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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-26
20 Per Cent Wage Increase
For Miners In Soviet Union


MOSCOW. Feb. 25.--At the very
time that the capitalist mine owners
in the bourgeois countries, with the
assistance of the social-fascists are
engaged in viciously slashin the al
ready starvation wages of their mine
workers, the Supreme Economic
Council of the Soviet Union an
nounces an increase of 20 per cent in
the wages of the Soviet miners. This
decision closely follows previous de-
cisions of the Soviet Government to
increase wages for railwaynen and
water transport workers.
The decision ordering the increase
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-26

GERMANY'S JOBLESS JUMP TO
100000
BERLIN. - Germany's unemployed
on February 18th totaled 4,991 900, an
increase of 100000 in two weeks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-26
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-26
SMALL FACTORY
TOWNS AROUSED
United Front of Negro
and White in Texas

At the time the Daily Worker
went to press, most of the demon
STATIONS in cities other than New
York had not been heard from, but
some news had been received on
those printed below.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-26
6.ONO in Lawrence,

6,UUO IN Lawrence.
LAWRENCE, Mass, Feb. 25.-A
mass demonstration for immediate
relief to the unemployed was held
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-24
Monster Mass Meet in Harlan, KY.
To Protest Terror and PREPARE Strike

bills" state troopers. They took the
commissary off the property to starve
the miners until the strike in Brush
Creek section.
The Whitfield local union has been
established one hundred per cent. A
local has also been established at
Anchor Block, one at Fayette, Jellico
and Gatliff. Eight miners have been
fired at the Kay Jay mine for union
activity.
Since the meeting in Tennessee
Sterling mine has added two gun
men. at Eagan, Tennessee, Turn
blazer of the United Mine Workers
offered the men twenty-five per
cent commission on all U.MW.A. APP
plications signed up.
Sheriff Blair of Harlan County is
reported to have sworn in close to
seventy-five new thugs in the last
few days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-24
WELL open | SOVIET FURNACE FOR EACH SHUT in U.s.
Forward to February 4th

FEBRUARY must be day Of gigantic mass protest against
the whole Hoover Hunger
relief the bilonae
bankers industrial lords-not for workers.
proposal for government
lief the the relief of this OF 100000 whose
ranks growing daily
proposals like those of
appropriation OO0O00 be used to set forced
establish number OF pt-making
which would immensely benefit the mibonares like Hearst
invested in real estate
anything yet witnessed the United
publicity the the amount of "fed
The which these
aside for this
Observation-Disclosures each of the unemployed to
about $11 year!
stanch Wall Street sheet that it IS is
total Hoover
state
tiors American cities, amounts less than
This that far anything amounting to real relief con
the unemployed and their dependents
at the of the
dependents the workers still jobs with their cuts
part time work.
the splendid literature being published by
Councils Stimulate the local struggles against evons
immediate relief
Pcra the February meetings and demonstrations
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-24
ORGANIZE FIGHT
TO FREE BERKMAN
Biedenkarp Tours New
England on Case

The International Labor Defense
Eastern New England District, is
calling upon all workers and working
class organizations to rally to the
defense of Edith Berkman, twenty
eight year old militant organizer of
the National Textile Workers Union
and leader of the Lawrence textile
strike. The attempted deportation of
Berkman is part of a scheme worked
out by the U. S. Department of Labor
to lay the basis for outlawing all
militant fighting unions, and to make
membership in such organizations
cause for deportation.
Biedenkapp who is touring New
England as part of the fight to free
9erkman, covering the larger indus
trial towns.
Biedenkapp addressed an enthu
siastic meeting at Lithuanian Hall,
Worcester, on Sunday, Dec. 20, under
the auspices of the Mooney Harlan
Scottsboro Conference. $50 were pre-
sent. His next dates are: Lawrence,
Dec. 81; (Aft); Haverhill, Dec. 81
(eve); Brockton, Dec. %; Providence,
Dec. 90; Boston, Dec. 30; West Con-
cord, N. H., Jan. l.; Fitchburg, Jan.
2; New Bedford, Jan. g. On Thurs
day, Dec. "a, Biedenkapp speaks at
the Party Bazaar at New Internal
tional Hall, Boston, Mass.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-24
The Unity of City and Country
Against the Hoover Hunger
Program

unbearabe
problem millions of workers-that is
conduct the fight for a livelihood
coming to the Daily Worker as tn efol-
a Northern Minnesota:
conditions Milk from four brings
they make him
daily"
against starvation the all the farmers here
handed out all the Dale sent
the farmers in this section
comrades especially in connection with the
the Hoover hunger should
establishing united front
against the mill elevator dairy companies
state governments the
high workers. against high
and
farming strikes,
the drive.
possible the unity of the toers of the city and
this unity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-24
CUT PRESSMEN'S
WAGES Tsp. c. PUT
STAGGER PLAN IN
A. F. L. Leaders Help
Put Plan Through

NEW YORK.-At a meeting of the
Pressmen's Union. Local No. 81, the
Perry Conway strike breaking clique
succeeded in putting through plan
proposed by the bosses and agreed
to by the officials of the union.
The plan calls for a IS per cent
wage-cut for those pressmen who are
employed three or more days a week.
This was done under the guise of
helping the unemployed pressmen
In reality it is the first blow at the
former highly paid pressmen who up
to now thought they were exempt
from the wage-cutting drive OF the
bosses.
The plan provides for a deduction
of Is per cent of the pressmen's pay
and the formation OF a fund" with
which the bosses are supposed to give
employment to those pressmen who
are out Of jobs. The rate for those
who are employed through this fund
viii receive IS per day instead OF the
former rate of SLOTS.
This plan acconplishes two main
aims for the bcsces. 1t cuts the
wages Of those employed Is per cent.
1t reduces the wages Of the unem-
ployed who are given jobs SETS PER
day, and puts the employers in the
position of being able to use the labor
of pressmen without paying cent
out Of their cwn pockets.
To crown Their treachery. the
union officials agreed to waive the 81
raise due the pres5men at the BEGIN
ming Of the coming year. They fur
Their consented to open negotiations
f7r "aGjustn mt CT wages in April
1892. ard to withdraw the ruling
w'.ere'" the tcsee were com. elled to
ray al additional so cents for extra
work.
The extra pressmen added to the
force of any plant are limited to
three days work at the most. thus
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-24

Another meeting will be held on
Saturday at one o'clock at Bryson,
Tennessee. Next Tuesday at six pm.
there will be meeting at Davis
burgh, as we'll as at Tinsley, Ken
lucky, where Negro is held of the
local, on Sunday, at 1880 pm.
At meeting of the District Board
last night with representatives from
Tennessee, members reported the fol-
lowing; Fox Ridge, Tennessee oper-
ator will shut down the mine and re-
open on January 1. The men say.
Hell shut down now, we'll shut down
after January L."
The Glendon woman's branch pas
sed resolution to organize the chill
dren of Camp Premier. The mine
superintendent, Joe Hendring, says
he will run the mine after January
L if it takes the United States troops
and won't trouble to use the "tin
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-24
Spur Drive for Unemployed
Insurance; Rally February +
Chicago Charity Kills
Jobless Worker by
Refusing Aid
Masses Are Indignant
Arouse Workers for A
Determined Struggle

CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 23.-Living in
the vicinity of the stockyards, which
is overloaded with food, Marion
Whittenberg, an unemployes worker
died of slow starvation.
The Unemployed Council had on
numerous occasions demanded relief
for him from the United Charities
but was refused on the ground that
he was single. When Whittenberg
was unable to move any longer, slow
ly dying of hunger, the Unemployed
Council forced the United Charities
to send a doctor, but it was too late
The next day Whittenberg died.
A few hours before he died, Mrs
Rom of the United Charities gave an
order for two dollars worth of gro
ceries and hail ton of coal. 1t was
not needed any more by Whittenberg
He did not touch any food as he
could no longer eat.
Fear Mass Exposure.
An attempt is being made by the
United Charities to prevent public
inquest, fearing exposure of starva-
ton as the result of the refusal OF
relief for the unemployed, especially
the single workers.
The death of this unemployed
worker has aroused the indignation
of the masses. The Unemployed
Council and other workers organi-
cations are preparing mass funeral
Saturday, December IS. The body
of the unemployed worker was placed
in the Workers Hall, 4848 South Ash
land Ave.
Seven hundred thousand unem-
ployed workers in Chicago are slowly
starving in the face of plenty. The
Unemployed Council is rousing all
workers to mobilize for struggle for
unemployment insurance, the first
big objective being huge rally for
February 4th, National Unemploy-
ment Insurance Day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-24
USSR GOVT BODY
CHEERFUL OVER
GREAT ADVANCES
Bosses Admit U. S.
Faces Gloomy Future

NEW YORK, N. Y.-"Cheerful-
ness" good hu1nor and high spirits. y
are the expressions used by capitalist
newspaper correspondents in Moscow
describing the opening of the Cen
trail Committee of the ALL Union Con-
gress of Soviets, which convened
evoked by the opening of the Con-
gress of the American capitalists.
"Cheerfulness was the keynote at
the opening of the All-Union Parlia-
ment this evening"" cabled Walter
Duranty, New York Times cores
pondent in the U.S.S.R., ''as the as
sembly listened to the speech of Pre-
mier Molotoff"
The Associated Press added: "Rus-
sian officials prepared, with high
spirits and good humor, today to at
tack the problem of completing the
Five-Year Plan in 1882, backed by
the enthusiasm of rally last night
in the former throne room of the
Cars at the Kremlin"
Molotoff in his report to the So
Wet Congress told of the advances
of the Five Year Plan. eve are
trying to erect next year more blast
furnaces than the United States
closed down." he said. He told of
the expectation of complete col
Iectivization of agriculture next year
when the Five-Year Plan called
for only 40 per cent colIectivization.
On the other hand in the capital
list countries, and particularly in the
United States Congress, there was the
gloomy picture of growing decay and
crisis. "The crisis in the United
States is now worse than it was last
June" said F. H. Ecker, president
of the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Co., the largest in the world, before
a Senate Committee. "This country
is like a patient approaching the
crisis when the patient either gets
well or dies"
While this testimony was being
given to the Senate Committee, the
Soviet representatives were gathering
nj Moscow from the mines, mills, fac
tories, collective farms where Social
ism is being built and where the con-
ditions of the workers are improving
at rapid pace, and where unem-
ployment has been eliminated.
The gloom and the desperation of
the United States was stressed also
by Sir Arthur Duckham, president
of the Federation of British Indus
tries, who returned to London on the
day the Soviet Congress opened in
Moscow. Il have never seen the
United States so depressed and
gloomy as I observed it this time"
said Sir Arthur.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-24
Soviet Achievement is
Spur to Drive for
JObless Insurance
Organization Is Need
Hunger Grows In u. S.
Where Rich Rule

NEW YORK. The
sharp contrast of the
growing mass hunger
in the United States as
compared to the disap-
pearance of unemployment in
the Soviet Union, was the out
standing feature of the report
of the American Workers Del
egation in their interview with
Herbert Benjamin, national secretary
of the Unemployed Council who met
them on their arrival in this country.
What the Workers Delegation tells
us" said Benjamin, should spur
every worker, employed and unem-
ployed to re-double the mobilization
for unemployment insurance in the
United States where the richest capt.
talists in the world condemn 12,OOO.-
600 unemployed and their families to
death by starvation.
1.-THE immediate objective in this
struggle is a nationwide mobiliza-
ton for February 4th, which has been
designated National Unemployment
Insurance Day. In every important
industry center in the United States
those who took part in the National
Hunger March to Washington are
taking the leading part in building
up a stronger, better organized move
ment of the unemployed.
1.-THE conditions described by the
Workers Delegation are in marked
contrast to conditions in the United
States-the richest capitalist country
in the world. The fact that there is
no unemployment, but on the con-
trary, a shortage of labor in the
U.S.S.R., is the best answer to those
who regard mass Unemployment and
mass misery such as prevails in all
capitalist countries, as natural and as
something that must be accepted with
patience and fortitude as inevitable.
"Of equal significance and import
ance are the reports about the COM
prehenSive system of social insur-
ance which relieves the masses of the
Soviet Union Of the constant inse-
curity which is the lot of the work
ers in all capitalist countries. That
the Soviet Government which can not
boast of the developed resources and
wealth which abounds in this country
is able to provide adequate compen-
sation equal to full wages, for workers
who must leave their jobs because of
accident, sickness, old age and ma
ternity and provides for support of
families left without other means of
support due to the death of the wage
Garner, certainly proves that the
workers Of this country who make
such demands are not asking for
something that is unrealizeable and
unreasonable"
''The Unemployed Councils will do
everything possible to popularize the
facts about conditions of the workers
in the Soviet Union as gathered by
the Delegation. This is of
utmost importance to the struggle
which we are now developing for
similar conditions in this country"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-24
Only 232 Months of Subs in
Tuesdays Mail; Do Not Lag
Behind Rising Tide of Struggle

nNLY 232 months of subscriptions to the Daily Worker
" came in on Tuesday. This represents $116 as COM
pared with $377. so for last Saturday and Monday.
The level at the beginning of this week in the cam
pagn 5000 12month subscriptions to the Daily Worker
was therefore not maintained This cannot be tolerated
if the campaign is to be finished on schedule.
The New York District is the only one to raise its
level sending in lit months of subs but Chicago has al
lowed New York to creep by sending in only two months
subs. Cleveland and Detroit which began WELL also
sackenng The far western districts still far far be-
hind.
TIME subscription drive is too important to be allowed
to lag hebind other revolutionary activities. little
more than week 900 Kentucky miners, under the lead
ershp of the National Miners Union will go out strike
against ntoerabe conditions With the return of the Ma
tona Hunger Marchers preparations have actively
forward the national demonstration February 4h for
Unemployment Insurance.
celebration of the Eighth Anniversary
effort NOW in the subscription
celebration will be able to talk not only
glorious
you will have helped to build
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-24

PINEVILLE, KY, Dec. %.
"A decision was made to hold
a monster mass meeting in
Harlan County on Sunday.
The meeting will be held at
Williams Theatre, Wallins Creek,
Kentucky, at $3.50 in the morning.
Thousands of leaflets have been is
sued. kilograms are to be sent to
the Governor OF Kentucky and Sher-
if Blair holding them responsible
for any disorder at the meeting.
The meeting is being called in pre-
paration for the strike and in pro-
test against the terror. Miners from
all over Harlan County will come in
to the meeting to break the terror.
At the meeting to be held tonight
at Carey, J. E. Payne, Jim Garlan
Bill Meeks and Joe Weber are to
be the speakers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-24
300 Building Workers
Rush for Job: Hire Is
(By a Worker Correspondent


NEW YORK-The other day a
report was circulated around New
York among the building mechanics
that more men we're to be hired on
the new Metropolitan Life Insurance
building. This building and several
more are being put up on the two
billion dollars accrued" from lapsed
policies in the last few years.
When the head foreman came to
work a day after the report circu-
lated 300 men surrounded him. In
order to calm them he gave out slips
of paper to all that he could reach.
Then a big box was filled with these
papers. Each man had written his
name on one. A boy picked out the
slip blindly. Just Is lucky" men
went to work out Of the 300.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-24
MOLOTOV TELLS OF VICTORY
OF 5-YEAR PLAN; WARNS OF
lMPERlALIST WAR PLANS
Soviet Union Stands Firm for Peace, But Will
Not Yield An Inch of Soviet Soil to
Imperialists
MolOtov Contrasts Soviet Progress With Pow
erty and Decline in Capitalist Countries
Gable hY Innrecnrrl

MOSCOW, Dec. 23.-In the midst of the
sharpening crisis in the capitalist world and
the decline of its industries, with the success
full closing of the third and decisive year of
the Five ear Plan of socialist construction, all
forces of the Soviet and being mustered
for the triumphant completion of the plan four years by the
end of 1882 and for the continuance of the Soviet film policy
of declared Mooov chairman of the Council of Peoples
Comssar his report to the second the Central
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-24

putting tl,2r, on the stsgsar plan at
reduced wages.
VITA the ruttinJ into effect of this
5tsJger system plan an
ororing kiss bsen made in the for
mcrly wcll protected pressmen's
Union. 1t is the beginning of a
sN'e5- ne g, six or TIER wcges. hours
erd working conditions the begin
nirg Of the end OF the aristocratic
petitions formerly held by the Press
mems Union, as well as the wedge
for an attack on the wages of all
printing trades workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-24

Executive Committee of the Soviet
Union held in the Kremlin on the
evening of December 22nd.
Molotov's speech was enthusiastic
ally received by more than 400 work.
ers, peasants, Red Army and navy
delegates sent by the seven republics
constituting the Soviet Union, while
foreign diplomatic corps and press
correspondents from many countries
turned out in full for this session.
On the rostrum we're such leading
political figures as Kalinin, Litvinov,
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-24
arty Members In
Unemployed Work to
Report to District

All Party members in charge of
unemployed work in the sections
and who participated in the I'm
employed Branches are instructed
TO report tonight at I pm. at the
District Office for a very import
ant meeting, according to deci-
sion of the District Committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-24
LID. DenOnnces Murder of
Ross; Calls Tor Mass Fight
To Free Sc0ttsb0ro Boys

NEW YORK. lJenouncing the legal
murder by ulIe State of Texas last
Friday of the innocent Negro youth,
carney Lee Ross, the international
Labor Defense yesterday issued call
for renewed vigilance and militant
mass demonstrative actions In the
fight to smash the lynch verdict
against the 8 Scottsboro Negro boys.
The I. L. D. yesterday sent the fol-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-24
Wage Cuts Announced.

CHICAGO, Dec. 23.-Notice of a
Is per cent wage cut was issued to
railroad workers in the West by the
Association of Western Railways.
Engineers, firemen, conductors, train
men, yardmen and hostlers will be
affected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-24

lowing telegram to the lynch governor
Ross D. Sterling of Texas:
Millions of Negro and white
workers and poor farmers in this
and other countries denounce you
and your government for the re-
cent murder of the innocent young
worker, Barney Lee Ross. We
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NOTICE

Glasses VII be held as usual on
Dec. "a and 25 There will be
gene. al assembly of all students
on Monday, Dec. %, at 8 pm. at
the Se'>>col.
Workers School Committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-24

the U.S.S.R.
With eyes still aglow from
the wonders they had seen in
the Workers Fatherland, the
main body of two delegations
of American working men and
women, who went to the Soviet I'm
ion to attend the fourteenth ami
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-24

versary of the Russian revolution
came down the third class gang
plank of the SIS. Acquitania yester-
day morning at pier SIS where they
gave an enthusiastic report on the
tremendous strides forward Of the
Five Year Plan and the rapid ad-
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-24
u. S. PREPARES HUGE
FLEET FOR MANOUVERS'
IN FAR EAST WATERS
White Guards Training Terrorist Force for
Coming Armed Intervention Against
Soviet Union

The japanese yesterday speeded their ruthless
determination aimed at crushing the heroic resistance of the
Manhuran Five strong columns Japanese troops
engaged in sweeping throughout Manchura
The Japanese navy has been ordered into action help in crush
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-24

ing The tremendous upsurge Of the
mass anti-imperialist movement in
China.
Japanese war ships have been or
dered to the ports of China proper
which are near the Manchurian Dor
der. The movement to seize Chin
chow and extend Japanese control to
the Great Wall of China is in full
swing.
The Manchurian masses and their
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-24
American Delegation
Returns from U,S.S.R.
Contrasts Soviet Social Insurance With Hoover
Hunger Program; Calls for Fight for I'm
employment Insurance in u. S. A.
BULLETIN.

meeting hear the of the returned American
Delegation Sunday
of
o he Soviet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-24

NEW YORK.-"Nothing | have in all my life com
with what saw the Soviet Union said John Robinson
Negro coal miner from Pennsylvania and member of the
American workers delegation which returned yesterday from
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-24

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