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Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-16
T0mOrrow's Menu

BREAKFAST: Orange juice.
cereal, cream, soft cooked
eggs. crisp toast, milk. coffee.
LUNCHEON: Broiled head
cheese, baked potatoes, cinna-
mon apples. milk. tea.
DINNER: Casserole of fresh
cod steaks. tomatoes and on
ions. baked sweet potatoes.
cress and celery salad. cara
mel custard, milk. coffee.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-16
Committee VIII GiUe
Christmas EUe Dance

Plans for a Christmas Eve dance
are being made by the housing COM
mittee of the veterans Memorial
hall, the proceeds from which will
be used to defray operating ex-
penseS.
Complete details will be announc-
ed at a later date but if present
plans work out the dance is Ger
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-16
Local EIks viii Hold
Dinner Dance Thursday

A dinner dance is being planned
for tomorrow night, December II,
by the local Elks lodge at which
Elks those who come accompanied
by Ell1s. and those to whom special
invitations have been sent, will be
present.
The kitchen mechanics, under the
able leadership of Bert Underwood,
are planning a fine dinner for the
occasion. Good music and a good
dinner will make the affair spe-
cial event of this week
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-16
NEW FIRE HALL GEORGIAN

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. = WP) -
Cambridge's new fire station, be-
ing built between Harvard Me-
mortal hall and the Harvard yard
will be of colonial Georgian archi-
lecture, to conform to the Harvard
architectural scheme.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-16

tain to be a successful event. 1t
is to be the first of several dances
to be held in the new Veterans hall
during the winter season.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-16
BY SISTER MARY
NEA Service Writer

DERHAPS the kind of candy
that appeals most to you is the
kind that is easy to make. Choco-
late-covered creams are delightful
and bespeak the skill of the max
er, but the process is somewhat
long and tedious, requiring two
separate and distinct sessions.
Fudge. penouchi, nut brittles,
caramels, jelly bars and many
other varieties are easier for the
amateur candy-maker than the
elaborate and fussy bonbons. Fon-
dant. which is the basis of many
candies beside the chocolate COW
cred creams, is not hard to make
and is worth trying.
Don't try to do too many things
at once when making candy. The
nuts should be cracked and the
meats picked out ready to use, all
the ingredients at hand and the
pans and platters in which the
candy is to harden oiled ready for
instant use.
It's never good plan to double
recipes. The average home kitch-
en- equipment is not planned to
take care of large quantities OF
boiling syrup.
Peanut brittle is very easy to
make and is always liked. Any
variety of nuts can be used in
place of peanuts.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-16
Peanut Brittle

One and one-half cups granu-
lated sugar. 1-2 cup white corn
syrup. 1-2 cup water. table
spoons butter, IA teaspoon salt,
| teaspoon soda. teaspoon vanil-
la, 1-2 pound raw Spanish pea
nuts.
The peanuts are, weighed after
shelling. Blanch and let stand in
a cool oven while the candy is
cooking. Mix syrup. sugar and
water and cook until a few drops
tried in cold water form a hard
ball or the thermometer registers
270 degrees F. Add butter, salt
and nuts and cook until ther-
mometer registers $50 degrees f.
Remove from fire and add vanilla
and soda which has been dissolv-
ed in one tablespoon cold water.
Stir and pour onto a large oiled
platter or marble slab, spreading
With a spatula into as thin a sheet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12

cause they wanted to sell it, but be-
cause certain of the capitalist pow
ers, like the United States, refused
to grant them credits. The Soviet
Union would prefer to use them for
the masses, but the policy Of the
capitalists has prevented this and
has forced them to sell in order to
pay for foreign goods.
Rainey states that:
"They have no desire to flood
the world markets. but we are
forcing them to do so because they
must produce and sell large guam
titles to raise the money to pay
their bills. If we recognized them
and extended credits this would
not happen because they could
easily absorb what they are now
forced to throw on the market.
Their present goal is two-day
working week when the saturation
point Is reached"
This shows conclusively that the
propaganda Of the capitalists, par
ticularly in the United States, was
nothing but complete fabrication
used to prepare the attack on the
Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12

Two more capitalist politicians were
forced to admit during the past week
that the Soviet Union is unquestion-
ably a success and one of them was
also forced to admit that the CAPT
talist propaganda about dumping dur
ing the past year was a complete lie
from beginning to end.
Representative Rainey (democra0
of Illinois after travelling more than
1000 miles throughout the Soviet
Union during the month that he
spent there, said, according to the
New York Times of Sunday, that the
"country's revolutionary system was
the greatest experiment Of the ages
and that it was unquestionably a
huge success" He was, further,
most optimistic as to Russia's fu-
ture."
The same estimate was made by
the Marquis of Lothian, a liberal
minister of the new national govern
ment. in England. Speaking at the
Liberal Summer School at Cam
bridge, England, he said that the
Soviet Union as in some ways the
most gigantic and heroic experiment
ever tried in human history Some
of its underlying ideas are going to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
Even Politicians Admit the Success of the U.SSR.

transform the whole world. The no.
ton that private property should
function for everybody and not
merely for those who own it is, in
my view, winning idea"
1t is an idea that is winning the
working masses of the entire world,
who see its success in the Soviet
Union.
While they still talk of expert
ments," the estimate that they them
selves give of it shows that it is not
an experiment" but the inevitable
success of the reconstruction of So
ciety by the revolutionary working
masses. The very success that these
capitalist politicians report about the
Soviet Union must be viewed to-
gether with the capitalist estimates
of the deep-going crisis that covers
the entire capitalist world. The
chaos of capitalism and the upsurge
Of the masses in tn capitalist coun-
tries against it sharpens the antag-
onism of the imperialists to the Sow
let Union. 1t is in the success of the
Soviet Union that the masses of the
world can see the possibilities Of So
cial welfare under the dictatorship of
the pI'oletariat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12

During the past year the capital
ist press has used the charge of
dumping" as one of the most wide
spread weapons Of propaganda for
the attack on the Soviet Union. Rep
resentative Rainey points out that
the success of the Year Plan
will not mean dumping" because
the increased production will be used
for the improvement of the living
standards of the workers and peas
ants who have produced these goods.
Rainey stated this without qualifica-
ton as follows:
"There is mistaken theory that
If Russia successfully carries out
the Five-Year Plan she will flood
the world market and become a
dangerous competitor, particularly
of the United States. When. the
Russians start producing more than
can be absorbed they intend to
work far more leisurely, producing
only the amount actually needed,
which is their ultimate aim"
He points out, further, that what
the Soviet Union has sold on the
world markets has been sold not be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
BY PETERS.

AS collectivization in the villare
goes on at tremendous rate rnanv
peasants take further step towards
socialism by joining farm Communes.
1.-THE 18th of October" was organized
in 1929 on this date. At that time
275 individual peasant households
joined it. Since then the Commune
has grown to 800 households, en-
bracing population of 1854 people.
Out of this $50 are men and 1863
women able to work. The Others are
either children or old people that are
not able to work. These, of course,
are taken care Of by the Commune.
The total property value of the Com
mune is 100000 rubles. Special at
tention is paid to the question of
meat, etc. There are 479 milk cows
and 513 young cattle, 1865 sheep,
ITS pigs, ATS working horses, and 70
colts. The Commune has it's own
dairy and poultry farm. New big
stables, Siles, ETC., are being built.
Under the banner of socialist COM
petition and shock work the farm is
overfulfilling its plan. While the
yield of the farm was $4,000 centners
of grain the government received Of
this $1,000 centners (this is more
than any other farm gave in the
district.
1t is interesting to note that the
women are among the best shock
workers and SIS per cent of the spring
sowing campaign was carried out by
them. Ninety per cent of the women
work in the fields while the other 10
per cent carry on work in the dining
rooms, children's creeches and so on.
Nine creeches have been organized,
embracing PAS children. This makes
it possible for the mothers to work
in the fields and at the same time
guarantees the welfare of the chill
dren. For the cultural work there
has been established 6 Red Corners
and many small libraries. They also
have radios and in the fields they
have special wagons that carry liter
allure to the workers which gives
them chance to read during din
ner breaks. AL the children are
embraced in schools and at present
there is nobody illiterate under As
years of age, which must be looked
upon as a great achievement when
we take into consideration the per-
centage Of illiterate among the Rus
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
Figures That Speak
Out Loud

and $4,000 rubles for workers club.
And all this in addition to the al
ready existing benefits including rest
homes, free medical attention, chill
dren's nursery.
There are figures in the United
States also-ever changing figures.
Four, six, eight, ten twelve million
unemployed. Five, ten, twenty, fifty
banks closed down in the state of
Illinois. Three unemployed workers
die of unknown causes CThis is
the adjective that hides the word
starvation). A thousand, three, six,
nine thousand children going to
school without breakfast-going with
out lunches. Eighteen thousand Chi
cago teachers without pay. Two thou
sand men laid off and SO on. The
figures Of the inevitable crisis that
accompanies capitalism. For capt.
talisrn there is only one way out
war! And forenlost-War aaginst the
US.S.R.-war against the socialist
fatherland of the working class that
has completely solved its unemploy-
ment problem in the fact of the ever
worsening conditions of the capital
ist countries; war against the work
ers and peasants government under
which the conditions OF work, the de-
velopment of culture, of health, of a
full life of enjoyment of all the prod
ucts of his toll stand in bold chal-
longing contrast against the ever
Worsening conditions of the workers
in the capitalist countries. Capt.
talism fears the growth of the Five
Year Plan-the growth of the Soviet
Union and well it might. The work.
ing class of the capitalist countries
see in the Soviet Union the beacon
light that is to show them the way
out of the capitalist crisis-the only
permanent way out.
AL power to the Five-Year Plan!
AL power to the working class of
the world
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12

Figures, usually so very dry and
unpoetical, are live, inspiring mile
stones in the steady march to the
success Of the Five-Year Plan Of the
Soviet Union SIS new factories
1914 new tractor stations. On the
billboards, in the daily papers, in the
magazines, on the silver screen, over
the radio, SIS new factories-1014
new tractor stations. And inlnedi-
ately following q chart with ever
changing figures. Another factory
launched into production. Three new
tractor stations opened. Two new
factories start their wheels turning
New tractor stations finished in such
and such district. And so on
day by day. Everyone knows the
latest figure. Even the children tell
the glad news to their playmates.
Figures coming out of the Soviet
Union this year show the workers in
the capitalist countries what the So
Wet worker has against and is gain
ing under workers and farmers
government. While wages are stead.
lily on the decline in America, Eng
land and Germany glance at these
figures coming out Of the Tornsky
Metal Works in the Soviet Union:
Wages from the first quarter (three
months) in 1880 to April 1881 have
increased 20 per cent and are on
the increase steadily.
Further figures from the Tomsky
Metal Works give the American work
er something else to think about.
One million five hundred thousand
rubles will be spent in 1881 for pro-
lection Of labor, 100000 rubles for
baths and laundries, 100000 rubles
for factory kitchens and dining
rooms, 100000 rubles for improve
ment Of medical clinics, hospitals for
women and motor ambulances, $780,
900 rubles for a palace Of culture,
100000 rubles for school building
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
Farmers Rally for a United Fight on Evictions

The Northwestern Insurance Asso-
citation (and many other big insur-
ance companies) is now preparing to
foreclose and evict the older resid-
ents on the farm and induce an en-
tirely new set of renters to come to
live on the farms, SO they, the in
surance companies, will have COM
plete control of their products, and
eliminate the small banker entirely
To this end Mother Bloor pointed
out the fact that throughout the en-
tire county the farnhouses have been
rebuilt and painted up by corps of
carpenters and painters, hired d.
rectly by the Northwestern Insur-
ance Company, and that field men"
were kept busy looking over" the
farms everywhere, selecting the most
likely ones for future operation.
Farmers Stop Attempt to Smash
Meeting
Right in the midst Of the meeting,
a troop of the Boy Scouts Of Fred
erick and Aberdeen, hoodluns Of the
worst type, arrived on the scene,
screaming, yelling catcalls, etc., trying
to intimidate the speaker, who asked
them to come right up and tell their
argument" OF course they had no
reason" in their hooting mob, and
when they rushed to the fire house
to get the fire hose, a tremendous
guard" of farmers sons by sheer
force held on to the hose cart, and
prevented the gangsters from getting
the hose to deluge Mother Blcor, who
was still holding the fort, going right
on with the melting. When the gang
sters of this lawless mob found they
couldn't break up the melting, they
resorted to sniping after the meeting,
When the chairman was driving off
in his car, the ringleader Of the mob
sneaked alongside and gave him a
smashing blow OF course, he jumped
out and the guards" of the United
Farmers League also Joined together
and routed those who had planned
further attacks.
viii Meet Again
Mother Bloor announced another
meeting for next Saturday evening.
Many new members were secured
for the United Farmers League, and
the entire town is awakened to the
fact that ignorance and mob rule
cannot prevail in Frederick, that the
intelligent farmers and workers will
go on with their program Of organ
lied action against the injustice and
tyranny Of the present capitalist sys-
tenn.
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be able to get jobs would be taken
care Of otherwise. Since General
Hines now sees that 1t is possible to
take care OF these suffering ex-ser-
Wcemen, what has the Veterans Bu-
reau been doing in the past fourteen
years? Created graft for petty poll
ticians.
Even at that we wonder what kind
Of jobs General Hines is talking
about. Maybe he will get them the
job of cutting a cord or two of wood
for the Salvation Army for a bowl
OF sloppy soup. or maybe he viii
have some heavy snow storms this
winter and the men will be able to
get job shoveling snow for a bowl
Of slop. -.
While the resolutions committee
was out framing smoke screen reso-
lutions, such as restoring light wines
and beer, a new referendum was
taken on the 18th Amendment, SO as
to obliterate the true issue that is
facing the working class, OF which
these ex-servicemen are part, such
as real unemployment relief, etc.
Brigadier- General Henry j. Reilly,
one Of the most open-spoken fascist
butchers, In the last war, told the
Encampment in roundabout way
what kind of iohs the veterans would
get.
In his speech the fascist butcher
told the veterans that he for one
was opposed to and would continue
to oppose internationalism, and that
he would fight 1t to the finish and
that he was not going to be ruled
by any Asiatics (meaning the Soviet
Union).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
By E. r. BLOOR.

We find so much has happened in
our agricultural district within per-
iod of k2n days, it is difficult to re-
late it all in one article In Grand
Forks we held big meeting in the
Public Library Auditorium of unem-
ployed workers and farmers. The
Daily Worker" is the real organizer
Of this town, as the members there,
Of the Party unit and the Unem-
ployed Council use it everywhere,
selling it on the streets, etc. In one
restaurant owned by a corlrade, it
is left for sale on the counter, and
it is plastered on the windows every
morning. This restaurant is a meet
ing place of comrades wandering
from east to west. Here we saw
marine workers from Duluth and New
Orleans; miners and farmers who
had come to the Red River Valley for
the harvest time.
From Grand Fork we came to Fred
erick, South Dakota, Saturday, Sept.
5th. This is the town where the petty
business men hire boy scouts to de-
luge our speakers and Children's dem
onstrations with eggs, fire hose, etc.
On Saturday evening the members
Of the United Farmers League had
invited Mother Ella Reeve Bloor to
speak under their auspices. The
League is very strong in this county,
as many evictions have been planned
for the near future. Farmers have
been notified that new renters" have
been secured Nanl they must move
out at once. The farmers notify tina
League members and a real mass Or
ganization Of farmers is on the job,
alert and ready to fight to keep those
threatened with eviction on their
land.
Farmers Rally 10 Prevent Eviction
Here is typical case, that Of a
man Cborn on the farm he now lives
on with his wife and six little chill
dren. His father holnesteaded the
place, he has received his notice of
eviction. The United Farmers League
held mass meeting right on the
farm, secured about seventy new
members of the League, and mobil
lied all their forces ready for action
when the threatened day of eviction
arrives. This case has aroused the
countryside, and the meeting held in
Frederick by Mother Bloor was look
ed forward to by the entire neigh
borhood. The meeting was held on
the ground in front of the Frederick
Cooperative Oil Station, one Of the
farmers acting as chairman. Com
rade Bloor outlined the special condi-
tons now affecting the farmers Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
The Terror in Harlan
Must Be Stopped!

and the barring of miners check
weighnlan to see that the men get
fair weight-and the company stores
where the miners are forced to buy
Off they wish to keep their jobs are
expert at figuring prices from 40 to
so per cent higher than other places.
So far two newspaper men have
been shot in Harlan. Bruce Craw-
ford was ambushed. Those that know
the situation in Harlan have no
doubt as to the aInbushers. But this
is not corroborated fact. I was the
second man. They shot me in day
light. know the men. They were
deputy sheriffs They told me that I
had been asking too many questions.
Simply: I got to know too much.
was too insistent about finding out
the facts. I was too determined to
get to the basic sources. All this was
not polite. After several subverSive
warnings, a deputy told me that eff
I were you wouldn't let the sun set
on me in Harlan County" Fifteen
minutes later I was hustled into a
car by three deputy sheriffs, taken
out Of town, questioned and accused,
and told to get out and not to show
my face again. Three shots at me
were just their playful way Of en-
phasizing the ultimatum. I got one
in the leg. All this is not important
except in relation to other things.
1t won't hurt me to get shot in
my leg. But what about those
people living at all times under this
terror. What about those men who
live constantly under the very real
shadow of sudden raids and shoot
ings from carloads of heavily armed
thugs. What about men who have
been taken in the middle of the night
in mysterious car (Which bears
sheriff Blair's personal license
Plates. handcufTed to tree and
beaten until hugewelts swelled out on
his back-then run out of the state
followed by volley of shots?
spoke to a Negro miner, secretary
of local union, to whom this thing
happened. What about this con-
tinued and increasing terror? Three
more miners have been killed since
I left. 1 don't know how many have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
A Farm Commune Il
the Sarnara Region

7ian peasants during the days
Jzarism. The members of the CO
raune have left their old religious
,rerstition behind them and
thanks to that able to carry on !
building of socialism with grt
enthusiasm.
Like in every village where
collectivization has taken place
hard struggle had to be was
against the remnants Of capital
in the village, the kulaks and I
Commune also had to wage a strl
gle against them. Not less than
kulak households have been liz
dated. The kualks have tried to Z
stroy the machinery and burn /
harvest, but the Commune has be
successful in combating them.
A very interesting point to note
connection with the Commune .
the national composition of t
members. rs per cent are Gre
Russians, 25 per cent Ukraini;
and SO per cent Mordvas. We 1
here an example of how chauy
ism has been done away with unt
the dictatorship of the proletari
During the days of czarism tn
nationalities were antagonized agai
each other. The Czarist governm6
very cleverly utilized the tactics
chauvvinism among the workers
peasants to separate them so it COZ
exploit the workers and peasal
more effectively. (The same met
cd is used by the American boz
geoisie in regards to white and
gro workers. Today this belol
to days gone by and we see in t
Commune three nationalities VOL
ing together without any tricti{
Working together to build Social
in the Soviet Union. Under I
leadership of the proletariat, Soci
ism is penetrating the Russian
lage. The Russian peasants &
transferred from the ranks Of t
most backward strata into the m
advanced farmers in the wo1
Their living conditions and cultu
conditions are being improved eve
day, while in the capitalist countr
the farmers are more and mt
being thrown out of their farms, a
are living in misery. The Red F.
is today waving over one-sixth of
world. Eventually it will wave G
the whole world.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
A Superintendent Admits That
Miners Get $1.73 a Day

The hell you say answered the
super. we amt got no agreement
with you guys. Our agreement Is
with the UM.WA'
cor take the Duquesne mine in
this town. The super himself says
that the men are averaging $1.73 a
day"
For eight hours?" the F. P. corre-
spondent asked
Eight to ten hours. If a guy quits
after eight hours, the boss says,
What, you through alreadyP Your
place cleaned up OK.Y Then he
goes down to take a look. Chances
are that miner will be laid off and
the fellow who puts in ten hours will
keep his job"
Hell, 1 worked II hours at a
stretch last February at the Waverly
Nine" breaks in another miner. IF
there's an 3-hour law for miners in
Pennsy, we amt never heard of it,"
"Well, that the way it is" summed
up Smorag. "Can you see now why
the strikes still on and will be on
more or less permanently Why
should we risk our lives and breathe
the bad air of them mines for 20 to
30 cents a ton or Sl,73 day? And
remember you can only get in two
or three days week at the most.
Figure trying to live on IS or So
a week and work. We can't"
"But we amt going to starve, be-
low ground or above" Clipped in an
other miner. There's no sense to
starving in the midst Of plenty. The
big boys have got theirs. We're go
ing to get ours