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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-18
The Revolutionary Unions in the Pittsburgh District

bership-the Section Committees and the units
have not sufficiently translated into practice, the
line of the Party, that the Party must consider
the union work its most important field of work,
must build itself through the work in the unions
and the unemployed work
b. The work is not coordinated enough in the
Party committees. Party members who are
union organizers still not working enough
through the Section Committees and units, not
taking up sufficiently on their order of business
the tasks of the unions
C. Not enough planned work. The Section
Committee of the Party, the units, fractions,
should plan systematized work more from week
to week. helping the union fractions to Sys-
tematize anc better organize their work and also
to give more day to day political guidance,
However the main danger in Party union re-
lations at the present time is the underestima-
ton on the part of the Party membership of the
role of the Party. For example, in the Central
Pennsylvania Section, where the union has some
$500 members there are only so or 60 members
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-18

Beg Your Pardon
d. JORoR

From Cleveland we are informed that the
Ohio District of the Labor Sports Union us az
present under charge Of girl and objects to
wearing long pants Please make the correcLg 81
tom.
F1nel We won't insist on pants, long or short
under the circumstances. Further we are glad
10 hear that in Ohio the L.S.U is demanding
Tree Use OF the public schools and sport facilities
1or young workers, and trying to organize sportsS
for the unemployed. 15l 5leGo4g1 81 .
Still more, Cleveland will be the scene on Dec
25 rs and 81 of the National Conference OF the5g
Labor Sports Union and the painless Districts
f2c1s-8ly " GIIts cJ5lyDody who Qualities under
the term of "fat-chested skeptics of the partvse
TO wake up to the use OF sports in the reyoIu-
tionary movement And she's right, by gurnl
Oh, yes, and New Workers. who want to eniov
soccer games and help the Labor Sports Union
TO finance its National Conference, should HE
themselves by the Broadway trains on the Sew
enth Ave. line to Dycklnah ST., then two blocks
north to the Dyckman Oval next Sunday. Dec
70 where from II am. to late afternoon Sports
Carnival will be put on with six prize soccer
teams matched. Go any hour and stay all day
II you like. 1t costs only rs cents
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-18
BY CARL PRICE.


THE fact that in the Pittsburgh District great
deal OF mass work is being carried on, that
many new problems are being faced practically
in this district that many difficulties, due to the
problems Of growth are encountered in the work
in the revolutionary unions, makes it necessary
for the entire Party to study the work of the
unions in this district.
/. Party and Union Relations.
The District Bureau of the Pittsburgh District
has discussed at some length the question Of
Party union relations and is issuing document
giving the line Of the Party on this question. The
work Of the Party in the National Miners Union
and the Metal Workers Industrial League has
shown that the work Of the Party in the unions
has faced serious shortcomings and difficulties,
especially with regard to coordination of the
work. The main problems are:
a. The Party has not sufficiently been mob
ilzed for the building Of the unions. The Party
is as yet still too loose In its organization, due
to the newness Of the Party The Party MEM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-18
The Socialist Leaders Are Ready
to Support Hitler

Anew YORK.-Herr H1tler leader OF the German
fascists, in a letter dated Dec IS, to Brue-
ming head Of the German government, denies
that the fascists are bandits but that they seek
TO rebuild German capitalism even by more
drastic DEGREES than Bruening issued. 1.-THE
ton does not care how bulky the emergency de-
crees are how long time it took to work them
out" so long as capitalism is preserved said Hit
ler
The 40-pagc letter was a rehaSh OF Hitler's
usual demagogic speeches. The most peculiar
feature of the letter was Hitler's appeal to dem
ocracy' to carry out his fascist program of
bloody dictatorship. BY this means he hopes to
win more of the masses behind his party. Hit
Ter said the whole program Of the Bruening
government was an "illusion" He beat the war
drums against France, failing to mention the
fact that behind the scenes he sent emissaries
to French Imperialism for united front against
the revolutionary working class
For Attack On Communists
At the very beginning of his letter Hitler ap-
peals to Bruening TO make a Joint attack against
the millions Of Communists" planning the over
throw of German capitalism. Nowhere in his
letter does Hitler say word against the social
lists but he threatens q nlurderous attack by
his gunner against the Communists. Hitler
points out that Germany is "a nation para
lived by revolutionary convulston," and that q
strong fascist dictatorship is necessary in an at
tempt to save German capitalism from THE fate
1T Russia"
Hitler O. K;s Macdonald.
Hitler approTingly points to Remsay MacDcn-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-18

sooner see them In power today than tomor-
row."
In other words, the social democratic leaders
are preparing the path for federation OF
Hitler should Hitler and his friends agree to
snare power, say, with Bruening, in the first
stage OF their entry into the government.
Whether Hitler would be prepared to tolerate
the social democrats after having dropped Brre-
ming overheard Is a horse OF different color.
The 'Rote Fahne') writes referring to the
'vorwaerts" article, that in case Of q Brlentng-
Hitler coalition German capitalism will not cease
to utilize the assistance rendered by the social
democracy. For time 1t might even maintain
itself with the assistance OF both Hitler and the
social democrats. The development of the social
democratic leaders from federation" OF Hitler
TO open renegacy would in all probability pro-
eeed more quickly IN Germany than had been
the eass h Itals-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-18
The Status of Women in the Soviet
Union and in America

industries there is no less than 100000 OF them,
but this does not mean freedom to them. On
the contrary they remain slaves to the kitchen,
the washtub and the scrubbing brush, and in
addition become slaves to the boss. Going into
the factory for woman in America means doing
two days work in one.
A typical example of the slave conditions Of
working women in America Is to be found in
the textile industry of Passaic NJ j. Women in
those mills are now working u hours a day and
when they get through with that they have
their housework accumulated waiting for them.
This is not the worst In the same center
women are working nights and when they get
home in the morning they have to prepare
breakfast for their husbands who work day time
they also have to wash, dress and feed the
children and send them to school, 1t will be
8 or 10 o'clock before they can try to rest, but
at that hour the street noise makes it impos-
sible. At three o'clock the children come back
from school hungry and then she also must
start to prepare supper and get ready to go
back to work again. During the weekend they
do the heavy washing.
Besides all this, and especially during this
period of unemployment in many women
are compelled to give their body to the boss or
foreman in order to keep their jobs. Numerous
cases OF this kind we're found and exposed dur
ing the PaSsaic textile strike OF 1926 The writer
was present at a meeting OF striking dressmakers
in New York City and heard young girl relate
the following:
Our boss changes the whole crew almost every
week. If among the old workers he sees pretty
girl he gives her a break. He wants her to stay
In order to take advantage OF her. 1t is hard
as hell to work in that place and remain decent"
This is the life of working women in the Amer
lean factories; two days of work in one, slavery
and degradation of all descriptions. The Ne
groes and the foreign-born women are the ones
that suffer most of this double exploitation and
slavery and all this they do in competition with
the men because the bosses have not drawn the
women into industries for the purpose of eman-
cipating them, but to make them take the place
OF men for less pay The bosses find in women
and young workers source of cheap labor to
throw 1t into competition with men and thereby
cut the wages of the entire working class.
Here in the Soviet Union the revolution has
done away with this competition. Women do
not take the place of men for less pay and as
result OF 1t men do not resent nor resist the
coming of women into the skilled posts OF in
dustry and public life Furthermore tile Soviet
Government has created the institutions neces-
sary to free the women from the drudgery of
hcawewoek entirely.
h Hcusv<t hsrs ~ hesre dcre n taotnetes on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-18
BY TOM BARTER

GOING I'D and down the streets Of Moscow,
u Kharkhov, Leningrad or any other city OF
the Soviet Union, one is Immediately impressed
by the fact that the status of the women here
Is much different than what it is in the United
States Of America or any other capitalist country,
This Is evident not from the way they dress,
because women as well as men in the Soviet
Union do not dress in style yet but it is evi-
dent from the things they do.
If you pass by building under construction
you see women laying bricks pastering walls
and handling electric wires. II you 60 into one
Of the machine shops you see women running
lathes, planers milling machines etc., not as
helpers but as full-tledged mechanics. If you
mount trolley car or a motor bus the one that
you find them working on every one of the
skilled Jobs which In America we are used to
think that only men can do.
Not only In industries do you find women
occupying key positions, but also in politics.
You find them in some Of the most important
posts Of the government and the Communist
Party in the administration Of the Corpora
ttves and the Trade Unions; you also find women
In every branch OF the Red Army, not as pri-
vate secretaries and stenographers, as is the
case In America and In the rest OF the capitalist
countries, but as leaders OF departments.
In the Soviet Union the historical slave Of the
kitchen and the washtub has become free In
dividual. Free and equal to man In every &C.
tiNty Of life, not as competitor as 1t is in the
capitalist countries but as comrade in the
struggle to build Socialism, to build better fu-
ture for all.
Sure enough in America women also work in
The Washington times., 1931-11-26
RA|NEY CLAIMS
1850 VOTES

With the expected arrival here
tomorrow of Representative John
j. O'Connor, of New York, who
will take personal charge of his
campaign, the fight over the
Democratic leadership of the next
House between Mr.. O'Connor and
Representative Henry T. Rainey,
of Illinois, will approach its
climax.
Early next week most members
of the New England and New
York Democratic delegations are
due back and their arrival will
make possible a check-up and a
prediction as to the action of the
party caucus to be held Decem-
ber 5.
Meanwhile the Rainey forces
today claimed 16O votes, out of
21S, for the veteran Illinois mem
Der, but the O'Connor supporters
replied that they had received
encouraging news"
Withdrawal of the several
Southern candidates for the lead
ership, it was learned, was brought
about by conferences initiated by
Representative John Garner OF
Texas. whom the Democrats will
elect Speaker.
The Washington times., 1931-11-26
DARROW COMES
HERE SOON

Clarence Darrow will come to
Washington the first week in De-
cember to address the final seS-
sion of the non-partisan confer.
ence called by Representative
Oscar De Priest for December 2,
3 and 4.
Mr.. Darrow will speak before a
closed session of the conference
Judge E. w. Henry, of the Phila-
delphia Municipal Court, will pre-
side.
The first session of the confer.
ence will open at 9 o'clock the
morning of December 2. Repre-
sentative De Priest will make the
opening address. He will be fol-
lowed on the three-day program
by a group of speakers from every
section of the country.
The conference will be held at
the Metropolitan Baptist Church,
between Twelfth and Thirteenth
Streets Northwest; the Metropoli-
tan A. M. E. Church, M Street be-
tween Fifteenth and Sixteenth
Streets Northwest, and at the
John Wesley Church, Fourteenth
and Corcoran Streets Northwest.
The Washington times., 1931-11-26
Hunger Stalks Coal Field,
Girl Reporter Finds

The bitter hunger and threat
of starvation that daily faces
families of coal miners near HGr-
Ian, KY, is exposed today By. Miss
Margaret Lane, star feature tOriter
for the London Express, Dho
made a tour through the coal
fields for International NetpS Ser.
Dice. This is the third of Miss
Lanes stories on actual condi-
ttonS in the coal fields.
BY MARGARET LANE
NEW YORK, Nov 26 GN.SO.
Trudging through the dust and
stones of Black Mountain I
caught sight of a couple Of
ragged, barefoot youngsters lying
in a patch of sun, on the front
porch of a shack. They looked
at me inquisitively through their
tangled hair like a couple of pup
pies, and wanted to take a
picture of them.
Afraid of Camera
had unfolded my pocket
camera and was trying to coax
the youngest child out of a
paralysed shyness that made her
hide her face against the boards
when their mother darted out on
to the porch and picked up the
baby in a hurry. I asked if I
The Washington times., 1931-11-26
GIFT COERCION
|RKS SENATOR

Further conferences of the Dis
trict Commissioners with depart
ment heads will be held tomorrow
because of the statement issued
by Senator James Couzens (R0
Michigan, that District and Fed
eral employees are being "intimid-
ated" into making contributions
to organized charity.
After preliminary conferences
yesterday, Commissioner :Reichel-
derfer said that the purported at
titude of Sanitary Engineer j. B.
Gordon was "unwarranted" and
this would be made plain at to-
morrow's meeting with depart
ment heads.
Senator Couzens' statement de-
nounced as Outrageous" state
ment attributed to Mr.. Gordon
that Officially" the contributions
sought from District employees
were to be voluntary but that "un-
officially" those refusing to give
tc the charity campaign would
be marked men,"
This so aroused the Michigan
Senator that he threatened Sen
atorisl INQUIRY and invited Gov
eminent clerks in the executive
departments and at the District
Building to write him if attempts
have been made to coerce them
into making charity contributions.
The Washington times., 1931-11-26
Older Says Camera Proves
Tom Mooney Innocent

With the spotlight of internG-
tional interest on Tom Mooney as
q result of a ViSit to San Fran
cisco By Mayor James J. Walker,
of NeD York, to intercede in the
prisoners behalf, International
NeWS Seruice has presented a Sc
rtes of articles on "The Mooney
Case" By Fremont Older, San
Francisco editor.
In the first four articles Mr..
Older related the history OF the
case and the developments which
caused him to believe so strongly
that Mooney UGs innocent. He
concludes today his summation of
the case.
BY FREMONT OLDER
Written for and Copyright by
International News Service
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 26
The Washington times., 1931-11-26

Q.N.SO. With OXman'S testi-
mony out of the way and the
Edeau women discredited, the
prosecution has no one to lean
upon but the disputable McDon-
aid.
Even if he hadn't confessed un-
der oath that he lied in the trials
of both Mooney and Billings, his
evidence would still be invalidated
and worthless.
A Casual Photograph
It was rendered so by a casual
photograph taken by man
named Wade Hamilton. Hamii-
ton was employed in the Eilers
Building, located on Market
Street, a mile away from the ex-
plosion. While strolling along the
(COntinued on Page II, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1931-11-26
NAVY LEAGUERS
STRIKE BACK

President Hoover and the Navy
League today were right back
where they started in their wordy
battle over Administration treat
men of the American Navy and
its future welfare.
Choosing Thanksgiving Day as
an auspicious moment for further
attack the Navy League issued
another pamphlet reaccusing Mr..
Hoover of stunting the Navy's
treaty growth. In so doing, the
leaguers passed the lie right back
to the Presidents personally Sc
lected commission which had ex-
onerated him of the original
charges.
It was apparent, further, that
the big navy" organization was
only sniping in this latest state
ment of the controversy. A full
rejoinder" to Mr.. Hoover and his
commission will be forthcoming
shortly, the pamphlet declared.
The Washington times., 1931-11-26
APPEAL To Be
H|GHL|CHT OF
HEARING
Frank Walsh, Veteran Labor
Lawyer, to Speak First at
Proceedings Tuesday

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 26
IN.S. ).-Three famous law
yers, one of them Mayor
James j. Walker of New
York, will make the plea for
a pardon for Tom Mooney, the
imprisoned labor leader, when
the widely publicized hearing
before Gov. James Rolph, jr.,
of California and his five ad-
visers is staged here next
Tuesday. y
The other two assisting Walker
are Frank P. Walsh, veteran labor
lawyer, who has been chief coun-
sci for Mooney for years, and
Aaron Sapiro, former San Fran
ciscan and now noted New York
attorney.
Walsh To Outline Case
Walker, one of Americas scintil-
lating extemporaneous public
speakers, will supply the drama.
lilo JACd WILL UC Vic l1lSIIA4SIAO Va
the proceedings.
Walsh, first to speak. will give
a historical outline of the case and
will talk for about two hours.
Then Walker will speak for an
hour or so. Sapiro will conclude
with a 30-minute summation.
Mooney, the principal character
in the great legal drama, will play
a silent role. He will not attend
the hearing. He will remain in
his cell in San Quentin prison,
where he is serving a life sentence
on conviction for his alleged par
ticipation in the Preparedness
Day bombing in San Francisco in
1916, when 10 persons were killed
and 40 injured.
The hearing will be public.
To See Football Game
Mayor Walker planned to have
Thanksgiving Day dinner with
members of his party in his hotel.
He attended a theater perform
arce last night, retiring immedi-
ately afterward. He will attend q
football game here this afternoon
between st. Mary's and the Uni.
versity of Oregon.
Governor Rolph wants Mayor
Walker to pay a visit to Sacra-
mento, the State capital, and the
mayor has promised to do so.
The Washington times., 1931-11-26
DRUNKS THRIVE
ON WOODP|LE

Washington's municipal wood
pile may prove a boon to the
jobless, but it also is proving a
problem to police.
For, it seems, many of the job
less suffer more from thirst than
hunger and the wages earned on
the wood-lot, combined with pres
ent low prices Of contraband
beverages, make it easy to satisfy
that desire.
AS one policeman put it:
"Some Of those birds go down
there and work q couple Of
hours. They make rs cents an
hour. The so cents they earn
will buy enough liquor to make
them plenty drunk and then
they get locked up and get their
meals anyway"
The suggestion has been made
that. instead of paying cash for
wood-lot work. the authorities
issue tickets in payment, each
ticket to entitle the holder to a
meal and a nights lodging. In
this way, police point out. obtain
ing liquor would be made less
easy. and the relief would really
go to those needing 1t.
The Washington times., 1931-11-26
GRAND|S FEAST.
On TURKEY

NEW YORK, Nov. 26 G.N.S0.
Crisply Drowned roast turkey with
cranberry sauce topped off with
pumpkin pie will be set before
Singnor Dino Grandi, Italian for
eign minister, and his wife when
they sit down today for their
first American Thanksgiving Day
dinner.
They will be the guests of John
w. Garrett, Ambassador to Italy.
The noted visitors expected to
visit many points of interest in
the city which they had not man
aged to take in on previous days.
Grandi was especially eager to
see the new George washington
Memorial Bridge.
The Washington times., 1931-11-26
SCHOOL OPENED
FOR PRIESTS

Catholic University's new semi
nary for ecclesiastical students
preparing for ordination to priest
hood yesterday initiated its reli-
gious function with the celebra.
ton of benediction in Divinity
Hall on the university campus.
The Rt. Rev. Mgr. James H.
Ryan, rector of the university, was
celebrant at the ceremony, which
fell on the feast day of st. Cath
crime, patronesS of philosophy.
He was assisted by the Very
Rev. Francis Augustine Walsh,
regent of the seminary, as deacon,
and the Rev. DR.. Howard Steps
ton, as subdeacon. The Rev. DR..
Edward G. Rocker was master of
ceremonies.
Approval of the seminary as an
organization separate from the
graduate school of arts and
sciences was granted this month
by the board of trustees of Cath
olic University. Until the institu-
ton of the new unit, ecclesiastical
students had been provided for
by the graduate school.
The Washington times., 1931-11-26
4 KNOWN DEAD.
. 1000 OTHERS
IN PERIL
Temperature Goes to IL Be-
low As Blizzard Sweeps
New Mexico Highlands

GALLUP, N. NJ, Nov. &c
QN.S.).-A third rescue party
today joined the fight against
waist-deep snow and narrow
mountain trails to bring
Thanksgiving succor to more
than a thousand snowbound
Navajo and Zuni Indians on
the mesas forming the Cont
mental Divide, 70 miles south
of Gallup.
More than a third of the In
d1ans have found their way to
shelter at Atarque, center of the
distress area, or at the Zuni
agency, 30 miles north.
Four Deaths Already
Four deaths have already re-
suited from the blizzard. A fam
lily Of three was found frozen to
death by a party of horsemen on
their way to Atarque. The other
death was that Of Zuna man
found frozen a short distance
from his village.
More than 300 Indians, mostly
men, have drifted into zuni.
Many of these we're men who
left their families while they
drove in to obtain food for their
starving ponies in order that the
animals might have strength to
bring in the wagons with the
wcmen and children. In the
meantime the women and chill.
dren were left to shift for them
selves in the open or at best be-
meath wagon covers or brush
shelters.
Atarque, normally a village of
IS families and a trading post,
has swollen to boom proportions
following the storm. Jacob
Barth, Arizona State highway
commissioner, who returned home
late last night after being snow
bound at a ranch near Atarque
since Saturday, estimated that
500 Indians have gathered there.
Horses Die of Hunger
The Indians there have NUT
ton to eat from nearby sheep
ranches, but their horses are
dropping on the road from star
vation. Every spear of hay or
grain has been used.
Barth and United States Dep
uty Marshal Dan Padilla, of AL
buquerque, were objects of a
search by three posses yesterday.
Bitter cold prevailed at the
Zuni village today, a tempera-
ture of IL degrees below zero be-
ing registered in a shelterd can
Won during the night.
The Washington times., 1931-11-26
Schools to Give
Bazaar for JObLeSS

Fifty-six nations will be repre-
sented in the Third International
Bazaar to be held by the Ameri-
canization School Association in
the Americanization School, Tenth
and H SITS. N. w. December 1, 2
and 3. Proceeds will be used to
extend educational work of the as
sociation, and to combat unem
ployment.