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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-07
WOOL MARKET

Boston, Nov 7.-(UP)-The To- cal daily wolo market report is- sued to-day by the Boston U. s. agriculture department bureau fol- lows:
 "The wool market is very quiet owing to the waiting attitude of the buyers and member of the wool trade. Quotations are unchanged from last week. The receipts of domestic wool at Boston during the week ending November 5, es- timated by the Boston Grain and Flour Exchange amounted to 2s5,- goo pounds during the previous week."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-07
Pre-Election Sent
 Stock Market Up
 Four Points To-day
Wheat Jumped Up and the Other Issues Were En-
 couraged- Most Active Session Since Oct "A

Won Papen cabinet. Hitlerite strength was reduced. Steel news was favorable. The magazine Steel estimated produc- ton for the country at 21 per cent against 19 1-Z per cent last week and looked for a rise to 22 per cent later in the week.
 Steel shares were in demand most of the day. At its high U. s. Steel was at 37N up 2H points net. Farm equipments rose with wheat, Case reaching 40A up A points. Montgomery Ward was up more than point along with Case.
 Leading issues of the various groups made the widest advances. The others held at gains of frac- tions to a point or so. Railroad shares were in demand most of the day despite outlood for further seasonal declines in car loadings. Union Pacific at it's high was at 69 up 4ss points; Atchi- son A up 3%; New York Central 24A up 1% and Southern Pacific 1914 up 1H.
 American Telephone was carried up to 107 3-4 where it was up 3-4 points net. The issue broke below par last week. It held most of the gain today. Utilities generally were strong. Consolidated Gas reached 59 3-4 up 3 points.
 General Electric was active after opening on a block of 5,200 shares at 16 3-4 up 1. It touched IT and ruled firm around that level; Stan dard of New Jersey was strong in a Avxr AtI <Sf~A rH fx,f- or more were made by such issues as Du Pont, American Can, and United Aircraft. Allied Chemical rose to 77 3-S and closed at 75 7-8 up 3 7-S.
 Copper stocks moved up on pros- pect of an early conference of pro- ducers on curtailment of output. Owens Illinois Glass spurted to a new high for the year at 37 up 2 1-2 points in the group of stocks that would profit by return of beer.
 According to preliminary call culation, the Dow, Jones & Com pany industrial average stood at 64.58, up 2.17 points. railroad 28.03 up 1.12 and utility 27.67, up O.59.
 Sales were 1,600,000 shares, compared with 100000 shares last Friday.
 Aggregate market value of 10 leading stocks was $5,754,935,79O against $5,55T, ,092,714 Saturday, an advance of $197,S43.076..
 CANADA DOLLAR DROPS
 New York, Nov z. (UP)-The Canadian dollar to-day suffered its sharpest decline of 1892, falling nearly two cents. The rate was 87 cents, discount of 13 per cent in relation to American funds.
 Trading in the dominion cur rency was brought to a standstill in the afternoon, when a deluge of offers flooded the market with no takers. Offered prices declined as low as 86 1-2 cents.
 Bankers attraibuted the beak to rumors that infiationary measures were being considered by the Cana dian government. Others ascribed the bearish action as sympathetic gesture with the recent weakness in the poung sterling.
 To-day's transactions in Cana dian money at S7 cents, represent ed 9 drop of 1-2 cents from the years high price of, 98 1-2 cents. reached October 15, and were only 3 cents above the 1892 low of 84 cents. recorded early last January. Last week the Canadian dollar ranged between 90 3-4 and SS 5-S cents. t,s
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-07
NO CARD GAME AT
 PARISH HALL TONIGHT

There will be no card tourna- ment game at St Francis parish hall tonight. The next game will be held Wednesday night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-12
Party Recruiting Drive
January IL March Is, 1882


at the Polish WorkerS C1ub, did not react to the
death from starvation Of the former stockyard
Whittenberg-and many other problems.
Also the drop in average weakly dues paying
members In December to 15s shows that the
inner situation, as result Of the lack Of po-
Itical perspective, Is very bad.
In view of an this, the District Committee
lnstructs Section Two 10 call q special section
convention to which cache unit Is to elect
delegates-on the basis Of cos delegate for
every five members or major fraction thereof.
The election Of delegates Is not to be g mere
mechanical affair. At the unit meeting where
the election will take place it must very thor
ougf11y examine Its own work and the work OF
the section. Instruct the delegates to bring pro-
posals before the convention and wherever neces-
sary, re-elect the unit buros Of the given unit
This must be considered together With rep
resentative from the section district committee
who will speak at the unit meeting when the
election of the delegates takes place. We must
elect the best fighters in the units TO the Sec
ton Convention-eomrades who participate in
the mass struggles, who are members Of the
mass organizations. The Section Convention
must result in outlining immediate political, Or
ganizational tasks in the section, above all, the
following:
l. Developing struggles around unemployment
and raising these to higher stage, spreading
the movement OF the block committees and the
committees in the flop houses, bread lines and
uniting these struggles with the struggles of
the employed workers.
2. Further penetration into the Stockyards and
the method Of such penetration, and the further
building Of the Party and the unions in the
stockyards.
3. Struggle for Negro rights in all forms and
against the elements Of white chauvinlsm Pen
etration into the mass organizations OF the work
ers on the South Side, and mobilizing the work
ers for struggle against police terror and GUST
ing of Siege and Barker
a. The building Of the Party and the mass
organizations.
These are some of the points we want to in
dictate as the immediate tasks Of the Section
Committee together with the election OF a new
Section Committee which must be the expres-
sion and will of the membership, and the estab-
hshrnent OF collective leadership in the section
We are confident that the Section member
ship will fully agree with the District COMMITTEES
on all the problems raised in this letter and will
support it unanimously. The District Committee
aware of this situation for many weeks
but did not act upon it, and In this respect
under estimated the situation on the South Side,
which resulted in the collapse of the section
leadership there.
Forward to mass BoIshevik Party on the
South Side Of Chicago!
Cor1radely yours,
DISTRICT COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST
PARTY-DISTRICT 8.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-12
Dear Comrades:

Lear COIIudQGss
The District Committee takes this occasion to
address to you a special letter In order to take
up the problems confronting the Party the work
ing class and the Negro masses in your section.
The events Of August srd and 9th placed our
Party and Unemployed Council at the head OF
The militant Negro and to some extent white
workers in your section. Between four and five
thousand workers were recruited into the branch
cs of the Unemployed Council, organizing SO
block committees and approximately $50 mem
bers into the Party, building Party of 70 units,
including a unit in the stockyards. This 1nd1~
Gates that the masses look towards our Party
for leadership and guidance in their daily strug-
giles and for the final struggle against capitalism.
The Section 2 territory is the most important
political and industrial section of the city. In
your section there are approximately 100000 Ne
gro workers. Important industrial establish
ulents such as stockyards-Crane and many
others are located ttere. In the recent few weeks
there is a slackening in activity of the Party
in the unemployed rnovement-there are even
some elements of disintegration, not because Of
the masses not being ready to follow the lead
ershp of our Party, but because OF the lack
of leadership and bureaucratic, formal methods
of work
Our movement is not consolidated in the re-
cent period The inner education of the Party
and the mass agitation did not assume a broad
character and during the events of January IL,
Il and 10, when the Negro and white workers
again showed their n1iitancy in the struggle for
immediate relief and against police brutality
the Section Committee did not participate in
this struggle; the Section Committee did not
give leadership 1t eliminated itself from
the entire struggle by its inactivity In
short from January II ON there was practically
no section leadership given to the fighting masses
of workers on the South Side The reason for
this is that the section leadership is not repre-
sentative of the masses of workers on the South
Side, and not even of the Party membership in
Section 2. It is isolated from the masses, poll
tically it does not understand what it taking
place there and how to react to the situation
The Section leadership reduced itself to a tech
meal body and showed resistance to politcahzing
the struggle and to raising it to a higher plane,
seeing only difficulties in everyday work and
not understanding how to overcome them, for
getting that difficulties exist for the Bosheviks
only for the purpose of being overcome and
marching further.
Because of this situation, which the Section
Organizer of the Section is primarily responsible
for, there are q group of comrades such as Ross,
Houston ETC., who are utilizing this situation for
one purpose-to undermine the Party leader
ship and attempt to discredit the Party. Against
both of those tendencies and expressions the
sharpest struggle must be stated and organiza-
tional measures taken
The Section Committee did not react to such
events as -chauvinism on the South Side
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-12
THE Revolution Made a Person Out of Me"

ahead Breaking wish the priests, who we're
aiding the enemy, she joined the Communist
Party in 1919, and was sent on important work
to Turkestan and other places Always, after
working hours, she was studying, studying.
Her husband was selected by his shopmates to
do responsible work Because of his ability and
devotion to the tasks given him he YVES soon
promoted, until now he is chief of an important
branch of the Peoples Commissariat of Trans
port and Communication, with several metal
plants under his direction.
Frcra Backward Working Woman to Red Director
In 1928 Polovina came to the Moscow Elec-
torzavod to work. Electricity drew her, she must
master this wizard which Comrade Lenin had
pointed out would re-1nake the face of old Rus
STA of backward villages into modern land Of
science and socialism. In the machine depart
ment where she worked she was chosen for
work on the factory committee. Later she was
put in charge of the Woman's Departments 81
the entire plant. In the last few months she
has been freed from all other work in order to
act as an instructor of the factorys party COM
mittee. 1t is her responsibility to see that the
Communist line of socialist construction and
workers welfare is carried out
In the evenings Polovina is continuing her
study. Now she has been chosen to become a
preparatory course. At the end of that time
she will be placed in charge of some electrical
works. Later in the course she will be leased
from all other work and pursue her studies in
the daytime OF course she will receive regular
wages. All of her fellow students are former
workers like herself, training future directors of
Soviet factories. In this way Russia is develop
ing her new corps of specialists directors and
leaders
so you see, "Polovina Ivanova ends her shpry
saying this is what our revolution has done for
US l can truly say it has made person out of
me. In the old days was a fool, real fool
] shaved day and night to no purpose and paid
the priest to tell me hes, painted my checks and
wore cheap earrings, initiating the rich ladies.
was IS ignorant and unhappy as a person could
b9. The Revolution has made me over 1t has
educated me to think for myself Now 1 know
what I do and why 1 do It, l have no worries
about being turned out of my room or getting
my meals; for we have built society where all
who work are sure of good living
Il am happy, as never was before My hus-
band and have much in common-our work and
the Party, which has been the center of our life
for many years. We know that iii spite Of all
obstacles and hardships we have already laid the
broad foundations CT socialism in our country
We know that our labors and our struggles here
point the way for the toiling masses of the entire
world.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-12
RECRUITING IN THE SOUTH

We will briefly review the work Of the past two
years in District 16. We can sum up the short
comings in the following two points: ID Failing
to develop new forces and depending on the
center to supply organizers 90 Following the
line of least resistance, i. e.-for the past two
years we had practically deserted work among
white workers and devoted our time to work
among the Negro workers, who are practically
all unemployed and none Of whom are at the
point of production So that we were unable to
carry out the teaching Of Lenin, to make every
factory fortress of Communism" Neither have
we, as Comrade Stain said, built our transmits
sion belts.
The National Textile Workers Union, the In
ternational Labor Defense, the Workers Inter
national Relief are practically non-edstent in the
district.
The District has now taken the following steps
TO correct the situation: In the Pinoco mill we
had last year what we called a shop unit. This
consisted of three comrades working in the same
department. The unit was finally dissolved be-
cause tare was no work for 1t to do. The COM
rades in the mill were not given the proper
guidance and were allowed to turn every meeting
into discussion on the Soviet Union and other
topics that did not interest because they did not
understand the workers Of the shop The COM
rades finally found themselves isolated from the
rest of the workers and the boss was able to
weed out the Reds by shutting down part Of the
mill
But by getting one member here and one there
from various trades, we established unit not
a shop unit. but unit which was known as the
village unit. One comrade lived in this village
and we decided to pick mill for concentration.
This is one Of chain Of seven mills owned by
the same company
The village unit began to draw workers from
the village which covered two of the mills. This
unit began to issue shop paper and covering
the two mills with 1t each month. Finally we eS-
tabshed contacts in each Of the two mills And
when the unit was too large to meet at one place,
it was divided up into two units. Neither is as
yet mill unit, but by bringing the workers to
a unit meeting, they became acquainted with the
activity of the Party comrades.
We did not assign new comrades to the task
of bringing new workers into the Party--their
task was to get the address of the workers who
they thought would be good material for the
Party. The comrades from the unit, who were
not working, would visit the contact and bring
them to the unit meeting; after the meeting the
new workers would be asked TO fill out the ap-
phcation card Not only one comrade would
visit the contact, but two comrades would visit
one night and two different comrades would go
The next night and the worker would begin TO
wonder if he was the only one that would not
belong and would then promise TO come 10 the
meeting. The night of the meeting some of the
comrades would 60 and see that the worker
came.
For come time we had tried to draw the white
workers from the shop into the weekend class
that was held every Sunday morning at 10
"a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-12
The Farce OF
Responsibilities"
From the "Mundo Obrero", Madrid, Spain,
November 90 1871

Yesterday the ounter-revolutionary Cortes
(parliamenD approved the decision of the Com
mission of Responsibilities" condemning Alfonso
the Bloody, for the crime of high treason, to the
loss of all his rights.
The formula contained in the sentence ap-
proved by the Chamber would be picturesque If
it did not constitute a scandal, bloody Jest for
the families Of the victims Of his grim reign,
and for the toiling masses that expected from
the republicans and social-fascists little Of
justice.
But meanwhile the government hberates the
Berenguer brothers; meanwhile 1t protects the
reactionaries and persecutes the workers severe
ly: meanwhile 1t trusts the defense of the re-
public" TO Sanjuro, that general who with Primo
de Rivera made the coup d'etat Of 1929 the Cor
ties carries out the comedy of condemning the
idiotc and bloody Alfonso, when he finds himself
in foreign parts enjoying the wealth robbed from
the Spanish people wealth that the provisional
government permitted him to take away when IL
facilitated his flight.
The decision Of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Qcg-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-12

the hd0dS OIL tne S-CldSSs
Polovina although not party member,
very active She explained to her $50 shopmates,
"You sent me there to take care of your in
tcrests. But that is impossible, so long as the
Mensheyiks run things. Look, they have prom
ised us everything, but what they have done?
The evil war goes on our men suffer and die in
the trenches. Here in the factories our condi-
lions, our masters remain the same Where are
the nurseries we we're promised for our chill
drenP What about the increase we were prom
ised in our wages2 Where is the chance to go to
SCHOOL," When Polovina, with her husbands
help, started classes at the plant the boss stopped
her. This is no university" he told her
Even in the street-cars the struggle waged be-
tween members of the owning classes and the
working population, Arguments and fist fights
broke out when the masses muttered against the
rising prices and were told by indignant bour-
geois ladies and gentlemen, What Our country
at war and you can think of your wagesl"
When the decisive vote came Polovina was
able to muster her factory soldly behind the
Bolsheviks, who had won similar victories
throughout the country. The workers were rest
less, ready TO go to the barricades this time
under the Boshevik slogans OF Peace Liberty
Land, Bread
During the November days of fighting and the
years OF civil War that followed Polovna was
busy in the Sanitary Brgades. These volunteer
troops carried stretchers and took care of the
wounded. Her husband of course, was fighting
in the workers Red Army
AS soon as the working class led by the
Bolshevik Communist Party had taken power
things began to change right away. Schools
ana universities we're opened to the toing masses
who were famished for knowledge Polovina, who
all her life had wanted to get more learning
now had her chance.
lhere were many more changes Many laws
for the protection and advancement of Iahor
were pas7cd and nurseries for WORKING mothers
chlldren we're opened. Women who used to give
birth to their children by their machines, now
received two months vacation with pay before
and two months after childbirth Also they we're
taught how to raise their children.
The first years were years of great difficulties.
OF civil war and famine; yet Polovina never fall
tered For at last she saw clearly the way
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-12

ties against the miserable Alfonso, without de-
manding responsibility from those who organized
his escape the pretense Of confiscating his prop
critics without putting trial those who per-
mitted his departure with the fruits of his rob-
berry OF the Spanish in order that he live hand
somely abroad and conspire against the republic
is a downright farce, all affront to the exploited
massa'
The social fascists and republicans that lead
the Cortes must be proud of the result First
they prepare the escape OF the crowned bandit,
they let him carry with him the product Of his
rapine, and afterward they mechanically con-
denim him
And while they do this, while they condemn
him who finds himself safely in another country,
his accomplices, the generals that were his right
hand, they turn free on whatever pretext or even
give honors and trust to them the defense Of
the republic.
AS for us we expected no less from the re-
dictionary Cortes that let pass in silence the
murders Of the Maria Louisa Park and the Po-
lice Prefecture Of Barcelona from that Cortes
that did not protest the action of the Civil Guard
in conflicts with the workers, that permitted the
persecution Of the Andalusian and Castillian
peasants as If they were beasts that Approves
and applauds the reactionary policy OF the eov-
eminent which is leaving a trail Of blood sud
pain throughout all Spain
Nothing this Cortes does could surprise n ta,fs
Cortes that voted the repressive exceptional INV
OF defense Of the republic, law that permits
the government to organize the counter-reyolu-
ton, prosecuting the revolutionary movement OF
workers and peasants and favoring the mon
archists, as previously they prepared the escape
OF the king in order now to play the comedy Of
responsibility.
But the farce Of the Cortes should serve as \
lesson to the workers, to make them understand
that only their own force, organized and directed
BY the Communist Party, by the political party Of
TIA WORKING esasA. VIII put "a end = Nlah 1DeslA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-12

member Of the Bolshevik Party for many
years. Before this it had been impossible to
tell her The strictest secrecy Was necessary
because of the spying and murderous terror
carried on against the illegal party by the Cars
police.
Anna Elected to the Soviet
When the first elections for the Soviets (Coun-
cils) of Workers and Soldiers Deputies took
place Polovina was chosen to represent her
factory in the Moscow council Kerensky and
then Mensheviks were still in power at this time.
A fierce struggle was being waged between the
Mensheviks who wanted the cid order of things
to remain unchanged and the Bolsheviks, who
demanded that all power be transferred into