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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-06
REPORT ADVANCE
OF COLLECTIVES
IN SOVIET UNION
Yakovlev Contra SITS
Conditions In US

MOSCOW.-Comrade Yakovlsv, tho
Peoples CommisSar for Agriculture,
reported to the VI Soviet CONGRESS
concerning the development OF the
collective agricultural movement. He
pointed out that the Soviet Union
was well on the way to becoming the
most progressive agricultural country
in the world. At the BEGINNING of
March 1881, nine million peasant
farms were organized in the coilec-
i've movement with a total of 80
million adult peasants. The area un-
der seed in the collectives was SIS mil
lion hectares as compared with A3
million hectares in 1929. In this spring
LOO tractor and agricultural ma
chinery stations would be operating
as compared with 15s last year. By
the end of the year 1,4Oo tractor and
agricultural machinery stations would
be in operation, In 1880 the collec-
tive farms sold three and a half times
as much grain to the government as
did the kulaks in l926-1927, and one
and half times as much as the rich
landowners put on the market before
the revolution.
Yakovlev stressed the necessity OF
adopting the method of payment by
results in the collective farms, instead
OF per head, The kulaks were max
ing propaganda against the method
OF payment by results The exper-
fence. of the best collective farms
showed that the method of payment
by results was the best way of Or
gantzing collective labor. In this way
the peasants were given an interest
in the results of their work.
Yakovlev declared that at present
two methods of forming agricultural
large scale undertakings existed. The
capitalist method in operation in the
United States and the socialist method
in operation in the Soviet Union. The
American method led to the running
of thousands of small farmers, to tn,
increase of the span between the
prices Of industrial commodities and
those Of agricultural commodities, and
to slowing down of the growth Of
the area under seed. The capitalist
crisis hit agriculture particularly
hard. The socialist method of form
ing large-scale agricultural under
takings with the consent and partici-
patton of millions of peasants, abol-
ished the misery of small-scale pro-
duction, destroyed dependence on the
rich farmers and abolished the latter
as a class. The socialist method was
the development of the agricultural
collective movement and the develon-
ment of the soviet farms with the
greatest possible development of sg-
ricultural INFLAMMATION. The fact
that the collective and soviet farms
would till half the area under seed in
the Soviet Union this spring showed
that the collective agricultural move
ment would solve the most diflcult
problem facing the Soviet power.
The delegates who took part in the
following discussion confirmed the
statements of comrade Yakoylev. The
theses were unanimously adopted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-06
Powers, Oregon Workers Are All In Debt

United States Of America. But job
fear seems to have them. After I
talk 70 them and give them a paper
or two, they act like they are
afraid Of me. The old Powers Co.
at one time carried ON . very Sc
we're blacklist against the I. W. W.,
and I think the job-fear is still q
hangover.
But i feel it will not be long until,
thanks to you comrades at the
front, we workers will all be drawn
into the struggle, and will put in
use whatever ability we have for
the real constructive work of build
ing the Workers State of the
World. F. Z. M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-06
UNITE in MAY |
DEMONSTRATION
I y u L Issues Call to
All Workers
tooNrINuEp FROM PAGE ONE,

born workers.
Against this program of mass
starvation and oppression we must
fight resolutely. May LIST presents a
great opportunity to rally our forces
for a mass demonstration against the
exploiterS and to lay the organized
basis for sustained struggle. We call
upon every section of the TUUL ma
tional unions, employed councils, local
trade union unity councils, shop
committees minority groups in the A.
F. of L., etc, to Immediately take up
the question of modifying all their
forces for the May Day demonstra-
ton, Join in local united front
movements with the Communist
Party and other revolutionary organ
izations. Draw in the A. F. of L.
unions, the workers fraternal socie-
ties, the unorganized, and the unem-
ployed masses.
Form May LIST committees in all
possible localities and factories. Util-
ize these to mobilize the workers
everywhere. Make it real mass
demonstration. Wherever possible
transform the May LIST committees
into shop committees and develop the
May list demonstrations into strikes
against wage cuts and in defense of
the workers interests generally. The
demonstration must be built around
the concrete demands OF the workers
May Day is the international strug-
gle day of the working class, This
year, in the midst of the great capt.
talst crisis, the rising revolutionary
wave in Europe, in China, in India,
etc. and the tremendous Socialist
construction in the Soviet Union, it
takes on a higher significance than
ever. AL over the world, millions of
workers will demonstrate against
mass starvation, against the capitalist
system, for defense of the Soviet
Union. Let the American working
class, in greater masses than ever
before in its history join militantly
inthe world demonstration on May
LIST,
Workers; Rally for a monster DEM
onStration. Fight for unemployment
insurance and immediate relief. Or
ganize and strike against wage cuts
and speed-up. Smash the stagger
plan OF Hoover and the A. F. of L.
Defend the foreign born workers.
Death to the lynchers of Negroes. De-
mand the release of all political pris-
oners, Defeat the fascist program of
the Fish Committee. Defend the
Soviet Union, Organize the Unem-
ployed Councils. Build the Reyolu-
tionary Unions. Don't starYe, fight!
Down tools and demonstrate on May
LIST. Fight for the right to organize,
strike, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-06
DISTRICT
INDEFENSlBLE CUTS
MAR THEIR RECORD

District s, Chicago has fallen down
considerably in carrying on the prop
er kind of activity in the Daily
Worker campaign. This can be seen
from the fact that a number of cuts
have taken place which were not
later filled with increases. The Red
Builders News Club, for instance, re-
duced its orders from 500 daily to
400, is in disorganized state, and
has sent no reports on its activities
since the beginning of February. Just
now, the South Side Workers Center
cut its bundle from SO down to Is
daily. In addition, in the Indianap-
oils section we find a bundle of so
stopped altogether, as well as an
other bundle of 100.
The Chicago comrades evidently
are not putting much effort into
getting the DAILY" sold in working
class neighborhoods by building up
steady routes through thorough
house-to- house canyassing; they
have allowed the Red Builders News
Club, which until February thrived
and increased its membership from
8 to ID, to disintegrate, failing to re-
cover the cut, or part of the cut of
100 in their bundle orders, thus los
ing an opportunity to build up street
corner sales and make contacts with
hundreds of workers and in addition,
the Indianapolis section of District 8
has suffered two bundle stops to-
falling $50 daily.
This cutting is no way to build up
circulation, to pay bills. or to gain
the prestige and support of workers
to our paper. The leading function
aries in Chicago should emphasize
systematic day-to-day sales to the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-06
Workers Rally to
kasSay Defense

CLEVELAND, April Sat a meet
ing of the Hungarian Beneficial So
ciety, the worker members unani-
mously decided to assist the Interna-
tional Labor Defense in its mass cam
paign to free Paul Kassay, Hun
garian worker framed by the govern
ment on the fake charge Of sabotag-
ing the work OH the navy dirigible
Akron"
The meeting was addressed by
Jennie Cooper, district organizer OF
the lid who exposed the frame-up
charges as one Of the numerous at
tacks on foreign-born workers aris-
ing out Of the adoption by the gov
eminent, without action by Con-
gres, Of the vicious plans Of the in
famous Fish Committee to Jail and
deport all militant workers as part
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-06
POLICE SHOOT
NEGRO WORKER
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,


show they we're doing something to
stop the robbery.
Picking up two Negro workers in
Greenwood. which is a part of East
Birmingham, two carloads OF dicks
brought them to DAVIS house, look
Ing for another Negro worker whom
the two had seized said lived there.
Seeing Dawes approaching the house
with his hands full of packages, the
cops hoped out with a double bar
relied shot gun and called TO him to
put up his hands. Dawes immedi-
ately complied, but because he had
meal in his right hand it took q
little longer for him to get the hand
in the air, The cops Immediately
opened fire on him.
After they shot him they asked his
name and found he wasn't the one
they were looking for. The bosses
papers omitted any report of the
shooting, The workers in the section
are all aroused over this murderous
attack upon defenseless Negro
worker, who Is now crippled for life.
The Communist Party and the
League Of Struggle for Negro Rights
are issuing leaflets and rallying the
workers-Negro and white--to protest
against these bloody attacks and to
organize together to prevent them in
the future.
The two organizations are calling
upon the workers to demonstrate on
May Day against prosecutions of the
Negroes, against starvation, wage cuts
and impcrialist preparation for war.
and for the right OF -deternina-
ton for the Negro majorities in the
South, for immediate relief aud un.
ezuployMspt insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-06
Salt Lake City Red Cross Refuses Aid to
Veteran
Veteran
Salt Lake City. Utah.

Salt Lake City. Utah.
Daily W gker:
wish to tell the workers what
tactics the Red Gross, Community
Chest and Salvation Army are using
to bleed the average worker. When
the legal pan-handlers go out. they
tell the butchers and grocers to send
all destitutes to the Salvation Army
to be taken care Of Here is what
they did to me;
have been wintering in Califor-
mia, and have met with an accident
in which ] tore the iieaments out Of
my left shoulder. started east to-
wards DETROIT, Mich. In Salt Lake
City I was snowbound, and I got
sick. went to the County hospital.
Refuse Vet Aid
After being discharged, was adj
vised by the nurse to go to the Red
Cross. ! did. The Red Cross asked
me II was war veteran. l said
yes. She asked If we're married,
and I said no. The nurse said she
was sorry, but could do nothing for
me. She said the Community Chest
has appropriated funds to the Sal
walton army to take care Of case
Of this kind.
Forced TO Work
The Red Cross nurse gave me a
note to the Salvation army, saying,
Anything you can do for this man
will be appreciated At the Saliva
ton army ! got warm reception.
felt like I was being arrested, for
they did everything but take my
hnger-prints. Finally I was intro
duced to . pile Of logs to saw. I
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-06
,utting Down on Relief All Around in Detroit

% and 20. One of his cossacks was
watching some of us workers when
we were putting UP stickers oppos-
ing the death penalty bill. When
he saw me put one up, he grabbed
me and gave lecture on my not
being allowed to put them on private
property, etc.
Welfare and relief is being cut in
Detroit. At the same time there are
wage cuts by which the bosses are
trying to get the employed workers
on the same Starvation system as
the unemployed. Unemployed, join
the Unemployed Councils and fight
against the slow starvation.
AN Unemployed Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-06

jersey City, N. J.
Mr.. Matthew Vol came to Jersey
City March rs to attack the "un-
democratic" Soviet Government at
the same time he gave me a lesson
in his own American democracy.
When I came to the place of the
meeting n man at the door asked
me my name and address and where
I work. When I went upstairs an
other man told me that cannot
come in. I told him that the first
fellow said it was o. X.
He made me answer the same
questions again and at last / was
let in 1t seems that Mr.. Wolf was
sure OF his own crowd of old men
and women that did not know much
ahcut the subject he spoke. He
could tell them what he liked. but
he was afraid some stranger might
come I'm and find out that he Is not
falling tina truth and he did not want
TO take any chances.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-06

asked the adjutant general of the
army to call the hospital, as was
in no shape to work At this he
started preaching to me, telling me
! wouldn't work If had so jobs, that
I was a hoodlum, etc. ] was in no
shape to be bawled out, so was soon
shown the door.
The hotter they can make it for
the worker, the more money they can
panhandle. That's the tactics they
use to subscribe,
4 Worker.
P, S.-The dictionary says q hood
lum is California rough meek, but
I am a native Of Michigan, q neigh
Dor of Edsel Ford, and have a good
working record at the River Rouge
Plant.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-06

Detroit, Mich.
Editor Daily Worker:
In Detroit we have a wonderful
mayor, by the name of Murphy.
When he was wanting to get elected,
he said he would see that there is
work for everybody. But all he has
done is TO get number of lousy
flop houses and rotten soup lines,
all the time putting a good front to
make the people think they have a
wonderful mayor.
His cossacks arrested three COM
rades from the Greek Workers Hall
for distributing leaflets for our mass
Meeting Saturday and Sunday, Mar.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-06
Demand for Relief
Grows In Harrisburg


HARRISBURG, Pa.--The number
of applicants for help in Harrisburg in
cludes new faces every day. the sec.
rotary of the United Charities ad
mits. Harrisburg papers publish
appeal for work for two girls, scvcv
teen and sixteen years of age. TIL,
family of sixteen members cam
support them any longer
The Salvation army and Unit
Charities report that they are una
to take care OF the demands for hr
Very few garments have been dona
to school children asking for the
A small amount Of coal donated by
company was speadily exhausted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-06

the men and approaches them in
dividually, asking them if they were
not satisfied with their jobs and pay
The men, naturally, knowing how
impossible it is to get another job
answered they we're.
Then he turns around and fires
the superintendent, evidently be-
cause he did not consider the inter-
ests of the owners in squeezing as
much profit as possible from the
toll and sweat of the workers.
It's too bad that workers here are
helpless, due to lack of fighting class
organization. S, B.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-06
Perth Amboy Thing Co
Fires Third of Workers

PERTH AMBoY, N. j., April s.
The American Encaustic Thing Co,
used to employ 200 workers. Now
there are between I25 and l4o work.
ing. Wages used to be from Al to
so cents On hour. Now the men get
Is cents an hour, The girls get $l2
to SIS a week, and work and o
hours a day. Three girls used To
work on one press. The company
put In nav machinery which eltni-
mated two xtrh from sash uaashiae,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-06
Powers, Oregon.

Powers, Oregon.
Dear Courades:
Powers b Q small place Of about
100 families and the lumber camp
here isn't running. The workers
that remain here are all in debt.
The workers nj Camp 8, which is
partly running, took up . collee-
ton to feed some Of the workers
hero at Powers I hand out my
Daily Workers and have been
very open in talking TO the men
while working ut Camp 8.
The workers are learning the
truth in regard TO Russia and the
white coIlared bandits here In the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-06

AVL Vic oOluGlOil Ol uIlelllplOyHleIlJ
through public works!
$l2 For Married Men.
The National Biscuit Co. has a
print shop here, now working four
days. Sometime ago the superinten-
dent was fired for daring believe that
married men ought to have more
than $l2 a week. One of the big
shots from headquarters happened
here and this superintendent, think
ing that this is the chance, hastens
to tell him that many men are get
ting $12 and that they have been
asking him for an increase.
The big shot then goes around to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-06
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE

the city construction work because of
a wage cut put through by the school
board, the union officials betrayed
these strikers by branding their
struggle 'un-official"
The unemployed councils call the
strikers and all workers to force
resembling of this wage cut, and de-
clares solidarity with the strikers.
The unemployed council calls for
another demonstration May l, against
mass starvation and against wage
cuts.
Crisis Brings More set. B."
r.. Senator Wagner Of New York,
speaking over Columbia Broadcast
ing Systems radio network Saturday
admitted in passing that unemploy-
ment is biting into the lives of the
rising generation of young workers
by a great increase OF tuberculosis,
the disastrous effects of which will
be felt in years TO come, The capt.
tahst press prints little about Wag-
ner's admissions that unemployment
is the cause for this great increase
in the white Plague" and gives full
attention to the merely medical and
palliative side of his talk. The speech
was made for the National Tuber-
culoSis Association.
WASHINGTON, D. c., April s.
Secretary of Labor Doak, speaking
Saturday over the Columbia Radio
Broadcasting System in the forum
of the Washington Star. declared his
office was doing everything possible
for unemployment, and praised the
veto of the Wagner bill. This bill
for national job agencies, coupled
with some aspects of a weak and in
effective insurance, is the only thing
actually proposed so far in the Ma
tional Congress by a congressman,
except for the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill, to which the
boss legislators would not even lis
ten. This latter bill was drawn
up and endorsed through numerous
meetings of jobless and employed
workers, to the number of over o mil
lion, When elected delegates of
these jobless came to offer their bill
to Congress, the police force met
them and threatened them with ey-
cry weapon in the arsenal, and Con-
gress absolutely refused to even con-
slider the bill Doak did not mention
the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill
And poak took advantage of the
radio hook-up to publish one of the
most brazen aud stupid lies that has
come, even out Of Washington. Mr..
Doak said;
While there is great unemploy-
ment in the country today, and
great numbers Of people working
short time, there is not as much
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-06
BOSSES TO PROFIT
IN WAR ON USSR
Call for War to Smash
Workers Republic
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,
with more profits in sight, - and
against the Soviet Union, as we'll as
their imperialist rivals.
The Herald Tribune april 81 re-
prints an article from the London
Times showing that this war is me
cessary" against the U. S. S. r. and
starts TO stir up the necessary pro-
pagands. They follow the line of the
vicious chauvinistic novel 1.-THE Red
Napoleon. They say that the Sow
let youth is being drilled for world
conquest, for the day when the
great last fight must begin for the
overthrow of the governments and
institutions of Britain, Germany,
France and other countries"
To arouse further indignation and
show that war must be declared they
go on to state:
IF the warlike utterances of
Bolshevist leaders be regarded as
the result Of habit rather than con-
vietion. and therefore not to be
taken at their face value. they arc
interpreted literally by the masses
OF komsomoI and the younger
members Of the Communist party.
They, at least, are preparing for
war, and they are coming more
and more into posts of influence.
Their mania has been conceptrat-
cd ON the five-ysar plan, but they
are told and they believe that this
plan is merely the prelude 10 war.
the great war for world revolution,
the war in which Budenny has
publicly promised his cavalry that
their horses shall drink the wat
ers Of the Thames"
This d designated. of course, to
show why war must be started i'm
mediately to crush the Soviet Union.
The slogan would be defend civil
cation, and the labor party together
with all social fascists would be in
the front ranks Of this war now be-
ing prepared BY the imperialists the
World over against tbe advance OF
ocialism in the Soviet Union. AT
re same time. as the facts Of the
s. Steel Corporation show. profits
at least so per cent would be
lie during the slaughter.
mash the war danger! Mobilize
May Day to rally for the Defense
the Soviet Union!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-06

>''fSANN'N@tND"
sixty individuals who compose the
leadership of this party are the rich
est in the country, in direct co-op-
Grafton with the various imperialist
forces.
The other party calls itself the
Apristas, composed of the petty
bourgeois army officers. They are
attempting to utilize the masses to
establish their fascist rule. Thus far
they have had a little success, due to
the heroic efforts of the Communist
Party of Peru.
The Civihstas managed to win
over the famous Col. Sanchez Cerro,
who led the revolt which overthrow
the Lequia regime. Sanchez Cerro
received ample support from British
imperialism in overthrowing the pro-
Wall Street Leguia regime, Cerro
formerly belonged TO the Apristas.
1t was the coercive rule of Cerro
against which the garrison Of South
Perry revolted, siding with the Apris-
tas and demanding that Sanchez
Cerro resign. Cerro answered by
calling out his two faithful regi-
ments, commanded by his close
friend, General Jimenez, and COM
menced a distribution of arms to
the civilians of Lima, who favored
his rule. But this last measure did
not please the go leaders Of the Civil
liStas.
In this situation, the Communist
Party of Peru issued leaflet to the
working masses, the soldiers and ma
rines, exposing the Cerro regime and
the Civilistas. This alarmed the big
bosses, so they prepared coup
d'etat, hoping to kill two birds with
one stone-they wanted to prevent
the armed masses from "upsetting
the political situation" as one cap
italist newspaper termed it; and on
the other hand they wanted to DEM
oralize the Southern rebels.
Using the Peruvian fleet they
prevented the departure of troops
after embarkation. They kept Gen
eral Jimenez prisoner on board his
troopship and took the presidential
palace. They sent Sanchez Cerro to
the best hotel in town. To make it
look real, they demanded that JIM
enez surrender his armed forces.
But this he refused, and, when they
thought that the situation was we'll
in hand, they permitted the general
to disembark and to take the palace
over again from the temporary gov
ernment.
That very day all the capitalist
forces met--the Cerro forces, the
Jimenez forces and the 60 capital
list rulers of Peru. They agreed that
Cerro was a worthy servant of the
native capitalists and the foreign i'm
perialists and should be sent to Eu-
rope with a fat commission to buy
arms, to get acquainted with Euro
pean culture and to play roulette at
Monte Carlo. They are preparing
for an election" and are united in
their struggle against the masses.
The Communist Party of Peru has
suffered heavily. due to these events
More than 200 members are in jail
They are made to work without food,
A mass campaign is being conducted
demanding the release of the polit-
ical prisoners. About 20 militant
workers were shot in the uprising
which took place in the factories,
the sugar refineries and on the large
plantations.