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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-30
S. AND $3.50 A
MONTH RELIEF
Jobless in Old Forge
Called to Organize

OLD FORGE, Pa.-The unem-
ployed workers here just received
their relief checks from the relief
stations. This time they only re-
ceived SIS and the single workers
$3.50 This is after such great prom
ises which the local relief agent, Mr.,
Garfield Lewis, made, that for
Christmas he was sure the workers
would get $40. Since this relief is
given only once a month or so, you
can see what this means.
He also said that after this relief
distribution, every case will be per-
sonally investigated and only one
member Of each family will be al
lowed TO get the relief check and the
bag Of cheap flour.
I myself went to the Rev. Free
man, who works together with Mr..
Lewis After describing my case to
him, he promised that he would do
his best to get me a relief check.
But after 7 came for the relief check
I was told they still didn't go
through my case thoroughly.
Three youths were injured here as
they were digging for coal on the
company dumps, and the hole caved
in on them. Also sometime ago a
youth was instantly killed in the
same manner. That's. the future the
young workers got under capitalism.
The workers struggle like this day
after day, while the giant coal pro-
ducers stand idle, just because the
bosses can't make profit.
Misery is increasing, more soup
lines are forming, and many workers
here are without any lights
This Thursday we are going out
house to house to get in personal
contact with the workers, in order to
start an Unemployed Council, which
is so necessary here. There are only
four active workers here, and the
movement is very weak, but we ex-
pect some good results.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-30
Child With Abscess
in TOnsiIs Given Some
Pills by City Relief

GIG ERO, III. A Hawthorne
neighborhood committee Of the IN
employed Council of Cicero found out
that child i'll from an abscess on the
tonsils had received some pills as
treatment from the doctor sent down
by the Cicero Relief Station. The
child got worse.
A committee of 10 was elected in
the neighborhood, and demanded
that Mr. Macijewsky, the Town sup
ervisor, send DR.. Hood, the Health
Commissioner of Cicero, to care for
the child Mr.. Macijewsky said it
was impossible, but when the COM
mittee militantly insisted, DR.. Hood
was forthcoming within one hour.
The child is now recovering and DR.
Hood has also promised to remove her
tonsils.
The Polish Daily Zgoda, a Chicago
Fascist paper, is against the Unemp-
loyed Council and the Soviet Union.
This paper and the local politicians
are trying in every way to keep the
unemployed workers of Hawthorne
1IoiA VI Sdiu6lIlS III GIle unemployed
Council. It is in this section, with
its predominantly Polish population,
that the Western Electric Company'S
huge plant is located, the second
largest in the world.
The neighborhood and block COM
mittees are repeatedly winning more
relief for families than the local fam
lily budget specifies and are rallying
more and more workers around their
militant slogans.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-30
DNIEPROSTROY Is
MAJOR 1892 FEAT
Gets First Place in
List of Achievements

WASHINGTON, Dec 20. - The
Dneiprostloy Dam across the Dnieper
river in the Soviet Union, which has
been completed this year together
with a number of similar projects
under the Five Year Plan, was given
first E'lace by the National Geo.
graphic Society, as the outstanding
engineering achievement of the year.
The dam is monument to the
Self-sacrifice and Socialist enthu-
siasm of the workers of the Soviet
Union who overcame enormous OBJ
stacles in the construction of this
project over the dangerous Dnieper
rapids, and carried the ask out
ahead of schedule.
The Dnieprostroy Dam is $3.50
feet long and LAG feet high. It's
maximum capacity is 100000 horse
power, as compared with 100000 at
Muscle Shoals. In the second Five
Year Plan the Soviet workers are
preparing to build still greater power
dams.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-30
fEngdahl's Mother to
= Speak at Minneapolis
Memorial Meeting

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn-Mrs. A. L.
Engdahl, IA year-old mother of j.
rLouis Engdahl will participate TO-
Sgetner with Mother Wright and
I, Mother Mooney in the memorial
injecting to be held here Friday, Dec.
1l3O, at p. m, A.O.UW. Hall, 10 South
S117th Street.
n A preparatory conference held here
Nm Dec. 22nd, where delegates from
4nions, fraternal and other organi-
,6ations participated, made extensive
Preparations for the purpose of build
fg the Engdahl Memorial meeting on
he 30th into huge mass demonstra-
On for the immediate release of Tom
Soney, and the Scottsboro boys
Mch at the same time would be the
,hest tribute that could be paid to
LolljS Engdahl,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-30
OPEN DRIVE JAN. 9
FOR RECOGNITION
FSU in Campaign to
Aid Soviet Union

NEW YORK.-On Monday, Jan. g.,
the Friends of the Soviet Union is
launching a nationwide campaign
to demand unconditional recognition
of the Soviet Union by the govern
ment of the United States. The
aims Of the campaign are the collec-
ton of 100000 signatures by May /,
and the sending of an F. S. U. dele
cation to the White House early in
May to present this mass demand for
unconditional recognition and nor
NAL trading relations between the
United States and the Soviet Union.
Hundreds of meetings are being
arranged throughout the country to
rally support for this campaign. F.
S. U. organizers are being sent out
on tour for this purpose. In order
to make the campaign possible, a
special Recognition Dollar Bill Fund
has been started. The New York
District of the F. S. U. has pledged
itself to collect $4,000 by Jan. 8.
All friends of the Soviet Union are
urged to send in donations to the
Recognition Fund. Special collection
sheets may be obtained at the F. S.
U. District Office, 799 Broadway,
Room $50.
All workers and sympathizers will
ing to help in the collection of sigma
lures should apply Jan. at the same
address.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-30
HARD LABOR IN
CITY FLOPHOUSE
Past 70 But Kept at
Sweating Toll
CBy a Worker Correspondent


PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-Men at 18th
and Hamilton Municipal Flophouse
were ready to work snow but were in
no condition. Over half of them were
barefooted, and most Of them were
thinly clothed. They were weak
from the rotten food that they get,
what little they get.
If man doesn't work eight hours
a day, he doesn't get any dinner,
which is dipper of bean soup and
four slices of mouldy bread, and some
coffee chaff that gives you a pain in
the small Of your back, and keeps
one going all night at least 4 or 5
times a night.
It is a shame for old men to drink
that stuff called coffee.
Two old men of that shelter home
for homeless men that are past 10,
are forced to work in the wood house
and floor gang. 1t is more than they
can do as they both had to have med
ical service. The so-called doctors
of that house take no interest at all
when one applies to them for aid.
They seem to hate you as soon as
you enter their office. They don't
know what pleasant word is. If
one stays in all day on account Of
sickness, he don't get dinner because
he didn't work for it.
They don't turn on any steam til
S p. m, the windows are open all day
and it is like being out in the city
park for these men that are under
the so-called doctors care. If it was
not for what they get from the bread
lines, they would starve to death.
They would be treated better in most
any prison.
The Unemployed Council here is
organizing a committee inside this
place and have already won one vict-
otry by leading 300 workers over to
City Hall when they were driven out
at a. m. into the snow. They are
now allowed to stay in the recreation
room.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-30
JAPAN SPEEDS-UP
MANCHURIA WAR
War Office Calls for
Doubling Army

Virtually declaring a state Of
emergency, the Japanese War Of
flee yesterday called for the doubling
of the present huge Japanese army
in Manchuria, the speeding up Of
war production and the mechanical
ton of the Japanese Army.
A War ONCE spokesman directly
connected these war moves with the
existence of the Soviet Union and
h e developing anti-imperialist
struggles of the Chinese masses. He
pointed to the fact that Japanese
troops in their seizure of Manchuria
had advanced to the borders of the
Soviet Union as justification" for
the increased war preparations
thus attempting to use one imperial
list crime to justify another.
No Cut in War Fund.
The War office gave notice to the
Japanese Diet that no reduction can
be made in the huge war appropri-
ations demanded by the army and
navy heads and sponsored by the
Japanese Cabinet of Premier Saito.
The japanese boss press took their
cue from these war moves for a new
and greatly intensified campaign OF
war propaganda, and SANDER against
the Soviet Union.
Marking Orders War Planes.
The Marking Kuomintang Govern
ment has ordered 45 new military
planes from German manufacturers
and gas masks from Italy, in addi-
ton to huge war supplies from the
United States. But these supplies
are not for the purpose of resisting
the robber aggressions Of Japanese
and other imperialists, but for use
against the revolutionary Chinese
masses and the powerful Chinese
Soviet Districts
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-30
Milw. Workers Win
Pardon for Burback

MILWAUKEE,, Wis.-Fred Burback
was given a pardon by Governor Phil
LaFollette, Saturday, Dec. 18th, and
the Superintendent of the House of
Correction was notified to release the
prisoner. Governor LaFollette on Jan.
LIST leaves his office as Governor of
the State of Wisconsin, for Governor
elect Schmedeman, (Democrat).
Fred Burbacks sentence was thus
committed from two years to two
months.
Joe Hawkins another class-war pris-
oner, sentenced on two counts each,
to 3 years, will be assisted through
mass pressure by the LID. in also
securing pardon, when Governor
Schmedeman takes his seat.
Both cases were the outcome of
demonstration staged by the Unem-
ployed Council at the Fond du Lac
Ave. Outdoor Relief Station.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-30
TTNTDAEN
IEAJfiERS UNI AIU
IN BRIDGEPORT
Firestone Cuts Wages
But Not the Work

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Dec %. -
School teachers here were given no
tice that they must return to the
city treasury one weeks pay out of
every month. They held a meeting,
and sent a committee to protest
The committee was told "All right,
you get no pay at ALL" The teachers
were given their checks a few days
ago, and we're all notified that this
was the last check they would see
until April, 1888 They are ordered
to report for duty as usual, how
ever.
Firestone Cuts.
Firestone Tire Co. recently cut
everybody ten per cent on his wages.
Then they put the men on five days
work week, cutting them proper
tionally. This was tried for one
month, then the men were told to
work six days week for five days
pay. This is the present situation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-30
STARVING RAID
BAKERY WAGON
Minnesota, New Jersey
Jobless to March
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oND

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE)
in 1921. This law has been upheld
by the state supreme court and
means actually that the mining COM
panies are getting $15O,00O handed to
them. Five mining companies, In
terstate Mining Co., Hanna Ore Min
ing Co., Cleveland Cliffs Iron Com
pany, Republic Steel Corp, and the
Snyder Mining Co., who have been
paying a big portion Of the taxes
here are the ones that Joined with
the County Auditor in this case.
This decision is very important
one for the Whole Iron Range as the
case sets precedent through which
the mining companies can cut their
taxes at once. In these small mining
towns the schools provide a great
deal of work and especially have they
bec,a used for the relief jobs the boss
es are so fond of dishing out With
the cutting of the taxes the work will
be cut also. Workers who have been
getting few days month from the
school board will now be faced with
still less.
Bull is the town where the new
County Commissioner was elected
this fall because he was a good
man."
The next step the School Board
will take will be to cut the length
of the school year.
There are now eleven state hunger
marches being prepared, in New Jer-
sey, Minnesota, Montana, Utah, Con-
necticut, oregon, Colorado, Pennsyl-
vania, Illinois, Washington and Cal
ifornia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-30
GREET THE DAILY WORK Err
To All Workers & Organizations!

Dear Comrades:
ON SUNDAY. JANUARY Ia, A COM
BINED LENIN MEMORIAL AND NINTH
ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE
DAILY WORKER WILL APPEAR. In
euded in its pages will be special features
and articles dealing with the life and
writings of Lenin and with the high
lights of the history of the Daily Worker.
As the central organ of the Communist
Party, the Daily Worker has rallied the
workers for the support and defense OF
the Soviet Union.
1t has constantly carried on the fight to
mobilize the workers in the struggle for
better living conditions, against wage cuts,
for unemployment insurance.
II fights against the oppression Of the
foreign-b6rn workers, against deporta-
tions, for equal rights of the Negro masses
and for the freedom of all class-war pris-
oners-Tom Mooney, the Nine Scottsboro
boys, and many others.
This combined Lenin Memorial and
Ninth Anniversary edition is great event
for all workers. We ask you to express your
solidarity and support the Daily Worker
by sending greetings to the only rcyo-
lutionary Daily In the English language.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-30
TWO COMMUNIST DEPUTIES
HUNGER STRIKING

ATHENS. two Communist
deputies, Nefeludis and Sklavenas
who were arrested in connection with
the strike of the tramway workers
in Athens have been on hunger
strike against their imprisonment.
The we'll known Professor Bensis has
examined them and declare that
their Ssndition gives rise to anxiety.
Both of them are now subject to
attacks of weakness in which they
lose consciousness. The protest
movement demanding their release is
rapidly growing. The Communist
deputy Klidonaris who was arrested
in connection with demonstration
of revolutionary peasants in Larissa
has now been released.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-30
BIG DEMONSTRATION IN
DIJNKJRK

PARIS. Twenty thousand workers
demonstrated in the streets of Dun
kirk under the leadership of the re-
evolutionary trade unions. Dockers,
sailors, railwaymen, tramwaymen
and other workers took part. Many
workers organized in the reformist
trade unions were also in the ranks
Big groups of customs and tax off
Gals who are organized in indepen-
dent unions, were also seen in the
procession. The demonstration is
reported to have been one of the
biggest ever held in Dunkirk.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-30
SO Year Old Hungry.
Woman A Suicide

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.-Last Tues
day there occurred in this city one Of
the saddest suicides of which I have
ever heard. A poor old woman, SO
years old, alone in the world desti-
tute and forlorn, killed herself.
She didn't have acrust of bread
or lump of coal in the miserable
howell she called her home. The
neighbors had helped her what they
could, but they too had been rendered
penniless and couldn't help her more.
There is only but one government
that will do away with conditions
that drive workers to such tragedies.
Let us strive to here set up that form
the dictatorship of the proletariat
%. y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-30
SECURE VICTORY
IN FORECLOSURE
Cleveland Small Home
Owners Organize

CLEVELAND, O.-Recently in
Cleveland there was organized the
Small Home and Land Owners Fed
Grafton for the purpose of gaining
moratoriums on the principle and
interest of all mortgages an con-
tracts for small owners who are fac
ing foreclosures.
The organization won its first VIC
tory in the case of E. Karshansky,
2459 West 18th St., who was facing
foreclosure. A delegation represent
ing the small home and land owners
presented their demands at the bank
for immediate withdrawal of these
foreclosure proceedings. A conces-
sion was gained and the foreclosure
was withdrawn until the future
board meeting of the bank.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-30
Jobless Guardsmen
Defeat Pay Cut
of Their Officers

NEW YORK CITY-Men of a, New
York National Guard Company, who
are being Systematically trained to
fight workers in the present criiss,
were expecting their pay checks on
Thursday nieat. After drill, when
the pay was due, the checks were Or
dered withheld by the commanding
officer until so cents per man was
given to the emergency relief fund.
AS over so percent Of these guards
men are unemployed, and a great
percentage are guests" Of the city in
the Municipal Lodging Houes, and are
absolutely without funds, this propos-
ition was not received enthusiastic
ally.
After a few of the more militant
workers in the company had suffic-
lent courage to protest against this
the balance Of the com
pany backed them up in their de-
mands for the pay check without a
forced contributor to fake charity.
A deputation, with fixed bayonets,
was elected, and demanded their
checks. The determination of these
men won out and their pay was given
to them without any deduction.
A Worker In the National Guard
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-30
International
Notes
"a JAPANESE SERVANT OF
MANCHUKUO"

TOKYO. - The Japanese Captain
Anaka5u has been appointed leader
of the police in the Manchukuo
State. Anakazu is a good man for
the job and there is no doubt that he
will perform the work" awaiting
him to the satisfaction Of his SUI
periors who have their quarters in
Tokyo and not in Hardin.
Arnakazu has made what is known
in bourgeois circles as "a brilliant
career" A few years ago he was a
simple police officer in Japan, out
his chance came when the Japanese
socialist leader Sakao Osugi fell into
his hands during the period OF mar
tial law proclaimed after the great
earthquake which the japanese au-
thorities used as an excuse Tor a VI
cious attack on the Japanese working
class movement. Anlakazu is "a
leader of men" and reminiscent IN
many respect of some of the Kip
lineesoue figures which helped ITO
build the British Empire Amakazu
doesn't do the work" himself, he
directs the activities of his subor-
dinates. He therefore ordered a
subordinate to strange Sakao Osugi
and his order was carried out whilst
Amakazu looked on. He then led
the throttler to the next cell where
Amakazu's wife and his young ne
pheW we're also held. At Amakazu S
orders and in his presence the old
lady and her nephew were then also
throttled.
The Japanese authorities tried to
hush up the affair at the time, but
it was impossible and in view OF
the fierce wave of anger which swept
over the country Amakazu was re-
moved from his post and tried. He
was convicted and sentenced to ten
years Imprisonment in fortress, but
he had not niscalculated. Imperial
ism whether Japanese or British has
work for his sort to do and before
long he was free and well launched
on a career profitable in 'honors"
and emolumentS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-30
Michigan Miners Plan
Drive for Relief and
Work Dem ands

HANCOCK, Mich, Dec. 29.-The
Hancock Sub-District Board Of the
National Miners Union held its sub
district Conference on Dec, 25 which
outlined a program for the organiza-
ton of the miners now partially en-
ployed, into the N.MU. for the pur-
pose laying basis for an extensive
united front struggle for improved
conditions.
1t was pointed out that there are
around 5000 miners in the copper
country, but only 20 per cent of
these are working two to three days
a week.
The young workers are getting no
relief at all while those Of the adults
who apr ''r relief are compelled
70 turn Automobile licenses
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-30
Soviet State Farms
Increase Production

MOSCOW, Dec. 29-A substantial
rise in the production of Soviet state
dairy farms makes possible consi-
derable increases in the quotas under
the latest government decision re-
gulating deliveries by the state
farms, collective farms and individ-
ual peasants.
Qutoas for state forms have been
increased by 40 per cent as COM
pared with the past year. While
quotas for the collective farms range
SO to $50 liters per milk COW annually,
the state dairy farms will supply
from $50 to $50 liters per COW. The
average yield per COW in the state
diaries is 300 liters, while in single
instances over 1900 liters have been
procured
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-30
CZECH COMMUNIST SENATOR
SENTENCED

PRAGUE.-The Communist SEN
ator Lokota and "a workers have
been convicted in Munkatch (Slova-
kia) in connection with a collision
which took place between workers
and police in Chust whereby one
worker was killed and a number OF
others wounded by police bullets.
Senator Lokota was sentenced to IA
months hard labor and to the loss
of all civil rights which means the
loss of his seat in the Senate. The
other accused received terms varying
from Q to 10 months hard labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-30
$SO,583,5O4 IS
GIVEN TO RICH
By Same Govt TOO
Poor" to Give Relief
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE

it universal. 1t consists Of levying
tribute on the workers in each fac
tory then cutting their pay to get
another source of income for the
insurance fund, this last coming ap-
parently from the company"
Then every individual VINO has
worked for certain considerable
length of time for the company, will,
if he is laid off, wait and starve for
some fixed time more, and then will
get some insurance, not for as long
as he is jobless but for a certain
number of weeks. Distribution of
insurance will be in the hands of the
factory managers. If one factory's
fund runs out, the workers just go
hungry, they get nothing from any
other factory nor from the state.
IT A Wage Cut
That is not insurance. 1t is COM
pulsory savings, through wage cuts,
for the workers already on starya-
ton standard. And the workers
savings are not even handled by the
worker who saves, they fall into the
hands Of the factory management.
The 100000 already unemployed
will get nothing from it, and those
still at work and doomed to be I'M
employed in the future, will get Moth
ing for a long time to come yet, and
then not much. But they get their
wage cuts now.
Swope is very proud Of the plan,
but it is nothing for the employed
or unemployed workers to fight for
Profits Up, Wages Down.
They have something to fight
over, though. DR.. Walter Rautens-
trauch, of the industrial engineering
department of the University of Col
umbia, in the course of a lecture
mentioned that the workers returns
from industry are collapsing. He
showed that in wages drawn, in a
list of biggest industries by indus
trial workers amounted to S2,700,-
100000; dividends paid were $780,
100000 and interest paid was $780,
100000.
The situation now is almost totally
reversed. Wages paid in 1882 have
fallen to 1903, 100000; dividends paid
have almost doubled and amount to
1924, 100000, and interest paid has
gone up to 81, 118,000,00O
The trusts and big bankers are
getting theirs, more than ever before,
but the workers are getting about
third of what they used to get, only
eight years ago.
Sixteen million unemployed and
that many more part time wage cut
workers have to do something about
this. The plea of the capitalists and
their government that they can not
find money for unemployment in
surance and wages is proven false,
capitalists and government find
what they want for themselves. If
they are forced through mass pres
sure, they can find it for the work.
ers, employed and unemployed.
Form anti-wage cut committees
in every shop! Form neighbOrhood
and block committees of employed
and unemployed! Build the unem-
ployed councils! On with the fight
for unemployment insurance