricI Of Columbia in Liber 81 al folio a.
4 subject to restrictions of record
Terms: Sold subject to a prior deed OF
/ trust for $3.50, further particulars of which
| Will be announced at time of sale; the pur-
| chase price above said trust to be maid in
| cash, Or $500 cash, the rest In monthly in.
/ Conveyancing' recording, etc, at puFchsser',
Il cost. Terms TO be complied WITH Withird
i 30 days, otherwise deposit forfeited AZ
4 the property may be advertised and resnid
4 AZ the discretion OF the trustees. ~s0AN
EDQAR y. TURNER,
|. J, n oTTERNEBS,
mh2e-d&ds'exsu&mh7s trustees.
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(To be Continued.)
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-09

prejudice against you, as the North
American capitalist class lynchers
ana murderers of Negro workers
have against you. We realize that
men and women of the working class
are equal everywhere - whatever
their race or color-for they are
equally oppressed and exploited by
the bosses class.
"In this country our common
enemy and oppressor is the United
Fruit Company, supported and en-
couraged by governments of corrupt
and villainous native politicians.
We have seen the newspaper
advertisements of the company
in Salvador, inviting laborers
to come to this coast. Now,
what is the object of this ac-
ton of the company? Simply this,
comrades: the greater the number
of workers looking for a chance to
earn piece of bread, the greater
t competition amongst them, and
the cheaper they will sell their labor.
The company will pay what they
please and the workers will not OBJ
ject, for fear of losing the chance
to earn the hunger wage.
Capitalists Sow Prejudice.
"If in the past, you have been in
suited and even threatened bv un-
organized native workers. remember
that this race antagonism was sown
by the North American slavers.
They are responsible for poisoning
the minds of certain ignorant ma
tive workers against you. The COM
pany wants to keep us divided and
hostile to each other, so that each
group, native and Negro, will COM
pete with each other to serve the
Company better.
Workers Fight Prejudice.
eve now pledge ourselves to fight
against race prejudice and for soil
darity and brotherly spirit between
native and Negro workers. We ex-
pect your cooperation in our COM
mon fight.
"Let US organize under the lead
ership of the Federation Sindical
Hondurena. Join our labor unions.
When you meet an organizer, You
meet brother and friend: listen
to him.
"For greater fraternity between
Negro and native workers.
Let US present fighting front 20
the foreign and native bosses and
slave drivers!
"Let us present fighting front
to the foreign and native bosses
and slave drivers!
Executive Committee
"FEDERACTON SINDICAL
HONDURENA.
"San Pedro Sula, June, $780,"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-09
California Conditions Vile

ture. Only the rudest sort of hous-
ing is given tenants and none usu-
ally for casual workers. No sani-
tary provisions are made in most
places. Soil is polluted and water
made dangerous.
Drink from bitches.
Everyone drinks from irrigation
bitches in Imperial Valley" says
Erickson, "but the towns get it fill
tered. Workers dip up the water
warm and filmed. Women and chill
dren from toddlers up work in the
fields, with summer temperatures
up to 100 degrees. Mosquitoes are
fierce"
Workers responded to the avn.
U. meetings enthusiastically and
planned walkout of 5000 for June,
cantaloupe seasons opening. News
papers shouted the reds had come
and would burn and bomb bridges,
packing houses, even the Jail. South
ern Pacific Railroad sent in fifty
special deputies. The League head
quarters at Brawley was raided and
100 arrested. Of eleven held, two
were released on trial morning,
three deported, and six convicted
of violating the criminal syndical-
ism law on three counts: y belong
ing to a party (Communist) seek
ing to overthrow the government by
force; p teaching, aiding and abet-
ting this purpose; 81 conspiracy.
Others sent to San Quentin with
Erickson are Danny Roxas, Lawr-
ence Emery, and Frank Spector.
Carl Sklar and Tetsuiji Hariuchi
were sent to Folsom, though on a
first conviction. The international
Labor Defense seeks to appeal the
cases, which are the first criminal
syndicalism convictions since /. w.
w. were sent up eight years ago.
None of these remain in prison now.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-09
LUMBER BARON IN
ANTI-SOVIET DRIVE
Attempt to Cover Up Crisis in Industry, Peon-
age, Wage Cuts BY Lies Against Soviet Russia

age of 81 day in the Great South
ern Lumber Co. camps and work
only part time. In many of ths
smaller lumber camps workers earn
even less. Because of the present
crisis in lumber workers are fortu.
nate to get five months work year,
and unemployment is increasing.
"The non-timber owning indus
tries from toothpicks to collins
want Russian lumber because it is
cheaper-not due to low wages OF
Convict" labor but because lumber
is nationalized in contrast to Amer.
lean timber which is owned by
relatively few large scale operators
and sold for high speculative prices.
GAN this talk about cheap labor,
dumping and convict labor is
obviously smoke screen for more
wage cuts and to distract the at
tention of the workers from the
unemployment crisis. The fascist
insurance company head, Matthew
Woll, is making no efforts to or
ganize the American lumber work
ers who have no social insurance to
protect them. The Soviet workers,
on the other hand. are protected
against sickness. accidents, old age
and unemployment.
"The conditions in any convict
camp in Russia could not possibly
be worse than those under which
lumber workers live in the Amer
lean camps. Feudai conditions pre-
vail in the company owned towns.
Espionage is rife. Terror keeps
thousands of workers subjected to
the company's will. Ragged, tat
tered and homeless workers line the
skidroads hunting for jobs or live
in the open because they cannot pay
for a nights bed. Efforts to Or
ganize these workers in any kind
of union is met with company
police, arrests, and murder. The
American workers have not for
gotten the Buguloosa Massacre,
when gunner of the Southern Lum-
Der Co. shot down organizers of
the A. F. of L.
"The embargo on Soviet lumber
is a definite step toward open war
fare of American imperialism
against the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-09
10th ANNIVERSARY
OF SOVIET SCHUVASH
Inspiring Example of Self-Determnation in
Practice in U.SSR.-Lesson for Negro Masses

, herited from czarism. During the
czarist days, 95 per cent of the peo-
pie were illiterate, now there is
about 10 per cent illiteracy left and
this will be liquidated within one
year.
While under the czar very few
schools existed, today, under the
rule of the workers and peasants,
hundreds Of new schools are being
opned and a Schuvashian culture is
developing, as well as newspapers
and magazines in the Schuvash
language.
The Schuvash Autonomous Repub-
lie has its task in the five-year plan
and is working enthusiastically for
the fulfilment of the "five-year plan
in four years"
The Schuvashians have already
carried out their task on collec-
Invitation for this year. Because of
the enormous oak forests the lum-
Der industry is being developed. In
Scheboskar, on the banks of the
Volga River, wharves are being con-
structed to facilitate the shipment
of lumber. Also factory was COM
pleted in July, 1880, which will en-
ploy 1000 workers in building port
able houses. This factory is being
equipped with the most modern and
up-to-date machinery. A new aero
boat line, which cuts the travelling
time between Scheboksor and Mimi
Novgorod, has been established.
1t can be said that this is one
of the first such lines in Europe.
The capital investment in 1929
amounted to 3,364,OO0 roubles and
in 1928-29 it increased to 7,764,0OO
roubles. In the current year, &C.
cording to the plans, 16,4S5,O0O
roubles will be invested. This
growth of capital investments also
means the growth of production in
1926-27 amounted to 61,157,000
roubles, in 1929 reached 90,603,-
900 roubles and 1928-29 increased to
108,000,000 roubles. 1t is estimated
that this year the amount will ex-
coed 12S,000,000 roubles.
The above figures show the de-
velopment of the industry in the
Schuvash Republic, which is COM
posed of 95.4 peasants, engaged in
agriculture.
In the development of the Schu-
wash Republic the Communist Party, |
as throughout the Soviet Union, is
the leader in all of this activity. In |
this republic there are 1897 men,
bers of the Communist Party of the |
Soviet Union. There are many mass
such as the Young
Communist League, 1888 men,
bers; Pioneers, 42,085 members;
10000 in the trade unions and 1858 |
of Red Octobrists, thousands of
members in the NJ. o. P. R., Asso-
co-operatives, etc.
On the tenth anniversary the |
Schuvashian masses are marching
forward to socialism in the construc- |
ton of the new Soviety.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-09
By ESTHER LOWELL.

SAN QUENTIN, Cal, Aug. T.
Fruit and vegetable harvesting con-
diitons in California are vile. This
l learned from personal observation
as well as from the experiences of
Oscar Erickson, imprisoned farm
unionist who has worked all over
his native states agricultural areas.
Erickson and four others who
were unionizing Imperial Valley
field and packing house workers
last spring were quickly railroaded
to prison for to az year terms.
Another drew only 2 to % years!
Erickson is secretary of the Agri-
cultural Workers Industrial League
of the Trade Union Unity League
and is serving in San Quentin.
"White, Mexican, Filipino and
Negro workers staged spontaneous
strikes in January and February"
says the young prisoner. "Depres-
sion and unemployment made the
lettuce market slow; so packers or
dered wage cuts. First Mexicans
were fired and told that Filipino
field workers were taking 80 cents
instead of 35 cents an hour. When
the Mexicans submitted, the same
trick was pulled on the Filipinos.
In packing houses workers get 8
cents crate but inspectors tight
ened up and rejected so many crates
that it amounted to a wage cut. A
good packer does 400-500 crates a
day, working up to 10 hours.
White and Mexican workers bring
their families in ancient autos and
camp in the fields. Filipinos are
mostly single young men who bunk
together in tourist cabins or cheap
lodgings. Fruit tramps" these mi
gratory agricultural workers are
sometimes called, as they drift from
section to section as the crops ma
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-09
BOSSES SHOW PREJUDICE
IN CENTRAL AMERICA

CAPITALISM through the
world seeks to isolate the Negro
masses by poisoning the minds of
other workers against them. In the
United States this is accomplished
by the imperialist theology of Me-
gro inferiority and "Nordic" super
iority and "divine right" and with
the help of a corrupt and fascist
labor bureaucracy and treacherous
socialist party. In Central America
the methods are somewhat different
but the objective is the same.
In Honduras, the capitalists rep
resented by the giant United Fruit
Company which controls vast areas
and native governments in the Ca
ribbean area, are doing everything
possible to create hostility between
the native and West Indian Negro
workers. In the face of wide spread
unemployment and hunger wages
IN those employed, the United
Fruit Company has continued to
bring in Negro workers from the
West Indies under false promises of
employment at good wages. This it
does for the purpose Of sharpening
job competition among the workers
and creating hostility to the Negro
workers on the part of the native
toilers.
Native Bourgeois Betrayers.
AS is the case throughout the
world, the capitalist oppressors os
the masses have the full co-opera-
ton of the native bourgeoisie. the
workers of Honduras are organizing
into the Honduran Trade Union
Federation Federation Syndical
Hondurena) and are waging a de-
termined struggle against both the
foreign capitalist oppressors and
their native tools. The Federation
has just issued an appeal to the Ne
gro workers brought in by the
United Fruit Company from ia
maica, ETC., which we reprint here
in full because of its tremendous
significance:
Called TO Organise.
"Fellow workers:
"The Federation Sindical Hondu.
rena is a federation of labor unions
that is fighting to organize the
working class that we may obtain
better conditions and living wage
right row, and eventually, our com
plete liberation from capitalist wage
slavery.
*We come to you in a brotherly
spirit, with the assurance that you
will join Us in the common STRUGGLE
against the bosses and their bire-
lings, the brutal foremen who drive
you and speed you up for miser-
able starvation wage. We, the or
ganized native workers, hold no race
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-09

On the banks of the Volga River
is situated "Scheboksar," which lies
between "Nizni-Novgorod" and "Ka-
zan," the capital of the Tartar Re
public. This autonomous republic
cannot be found in the capitalist
biographies. Under the rule of
bloody czarism there was no Schu-
vashian Autonomous Republic. On
the contrary, the Schuvash people
were dying out "at a rate COM
parable only to the Indians in Amer
ica." By sword and fire czarism
appropriated the land of the Schu-
vashian people and turned it over
to the big landlords and capitalists.
The czarist regime set up all
kinds of restrictions in order to sup
press and exploit the "Schuva-
shians." Only little of the poorest
and unfertile soil was left to these
peasantry. The result was untold
misery and hunger. The peasantry
were even forbidden to hunt, fish and
cut timber, although more than so
per cent of this territory is covered
with timber. The native artisans
were also forbidden to sell their
products on the market to the peo-
pie and were thus compelled to sell
their products to the big landlords
and userers at low prices.
In fact, semi-feudalism existed in
this territory at the command of the
landlords. The czarist regime would
drive thousands of the Schuvasians
from town to town in order to sat
isfy the needs of labor supply of
the landlords and capitalists.
Establish Republic.
On June "a, 1880, was the tenth
anniversary of the Schuvash Auton-
omous Republic, as an equal member
of the Union of Socialist Soviet Re-
publics. These ten years of ex-
istence under the Dictatorship of
the Proletariat have shown that the
oppressed nationalities can obtain
self-determination and really de-
velop.
At this celebration of the Schu-
wash Autonomous Republic were
proletarian greetings in behalf of
the working class in these respec-
tive countries. Although the popu-
lation of Scheboksar, the capital of
Schuvash's Autonomous Republic, is
about 5000, more than $4,000 par
ticipated in the demonstration, many |
workers and peasants coming in
from the surrounding villages.
The enthusiastic demonstration |
gave US a good picture of the de-
yelopment of the Schuvash Autono-
nous Republic. With the develop
ment of new life, long, marching
columns of the Schuvashian youth !
are in the ranks of the Soviet
Physculturist; thousands of peasants
and workers as well are in the Red |
Army.
Fight Illiteracy.
The tenth anniversary of the
Schuvash Autonomous RepublicI
marks also step in the struggle
against illiteracy and darkness in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-09

leisure that the workers in the u.
S. A. Furthermore, because of that
and the regular rest periods, and the
lower tempo or intensity of the
work, the workers here are not any
way near as exhausted after the
days work as are the workers in
the U. S. A.
Vacation With Full Pay.
Again, every worker here receives
and he is obliged to take from two
to four weeks vacation each year
,oith full pay. The Caucasian
Mountains and the Crimea are sum-
mer resorts for the Russian work
ers. The beautiful summer homes
and palaces that were once built
for the exploiting landlords and
capitalists are now occupied by the
proletariat. Not only this, but once
in three years-for some workers
once in two years each and every
worker is sent for his vacation to
special workers Rest Homes" In
these rest homes the workers re-
ceive everything free, in addition
to their regular pay, and particu-
lar attention is given to any all
ment.
Unemployment Insurance.
Every worker receives full pay
for any period of sickness. He and
his family also receive free med
ical attention and treatment and all
necessary medicinals. Only in very
rare cases, when a particular and
extraordinary specialist is required,
does worker have to pay for med
ical treatment, and even then it is
very nominal amount.
All collective agreements (these
collective agreements are the most
interesting documents l have ever
read; l shall write about this anon)
require that workers be paid for
any and all time that they may be
unoccupied or unemployed, not of
their own accord. Up to certain
period this unemployment wage is
paid in full by the industry, after
that it is paid by the Strachkasse in
surance organization. Unemploy-
ment insurance applies to every
worker. The amount that the
Strachkasse pays to one who is reg
istered as unemployed depends on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-09
A LETTER FROM THE USSR

various factors, such as, whether
married, how large family, rate
of wages when employed, etc. A
poorer paid worker gets a higher
percentage than a better paid one !;
one with three children receives
more than one without children, etc.
The factor that is considered is to
give to the worker and his family
enough to live on. The amount
varies from so per cent to 100 per
cent of his regular pay.
Every worker here is insured
against old age. Every worker is
given regular physical examinations.
When a worker reaches a stage
where, in the opinion of regularly
employed Board of Physicians, it
becomes harmful for him to con-
tinue to work, he is retired. The
Russian workers, particularly the
new and young ones who have not
worked prior to the Revolution, can
not understand how the American
workers tolerate the absence of these
minimum social assurances and pro-
tections.
Refutes Capitalist Lies.
Now let me say a few words
about wages. l remember reading a
letter in the New York Times not
long before l left the States, writ
ten by one in protest against Amer
lea importing Russian coal, because,
he said, the coal is produced under
slavery wages. No one but an out
right liar would make such an as
sertion. l shall quote various wage
scales workers receive here, but be-
fore doing that let me point out
how nonsensical and ridiculously
wrong it is to compare wages in
roubles of a Russian worker with
wages in dollars of an American
worker. Here wages in roubles does
not determine the workers standard
of living. What is important and
essential, what really counts, is
what can one get for his rouble and
what the other can get for his dol
lar. But here in Russia this ques-
ton cannot be put even in this
form, for one rouble obtains more
goods, more values, to a poorer paid
worker than to better paid work.
er. For instance: worker that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-09

THE crisis in the American
lumber industry and growing
unemployment are the rea |
causes back of the agitation ag 'nst
Soviet lum' importations, it was
asserted today by Charlotte Todes
who just returned from a thorough
survey of labor and lumber condi-
lions in the south and the northwest.
Her statement was issued through
the Labor Research Association, for
whom she made the investigation.
She is the author of the Forthcoming
book Labor and Lumber, to be
issued shortly by international Pub
fishers, in which details Of labor
conditions amounting to a virtual
state of peonage are exposed and
facts presented on the wage cutting
activities of the lumber barons.
Miss Todes said:
"a fir lion / per cent of the
40 billion board feet of lumber con-
sumed in this country comes from
the Soviet Union. Soviet lumber
consists of spruce and white pine of
superior quality. Only one half
billion board feet of spruce from
Canada which in itself is evidence
that the Soviet imports do not COM
pete directly with American prod
ucts. With the depletion of the
southern timber the Atlantic Sea-
board cities must get their timber
from the far west or from foreign
sources.
"In view of these facts the ques-
ton arises as to the causes back of
this widespread opposition against
importing Soviet lumber. The large
scale operators who recently raised
cry for the tariff are pushing this
agitation because of the unusually
chaotic state of the lumber industry
and the pressure of shrinking
markets. The Long Bell Lumber
Co., the Great Southern, the Weyer-
hauser, the Walker-all of these
lumber companies operating on a
vast scale, have cut wages repeat
eddy and introduced, speed-up
systems most injurious for the
workers.
"Negro workers in the lumber
industry in the south get an aver