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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-09

"How did we live?" Jack gives a
wry grin. mo different from the
others. Beating our way on trains,
begging, stealing. You know, living
by our Wits, The workers revolu-
ton made no great difference, at
once, in their mode of life. But ear
Iy in 1919, Jack and his brother
were rounded up by the Soviet
government, along with hundreds
of other waits who had been made
orphans, homeless, and set adrift
by the war, and sent to one of the
children's towns, organized for
their re-education.
Jack, however, like many anoth-
er, at first felt far from grateful.
He preferred the road. Besides, he
was suspicious of what it was all
about. Step by step, however, he
was won over He learned to read
and write, his natiyely quick mind
began to reach QUITO gain, under
sympathetic direction, new grasp
on the world about him. He joined
in the boys games and self-govern-
mert, and in the school shop found
many interesting things to do. AS
member of the Pioneers, he be-
came a leader among the other
children, proving himself-"In the
interests of the working class-'A1-
ways ready!'" After a few years,
he was given the chance to attend
four year technical school, where
he continued his general education,
became skilled as machinist, and
graduated from the Pioneers to
the Ccmsomcls.
Finishing his course in 1925, and
receiving an urgent call from his
father to join him in America,
Jack set out on what promised to
be great adventure. To see that
strange land, to take part there, IN
the workers struggle for freedoml
ITO BE CoNTNUEpLs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-09
RED PODOLSK
The Former Singer Sewing Machine
Plant Near Moscow

enthusiasm and energy these youth
possessl At their machines for six
hours they have given their best
labour, then to department meet
ings of young workers, to discuss
their part in the fight to improve
quality Of output; to the club gym
for physical culture, followed by
showers, supper in q recently opened
factory kitchen, nearby; back to
the club for classes in political
economy and current events, the
o'clock movie show, and now home
for round of sleep before be-
ginning another day.
Even while we sing Jacks
thoughts are busy with tomorrow's
affairs. Although barely %, heavy
responsibilities rest on his firm
shoulders, placed there by his 1900
comrade-youth Of the Podolsk Ma
chine Factory who a year ago took
him from his work bench and
placed him as secretary of their
"Comsomols'', Communist League
of Youth.
His mobile, sensitive face, topped
by his waving red hair, is quick to
light as he discusses some political
question or jokes with his pals.
Everyone of the 10000 workers at
the plant know Jack, the youths
leader. There's a young fellow
who'll go far" they say, 'he's all
the markings" And so he has. Re
CARELESS of age, I've seen few who
could handle their organizational
tasks and guide their fellows with
a more sure, sympathetic hand.
How does it happen that he has
learned the art of true leadership,
when still so young? His story,
which we get out of him with some
difficulty, for he's not a lad to
talk much about himself, explains
a good deal of it. For Jack has ira
yelled a long road in his brief two
score and two years.
ON THE ROAD.
Born in the Ukraine, son of very
religious and poverty stricken par
ents, all the training he received in
his early days was from street
gangs. The Czarist government
didn't bother with schools for
workers kids, like Jack. "And my
mother, poor ignorant woman that
she was, could give us children lit
tie" he adds. so what sort Of I'M
Outstanding of life did we naturally
develop?" Not long before the
war broke out, Jacks father set
out for the land of magic, America.
He would quickly save enough to
send for his family, that was the
plan. But the war put an end to
this. The mother, weakened by
hunger, fell victim Of typhus.
Then Jack, and his younger BROTH
er joined the ragged illiterate army
of homeless waifs-bezprizorni.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-09
SIP. PIE IN THE SKY
nv a Worker Corresuoudent'

SOUTH NORWALK, Conn-The
Socialist Labor Party speakers are
active here trying to tell the workers
not to carry on a fight for unem-
ployment insurance or against evic-
tons. On speaker, Mike clean, adj
mitted he wanted the workers to give
up their struggles SO they could
starve more and SO bring about the
revolution" He admitted he did
not want to help the Soviet Union
or the Chinese Soviets or any other
actual revolutionary movement. A
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-09
PACIFIsTS OPPOSE
FIGHT FOR RIGHTS

Point 7--Mr. Thomas is afraid
the demand for self determination
will "incite race war" Therefore,
as good pacifist, he would avoid
the war at any cost. This is the
same argument which Mr. Thomas
close friend and colleague, Hey
wood Broun, put into another form.
Mr.. Broun said that because any
effort To enforce the 18th and 18th
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-09

When word came, in October,
that the Petrograd and Moscw
workers had taken power the Po-
dolsk masses were quick to follow.
According to plan, all public
buildings and factories were seized
by the workers militia, and the
Soviet set to work establishing the
new order and selecting its Com
missars to fill all responsible posts.
Heavy tasks, they knew, were
ahead.
DIXON'S CLASS
BUSTED
At the same time the other fac
tories were taken over, the armed
workers occupied the foundry,
workshops, and offices of the
sewing machine factory, and the
former Singer plant was declared
the First Soviet State Sewing Ma
chine Factory to be owned and
operated by the workers power.
AS for Dixon, he simply packed
his bags and left for America, and
there were few who regretted his
hasty departure.
In orr
r.. 81
! ~
THE endless white snow CLOVIS
! with a blush light, under the
star damned sky. Our boots make
fresh, crunching sounds as the six
of us, arm in arm, singing, tramp
along the the broad highway:
"Workers, in our hands the
power,
Comrades in our strength rely,
Ended is slavery forever
As freedom we labour and
strive"
We're on our way from a factory
club to the workers new town. No
one seems tired, although we've
put In q full day OF 1t, yes and
evening, too, with Jack and his
young comrades. What boundlss'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-09
An Answer to S. P. Arguments Against the
Slogan of "Self-Determination for
- the Black Belt" 4S
the Black Belt

using it against the Communists in
regard to the question Of self
determination for the. Negroes. But
in that case the ruling class is
always correct, so the whole ques-
ton of Negro liberation goes by the
board anyway.
Point 2-Mr. Thomas thinks
Self-determination Us bad socialism.
According to him, even under So
cialism the Negroes will nave no
right to determine whether or not
they wished to have their own
governmental forms or to join with
the whites. Under Mr.. Thomas
socialism this would be decided for
them by the whites. This simply
means that Mr.. Thomas under
standing of socialism is that it is
only another cover for continuing
the same system of imperialist OPP
preston that exists today. Under
true socialism by granting the
Negroes the right themselves to
determine their own destiny, it
would probably be possible to avoid
separation and establish the closest
fraternal unity. AS for Mr.. Tho
mas opinion that self-determina-
ton is bad sense under capitalism,
this is only another way of saying
he is opposed to all social changes
except those brought about by
convincing the kind white land
lords of the South.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-09

irish. But as a matter OF tacC,
insofar as language is related to
the existence of a national group
ing, it is not at all in the sense
that Mr. Thomas uses it (Which
is the. sense of the ruling class,
but only in the necessity that
within the national group there
shall be common language, COM
mon means of intercommunica-
ton, and certainly the Negroes of
America have that.
MAJORITY OF NEGROES
ARE TOILERS OF LAND
Point 5-Mr. Thomas thinks
that the Negroes should be salts
fled to merge their demands en-
tirely with those of the white
workers. But there are many rea-
sons why this is not true. First
and foremost of these is that the.
majority of Negroes are not work.
ers, but are tillers of the land,
most of whom are in a condition
of peonage or semi-slavery. For
them the most elementary civil
rights are completely denied; for
them even the bourgeois revolution
has not yet occurred; they are
living under feudal economic ana
social forms carried over into the
very heart of modern capitalism.
Their basic problem is to secure
possession of the land on which
they work and this is impossible
except they have the decisive voice
in the governmental institutions
under which they live. Also the
Negroes who are workers have
special needs which the white
workers do not feel in their own
persons. The Negroes are OPP
pressed not only as workers but
also as specially oppressed ma
tional group. To lump the Negroes
demands together with the whites,
means to refuse the immediate
struggle for the release O. the
Negro from his special oppression.
Point 6-Mr. Thomas thinks
that selfdetermination is synono-
nous with segregation and jim
crowism. But the facts are quite
the contrary. Jim-crowism will
never be broken down even in the
North SC long as the vast majority
Of the Negro nation in the South
is denied all control over it's own
fate. 1t is precisely the lack of
selfdetermination of the Negroes
in the Black Belt which is the
basis of jim rowism and lynch
ing ana all of the monstrous OPP
preston of the Negroes in America.
So long as the small minority Of
ruling white landlords Is able to
determine the fate Of millions of
Negroes, just so long lynch law will
continue, the disgrace of American
society,"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-09
THE S. P.
IN PRACTICE

Mr. Thomas party logically car
ries out the line of opposition to
self determination for the Black
Belt and denial of any special prob
lems of the Negroes. In the South
the Socialist Party is jim-crow
party. 1t not only refuses to
nominate Negroes for any office,
but it refuses to take them into
the Party itself. In most places
where Negroes are organized in the
S-ocialist Party they are in jim
crow branches. In the Socialist
National Convention just held re-
Gently in Milwaukee there was the
magnificent total of four Negro
delegates credentialed of whom
only one was present. These four
delegates were not workers but
Negro intellectuals, members g the
petty bourgeoisie.
Finally must be noted the spe-
cial role on the Negro question
played in the Socialist Party by Mr..
Haywood Broun. Mr.. Broun made
his notorious declaration against
the enforcement of the 14th and
18th amendments to the constitu-
ton, which are supposed to grant
the rights of citizenship to Negroes
in the South but which have never
! been enforced. At that time Mr..
Broun was not member of the
Socialist Party, but this statement
against Negro rights in the South
seemed to especially equip Mr..
Broun for membership in the So
cialist Party. Only few weeks
later, he was invited into the So
cialist Party and still few weeks
later. became the Socialist Party
candidate for Congressman in New
York City.
Such is the Socialist Party in
relation to the Negro. Such es-
pecially is its outstanding leader,
Mr.. Thomas, who is quite correctly
described by Comrade James w.
Ford as rne who "justifies lynching
by the white upper classes"
But Mr.. Thomas particular brand
of demagogy will find even less
fertile soil among the Negro masses
than among the white workers.
The national oppression Of the Me-
goes is so sharp, their need for
liberation is 50 pressing. that they
cannot be put to sleep BY Norman
Thomas honsyed poison
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-09
BY MYRA PAGE
Our Correspondent in the Soviet
Union.
PART w
POWER
OF THE SOyIETs

Ut LIE DO LIZ
The Podolsk Regional Soviet of
Workers and Peasants Deputies de-
cided that all employers must pay
full wages to their laboring force
for time lost during the days of
revolution. Since the Provisional
government set up in Petrograd
headed by Kerensky and backed by
the capitalists, refused all support
to the Soviet, the workers decided
to tax themselves from their wages
creating a fund to carry on the
Soviet's work, which was rapidly
extending its control over produc-
ion, and forcing employers to lis
ten to the workers demands. BY
the third week of March the
eight hour day was enforced, with
out decrease in wages. All fac
tories organized their shop COM
miteeg, unions and militia.
Feodor, who up to this time was
still working in Moscow, now hoped
to return to his home town and
job at the Singer foundry. The
factory committee insisted that
Dixon re-employ him but Dixon
refused. Dixon and his kind still
have the power" Feodor pointed
out to his fellows, was it fer this
we made a revolution?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-09
Norman Thomas and the
Negro Question
By BURCK
-

amendments to the constitution
would be resisted violently by the
white ruling class in the South,
therefore, he, Broun, was entirely
opposed to trying to enforce the
14th and 18th amendments. Mr..
Broun's argument has exactly the
same value as that of Mr. Thomas.
Point 8-Mr. Thomas is OF the
opinion that the Negroes OF Africa
are more entitled to exercise the
right to self determination than
are the Negroes in the United
States. This point must has been
raised purely for arguments sake
because Mr.. Thomas, in common
with the whole Second Interna-
tional o. which he is a part, also
denies the right of self-determina-
ton to the natives of Africa.
AS for the last two points, raised
not by Mr.. Thomas but by his close
friend, Mr.. O'Neal, we may be al
lowed to dismiss these as Suffi-
GENTLY characterized by the Ian
guage in which they are couched.
They are the purest examples of
vicious invectives replacing all log
ical arguments.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-09
FROM FEBRUARY
TO OCTOBER

Every day the issue grew clearer.
The conflict between the Provi-
s.onal Government which sup
ported the capitalists, and the
Soviets, organs OF workers and
peasants growing power, sharp
ened. The soldiers and toiling
masses demands End the Warl
Give us Peace, Liberty, Land and
Bread" But the Provisional Gov
eminent refused to heed them. In
the ranks of the workers there were
many confused, traitorous elements.
Only in the Party, which in Po-
dolsk had grown from thirty seven
members in February to six hun
dred by october, did the masses
find a clear lead. F'eodor, who'd
gotten work in a small Podolsk
foundry, agitated with his COM
rades for Cali Power to the So
vietsl" Away with the Provisional
Government and capitalist rule!"
Many who few months earlier
disagreed with the Bolsheviks now
we're ready to listen, and join in
preparations for the second insur-
rection. Andree, still at the front,
told his hungry, desperate fellow
soldiers, Support the Soyiets and
the Bolsheviks, that's the one way
to stop this bloody war;"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-25
DOG NUISANCE
 STILL CONTINUES
People Feel Abused and
 Say Officials Should h. Enforce Law
TIME TO ACT

The dog nuisance is not confined to any particular part of the city, but it seems to have been at it's worst in the Willow street section over the week end, where vagrant CUTS gathered in large numbers and made life miserable for people who have been getting their lawns in shape for the summer.
 Whether the annoyance caused by dogs is worse this year than ever before, it would be difficult to say. but in any event complaints are more numerous and yet all this does not seem to have the desired effect. Peo~le feel that it is the duty of the officials to protect them from this abuse. but so far the dogs have full swing and the nicer the lawn the greater delight they take in romping in it.
 The damage to private property is bad enough, but the business does not stop there. Children and others are victims of attack by vicious dogs. This should be stopped before it reaches a point where something worse will hoppen than has yet come to public notice.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-25
Luncheon for
 Msgr. M'Givney
Rev Dr John J. Anderson
 Acts as Postmaster

Rev Dr John J. Anderson of Devon, acted as toastmaster at a luncheon last week at St Charles parish hall, Bridgeport, in honor of Rt Rev Monsignor John J. McGiv- ney. The speakers included Rt Rev Thomas s. Duggan, V. G., pastor of the Cathedral at Hartford, Conn, who extolled the virtues of the n1onsignor and the distinguished members of the McGivney family now deceased. He spoke of their splendid work in connection with the church and the Knights of Co., iImbus, throughout the world.
 Rt Rev Monsignor John Neale of Meriden also spoke in the same vein, outlining Monsignor McGiv- ney's ecclesiastic career during his 36 years in the priesthood, while Rev Thomas Murray of Branford, Conn, spoke of his early life, as a student in St Johns seminary, in Boston.
 Rev Felix O'Neil of Stafford Springs, read two poems which he mad composed for the occasion, which were received with enthus- iasm by the gathering.
 Throughout the luncheon. music was rendered by Charles Coles or- ciiestra and several vocal selections were given by MT Coles.
 At the close of the program, Monsignor McGivney delivered a short address in the course of which he thanked all present for the honor they had conferred on him by their presence at the meet ing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-25
HERS WIFE INJURED IN HOUSE FIGHT
CONCERT IN AID
 OF MILK FUND
Tomorrow Night at Wilby
 Gym By High School Boys, and Girls
MISS GIBSON DIRECTOR

Marcel E. Doucette, city and state radio addition winner who was chosen from hundreds of, com petitors to represent this state in New York last November and a members of the 1892 class at Wilby high school, will be a fea- tured soloist in the combined high school boys and girls glee club concert tomorrow night in the Wilby auditorium at o'clock. The receipts of the concert will be turned over to the school milk fund.
 George Chadwick Stock, we'll known New Haven composer and teacher, has written and dedicated the song, Love of Mine" to Dou- cette which will be featured. on to-morrow's program. Doucette's program will consist of:
 At Parting Rogers
 Thine Alone Herbert
 Only in Dreams ..... .DeKoven
 Love of Mine .......... Stock
 The entire program which will be presented under the direction of Miss Alice Gibson, vocal musical instructor in the high schools, fol- lows:
 Natures Praise of God, Beetho- ven; Mexican Serenade, Lemont; Lindy Lou, Strickland-The Glee club.
 Battle of Jericho, Negro Spiri- tual; Got Shoes, Negro spiritual the Boys Chorus.
 Panis Angelicus, Franck: (so- prano solo-Ann Egan, c. H. S., "33); On Wings of Song, Mendels- sohn; Seremata, Spanish Fir Girls chorus.
 Trees, Rasback; Sylvia, Speaks; A Dream Boat Passes by, Le- Mare; Land of Hope and Glory, Elgar-The Glee club.
 o Promise Me, De Koven: Ma Little Banjo. Deis; Allah's Holiday, Friml-Double quartet-Ann Egan, Ida Israel, Marie Jackson, Elvira Nainis, Carl Harrison, Judson Todd. Guy Winston, Fred Lobor-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-25
Collision on
 ThOmastOn Road One Person Injured, Cars Damaged and Drivers
 Arrested


 A collision on the Waterbury, Thomaston highway late yesterday afternoon resulted in two cars be- ing damaged and in the arrest of the two drivers. Edward Iverson, 26. of 76 North Main street. and Jerome Jackson of 61 West Grand street, Mount Vernon, N. Y. Mrs Iverson was slightly injured in the crash.
 The accident occurred near Warmers corner. The New York car travelling toward Thomaston collided with the local machine which was coming toward Water bury. Jackson is charged with 'vio- lating the rules of the road and Iverson Is accused of operating without registration or license Iverson's car had to be lowed from the scene of the accident.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-25
By ALMA ARCHER (EditOrOf United Press Style
 ChafSN

New York, April 25-(UP)-A Modern Cinderella is to be chosen in New York on May 3rd when girls from the theatrical profession gather at the Astor hotel for a contest to determine which pos- sesses the most beautiful foot.
 Three men have been chosen to act as dges-Charles Keck. sculptor; Leon Garden, artist, and Westbrook Pegler, sports writer. The contestants will remove their shoes and stockings, the judges will move from girl to girl. exam ming insteps, toes, heels and ankles.
 And finally Cinderella will be chosen. to receive as her prize a complete shoe wardrobe, including footwear from golf in the morning to dancing slippers.
 The contest is being sponsored by the. joint conference of the al- lied shoe industries of America and is being held in conjunction with that organizations fall fash ion show.
 Various authorities have vari. ous ideas on the way a woman's foot should be shaped and used For example, Charles Neck, ont of the contest judges, believes "tht perfect foot has as much expres sion as ones hand"
 Neck contends the inside line should be straight from heel te the toe and when looked at from above, the contour forms grace full curve from the heel around tc