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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-20
SWEDISH FARMERS
RETURN TO USSR;
PROMISES FAILED
Go Back to Stay After
Taste of Capitalism

STOCKHOLM, Sweden.-Under
the influence of religious and polit-
ical propaganda, about 900 Swedish
colonist families decided two years
ago to leave the Soviet Union and
return to the land of their fathers.
All sorts of promises were made to
them and they were led to believe
that they would find paradise I'M
der capitalism. 1t did not take long
for them to discover their mistake
and realize that they had been mis-
used politically in campaign against
the Soviet Union. Those who had
misused them cared nothing for the
fact that almost a thousand families
had been uprooted under false pre-
fences and with deceptive promises,
The peasants, however, found it
more difficult to return, because
those who had, for political reasons,
assisted them to leave the Soviet
Union we're not in the least inter-
ested in giving them the chance of
rebuilding up their lives. However,
the greater part of the original emf
grant company has already returned
to the old homes on the Dnyepr and
during the next few days 108 fam
lilies will leave Sweden for the Soviet
Union. Those peasants who are now
in the Soviet Union write that the
Soviet authorities have given them
back their old farms and helped
them on their feet with loans, stock
and tools.
The fact that the peasants have
learned from their experience is
seen from the fact that many Of
them have now joined the collective
farms and are working for the build
ing up of socialism. They have
learned that there is no short cut
to paradise. Only collective effort
with the toilers can bring them
nearer to their aim. The whole af-
fair has had further effect. Those
peasants who left the Soviet Union
at the instance of their pastor in
1928 were deeply religious. The suf-
ferings and receptions practiced on
them have resulted in a fatal blow
to the prestige of religion.
The parsons will never again re-
cover their hold on these peasants
and their families. Those peasants
who are still in Sweden are regarded
by their former well-wishers as a
Bolshevist plague, because they make
no attempt to conceal their desire to
return to the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-20

letter to appear before the ex-
ecutive board, so I thought I got my
card already.
When I received the letter to come
there I took along $50. Five dollars
placed in one pocket, $25 I put
into my pocket book. He asked me,
how much money have you. I told
him So. So one of them answered
God damn it, those lousy helpers
won't give us even for a glass Of
beerA We sit here and sweat our
CUTS and then he said. get over there
and pay in those $25 for your in
itiation fee and don't forget every
week you'll have to pay $25 weekly
until you pay up $1,000"
When I had to take the examina-
ton they asked $4,000 just that I
should pass, so 1 got it down to 500
and told them when I start to work
as mechanic I will give them more
than fifty. Instead giving them more
money I sent them another man for
his union card and he had to pay
$500 in order to get his book.
To be continued next week.
Plumber Correspondent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-20
Railway Express Misleaders Try Put Over
Boss Proposals

(Editaria. Note: Either plan
would place the burden of slack
times" directly on the shoulders of
the express workers. In either
case it is a material reduction in
wages for the workers. 1t is in
this that the workers sense that
one plan is but the alternative Of
another one favoring the company,
and, as you say, makes them know
they are in a company union.'
Radical talk would mean talking
in terms of the workers interest
and not alternative plans proposed
by the bosses. In this case it would
mean putting up demands for
shorter hours with no wage-cuts.
The A. F. of L. has no radical
talk or action, the bureaucrats are
wholly and solely for the bosses.
The reformists like the Musteites
have radical talk, but betray the
workers (Danville, hosiery indus
try, etc.. Only the revolutionary
Trade Union Unity League unions
and leagues talk and ACT radical
that is upon clear cut program
Of the workers class economic in
terests.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-20
FOREIGN LOGGERS
EXPOSE FORCED
LABOR ISLANDER
Indignant Resolutions
Passed By Loggers

MOSCOW.--The "Pravda Severa"
published in Archangelsk continues
its exposures Of the forced labor
myth. Thousands of letters OF pro-
test have arrived from the logging
districts from workers who are In
dignant at the calculated ISLANDERS
Of the conservatives. The newspapers
have published letters from Cana
dian and American loggers at work
in the Soviet logging camps. They
all Indignantly refute the forced
labor" lie.
The "Krassnaya Svesda' c'The
Red Starr, the organ Of the Red
Army, reminds the government Of
the United States that trade worth
s130,000,000 is at stake. The Soviet
government will answer all attacks
on its foreign trade by counter
measures. The United States, points
out the article, is not the only coun-
try in the world from which the
Soviet Union can order its n1achin-
cry. If the United States insists on
sacrificing the advantages of trade
with the Soviet Union, well and good.
But the Soviet Union will answer all
attacks, no matter from what quar-
ter they come.
Numerous meetings of timber
workers have been held all over the
logging districts. Indignant resolu-
tons have been adopted everywhere
against the British and American
capitalist lies. Numerous meetings
have decided to answer the cam
paign Of lies by increasing their ef-
forts to fulfil the plans. One OF
the resolutions adopted declares:
"Our timber is the product Of social
ist labor which takes on the forms
of social competition and shock group
work. Labor in the Soviet Union has
been raised to an affair Of honor
and heroism."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-20

50 that there should be more rea-
sons for getting graft. When I call
led the executive board they asked
my whole biography of life and then
at the end they even started to curse
my parents and they got me by
the neck and kicked me out for fur
Their notice. The further notice was
when decided to go up myself and
talk business. But how can you go
and talk business to person you
don't know. I had friend that
had the same trouble He went to
the secretary so he got his union
card. Naturally for money and he
told me to go up to him.
Officials Ask Graft
I went up and said 81 have an
application here very long" He re-
piled at is very hard to do anything
FOR you" I told him that did not
want him to do anything for moth
ing so he stopped to think and made
an appointment for next week. The
following week I came up there. He
got busy looking for my application.
He found it and asked $500 to put
it near the top Of all applications
and said that next week I would get
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-20
Cleveland PhilZy District
Pages ActtUl2e Members

Philadelphia activity for the sale
of the district issue is picking up, as
seen from the letter received from
M. Silver, Daily Worker represen-
tative, who writes:
81 mailed off the material for
Thursdays edition, this time prob
ably more than the comrades in
the office win be willing to use.
The reason for the sudden pros
perity in articles can be found in
the fact that the district page is
becoming popular among the COM
rades. Among the articles is
news item for our State Hunger
March and an article for March
49,"
Cleveland sends its order for 2,00C
copies, and includes the following
stimulating note from j. Fromholz
I'VE have our News DepartDhen
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-20
MAYOR FAILS TO
FOOL EN- TWICE
Underpaid w omen
Joining Needle Union
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
ST. LOUIS, March 18.-In collins
vile, Ind, a mining town Of ten
thousand inhabitants, 600 women and
young girls employed by the Forrest
City Manufacturing Co, producing
house dresses, are getting from five
to six dollars a week and less. Some
make only sixty or seventy cents a
day. In one case girl made three
dollars in two weeks.
For these miserable wages they
have to slave nine and a half hours
each day and five and a half on Sat-
urday. And also speed up them
selves working under the piece work
system.
Most of them are wives and daugh-
tiers of miners. In many cases they
are the only supporters of their FAM
lilies, because their fathers and hus-
bands are without jobs.
Lately conditions have become so
rotten, that it has even reached the
mayor Of the town. But there were
some reasons why the mayor learned
about conditions in the shop at this
particular time. 1t is before elec-
tons and he wants to get votes. A
more important reason is, the work.
ers began to talk of doing something
about it. And the mayor does not
want to see the workers organize and
fight for better conditions.
So he got on the job and called a
meeting Of the workers Feb. 26, at
which the mayor and some local A
F. of L. officials were present. The
workers were then told that the best
way to get better conditions was by
peaceful persuasion" and therefore
they should do nothing about the
rotten conditions, but they should
leave it to the mayor and wait until
another meeting will be held two
weeks later.
March IL another meeting was held
az which the faker force of the A. F
L. was increased in number. Speeches
were made by all of them in which
they tried hard to convince the work
ers that they must not organize ano
strike, but they should keep on wait
ing until they hit the soft spot il,
the bosses heart and appeal to his
human feelings to be good to the
girls. And again were the workers
told to go home and keep on waiting
until another meeting will be held.
But representatives of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union got
on the floor and exposed these fax
ers by showing them that If the
mayor was really interested in their
conditions, he wouldn't have sent po-
lice to a meeting one year ago when
the workers wanted to organize.
The N.T.WI.U. is active organizing
committee in the shop to prepare
for a real struggle to improve the
conditions of the workers Workers
are joining the union
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-20
Lantern Slide Lecture
For Pioneers Benefit

CLEVELAND, Ohio.-A lantern
slide lecture on the Paris Commune
will be given on Sunday, March 20,
at 4:3o p. m. by the Cleveland Young
Pioneers at 1915 Prospect Ave, In
addition to the lecture, an interest
ing musical program has been ar
ranged in which several of the Young
Pioneers will take part.
The affair is being held to raise
money to build UP the Pioneer Cen
ter as well as to help out in the cam
paign for the new Pioneer Maya
zine, the first issue Of which is to
appear on May I.
Admission for adults will be 10
cents. Workers children admitted
free. Come one. Come all.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-20
(By Special Correspondent

DALLAS, Texas, March 19.-Event
shaping themselves now in this over.
grown, tinsel-draped oil-boom city o.
100000 will determine within a fey.
days whether the kidnapping and tn;
f1ogging of Coder and Hurst will sim
ner down into normally brutal at
tacks on future demonstrations, o.
whether it will boil into violent con-
flict between workers and exploiters.
The situation is extremely tense
Not the least of the sparks which
may set off an explosion any time il
the current showing of the flendisE
Indictment to race prejudice, the
movie, Birth of a Nation"
Indictment.
This film, barred from many parts
of the North, boycotted by class con-
scious workers everywhere, is vicious
thing, particularly when shown in a
community like Dallas, where from a
quarter to third of the white pop
ulation belong to the K. K. K.
The play, supposed to picture the
Reconstruction Days after the Civil
War, holds up the Negroes as beasts
no better than animals of the jungle,
hunting down pure young white
Southern bellies in order to rape them.
1t shows the Ku Klux Khan as band
of high minded patriots, forced now
and then to show little violence to
the Negroes in order to protect South
ern womanhood. 1t is mass of lies
and race prejudice almost beyond
comprehension, but in Dallas it ap-
pears with frequent sub-titles flashed
on the screen: "This Scene is Fac
smile of an Actual Occurrence" On
subtitle declares: 1.-THE Ku Klux
Khan is The Organization Which
Saved the South From Anarchy"
The audience applauded vigorously
for two minutes when this title was
flashed on the screen.
They applauded again, when, dur
ing the showing, an interlocutor came
forward and read woodrow Wilson's
tribute to the XII Klux Khan.
The Khan holds the bcl2nce of po-
litical power in Dallas. No Cle can
be elected to Office unless he belongs
to it. The mayors secretary, Nor
man Register, the fellows who told
the reporter Barr the story of the
kidnapping and hogging of Coder and
Hurst, is secretary of the local branch
here, which calls itself 1.-THE Old
Cliff" Khan, after the part of town in
which most of its members live. The
mayor, chief of police and prosecuting
attorney all belong to the K. K. K.
The K. K K. in turn, is dominated
by the money of the Texas oil inter
ests, and by the Dallas Power and
Light Company. The later, in turn,
is controlled by New York financiers.
Even the birth of a Nation" is
controlled by New York capital. So
we have the curious spectacle of
yankee" cash, whipping a Southern
mob in a lynching bee.
Race Angle
1t must be remembered, in order
to understand the significance of the
showing of the picture, that the main
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-20
Fined for Speaking
At Protest Meeting

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, March 10.
The bosses and their courts have
decreed that workers must not fight
against starvation, must not fight for
relief and unemployment insurance.
When they demonstrate against
starvation and for their demands,
they are dubbed and arrested. When
they protest such treatment they are
thrown into jail or fined.
Dora Itzkowitz was fined $25 in
the bosses court today for speaking
at a mass meeting in Chicopee,
Mass, called to protest the arrest
OF the leaders Of demonstration of
5000 unemployed workers last month.
The demonstration was attacked by
the police and the leaders arrested.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-20
1000 AT CHICAGO
ELECTION RALLY
Mock Trial of the City
Takers

CHICAGO, ILL.,, March H. Over
1000 attended the Red Singing Com
petition and Mass Election Rally at
the Ashland Auditorium last Satur-
day. The Hungarian, Freiheit, Ukra-
MAN and Lithuanian Singing Socie-
ties each sang two workers songs.
Among the songs rendered was the
Soviet Song Of the Youth, by the
Ukranian Society, and the volga
Boatmen, by tina Lithuanian singers.
The first prize, a beautiful red ban
ner, was awarded to the Ukranian
Singers. Second prize went to the
Lithuanian Society.
In addition to the musical enter
tainment, mock trial of the City
Council in Session was presented by
the Workers Cultural League, In
which the republican and democratic
politicians were exposed. The great
est applause came when casnrade
Phil Frankfeld, heading a mass de-
legation Of the unemployed crashed
into the City Council and presented
the demands Of the unemployed.
despite the wishes Of the politicians
and police.
Comrade ]. Williamson. acted -
chairman and called ON an workers
present to protest the fascist 1t.
tempt Of the bosses to rule the Com
munist Party off the ballot, and also
protest against the attempt to de-
porS Comrade Yokinen because he
stands for the equality Of the Ne
gro workers and against the hrutsA
beating and torture in Dallas. Texas.
Comrade Williamson called on all
workers to vote against the parties
of hunger and war on April z. to
Vote Communist - Mayor, Otto H.
Wangerin; City CLERK, Lydia Benz
net; City Treasurer, August Poans-
Joe.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-20
COMMUTE TALK
BOOSTS BUNDLE

GAS a result of a 10 minutes talk
for the Daily Worker from the steps
Of the Utah State Capitol to about
5000 demonstrating unemp1oye d
workers, who enthusiastically en-
dorsed the Worker and condemned
the capitalist press for Systematically
and deliberately suppressing all facts
regarding the economic situation, the
demand for the Daily Worker is in
creasing every day.
1--WE therefore want you to increase
the bundle order from As per day to
100 until further notice. The newly
elected Daily Worker committee has
promised to have a strong, active and
lively Red Shock Troop in a few
days."-O. w. L., Salt Lake City,
Utah.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-20
Toledo JObIess Break
Into Stores and Get
Food; Need Organize

TOLEDO, Ohio.-iSick and tired of
the bosses promises of relief. the
Toledo Council of Unemployed took
it upon themselves a few days ago
to go out on their own hook and get
relief. Seven unemployed workers
went to the grocery stores and meat
markets and demanded food, telling
the managers that they refused to
starve amidst plenty. They came
back in one hours time with enough
food to last a couple of days.
This proves that the unemployed
will not starve as long as the gro
Gerry stores and meat markets are
full, if they go about getting food in
an organized manner, by joining the
Unemployed Councils. e. M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-20
Must Win Children for Workers Movement

Surely every class-conscious worker
knows that without taking the youth
away from the present ruling class
we cannot hold the future. Is it pos
sible that there are comrades who
believe we are the last generation
called upon to bring about the world
revolution?
Are we going to stand by and
watch the school teachers, who de-
fend and justify everything the
capitalist world does, influence our
children? Watch the youth drift
away from us?
I know from personal experience
that we can have the youth If we
are willing to put in hard work.
wish some comrades would write
on that question few words in the
Daily Worker. B. p.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-20
CINCINNATI J0BLESS
FIGHT MORE EVICTIONS

CINCINNATI, Ohio. - Convinced
that the city will do nothing for
them, more and more workers are
joining the Unemployed Council here
since the last visit of the jobless
delegation to the city hall.
The council is fighting eviction
cases wherever possible, in many
cases succeeding in keeping jobless
workers in their homes. In one case,
however, two members of the Unem-
ployed Council were arrested in try
ing to prevent an eviction, Comrades
G. Stark and G.. White. The council
intends to make a big issue Of this
case and will fight the courts on
this issue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-20
KHAN BUILDS UP LYNCH
SPIRIT IN DALLAS; OIL
CAPITAL RUNS K. K. K.
Revive Old Lying Film ''Birth Of Nation" to
Whip Up Race Prejudice
EXploiters Enraged Because Negro Workers
Take Big Part in Demonstrations

argument used to excuse the brutality
-gainSt leaders of the jobleSs here, the
I. o. q. L. and the Communists, is
he race issue. The demands for alb
jolute equality Of Negro and white
workers enrages the Southern ruling
class.
What infuriates the exploiters here
is that two thirds of the workers IN
5he demonstrations are Negroes. I
have checked on the numbers Of the
February 18th International Unem-
2loyment Day demonstration here,
and find that there were at least
1000 out that day, of which $500
were Negro workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-20
Bible StOOlpigeOn
Rats on Workers Who
Talked Organization
(By a Worker Correspondent

Wy WOThCT AUTICSpUIiUcubl
TOLEDO, Ohio.-How religion is
used by the bosses against the work.
ers was shown to me while working
on a night shift in the Gordon Bum
per plant, owned by the Mather
Spring Co. Here the poor wage
slaves we're very much dissatisfied
with the low wage scale and the
long hours. In one room there is
a vat of steaming acid, which is
very unhealthy to inhale; and In
another large room, where the grind
ing and polishing is done, the air Is
filled with emery dust, which also
is inhaled into the lungs.
A religious stool-pigeon. who
knows all the bosses, was telling me
about the dissatisfied workers, which
brought about an argument. I told
him that the Communist organiza-
ton Is the only one that will solve
the problem for the workers, fan
more than any other organization OF
religion. He took this up right away
and asked me II I believed In re-
hgion. I told him no. He then
asked me If I believed in the Bible,
and again I told him no. Then he
said that he believed wholeheart-
edly in the good old book" and just
for that, was going to have some
damned bad luck--and it would not
be long either. The very next day
I was laid off. So religion showed
me Its principles. Wage slave
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-20
Washington, D. C.

Washington, D. G.
Daily Worker:
Every day I read on the back page
If the Daily Worker discussions and
criticisms concerning the daily tasks
# our Party.
T find it very instructive and be-
ieve they help in preventing many
mistakes. I would like to touch upon
subject that has not been talked
. In our press. but to my opinion
erves strong pention.
lere are a number of members
.e Communist Party, considered
leir units as very good canrades,
} children are very far from the
ftionary labor movement. How
comrades justify that I cannot
stand.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-20
Pity Me, Jobless Miners
Marched On Court House

POMEROY, Ohio.-More than 100
unemployed workers from the little
mining town of Pity Me marched on
the court house in Pomeroy last We'd
nesday, demanding relief. They
stated that the Red Cross had cut
them off, and that women and chill
dren were starving and in urgent
need of clothing.
If the Pity Me miners follow up
their militancy with organization in
to the Unemployed Councils of the
Trade Union Unity League, demand
ing not pity but their rights, they'll
b cable to change the name of their
town to Pity You (and mean the
bosses).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-20
BUFFALO PLANS
RED NEWS CLUB

From K. Ilmoni, Daily Worker
representative of Buffalo, N. Y.
mot so good yet. One important
lat least in the experience Of Dis
trict A. event happened today. 1
received the first letter from any
where in the district after almost
wrecking typewriter in an effort
to get a report from the sections.
81 am calling a meeting Of all
unemployed Party members to
establish a Red Builders News
Club. Send a dozen or so men,
bership cards to start with. Will
write you more later"
A short leaflet advertising this
meeting would increase the at
tendance. The News Club would also
draw in unemployed workers who
are not Party members. Keep after
the sections for reports, Buffalo. We
expect to hear more from you.