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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
Book Reviews

themselves: During the Lawrence
strike of 1919, workers in Providence,
R. l., who had walked out in sympa-
thy, were ordered back to work. In
Maynard the U.T.W. sent its own
members into the mills as scabS"
Where its own members refused TO
work under certain conditions, as y
Maine, the national Office of the U.
T.W. recruited other workers to run
the struck jobs"
One shortening in the book lies
in a tendency to underestimate the
ability of the National Textile Work
ers Union to win leadership over the
workers in the south. In part, the
shortcomings of our own organiza-
tional work are responsible for this
mistake on the part of the authors.
While it is true that only through
patience, planned and tireless effort"
will We organize the south, and that
so far we have made only the first
tentative steps towards organization,
one must be careful against giving
the impression that our slogans are
only gradually understood by the
southern worker"
No one acquainted with present
conditions in j.. the southern textile
mills could make such statement
The splendid spirit of the Danville
strikers, striking in spite of their
union Leadership" the drastic action
demanded by the workers in Wood
side Mill, in GreenviIle, S. c., show
that not the workers in the industry
but we who are responsible for their
organization, are tagging behind.
Political slogans can be very con-
crete to the workers of Danville
Writhing under a rule of bayonets
They understand the role of the
state, and the necessity for organized
and even armed struggle in the i'm
mediate future. The Greenville work.
ers, dying from starvation, were ready
to seize bread, without taking a state
referendum on the matter, and they
were under no orders from Moscow
to incline them to follow the example
of their fellow workers in the Soviet
Union.
The southern workers might not
understand al of our demands-they
may not be interested in all the in
tricacies of revolutionary theory
but they did want bread and were
ready to take the action necessary
to procure it.
An empty stomach and a starving
family are. effective. if somewhat
harsh, anti-dotes to the poison of the
press The workers of the Soviet
Union overthrow the government of
the Gear in order to get bread and
!, peace, and under the leadership OF
the Communist Party set up the work.
ers' dictatorship as the necessary
means of securing these and other
demands. The workers of the Pied
mont are not any different.
The trouble has lain not with the
workers, but with us who have had
the leadership Of the union. in that
we failed in the past, to tie up our
final objectives with their daily needs
The textile workers are on the
move. From Maine TO Alabama con-
ditions are ripe for struggle. Our
union finds itself confronted with the
. task of fitting itself for these
struggles.
}, Through the leadership Of every
struggle of the workers, for imme-
date pressing demands, and through
intensive study on the part of our
! membership, we win win and fit our
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
Blue BIOuseS
Entertain Workers
BY A. B. MAGILL.

In Moscow a few Of us dropped into
the Lumber Workers Club one eve
ming and received an unexpected
treat-a remarkable performance by
troop of the Blue Blouses. The
Blue BlouseS are travelling troops
that give vivid agitational perform
ances, using as material revolutionary
history and the problems OF the daily
struggle. Originally they were anna
teur groups, now many of the anna
teurs have become professionals and
devote all their time to this work
The Blue Blouse movement has
spread to Germany what about
America?) where there are now 500
flcurishing troops giving their per-
formances at workers meetings and
demonstrations.
The Blue Blouse technique at iaj
best is fresh and mobile; it aims at
the creation of dynamic mass sym
bols in which the struggles of the
working class are expressed in sharp
and concentrated form. The Blue
Blouses are agitators and teachers,
but they are splendid entertainers as
well. Theirs is truly folk art, the
art of a revolutionary class that has
become "the people"
The Lumber Workers Club was
packed, Youth predominated. Before
the Blue Blouses came on, the young
workers gave a play of their own
dealing with the sex problems of
! youth. Then came the Blue Blouses,
some seven or eight men and two
women. The first number was the
history of the October Revolution
tthis was just prior to the November
/ 7 celebration and the Blue Blouses
were helping to prepare the Soviet
Masses. In Pantomime, song and
defamation with numerous quota
tons from Lenin, the ten days that
shook the world surged across the
stage. rising to climactic heights. The
hall rocked with applause.
The Blue Blouse troop gave four
other numbers: two of them stirring
spectacles dedicated to the Red Army
and the Red Fleet, and two humorous
Rotations, one directed against bu-
reaucracy and the other depicting a
meeting of Young Pioneers to take
action against bourgeois tendencies
among their parents. The footlights
had disappeared: the audience was
part of all that was happening on
the stage.
After the performance we met the
actors They are unlike actors in cap
italist America as one can imagine.
They are genuine worers, many OF
them fresh from the factory. They
asked lis questions not about the state
of dramatic art in the United States,
but, How strong is the Communist
Party?" and, ''Do they allow the sing
ing of the International on the
streets of New York;"
These Blue Blouse actors work hare
and are devoted to their work. Theii
performances must always be timely
: and so they must make quick changes
with only few rehearsals. They are
helping to achieve the cultural revo-
luton; and they too are bringing tc
the 15O,000,000 workers and peasants
of the Soviet Union the living wore
and deed of the man who lies undel
the shadow OF the Kremlin Wall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
A Magazine
For Workers and Farmers Children

Dear Readers of the YOUNG PIONEER:
The Young Pioneers are starting a cam
paign to issue magazine for workers
and farmers children.
A magazine with front page in colors!
Stories of adventure, sports, and the life
of the workers children all over the world
will be printed in this magazine.
Pictures and drawings by the best work
x class artists will illustrate the stories.
How would you like to build an airplane?
Or to learn woodcraft? You will find these
things in the magazine. Or do you like to
work out puzzles? Well, you will find that,
too, in the new magazine.
The first issue of our mag zine will come
out for May First. May First is the in
ternational workers holiday, and we are
going to greet the workers children of all
countries on this day.
You Comrades Must Help!
You would like to have dandy magazine
like that come out every month, wouldn't
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
Review by BILL MURDOCH

review Dy DILL MOhDONh
written in Danville Jail, where
Murdoch is serving sentence, i'm
posed by local authorities, and at the !
request of the United Textile Work
ers officials, because of his activities
in encoura ging the Danville mill
strikers in their militancy, and in ex-
posing the U.T.W. officials betrayal
of the strike.)
LABOR AND TETILES-By Robert
Dunn and Jack Hardy, International
Publishers, S1.00 -. -. -. -.
LABOR AND TEXTILES is written
with a careful regard for facts No
exaggeratiops, no use of superlatives,
but simple, working class recital of
the facts of the industry, makes the
book at once readable and convincing.
A simple, yet detailed account of the
crisis in the industry, with its ma
tional ind international complica-
tons. brings out in concrete form
the basic contradictions of the pres
ent forces of production.
The organizer who has qualns as
to the best methods of interesting
textile workers in the struggles of the
British, Indian, and Chinese workers
might find the facts on the growth
of the industry in these countries of
great interest to the unemployed
worker in Carolina and New Eng
land. International solidarity must
be built on facts.
The concentration of the industry,
a national survey of wages and work
ing conditions, new developments in
machinery and the methods used by
the manufacturers to keep the work
ers in submission, are an important
part of the book. Most important,
however, since it fills a long needed
gap, is that part which deals with a
description of the strikes and strug-
giles of the textile workers for the
past eighty years.
From the first national organiza-
ton Of mule spinners with its close
craft boundaries to the young mill
tant National Textile Workers Union
embracing all workers, young and old,
Negro and white, men and women, on
an equal basis, we have an account
Of every first class battle between the
employers and workers. Fall River,
with its struggles lead by women,
Lawrence, under revolutionary lead
ership, Rhode Island, with its fight
ing rang and file battles, and, later,
Passaic, New Bedford, and the South.
All have something to give the textile
workers in their present and future
struggles. Every organizer, every
member of the union, should procure
copy of the book. and learn of the
traditions of bitter struggles on the
part of the textile workers. :
The early struggles under the old
National Textile Workers Union, from
1891 to 1901 when the first attempts
were made to organize the south, the
betrayals of the workers under the
U.T.W. from Lansay through Golden
to Mcmahon are recounted with a
simplicity that carries conviction.
OF the activities of the American
Federation of Textile Operatives, the
authors state:--"Accompanied by the
mill-owners. they visited mills in the
vicinity of Charlotte, N. C. and were
dined by the Rotary Club. They
made no contacts with workers OF
unions. They had no members in
the South at any time. They have
none now"
OF the activities of the United Tex
tile Workers leadership in New Eng
IT quotations speak fol-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24

"The religious reflex of the real
world can. in any case, only then
finally vanish, when the practical re-
lations of every day life offer to man
none but perfectly Ineligible and
and reasonable relations with regard
10 his fellowmen and to nature.
Marx: Capital, Vol. /, p. 81.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24

"The forms of the bourgeois states
are exceedingly various, but their
substance is the same and In the last
analysis inevitably the Dictatorship Of
the Bourgeoisie. The State
and Revolution.
"The centralized power of the state,
peculiar to capitalist society, grew up
in the period of the fall of feudalism.
Two institutions are especially char
acteristic of this machine: the bur-
eaucracy and the standing army. :.
The working class learns to recognize
this connection by its own bitter ex-
perience. :. Hence arises the neces-
sity for the bourgeois parties, even for
the most democratic and revolution
airy democratic sections, to increase
their repressive measures against the
revolutionary proletariat, to strength
en- the machinery of repression, that
is, the power of the state."-Lenin:
The State and Revolution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24

get beautiful Red silk banner, over five
feet high, which was sent to the American
Pioneers by the Pioneers of the Soviet
Union.
The Pioneer group that collects the most
money will receive either pennant sent
by the Russian Pioneers, or a set of books
for a Pioneer library.
The Pioneer or workers child who col
lects the most money himself will receive
a set of three books.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24

out a name you think the magazine ought
to have. Get your friends to enter the con-
tie. tool
When we have your suggestions for
name, we will select one, and the comrade
who sent in that name will receive beau
tiful . well, it almost slipped then.
wasn't supposed to tell it. 1t will be
surprise for you, and l. for one, would like
o be the lucky comrade who sends in that
name.
So get busy now, comrades. Send in for
collection lists. Get your friends and school
mates to help you. Collect money for the
Magazine Fund. If you comrades will put
your shoulder to the wheel and work hard,
you can be sure that on May First, Wei
have magazine that will knock the bosses
eye out!
Come on, comrades, let's go! On to
dandy magazine by May First:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
WHAT SHALL WE CALL OUR
MAGAZINE?

This magazine will be OUR magazine;
that means, yours and mine. We want
you comrades to pick out name. There
fore we are starting contest beginning
January Is, to last for two months. Pick
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24

selves to hold, leadership of the tex
tile workers in the revolutionary
struggles that lie ahead.
LABOR AND TEXTILES fills a
long-need requirement of our leader
ship. 1t is replete with facts and
data, and will be invaluable to the
workers in the coming battles against
the employers and their agents.
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Smyrna times., 1931-01-14

For the purpose of extending a
public road through Liston Range
Lighthouse Reservation in New
Castle County, the Federal Gov
ernment is asked in a bill offered
by Representative Robert G. Hous-
ton of Delaware to convey the nee
essary strip Of land. It is provid-
ed that the proposed road in the
reservation shall be available
permanently by the State Of Della
ware as a public highway under
such rules and regulations as may
be necessary. The lighthouse SER
vice is given unrestricted right at
all times to use the highway for
the purpose of access to and egress
from the reservation.
The Dover Interdenominational
Leadership Training School will
open on January 10, for a six
weeks schedule, sessions to be held
each Monday night. The school
will meet this year in the First
Baptist Church. The courses of
fered will be as follows: "A Study
of the Pupil, Miss Clara D. Brag-
don, Millington, Md; ''The Teach
ing Work of the Church." Profes-
sor James H. Bishop, Dover; Jun
ior Materials and Methods" Mrs
James H. Bishop, Dover; "Adoles-
cent Materials and Methods" Miss
Pauline Albertson, Salisbury, Md;
"The Romance of the English Bi-
ble," the Rev. C. Ashworth Burs-
lem, Dover.
Smyrna times., 1931-01-14
Reasons for Scarcity
of Batak Literature

Marco Polo and the emperor Of
China landed on the Batak coast,
to avoid storm In the Thirteenth
century, emo had to erect block
houses to avoid being eaten by the
natives. For the Bataks were and
are cannibals, eating renowned in
dlviduals, not for dietic reasons, but
that his strength and wisdom may
be incorporated in the banqueters.
The choice cuts are the fingers, toes
and the palms of the hands; and
according to a cannibal chief who
confided in an explorer-the pop
ular term among cannibals for hu-
man flesh is ''long pig" as the
general taste Is like that of the
pig.
This tendency on the part of the
Bataks is probably the reason why
libraries are not usually furnished
with Batak literature, because very
few agents could be induced to look
for rare works within reach of peo-
pie with such ideas. Indeed, the
Cleveland Public library is prob
ably the only library in the world
to possess a pustaka.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Smyrna times., 1931-01-14
"Naturopathy"?

The term 'naturopath" isn't to
be found in dictionaries, so the
District of Columbia commission on
licensure to practice the healing
arts made up it's own definition. 1t
naturally took quite bit of study,
and in Washington the practice
must be confined within the defini-
tion. Here is the commissions Off
cial definition: "Naturopathy in
the practice of the healing art is
the use of such physical force as
air, light. water, vibration, heat,
electricity. hydrotherapy, psyche
therapy, dietics, or massage, but
shall not include palpating, analyz-
ing and adjusting the articulations
of the spinal column, the admins
tration of drugs and medicine. sur
gerry or the application of X-rays
or radium. Magazine.
Smyrna times., 1931-01-14
German Heroes Honored
in Temple of Valhalla

More than a century has passed
since King Ludwig I of Bavaria
laid the cornerstone of Valhalla.
This white marble temple in the
style of the Parthenon stands on a
wooded hill above the Danube near
Regensburg. King Ludwig con-
ceived the idea of a memorial tenn
pie to great Germans in 1907 dur
ing the Napoleonic occupation of
the country, but not until % years
later was the work begun.
The monarch himself chose the
site, and also decreed that the ten-
pie should be named Valhalla. after
the name Of the old Germanic abode
of fallen heroes. More than hun
dred busts and memorial tablets
in the main hall of the temple COM
memorate famous men and women
in Germany's history, beginning
with the time of the battle of the
Teutoburg forest. which broke
ROme's domination in Europe.
Smyrna times., 1931-01-14
Curious Cockpit Country

The cockpit" country is known
only to those who have taken a
West Indies cruise and not all of
those. 1t means a trip to Jamaica
and a journey when there to Bala-
clava and the gIades of the Black
river. Jamaica's longest navigable
stream, famous for its dye woods
and alligators. Between Appleton
and Breadnut valley you will see
a number of lovely waterfalls and
at Ipswich. about ninety miles form
Kingston, the Cockpit country be-
gins, a land of conical limestone
hills, banana-laden glades. 1t is a
region never fully explored and the
Maroons had their Businesses here
in the days of runaway negro ad-
ventures.
Smyrna times., 1931-01-14
Valuable Invention

The autogiro was invented By
Juan Cieva. In the autogiro there
is fuselage 10 feet long and an
air-cooled Genet major engine of
100 horsepower. Two small wings
have bent-up tips to increase the
lateral stability while in the air,
and the windmill" has four blades
which are set in motion by air
thrown up to the horizontal propel-
Ter by a defiector, maintained about
the horizontal stabilizer. placed at
the end OF the fuselage. The
power thus developed gives a ro-
tation of 40 r. p. m. to the vane, a
speed which must be maintained be-
fore the plane takes off.
Smyrna times., 1931-01-14
Old Massachusetts Church

bingham, Mass, possesses an ex-
traordinary number of old build
ings, but the Old Ship church is by
far the most interesting of them
all, says an article in the Boston
Post. 1t is not an exaggeration to
say that il ranks without any
qualifications. among the few most
interesting historic buildings In the
country. 1t was built in 1881. the
second church in the town. Ii has
been enlarged twice, but the orig
inal building is still there. Com
petent authorities say that 1t is
"the oldest house for public wor-
ship In the United States which
stands upon its original site and
continues to be used for the pur-
pose for which 1t was erected"
Smyrna times., 1931-01-14
That Mouse Ear Theory

Long before phenology became a
science, farmers discovered the ad-
vancement of the native vegetation
In the spring furnished reliable
guides to the best time for SOW
ing and planting crops. One old
fashioned rule. probably derived
from the Indians. was that corn
should be planted when the leaf
of the white oak vas "the size of
a mouse's ear" Several traditional
rules Of this kind are current among
farmers, and one OF the tasks OF
the phenologists is to check them
up on the basis of actual statis-
tics.
Smyrna times., 1931-01-14
Gpa Of Edist a-...
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l,,a 1iI5' 4 Inverness. ss.5s Scot nf
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ARE ali the sons ,,o o.
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Nod nav .bo Highland
iIs down to the eli clans a
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/. \ ,,sry Highland hear,, IT
,,,,pr s~r bound to the un-
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ss,tps to every lllam' anmI
ili'I h. Igentles and I'd. COM nll+
~ y may after this ,.ItIt put
l'l n Fl trews, the little
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It.'sl \. tartan kilt, without out
n If the land or the
gsnles.'
Smyrna times., 1931-01-14
DR.. Chas. Leslie Lewis Says
81 TRIED
FLAXOLYN MYSELF
Its Power to Do the Body
Good Really Surprised Me-"

DR.. Chas. L. Lewis
Of Pittsburgh writes:
when / was first
retained to pass upon
the merits of Flaxo-
lyn, | must confess |
was mighty skeptical
about the claims
made for it.
Being rather run
down myself at the
time, and recogniz-
ing the symptoms of
auto intoxication, I
decided to try Flaxo-
lyn. ! felt that if it
did not do me any
good at least it could
not do me any harm.
Smyrna times., 1931-01-14
They Enjoy Week-Ends

Even the poorest city dwellers
of Denmark enjoy their week-ends
of holiday-making. They don't con.
slider 1t necessary to go TO church.
but pack baskets of lunch and fare
forth into the country.
Smyrna times., 1931-01-14
STATE AND PENINSULA NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF SPICY ITEMS
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED FROM
OUR STATE EXCHANGES
Brief News Items of People We
Know In and Around the Larg-
er Peninsula Towns

The amount of gasoline tax paid
into the State Treasurer's office
during the month of December,
1880, showed $75, ,2O3.95, while the
State highway fines collected for
December showed S6,080.
Smyrna times., 1931-01-14

Automobile revocations for op-
Grating cars while under the in
fiuence of intoxicants during De-
cember as announced by the State
Automobile Department shows a
total of AZ of which 33 were from
Delaware; six each from Pennsyl-
vania and Maryland and one each
from New York and Virginia.
Smyrna times., 1931-01-14
s.cone Nuisance

r. ne pay roll Of the
E.,,5 \ nelr klamath Falls,
,%sIrs to do but repair
I. .s n irrigation system
sr beavers. What he
h. ,pDairs by day the
I,irstriOusly demOlish
|, ,DOeal has been made
L i d allow killing Of the
Smyrna times., 1931-01-14
lEXYUTTI
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Famous Prescription Gives
Almost Instant Relief

Night coughs or coughs caused
ny q cold or by an irritated throat
are usually due to conditions which
ordinary medicines do not reach.
But the very first swallow of Thox-
me- a Doctors prescription, is
guaranteed to give almost instant
reiief. Thoxine works on a differ
ent principle, it goes direct to the
internal cause.
Ihoxine is pleasant tasting and
safe for the whole family. 1t will
give you better and quicker relief
ior coughs or sore throat than
anything you have ever tried or
your money will be refunded. Put
up ready for use in 35c, 60c, and
sl.oo bottles,