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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-15
What an American Ex>Seaman
Sdev Aboard a Soviet Ship
Some Vital Achievements of the Russian Revolution

about conditions, the running OF
the ship, politics or almost any,
thing else.
''If you don't like conditions, you
know what you can dol" That's
what any American boss will tell
you if you kick. And he means
that you can quit the job and
starve to death, or go Jump in the
lake, for all he cares.
THEY use that same expression to
worker who kicks in the Sow
let Union, but with a very differ
ent meaning. There it means that
if you don't like conditions there
are dozen different channels
through which you can raise hell
until they are bettered. A Soviet
worker is not only free to kick
when conditions are bad, without
fear of losing his job, but he is
encouraged to do so in every pos
sible way. For those who are too
bashful to get up in ship or shop
meetings to state what's on their
minds there are boxes where they
may drop written, unsigned COM
plants or suggestions, and there
are wall newspapers like the one
in this ships Red Corner where
every worker may have his say for
all to read.
FOR THE DEFENSE
OF THE U. S. S. r.
Another feature of the Rec Cor
ner was a chart showing how to
use a rifle. And the next day I
found that rifle practice for the
crew was regular part of the
ships routine. In no capitalist
country do the employers dare to
let their workers have rifles. But
in the Soviet Union there is no
more exploiting class to keep the
workers unarmed for fear of revolt.
On every Soviet job the workers
are learning to shoot to protect
their revolution against any and all
attempts to return them to capital
list slavery.
AS to sleeping quarters, / thought
of the crummy, crainped, stuffy
focastles of American ships when
I found members of this Soviet
crew sleeping amidships III two
berth deck cabins, just like those
of the passengers. / thought too OF
the rotten quarters of the 3rd class
class stewards on the German ship
which brought me across the At
iantic. Their work has been doub-
led, with cabins to look after as
well as waiting at table, SO that
now they must put in a 15-hour
day or more. rising at five in the
morning and not being free until
ten at night.
And then Soviet seamen have
vacations with pay each year, free
medical care, old age pensions and
a dozen other such benefits they
have gained from the revolution.
But what impressed me most on
this three-day trip was the lack
Of slave-driying and the general
freedom of speech and behavior
fer the crew I asked one Of the
sailors why no one seemed scared
of his job nor scared of the boss.
That's easy he said. an the
first place, why should we be scared
for our jobs when there isn't any
unemployment in the Soviet Union.
And in the second place, there
aren't any bosses to be scared of.
We workers are running things
ourselves these days.
Monday: "On q Soviet State
FARM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-15
BY L. MARTIN.


If YOU'VE ever worked on an
l American ship, you can get some
idea of what the revolution has
meant to Soviet workers before ever
you step on Soviet soil.
Leaving Germany, we sailed from
Stettin on the passenger ship
Yushar of the Soviet Baltic fleet
bound for Leningrad. The red flag
with the hammer and sickle floated
proudly frEm her stern.
ON GREAT LAKES
IN U. S.
I have worked on Great Lakes
boats of the American steel trust,
where the two-watch system, or
twelve-hour day, Is the rule; where
deckhands and galley crews may be
worked IA or any old hours with
out overtime pay.
On Salt water I have done $500
jee-moojee," chipping and painting
in the glaring sun of the tropics,
while a brutal mate drove us with
curses. He would stand in the
shade himself, hardly taking his
eyes off us as we worked, seeming
to take a crazy pleasure in making
us do the most useless work under
the most uncomfortable possible
conditions.
FOOD ON CAPITALIST
SHIPS
I have sampled the food on a
number of American freighters and
oil tankers. / have seen hungry
sailors going away from the mess
room hungrier than when they ar
rived, because they could not eat
the refuse thrown at them. have
suffered for weeks from diarrhea
due to eating some of the food
that is considered good enough for
American Seamen.
I HAVE seen free born" American
citizens fired from their jobs and
blacklisted for exercising only so
much freedom as to complain of
conditions bordering OH slavery. /
have been reported to the captain
as a Red for merely talking of
union organization and have found
myself out of job when we hit
port.
And have had some OF my
sweat coined into profits for mil
lionaire crooks like Doheny, Sin
clair and the lords of the U. S.
Steel Corporation.
So ! wondered, as 1 looked at
that red flag. how much difference
the revolution had really made in
the workaday life Of the seamen.
For If seamen's conditions are bad
in America, the most advanced of
capitalist countries, how much
worse must they have been in
backward Russia, before the revo-
luton.
SEAMEN AND OFFICERS
ON SOVIET SHIPS
AS we came aboard, we heard the
first mate talking to one of the
ordinary seamen. He called him
"tovarisch" (conlrade)-and, be-
believe it or not, they were actually
talking together like comrades!
The "comrade" captain too was no
high and mighty thing apart as
on capitalist ships. Socially he and
the officers mixed with the crew as
equals, we found as the trip went
on. Though their authority must
be respected during working hours,
for the sake Of efficiency, they
could be called to task at ships
meeting by any member of the
crew. So BY degrees We found it
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-15
Maxim Gorky>> 20 Years
OF Literary Activity
ProIetarian Writer in First Ranks in the
Struggle for Socialist Construction

FORKI closes the speech intended
u for the Anti-War Congress by
call to the proletariat and to the
intellectuals, to exert their utmost
powers, their utmost efforts, to ore
ganiEe the last and decisive strug-
gle against the class enemy, who
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-15

less strange to see officers and men
talking oyer their common prob
lens in the ships Red Corner"
and living and working together as
conlrades-not as slaYedrivers and
slaves.
I CAN remember one American
1 seamen telling me what he
thought of his captain and officers.
It'd take a revolution to make
them Sonsabitches act sociable," he
said. Well, they've had a revolu-
ton in the Soviet Union!
And when it came to mealtime,
I saw another strange thing. On
an American ship the men who do
the hardest work get the worst
food. They have to content them
selves with what the passengers
and officers won't eat. But here
the men from the black gang, the
ordinary seamen and the rest got
just the same food as the captain,
and passengers. In fact, one in
dignant bourgeois passenger swore
he saw them getting better food
than we. If that is SO, it would
be fully in accord with the good
Soviet principle that the worker
comes first.
Walking around the deck the first
evening out at sea, we heard music
coming from one of the cabins. We
looked in at the door and saw
about dozen of the crew sitting
around in a sort of social room,
while two Of them played on their
balalaikas and sang. They invited
us in to join them.
THE PASSENGERS
AND THE CREW
Passengers and crew can appar-
emily mix together socially on a
Soviet boat as freely as do officers
and crew. They aren't any mo
Adnlittance to Passengers" signs
outside the crews quarters as on
American and OF h e r capitalist
ships. But perhaps that's because
the Soviets aren't ashamed of the
living conditions of their seamen.
The crew doesn't have to show any
servility to passengers either, and
they aren't afraid to tell them what
they think about conditions or any,
thing else. Their politeness is the
politeness of equals, and they slow
q poise in social contact and IAN
intelligent self confidence in dis
cussion that marks them as free
men.
In the center Of the room was a
table covered with q red table,
cloth. On 1t were spread out mag
azines and papers. There was
radio and a gramaphone for the
mems amusement. On the wall
were pictures of Lenin, Stain and
other Soviet leaders, drapec in rcd
This was the ships Red Corner"
The men were kidding and
laughing as they rested The crew
OF Soviet boat, like all other
Soviet workers, have plenty of time
for themselves. You don't see men
ready to drop from exhaustion and
with no ambition but to rest up
for the next watch. The American
two-watch system is unknown, and
the law for maximum eight-hour
day is strictly enforced. In fact,
the great ma iority of Soviet work.
ers are now seven-hour day,
which it is planned to reduce to six
hours in the second Five Year Plan.
Prominent on the wall OF the
Red Corner was the crews wall
newspaper. Here any worker may
write his complaints or suggestions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-15

THE fortieth anniversary of the
i commencement of Gorki's liter
airy work finds him in the first
rancs of the great socialist con-
structicn in the Soviet Union His
colossal epos "Klin Samgin," not
yet comp ated, is an arraignment
Of all those bourgeois and petty
bourgeois intellectual strata who
have not proved capable of over
coming their class egoisrn, and who
have remained in the ranks of the
exploiters and war organizers.
Cork, in combating the powers
of the old world, has not confined
himself to his literary art. He has
drawn his sword as proletarian
publicist, and as such he has sent
out his words of appeal and warn
ing for the struggle, his words of
courageous confidence in the Wet
DRY. He has awakened the con-
science of the best representatives
of the world intelligenzia, now just
beginning to realize, beneath the
blows Of the crisis, on which side
right lies and to whom the future
belongs.
AGAINST NIPERIALIST WAR
At the present time, when the
imperialist bandits are feverishly
preparing for new wars, Gorki's
voice is again heard precisely at
the right moment, calling for war
on imperialist war, for the last and
decisive struggle for the triumph
of socialism.
During the imperialist war of
19l4-1918 Gorki's attitude was de-
featest and internationalist. Now
Cork comes forward with fresh
powers, with youthful enthusiasm
against the growing war danger.
The Dutch government deprived
him of the possibility of taking part
in the Anti-War Congress. But
Gorki's voice is force which the
tzarist censorship could not silence,
and it not likely that the lackeys
Of capitalism can silence it. Gorki'S
appeal will be heard by all who
hate war; it will encourage the
wavering and bring them back to
the right path; it will arouse many
whose conSciences are still asleep.
The Washington times., 1932-09-09
Safe Pleasant Way
To Lose Fat

How would you like to lose i
sounds of fat in a month and at
the same time increase YOUR en-
ergy and improve your health?
How would YOU like to lose your
Aouble chin and YOUR too prominent
hips and at the same time make
your skin so clean and clear that it
will compel admiration?
How would YOU like to get your
weight down TO normal and at the
same time develop that urge for
activity that makes work pleasure
and also gath in ambition and keen
ness of mind?
Get on the scales today and see how
much yon wegh-then get bottle of
Kruschen Salts which viii last you for
4 weeks and costs but a trifle. Fake
one half teaspOonful in a glass of hot
water before breakfast every morning
cut down pastry and fatty meats
60 light on potatoes butter, cream ard
Sugar-and when you have finished the
contents of this first bottle weigh
yourself again
Now you viii know the pleasant way
to lose unsighty fat and you'll also
know that the 8 salts Of kruschen
have presented you with glorious
health.
To. take off fat hsrmlessly and
SAFELY. take Kruschen every morning
don't worry-it's the SAFE way to
reduce.
But be sure for you~ health's sake
that you ask for and get Krusch en-
Salts, Get them at Peoples Drug stores
or any drug store in the world and If
the results one bottle brings do not
delight yOu--do not joyfuliy satisfy you
why money back.
The Washington times., 1932-09-09
MONT Conner
TERM NEARS

Eleven thousand five hundred
children are expected to respond
to the bells ringing in the SO Mont
gomery county schools which
open Wednesday. according to DR..
Edwin w. Broome, superintend.
ent of schools.
This is an ncreaSe Of 420 over
last year which saw an increase
of 513 over the year previous.
The attendance jumps between
400 and 500 each year, DR.. Broome
said.
The school buildings are in good
condition and should not be over
crowded. The superintendent
said that the 338 county teachers
constitute the best corps of teach
ers the county ever has had.
The Washington times., 1932-09-09
FARM AID HOLDS
| LELECT|ON KEY,
SAYS BORAH

Continued from, Page -
homes and farms by the thou.
sands and 100000 citizens
are out of employment cOnsti-
tute an insult 10 his intelli-
Eence.
Sees Race Wide Open
This race for the PreSi-
dency Is wide open. II Is any
mans fight. The people are
looking for a constructive pro-
gPam and, take my word for
II. when they find that pro.
gram. they are going to vote
for the candidate who pro
poses it,
Borah touched briefly on the
prohibition issue. He said it
would have some effect in the
West, with President Hoover as
the beneficiary because the Dem
ocratic platform was regarded by
drys as "offenSively wet" He
predicted there would be no
enactment of modification or re-
submission legislation at the
short December session of Con-
gresS.
In Touch With Vote
Certainly he is keeping in close
touch with political conditions in
the West-and finding out exactly
what the voter intends to do in
November. He was asked:
"Are you going to do any cam
paigning at alI?"
81 am going to help my col.
league. Senator john Thomas.
1 want to see him reelected"
"Are you going to speak for
any other senatorial or con-
. gressiOn:.I candidates?"
Possibly, for a few, but
have no definite plans as yet"
What are you going to do in
the national campaign"
II haven't any plans at all
about that. 1 may join Gov
ernOr Alfred E. Smith in editing
the Independent Outlook. Isn't
that the name of the magazine
the governor edltS?"
But are you going to take
the stump for President Hoover
or for Governor Roosevelt"
81 have nothing to say about
that. Can't you see I'm taking
a vacation from politics."
Borah's friends in Boise we're
not so reticent. They said he
felt the West. normally Repub-
lican. was inclined to go Demo
cratic this year if the voters
found any promise of economic
relief in the campaign speeches
of Roosevelt. They said he felt
Roosevelt could win or lose the
West on his coming Swing
around the circuit" Borah, how.
ever, would not comment on these
reports.
AnVERYICEMENT
The Washington times., 1932-09-09
Emperor of Ethiopia
Asks Temperance
Propaganda

At the suggestion of Ras
Kassa, emperor of Ethiopia,
temperance campaign material
nov being used by the Seventh
Day Adventists in their prohi-
bition crusade in this country
will be sent to Ethiopia. where
the emperor is backing a new
dry-law society among his sub
jectS.
law. society among his subjects.
Pledge cards and articles by
lead:ng American business men
are among the material that
Ras KasSa has asked for.
The emperor who two years
ago gave 100000 to the Advent
lists for a hospital, wants the
literature printed in Amharic.
The Washington times., 1932-09-09
Negro COP. Names
NeL1 York Politician

Francis Rivers, colored, former
member of the New York State
Assembly and the son of the pas.
tor of the Berean Baptist Church
of this city. has been named to
head the activities of negro voters
in the East for the Hoover Curtis
campaign. Charles E. Mitchell,
minister to Liberia, who returned
here last week will assist Rivers.
The Washington times., 1932-09-09
H1gerstOIDn Boasts
First Chinese PuDiL

HAGERSTOWN, Md, Sept. 9.
FAX Wong, 10. who arrived here
from China to join his father, is
the first member of his race to
enter HagerStown public schools.
He can speak no English, but
since his appearance in this coun-
try has learned to write grammar,
spell short English words, and is
developing into a splendid pen
man under the tutorship Of an
older brother.
The Washington times., 1932-09-09
Columbia DeferS
Taking OUer WJSV

Reopening of radio station
WJSV as a unit Of the Columbia
Broadcasting System has been
deferred until November /. A
new transmitting station is being
built near Four-Mile-Run, Va.
Until wJSv is ready to handle
programs wMAL will continue to
broadcast Columbia programs.
The Washington times., 1932-09-09
State X. C.. InUited
To SiLDer SDrin1

Maryland knights Of Columbus
will be invited to hold their 1884
State convention In Silver Spring.
The Forest Glen Council will ex-
tend the invitation through a
committee of which John c. Bre-
man is chairman.
New officers are now taking
charge of the councils affairs,
Louis C. Beall being grand knight
and e. E. Rupert, deputy grand
knight.
La gaceta., 1932-03-11
LA POLICIA HA DEJADO DE
CONTESTAR LAS INTE-
~RROGACIONES DE LOS


Hopewell, N. j., Mario II.
Ell jefe de la policia del es-
tado, que dirige la b1squeda
de- nino Lindbergh, dice que Ia
prepsa ha tratado de dictarle
y que viene creando dificulta-
des al trabajo policiaco. Como
resultado de este la policia 4
segura que no volvera a con-
testar las heterogeneous de
los periodistas.
En- 10 successive expedira I'm
boletin dos veces al dia, a las
II de la manana y 10 de la
noche, en- case de que surja al
gun detalle de apreciable va
lor Informative.
Los p~eriodistas Sc habian
quejado de que ellos no reel
bian detallada information, Sc
gun ell case 10 merece.
Por orta parte la policia We
MIA temiendo que ell eXceso de
La gaceta., 1932-03-11

Cuando Sc habia dicho que no
era candidate, ell abogado R. G.
Ellsworth, lanz6 SUI sombrero al
"ring" anunciando su candida
.tura para ell puesto de procura-
dor del condado. Ofrece Tits
worth cumplir fielmente los de-
beres de su cargo, investigated
todos los casos criminales que Sc
sometan a su jurisdiction y So
breseyendo aquellos que conside-
re deben ser sobreseidos, por fal
TIA de pruebas o por otras razo-
mes de verdadera importancia.
Ellsworth afirma que no es ell
candidate de ninguna fraction
politica y que servira al pdblico
con la eficiencia que csc cargo
demanda.
La gaceta., 1932-03-11

mentos. Cuando ell Padre sor-
prendido por el aspecto saluda-
BILE del hombre quiso saber ell
motive que lie impulsaba a pedir-
le tai cosa, el viejo lie dijo que
iba a morirse y por este prepa-
raba TODD 10 relacionado con sus
1ltimos momentos. Luego Sc con
fes6 y ell cura lie di6 la absolu-
ci6n.
Horas despues Sc dirigi6 al
dueno de una funeraria pidien-
dole lie tomara la MEDIA para
un sarc6fago porque el estaba a
de marcharse de este nun
do. Regres6 a SUI casa y Sc despi-
di6 de todos sus amigos y como
cidos, diciendoles que va estaba
en- ell canine de la eternidad.
Sc acost6 temprano y por la
manana lie encontraron muerto
en- su CANA.
La gaceta., 1932-03-11
Ell CONCERTO DEL TENOR
BAGGIORE

Attic Baggiore, ell notable
tenor oriundo de Italia, ofrecera
esta noche un concerto en- ell Au
ditorium Municipal, bajo los aus
picios de la Association Civica
Musical de Tampa, que preside
Carl Brorein.
Cantara Baggiore la romanza
Lima, ell aria "Insegnatemi a
M~orire', "Sott oil Ciel", dos com
posiciones de Litz y varias can
clones americans, entire elias
"Un Canto de Amor, "Retira-
da", Ell "Cantar del Aqua, "Yo
amo la vida" y otras.
Attic Baggiore posee una voz
suave, clara y potente.
Tiene la personalidad que i'm
presiona al publico y canta con
exquisite buen gusto y admira-
BILE diccion.
La gaceta., 1932-03-11
NO Sc HA RECIBIDO OFFER
Ia ALGUNA DE CAPONE

Washington, Mario liz.
abogado general, Mitchell, di.
jo hoy que la oferta de AL Ca
pone para ayudar a la busque-
da del nino Lindbergh no ha
sido presentada al departa
mento de j~usticia.
Nosotros NADIA estamos ha-
ciendo acerca de eso-dijo.-
Otros funcionarios del gobier-
no explicaron que .el pandille-
70 de Chicago pudiera presen-
tar una oferta a las cortes pa
ra que estas consideraran or
denar su libertad bajo fianza.
Entonces ell abogado general
de los Estados Unidos pudiera
contestar por ell gobierno.
Capone ha OfrecldO una re-
compensa de $1,000 por la de-
voluci6n del nino y ha pedido
que Sc lie dele salir bajo fan
"a. Entonces ell abogado gene
raj de los Estados Unidos pu-
diera contestar por ell gobier-
no.
Capone ha ofrecido una re-
compensa de $4,000 por la
devoluci6n del nino v ha pc
dido que Sc lie dele salir bajo
fianza con ell prop6sito de bus
carlo y encontrarlo.
La gaceta., 1932-03-11
BUSTO DEL PAPA HECHO
CON ARROZ

Roma, Mario 11.-Un grano
de arroz trabajado con infinita
%paciencia para representa- un
busto minimo del Papa Pho XI,
fue entregado hoy al Papa por
la madre superiora de las Her.
manas de Maria, que tienen un
gran n1mero de instituciones en-
TODD 81 mundo. Ell busto es ell ira
.bajo de un chino converse Y tan
'pequeho que debe verse por me-
dio de un lente.
Otro Importance regalo hecho
al Papa es un PIANO de soda tell
do por los mismos gusanos. Los
gusanos de soda fueron coloca-
dos en- una mesa plana llena de
pedazos de MADEIRA Y ellos fue-
ron hacienda ell teiido hasta lie
gar a hacer ell pano. Este presen
te, que requiere encrme pacien-
cha, fu6 enviado desde ell Japon.
Otros regalos, incluyendo ocho
elefantes de varios tamanos, la
brados en- 6bano, y encajes tell
dos en- Las Filipinas con fibras
de pima, y varias alfombras he
chas por los bereberes de la lana
de los carneros, en- ell norte de
La gaceta., 1932-03-11

~inebra, Mario lila A
samblea de la Liga de Nacio-
mes aprob6 un plan de tres
prntos para ell arreglo de la
Controversial Chino-Japonesa.
~.a.. Official mientras los dele
gados chinos y japoneses reel
ben instrucciones de sus res
pectivos gobiernos. FL plan a
doptado hoy fue decidido ano,
che por I'm comite y presenta'
n Ia forma de tres resolu,
8.
Las resoluciones declarar
que los convenios que Sc han
hecho por medic de preston
militar no seran reconocidos.
Elias aceptan la tests china de
que Ia asamblea es competente
para tratar toda la question
del extreme Oriente Y cream la
maquinaria para obtener la
evacuation de las fuerzas ia
poneSas.
Ell 1ltimo parrafo de la pri-
mera de las tres resoluciones,
que proclama la obligation de
TODD miembro de la Liga a no
conocer tratado, situaci6n O a.
cuerdo, que pueda ser tornado
por medios contrarios al con-
venio de la Liga, fue enmen-
dado, a petici6n de Sir John
Simon, para inc!uir ademas ell
pacto Briand-Kellogg.
La Asambleae qued6 en- rece
so al mediodfa de hoy hasta
las cinco de la tarde, esperan-
do que para esa bora ell DR..
Yen, delegado chino, y ell de-
legado japon@s Naotake Sato
hayan recibido sus instructor
mes.
81 no es possible terminar ell
case hoy, las discusiones Sc a.
plazaran hasta ell lunes con ell
fin de que los Delegates Sc
trasladen a Paris y concurran
al entierro de Aristides BRAND
La gaceta., 1932-03-11
DE ITALIA
HIZO QUE LIE FABRICARAN
Ell SARCOFAGO ANTES
DE MORIRSE

Parma, Italia, Mario IL
Giralomo Piarra, de 88 amos sin
tiendose cerca de la muerte Sc
puso sus mejores ropas, y visit6
al cura de su p%arroquia, pidien-
dole lie diera los Gltimos sacra-
La gaceta., 1932-03-11

Africa, y una trompeta que usan
los Lamas del Tibet para lamar
a los fieles a oracion, tambien Sc
entregaron a Su Santidad. Ex-
pres6 ell Papa su aprecio por los
regalos dando su bendici6n a las
Hermanas de Maria por los
trabajos que realizan y princi-
palmente por sus conventos en-
China, los cuales vienen sufrien
mes.
La gaceta., 1932-03-11
DE LA POLL
TICA

Anunci6 aver su candidatura
para representante al Congreso
del estado de Florida, ell aboga-
do Robert H. Owens, Jr., que
fuera empleado de la Corte Fe-
deral. Owens es republican, y
demanda para la Florida un Sis
tema de gobierno basado en- dos
partidos, no en- uno solo.
La gaceta., 1932-03-11

Pas6 aver por esta ciudad,
rumbo a St. Petersburg, donde
Sc ofreciera un banquete en- su
honor, ell ex-gobernador del es-
tado y ahora candidate, Sr. Ca
ry A. Hardee. Hace pocos dias ell
comite executive del partido de-
mocratico del condado aprob6
rescluciones apoyando su can
didatura.