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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-09-29

l knew somebody out in the world
would hear of me if 1 stuck to news
paper work long enough. I have
heard from the American Magazine
after being out of college only five
years. Think of it, ladies and gentle
men: success is within my grasp at
last. Below is part of the letter:
Dear Buddy:
have heard that you are an am
bilious boy who would welcome the
opportunity to earn dozens of dandy
prizes and earn your own spending
money. spending money for two
now, if you please)
All right! Listen closely! I am
going to make you the biggest offer
you ever heard of! You can become
a Crowell Junior salesman, and de-
liver the American Magazine to regu-
lar customers in your neighborhood.
Do you know what that means?
Just this: You can have business
of your own and make money by the
peck. Give always wanted both)
Besides, you can win your choice of a
bicycle, watch, iashlight, airplane,
clothing and athletic equipment. Qt's
me for bicycle to ride to work)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12
The World War DraeVS
Nearer

Mongolia of the cimi
preparations
triumphant Socialist construction
inspired by the British mperials
Mongolia 1t has already occupied the Inner Mongolia
cooperation the Marking puppets
mpals Marking offered resistance
army Kanuh in north
Mongolia to reach the borders
u Soviet Mongolia.
At the same organized inspired
developing Japanese concentrating Mnchuia
while other
Soviet Mongolia The
Chncohw,
testing their imperiat rivals
against
Mongolia sharp diplomatic and American
North threat
Chnandicates that
policy protecting its robber
but forcing Japan to make the Soviets
Mongolia extend the military base
evident that the Bitishinspred Tbean
coincide with the drive through Jeho
which somewhat held by the tremendous
evolutionary upsurge of the Manchurian
Mongolia the workers
world the of world slaughter into which
nperais mongers rapidly
Soviet Mongolia of the
mperasts onslaught the
the Manchurian the western
the e-dvion
the mpiars seeking
way capitalist the
the working Workers. the
delegates the World
gress Against
the
Repubcl shipment
mpeals
Mongolia
the rising Soviet Power in China
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12
The Fight of the Illinois
Miners Against Wage
Cuts

THE report stealing
in the referendum of the Illinois the
question wage length 60
through the will the Illinois
miners since April of this have stood out against the attempt to
wage Overwhelmingly by
o L.
the barons the state these
oazen neoo IN ooer 10 accomplish ue enoS John L. Lew" mas an
that Illinois the
me miners and has openly exposed his cutting policy calling for
the the the cutting
The Illinois had face complete united front all
Republican administration headed
relief to drive the back work
institutions where the Red
family. The relief committee H Walker
district president of the UwA was headed by his appon the
dictionary Trotskyie Gerry
miners 1t committee of
starvation
"greeted" Walker through the
him Of Lewis could the
With the protection Of specially dputzed led by the sheriff
Franklin County
The ocadon has operated not only with violence and starvation
has used the special of demaggy prevalent the
fields Pat Ansby Jack Allen local leaders, follow
in the footsteps of Ray Edmndson who betrayed the miners by
posing progressive
radical talk
fight against operators
path struggle
Illinois miners who have shown such borness mitancy
resisting the cut must organize their fight better they to
expose Anbry
the showing the that with
leadership S impossible effective fight
The Illinois attempts
spreading the strike drawing
unemployed
against
uniting white
pickeng and militant demonstrations by
organizing wide spread relief work
establish file
mtees the the head of the fight militant
Edmndn Howat from the tactics Anbury Allen
the file opposition
the Union Unity The Trade
and the National Miners Union have repeatedly
f walker calling for shorter work dav and the adonn radical
pank the Springfield convention intended the
from fight against the cuts order put through the
policy of the employers.
BY putting forward leaders who through militant fight
cuts by building militant opposition the Walker
Lewis leadership the miners will be building
destroying
the coal operators.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12
RED PODOLSK
The Former Singer Sewing Machine
Plant Near Moscow

floor. Humans tug away the boil-
ing metal, spending their labor
where machinery could serve much
better. Nearby are the moulders,
bent almost double over the sand
and crude moulds.
Everywhere, materials and men
used extravagantly, for want Of
machines.
Old and New.
This is the foundry which the
Podolsk workers inherited from the
American capitalist, Singer. In a
few weeks time, it will be closed
forever. After thorough recondi-
tioning, it will be converted into
an up-to-date tool department.
Feodor Trefanov, who has cast
metal here for quarter of a cen-
tury, leads us to the new foundry.
Our Palace of Labor, he calls 1t.
Most of the smelling and casting
has already been transferred here.
With an output capacity of 34,-
600 tons day, or twice that of the
old plant, and working force of
1900, this cement and steel struc-
ture, in layout and equipment, has
only four equals in the world.
ut cost us two and half mill
lion dollars, Feodor says, and is
the 519th plant to be opened by
us Soviet workers in this, the third,
decisive year of our Five Year
Plan. For me, in my old age, it
is a great thing to see." We pass
along asphalt floors from one de-
partment to another, through
rooms that stretch far and high.
Wide aisles run between rows Of
animated machines glistening,
powerful. Overhead are the cranes,
manned by youth and girls in red
kerchiefs. Through the sky-light
ceilings so much light streams in
that we wonder if the sun could
have broken through the gray-cast
sky of Northern Russia's winter.
Every conceivable device which
science has SO far invented is at
its post, doing with rapid ease the
work at which men once strained
and swore. Conveyors, UNDER
ground, overhead, and on a level
with the human hands manning
them, click forward, collecting and
depositing materials with precise
efficiency.
TO Be Continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12
Letters from Our Readers

their political and organizational re-
suits is vital necessity for the adj
vance of our movement. There is
altogether too much primitiveness
in our methods. Lenin alwas COM
batted such prinitiveness.. He said
we must avoid the methods of war
riors who march to war like peasants
from the plough, snatching up a
club"
Workers attending meetings expect
light on their situation, on what is
to be done, politically, organization
ally. They are too often left high and
dry and bitterly disappointed because
our agitators engage in general ex-
curSions of talk, both pointless and
aimlesS.
The content of the talk must be
filled with the vital events of the
class struggle, given from the Com
munist standpoint. Our agitators
must be better prepared to render
this service and not left too much
to their own resources to get the
information as they go along. But
all around the meetings must be
organized and the Party organiza-
tons must all serve that end. And
in that way the best results can be
achieved. We particularly want to
emphasize the criticism made in the
above letter on the failure to discuss
the local conditions concretely and a
tendency to deal with issues of the
election campaign in general and
and abstact manner.
Editor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12

beth are subsisting on a starvation
wage level. When they do work,
their labor is back-breaking, and
when they are laid off-about half
the time-they starve. The thou
sands of workers who have been
discharged and who have found no
other jobs, are net covered by I'M
employment or social insurance.
When they are sick, they either
live or die according to the rules
of the jlEgle-if they are lucky
and unusually strong, they live;
expert medical care except in I'M
usual cases is a luxury that only
the Singer stockholders, Mr.. Dixon
and other exploiters can enjoy.
Vacations after the killing work
in the Singer plant are not to be
thought of either. These, too, are
rare luxuries for workers in a capt.
talist country.
CAPITALISM AND
SOCIALISM
It will be seen that the descrip-
tions of the Podolsk plant in the
pre-revolutionary days in Russia
and of the Elizabeth plant in 1882
United States, are altogether inter-
changeable. Misery, starvation, I'M
employment, speed-up and the life
of a wage-slave are the lot Of
workers in both plants. But in the
Podolsk plant in Russia, there oc-
CURED tremendous upheaval in
1917. The difference between the
lives Of workers in the Podolsk
plant in pressnt-day Russia and
the lives of workers in Elizabeth
today is a difference between night
and day, between happiness and
health and between misery and
starvation, between workers rule
and bosses rule--in a word, be.
tween socialism and capitalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12
TO STRENGTHEN THE SUB.
SCRIPTION LIST OF THE
DAILY WORKER
Chicago, Ill.

OiiCd5O, LII
Daily Worker:
Constructive criticism is never de-
trimental, therefore I am offering
this suggestion, that some way shall
be devised whereby members and
non-members of the Party, fellow
sympathizers and readers of the
Daily Worker, be gathered at a spe-
cial meeting. At this meeting groups
from various districts or neighbor-
hoods are to be assigned to various
tasks for strengthening the subscrip-
ton list of the Daily Worker.
More stress should be laid upon
the distribution centers: the news
stands, periodical stores, ETC., where
lists of readers should be gathered.
Let us have some action, from the
corner neWs-stands as we'll as the
members of the Party.
r. F. M.
The suggestion of this non-Party
worker for gathering of non-Party
workers, sympathizers and readers
of the Daily Worker for a drive for
subscriptions, as well as building up
other means for spreading the Daily
Worker, should be taken up more
Systematically by the Chicago and
other districts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12
S. Sheinbaum
Y. G. L. Bronx, No. 2.

The criticism made in the above
letter is justified, not only about the
meeting referred to by the comrade,
but other meetings as we'll More con-
sidered attention to meetings cpd
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12
The Singer Plant in
Elizabeth, NJ, U.S.A.
A Contrast of the Factory Under Capitalism
and Under Socialism

pEFORE the revolution, the work
- ers in the Singer plant in Po-
dolsk were subjected to merciless
exploitation, starvation wages, long
hours, speed-up, and periodic lay
offs. Dixon, manager of the Po-
dolsk factory in the days before the
revolution-and manager today of
the Singer plant in Elizabeth =
threw Gordon of spies around the
Podolsk plant. Workers who COM
planned against the short pay and
the long hours, workers who were
discovered to be members of the
workers revolutionary party, were
made short shrift of by Dixon.
This is the Singer factory in Po-
dolsk of pre-revolutionary days in
Russia. The Singer factory of to-
day in Elizabeth presents the same
picture.
THREE WAGE
CUTS
During the present economic
crisis, the Singer employees have
had their wages cut three times.
All Singer employees who have
worked for the company more
than 20 years are being discharged
because they are no longer "effi-
Gent. Last year the Singer plant
employed e,7oo workers, today it
employs 1900. In 1890. while the
living standard of the Singer work
ers was at starvation level, the
Singer company made clear prof
it of $l9,9O5,2 1862
A STARVATION
LEVEL
While the average profit of the
Singer company on every machine
that it sells is 1877 per cent, the
wages of the workers are as low
as 81 and $40 week These work
ers in the Singer plant in Eliza
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12
How Not to Conduct
Open Air Meetings

brOnx, N. I =.
Dear Editor:
One Of the best ways OF popular
izing the election program OF the
Communist Party is the open-air
meeting. But if these meetings are
not planned ahead of time and are
not properly organized they lose all
their value and sometimes even con-
fuse the workers in the audience.
On Thursday night, July 81, unit 8
of section of the Party held such
meeting at 161st st. and Prospect
Avenue, Bronx.
The platform was too small and
there was no sign on it to announce
what party was holding the meeting.
The speakers, who were new and
inexperienced, had not prepared their
speech. They spoke in general with
out touching on the miserable local
conditions and one speaker repeated
what the other said.
Saying that worker has no coun-
try, except the Soviet Union, with
out explaining it fully is just an
empty phrase.
The sale of literature at this meet
ing was not organized. The whole
thing looked like fire sale" If you
make a collection in order to distri-
butte the papers free, you can't make
another collection right after 1t for
the Unemployed Council.
Later one of the speakers asked
how many will vote red? Very few
raised their hands, not because they
were against our party, but because
some of them were not voters and
others did not want to expose them
selves SO early during the meeting.
The very important task of asking
workers to join the Party
was done in a poor way.
The speaker asked those want
ing to join to raise their hands or
step up to the platform. The workers
thought this would expose them.
A very important part of the meet
ing is the answering of questions.
These questions should be answered
by the most developed comrade who
does not have to be speaker. AL
workers questions should be ans
wered, especially rank and file.
Comrades and Sympatnlzers should
not start discussions near the meet
ing, but should take the workers on
side. All comrades and sympathiz-
ers should take the initiative to keep
the meeting in order and form de-
Tense corp in case of an attempt to
break it up.
| S, Sheinbaum
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12
Politicians and Landlords of South Foster Race
Hatred to Divide Workers

House is an old weapon to scare
black workers, and to keep white
and black workers apart. On the
North, the Republican politicians
are not any more anxious than the
Democrats to promote an under
standing between the workers of
the two races0 For, just as it is
to the interests of the upper classes
of our country to keep all workers
in ignorance, so it is to their in
terests to keep workers divided.
For the further apart workers are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12
CAN SOVIET WORKERS
MASTER TECHNIQUE?

WE PASS through the old Podolsk
w foundry. gloomy as a cave and
brooding with fumes. Men, strip
ped to the waist, down whose
darkened bodies sweat courses in
zig-zag patterns are feeding growl-
ing, ravenous furnaces. Crimson
lava floods into waiting vans. sput-
tering its steel fire on the earthern
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12

Part Seven
BIG TASKS
AHEAD
Although much has been accom-
plished at the Podolsk plant, Varo-
min tells us, he and the other
workers are far from satisfied.
Much still remains to be done. For,
in spite of the factory's rapid de-
velopment, it has fallen short of
the mark set by the Five Year
Plan. In this respect. our Podolsk
plant is not typical of most Soviet
plants today-it is tagging behind
in its rate Of growth! The pro-
gram for output in 1881 was carried
out only to the extent of IS per
cent, with the output of industrial
machines falling particularly short
of the plan. Costs Of production
due mainly to the low output per
worker and large proportion of
waste q per cent? are still too
high.
Luckily, the reasons for these
shortcomings are well understood
by the workers management, as
well as how they can be overcome.
Besides shortages of metal and
other raw materials, the struggle to
get. along without imports, of
needed machinery, and measuring
instruments, and the problems of
converting thousands of former
peasants only recently come from
from the village into skilled me-
chanics, there are certain ineffi-
Gent and wrong methods in the
plants inner organization which
are at fault which are in process
of elimination, and quality, which
is equal to Singers, is being further
improved.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12
By MYRA PAGE

Our Correspondent in the Soviet
Union.
Part Seven
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12
A FREE LANCE FRAUD

The Daily Worker has received leahe entitled
unworthy
IDEAS substantial enough to deserve discussion
1t important the publisher the eafet
that the Communist Katois
the
eahet Chicago
leaflets distributed be
him. the and has expelled
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12

THE struggle against militarism
must not be postponed until the
moment when war breaks out.
Then it will be too late. The
struggle against war must be car
ried on now, daily, hourly"
LENIN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12

kept, the more secure becomes the
position of our gentlemen bosses.
THE WATCH DOGS
OF THE BOSSES
1t is true that gentlemen Negroes
and whites Chose who are lib
erar) have a sort of gentlelnen's
agreement. They say to each other,
you keep your people on your
side of the fence and we will keep
our people on our side" They are
the watch-dogs Of the gentlemen
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12
BY BURCK

bosses, yapping the white and
black workers back into their sep
arate folds, trying to keep them
quiet and contented, so they will
not disturb the slurnbers of the
gentlemen in the Big House. There
are Republican and Democratic
watch-dogs, and some who are
called A. F. of L. There are So
cialist watch-dogs, too, hanging
about uncertainty between the big
houses of the rich and the pens
of the poor. They bark a little at
the Big House, warning the mas
tiers of the discomfort in the pens.
In the south, we are learning
that these watch-dogs are not
friends of the workers. We are
waking up to the fact that the
Negro steel-worker in Alabama, the
Negro and white share choppers
and small farmers, the white fac
tory workers in North Carolina
have the same interests, the same
masters. Through misery and un-
employment and wage cuts we are
learning. gradually, that we can
rely only upon ourselves to shorten
our hours of work, raise our wages,
protect ourselves from unemploy-
ment, and make living from our
small farms.
Our gentlemen bosses are GER
tainly not interested in doing these
things for us. And their watch
dogs, who are fed from their hands.
are not interested in us. We must
rely upon ourselves.
THE COMMUNIST PARTY
MUST LEAD
But who is to lead us? AS a
white southerner, I have learned
from my experience in the south
that the. Communist Party is the
only party that is wholly and COM
pletely for the workers. 1t is the
: only party that gives us any hope.
that stands completely for equal
rights for Negroes and whites. And
this last is not an idealistic dream.
The Communist Party knows that
only through equal freedom Of Ne
gro and white workers can any
sort of freedom for all workers
come to pass. The white worker
needs the Negro just as the Negro
needs the white.
The Communist Party tells us to
become ass-conscious. This is a
fine word, and has a fine mean
ing. To become conscious of my
class. To know where I belong,
not with those who have brought
this world to its present state of
chaos and misery, but with those
who are working for a world in
which each will have a share Of
the good things of life.
When I vote Communist in the
next elections, for Foster and Ford,
I will be doing a thing that is
sensible and natural. For who does
not want, both for himself and
others, share of the good things
of life, and time in which to en-
JOY them?
The gentlemen bosses fight for
themselves, each one grabs for his
own big pile of riches. The work
ers, Negro and white, must fight
for each other and for a better
world. And what is why I shall
vote on November 8, under the
hammer and sickle, for William z.
Foster and James w. Ford, the
Communist candidates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-12
Why | AS A White Southern Woman
Will Vote Communist

The writer of this article, Grace
Lumpkin, is a white southerner,
born and raised in Georgia and a
descendant of an old southern
family who settled in 1870 in the
heart of the south. She is the
author of ITO Make My Bread"
which will be published in Sep
TENDER. This article shows the
common interest of the Negro and
white workers in the south in the
fight against their oppressors. 1t
reveals the hideous methods of the
southern lynchers to keep the Ne
groes in oppression by the cry that
the Negroes are committing rape
against the southern white women.
While the appeal raises the de-
mand for equal rights of the Ne
groes, it unfortunately fails to
bring forward the demand for the
right of the Negroes for self
determination in the Black Belt.
Workers, Negro and white through
out the country will welcome the
appeal of Grace Lumpkin.-Editor
BY GRACE LUMPKIN
I WAS born in Georgia. Later my
L family moved to South Carolina
where we lived both in the coun-
try and in a city of $4,000 inha-
bitantS.
On the outskirts of the city, there
are several cotton mills, one of
them the largest under one roof
in the world" I can see long rows
of identical shabby frame houses,
and the streams of people coming
out of the mills after the six o'clock
whistle.
THE sunny SOUTH
In the country, there are many
share-croppers, Negroes and whites,
but mostly whites, for the Negroes
work out by the day. Both Ne
groes and whites are poor, and all
illiterate, except the children of
the whites. There are no Negro
schools in that part of the coun-
try. In other parts of the coun-
try and state, there are Negro
schools, but they are always in bad
repair, and do not run for long
during the year.
But there are chain gangs where
the adult and near-adult Negroes
go to school. There they learn
many things, among them how to
work in a broiling sun digging a
clay road, with heavy chains drag
ging at their ankles.
In the South, the poor whites
have one advantage over the Ne
groes. They are supposed to be
superior. When the Civil War
came and changed system of
chattel slavery into a system of
wage slavery, many whites still
had their little pieces of land. So
they felt superior to the Negroes
who had just come out of slavery
and were forced to work as day
laborers. But when the northern
industrialists, cooperating with the
southern industrialists, brought
machinery into the south, they
persuaded thousands of poor white
farmers, who were not making
livelihood on their little farms to
DESERT them and go into industry
where they were promised fine
wages. By going into the factories
and mines, the whites became day
laborers like the Negroes. :, =.
Politicians Foster Race Hatred
But the attitude of superiority
Of the white workers was not per-
mitted to die out naturally. This
attitude has been and is cunnjngly
fostered by the democratic poll
ticians, who want the factory"
vote, and who aim, above all, to
keep these two races of workers,
who have so much in common,
apart.
The cry of Grape" used against
Negroes by the masters in the Big