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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-05

food are becoming very much interested in the
Daily Worker. They frequently ask for it, and
a supply of back numbers is always kept on
hand to give to them. At the same time eff
forts are being made to get them to subscribe,
but the farmers see as little money in these
parts as do the miners. The Literature Agent
now has proposition of trying to get num-
Der of farmers to chip in and subscribe to-
gether, either getting together to read It, or
passing it from hand to hand as each one fin
isheS it.
The Daily is the fore-runner of the Party Or
ganizer 1t lays the foundations for the build
ing of the Party in the many mining camps in
the industrial centers and among the farmers
in Kentucky and Tennessee. 1t is eagerly read
and is in great demand. If only these workers
could subscribe for themselves They would be
only too glad to do so, but when they hardly
see a. red cent from one end OF the month to
the other it is out of the question for them to
pay.
If ten Dailies could be sent into each mining
camp in the struck area, and their circulation
be as intensively built up as in this small Ten
nessee camp, both union and Party organiza-
tons would be greatly fostered. The lies Of
the bosses and their agents would be effectively
answered in those parts where the terror makes
the distribution of leaflets very difficult. The
Daily there is not only an agitator and propa-
gandist but also an organizer.
The appeal to workers throughout the country
to send in money to pay for bundle orders for
the strike area should be responded to with the
utmost generosity. Everything in strike is
important-but how important the Daily is, few
workers outside the area realize. The bosses,
however, realize it very well. The circulation
Of the Daily in the camps is hampered with
every method at their disposal. A bundle order
arrives at the post office and the post office
clerk in charge refuses to deliver it. The sys-
tenn extends even further than that-the detec-
tives of the government and of the companies
even lie in wait at the post offices for the
workers who come to claim the bundle, and then
arrest them for having sedtious literature on
them The post office system carries this "sedi-
tious literature quite freely through the mails
but when it found on an individual worker
1t becomes da- lgerous and lays the basis for
criminal syndicalism action against himl
Such tactics hamper the distribution of the
Daily in the struck area, but do not stop It,
There are plenty of clever tricks to get tround
this form of terrorism.
The miners want to read the Daily. They
will use all their ingenuity to get hold of it and
circulate It, 1t is up to the rest of the workers
throughout the country to make it possible for
the Daily Worker to send it to them free Of
charge until they are in position to sall IL
and pay their own way
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-05
A FEW QUESTIONS TO COM. oLGN

This is referred to the mass meeting Of Com
rade M Olgin, held in Newark. The meeting
was a tremendous success as far as attendance
is concerned and as far as the speech Of Com.
Olgin goes, BUT-and here's where we stop to
say how a meeting at this period Of the class
struggle should not be conducted. There were
over 700 people present. the biggest Jewish
speaking crowd for 8 years. most Of whom were
totally strangers, affording an excellent oppor-
tunity for organizational results as well as sub
scriptions for the Freiheit.
Comrade Olgin, speaking of the tremendous
achievements of the Soviet Union, under the
direction and guidance of the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union, should he have not made
strong appeal for membership in the Com
munist Party especially at this time when the
Communist Party is in the midst of recruit
ing driver
Again, Com. Olgin, the editor of the F'reiheit,
wasn't it mistake on the part Of Com. Olgin,
for not making it his business to stop some
where before his concluding remarks and take
up subscriptions for the Freiheit?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-05

complete liquidation of the capitalist elements
in general, Of the entire elimination of the
causes giving rise to class distinctions and ex-
ploitation, and the overcoming of the survivals
OF capitalism in the economics and consciousness
OF the people, the transformation of the entire
toiling population of the country into conscious
active builders of the nonclass Socialist society"
During the first years of the first Five-Year
Plan, the foundation of Socialist economics had
been laid in the U. S. S. r. During the second
Five-Year Plan, the liquidation of classes will
have been completed and non-class society will
be built. This is the basic political task of the
second Ffve-Year Plan The liquidation of the
parasitic class elements the reconstruction of
the whole national economy and the general
growth of the revenue are the bases of the more
rapid tempo of the raising and improving of the
toilerS material and cultural level In par
ticular the supply Of the population with food
stuffs and with the basic articles of mass con-
sumption must increase times by the end of
the second Five-Year Plan, as compared with
the end OF 1882
This will be secured by the development OF
the light and food industry, by the increased
harvest Of commercial crops, by the enlargement
OF the grain economy, cattle breeding, etc.
The basic tasks Of the second Five-Year Plan
can be fulfilled ION the basis of the developed
technical reconstruction of the entire national
economy, j. e. industry, transport, agriculture"
which must be completed during the second
Five-Year Plan, and which will mean the crea-
ton Of the modern technical base for all the
branches of national economy Therefore, the
growth of engineering 3-312 times as against
1882, has been suggested in the second Five-Year
Plan, the production of electrical energy will be
brought to hundred milliard kwt per hour
as against II milliard in 1882 The extraction
of coal will amount to $50 million tons instead
of 80 million in 1882, the extraction of oil will
increase 212-3 times.
Such growth Of engineering and electrical
energy will require a considerable increase in
the smelling of pig iron and of colored metals
The smelling of pig iron which amounted to
million tons in 1882 must be raised to % million
tons in 1887.
The problem Of transport during the second
Five-Year Plan will be solved by means of the
reconstruction and wide extension of the con-
struction of railways mot less than $3.50 thou
sand kilometers of new lnes), of paved high
roads, water lines, decentralization and develop
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-05
BY GERTRUDE LOGAN.

QY the time Daily Worker has made its ap-
pointed rounds in the camp, there is hardly
anything left of it, it is so worn out Every day
ten Dailies come to this camp in Tennessee,
where the 1876 miners have been out one hundred
per cent since the first day of the strike on
Jan. /.
First of all two copies are set aside for the
relief Station-pasted up on the wall in the
waiting room, where the miners, their wives
and children gather to wait for the daily dis
tribution of food to begin
But this is not the only way in which part
of these Dailies reach the masses of workers in
this camp. Under the direction of the Party
unit in this mine, reading circle has been or
ganized for the benefit of the illiterate work.
ers in the camp, and the Daily Worker is read
aloud to this group every. day. This work is
carried on under the direction of the Literature
Agent Of the Party unit, and under the auspices
of the Educational Committee of the National
Miners Union.
The other eight copies make their rounds
thoroughly among those who can read. They
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-05

Brisbane DeplOres
b JORGE

Arthur Brisbane, author OF the column in the
Hearst press known as "Bris-banalities," lament
ing that Japanese imperialist attack on the
Soviet Union" would meet a Russia diff
ferent from the soft, corrupt Russia Of the
Cars" goes on to this final paragraph, in which
he says:
"There is great power in the spirit of revolu-
ton, much as we may deplore its existence"
Brisbane the capitalist may well "deplore" 1t,
but why doesn't he use the words I'VE capitalists"
instead of just we" when he is deploring. As
for us. the Communists, eve" don't deplore 1t at
all. We glory in it.
BY the way the same date as Brisbane was
depIoring Feb 27, the Associated Press dispatch
from Shanghai remarked that:-"The japanese
will soon have full army corps in the Shanghai
area"
Yes, but precisely because Of that spirit OF
revolution" which Brisbane deplores there Is
going to be about half Of that Japanese corps
gathered unto whatever passes for "Abrahams
BOSOM in Japanese.
And we, we'll we would like to see more revo-
lutionary spirit right here in America, express
ing itself in the form of refusal to make or
handle munitions now being sent to imperiahsS
Japan! Munitions workers and transport work.
ers, what do you say?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-05
The Miners and the Daily Worker

are handed from one to another, and, as soon
as one is finished, he hands it on as quickly as
possible to the next, for eight copies to circu-
late among so many workers requires quick work
and no delay in reading. Only those who are
content to delay their reading of the paper to
the evening have the privilege of taking it home
and digesting 1t at their leisure.
But this does not end the circulation of the
Daily. The Relief Committee sends out expedi-
lions every day to collect food from nearby
farmers. And the Daily goes with these work
ers. One is dropped off at the grst mill, where
the farmers bring their grain to be ground into
meal. The miller himself is interested in the
class struggle and after the Daily became
known there, some of our Party literature also
found its way to this improvised farmers
library. Then there is camp OF lumber work
ers who joined the National Miners Union
when it first entered this field and who will
join the Lumber Workers Industrial League as
soon as the proper organzational steps can be
taken They also got their quota Of one Daily
per day.
The farmers from whom the miners collect
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-05
Did You Notice 1t?

The day after Moscow dispatches told OF tne
Japanese planning with the Czarist White
Guards for an attack on the Soviet frontier, an
Associated Press dispatch from Washington OF
Feb. 26 said:
ASKED if the government would send further
notes to Japan, Secretary Stimson replied: NO.
no, I don't think you need to stay awake 90
night worrying about that!
What eye mean "persOnal?": The personal
situation" of Stain, says the comter-revolution"
ary Trotsky, is "tottering precariously" Stains
political situation being solid as rock, we can
afford not to worry. Trotsky it turns out Is
dying again" and has to go to Czecho-Slovakia.
BY the way, Kerensky is also in Czecho-Slovakiss
plotting with the other white guards and ser"
wants of French imperialism, for an armed at
tack on the Soviet Union Let the Trotskyists
"explain!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-05
Honored-But Awful Dead

The New York Times Of Feb. "a tells how
three Japanese privates volunteered to strap
sticks of high explosives around their chests and
waists and then make running jumps into the
barbed wire. Chinese rifle fire exploded the
deadly burdens thus blasting openings through
the entanglements" The privates we're "offi-
cially honored"-after which the staff officers
drank another bottle OF Kirin beer.
It's funny the way the officers leave such
"honors" as these to the priyates isn't 1t! Earl-
Ter in the long battle, in fact, while Admiral
Shiosawa was just beginning to get his nose
bumped in Chapel, Japanese naval officer
tried to commit hara kiri" and stabbed himself
in the gizzard leaving letter saying that he
was "killing himself because Admiral Shiosawa
was not taking energetic enough action against
the Chinese" But do you know that the som
of-a-wily cook was careful to kill himselt'
so he could recover, and remain on the sick LIST
out of range of shooting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-05
Party Recruiting Drive
January II March IS, 1882
THE STEEL WoRKERs FIGHT AGAINST WAR

short time ago the units consisted Of loose street
units with no definite work or concentration
points, With careful survey and registration
check-up 1t was found that least three shop nu-
Clei in the steel mills could be organized. Today
there are four shop nuclei in the section with
two others in the process Of formation. AL
though there are numerous weaknesses in the
existing nuclei, nevertheless the first steps have
been taken to establish functoning shop nuclei
which will act as shock brigades in the building
OF the Steel Workers Industrial Union.
(E) The Young Communist League has is
sued special youth call to support the United
Front Conferences calling upon working youth,
National Guards, Boy Scouts, each school room
in public schools, colleges, sport clubs, etc, to
elect delegates to the United Front Conferences.
The Youth Steel Conference held on February
% was a big step forward in the organization Of
the young steel workers. The conference, re-
presenting young workers in the shops and mem
bers of the ATnalgamated Association Of Iron,
Steel and Tin workers spoke bitterly against rot
ten conditions in the mills; betrayal Of their
interests by the A. F. Of L.; and the necessity
Of organization Of a revolutionary union Of steel
workers - the Steel Workers Industrial Union.
The youth conference adopted sharp resolu-
ton against war and endorsed the United Front
Conferences Of the Communist Party against war
The section buro calls the attention Of the
Party membership to the great Importance Of
building the Young Communist League. One
unit has responded and set an example to the
others. In New Castle, where only weak Party
unit existed before February T. the comrades re-
cognized the militancy of the youth in the de-
monstration and took up the task of building
the Y.CL. Today there is a live unit Of the
Y.CL. in New Castle and the whole movement
has been rejuvenated and refreshed by the youth
to whom the section buro looks for future lead
ership in the struggles Of the steel workers in
New Castle.
The Section Buro recognizes that the best
weapon in the struggle against imperialist war
is strong Communist Party rooted in the steel
mills. The Section Buro calls for increased speed.
and socialist competition in the recruitment
drive. The Section quota Of l2O new members
has been only half filled. With BoIshevik energy
the Youngstown section must go over the top
In the recruitment drive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-05
BY r. ROGERS

BY r &OGEhS
wHE YOUNGSTOWN section Of the Communist
Party has started 8 mass campaign amongst
the steel workers Of the Mahoning Valley against
war and for the defense Of the Soviet Union
This campaign calls for the utmost support Of
all workers and working class organizations The
section buro especially calls the attention Of the
membership Of the Party and the Young Com
nunist League to use every ounce Of energy for
the successful mobilization Of the steel workers,
employed and unemployed, against war and for
the defense of the Chinese Revolution and the
Soviet Union.
Al United Front Conferences Against War
have been called in four steel centers and one
pottery center The anti-war conferences in the
steel centers will take place In Youngstown, New
Castle Warren, and Farrell. The other confer
ence will take place in East Liverpool, the pot
terry center of the country and reputed to be one
Of the largest in the world.
The youngstown conference takes place on
March II at the Central Public School Audito"
rum, Wick and Wood Streets. Calls and cred
entails have been sent to all organizations to
elect and send delegates. 1t is significant that
the first organization to respond to the call of
the Communist Party against war was a Negro
organization, representing the most oppressed
and exploited section of the steel workers in the
Mahoning Valley.
OBJ The section buro has issued a special one
page condensed speakers outline with facts and
figures on war. 1t points out dangerous ideas
existing on how to fight war and the immediate
tasks of the CP. and Vel. This outline has
been sent to every member of the CP. and YC.L.
in the section.
(C) The section buro has instructed every
shop nuclei to issue special leaf1et to the work
ers of their mill on war and how to fight it,
These leaflets will explain how to organize shop
groups as anti-war committees and calls upon
these groups to establish contact with the CP
and elect delegates to the United Front Confer
ences.
Street units have been instructed 10 issue
neighborhood leaflets taking into consideration
factories, military organizations, ETC., located In
their territory.
CD The section buro calls for the strength
ening, safeguarding, and reorganization Of the
whole Party apparatus IN the section. Until q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-05
BY PAUL CLINE

AT an enlarged meeting OF the District Com
n mittee of District No. 10, held last Sunday
a thoroughly self critical check up was made Of
the results of the recruiting drive UP to Febru-
airy 20. In the report Of the District Bureau
the unsatisfactory status Of the drive was clearly
revealed by the following facts and figures:
Only 70 new members had been taken in out
Of quota of $50 for the drive OF this number
only 81 were employed, only IA were Negroes
Gas against quota of 800 and only z were wo-
men Gas against quota Of Is women to be re-
cruited0. Two new shop nuclei have been or
ganized, or one-half of the quota These two
shop nuclei, one in Kansas City, Kansas, and
one in Omaha, were established through the
recruiting of packing house workers. At off
hand consideration this may indicate pretty fair
shop work. But it is nothing of the sort, The
District can lay claim to very little credit for
the recruiting Of these packing house workers
and the organization Of these two shop units
The fact of the matter is that these results were
achieved with little or no organized effort by
the Party. These packing house workers were
hanging around the fringe Of the movement In
Kansas City and Omaha, ready and eager to
Join the Party All the comrades had to do was
to hand them the application cards. In St.
Joseph, Mo-, and Sioux City. Iaq a similar stu
alton prevails, yet no shop units have been
1OrmeOs Inc EaTCy has QOIl6 uUbiS OF uOUuluB
during the recruiting drive to penetrate among
these packing house workers No consistent, day
In and day out stimulus or direction has been
given to this work. either by the District or
Section Committees. No following up Of the
numerous contacts no shop leaflets no regular
sale of the Daily Worker at the gates, no factory
gate meetings, no agitation among or organiza-
ton Of the unemployed at the gates!
The District Committee registered most
phaticalIy the sharp self criticism that there has
been an almost complete failure to carry the re-
cruiting drive into the packing industry, one Of
the basic industries in the District!
The District Committee also recorded the fact
that no work at all has been done in the other
major industry of concentration, the railroad in
dustry. Only one railroad worker had been re-
cruited In the discussion 1t was further pointed
out that the District TU.UL. center had prac-
tically ceased to function during the past two
months, and this coupled with lack OF cooper
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-05

Of which have existed less than half year. the
inexperience, newness, and lack Of development
of many of the District functionaries, the fnan-
cial difficulties that exceptionally severe in
new territory-all these must be met and over
come. The recruiting drive has brought out in
sharp relief the weaknesses of the Party in Dis
trict No. 10, weaknesses which range from top
to bottom of the apparatus. The District Com
mittee has set itself the task of speeding up of
intensifying the work. Of achieving the recruit
ing drive quotas 100 per cent, in the 3 weeks
time that yet remain. This can and must be
done, but only In the course of sharp self crit
icsm and persistent struggle to overcome the
mistakes and weaknesses that have been re-
yealed
Evening star., 1932-01-03
FINE CROPS RAISED
IN FIFTH DISTRICT
Low Prices Were Main Drawback
During 1881, Reserve Bank
Report States.
Dispatcb to The Star.


RICHMOND, January 2.-The Fed
eral Reserve Bank of Richmond says to-
day that farm work for 1891 has been
completed except for some late har-
vesting, but final figures on crop pro-
Guction are not yet aVails BILE In the
next Review a table will be printed con-
tanning production figures for the lead
ing crops Of the fifth district for 1881
1880 and 1929.
In contrast to 1880, which was one of
the poorest years on record for farming
because of the very severe drought, 1881
conditions were excellent for nearly all
crops and large per acre yields were made.
III the districts chief money crops, cot
tor and tobacco, acreageS were mate
rally reduced this year, but unusually
favorable weather produced a larger
cotton crop than that OF 1880.
Both cotton and tobacco prices were
lower this year than in any recent year
and many other farm products were
sold at low prices. AS result, the De
partment of Agriculture estimates the
tCtal value of 1881 crops in the fifth
district at $352,l13000, a decrease Of
27 per cent under S483 051 900 for the
short crops of 1880 and 46 per cent be-
! low S649 480, 900 for 1929 crops.
Farmers in the district raised large
| feed and food crops this year and are
therefore in better position to live at
home than they were last year, in spite
of the lower cash returns on this year S
/ operations.
Evening star., 1932-01-03
NEW YORK BANK STOCKS

NEW YORK, January (SpeciaD -
Soft from the start, as traders learned
of two big bank failures, today's bank
and trust share market finished lower.
The market was largely influenced by
the closing of large Hartford, Conn,
bank.
Bankers Trust at ST was of points,
though the company, after setting up
a contingency fund of $12,o00,O from
undivided profits, equal to $3.05 share
on its capital stock, reported deficit
of $4,367, 900, or SITS a share, which
compares with earnings of $4.70 a share
in 1890 Chemical Bank & Trust Co.
was off q at 2414, as it showed profits
Of $244 share in 1881, against 1925 a
share in 1890 Brooklyn Trust at 158
was off 4; Central Hanover, 1870, of Z;
Chase National 2812, off =; Chatham
Phenix, 17A, off IA; National City,
3624, off ~; Commercial 1875, off IS;
Continental, 1872, off Il; Corn Ex-
change. So, off 3; Empire, 2412, up u;
First National, 1870, off 80: Guaranty,
252, off 8; Irving, 1914. of J q; Man
haitian, 28A, off IA; Manufactures,
27ha. off Il New York Trust, 6s1s. of
3A; Public, 1919, off Il, and Guarantees
Title L. Trust, 54, unchanged. ,. .