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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-12
MINERS ELECT
MANY RANK AND
FILECOMMITTEES
Mass Meeting in Simp-
son, 300 Meet in
Carbonate, Pa.

WILKES BARRE, Pa. 49, Steady
progress is being made in prepare
ton for the preliminary Rank and
File conference, to be held February
IA in Olyphant. Eleven lodnl unions
with membership Of over ten thous-
and miners have already elected
their Rank and File Committees and
delegates to the conference.
CARBONDALE, Pa.-Three hun
dred miners attended mass meet
ing at Carbondale called by the joint
Rank and File Committee Of the
United Mine Workers of America.
The coal companies had two of their
agents at the meeting advocating
wage cuts as a remedy to get work.
They tried by all means to disrupt
the meeting, but were unsuccessful
The miners accepted fighting pro-
gram and elected a Rank and File
Committee.
SIMPSON, Pa.-The Rank and
File Committee called mass meet
ing Of the Coalbrook miners here, on
Wednesday. The American Legion
Of Simpson who meet in the same
hall were to leave the place at tbs,
but knowing that the miners we're to
meet after them, purposely held the
hall after their meeting 10 celebrate
over cache Of beer.
The miners gathered for the meet
ing, but could not come in. The Com
mittee then arranged for another
hall, some distance away. The min
ers we're determined to hold their
meeting and marched in a line Or
ganized two abreast, calling upon
other workers on the street to join
the line. The meeting was the most
enthusiastic ever held in Simpson. A
Rank and File Committee were
elected to join the other locals, and
to prepare the fight for the program
Of the rank and file.
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peasants Of Spain are struggling hero
ically against the regime Of terror
carried out by the socialist" Coeli-
ton government and are coming In
ever larger numbers to the leadership
OF the Communist Party of Spain.
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Spread Daily Worker fund
drive into every working class
neighborhood to save workers
paper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-12
Judge Jones, Coal Operators
Tool Picks Grand Jury Secretly

NEW YORK-Judge D. c. Jones of Harlan and Bell Coun-
ties Kentucky accused in telegram sent him today by the
international Labor Defense of New York of "handpcing
in the grand jury of coal operator agents which
railroad miners union leaders and relief agents long prison
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-12

care Of the International Labor DE-
Tense, Room 4so. 90 q. 18th st, New
York City. -asss--s-
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HUGE PAPER MONEY ISSUE TO
CUT MASS LIVING STANDARD
nee companies and railroads.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-12

I. S. CONSUL CALLS FOR WAR
ON CHINESE RED ARMY, MASSES

CONTINUED rRox PAGE ONE,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-27
Economic Facts Blast the
"RecoVery" Decebtions

the closes there is let loose from all capitalist
n flood of optimistic prOpheses about the be-
ginning of economic recovery Yesterdays New York Times
financial to the absurd lengths of prOcaming not
only that the lowest level of the crisis has been reached but
asserting that recovery has already set in and has been pro
ceeng throughout most of 1882 Mr. Alexander P Noyes
who the daily
future financial history and despite the exacng prob
from the great depression"
country
publishes being modified every agency
capitalist propagnda to put over this deception The Christmas mes
Washington that the bottom the depression"
reached and that with governmental action will
tainly
tenhcon Of the campaign to try to arrest and cripple the mass move
men against hunger and for immediate unemployment relief for une
Of the soldiers bonus 1t attempt to administer large doses of
osp to aneuver at the Cincinnati convention to- pay LIP service to
unemployment insurance and at the same time to try to defeat the move
file inside their own unions But they viii not succeed in salts
predictions nothing other than
the lies OF the prostaed financial writer's of the capitalist press
the continued of production the
still
suffering ever more vicious wage slashes.
HERE are some damaging facts During the month of November as
October trend employment in the
try downward with roll totals sliding down at an even faster
of employment and 81 cent in pay rolls is shown
Establishments employing 58 workers Steel continued
production IA of capacity
avail
oadngs declined 08 in week. according to
December
oadings only 5696 This APO fewer than for
ponns 1esk OF last and T US per- cent fewer than
corresponding
fiction brazeny Mr.
throughout the that the
passed the beginning from
the economic crisis Before the facts OF life these popees blasted
of
directed against the movements
determination
against landlord expoer Such predictions cannot
hunger the fights for bread the fights against evons against wage
of the industrial
favorable POSSIBLE
the revolutionary vanguard of the work
stimulate
the the ong to farther the
winning majority the working for the revolutionary
r1ooeap ms canita lsn1
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elimination
2. Every child to be given free
food and clothing in the school and
school supplies.
In order to do this it is necessary
to create fund. But / pointed out
how wrong il was to make collec-
tions from workers who had no
money themselves. I therefore pro-
posed that the city council place .
tax on the Sears, Roebuck Co.,
which is only one block from the
school, and all other companies In
the territory.
IN order not to antagonize the
l teachers and the principal, but
to attempt to win them over to sup
port us, and if that would be inn
possible at least to neutralize them,
/ pointed out that the solution ID
not for the teachers to make indi-
vidual donations because they don't
get pay and face starvation them$
selves. The teachers should Sus4
port the parents and the childreM
in the fight for free food, and Id
return the parents would support
the teachers in their fight for pay.
This resulted in tremendous APP
plause from all teachers and the
parents who were present,
The principal was stunned and
could not speak for about Is min
utes. Members of the Unemployed
Council spoke, but not on the is
sues, but again on generalities. The
principal again took the floor. In
his speech he did not attack my
proposals, but spoke for his OWN,
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YOUTH AND THE UNITED FRONT IN CFIICAGOi

meeting of the parents in the
school auditorium to discuss further
steps to be taken.
The parents visited the principal
and he agreed to both demands. A
meeting was called in the school for
Nov. 80 at ! 80 p. m. / came late
to this meeting and found over $50
parents in the hall. Most of the
members of the Unemployed Coun-
Gil sat together, while over 300
workers we're scattered throughout
the hall. The principal was already
speaking. He made the following
proposals:
/. That the parents present
should take as many children as
possible who need food and feed
them in their homes.
2. That they enlist as many par
ents as possible to go out and get
donations from workers organiza-
lions in order to feed the children.
WHILE the principal was speak
W ing, member of the Unem-
ployed Council jumped up and ask
ed that chairman be elected. An
argument developed as to whether
a chairman should be elected or
not. Then the worker sat down
and the principal continued Later
another worker jumped up and
once. again asked for chairman
to be elected as the parents called
the meeting. An argument deyel-
oped again.
During these arguments many
workers remarked: What do we
care who Is chairman, or who call
ed the meeting. We came here TO
find out how we are going TO geS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-27
Article by Dunno on "Ddily's" Role
in Labor Struggles in Special Issue

articles the Special Daily Worker An
Edition published a. will be
Eight Daily Bill
co-edior Daily together with the late
founded will the of the Daily
the leader organizer of the American working class
throughout this crucial period
leading Leninsm
and
the Working Class"
Capitalism"
Study of Lennsm America" by Sam Don; and
Lenn the Growth of Socialism in the Soviet Union by Mos
Wong-class
greetings special greetings
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-27
Montana Farmers Stop Sheriff From Confis-
eating A Combine

combine in 1928 and harvested four
crops with it but had made only one
payment.
Demand Relief
THE demonstrations said to have
been led by communists. The mem
berS of this organization staged d
demonstration at PleutyWood d few
days ago in which they demanded
that cash be paid to needy persons
instead of orders for supplies"
Wheels Missing.
The Producers News, official news
paper of the United Farmers League,
reprints the article from the Great
Falls Tribune,
1--WE have not been able to get all
the details of this transaction. From
what we have learned, the combine
belonged to Clifford Andersen at
Dagmar 1t had not moved but
couple OF miles west Of Daglnar when
the farmers Overlook it and brought
it back
Next day was Sunday-and who
says our sheriff don't work on SUM-
day? Sheriff Madsen was back on
the Job again with his deputies, but
moving the combine this time was
a hopeless case. 1t had lost all of
its wheels and stood flat on the
ground Nobody seems to know what
become Of the wheels
wen al Re There"
"The sheriff had TO so back sospe
without the combine. Now they say
he is sick in bed The man who re-
ported this said: IF anything like
this happens again, all they got to
do is TO give a general call over the
phone and we will all be there
This combine deal has neen
hgoedessTed oner sne sigt ----
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BY JACK king.
District Organizer, Young C0mmu-
mist League, Chicago

mist League, Chicag0)
IN Chicago the number Of children
1 who face immediate starvation
runs far above $4,000 They can
not get food for breakfast and
lunches. Their parents are unem-
ployed or work part time and get
relief on a starvation basis. Many
children cannot go to school be-
cause they have no clothing. I
went into workers home at 4345
S. Langley. There are two children,
one of 10 and one H. Both don't
go to school, for they have no
shoes. This is true Of thousands
of workers children.
The question Of children going
hungry is a problem confronting all
workers children, regardless what
political opinions their parents may
have. Therefore our problem, the
problem of the Young Pioneers,
and the Unemployed Councils, is
to develop a broad united front Of
all parents and their children, on
the basis Of struggle for the issues
confront the workers and their
children.
A CONCRETE EXPERIENCE
On Nov. 27th, the Young Pioneers
called an open hearing of the par
ents and children who are attend
ing the Lawson School. At the
hearing about rs parents and chill
dren were present. They elected
a delegation Of parents to go to the
principal Of the school and de-
mand:
/. Free food and clothing for the
chila hid ,; 2. The right to call a
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DAGAIAR Mont. Dec. 26 - Dag
mar farmers stopped deputy sher-
III OF Sheridan county from confis-
eating a combined harvester which
he had seized for debt from farmer
near here. The Great Falls Tribune
prints the following account OF the
affair
GrounA Stops Sheriff.
'Plentywood, Mont, Dec. 13.-Tak-
Ing the law into their own hands,
eight farmers from the vicinity of
Dagnaar, two miles west of the North
Dakota line, forced a deputy sheriff
of Sheridan county to abandon a
truck on which he was transporting
combine taken under foreclosure
proceedings to Medicine Lake.
THE machine, the property Of the
Allis- Charlmers company under the
foreclosure proceedings, was taken
at the home of G. S. Anderson of
Dag1nar by Sheriff Hans P. Madsen,
who turned it over to deputy after
serving the legal papers to acquire
possession. Some distance from the
Anderson farm the deputy was
stopped by a group of farmers, who
forced him TO abandon the truck
and the combine. He caught q ride
10 Medicine Lake and notified the
sheriff
Remind Him Of Battle.
Members of the posse, said they
we're following the example Of the
farmer at Elkhorn, Wis, who last
week engaged in a pitched battle
With a sheriff and deputies who had
come to dispossess him of a fore
closed farm.
The sheriff's record, under which
he foreclosure was made, is said 10
shryw th=x Ar1fearrXrvp hsuigil% fl1e
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free food and clothing for our chill
dren."
The principal was able TO quiet
our comrades by saying everyone
will be given chance to speak.
A teacher got the floor and told
how she bought o pair of shoes for
one child and agreed with proposals
of the principal She was booed
down by the members of the I'm
employed Council.
One member of the Unemployed
Council got up and spoke, yelling:
We don't want charity. Your pro-
poeals are charity. We want to
present our plan" The principal
said: Let us hear your plan" How
ever, he presented no plan, but
called the one of the principal
charity.
GIVES DEFINITE
PROPOSALS
After seeing and hearing these
arguments and also various express
sions of discomfort Of the workers
present with the way we acted, /
felt that 1t was necessary for me
to speak. ] took the floor and the
main points / brought out were
the following:
I pointed out the starvation
among the children and its causes.
l pointed out how the proposals
of the principal meant pushing adj
ditional burdens on the shoulders
Of the workers and not those re-
sponsible for the starvation, those
who threw lis out of Jobs. I then
made the following proposals;
l. A cafeteria in the school be
established and all children be fed
one meal q day without any dis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-27
Workers International Relief
in the Class Struggle

wrong. Those whom we con-
WINGED to contribute could have
been convinced to join the w. 1. r.
A good number of organizations
not yet connected with our revo-
1utionary work could have been
collectively affiliated.
COME AND GO
Take as most simple example
day in the New York district Of
flee of the w. I. R. Tor any other
w. I. r. headquarters in any city,
Dozens of workers and sympa-
thizerS, because Of the influence OF
the w. I. r., gained among masses
of workers, voluntarily come to
the New York headquarters OF the
w. I. r., bringing bundles of cloth
ing, contributions of funds and
suggestions for activity. Is even
one, of these sympathizers ever
asked to join, or to act as an or
ganizer in his neighborhood or
shop or in the organization he may
belong to? Probably one in a
hundred, and even then the APP
proach is sectarian and burocratic.
These workers come to us, yet we
do not connect them with the
w. 1. r.
THE medical aid units OF the w.
I. r., composed of physicians
and nurses, have to their credit an
outstanding accomplishment in
medical aid given to gassed and
dubbed hunger marchers in the
attack of Wilmington; in Wash
ington, D. c., along the lines of
march.
The Workers Laboratory Thea
tire Of the w. I. r. must be COM
naended for its agitational con-
tributions at street corner meet
ings in the election campaign; the
branches and committees of the
w. l.. R. cleveland and New York
outstanding strained every effort
to assist in gathering the food,
funds and sleeping quarters for the
Hunger Marchers. Yet where are
the organizational achievements?
What is the concrete answer to
the question? How many new
members, new branches, new COM
mittees and groups in neighbor-
hood and shop resulted from
these activities?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-27
BROAD ORGANIZATION
FROM BELOW NEEDED

The w. I. r. program Of activi-
ties is clear. What needs concen-
tration upon is the elimination Of
sectarian habits and the develop
ment Of broad organization from
below instead of numerous func-
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by B~rek

tionaries on top concerned only
with collections. What the w. l.
r. needs is cadres of organizers
and the understanding that every
worker that aids in w l. r. &C
tivities is a potential organizer.
Broad committees composed of
non-party workers and sympa-
thizers should be placed on city,
district and national committees Of
the W. I. r. This will connect the
entire life of the w. I. R. with the
masses, learning to know their
points of view, accepting Sugges-
tionS from the workers and their
cooperation with the w. I. r.
This will enable the w. I. r. to
reach news. shops and neighbor-
hoods continually.
Regular financial reports must
go forward to all organizations
contributing, to all branches and
groups that function in any cam
paign, SO as to establish the finan-
cial responsibility of the w. 1. r.
Being satisfied with merely hav-
ing accounts audited by accred-
tied and registered accountants
and keeping these financial re-
ports in the files is simply another
form of bwocracy.
DEFINITE ROLE
FOR w. /. II.
Though it is essential to offer
these criticisms, and though we
know that the w. I. r. is indulg-
ing in self criticism and applying
itself to a correction of its short
comings, we must at this time en-
phatically emphasize that those
comrades who voiced the opinion
that the Workers International
Relief was an unnecessary organ
ization, thereby contributing to its
disorganization, were mistaken.
The w. I. r. has made errors dur
ing the last ten years which has
alienated workers, but, despite this,
the w. I. R. is supported, is held
in esteem and has developed 10y
atty among broad masses. 1t has
a definite role in the class strug-
gle and must be built. Liquida-
ton can never be the solution for
errors and difficulties encountered
in building mass organizations.
Il
ME call for support of the Work
W ers' International Relief. The
economic crisis continues. Strug-
giles will sharpen and broaden.
These struggles will be more effec-
lively carried on by us with the aid
OF q large membership of workers
and sympathizers organized into
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-27

THERE were three points on the
order of business. 1t was pre-
pared beforehand by the Executive
Board, to be a short and snappy
meeting When each question came
up, the same Party members arose
and spoke. The Chairman at the
meeting, altho a Party member,
did not rule democratically. A
proposal was made by the organ
izer. 1t was carried without vote
bv the membership.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-27
PARTY LIFE
PARTY LIFE
How a Party
.Fracti0nWorkS.
in the NTWU|
BY MARTHA STONE
District Organizer National Tex
tile Workers Union, PaterSon).


THE Party has the task of build
L ing a union that functions as
an independent organization with
rank and file democracy and an
inner life of its own. This is a ire
mendous task. 1t cannot be ac-
complished unless the Party under
stands Just how it is to be done,
The task of the Party is not to re-
place the union but give leadership
to it and help to develop the initi-
alive of the non-party workers.
A few weeks ago, the union held
a membership meeting. The weak
nesses of the Party were SO glazing
at this meeting that the non-party
workers called it to the attention
of the union leadership. The mem
bership meeting showed us how the
Party must not function in the
Trade Unions.
First of all, the meeting was call
ed for $50. It was opened by the
Chairman at $40. For the first
time a meeting started on time.
Fifty workers were present, and
only one Party member Party
comrades kept coming in as late as
TAO, walking into the hall with
looks of surprise on their faces as,
they found the meeting well on
its way.
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ito Be OcnclsdaQ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-27
Those Who Were Equipped
With Revolutionary Theory

From speech at Tenth Anniversary
Workers School, Dec. 8, 1882
BY MOISsAYE ]. OLGIN
Seward daily gateway., 1932-09-01
WHO HAS THE MONEY

Hardly was the ink dry on the bill creating $2,122,000,000 relief for unemployment when Is States made application for $33, ,450,00O. Among these is Pennsylvania which leads applicants in asking for the full amount available to any one state, $45,OOO,OOO.
 Simultaneous with creating this additional dole from the Federal government sales tax is enacted whereby this sum and additional sums must be paid into the treasury by the people, the actual physical sufferers from want snd unemploy- ment.
 It is remarkable that the Federal administration has not sought to inform the people as to who has the money which has been withdrawn from industry and why they are not using it for the purpose of cre- ating employment. Again, why has not the Administration sought to force this money back into tn e trade channels, but on the other hand doled out $2,OOO,OOO, for further stock gambling. That this charge is not unfair is shown in the alacrity with which the dealers of the Wall Street game rushed in to reopen and lure more dupes into their tolls.
 All these sums being doled out of the Treasury must be repaid or we are bankrupt nationally. The man who can hardly keep food in his home is the one who must pay it.
 Apparently the nation is riding upon bubble. By this act of clos Ing avenues of unemployment mil Hons ot men are brought to the po-
Seward daily gateway., 1932-09-01

sition of endeavoring to exist in idleness, and merely existing at best.
 Anything could burst the bubble. The tendency to take from those least able to pay to create funds means greater drains upon the in- dustrious, in the end the money re- turns whence it will again be hoard ed on the hands of men who ap- parently do not care who suffers so long as they can roll in luxury and idleness.
 It will be interesting to observe if a people steeped in the traditions of freedom and equality of opportun- ity will drift back to an age before the establishing of the Republic of the United States, or turn upon the wolves who have devoured them.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-09-01
NORTHERN LIGHTS

Eighty per cent of the worlds an- nual supply of seal skins are now enroute to St. Louis to be tanned, dyed and sold at public auction. A shipment of 49,334 skins has been taken from the Pribilof Islands. Fifteen per cent of the proceeds of the sale will go to Japan and Great Britain.
 x *: * *
 w. E. Higman, acting chief of the division of drawbacks and bonds of the U: s. Treasury department, has informed J. c. Mcbride, collector of customs, that the Department of State has issued notice that Alvaro de Aguiler y Gomez Acebo has been named by Spain as her consul at San Francisco for the Territory of Alaska.
 * * *
 Under the caption of Bathing on Alaska's Sunny Coast" the roto- gravure section of the Seattle Sun day Times of August q contained a two-column cut-in picture with the following explanation: Juneau mermaids dispel the misconception of some that the Northland is a chilly place as they take sun bath at the ocen side" The three mer- maids are shown on one of the rocks on a Juneau beach.
 * *
 Paul Redington, chief of the U. S. Biological Survey, now in South eastern Alaska, has two objectives in mind. One is to observe the bear census on Admiralty Island, and it's progress, and to make a person. al study of the Glacier Bay district
Seward daily gateway., 1932-09-01

where creation of a national park as a general refuge for game has been proposed.
 * < *
 Alaska Republicans have been called on to contribute to the Hoov- CT campaign fund. A committee will make a canvas for a collection.
 * * x *
 With capacity enrolment as- sured the Sheldon Jackson Indus trial School at Sitka will open for the Fall term September 8.
 * * *
 Mike McKallick, owner of mining claims on Chichagof Island, who was reported missing and for whose safety concern was felt, is at Chich- agof, safe and sound.