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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-26
San Quentin, Calf.
January 10, 1881.

Daily Worker,
so z. 18th St,
New York, N Y.
Dear comrades:
We want you to add the voices of the Imperial
Valley group to the campaign to build our
Daily into a mighty mouthpece of the toiling
masses The goal of the drive as set for sixty
thousand circulation. is but a mere minimum
on the background Of the deepening economic
crisis that brings in its wake a tremendous up
surge of the bitterly exploited workers and poor
farmers in shops, mines mills and fields and the
countless jobesS who now fight bitterly for bread
This goal must be accomplished quickly by the
organized efforts of the proletsrian SHOCK bri-
gades' who must follow it up by increased
efforts to double the achieved goal.
IN the hunger marches now surging through
the breadth of the land and in which the starved
jobeSs sckened to the pit Of their stomachs
with the beggsrly soup bowl charity of the bosses
are striking out for bread. for the immediate
passage of the Unemployment Insurance Bill and
for all forms of immediate, effective relief. the
Daily Worker is their powerful leader and Or
ganizer
The starved Arkansas black and white farm
ers who have undertaken spontaneous revolu-
tionary methods to obtain food for their starry
ing families find in the Daily their staunch sup
port0. The Daily must be more than that--it
mus oecome the actual leader of the huge mass
es poor farmers now deeply stirred by the
rob rule of the banks and railroads who with
the open connvance of the State have totally
ruined the farming masses and have reduced
them to the state of abject misery and starva-
ton
The Daily is the constant and mighty link of
solidarity between the black and white workers
in their struggles against murderous lynchingS
race discrimination and jim crowisn.
The foreign-bor toilers along with their revo-
lutionary language press find in the Daily their
leader in the concerted struggle of all American
workers against the insistent campaign of the
bosses who hope through the suppression of for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-26
Was It A Success?
Imperial Valley Prisoners.

quires more organizatonal ability to stage
whole series of smaller but less expensive meet
ings, involving more workers in the prepara-
tions of the meetings. but which would be far
more effective in drawing in the factory and
unemployed workers into understanding the rev.
dictionary significance of Lenin Memorial meet
ings and Leninism to the everyday struggle of
the workers.
Thirdly, the meeting was called for 7:30 and
although from 10000 to 10000 were in the Gar
den by p. M. the meeting did not start until
8:45 p. m 1t was dragged out until midnight
This is denoralizng disease that permeates
every activity of our Party in New York City
and it is time that serious efforts be made to
stop this practice
Fourthly, the speeches of all the speakers
showed two things: none of the speakers were
direct from the shop, and each speaker was al
lowed to choose his own subject. No speaker
was instructed on specific points which he was
to bring out. At the last moment one or two
speakers were called upon to bring forward the
dress strike and the T.U.UL. This was not the
fault of the speakers, but showed the mechanical
last minute method in which these important
meetings are arranged.
There are many more shortcomings of the
meetings for example: while every speaker en-
phasized the struggle for unemployment insur-
ance. how many signatures in support of the
Bill did we get out of the $1,000 to 10000 pres
ent? At the most a few hundred. But these
few weaknesses listed here WILL I hope suffice
for discussion that will help to organize future
meetings in the manner that will register the
maximum organization results.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-26
LETTER FROM IMPERIAL
VALLEY PRISONERS

eign born militants to stem the upheaval of the
American masses. The Daily leads the fight
against the mad dogs of fascsm led by Mathew
Vol, Fish and all and sundry hundred percent
trash-all servants of the boss-class.
The drive for amnesty for all class war pris-
oners now sweeping the country from coast to
coast aims to swing open the heavy gates Of
bastilles which hold within their walls the I'M
perial Valley militants Mooney and Billings,
Centralia and all other working class fighters
and which seeks to crush the vicious CS. and
all other anti-labor weapons of the bosses. These
drives are linked up with the efforts to save the
six Atlanta black and white workers from the
electric chair and re-echo thnderously every
day on the Daiy's page.
In the worldwide movement for the defense
and support of the U.S.S.R, against imperialist
iackals and their servants-the reformists, the
Daily plays the role of tireless organizer of
solidarity of the American toilers with their
brothers-the toilers of the USSR. In inter-
national revolutionary solidarity it constantly
expresses the burning need for active support of.
the millions of Chinese. Indians and all other
colonial and semi colonial toilers who are fight
ing to finish the yoke of world imperialism
Our Daily is the American tolers' dynamic
organ which at all times generates power to the
entire counter offensive of the working class all
along the front, under the militant leadership Of
the Communist Party U.SA. and revolutionary
trade unions. 1t leads the masses in their every
day struggle, it exposes the fascist labor buro-
cracy and reformiSts. the socialist party their
hypocritic cleft wing" the Music trash and their
twin brothers in the bosses service. the Love
stones and Cannons and their kind. To con-
tinue to remain so, to grow in revolutionary in
fluence and strength and to be fully equipped
for the coming momentous struggles of the mass
es. our Daily must have the full and ncessant
support of every class conscious proletarian. We.
the Imperial Valley fighters, therefore add our
voices from our prison and call upon the masses
to make our Daily still sharper, still more
deadly weapon against the boss-class by con-
slant and vigorous support.
With Comradely greetings,
Imperial Valley Prisoners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-26
Natural Causes"

The Buffalo Courier" of Jan. 10, tells us THAI
one Alfred Mayo. 43 years DID, was found dead
in his room in the slurn section of that CITY,
Well, he was dead. So Medical Examiner c.
E. Long rendered the verdict that he died from
natural causes"
Natural causes" like capitalist charity, covers
multitude OF sins. In fact capitalist charity
is reported to have been the natural causes"
that killed Alfred Mayo Our Buffalo cores
pondent says that Mayo starved to death.
Workers should never permit themselves to
crawl off into room and starve to death. That
is precisely what the capitalists want them to
do. They have right to life, but only If they
fight for it, Not individually, but united with
others like them, of their own class, they must
fight for life. And while we are not addicted
to poetry, the lines of Shelley come to u.s.
Shake your chains to earth like dew!
you are many. They few!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-26
Br JACK TOMBSTONE.

THE Lenin Memorial meeting held in Madison
Square Garden while it can be registered
success from the viewpoint of numbers, had very
many shortcomings that are being repeated time
and time again by our Party.
First on the question OF speakers We follow
very narrow line. The Central Committee as
signs enc or two leading speakers then we must
have a Negro woman, Young Pioneer and
one from the Young Communist League. While
this is not incorrect there is no relation between
these speakers and the factory. The speeches
are general propaganda speeches and the voice
direct from the shop is absent. In the Madison
Square Garden meeting there was not one speak
direct from the shop. In my opinion one
leading comrade from the Central Committee is
sufficient. All other speakers, Negro, women
youth etc. as well as speakers from other in
dustries should be workers direct from the shop
check-up of the speakers in the Garden
meeting would show that none we're from the
sllous.
Secondly. doubt very much whether one
central meeting. charging the so cents admis-
sion is correct Most of the workers haven't
got so cents and am of the opinion that the
crowd at the Lenin Memorial meeting was minus
the unskilled and unemployed workers. While
the rule was that the unemployed workers would
be admitted free. no tickets were distributed and
the invitation to the unemployed was mere
gesture The expense of meeting in the Gar
den is SO great that it requires the admission
of so cents to pay expenses Hence. the economic
reason Why the unemployed were not admitted.
The Party can nearly fill the Madison Square
Garden with very little effort However, it re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-26

at the University of Pittsburgh, we learn for
the first time in a NJ Y Times dispatch from
that city under date of Jan. 90 But we learn
something else, also, for the dispatch opens up
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-26

to hold protest demonstrations against Mexican
white terror. Leveerl suppressed these instruc-
tons until it was too late to act No effort at
all was made to organize demonstrations, or
even mass meetings ON March 6th May LIST, or
August 1st Not move has been made to reach
the Negro workers, the Mexican workers, the
unemployed or to organize the Trade Union
Unity League
When Comrade Alma Polkoff proletarian
member recently transferred into the San An
tonic unit, tried to start work. her efforts were
met with determined resistance and with at
tempts to exclude her from the meetings of the
unit.
The right wing degeneration of the Party
unit in San Antonio gave the local Lovestone
renegades. Schaeffer and Lifschutz (who are
petty-bourgeois exploiters Of the worst type)
favorable opportunity for their underhanded
work
While Mrs. ]. Schaeffer was left in the unit
as an inside connection the renegades busted
themselves with fighting the Party and the
Trade Union Unity League under the cloak of
workers League" into which they succeeded
to nislead number of Mexican workers
The full depth Of the political degeneration of
the Loyestoneites is revealed by the action of
Schaeffer last April, when in collaboration with
the mayor of San Antonio, the democratic poll
tician Chambers, he staged fake unemploy-
ment march which was very much played up
in the Loyestone sheet. just prior to the parade
Schseffer had a two-hour private caucus with
Chambers. He got a splendid police protection
for the march and made polite apologize
speech from the same platform with Chambers.
The united front Of the Loyestoneites against
the Party, not only includes the democratic
politicians. but extends to the Trotskyites as
well. When recently their field organizer Cur
tbs, spent week in San Antonio, he was well
coined with open arms by the Schaeffer gang
Meetings we're arranged at which Curtis was
the main speaker. AT these meetings no trace
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-26

Break the News Gently
By JORGE


Or. Francis j. Tyson is Professor of Economies
at the University of Pittsburgh, we learn for
the first time in a N, Y, Times dispatch from
that city under date of JAN %. But we learn
something else, also, for the dispatch opens up
this way
"Womens skirt lengths, blamed for many
things are held to be largely contribrtory 70 the
business depression by DR.. Francis ]. Tyson,
Professor of Economics at the University of
Pittsburgh"
More, quoting the Professor:
unless all women get together and decide
whether skirts are going to, be up or down.
and permanently, the garment industry and
allied industries always viii have seasonal de-
preston ..@-
Still more and still quoting this economic
authority:
I'VE can offer a. number of remedies to help
bad condition, but we cannot remove the con-
dition completely.
I'm Yeah, it would be difficult to re-
move the skirts completely But what we wish
to remark upon, is the astonishing similarity of
the professors profound analysis, and that of
the American Trotskyist paper, given to the light
ofNday when the economic crisis was yet not
very clear to the American disciples of the great
master" Maybe it isn't clear yet, but anyhow
the following appeared in. the Trotskyist paper,
the Militant" on Dec. %, 1929
THE long skirt has also caused demoraliza-
ton. Women are refusing to buy dresses in
the style and the entire trade is in con-
fusion"
Trotsky really should have copyrighted the
brilliant analysis to prevent infringement by
Professors of Economics in American capitalist
colleges Then he could have forever raised the
claim of having been the first discoverer of the
world crisis, if any-according to whether he
wished to assert there was or deny there wasn't
any crisis.
Verify all great minds of opportunst leanings,
cling round the petticoat theory. No sooner had
the Militant given the above piercing COM
ment on Dec 49, 1929, than the N Y Sun told
us on Jan. IA, 1880, that the Austro- Marxists
also had taken up the slogan. The Sun of that
date said, in a Vienna dispatch:
"At the artists ball. despite the socialists
propaganda for short dresses, everyone put ON
everything available, old and new, and the re-
suit was the most audacious.'
The cause of the world crisis is now clear
And the united front slogan of the Trotskyists
and Austro Marxists is equally clear: up with
the short skirt"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-26

was to be seen of the famous "irreconcilable
differences between the followers of Mr. Love-
stone and Mr.. Cannon. Not even when it came
to the question of finances.
In order to liquidate the petty bourgeois
grouping which has masqueraded as the San
Antonio unit Of the Communist Party in order
to isolate the Lovetsone renegades and to build
a genuine proetarian unit of the Party the
District Bureau has made the following deci-
sions:
% To eXpel Mrs. j. Schaeffer as sup
porter of the Lovestone renegades.
co To expel S. Epstein for distributing re-
lgious materials among the workers and for
general unfitness for membership in the Party
go To remove Joe Leveen as Party organizer
in San Antonio and to replace him with Com
rade Alma Polkoff.
"a To demand from Joe Leveen and the
other members of the unit that they submit,
within two weeks, statements outlining their at
titude towards District Bureau decisions and
specifically towards the Lovestonetes and to-
wards the proposals for involving the unit in
mass work.
90 To begin Immediately work among the
Negro, Mexican and white workers on the basis
of the struggle for unemployment relief, for the
day-to-day economic demands of the workers,
and against white chauvinism and racial dis
crimination-with orientation towards holding a
mass unemployed demonstration on February TO-
go On the basis OF everyday work and
struggles to carry on a systematic exposure of
the counter revolutionary role of the Lovestone-
ties and to win every sincere worker away from
their influence
CD To send an organizer TO San Antonio and
to establish by May LIST, functioning Section
Committee of the Party in Texas.
DISTRICT BUREAU OF DIST. 10,
COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE U. S. A.
approved by
CENTRAL CONTROL COMMISSION.
COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE u. s. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-26
A CALL TO WORKERS CHILDREN
By WEEK.

BY WEX.
WORKERS children! The whole revolutionary
W press is trying its best to improve and en-
large it's papers The Daily Worker is carrying
on campaign to get out six pages every day.
1t is also calling its readers to come to meetings
SO that they can tell the Daily what is good and
what can be made better. The same with all the
other papers.
However, the Young Pioneer" has not been
left out in the cold The only workers and
farmers kids paper is also having its campaign.
And it sure will be some big onel AS big as
the Daily Worker campaign! The workers chill
dren demand that the Young Pioneer be made
even better than the American Boy" and Boys
Life" and all the other magazines that the
bosses put out to fill the minds of the workers
kids with poison. And so plans were drawn up
to make the young Pioneer" a bigger and
better paper. These plans also call for cover
in colors and lot of pictures and cartoons
inside All this is sure ambitious for paper
like ours, isn't it? You bet! And let me tell
you that the Young Pioneer" can't be improved
just out of thin air; there are no magicians to
do this. If there are any, then it must be you
and you and you-every one of the workers and
farmers kids reading this
Now how can YOU help? Let's see. Well
there's collecting pennies, nickles and dimes
from all your chums and classmates. This is
the best and most important way because the
magazine needs lot of money to come out in
its new dress on May list.
Then the other ways that you can build the
Pioneer magazine is to send in letters and draw
ingS-we need a lot of them, you now. And if
you can send in photos of workers kids and
their bad conditions: or of some ball game, then
you are doing one of the best things you can to
improve your paper And if you think that the
name of the paper should be changed then send
in your idea of a good one.
Cmon, kids toss your pennies, pictures, let
tiers and what not into the ring! Join the
camel See who wins! See if we can improve
our paper before our parents can improve the
Daily Worker!
Write to Young Pioneers of America, 4S East
125th Street, New York City
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-26
f"What Is a "Brownstone
'FRONT.'"

We've gotten sort of cross-eyed trying to keep
track of which is the biggest crook Mr.. Steuer or
Mr.. Kressel
But though a bit dizzy from watching the
Things unwind tale of piracy that would make
Captain Kidd turn green with envy. we haven't
forgotten that Mr.. Broderick is the State Super
intendent of Banks but that he has been-if
the evidence is to be believed at all-protecting
bank robbers the kind who do the inside lob
Take, for instance that little matter-tust one
among many-of Mr.. Brownstone This gent
lifted out of the Bank Of U. S. the following
items
l. loan made out to j. c. Brownstone,
100000.
2. loan made out to ]. G. Brownstone and
Co, 100000
8. loan made to Days Style shop, con-
trolled by Brownstone, $4,000.
E 4. loan to j. c. BroWnstone Companv fstiIl
another firm than the and Co." mentioned
above), S250,0O0
This makes total of $625000 Brownstone
had about $4,000 in the bank when it closed. He
got the loans because he was director of the
oank The collateral" supposedly worth $780,
600 put up against the $6250OO loans is worthless
And there you are
But Mr.. Brownstone is not in want. He Is not
living on the breadline He is fat and well-fed
ana wel-dressed MIR. Brownstone was a direc-
tor CT bank Moreover, he is not even ar
rested la
But-while writing this our eyes fell upon 4
United Press dispatch dated at Minneapolis
Mimi, Jan. II, saying W
"A robbery in which he obtained shree cents
brought Jack Galloway, Fl, a sentence OF five
years IN the st. Cloud reformatory today in
District Court. Galloway tainted when he
heard the sentence" ~
We'll ne may faint again when he reads nov
70 put on a Brownstons Front and IT away
with $625.0oo.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-26
Smash Right -Wingers, Renegades
in San Antonio! Build the Party!

WHILE the objective possibilities for building
" the Communist Party and for conducting
mass work in San Antonio are unprecedentedly
favorable, the Party Bureau of District Ten has
found that these opportunities have been shame
fully neglected.
There are tens of thousands of jobless work.
ers walking the streets of San Antonio The
worst forms of southern capitalist exploitation
are prevalent: 1912 hour day. s6-s1o-a-week
wages unbearable spced-up and health destroy
ing conditions.
The large Mexican and Negro population are
subjected to vicious discrimination, while at the
same time the growing economic crisis is doing
away with the meager economic advantages of
the white workers. upon which their national
and chauvinistic prejudices we're fostered and
favorable presentations for proletarian unity in
the mass struggles are developing.
Large numbers of workers are ready to follow
The leadership of the Communist Party and of
The Trade Union Unity League in the fight
against starvation. but the San Antonio unit of
the Party has failed in the most inexcusable
manner to provide this leadership.
The San Antonio unit totally failed to de-
yelop organized expression and action out Of the
growing discomfort Of the workers: it failed to
carry on the most elementary forms of mass
work; it sabotaged the line of the Communist
Party. and followed Grass right wing sectarian
line instead.
This right wing orieptation of the San An
tonic unit rises directly from its petty bourgeois
composition every one of its six members being
in business as shop-keeper or pcddlcr or
an insurance agent. They have confined them
selves to their narrow Jewish circles They have
repeatedly manifested white cbauvinsm and
cynical contempt for the workers.
Under the leadership OF Joe Leveeil, organizer
of the unit, the line of the Party which is
directed toward mass work, has been system
atically sabotaged When, at the beginning Of
49, the Central Committee wired instructions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-26
Those in Glass Houses Shouldn't
Throw Stones

The two preceding articles exposed the lies
of the propagandists against the Soviet Union
and disclosed the flourishing of convict labor
in the United States.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-24

Washington, Nov 24.-(UP)- The federal farm board feels it's operations have greatly benefited the farmer and is willing to stand upon its record, the senate agri- cultural committee was told to- day.
 The board desires no change in the law under which 1t operates. The boards annual report re- vealed loans to farmers coopera- tives and purchases of wheat and cotton as follows:
 Wheat-total purchases of 329,- 641,052 bushels for $270,2O4,5 ,5O3.78 of which 1S9,656,1S7 bushels re- mained on hand November l. Cotton-Total purchases Of r. 319,809 bales for $107,533,264 Of which 1,310,789 bales remained on hand November l.
 The full story of the oft-times spectacular operations of the 1ed- eral farm board was revealed at a dramatic session of the senate agriculture committee. Called before the committee to testify regarding the boards ac- tivities, James c. Stone, the genial | Kentuckian who had headed the board since the resignation of Alex ander I.egge, produced copy of his annual report to congress. He put into the record all the details of stabilization purchases, financing out of the $50O,000,000 revolving fund, and other efforts of the board to help the American farmer.
 The action was unexpected by tmost of those in the lavishly fur nished committee room and gave "a dramatic touch to the proceed ings.
 The report, intended for presen- | tation to congress two weeks hence and turned off the government printing presses only few hours before Stones appearance before the committee, showed that:
 The farm board has purchased 329,641,052 bushels of wheat at a total purchase price of $27o,2o4,- SORTS.
 The board on November 1 had 189.656.187 bushels of unsold wheat.
 The board has purchased H. 319,309 bales of cotton at total purchase cost of $107,533,246. E The board still has 1,310,7Ss bales of cotton.
 The wheat acquired by the grain stabilization corporation was pur- chased at an average price of S1.97 cents per bushel. (The present cash price is about 55 cents.)
 The cotton bought by the cot ton stabflization corporation was purchased at an average price of 16.3 cents per pound. (The present | price is a little more than 6 cents.)
 The board still has between $5O,-