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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-08
What Haze SIP. RHlers of
Milwaukee Done for Labor?

way. Socialism is for eliminat-
ing competition. Outside beer,
therefore, must be kept out-the
home market first.
When Haywood Broun was at
tending the socialist convention in
Milwaukee he claimed that for the
first time In his life he saw a couple
of dicks pay for their drinks when
they came into a saloon. He tried
to use this as an example to prove
that the socialist police are diff
ferent,,-Writing in his column in
the World Telegram" The work
ers of Milwaukee who know their
cops, say that Broun doesn't know
what he is talking about-the Mil
waukee cops have itchy palms, just
like their colleagues elsewhere.
The miracle city, is involved in
all the corruption that goes with
capitalism. The Socialist Party
makes deals with the other capital
ist parties, just as the democrats
and republicans make deals in 9TH
er large cities. It is always with
the aim of a few so-called nom
partisan votes that Mayor Hoan
puts over his measures for the
bosses.
The socialists conclude deals with
the republican "progressives" and
other politicians as to who will go
to the assembly, or other offices.
At present, there is a fight within
the Socialist Party in Milwaukee
on the question of spoils. Some Of
flee holders elected on the socialist
ticket refuse to carry out the orig
inal bargains. The question of
spoils was the cause of Mayor
Swaboda of Racine quitting the So
cialist Party. He refused to put in
the police chief demanded by the
caucus.
S. p. SLOGAN:
LAW, ORDER, FORCE"
AS a sample of socialism" the
head of the miracle city," Mayor
Hosn will soon travel through the
U. s., campaigning The workers
should keep Inc above things III
mind. They should prepare some
questions for his honor, Mayor
Hoan, and expose the acts being
perpetrated by the Socialist Party.
On the Safety Building (jaiD in
the city of Milwaukee, new struc-
ture Whose corner stones were
blessed by the socialist administra-
,r ,,,r Il
ind: Law. Order, Force" This
hes been the slogan of the CAPT
taiist elaes from the very first day
Ct its existence in order to put
down the exploited and oppressed
working class, This is the slogan
Of the socialist administration in
the city and county Of Milwaukee,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-08
BY M. G.
(ConcluSion)

This is nothing new to the revo-
lutionary workers in Milwaukee.
We know that Mayor Hoan en-
ployes a spy system, and although
there is no squad called the Red
Squad, nevertheless, there is a spe-
cial squad that has the same func-
ton to trail radicals, pointing out
militant workers to the bosses,
raiding workers meetings, sending
in plain clothesmen into the un-
employed councils. The two such
detectives, Berg and Mueller, were
recently exposed. In Chicago, the
Red Squad has its Mills and Muir
phys, known for their brutality in
dealing with workers. In Milwau-
kee, we have the McGarveys and
Tchurrys. The Chicago police de-
partment has its Gold Fish" room
where prisoners are beaten and
third degreed to get confessions"
In Milwaukee, they have more re-
fined name for this room-it is
called tie shadow box"
And gangsters? Yes, they ride
around in the squad cars OF the
Milwaukee Police Department. We
are not referring to Chicago where
the Capone gangsters look upon the
police department as their own, but
in the socialist miracle city," the
gangsters are under the protection
of the police department. On July
l4th, a squad car ran over. little
girl on the street And, who we're
the occupants of this car? A few
Milwaukee policemen, and Joe Den
tice, sitting in squad car No. 4. Who
is Joe Dsntice? Joe Dentice was
connected with Joe Riggio, Brook
lyn, New York, gangster who was
taken for a ride. And, at that time,
Dentice himself received a few
slugs, but recovered, When the po
lice squad was asked what Dem
tice was doing in the car, Inspect
or J. B. Drewniak when pressed,
said that the gangster rode around
in the squad car for protection
he feared the other gangsters!
PROHIBITION GRAFT
Only a few days ago grenades
were hurled into two drink parlors
on the North Side Milwaukee is
not very far from Chicago, and the
beer wars taking place there finds
its way into Wisconsin. The reason
that the beer war does not assume
greater proportions is due to the
fact that the big breweries like
Pabst, fIiller Blatz, are dominant
power in Milwaukee The socialist
politicians try to hold the market
for their own bosses and eliminate
competition as much as possible.
Here. things are done IN an official
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-08
(OFFICIAL MANIFESTo)

THE hand and brain workers uni
ted in this Anti-War Congress
are conscious Of the Importance Of
the task that has been entrusted
to them by millions of men and
women in all countries. In order
to lay solid foundation for their
future work, they wish to record
in a single document the efforts
and the intentions of this Congress
and to come to an agreement on
the essential points and conditions
of the struggle against war, and
the duties and responsibilities in
cumbent on each and on all.
The Congress, regardless of the
theological and political differences
which may separate its various
component elements, desires to face
facts and facts only. 1t desires to
emphasize that the dangers of war
are no less real and grave today
than in the years Immediately pre-
ceding the war of 1914. Though
none, not even those ready to
launch the war, can specify the
exact date Of its outbreak, the fate
of the human race is nevertheless
at the mercy Of a diplomatic in
cident, a frontier clash, or a poll
tical crime.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-08
BY II. BISHOP

BY X, BISHOP
THE African. Negroes are being
l steadily exterminated as q re-
suit of the development of inn
psrialism. The population Of the
British Sudan has decreased from
100000 to 100000, that of the
Belgian Congo from 100000 to
less than 100000, The native
population of French Equatorial
Africa has declined steadily from
100000 in 1910 to 100000 in
1921, since which year the govern
ment has decided the publication
of further statistics to be "unde-
sirable."
The causes OF this decline are
obvious. In Kenya and many other
parts Of Africa the reserve and
compound systems have robbed the
Africans Of the best and most fer
tile lands, and reduced them to a
state of complete slavery. Unable
to make a living in the reserves"
the Negroes have to work at star
walton rates for the white robbers
who have stolen their land from
them. Driven by their dire pow
erty, the parents hire out their
children to the Whites for IL
months in return for heifer, val
ued at between 80 and 40 shillings
($5-$O.
For 10 shillings (s1.7O) month
the mothers work from early morn
till late at night, performing ths
most arduous tasks. Coupled with
an almost entire lack of sanitation
and malnutrition of the most
shocking type, this compulsory la
Dor has resulted in an infant NOR
tally rate that exceeds in many
parts 500 deaths per 1000 births.
The surviving children grow up
ragged and dirty. eating rotten
food in scanty quantities. debarred
from any medical facilities, and
liable to tllrashings for the most
petty offenses.
The Australian abortgines pro-
vide a prime example of the ex-
termination of a people by i'm
periaism. Where once there we're
millions of healthy native Austria
lians, there is now but mere
handful, and these have had their
physique destroyed by the civil
ling advent of the white man.
If the imperialists have their way,
the Africans will follow the same
path.
1T is through these abominably
1 treated people that the imperial
lists continue to draw their huge
tribute from the colonies and try
to stem the growing crisis in the
metropolitan countries. Andre Glide,
the French writer, gives the follow
ing picture of conditions in the
Belgian Congo:
I'm the neighborhood of our
encampment whole flock of
children, between and Is, squat
around feeble gas fire all
through the cold night.
These children have been
marched from the villages with
ropes around their necks, for
days they have been forced to
march without pay or food"
Here is another passage from the
same book:
eve met group of prisoners,
all of them tied together by ropes.
One of them carried nothing; he
was lad between 10 and IL years
old, frightfully emaciated and
Utterly exhausted from misery,
hunger and want of sleep. From
time to time his whole body
shook and the skin of his Stom-
ach moved convulsively. His
head was full of scabs and in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-08
Negro Workers in African
Colonies OF British Empire

place of the hair there grew skim
the Ike of which usually forms
over wounds. He seemed to have
lost his smile forever.
III these children should find
their cond tions unbearable and
venture to protest against it,
their fathers are tied to trees
and then shot, as was clearly
stated at a parliamentary session
in 1927, when a terrible massacre
took place among their parents,
and five small children were
chased into hut and then
burned alive"
Glide confines his observations to
Belgian territory. But the same
things hold good, in a greater or
lesser degree, for all parts of At
RIGA, whether ruled by Belgium,
France, Britain or Italy
UNDER MACDONALD
In British Nigeria, the standard
Of living Of the Negroes was driven
down through the operations of
Lever Brothers, causing tremen-
deus haTdsllips The situation be-
came so desperate that on Decerl-
Der Il, 1929, soma Nigerian women
demonstrated in the station of
Abaho. Six of them were. shot
dead by the police. Two days later
another large number Of women
collected at Opobo; they we're at
tackled by troops who killed 10 and
wounded many more. And this
was to maintain the profits of the
Unilever soap and margarine COM
bine. All was carried out with the
full approval Of the British Labor
government then in office, who is
sued a Whitewaslling report exon
Grating the officials on the spot.
IN 1925 the Governor of Kenya
reported to the British Colonial
Secretary that thousands of Ne
groes were being compelled to work
on the construction Of the Uganda
railway for wages of IL sllillings
a month. In a medical report on
2,500000 natives in Kenya. the
Chief Medical Officer reported in
1880 that:
Tn general they are. naked,
poor, iliiterate, uncultured, en-
tirely without common things Ike
soap, beds, tables, chairs, etc,
which are usually believed to be
necessary for comfortable life.
their huts are infested with
worms and other parasites, so
much so that il has been said
that the inhabitants of some
areas do not know what health
means. In general between 80
and so per cent of them have
malaria
THE SCOTTSBORO CASE
The murderous role of imperial
ism in the colonial countries is be-
yond cavil But what of the Ne
groes abroad? In the United States
the brutal oppression and exploita-
ton of the Negro masses goes on
apace. The whole press and edu-
cational system aims at fostering
race prejudice against the colored
people, the logical outcome of
which is Lynch Law and cases like
the Scottsboro frame-up.
The Scottsboro case is as typical
Of American imperialism as the
Meerut case is of its British coun-
terpart. 1t is significant, however,
that the masses of workers in both
Britain and the United States have
refused to be stampeded and have
rallied to the side of their colored
class brothers. AS a matter of fact
the Scottsboro case has done much
to cement the unity of white and
colored workere throughout the
world.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-08
INIPERIALIST
WAR RACES

The Congress faces the facts. It
points out that war in colonies and
inundated territories, and economic
piracy, ravages the continents of
the world. 1t points out that en-
tire nations and vast countries such
as India, Morocco, or Nicaragua,
are as a matter of fact at the
present moment waging a defensive
war against the armed forces of
imperialist profiteers.
1t points to the invasion of
China by Japan, with the evident
completely of the Great Powers,
that most dastardly act of brigand-
age, which will be inevitably fol-
lowed by q division of the spoils
no less bloody than the contest it.
self.
In the present political situation,
with its more or less yelled allan
ces and treaties, its various con-
flicting yet interlocking capitalist
interests, any inperialist war must
certainly spread until the whole
world is involved.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-08
GAIN WORKERS
CONFIDENCE

We must learn to understand
how to raise the proper issues. This
can be done if we really Give" with
the workers. AS for instance, young
workers, on 18th st. while they
we're not against us, nevertheless
a little bit cynical, and skeptical
of the practical results to be gained
by mass organization. They were
playing ball on the block, and
were continually stopped by pass
ing traffic. We approached them
on the issue Of closing the block
for play street, and they respond
ed very well. With the result that
after this demand was won, they
became enthusiasts of the Block
Committee.
In the very forefront of all our
struggles must be placed the i'm
mediate demand of Unemployment
Insurance at the expense of the
bosses and the boss government.
THE children play an important
role in all block struggles. In
evictionS, when we put back the
furniture, as in SOC E. 18th St., the
children helped. In the fight for
a milk station, which we are car
rying on, the children led in the
cheering, singing, carrying of plac-
ards. In nilitancy the kids are
wonders, ducking the COPS, holding
the streets, and as last week, rush
ing into the H.R.B. after they had
refused to see the delegation, thus
paving the way for the adults 10
make their way into the H.P.B.
with our demands.
Open-air meetings must be block
meetings in the beginning. BY this,
mean that we must speak on
problems that exist on the block,
and in the homes of the workers,
and not about China, or any other
national or International situation
which these workers will not I'M
derstand readily. Popularization
of the living conditions, wages. en-
ploynlent, in the Soviet Union
should be used, but very carefully.
and then only by the best speaker,
who can match up the living prob
lens here, with the corresponding
information of the lives of the
Soviet workers.
The workers of the block must
be drawn into speaking, because
they themselves will always make
better impression than any of our
theoretical speakers. The work
ers must be stimulated, 4nursed"
along to assume leading positions
on the Block Committee, to regu-
late their work themselves, with
proper guidance NJ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-08
The Appeal of the Amsterdam
World Congress Against War
Calls Upon Workers. Farmers, Inteectuals and Students
for United Struggle Against Imperialist War

entertainments and blockades, armed
attacks supported by Western i'm
periaism, raising of White Guards
in Europe and Asia, attempts at
destruction by sabotage within the
Soviet Union, unprecedented cam
paigns of calunlny and defamation,
all carried on under the flimsy
cover of diplomatic relations es-
tablished merely for the sake of
immediate financial advantage.
And today is being openly prepared
in the Far East: a final armed
crusade against the Soviet Union.
PEACE POLICY
OF U.S.S.R.
The Congress points to the stead
fast peace policy Systematically
pursued by the Soviet Union, and
repudiates the legend of "red I'M
perialism," the only object which
is to justify and mask the persist
ent attacks against the Republic Of
workers and peasants.
The Congress proclaims that the
present and future victims of the
whole situation are the great masses
of the people. The crisis of over
production and maldistribution re-
sulting from the chaotic system of
private profit, the consequent in
crease of unemployment which has
reduced hundreds of millions of
human beings throughout the world
to the point of starvation, the enor-
nous growth of military expendi-
ture, the rise in the cost of living
and in taxation, all combine to
crush the working masses already
decimated by the late war and after
IA years still suffering from its
wounds and bereavements. After
having been ruined they are now
driven to the slaughter once more,
1t points out that the Japanese
workers have, by their heroic ex-
ample, already shown how the fight
against imperialist war is best car
ried on. They have stood up
against their own bo,rgeoisie, held
up war production and munition
conveys, and shown up this war in
the eyes of the Japanese soldiers
for what it is-a war of piracy.
The Congress points out that the
maintenance of the artificial from
tiers imposed by the peace treaties
those one sided arrangements
dictated by vengeance and by poll
teal interest, and sacrificing the
immediate future to a momentary
gain to the victors-has created
great division between the nations
which conjures UP war upon all
frontiers. The very basis of these
treaties, Article 237 of the Treaty
of Versailles, which ascribes the
sole responsibility of the war to
Germany, is a fragrant untruth
which has been used by a trick Of
demagogic mysticism to contribute
to the growth of the Fascist re-
action in Germany.
AAMsE ITO RE rON,rJNTrEn " rEN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-08
IMPERIALIST
RIVALRIES


1t condemns the capitalist policy
which vigorously shuts of? the
countries from each other for the
exclusive benefit of small and
voracious minority, which drives
every government to exploit to the
limit the territory, wealth, and
population of weaker countries, in
order to secure markets at any cost.
1t accordingly condemns such
agreements as the one recently
reached at Ottawa These pro-
tectionist measures, adopted under
the pressure of the economic cri-
sis resulting from the existing eco
nonic system and lasting as long
as the system itself, only serve to
accentuate the crisis and render
inevitable the transformation of
economic strife into armed con-
flict. The sole course open to the
governments of capitalist countries,
or rather to the financiers who SO
thoroughly dominate these coun-
tries and governments, Is to resort
to an act of violence which will
forcibly dip the scales to the ex-
elusive advantage of the best arm
ed and most powerful group among
them. Capitalism is the cause Of
the economic crisis and the econo-
mic crisis accelerates war.
A SINGLE fact suffices utterly to
n condemn the existing system,
since it illustrates the deplorable
plight Of world capitalism: it is
the fact that in some parts Of the
globe enormous stocks of foodstuffs
are being destroyed while i'll others
famine reigns. In India and in
China q large proportion of the
population die of hunger, and III
other continents hundreds of mil
lions of human beings suffer and
perish.
The Congress points out that all
capitalist Powers treat the Soviet
Union as their common enemy,
which they are attempting to I'M
de1nline and overthrow. There have
been direct wars of intervention,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-08

tigators from some relief or char
ity organization. We must always
raise issues that the workers can
understand, and are willing to
fight for; the demand for free
milk, immediate relief, struggle a.
gatnst evictions, for food tickets,
for Fairgrounds for children, etc.
EXPLAIN
IMPORTANCE
With the employed, we explain
the importance of joining to help
his fellow worker, for unemploy-
ment insurance, and other forms
of immediate relief. This is done
by speaking to the employed work.
ers of the insecurity of the job,
the uncertainty Of existence, the
mass lay-offs, Wage-cuts, etc. We
always raise, with employed work
ers, the question Of organizing
struggles for rent reductions, be-
cause of the employed workers red
uced wages, and link this up with
the struggle against eviction of the
unemployed living in that house.
IN sending out comrades for can
lvassing, they are to understand
that this is not a mechanical pro-
cess. For instance, on 18th st. we
have canvassed many buildings and
all we got was names. After re-
canvassing, the same buildings by
comrades that did not do so me-
chanically, we got, in many build
ings, from five to eight supporters
for the block committee, who re-
gistered with us. We also found
many families actually starving,
and we organized committees for
immediate relief. Here too, we
must act quickly.
Then we call our contacts IRE
gistered supporters. or synpathi-
zers) to a meeting in a workers
house, where we explain the func-
tons of the block committee. Here
we elect a committee that will take
all the needy workers on the block
to the Home Relief Bureau. If
sufficient time, we issue leaflets, to
mobilize the entire block for this
action.
IN our canvaSsing we may meet
l many difficulties, and we may
use various methods. We therefore
make arrangements that all our
canvassers come back to a CON-
rade's home, at the end of the
evenings canvassing to discuss our
methods of approach, the response
of the workers, etc. In this way
we check up mistakes and short
comings and learn correct methods
of approach.
Comrades that do block work
must always be with the workers and
become a part of that block, living
their struggles, experiencing their
difficulties, knowing when a worker
gets laid off, fired, Immediately
when these things occur. In the
words of the 18th Plenum, "estab-
fishing solid, personal contact with
the worker" and their children.
They must be known and looked
up to by the workers as warm
friends, and then as we develop in
timacy, as Communists. And this
will be our best protection against
the police, gangsters, provocateurs,
etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-08
WAR
PROPAGANDA

The Congress denounces the con-
duct of the big newspapers and of
public men who through servility
or love Of gain conceal or distort
the truth about the wars in pro-
gress and about the imminent cat
astrophes towards which the pres
ent generations are being visibly
impelled, and which will engulf
them unless they put up vigor-
ossS -Ss1sges4sV IN US
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-08
GROWTH OF
ORNAMENTS

1t points out and condemns the
huge and ever increasing growth
of armaments throughout the.
world, which fatty contradicts the
sophistries, bubbles, and theatrical
proclamations of the governments
concerned. 1t condemns the ter
rifying and increasing efficiency of
weapons, all the sinister instru-
ments Of scientific determination,
through poison gas and disease
germs, certain to be employed in
the next world war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-08
PARTY LIFE
EAAI LII =
Sngge StGO11S In
Building Block
Committees
Rv RuRrN scHuLNHAN


18th St. Block Committee, N. "
TIE Party must be the driving
\ force in beginning the organs
i1ation of the block committee. In
mobiizing the unit for work on
the block which is selected, We
must first discuss with the Party
comrades the method Of approach.
In approaching the workers, we
must come to them as their friends,
and not in the manner of invess
tigators from some relief or char
ity organization. We must always
raise issues that the workers can
understand, and are willing to
fight for; the demand for free
milk, immediate relief, struggle a.
gainst evictions, for food tickets,
for Fairgrounds for children, etc.
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Unemployment and Social In
surance at the expense Of the
state and employers, .saswxs
La gaceta., 1932-03-10

dos saltan fuera de la trinchera.
Los momentos son intensos.
Los aviadores estan solo heridos.
Todavia pueden salvarse. La ar
itllieria vomita rompedoras con
furia sobre las trincheras de
ellos, Los otros aviones redoblan
eel bombardeo. Las ametraIIado-
ras y los m~orteros no cesar. La
TERRA parece que va a estallar
DE un momento a otro en- mil pc
dazos.
Tapandose en- 10 possible con
el avion llegan mis- dos camara-
das hasta los aviadores en- ma
carrera emocionante.
Los de ALA Sc aperciben. Pc
no va tienen de sobra con aten-
der a cubFrse de los aviones y
de Ia artilMia, No obstante, dis.