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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06
An Anatomical Phenomenon

jobless worker from Toledo, Ohio, sends US
in this story of case Of phenomenal anatomy
as regards chickens: ss-s
Christmas Day was the big day Of the year
here. A. @. Thatcher county commissioner elect.
who rode to political fame via the soup kitchen
route advertised far and wide that everybody
who was hungry would be given first class
Chicken Dinner Xmas at his flop house, doors
to open at II a. m.
"At 9 a. m. the line began to form and by
eleven a near riot was on. OF course. was there
to get mine and take in the sights. After about
two hours got in. When was served. made
a startling discovery. have read somewhere,
believe biblical story, about an animal with
seven heads-but here was bird with . thou
sand necks t
1.-THE chicken was all necks. The legs, breasts,
etc, just wasn't there In other words, the un-
employed of Toledo got the garbage from the
swell hotels" sss
This of course, has a joke in it. But 1t also
has lesson in it that all the bunk about the
sloppy charity hing given to the jobless is "ad-
equate.' 1t shows how cynical and hypocritical
are the crooks who are administering the dole
to the starving Of this country. Let them know
you will not stand for It'll II you want nsclz, 60
after theirsl ..-.- -.. VS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06
DAILY APPEALS TO READERS
FOR NEWS FROM ALL u. S. A.

the local press, and mail them in with your let
ter. When family is evicted, an unemployed
man or woman commits suicide, write us about
it, Go to the breadne in your home toEn, to
the flop houses and factory gates talk to the
workers there, and send in the stories they tell
you and also their comments on what should be
done If you're farmer, tell us what's hap
pening in the countryside, and what the farmers
say about it. When the local politicians pull off
some dirty deal, send it in.
Don't try to write in any high-falutin' lam
guage, but put down in simple, direct language,
just the way you would tell it to your fellow
worker ora1leighbor.
Many workers and poor-farmers do send in
letters to the Daily Worker regularly. But we
need far more, so that the Daily can reflect even
more clearly what the toiling masses are doing,
thinking and feeling, in every corner of the
country.
This appeal is also addressed to the John Reed
Club and other revolutionary writers. Here is
a chance to perform a great job for the move
ment by doing some volunteer reporting for the
Daily.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06
24@'-.A-
Laurel Takes the Laurels
By JORGE

Far from chasing the money changers OUT OF
the temple with a horse-whip, the Rev. W
Christian F. Reisner, pastor OF the broadway
Temple Methodist Episcopal Church, ACCORDING
to the N. Y. Times of Dec. 49, advocates So
gan: CLOSED banks. closed mouths!" AS quoted
the pulpit FOUNDER declared:
"If"-but Of course the if wasn't meant SER
iously-"If, the bank closings are caused by
whisperers of false tales, then they are the
worst type of traitors the world has ever seen
Beside them, Judas was an angel"
Well, that is putting it pretty thick, for
preacher to say that the betrayer of his own
Christ is an angel compared to the mythical
"whisperers" against property rights But we
have a better one than that. At Laurel, Mis-
sissippi the City Council on Dec. IS, favorably
, considered the following ordinances, subject to
final reading:
IAN ordinance to promote prosperity, advance
ment and happiness in the City of Laurel, Jones
Council, Mississippi, and prescribing penalties for
a violation thereof:
BE it ordained by the Mayor and Board Of
Commissioners of the City of Laurel, Jones
County, Mississippi
Section /. That it shall be unlawful for any
individual of any age sex or color, who has en-
ployment, or can get employment, or VINO mas
other means of subsistence, 70 in any manner
talk, suggest, intimate think that industrial,
financial or economic conditions are, or may be-
come bad
Section q That it shall be the duty of the
policemen of said City of Laurel, upon hearing
such language from any person in class men
toned above, either directly or remotely, or who
shall see ANY rerson whatsoever coming under
the provisions of this ordinance, whose coun-
tenance is not cheerful and happy, to first COM
mand such person to whistle fifteen bars Of
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah' and dance Immediately
for fifteen consecutive minutes And upon
failure of the individual to promptly comply to
said demands the officer or officers are hereby
empowered and directed to shoot such one"
One might suspect, of course that far from
anyone in New York having the laugh on the
supposedly thick town" of Laurel, that the
"hicks" have put one over on New York City,
which is so solemnly loyal to Wall Street, that
outside the Communist papers, there is not one
newspaper that does not put the first cause"
of the bank failures as due to "red rumors."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06
A Happy Free
Speech Family

We had to ghezz who Francisco Ghezzi Is
until last Sunday, when he was well advertised
A handful signed by the Anarchist Aid Society"
said in big letters that Francisco Ghezzi is be-
ing murdered by the Communist Party in Rus
STA" s4@
That would seem to make him important. So
the socialists" of the Rand School gave the
anarchists the use Of the "Debs Room to tell
all about it, decorating the walls with paintings
of nude ladies supposed to represent the future
of man, perhaps, or the Forward, or something.
This Ghezz person, it seems, was claimed to
be prosecuted by the wicked Communists in the
Soviet Union, because the good man wanted
free speech" AS a mere incident, of course, he
happened to be a spy of Mussolini. But far
from preventing anarchist interest, this rather
favored him in their eyes
And since spying on the Soviet Union is the
stock in trade of the Socialists" they, too felt
a professional affinity for Mr.. Ghezzi. Altogether
a happy family. 1t was unfortunate that Mr.
Roger Baldwin, billed to speak, failed to show
up.
But perhaps not, after all Because there was
a regular shin-dig at the meeting when one of
the anarchist family who thought that his cash
contributions to the good cause entitled him to
make remarks from the floor derogatory to the
financial integrity of his compatriot, Joseph
Cohen, editor of the 'Freie Arbeiter Stimme,"
had his Stimme suppressed by force and viol-
ence.
The matter waxed so hot, indeed, that one was
uncertain whether Mr.. Ghezzi or the exposer OF
Mr.. Cohen was the one being murdered. What
few persons there were present almost forgot the
main issue of the evening, a resolution demand
ing that the wicked Bolsheviks cease being rude
to spies and counter revolutionists, in their
excitement over the suppression of free speech
of one of their own happy family by the Others
However, they recalled the matter at the ele-
with hour and nice time was had by all. Mr.
Ghezzi, if he still lives, may feel assured that
he has friends who will sacrifice anything, even
each other, in his sake 1t was all very enlghten.
ing. Mr.. Baldwin was sorely missed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06

ORKERS and farmers, this is an appeal to
you to help improve the content OF your
per, the Daily Worker. With your help, the
lily can become even more of a great vehicle
the Expression of mass suffering and dis
1tent, and the growing mass determination to
an end to the conditions that now exist,
All across these United States, gaunt hunger
d black fear stalk through working-class
.ghborhoods and over the farmlands claiming
eir grim toll. In the midst of tremendous
alth, overlooking graneries, tons of mined coal,
ocery stores stocked with food, millions are
WHY starving and freezing to alphabetically
ng murdered by the SO who rule the country.
You Daily Worker readers, every day expert
ce yourselves these things and you come into
ntact with innumerable other workers and poor
rmers who make up this vast army of the
SCRABBLE and powerful.
The Daily asks that you be the eyes and ears
your paper that you write down and send in
us just what is happening in the part of the
untry where you live,
If a poor mans baby dies from hunger if a
rrner loses his place, write us about it,
Make a practice of clipping such items from
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06
By G. T. GRINKO

XVI
Having Smashed the state machinery of the
bourgeoisie, and, in the storm and stress of the
proletarian revolution, conquered the power of
the state, the working class, in starting to Gre
ate its own state organization bascally different
from that of the bourgeoisie-has no prepared
cadres of technicians and intellectuals. On the
day after the victorious october Revolution, be-
ing faced with the gigantic organization task of
converting the entire state politico- economic
mechanism into one single great machine, one
economic organism working to guide hundreds of
millions of people according to single plan, the
Soviet proletariat not only had no loyal quail
fled cadres Of its own but was confronted with
the active opposition and sabotage of the old
technicians. These pages from the history of
the october Revolution are still fresh in every
body's memory.
Among the most important elements of Lenin-
ism are the questions of the cultural problem
during the period of transition, the relationship
of the rising proletarian to the inherited capital
istic culture, now in process o. destruction, and
the attitude of the Soviet State toward bourgeois
specialists. In his speech to the TX Congress of
the Communist Party in March, 1920, Lenin gave
a broad historical survey of the entire problem.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06

How can these mistakes be corrected? How
can we master the art Of strike strategy? How
can we avoid these mistakes in the future?
How can we give militant and wise leadership
to the developing struggles? How can we help
to develop and hasten these struggles? These
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06
Skilled Cadres and the Revolution
BY BURCK

The bourgeois intellectuals, who are not pleased
with the course of socialist construction and who
are anxious to slide back to capitalism are even
now inclined to reproach the proletariat for an
alleged insufficient respect for science and the
carriers u scientific knowledge. 1t is not neces-
sary to say that across the Soviet frontiers the
White Guards and the reactonary foreign press
continue to tell stories about the alleged per-
sistent hostility of the victorious proletarat of
the Soviet Union to so-called cultured society
and to the representatives of scientific thought
All this talk is of course, pure nonsense There
is hardly another country in the world where sci
entific work is getting so much support from the
State as in the land of the Soviets
From The Five Year Plan of the Soviet
Union, by G. T. Grinko, one of the original
collabOrators the Five-Year Plan of So
cialiSt industrializatiOn complete account
of the Plan, containing the first two years
of its operation and political estimate of
its place i'm world economy.
BY special arrangement with Interna-
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06
Our Mistakes in Strike Leadership

questions will be discussed in Labor Unity for
the next few weeks. It is to solve these ques-
lions that we invite the widest discussion of the
strike struggles in the past. But these cues
tons cannot be solved correctly without the aid
OF the experiences of the r. L L. u and its
sections in the various countries The expert
ences of the Red International of Labor Unions
have been very rich in the period since the
Fourth World Congress in March of 1928 1t
IS these experiences OF the new methods to be
applied to the strike struggle in the present
priod that we must study in order to learn how
to give leadership to the masses. Were we equip
ped with these experiences though we might
have made some mistakes we could not have
made such disastrous mistakes and certainly
would not repeat these same mistakes again and
again. 1t is the failure to learn from interna-
tional experiences and draw the lessons from
our own work that has brought on these recur-
ring mistakes
Study Problems of Strike Strategy"
Fortunately the R. T. L. u has compiled the
lessons Of all these experiences on strike strategy
into little booklet. The Trade Union Uniay
League has published this pamphlet and it is
now available for every member of the T. U. U.
L. and every revolutionary worker 1t should be
read and studied by all locals and shop groups
of the T. U. U. L., by all members of workers
organizations. Every worker who learns about
the existence IF this treasure must Immediately
secure copy. Study groups should be formed
in every T. U. II. l.. local and groups in every
workers organization for the study of STRIKE
STRATEGY, which is, by the way the name
given the pamphlet. In addition to the wealth
of world experiences in Strike Strategy" there
is also an introduction by Comrade Losovsky
the general secretary of the r. l. L. u, and
preface by William F. Dunno of the Trade Union
Unity League.
Organize Study Groups.
This pamphlet, which was originally printed
at the low price of Is cents to make it available
to every worker, has now been further reduced
to 10 cents, SO that every employed well rs I'M
employed worker who wants to read it, can do
so. Groups organized for the study of STRIKE
STRATEGY in cities where there is no T. u u
L. office from where it can be bought, can Sc
cure larget numbers directly from the T. U. u
L. headquarters or through the Office of Labor
Unity Orders, which must be accompanied by
cash, should be sent to the T. U. u. L. office
2 w. 18th st, New York City, cents per copy
for bundle orders of 10 or more, 10 cents per
copy for smaller orders.
A serious study of STRIKE STRATEGY and
a wide discussion ON our experiences in the re-
of the principal steps in the immediate prepara-
ton and leadership of the already ripe and de-
veloping strike struggles
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06
BY JACK STACHEL.

DURING the past year the Trade Union Unity
" League unions have been engaged in leading
a number of important strikes. We were also
confronted during this period by number of
strikes led by the A. F. of L. bureaucrats strikes
that were forced upon these bureaucrats by the
rank and file workers and which they entered to
defeat.
Some o. these strike struggles have already
been reviewed in the Daily Worker and Labor
Unity others have received no attention at all.
In order to draw the lessons of these strikes,
to enrich the experience of the left wing unions,
1t is necessary to thoroughly analyze these
strikes. This we shall attempt to do in series
of articles in Labor Unity to begin shortly 1t is
of course necessary that the comrades active in
the leadership of these strikes, and the rank and
file workers who participated in these strikes
shall critically examine these struggles in the
columns of the Labor Unity.
Repeating Same Mistakes.
But it is already clear even from the available
information that has been given in our press that
practically all these strikes saw repetition of
the same mistakes For example all the strikes
suffered from lack of preparation. Of this we
had the best example recently on the Philadel-
phia water front when the strike called by the
Marine Workers Union did not materialize at
all. This lack of preparation was also evident in
the Illinois Miners strike. Another mistake COM
mon to all strikes is the failure to understand the
meaning of, and how to carry through the indie
pendent leadership Of the strikes by the TUUL
unions. This was the case in the Flint strike
where the comrades failed to recognize social re-
formism, and to struggle against 1t when it was
cloaked in garments other than the official A. F.
OF L. or Musteites against whom a sharp struggle
was carried on This was the case in the I'm
.perial Valley strike of the agricultural workers.
and many other struggles. Another typical mis-
take is the failure to follow up the work after
the strike is over This is true in every strug-
gle in which we entered This mistake is the
twin brother of the failure to organize and pre-
pare for the strike. This failure is to be OBJ
served in the Flint Illinois miners, Philadelphia
and Needle Trades strikes, in fact it is difficult
to find IN instance where this was not the case.
As for winning the masses and carrying thru
the slogan of independent leadership in the
struggles conducted by the A. F. of L., we have
completely failed. Danville, Reading, New Orle-
ans the strike in local No. 38 of the ILGWU, are
typical examples.
Failure to Draw Lessons.
How can these mistakes be corrected? How
can we master the art of strike strategy? How
can we avoid these mistakes in the future?
How can we give militant and wise leadership
to the developing struggles? How can we help
to develop and hasten these struggles? These
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06
ON The SOUTHERN FRONT
BY HELEN MARCY.

DURING the five months of it's existence the
Southern Worker has made itself felt as
real vital force in the building of the revolu-
tionary movement of the South.
Workers and farmers of the South, both Ne
gro and white, look to the Southern Worker for
guidance and leadership in their struggles. The
Southern Worker is fighting for the unity of
white and Negro workers, organizing them
against their class enemies 1t is showing up the
treachery of the American Federation of Labor
denouncing and fighting the lynchings, Jim
CrowiSm and persecution of the Negro workers,
rallying the farm poems and share troopers to
fight against bonding themselves. The Southern
Worker is raIlying the working class of the
South to militant protest against the interven-
ton plans of the allied imperialist powers against
the Soviet Union.
In the fight for unemployment insurance, the
Southern Worker is playing a leading role in
acquanting the workers with the Workers I'm
employment Insurance Bill ana is conducting an
energetic campaign to get Thousands of sigma
lures from workers and farmers throughout the
South.
This small, four-page paper has become pow
erful weapon in the hands of the workers. 1t
is sold and distributed in the shops and mills.
Slowly and laboriously it passes from the hands
of farmer to another. Southern Workers
not thrown away. They are passed on, from
one worker to another, until the print becomes
unreliable. AS the paper is so passed it gains
force and through it our movement in the South
is daily growing stronger
The Southern Worker has become forum for
the expression of the workers and farmers. En-
tire groups of workers write in regularly to the
paper about their problems -workers from the
steel mills OF Birmingham, Alabama, the textile
mills of Greenville, South Carolina, share CROP
pers of Whitney, Ala, rayon workers of Eliza
bethton, Tenn, miserably prosecuted land labor
ers of Mississippi longshoremen from all the
gulf ports, from every corner of the South pledg-
ing their solidarity pleading for organization
and leadership
The workers and farmers of the South are
ready for struggles. They need the Southern
Worker Without the Southern Worker it will
not be possible to build mass revolutionary trade
unions in the South The Southern Worker can
penetrate through the viciousness and ferocity
of lynch law town, to farm poems imprisoned
farm plantations, to company towns where
the bosses terror renders the workers virtual
slaves.
The Southern Worker must grow and spread
like close woven net over the entire South.
The worker of the South has lower ste.'dard of
living than anywhere in the nation. They are
giving their pennies and nckels to keep the
paper going But this is not enough, and the
Southern Worker is in a precarious financial
situation.
Workers of the Northl Show your solidarity
with the oppressed masses of the South! You
raised the funds to start the paper. You must
not fail your fellow workers now. The Southern
Worker needs your immediate help. Keep the
Southern Worker going!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06

the revolutionary struggle
According to the London Times, the Al-Indian
Trade Union Congress is preparing for a general
strike on the railways. There are undoubted
signs" writes the Bombay correspondent of this
paper. on December 3rd, that Communism is
gaining an ascendency in some of the unions,
and that at least one important development in
that direction is likely to be announced soon."
What this deveil pment is to be we do not know,
but what we do know and what the Indian toll
ing masses are coming to realize is that only
under the hegemony of the working class and the
leadership of the Communist Party can they de-
feat the plans of the British imperialistS and
avert the betrayal of the revolution by the Indian
bourgeoiSie.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06

poses the maneuvers of the national bourgeoisie,
which looks towards compromise with British
imperialism, and condem the Round Table
Conference and the Indian trade union bureau
Gratis as tools of British imperialism. The pas
sage of this resolution shows the increasing pres
sure of the proletarian masses on the trade union
reformists as well as the growing influence of
the Indian Communists in the trade unions.
This is presumably the important development
the London Times correspondent referred to
aove.
The revolutionary crisis in India is growing
deeper every day. The actual carrying into
practice of the decision on the general strike,
coupled with the spreading revolts of the Indian
peasantry now seething even in the Burman
jungles, will mark the beginning of the real rev.
olution in India.
Our Duty to Fight Of Indian Masses
In this life and death struggle OF the Indian
masses for national liberation the American
workers and the colonial workers in this coun-
try have great duty to perform The duty
consists in strengthening and widening the anti
imperialist movement in the United States. The
creation of real mass basis for the Anti I'M
perialist League, the formation of strong, mill
tant anti-mperialist organization, is the
necessary condition for actual support to the
Indian revolution. To this end must now be di-
rected all the energy and efforts of all sincere
anti -imperialists In the United Statesa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-12
TURNESA SET PACE
IN BRITISH EVENT
Has 142 at Southport as He
and Smith Have Second
Round Cards of SO.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
- OUTHPORT, England, May ~
Joe Turnesa of Elmsford, N. Y,
and Horton Smith of New York,
today scored COS over the short
but tricky Hesketh course to share
honors of the second qualifying round
of the $500 Southport Professional
Golf Tournament.
Turnesa's SO gave him a two-day
36-hole total of 142 and a big lead over
the first finiShers in the big qualifying
field of 800.
Turnesa's round included not more
than three faulty shots and many bril-
liant ones while Smiths only error was
three putting the third green. Smiths
SO gave him two-day total of lat as
he had a mediocre 70 yesterday over
the Southport Ainsdale links. Par of
the Hesketh course is II.
Joe Kirkwood, the third American to
finish, added a IS today to the same
score of yesterday for total of 1856,
believed good enough to qualify him
among the 100 who will compete at
medal play in the ~ holes of the
tournament proper.
Harry Hall, 46-year-old Lancaster
pro, who led the field yesterday with
a record-breaking 10, could do no bet
ter than 70 today.
Audrey Boomer shot 14S total, Abe
Mitchell, 1852; George Gadd, $50; H. C.
Jolly, 157, and r. A. Whitcombe, i52.
Jose Jurado. Argentine. put a "A to
his 10 Of yesterday for 153. Tomasco
Genta, Argentine open champion, added
rs to his II for 152, and Hector
Freccero had rs for a 36-hole score
of ISL.