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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-27
Tables ShoW Slight Gain
in Circulation Of "Daily"

of them are being paid for regularly,
also a distinct gain over pre-driye
figures.
In order to tighten up our APP
paratus. each activist in the drive
must take upon himself the personal
responsibility for 10 or more sub
scriptions. He must visit worker
subscribers regularly, getting their
reactions to the paper and making
regular reports to the Daily Worker,
Every party member must be as
signed a definite number Of sub
scribers to visit monthly. The value
of personal contacts in our drive
cannot be underestimated!
We must go after each worker, each
reader whose subscription is about to
expire, or whose sub has expired in
the last few months Our working
slogan must be: ONCE A READER
OF THE DAILY WORKER, AL
WAYS A READERP'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-27

The latest figure on the progress
of the subscription drive shows a
favorable tendency although the act
ual increase in Daily Worker circula-
ton has been slight.
A total of 1911 subs received since
July Is. is offset by 998 cancellations.
Added to this figure is the fact that
the rest of our gain on paper is de-
stroyed by almost $50 renewals con-
tanned in the 1911 subs. In the
bundle orders there have been 1928
new copies distributed compared with
a falling eff of 2,375 copies, through
stoppage Of previous bundle orders
a loss of 249 copies.
The encouraging feature of the
campaign, however, despite ,ese loss
es, is that SO per cent of our sub
scriptions are paid in advance, COM
pared to about So per cent last No
vember. When we come to the bum
die orders, we find that rs per cent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-27
JAPAN BUILD
R.R. NEAR THE
BORDER
To Facilitate Troop
Movements Thru
Korea
MORE WAR FUNDS
Diet Appropriates ITS
Million Yens
MORE WAR FUNDS

Chinese forced <4bor is being used
by the japanese to rush the construc-
ton of a new strategic railway tc
more closely link up the Manchuriar
rail system with that of Korea. Rash
in, on the eastern coast of Korea, and
only 100 miles from the Soviet port
of VladiVostok, has been selected as
the seaport terminus for the new
line. The line is aimed to facilitate
the movement of troops from Japan
through Korea against the Manchur-
ian partisan forces and for armed
intervention against the Soviet Union
and Soviet Mongolia.
Held Up BY Rebels
1t is now revealed that work was
started on the line several months
ago, but was held up because of the
widespread activities of both Korean
and Manchurian rebels on the Ko-
rean Manchurian borders. Large
Japanese forces are now being used
to protect the line against raids and
to terrorize Chinese laborers who are
being forced to do the construction
work at the point of the bayonet.
Rashin is also to be converted into
a big naval commercial port. One
hundred miles from Vladivostok it is
less than ten miles from the Korean
Siberian borders.
Vote New War Funds
Japanese Premier Saito yesterday
called upon the Japanese Diet to ap-
propriate an additional 175,oO0,000
yens (about $39,000000 at the present
low exchange rate of the yen) for
war purposes under the pretext of
affording relief to the ruined peas
antry. The War and Navy Depart
ments are to get 18,5O0,000 yens each
to provide employment" Other
large sums are to be expended for
war preparations such as the con-
struction of harbors, strategic rail-
ways, etc.
Japanese troops invading Jehol
Province are still held up by the
heroic resistance of Chinese volun-
teers who are challenging the trail
torous plans of the Marking Butcher
Government to permit the japanese
to seize the province without resist
ance.
In Manchuria itself, the peasant
partisan forces are continuing their
successful national revolutionary war
against the Japanese invaders. The
latter have been driven out of huge
sections of Manchuria and are be-
leaguered in the big cities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-27
Election Robbery
by Misleaders of
Miners i'm Illinois

BENLD, Ill.-On August %, mass
meeting was called at the Benld City
Park in order to organize the miners
for the march to Southern Illinois
and to pick out committees to lead
the march. At this meeting the
chairman gave instructions and also
called for the nomination of men to
serve on the committees that he said
we're needed.
AS the mems names were sug-
gested, the chairman repeated them,
in order that only one name would
be called at a time, but he did not
seem to hear all of the names called.
At first this seemed accidental, but
was repeated as each committee was
picked out.
A committee was also picked out in
order to write the news as it happens
and send it in to all presses, foreign
seemed deaf and did not hear all OF
and English. Again the chairman
the names called and who should be
on the committee but storekeepers, a
teacher and a printer who do not
work in the mine. One of the men
who was picked on the committee
never was on the picket line or any
movement of the miners last week.
"A Miners Daughter.
EDITORS NOTE:-Some of the
local leaders in the Illinois strike
were Musteites and some Trotsky-
ties, both Of whom proposed peace
full striking without mass picketing.
1t is evidently one Of these that
was chairman on Aug. %. And it
is no wonder that the Daily Worker
has not received one word from the
press committee elected this way.
All our news comes from other
sources.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-27
CALL ARGENTINA
GENERAL STRIKE

The Argentine Regional Labor
Federation. under left wing leader
ship, called general strike through
out the republic, a dispatch to the
capitalist press from Buenos Aires
informed yesterday.
The strike, according to the above
mentioned dispatch, was to start
yesterday at o'clock. Its purpose
is to protest and force the repeal of
a recent judicial ruling, which de-
clares that some unions affiliated
with the Federation are illegal.
Thousands of port workers, taxi
drivers, bakers, metal workers, etc,
will be involved in this strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-27
Workers Rescue Man
jailed for Collecting
Red Election Funds

SAULTE STE. MARIE, Mich. Aug.
BINARY Hinloh spoke here for the
Communist Party election campaign
and Young Communist League on
Aug. 10 to 500 workers. She made
many telling points against the capt.
talist system, and the workers APP
plauded her call to organize and
fight the unemployment and wage
cuts they know very well here in
Michigan.
One worker, collecting money in the
crowd for the campaign expenses
was grabbed by five police and
charged with "panhandlinp." 1t took
a committee OF Is with the support
of the whole crowd to get him re-
leased.
After a long argument with the
city council, a permit was obtained
for the meeting here in City Hall
Park, to be addressed on Sept by
William Reynolds, Communist cand;-
cate for Governor and leader of the
Auto Workers Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-27

out more than 800 of such machines
In the current year the factory is to
produce 1000 such machines, $500 by
Sept. /.
But the factory First of May
constructed machines suited only for
the first and second cotton crops
The problem Of the third harvest
still remained unsolved. In the
Ukraine, where increasingly large
areas are being planted with cotton,
the greater part Of the crop is yielded
by the third harvest. The Cherson
"Petrovski' factory made the mechan-
izing of the third harvest its task.
Harvesting Mechanical
The "Petrovski" factory constructed
cotton combine. This machine
plucks the closed pods, opens and
empties them. The first experiments
with these machines achieved good
results; there is no doubt whatever
that next year thousands of such
combines will be working in the COL
lective cotton farms and on the Soviet
cotton farms. Five hundred of these
machines will be produced this year.
The cotton extracted from the pods
however, still contains remnants of
the pod or of the leaves. It requires
therefore a special cleaning machine,
the construction and production of
which has likewise been taken over
by the PetrovslSi factory, The work
is proceeding successfully. In the
course of this year $50 of such ma
chimes will be produced. This fac
tory is now engaged in constructing
a machine for removing the bare
cotton plants after the harvest and
preparing the ground for the new
cotton seed, 1t is intended to pro-
duce these machines in 1888
In the near future Soviet cotton
will be harvested with Soviet ma
|chines
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-27

Fifty Miles From Objective
Linkiang is fifty miles from the
city of Nanchang, the main imme-
date objective of the Red Army in
Kiangsi Province. The capture of
Nanchang will prepare the way for
the Kiangsi Red forces to Join the
Red Army in Hupeh Province, which
has recently won a smashing victory
against the main Marking army,
personally commanded by the Wall
Street butcher Chang Kai-shek.
Another Red Army force cut the
railway between Wuchang, Hupeh
Province, and Changsha in Human
Province on the western borders of
Kiangsi Province. They captured a
train and made prisoners the armed
guards and twenty Chinese mer-
chants, supporters of the bloody
Marking regime.
The anti-Japanese boycott move
ment is leaping forward in all sec
tions of China as the masses sharpen
their fight against the imperialist
looters of China and their Marking
lackeys. Angry workers hurled four
bombs yesterday into a Chinese store
in Hankow whose proprietor had re-
fused to stop handling japanese
goods. The store was completely
wrecked. The rising anger of the
Chinese masses has forced the Chi
neSe Chamber of Commerce to reverse
its stand opposing the boycott. 1t is
now exhorting the Chinese merchants
to cease handling Japanese goods "as
a means of stopping the outburst."
5000 Deaths in Epidemic
The cholera epidemic is taking a
heavy toll in many Chinese provinces.
In Shansi Province deaths now ex-
coed 5000 Panic reigns in the city
of Taiyanfu, where the mortality ex-
ceeds the output of the coffin makers.
There are few reports of cholera
deaths in the Soviet districts, where
the Soviet authorities have under
taken sanitary measures and where
the living conditions of the toiline
masses have been considerably i'm
proved.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-27
WORKERS PLAN
DRESS DRIVE
Dressmakers Rally for
Fight

NEW YORK.-At a crowded meet
ing held Wednesday night at Bryant
Hall, New York City, by the Left
Wing Opposition Group to organize
the dressmakers against starvation
and sweatshop conditions in the
dress trade, all workers present
showed that they no longer have il
lusions as to the character of the
leadership of the company union and
understand the need for united
struggle of all dressmakers against
sweatshop conditions.
Silverblatt. one of the leading
members of the group, acted as
chairman. Grossman opened the
discussion and his remarks pointed
at the disintegration of the Inter
national to the breakdown of con-
ditions directly due to the class col
liberation policy Of the Interna-
tional
He explained that the left-wing
opposition group proposed a Joint
organization drive with the Indus
trial Union which was rejected by
the Lovestone- Bluestein combina-
ton. He exposed the racketeering
that is going on in the International
stating that the gangster Strawberry
and other underworld clements are
the beneficiaries of this drive, that
they are eXtorting money from the
workers who go back to work I'M
der the same rotten conditions. Many
workers participated in the discus
sion.
At the end of the meeting re-
solution was adopted which called
for the organization of committee
of Is to take immediate action to
mobilize the dressnlakers in struggle
for better conditions and to call q
shop conference in order to join the
Industrial Union in carrying through
this fight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-27
Jersey Cops Fight
Workers at Meet: A
Are Held on Bail

GARFIELD N. j. Aug. 2s.-Police
attacked an open air election rally of
the Communist Party here and ar
rested four workers. Over one thou
sand workers were present at the
meeting and when ordered to break
UP refused to do SO. They battled
the police who brutally beat up Harry
Daniels and Alex IIolp.
All of the arrested, charged with
melting to riot, unlawful assembly,
resisting arrest and assault and bat
terry, are out on 81 900 bail each, A
large crowd is expected to attend the
trial in protest on Tuesday morning.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-27

2Workers.
The following decisions were made
at the meeting:
That the Union Immediately be-
gins a campaign to root out the
contracting evil in the fur trade so
as to provide more jobs for the un-
employed,
To undertake an immediate strug-
gle against overtime and work on
Saturday and Sunday, in order to
provide more jobs for the hungry
unemployed fur workers.
To make an immediate check up
on all shops and see if additional
workers can be placed on jobs.
Collect Insurance Fund
That the Unemployed Insurance
Fund which was to be set up thirty
days after the conclusion of the
agreement shall be strictly adherde
to and that the Union begins col
Letting the 80 unemployment insur-
ance from the Independent firms so
that at the end Of September the
unemployed workers will be in
position to get relief from this fund.
That shop chairman and dele
gate meeting be held Tuesday night
where all details of the agreement
will be fully explained to the shop
who are to be given
instructions on how to enforce them.
That q manifesto be issued to all
fur workers, members of the Indus
trial Union and members OF the
Joint Council admitting them to full
membership with an initiation of So.
This manifesto to be held good un-
til October l.
For $4,000 Strike Fund
That a $4,000 strike fund be es-
tablished, every fur worker TO pay
SIS toward this fund. This strike
fund to be controlled by rank and
file committee especially elected for
that purpose,
That a general membership meet
ing be arranged next week where
all these recommendations to be sub
mitted to the members for discus
sion ana ac6lon ana at TINS meeting
there will be nominations for new
Trade Board and Organizers.
The new leadership of the Union
to include workers of all shades Of
opinion.
It was also decided to recommend
to the membership meeting to in
crease the organizers staff TO six
and open q new complaint and re-
search department.
Many Gains
The settlement committee is con-
tinuously in session. In the past few
days about IS shops were settled.
Among the settled shops were a
number of very important Associa-
ted shops. In each instance the
workers received wage increases,
shorter hours and Union conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-27
BY WILLIAM TAYLOR

.DICHMOND, the capital of Vir-
II GINA is a glaring example Of the
serious unemployment situation
that is developing in that state.
Here alone there are no less than
10000 unemployed out of a popula-
ton comprising 10000 persons.
The Negroes make up about one
third of the total population, but in
the number of unemployed, the
percentage of Negroes amounts to
about so per cent.
TOBACCO is
MAJOR INDUSTRY
The major industry in Richmond,
tobacco, is dominated and con-
trollad by the American Tobacco
Co., which is known here as the
outstanding labor hating outfit in
the state, where women make Sc or
81 and men from $40 to $12 week,
A recent report issued by the
Richmond City Welfare Depart
ment states that unemployment is
steadily increasing. From the same
report it IS evident that so far lit
tie is being done by the city ad-
ministration to provide the unem-
ployed with sufficient relief. The
report shows that for the period
from February l, 1882, to July 81,
1882, the city spent the magnifi-
cent sum of $90,65901, which aver
ages about So, 400 per week. Of the
above amount, the unemployed re-
ceived $51 ,526A0 for work done,
forced labor on the city parks and
cemeteries.
RELIEF Is
CUT DOWN
Relief Is given to married men
and women only The men get one
or two days work a week in &C
cordance with the size of the fam
lily. For this they receive 81 a day
in scrip. Only a few months ago
the city used to pay the unemploy-
ed $240 a day, but since the Red
Gross began distributing the flour
donated by the Federal Farm
Board (Which does not cost the city
a penny, the City Welfare De-
partment used this as a pretext to
cut the wages of the unemployed
40 cents a day.
Chamber of Commerce and real
estate sharks demand reduction of
real estate taxes. During the last
few months the Chamber of Com
merce and the Richmond Real Es-
tate Exchange have organized a
campaign to force the City Council
to reduce the taxes on real estate
25 cents per hundred dollar valua-
ton. The campaign is undoubtedly
financed by the big bankers, and is
conducted under the cover of help
ing the $4,000 property holders of
the city.
Now what is in reality behind
this demagogic campaign of the
gentlemen representing the big
business men of the city?
The truth of the matter is that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-27
Campbell County in !.
Worst Plight in It's
History, Says Farmer
(By a Worker Correspondent

CAMPBELL COUNTY, Tenn. -
Things are bad here now-the worst
have ever seen them. OF course
it's the miners that are hardest hit,
working only day or two week
at $1-$2 a day, and they have to
trade at company stores
People talk lot about back to
the farm, but it doesn't work
around here at least. Lots of miners
have forgotten how to farm 1t costs
SO much to start man with feed,
fertilizer and tools, and there's no
place to get the money. There are
no houses left, either. Most of the
miners have gardens, but that's not
enough. Almost all of them have to
lave some sort of relief to keep go
ing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-27
Iowa Mine Wage Cut
Depends on Illinois

DES MONIES, Iowa. Aug. 90
Three to four thousand coal miners
in the Des Moines area are threat
ened with a wage cut from $3.50 for
inside day laborers to SIS or less;
pending the outcome of the Illinois
situation.
Frank Wilson of Abba, president Of
District 13 of U, M. w. A. says Iowa
miners will take no action on wage
scale adjustment until the Illinois
scale is settled The present agree
ment ends April. LIST, 1888.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-27
Strike Against Paw
Cuts Lowers Coal
Production Figure

WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. 9,
III. S. Bureau OF Mines reror
show that the Miners ssr'k
against wase-cu,s in Indiana on
coal production by 5000 tons dur
ing the week of July 20. The rro
ductlon for the same week las
year was onc-th;rd larger, and TO
the same period in 1928 was NOR,
than twice as great
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-27
Political Prisoners In Italy On
Hunger Strike

ROME, italy. - It was disclosed
here that about 20 political prison
ers in the Vilterra Jail declared q
hunger strike to protest against the
repressive measures adopted by the
jail management.
Despite all the threats to punish
and confine the min solitary cells
the political prisoners carried on the
strike for several days. Seven OF
the prisoners were forcibly fed but
rot by physician as the law pres
cribes. A jail guard carried out the
operation seriously injuring many OF
the prisoners.
Among those who were badly
treated are a young Communist, Vim
.cenzo Moscatelly, recently sentenced
to 16 years and months of i'm
prisonment, and Carlo Alpi, recently
sentenced to 20 years of imprison-
ment for anti-fascist propaganda in
the army.
U. S. Marines Kill 2 In Nicaragua
A1ANAGUA, Nicaragua. "A sharp
clash between National Guardsmen
and Nicaraguan rebels was reported
here. Two rebels are said to have
been killed in the clash which took
place near Pueblo Viejo.
The National Guardsmen were led
by Lieutenant F. Teroero of the
United States Marine Corps. The
encounter occurred on August %.
MOSCOW, U.SS.R. = In contrast
to the method of handling rafters
and thieves in the United States,
here five kulaks were sentenced to
death for stealing oats from the
State collective farms, All the pro-
perty of these kulaks was confis-
Gated.
-Four Of these death sentences were
turned at Tashkent and one at Rus
tow These brought the total to IA
which testify to the Soviet Govern
ment's earnest determination to sew
erely punish all those delaying or
endangering the successful building
of socialism. Just imagine what would
happen to Jimmy Walker if he
were judged workers revolutionary
tribunal in the Soviet Union for the
crime he is accused of in the Uni
ted States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-27
PROTEST THE TERROR IN ILLINOIS! FIGHT THE WAGE CUT!
International
Notes
REFORMIST TRADE UNIONS
LOSE MEMBERS

VIENNA. Austria, Aug. 26. - The
1881 Year Book of the Austrian
Trade Unions reports that in 1881
the unions affiliated to the inter
national Federation of Trade Unions
lost 72,500 members in 1881. Accord
ing to their figures, unemployment
increased by 10000. These right wing
leaders console themselves with the
thought that union membership de-
chned entirely because of unemploy-
ment. They evidently had no idea
of making a struggle in time Of
crisis!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-27
FurrierS Consolidate
Victory; Program to
Put J0blesS to Work
Strike Committee and Fur Trade Board of
Union Propose Recruiting, Strike Fund
Recommend Broad leadership More Organic
ers Members Meet Next Week to Vote on Plan

NEW YORKThe Of
the a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-27

VOTE COMMUNIST FOR
Unemployment and Social In
surance at the expense of the state
and employers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-27
Problem of Mechanical
Harvesting Solved
in the U.S.S.R.

something new for the little factory
"F'irst of May" it surpassed its pro-
duction program for 1881 and turned
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-27
Chinese Red Army Takes
Linkiang; Anti japanese
Boycott Spreading Fast
Chinese Soviets to Drive Last Remnants Of
Marking Troops Out of Kiangsi Province
Angry Hankow Workers Wreck Chinese Store
Which Insisted on Handling japanese Goods

Chinese yesterday
by the entry town.