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The daily worker., 1932-10-18
PARTY LIFE
PARTY LIFE
Party Members
Who Are Not
in Our Unions
RY = METAL WORKER

by METAL WOhhEN
AS A NEW Party worker and mem
n ber of the Metal Workers Indus
trial League, feel it to be my duty
to draw the attention of the Party
to certain things which need to be
corrected. For example, I meet
workers that belong to our organ
izations and at the same time they
beling to the reactionary locals of
the American Federation of Labor
to such locals where we have as
yet no way OF approaching. When
you ask such worker whether he
belongs to the Industrial Union, his
answer is No. He does not see
the necessity Of belonging to the
union of his trade. 1t is enough for
him that he belongs to the Inter
national Labor Defense, or the
Friends of the Soviet Union, or the
International Workers Order.
SIGNIFICANT INCIDENT
1t is sufficient to say that the
Party members who do not see the
necessity of belonging to our indus
trial unions must also be criticized
severely. / witnessed myself an in
cident where non-Party members
organized a shop where a Party
member had worked many years.
The same happened in lot Of
cases where the Metal Workers In
dustrial League tried for months to
get into a certain factory; and when
they happened to get one contact
they found out that there are sew
eral Party members working there.
Such thing should not be allowed
to happen in the left wing move
mert. And if such things do hap
pen then strong methods should be
used to avoid them in the future.
SUGGESTS REGISTRATION
A registration must be taken Of
all Party menberS--where they
work and whether they belong to
the Union. A committee must be
formed which should have as its
main work the left wing organiza-
tions and to find out where the
workers in those organizations are
working and to what union they
belong. The task of this committee
is to see that each worker in these
organizations joins our unions. This
would make our work of getting in
to the shops much easier.
+ ALSO want to call your attention
l to the shop groups. More atten-
ton should be given to this work.
A factory group is a big factor for
organization. In this work we are
quite backward. A shop group
Council ought to be formed and this
would make it possible to give a
thorough examination to each shop
and to be able to use the same
tactics. 1t would also make it pos
sible to develop new leaders for
this work-which is something that
we need tremendously.
URGES IMMEDIATE ACTION
7 hope that the Party will take
steps Immediately to clarity this
thing to its members and draw
their attention to the fact that
factory group meeting is an i'm
portant thing and more important
than any other meeting.
The daily worker., 1932-10-18
MakingProfitsb by
Firing Workers
il, Textile Mills

uOW to add to the number of un-
III employed workers in woolen
and worsted mill while increasing
output is described by Charles H.
Hatch in the Textile World, Aug.
issue. He tells how by the most
modern efficiency and rationaliza-
tion methods $327,000 a year, or
about IL per cent saved on the
payroll. He describes some of the
effects on workers employment.
For a certain type of yarn lin
the spinning Department. it (for-
merly took 16 operators to tend
5000 spindles. Under the new ar
rangement Of equipment, 5000
spindles are tended by nine oper-
ators and two helpers"
In another department a certain
concentration makes it possible
for % employees to do the work
that formerly required 46. This
saves $34,32S year.
I'm another division that for
merly required the services of 1874
clerks. the work is now done by 49,"
In the weaving division the staff
reduced to 35 per cent. The list of
wage rates before and after revi-
sion" given in the article shows cuts
in every department and job.
The daily worker., 1932-10-18
Intellectuals Publish
Foster-Ford Pamphlet

Culture and the Crisis" a 10000
word letter to the professional work.
ers of America, was issued yesterday
in pamphlet form by the League Of
Professional Groups for Foster and
Ford, with offices at 35 E. 18th ST.
This important analysis of the social
and cultural crisis in America is an
amplification of the recent statement
signed by sixty writer's, artists and
scientists, including John Dos Passos,
Lincoln Steffens, Malcolm Cowley,
Sherwood Anderson, Edmund Wilson,
Countec Cullen, Adolph Dehn, Sidney
Hook, Granville Hicks, Sidney How
ard ana Newton Arvin. The same
group formed the League, with James
Rorty as secretary.
The League will be. a permanent
organization, for the election is only
one front, and the League intends to
support the Communist Party on all
fronts. Pamphlets may be obtained
from the League offices at cents
each.
The daily worker., 1932-10-18
New DAILY" Premiums
For Subscriptions Go
Into Effect on Nov, Z

Premiums offered by the Daily
Worker with yearly and lesser sub
scriptions will be discontinued after
November 1, according to a statement
Of the Management Committee just
released. At the same time, the COM
mittee announced change in sub
scription rates for the Daily Worker
TO go into effect on November 7th.
The yearly subscription rate will
remain at $500; however, the price
of six-month subs will be raised to
$3.50; three months to $500, and one
month to rs cents. In Manhattan
ana the Bronx the new yearly rate
will be $500. The other rates are
$500 for six months, $500 for three
months and $100 per month.
Workers are urged to take advan-
tage of the last two weeks during
which premiums will be given
with all subs. These premiums are:
Joseph Freeman's 1.-THE Soviet Work
err; William q. Fosters Toward
Soviet America; the Soviet pictorial
book, 1.-THE Land Without Unemploy-
ment", and a photo-sculpt head of
Lenin.
With six months subs workers can
still receive the Labor Fact Book" !,
Memories of Lenin" by N. Krups-
kaya, Soviet Planned Economy, etc.
other premiums include Lenin me-
dalion or Red Cartoon Book
The daily worker., 1932-10-18
Facts About Cuisines
Recovery

THE professional optimists of the capitalist hay
L ing hard shedding.
The continuous drop in the stock market has wiped out
per cent of the increase in prices since August
The S. W. Sraus receivershp following the revelations
in the insult bankruptcy shows that the biggest mortgage
investment house in the country engaged in fraudulent
practices running thousands of small investors.
The atmosphere not very suitable for optimism based
on manipulation of the stock market
The financial writers reactionary sheets like the New
York Herald Tribune are compelled to make some sort of
explanation explanations than
iss of the wall street propaganda get-
THE financial writer
The theories that finds forward most frequently
the district explain the trend of the
part speculative fraternity
month As between two explanations seems the present
writer that the pepOnderance of the logic overwhelmingly the
In other words the Wall ST. optmsts now explain
that prospects Rooeyts
fact by the Of Roo
the part such influential members the ruling class
the General Electric Raskob of General Motors
g b @ aSen % f any f s 1 % s f t 4 IN @ t @ ptet b % % Tn
accurately monopo reflects
trend in industry it has to come down to earth once in while An
duon TO the END Of the year even h0ugA mna @ & R geaopg & m
market the result
continued failure of basic industry to recover.
OPTIMISM the
apostles of Wall Street try to make it serve The New York Evening
When one reads the story one finds that the exact opposite the case
than months though that
back only that last steel seemed to
dull" d2 to IA per cent of capacity-Edo
Another quotation:
recognized of the usually
consumption material
industry"
industry the of and
Producers Hopeful:
The farm implement industry might got its
but still of doing So"
recovery. the facts? Again quote:
for largely owing
get condition winter that
will be lost"
lot of miscellaneous Of
products To-day amounted little
contrary to expectations -"
about the widelyhded stimulating effect self
hqdahng enterprises by the Reconstruction Finance Corporaon
substantial
by the RFc of them being loan Of $62oooO for bridge
Francisco Oakland Pittsburgh dispatch of October
Is to the Evening Post
months"
principal production practically
collapse the market spite the rened
general deepening of the economic crisis
sashes the nensf
the that
the
effectively
Communist
The daily worker., 1932-10-18

very militant campaign on national
scale and is now about to embark
upon an international campaign, for
the freedom Of myself and all other
labor prisoners.
"The mass campaign organized In
conjunction with my mothers two
transcontinental tours has done
much to prove to the master class OF
California that so long as remain
in San Quentin the workers will
never cease demanding my freedom.
want to take this occasion to
thank the LID. and its organizers
who so successfully arranged my
mothers tours. These tours helped
crystalline the solidarity Of the work.
ers behind my case in more effep-
tive manner than any other effost
! undertaken on my behalf
The daily worker., 1932-10-18
Standard OILS Share.
The Work Scheme

THE "sharethe-wOrk scheme extension of the stagger
Il system initiated by Walter c. Teagle head of the
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey endorsed by Pre-
sdent William Green of the American Federation Labor
is taking its deadly toll among the working class
huge scale
Thirty thousand employees of the Standard Oil has just
been put five-day week with corresponding reduction
in pay This is of in addition to wage cuts made
time ago Fifteen thousand office workers of General
Motors been the fveday week These giant
while the policy of thirty three
one-third sashes
heavily reduced
poment has been launched nationwide scale
additional railway
been withdrawn Preparations by the railways and the
putting being carried quietly
instead openly This Is the only difference.
the 10 by the railway
the affecting than
employment
increasing the number of unemployed by the spedup Of
whose working time and have been reduced
a
starvation this
solution of the question of unemployment relief
Further reductions the creation of false hopes
check the struggles decent relief
the twin objects the work"
THIS
the
10 in Chicago in the the Central Committee
the Of its election
mitans
Federation
the Unity the organizations
and factories the sharhe
which arising
to build up the National Hunger March to Washington.
The daily worker., 1932-10-18
Starvation in Vienna II the
"Pride" of the Socialists
Conditions OF Workers in Austria Reftte Lying Claims
of S. p and its Associates of Capitalist Press

serious cases Of rickets, tuber-
culosis or scrofula.
The doctor who investigated con-
ditions in the neighboring village
of Mittendorf stated:
almost all of the small chill
dren have rickets; nearly so per
cent have very bad teeth. A
striking feature is the number of
cases of diseases resulting from
dirt. The greater part of the
children are insufficiently
clothed"
THIS is what the doctor records
in summer What. will become
of these children in winter, if their
clothes are not sufficient even for
the warm season of the year?
In Marienthal there were many
cases of glandular disease and the
danger of progressive tuberculosis.
The teeth of 64 children out of 100
were unsound.
In Williamsburg, another part
of Lower Austria, it was found that
81 per cent of the children showed
symptoms of tuberculosis; 81 per
cent had curvature of the spine.
In Truman it was found that the
greater number of the children
showed physical defects; serious
cases of ricketts,, pronounced danger
of tuberculosis, orthopedic faults,
while more than So per cent of
them had bad teeth. In Guntzels-
dorf-Schonau, so per cent of the
children examined showed symp-
toms of ricketts,.
CHILDREN CHIEF VICTIMS
/ The diversity of the results of the
in question is very easily explained.
They correspond to the different
periods which have elapsed since
the works situated in the locality
we're closed down. That is to say,
the children in the industrial dis
tricts Of Austria are all undergo
ing the same development, but they
are not all at the same stage. But
all of them have the same prospect
of reaching before long that ter
rible state of starvation which dur
ing the war and shortly afterwards
decimated the rising generation
with scurvy, tuberculosis and rick
cts. The starvation, which is ex-
pressed in decay of the teeth, rem
ders the child's body incapable of
resisting infantile ailments and
tuberculosis.
At this investigation it was found
that 60 to 83 per cent of the chill
dren were underweight owing to
under-nourishment. Even at the
end of the war the percentage was
only a few points higher. At that
time, out of $4,000 school children
examined in Vienna it was found
that 81 per cent we're underfed.
How long will it be before this fig
ure is again reached?
THAT is capitalist civilization,
4 which calmly allows children to
starye, in whose name, however,
preparations for war are being
made against the State which not
only does not know the barbarity
Of the starving child, but whose
achievements in the sphere of care
for the child has had to be recog-
nized even by it's most bitter cppo-
nents.
The daily worker., 1932-10-18

Illo NOillplcOC ClluOl OloCAiiCAAv w Vic
mass defense program and policy of
the I. L. d.
Mooney writes:
zone year ago, sent out an ap-
peal to all working class organiza-
tions to form a United Front to car
ry on a militant fight for the free
dom of myself and all other working
class political prisoners.
"Many of these organizations have
responded to this appeal, some very
meekly, and others, moderately; but
to the International Labor Defense
goes the credit for the most active
campaign for my freedom during this
past year.
II have no hesitancy In stating
that the LID. has responded to my
appeal in a most active and aggres-
sive manner and Is carrying on =
The daily worker., 1932-10-18
MUNICIPAL PER CAPITA EX-
PENDITURES ON RECREATION

Figures are taken from the latest
year book of the National Recrea-
tion Association.)
Notice the sharp drop in Boston
from SLIT per person in 1880 to 35
cents in 1931). If the sum in 1881
in Los Angeles seems high and the
drop relatively low, remember that
they are reckoning. in the money
spent by the city for the Olympic
Games-money which went for fa-
cilities for a hand-picked group of
stars and not for mass recrea-
ton. In New York City the fig
The daily worker., 1932-10-18

had a shilling? The Overwhelming
majority of the replies were to the
following effect: i would buy some
thing to eat.
One of the recent numbers of the
Illustrated Red Week" published
a letter from children living in a
district in the neighborhood of Vi
emma, asking for the gift of a foot
ball. The children, the letter
stated, had had the intention of
buying one themselves, and for
this purpose had formed savings
club They wrote however:
unfortunately here in Stra-
shof the parents Of most of the
young pioneers are so poor that
on many days there is not even
a bite of bread in the house, so
nothing came of our savings
club"
The consequence of this hunger,
Of this systematic under-feeding of
the children are obvious even to
+ the layman. In the streets of the
working class districts of Vienna,
or even in the provincial districts.
in which nearly 100 per cent Of the
population are unemployed, we see
the same pale, hollow faces of the
children, which bring back the bad
memories of the war years. There
are, however, also medical investi-
cations which confirm this COM
parison.
TELL OF STARVATION
4. A group of social democratic doc
tors visited the industrial districts
in Lower Austria in order to exam
inc the children there. Their re-
( ports are collection of documents
on The progressive starvation of the
industrial population of this coun-
try.
The report OH Getzendorf states:
Most of the children are un-
. derfed. A quarter Of the chill
sdren have bad taeth. Most of
the babies were not fed at the
breast. We saw strikingly under
sized and weak babies, but no
The daily worker., 1932-10-18
BY ST GERSON
Labor Sports Union)

WORKERS today are being denied
w the most elementary things of
life: food, clothing and shelter.
This is admitted almost .univer-
sally. But they are being denied
something else. That something
else'' is recreation.
The city goyernments-like the
state and federal governments-do
their little bit to help the big bosses
escape the effects of the crisis. One
of their methods is to slash from
the meager funds that are set aside
for recreation. Here are some fig
ures which show how workers are
being deprived of recreational IA
cilities gyms, pools, fields, etc.
They show how much was being
spent per each person during 1890
and 1881.
MUNICIPAL PER CAPITA EX-
The daily worker., 1932-10-18
BY GUIDO ZAMIs

BY GUIDO ZAMIS
TOR years beggars have been a
L characteristic feature of Vienna.
Today, however, there is added
something which is reminiscent of
the traditional misery in Spain,
South Italy or the Balkans: more
and more children, often quite
small, accompany the groups of
beggars. Frequently in the same
street one sees two or three women
each with a baby in arms, with
humble glances beseeching the
passers-by for that aid which the
State refuses them. In addition,
one sees children of school age and
below school age helping their
parents in their aims seeking eff
forts. They collect the money or
add their piping child's treble to
the voices of their parents.
Among the children prostitution
is not a privilege OF the female
sex. In the outer districts of vi
emma, boys who have just left
school and find no work, are quite
aware that their bodies can fetch
a price.
CITY OF THE CHILD"
This is the "city of the Guild"
the pride of the II. Internationa!
of which it's social democratic
burgomaster, Seitz, once boasted
that it did not allow a single school
child to go hungry. Twelve thou
sand children are provided with a
meal each day by the schools. -.
One has only to go to the markets
In the proletarian districts and see
the children picking the rotten
food UP out Of the gutter and from
under the stalls of the fruit sellers,
in order to get an idea how well
fed they are; or to see how they
gather apricot stones in order to
break them open and eat the kerr
mel.
IN a park in Simmering, in East
Vienna, some children fixed up a
Circus" Price for admittance,
Groschen (about half of / penny.
They performed what they de-
scribed as drama from life.'
The father is unemployed, the chill
dren hungry. The father brings
home food, but the Joy of the FAM
lily is short-lived. A policeman inn
mediately appears and arrests the
father; he has stolen the food
When the children we're asked
what they did with the proceeds
from the Circus" they replied:
we buy fruit.
FOOD! FOOD!--
Food, food, food-that is the con-
tent of all the wish-dreams of this
generation of children. A little
while ago school teacher, as an
exercise in composition, told the
class to write an answer to the
question: What would / do II ]
The daily worker., 1932-10-18

THE following article Is
smashing refutation of the bally-
hoo articles on Vienna by III. II.
Knickerbocker, Hoover's press
agent, which recently appeared in
the N. Y. Evening Post. 1t is a
striking picture of actual condi
tions in the much-advertised city
ruled by the Social-Democrats,
and the pride of the Second In
Observation-Disclosures Motel
The daily worker., 1932-10-18
Mooney Endorses Militant
|. L. d. Policy in His Case
Mooney y-Scottsboro Fight of Unity Of Black
and White Workers


serving his 10th in San Quentin
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1932-11-17
Program For
Suppression Of
Religion Revealed

Paris-oseph Mollet, in a recent
issue of LaCruix, outlines the Soviet
fIve-year plan for the Suppression
of every trace Of religion NJ MOL
let derives Iis information fnOm an
issue of The Young Advance-Guard
organ of the Universal Commission
Extraordinary.
aThe decree TO this effect, signed
by Stain, Bekhterof, Jarosavsky,
| Hogan and Lpbatchevsky and APP
proved by the supreme council OF
the Communist party" the author
says, twas ratified by the superior
| commission of the Republic OF So
viets and put in Torve on May d.
It fixes five years for the liqulda-
ton d religion
The first year Of the fiye-yeaI
plan provides for the closing OF all
| religious schools, Catholic seminar
les and theological courses During
this period all those known to be In
the service OF a religious sect are to
be classified n those who can live
without . ration card, that Ii to say
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1932-11-17
SIXTY DISASTERS
IN 1892 ADD TO
NATIONS DISTRESS
Red Cross Spends 81, 10000
To Help Victims of
catastrophes-

In a year OF great misfortune caused
by economic depression. in which the
American Red Cross assumed heavy
burdens OF relief for the unemployed.
the organization also responded to
emergency needs In 60 disasters in the
United States and its insuIar posses
sionA-
During the twelve months ending
June 80. 1882, the Red Cross gave aid
to rs. 900 families t0taIling 33S. 900 indi-
riduals, with expenditures of 81, 760,
1856 These people we're I'm distress be-
u of drought. flood. forest fire. tor.
nado. snowstorm. mine explosion. or
other similar great disaster.
Prolonged drought caused The Red
Cross to go with help to IS. 600 families
In the northwest Here in IA counties
in North and South Dakota. Montana
Nebraska. Washington and Iowa the
Red Cross spent 1880. 900 from it's
own treasury to feed and protect PEG
Pile through the winter and spring
Other grave disasters we're foods In
southeastern states. where the organ
ization spent $192. 900 from It's treasury
and $66. 900 local contributions To help
I3,OOU persons
1ore than so, 900 people were home
less from floods In tributaries OF the
Mississippi river and again the Red
Cross faced . long relief task. aiding
these people The national organization
gave Sos. 900 and local contribution
were 10000.
The Red Cross always maintains !
state OF readiness to meet these sud
den emergencies. and funds and othel
essentials to this work are supplied
in part, by this animal roll call. hell
each year from Armistice Day u
Thanksgiving Day. Every citizen cal
support this worthy activity through
joining as 4 member in the local Ret
Cross chapter
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1932-11-17
NOTICE

NOTICE.
OF Time and Place Set for Hearing
Petition for Probate of Will and
Letters Testamentary.
In the District Court Of the Tween
tieth Judicial District of the
State of Montana, in and for the
County of Sheridan
In the Matter of the Estate Of
Jacob J. Gorshe, Deceased.
NOTICE rs HEREBY GIVEN
That a petition for the probate of
the Last Will and Testament of Ja-
cob ]. Gorshe, Deceased, and for the
issuance Of Letters Testamen1tary
to Dennis M. Stevens, of Medicine
Lake, Sheridan County Montana, has
been filed in this Court and that
Saturday, the 10Th day of Novem-
Der, 1882, at the hour Of eleven (11)
O'Clock in the forenoon of said day,
at the Courtroom IN the County
Courthouse at Plentywood. in tht
County of Sheridan State of Mon
tana, has been set as the time and
place for hearing said petition, foi
the probate of SAID Will and for the
issuance of Letters Testamentary
when and where any person interes-
ted may appear and contest tht