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FORCED
DOWN AGAIN

TOKYO, Aug. % IN.S).
Dense fog blanketing the chain.
like Kurile Islands between Si.
IBERIA and the japanese mainland
today forced Col. and Mrs,
Charles A. Lindbergh to make
their third descent on a sched-
uled 897-mile nonstop jump from
Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka, to
Nemuro, Japan.
Resume Trip Tonight
According to word received by
the Japanese ministry Of commu.
nications, the Lindberghs were
forced down by fog on Shana
Bay, Itirup Island, about 200
miles north of Nemuro, but the
vernacular newspaper ASahi
stated the descent took place
near Etorforu Island, only 80
miles north of their goal.
The Lindberghs will resume
their journey to Nemuro between
8 and 10 D. m. tonight, Washing
ton time, according to word re-
ceived here.
The landing, according to the
Asahi, was made at 4 a. M,
washington time.
Hoped to Reach NemurO
Conquering the engine trouble
which held them for two days
and a half in the vicinity Of
Muroton Bay, Shimushiru Island,
the Lindberghs resumed their
journey at 1880 a. M, Wash
ington time, and hoped to reach
Nemuro in four hours Of steady
flying.
Officers and crew Of the Japa-
nese government vessel, Shin
Shuru Maru, who went to the
Lindbergh's rescue after their
second forced descent near Shimi-
Shuru Island, bid the fliers fare
well, and Colonel Lindbergh ex-
pressed the belief he would reach
Nemuro without stopping, unless
bad weather intervened.
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CHEESE KNIFE
! IS BURIED IN
STOMACH
AIexandrian Believed Killed in
Revenge for Sending Rob-
bers to Jail; Held Up Before

with a cheese knife buried to
Che hilt in his stomach, Max Ber.
man, So, today reached the end
of a trail of violence which had
dogged his butcher business from
Alexandria to Baltimore.
Berman, whose wife and four
children live in Alexandria, was
murdered early today in his
butcher shop at 1109 West
Clement ST., Baltimore.
Killed in Revenge
Police Of the Maryland city be-
Heve the crime was perpetrated
by trevenge-seeking robbers sent
TO jail by Berman after they held
mp the shop which he formerly
conducted in Alexandria.
Twice while in the Virginia
town Mr.. Bermal1 was the victim
Of bandits, and twice his teSSia
nlony sent the thieves. to Jail. It
Is. believed that one or more of
the convicts. upon release from
prison, went to Baltimore seeking
the butchers death.
Mr.. Berman, who lives at 2
West Clement ST., Baltimore, near
his butcher shop, awoke about
$3.50 this morning. He aroused
his son, Maurice, with whom he
lives, and gave him several
hundred dollars which ordinarily
he takes to the shop with him.
Saw Him At Work
About an hour later Policeman
John Deanefield, who patrols the
beat upon which the shop is To-
Continued on Page 2, Col. ~
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FOREST BLAz[s
MENACE WEST

BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 22 UN.SJ.
Entirely surrounded by a raging
forest fire, the historic mining
town of Placerv1lle, Idaho, today
was believed doomed to destruc-
ton despite the heroic efforts Of
residents to save their homes and
buildings.
Throughout the night, as
blazing embers rained down on
the town, they wetted down their
roofs.
SPOKANE, Wash. Aug. %
(IN.S0. One hundred and
ninety new forest fires, set by
lightning. were taking a terrific
toll of timber and property
throughout eastern Washington,
northern Idaho, and western
Montana, it was reported today
by the United States Forest Ser
vice here.
Bands of sheep totaling nearly
$4,000 head were menaced by
eight fires in the Nez Perce
forest, while the Dewey, Clear.
water and Gospel Mountain
blazes were reported out Of con-
troll, as was the fire in the
Blackfoot National Forest, which
is raging along a 35-nile front.
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VINES HAS LEAD
OVER PERRY

NEWPORT, r.. l., Aug. %
MN.S.)-The surge that carried
Ellsworth Vines, young Pasadena
sensation, to the crest of the wave
in Eastern tennis circles this sea-
son this afternoon gave him a
9our-set victory over Fred j,
Perry, brilliant British Davis Cup
star, in the thirteenth annual
Newport Casino singles tourna-
lnent, and his fourth major title
Of the season.
The scores were 60, ga,
6-8, 60.
A smashing ball, 13 aces for the
five sets, 30 placements, and a
generally consistent game, gave
Vines the victory. Previously
this season he had annexed the
National Clay Court, LongWood
Cricket Club, and Seabright sim
giles, and, paired with Keith Gled-
hill, Of Santa Barbara, Calf. =,
they possess seven major doubles
titles.
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Crude Price Boosts
Meet Texas CODlDGnu

TULSA, Okla, Aug. 20 (I.N.SJ. !.
General increases in crude oil
prices, averaging 80 cents a bar
rel for 40 gravity and above.
were posted today by the Stano-
lind Crude Oil Purchasing Com
pany, the Empire Oil and Gas
Company, Skelly Oil Company,
and other smaller companies to
meet the increase to 10 cents a
barrel announced yesterday by
the Texas Company.
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BOB M'PHERSON
PLANS To WE'D
SECOND TINE
Bank Clerk, Cleared in Wife's
Death, Engaged TO Georgia
Girl, But WithhoIds Name,

Robert A. Mcpherson, jr., 23-
year-old bank. clerk, who was in
dicted two years ago, but later
exonerated, in connection with
the mysterious, pajama-cord death
Of his young wife, Virginia Hurley
Mcpherson, is planning a second
marriage.
Mcpherson, who refuses to di-
vulge the name Of his bride-to-be,
admits, however, that she is. a
native of Georgia and resides in a
small town near the Florida State
line.
Vacation Romance
The girl lives near the home
Of one Of McPherson's relatives,
and it was while visiting his rela-
tionS a year ago that the ro-
nance began:
After corresponding with the
girl all year, Mcpherson again
visited the Georgia town this
summer, and the couple decided
then that they would marry as
soon as the prospective bride can
find employment in Washington.
The death Of McPhersOn's first
wife. q 21-year-Old nurse, occurred
September 13, 1929, under strange
circumstances that caused it to
be referred to as ''WashingtOn'S
greatest mystery"
History Of Litigation
"A domestic rift caused McPher-
son and his wife to separate and,
two days later, her nude body was
found in their Park Lane apart
ment with pajama cord wrapped
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Death in Wine Held
Accident By JUrY

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Aug. az
G.N.S).-Mrs. Helen Vasilzevic.
80, electrocuted as she was clean.
ing up wine prohibition agents
had dumped in her basement.
met her death accidentally, .
coroner's jury had ruled today.
Clarence B. Gelhausen, onS Of
the Federal men, testified he was
shocked by the same light cord
that killed Mrs. Vasilzevic.
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Well, Gen. Buffers Safe
From, Hoouer Dog NouU

President Hoover, who is re-
ported as once having humor.
ously instructed one Of the presi-
Dental dogs to bite Mai. Gen.
Smedley D. Butler, Of the Marine
Corps. has sent a dove Of peace
winging its way toward the fiery
Marine.
General Butler, who is to retire
October / and is expected next
year to be a candidate for the
Senate from Pennsylvania, was
described by the President as "a
very gallant officer"
Can Get Him Back
The President added:
'M the country gets into
trouble again ] am sure we can
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Police Chief Fired
On I-MGn ReDOrt

JACKSON, Mich, Aug. 90
QN.SJ.-Chief Of Police Charles
Z. Phelps was dismissed by City
Manager w: B. Hodges today
after the one-man grand jury
consisting Of Judge Theodore
Jacobs had made its report.
Charges against Phelps included
drinking while on duty, intoxi.
cation, violation Of the criminal
laws and failure to enforce the
liquor law"
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get him back In the service." !"
The remarks were made upon
receipt Of General Buffers appli-
cation for retirement. The Ad-
Ininistration not long ago or
dered the general court-martiaied
for alleged derogatory remarks
about Premier Mussolini Of Italy,
but rrc~ 'ings were dropped.
Nice DOggie
The dog story leaked out after
one Of the dogs at the Presidents
Rapidan camp had bitten q Ma
rine on the hand. President
Hoover is reported to have patted
the dog on the head, saying:
''NiCe dOggie. Now 60 bite
General Butler"
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GIRLS
. HURT AS AUTO !.
HITS POLE
Four From Capital on Way
10 West Point; Crash Near
Baltimore Blamed on Tire

-Four socially prominent young
women Of washington were in
jured early today when the auto
mobile in which they were riding
crashed into q telephone pole at
st. Denis, Nd, near Baltimore.
The injured are:
Miss Elizabeth SawtelIe, FL,
Of Chevy Chase.
Miss Elizabeth Seed, FL, Of
144O Rhode Island Ave. N. w.
Miss elizabeth SlibIey, FL, Of
1846 BiltmOre' st. N. w.
Miss Stephanie Noble, 20, of
184O BiltmOre st. N. w.
Miss Sawtelle and Miss Seed
are regarded as seriously injured.
In Baltimore Hospital
Miss Sawtelle suffered several
broken ribs, severe cuts and
shock. Miss Seed is also be-
lieped to have several fractured
homes. The other two suffered
MINOR injuries.
All four are being treated at
st. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore.
DR.. II. r. Sawtelle, father Of
Miss Sawtelle, went to Baltimore
upon learning of the accident and
aided in treating the injured.
Tire Blows Out
Miss SawteIle was driving the
automobile when a tire blew out.
The machine Careened from the
road and hit the POLE.
The four were on the way to
West Point. N. Y, where they
were to spend the week end.
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j. s. To PROBE
OIL MERGERS

The Department Of Justice
plans to investigate proposed
mergers in the oil industry, in
volving billions of dollars, to de-
termine whether they violate the
antitrust law, it was stated at
the department. today.
All developments in the pro-
posed union Of Standard Oil Of,
New Jersey with Standard of
California, and the four-company
mergers headed by the Sinclair
interests, are being followed
closely.
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Rail BrOtIserlsOOds
Want Retirement Aid

Compulsory retirement insur.
ance for all employees of railroads
operating in interstate commerce
will be demanded Of Congress
next winter. Details Of the plan
to be sponsored by the big Four"
railroad brotherhoodS, disclosed
today, provide for compulsory
con buttons both by the railroad
and the workers.
The Washington times., 1931-08-22
Sea NettLes Start
Warfare bU State

BALTIMORE, Aug. 22.-In-
crease in sea nettles along the
Chesapeake Bay and the Eastern
Shore Of Maryland has set the
State to battle the singing
nuisanceS with chemicals.
Planes and boats will be. sent
out Monday along the shores by
Swempson Earle, State conserva-
ton commissioner, to lombard
the jelly fish with copper sulphate.
The Washington times., 1931-08-22
Newspaper in Ohio
T1r1et for ROmberS

MANSFIELD, Ohio, Aug. %
Q.N.SD.-Aroused by what was
regarded as an attempt to bomb
the plant Of the Mansfield Jour
nal Company, authorities today
started a search for the occu-
pants Of an automobile which
sped past the building a short
time before it was rocked oy' the
explosion.
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Kings Son Operated
On for Appendicitis

LONDON, Aug. % Q.N.S0 -
The Duke Of Gloucester, son Of
King George. underwent an opera
tion for appendicitis at Countess
Carnarvorl's Nursing Home to-
day. A bulletin signed by five
physicians announced that the
operation had been entirely sue
ceSSful.
The Washington times., 1931-08-22
Miss CGrstGirs Here
For 2need R0nt Race

NEW YORK, Aug. 20 d.N.s0.
Miss Betty Carstairs, British
speed boat racer, was in Man
haitian today following her ar
rival from England on the Beren.
geria. She will leave for Detroit
on September 8 to watch the
HarmSWorth trophy races,
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CONDITION OF TREASURY

The Treasury balance for
August 20 was $112.O80, $50 .25.
Expenditures, e10,520, ,240.80.
Custom receipts $24, SOC. j u. 81,
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THE WEATHER

Cloudy tonight; Sunday partly cloudy and
semswhat warmer; moderate northeast winds
Temperature yesterday-Highest, e6, lowest, 81.
Humidity yesterday-Hishest 81; lowest, 80.
Full Weather Report on Pages
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11

ism, wrote Edmonds letter saying
about the article: II congratulate
you with all my heart, That's straight
patriotism"
And, the editor of the North Amer
lean Review, instructs the people
"Our duty now, is to kill Germans.
To the killing of the Germans we
must bend all our energies. The more
Germans we kill, the less danger to
our wives and daughters"
Each side fights for God 1t must
be SO, because Gods own chosen rep
resentatives, til preachers and
churches tell us SO. To take one ex-
ample out of thousands, Archdeacon
Wilberforee Of London: ITO kill
Germans is a divine service in the
fullest acceptance of the term"
And, the German God speaks thru
the Kaiser in his proclamation to the
Army Of the East in 1914: 1.-THE
spirit Of tina Lord has descended upon
me because I am the Emperor of the
Germans. I am the instrument of
the Almighty. I am his sword, his
agent. God. by my mouth, bids you
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of Union Bureaucracy
Barred in New Book

While ten million wofaers are I'M
employed in the United States and
a food of wage cuts is breaking over
every industry the wages of the Off
cial leaders Of the American Fedora
ton Of Labor are not being cut
Financially, they are Sitting pretty"
This fact is revealed in the forth
coming Labor Fact Book compiled
by Labor Research Association and
released for publication during July
by International Publishers. A list
Of salaries of labor skates is given in
the book The list does not include
amounts received for expenses and
through graft and sundry extortions.
The book points cut that William
Green, A. F. of L. president, draws
as much in a month as most work
ers get in wages in a year. His total
salary and travelling expenses for a
year are $4,000 "in addition to I'M
specified honorariums for addresses
before colleges, Rotary Clubs, Cham
bers of Commerce" and other open
shop bodies.
The list Of salaries of the presi-
dents of sample unions as given in
the book is as follows:
| BARRIERS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., $4,000
! Bricklayers, Masons
Flasterers 't't...s.s...- '-...s..., u 600
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Us. We asked for an accounting of
the 100000 Incorporated during
their administration and again they
we're silent. They dared not answer
When we demanded food and milk
for our hungry children they told
us to go to the County Poor house
and orphanage, This was their an
sWer to US"
The starving miners and unem-
ployed workers listened carefully.
They had come for a showdown. And
they got it. The government was
not their government. 1t was clearly
linked up with the coa1-operators.
A slogan was shouted and taken up
by the crowd. I'VE will pay no taxes
to Belmont County. We elected
those takers and We will kick them
out again" The miners returned
home, grim and determined. They
had seen this government, which was
supposed to be their government, in
action. And despite this government,
they were going back to picket and
fight till they won their demands
and built a strong National Miners
Union. It was a fight to the finish
and they were game.
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rorisn1. When the miners strike in
defense of their very right to life it,
SELF 80 are met by the flooding OF
the strike zones with armed forces,
the suppression of the right to as
semble, to speak and picket, by in
functions, mass arrests, tear gas,
shooting, clubbing and numbering of
strikers, attacks against the foreign
born, against the Negroes, etc. The
Pinchot government, while hypocri-
tically proclainling fair play for the
miners, has used every means at its
disposal, to break our strike against
starvation.
The organization of the Washing
ton conference IS also only one
more evidence of the strike breaking,
age-cutting, policy of the Hoover
Mellon government and it's hostility
to the miners and the working class
in general.
We protest against the attempt of
the government, the operators and
the U.M.WA. to trustify the coal in
dustry at the expense Of the workers
The program of the Washington
conference reduces itself to fatter
profits for the operators, lower
wages for the miners, worse working
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MINERS ON THE
MARCH IN OHIO

Rulnors few through the crowd
and soon they we're verified. The
Gaylord miners, who had gone back,
we're out again, refusing to pay
soc a day assessment per man to the
mine guards. A shout went up from
the crowd. 300 miners had struck
that morning in the Hickman Mine
in West Virginia under the leader
ship of the National Miners Union.
In Pennsylvania in the Pittsburgh
Terminal Coal Co. the possibilities
we're strong that almost 1900 men
would come back on strike after
their betrayal by the U,M.W.A. The
crowd was enthusiastic, militant.
The strike was spreading! They
we're bound to win.
Soon the delegation returned As
they came the crowd surged forward,
all straining to hear the report. The
report came: "They heard us but
they could not answer us. When we
asked for relief they said they had
no money. And when We demanded
the 5000 appropriated to hire de-
puties they had no answer to give
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do his will"
This atmosphere of holiness-fght-
ing for God and civi1ization-has the
additional object of making all acts
Of the capitalist war machine immune
from attack and criticism. Unbe-
hevable graft and proflteering, the
most intense attacks against the
working class and their leaders-all
this is justified for the entire press,
and every organ of capitalist propa-
ganda Shrieks: 'It is a holy warl"
Not only do both sides fight for
God, but they fight for the whole
of civilization also. To take again
one example oelt of thousands, Pro-
fessor G. Del Vecchio, of the Univer-
sity of Bolonga lis this an accident?):
BY a happy stroke of furtune, Italy
is unable to defend herself without
at the same time defending the whole
Of civilization
That happy stroke Of fortune"
sounds a little unconvincing, but
after all the poor fellow is only
professor trying to obey orders, and
not diplomat
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SPREADING LIES for WAR!
Expose These Lies in a Nation Wide Demon
stration on August First

Soviet Union, change, which shows
that the propaganda machine is be-
ing prepared to go on to a, war basis
The present campaigns, are but a
faint shadow of the hurricane Of hate
and fury that the capitalists will at
tempt to whip up against our Soviet
Fatherland the moment they are
ready to launch the attack against it.
For this reason it is essential that all
toilers should understand the func-
tioning of the capitalist he-nlaking
machine and be fore-warned against
it.
The last war has been over for q
long time and many of the chief
lie-nakers have written books, in
which they do not hesitate to ex-
pose in the most shameless manner,
chuckling over the speciality choice
bits, the murderous lies, which they
invented do not delude the people
whipping them up into an insane
hatred against the enemy nation.
Capitalist lie-making is q. science.
On both sides the lies took the same
forns-the forms most calculated to
deceive the workers and play on their
petty bourgeois prejudices. Fir st :,
each side claimed that it was
fighting in self-defense. Second, each
claimed that it was fighting for
God. Third, each claimed that it
was fighting against a nation of
devils.
Conrade Lenin has shown that in
i1nperia1ist wars, there is no longer
any meaning to the distinction be-
tween offensive" and defensive"
wars. In inperialist wars, all the
ir1aperiaist powers are agressors. The
plea of "self- defense" is used only
as 2 blind. Yet the frenzied pitch
to which this lie can be carried is
shown by the following quotation
from Edn1onds, editor Of the Manu-
facturers' Record in 1918: 1--WE are
trying to save the. infant from be-
ing dangled on the bayonet, as was
done in Belgium. The nurderers are
aiming at us. The raptists are look
ing at this land with useful dreams.
Would even the craziest reactionary
today try to convince anyone that in
1918, Germany was dreaming of in
vading the U. S., and numbering the
children and raping the women? But
the lie defense of women and chill
dren, with little sex excitement
thrown IND served its purpose. 1t
was not for nothing that it appeared
in the NFanufactW Record, special
organ of the bosses. And. Theodore
Roosevelt, patron saint Of American
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BY HARRY CANNES

# the children laughed, they were
tortured. II they ~ocke too Ioudl
for the delicate ears Of the b-utalizad
prison guards, they were flogged. One
was tortured to death Forced labor
Of children Whips, solitary dark
cells-for children Where is tl1is2
In Venezuela, IN Bulgaria, in italy,
in Mexico, in China, in India, the
exploiters have invented the most up
to-date methods Of torture for the
revolutionary workers But, in the
United States, the Hoover govern
n1ent, they have gone them all one
better. In the United States, where
there are 100000 "free" child labor
ers Shaving their lives away, there
are thousands of child forced prison
laborers undergoing the worst torture
ever described by Official records.
Here Is the story as told by an
official report issued by President
Hoover himself, submitted to him by
the Wickershann Law Enforcement
Commission. We can be sure that
the more important facts, the worst
tortures described were suppressed
What is told, shows the debasement
Of American capitalism in torturing
children in the Wlest dungeons; fore
ing them to labor; numbering some
in the dark, foul cells after hours Of
abuse. Prison guards, under the
authority of Uncle Sam, vent their
sadist lust on boys and gir,s, con-
derned as criminals by the Wall st.
government. Remember about Hoov-
er's prating about Child Health Day.
about the GLORIOUS heritage Of our
children"
Now 1t 20 happens that during the
past six months, the United States
government has condemned 2243 boys
and girls under IS, and many under
IA, to prison for various Grimes"
These children have been condemned
to forced labor. The Wickershan1
Commission was not interested IN
their welfare, but part Of its duties
we're TO follow I'D prisoners convicted
Of violation OF the prohibition act
Sonae Of the Wickershssn inyestlga'
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session Of q tWo-csnt stamp, talking
in mess line, conceahng an apple in
the bunk (the children are undoubt-
edly starved, kicking a refuse can,
stealing five eggs from the kitchen
Gn1ore proof of starvatiorO.
Boys are slaackled in leg irons.
They learned that from dictator
Gomez Of Venezuela. In the National
Training School for boys, they are
f1ogged, until backs ooze with blood,
and marks Of whips show for weeks.
Another form OF torture Is 'tfae
drill crew" Those placed On the drill
crew" are required to keep. moving
constantly In the yard. They are fed
in the dining room twice a day, a
slice OF bread, tablespoon Of pota-
toes and water.
Undoubtedly this drill crew. Is an
excellent health bulding exercise
to crease American citizens that
Hoover Cells us about, and perhaps
the slice of bread, potato and water
is the nourishing food, which capt.
talisrn wants the workngclass chill
dren to be assured Of.
The cry Of forced labor" against
the Soviet Union, where the children
receive the first consideration and the
best care, and, where prisons like
these In United States do not exist
even in the imagination of the worst
enemy Of the SoWets, in the light of
these latest facts stands out as the
bald hypocritica1 lie, which it Is. This
rotten system Of capitalism which
fortunes children is trying to provoke
war against the Soviet Union
where the workers have wiped out
the basis of exploitation Of children
or men and women.
Smash the war plot Of the child
torturers, Of the Hoover gownment,
and its imperialist supporters. Pro-
test the torture Of child forced labor
in the United States Give your
answer to the war nlongers on August
First. ALI out against capitalism and
war preparations, its brutality, its
torture and slaughter Defend the
Soviet Union, where the workers
children are freel -