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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-25
OF THE POPULA-
OF YOUNGSTOWN IS ON
HUNGER RATIONS

stantial relief from the city. Many OF them are
on the leading committees for relief and turn
the thoughts OF the unemployed to prayers in
stead Of bread, Prayers for relief and Jobs for
the unemployed are the schemes Of the preachers
to prevent militant movement OF unemployed.
And after the usual Sunday relief" prayers the
preacher hlrTies to his chicken dinner and the
unemployed go hungry. Many Of the churches
have also gone into the restaurant business. With
free food contributions from their congregation
and other sources they prepare meals at Cost
charging practically the same as the restaurants
Unemployed who have applied for food at these
church dinners have been driven out and told to
go to the soup lines.
Terror and Discrimination Against Unemployed
Theirs has been house to house canvass in
many worktng-clssS neighborhoods by city Of
ficials warning the unemployed mot to have
anything to do with the Reds or we will starve
you to death" At meetings of the unemployed
the police openly tell the workers II they listen
to the speakers, they Will not be permitted to
get relief at the soup lines. The American Legion
in its drive for "iobs for the unemployed are
more interested in the recruitment Of new mem
bers into their fascist band and campaign against
the Communists than In getting Jobs for the
unemployed. Many unemployed who supported
the program OF the Communist Party against
hunger in the last elections have been told to
starve and wait till Communist wins the cleo
tons. Militants have been singled out and used
as an example to terrorize the unemployed.
Immediate steps must be taken to counterfeit
the moves OF the enemies Of the unemployed:
a. The abolition of mass meeting and branch
appeals for the struggle against hunger and evic-
tons but rather taking the program of the
unemployed council to the homes, soup lines and
Lighthouses. The registration of the endorsers
Of the Unemployed Council program and election
Of block and soup line committees will insure
immediate reaction Of the unemployed to fight
against evictions and the general program Of
the unemployed councils.
b. Immediate organization Of Workers De-
Tense Groups to defend the work Of the block
committees and the councils.
g The activization Of the Red Trade Union
and Communist fractions to win the support OF
the unemployed for the program Of the TUUL
and the Communist Party. The masses Of unena-
ployed must form not only tbs basis Of unity Of
the unemployed and employed for economic
STRUGGLES but also the strong support for the
Communist program in the coming presidential
elections
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-25
The Revolutionary Trade
Union Press

First and foremost, because 1t has
not been a real voice of the miners.
1t does not present the everyday
problems they are facing. 1t does no.
reflect their everyday life in the
mines and in the mining towns. 1t
has been more or less a one district
paper a Western Pennsylvania paper
To the miners of the Anthracite or
OF Southern Illinois, it has offered
but little. 1t has given no reflection
Of the ever-groWing rank and file
opposition movements in the Anthra-
cite and Illinois. 1t has been more
less Of a sectarian paper, almost
an inner N. M, U. paper, of many
statements and resolutions. 1t has
made no attempts TO reach the I'M
organized miners,
The problems Of the unemployed
miners, the fight for relief and un-
employment insurance, the conditions
in the company towns have not been
reflected in the Mine Worker. AS a
result its role in the mass unem-
ployed movement in such places as
the McKeesport area, in New Ken
Slngton, etc. has been nil.
No real apparatus has been set up
TO build the Mine Worker into mass
paper No responsible comrades have
been seriously entrusted with the
task of editing it, getting it out, or
managing it. No real attempt has
been made to set up agents in the
mine locals.
The case of the Marine Workers
Voice offers close parallel TO that
of the Mine Worker. We have stated
that the Mine Worker is . Western
Pennsylvania paper the Marine
Workers Voice is mostly a seamen's
paper, with little to offer the long
paper, with little TO offer the Long
shorenlen. 1t must be remembered
that the longshoremen can be made
the backbone OF mass circulation
for the paper. This is the biggest
shortcoming of the Voice, its almost
pure seanen's orientation.
With tnoalsandS OF seamen on the
beach \. every port, with ulemploy-
ment ME- among the longshoremen,
the fight for Unemployment insur-
ancs AeA vAsks Is not reflected IT,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-25
BY n. HONG
PART Z

Serious consideration must now be
given to the building Of our trade
union papers into mass agitational
organs. Just as serious consideration
must also be given to the establish
ment Of union papers in those i'm
portant industries which have no
union papers, such as metal and
Steel railroad, textile, etc.
The underestimation OF the neces-
sity Of the revolutionary union press
is glaringly shown blythe fact that
the Mine Worker has not appeared
once during the Kentucky Tennessee
strike, The Needle Worker has not
appeared during the dressmakers
strike. In industries where there is a
vital necessity at the present time of
reaching scores Of thousands OF
workers With agitational material
against the sweeping wage cuts, such
as railroad and steel, we are without
union papers,
The revolutionary union papers at
present existing are few in number.
The Mine Worker, the Food Worker,
the Marine Workers Voice, the
Needle Worker, the Office Worker,
the Shoe Worker and the list Is ex-
hausted. Few Of them appear reg
ularly; when some OF them appear it
is an event. None OF them come any
where near to serving the purpose fc
which they are intended; none of
them has real circulation.
Let us take them paper by paper,
and examine them critically.
Must Build Miners Press
The Mine Worker has not appeared
for three months Last summer dur
ing the strike OF 10000 Penn Ohio
West virginia miners. the Mine
Worker appeared perhaps once.
The paper has been suspended sev-
eral times IN its career from the old
Coal Digger" days to the present.
When 1t is printed there ara prac-
tically no Gales, no financial Ssturns.
Yet the miners and certain y the
growing National Miners Unioe, menu
Ec.ehip, want a real revolutionary
miners paper. Why hasn't the Mine
Worker been sals - bssaA - . mass
circulation2
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-25
BY MoLLE PRAGER

AT the edge of the industrial section Of Los
"A Angeles, one hundred and forty families are
living on a large barren tract of land In the
crudest makeshift tents and shacks that hu
man being can live in and call by the name OF
shelter. These workers families, many Of them
100 per cent Americans are the ones who have
toiled all their lives producing the tremendous
wealth Of this country. These are the people who
have built the railroads mines, factories palaces
mansions, estates of this country. They and their
ancestors fought Americas wars and we're mur-
dered and mutilated in them. Now the capitalists
no longer needing their labor have cast them out
OF their industries and forced them to join the
ranks of the unemployed
These workers, who for the last year or two
have been frantically looking for work. are now
reduced to the state where they have lost their
homes, their furniture every possession for which
they sweated and toiled. Now these people are
living In Hoover town. Hoover town, model city,
has no water, no toilet facilities, the crudest kind
of latrine patched together from pieces Of boards
and scraps Of tin. Bathing is an unknown luz
ury. No lights. Night finds the people in Hoover
town huddled in their tents and shacks, which
are lighted by candles, oil lamps or by an autos
headlight. Some are completely dark. Water must
be carried in pals from gas station on the
outskirts Of this piece Of land
How do they live here? What do they eat?
One woman said:
THE children here do not know what meat
is They have never tasted It," The men 70 out
with truck and make the rounds of the
wholesale fruit and vegetable markets, and the
stuff that is thrown away as unfit to sell they
are very magnanimousIy permitted to take.
They say they went to the wholesale groceries
hoping to obtain some canned goods, but were
not able to get any. Sometimes, a bakery, hay
Ing large stock of stale bread on hand sends
it to Hoover Town and the bread is doled out
one loaf to family per day, for as long as the
supply lasts
I said to one woman lying on a bed sick, THE
capitalist papers say you have enough to eat
here. That no one knows hunger In Hoover
Town" The sick woman motioned towards
cardboard box. Look In there. That's what we
get" In the box was some molding cabbage, rot
ten lettuce and four apples that were so decayed
that when we picked them up they oozed from
our fingers. Bugs, ants and flies are everywhere.
Tiny babies lying In stuffy, crowded tents are
posed to them as well as the adults. The sick
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-25
HOOVER TOWN

woman lying on the bed said To-day everyor.s
got fish. Aimee sent it,
Aimee Senlple Mcpherson who works for the
salvation of the workers souls, and more 20 for
her profits flched from the workers pockets can
afford to send occasional barrels of food to the
starving workers of this model" tent city Her
meals are not composed of rotten cabbage and
UNBEATABLE lettuce Her wealth is steadily increas.
ing. For Aimee there is no depression. She ID
planning a new limit height apartment-hoteI
building, to be built on the latest architectural
designs and containing all the newest convene
ences
In her hotel-apartments will be found soft
luxurious furniture, but in Hoover City the only
furniture to be seen is beds. Beds that sometimes
must hold entire families Chairs and tables are
scarce. Stoves, even the camp variety are rare
Most of the workers do their cooking on scraps
of tin, or in tin cans. One woman had none Of
these but was cooking on the earth near her tent
Inside her tent it was dark and close
One young woman was lying on bed, a bed
which was not in shack, not tent but In the
open with merely tarpaulin stretched over ii
She is an expectant mother. For months her
husband has been out of work Evicted from
their home, they slept in their car for weeks.
At last they came to "Hoover's Haven" Still they
had no tent, not table or a chair Due to the
woman's condition bed was finally obtained for
them. But they had no shelter for it. They have
only piece Of canvas stretched over the bed.
They,too had no stove, but cooked the little food
they got on strip of rusty tin. This man looked
at his wife and said: What am I going to doe
am war veteran Was wounded in the world
war. But what did it get me? My home and
everything gone. everything taken away from
me. Why don't they give me chance to work
for my wife and the baby we're going to have
soon? That is what want-work- crar1tyls
Another woman, also pregnant contracted
pneumonia and was finally taken to the County
Hospital Through the complications OF her sick
ness she had miscarriage and-three DAYS Iatep
was sent back to camp in this weakened con-
dition.
This is the city which one OF the Los Angeles
papers facetiously describes as the only town
which knows no depression. With the stark mis-.
cry. glaringly obvious everywhere, the paper
treated Hoover town in a smart-alecky, wise
cracking way. Of all the monuments. bridges
buildings and roads named after our President
Hoover. not one Is more truly tribute to f1irr
than this Hoover Town-"model city that ks,ouu
no depressionl" .~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-25
Japan's Plans for Reactionary War
Against Socialism

program now being faithfully carried
out In the present robber war OF
Japanese imperialism against China
and the fast maturing plans for an
armed attack against the proletarian
state, is now openly stated in the
present pamphlet, Presenting ia
pans Side of the Case"
But it Is no longer a question Of
words. Japanese troops are already
modified on the Soviet border. Tsar-
iSt White Guard elements in Man
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-25

any extent in the Marine Workers
Voice.
Seldom is space devoted 10 the
problems of the Negro seamen and
dock workers, who get the worst deal
Of any in the industry. Where the
Marine Workers Voice excels is in it's
international news, and compared to
the other union papers, in it's worker
correspondence On the question of
war, on the question of hating the
shipment of war material, even the
seamen readers of the Voice have
thus far been left all at sea.
Mass Paper for Marine Workers
The Marine Workers Voice can be
built into q mass paper If the COM
rades in charge Of the Marine Work
erS Industrial Union will get their
idea that it is impossible to get sub
scrlptions for the paper. They have
not tried to get subscriptions. For
subscriptions and the longshoremen
offer fertile field.
Unemployed members of the Union
should canvass the homes OF the
longshoremen for subscription, and
they win get q pleasant surprise. The
practice of shipping huge bundles OF
the paper free 10 the different ports
and clubs should stop. Bundles should
be shipped to ports with the under
standing that the Voice is to be sold
on the docks.
The Marine Workers Voice has only
once in the past year, carried an ar
dele on how to organize ship and
dock committees. This was last June,
and Enthusiastically enough, the
article dealt entirely with ship COM
mites, and ignored the question of
dock committees.
(To Be Continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-25
By CYRIL BRIGGS
Article No. 3

The monstrous counter-revo-
lutionary plans of japanese
imperialism for armed inter
veniton against the successful
building of Socialism in the
Soviet Union are openly stated
in the pamphlet Presenting
Japan's Side of the Case" pub
lished by the Japanese Asso-
citation in China.
No longer daring to pretend con
tempt for the Soviet Five-Year Plan
world imperialism, with the Japanese
imperialists in the role Of spearhead,
are now preparing to start the most
reactionary Of wars-war against the
proletarian dictatorship. war against
the rising, flourishing world OF So
cialism, Of working-cl emancipe-
ton, OF liberation OF the former op-
pressed nationalitles and national
minorittes.
The pamphlet admits a tremendous
improvement in the material and
cultural conditions of the Soviet
masses as a result of the overthrow
Of Tsarist-capitalism and the eStab-
lishment of the proletarian dictator
ship, THE people of Russia have
the satisfaction of knowing that the
profits from their toll are being ex-
pended for the betterment of their
living and working conditions and for
national defense. The billions that
roll into the state treasury from Of
ficial enterprises and cooperative
farms are used 10 purchase all man
ner OF railway, textile, electrical,
mining and other industrial ma
chinery; to erect houses, lay out new
cities, to build roads, waterworks,
sewers, public utilities. schools, social
and amusement centers and other
betterments designed for public well
fare"
And for this reason 1t Is necessary
TO wage war Of humiliation against
the workers fatherland because the
success Of the Soviet Five Year Plan
will bring revolution In world
economy" "a new and better out
look Will be created for the other
workers Of the world" and this will
result In disaster to other industrial
nations, and overturn the existing
social order" (p IL. ~
Japan sees the handwriting on
the wall and her military leaders
have appealed to the right of self
defense" (p. 34).
Already the triumphant advance OF
Socialism in the Soviet Union Is stir
ring the oppressed masses OF Asia 10
throw off their chains, TO overthrow
their native and inperianst opprss-
sors.
THE Soviet philosophy has per-
meated al of Central Asia" (l2).
Dying capitalism must defend It's
loot, Its right to rob and Cypress
the toiling masses. Revolutionary
China must be destroyed, China dis
membered, victorious Socialist con-
struction IN the Soviet Union inter
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-25

churia are being organized and armed
by the Japanese. Japanese War
Minister Araki has openly stated in
the Japanese Diet that Japan is to
send more troops into Manchuria,
that Manchuria is to be converted
into military base against the Sow
let Union, and, moreover, that the
situation arising out of Japan's rob-
Der aims in Manchuria is more seri-
GUS than the Russo-Japanese War"
of 1905. And the American imperial
list press has hailed Japan's decision
to send more trpooS into Manchuria,
towards the Soviet frontier, as re
turn to the big bjective"-armed in
tervention against the Soviet Union.
Defense of the Soviet Union Is de-
Tense of the interests of the whole
world working class! Workers! Rally
to the fight against the Japanese
robber war! Against the imperialist
war meters and war criminals! For
the immediate withdrawal of all i'm
perialist troops and gunboats from
China! Against the partition Of
China and for the defense of the
Chinese Soviet districts! For the
defense of the Soviet Union and So
cialiSt construction! For brotherly
solidarity with the Soviet Union and
for social emancipation of all ex-
plotted masses and oppressed colo
nies
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-25

rupted, the hopes OF the toiling
masses Of the whole world, based on
the glorious achievements in the
building Of Socialism in the Soviet
Union, destroyed: the lives Of tens OF
millions Of workers sacrificed. AL In
order to postpons the inevitable de-
struction Of the insane, accursed
capitalist system.
That which was secretly stated In
the notorious Tanaka Document Of
1927, In which was laid down the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-25
Interests of United States
Capital in Salvador
By GRoPPER
BY Labor Research Association

Wall Street controls the Central American
republic of Salvador as 1t controls all the others
in this region. At least 60% Of the total imports
OF the country come from the United States
Most of the outstanding foreign loans Of the
country have been contracted in Wall Street
The American investments in the country
amount to at least $5o,ooO,o 900 and include the
following companies:
The International Railways of Central Amer
lea, which controls 800 miles OF lines; the Central
American Mines, Inc, operating gold and silver
mines; the Occidental Bank organized by Cali
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-25
&Aa:..A
Wanted: announcement
~ ROFGM

Conditions in the furniture and Departments
stores are near the breaking point Furniture
statesmen are working only on commission no
sales no salary. And real live salesman these
days Is lucky If he averages $25 after workin@
three days from to 10 pm. and three dayw
from am. to pm, with weeks vacation
each month If things do not pick up dllrinS
April, there will be plenty of statesmen walking
the streets"
So writes G. K. of Chicago who, enclosing d
dollar for the Daily Worker fund, says he is "a
man too cowardly to take an active part In the
struggles but qualities that bit by Identify
ing himself with many others who like plenty
of attention written and oral, before we viii
help. And when we do help, we want pat ON
the back"
Well, c. K, from the conditions you speak al
Eve take for granted that you are one OF those
furniture salesmen), the bosses are giving YOU
right smart pat on the back" And that Of
course, while not being exactly encouragement.
is one factor among others necessary in the
arousing OF your kind to participate in the mass
struggle.
1t Is up to our movement to furnish snotfasx
kind OF encouragement, conviction to workers
like you (no doubt most Of you have never
thought OF yourselves as "workers''-but now
you're beginning to- c. ~ fact that while Eaere
is capitalist way out OF the crisis" If you donT
join the struggle in some way with the mass az
workers, that capitalist way out will not help
your kind one bit, but on the contrary will his
you harder; but if you join the mass struggle and
make it successful, your kind, too, will gain BY
this revolutionary way out of the crisis" WhaS
about an interview with the Chicago Trade Union
Unity League organizer to see what to do?
There isn't any third alternative at all 50 Won
better make up your mind which of the two
ways out OF the crisis" you will support The
fact that you give dollar to help the Daily
is a small beginning in the right path
Anybody want any more encouragement at d
dollar throw?
Those "Wealthier' Chinese:-An Associated
Press dispatch of March Z, from Shanghai, gives
us an idea that we must not forget in thinking
about China: Canton is taking care of thou
sands of destitute refugees from Shanghai the
wealthie refugee going to British ruled Hong
Kong which one Of them said had more nights
life" "A Chinese capitalist remains-a capa
italst.
The Wonderful Mind of "Progressive":-Can
be seen in the article OF Senator Brookhart in
the N. Y. American of March T. saying in part:
I'VE have advanced far since the stage coach
days. Yet with all our progress, our industriay
skill, our system today has serious defects. We
ACSu Olily W lOOk dUOuG 10 see GIl6 millions or
unemployed Their plight is the result of a
combination Of complicated causes" Causes
which Senator Brookhart neither explains nor
offers a remedy for. What does he recommends
Building some roadsl When a jobless printer
in Seattle and an unemployed stenographer in
New York will be offered the great boon of
building roads in Louisiana, they will have
Brookhart. the great progressive" to thank
for it!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-25

Daily Worker Fund Growing
too slowly. Suspension danger
advances by leaps and bounds.
Rush every possible penny to
save tbs Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-25

fornia commercial interests and the San Sale
vador Electric Light Co.
Other companies are engaged in the exploita-
ton OF the agricultural workers 1t is these
companies which control the local governments
which has been recently massacring thousands
of workers and peasants
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-11-10
EDITORIAL STAFF
EDITORIAL


From the time the student enters
the first grade until he graduates, he
is taught the Importance of keeping
the school neat and clean.
Of course, a building which contains
hundreds of pupils can never attain a
spotless appearance, but it is state
worth striving for, however improbable
it's attainment. Rubbish-s trewn aisles
and corridors are detrimental to the
looks of any building and ones pride
is repealed by an air of untidiness.
The students desk is the only place
for personal property in the school
building. The orderly arrangement and
neatness of the desk depends upon the
habits of the student occupying it for
that year, but in any case, it repre-
sents private property to the student
and school property to the district.
There has been some complaint from
the students of maltreatment of their
desks during public gatherings and
school events when some individual
other than themselves occupies their
Seats
| We feel sure that students and adults
are willing to cooperate with us in our
care of private and school property