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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07

When, in America, Matthew Vol,
Mr.. Swope, or any other apologist of
capitalism, talks about plan"
please examine it. You'll find that it
is not to build" ANYTHING, least of
all to build socialism.
look over the ''Chadbourne plan"
20 REDUCE sugar production. What
did Gerard Swope propose, to build
anything. MOI To limit and re-
strict production Then remember
that the Soviet Five Year Plan is
TO BUILD, TO INCREASE PRO-
DUCTIONl We want to emphasize
this difference.
But WHY is this difference2 And
the general answer is that, under
capitalism. production is carried
through only IF the private cap
italist owners of the means OF pro-
duction figure they can make
profit for themselves-for hand
full of the rich, and the MOTIVE
for production is NOT to feed,
clothe and shelter the masses of
people. Since many capitalists are
producing clothes, let's say, each
hoping to sell them to the same
people, the masses, and the masses
don't get enough wages to buy them
All-although they really need them
all-there is production" So
the clothing capitalist come to grief
and holler for "a PLAN" But since
all their plans" are NOT to raise
wages, but lower wages; NOT to
give jobs and wages to ALL work
ers, but to give as few jobs and at
as low wages as possible-and to
REDUCE PRODUCTION, all their
plans cannot work. And If they
could possibly work, would force
millions to go without clothes
The Soviet Five Year Plan is
completely DIFFERENT! 1t is a
SOCIALIST plan! The U. S. Bureau
of Labor Statistics show that be-
tween June. 1929 and June, 1881, the
total wages paid in American fac
tories were out 80 per cent. But in
the Soviet Union, from 1927 to 1880,
wages INCREASED 32.7 per cent!
Workers should understand that
this is not only the SOCIALIST
RESULT of the Soviet Five-Year
Plan, but is the basic cause of its
continued SUCCESS In building up
industry. A new machine estab-
ished in an American factory puts
perhaps half the workers out of a
rob and reduces Wages of the other
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07

STAGNATION, to REDUCE PRO-
DUCTIONi
Only when you understand that it
is because the workers and farmers
in the Soviet Union OWN AND
RUN GOVERNMENT, and OWN
AND RUN INDUSTRY and they
not any capitalists THE IN
CREASING BENEFIT Of increasing
production, will you understand why
518 giant NEW factories and plants,
some of them bigger and more mod
ern than anything ever built any
where in any country are beginning
operation THIS YEAR, a year in
which capitalist industry in Amer
lea is CLOSING DOWN and de-
creasing production!
Only when you understand that
the farmers GET THE INCREASED
BENEFIT Of more and better crops
in the Soviet Union, can you under
stand why 100000 separate little
farms have overnight combined In
COLLECTIVE farming, why they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07
The Third Year of the 5>Year Plan
and Socialist Construction in USSR

are using tractors and ELECTRIC
PLOWS where only a few years ago
they had only oxen and wooden
plows, while in capitalist America
mechanization of farming has stop
ped advancing after the RICH
farmers have been equipped while
the MAJORITY OF farmers are
LOSING OUT, becoming poorer
with the load Of rent, taxes and
mortgages, and millions are farming
with single-share pillow and an old
mule!
American capitalists try to make
American workers believe that the
Soviet Five Year Plan is a menace"
to American workers; they talk
about dumping" But according to
a Democrat congressman, William L.
Siroyich Of New York who Just re-
turned from visiting the Soviet
Union, this dumping" story is a
lie, because - and he speaks the
truth on this-in 1913 under the
Gar, Russia exported 3 per cent Of
it's products, while In 1890, under
the Soviets, 1t exports only 10 per
cent OF its products. So it is clear
that more Of Its products are being
used INSIDE Russia than ever be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07
BY HARRISON GEORGE

1t has set the whole world talking.
And with good reason. Did not
Herbert Hoover, the great en-
gineer" declare in 1927 that Russia
is an economic vacuum"7 Now look
at it!
Even the American sky pilots are
establishing five year plans" for
their churches, and hardly leading
capitalist opens his mouth without
moaning about the slack of plan"
under capitalism and proposing a
five, a ten, and with Hoover-a
twenty year plan"
But they only propose. Because
capitalism is inescapably unable to
plan. Hoover virtually admitted it
when he proposed twenty year
plan" of not TRYING TO PLAN
AT ALL!
Anyone who wonders why capital
lists cannot plan the national econ
On1y and wonders still more why
the Bolsheviks can and do plan
successfully, will never understand
the answer unless they Crasp the
BIG FACT that, in the Soviet
Union, they are working on a plan
of BUILDING SOCIALISM!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07

half. A new machine in a Soviet
factory REDUCES HOURS and
RAISES WAGES for all! That's
where the -7-hour day comes from In
the Soviet Unionl That's why ur7-
employment is abohshedl
without you understand the So
CIALIST CHARACTER of the Five
Year Plan, you don't understand It
at all; you don't understand why
the same thing can't be done In
America WITHOUT A REVOLT
TON; you don't understand why
the so-called socialist" party is
really opposed to socialism, because
they are opposed 20 REVOLT
TON, which is the only way So
cialism can be established.
Only when you understand that
the FIVE YEAR PLAN is BUILD
ING SOCIALISM, building new and
different relationships between the
workers and the things they produce,
can you possibly understand why
Soviet industry is advancing at a
rate that no capitalist country's in
dustry ever did equal, while in cap
italist America industry is stagnat-
jno and all the plans the cap
italists make is only to REGULATE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07

confirmation in the great
achievements Of the Soviet Pow
er, in the successful carrying
through of the Five-Year Plan.
The Bolshevist line is victorious.
We must, however. think not
only Of today but also of tomor-
row. Therefore, we declare: If
under peaceful conditions of So
cialist Construction we are prov
Ing in practice the correctness
Of the Bolshevist line, also in the
moment of our conflicts, when
the imperialists attempt to break
the peace and to prevent our So
cialist Construction by an arm
ed attack upon the Soviet Un-
ion, we shall know how to prove
the correctness Of the Bolshevist
line and our BoIshevist force.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07
BY HARRY CANNES.


ITO tell you the truth, the am
bition of my life is to crush out
Soviet Russia!" That was the
statement made by President Hoo
yer to Benjamin c. Marsh of the
Peoples Lobby in Washington. Nor
is Mr.. Hoover expressing his own
ambition. He speaks the upper
most desire in the minds of the
leading ilnperialists in the United
States.
1t is this desire to crush out the
workers republic that is the foun-
dalton Of the policy of American
imperialism in Manchuria in the
present conflict with Japanese i'm
perialism.
The two powers proceed to an
agreement for division of the
spoils in Manchuria (the United
States getting large interest in
1900 miles Of railways with view
to strengthening the anti-Soviet
front. American imperialism, along
with Japanese, follows the French
policy of setting up a strong i'm
perialist fortress, a Gordon sani-
taire" on the Far Eastern 'front.'
equivalent to the French chain of
anti-Soyiet puppet states in Europe
such as Poland, Jugoslavia, Czecho-
Slavia, Rumania, etc.
Manchurian Independence"
Japan, having promised to shed
a little of Manchuran blood for
Wall Streets sake, proceeds now to
set up independent" rulers in
Manchuria to insure the control of
this colony, to keep down Bolshe-
vism within Manchuria, and, with
the support of Wall Street,
strengthen the war front against
the Soviet Union.
1t is not the special situation in
Manchuria that gives the drive to
Wall Streets desire to smash the
Soviet Union. Manchurian events
merely bring closer the objective of
the inperialist powers-an attempt
to achieve a united front against
the workers republic to wipe out
this revolutionary force through
war.
The capitalist papers in the
larger cities in this country are
very careful to sweeten or distort
the war propaganda against the
Soviet Union. But when the prop
uganda of the imperialists against
the Soviet Union seeps down into
the smaller cities, especially into
the South, where the Southern
slave driving rulers feel their hatred
against the Soviet Union so keenly,
this propaganda becomes open and
unalloyed. For example, here is a
sharp call for war as expressed by
1.-THE Progress" daily paper OF
Charlottesville, Va:
Don't let anybody fool you
into thinking war is not brew
ing against the Soviet Union. 1t
will begin as an embargo, with
view Of creating insurrectiOn in
Russia, and then going I'm to
establish peace"
Clear cut, to say the least.
Though it was written months be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07

ers on the cult Of 1.-THE Soviet.
Union must be destroyed"
Before the Plan is Finished
Count Otani pleaded for the blow
to be struck before the Five-Year
Plan is completed. He pleaded for
a united front of Wall Street and
Japan in Manchuria. On the eve
of the 14th anniversary of the
Soviet Union his pleas, through the
negotiations of Japanese and Amer
lean imperialiets. are meeting with
response. A new and dangerous war
front is rising against the Soviet
Union in Manchuria. With Lavars
visit to Hoover, the imperialists will
attempt to strengthen the imperial
list iron ring around the workers
republic.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07
Socialist Competition
By LENIN

Only now has the possibility
for wide and really mass display
Of enterprise, competition, and
bold initiative been created.
Every factory from which the
capitalist has been elected, or at
least put under restraint by real
workers control, every village
from which his land was con-
fiscated, Is now, and only now,
field in which the work.
ing man can reveal himself,
straighten his back and feel that
he is a man. Now, for the first
time, after centuries Of working
for Others, of subsection to ex-
ploiters, it has become possible
to work for oneself, and, more
over, to do work with the aid
of all the conquests of modern
technique and culture.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07
Wall Streets New Fortress
Against the Soviet Union

fore the Japanese Buddhist Pope"
Count Otani, appealed to the
American people" to unite with
Japan against the Soviet Union, it
shows that all the imperialist pow
ers feel this is their central point of
common action. There is a COM
mon brotherhood" of the exploit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07
The Five-Year Plan and
the Struggle fer Peace
BY v. M. MOLOTOy

We are conducting a consist
ent policy of peace. We shall
not only not give up our struggle
for peace, but shall continue it
all round. Our fight for the
Five-Year Plan is iIlseparably
bound up with the struggle for
peace.
The facts prove the correct
ness of the feminist policy Of the
Soviet Power. The correctness
Of the Bolshevist line finds its
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07

Prepare for the National
Hunger March to Washing
ton, Dec. Z. Fight for Un-
employment Insurance at
the complete expense Of the
bosses and their govern
rnent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07

fore; and 1t is also clear that 10
per cent Of what is produced in the
Soviet Union is NOT THE REASON
Tor the crisis Of capitalism all over
the Worldi
But the Five Year PIan DOES
menace the capitalists. But 1t men
aces them NOT through dumping"
but through SHOWING THE
WORKERS IN AMERICA the RE
SUITS OF SOCIALISM, and in
that way encouraging them to do as
the Russian workers did fourteen
years ago, by encouraging workers
to OVERTHROW CAPITALISM!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07

Billions spent in USSR on
Social Insurance. Billions
spent in capitalist America
on wars.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-03
NEW CHEMICAL PROCESS # TREATING 0RE MAY.BE.
 BOON ID KENAI MINES
DURANGO, Colo. Jan. 5, (AE

DURANGO, Colo Jan 3, fH1 -- A mill for the treanent ol.# #ofes
 which may mean a boom for tila mining industry in this section 0ia being erected here by P D.# #SuI- Ionon 65 Sons. The machinery lor the mill has been hauled to a NAn-
 eation and will be installed alis put in running order as soan az possible H. 0M# The chemical process forH tiia treatment of ores, perfected byHF C. Henley. a research mining eHl- gineer. Will he employed at.. tha mill. Detailed information on. tia
 process is being withheld by. Afr.
 Henley "|'
 The machinery being installed
 will treat a ton of ore in an|h0iE but if the process proves practical and profitable for the treatment of ores found in this district, otlIer units will be added and the min be
 expanded into a custom plant. ... Two carloads of ore have beeu
 shipped to Durango from the St.
 Paul mine in Cunningham Gulch.
 southeast of silverton, which is
 owned by ID. F. Solomon, # Lou
 Smith and James Lemming, and
 this ore will be used in making the test run at the new plant. This lore carries values in gold and Sill
 yer. 1t is claimed however, that 1 the process may De be used to ex-
 tract all kinds of metals. .| #0|
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-03

H. H. McCutcheon, new repre- elect of Anchorage to the Territorial Assembly and acting road master of the southern divi- sion of the Alaska Railroad came in on the rotary and departed again this morning. He has long been connected with the railroad and is now holding roadmaster duties in the absence of George Colwell- who IS away on a vacation in the states-
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-03
SUSPECT Us SOUGHT

ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan, 3,
 Police are seeking Charles Y- Abernathy, 28 year-old negro and the father of seven children. as the kidnapper of Adolphus Busch Orthwein, 13 year-old grandson of Augustus A. Busch, president of Anheuser Busch Inc. .
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-03
CELEBRATION DEATHS

SAN FRANCISCO Jan., 3-TTEHN- Twenty nine persons were killed and 100 injured and more .than 200 were jailed on various charg- es during the Pacific Coast. cell ebration of New Years adcordl- ing to figures compiled H.".
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-03
NEW MARINE WAYS

Johnny Sales has sublet a con- tract for delivery of piling for the construction of additional marine ways at Ketchikan. For some time there has been dearth of fishing boat repair facilities in Wrangell says the Wrangell Sentinel. ##H#
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-03

The walls 0f many buildings in Seward swayeyd for about MS seconds at 7.30 last evening when a quake smote this area.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-03

You will find many items you nave long wanted on the BAR GAIN TARtE at the Alaska Shop.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-03
SHE'S COMING

.HThe gallant ship the Northwest- ern.is steaming this way and may snuggle up to the city dock some time Tuesday according to local Alaska Steamship coTneRnv head- quarters she left Petersbulg at 5 otclock this morning narlADoUnd.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-03

Alaska Views at the Alaska Shop
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-11-13
v IF { ACCUSED
Of SHOOTING
Staff Photo

NEW MARKET, Va, Nov. 10.
Mrs. L. E. Walton, wife of a
prominent physician here, is in
the Shenandoah county jail at
Woodstock, charged with shoot
ing Frank Stricken, q, friend
OF her husband, Wednesday night.
Stricken IS in the Harrison.
burg, Va, hospital in a serious
condition.
DR.. and Mrs. Walton, according
to a statement made to Mayor
G. A. Wood, of New Market,
had been quarreling. Stricken,
he said, had tried to enact the
role Of peacemaker. A gallon
Of wine was found in his auto
mobile, which had been parked
near the Walton home.
The shooting, which took place
in the Walton home, was wit
messed by the couples four chill
dren.
Mrs. Walton is being held in
the Jail pending the outcome of
Strickler'S wounds. Should the
man die, she will be charged
with murder. it was stated. She
was arrested by Sheriff L. G..
Sheetz.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-11-13
KEY.
IN MURDER

CRYSTAL LAKE, ILL.,, Nov. 10
GN.S) Mystery today continued
to cloak the murder of a young
woman, identified as Mrs. Stan
ley Steinachowski, of Chicago,
whose dismerbered body was
found in a shallow grave filled
with quick lime.
The victim was identified by
her husbands sister by the
peculiar stitching on her cloth
ing. The murdered woman had
been missing since october 8.
Search for the motive for the
murder centered today in a short
hand letter found near the grave.
It's text is being deciphered.
Relatives told police they feared
she had been slain by gangSters.
Two weeks before she disap-
peared, the woman's husband
said, he traced her to a Chicago
speakeasy operated by a man
known only as "Steve." He had
the place raided, he said, and
soon after the speakeasy operator
telephoned. threatening the lives
of both of them.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-11-13
NIGHT RAIDERS
WHIP REDS

PONTIAC, Mich, Nov. 10 Il. N.
S).-Reluctantly police today be-
gan an Investigation pf the kid
mapping and horse-whippifg Of an
unknown number Of men and
women by a mob Of more than
40 armed and black-hooded night
riders. At least six persons, one
of them a woman, are believed to
have been flogged.
The only known offense of the
victims was their protestations
against being dubbed by police
when they Joined in a hunger
march of the jobless and destitute
several days ago.
One victim, Clarence Sherman,
declared his abductors wore long
black raincoatS, similar to those
worn by police here.
A fourth man kidnapped by
the mob talked his way to free
dom.
All of the known victims are
either members or SympathiZerS of
the Pontiac unemployed council,
which allegedly has Communistic
beliefs. It has figured in other
recent disorders involving the I'M
employed here.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-11-13
5 BANK BANDITS
GET $4,000

RAILWAY, N. j., Nov. 10
GN.SD Modern efficiency and
high speed methods marked the
robbery of the Citizens National
Bank here this morning by five
bandits, who scooped $81 900 out
of the vaults and escaped in a big
black sedan, speeding in the gen.
eral direction of New York.
Ten minutes after the robbery
general alarm was sweeping over
the country, sent by police tele-
type, radio, telephone and tele-
graph. And 10 minutes after that
the Federal reserve bank in New
York was rushing $4,000 in bills
and currency in an armored
motor car to the bank here, so
that it might meet the demands
Of the three heavy payrolls.
At 8:25 this morning the big
black car slid to the curb in front
of the bank. Four men debouched.
A fifth remained in his seat at
the wheel.
The four men sauntered toward
the entrance. At the door, one of
them halted. He had the whole
street under his gaze. The other
three entered the bank, got the
money and fled in the waiting car.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-11-13
CANADA AWAITS
TAX PARTY

MONTREAL, Nov. 10 U.N.SO.
Canada is preparing to give an
impressive welcome to the i'm
portant congressional party which
is to visit the Dominion during
the comming week at the invi-
tation Of William Randolph
Hearst, to study the operation
of the sales tax.
The Canadian government and
the government Of the Province
Of Quebec, with Sir Henry
Worth Thornton, head of the
Canadian National Railways,
have prepared a series Of en-
gagementS beginning Sunday,
when the legislators next will ar
rive in Montreal by special train.
These engagements will bring
the visitors into touch with the
leaders of Canadian official and
business life. No party from the
United States visiting Canada in
recent years has had such a re-
ception program planned for
them.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-11-13
BATTLE.
CHINESE
ANEW
League Sees Hope Of Another
"DaWeS Plan" to Solve
ManChurian "War"

Machine gun and artillery
fire was heard along the Man.
churian front today as Japan
csc and Chinese armies FLASHED
in battle.
Japanese. m ilitary head
quarters in Tokyo and Muk-
den charged the Chinese
troops of Gen. Ma Chan-Shan
had launched a concerted at
tack in an attempt to drive
the Japanese far South of the
Nonni River bridgehead.
Chinese dispatches, on the
other hand, claimed the Jap
aneSe had, launched an encircling
Continued on Page IS, Col. ~
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-11-13
. ORTHLESS
SECURITIES
DEPOSITED
Frederick, Md, Banker Says
Bonds Are Still There;
Gun Guard ASSailed .

Obligations repudiated by G.
Bryan Pitts, jailed executive
of the F. H. Smith Company,
were responsible for the fail
ure Of several banks in Mary
land, it was alleged today in
District Supreme Court by
Emory L. Coblentz, banker of
Frederick, Md.
Testimony by Mr.. Coblentz, Of
fered voluntarily at the trial of
the former Smith Company execu-
tive on a contempt citation, re-
vealed that two Washington at
torneys were present during a
conference at which the validity
of certain documents, on which
the government bases its con-
tempt citation, was raised.
Two Attorneys There
Mr.. Coblentz declared that
Frank @. Raichle and George D.
H0kning, jr., we're at Pitts Palm
Beach mansion during the confer
ence and that from time to time
they were present in the patio
where 1t was being held.
Mr.. Coblentz told the couEt:
"ObligatiOns that Pitts said
he would pay are lying up now
in that broken bank"
Mr.. Coblentz referred to the
suspended Central Trust Com.
pany of Maryland.
Gave Him $4,000
The Frederick banker declared
that Pitts and John H. Edwards
had given him $4,000 worth of
matured coupons and matured
bonds, to deposit in the Central
Trust Company upon his return
from Palm Beach.
Coblentz said Pitts checked
upon the account and that one of
the checks went to Wilton D. Lam
bert for services.
The bonds and coupons were
not Immediately available for. pay
ment, Coblentz claimed he found
upon his return, and he was
financially embarrassed" as a
result.
Tells of Deception"
Mr.. Coblentz also declared that
he had been told Edwards de-
ceived him regarding certain
transactions at the order of Pitts.
Claiming that newspaper ar
ticles published regarding protec-
tive measures used in transporting
Pitts would affect future trials of
the banker, Dozier DeVane, coun-
sci for Pitts, asked Justice F.. B.
Let's to investigate the source.
DeVane claims that they are
emanating from one source"
Would Go In Tax
The attorney declared that the
precautions were taken entirely
without foundation and that:
"YOu could put this man in
taxicab and send him back to
Jail and he would 60"
The precautions taken by the
marshalls office, which consist
of heavily-armed automobiles &C
companying the prison van IN
which Pitts is transported, were
brought about through receipt of
rumors that an attempt would
be made to free the banker.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-11-13
Senior Grand GiUen
Ria Wireless SendOff

ABOARD S. S. CONT E
CIR ANDE, At Sea, Nov. Is
G.NSJ-Dino Grandi, Italy'S
36-year-old foreign minister, ex-
pressed keen satisfaction today
over the scores of wireless mes
sageS received from all over the
world wishing him success in his
forthcoming conversations with
President Hoover in Washington.