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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-15
The Truth

We are again reminded Ii at the Russian woro
spravdap mssns "Trutl." reader sends us
the following;
Dear 10 ge.-Heres thought foe those VINO
were woc.'cd (why worried? '-Jorgel by the
aDrarent le::gth to wl1c!n they felt Pravda went
in it's articn by Wilson on the Fam Board
accumulation Of 25OOO9 600 bushels of wheat IN
II eparation for war-or Brewers article IN the
Taily on the same subject.
John D. Black, Professor of Agricultural Ec-
onomics at Harvard in book financed by
Rockefeller ("Agricultural Reform in the u Sd
deplores the carelessness and inefficiency OF the
government agricultural banks. Why? For
sooth, for the very reason Wilson and BroWder
pointed out: Black would like to see these
Agricultural Banks Sin shape to function sue
cessfully in the next war"
There are surprising lot OF TOOLS running
about pooh bahing the possibility Of war.
The international Labor News Service" which
is run by Matte Vol has just sent out short
item to the A. F. of L. papers, in which 1t states
that some "high official of the u S. army
commenting on Ludendorf's book prophesylng
that the war is plotted to begin next month";
in July that is, says that Ludendorf is mot far
wrong" 1t adds that the army officials name
'scannot be mentioned"
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Continue the Social Insurance
Campaign

I'D what democracy in action means to the
workers.
Some of the districts are already active in
other signature campaigns. California, for in
stance is collecting signatures for the repeal
of the criminal syndicalsm law. This should
not conflict in any way with the social insur-
ance campaign, but rather, the two campaigns
can complement one another, and two OF our
issues can be placed before the workers at the
same time States in which signatures for
placing our candidates on the ballot in NUM-
cipaI or state elections are already under way
Ohio for instance), can combine these cam
paigns also A worker can be asked to sign for
our candidate and then it would be an easy
matter to ask him to endorse one of the issues
in the campaign which is very vital to him.
by giving his signature to our social insurance
bill petition.
In Maryland the Party is launching an ini-
tiatiye campaign for the repeal of the Jim
Grow Law splendid opportunity for COM
bining our Negro work with our general I'M
employment and social insurance campaign by
carrying on collections of signatures for both
purposes simultaneously!
These state campaigns require the close CO.
oneration, in many cases, of two or even three
districts For instance, District 9 has already
written in that it is ready to start the CAM
paign in upper Michigan as soon as contact
with Detroit can be established for a joint
campaign. District 9 writes as follows: 1--WE feel
that a movement for a state social insurance
law will get the widest support in the upper
peninsula, copper and iron mining territory as
well as the farming regions. We will fall in
line with this drive as soon the steps for
it are taken"
The Districts involved in this campaign on a
state scale are the following:
Dist. States Involved.
l. Maine and Massachusetts,
8. Maryland
g. Ohio.
7. Michigan.
8. Missouri.
9. Michigan.
10. Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma
II. North Dakota, South Dakota.
IL. Oregon.
IS. Arizona, California, Nevada
Is. Massachusetts,.
10. Idaho, Montana.
10. New Mexico, Utah.
Some cities and some counties also have mi
tiative and referendum laws. The city of Den
ver for instance has one, and the local COM
rades launched their campaign several months
ago. Local comrades everywhere must make
inquiries Whether sucn laws exist IN thelr cities
and counties, and Immediately inform the Dis
trict so that preparations can be made for the
signature campaign on municipal and county
scale.
Here we have an opportunity for reaching
proletarian and farming elements we have never
reached before, on an issue they will readily
support
Instructions have already been sent to the
District Organizers on the launching of the
campaign. The Secretariat is now preparing
the political instructions for the drawing up of
the state bills. Here is the opportunity for
carrying forward our social insurance cam
naign. We can mobilize hundreds of thousands
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-15

To all Sections of the Communist International:
During the last verfcation and cleansing OF
the ranks of the Communist Party of the So
Wet Union it was discovered that in number
of Sections of the Conintern there is an in
correct attitude towards treachery. There have
even been cases where persons who have be-
trayed comrades under examination and at
trials who have given away addresses secret
meeting places, etc., have been left in the Party.
Even worse have been cases OF withholding
information of such treachery when transferring
persons into the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union. There have even been cases of attempts
to defend ex-traitors Rumana).
The International Control Commission calls
attention to this impernlissible matter.
The Communist Party must establish firm
rule by which Party members who are discoV-
cred to have betrayed their comrades after ar
rest, have given away secret Party meeting
places to the police, informed them of pass
words have connections with the police, ETC.,
should be unquestionably expelled from the
Party.
All Party organizations must increase their
fight against betrayals (not limiting themselves
to expeling traitors from the Party, but also
to prevent them from getting into workers Or
CARNATIONS boycotting them, isolating them in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-15
FROM EDITOR TO READER
Our Yonkers, n. Y. Readers Get Together

WELL, the Daily Worker family is beginning to
together One of the first Daily Worker
Clubs they have formed was born in Yonkers,
N. Y last Saturday.
And it didn't have much pre-birth attention
either In fact the circulars sent out to our
readers there were a bit off; somebody who
wrote them having not learned that the forma-
ton of Daily Worker Club Of our readers and
friends was the main business of the meeting.
Once our readers are united and work to-
gether for the paper in the Daily Worker Clubs,
all other things will follow. But anyhow the
Yonkers meeting was pretty good example OF
what can be done in other places.
Thirty three workers came, only two or three
Communist Party members-a good proportion
They had the help of the Worker International
Relief who furnished them with entertainment
in the line of movie film. Daily Worker Club
meetings should be made interesting, and our
family can make 'em so.
OF course, and-as it should be-the discus
sion on the Daily was the big part and best part
of the meeting We got a heap OF suggestions
and some good criticism, some not SO good, but
on the whole fine. This space is too limited to
discuss them here, and they will be duplicated
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-15
brought out in Senate hearings.
The Gangsters and Washington

brought out in Senate hearings.
The Gangsters and Washington
The gangsters in the city wards, in the city
governments in the state capitalist political
machines contribute literally to the election of
the presidents in the Republican and Democra-
tic parties Tammany Hall and large interests
in Wall Street, were solid behind Al Smith for
president on the democratic ticket; Thompson,
with all his gangsters the Ware Machine in
Philadelphia, and Wall Street. were behind
Hoover for president. The same gunner who
are employed for city elections are used to in
sure presidential votes. The lineup begins in
the vice dens, as usual, and gees on UP. 1t
reaches into the national conventions Of the
Republican and Democratic parties even though
the respectable" elements, directly representing
the capitalists who supply the largest share of
the campaign funds, guide the proceedings of
nominating presidential candidates.
The Capitalists Investigate" themselves
In all cities, when graft becomes SO riotous
that even the blind begin to see where it leads,
hue and cry for investigation" arises Fore
most among these crusaders for the purity of
capitalism are the Socialists. In New York they
want the courts cleaned" they want the work
ers to have more faith in capitalist judges But
there are more serious elements in the graft
killing bands.
Chicago, of course, will serve as typical ex-
ample. There is the Chicago Crime Commits
sion, headed by Frank j. Loesch, who was also
a member of Hoovers Law Enforcement Com
mission. There is the Committee Of Eight, and
an endless list of capitalist organizations ito
fight crime and graft"
Loesch started his crusade against Capone
and other gangsters in 1919 Since then Capone
has become leading figure in the Chicago
city government. Graft is organized on big
ger scale vice, gambling, murders crimes in
crease But Loesch's real function is to cover
up graft. This is how he hoes it. He tries to
belttle the wholesale killings, the police con-
nection with the gangsters On January 27,
1884, he made a speech over the radio. He
said "Proportionatey, Chicago has no more
crime than any city of its class. Crime in
Chicago is not unique In less than CEN
tury of progress Chicago has developed from a
settlement in swamp to the second city of the
Union; to the fourth city of the world. This
rating is based on population alone In many
things . material, spiritual educational, ar
tistic industrial :. it ranks unquestionaby
first"
On March % 1881, two-day conference was
called by the States Attorney Of Cook County
" HExn ~ euansfn 10 ccristder " means Of stsna,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-15

many other places no doubt But they will be
given consideration and we will answer these
comrades direct. So our letter should be read at
the next meeting of their club.
Yonkers being near New York, 1t had the ad-
vantage of having member of the Daily Work
err staff there, who correctly did not try to
speechify the workers to death, but encouraged
them to talk, to make suggestions and criticisms.
The present financial drive was not overlooked
either $50 was collected right there, though
it properly took second place to organizing their
club, which will remain as permanent base of
mass support
The audience elected Committee of five
only one Party member. If they had wanted
to- they could have made the Committee bigger
or smaller Let these clubs run things them
selves.
o. yes, the committee was figured out on the
basis of having Chairman, and financial Sec
rotary, recording secretary, secretary to look
after Worker Correspondence, and one to take
care of circulation. If you do it differently in
your burg, it's O. K. with U.s. But get together
and send us in your suggestions and criticisms
of the paper-your own paper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-15
Alas. the Poor Fish!

news dispatch of May 81 from Uniontown
Pa, now in the mine strike area, told how Vic
tor Robinson was arrested and sentenced to %
days in jail for catching turtles to make soup
for his starving family"
A Fayette County prosecutor, however EVIL
IDENTIFY willing to let miners break the game laws
rather than go on strike, ordered Robinsons
release and said that persons who violate the
fish and game laws to provide food for starving
families will not be imprisoned in Fayette
County"
Anyhow it's cheaper than requiring Andy
Mellon to pay taxes to cover unemployment in
surance So we discount the prosecutors gen
crosby"
But though Fayette County prosecutors may
make some allowances-not SO with MIR. Knick-
erbocker of the N. Y Post He rushes to the de-
tense of the fishy tribe who may fall before the
assault of the revolutionary workers. In the
Post of June 8, he opens up his article thus
"Oslo. June 8.-The Five Year Plan for
whales has made its debut and the unwilling
beasts happy today in the security afforded
them by NOrways decision to whaling
for whole year. are living in fools paradise.
For the Soviet Union has just ordered three
whaling vessels from Norwegian shipyards."
True after bursting into tears over the way
the devilish Bolsheviks are pursuing the once
care-free whales into the region OF icebergs and
unhanniness we noticed that Snickersnocker
forgot to draw attention to the fact that the
whaling ships ordered by the Soviet would prob
ABLY not be built and sent on their netarlous
mission until after kind hearted Norway's closed
season is over.
But then, it was whale of a story for Mr.
sneakersnocker And he gets paid by the word.
And word to whale is sufficient.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-15
c. |. Demands Public Exposure OF
Spies and Traitors
ion from the Inter national Control CommissiO

prisons from other political prisoners, etc..
1t is the duty of the Communist Parties to
inform the Communist International and the
corresponding Sections of the Comintern, to
which the traitors have gone away from their
own country, trying to hide from the Judgment
of the Party of the proetariat and to conceal
their past.
The names and nicknan1es Of the provaca-
teurs and traitors should be widely published,
if there are not any reasons Of a consprative
character against this.
simultaneously there must be Party penalties,
to the point of expulsion from the Party, for
all those members of the Party who directly or
indirectly defend exposed provocateurs and
traitors, or hide them from the Party.
INTERNATIONAL CONTROL COMMISSION.
The Central Control Commission of the Com
munist Party of the United States, being in full
agreement with the views of the International
Control Commission, wishes to record that it has
always recognized the Necessity of the public
exposure of all spies and traitors, and has con-
sstently carried out the policies and procedure
which are officially required by the Inter-
national Control Commission
CENTRAL CONTROL COMMISSION OF THE
COMMUNIST PARTY, U.s.A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-15

ming the rising tide of crime" To this con-
ference came the prosecuting attorneys OF many
cities That States Attorney Swanson OF Chi
cago should tell his fellow prosecutors how to
stem the "rsing tide of crime" is indeed pre-
sumptious Swansons Office Is the clearing
house for criminals of Chicago. Nearly every
one of his assistants look forward to the day
when he will become lawyer for the GRIM
inals using his knowledge of the States Attor-
ney's Office to help his clients commit murder,
robbery, or any other crime without ever see
ing the inside of cell Such conferences have
been held before and always in the same way.
They are called to give the masses the belief
that the capitalist authorities are attempting to
do something about the growing army OF gang
sters on whom the city authorities rely to
great extent to keep their power and collect
graft.
However. some interesting sidelights we're
brought out by some of the prosecuting attor-
psM- Edwayd IN Coo cgSntss Ass~aex Of Min
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-15

neapols said that the army of criminals in the
United States Cmainly tied up with the CAPT
talist political machines) numbers 100000, and is
increasing annually at the rate of Is per cent.
"In one year," he declared, 5000 men, women
and children were murdered in this country and
from this holocaust of lawlessness there re-
suited $500 arrests and only 75o convictions"
He said there were 325,000 men and women con-
fined in 5000 penal institutions in the country
of course, none of them are the real leaders
of the gangsters or criminals. He said the
number in American prisons Call of whom are
forced to labor for the profits of private BOSSES
is greater than the total sent to Siberia in the
Czarist regime"
On top of this seething sewer Of graft, crime
and murder the function Of the capitalist re-
former and investigator of crime is to spread
a veneer of lies to fool the masses into believing
that capitalism is advancing and is not really
monster based on boodshed and murder.
-. 90 Be Continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-15
&A<..
From Brighton Beach
BY JORGB

We've received a dandy letter from Brighton
Beach. And guess who sent it! None other
than THE Red Sparks Pioneer Group" of that
part of this big city! These young comrades
al just rarin to go, and make heap of sug-
gestions
Finally, they wind up with postscript, which
we reveal for the benefit of the District Pioneer
Office:
I'VE have a uniform. A khaki shirt and
shorts; the girls wear khaki skirts A red band
with yellow letters on our sleeves saying Red
Sparks. We always wanted uniform, so we
finally got one ourselves, after getting sick and
tired waiting for the District Pioneer Office to
get us ona"
Attaboy! Anybody who can't keep up with
Red Sparks tempo ought to get razzed. Wonder
what would happen in the Soviet Union if the
Pioneers got sick and tired" waiting for ma
terials for socialist construction!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-15
Graft and Gangsters
Graft i'm Washington
BY HARRY CANNES

After showing the origin of graft along with
the development of capitalism in the United
States, the previous articles in this series took
up the situation in Chicago, New York, De-
troit and Philadelphia
THE story of the graft in the federal gov
ernment the central state power of the cap
italsts in the United States is a long one. In
certain periods enough of the truth cropped
out to show that graft reaches into every de-
partment of the United States Government. 1t
is not necessary to go back to the regime of
President Grant, when jobs were sold openly
and when Grant permitted bankers to mulct
the treasury Of millions Nor is it necessary to
remember the war days under the Wilson re-
ginle, when the socalled dollar-a-year men filled
their pockets out of government funds while
they drove the workers to slaughter in France.
the most glazing example, not because 1t Is
unusual but because it was brought to light
spectacularly through the mysterious death Of
the President, was the Harding regime, in which
Andrew Mellon Secretary of the Treasury, was
the leading figure.
The much-talked of Teapot Dome scandal
when the Harding Ohio gang shelled out mil
lions in government oil lands to the Fall-Do-
heney crowd, was just a small portion of the
general grating, which went on. I,aston B.
Means, now used as an ant-Red spy in his
book about the Harding regime in which he
took leading part says that nearly every cab
met officer in the Harding government was a
dauble- listed CRATER. President Hoover was
Secretary of Commerce under Harding; Coolidge
was vice-president, and both of them had the
odor OF the eTapot Dome oil scandal clnging to
them.
Hoover Regime Graft
Under the Hoover regime the director of pub
lie lands in Colorado charged the Secretary of
the Interior Wilbur with turning over large
share of the government oil lands to the Stand
ard Oil Company. He wrote series of articles
In the New York World stating that oil lands
valued at forty billion dollars were being given
away by the Hoover government. For this in
formation he was discharged
Hoover was not above even petty aid to close
friends in the grating line. The foremost in
stance is the $4,000 earned by Hoover's per-
sonal attorney Edwin P. Shattuck. Shattuck
was paid $4,000 graft because he was closely
associated with Hoover and promised to use his
influence with Hoover to get lower tariff rates
on Cuban sugar for the Cuba Co s170,000000
sugar corporation owning Cuban sugar lands.
Cuban sugar barons chat is, Wall Street banks
got the lover tariff from Hoover. NJ. Stattuck
gOs ~ $1,000 ggsss ~. sasss naassssE., Xsls
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The Communist
JUNE ISSUE JUST OUT!
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BY Harry Haywood
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DEMAGOGY AND UNEMPLOYMENT INSUR-
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BY Sam Darcy
NATURALIZATION AND ITS CONSEQUENT
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BY A. Peterson
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By Cyril Briggs
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-26

royalty can be collected at the receive
Ing set and only II it is not paid at the
transmitting end.
In other words, If the source of the
music Is licensed, the receiver need not
pay Zee, whether he operates his set
In his home or in his place of business.
On the other hand, the Buck group.
which has never commended that the
private listener must pay for the priv
ilege OF listening, insists that it can
collect its fee anywhere that the radio
set Is performed for profit"
Conflicting Views on Decision.
why should not the hotel, or any
other institution which entertains for
pay, be required to contribute toward
the general wellbeing of the musician
and the composer whose works are used
on the radio?" Mr.. Buck has been
quoted as saying. In a sense, this con-
tention seems to be upheld by Justice
Brandeis' statement that there is no
difference in substance between the
case where hotel engages an orches-
ira to furnish the music and that
where, by means of the radio set and
the loud speakers here employed it
furnishes the same music for the same
purpose"
The broadcasters and the manufac-
turers contend-and an informal opir-
ion from the general counsel of the
Federal Radio Commission, Col Thad
H. Brown, supports their view-that the
hotel or theater or other gathering
place can operate q radio without paw
ing q license fee II 1t keeps that radio
tuned TO a licensed broadcasting sta
ton. Since practically all the better
stations are licensed, they say there Is
little danger that the hotel or theater
owner VIII have to pay fee to a copy
right owner who has already collected
his royalty from the source Of the radio
performance-that Is, the licensed sta
ton.
Insistence by the American Society
OF Authors, Composers and Publishers
that 1t collect the fee, whether or not
the station tuned in is licened, may
lead TO another test case that will 90
to the Supreme Court. That is the hope
OF the broadcasters, but such a case
will have to be initiated by the society
against another hotel or theater owner
whose radio is reproducing the music
OF o licensed station. In the meantime
the radio set owner In the home need
have no fears whatever that this legal
tangle is leading to a situation where
ne VIII have to pay tax to operate
his radio.