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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13
yezr ago.

year ago.
Not only the workers at the bench but also
many OF the engineers who came to Russia to
work have become affected by the spirit OF col
lective life Inspired by the Russian workers
zeal for more technical knowledge, many engin-
GERS are instructing classes in their free time
Soviet workers are quick to recognize and ap-
preciate the contribution which workers from
other countries have to make to their life One
American worker, Joe Mcdowell, son Kansas
farmer, recently won the highest honor awarded
In the Soviet Union,-the Order of Lenin. This
distinguished award was voted to MacDowell by
his Russian comrades through an al-Russian
committee at a session last June in recognition
OF his service. The Lenin insignia, is medal
two and a half inches in diameter set on red
cloth, bearing a miniature OF the great Bolshevik
leader and carrying with it not only public
honor but also various privileges, such as free
use OF the trains and street-cars, and tax reduc-
tons, Joe Mcdowell has been in Russia since
1923, working on farms and in factories, and has
several agricultural inventions to his credit He
received his award this September along with
seventeen Russian workers and peasants, one OF
them woman, in the old palace of the Kren-
lin, once the stronghold Of the czars, and from
the hands OF the most distinguished Russian
peasant Kalinin, President OF the Union OF
Socialist Soviet Republics.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13
Food-And Rumors of Food

The Helena, Montana, Independent" of Oct
49, in boosting the Red Cross drive for funds
takes occasion to attack what 1t calls 'r,,mors"
of the hardships being suffered by "dry-landers,~
whom you city folks should know are those
farmers who try to raise crops on land which
gets less than is inches of moisture precipitation
during year.
One OF these "rurnors" is that the dry-landers
many Of whom in the northeast section OF Nom
tana, got no rain at all and hence no crop at all
this year, are canning gophers for winter meat"
If you don't know what a gopher is, look 1t up
in the dictionary.
But the Helena Independent" gets wratl1y
about this "rumor" which we are inclined to be-
heve may be true. And it proclaims that
"Inasmuch as sheep companies are offering
free mutton to anybody who will take 1t away,
the gopher yarn Is scheduled to fade shortly"
The only thing about THAT, is the fact that
the free mutton is something nearly as bad
as gopher when you get 1t, and you'll have hard
time finding out just which sheep companies are
suffering from enlargement of the heart. So says
a comrade from that neck Of woods.
1.-THE fact Of the matter is that few or per-
haps one or two companies, found that they could
not carry theiry 'gumn1ers'-ewes without teeth
through to profitable market this winter, be-
cause these guInmers must be fed ground alfal~
ia, ETC., for some time to make them fit for
market. And unless they are thus fattened, they
are little better than gophers. And again there
are the robber railroad shipping charges to the
starvation sections"
incidentally. for you folks in New York who
are paying so cents dozen for eggs, and As or
SO cents a pound for butter, If you have that
much cents. we noted in recent issue OF the
Producers News, of Plentywood, Montana, that
at local markets the farmers were getting Is
cents dozen for eggs and 20 cents pound for
butter. Monopolist capitalism will starve you to
death if you don't make tight against this
robbery.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13
Japan Seeks to Provoke the
Soviet Union
By BURcK

rious things we're discussed. The constant allu-
sons of the imperiaIst press (and above all of
the social democratic press, the appearance of
white guardist bands in Manchuria have clearly
indicated right from the commencement of the
Japanese robber campaign, that the threat to the
Soviet Union could become Immediately palpable
at any moment. Trial balloons we're repeatedly
sent up which spoke of concentration of Soviet
troops, recommending flights by Soviet aircraft
and SO forth. The categorical refutatons of these
reports by the Soviet government, the plain and
consistent attitude OF the proletarian power
since the commencement of the Japanese cam
paign prove that Comrade Stains declaration:
1--WE do not want anybody else's land but we
shall never yield up an inch of our own!" re-
mains the guiding principle of Soviet policy also
in the Far East in spite OF the monstrous at
tacks by white guardists and japanese.
Now, however, the Japanese imperialists show
what they are aiming at: the Japanese note to
the Soviet Union is brutal provocation having
for its object the march of the Japanese on
Hardin, the attack on Soviet officials on the
Chinese Eastern Railway and thereby repeti-
ton of events of 1929 on far larger scale, the
commencement Of an intervention. The Japan
csc imperialists require lies and ISLANDERS as
pretext in order to stretch out their robber hands
against the stronghold of the world proletariat,
which, with the greatest sacrifice and the ut
most exertion of all its forces is completing the
third year of the Fve-Year Plan.
The "Rote Fahne" (Berln) in its issue OF
October 30, writes:
With their note to Moscow Japanese inpe-
rialists have carried out an impudent provoca-
ton of the Soviet Union.
Whilst the Japanese troops are advancing to
steal the Chinese railway line and the land ad-
joining, Japan sees with uneasiness' the move
ments of Soviet troops on Soviet territory 1t
has always been method Of imperialist govern
ments, to seek to up their aggressive policy
by means of notes and diplomatic actions In
one of its latest declarations the Japanese gov
eminent, reveals its intention to continue It's
robber campaign in China and declares China
TO be responsible for it. Following the bank
ruptcy of the League of Nations, Japan feels at
liberty to behave in an increasingly impudent
and bellicose manner. The dogs of war have
been let loose in the Far East Japanese troops
are shooting, advancing and occupying railway
lines
The Soviet Power has proved that it stands
firmly for peace The impudent action of the
Japanese imperalists renders it necessary that
the millions of workers and toilers form an iron
wall round the Soviet Union, support it in its
peaceful policy and raise their voices against the
Japanese provocateurs.
Needless to say, the Soviet government will not
allow the Japanese generals to prescribe to them
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13
sistance has trebled in the past year.

sistance has trebled in the past year.
Under the relief plans as organized by the
various capitalist agencies the workers OF Pitts
burgh, for example, will get back in the form
of relief less than two percent OF their normal
total wages. This much will be given in the shape
of payment for part time charity jobs Another
percent of normal total wages will be given
to the jobless in the form Of outright relief As inf
every other city the corporations hope to get a
large part Of their charity contributions fron1
workers who have nothing but part-time Job
to boast OF. The charity heads in Pittsburgh
hope to raise at least $l,500000 out of employed
workers. one-fourth OF the total S. 900 900 fund
they now trying to raise. These contribu-
tons will be forced out of the workers through
an almost compulsory k-off system, the boss
and the foremen aiding the final touch Of
authority to the request for help At the same
time Melons Gulf Oil Corp. has given meager
$4,000 to the ocal unemployed fund drive
Heinz. the big pickle corporation, has given a.
little. Nearly 100000 were without jobs IN Pitts
burgh and Allegheny County at tns bsgju,4na
OF the summer. ~"------------- Asa.u -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13
Effects OF Crisis in Pennsylvania

quarter OF the workinng population of the state
we're unemployed. Now it is certainly over l00O,-
600 and these are conservative estimates The
ratio OF applicants to jobs open, as reported to
the state employment offices, reached a higher
mark in June, 1881, than in any time in the last
IL years during which these offices have been
open. Average weekly earnings in manufactur-
ing industries in the state had fallen % percent
between May 1929 and June 1881. Payrolls OF
manufacturing industries in the state which ap-
proximated $26,75O0OO week during 1929, are
now reduced to $15,OoOOOO or less.
Reports from anthracite mine districts contain
every indication of increasing misery among the
miners. Some of them are as follows: "Officials
say that the distress has increased to such an
extent that they are overwhelmed with applica-
lions for aid" '"There are about 5000 women
and children in destitute circumstances lin the
Panther Greek Valley and who will require more
than local aid unless conditions change" In
another district, 1000 men were thrown out of
work and now there is great deal of poverty
The unemployed need help badly Available re-
lief funds are now running low
AS for the bituminous mining areas the official
reports state, THE standard of living among
workers in the Pittsburgh district is definitely
declining. Reports from 80 inspection dis
tricts show that there is poverty and distress
III all puI TWO In one mining inspection dis
trict 1000 people are reported without means OF
support"
Some OF the reports on health conditions are
to the effect that, children are not receiving
sufficient food nor are local agencies organized
sufficiently to handle the situation. The out
look for the winter is bad" "A large number of
children not receiving sufficient food; beans and
bread form the principal part Of their diet. NAL
nutrition is prevalent Children are in need OF
milk and medical care. Destitution will in
crease"
In this connection The Public Health Nurse
Quarterly. issued by the Public Health Nursing
Assn of Pittsburgh, for October 1881, states, "a
conference with the various men working in the
public health conferences brings out the fact
that coincidental with the depression there has
beef, marked increase in the number of cases of
nnalnutrition and noticeable increase in ricketts,
the latter particularly in young babies Tuber-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13
By Labor Research Assn.

Reports made to the public authorities OF
Pennsylvania indicate that in this typical in
duStrial state the economic and social condition
OF the workers is falling as the crisis continues
or the ST counties in the state, what are des-
cribed as serious conditions" exist in 80 These
poverty-streaked communities, according to an
official report to the governor of the state, pre-
sent problems which involve unusual unempoy-
ment and the likelihood of its continuance;
abnormal part-time employment; reduction
In family income through wage decreases mall
nutrition and underfeeding exhaustion of public
end private funds; lack of private welfare or
CARNATIONS; and unprecedented pressure on
hospitals for free care with marked falling off
in hospital receipts"
Even in June, 1881, some $4,000, or nearly one
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13
Bring 1t Over Quick!

The illinois State Register" Of Nov T. tells Of
the comeback Congressman Rainey of that state
gave to the local Rabbits who noised around that
he is a ''mouthpece of Communism" because he
travelled 1000 miles through the Soviet Union
and came back with a couple Of ideas, one at
least, correct.
He said that those who criticized hius did not
understand the difference between tho Third
InternatonaP' and the Soviet Government. Quite
correctly he insists on this and says in proof:
II talked to many Russians about the Third
International, and their reply always was: We
do not want the headquarters of the Third In
ternational in Russia; you can have it in the
United States If you want it.
Rainey didn't say anything about requesting Ito
removal from Moscow to America, SO we suspect
that he will be better satisfied II it stays where
it is.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13
TEXTILE SALARIES AND PROFITS
BY Labor Research Assn.

CONTRASTING with the present wage cutting
in Lawrence and other textile centers we
find the American Wool and Cotton Reporter
employers organ, declaring that in certain
worsted mill the treasurer is getting salary of
100000 year; that the manufacturing agent is
getting $4,000; and that another man is getting
$4,000 total of 100000 to the three men.
And big money is being made for the stock
holders.
correspondent of the same capitalist journal
writes that textile stockholders have not come
off at all badly through their exploitation of the
cotton workers. He cites Amoskeag, one of the
wage cutters:
Suppose you had one share Of the Amoskeag
in 1910 which cost you $295. "A little while after
that they gave you in exchange for your share
certificate two preferred shares and three COM
mon shares. Then a little later they gave you
three more common shares. Then three or four
years ago they paid off the preferred at par,
$780, then they gave you $50 share cash for
each of your six common shares-S312-and a
$40 bond which is now quoted at rs per cent,
say, equal today on the $240 bonds to another
$3.50; and that then they gave you six shares of
the new common, worth today about SO each, or
$54 So by today you have had cash and stock
at present market values Of $646-for your 1926
share-as well as the dividends and interest"
few profits recently reported are the follow
ing:
Apponaug Co.: For year ended June 80 1881
net profit of $616786, after charges and Federal
taxes Now has surplus account of s2,l55e47.
Arnold Print Works Net profit, after all
charges, of $316,988 for year ended June 80, 1881
Industrial Rayon Corp. made $2o2934 net
profit during two months ended August 81, 1881.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13

culosis increased steadily In all age groups in the
first six months of the year More children I'M
der Is years of age died of tuberculosis during
this first six months than in the full year of
either 1929 or 1880.
The increase in the population OF almshouses
is also considered result of UNEMPLOYMENT
Older men who formerly were employed at odd
jobs are unable to secure these Jobs now while
aged dependents formerly cared for by relatives
are now being sent to almshouses. "All aims
houses are reporting the largest population in
many years and there is much overcrowding,"
says the official report to the governor
Although the relief given to the families OF
the unemployed is entirely inadequate reports
from IL counties for example show increases as
high as 200 percent for relief disbursements dur
ing the first months Of 1881 as compared with
the corresponding period of 1880. Forty counties
spent about 100000 more for relief in 1880 than
IN 1929. Increase in the requests for Mothers
Assistance have increased from 10 to 225 percent
in the various counties. In Phila County the
number Of new families asking for Mothers As
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-13

what movements the Soviet troops have to carry
out on their own territory in the Soviet Union
in view of the advance of the Japanese robbers
against the Chinese Eastern Railway When
Chang Kai-shek in the summer Of 1929 attempt
ed to seize the Chinese Eastern Railway the Red
Army showed that it knows how to reply to any
attack with the sharp edge Of the revolutionary
sword.
The millions of Communists non-party and
social democratic workers are fraternally united
with the Red Army OF the workers and peasants.
with the Red Army of Socialism, with the Red
Army Of peace, in the fight against the war in-
tentions of the Japanese nilitarists.
The Washington times., 1931-02-11
Putting Traffic Powers In
Hands of Commissioners

In the traffic bill passed by the House. and practically
become law exceptionally broad powers are given the
Commissioners indicating tendency in Congress to confer still
powers upon District heads to enact regulations settle
minor claims and dispose of many small things that have here
tofore been placed before Congress.
The dnclinaton Congress give adequate time to its
responsibilities this city clearly shown in the fact that in
the last session Congress- extending months the
House gave only hours and minutes of time to District
legislation This did include the work of committees or
appropriation legislation.
This short preposterous The House must do its duty
by the District it tired of details it unload many OF
these upon the Commissioners the traffic bill does
There hundreds of things upon which the powers OF the
Commissioners may broadened much to the benefit OF the
city 3 business and the convenience of citizens.
In this pending there is Capitalization of authority in the
Commissioners without mparng the authority Of the Public
Utilities Commisson the regulation and control Of common
carriers Should there still be differences between these two
bodies commission will iron out the differences.
The House b besides putting definite authority and re-
sponsibty Commissioners has increased the maximum
penalties many traffic violations specially establishing in
creased maximum penalties for successive offenses
The director of traffic is abolished and there will
be new Department of Vehicles and Traffic directly under
the Commissioners personnel be appointed by them
The House District Committee believes that the bill lays
the foundation for permanent solution OF the traffic PROB
lens of the District Let hope the House is correct
The Washington times., 1931-02-11
WISE MEN.

Arbitrary power is most easily
established on the ruins Of
Liberty abused to licentiCus-
ness.-Washington.
It is not advisable to reward
where men have the tenderness
not to punish.-L'EStrange.
Genius is nothing but great
aptitude for patience.
Button.
Since what by nature was de-
MED
BY art and industry's supplied.
Butler.
The reward of a thing well
done is to have done it.
Emerson.
Man proposes, but God dis
poses.-KempiS.
Ill fortune is often an incen-
tive to geniuS.-Ovid.
There is not a moment with
out some day.-Cicero.
To be abused in disaster is
worse than the diSaSter.-Syrus.
A cunning woman is a knav-
ish fool. -Lyttleton.
Women wear the breeches.
Burton.
Age is like love; it cannot be
hid. Decker.
Here's to the pilot that wealth
~.ed the storm. Gaming.
The Washington times., 1931-02-11

Stan autocrat of Russia ceaselessy interesting tells his
followers that they do the work of so years 10 years
and they must acquire technical knowledge perish in
world that is hostile to them
RUSSIA will not perish and the Russian people will not
perish although theories in which Stain thinks be-
leves may and probably will perish
No has succeeded in nventng kind of human
nature human race and permanently human
beings on a theoretical plan.
It is as impossible as creating new language
Men controlled not by the doctrines of Karl Marx the
power Of Stain but by three primitive insinctssELF PRO
lection, LOVE OF FAMILY and AMBITION.
They in THEIR own way They want to control
their OWN families
They get ahead the world acquire property and
have the right to its peaceable possession
the instincts that have controlled them for than million
years.
Stain undoubtedly executive genius possessed of
rifle will power.
In Stains desperate effort change Russia from agcu
tua Aatic people modern industrial
type in 10 years. wonderful things may be done And
dustrasts in America be taught something they don't yet
know
But in the long Russians like Others will go back to
system based individual ambition and its achievements
The Washington times., 1931-02-11
Listen, World!
BY Elsie Robinson

Do something-even if you do
wrong! Don't sit back and pin
halos on yourself, just because
you're afraid to take a chance!
TO LOVE-that's the great vir-
ture. To live graciously, gener-
ously, gaily, gallantly! To live
so richly and bravely that you
warm and quicken life for all
other men. To live so. gladly
that you make other men desire
life!
I'm thinking Of two quota
tions. A dying man wrote one
of them. Yet even approaching
Death could not strangle the
brave laughter in Robert Louis
Stevenson'S soul.
"Gentleness and cheerfulness,
these come before all morality;
they are the perfect duties" he
cried. "If your morals make you
6reary, depend upon 1t they are
wrong. I do not say give them
up,' for they may be all you
have-but conceal them like a
vice, lest they should spoil the
lives of better and simpler peo-
ple."
Sins of the Flesh.
And this other, from A. S. M.
Hutchinson S fine book, THE Un-
certain Trumpet: my gospel. .
is simply that the sins of the
flesh, evil as they are, abomin-
able as they can be, are as moth
ing compared with the sins Of
the spirit, with meanness, with
selfishness, with bitterness, With
envy, hatred, malice and all un-
charitableness."
And if those two quotations
don't put a dent in your COM
placency, you're smugger man
than am, Gunga Din!
The Washington times., 1931-02-11
The Earth EnUeLODe
By Archibald Henderson, Ph.D., DEL, LID,
Famous Scientific Authority

One of the most remarkable
features of the environmental
influence affecting the earth is
the envelope which surrounds
it. Comparatively little is
known about this blanket, or
atmosphere, as it is called,
which varies from so to 200
miles in thickness. Accurate
scientific data regarding the
atmosphere have been secured
for only a comparatively short
distance m sured outward
from the earth'S surface.
The energy which streams
out from the sun encounters
our atmosphere and therein
meets a formidable barrier to
its further progress. A con-
siderable portion never pene-
trates the atmosphere, but is
reflected back into space and
so is forever lost to us. Another
part is absorbed and so di-
minished in effect upon us, in
its passage through the at
mosphere. A minute part of
the energy finally oVercomes
all barriers and ultimately
reaches the surface of the
earth. The part absorbed oy
the a IN sp h ere, singularly
enough, must be counted, less
as a gain, than as a loss from
the store that is available for
raising our air temperature.
The really important and influ-
entail factor is the intensity of
that part of the solar energy
which actually reaches the
earth's surface.
Impede Suns Rays
1t is interesting to take &C
count of the specific factors
which impede the progress Of
the suns rays. These factors,
The Washington times., 1931-02-11

shall greet the morning sun
with the swinging of dumb
bells and the deadly dozen and
the moaning of the reducing
belt.
Thou shalt not yearn after
cushioned motor-carS, neither
Succumb to the temptations of
taxicabs; but. wheresoever thou
goeSt. let thy two feet carry
thee.
Thou shalt not coVet the
clothes of the flapper, neither
fall for the perSuaSionS of them
that would tempt thee. Nay,
neither for cuteness and flow
cred chiffonS. and tight bodices
and Snappy sport suits. For a
canoe and a Cunarder are not
built upon the same lines.
Thou shalt not be happily
married! For peace of mind
and contentment of heart are
the friends of embonpoint. But
unrequited love and marital in
felicity are more potent than re-
ducing pills!
And for all this sacrifice, My
Daughter, thy reward shall be
a sylph-like figure, sour tenn
per, shattered nerves and a
withered throat.
For the way of the banter is
harder than a racketeer'S con-
science and more full of sac
rificeS" than a January bargain
sale. But the FRANKLY FAT
shall inherit the earth and all
the joys and pleasure thereof!
Verify, verify, eternal suffer,
ing is the price of a Perfect Sill
houette.
Selah.
Copyright 1881, King Features,
Syndicate, Inc.l