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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-09-22

SHOW N6tdlI0 FTlCo those
others how little she cared for
what they said or did? What could
she do to let them know that II she
wore cheap clothing It was their
thoughts that were cheap, their i'll.
manners and discourtesy that were
ugly?
THE street signal flashed red but
Norma was SO ~preoccupied she
did not notice It for several mo-
ments. Then she realized the others
about her had gone on. She crossed
the street hurriedly.
She forget her mornings errands
and walked a block past the five
and.ten store where she was to be.
gin her purchases. what right has
Natalie Price to set herself up as
a Judge Of other people?" Norma
ragged inwardly. "What has she
ever done to make herself better
than anyone else?"
She knew without need to hest
tate the answers to those questions.
Natalie's father was rich. Natalie
was I'm society,"" her name and pic.
lures In newspaper society columns
frequently. But those were not the
things that mattered. What gave
Natalie Price her tremendous ad.
vantage was tho fact she belonged
to the life Mark had always known
before his marriage. II Natalie
sneered at Marks bride It meant
others would do So.
Was she so pitifully a failure?
Was she q hindrance to Mark?
"But he married mel" Norma
told herself defensively. "He knew
Natalie first and instead he mar.
ried me-"
The mood burned only a little
less flercely when later she stood
ct . counter piled high with dishes
and selected q blue-howered saucer
to take the place Of the one she had
brokens Lucky to ind the same pat.
tern in stock. Well, the oil cloth
was next on the list.
Norma moved across the store.
She was buying ive and 10-cent
supplies for Marks kitchen while
Natalie Price and her friend might
b trying on gowns that cost hun,
dreds Of dollars. fur coats worth
fabulous sums.
MARK TRAvERS looked up q.
~ the newcomer leaned his el
bows on tho lunch counter.
'Why-Johnson! I'm 4 blue
nosed baboon II It isn't the old boy
himself! How're you, Johnson"
The newcomer drew back and
thrust out q hand In greeting
"Glad to see you, Mark" he said
heartily. This is . surprise!
Didn't recognize you when I cam,
in. I'm very well, thank you
Looking irst-rate y~ourself!"
Mark laughed. "Surs. I'm o. K
Tell me. johnson, how's the oil
place bobbing along3 Miss m,
down there?"
They were sitting at . drug stor,
lunch counter. A halfconsumet
sandwich lay on tho plate befor,
Mark. He raised . heavy porcelail
cup to his lips. Tho man besid,
him was middle-aged. He wore
gray hat and dark overcoat. Be
meath the rim Of the hat tho close
clipped hair showed . grayisl
tinge. johnson had the manner o
. quiet, eAncient man who has spen
most Of his life executing othe,
mems orders. He had done that
Johnson for IL years had been
reliable cog in the smoothly oper
ating mechanism building up =. u
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-09-22
Editorial Comment

Editorials printed below show the
trend Of thought by other editors.
They are published without regard
to whether they agree or disagree
with The Tribune's policies.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-09-22

show Natalie Price and those
others how little she cared for
what they said or did? What could
she do to let them know that II she
wore cheap clothing It was their
thoughts that were cheap, their i'll.
manners and discourtesy that were
ugly?
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-09-22

An all aluminum sleeping a Is
being built for use on Of the
country's mail railroad lines.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-14
Right Opposition In Lithuanian
Publishing Association

Statement Of the Central Committee. Communist
Party of u. S. A.,
THE Central Committee has carefully exam
! ined into the disputes which have arisen
among the Lithuanian comrades which have al
ready come into the open in the shape Of seri-
Gus factional organization directed against the
Communist Party and the Communist Interna-
tional. This crystallizing right wing is an ex-
preston Of petty bourgeois tendencies and ele-
lnents which have been carried over from the
past of the Lithuanian workers movement in
the United States Certain elements of cor
rupted workers and small business men are
frightened by the sharpening class struggle and
the threats of the Fish Committee of govern
mental repressions. They are irked by the bur-
dens Of class struggle placed upon them by the
sharpening oppression of the capitalist class.
They wish to run away from the fight and make
their peace with capitalism. Therefore they or
ganize and struggle against the Communist
Party and raise the slogan Of emancipating the
Lithuanian papers, Laisve and Wins, from Party
control
This anti Communist fraction is composed of
group OF non-Party people, some of them
renegades, but the most damaging work against
the Laisve and Wins is being carried on within
the Party by Party members The most cut
standing expression of this activity within the
Party has been presented by Comrade Pruseika,
who as one of the editors of Wins in Chicago
published the most fragrant attacks against the
stockholders meeting of Laisve, because that
meeting repudiated the opportinist disrupters
and confirmed its adhesion to the Communist
Party. Comrade Pruseika has masked his op-
portunist factional activity by formal al
legiance TO the Party and by declaring that the
difference were personal ones and centered
around the personality Of Comrade Bimba Sec
rotary Of the Lithuanian Buro Of the Party.
The Central Committee, in order to make clear
to every Lithuanian worker the falseness of the
factional platform Of the opportunists, which
3sssl- s'~r anti-Communist tend0 cies behind
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-14
Increased wages are bEutally forced
upon these unhappy people.

papers are incredible. The Daily Express" says
Elm Russia, work has become compulsory. the
nations badge of citizenship. once absorbed
in a factory, there is little escape"
The horror of this can only be appreciated in
England, where everything is done to prevent
the workers from getting into the factories. This
complete reversal of the customs of Christian
countries proves the determination of the Soviets
to overthrow civilization.
The terrible indictment goes on:
'Tt is almost impossible today to secure the
services of modest servant . Women who
two or three years ago were glad to accept any
form of domestic service, have all gone into the
factories"
Holy Maggie; Can these things be9 need
say no more. But I damn well will. Let the
Express" go on tearing the mask from Boil
shevism:-
'There is no doubt that they receive more
substantial remuneration there greater meas
ures Of independence . liberties and privileges
of Communist citizens"
This frghtful picture Of workers being forced
to accept higher wages and more independence
was hard to believe. resolved to verify It,
advertised for evidence at usual rates. Struck
by the Importance attached by 1.-The Times" to
the evidence of "God-fearing ships captain"
chose my witnesses solely from men of GER
titled religious opinions.
a God-fearing stoker says: "It is common
sight to see a young woman running screaming
from an evil looking trade union official who is
trying to make her accept higher wages"
Another witness, Presbyterian ships carpenter,
writes: ''If worker refuses greater independ-
ence and the privileges of citizenship, he is
branded on the forehead with a U, signifying
Upthepole, which is Russian for bourgeois"
English workers, sitting in their comfortable
homes. never dreaming of the possibility Of
having job offered them, cannot imagine the
horrors perpetuated under the Soviet scheme
for abolshing unemployment very reliable
witnesS-a Methodist boatswain-tells me that
whenever anybody hasn't any money they are
brutally offered Job.
He drew terrible pictures Of innocent people
being forced to do something and take wages
for it. He says, ST shall never forget seeing
a poor woman, who had never done any work
In her life, being offered some work. Her screams
of terror ring in my ears yet. I have washed
my ears twice, but it still goes on"
Referring to the admission by the Daily Work
eT that every worker in Russia is sure Of his
next meal Baptist plumber says: "Tais is
only too true. These meals are compulsory like
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-14
Portraits of typical Soviet officials
lfrpm our Riga correspondent God
fearing Press agent).

it to 1.-THE Times" The repression of the people
is beyond all imagination except news
agency's.
Take their sports. This paper is always talk
ing of the development of athletics in the Soviet
Republic. You do not realize that this is another
means Of crushing the soul out of the people.
God-fearing inesnan tells me tina tafter
football match compulsory between the Tor
turers Union and the Agents Provocateurs two
forwards were shot for keeping the ball too
much to themselves. The referee who was of
course, member of the Tchecka, before SEN
fencing the men, made two-hour speech in
which he said that they showed criminal lack
of claSs-unity.
Next week: Limb from limb, or life in a Rus
sian wheat dump.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-14
CONDEMNED TO THREE
MEALS A DAY

everything else in this enslayed country. Three
times day men, women-ay, and tender chill
dren, are driven into dining rooms, without be-
ing asked whether they want food or not They
are forced to eat more than they have ever
eaten before. The agonies undergone by hiccups
are terrible"
Asked if it were true that many thousands of
Russians were now eating meat for the first
time, a Vegetarian ship-steward says THAT is
only too true. Meat is forced upon them. In
this irreligious country no consideration is given
to the susceptibilities of vegetarians."
The following report from Theosophical plum
Der gives a further idea of the conditions in
the awful timber camps:
$50 severe are the restrictions that the work
ers are not allowed to look miserable This
explains their apparent satisfaction with eondi-
tons that the rest of the world knows to be
slavery. They are given good food and wages
to hide the fact that they are really suffering
They smile because they know that II they did
not, they would be boiled in glue.
81 asked one worker who in accordance with
the strict rules of the camp, was lying on his
back pretending to enjoy smoke: DO you
like being Soviet worker
''He replied 'Youbetcha' (Russian for it is
terrible and gives me bunionsD."
rs the work hard?' was my next question.
can stand it for more than three months
have been here two years and know
Il then asked him about the conditions. 1T
is so cold, he said, that your arms and legs
drop off. See, have cork arms and wooden
legs. If you do not fell 500 trees a day they
pull your face off. See, have an Tndia-rubber
face dlopD, and he pulled his nose out several
inches and let it fly back to his face with a
loud report.
ST then asked him if he were hungry. Not
arffieff (nly sufferings are indescribable), he
said, mot morsel has passed my lips since
supper AS he spoke a hooter sounded through
the forest like the herald of some fearful doom.
The man rose to his feet with the alacrity born
of servility. Where are you going? asked. To
breakfast he replied. and ran off at top speed,
lest he should be shot for unpunctuality."
These sufferings paralyze my mind. I can't
think of anything worse. When do shall send
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-14

Wins away from the Communist movement and
back to the Second International We have the
utmost confidence that the Lithuanian workers
will give the sfarpest rebuke to these factional
disrupters. At the same time, however the Gen.
trail Committee will exercise every effort to
make sure that not one single honest and sin
cere worker shall be misled by the false issues
and arguments of the opportunsts
We call upon the various committees and units
of the Party to exercise the utmost vigilance
and energy in combating the opportunist
schemes, and at the same time to exercise the
utmost patience in explaining thoroughly to
every worker the correctness Of the Party poll
cies, the necessity for the Party and every one
Of its members to be In the forefront leading
the working class In the struggle for unemploy-
ment relief and Insurance. for the building Of
the revolutionary trade unions and in the fight
against wage-cuts and speed-up for building
strong revolutionary press in all languages,
closely united uunder the leadership of the Com
munist International and for nerciless fight
against opportunism of every brand.
Fight against the Opportunist Dsruptersl
Fight for the feminist line OF the Communist
Party and the Communist International
CENTRAL COMMITTEE,
COMMUNIST bARTY OF THE q. s.rA,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-14

formal expressions of loyalty, called confer
ence of all the leading Lithuanian comrades in
Guiding Comrade Prlseka. At this conference,
the Central Committee gave unlimited oppor-
tunity for every conlrade to present his views
and make argument The Central Committee
then proposed that inasmuch as all the COM
rades expressed their complete loyalty to the
Communist International that delegation
representing all points of view should be Sc
lected to lay all the problems of the Lithuanian
movement before the Communist International,
pledging themselves to abide by the decision
which would be made and in the meantime to
secure immediate stopping of the factional fight
and the disarmament of the opportunist faction.
This proposal was accepted unanimously by the
leading Lithuanian comrades. and each one per-
sonally pledged himself to carry out this de-
cision.
This conference was held on March 3rd, but
only three days later, on March 9Th, Comrade
Pruseika appeared at an open mass meeting in
Brooklyn, where six or seven hundred workers
were present and there repeated and en-
phasized all of his factional charges against the
Party. On the same day he informed the Gen.
trail Committee that he had changed his mind
and refused to carry out the agreement which
had been solemnly made with the Central Com
mittee. Immediately thereafter he left New
York after refusing to again meet with the Cen
trail Committee to discuss the question further.
simultaneously with this unprincipled maneu-
yer and breach Of faith by Comrade Pruseika,
group of opportunists outside Of the Party,
members of the Laisve organization have is
sued large pamphlet full Of SANDERS distor-
ton and outright lies, calling upon the Lithu-
anian workers to organize to take the Laisve
away from the Communist Party and away
from the Communist International
The Central Committee is confident that the
Lithuanian workers whether they are members
Of the Communist Party or not, will theoretically
and decisvely defeat the efforts Of this group
Of opportunists who wish to take the Laisve and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-14

Mooney Molders Defense Committee definitel
charges that Paul Scharrenberg and every othe
major labor leader in California is concerned
not with the pardon of Tom Mooney They ar
interested solely in keeping Tom Mooney i
prison, or at the most, in making an empty ges
ture by advocating that he be released on parolt
Paul Scharrenberg heads the list of the arch
betrayers of the workers of the State Of Cal
fornia. He remained at his post in the cabint
OF Governor G. c. Young at time when tbs
official refused to consider MONEYS petition fl
pardon He campaigned for Mooney and Bill
ings' jailer, Governor c. @. Young during IL
recent primary--after this cowardly tool of b
Business brazenly refused to pardon these gull
less trade unionis.s. 49,
These are only a.few of the charges again
this labor leader. They suffice to show tn
Paul Scharrenberg finds it to his best intere.
not to lead the workers of this state in tho
struggle against unemployment, "stagger 81
TENS" and wage cuts. No, the best interests
Paul Scharrenberg lie in quite the other dire
ton. He finds 1t much more to his advanta
to hamstring the workers, to so organize see
that workers striving for living wages are {
feated, to support the employers of this state
every FORM manner. and shape, and to fig
increasingly against the pardon Of Tom Moon
For the pardon Of Tom Mooney would ruin
all time the political aspirations that Paul Sch
renberg harbors in his puny breast | s
"a - CeuAa-~.A. -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-14

Tom Mooney, serving life in San Quentin
as a result of frame-up in which the A. F. L.
leaders had part, lay in prison IA years be-
fore he decided to expose them. He now tells
how the A. F. L. chiefs helped put Mooney and
Billings in jail, and how for all those years
they helped keep these two workers in prison,
sabotaging every real effort to get them out.
The parts printed in previous installments
are letter written by Mooney to Billings, ex-
planning why he is speaking out now, and
review of the State Supreme Courts fake in
vestigation of the frame up, last year.
Now below, Mooney starts telling of the
treachery of the secretary of the California
State Federation of Labor "a. F.. L..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-14
From the London Daily Worker,
By BEJAY.

MY exposures Of sovietism have aroused the
In fury Of the Communist movement. re-
ceive anonymous threats by every post. My
life is in danger. Yesterday slipped on a
banana skin and swallowed my dental plate
Who put it thereP mean the banana skim
not the teeth.
Letters arrive asking the price Of my silence
7 ignore them. AS my old father used to say
eNever sell out on rising market" shall
not be deferred by threats Ambition spurs me
on I will go one better than the capitalist
press, or break my neck
I am resolved to unveil the sufferings OF the
Russian people, Many Of the accounts in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-14

in holding street meetings but when it comes to
organizing an unemployed council there is no.
body honle
The fact that two and half months after
the last Party plenum there still are sections
OF the Party living in the past shows the Plen-
UNI resolutions were not sufficiently popularized
to reach the entire Party membership. espe-
cally now, when we are having SO many unen-
ployeS demonstrations it is very important that
we constantly hammer away at the Importance
of having concrete organizational progress after
every demonstration.
Comment-ComradeB G. gives a very good
description Of sections Of our Party that are
Giving In the past"-that is, standing aside
from the present struggle instead of leading
it. Cleveland is not the only district that has
such sections and units. We hope that Com
rade B. G. will soon send us another article
telling us how the Cleveland District pro-
poses to rc-vitaIizc such sections and bring
home tho Pleuum resolutions IA the members
Shera,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-14
INSTALLMENT 5.

(By mistake Installment which should have
come after todays instalIment, was printed in
Yesterdays issue.l
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-14

Living In the Past
BY B. G.

BY Is. u.
AT this moment wish to bring to the attention
"A of the Party center and the Party as whole
an important weakness in our Party which must
be rectified If we seriously mean to concretize
our activities.
I have Just returned from an organzatonal
trip to the southern part of District Six-Cin-
cinnati, Dayton. Columbus, Springfield, ETC. The
Party situation in every one of these places is
very bad. We have Party units there but they
are not factors in the workers struggles in these
towns. There are no unemployed councils, de-
spite the most favorable conditions: there is no
TUUL, LSNR clubs and so on. The comrades
in these places have so little practical organ
national experience that they do not even know
how to organize a mass meeting for the De-
Tense of the Soviet Union. We wrote the COM
rades in Cincinnati and Dayton to organize mass
meeting for me, giving them more than week
to do it, but when got to Cincinnati, two days
before the scheduled time for the meeting,
found that absolutely nothing had been done.
I was told that they waited for me to come and
prepare the leaflet, and when made the stencil
we found that the nlimeograph machine was
about 30 years od-a fragment of a socialist
empire" and the leaflet came out rotten Un-
der such circumstances is there any wonder that
only go workers came to the meeting? While
in Dayton the comrades did not even attempt
to organize a meeting. "Too much trouble
no typewriter to make stencil and no mimeo-
graph to run it off"
The fact that the Party in the above towns
hasn't as much as the technical means for Or
ganizing mass meeting goes hand in hand
with its living an isolated life away from the
workers. Both of these things are direct re-
suit of the Party's method of carrying on ac-
tivities In the past. The above mentioned towns
are the last survivals in our district of a pre-
vious epidemic. This condition is the result of
spectacular activity VS.. concrete planning, "hit
and run" campaigning VS.. campaigning which
leaves definite organizational results
The Party maintained leading comrades In
the southern part of the district These COM
rades held many street meetings and demon
strations, defied and insulted the police and got
splendid writeups in the capitalist press Some
of these comrades are in jail now, others have
heavy sentences hanging over them. But what
happened to the Party. notwithstanding.
The comrades of these towns are waiting for
other leading comrades to come in and hold
another demonstration where I'VE could give the
damned police a real battle" No attempts to
carry on unemployed activities; to carry on shop
work; to draw in new, proletarian blood into the
Party; no attempt to develop local leading forces.
The comrades in these towns are well trained
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-14

tBy mistake Instailment which should have
come after today's installment, was printed in
yesterdays issue.)
PAUL SCHARRENBERG ATTACKS TOM
MOONEY.
AT the annual convention of the California
"A State Federation of Labor held in Marysville
September, 1880, Secretary Treasurer Paul Schar-
renberg, with contemplate subterfuges, issued
challenge to Tom Mooney and his Molders De-
Tense Committee on the grounds that the Com
mittee had never issued detailed financial state
ment. This was merely a strategem to enable
the California State Federation to pretend that
it could not, in the face of this financial ire
sponsibity" undertake to support the Tom
Mooney Defense Committee.
In his report Scharrenberg appeared in his
true colors and went on record with a dastardly
attack against Mooney and the Defense Com
mittee. He declared that che has at all times
tried to be helpful to both Mooney and Billings,
but it has been thankless task so far as
Mooney is concerned" Commenting on the re-
fllsal of the governor to pardon Mooney and
Billings. he stated: Billings took the news with
commendable fortitude and merely reiterated his
absolute innocence. Mooney made impas-
stoned charges against various persons who have
tried to help him. Your Secretary was
assailed"
This is really news. When did Paul Scharren-
berg experience change of heart? What has
he really done to help Tom Mooney? Paul
Scharrenberg has grown fat on the juicy poll
tical plum that has been given him by his close
friend and political ally, Governor c. c. Young
Because OF the defeat of the Governor in the
recent primary Paul Scharrenberg has already
lost his sinecure- membership on the State
Board of Harbor Commissioners And as it
happens that Tom Mooney played prime part
in the defeat of the Governor, it is at once APP
parent why Scharrenberg was SO eager to attack
Mooney through the State Federation of Labor.
scharrenberg's attitude is no recent Develop
ment. If we examine the record of this labor
leader we will find that he has consistently
fought against any move designed to pardon Tom
Mooney. His statement that "he has at all times