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Musical Instruments

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-19

| have been aStonished at the record
which has been reached in the laying
OF concrete. In January there was
nothing here but snow. Now there
already stands the school house with
the bright class rooms the hall for
showing cinematograph films, the
well-equipped laboratories, the L.
brary; here is the instrument fac
tory and alongside of it. the smiths
shop is springing up out of the
ground. For the main works, how
ever the site has only been marked
out. The architect of this COM
binate, an enthusiast for his work,
stands on the high wooden tower
beside the red army sentry, the tele-
phone and the alarm bell. He sur
veys the whole complex and sees
there what nobody else is able to see:
a magnificent ferro concrete struc-
ture, the main works which with the
two other factories form an archi-
tectural unity: "Sharikopodchiprik !"
the largest ball-bearing factory in
the world.
This work needs new workers, who
feel themselves to be masters of pro-
duction, who are consciously build
ing up Socialism" Where are these
new workers? They stand in front
of the entrances of the new school,
in variegated lively groups, in which
languages and races intermix and
unite. There they sit in close rows
gathered for the opening ceremony
There is silence. The head of the
school opens the meeting. Here are
the representatives of the Party, OF
the Young Communist League, OF
the Soviets, Of the trade unions, of
the workers collective of "Shari-
kopodchipnik," which has built the
school with shock brigade work.
Speeches are made by the instruc-
tors and teachers; the representa-
tives of the pupils also speak. This
small, sturdy young Communist who
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-19
STARVATION DEATHS SUICIDES PILE UP AS BOSSES DENY RELIEF
Mellon, Morgan, insult
Hire Killers in Harlan

Co., tied up with groups operating
under Morgan domination in Vir-
GINA, Westmoreland County, Pa, and
the anthracite.
Andy Mellon Here Too.
Most of the Mellon mines in Ken
lucky are in Floyd County. consider
ably to the north of Harlan County.
But one, the Kayu mine, owned by
a Koppers subsidiary, lies between
Harlan and Evarts in the thick of
the fighting
Other Harlan mines are linked
with smaller capitalists in Detroit,
in Pittsburgh, in Cincinnati; or with
coal operators in Illinois and Indiana
Several Of the local" companies have
mines in other Kentucky counties or
over the line in other southern states,
Most conspicuous are the Mahan
family interests which are repre-
scented by five companies in Harlan
County and at least a dozen COM
panies in other fields eof Kentucky
and Tennessee.
Clearly, the terror in Harlan
County against miners who fight
starvation wages. unemployment, and
feudal tyranny is no local matter.
Through this local" struggle, out
standing leaders of the capitalist
class are deliberately trying to crush
the workers rising spirit of revolt.
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Concentration in American
Industry

! one book. The only value of the work
is that it is time saver-a sort Of
book of facts. Mr.. Ladder has added
very little of his own either in hith-
erto unknown facts or in theory. AS
a socialist, the author can be presi-
dent of the National Bureau of Eco
nonic Research, which includes T. w.
Lamont of J. P. Morgan, Matt Vol,
George Roberts of the National City
Bank and the like So when Harry
Ladder does not attack these trusts
and their murderous treatment OF
the workers they employ, we under
stand. The masters trust him. When
he mildly states Unfortunately they
are practically unanimous in their
objections to trade unionisn1-", when
he devotes about two pages out of
465 to Labor, we are not surprised.
What of the gigantic coal corpora
/ tons that shoot workers for organ
izing? Ladder the socialist (also
Musteite) approves of the Baltimore
& Ohio company union plan.
The trend, says Ladder Is In the
direction of greater concentration.
What are the workers to do about it?
The author refuses to commit him
self. He states that socialists want
public ownership of the trusts. In
other words: concentration will con-
tinue. Everything will be in the
hands of a few. Norman Thomas will
get himself elected president of the
U. S. and j. P. Morgan will turn the
works over to him. And 10 and behold
we shall have socialism.
We leave the book with picture
of the huge trusts devouring tl1s
smaller competitors and our mind
supplies the rest. OF system that
brushes the workers and NANCY
cur running with mouth open, tongue
dangling, Estless, with eyes open for
a good home and master and seeking
to earn its keep by writing and acting
accordingly-the socialist party and
its theoreticians.
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use for it.
The corridors, the big halls which
IN 1927 and also in the first part of
1928 were crowded with workers
seeking work, are now nearly empty.
Hardly 20 per cent of the demand
for workers can be satisfied. We
enter one of the offices. Two young
girls are at work on the card in
dexes. They pick out one or two
cards at random and show them to
us: IL motor drivers required by the
"Krassnj Proletari" concern on July
18th; up to Aug. only have been
supplied; II fraisers wanted by such
and such a factory, on July 10th one
had been supplied. And so one could
go on.
That is how things are in Moscow:
that is how things are in the prov
1nces, not to speak of the remote
parts of the Soviet Union. "Magnito-
gorsk" has here at the Central La
Dor Exchange in Moscow a special
bureau for obtaining labor, as well as
labor recruiting stations in all parts
of the country.
There is shortage of labor power.
Workers are needed. Not people alb
solutely ignorant of technics, but
workers who understand the tech
biological processes, who know how
to work with the latest machines.
The liquidation of the lack of tech
meal skill of the broad masses of
workers is one of the most pressing
tasks, and it is being tackled by the
whole of the Soviet public.
At the beginning of August the
new school of the first ball-bearing
factory of the Soviet Union in Mos
COW was opened. In this school 2, 900
young workers from is to 20 years of
age are being trained.
The factory is only being built;
not one-third is ready yet, but it is
being built at a tremendously rapid
pace and many foreign specialists
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by I. b.

Moscow, Aug. II, 1881.
At the gate OF the workers fac
ulty, "Pokrovsh," formerly the Mos
COW University, there is poster CIV
ing particulars about the commence
rnent Of the new term. Whenever
one passes the numerous other work.
ers' high schools, crowds of people
are always to be seen.
AS in a dovecot, in the Central
Workers Training Institute there Is
a continual coming and going. Work
ers from all parts of the Soviet
Union come here In order to acquire
technical training, to study its meth
DDS in order to increase their quail
fication. The letters sent out to
those taking part in correspondence
courses reach all parts of the Soviet
Union, and thus enable hundreds and
thousands to increase their knowl-
edge. From the elementary school
right up to the technical high school
the exhortation is given: learn, learn;
the soviet worker must master the
new technics.
To catch up and pass the advanced
capitalist countries in regard to
technics and economy, to carry out
the Five-Year Plan in four years
these tasks depend upon the solution
Of the problem of cadres OF socialist
industry. For the new, rapidly grow
ing industry cannot possibly carry on
with the engineering and technical
forces which we're taken over from
bourgeois Russia.
At the workers faculty, factory
workers Of II, 1s years and upwards
study for a period of from 3 to 4
years. In each quarter there are so
days devoted to theoretical and 20
days to practical, 1. e., factory, in
struction. The students receive a
stipend Of As roubles a month. All
books and other material are sup
Piled to them free. The workers
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against the tsarist government from
that against the capitalist, and
brands the pure and simple trade
unionism of the Economists as thor
oughly reactionary and ininical to
the interests of the workers.
The second weakness which Lenin
vigorously attacks in this study is
the question of organization. He
raises this problem to the political
Importance it deserves and makes an
imprisoned appeal to scrap the ex-
listing form of organization and build
theoretically sound party, revoIu-
ttonary in purpose and national in
scope. Although formally organized
into a party few years before
1888, the Marxist movement con-
sisted Of little more than small cir
Giles, each carrying on a more or less
independent existence and engaging
in sporadic and planless activities.
This loose aggregation of revolution
lists, carrying on their work in print
tive, handicraft fashion, and depend
ing on the spontaneity of the mass
es, could not, according to Lenin, be-
come the organizer and leader OF the
revolutionary struggles which were
rapidly developing and which were
involving larger and larger masses
OF workers. Only a centralized par
ty working according to carefully
prepared plan, with each member as
signed a specific task for which he is
to be held accountable, could sue
cesstully lead the Russian working
class in the struggle against capital
list exploitation and tsarist rule.
Written thirty years ago, What Is
to Be Done? still retains its freshness
because of the revolutionary enthus-
iasm which permeates its pages and
the great lessons 1t has today for the
workers in capitalist countries who
would build their parties after the
pattern fashioned by Lenin during
the formative period of the Bolshe-
vik Party.
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An 4 erican Workers. Athletic
Delegation to the Soviet Union

that is, to carry greetings from the
American workers and worker sports
men to our brothers in the Soviet
Union and likewise we will bring
tidings from the Soviet workers and
young workers in particular to our
respective clubs and organizations
here. Thus, it becomes of vital i'm
portance to every large L. S. U. club,
as we'll as any other sports club to
have at least one of their members
on this delegation to the U. S. S. r.
and thereby get some real first hand
Information Of life in the workers
fatherland.
F. In the August issue OF Sport and
Play we read: Eddie Toian, Mich
igan, holder of several dash records.
while member of a track team re-
presenting this country which toured
Europe by special invitation, while
good'enuf as an athlete, was a Negro
and therefore was not allowed to
rilingle with his white team mates.
He was compelled to travel, dine and
room all by himself. -.
The u S. L, T. A., the association
governing Amateur Athletic Union
tennis in this country, refused the
entries of Negroes in their Journeys.
The Daily News, New York's gos-
sipy0 tabloid, recently held big
swimming meet in Central Park.
sanctioned by the A.A,U. A special
Jim Grow elimination was held for
this An Jim Grow pool In Harlem.
Our delegation is definitely opposed
tos.such practices which are part Of
theabosses Jim Grow system. We fight
against color divisions on the sports
field aor any other walk Of life. We
therefore urge Negro sportsn1en to
join the ranks of our delegation and
i'm the stadiuins of Europe and the
US.S.R. demonstrate the solidarity
of white and Negro workers OF tho
U.S.A. 1t is the duty of revolutions
airy Negro workers who are members
of Sports clubs and Jim Grow "Y's"
to-raise the demands in these organ
izations for the financing of one or
more of their member athletes to
this delegation, OH the basis OF our
stand against Jim Crowism and the
fact that it is tour to the first
workers fatherland.
For more information, please write
to M. Don, SO Fifth Avenue. New
York City, Room 309.
American Workers. Athletic
Dclegation-M. Don, Secretary.
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By ANNA ROCHESTER,.

United States Coal & Coke Co.,
subsidiary of U. S. Steel Corp, guards
the northeastern gateway to Harlan
County with its tightly closed town
% Lynch Next to Lynch, at Ben
ham. are the coal mines of Wiscon-
sin Steel Co., owned by Init, Harves-
ter Co. These Morgan mines en-
ploy one-fourth of the miners and
mine one-fouuth of the coal in Har-
Ian County,
Southwest Of Harlan, the dark
shadow of Henry Fords speed-up
and feudal domination lies over the
Wallins Greek Valley, Across the
creek from the mines of the Fordson
Co is another Morgan outpost: the
Kentucky King mine is owned by a
subsidiary Of the Morgan Bonbright
Commonwealth and Southern Corp.
Most of the Harlan County class
war battles of 1881 have been fought
along the creeks and mountain sides
nearer to Harlan and Evarts. where
except for the Black Mountain Corp
owned by Insults Peabody Coal Co.
the links with outside capitalists are
not so Immediately visible. But other
links are there At least three Of
the companies actively and openly
involved in the war are within the
sphere Of Morgan influence.
Morgan in Peabody Coal.
The Peabody Coal Co. itself is an
example. In Pennsylvania, this COM
pany operates bituninous mines
owned by the Morgan-van Swer-
tngen Erie R. r. Both in Pennsyl-
vania and in Chicago it plays in
closely with the u S. Distributing
Corp. and its subsidiaries. And the
man who represents these interests
on the Peabody board is H. T. Peters,
a director of the New York Trust Co.
which is watched over by two mem
bers of the Morgan firm.
Detroit Edison Co., which owns the
King Harlan Coal Co., is tied to
Morgan's Bankers Trust Co. in New
York City. 1t is also linked with
the North American Corp, a big
utility holding company that owns
the West Kentucky Coal Co. This
in turn is the dominant company in
western Kentucky.
Harlan Coal & Coke Co. sells ex-
Clusively through the General Coal
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work, and fight side by side with the
Russian comrades. Not to criticize
the Soviet country and its workers,
what is wrong. or where, and in
what respect they are behind the
capitalist countries more industrial
lied, but to try to help and overcome
such disadvantages by taking part in
the work. not as workers Of capital
1T countries whose purpose is TO get
out Of the bosses as much as possible
inn order to gain a living But by
ewing ell our power, all our energy,
all our attention to pushing the work
and introduce new methods of con-
struction
We. did. not even ask how much we
would earn here.
sSeu1e Of Us are members Of the
Communist Party of America The
Soviet Union to us is the only coun-
try where we can talk freely and feel
ourselves really as in a homeland,
the homeland of the workers. We
are mere than glad that we are
among friends, among comrades.
Probably some of US will be going
back to the countries where we were
born, or to America, after the five
year plan is completed But that
will not mean that these comrades
dislike this country, and turned their
back to the workers land. On the
contrary that means they. continue
the fight and go to build Soyiets Ii
their own countries, with new ex-
beriences and eagerness and enthus-
iaSn1~
The short period that we have been
in the workers country we have
gained much experience. We have
.seen~en the way from Leningrad to
Leninsk, how everywhere the work.
.ers are building new houses, new fac
tories and new roads.
Work and work everywhere. No
unemployment We have seen how
the women are taking part in the
work. 1t is all different from what
we saw in America and England.
a We. have seen the workers resting
places. kindergartens. how the chill
,dren are taken good care of. We
have seen the militia-nen dnstead
Of policemen how they treat the
people gently We admire the young
Communists, how industrious they
are, they work, and do duty at the
same time.
We can never forget the hearty
welcome, the fraternal treatment we
have had in Leningrad, and here in
Leniflsk from the members of the
Communist Party. We have been so
surprised that we even forgot to
thank them, for we could not find
right words to express our surprise.
We will tell and prove our apprecia-
tions in the language of work. And
then we will. be more than glad to
say:
COMRADES, HERE ARE OUR
THANKS TO YOU"
(The above letter Is signed By
seven workers whose signatures were
reproduced in the original in the
Soviet paper, but which we omit
here.--Ed)
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merly given by the city withdrawn
and private charity brccen down. De-
troit workers face a winter of I'M
parallelad SUFFERING. City parks are
filled with unemployed homeless
workers. Crowds daily besiege the
employment offices, so-c2llcd, of the
auto factories.
In a recent speech Mayor Muruh,
was forced to admit that, "All in
dications are that the situation vii
be worse and not better during the
coming winter"
Murphy also admitted that more
persons have killed themselves be-
cause of the economic situation in
the last year than have been killed
by gunner in the last 10 years."
and that thousands of children
are suffering maInutri':on and we
shall feel the effects Of this in cur
economic system years later" Muir
ply also admits that the crisis is
continuing and growing worse I'M
stead of better:
"We cannot go on the theory that
prosperity will return soon, as there
is not single fact to support this
suppos:tion." But the same Murphy
follows the orders of New York and
De$rcit bankers in cutting down
relief and thereby driving workers
to suicide.
George P. Thompson, an unem-
ployed automobile salesman, of 1921
Webb Ave. Detroit, committed sui
eide yesterday by shooting himself
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On the Threshold of New School Year in U.SSR.

faculty of Moscow has library con-
tanning $4,000 volumes! Nowhere in
the world is there such facilities for
learning as here.
But three years are a, long time.
The Five-Year Plan cannot wait.
The experts are needed sooner. They
cannot be supplied quickly enough.
In the Central Institute for Work
Qualification specialists for closely
limited technical spheres are being
trained with all the means of mod
ern methodology and technics. Here
there are numerous laboratories with
instruments from Germany and
other technically advanced coun-
tries. The big main hall shines with
spotless cleanliness, light and ra-
tional order. For every labor process
the minimum necessary movements
and the minimum necessary con-
sumption of energy have been CAL
culated. Every worker student must
strive after this minimum.
High above the model work
benches and above the heads of the
workers bridge-like gallery spans
the hall. From this eminence the
instructors observe the disciplined
work. They measure with an electro
mechanical apparatus the speed and
exactitude of the work of each stu
dent. Words are replaced by bells
and light signals; the commands are
short and exact.
Five hundred and eighteen new
factories this year To supply these
with labor power is now one of the
most pressing tasks. There is now
no longer an automatic influx of
labor power.
One is forcibly reminded of 1t when
one visits the Central Labor Ex-
change In Moscow The big building
now stands desolate. The notice
board with the words Labor Ex-
change" now lies discarded in a cor
ner Of the yard; there is no further