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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-10
WHERE LIVING STANDARDS
ARE RISING

out 'T know this ls tar from enough the d.
rector spologized. I looked at my companion. He
laughed, ''You see, the Russian girls and women
are crazy about silk AS skilled workers we make
good wages here and can afford to wear such
things"
These are the starving Russian workers!
The director also reported that over a half
million yards of dress goods had been distributed
in the last three months, which meant an aver
age Of Is yards per member. At this murmus
of establishment and dissent ran through the hall
Net so much!" why it's hardly possible!" 1t
took some ten minutes for the director to ex-
plain how this was true. While not every person
received so much, many received more than this
amount as premiums for good work at the plant,
and so forth. cts what the books show, com
radss' he insisted II did not get these figures
out Of my head" The conlrade from the con-
troll commission who spoke next agreed that this
was an accurate figure. He reported the books
in good order but made certain criticisms Of the
quality of goods and methods of distribution. The
capital OF the cooperative has now reached over
half million dollars with monthly turnover
of about $35OO0O Now the floor was open for
discussion. The first to take his place on the
platform was a small energetic man who talked
rapidly at the delegates, emphasizing his points
by quick gestures with MS cap winch ne neIQ
folded in his left hand. He demanded that more
stores be opened, so that workers could get their
supplies more conveniently and be waited on
without long delays. Another delegate insisted
that they should be able to give their orders in
advance and have them ready when called for.
Also the amount of supplies needed of different
types of goods must be better calculated. He was
followed by young worker who said, 1--WE shock
brigaders because of our role in production are
supposed to get our needs taken care OF before
all others, yet the opposite often happens. When
the whistle blows we often stay by our machines
to see everything is in order while others race
off to the store. BY the time we get there we
cannot always get what we want. This must be
changed" The new system of shock brigade cards
must be Immediately introduced. These, in gen.
eral use in many plants, guarantee the shock
brigaders first attention
woman worker in black silk dress with
shawl across her shoulders quickly mounted the
platform. AS she stepped up we caught glimpse
of pink silk boomers. She was also shock
brigader 81 can't understand" she spoke d.
rectIy to the manager, why things can't be run
better In the factories we workers have produc-
ton running WELL why can't you do as much in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-10
BY MYHA PAGE

YEIE factory band played Justify as the workers
came from the nearby Electro5aYod into their
largs theatre. quarterly meeting on the local
cooperative organization was scheduled for the
evening. Reports BY the co-operative's director
on how we'll the Al 900 members clothing and
household needs had been met by the organiza-
tons stores in the past months, would be fol-
lowed by discussion and proposals by the close
10 four hundred delegates who had been sent by
their shopmates and also by local societies oil
this section of Moscow. Afterwards there would
he a play and concert,
Curious to learn more of the way the workers
we're tackling the problem of distribution OF
goods for personal consumption, I had come to
the meeting with Frank Rrassfrnan, a young
electrician from the States who had been work
ing in the Electrozavod plant for the last eight
cen months The question of a continuous, ade-
uuate stream of supplies to meet the rising stan
dard Of living and growing demands of the So
Wet masses is a paramount one. The Communist
Party the Trade Unions, and the Soviet Gov
eminent are all bending their efforts in order to
bring about drastic improvements in this field
in the next months.
The situation is not at all as the capitalist
press represents. The toiling population not only
has enough to eat and to wear, it has more than
it ever had before Nevertheless when a people
has been oppressed, half-starved, and wretchedly
clothed for centuries and when through their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-10
The December Issue of ''The
COmmunit Now on Sale

CONTENTS
WALL STREET AND THE ORGANIZATION
OF THE A&TI-SOVIET FRONT ..........,
BY Harry Cannes.
THE PARTY ANNIVERSARY IN THE LIGHT
OF OUR PRESENT TASKS ...............
BY Alex BtteIman
THE MEANING OF THE WAGE CUTTING
OFFENSIVE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
BY Joseph lack.
BUILDING THE REVOLUTIONARY TRADE
UNION MOVEMENT ....................
BY S. Wilmer
RESOLUTION OF THE PRAGUE CONFER
ENCE ON THE QUESTION OF UNEM-
PLOHMENI ..''.'',t'..'...ssss.ssss
DILETTANTISM IN STRIKES .......ts.......
by Vim. w. Foster.
RELATIONS OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY
AND ECONOMICS UNDER CAPITALISM
AND IN ETaE SOVIET UNION ..........,.
By Prof. NJ. Rubinstein
THESIS ON THE AGRARIAN QUESTION -.
ADOPTED by the Second Congress of the
Communist International
Send orders and subscriptions to Workers
Library Publishers, P. O. Box 14S, sta. D, New
York City. IS cents per copy Beginning with
the January issue the price will be reduced to
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-10
What Kind of Disease Is IT?

sometimes we wonder when if ever all the
good resolutions about meetings starting on time
ana being prepared properly are going to come
true. There is absolutely no reason. outside oF
downright careleSsneSS why we should have tn
be bothered with such as the following COM
plants, both from-where do you think? New
York, of course
Dear Jorge:-Lke it or not, the seaney, oot
another kick, and hope this one will be settled
AS you know, the leadership of the unemploved
movement In New York called a meeting of
all delegates going to Washington for Sunday.
NOV. 49, at IL a. M But did that mean IL a. M?
NO! Hell, no! The way it comes out. the meet
Ing got started at exactly 143 D. M. which is
II minutes till D. M No wonder the reu r,en,-
oers OF the Communist Party get up in the air
when this seems to be the regular procedure
everywhere and at all meetings Let it be under
sCooo That being on time means a whole he'll
OF lot to the revolutionary novement-A W.
JACOBSON Seamen'S Unemployed Council"
Ihen up IN the other end of town, we have
peen asked by more than one comrade to find
OUT what sort of responsibility attaches to any,
oody IN Section 4 that is supposedly conductino
the Harlem Workers Forum at LAFAYETTE Hall
l65 West l31st St. every Sunday evening at an
Dig hall with bulletin blackboard, on which
the number of the room where the forum is to
De held MIGHT BE written but isn't.The speaker
comes and wanders around trying to find some
body who knows something-but nobody does,
Workers come mad help him wander around
Minutes, half hours and hours go sailing bv
and nobody who is actually in charge of any
thing can be found.
Somebody gets the idea of looking no the hall
management and gets let into one of the rooms
by some magic. But it's not much of success
by that time. Where are the workers that Partv
members might get by going and bringing themp
Where, indeed are the Party members of the
Section? Where is even a small piece of the
leadership The devil only knows he don't
say
Bob Minor is due to speak there next Sunday
on the Negro question and unless something
breaks down this inexcusable negligence there
really need be no cards printed advertising the
Forum, job which seems to satisfy the section
comrades that they have done their duty
These cases are, of course, only samples There
are plenty of others. But when is something
going to be done about it?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-10
The American Black
Chamber

In view OF the pleasant way the imperialist
powers are slashing into China, we may give a
few timely hints about what lot of cutthroats
they are. slick guy by the name of Herbert o.
Yardley recently wrote book called "The Amer
lean Black Chamber" being an account of his
experiences in the employ of ''our own" sancti-
fled government to intercept and decipher code
messages OF other governments
With some qualifications, the book is an in
teresting exposure of the way the imperialist
powers watch each other like cats and dogs in
the light for markets and colonies in every
form of loot.
The qualifications we make are for one thing
that Yardley lies when he says that the "Black
chamber" Is abolished He had to say that And
all the complaints he makes about the u S.
being deprived OF this weapon by Stimson is so
much poppycock aimed to conceal its contin-
uance.
But the book (Which, by the way, some com
rade who has no conscience swiped from our
otf1ce) is revelation of imperialist intrigue ma
chinery which all the imperialists use against
each other and against the Soviet Union. and
never say word about. The book created
CABINET crisis in Japan because it told some in
side dope about Japanese messages
In the Liberty" magazine of Of 10. Yardley
tells story of a batch of Japanese wireless mes
sages he deciphered, again showing how the big
powers quarrel with each other over China. II
was in 1927, and part of what happened he
tells in this way:
''We were just in time, for on March "A the
Chinese situation became acute. The Japan-
csc kilograms as deciphered by us and sent to
Washington showed that there was talk Of m.
Prevention. The Great Powers, seeing their
opportunity for spoils, began to spar with each
other. We found England and japan
making joint and, SO they thought, secret plans
In China They were maneuvering to isolate
America"
Now that America has isolated England-a,
least to some degree-and unanswered Japan
into some agreement with Wall Street. the
"ethics" of the inaperialist bandits have NOT
changed by long shot. They are still after
"spoils" in China, as admitted by YardIey And
America still has its 'sBlack Chamber" too,
Yes, that's so:--But we were not brutal ea,cnyp1,
before to mention it, especially to sailors we re-
fer to our recent definition of Symposium.
which seems to have excited no little fuss. How
ever, we have to agree with a correspondent
who sends in the following: "Il 60 YOU one better
on symposium. My dictionary says it comes
from the Greek. and means "a drinking party"
Now il the FS.U had advertised it that way.
why. thsSN y0HQd be no keeping the sailors swayl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-10

1t Is Reported

Tefas In Tar country tbs KING thereog heard
OF Herbert Hoover and his great work in 'sovsr-
coming depressions" by speeches to Congress and
lamentations of Secretary OF Commerce.
Thoughtful of the possibilities Of need for ad-
vice arising in the land of Ishkabibbe, the WISE
ruler sent for copy of Hoover's patented
scheme for Overcoming depressions in sixty
days"
Inc Great Engineer was only too glad to
oonge' The scheme was given to the chief Of
the Post Office Department Mr. Brown. who
wrapped it up in copies of Post Office contracts
to Republican National Committeeman and
mailed 1T by parcel post to the King of rshka
bibble.
few weeks later Hoover received q telegram
saying:
Am returning your scheme for prosperity.
Please send depression"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-10

the stores? What is the matter?' She gave ex-
amples of needless red tape, Indifferent clerks,
and long waits. So it went. Delegate after dele
gate made their criticisms and proposals in clear,
concise fashion. Meanwhile innumerable notes
from the audience passed over our shoulders on
to the stage All speakers and notes received
careful attention from the presidium and director
whose face grew more and more serious as the
workers related the organizations shortcomings.
This is how the Soviet workers are tackling the
problem Of improving the distribution of goods,
with the same initiative determination they put
into developing industry. And they will achieve
equal telling results.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-22
The New Incinerators.

Bids have been submitted and the
contracts will be let soon for the Dis
trict's two new trash incinerators, cost
ing S560,00O. One of the incinerators
will be built at Thirty-first and K
streets northwest the other at First
and o streets southeast. Residents Of
Georgetown have lodged some OBJ
jections against the trash plant, but the
authorities have assured them that mod
ern trash plants emit neither smoke nor
odor and are, in fact, blessings to any
community, for which we all should be
duly thankful.
There has been, however, q strange
and disquieting silence relative to the
appearance Of these incinerators. No
body at the District Building is sure
what they will look like from the out
side. That matter has been left to the
Boston architects who draw incinerator
plans. And one always hopes for the
best from Boston.
But a scrapbook, illustrated with pic
lures Of incinerators in other cities and
discussing in general the science Of
trash disposal, has come to hand. A
careful perusal Of this interesting book
will leave no doubt in the most artis-
tically phlegmatic Of minds that an in
Generator is about the ugliest Of mans
creations. Most Of them have smoke
stacks-not your ordinary, modest CHM
ney. but a smokestack that rears its
head toward the skies and brazenly de-
mands acclaim. In a city that takes
pride in smokeStackS, this Is well ana
good. One can imagine the boosters OF
some communities pointing to the new
incinerator smokestack with q visible
thrill of deep emotion. But the fewer
smokestacks on Washington's horizon
the better. The elimination Of q smoke
stack would help. Yet the snokestack
Is not the worst feature. One is in
clined to the conclusion that the aim
Of an architect who sits down to draw
an incinerator Is to get the thing over
and done with, take hot bath and go
to bed.
Incinerators are necessary, but the
aim Of those who design the Washing
ton plants should be to make them look
as little like q standard incinerator as
possible. II the standard incinerator
design is used for the building at
Thirty-frst and 4 streets, no matter
what the nature Of chat neighborhood IS
today, another one Of the many mis-
takes that have characterized Wash
ington's metamorphosis into the City
Beautiful will have been perpetrated
There is a place for everything, includ-
ing trash-disposal plants, and Thirty
first and X is a poor place.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-22

Anxiety Is expressed by Treasury Of
ficials lest the years income taxes fall
below estimates and leave the national
fiscal balance upset. There is reason
for this fear. The returns Of the first
quarter Of the calendar year, the hrst
quarter in fact Of the income tax year,
are below expectations by many mil
lions. The amount taken on the isth
Of March was only $44,i7B.i43, as
against s7O,652,42s a year ago on that
date. The total of collections for the
menth on and including the 10th was
nearly sioo,0oo,ooo less than for the
same number Of days in 1880. Contin-
uation Of this rate Of deficiency
throughout the calendar year would
yield loss Of $40o.o00,ooo in income
taxes from those Of 1880.
Treasury Earpluses and deficits are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-22

Governor Franklin d. Roosevelt, 1t
seems obvious, must hear what Mayor
James J. Walker Of New York has 70
say in his own defense before he can
act properly to remove the mayor from
ONCE on the charges which have been
filed by the City Affairs Committee.
The Governor, on the other hand, can
scarcely wave the charges Of the COM
mittee aside lightly. These charges
have been made by citizens Of New
York too widely and favorably known
20 be treated cavalierly. It has be-
come clear that they cannot be laughed
of by Mayor Walker, sometimes re-
ferred to as the prince Of testers. The
Governor has had them before him for
a week and has postponed until next
week any announcement III regard TO
them. The proper course for the Gov
ernor TO pursue before he acts in this
case is to call upon the mayor TO make
formal answer TO the charges.
A dismissal Of the charges by the
Governor without further inquiry would
leave q bad taste In many mouths. The
conditions that have been found to exist
in the government Of New York City,
end particularly in the magistrates
courts and In the Police Department
have caused unrest in the city and have
been regarded beyond the city limits 81
scandaious. The names Of the men who
lave heen foremost in presenting the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-22
PAN-AMERICAN HOOK-UP
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

nation viii have its full opportunity. A
schedule is being worked out In much
the same manner aS seasons base ball
schedule Of games or the engagements
Of a lecture tour or q road show.
On one evening the Argentine RepEh-
lie WIN broadcast; on the next, perhaps
Chile or Peru: then Cuba, and 80 on
through the entire list.
The tremendous hook-up Is especially
feasible, according to radio engineers,
because Northumberland broadcast Is
clearer and requires less power than an
east-and-west one. The radio scientists
have learned that 1t Is simpler TO COM
municate by radio in what Is known as
the longitudinal pathway Of the sun.
While much of South America lies 70
the east Of North America, IL u not
nearly so far east as Europe. The posi-
ton OF the sun Is relatively the same
throughout the Americas. In contrast,
IN broadcaSting across either the At
lantic or Pacific Ocean the ether waves
are operating either to overtake the sun
or in direct opposition to Its westward
course.
Amount Of Power Necessary.
just why this should be so Is one Of
the deep mysteries Of radio transmits
sion, but experimentation has shown It
to be the fact. Engineers have reported
third less power viii be required TO
transmit on q north-and-south line
than from east to west.
Stations in the several republics viii
have varying power. Chile and the Ar
gentine, for example. lying at the SOUTH
ern end of South America, VIII require
more power to bring their broadcast I'M
pulses all the way TO the United states
| than Guatemala or Colombia, situated
oh ~
south span Of the Western Hemisphere
Each one Of the republics Is to have
its avn sending station, provided with
the most modern equipment obtaina0le.
The stations are all TO be maintained
at public expense and no advertising
will be heard on the programs, save the
sort Of national coed win advertising
usually passing through diplomats
Each government Is making an APP
/ preparation for the support Of its own
| broAdcasting facilities. Practically all
| Of the equipment IL net all, will be pur-
chased In the United States and Il IL
all to follow standard specifications.
Both Addresses and Music.
The program viii consist chiefly Of
| music, but it Is probable that short In
troductory addresses win be delivered.
especially on patriotic and historic en-
niversaries and the like. on such ocra-
sions the Presidents Of the counties
may be expected TO take the naicEo-
/ phone. The primary purpose Of the ALL
American hook-up Is to bring the
Americas closer together cultursily
and acquaint the peoples Of each with
the development Of the others.
Geographically the Americas make
practically a unit. In no other section
Of the world can q group Of countries Of
equal size be found under the same
form Of government.
All the preliminarie& from the dlplo-
matte point of view have been arranged.
/ 1t now remains for the time to be care
fully allotted and for the equipment TO
be installed. Then Americans msy exc
pect to pick up, at their desire, q minis
mum Of three Of the American pro-
grams every evening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-22
COPYING THE BEST
BY THE RIGHT REV JAMES E. FREEMAN, d. d, LII. D.
Bishop of Washington.

attempted reproduction of poor models.
Our age has witnessed a decided de-
cline in many of the arts, because ftr
the while the great stylistS and nastas
have been forgotten. Every now aid
again there is a revival of interest in
some of the old masters. Were this
not so deterioration would blight thoAe
things that make for refinement ard
culture. When the great Master would
stir the deep emotions Of His followers,
He said: BE ye perfect even as your
Father in Heaven is perfect" True, He
set before them an example beyorkl
their attainment; He would give theSa
nothing less than supreme perfection.
For nearly 20 centuries this old world
has been studying critically the life and
teachings Of the Man Of Nazareth. His
precepts seem unattainable and His lie
unapproachable, and yet He has been
the source of inspiration to artists, mu-
sicianS Seers and prophets, and He viii
continue to be to the end Of time. It
is certainly true that more of inspira-
ton has proceeded from Him than from
any other single figure in all history.
The world Is a long way from approx
mating that ideal of life He exemplif1ed
and taught, but, in spite Of this, He is
sim held before the vision of men as
the one supreme model worthy of study
and emulation. In spite OF all the
changed habits and conventions Of our
modern life, in spite Of all the new cults
and agencies that are vociferously pur-
veying their wares, this single figure
still commands the reverent study and
alteration Of countless millions the world
over.
When Thomas Hughes would give the
boys Of Rugby the one great idea
worthy of their devotion, he directed
their thoughts to "the manhood OF
Jesus" The most conspicuous danger
that attends the life of our youth to-
day Is that which arises from the study
of the wrong types and models. The
prevalent and largely expressed ides
that happiness and eficient living come
from the acquisition Of things material
the satisfaction Of desire or the attain
ment, of distinction Of one kind ane
another must issue in lowered stand
ard of living and the loss Of those spirit
ual gifts and qualities that alone lenC
stability and security to life. We may
not have originality, nor may we b
possessed with the gifts Of excellint
genius, but at least we may seek to re-
produce in our lives those qualities ane
virtues that for generations past have
brought satisfaction serenity and peact
to men the world over