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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-30

Wabash, Ind, Dec. 15.-Tne
northwest column of the Farmers
Relief Conference were welcomed
by Wabash farmers at a meeting
at the local high school. Approx
mately 80 farmers attended and
were enthusiastic in theiI response
to the program presented by the
conference.
Local farmers took the delega-
ton into their homes and fur
nished them with eating and sleep
ing accommodations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-23
Paid 71a Cents
An Hour by County
(By a Worker Correspondent,

MUSCATINE, Ia, July 22.-The
only work a man can get here is a
county job, at Is cents an hour, which
is not paid in cash. and there is no
work every day either. One worker
in my neighborhood who has FAM
lily Of six works six days, nine hours a
day, for which he gets three days
credit, which is an order for $405.
He has to take that to store that
they want him to, and get the things
that they want him to. The other
three days they hold back on him.
In other words he works for seven
and half cents an hour.
The soldiers relief has been cut
down to 50 week, regardless of the
size Of the family. If you need a
pair of overalls, that goes out of your
grocery bill. So if you want to cover
up some of your nakedness you have
to miss a few meals.
I myself was broke into it while 1
was overseas in 1917 went for
months with the seat of my pants out,
bottoms of the feet on the ground,
and slice of bread cut with razor
for meal. Then they had CUTS
enough to deduct $1.25 day for
board of Of our compensation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-23
BELGIAN MINERS
OVERRIDE SCAB
SOCIALIST PACT
Influence of Vandervede and Other Reform
lists Shown on Wane
Recognition refused to Deportation Agreement
of Betrayers

from the great strike is the admit
tea lack Of influence of the reformist
leaders, including Emile Wander
velde, the socialist. A decided growth
in the influence in the revolutionary
opposition has been noted during the
past few days.
Letter from Belgium
The following letter from Belgium
exposing the reformists' attempts to
split the ranks of the miners was re-
ceiyed today by the Daily Worker.
The reformist bureaucrats of the
Belgian Miners Federation have con-
cluded a shameful pact with the
government and the mining capital
lists in order to break down the
struggle Of the miners. The result of
this pact would be that the tens Of
thousands of miners who are not of
Belgian nationality will be turned out
of Belgium. The miners have re-
fused to agree to this pact, and have
replied to it by extending and in
tensifying the strike.
The comrades of Borinage have
been followed by those of Chorleroi
and central Belgium. One hundred
twenty thousand workers of this in
dustrial district are out on strike.
The government and the reformist
bureaucrats are anxious to crush the
strike by means of gsndarmerie.
soldiery and armoured cars. They
demand that state of siege be inn
posed. But the miners and their
wives are continuing the heroic
struggle to the utmost of their pow
ers. They are erecting barricades
and are defending themselves against
the military forces.
1t is the duty of the miners of all
countries to support this heroic
struggle.
Call or Solidarity
Therefore the Miners International
Committee calls once more upon all
miners for the utmost solidarity.
Comrades, organize collections at
once in aid of the strikers. The re-
formist bureaucrats are determined
to starve out the strikers, especially
the comrades who are not of Belgian
nationality, by means of refusing
them strike benefit.
Prevent this; collect money, that
the plans of the enemies of the
miners may be frustrated Protest
against the use Of solidarity against
the striking comrades, exercise class
solidarity.
Help quickly and you help doubly.
Long live international solidarity.
Long live the strike of the Bell
gian miners.
International Committee of the
Miners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-23
A WORKER SEES
RED BARRICADES|
RISE IN BERLIN
Gives Vivid Account of Fascist Terror and
Street Battle With Police
Support the Red United Front Against
Dictatorship

through the Rostoker barricade was
peltsd from the windows, one of the
big iron dustbins crashing like an
explosion on to the top of the car;
they retreated hurriedly, and the
neighbors immediately poured out
and began to strengthen the barri-
cades with huge flagstones, picked up
from the pavement.
Now that the barricades were
manned and impossible the police
turned their attention to their main
task-that of clearing Turn Strasse
(the main street, for the Fascists.
They proceeded to knock down and
beat up every single person within
sight. On the corner of Beussel
Strasse and Turn Strasse an officer
could be seen holding workers legs
in the air, his head and shoulders
resting on the ground, while Sec
ond policeman smashed bitterly over
and over again at the workers face
with his baton. BY these means the
police had cleared the street suffi-
GENTLY by midnight for the Fascists
to come out.
From cafe doorway we saw the
police lined along both pavements,
while 800 picked Fascists tore as
fast as they could run along the
middle of the road towards the
bourgeois quarter.
We now made our way back to the
second barricaded street, where red
glow could be seen illuminating the
high tenements and showing up the
jagged outline of the black barricade,
straw mattress was burning
fiercely.
The origin of the fire is unknown,
but it gives the police the excuse for
bringing out their Water Cannon
and deluging the workers, knocking
them off their feet. BY now the po-
lice are armed with army rifles in
addition to their revolvers, and the
AuSC puDilS Nd6OAio paul Ol1lils tAlC
neighborhood are accompanied by an
armoured car with mounted machine
guns, rumbling noisily through the
tightening streets.
AS the dawn breaks the inhabi-
tants retire into their flats and close
the doors and windows, having
fought a bitter hand-to-hand fight
with the police for more than IL
hours on end. Soon it is light and
only the gigantic armoured car can
be heard numbering through the
empty cobbled streets, backfiring ar
rogantly.
But the barricades remain as a de-
fiant symbol of the fighting deter
mination of the proletarians of Red
Berlin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-23
Another 10 PC. Cut at
Chase Metal Works
(By a Worker Correspondent

WATERBURY, July 15.-A second
wage cut of 10 per cent, effective
today, is facing the workers of the
Chase Metal Works g. Waterbury
Manufacturing Co.
About three weeks ago many work.
ers we're laid off and the remaining
workers are working only part time.
SITS a day is big money now for
hours work. Out of this miserable
pay the workers are forced to give
one per cent to help the unemployed.
Two months ago, the mayor of
Waterbury. Mr.. Frank Hayes, and Mr..
Chase gave a Letter to every worker
employed in the Chase Metal Works
g. Waterbury Mfg. Co., stating, I'VE
thank you workers for supporting the
unemployed" But they did not give
penny out of their own fat sala.
ries to help the unemployed workerA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-23
A Veteran Answers
Sob Sisters SANDER
Against Bonus Army
(By a B. E. F. Correspondent

In the N Y. Evening Journal,
Hearst Wall Street capitalist news
paper. sob sister," Elsie Robinson.
is spreading lies about our fellow
workers and comrades in the B. E. F.
at Washington. This is the stuff she
writes: I'm this ragged army of vets
are other vets who are not so ragged
and not so hungry, who point out to
our vets that there is a country
where the Government does not let
its soldiers starve or go ragged, whose
Government has abolished unemploy-
mant, whose families and children are
happy and well fed, and for the vets
to do likewise in this country"
Now, fellow workers, in bold black
letters this sob sister writes But
these well dressed, well fed men are
Communists, and are being paid by
this other government, and food in
New York and New Jersey is being
raised to send to them"
al bAlO A1aillC VI ali IlfS lIllIlklIlB
workers of America 1 denounce these
as a damnable lie of the sob sister.
Elsie Robinson, who uses her talents
20 misinform the Am
erican workers.
Every man in that ragged army who
has been starved and is jobless was
led INTO that World Slaughter OF
1S14-191S by such lying sob sisters as
Elsie Robinson. In 1917 they wrote,
Your country neds you"
We swallowed that bunk in 1917
and in 1882 these same vets are no
longer of any use to the capitalist
class.
We vets are no longer blind, no
longer deaf, no longer dumb. We are
class conscious, and our enemies are
such writer's are Elsie Robinson, who
is paid by Hearst TO promote another
World Slaughter, in an attack on the
Workers World, the Soviet Union.
These men who Elsie Robinson
would have us believe are our en-
emies are all working men and ex-
soldiers. They are raising food and
money with the help of the Workers
ExServicemen and with the help of
Ex-Servicemen and with the help of
working men and women.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-23
Kansas City Workers
Block Anti-NegrO Film
(By a Worker Correspondent

tBy worker correspondent
KANSAS CITY, July 20.-A signal
victory was achieved by the Commu-
mist Party and Young Communist
League in Kansas City, through the
driving out of the vicious Negro hat
ing picture, the Birth of Nation"
This picture playing at the Pantages,
a downtown theatre, was scheduled to
be run until Thursday, but the Party
got out leaflet denouncing the pic
ture and calling on the workers, both
white and Negro, to demonstrate in
front of the theatre Wednesday, at
5 p. m.
Quite number of preliminary
mobilization we're held for this DEM
onstration and as result the news
spread throughout the Negro section.
The theatre owners. alarmed by the
prospect of a huge, militant demon
stration in front of their place
pulled the picture off the screen on
Monday night, or three days sooner
than it was scheduled to leave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-23
A DRESS WORKER
URGES STRIKE
Exposes Conditions in
Carnegie Shop
lBy a Worker Correspondentl

10y WORKER correspondent
NEW YORK, N. Y.-The firm Of
Hattie Carnegie is well known in the
dress trade. 1t employs about 1865
organized workers in two shops,
wholesale and retail. These workers,
after years of struggle have succeeded
in organizing and maintaining union
conditions. The strike of 1901 was
lost as result of the nlisleaders of
Local 38.
In order to stifle the growing dis
content of the workers the Interna-
tional sent an outsider Mr.. Greenberg
as supervisor. From the very first
day that Greenberg came he began to
undermine the conditions of the
workers
The first vancouver was to permit
the boss of the Carnegie shop to car
ry through wage cuts and reorgani-
cation prior to the expiration of the
agreement. 1t was only the militant
and united action of the workers that
prevented this sell out. This was fol-
lowed by many other treacherous
moves.
Last May 28th, Carnegie, through
the secret agreements with the off,
Gals, declared lockout against the
workers of the largest shop. The
workers Immediately came to the
union and demanded a meeting. The
administration deliberately post
poned the meeting for ten days. IN
stead of organizing the shop to an
swer the lockout with strike, Green
berg, without consulting the workers
agreed to hand over the matters to
the impartial chairman, who was
quite partial
The workers at the shop meeting
by an overwhelming majority voted
down Greenbergs report and de-
manded action against the firm.
When Greenberg failed to force
through his treacherous policy he
tried to split the ranks of the work.
ers and called upon his supporters to
leave the meeting. Since then no
more meetings were called.
The Executive Board together with
Greenberg and the International Off
Gals openly declared that they are
ready to agree with Carnegie to
throw more than half of the workers
out on the streets. What care they
that the army of unemployed are
starving on the streets, that a hun
dred more workers will become job
less.
We the workers of Carnegie shop
can defeat these schemes by uniting
our ranks, by sticking together, by
answering the lockout and shameful
betraay carried through jointly by
Greenberg and the boss with strike.
The best way we can defeat this sell
out and fight for our jobs is to come
to the meeting and mobilize our ranks
to fight for our jobs and our bread
and butter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-23
Worker Correspondence

and children came in ragged clothes.
Rags and hunger are all that ths
workers have to show for their years
of toll for the capitalist system.
We were not permitted to have any
speeches in the park but we held
speeches at another place after the
picnic was finished. The police and
the American Legion tried to terror
ize the merchants when we we're coll
Letting donations for the picnic, but
in spite of the terror the picnic was .
success and more workers joined the
Unemployed Council.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-23
The Democrats Talk
While People Starve
Dear Conlrade

Dear Comrade:
Listening to the proceedings of the
Republican Convention reminded me
Of the old adage, Nero fiddled while
Rome burned" The very same sort
of cynicism was exhibited by the
Democrats at their convention. They
talked of everything, but relief to the
workers was not even mentioned
I presume that to solve the relief
problem they have in mind hiring
Thurston or Houdini to pull rabbits
out of a cooked hat and then feed
these to the unemployed workers.
Well, at that, I believe it's better
scheme than Hoover's 2o-year plan.
L. S. KINDROWSKI.
Chicago, Illinois.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-23
DAMN YOU, MIR. WELLS
Las Vegas, New.

Dear Editor:
In H. G. Wells double volume we..k,
THE Wealth, Work and Happiness
of Mankind" he speaks of world
revolution as a catastrophe and end
of civilization. Mr. Wells has a soft
bed to sleep in, and not board, a
park bench, or Mother Earth, he has
a nice, steady income from the roy
alties of his book, yes, the present
system is quite suitable for Mr., Wells.
He does not want a revolution.
But 1 do not nave a soft bed to
sleep in. have no income from
books, in fact I have no income what
soever. So say to you, Mr.. Wells,
Damn you. Mr.. Wells, Damn your
whole parasite class, am hoping and
praying for the revolution to hber-
ate us from the tyranny of your ruls.
"A Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-23
THAT HELPS LOT,

NEW K.--Jean Sackrider,
dietitian of the Brooklyn Bureau Of
Charities, gets lot of publicity by
announcing that typical family of
five can maintain good health in
New York City on dietary budget of
S755 week. She does not announce
where this measly s7.55 is to come
from.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-23
LANSING PICNIC.
~ a Worker Correspondent

LANSING, Mich.--About 300 peo-
pie. workers and their families, were
guests of the Unemployed Council
picnic on July 4th. The food was
donated by the International Labor
Defense. r. B. Garfield and Roy
Sprague, of the Unemployed Council,
were in charge.
Many workers were barefoot be-
cause they had no shoes. Mothers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-23
STANDSTILL IN DALLAS
fBy a Worker Correspondent

DALLAS, Texas.-Everywhere you
look here you see people vainly try
ing to sell their products, while 9TH
/ rs with socks and baskets are going
through trash cans picking up old
cuts and left over stuff. I myself
hardly manage to get by through
selling vegetables. Most of us are
oroke. Conditions do not look very
,avorsk,A for the coming fall and
EinVye
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-23
Vote Red

The Daily Worker publishes tn
following so that workers can OF
ganize mass choruses at Red EIe,
ton rallies).
By VICTOR JEROME.
On the Sth of November
Vote Red-Vote Red
For jobless insurance
Vote Red-Vote Red
Fer work. for bread
Wen battle. Wen fight
For right to the streets
Well battIe-We'll fight
Together all workers
observation-disclosures
The foreign, the native
Close ranks-CIose ranks
The workers, the farmers
Glass Iinked-Class linked
Stop deportatiOns
Workers alI-Brothers all
Rights to the Negroes
Full rights-AIl rights
Self-rulc for the Black-belt
Self-rule-Self- rule
Death to the lynchers
Blackwhite-Unite
For Scottsboro- Mooney
Break chains-Break chains
Against the White terror
Red Front-Red Front
The Social-Fascisti
Our fOes-Expose
VOL, Thomas and Hilquit
And all those-and all those
Out Of our ranks
Drive 0ut-Drive out
For defense of the Soviets
Stand Guard-Stand Guard
From the people of China
War lords-Hands off
Against boss warfare
Class war-Class war
To the capitalist system
Vote death-V0te death
Our road is to Soviets
March left-March left
On the 9Th of November
Vote Red! Vote Red!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-23

NEW YORK, July 20.-Although
the striking metal Belgian workers
are reported to have returned to their
jobs yesterday, the miners are still
holding out against the wage-cut.
The most important fact emerging
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-23
Engage

I'm u sual photo
sh 0 ~ ing Michael
KaIinir,, president
of the Soviet Fed
Grated Socialist Re-
public and chair
man of its e1ecu-
the committee, IN a
chess game Nth A.
I. Rykov, Peoples
Comm,issar of Com
municGtionS. This
remarkable study
of them and their
audience 10aS made
recently IN Moscow.
(F. p. Pictures)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-23
sHoRTwEIGHT UNEMPLOYED

CHICAGO, Ill.--The Great Allan
tic g. Pacific Tea co. has been taking
advantage of the unemployed by
short-weighing those who present
grocery slips from the charities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-23

The following vivid account of
fascist terror in Berlin appeared
recently in the Daily Worker OF
Great Britain. The author is an
English worker who was an eye
witness to these events.
Evening star., 1932-07-03

IN an evil hour Russia fell under the
power not of French philosopher,
but of German Jewish economist. Karl
Marx was the very opposite of lover
of the land. He was typical townsman,
as are most Jewish intellectualS of his
type, and he could not understand peas
arts any more than the present Russian
government can. But the trouble burst
in the wrong place; it burst in the town
and permitted bookish people to enSlave
it in a book. Karl Marx beanie the
Koran of all those half Oriental tribes,
with something of the Moslem rever-
ence for anything written on a piece of
paper. For Marxians, like all material
lists, are of necessity mystics. Matter is
an Unknown God whereas spirit was
made flesh and dwelt among us.
That is only one example; hundred
others could be given of the way in which
the cause of revolution is so often right
and the result of revolution so often
wrong. But the case can be put more
favorably to the revolutionary idea; and
the point of the case. is really this: There
is a sense in which we may truly say
that the fault of many revolutions was
in not being revolutionary enough. I
mean that the evil did not come through
what they destroyed, but rather through
what they retained. Certainly, the COM
bination of the two almost always left
false and unfortunate heritage.
Evening star., 1932-07-03
By Gilbert K. Chesterton

An Englishman writing for an Ameri-
can paper may most naturally take the
example of the American Revolution.
am far from certain how many Ameri-
cans or EngliShmen would agree with
me. I sometimes have dark suspicion
that I should have to defend the Ameri-
can Revolution more often against
Americans than against Englishmen. But
in any case, my own personal view of
it is this: will not say that Americans
were right to overthrow the power of
King George, for, in fact, there was no
power of King George to overthrow Eng
land was not a monarchy. England was
already an aristocracy. But Americans,
in my judgment, were perfectly entitled
to break away from that aristocracy. An
aristocracy is a system which has its
advantages and disadvantages; but for
those who really wish to live the demo-
cratic life even the advantages were dis
advantages.
And, when all is discounted from the
mere cant of emancipation, it Is true that
a poor man leaving the English coun-
tryside for the American coast did be-
come a free man; even if he was starved
or frozen in a blizzard or eaten by
grizzly bear He had no longer master
or a lord. At home the advantage of
aristocracy was having good squire;
the disadvantage was having bad
squire. Some may even prefer a bad
Evening star., 1932-07-03

-HE real case against revolution Is
this: That there always seems
to be SO much more to be said
against the old regime than in
favor of the new regime. 1t is
not so much that it is always a bad
thing that things should burst, but that
they SO often burst in the wrong place.
Thus the Bolshevist Revolution burst
In the wrong place-in the towns. These
were so rare and unrelated to the rest
of Russia that it was almost as if revo-
luton in our big towns had begun in the
lunatic asylumS. The result was that
there arose something so horribly inhu-
man and unnatural that it did really
deserve to be called the dictatorship of
the proletariat. In other words, it con-
sisted of men who became tyrants while
they were still slaves yes, even in
the Socialist sense of wage slaves The
slavery peculiar to the town became the
tyranny covering the countryside. And
in the countryside the men who had
once been serfs and had become peas
ants, owning their own land, were forced
to become slaves owning no land, because
that is the law of the towns.
All that would have been better if the
main explosion had come in the main
bulk of the nation, if the Russian Revo-
luton had been like the French Revolu-
ton. Much is said today against Rous-
seau and the romantic revolutionaries
who idealized life on the land. But it Is
better to be romantic about real thing
like the land than to be realistic about
an unreal thing like the economic theory
Of history.
Evening star., 1932-07-03

squire to a bear. But it is true, so far
as it goes, that in breaking with ariS-
tocracy, the revolted colonies did open
a democracy for those who care to be
Democrats 1t was not the English things
they ruined which ruined them. 1t was
the English things they retained.
A LII the troubles of the revolutionistS
came from their being conserva-
tives For instance, they were so per-
sistently and pig-headedly conservative
that they preserved Puritanism. There
was really no reason why that entirely
local English or Scottish prejudice should
have pursued them across the free At
lantic into the wide prairies of the land
of promise. The Puritans who sailed in
the Mayfiower were altogether too re-
spectful to the England of Elizabeth and
Charles I. They should have thrown
their Plymouth religion into the sea.
The great Jefferson did, indeed, largely
realize this; he made the philosophy of
the republic out of that normal and uni
versal Deism which Is natural to most
men when they are neither Puritans,
Atheists nor Catholics. But will firmly
maintain, though fear ] shall not carry
all my readers with me, that-the Puri-
tanism which was brought from Ply
mouth has produced, and is still pro-
ducing, a crop of corruptions and diff
culties which were really no part of the
natural American situation at all. The
destroyer of tea In Boston Harbor did
not destroy sufficiently. The subscribers
to the Declaration of Independence were
Evening star., 1932-07-03
THE VIRTUES Of REVOLUTION

Famous English Autbo Wtng for The Stars Maga2 Considers Our min
Rvoin old Party Politics
Bntaiu-7he Hbt Democrats of Anohr D7he Revolutionary Idea