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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24

and since birth l lived In the city
OF Saratov, which is situated on the
Volga. The city of Saratov and a
number Of adjacent small towns are
called the lower yolga district.
Socialist Giants.
In TsariSt Russia SaratoV was a
small state capital, poorly developed
induStrially. Saratov is now a large
district center. Before, small, pri-
vately-oWned factories were putting
away around the suburbs of Saratov,
now giants of socialist industry are
growing up in its suburbs. Thus, be-
fore my very eyes, the following fac
tories have grown up for the last
three or four years; combine plant,
a large lumber factory, a siicate
brick plant and cracking plant is
being built. etc.
am telling you about Saratov be-
cause have not been very long in
Moscow and therefore cannot say
very much about it, You probably
know about Moscow from the news
papers, from conversations with COM
rades who have been in our Soviet
Union.
Settling With Activity.
That Moscow is surging with &C.
tivity is easily understood. Moscow
is the center, the capital Of the
U.S.S.R. But here, in the U.S.S.R.,
you will at present not find single
corner, no matter how remote, where
there is quiet and stagnation. Our
entire country is seething with con-
struction.
You write that you have a child,
a daughter. This is very good. 1
have regard for people who want TO
have children. / shall also soon be
a mother. This summer, in the
month of July, shall have a little
visitor.
Here in the U.S.S.R. expectant
mothers are given from three to four
months leave of absence with full
pay.
Now I am working and do social
work in the Young Communist
League, but shall soon leave for the
decreed four months leave.
There is something else I would
like to tell you about. When my
cO-workers learned that am estab-
fishing contact with a comrade in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24
Make Political Football of
RObber General Sales Tax

WASHINGTON. With the La
STANDARDIZATION "insurgent group"
of Democrats and Republicans break
ing all party lines in what is clearly
an attempt to use the sales tax as
a presidential election football, the
House Of Representatives passed the
fourth amendment yesterday to the
new revenue act.
This amendment increases the es-
tate tax rates to IS per cent for es-
tates more than 100000. In line
with the other three amendments
it in no way lessons the burden
which the masses will be forced to
pay in order to cover up the bank
ruptcy of the American treasury.
The continuation of the "opposi-
ton" to the sales tax on the part
of the Republicans and Democrats
who have crossed party lines is
mainly due to the tremendous mass
resentment against the sales tax and
the pressure brought to bear on the
politicians by the anger of the mas
ses.
Taking advantage of the bankrupt
cy the American treasury and the
whip which this situation holds over
the Republican and Democratic
party leaders in orcing them, des-
pite the coming presidential cleo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24

hunger themselves, have gone out to
the highways and tagged motorists
to beg money with which TO feed
their chmildren.
Although this rank-and file mill
fancy is not pleasant TO the United
Mine Workers OfficiaIdom, Pres.
Lee Hall of the Ohio district Of
the U. NJ. w. has admitted that
wages of Hooking Valley miners
have been cut so percent since thr
1927 strike--which was betrayed by
the U. NJ. w. The last cut was 70
percent and brought about the
strike. Tie operators have refused
to recognize the U. NJ. W., although
the labor superintendent Of the
Sundya Greek Coal Co. vas for
merly president of the Hooking
Valley sub-district of the U. M. ".
But Of all the suffering the gov
ernor has nothing to say. Instead,
he promises protection for Scabs.
Those who wish to work have the
right to do so, and shall afford
them the protection which is their
due" he said, He characterized the
strikers as minority practising
"lawlessness, violence, intimidation,
and terrorism" and as professional
agitators who have neither the good
of the community nor Of the state at
heart"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24
HALF DOLLAR CAMPAIGN
Denver Jumps Up-DetrOit Is Raising Its
Head-Boston Barely Moving

the halfdola socialist
appreciably
had time hit
cylinders.
a
nlesS
the quota of must 5000 day
AZ of its Detroit jumped from 297 SS2 half
dollars while only 3S the day
Is IN he lead
drive be OF
Watch daily report!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24
Book Exposing Ford Plant Suppressed
Detroit, Mich, March 20.

Detroit, Mich, March 90
lear Comrades:
Some two years ago happened to
ak into book stand on Woodward
Ave. Then the state of Michigan hap
Pened to be under the regime of Fred
Green as governor, the same Green
That took part in witnessing the
massacre of the Ford workers March
18th in Dearborn. And the same
Green that made his millions out of
prison labor in this state.
AT this book store my eyes had
been struck by two piles of books
with orange-colored covers. The title
was "J-8," and the name of the
writer was w. Cunningham, who, ac-
cording to the books foreword, has
spent eight years in the Ford service
that bears that title, J-8.
1t looked SO interesting that l could
not help but look inside the book.
There still is in my memory one pass
age OF that books contents:
Everybody at the Ford's must be a
producer, even the operatives (read
stool pigeons. And they produce
something like this: if one OF them
hates someone, he only has TO go to
the office (the stool pigeons hive)
and report that SO and so has a lot
OF stolen Fords goods in his base
ment.
The victim forthwith is called to
the operatives Office and is forced to
sign a voluntary search warrant.
The victim is surprised, he does not
care for anyone to search his home;
but, with the threat OF losing his Job
and being prosecuted afterward by
the outside authorities, he signs the
search warrant. The operatives take
their pockets full of different tools,
nails, bolts and go on breaking into
that mans home.
They proceed right to the base
ment, each one of them emptics his
pockets there. while one of them
keeps the victim scared TO death in
the rear, and as soon as the victim
reaches his basement he is confronted
with the justification for the raid.
The operatives pay is raised; the
man loses his job, and has to keep
his mouth shut. because he is threat
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24

the same trade, they asked me to
request you to describe the work
ing conditions of typistS under a
capitalist regime. What technical
innovations have you in eauipping
and organizing of a typists' office.
We want to know this, because we
are building new, large combine
of the "Prayda" and we could ap-
ply useful improvements in our
conditions.
At present our typists' office is
equipped as follows: We occupy two
rooms, the walls of which are COW
cred with canvass. There is plenty
Of light in the rooms. The typists
have special tables and chairs. There
are soft pads under the typewriters
(silencers). Each table has a specially
adjusted lamp for evening work. In
all we have % typists and we work
in shifts-from 10 o'colck in the
morning to o'clock in the evening
and from 5 o'clock in the evening
until midnight.
Rest Periods.
After each hour of work we have
five-minIte rest period. Then we
have half-hour rest period for
lunch. The shifts change every five
days. Our wages range from 100 to
145 rubles per month. Our group of
% women get along very well. We
work on the principle of socialist COM
petition. ~
Vacations.
Soon our regular vacations will be-
gin We get months vacation and
many OF my comrades go 10 rest
homes and sanatoriums-in Moscow
on the Volga, in the Crimea or in
the Caucauses.
My comrades have asked me to
send you warm, comradely, greetings.
They will await your reply.
1 am closing my letter. This will
do for the first time.
Please tell us what interests you.
Write more about the working condi-
tons and the struggle of the work.
ers and about yourself.
Regards to the little Becker.
With comradely greetings,
MARIA SOLOMINA,
Iverskaia 48,
Room Is,
Moscow, U.S.SR.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24
PHILA. DOCKERS
REJECT PAY-CUT
PLAN OF IL. A.
Marine Workers Union
Arouses Dockers to
Vote Against 1t

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - At a gem
eral membership meeting Of the In
ternational Longshoremens Associ-
alton held at Front and South Street
here Tuesday, the longshoremen IN
animously rejected the proposal pre-
scented by the officials that the dock
ers accept a wage cut.
Polly Baker, head of the associ-
alton, and the boss stevedores told
the men that the ship owners we're
losing money and that a wage cut
would mean more work.
Rank and file longshoremen took
the floor and denounced the argu-
ment as a proposal in favor of the
ship owners. When a vote was taken
all the workers voted against the cut
This action of the Philadelphia
longshoremen is the result of an in
tensive mass campaign being car
ried out on the waterfront by the
Marine Workers Industrial Union.
Prior to the meeting where the work.
ers rejected the cut the Marine
Workers Industrial Union held SER
les of mass meetings of longshore-
men warning them against the wage
cut and calling upon the men to vote
it down.
Thousands Of leaflets exposing the
fact that Baker and other leaders of
the I. L. A. were working for the
benefit Of the shipowners and advis-
ing the lockers to take the situation
in their own hands and fight the cut
we're distributed to the longshorenen
by the Marine Workers Industrial
Union Branch of Philadelphia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24
Rebel Clergymen Bow to Duluth Fascists

DULUTH, Minn.-Two ministers
and rabbi who described themselves
as rebels didn't have the CUTS to
either endorse or assist the Workers
International Relief in their tag day
for the striking Kentucky miners.
Their excuse was that times in
Duluth are hard and that they would
be criticized" if they helped the
Kentucky miners, whose families are
starving. They went instead to the
Mayors So-called unemployment
committee, which is conducting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24
Calls All Workers
to Send Pennies to
Save Daily Worker
fRy a Worker CORRESPONDENT

ADy d FNOAhNl
NEW YORKs-The 'Daily WOr
ker" which fights and exposes the
FOrds and bosses without a culver
is the only workers paper printed
in english in the United States
that is genuine in leading the sur
pressed workers Of all natiOnalities
and races for a brighter tomorrow.
Now, the DAILY Worker" is SER
iously being threatened with ex-
tinction unless immediate financial
help is forthcoming. Workers, it
is up to you to save our Daily"
from financial disaster. Do not
grant your enemies their wishes to
see our paper die. Rush your
pennies in; do not delay; save the
Daily Worker" so it may serve
you in your battles against the
giant octopus, capitalism, in the
future as il has done in the past.
Rush your donations In today,
for tomorrow may be too late.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24

q COlI lOI lOdOCIS,
The governors threat was issued
after trestle leading to mine
which was to be operated with scabs
was blown up, and after militant
picketing had prevented the strike
breakers from getting to work
State Threatens Violence.
This violence, this disgracefuI
lawlessness can no longer be toll
Grated" Obio's liberal governor
declared. at viii be put down by
force of arms, if necessary, and
those found guilty will be summar-
lily punished" The armed forces
to be dispatched to the district in
cIude infantry and machine gun
units, weIl-equipped with gas
bombs.
Gov. White, however, has nothing
to say Of the hunger and misery
which drove the miners to strike.
Relief workers in the district have
admitted that less than 5 per cent of
the miners had any money at the
beginning of March. All stored up
fruits and vegetables have been used
up and few Of the families have ade-
quate clothing.
Old miners say that the situation
is as bad now as it was in 1885,
and very much worse than in 1922!
It has even got to the point where
mothers, almost collapsing from
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24

campaign To Give Your Neighbor a
Job" a huge farce, and asked advice
about helping in the tag day for the
Kentucky miners.
Wen resign if you endorse that"
was the answer Of the Mayors I'm
employment Committee, which con-
s1sts OF American Legion fascists and
bankers. And so of course, they ex-
planned, 1t wouldn't be policy to do
anything publicly for the Kentucky
miners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24

ened with prosecution by the outside
authorities.
There were hundreds of other cases
presented in that book, but unfortu-
nately the man asked one dollar per
copy and 1 had only sixty-f1ve cents
IN my pocket that night. But when
! came back the following day the
man told me that the state (Green's)
police together with Ford's operatives
confiscated every copy of it. And,
while have searched for that book
since, none can be found.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24

workers behind our demands, intro
ducing a note of miitancy both into
the demonstration and the work be-
fore shop-gateS, relief stations and
neighborhoods proceeding It,"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24
MOSCOW TYPIST TELLS
OF NEW CONDITIONS
OF WORK IN i. SIS. r.
Letter Refutes SlanderOus Lies of u. S. Capital
lists on Forced Labor
Asks Workers to Establish Correspondence
Relations with u. S. S. R.
Moscow, U.S.S.R.
Comrade Freda and Ernest:

Comrade Freda and Ernest
received your letter through the workers correspond
bureau also typist and gladly accept your cha
lenge interesting contact through correspondence
First of ALL should like to say something about myself
am % years old. My is Maria Soomina My husband
electrical engineer scientific worker at the Communist
Academy
I am living in Moscow since October, 1881 Before that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24
Hooking Valley Miners
ReVolt Against Mass
Starvation, Wage>Cuts
Gov. White Threatens Violence Against
Hungry Miners; MObilizes Natl Guard
By H. MacTAVISH.

COLUMBUS Uhlo-In an effort to crush the militancH
OF 5000 striking miners and their families in Hooking Valley
Gov White has threatened to send the Ohio National Guaro
into the district The miners have been strike since Feb
against scale Of So day for abores and 95
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24
SUGGESTS NAMES FOR NEW
FORD
(By Worker Correspondent,

DETROIT, Mich.--T suggest the
following names for the new Ford
cars "Thc bloody -four and The slav-
cry. eight"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-24
Ito DELEGATES IN DETROIT
PLEDGE FIGHT AGAINST WAR,
DEFENSE OF SOVIET UNION

CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)
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COMMUNIST VOTE IN :
CREASES THREE-FOLD OVER 1890

CONTINUED FROM FACE ONE)
Evening star., 1932-03-18
KID IN AMERICA" DEAD
AFTER 177 DAYS IN RESPIRATOR
Parazyed Boy Fails to Survive Shock of Operation but
Smiles Until the End

to the boy in his long fight to recover
his health. Scores of them, and thou
sands Of letters have poured in as re-
suit of some kind words addressed to
the boy a month or so ago by Kate
Smith, singer. On one day he received
two mail sacks full of correspondence
more than any other individual In the
city.
The mail brought homely little gifts
that somehow suggested tears in the
eyes and pinching Of the hearts OF the
senders who had heard Of the case.
A youngster in the Bronx sent his pet
rabbits foot. A minister from the Mid
west breathed a prayer. There were
picture postcards, travel pictures, hand
kerchiefs. Little girls in New York
City wrote valentines.
boy. you got more pluck than 10
ordinary fellas," wrote Davie Gold
stein of Toronto, Ontario, and some
youngster In Perthamboy, N. j., wrote
only Ito the gamest kind In America, :"
and the card reached Clarence without
delay.
Clarence was son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Hastings of King Perry on Cay
uaga Lake When he was first stricken
IN September last, he was taken to
Auburn City Hospital. The institution
was not equipped with an artificial
respirator such as the one in City Hos
pital here so he was transferred In an
ambulance.
Within q day the body OF Clarence
Hastings, the lad who knew how to
fight goes home.
Evening star., 1932-03-18
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, March 18.-
Clarence Hastings-called "the gamest
kid In Americas dead.
The 14-year-old boy, whose case was
known in all parts Of the country, after
spending 1T days, or nearly half a
year, in a respirator that prevented his
moving any part Of his body but his
head, died at City Hospital this morning
of infantile paralysis complicated by
the shock of an operation on Tuesday
for an abdominal obstruction. The in
fantile paralysis had paralyzed his
respiratory organs, so that he depended
for life upon the hospitals respirator.
Almost to the very end Freckle-faced
Clarence smiled his infectious smile.
While nurses and doctors stood this
morning around the breathing ap-
paratus and watched his life ebb away,
he turned his head and said:
please shut of the machines. They're
making too much noise"
He had just died when a telegram
was received from Bert Acosta, trans
atlantic flyer, and Townsend McAllister,
an aviator, who had taken an interest
in the case It said: you win be all
right. ! mean In good health. When
you recover look me up at Roosevelt
flying field and I'll take you for o good
flight for being so. brave"
It wasn't the first such telegram sent
Evening star., 1932-03-18
HIGHER PRICE LEVEL
SEEN PRESENT NEED
Representative Goldsborough De.
clares Sterilization Necessary
to Economic Recovery.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, March 18.-Stabili-
zation OF price levels, in the opinion
OF Representative T. Alan Goldsborough
OF Maryland, and maintenance of buy
ing power are necessary to economic
recovery.
Addressing the Friendly Sons of St.
Patrick at their annual banquet last
night, the Representative said the Re
construction Finance Corporation plan
might be all right for making loans,
but merely making loans will not cure
the situation.
There is one way out of the crisis" I"
he said. That is to raise the price
level. When this is done. boarded
money will come out Those who have
it will go into the market for securities.
THE problem of production in the
United States has been solved. The
present problem is one Of distribution.
If the buying power of the people could
be kept up it would mean prosperity for
all Of society"
Evening star., 1932-03-18
TAX SHOWS
@,OB0,64 DROP
Treasury Statement Com.
pares First Day Receipts
With Figures Year Ago.

BY the Associated Press.
A decrease of $33,080,064 in income
tax receipts on March 16, as compared
with the similar days collections a
year ago, was shown today in the daily
Treasury statement.
Collections for the day amounted to
SIS. 1911 ,451, while on the comparative
date year ago the collections were
$685. Sis. The collections brought
the total for the month to $100,312,-
1861, as compared with $1O6,254,321
a year ago.
For the fiscal year income tax has
amounted to $758,434,178, as compared
to $l,277, ,685,346 for the same period
Of the previous fiscal year.
The income tax payments caused a
decrease in the deficit the Government
had rolled up in the eight and one
half months Of the fiscal year. On
March Is the deficit was $l,871 ,229, ,155,
but on the next day it had dropped to
$1,843, ,478,962.
Collections from all sources on
March, Is had amounted to 81 l,470, $780,
581, while expenditures had totaled
S3,314, 1895
Evening star., 1932-03-18
SEIZED NAZI PAPERS
CHECKED BY POLICE
Press Jokes at Alleged Hitler Plot
With Comment Grandma
Is Still Living"
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
BERLIN, March 18-Police investi-
gators were going over tons of docu-
ments seized yesterday in the nation
wide raids on National Socialist meet
ing places and todays administration
newspapers had good time poking
1un at Adolf Hitler's Nazis.
Most OF them thought it was a pretty
gooo joke that the Nazis, as the police
charged, should have chosen the code
message Grandma Dead" as the sig
nal Tor general putsch to seize the
reins OF government should Hitler fail
OF election at the April 10 presidential
vote
Grandma is still living" the news
papers said. In serious comment, the
papers protested against the tactics
employed by the National Socialists
The Na1 organs, on the other hand
protested the ''high-handed methods
Of the administration
The police will make no charger
against persons found to be involved
In the alleged plot until all the seized
documents have been examined.
Evening star., 1932-03-18
CHAUNCEY OLCOTT
DIES AT AGE OF z
Famous Singer of Irish Bal
lads SuccumbS in
Monte Carlo.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, March 18. - Chauncey Oh
colt, noted American ballad singer
died at Monte Carlo this morning.
He was born In Buffalo, N. Y, July
81, 1860. Although his greatest fame
in the United States was as a singer
of Irish ballads, Olcott first appeared
on the stage as member of a min
strel troupe. He also achieved Y con-
siderable reputation in comic opera
roles.
Sang Irish Songs.
In more recent years, before his re-
tirement, he specialized in romantic
comedy, clinging to the Celtic tradi.
tion that had grown up about him
MY wild irish Rose" which achieved
a tremendous popularity from one END
of the country to the other in Its time
was one Of his most famous ballads
1t was in Irish roles, singing Irish
lyrics, that his public liked him best
He made his debut on the legitimate
stage as Pablo in "Pepita" at the ole
Union Square Theater in New York ir
1886. Then he played in THE Ole
Homestead" famous rural American
comedy drama, in which Denmar
Thompson played famously. The play
ran two years, from 1883 to 1890, which
was an unusually long engagement fol
that period.
Ill for IL Years.
He had suffered from anemia fol
the past II years and was reported In
dying condition yesterday. The enc
came this morning at the villa al
Monte Carlo, where his wife and son
had been caring for him.
Mrs. Olcott said the funeral would
be at New York, and she hoped to sal
with the body from Vile Franche to-
morrow.
In 1891 Olcott first appeared on the
stage In London. He met as great a
success there as in the United States
He returned to America after a short
time and devoted himself chiefly tc
light comedies, some Of them written
especially for him.
Made Songs Famous.
It was in these that he Travelled
from one end of the country to another
and made his name and his song
known to householders in the remotes
sections. He played in THE Heart o.
Paddy Whack" from 1914 to 1915 anc
starred in "Macushla" from 1919 ts
1921.
Some of his best known other part,
were Ragged Robbin," "O'Neill oi
Derry" Eileen Ashore" Barry o.
BALTIMORE" The Isle O. Dreams
"Shameen Dhu," and Honest Johr
O'Brien"
Since his retirement he spent hi.
Summers at Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
and became its best known Summer
resident.
Evening star., 1932-03-18
FIRST BODY RECOVERED
FROM M-2 BY DIVERS
Efforts Continued to Find 55
Others Lost When Submarine
Sank off England.

BY the Associated Press.
WEYMOUTH, England, March 18.--
The body of a member of the crew Of
the sunken submarine M-2 was taken
out of the vessel today by divers and
removed to Portland. 1t was the first
to be recovered.
Fifty-six men were lost with M-2
when she went down off Portland, jan
uary 26. For days after the disaster q
salvage feet dragged the bottom look
ing for the ship, but it was not until
February 8 that it was found, wedged
in between two other wrecks with the
coming tower hatch open.
The seaplane which she carried was
brought up a week later. but operations
to recover the ship itself were sus-
pended until the weather improved.
Meantime divers continued their ef-
forts to extricate such bodies as they
could reach.