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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09

pool was laid in the slave trade.
The church, as usual, Joined the re-
dictionary attack. The Bishop of Dur
ham, who evidently believes that the
blessings Of the church are sufficient
to whitewash the sins of the British
imperialists, wanted the British En-
pire to "disassociate" itself from Sow
let trade.
Lord Ponsonsby, answering for the
labor" government, quite equalled
the hypocrisy of his opponents. He
found distasteful the fact that the
Soviet Government relied on force
and the Red Army to protect the
Workers Government against It's I'M
perialist enemies. But he admitted
that there might be some logic In
that reliance
But with their experience, with
their knowledge that the Western
powers did their utmost to overthrow
them In the early years OF their ex-
istence. with their mistrust Of the
promises OF the Western powers In
regard to disarmament. they, too
have some right to be critical"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09
DETROIT HOLDS
EARLY BAZAAR
Working Women Busy
With Preparations

The working women Of Detroit and
vicinity are busy preparing for a big
annual bazaar which will take place
on February %, 1881, at 1343 E. Ferry
Avenue.
According to reports from the
branches of the Federation, 1t looks
very much like we are going to have
successful bazaar. as every delegate
reported about certain activities Of
their branches In preparing for the
bazaar. With the combined efforts
OF the branches Of the International
Labor Defense. that are also going
to take part in tn ework of the
bazaar. we can look for the biggest
success we have ever had.
Readers of The Working Woman
are called upon to do something for
the bazaar. For information call
Madison 1912. Rally to the support
OF political prisoners By strengthen
ing the Shield Of the Working Glass
Come 70 the Ecsaar, February %,
1543 e. Ferry Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09
DENOUNCE JIM
CROW JUICE
Boston Meeting Hits
Lynching

OSTON, Feb. "a very enthusi-
astic mass meeting held in Fraternity
Hall, Ruggles Building, Boston, Friday
heard speakers of the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights denounce
the race discriminatory actions of
Judge Ahearn and the Roxbury Court
in the handling of the Dover case and
others, and demanded the removal of
Judge Ahearn from the Roxbury
Court and the cessation of the dis
criminatory actions there.
The melting protested the brutal
lynching of Raymond Gunn for a
crime which he did not commit and
demanded death to lynchersl
The meeting was held under the
auspices of the League of Struggle
for Negro Rights Local. an organiza-
ton which stands ON the program OF
Death to Lynchers and against all
discrimination, and for the right OF
self determination of the Negro ma
jorities in the South.
Speakers at the meeting were
Eugene Gordon, DR.. Brown, j. w
Mccarthy, j. w. Youngblood, pres
ident of the League of Struggle for
Negro Rights here, was chairman.
The Boston LSNR is giving an en-
tertainment and dance Thursday, Feb
IL, at Allied Arts Center, 295 Hunt
ington Ave. to commemorate the life
and work of Frederick Dougless.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09
Staruing Children Wait On
Breadline for Watery Milk

in Brooklyn, New York, ten children
tainted of hunger in one day Two
Negro workers children died of starv-
alton in Brooklyn, N. Y. Solomon
Mackenzie, their father, has been
out of a job for nearly a year. There
were six children in the family. He
needed milk and food for his chill
dren, but the jobless worker had no
money, he could not get job, and
the children suffered. On November
10 the first child died of starvation,
and three weeks later ursula, her
twin sister, died.
A young Pioneer from Battle
Greek, Michigan, writes in to tell us
that the children of the workers go
to school half naked" and that the
jobless are living with their children
sin the junk yards"
Everywhere we see children suffer-
ing from the capitalist crisis. The
children of the unemployed face ac-
tual starvation. The children of
workers whose wages are slashed face
hunger. The children in the mining
regions are falling like flies. Not
one story but many has reached the
press where dogs, pets of the family,
have been cooked and devoured by
hungry miners kids. Pellagra, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09
BY HELEN KAY

''My father has been out of work
for about year. He has no money.
We haven't got enought to pay rent,
and the landlord says he will kick
us out of the house if we don't pay
soon"
This was the answer given by a
small under-nourished boy when
asked why he stood in the bread
line of the Salvation Army at Bird
Ave. and 3rd ST., in New York City.
Other children gave the same an
swer.
Waited i'm Line for Bread and Milk.
They were all waiting in line for
a loaf of bread and some watery
milk. The bread and milk are sup
posed to feed the whole family for
a day The children come there
early in the morning, before school
hours, and wait in the cold and the
rain outside the Salvation Army.
While the oil barons of Oklahoma
City wallow in riches the children of
the jobless oil workers are forced to
stand in line for some soup. Children
are fainting of hunger in the schools
daily. In many places children can
not even go to school because of lack
of clothing. In Public School No. S.,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09

Scourge of the poor, the disease of
malnutrition, is prevalent among the
children.
Economic Crisis Undermines Child
Health"
Even DR.. Kathryn McEIale, of
Washington, D. c., speaking at the
sixteenth convention of the National
Council of Women at the Riverside
Church, was forced to admit that
the economic crisis is undermining
the health of working class children
whose parents were either thrown
into the streets to starve by the bos-
ses or subjected to extensive wage
cuts.
DR.. McEale further declared that
only 80 per cent of the population
had not been affected by the crisis"
and that the health of practically
all of the children of the country is
being affected. She cited the fact
that more and more children are
unable to get the better grade of
milk and the fruit juices that doc
tors have said are necessary for
them" She failed to point out that
the childfen are actually starving to
death and that other thousands. are
able to get any kind Of milk,
much less the better grade.
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deepening of the crisis in the CAPT.
talist countries gives Nightmares to
the ruling class. Any wonder that
the American capitalists are grow
ing bloodthirsty for a war against
the Soviet Union? Mr.. Fish has the
gall to speak of convict labor in the
Soviet Union. He is anxious to have
fascist commission visit the Soviet
Union with the excuse of "investi-
eating" the existence of convict labor.
But perhaps the information given
by the bourgeois correspondent of the
N. Y. Times, Mr.. Duranty, will spare
Mr. Fish the trouble of sending his
mercenary Investigators i. +. Mr.. Du-
ranty, in the Feb. 5th issue of the
N. Y. Times tells us:
"The Soviet Union is hungry for
qualified hands at time when
trained workers of Britain and
Germany--not to mention America
aIso-are literally hungry for jobs
ana IOO0.
Perhaps Mr.. Fish is still not con-
WINGED We will quote one more
section of this bourgeois journalists
dispatch:
when the day comes that foreign
workers here may write home and
say, Things are pretty good here,
why don't you come along? There
are jobs for everybody and plenty
TO eat. Russia is not SO bad place
in which to live and there are no
lay-offs or short time and you get
all that is coming to you'-then i'm
migration to the Soviet Union will
begin to rival the flood that poured
into America"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09
HOLD ENGDAHL ON
CANADA FRAMEUP
Police Write Speech;
Faces 20 Years

MONTREAL, Canada, Feb. 8.-Up-
holding the police frame-up, the
court here held j. Louis Engdahl,
national secretary of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, and Bella Cor
don for trial on the charges of "un-
lawful assembly" and "sedition, -
growing out of a meeting addressed
by Engdahl in Prince Arthur Hall on
Jan. 30. The case will next come up
for pleading on Feb. 20.
At the mass meeting Engdahl was
allowed to speak for only about two
minutes, during which time he ex-
tended the greetings of the Ameri-
can workers. A stenographic account
of all he said was taken down. In
addition to the transcript, however
the police came into court today with
the claim that Engdahl made other
declarations, as follows: "I have come
Nere to start the revolution. have
come here to help you overthrow the
capitalists and their tool, the govern
ment"
1t was on the basis of this manu-
featured evidence that the court held
Engdahl for trial for sedition, which
carries 20-year prison sentence.
Statements attributed to Bella Cor
don, Montreal secretary of the Can
adam International Labor Defense
who was chairman. of the meeting
we're as follows:
I'VE protest against fake capitalist
class justice, against police stool
pigeons framing up workers. We
protest the persecution of foreign
born workers and deportations."
The court openly declared this was
serious enough to hold her for trial
on the sedition charge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09
PAST, PRESENT FACTS OF CRISIS
SHOW FUTURE WILL Be WORSE FOR
WORKERS, UNLESS THEY FIGHT
Even Production Rise
Will Be With Less
Workers
BY HARRY CANNES

Every employed worker in the
United States fears unemployment.
Ten million have lost that fear-they
now dread death by starvation.
When the Metropolitan Life Insur-
ance Co made a survey of unemploy-
ment in the United States, their only
report showed that part-time en-
ployment was much worse than any
one had dreamed of before. Their
figures stated at least nine million
were entirely out Of work, and about
20 million effected by part time en-
ployment, ranging from one day a
week to three or four.
This disease of capitalism, unem-
ployment. is a cancer that can never
be wiped out without destroying the
system Let us look at the growth
of the present unemployment situa-
ton and what the future holds for
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shows that after each crisis, though
the population grows, the number Of
workers employed was reduced. At
the same time. production jumped up.
No matter whether production rises
to the so-called "normap--and there
is no indication of this yeti will be
done with constant decrease in the
number of workers employed.
1t was not without reason that the
leading capitalist statisticians, meet
ing in Washington in 1929 at the be-
ginning Of the present crisis. declared
that the main problem before the in
dustry In the United States for the
next ten years would be unemploy-
ment.
The perma nent reserve army Of un-
employed after this crisis will be more
than double. Meanwhile the army Of
unemployed constantly recruits new
workers to its ranks.
Jois is the prospect Of the unem-
ployed as long as capitalism lasts. 1t
shows the fight for unemployment in
surance not only is an immediate
pressing matter but is one that will
effect the entire working class, en-
rloyed or unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09
British LmbeuaAsts, Preparing
War On USSR, Attack Soviet Goods

LONDON, Feb. 6.--With record
OF hypocrisy probably unrivalled even
in the history of Imperialism, the
British imperialists today outdid
themselves in "moral outburst'
against the Soviet Union, based on
the exploded SANDER of forced and
convict labor in the republic and
having for its purpose the intensity
ing Of the war preparations against
the Soviet Union.
Today's outburst occurred In the
House of Lords. traditional support
ers Of slavery, including active aid
to the Southern slave holders during
the American Civil War. Unheedful
of the groans and curses of the
frightfully oppresstn colonial millions
Of British Africa. India, etc, and Of
the misery Of the British workers,
Lord Phillimore demagogically at
tackled Soviet goods, stating that
British importers OF Soviet goods
were profiting ION the misery OF
these moor wretchcs" Of MS iinagii1n-
ton who Swerc victims Of the Soviet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09

Workers Conditions In Soviet Union
Improve While Millions Starve in USA'
Difference In Aims
of Communism and
Capitalism
By SAM DON.

+ With the help of the Five Year
Plan, the Soviet Union has abolished
unemployment. Capitalist America is
increasing its army of unemployed.
So is the entire capitalist world. And
today, there are over 25 million I'M
employed workers facing starvation in
the capitalist countries.
One of the most leading bourgeois
economists, Mr.. Jordan, stated at the
end of 1890 that:
400 per cent employment should
not he the aim of American in
dustries, because extra labor would
always be needed for infant indus
tries or for meeting an emergency"
Mr.. Jordan let the cat out of the
bag.
II is not the aim of capitalism to
improve the conditions of the workers,
to raise their STANDARD of living. On
the contrary. The aim of capitalism
is to make profit out of the labor of
the workers, and therefore, Mr.. Jor-
dan is right when he says that 100
per cent employment should not be
the aim of American industries" The
capitalists, through their spokesman,
state that they need unemployment
to meet an emergency. What sort
of an emergency? Evidently, to cut
wages and introduce Mr.. Hoover's
Stagger system.
Now let us contrast the above state
ment of the bourgeois economist with
the statement made by Comrade Mol
otov, the head of the Soviet Union,
at the recent session of the Central
Executive Committee of the Soviet
Union. He said:
"rbere are various obvious signs
of the improvement of the material
situation of the working masses. A
year ago we had over million I'm
employed workers in the Soviet
Union. Today, however, the unem-
ployed problem is practically set
tied. Even further, there is a con-
siderable lack of labor power in a
number of districts, even a lack of
unqualified workers. Another great
sign of the improvement of the sit
uation of the working masses is the
successful introduction of the J.
hour day. During 1881 the 7-hour
day will be in force on all the rail
ways and for nine tenths of our in
dustrial workers. Year after year
the Soviet power has been able to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09
Communist Party Prints Its
Greetings to NeqV Members
Issues Leaflet Telling Aims of Parties and
Duties of New Recruits; Also Contains
Fundamental Pamphlets

pared to carry the consequences of
membership in the Party-to carry
on revolutionary activities under the
direction Of the Party, and to submit
to revolutionary discipline. Without
this your membership would be
worthless to the working class. With
out this your membership would not
be sign of your devotion to the
revolutionary interests of the work
ing class but a sign of indifference or
worse,
If you have decided to march with
the Communist Party to the very end,
to victory, despite all persecution, de-
spite disappointment, despite hard
ships and hatred, then comrade, be
welcome You can then from today
on call yourself the proud fighting
comrade of Ruthenberg, Bill Hey
wood, John Reed and Lenin, and
bear the honored name of Commu-
mist, of BolshevikI
Prove yourself worthy of the Party
of Lenin!
With Communist greetings,
Central Committee,
Communist Party of the U.S.A.
"The Party should comprise the
pick of the working class. 1t should
embody the experience of the finest
stalwart leaders, their revolution
airy spirit. their unbounded devo-
ton to the cause of the proletariat."
STAIN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09

The above chart of the Federal
Reserve Board shows that after the
1902 crisis, though production
jumped up to 800 per cent, the
number of workers employed, after
a short upspurt. began to fall. The
heavy line shows the turn of pro-
ducti0n, while the broken line shows
the trend of employment. With
speed-up and increased efficiency
even if production, which is now
still dropping, goes up. the process
of the elimination of workers will go
on, increasing the permanent job
less army. There are so many on
part time, that an. increase in pro-
duction would not mean the re-
hiring of more workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09
LUMBER BARONS
in NEW PAY CUTS
Reduce Force, Increase
Speed-Up
(By a Worker Correspondent

HOQUIAM, Feb. 8.-The Saginaw
Timber Co. reopened their logging
works with flat cut of so cents a
day and the company reduces the
board Is cents day. But even with
the cut the company is not putting
on full crews. They will run short
handed This means more speed for
the workers.
Rigging men now get $425, whereas
year ago they got $5.25 to $3.50;
firemen on donkeys now get $325. a
year ago it was $3.50; all other work
is cut in proportion.
Donovan Lumber Co. cut SO cents
in their mill, bringing the wages to
$2.75 for low. The higher paid men
were cut 81 day. The Anderson
Middleton Mill Co. cut all workers 25
cents day, The Michigan Mill cut
so cents and the speed in this mill is
something terrific.
When these companies wanted the
men to donate one days pay per
month for the charity takers they
went through the formality Of asking
the men to agree to it. but when it
comes to donating two or three days
month to the companies profits
the workers are not consulted. The
bosses just take it.
These workers should Join the Ma
tional Lumber Workers Industrial
League, learn to stand on their hind
legs and shake these parasites Off
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09

raise wages"
What are some of the figures? At
the time of the announcement of the
Five Year plan, the Soviet Govern
ment still figured that at the end
of the Five-Year plan there might be
100000 unemployed. But the en-
thusiasm of the toiling masses of the
Soviet Union who followed the splen-
did leadership of the Communist
Party, have made such tremendous
progress under the Five Year plan.
that already, in the third year of
the plan, unemployment has been
completely abolished.
The hours have been decreased and
wages increased. The wages increased
on the average 1917 per cent for the
two years of the Five Year plan, and
the total number of workers having
the seven-hour working day, have by
the end of the second year of the
Five Year plan, reached 43 per cent
of the total number Of workers, thus
surprising the task of the Five Year
plan by 3.5 per cent.
And in the United States? 10 mil
lion unemployed. The leading bank
ers are openly calling for a wage
cutting offensive against the en-
ployed workers. Even the capitalist
economic journal. the Annalist, is
compelled to admit that in the year
1880, the workers in the United States
were losing a billion dollars in wages
per month And what are the pros
poets for 1881? Not whit brighterl
Mr.. Fish'S Gall
The continuous progress of the
Soviet Union and the continuous
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09
House of Lords Ped
dies Lies Of Czarist
Emigres
labor and prison camp systems

labor and prison camp systems"
Combining himself to the lies OF the
Czarist emigres and other imperial
list agents, Phillimore had no time
to waste on the facts of forced and
convict labor, and actual slavery, In
the British African colonies. with the
misery of the African natives robbed
of their lands and recruited by the
South African government for forced
labor in the diamond fields and gold
mines. In his INDICATION against the
Soviet Union. where the workers
have overthrown his parasitic class
and forced the former exploiters to
work in order to earn the right to
eat, Phillimore ignored the huge prof
its the British bosses made out OF
III, slave trade. forgot that the basis
OF the wealth Of the busscs Of Liver
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09
Arkansas Bosses
for Jim Crow Par
titi0n on the Buses

LITTLE ROCK, Ark Feb 8 nv
While refusing relief to the starving
Negro and white share troopers.
tenant farmers and city workers Of
this state, the bosses are considering
passing a new Jim Grow law in their
State Senate in their efforts to keep
the Negro and white workers from
getting together.
The proposed law calls for par
ticsons IN buses similar TO these in
Jim Grow railroad trainl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09

lAQuctttdA htStTfc hTHfV
Senator Wagner. and dozens of
DISTINGUISHED professors stated that
in 1928 there were between five and
six million out of work. That was
the period whe7 Hoover was bowling
about endless prosperity"
In 1929 there was a minimum of
three million out of work-and a rec
ord was made in productionl An in
dustrial reserve army-a certain num-
Der of unemployed workers-is per-
manent feature of capitalism. When
production comes, when capital
ist industry flops, then millions more
are showed out of work. More still.
Even when production was increasing,
there was a steady decrease in the
number of workers employed This
was due to naturalization, that is, in
PRODUCTION of more efficient machin-
cry, sreed-up, squeezing more work
out of those emplo-ed. r'abing one
man do the work of two. and so on.
After the Stock Crash
After the stock market crash. at
least five million we're unemployed.
FACTORIES closed. FvervtNinq slumped.
no markets. even t''o'r~r the workers
Too much was produced. There were
were hungry Too much wheat, too
many clothes too many houses. so
the logic of capitalism demands
workers become unemployed, starve,
freeze and be evicted.
The crisis grew worse all the time.
The number of unemployed jumped
about 100000 month after the stock
market crash. 1t went TO six million,
then seven, eight, nine and now tenl
There is no end In sight yet. That
is. the crisis is getting worse and
more will be thrown out OF work.
Never in the history of capitalism has
there been such a large body of men
and women forced to face starvation
Senator Caraway of Arkansas saws
1-oon die dav Of starvation in this
richest country in the world"
The Outlook
But what Of the future? The bosses
string the uner,nloyed along with the
belief that better days are coming"
and that the present misery will be
forgotten IL the snlendor of prosperity
to ss1ine soon There is nothing fur
the- from the truth.
There is no indication whatever Of
any Growth in the productive forces
for wears to come. No capitalist
agencv Of arv weight has yet stated
that normal" can come about In less
than year or two But this will
mo- nut more workers to work.
The very process by which the capt.
talisfs hone toeincresse their output
is by firing workers, by increasing ra-
fionalization. by more speed-up, to
keep uD their profits and to capture
a greater share OF the world market
by cheaper goods. This is the history
Of the past. It will be more true Of
the future
For the Next 10 Years"
A chart r'-blis'7eI BY the Federal
res~~ve R1T's Bulletin 1and reprinted
~ THIS is1ucNof the Daily WORKER
....s4sa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09
While Congress Tries All Tricks to Forcethe
Unemployed and Poor Farmers Into
Line-Demonstrate, ORGANIZED '-'
BY VERN SMITH

1t accident that the Fish Committee began tswork
Just at the time the unemployment crisis broke into the news
The employers government at Washington and all the states
had concealed and denied the crisis long possbeWhen
the March demonstrations in which million and auarer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09

Red Cartoon book Of Lenin Medal
lion will be sent to every worker
sending in contributions on Red
Shock Troop Donation List.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09
Industrial Reserve Army

the workers, based on the facts of
the economic crisis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09
CONGRESS ATTACK ON
COMMUNISM INTENDED TO
HIDE GUILT FOR CRISIS
Jobless Organizations, Communist Party Trade
Union Unity League Interfere With War
and Wage Cutting Program

So Fish Proposes Federal Secret Police De-
pOrtations, Outlawing of Party