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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04

bOurgeoisie that Negro workers join the revO-
lutionary movement not because of their readi-
ness to fight against capitalist persecution and
exploitation, but "fOr the chance to mingle
freely with white women in the movement"
(Mr. Frank Davis, editor of the ATLANTA
Worldly.
And these gentlemen think they cHnch their
arguments by the declaration that even assum-
ing the best intentions of the Communists, the
Communists cannot effect any change in the at
titude of the White workers at present under
the influence Of white bourgeois theology.
Their servile acceptance of these white bour-
geois arguments shows to what depths these
bourgeois Negro editors will sink. Shamelessly
grovelling and boot-licNng before their white
masters, they pick up the sliniest eXcretions Of
the white bourgeoisie They admit all the facts
of the frightful suffering OF the Negro masses
under capitalism: special persecution, lynch ter
ror starvation, segregation, over crowding peon-
age and practical enslavement, etc. But they
attack not capitalism, but Communism, as the
main danger. They desperately strive to main
tain the Jim Grow capitalist system and their
special position in this vicious system Of rob-
berry and murder of the working class, of hide
Gus persecution and national oppression Of the
Negro masses.
Their type Of argument is a reversion to the
most primitive and reactionary arguments Such
arguments do not explain social movements and
actions, but serve to maintain the brutal cap
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04

AGAINST THE SOVIET UNION.
IN CASE WAR BREAKS OUT
AGAINST THE U. S. S. r., JOIN
WITH YOUR ARMS THE RED
ARMY"
No wonder, therefore, tsat the
bourgeois press expresses anxiety
over the conduct of recruits. There
were recent reports in the press of a
demonstration of recruits at the
railroad station Orany in Western
White Russia.
Widespread Unrest in Army
Dissatisfaction is also widespread
in the army and manifesto itself in
various ways. Thus, the soldiers OF
regiment, stationed at Kelley have
elected delegation which presented
demands to their officers for better
conditions. Another similar in
stance happened at Lomja, where
soldiers have refused to appear for
the evening roll call. At the fort
ress Of Warsaw soldiers have de-
monstrated against any unsatisfac-
tory dinner. They kept on pound
ing their spoons on the tables until
better dinner was provided. At a
training school for seargents In
Demblin the students refused to
accept unsatisfactory dinners for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04
The Revolutionary Struggles of the Polish Masses
for the Defense of the Soviet Union

The proletarian and the toiling
masses Of Poland are against war
and against splitting their blood in
tEe interests OF the imperialists.
This may be judged from the fol-
lowing few incidents of the struggle
Of the working-class of Poland
against the danger and war and
intervention.
The workers Of the war indu-
stries are setting out for struggle
against capitalistic attacks, despite
all obstacles. Thus, the workers Of
the State Airplane factory at Biala
Podliaska were getting paid only so
per cent of their wages for period
of three months. The carpenter
department decided to call a strike.
A strike committee, elected at
meeting of the workers, declared
stoppage. The stoppage lasted 6
days and ended with full victory
for the workers.
The Communist Party Of Poland
conducted an Anti-War Week at
the end Of March. Militant meet
ings were held at the largest metal
Iurgical plants as well as at plants
Of the war industries. There were
two mass meetings at the Gerlach
plant; there was one mass meeting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04
By R. B. HUDSON

procedure was followed out. Now we have
unit composed of seamen, concentrating on
dock amongst longshoremen, and the unit or
ganzer is non-Inarine worker, non-union. The
longshore organizer of the union is bystander
in the unit.
The present composition makes q complicated
situation as the following shows:
Party members attend union meetings, where
because they are largely seamen the major task
is to mobilize them for union work and to orr
entate them toward organizing in the place of
work and to develop activity ashore amongst the
unemployed seamen and visiting ships. The
unions major task is to approach them about
conditions where they work. at the same time
trying to draw in the more capable comrades
into longshore activity.
Then these same Party members attend their
unit meetings, where they are told by non
union, non-seamen or longshoremen that their
main task is TO build dock committee amongst
the Iongshoremen, in the name of the Com
munist Party.
Later on these same Party members attend a
fraction meeting, where they get hell because
they have not been active enough aboard ship
in building ship committees, recruiting for the
union and developing struggle there.
Thus the Party members are in difficult
position: in the union they are given one task,
responsible to a certain leadership. In the unit
they are given another task (but still to build
the union) and responsible to a different lead
ership. They carry on union work in the name
of the union--then union work III the name of
the Party.
Now we are beginning to believe that some
thing is wrong again and it is assumed that it
is question OF approach Therefore, instead of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04
The Myth Of High Wages=in the
Building Trades

AT QUITE FREQUENT intervals statements in
n the daily press dwell on the high earning
power of the building trades worker. Compare
sons are made between the s1-ary OF professors
or some department executives in banks, and
that of bricklayer, plesterer, painter, etc.,
giving the latter by deliberate wrong compu-
tation higher yearly income than the former.
When such statements are made, they in
variably come either from real estate people,
as an excuse for their high rent, or else from the
building contractor as an excuse for the high
cost of construction When the earring power
OF painter, carpenter electrician, etc, is given
it is set down at the rate OF $500 and that OF
marble man. pasterer or bricklayer at sl4 or
more per day. The general public for which
these statements are meant takes it for granted
that at the above rates and days per week
these trades arc making s79.20 and SEA respec-
lively, or in the year the pretty sum OF $41l3Ao
and $4368 respectively.
Bootleg Wages
That tie building trades hereabouts are work.
ing five days week and are paid per day, losing
every holiday, eff which tlcre are nine in the
year. also that they are working with very few
exceptions part time, the public need not know.
Another factor which gives the high wage
theorist the lie is "boootleg wages" What is
bootleg wages? About two weeks ago state
ment emanat.ng from the Office of the Building
Trades Employers Association spoke quite clearly
about bootleg wages, also what damaging
effect it has on the honest contractor or EN-
ployer." Bootleg wages are wages paid below
the rate entered into by mutual agreement be-
tween the employer and the employee This
practice has always existed, even in the boom
days of the building industry, but it is calamity
today. The men are unemployed for months
and are open for bargaining to the tune of from
SO to SIS per day below the agreed wage scale,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04

and this is an open secret.
The following authentic statistics taken In the
first half of January, 1882, by Local Union 4s9,
Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paper
hangers of New York City, gives a very clear
picture of the earning power of union painters
for the year 1881
This QUESTIONABLE was given to each member
of the local: --s@-@s---
Arc you working at year trade at present?
"Eow many days did you work at your trade
in the year 1881 Include work that You
tracied for yourself) 2? se-s
Real Conditions.
To the first question, % per cent reported
working and rs per cent reported unemployed.
To the second questionable average time
worked by the members the local in 1881 was
So days Allowing 1890 per day; it gives them
an income of sS97.eo for the year 1881.
AS the painters, like other workers in
building trades have the. 5-day week less 9
legal holidays in the year, it gives them ISL
working days. The $c97.60 earned in 1881,
divided by 251 days, gives them the astounding
daily average income Of $500
If one takes into consideration the admitted
underpaying of wages and the proposed Is per
cent reduction of wages beginning May I, the
building trades workers will be the poorest paid
mechanics in the country. The very men that
are creating the buildings will be unable to live
IN them.
Great philanthropistsv who are trying to
wipe out the Sums by creating new buildings,
charging the modest sum of sic per room, say
they are doing the working people big service.
They are only providing work, to live in these
16 rooms, never The workingman's family con-
sists Of an average Of four people; he requires
not less than four rooms. The cost of his rent
would consume so per cent or more OF his yearly
income, thing which simply can not be done.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04

These gentlemen repeat all the exploded ar
gunlents Of the white bOurgeOisie: l. That
there are inherent antagOnisnls between black
and white workers. 2. That Negro workers
are by nature servile and will slavishly ac-
cept any conditions imposed upon them by the
ruling class. 8. That Negro workers are in
capable of playing leading role in the class
struggle. 4. That American white workers are
fundamentally different from all other workers
5. That Negro workers will not join in any
movement or action which is offensive to the
master class. 6. The vile SANDER of the white
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04
BY JAMES w. FORD
Article IL

THE only arguments that
1 the Negro bourgeois edi-
tors. DR.. Du Bots included,
are able to muster against
Communism are, signific-
antly, the arguments adj
vanced by the white bour-
geoisie the same bourge-
oisie which has established
and maintains its rule Of
oppression. jim Crowism,
and lynch terror, in and
out of the courts, against
the Negroes. All of their
arguments against Com
munisn are aimed to boil
ster up this system Of OPP
OPPRESSION and to prevent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04

sUssCREe rIcN RATE
xuohs
dBronxN Yckct FuaixnO
The Washington times., 1932-04-22
HILL NEW HEAD.
Of k|WAN|S

Edwin F. Hill was elected presi-
dent of the Washington Kiwanis
Club yesterday to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of
Eugene r. Woodson. Mr.. Hill has
been a member of the club since
1925.
Dewey Zirkin was named first
vice president, Lewis T. Bruninger,
second vice president, and Ed.
mund F. Jewell was elected to the
board of directors.
Hans Kinder, conductor Of the
National Symphony Orchestra,
appealed to club members to sup
port WaShington's own symphony
which is now raising funds for
next seasons concerts.
The Washington times., 1932-04-22
BUSES LIMITED
IN ALEXANDRIA

An ordinance to regulate motor
bus transportation, effective May
IS, was adopted yesterday by the
city council Of Alexandria. Va.
The ordinance provides that no
company will be permitted to
operate it's buses over routes not
approved by the council.
The Alexandria Washington bus
line, known as the Blue Line"
comes under the provisions of the
ordinance, and it is understood
that it will not be permitted to
transfer passengers from one
point t oanother in Alexandria,
its rights being confined to pas
senger transportation between
Washington and Alexandria.
The Washington times., 1932-04-22
Noted NegrO-IndiGn
Doctor of LUr1u Dies

LURAY, Va, April 22.-T. G.
Hall, claiming Kickapoo Indian
blood in his veins. noted local
horse and COW doctor-though
never having graduated in the
profession, dropped dead at his
home in Hamburg, this county.
Hall, who always consorted
with the colored race, declared
that he was the only person of
this blood mixture that was ever
born inside the corporate limits
of Luray. He was born in a log
cabin 81 years ago.
The Washington times., 1932-04-22
WEATHER DETAILS

For the District Of Columbia-Fatr
tonight and Saturday not much change
in temperature; minimum temperature
tonight about ~ degrees; gentle vari-
able winds.
For Maryland-Fair tonight and
Saturday; not much change in tenn
perature.
For Virglnia-Fair tonight and Sat
urday; not much change in tempera-
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
Yesterday Today
p. m...... !. ! p. m.......... !! !?
Mt SSREiSghRRTf-KEs 6'j FROM NoRMAiL Is
Accumulated excess Of temperature
since January /, 1882, $50 degrees.
Deficiency of temperature since April
/, 1882. 81 degrees.
Accumulated excess of precipitation
since January l, 1882, 2.63 inches.
Deficiency Of precipitation since
April l. 1881, Al inches.
TIDE TABLE
Today-High tides, s:O1 a. m. and
9:32 p. m.
Low tides, S:11 a. m and 1853 p. m.
Tomorrow-High tides, $50 a. m. and
1923 p. m.
Low tides. 4;O3 a: m. and - p. m.
THE sun AND THE MOON
The sun rises today 5:23 a. m. and
sets 6:5l p. m.
The Washington times., 1932-04-22

The sun rises Saturday 5:21 a. m.
and sets $3.50 p. m.
The moon rises today 9:42 p. m.
and sets sos a. m.
The moon rises Saturday 1851 p. m.
and sets 6 "a a m.
The Washington times., 1932-04-22

Little girls 7 to ii look
too cute for words in
t h es e charming silk
dresses. M a d e with
Peter Pan collars,
m o { king, puffe d
sleeves or sleeveless;
full skirts, either flared
or pleated. Pastels and
two-color combinations.
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-23
f. A. TORSCH BELIEVES
SCHOOL PAGE VALUABLE
Baltimore, Md.

Baltimore, Md.
September 10, 1892
Col. TheO. Townsend, Editor
Milford Chronicle
Milford, Delaware.
Dear Sir:-I understand there is
a question as to your continuing the
school page in the. Chronicle. l
would like to add my own impress
sions of the value of this page in
the work of the schools in Milford.
l try to read the Chronicle regu-
larly, to keep in touch with what is
going on in Milford and vicinity and
throughout the State
+ Two outstanding features have
appealed to me in reading the
Chronicle, first, the excellent edi-
torials, which 1 find practical and
helpful.
Then second I read the school
page.
have been agreeably surprised at
the. excellent manner in which the
boys and girls contributing to the
school page have handled the vari-
Ous subjects, and I think you have
given the contributors an unusual
opportunity to reap wonderful ben
efits from this kind of work.
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-23
ROMANCE MUST WAIT

Romantic naval officers contem-
plating marriage soon after gradua-
tion, are informed they must wait
two years or cease being naval eff
ficers. Hard on some victims of
Cupid? Possibly, but the rule would
work we'll in many circumstances
other than those of naval officers.
Love in a cottage may be all right,
but in the days when that sweet old
proverb was concocted, the cOttager
and his bride probably lived mostly
on the products of their own garden.
At least they knew where their food
was coming from. But today when
they are subject to the vicissitudes
OF highly complicated industrial
system, it's another story. Usually
they would better wait until they can
pay the grocery bill and the rent.
And at that early age, young love is
often about like a case of measles,
you have to have, but
from which prompt recovery is an
.e.4...--,
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-23
ONE EVENING A WEEK

Perhaps the greatest single diff
Guilty, in promoting the development
of community, is to Induce people
to give up any of their time for the
benefit of good public causes. 1t
takes some time to run churches,
fraternal and business associations,
improvement movements, ETC., but it
would not take such a lot of time,
if more workers could be enlisted in
these efforts.
If most of the intelligent and ac-
tive people could be induced to give
one evening a week until next sum-
'mer, to promoting these various pub
lie organizations and movements,
many things could be done in Milford
that have not been accomplished be-
fore. We could obtain important
business advantages and provide new
educational and social and entertain
men features that would add to our
prosperity and make life pleasanter
and more attractive.
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-23
ASKING AND GETTING

1t is an invariable law of life, that
you have to ask for things in order
to get them. "Then faint heart ne'er
won a fair lady" The young man
who doesn't dare ask any girl to
marry him, will probably be a con-
firmed bachelor.
So it is in business. The non
advertised concern my be reliable,
faithful, honest, as the day is long,
But somehow, it looks to the public
like the suitor who does not ask for
the lady. 1t does not give that i'm
preston of achievement and ability
to do things that the public look for,
whether it is in seeking a husband,
or looking for a place to buy things.
II you want to get trade, ask for it
advertising.
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-23
YOUTH AND THE FOOTBALL

Again the soft thud of the bound
ing football is heard on the athletic
fields, and the youth of the land are
lining up for the battle of the goal
posts. 1t is game that thrills
youth through and through, with the
chance to make name for itself
Youth is tremendously stirred by
the world of struggle, and it feels an
intense desire to excel, prove itself
in competition with others.
This ambitious desire is at the bot
tom of the intense interest in ath-
letics.
Youth can see that it may take
man wears before it can win out in
the competitions of business and in
dustry. But it looks at this stirring
game of football, and sees that with
courage and skill, it can excel on
that field in a short time and gain
The plaudits and fame for which
every youth secretly hungers.
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-23
INJURING YOUR NEIGHBORs

A person who maintains a decad-
ent and disorderly looking piece of
real estate not merely depreciates
the value of his own holdings, but
he commits an injury against his
neighbors. The homes close to a
dwelling of that type, probably lose
from 10 to 25 per cent of their vail
ue, owing to the bad effect on the
neighborhOod.
There is something radically
wrong in community life, when one
persons neglect can thus injure his
neighbOrs. 1t is carrying the free
dom of American life too far. There
should be some way to deal with it.
In the lack of laws on the subject,
the neighbors can at least protest
orally, and they should not hesi-
tate to do so.
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-23
THE COUNTY FAIRS

Do you go out to worship His
Majesty the Prize Bull? Do you con
verse with his lordship the grunting
hog? Have you possibly lost dol
lar. on the horse trot? Have you
had the ineffable honor of shaking
hands with all the politicians of the
district? Have you mingled in such
typical experiences at the cattle
shows of Kent and Sussex Fair in
Delaware? If not, you have failed to
keep in touch with the real heart of
America.
The main characteristics of the
real people of our country can be
about as well, discerned at these
county fairs as at any function of
our national life. There one sees
the result of the persistent and in
domitable industry of our people.
The fatness of these cattle, the
meatiness. of those wholesome hogs,
the richness of those. pumpkins and
grapes, these are among the signs of
untiring labor. ....z
American alertness there appears
in the inventive ideas presented at
educational exhibits, showing the
work of scientific agriculture and
our school system. The American
farmer has decided that two blades
of grass, according to the old saying,
can be made to grow whre one
blade grew before, and he's going
TO do it, by heck, even if it busts
he market
And again the light hearted spirit
IF our people shines out as they
cheer on the fast horses, or test their
pitching arms of the African dodger,
II measure their strength with the
zig hammer.
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-23
ExTORTION RACKETS

The reptile crooks who try to ex-
tort money by threatening people
with various calamities, are at it
somewhat actively. The wedding
festivities of two recent Chicago
brides, which should have been oc-
casions of the most unclouded hap
piness, were made the victims of
such cruel warnings. 1t takes a
pretty desperate Criminal to threat
en- death or kidnapping, but other
forms of extortion are very common.
The big cities are plagued with
tribe of racketeers who extort regu-
lar tribute from terrorized people.
The underworld finds extortion a
slicker game than kidnapping. The
tremendous Outburst of feeling
caused by the Lindbergh abduction,
may have convinced some perverted
minds that it is a very hazardous
enterprise. But they think their
stunt can be put over without pub
licity by the extortion scheme.
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-23
CARS SHAPE PERSONALITY

Automobiles have almost turned
the world upside down, so greatly do
they influence life. They fill some
people with restless desires, they
give young folks freedom some of
them don't know how to use.
They turn many previously harm
less folks into Doors and even
brutes. Previously such ones were
not Objectionable. But when they
get into a powerful car, they be-
come discourteous, arrogant, and a
menace to life.
Such decadent effects are to be de-
plored, and those who use this mar
vellous facility in so improper a way
need drastic treatment. But let us
not overlook the innumerable con-
veniences, comforts, and blessings
brought by the ownership of auto
mobiles.
Not all people are Doors and
brutes who go careering through
roads and streets regardless of life
and limb. These offensive folks are
a somewhat small minority, though
the number infected with the speed
mania is deploTable. But there is
another type of folks whose person.
alities are very favorably affected
by the ownership and use of automo-
biles.
There is large element of people
who can be called shrinking violets,
excessively modest, reticent, self
depreciatory persons, who never get
credit for all they are and all they |
can do. They have too little faith |
in themselves to make any. impress
sion on the world. When a person
of that type obtains the use of an
the results are usually
They acquire skill in
which gives them a conf
dence in their own powers. they did
not have before.
So an automobile is a wonderful
hing, which incites some people to
oose and rough conduct, and opens
loors of expansion to others. A new
'orce was born into the world when
'ars were invented. 1t. is now up to
he world to teach people how to use
his force and get good out of it
md not harm.
Milford chronicle., 1932-09-23
Hope School Page viii
Continue In Chronicle

The following letter from we'll
known man interested in public well
fare, who once resided i'm Milford, Del
aware. now making his home in Bal
timore, Md, was received by the Edi-
tor of the Milford Chronicle this week,
stating reason why the school page
should be continued in the Milford
Chronicle for the next and succeeding
years. Mr.. TOrsch is a leading man in
the canning business of the United
States, and his opinion has value. If
the men of affairs hold such opinion,
as that expressed by Mr. Torsch, it
would be convincing that practical ed
ucation of the boys and girls in our
public schools, has a value that many
people have not yet realized. Read it
carefully. and think of your boy or
your girl as a possible benefactOr
through the page which appeared for
two years in the Milford Chronicle.
that was edited, creatda and made in
teresting by the pupils in the Milford
High School. It's practical education
The Milford Chronicle management
gave the space freely for the first two
years, but, there must be some public
appreciation and help if it is to con-
tinue for the next year.-Theo. Town
send, Editor.