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PORTO RICAN INDEPENDENCE

PORTO RICAN INDEPENDENCE
 SAN JUAN May 30. (P-Definite movement for Porto Rican inde- pendence was launched by the Union party as Governor Franklin Roosevelt flew to Washington for a conference with President HOO- yer.
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Work has been started on the Sur- veying of the Petersburg harbor to provide an estimate on which Con- gress may be able to determine the cost of improving the harbor and provided funds for same, says the Petersburg Press.
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AUDITORS OFFICE
 WAS NOT SCORED
 BY INVESTIGATORS
PRESS COMMENT INFERRING FAULT IN CONDUCT,
 IN ERROR

into Territorial offices and the report by the committee of it's 1 findings have resulted in press comment inferring fault was found by the lawmakers with the administration of the Territorial auditors office.
 1 There is nothing in the com mittee'S findings that reflects /! upon Cash Cole as Territorial Au- ditor. In fact, the report does not mention the auditors office, and any inference as to it's failure to cooperate with other public off, cials or as to it's incompetent administration is not warranted by any expression of the committee, and is quite untrue.
 The committee found that the system for the conduct of the busi- ness of the Territory had been built up in haphazard way. That is, as needs for offices arose they were created and the com- mittee concluded there had been at no time an effort at correlation of duties. It further ascertained that there had been considerable amount of friction among the diff ferent offices and it expressed the opinion that much of the friction Is directly traceable to the per- sonality of the several officials and to their attitude toward the problems that confront them. 1 The "haphazard way" in which the Territorial government was built up is illustrated by both the legal methods and the extra legal practices that were used to with draw funds from the treasury be- fore the creation of the auditors office.
 The first Territorial Legislature in 1913 created the office of treas urer. He was then appointed by the governor The treasurer was charged with the collection of tax es and the issuance of warrants. AS soon as this form of govern ment began to operate, the sus- ceptibillty to criticism of the cne- man jurisdiction (the governor dominated his appointee, the treasurer in handling of funds was apparent, and an arrange ment, quite outside the law, was at once made whereby the Terri torial secretary, who is named by the President of the United States, should be the officer to issue war rants upon the treasurer. This l system remained in operation until | May, 1929, or for a period Of 16 years
 In the meantime, the weakness ! and eXtra-legal character of the ! arrangement was recognized. Eff :, forts to correct it were made in l various Legislatures by attempt i, ing to pass bills creating the of- flee of auditor But it was not until 1929 that the office was au- thorized and established.
 During the 16 years when the Territory functioned without an auditor, all that was required to authorize withdrawal of funds from from the treasury, or, indeed, to create deficit, was approval of the head of the department for which the money was wanted. In consequence, the records show instances of expenditures of funds for which there was no authoriza- tion in law.
 When the auditors office was established, his duties were de- fined. Under them, he could not
 issue warrants unless they were
 for expenditures that were au-
 thorized by law and that were
 supported by proper vouchers.
 The exercise of his powers ran A L. ~
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The age of salmon can be told by the rings on it's scales.
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DEFEATS NEGRO

CHICAGO, May 29. P)-Buckv Lawless, welterweight, defeated Gorilla Jones, Akron Negro, in TO- round decision fight here.
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NOTICE

Beginning May l, tine price of Mems Half-soling will be reduced to SITS a pair.
 SEWARD LEATHER WORKS
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SCIENTIST RECEIVES DEGREE

SCIENTIST RECEIVES DECREE
 LONDON, May 30. (F-Dr. AL bert Einstein received the degree of Doctor of Science from Oxford University prior to his third and last lecture in the Rhodes memor- ial series.
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The best ice cream yet! Horiuek's Danish Ice Cream Candy Cottage. sese agent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
THE LENIN MEMORIAL

says. We began making our plans.
III February the workers barracks
and a brick factory we're started. The
brick factory was built in "A winter
days and it produces 10000 bricks a
3 ear BY May. in addition to the
brick factory and barracks for 1900
MARKERS. transportation facilities and
water supply were installed. Chen
the actual work Oh the plan. itself
was started q factory school was
built, q foundry and other depart
n,euG The foundry Viii produce
$500 tons OF PIC iron a year and We
expect to have it finished by Jam
uary. In December we will get our
first transport of machinery which
will cost 100000 rubles. Half of
This sum will be expended on ma
chinery of foreign manufacture, i'm
ported from Germany and the United
States, and half on machinery of
Soviet manufacture, made in Lenin-
grad.
THE entire plant will cost 10000,
COO rubles. 1t will produce $4,000
tractors a year-that means more
collec5iyiza ion of tarms-and will
employ 1902 workers. We eXpcc-
to have it finished by July l, 1891"
From the roof of one of the build
iugs we gazeI around us. The al
was filed with the ringing of ham
naers and the whirr of machinery.
Women were working side by side
with men. This mammoth under
taking was veritably leaping into life
and all in a little over a year.
But Tractorstroy will be much more
than huge factory. Workers apart
nentS are going up, each apartment
building with its own kitchens, laun-
dries, nurseries, and libraries. A
polyclinical hospital, movie theatre,
a cooperative restaurant that can
feed $4,000 a day-all will be part OF
Tractorstroy. Around this tractor
factory a new socialist city will grow
up which will eventually have a pop
I.ation of about 10000.
Part of the Five-Year Plan? mo"
said Mishkov with smile. 1.-THE
-t-.ols call this the bastard fac
tory because it was not born within
The legal Five-Year Plan. Tractor
3troy is an additional enterprise,
something the Soviet workers under
took to do because they are deter
mined to collectivize the land much
fucker than specified by the original
Five-Year Plan, and because they
want to give the imperialists-another
Kick in the pants!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
BY William z. Foster

In the production of its Labor and
Industry" series of books, published by
the International Publishing Co., OF
New York, the Labor Research AS
ISOLATION is doing a good and neces-
sary piece of work.
The books already cover the textile,
coal, lumber, silk, and automobile in
dustries. Others are to follow deal
ing with steel, transportation, etc.
The books are mine of informa-
ton on the origin and development
of the respective industries, the wages,
hours, and working conditions of the
workers, the employers organizations,
the progress of naturalization, and
the profits of the bosses,
A central feature of these books is
the trade union struggles of the work.
ers. Here most useful and valuable
material is at hand. The books con-
tain an ample record of the A. F. OF
L. unions, the reactionary policies of
their leaders, the struggles of the I.
w. W. in the lumber, textile, and
other industries. and the growth of
the T. U. U. l.. minorities and the
present T. U. q. l. revolutionary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
THE WOMEN
DRIVER

The town of Chuhloma used to be
symbol for savagery under the old
regime Whenever a fellow was at
loss how to turn on the electric
light he was asked, you have surely
Icome from Chuhioma."
. Natssha SUoganova came To Mos
COW with her brother in 1925 She
was IS years old and had been born
in Chuhloma. In the village she had
herded the COWS; in Moscow she be-
came a servant girl.
At first, she was a source of con-
slant surprise to ALL The friends of
her mistress used to come with the
special purpose of finding out if Ma
tasha had pulled off another new
feat. 1t took a long time to teach
her how to use the telephone; she
used to hold the receiver upside
down; whenever the radio broad
casted reports on the treatment of
cattle she used to enter into heated
argument with the invisible speaker,
md riC.culed him for his ignorance.
She was not able to count money,
and was utterly earnest in her as
serticn that Chuhloma was bigger
than Moscow.
The servant girls delegate in the
house where Natasha lived made her
take up reading and writing; and
introduced her to the trade union.
After a year Natasha went to
work in a mirror factory. She had
learned to read and to write, and
in the evenings, loved to study the
journal "Delegatka."
After two years I met her at the
demonstration on May First. A long
line of motor trucks was crawling by.
The trucks were full of noisy chill
dren. Natasha was sitting side by
side with the driver of the foremost
car. When she saw me she jumped
off She told me that she had mar
lied but had already parted with her
husbend as he would not allow her
to take up studies in the automobile
courses.
Have I been born to wash the
lines for menu" she cried angrily. ''To
hell with them"
In a year she will have graduated
and will be an expert car-driver.
"I'll work as a tractor driver in
the timber lots at home" she said
when she took leave. won't they
be surprised when I come home. The
engineer has arrived, they'll say. OF
the whole tribe I am the first who
knows how to read and write and
knows trade. Father will die from
Joy, and grand-dad will get angry as
"a bull. Won't I have laugh on
theml Geep
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
Charlie ChapIin's Parade" by
Michael Gold. Harceurt, Brace
and Company. $3.50.

Charlie ChapIin's Parade" by
Michael Gold. Harceurt Brace
and Company, $3.50.
By 81 GERSON.
When a big capitalist publishing
house prints a book written by a
well known, allegedly working class
writer, all honest workers can be JUS
titled for becoming suspicious. "Char-
! lie Chaplin's Parade" vindicates your
suspicious.
One opens the gorgeously frivolous
jacket of this book with question;
one closes it with an oath. And be-
tween the opening question and the
concluding oath one sandwiches in a
lot of groans.
The book itself is very poor mod
ern "Alice In onderland" A little
boy, Joe Adams, falls asleep and
dreams that Charlie Chaplin comes
to him They both organize a par
ade. going like respectable, law
abiding citizens to the Mayor to ask
for a permit. They have a gorgeous
parade and many adventures. Finally
Joe wakes up to find that it's all been
dream. Otto Soglow illustrates the
dream in his own inimitable fashion.
But when bread lines stretch them
selves for blocks, when wage cuts, lay
offs, speed-up are the order Of the
day; when the colonial countries are
in the midst of revolutionary strug-
giles; when barricades rise up in
Spain-when all this is so, how can
a so-called revolutionary writer sit
down to spin yarn for children, not
only devoid of proletarian class con-
tent but actually full of stupid (not
even subtle) master class propaganda.
Poor Mayor.
Listen to this (page AZ:
'Tts parades that make all the
work." the Mayor blubbered, waving
his hand towards the thousand
stenographers. IF It weren't for
parades we could all be having q
good time. But everyone keeps
wanting a parade, and parades
take IN so much time, and so much
space in the streets, and we have
to climb down SO many stairs for
every parade, and-and-"
1.-THE mayor was crying loudly
again, even much worse than Joe
Adams had cried when he wanted
parade. :"
Isn't this q beautiful picture Of a
Mayor in capitalist country? Isn't
this a beautiful, exact description Of
our butterfly Jimmy alker, who with
wave of his hand sent scores Of
thugs on the worker, Sam Nessin.
the leader Of the unemployed dem
onstration at City Hall2 All work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
By MYRA PAGE

WHAT are the bulk of the working
" masses in this country reading?
Get into any street car or subway
train in the industrial centers, or go
into working class homes in the Mid
die West, in New England or South
ern textile areas, or where sailors
hang out, and besides the local cap
italist sheet, you'll find-one or more
copies of Liberty" Golfers" Sat
urday Evening Post True Story"
"Argosy," or others of these flourish
ing weeds of S and 10 cent magazines.
Often one OF the sentimental, reac-
tionary womens magazines is also at
hand.
Where the Daily Worker and Ian
guage press is able to reach, optim-
istically speaking, perhaps 100000
readers, these dope-peddlers have a
combined circulation of well over fif-
teen million. True, not all of these
are from the industrial and farm
ing claSes-the white collar and stu
dent groups take their share-but
the bulk of them are workers.
Liberty" has paid circulation OF
over two and a quarter million each
week" True Story boasts the
largest newsstand sale in The world"
Saturday Evening Post" reaches be-
ycnd the two million mark, while the
Crowen publications, including col
Ners, American" and Country
Home" total more than eight and q
half million, and there are a host OF
others.
Pick up copy of any one of these
magazines at the newsstand. and
examine the type of propaganda
which is being fed the masses, under
the guise of love-" or adventure"
OF true" stories. America is the
great land of opportunity, where any
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
Book Reviews

gangster bands to make blood-baths
upon the tailors.
In New York in the pressers club
movement, Mazzini, Ellison and Sen
derowich were cut up and sent to the
hospital. In Rochester, the Hillman
gang attempted to murder Peter
Teen, the courageous leader of the
revolutionary tailors. The entire
Italian local in Rochester was de-
clared expelled. But Kirshbaum sees
only indifferent" masses outside of
himself. During the same period, the
revolving tailors exposed the role of
the Hillman machine as the most cor
rupted and grating union admins
tration in the country. The CRATER
gang of Harry Cohen in New York,
Kleinman in New Jersey and Harry
Tailor were exposed by the workers.
This greater clique was covered up
by the general office.
During the same period we had a
chance to learn of the oren partner
ship between the bosses and the
Amalgamated Union through the
loans made by the Amalgamated
Bank to thse bosses, and the workers
being forced to pay per cent and as
high as 10 per cent of their wages on
these loans, the company union there
by sharing i'm the exploitation of these
workers. The efficiency experts sent
in by the company union in an open
and brazen manner installed various
schemes to speed up the workers and
to squeeze more profits out Of them.
But of this Louis Kirshbaum sees
nothing and hears nothing.
He sees no one to appeal to but
the liberals and professors, which &C
cording to him, make up public opin-
ion. These very liberals and profess
sors are the henchmen of the Hill
man machine. They write for the
papers issued by the Hillman COM
pany union. They serve as "impar-
tial chairmen," they write poisonous
articles in the press of the company
union. To these people Kirshbaum
makes his appeal. He completely
fails to see the revolving masses, the
tens Of thousands of unemployed
throughout the country who are
thrown out as result of the betray-
ais of the company union. The tailors
must set UP united front with the
members Of the N. T. w. I. U. in the
shops for their immediate demands
and must Join and build the N. t.
w. /. u, which will lead them in
struggles for better conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
BY sAsCHA GAUDTNE.

A huge crowd Of workers huddle
together like sheep to keep warm. But
they are not sheep. Now and then
one can hear the growing of hun
CRY and angry men. The hulking
workers, bent by cold and hunger,
shuffled towards the sinking flop
house.
Say, Bill, where did you sleep
last night2 I bummed two bits from
a silk hat Harry-slept down on the
Bowery." "Where?" In that Wav-
erly joint. They called us heroes
yesterday and-now there's no jobs
buns today. We Topped in the old
night Mission, and I sat up and
scratched mesef all night long"
eff a war broke out tomorrow they
would find place for us to sleep
very quickly"
"You bet"
"say, the cook has no trouble to
change the menu"
ooh yeas"
"a man need not fear to gain
weight from the abundance of sugar
In the coffee"
eff a man makes a habit of get
ting his meals at the filthy Municipal
flop house he would~protect himself
against the dread disease Indigestion. '
"The authorities never give you
enough at any one time. 50 after all
Mr.. Warnings has certain interest
in our physical welfare and the Sal
walton Army looks after a spiritual
welfare so we have nothing to worry
about"
ooh sure! Oh sure"
'I have not seen you here for a
few days"
II have had coffee and doughnuts
so often from the church stems, I
have begun to think of heaven in
terms of bakeries"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
Heard on the Bread
Lines

A well-fed and growing cop swing
ing his law-and-order stick, roughly
dill cts the victims of capitalism
through the door. Move on, step on
the gas, quickly" through the door,
then a bowl of watery soup is poured
out to them from filthy can. For
a "desert" they get a cup of cold
black, tasteless coffee and a crumb Of
white bread-flop-house "coffee-and."
The workers black, unwashed hands
shine like metal They are chapped
and shriVelled and shake from the
cold In shabby coats, they are Jump
ing on their toes to keep warm.
Prayed and torn stockings are show
ing from their torn shoes. They gulp
down this meal and hurry out into
the chill city streets. A worker
plunges his hands into his pockets
and his huge fevered eyes rage at the
works of his hands, the mansions Of
the rich.
With sigh and then curse he
exclaimed. That's what I build for
Others" and then clinching his fist
and shaking it at the stony structure,
he cries, Wen make the robbers pay
for this"
While crossing the streets against
The flights" a RoIIs-Rovce almost
ran over him. Tho chauffeur stopped
short with a grating Of gears and
The bewi2dered worker beheId a fat
belued plutocvat smoking a big Ha-
vans, and blowing his contempJuous
smoke into the face of the depressed
universe.
This is the result of all my laborS,"
the jobless man thought to himself.
eve must put an end to this once and
forever" He went on and on until
WEAKNESS compelled him to seek rest
in a tenement hallway. He threw
himself down heavily on the teps,
groaned with misery and fell into a
comfortless sleep.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
New Books for Workers to Read

unions.
OF course, in such a mass of mater
ial there are numerous errors and
shortcomings But these are offset by
the informative value of the books.
Such detailed studies of the respective
industries have long been needed.
One good feature Of the books,
which must be noted is their reas-
enable price-$10O per volume. This
brings them within the reach of the
workers.
The Labor and Industry" series
can be profltably read by every work.
err They should receive a wide dis
ribution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
DIGGING FOR GOLD
BY QUIRT

ing class children will undoubtedly
recognize this likeness.
Some Questions To Mike Gold.
Such stuff is impermissible for a
supposedly proletarian writer. We
therefore take the liberty of asking
Mike couple of questions:
At a period of sharpening class
struggles when the working class is
striving to organize all its forces for
the battles, why do you spend time
on a book like this? Why, when the
Young Pioneers Of America are try
ing their hardest to organize work
ing class children's movement in this
country and need literature so badly,
did you not write a book for workers
children2 That is what many work.
ers want to know, Mike? What's the
answer?
(Reprinted from the Young Worker
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
Review by SOL HERTZ.

Review by SOL hEhIZ.
@Justice For Organized Workers." a
pamphlet by Louis Kirshbaum, with
endorsements and introductions by
Norman Thomas, Roger Baldwin, A.
J. Music, Professor Douglas, and ID.
Saposs.
7. KIRSHBAUM is a member OF the
l. Amalgamated Clothing Workers OF
America for the past 10 years. The
pamphlet is written as an appeal to
the public" against the wrongs done
to him by the Amalgamated Admin
istration. Kirshbaum, in all his naive
ness. insists on his right" to fight
against wage cuts and to demand his
full quota of unemployed insurance.
He was framed and declared ex-
PEELED from the organization by the
A. C. w. agents in Chicago, and the
decision was later sustained by the
general office.
There Is nothing new about that
Expulsions and determinations are
an everyday occurrence in the A. G.
W. What aroused interest was the
Endorsement and introduction OF the
socialists and liberals who are staunch
supporters Of the Hillman machine.
"Justice for Organized Workers" Is
Q brilliant exposure of the maneuvers
Of the company union. 1t skaters to
pieces the fake democracy built up by
Hillman and it throws a powerful
pearchlight on the hook-up of the
bosses and the company union agents
through the unemployed Insurance
Fund" but Kirshbarm draws con-
illusions which even boss could
Eign his name to, and therefore such
q pamphlet aroused enthusiasm on
the part of the socialists and liberals.
The author exposes the role of the
Hillman agents in continuously re-
ducing the wages of the workers. He
then follows this up with his exper-
fence In fighting for unemployment
insurance since 1t was due him, &C
cording to the official rules and regu-
Iations. mo tailor receives real in
suance, he gets dues stamps and the
funds remain In the Golfers of the
company union.) His experience once
more proves that getting insurance to
which one is entitled is merely a
legend. The impartial committee"
Harvesting the fund are mainly
agents of the Eillman machine. Doc
tor Squires, the then impartial chair
man of the Chicago market, also
proves to be mere agent Of the
machine, making decisions for the
machine agents, and if they do not
approve certain decision, he changes
1t accordingly.
Louis Kirshbaum wrote his booklet
curing q continuous revolt on the
part Of the clothing workers against
the company unionization of the A.
g. W. Of A. In this struggle the Of
Ncialdom expelled hundreds of men,
bers from New York, Chicago, Roch-
ester, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Mon
treal and Toronto. They hired
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
"My Country IT'S
Of Thee"
BY w. r.


Unemployed millions -.
Questing along the highways
For a job
Or meal
Or a Jail :.
Eddying thru Manhattan's can
yonS
Lashed by hunger
And Tammany's police
Looking into the cold hearth
OF a dead furnace
At Pittsburgh
Gazing wistfulIy at the idle tipple
OF a Rockefeller mine ..
Surging against the gates
OF Henry's empire
OF Misunderstanding machines
Until from club and hose they
learn
That Henry isn't in the market
For wage-slaves
Today.
Hoover reporting to the '59
And their Iieutenants that
"The standard of living is o. X"
While Calvin prattIes
A nitwit thought day.
The medicine mem
From the agents
Of tho hiv ont NJ R0rtoa
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
Lenin Pageant

The pageant to be given at the
Lenin Memorial Meeting is a very
colorful and gigantic spectacle.
All the available forces in the
movement have been modified for
this production The pageant
portrays development Of the len
mist party and theory from Tire
1903 split to, anu including, the
Five-Year Plan.