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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-03
BY G. T. GRINKO
Peoples Commissar of Finance, u. S. S. r.

Peoples Commissar of Finance, u. S. S. r.
XIV.
TN 1918 Russia had total population of 1897
millions, of which EST millions or 1874 per
cent, lived in the cities BY 1923, at the
end of the Civil War and the beginning of the
economic development of the U. S. S. r, the
total population of the country was reduced as
per cent as compared with 1913 and the city
population by 14.8 per cent. This reduction in
population was caused by the Imperialist War
and capitalist intervention against the U. S. S.
r.; by the wartime destruction of the produc-
tive forces of the country, the decline of industry
and the great difficulties in supplying the popu-
lation with food. The heavy mark of economic
destruction lay over the entire country, and had
the effect OF depopulating the cities. It is nee
eSSary to give careful thought to the conditions
prevailing few years ago in order to appre-
ciate the result accomplished during the period
Of rehabilitation and the great tasks which are
before us now with regard to the development
of city life
More than in any other European country the
cities of the u S. S. r. carry the marks of the
Imperialist War; as well as the subsequent civil
var, the blockade and the intervention For
nore than six years there was no new housing
INSTRUCTED. Neither was there any renovation
n repair of existing facilities. On the con-
5rary, great housing destruction took place.
Under these conditions the rapid growth of the
urban population during the rehabilitation period
of 1921-1928 was necessarily accompanied by the
continuous. reduction of the per capita housing
floor space available in the cities. Only in 1927
1928 was the continuous reduction of housing
facilities finally checked.
1t should be noted that the old pre-
revolutionary Russian city consisted of a more
or less we'll arranged central part devoted to ad-
ministrative and commercial enterprises and
institutions, and few streets consisting of man
sions literally drowned in flowers and surrounded
by gardens giving evidence of exceptional luxury
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-03
Page Six
BY 1. AMDUR

NUMEROUS have been the delegations to the
" Soviet Union innumerable the Investigators;
some governed by warm deep pride in the great
achievements attained, others by a red-hot Curl
osity as to exactly what manner Of people were
these 'BolShieS" of whom a large part of the
world press spoke in such dreaded terms, and
what sort of a job had they made Of it as rulers
Of a vast country.
Varied and diverse have been the results.
These embrace from whole-hearted enthusiasm,
TO the n1ilder appreciation, with 'more puzzled
than ever possible third, and condemnation
an 'also ran"
Rarely, however, have such fundamental con-
illusions been noted than those reached by Mr..
H .Hessen Tltman who recently embodied his
observations in eight issues of that well-known
yellowish- tinted London magazine Answers OF
which he is CAe eminent Editor,
But who my reader will ask in his sweet in
nocence is our Hero. And in a gently reprov-
ing tone, I'd reply-"What dontcher know?
why. H, H. 7. is author of weighty biography
of, H. M. the Kings Socialist" Prime Minister
the Rt Hon. James Ramsey Macdonald" And
II this fails to bring any light Gf such unpard-
enable hignorance exists can only add that
he Is further known as possessing a mind SO
keen. so penetrating, so Illuminating that . .
words fail me.
H. H. T. is anything but the comnon-and-
garden observer This you may see from his
very own words where he says:
What is the truth about Russia? Is it a
country of persecution, of tyranny of anti
christianity (of industrial parties-L A. or, is
Russia place where many difficult social prob
lens have been solved and where Communism
is producing happier, freer life for alp" (See
ANSWERS August 9Th, 1890, p. 81
Such, dear friend, is the touching humanstic,
altruistic and what not purpose that brought
Hessell Tiltman to the land of the Soviets. In
order to give his findings touch of the genuine
H II. T. tells us that he completed journey
of over $500 miles a.. d. . and has returned (alive?
I A. to tell the truth ooh blessed world free
from any suspicion of propaganda or bias. This
preliminary, effectively dispels any unfair
thought that H. H. T. prepared his articles in
Riga or Warsaw before entering the country, as
SO many thoughtless Investigators absentmind-
edly do
In his $500 miles journey over the Soviet Union
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-03
A Professor Who Tells EN-

Sort of sick at the stomach with Einstein,
Milliken ct al, we felt refreshed at the plain
speaking of real scientist who don't go about
with the expression of a month old calf on his
mug but who speaks right up and tells the cap
italists what's what. We refer to the speech of
DR.. Leslie A. White, Assistant Professor of An
thropology at the University of Michigan adj
dressing the American Anthropological Associa-
ton at Cleveland. Dec. so. AS related in the
N. Y. Times in a llidden-from- the-eye section,
DR.. White said
1.-THE capitalist system of society is doomed
everywhere to be supplanted, as it has been in
Russia. Professor White also challenged the
statement of former Secretary of State Kellog,
in his Nobel peace prize address, that he, Mr..
Kellogg, could see no possibility of another war.
Any one who has any vision and grasp Of
cultural processes must realize that war is not
only likely but even imminent. Indeed one might
say that capitalism needs a war now, for it would
solve the two most pressing problems of the day
1t would consume our excessive production OF
commodities and it would slaughter the unen-
ployed. But the new lease of life would be
temporary at best; war will eventually destroy
the system that promotes it. The logical concu-
sion of capitalism is martial suicide
All life means growth and change. Nothing
is static and permanent. Capitalist society can
not continue to exist 1t has almost realized
itself and signs of dsintegration are visible on
all sides-and already a post-capitalst society
has formed itself in our midst"
Now, that's professor who knows his onionsy
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-03
Organizer in Jail Tells of Jobless
llOW-PrisOners

An older woman could not meet mortgage
payment due on her little home Her husband
had been out of work year. She stole pair
of gloves as Christmas present for her daugh-
ter. Now she's on the island
Poor women who get drunk to forget for a
few moments the haunting anxiety and misery
of life are sentenced now to six months in Jail
so much drunkenness" put in the lady keeper
a massive woman who said she had special
aptitude" for her job of herding the poor into
jail-and looked it. Eyes, that is why we can't
let the prisoners have any literature from out
side, because of the drunkenness"
Just what drunkenness had to do with pam
phlets by Labor Research Assn. and the volume
An Outline of Political Economy which Caroline
Drew wanted but was forbidden to receive the
lady keeper did not say. No literature is allowed
at present except the somber volumes of the
prison library.
Its the monotony that is worst explained
= Caroline Drew. 1--WE get up at 6 a. m. BY z
a. m. my bed is made and the floor mopped
There is nothing else to do and the day seems
endless. But of course 80 days is not SO long"
AS the steel door changed behind the departing
visitor, group of gray-clad men prisoners
shuffled by-closely guarded by police. Hardly a
tree is visible in the drab grayness of Welfare
erty huddled in these gray buildings are Chrys
ers pretty bauble, respondent steeple of the
auto magnate, and Al Smiths Empire State,
tallest building in the world monument of Tam
many, towering over this richest city
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-03
The Two Sport Internationals

land Noteworthy is the violent sandering
against the worker sportsmen of the Soviet Union
who are developing mighty physical culture
movement in the workers republic without him
drance from outside enemies or treacherous at
tacks by leaders of the Lucerne Sport Interna-
tional All of this shows struggle within the
ranks of the Lucerne by the worker sportsmen
who are resisting the liquidation of the class
character Of the workers sport movement. The
sportsmen in the Lucerne will oppose and fight
the social fascist leadership of the Lucerne and
the delivering of the sports movement into the
black hands of fascism and the bourgeoisie. The
Vienna olympiad of the Isl is being organized
in the spirit of the social fascist leaders of the
Isl to split the workers sport movement.
To the sportsmen in the Lucerne Sports In
ternational in all countries the Red Sport Inter
nation holds high the banner of unity of worker
sportsmen and extends call for the workers
International Spartakade to be held in Berlin
in 1881. The appeal of the RSI is for unity--a
united front of the worker sportsmen in the
Lucerne and the worker sportsmen in the bour-
geois sports movement against social fascsm and
the bourgeosie--tor the Spartakade and the
Red Sport International.
A fitting answer by the workers in the United
States to the lackeys of the Lucerne in America
and the bourgeois sport movement (Amateur
Athletic Union) is the fulfillnent of the call of
the Labor Sports Union to send a large delega-
ton of worker sportsmen from the U. S. to the
Spartakiade
Down with the splitting international--the Luz
cerne Sports International For tile interna-
tional revolutionary unity of workers sports
Win the worker sportsmen from the Amateur
Athletic Union into the Labor Sports Union!
Long live the Red Sport International Pre-
pare and support the RSI Spartakiade in 1881
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-03
Build a Mass Basis for 1lLavOratOre'

THE Italian Buro OF the Central Committee of
our Party decided to discontinue the publca-
ton of I'll Lavoratore" for a period of three
months as part of the reorganizatons process,
with the aim to build real mass foundation for
this very important organ of the revolutionary
labor movement. With the present reorganiza-
ton of the leading committee with sending orr
ganizers on the field, the decision that instead
concentrating all energy on getting the means
for" next issue of the paper what under the
existing organizational weaknesses always re-
suited in publishing the paper irregularly the
energy must be concentrated for the coming
months to emerge with an II Lavoratore deeply
rooted among the italian masses and coming
out regularly.
The millions of Italian workers need II Lavora-
tore, the entire American working class needs II
Lavoratore. The Serio deportation case throws
light on the fact, that Italian fasciSm, keeping
the millions of workers and poor peasants in
enslavement, starving oppressed by armed black
shirts, menaced by preparation for war against
the Soviet Union, reaches with its bloody hands
with the enslavers and oppressors of the Amer
lean working class, of which the Italian work
ers in this country are part The struggle
against the deportation of Serio intended as pre-
cedent for the deportation of other workers into
the death chambers Of fascism, the struggle for
immediate unemployment relief and insurance
for the hundreds of thousands of Italian workers
as hard hit as all other American workers,
against cutting their wages, for the full COM
pensation cf those robbed by the bank failures,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-03
Horses Are Property

If we had any doubts as to the function of
humane officers" under capitalist society. the
following item cleared it up:
Augusta, Ga, Dec, IS (AP).-Fifty horses
were invited guests at high noon today at a
Christmas tree party and luncheon.
George F. Sousa, Augustus humane officer,
sent out invitations several days ago to the
horses of the community to come and enjoy his
Christmas party Fifty accepted.
ut was sef-service affair, each horse taking
his own nose bag filled with OATS corn and hay
from the tree
Many owners who brought their animals to
the luncheon themselves had recently found the
matter of eating problem"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-03
Workers Housing Under the Plan

and belonging to the feudal, bureaucratic COM
mercial and industrial aristocracy; but all the
other parts OF the town consisted of hopelessly
gray, poor, and dirty streets and suburbs where
the toiling people in general and the proetariat
in particular lived. In all the cities of the pre-
revolutionary Russian Empire, the working class
sections never had any general sewer or water
supply system.
This horrible condition of the cities, left over
from pre-revolutionary days, underwent further
deterioration during the years of civil war. The
Soviet Government had to face this problem of
intolerable city conditions during the very first
stages of economic rehabilitation and reconstruc-
ton. Out of the 100 million square miles 173
billion So. ft) of housing floor space in all urban
settlements at the beginning of 1927-1928, about
IA million So. m. $500 million So. ft) were ma
tionalized. The rest. consisting mostly of small
buildings, were in the hands of individual own
ers and tenants. The nationalized housing is
either used directly for state, social and CO.
operative enterprises or is under the manage
ment of the municipalities. A growing part of
the nationalized housing is being transferred to
housing cooperatives or is rented to individual
families. The building cooperatives have proved
to possess great advantages in the field of hous-
ing and these cooperatives are gaining ever more
recognition as the best means for the supervision
and building of housing.
From The Five Year Plan of the Soviet
Union, by G. T. Grinko of the original
cOllab0rators the Five-Year Plan of So
cialist industrialization, complete account
of the Plan, containing the first two years
of its operation and political estimate of
its place in world economy.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-03
Got Nothing on This Planet!

scientist was talking the other day. and said
that other planets cannot support life"
Well, if they can't still they have nothing on
this one So anybody contemplating humping
themselves off with the idea that they 60 to
some happy hunting ground on some other
planet had much better stick around and fight
the thing out here. ss4 agsS
This planet can support life, but is falling
~rlown on the joa Not. Of course, that the planet
to blame On one-sixth OF its land surface
the Soviet Union) things are going along right
well.
Not OF course, for capitalists and kulals erich
farmers. For them, well. they might . Well
be on s0me other planeti
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-03

From Danville Jail
By JORGE

From Bill Murdoch, head of the National Tex
tile Workers Union, who was framed up by mill
owners police, federal agents and the Mustete
leaders of the A F. of L. "Untel Textile Union"
at the Danville strike, we get the following
which speaks for itself:
Dear Jorge:-NTy attention has been called
to an article published in the Baltimore Sun,
and purporting to be the result of an interview
between special correspondent and myself
This article contains one or two correct state
ments as means Of stamping it with the ear
marks of truth,
Comrades are entitled to know the following
facts:
'1--That the article was. written by stool
pigeon who tried to implicate the crews of the
Soviet ships in propaganda last Spring in Bal
timore.
"2-The material for his article he must have
received in the main through the local police
and federal authorities, since certain of the
statements accredited to me were only made in
a closed session with the immigration officer.
"3-The references made to the habits of the
local police and the Gastonia strike are just SO
much nonsense The police here could qualify
as first rank New York dicks, and the working
class does not vary the extent of its rebellion
through mental processes or the beauties of
'comradesllip, but is moved by the relative depth
of its economic exploitation and the capacity of
the revolutionary movement to lead it in action.
My ancestral urge to get as much as pos
sible for nothing is sufficient refutation of the
statement that we are satisfied with beans fat
back and corn bread in the Danville Jail"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-03

must go hand in hand with building II Lavora-
tore which leads these struggles among the Ital-
ian workers into mighty strong weapon
The h npaign for II Layoratore which
will be started in few days by our Italian Buro,
must have the support not only of our Italian
speaking Party members, but of the entire Party
and of broad non-Party masses.
La gaceta., 1931-01-29
L.IMPIA CIENTrICAMENft
IA SANGRE Y LA TONIFICA
ANADIENDOLE FUERZA !
~PRODUCIENDO CARNE
SOLTDA Y MUSCULO

Durante 40 amos P. P. P. hs
1ado alivio a miles de perso
as que han sufrido de debit.
lac. dolores, erupciones de Ia
piel, granos Y perdida de Pc
50. Estas molestias han tenido
origan en- la pobreZa y deblIi
lad de la sangre.
P. P. P. renueva los cot
,1sculos rojos y hace la sangre
lea y pura. Cuando este st
.btiene desaparece ell SURF
uiento, regresan las fuerzas }
sistema recupera 81 condt
~I6n saludable.
Dele que Ia devuelva 81 ga
dd
listed no arriesga un centa
70 ca usar P. F. P. Su botl
.ario tiene inst-ucciones pars
'evolverle su dinero 81 no que
a satisfecho dsepues de usaI
a primera botella. Tai es la IL
me tenemos en- P. P. P.
AConsentira used en- seguil
,ufriendo, sintiendcse debii
u Ando puede gozar lie bueua
alud, fuerza y felicidadf
C6mprelo hoy.
La gaceta., 1931-01-29

Sidney c. Brown, administra-
dor de la aduana de Tampa, ma
nifest6 aver que ha quedado a
nulado ell bando establecido por
las autoridades federales contra
la Importation de perfumes de
fabrication ext-anjera.
En- 10 Successive cualquiera per-
soma puede traer a los Estados
Unidos Glen pesos en- perfumes,
con tai de que los traiga para su
uso particular o regalarlos, no
para venderlos.
Cualquier marca puede ser
incluida en- ell cargamento, sin
que Sc moleste al que la traiga.
La campana a favor del Cofre
de la Comunidad eomenzara a
qui el dia l6 de mario bajo la
direction de Carl d. Brorein,
presidente de la Camara de Co
mercio, y c. w. Lyons, promi-
nente ciudadano.
Mr. Brorein sera ell director
general y Mr., Lyons jefe del CO.
mite de grandes donativos.
La gaceta., 1931-01-29

prelipinar en- la causa contra
Prqeon Smith, iefe de Ia policia
de transito del condado, a quien
Sc acusa dgdesfalco.
Smith alega que Walters no
tiene jurisdiction para conocer
del case Y que TODD Sc trata de
una combination politfca para
hacerlo saltar de su puesto.
Hasta ell dia z de febrero tie
ne de plazo Wolters para probar
que tiene jurisdiction.
La acusacion contra Preston
Smith aparece firmada por ell
La gaceta., 1931-01-29

Ell viejo Charles A. Whidder,
de sc amos, vecino de Dover,
comparecio oyer aNte ell juez A
herman, de Ia corte federal, acu,
sado por segQnda vez de violar
la ley SEGA.
En- su defensa ell viejo dijo
que habia comprado una finca
de diez acres Y estaba trabajan-
La gaceta., 1931-01-29
MATRIMONlOS

Richard Griffin, %, Y Muriel
Haney, Is; AIRY Virginia Durr-
ance, Is, y William Robert Alt
man, 25; David Lowell Boston,
"a, Y Susan Lola Scott, 21.
La gaceta., 1931-01-29

investigator especial Mr.. SEQ
by.
Representa- al queioso los a
bogados Tom Watson Y Tom
Walden.
La gaceta., 1931-01-29

Llevado aver a la corte del
juez del condado, Mr., Cornelius
para que explicara en- que for
ma invirti6 dinero que sc lie ha-
bia confiado como albacea de la
herencia de la Sra. Annie Tut
hill, pas6 aver dos horas decla-
rando Chester A. Roberts.
Roberts fue recientemente en-
carcelado por orden del juez Y
quiso explicar como Sc habia
lcagado a 81 mismo Y a su esposa,
del dineFo de la herencia $5,451,
Seg1n el csc dinero Sc lie de-
bia por haber cnidado a Mrs.
Tuthill durant: 20 meses hasta
la muerte de esta en- abril a de
1928.
La sobrina de la difunta, Srta
Ellen Harris, de Jacksonville,
mantiene que ell dinero de Mrs.
Tuthill es de su propiedad.
Por haber robado un autom6-
La gaceta., 1931-01-29

vii propRdad de Manuel Moran
Luis Bailey, de 81 anoAregres(
aver a Tampa bajo la AstodiS
del diputado Peacock, Se@ -
tuvo en- Dade City.
Qued6 encerrado por no ha-
Der podido prestar la fianza que
Sc lie exigiera.
Los agentes del servicio de
aduanas Sc %apoderarohP en- los III
limos dias de 425 sacos conte-
niendo bebidas alcoholics, una
lancha y cinco automobiles.
Dos automobiles fueron cap
turados en- Fulford, con los sa-
COS.
Tenia otros 105 sacos la Ian
cha, apresada en- Melbourne.
Otros dos automobiles y uu
canton fueron recogidos en- Mis
mi.
Ell iuez Robes, de la corte de-
circuito, expidi6 aver una orden
prohibiendo al juez de paz Lee
Walters, del distrito de Sulphu
, Springs, de ofrecer un juicio
La gaceta., 1931-01-29

do may duro en- ella, pu s va ha-
bia linAiado seis acres.
Considerando SUI edad V la pro
mesa de enmendarse ell juez e
impuso un ano y un dia, suspsn-
diendole despueS la condena.
La gaceta., 1931-01-29

dos en- una casa de la Gale
Franklyn, cuadra de los 2700.
Sera acusado de administrar
una casa de juego.
La gaceta., 1931-01-29

una casa de juego.
Falleci6 aver en- su domicilio.
avenida Trece numero 1913, la
respectable sonora Amelia Olea~
chea, de ga amos.
lie sobreviven dos hijas, Anne
liza Pedroso Y Luz Sanchez, Y dos
hijos, Rafael e Ismael.
Dos muchachos fueron pues-
tos aver a disposition de la cor
tie juvenil por ell jefe de la sec
ci6n de detectives, Mr.. Fred Tho
mas.
Los dos, memories de 18 amos.
han confesado haber entrado a
robar y robado en- la botica
Phillips, situada en- Michigan Y
Highland; en- la bodega Blue
Moon, en- la avenida de Florida.
Tambien admitieron haberse
robado ell automovil de Juan Gar
cia, vecino de la Gale diez, y un
canton de La Herman Sausage.
Parte de los efectos robados
fueron recuperados.
La gaceta., 1931-01-29

Quedo encerrado por no ha-
Der podido prestar la fianza que
Sc lie exigiera.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-10-09

Commemorang anniversary first official aa dispatched the huge motored ship left United Airport cache of mail the ploted by and carrying two of the pioneers ama Earle Owing pilot reenaed the initial flight which took place Long Island flying radically different plane General and "faher" of U S. airmai the
 memorave flight Col John Carmody also left
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-10-09
A||-AlaSka News

built at KaSilof, Cook Inlet, by Capt. Heinie Berger of the motor ship Discoverer.
 Residents of Chatanika were frightened by the invasion Of a black bear. While the woman schoolteacher remained locked in her house, she could see, through a window. the animal eating all the fresh eggs and other food in the cache near the house. Alter wards, bruin entered a machine shop of the Fairbanks Exploration Company and chased Larry Do- henny out. The maurauder was shot and killed by J. Watson.
 Two marriages recently were cele- brated at Seldovia. Miss Mary Jackinsky became the wife of Ed ward Lingstrang, and Miss Polly Crawford became the wife Of Lars Odman. Both couples were from Ninilchik.
 Two trappers ana their supplies were transported in two airplane :; from Anchorage to the Oshetna River district. The trappers, Elmer Simcoe and Robert Dunn, will spend the winter there.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-10-09

Miss Melba Call, 21-yearo In dian woman. is teaching a school for blind Indians at Panama. She has ten youthful pupils. There are 54 blind adults in the district. Miss Call. native Alaskan, attend ed for II years the School for the Blind at Vancouver, Wash, and for two years in the Perkins Institute for the Blind at Cambridge, Mass. She has been blind since she was 3 years old.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-10-09

Having a length Of 30 feet for berthing a ship and extending 30 feet from shore, a dock is being