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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-17
SOLDIER'SLOTI IS
TOUGH in PANAMA
Guard Houses Are
Filled
(By a SOLDIER

CORRAL, Panama Canal zone-I
was sent here for engineering work
but instead all / get is infantry and
labor. We must work every day. We
have to buy our own uniforms. The
clothes turn white after being washed
a couple Of times, and we have to
buy new clothes.
1t is always damp at night, and
hot as hell in the daytime. I can't
save cent here. Laundry alone is
So. and the tailor bill for pressing is
So. We serve two years here and
year in the States. I had to go with
out tobacco a month in order to buy
a bathing suit to go swimming on
Sundays.
Every morning we drill for three
hours in the heat. This heat is so
bad that I passed out a couple of
times. They drive them all here.
The guard house is filled most of
the time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-17
SOVIETS DEFINE
RAILWAY RIGHTS
Say Chinese Eastern
Belongs to USSR

On the eve of Japan's recognition
of the puppet republic" of Man.
choukuo, the Soviet Government rel
terated that the Chinese Eastern
Railway in Manchuria is still the
property of the Soviet Union, a dis
patch from Moscow to the capital
list rress revealed yesterday.
The dispatch states that in reply
to protest from the Kirin diplo-
matte Commissary over the with
drawal of some locomotives from the
Chinese Eastern Railway, the Soviet
Consul General Slavutski at Hardin
reminded that the railroad is only
operated jointly by the Soviet Union
and China.
The Soviet Consul further declared
that the locomotives were purchased
for the Soviet Railways and used on
the Chinese Eastern during the PEE
Rod Of imperialist Intervention in
l918-19. 1.-THE Soviet Union" he said
us entitled to dispose of the loco
motives"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-17
Art Of Cooking A
Branch Of Technical
Science in Soviet
Union

already taking their meals in public
eating houses had increased to
10,400,0o0; this number is to be fur
then increased by 100000 in the
course of the year.
Ccoking-A Branch of Technical
Science.
In connection with the rapid de-
velopment of this new branch of ma
tional economics, new type Of
worker has risen to certain popu-
larity in the Soviet Union: the cook.
The art of cooking has become a part
of technical science to the devel-
opment of which the Soviet Union is
devoting much attention.
At the end Of July a district con-
ference of cooks took place at
Schachty, the centre of the mining
industry of East Ukraine. This con-
ference discussed the current ques-
tons of public eating houses.
The amount of attention given to
this question may be judged by the
fact that the central government
paper "Isvestia" devotes a whole
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-17
CHEER FOR /
UNITED FIGHT ON
HUNGER AND WAR
Dunno Gives Commu-
mist Message to Work.
ers of Youngstown

YOUNGSTOWN, o., Sept. 16.-
Two thousand workers, mostly from
steel mills or jobless steel workers,
gathered here yesterday in Rayen
Auditorium and greeted with enthu-
siasm the election program of the
Communist Party and the call Of its
presidential candidate, Foster, for
united action. Foster urged for1na-
ton Of united front committees to
demand relief, to strike against wage
cuts, to force granting of the soldiers
bonus, and to force relief and tax
exemption for the poor farmers.
This call by Foster, and ringing
summons to struggles against lmper-
ialist war, was delivered to the work
ers by Bill Dunno, of the Central Ex-
ecutive Committee of the Communist
Party, who is filling Fosters dates
in the illness Of the candidate for
president.
Newspapers Tried to Stop 1t
The Youngstown newspapers tried
to sabotage the meeting by declaring
that it was cancelled. Two thousand
workers came anyway.
They adopted unanimously the fol-
lowing message to Foster:
1--WE send you our greetings Of soli-
darity from the Youngstown Com
munist election rally, and our hope
for your quick recovery. We invite
you, our candidate and veteran lead
er of the American workers in the
fight against capitalist hunger and
10 IN to-
mediately after your recovery from
your illness"
Gov. Whites Strikebreaking
Dunno pointed out that the Ohio
capitalists and state government not
only refused adequate relief, but sent
militia to smash the miners fight in
Eastern Ohio against wage cuts.
Dunno cited an admission in the
capitalist press yesterday that Gov
ernor White spent a quarter Of a
million dollars up to date for troops
to use against the miners strike.
He pointed out that Secretary Of
War Baker in the Wilson cabinet was
responsible for the falling of the
thousands Of workers during the war,
and for that is now made head of
the new Hoover Hunger Committee.
Militant Struggle
Dunno showed how organization
and militant action, as in the Warren
strike and as in the unemployed DEM
onstration at st. Louis, as in hte
farmers strike and the war veterans
march, is the sort Of thing that gets
results. Dunno declared the most
vital needs now is the formation of
network Of organization all over
the country, a united front Of Negro
and white, native and foreign born
workers to lead struggles.
The speaker stressed the necessity
of white workers taking UP the battle
for Negro liberation.
During the meeting delegation
of Pioneers from Farrell, Pa, march
ed singing into the hall and cheered
each speaker.
All Daily Workers and all Commu-
1 mist literature on hand was sold. The
meeting opened with singing of the
International. Frank Rogers, steel
workers leader was chairman. Other
! speakers were A. Lewis, a Negro
worker and Communist candidate for
sheriff; Taylor of the Young Com
munist League, Tokkeri, a woman
leader of the Warren strike
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-17

priest should have the money Which'
he demanded. Now that these men
are out of work and the Polish Bank
went bankrupt with their life saw
ings, the priest does not help them.
Some of the workers have been re-
fused relief at the Township Trustee
because the priest refused to recon-
mend it. One man was refused re-
lief for his starving family because
he had not had one of his children
baptized.
A Polish catholic worker tells how
the system works as to jobs. This
worker, about to lose his home, des-
perately tried every means of get
ting work. BY applying to the priest
and the postmaster Clemens, he fin
ally managed, with three other work.
ers, to secure a job-plain labor
building roads and streets. -Four Ne
groes were removed from the job and
in their place these four Polish work
ers we're put on. This work con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-17
WORKER CORRESPONDENCE
"Miners Are Waiting
to Vote Communist"
by a Miner Correspondent

KETTLE ISLAND, Ky.-We have
to work 10 to IL hours day at the
Kettle Island coal mine. They pay
80 cents a ton, and $125 to $3.50 a
day. Last January they paid SO to
$3.50 a day, and As cents ton.
A few days ago young man, Fred
Nunby, was killed as result of the
unsafe conditions in the mine. His
parents were allowed only his burial
expenses as compensation.
At the Liberty Coal Co. they are
paying 81 to Sits per day, and IS
cents a ton. The company charges
S 9to SIS a month rent for the chick
en- coops in which the miners live.
There are about $50 votes here, and
in this primary election only about
one-third of these voted, as the min
ers are waiting for Election Day so
they can vote Communist.
Fl T.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-17

In the course of this year great
progress has been made in the de-
velopment of facilities for public
eating houses, which represent
very important branch of socialist
development in the Soviet Union.
Primitive Methods Of Cooking.
In order to understand the i'm
portance of these public eating hous-
es, it must be remembered that the
Russian peasants have been accus-
toned to extremely primitive and
frequently unhygienic methods Of
cooking and eating.
The millions of workers who have
come into the cities from the country
during the last few years will not al
ter these primitive methods so long
as their wives are occupied with the
task of providing the meals.
Emancipating Women from House.
work.
Besides this, the confinement of
women to the household and the
kitchen is in socialist economics a
brake on production. In the rapidly
growing industries where there is a
shortage of labor, women can per-
form a much more important work
for society.
Along with the development of
public scientific nurseries, the Soviet
Union is therefore organizing public
heating facilities which have dou-
BILE object: that of freeing woman
from the slavery of the kitchen and
cradle; and that of improving the
eating conditions of the working
class in general.
Over 10 Millions in Public Houses
In the present year forty out OF
every hundred city inhabitants are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-17

sisted of concrete mixing hauling
heavy sacks of concrete all day long.
Three of these workers worked 8
hours and then were fired outright
One of them managed to hang on
for 10 hours but had to give up, too.
The priest can do nothing for
them. 1t is only one step further
for them to realize that they them
selves must solve the problem by I'M
iting with all workers, regardless of
race, nationality, religion or color,
into one militant organization to
fight for better conditions. Il. ].
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-17

mination against them in the various
localities"
Denied Hospital Treatment.
The statement further pointed out
that Negro veterans in the south
have even denied hospital treatment
in government hospitals, that in
Georgia the legion state department
refused to issue a charter to Negro
veterans and that in Alabama, where
white and Negro veterans are thrown
on chain gangs. Willie. Peterson, tn
berculor Negro veteran, has been
sentenced to the electric chair on a
framed-up charge by the same
courts that sentenced the innocent
Scottsboro boys to death.
The national committee of the
WESL pledged to carry an uncom-
promising fight against dlscrimina-
ton and jim-crowisnl where ever it
exists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-17


Cleveland Sept. 23-24-25
The statement Issued by the ma
tional committee of the league said
in pant:
1.-THE demand by the rank and file
for immediate payment of the bonus
has forced through a resolution on
the floor of the Legion convention
in favor of the bonus, but the legion
officials in an attempt to crush the
bonus fight are attempting to narrow
the movement down to lobbying af-
air, personal visits to Congressman,
etc.
1.-THE Workers Ex-Servicemen's
League calls for struggle involving
masses of veterans, white and Negro,
which is the only way the bonus can
be won.
Jim Crowd at Convention.
1.-THE Negro veterans were not al
lowed to say a word at the American
Legion Convention. They were jim
crowed and al resolutions against
discrimination against Negroes were
tabled in committee by the legion
leadership.
"At the rank and file conference
in Cleve. we will expose the divide and
rule policy of the enemies Of the vet
Grams. To this end we call en- all
sections of the workers to support
the conference by sending large
number of Negro delegates, bring
with them concrete cases of discri-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-17
Dying Negro Worker
Ignored by Police

NEW BEDFORD, Recently
as was on my way to the Mooney
meeting, a Negro worker was stricken
with weakness and starvation on the
corner Of Front and Crinell st. Two
policemen dragged him to yard
nearby. Then they drove off.
Workers near by assisted him, civ
ing him water and tea, and putting
wet cloths on his. forehead and face
The policemen left him alone to
suffer because he was Negro and
belonged to the working class.
"A Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-17
MARTIAL LAW AGAINST YOUTH
DAY

SHANGHAI-Martial law was de-
clared in Shanghai in order to pre-
vent demonstrations on the Interna-
.tional Day of Youth.
The Chinese quarters were cor
doned off from the concession by a
strong force of police.
Demonstrations of workers and
students were held and collisions
with the police took place.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-17
Total Less Than One Third
in DIV. $4,000 Fund Drive
Cotton Picker Sends SOC, Wages for Whole Day
and Half, to Aid Daily Worker

to one
O
OF
a demon
ronN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-17
BILLY SUNDAY ATTACKS UssR


GREAT FALLS, Mont.--The cap
italist tool, Billy Sunday spoke at the
North Montana Fair here to about
10000 workers. He was guaranteed
5000 for his speech.
In his speech he never mentioned
gambling because we all know that
his grating government is behind
him. Also the fact was that gambling
devices were wide open in the fair
doings.
He also quoted that it was hell to
live in the U. s. s. r., not men,
tioning that the workers over there
are given the full benefits of their
labor.
Comrade ]. w. Ford spoke here
last night to about $500 workers.
He gave wonderful talk The work
ers loudly Acclaimed him.-E. H.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-17
USSR Foremost in the Development
of Ultrd>Modern Eating Facilities

page to this conference, giving space
to the opinions of numerous "engin-
GERS of public cooking" that is to
the criticisms and suggestions of the
cooks themselves.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-17
Rank and File Vets in
Fight for Negro Rights
Cleveland Conference Will Hit Jim Crowism
and Discrimination Against Negro Vets
Call on All Organizations to Elect Negro Vets
to Rank and File Conference

NEW YORK, Sept
Workers Ex-
Servmen National
called all sympathetic
ganaonsto anal delegates
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-17
Polish Priest Got Workers
Cash, But Noev Blocks Relief
(By a Worker Correspondent

HAMMOND IndIn Indiana, there Polish catholic
priest
gedh clothes their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-17
VOTE COMMUNIST FOR

Equal rights for the Negroes and
self-determination in the Black
Belt.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-17
VOTE COMMUNIST

Against Imperialist War; for the
defense Of the Chinese people and
Of the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-17
DAILY MoRKER ooNTR1nuT1oNs

Saturday, Sept. 10. 1882
Amount received Saturday, Sept. 10 s334.7
Total TO Sept. 10 10,5f1.90
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-17

DI8LTIct I-bUSIUH
Chelsea Unit 500
Total, Dist. 1 500
Dist. New York
Freiheit Gesang
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-24

voters do not. They have loa interest in tbe platforms because of their growing con- vicfion that. save for hesdiiner paragraph or two. the platforms do not mean any thing.
 They still seem to be taken seriously by the platform builders. Politicians sweat and fight over the phrsssology as if the fate of the nation were being determined by their labors and millions were bfeathlessly await ing every word. They plan the structure and balance of their verbal edihee as if they were the original Constitution builders es- tablishing a new government. But once read, their masterpiece is ignored by almost everyone, including the builders themselves.
 The public has lost faith. for the most part. in the sincerity and vitality of party platforms. It seldom finds them dealing straightforwardly with living issues. It sees ;n them rather the same old attempt to say little in many words, and to say it ann biguously, in order to please all classes or to avoid offense to any. Platforms tor many campaigns have been steadily losing their original function of party programs and have become little more than campaign publicity stuff.
 We cannot have vital political parties unless their platform builders grapple ser- iously and directly with national problems submit clear and constructive plans for de- termination by the electorate and then pro- ceed to carry out the mandates given them at the polls. And unless we have strong and clearly differentiated parties. we are not likely to have effeetive government under our American system.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-24
Music in Summer

Children have been too busy for many years to do much music study. Here and there they have learned to play orchestral instruments we'll enough to make joyful noise with their fellows but even in the school bands and orchestras the saxophones and comets rather drowned out the few violins and good wood players were rare This summer, however. different situation obtains Money is scarce for fam lily Vacations away from home. Fewer ehil- dren can go to summer camps. Schools which have been giving summer sessions are closed for want of funds to maintain them.
 Here are the children. Here is the old piano. needing only tuning and perhaps slight bit of repair to be as good as ever. Here is Dads fiddle or flute or Uncle HenSy's clarinet, needing only strings or new glass mouthpiece. If there is no instru- ment in the family. here is the store ready with values marvellous to behold in instru- ments new or secondhand With violins especially. often the used ones are better. having been mellowed by former playing.
 And here are music teachers. good ones with lowered prices, eager to serve How better may child pass an hour or two of summer day than in making music? And the summer term, with two lessons week and lots of practice, sets the child far ahead. The energies are fresh when there is no school to drain them and learning music takes lot of energies mental and physical with keen coordination bringing them all into line and rhythm. With the doors and windows open the child and his music be- come part of the great outdoors. His tunes and rhythms fit into those of the birds and bees and winds among the grasses. Great stuff, music in summer!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-24
Remaining Educated

Here is .an extract from an unusual ad- dress made to graduating class. It was delivered not by an educator but by an in- tellgent and observant alumnus. The most serious mistake that any graduate can make" he said. lis to assume that now he is educated. The world is shambles of men and women with college degrees who made mental stop at graduation and nei- ther look nor listen to the advancing know ledge of the sciences and arts. This world never stays put long enough for yesterdays education to be effective today"
 It is true of every branch of learning Knowledge is probably advancing more rapidly than it ever did before. It will doubtless continue. quickly leaving behind those who fail to keep pace with it. Never was there so poor time for anyone to as sume that an education" is definite and permanent possession. like piece of land or life annuity. Much of what has been learned may remain valid and useful But there are always corrections to make. always new facts and interpretations.
 Education is not possession but pro- cess. The educated mind must renew itself with fresh. knowledge as the body does with food. This is necessary either for practi- cal progress or for the intellectual life that is supposed to belong to the educated man or woman.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-24
FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1882
Convention Jockeying

Efforts on the part of Roosevelt sup porters to make last minute attempt to establish majority vote in determining the winner out in Chicago at the Democratic National Convention next week, to our way of thinking at this time is just little out of order. In making this statement the Democrat has no axe to grind. for there appears to be no dearth of excellent available presidential material in the numerous can didates seeking the nomination.
 However it seems just little inoppor- tune for the Roosevelt forces to be making this last-minute bid to disturb precedent of over one hundred years. especially in view of the fact that they are apparently in possession of within one hundred delegates of the majority mark. On the other hand there is no good reason why precedent cannot be broken. but if it is, let the party get together and do it after the smoke Of the present battle has cleared. not at time when it can harm. or hurt any special candidates.
 The fact that the outcome of this years convention in all probability hinges on the two-third vote makes it all the more charged with dynamite and a dangerous thing to meddle with. If the convention would take the time after the candidates have been chosen to calmly sit down and decide this question once and for all. ths result in either event would not be fraugbt with such delicaey. But to do it, with feelings at the pitch which they are today. on the eve of what promises to be one of the greatest conventions the party ever staged. would be akin to disaster. both now and later on in November.
 So we say let the matter ride as it has in tle past If Roosevelt forces are not strong enough to muster up strength to make that last hard mile let them give way to the next best man. Others just as near the desired goal in past conventions have bad to see their aspirations crushed when within a few votes from victory. Roose- vclts case is no different. If he can make the grade. we think he is big enough to do it again in November But if he cannot without this upheaval of precedent just now, neither can he in November. For what the democratic party does not want at any cost is any repetition of such tactics that have governed republican conventions for the past decade or more The results are seen today on every side. No man that has not got to fight his way. every inch to the presidency of the United States IS worth his salt when he gets there. Your Hardings. Coolidges and Hoovers are only too open evidences of such party tactics. Let the battle go on, the best man has got to win.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-24
Little Plans

To anyone who gets about among these days it continues to be amazing that there are so many little businesses starting up. In a world full of men and boys who say they are willing to now lawns for small amounts of money. one man proves competent lie mows the lawn and trims the edges neatly and asks for spade to sharpen the line of the flower bed. One thing leads to another The flowers find themselves cultivated. A dead limb is sawed off tree and the cut painted The housewife who hires this man after a succession of ineompetents hires him again and recommends him. He costs a little more per hour than the others. but he is worth it. First thing anybody knows that man is doing all the lawns around. with three or four boys working under his supervision.
 A lad with fivvcr and no job and no money to take his girl out. starts to do er- rands and small deliveries. The neghbor- hood drug store and millner who have no regular delivery service, are glad to pay so many cents per erand. He assures busy housewives that he has gone marketing with his mother so often that he can buy lettuce a ana CduUlIOWeI do Wel dS dHIOUe. Ib knows when the butcher is cutting good meat for the loaf and when he is throwing in unworthy scraps. He will take the list ard market for so many cents the half bushe basket he brings home. Last any one heard that boy was buying an infant used truck and still taking his girl out in the flivver. They carry picnic supper and dance less extravagantly than they used to, but their thrift books are losing coupons steadily and the flivver has been seen going around certain block with pleasant va- cant lot on it quite often of late. It stops at the lot and then moves onward Neigh bors think maybe when the truck is paid for the lot will come next.
 A woman who used to spend evenings with children. and proved responsible. has sort of agency for high school girls. who go out to help mothers by the houx. Her girls are dependable and have been trained bit. so they are in demand. People tire of waiting for big plans to jack up the whole country They are making little plans for themselves and getting somewhere with them.