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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-31
The NeW World
Against the Old
BY tn. NEUBAUER (Berlin) .

ny III. NEUbAUER (berHn).
Every day brings fresh news from
the socialist world of victories on the
front of socialist construction: 1873
new industrial plants commenced
work in the first half of 1881; is mil
lion peasant farms have been collec-
TWEED. The oil plan for five years
has been fulfilled in two and a half
years. Many works and factories
have already gone beyond the aim
set by the Five-Year Plan. The
output of the Stalingrad tractor
works was 2,151 in September. In
Kharkov, the new tractor giant, with
an annual production of $4,000 trac-
tors, has commenced working. In
Moscow, the new Amo works have
commenced operations with an an
nual production of $4,000 autos. In
Magnitogorsk, the first blast frv-
naces have commenced to work. In
Nishni- Novgorod, the new auto
giant, capable of turning out 100000
motor lorries a year, has just been
completed. On the Dneiper the gi-
gantic industrial combine = electric
ity, chemicals, aluminium, metal
lurgy-is nearing completion. The
whole of Soviet Russia is engaged in
Notwithstanding factories, mining
works, railways, roads, hospitals,
dwellings, whole towns-an entirely
new world, the world of Socialism!
And in the capitalist world? All
the horrors of rapidly disintegYat-
ing society are let loose.
Every day brings fresh alarming
news from the capitalist world. The
biggest bank in Denmark has col
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-31

The LUR.W has already more
than once modified public opinion
on behalf of the victims of the white
terror and the class justice of the
bourgeoisie. 1t was thanks to the
protests made by the writer's, of the
whole world that the Lettish writer
and revolutionary, Linard Laicen was
releasedefrgnl prison. 1t was the &C.
ton of the worlds writer's that OPEN
ed the prison gates for the Ruman-
ian proletarian writer Moses Kahana,
and secured the release of the Hun
garian revolutionary writer Aladar
Tamas. Again it was these same
writers that frustrated the trial of
Johannes r. Becher, by which the
German bourgeoisie hoped to close
the mouth Of this great poet, Ger
manys greatest proletarian writer.
The deepening of the economic cri-
Sis which itself is inseparably linked
up with the capitalist system as such,
together with the growth of the re-
yolutionary movement favor the de-
velopment of proletarian literature
and enhance its value as a weapon
OF class struggle. And this leads the
world bourgeoisie to prosecute with
increased fury the representatives of
this literature and to aim at their
physical determination.
Tho only way to assist the tortured
revolutionary writer's in China is by
n1obiuzing public opinion for strug-
gle against those imperialist powers
which support and finance the bloody
power of the Kuomintang cut
threats.
The position of the revolutionary
writer's in Palestine, Egypt, Indo-
China and India is not whit better.
In the pery centre of civilized Europe,
Germany, we find an extensive sys-
tenn of persecution, whose aim Is the
destruction of revolutionary literat-
re, tbs proletarian press and all
representatives. Of revol utionary
thought. It is a matter of common
knowledge that novels of the prole-
tartan writer's Marchwitze and Neu-
krantz describing the role of social
democracy in the struggle against
the revolutionary proletariat have
been confiscated. 1t is well known
that the social-democratic police
presidents have banned we'll nigh all
working class newspapers in Ger
many.
The German committee for strug-
gle for the freedom of literature state
that special DEGREES issued by the
government enable the authorities to
carry on an unprecedented persecu-
ton of revolutionary literature and
the revolutionary press.
Last November the International
Conference of revolutionary writer's,
which met in Kharkov, called upon
all the writer's Of the world to strug-
gle against Polish fascism. vt ex-
posed before the whole world the ar
of Pilsudski's regime both
IN the occupied territory of the West
Ukraine and in West White Russia.
Every day we receive new informa-
ion from all the Polish prisons
(Pryemysl, Lods, Poitrkow. Pinsk,
Terdon, Wilma, etc. on political pris-
,ners being forced to wear prison
on how prisoners are de-
,rived Of the right to exercise and
share provisions, on beatings and
orturings of prisoners. on their allo-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-31
LABOR AGREEMENTS IN
COAL MINES" =
A Book Review by Labor Research
Association 4l'9'

The Russell Sage Foundation has
published another volume in its series
aimed at promoting peace" in indus
try and preventing the growth Of
class consciousness among the
workers.
L!EA the earlier book on sem
ployee representation" in Rockefeller's
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
(Which tried to prove the humane
attitude of the management after;the
brutalities that led up to the Ludlow
Massacre), this book on the U. M, W.
A. in Illinois is SO extreme that a
rank and file worker who happened
to read it, would not be shaken but
strengthened in his class conscious
ness. The tone is too academic, how
ever, to give it a wide appeal. Left
wing organizers will find in. Labor
Agreements in Coal Mines" by Louis
Bloch many concrete illustrations Of
their argument that U. M. w. A.. Of
ficials are closer to the coal opera
tors than they are to the rank and
file miners.
No analysis of union politics is at
tempted. The whole question Of
graft and corruption is sidestepped.
But valuable for reference are the
summary history of Illinois agree
ments and the case records of scores
of typical individual grievances, The
book costs 81 ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-31

archy of capitalism and its devastat.
ing consequences. .!r ~
For IA years the capitalist of all
countries, and with them their social
democratic lackeys, have hoped in
vain for a collapse of the Soviet
Union. Today, anybody who ventures
to express such an illusion only makes
himself ridiculous. For it is gradually
becoming clear even to the most
blind and bigoted defender of bank
rupt capitalism that the Five-Year
Plan, with its miracles of heroic
achievement and gigantic successes,
has been possible only because it has
behind it a whole people. The capt.
tallsts are able to maintain their
bloody regime only by means Of the
most brutal methods of oppression
OF the masses. We see how fascisn,
as the ultimo ratio of the capitalist
class war, is spreading more rand
more. Summary courts, exceptional
laws against the working class, po-
lice terror, these are the methods in
all capitalist countries? Whyqo be-
cause the small handful of exploit
ers are unable otherwise to maihtain
their rule. But this system ofrcapi-
talist class rule is being profoundly
shaken. The proletarian slaves are
striving to burst their chains. Crisis
of democracy, crisis of Parliamentary
ism, crisis of fascist dictatorship.
Why no "crisis of the Soviet State?
Because the Soviet State is the work
ing people, their State, their instru-
ment of power, their form of politi-
cal organization.
A bourgeois doctor who has lust
returned to Berlin from a long visit
to Soviet Russia reports: "The great
est, the most amazing thing that we
witnessed there is the INDISPENSABLE
enthusiasm with which the masses
work on the Fiye-Year Plan and with
which they regard the Soviet Power.
Here there is quite another world.
These are really emancipated men
and women who feel themselves mas
ters in free country" a.
"Bolshevism leads to chaos, This
IS what was one time proclaimed by
means of placards, newspapers, meet
ngs. Today, everyone sees where the
chaos is, namely in the declining cap
talist world. '"Think of the sacri-
ices! We have before our eyes ev-
Try day the sacrifices which the work.
ng masses have to make for the
lake of bankrupt society. 1t is true,
he working class of Soviet Russia
nave made sacrifices, in fact heroic
sacrifices. But they made them in
rider to do away with capitalism, to
lchieve victory. These sacrifices were
necessary in order that the sacri-
fees of the working class should
ease. 34l ~.
SIT is no longer possible to proceed
llong the capitalist pathy' wllines the
ocial democratic Vienna eArbeiter-
1eitung'. Quite right. But 1t is pos
ible to proceed on socialist lines,
Vher ethere are no capitalists any
onger, where the working people
themselves control economy and the
State. It is not only possible to do
Without the capitalists, but the>work-
RS are hundred times better off
Without them. Here Is the way of
scape from misery which the masses
# the working people i'll all coun-
ries are seeking. Soviet Russia is an
a way into the future, call
o the millions and millions: You
lave a world to winl g
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-31
A Savage Reign of Police
Terror in Los Angeles

let's for those who resist, the boss
| press has been forced to pretend con-
domination of the police brutality.
The Los Angeles Record, in a front
page editorial, says in part:
when is the grand jury going to
do something about Raner, and
about the dozens of other Los An
geles policemen who have been ac-
cused of specific brutality?
"hos Angeles citizens have been
waiting for three months now for the
grand jury to put a stop to the car
nival of police beatings."
The same paper carries a satirical
advertisement" with a photograph
of Mayor Porter blindfolded and I'M
able to see anything wrong with his
police department. The advertise
ment reads in part: II
Putting on the famous Goose
grease Official Binders, Porter was
asked to lokIat the police department
and point out anything wrong with it.
But he couldn't.
cts perfect he shouted with
joy. It's the best police department
anywhere in the world I can't see
anything wrong with it,
"Then he looked at Chief Steckel
through the magic bandage. He's
wonderful exclaimed Hizzoner, and
what lucky city this is to have such |
a swell police chiefp
"a citizen showed Mayor Porter
copy of the constitution. I can't see
it., he sighed happily.
"The mayor took look at the
crime statistics. Can't see anything
wrong there, either. Why, there is
no crime or vice at all, !
you might say
Honestly, folks, with cops beating
up people right in front of him, big
sambling joints running full blast,
and robberies and burglaries galore,
Mayor Porter can't see anything but .
a beautiful, rose-colored vision"
And there are Mayor POrters in
every city and town throughout
capitalist America. 1t is not only
this Los Angeles Mayor Porter that
is all wrong, as the Los Angeles
boss paper tries to make out. II
is the whole damnabIe capitalist
system under which the workers
are sentenced to starvation and
dubbed and shot down if they re-
sist 1t is not only this Mayor POr-
ter who must be thrown out but
the entire rotten, brutal capitalist
system.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-31

| lapSed. The second largest private
bank in France has to be support
ed" In the United States of Amer
lea there is a general run on the
banks, and nobody knows how it will
! end. The huge Ivar Kreuger trust
is beginning to totter. The Ameri-
can Giannini Trust, with a capital
of over 1000 million dollars, has COL
lapsed.~ England and the ScanoI-
navian countries are pIunging ever
deeper into initiation. Germany is
approaching fresh disaster, which
when it breaks out, will be worse
than the July disaster. What will to-
morrow, the day after tomorrow
bring? The flood of the capitalist
world crisis is rising ever higher.
Nothing is safe any longer. Nothing
stands firm. In the womb of this
crisis revolutions are maturing.
What will happen in Poland, in Hun
gary, in Germany?
Soviet Russia is showing the world
new economic order, a new social
order. In the capitalist countries fac
tories and works are being closed
down in thousands, the machines
are converted into scrap iron, the
furnaces are extinguished, the pits
are flooded, the factories are falling
into decay, the ships are broken I'D.
In Soviet Russia, however, 518 new
works and factories are set going.
In the capitalist countries food is
destroyed wholesale, the area under
cultivation is reduced, whilst the
masses of the working people are
starving. At the same time the So
Wet Union is increasing on a ire
scale the area under wheat.
sugar and vegetables. In the CAPT.
talist countries % million unem-
ployed are starving and a tremen-
dous campaign for cutting down
wages and social policy is being car
RED out. In the Soviet Union, how
ever, there is not a single unem-
ployed, wages are being increased by
20 to 80 per cent, social services are
being extended on a scale which is
absolutely unthinkable in the CAPT.
talist countries. Why is this SO?
Millions of working people who
put this question find only one an
swer to it: Because in Soviet Rus
sia there are no capitalists nor capt.
talisn1.
The capitalist world is falling to
pieces, because it is no longer able to
control the productive forces which
1t has itself called into being. 1t can
only cope with them by DESTROYING
the productive forces and also the |
products. The more food the earth |
Yields, the greater the hunger of the |
masses; the more the machines pro-
1uce, the greater the misery. In its
hunt after profits capitalism has Gre
ated ever more powerful productive
forces. Now they turn against their
OWN creators. In order to gain high |
er profits, capitalism reduces wages, |
cuts down social services and ruins
The home markets; now it complains
that sales are bad. For the sake of
profits capitalism has glutted the
world market; now it complains that |
The world markets are completely dis
organized. For the sake of profits,
for the sake of economic and politi-
'al power, capitalism has intensified
class antagonisms to the extreme;
now it cries out that the working
people are threatening with the rev.
olutionl
Is there more pitiable, miserable
spectacle than this capitalist class,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-31

CLEVELAND, Ohio. - While the
Cleveland bosses and their police
thugs are answering with bullets and
terror the demands Of the unem-
ployed workers for relief and for food
for their children, the suicide toll on
jobless workers continues to mount in
this city.
The Cleveland Press, one Of the
boss papers bowling for an increased
terror against the unemployed, re-
ports the suicide of an Unidentified
man in an office of the Union Trust
Building.
The Cleveland Plaindealer, another
boss paper bowling for the blood Of
workers who dare to fight for I'M
employment relief and against evicA
tions, reports:
"a woman identified as Mrs. Rose
Sanburg, IS, died yesterday at City
Hospital as a result of taking poison
In downtown hotel, according to
police.
'Po1ice pronounced the case sui
eide, and said Mrs. Sanburg had
recently lost a position as house,
keeper"
Decline In Employment.
At the same time, the boss press
are forced to admit further decline
in employment in Cleveland, declar-
ing that jobs in factories declined
Z per cent in September in 100 repre-
sentative manufacturing concerns"
They also admit that CLOSING down
Of body plants and automobile works
accounted for the large decline" and
that the employment index now
stands "at the lowest in the ten years
these statistics have been available. "
They also admit a general slashing
of the wages of those still employed.
This gives the lie to the takers who
are trying to hide from the workers
the fact that the economic crisis is
rapidly worsening.
Mother of Commits Suicide.
TOLEDO, Ohio, Oct 29.-Under
the caption Mother of 8 Who Ended
Battle With Want, Is Buried" the
boss newspaper, the Toledo Blade,
admits the death by suicide of an
unemployed working class mother
who, feeling herself\no longer able
to bear the anguish of seeing her
children starving before her eyes,
hung herself here few days ago.
The workers name is Mrs. Lillian
Luce, whose husband died four years
ago leaving her to carry on the fight
to maintain her children and home
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-23
INCREASE IN STEEL
SALE is REPORTED
Better Conditions Observed
in Industry as Demand
Shows Pickup.
nr the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. August 22.--Although
still dull. slightly improved conditions
WERE reported in the steel industry this
week, rejecting a moderate pickup in
demand. for sheets and favorable out
look for a larger call for line pipe and
rails. Structural awards are being
made at a moderate but fairly steady
rate. Production schedules revealed
considerable irregularity, but for the
trade as a whole ingot output increased
lightly to about 80 per cent Of capacity.
Tin plate production continues to de-
cline The possibility of wage adjust
ments. If Fall and Winter demand
should fail to improve, is absorbing the
attention of the industry. Prices held
steady A moderate improvement in
pig iron demand developed with prices
unchanged.
Copper remained dull and unchanged
with custom smelters still supplying q
restricted demand at prices ranging
from 71a to ia cents for electrolytic
delivered in the Connecticut Valley.
Producers were out of the market.
There was a moderate export demand,
some of 1t being credited to Russia, but
uncertainty in European financial sir
cles was restricting influence.
Tin again was irregular, with fluctua-
tions approximattng changes in London.
Early easiness, rejecting untavorable
reports from the tin plate industry was
followed by rally In anticipation that
recommendations would be made for
further curtailment of international
production Lead continued steady and
unchanged with demand still restricted
to carload lots for prompt shipment.
Slightly improved inquiry developed for
zinc toward the close Of the week.
Anthony was steady.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-23
COTTON Is HIGHER
ON BETTER BUYING
Week End Covering Operations
Also Contribute to Stronger
Tone in Market.
BY the Associated press.

NEW YORK, August 22.--Cotton was
higher today on week end covering
combined with some trade or commits
sion house buying.
An opening advance was followed by
moderate setbacks, after which the
market firmed up again with prices
reaching the highest levels OF the day
in the late trading. December sold at
ITO and closed at 7.08, with the general
market closing firm at net advances Of
10 to IS points. :.
The opening was steady, 10 to IL
points higher. which was only par
ttal response to the relative strength of
Liverpool, and prices slipped of or 4
points during the early trading under
liquidation or realizing combined with
some local and Southern selling The
decline brought In an increased de-
mand from shorts, however, while Offer
ings we're comparatively light after the
early selling had been taken and prices
worked up later IN the morning. Oc-
tober contracts, which had sold of from
6s3 to 6.73 early, rallied TO $50, while
March advanced from 7.23 70 7.35.
Closing quotations were within a point
or two of the best.
Liverpool cables attributed the ad-
vance in that market 10 covering, with
continental and Bombay buying. but
said the home trade in cloths was quiet,
with Shanghai auction results unsatis-
factory. The New Orleans resolution
favoring a reduction in cotton acreage
through legislative action was not gen.
orally referred to as an immediate mar
ket factor, but may have promoted some
of the covering responsible for the late
forenoon advance.
The week end weather forecast was
considered generally favorable, while the
unsettled showing of the stock market
probably encouraged some of the earlier
selling Brokers who sometimes operate
for the cooperative interests were
credited with selling near and buying
distant months during the early trad
ing and spot houses were among the
buyers on the late advance. Owing TO
the lateness of the crop comparatively
light ginning returns for the period
prior to August 10 are looked for from
the Census Bureau on Monday, but are
not expected to create fresh sentiment
As to the size of the crop. The amour&
of cotton on shipboard awaiting clear
ance at the end of the week was esti-
mated at 10000 bales, against $4,000
bales last year
Cotton futures closed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-23

continent about IL cents barrel TO
10 cents for 30 gravity and up, also
marked up prices in Cult Coast area to
II cents for 40 gravity and above.
Walker Mining deficit, before deple-
ton, six months 10 June 30 1909, VS..
net income. before depletion, S2i4,7I2,
equal 20 II cents a common share.
Woolworth IF. W. Co. reported in
crease in annual dividend rate to SO
and extra disbursement held likely;
present rate is $2.40; sales of British
af1liate up is per cent in first seven
months; has opened IA additional
stores
American Pneumatic Service subsid-
larry gets matchmaking equipment con-
tract for Chicago Post once; $780,
OFT involved
Atlantic Refining marks up price Of
tank ear gasoline u cent q gallon Ut
Philadelphia refinery.
Colonial Beacon Oil increases gaso-
line price to 6 cents gallon at New
York HerboT also advanced New Eng
land tank car prices u cent 3 gallon.
Consolidated Gas OF New York
Court refuses to enioin 10 cents initial
charge Of subsidiary, Westchester Light
ing Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-23
LADY CAMBRIDGE'S FIANCE
FROM POLITICAL FAMILY

LONDON (N.ANA0.-Capt. Abel
Smith, who has just become engaged to
Lady May Cambridge, comes CT fam
lily with a long political history. The
founder of the family was In Lord
North's, Lord Rockingham's and Pitts
Parliaments, and from that day the
House of Commons has seldom been
without a representative of the family
Capt. Smiths uncle. Abel II. Smith, was
in the Gladstone. Rosebery, Salisbury
Campbell Bannerman ard Asquith adj
miniStrations.
The family founded the banking firm
of Smith, Payne g. Smith and can
trace back its origin far in the his
tory of Nottinghamshire, and by mar
riage through the years are linked with
many famous peerages among them
those of Somerset, Levan and Melville
Lincolnshire and Glasgow.
Lady May shares her future husbands
love of riding and is, among other
things. one of the best lawn tennis
PLAYERS in the royal family She has
been brought up by her mother to be
lust like ether girls-sne was sent to
school at Eastbourne and later to ST.
PauTs School, Hammersmith, a cele-
brated public school-and she is we'll
trained in the practical side Of home
life
fcopyriRht. 1881, By North American News
paper Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-23
BOND PRICES SHOW
! NARROW CHANGES
Foreign List Weakens Some
what After Good Start.
Rails Steadier.
BY ALEXANDER HENDERSON.
Associated Press Financial Writer.


NEW YORK, August 22.-Qaiet trad
ing and narrow, irregular changes char
acterized the bond market today.
Foreign obligations provided much Of
the limited turnover and an irregular
decline was apparent among them.
Urueuayan 6s, German Central Agrlcul-
tural Bank IS of october, 1860, Sac
Paulo rs of 1910 and Norwegian IS Ok
1914 made some of the larger losses,
although sales of each OF tnem were
limited and small Colombian 6S OF
october. 1861, dropped about l II points
on relatively large sales. German rs OF
l949 were moderately active with frsc-
tional gains. Belgian Is Of 1885
strengthened also.
Railroad loans showed a recovering
tendency but trading in them was can
fined to sales in q few Of the leading
issues. Pennsylvania AIS OF 1865 and
of 1870 rose major fractions and smaller
gains appeared in Atchison General As,
Chicago &. Northwestern 434S of 1919.
Erie SIS cf 1875 and New York Central
SIS of 1875, and New York Central 5s
Of 2013.
The first Liberty 3i2s and the new
Treasury 3iss Of l946-49 were the most
active of the United States Government
issues most of which we're dull. A lower
trend developed among them, however.
following the preliminary notice Of the
intention OF the Treasury Department
to float a new Government issue on or
about August 81.
Public utility and industrial loans
provided even narrower fluctuations
than the rail and foreign issues. Such
changes as did occur were divided about
evenly between gains and declines.
Stock privilege bonds were generally
lower. but trading in them was con-
centrated in few issues. No sales of
any kind were reported in some stocks
of this group.