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complaining that the absence of freedom of
the press in Soviet Russia deprived the Rus
sian masses from choosing their reading mat
ter, the Soviets were making almost super
human efforts in teaching these masses how
to read.
In 1928 already 87.2 per cent of all children
from to II years of age were provided with
schools. The Red Army was turned into one
big elementary school which taught not only
how to defend the revolution, but also how to
understand and to build it. Every step for
ward which was made by the Soviets was ac-
companied by efforts to make the next step
easier, to develop new administrators, new
technicians, new instructors.
Contrary to all previous ruling classes the
working class as the ruler is interested in the
education of the masses. All previous ruling
classes based their education on the science of
oppression and exploitation. The education
provided by the proletarian rulers of the So
Wet Union is based on the science of ending
oppression and exploitation; it is the embodi-
ment of the science of revolution, of socialism.
This revolutionary content of the tremen-
dous educational efforts of the Soviets is an
other crime charged against them. To fill
millions of workers children with the trash
that they must be satisfied with their lot of
shaving for capitalist profits because capital
ism in return supplies one out of every 20 mil
lion of them with the theoretical chance to be-
come president some day is called free edll-
cation4 But to teach the workers children the
science of the conditions and the materials of
building better world-that is called misus-
ing science in the interest of class.
In spite of all opposition the Soviet Union
OrOppp6c with tbo If Il
tural elevation of the masses on the basis of
MarXism-L eninism. This science has led the
Russian masses in their struggle for freedom
from capitalist exploitation 1t is guiding
them in the building of socialism. It teaches
them the basis and conditions of social life and
thereby enables them to change their slavery
to into mastery over the social forces
The cultural revolution taking place in the
Soviet Union is freeing the masses rapidly
from the remaining mental shackles of CAPT
talisn1, just as the political revolution has freed
them from the political shackles and the eco
nomic revolution is freeing them from the eco
nomic shackles of capitalism.
Under the influence of the cultural revolu-
ton the Russian masses are breaking away
from the influence of the darkest force of op-
preston, religion. Religion is an insidious
poison. This poison has been and is being ad-
mlnlstered to the masses by all forces of ex-
pIoltatlon and oppression the world over. The
purpose of the poison of religion is to take
the minds of the oppressed and exploited off
the. material world. Religious poison draws
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-20
By MAX BEDACHT.

TX. The Cultural Advance of the SOviets
The. revolutionary advance of the Russian
workers to the position of the ruling class
created colossal tasks for them. The supposed
high culture of the ruling landed aristocracy
in C5arist Russia only emphasized the bitter
antagonism Of czarism to mass culture. The
white spots of the Culture of the ruling
classes only brought into sharper relief the
utter darkness in the cultural life of the Rus
sian masses. Under Czarism less than % per
cent of the entire rural population could read.
In the cities 40 per cent of the population were
illiterate. Illiteracy gripped 64.5 per cent of
the. entire population of Czarist Russia But
even these fearful figures cannot give COM
pete picture of the problems which the cul-
Gural revolution Of the Soviets must solve.
Capitalism developed within feudalism So
cialism cannot develop within capitalism. The
economic organization of capitalism developed
even Before the capitalists were the ruling
class. The capitalist revolution did not have
to establish capitalist economy. 1t merely
hadato establish the political conditions for it's
further expansion. The nucleus of the admin
iStratfve and technical staff needed by CAPT
talisn for the further expansion of its eco
nomic system had been trained in the capitalist
industrial and commercial relations and trans
actions. existing and developing under feud-
alisn1,.
The workers do not have such favorable con-
dtiQns, for their revolution. The economic
system which the workers. revolution must
establish is not a further development Of the
oldsicapitalist system but complete replace
metric Of it. The task of the proletarian revo-
luton is not further to develop the capitalist
world; its task is to build new world This
newoworld must be built with the materials
provided by the old capitalist world.
The most important of these materials is
the working class itself. Out of this material
the proletarian revolution must build its gov
erlfmeat from this material it must man it's
new economic structure, its administrative
apparatus; from this material it must recruit
It's eadres of educators.
TheAeapitalist cadres of these categories can
be used by the proletafian revolution only to
very limited degree. The cadres of admin
istrators, technicians, educators, etc, taken
overofiJ I'M the capitalist order are dominated
by a Bourgeois theology Capitalist way of
thinlIh2). For them the taking of power by
the, Russian workers was an intolerable pre-
sumption. They were antagonistic to the
prclatarian revolution. They fought it. In
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and money for the striking miners
They will arrive in Detroit, June 10
and speak at section relief confer
ences there Saturday. Monday they
will be at a relief conference in
Cleveland.
Scherer stated when he began his
tour:
'The crucial need for relief for
the miners struggle against starv-
alton has not been felt by the rev.
olutionary workers. Relief is need
ed today-the strikers cannot go on
starving and at the same time con-
tinue their heroic battle against
the coal operators and their gun
men. The strikers have no food
for their children, babies have gone
unfed and we must sound the
alarm. In such a situation there
is serious danger for the strike.
Strikers and their wives and chill
dren are canvassing the mining
camps but there Is little to be had.
The steel workers and railroad
workers are themselves close to
starvation even if they have work.
But half are unemployed. So in
the area close to the striking mines
very little food can be had.
But relief funds and food can
be gotten from the workers in the
larger cities. Our collection must
be immediate. Miners are coming
with trucks to our relief head
quarters for food and we do not
have provisions to give them. But
we must not and we will not turn
them back emptyhanded. We must
pack those trucks full and encour-
age and help these fighting min
ers and comrades of ours. Show
your solidarity today!
"The takers of the United Mine
Workers are opening up saloons to
dope the strikers with poison moon
shine to demoralize the fighting
spirit. We will answer the U. M.
w. A. saloons with relief kitchens
of the Pennsylvania Ohio Striking
Miners Relief Committee.
To-day counts-delay is danger
ous-food and funds for relief to
Gil Penn Ave-, Room COL, Pitts
burgh, Pa.
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MINERS PREP ARE
stES-te
HUNGER MARCH
i FOR JUNE 80
~ -r-
More Miners Join the
/, - Strike
CONTINUED rmom PAGE ONE,

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONEl
Pittsburgh, Allegheny and surround
ing counties, into the steel and coal
capital of the world These thou
sands will demand cash relief for
unemployed and strikers alike, food
for children, milk for babies, no evic-
tons, etc.
The march was decided upon by
the Central Rank and File Strike
Committee, 800 members from all the
mine strike area, meeting here We'd
nesday. The march will take place
June, 80.
There will probably be two other
marches either shortly before or just
after the Pittsburgh march. These
will. be. in Fayette County, on the
county seat at Uniontown and in
Westnoreland County, on the coun-
ty seat. at Greensburg Both these
counties, are full of jobless miners.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, June 18.-Tne
steel. workers are moving to the aid
of the striking miners. and are be-
ginning to organize also for their
own cause. A conference of steel
workers and mine strikers, both en-
ployed and unemployed workers, has
been called by the Central Rank
and. File Strike Committee of the
National Miners Union, and the Me-
tai Workers Industrial League of the
TUUbs.'to meet in Pittsburgh at
Irene kaufman Hall, 2035 Center
St, ats p. M, Saturday, June 90.
Each miner member of the strike
committee is spreading the word
among the rest of the strikers that
each is to agitate for the support
of the, conference among the nearby
steel workers. Many of the steel
towns are literally surrounded by coal
miness55sc
The conference will work out plans
for organization of relief in the steel
towns for the striking miners, for
other aid, particularly in hunger
marches and will plan drive to or
ganise the steel workers to put up a
fight for their own demands.
There are continual reports of
wage. cuts and lay offs among the
steel workers
PITTSBURGH, Pa, June 1s. - A
committee of striking miners is tour
ing the middle west with Marcel
Scherer. national secretary of the
Workers International Relief to or
a'u,ize collections OF food. clothing
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of life in the land of plenty. While
working we often went to work hun
cry. The unemployed, denied unem-
ployment insurance or any relief
worthy the name, are in a desperate
condition. Our strike is struggle
against this impossible and intoller-
able misery.
Now comes Judge Rowand with
his injunction. This judge, himself
supplied with all the necessities and
luXuries of life, callously and auto
cratically issues this restraining Or
ded, aimed to deprive us of the right
to strike, of the right to fight to
protect our interests so that the en-
ployers may reap still bigger profits
Judge Rowand, like other autocrats,
thinks that at the beck and call of
the coal operators, he can off hand
sentence the miners to starvation.
But we refuse to starve. We de-
mand the right to live. We demand
food for our children and for our
families. We demand the right to
strike, to picket, to assemble, and
we will exercise these rights.
This injunction comes in the train
of series of attacks by the state
and. county. authorities. upon the
miners, including the flooding of the
strike area with state police. dep
uty sheriffs, etc, the wholesale evic-
ton Of strikers, Governor Pinchot's
refusal to have a public investigation
of conditions in the coal industry,
his attempt to force the miners back
into the rike-breaking U. M. w. A.,
in spite of the fact that 98 per cent
of the strikers are members of the
National. Miners Union. Even as
Judge Rowand directs his attrocious
injunction against us, Governor Pin
chot, with an eye on the United
States presidential nomination, is
telling the world what a reign of
justice and liberty exists in the strike
zone of Western Pennsylvania. The
whole working class in the Pittsburgh
district will protest this outrageous
injunction.
THE miners do not agree with
Judge Rowands ukase that. we be
driven back TO work or 10 starve.
On the contrary, we insist upon our
gifts to strike in support of the
demands we have submitted to the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-20
LID Mass Trial for
Unempl0yd Worker

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. June 49,
A mass workers trial "Luesse VS.. the
Capitalist State will be held at the
Workers Center, 9321a S. Meridian
st. on Sunday, June 20, at $50 in
the afternoon. The trial is called by
the International Labor Defense
against the falling of Theo. Luesse,
young leader of the Indiana unem-
ployed and to demand his immediate
release. The audience will be the
jury, and witnesses will be tlnem-
ployed chain gang workers, evicted
workers and workers in the factories.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-20
Irish Republicans
in Demonstration
Roumanian Workers.
Peasant Bloc Man
dates Robbed

LONDON-A huge demonstration
of Irish Republicans assembled yes
terday evening outside of the Mount
Joy Prison in Dublin in support of
the hunger strike of the political
prisoners. The demonstration was
followed with meeting in the cen
ter of the city, and a Prisoners De-
Tense League was organized.
Police charged the demonstration
and over twenty persons we're in
jured and sent to the hospital with
head wounds. The police threw a
Gordon around the prison. The crowd
attacked the police Gordon using
chairs as weapons Several police
were injured and many persons were
arrested.
BUCHAREST. - T h e Roumanian
parliament annulled five mandates
of the Workers and Peasants Bloc
on technical reasons. Great workers
demonstrations yesterday evening
protested against the mandate rob-
berry. A large police force finally sue
ceeded in dispensing the demonstra-
lions.
Socialists voted for the annullment
of the workers mandates which is
now distributed amongst other par
ties, the socialists receiving one as a
reward Of their treachery.
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GOVERNOR PINCHOT ADMITS HE
Is TRYING TO BREAK MINE STRIKE

strike.
"The United Mine Workers, of
America have not even handful
Of members among the strikers at
the Terminal Mines.
1--WE here by give motive we will
not abide by any agreement nego-
tiated by the United Mine Workers
and the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal
Co.
Eve condemn the action of Gov
ernor Pinchot in arranging the
strike breaking conference. He is
working hand-in-gIove with the
coal operators and their tools, the
United Mine Workers of America
officials. to break our strike and
drive us back to work under slave
like conditions.
Governor Pinchot Is an enemy
Of the workers, a tool of the big
coal and railroad interests of the
state"
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MASS PICKETING
TO SMASH THE
INJUNCTION
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONEI

the combined group to go in a body,
travelling all night Wednesday night,
to Harrisburg. There they will walk
into the conference between 1nterna-
tional Vice President Murray of the
United Mine Workers of America,
President Purseglove of the Pitts
burgh Terminal, and Governor Pin
chot, and tell the assembled takers
that they can not make an agree
ment to settle the strike in the COM
pany's mines through the United
Mine Workers.
Meanwhile, it was voted, there will
be mass picketing of all the Pitts
burgh Terminal Mines Thursday, to
back up the delegation.
Frank Borich, National Secretary
OF the National Miners Union will
head the joint delegation, and act
as spokesman.
The resolution on the injunction is
as follows:
Resolutions of the District Committee
Judge H. H. Rowand on Common
Pleas Court has just issued an in
junction restraining the striking coal
miners from picketing, assembling, or
urging workers to strike at the Wild
wood Mine of the Butler Consolidated
Coal Co. This injunction, which in
substance attempts to deny the right
to strike, is declared by the Pitts
burgh daily press of June 16 to be
zone of the most drasticf and far
reaching of any labor controversy
in the history of Western Pennsyl-
vania.
Judge Rowand's injunction is a
direct and deliberate attempt to
break our strike. Its issuance shows
Judge Rowand to be a tool of the
coal operators in their efforts to
force the miners deeper than ever
into the morass of poverty and des-
titution. 1t is also an effort to check
the rising wave of unrest and of
struggle among the steel workers, and
workers generally in the Pittsburgh
area.
Our strike is a strike against
starvation. Thousands and thousands
of miners have had no work for a
year or more. Those who had Jobs
are working only part time and get
ting wages Of not more than one
third of formerly. Consequently, act
ual famine conditions stalk through
out the coal fields. Our children are
being stunted in their growth TO
wart of proper food. Our familie
lack the most elementary necessitie.
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vigorously denounced in a wire of
protest sent by the International
Labor Defense, Southern District, to
Chief of Police H. c. Blakemore. The
telegram declares:
I'VE protest the lynching of
Thomas Jasper and demand an
immediate and thorough investi-
cation with speedy trial and
execution of his murderers. Po-
lice officers and deputies respon-
sible for leaving the Jail I'M
guarded, are equally guilty. Co.
operation of police and Iynchers
clear. Excuses published in the
press are ridiculous"
The Southern District of the L. L.
D. has arranged in Huntsville a wide
distribution of leaflets exposing the
murder of this Negro worker, and
calling upon white and Negro work.
ers and poor farmers to organize
defense groups to combat lynching.
Thomas Jasper was openly
lynched," the leaflet reads. "The
nine boys framed up at Scottsboro,
Alabama, and being raiiroaded to
the electric chair were given the
forms of a trial. But it was the
same thing. The raiIroading at
Scottsboro is legal lynching.
Lynching can be stopped by an or
ganized fight. The International
Labor Defense is mobiIizing thou
sands of workers to fight the lynch
verdict against the nine innocent
Negro boys sentenced to death at
Scottsboro. Negro and white work
ers! Join these struggles of the
l. L. D."
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GERMAN MINERS
GREET STRIKERS
Berlin W.I.R. Pledges
Strike Support

The miners and Workers Interna-
tional Relief of the Ruhr District,
Germany, joined in cabling a mes
sage of pro1etarian solidarity to the
striking miners of Pennsylvania
Ohio, as follows:
The Miners, Conference of the
Schachtenlage. and the Ruhr Dis
trict send warm revolutionary
greetings to the Pennsylvania
Ohio miners and wish them the
greatest success in their struggle.
The miners of the Ruhr district
are preparing their own struggle
against wage-cuts and starvation
program Of the Hunger Dictator
ship. Long live the struggles of all
miners against the. muderous mine
capitalists Long live the solidar-
ity of the whole working class!
(Signed( Council of Miners and
WIR., Ruhr District, Germany.
The w. l. r. of. Berlin has cabled
greetings to the. miners, urging the
suppore Of the N. NJ. U. and w. I. r.:
The Central Committee of the
WI.R. sends greetings of flaming
solidarity to the striking Pennsyl-
vania-Ohio miners. The German
workers, struggling against the,
wage-cut offensive against the
Young Plan and against unemploy-
ment, appeal to the working class
of America to support the National
Miners Union and the Workers
International Relief in their pres
ent struggle.
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4 of Largest Districts Drop
Badly in Daily Worker DriVe

Workers who do not wish their
names published because of pos
Sihle persecution should indicate
this in sending In their cOntribu-
tiOns. Collectors should ask those
who contribute whether they want
their names printed.
Receipts Wednesday were little
improved, but not enough. A total
Of S9O5.3O came in, but this is still
below the $1,000 a day needed to
save the Daily. District New
York; contributed the greater part
of this-S535,30, while most of the
other districts except 10 California;
fell down badly. District 10 con-
tributed more than it has in any
to New York Keep it up, California,
you have n long way to go,
Districts buffalo and tMinne-
sota) woke up a bit, with S4S.25 and
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1925, respectively. but 9 especially
should be doing much better and
has raised only q small part of it's
$1,000 quota. Districts (Chicago),
(Detroit), 3 {Philadelphia) and s
third, fourth and fifth largest quotas
seem to have gone to sleep entirely.
These four districts on Wednesday
contributed a total of S96.25. Is it
any wonder that the Daily is in such
a critical condition.
District u ISeattle) was not heard
from at all Ditto for II CAgricuI-
turaD. Is (South), II Birmingham
and 19 (Denver), which seem to be
making a habit of IT.
More action from all the districts
Get after those subscribers, canvass
your friends, shopmates and organ
izations! Keep the Daily Worker
going till the Tag Days, June 2G, -
and PSI =-5==--s
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St. Paul Daily
Worker Readers
Meet SUNDAY


MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, June 10
A meeting of the st. Paul readers of
the Daily Worker for the purpose of
organizing a Daily Worker Club will
be held Sunday at 10 am. at the
Workers Center, 303 Jackson. Sun
day evening meeting of the Twin
Cities Daily Worker agents will be
held in the Trade Union Unity
League Hall, 1241a S. Fourth ST.,
Minneapolis.
A meeting of the Minneapolis
readers will be held Monday night
in the T. U. U. L. Hall. E. Levin,
manager of the Daily Worker, will
speak at all three meetings.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,


plan their scab activity. The gov
ernor conferred with. Samuel Purs-
glove, president of the Terminal
Coal Co.; Horace F. Baker, legal ad-
wiser for the company, and Phillip
Murray, international vice-president,
and Pagan of the United Mine
Workers.
Bosses, Governor, UNIV Unite.
From the statement of the gov
ernor it is clear that the company,
the governor and the UNIV. are in
perfect agreement and are going to
do all they can to ram the scab
agreement down the miners threats.
Aresolution passed by the miners
who sent the delegation to Harris
burg, repudiating the U. M. W., said,
in part:
I'VE denounce this conference as
an organized effort to break our
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Workers Correspondence is the
backbone of the revolutionary press.
Build your press by writing for it
about your day to day struggles.
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operators and the state government.
The miners will continue to picket
the mine of tile Butler Consolidated
Coal Co. at wildwood, even as other
mines in the Strike area. We are
fighting against starvation and TO-
the right to live"
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Use your Red Shock Troop List
every day On your job. The worker
next to you will help save the Daily
Worker.
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Note: Comrade Bedacht's articles will be pub
lished as cent pamphlet they
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new
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DISTRICT

J. Weiner,
Beaver Falls, POs 100
WOInem's Club of
AmbridEe 1900
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DEER LADY DETAINED;
 WORE MANLY ANTLERs

WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 2. (P)- Now it looks like the females of the animal world are on the top and up toward achieving equal rights, comments bulletin of the American Game Association.
 The deer hunting season in Pennsylvania this fall, from Dec ember 1 to Is, will be the first time since does were first placed on a pedestal in 1906, that both sexes have been hunted in the same season. It iA reported that the does So thoroughly took ad- vantage of sports.nanlike protec- tion, that they have not only far outnumbered the bucks but are clearing the range of food.
 And out in California members of the division of fish and game have captured the first female deer so far known to have been taken alive while wearing regal adornment of masculine antlers. She is being detained
Seward daily gateway., 1931-11-03
POLITICAL INFLUENCE"

NEW YORK, Nov, 2, P)-Col. E. c. Darlington, Republican can- didate for Borough president of Manhatten, provided a sensation at the Hofstadter Legislative in veStigation committees graft in quiry, by testifying that the steamship company he heads, had employed the law firm of G. w. Olvany, recent leader in Tam many Hall in connection with prior condemnation proceedings because of political "influence".
Seward daily gateway., 1931-11-03

Dan Krupatic, of Anchorage, who entered the Seward hospital last week with bad knee, is reported to be improving. Mir. Krupatic is war veteran.