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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-26
BY JOHN DOS PAssos.
(From the novel, "1s1s.")

commit my soul into the hands of my
saviour, wrote John Pierpont Morgan in his will,
In full confidence that having redeemed it and
washed it in his most precious blood He will
present it faultlesS before my heavenly father
and 1 intreat my children to maintain and
defend at all hazards and at any cost of personal
sacrifice the blessed doctrine of complete atone
ment for sin through the blood of Jesus Christ
once offered and through that alone,
and into the hands OF the house Of Morgan
represented by his son
he committed
when he died in Rome in 1918
the control Of the Morgan interests in New
York, Paris, and London, four national banks,
three trust companies, three life insurance COM
panies, ten railroad systems three street railway
companies, an express company, the Interna-
tional Mercantile Marine,
power,
on the cantilever principle, through inter-
locking directorates
over eighteen other railroads, U. S. Steel,
General Electric, American Tel and Tel, five
major industries;
the interviewer cables of the Morgan Still
man Baker combination held credit up like a
suspension bridge, thirteen percent of the bank
ing resources of the world
The first Morgan to make a pool was
Joseph Morgan a hotelkeeper in Hartford Con-
necticut who organized stagecoach lines and
bought up Aetna Life Insurance stock in a time
of panic caused by one OF the big New York fires
in the 1880;
his son Junius followed in his footsteps, first
in the drygoods business and then as partner to
George Peabody, a Massachusetts, banker who
built up an enormous underwriting and mercan-
tile business in London and became a friend of
Queen Victoria;
Junius married the daughter Of John Pier
pont, Boston preacher, poet, eccentric, and
abolitionist; and their eldest son,
John Pierpont Morgan
arrived in New York to make his fortune
after being trained in England, going to
school at Vevey, proving himself crack mathe-
matician at the University of Gottingen,
a lanky morose young man OF twenty,
just in time for the panic of ST.
(war and panics on the stock exchange
good growing weather for the House OF Morgan)
When the guns started booming at Fort
Sumpter, young Morgan turned some money over
reSeling condemned muSkets to the U. S. army
and began to make himself felt in the gold room
in downtown New York; there was more in
trading in gold than in trading in muskets; so
much for the Civil War.
During the Franco-Prussian war Junius
Morgan 1oated huge bond issue for the French
government at Tours.
At the same time young Morgan was tight
ing Jay Cooke and the German-Jew bankers in
Frankfort over the funding of the American war
debt Che never did like the Germans or the
jews.
The panic Of rs ruined Jay Cooke and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-26
What Are Worker Delegates?

known personally to all of his electors and while
he is gone will be the subject Of much discussion
and they will anticipate his return and await the
report
The achievements Of the working class and
peasants are so great and can be SO easily under
stood by any honest worker that delegate will
be forced to draw fundamental conclusions and
his tour will be political education and make
Of him propaganda and defender of the Soviet
Union. And remember that to many workers a
report from rank and file worker carries more
weight than the finest orator
Workers Delegation at present is very i'm
portant. The American workers on visiting the
Soviet Union will see the peaceful building of
Socialism and why the bosses threaten a war
to smash it.
The American workers delegation of Negro
and white workers for May /, 1882, is a weapon
which will help us fight foreign intervention
The reports of this delegation on their return
will convince hundreds of thousands of workers
that real life for the working class is only Dos
sible under the workers system and that it is
their task to rally in defense Of the first workers
republic.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-26
The Revolutionary Trade Union Press

contains news and other material
about the large department stores.
Very little notice is taken of the con-
ditions and problems of the workers
in the big banks, insurance concerns,
etc. Rejecting the union itself, the
paper is almost New York paper.
One weakness and a serious one is
common to all our union papers.
Thousands Of copies are printed each
month; hundreds Of dollars are spent
in printing them; yet it is doubtful
if as much as 5000 is taken in
through sales or subscriptions, by
all Of the papers put together, in any
one month.
This is, Of course, the test of
whether a union paper is a mass
paper and hence, whether it is serv-
ing the purpose for which it is pub
ished. The main reason for the lack
of circulation of our union papers is
the fact that no comrades are given
the task Of being responsible for the
building Of the papers, and therefore
no nunctioning apparatus is set UP
within the unions to build the cir
culation of the papers. Another big
reason too is, of course, the fact that
the average union paper contains so
little to attract the masses of the
workers in the industry to the paper
Must Train Editors
The main immediate task of the
unions which issue papers is the
selection of an intelligent and active
worker Of the union, for training and
development in editing and managing
the paper. Working closely with him
will be the editor ow Labor Unity,
the central, directive organ ofthe
Trade Union Unity League, which
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-26

continued.
In the case OF the metal workers
paper, only one issue of which ap-
peared, the workers who were in
duced to subscribe, became embit-
tered against the union because they
received only one issue for their
money. This must be avoided.
Much could be written, and indeed,
needs to be written on the subject OF
the revolutionary trade union press,
from the political, technical and
management viewpoints. Space does
not allow this here.
We will conclude by stating in brief
what a good revolutionary union
paper should contain:
1t should feature the day to day
conditions, problems and struggles of
the workers in the industry, through
worker correspondents and exposes.
1t should feature the daily life of
the union, OF all its sections and
groups.
1t should play up all strikes In the
Industry, make itself the organ OF
every strike.
1t should interest all sections OF the
industry, not merely the section in
which the union happens to be
strongest. The term sections" is also
meant geographically.
1t should play up the problems and
struggles Of the unemployed and
connect them with the employed
workers of the industry.
1t should devote sections to the
Negroes, the women, the youth in
the industry.
1t should deal with the problems
and struggles not only of the workers
organized in the union, but also of
the unorganized and the members of
the refornist unions; it should ex-
pose the reformist misleaders.
1t should, while primarily being an
agitational organ, give directives on
how to build shop groups, the united
front, etc.
1t must play up the war situation,
concretely tying it up with the work.
ers in the particular industry.
1t should present news and articles
on the conditions OF the workers in
the Soviet Union, especially in the
particular industry.
1t should be attractively made up
and should be illustrated with pic
lures of interest to the workers in
the industry, also with general class
struggle pictures.
1t should present news OF the prob
lens and struggles Of the workers In
the other industries and news of the
other revolutionary unions.
1t should carry international news,
always playing up the mass struggles
OF workers in the same industry In
other countries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-26
Uncover Starvation and Misery

The capitalist press, the gents of the ruling class
has been publishing less and less news about
unemployment. 1t hides the starvation of the
unemployed workers families. We must
constantly expose the miserable treatment
of families of the unemployed by the city
governments and charity institutions. We
must uncover all cases Of starvation, ul.-
ACCOMPLISHMENT, sickness. We must pub
lish these cases in our press, in the
Daily Worker, in Labor Unity, tell
them at all workers meetings. I'm
employed Councils should publish
bulletins TO inform all workers of
the starvation and misery Of the
unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-26
PORTRAIT OF MORGAN

sat in his suite at the Arlington smoking cigars
and quietly playing solitaire until at last the
president sent for him;
he had plan all ready for stopping the
gold hemorrhage
After that what Morgan said went; when
Carnegie sold out he built the Steel Trust.
J. Pierpont Morgan was a bullnecked
irascble man with small black magpie's eyes and
a growth on his noSe he let his partners work
themselves to death over the detailed routine Of
banking, and sat in his back Office smoking black
cigars; when there something to be decided
he said Yes or No or just turned his back and
went back to his solitaire.
Every Christmas his librarian read him
Dickens A Christmas Carol from the original
manuscript.
He was fond Of canary birds and pekinese
dogs and liked to take pretty actresses yachting.
Each COrsair was finer vessel than the last.
When he dined with King Edward he sat
at His Majestys right; he ate with the Kaiser
tete tete; he liked talking to cardinals or the
pope and never missed conference Of Episcopal
bishops,
Rome was his favorite city.
He liked choice cookery and old wines and
pretty women and yachting and going over his
collections, now and then picking up jeweed
snuffbox and staring at it with his magpie's
eyes.
He made collection of the autographs of
the rulers of France owned glass cases full Of
Babylonian tablets, SEALS SignetS, statuettes,
busts,
GalIo-Roman bronzeS,
Merovingian jewels, miniatures, watches,
tapestries, porcelains, cuneiform inscriptions,
paintings by all the old masters Dutch, Italian
Flemish, Spanish,
manuscripts of the gospels and the Apo
calypso,
a collection of the works of Jean-Jacques
Rousseau,
and the letters of Pliny the Younger.
His collectors bought anything that was
expensive or rare or had the CLINT of empire on
it, and he had it brought to him and stared back
at it with his magpe's eyes, Then it was put
in glass case.
The last year Of his life he went up the
Nile on dahabiyeh and spent long time
staring at the great columns Of the Temple of
Karnak.
The panic Of 1907 and the death OF Harri-
man, his great opponent in railroad financing,
- A'oo' 4Ioo Ac4C AA4I Itle u1lulSputeo ruler OF
Wall Street, most powerful private citizen in the
world
an old man tired of the purple, suffering
from govt. he had degned to go to Washington
to answer the questions of the Pujo Committee
during the Money Trust investigation: Yes, 1
did what seemed to me to be for the best inter-
ests of the country.
Wars and pancs on the stock exchange
Machine gunf1re and arson
Starvation, lice, cholera and typaus:
Good growing weather for the House of
Morgan
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-26

Scottsboro case. From all we have
read and heard regarding the case
we are convinced the condemna-
ton amounts to legal lynching as a
concession to race prejudice. We
desire to associate ourselves with
the action taken throughout the
world TO rthe boys defense, and
demand their immediate release,
Signed, Smith, Nelson, Appleman,
Mandel, Herzog, Bogart, Brand,
Weber, Pearl, Kuttner, SLIDER, Riv-
kin, Guralnik, Granich, White,
Chesney"
Six of the signers are recognized
in New York as Max Mandel, Frank
Herzog, Owen T. Weber, jeanette
Pearl, Morton Chesney. Emanuel
Ora
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-26
By N. HONG
PART 2. (ConcIusiOn).

BY far the best of our union paper:
is the Food Worker. In it some fine
features which are a vital necessity
for all union papers and are lacking
in practically all but the Food
Worker: A department, IN the
TUUL," devoted to the tasks and
struggles of the other revolutionary
unions; news of the Soviet Union, es-
pecially Of the food workers and their
conditions there, as contrasted to the
conditions Of the American food
workers, activities of the Food Work
ers Union and its different sections;
the fight for unemployment insur-
ance and relief is featured; there are
timely, political editorials.
The big criticism of the Food
Worker is that it is a paper mostly
OF the lighter sections Of the food
industry-the cafeteriaS, hotels and
restaurants and not sufficiently OF
the big food factories, the big bak-
cries, canneries, etc. It is also too
much OF New York paper.
In important strike struggles, the
Food Worker does not curl UP, like
the Mine Worker and Needle Worker;
in the big Loft candy strike it made
itself the organ of that strike.
In makeup and appearance it is
the best Of the union papers, but
this is saying very, very little, when
we consider the atrocious appearance
OF the union papers generally. Its
circulation, considering the length of
time it has appeared, is poor, even
though it has had some sort of bust
mes management.
The Needle Worker Is as hard to
read as anything we have yet seen.
Many full page windy article, many
q full page statement or resolution
have helped to make its pages heavy.
No worker correspondence to speak
of; little about actual conditions in
the industry, about the everyday
problems OF the workers; practically
no news Of needle trade centers other
than New York; little about the fight
against the right wing takers; hardly
anything about the problems OF the
The Needle Worker must be cred
tied with one important innovation
sections in the language dominant In
the industry, such as Italian, Span
ish and Yiddish. The Mine Worker
should take leaf fro-r this I'D run
South SlaV, Polish and Itali~n sec
ton.
The Office Worker he been In
existence for sornt time. In appea -
ance it Is munh ,ore like leailet
than q paper. ms Iead of the rathw
bulletin-ish appearance IL should as.
sumo the likeness Of a newspaper
"A veSy sesA s.alnt ix that it usually
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-26

should be the guiding spirit of the
union papers
The unions should conduct collec-
ton and subscription campaigns for
their organs. Agents should be elected
in all districts, locals and in all shop
groups Of the unions The agents in
the locals and factory groups should
select committees around themselves
for the building OF the papers.
The agents and the committees
should be responsible not only for
the sale of the paper, but also for the
writing of news and worker cores
pondence direct from the shops. In
this way the union papers can be
made mass paper.
The union papers should become
the organs of the strike struggles
which the unions conduct, and not
merely this, but also in strikes which
are not conducted by the union. Mass
shop gate sales based on worker cor
respondence will also build up the
union papers.
NOW as to the task of establishing
union papers in metal and steel, tex
tile, railroad, etc. Papers in these in
dustries are vital necessity. A paper,
however should not be started with
out a preliminary campaign, to Sc
cure subscriptions, to set up agents
for bundles, to take up collections.
One Of the most serious mistakes
in the past has been the establish
ment OF union papers in such in
dustries as textile, metal, ETC., in
which the papers were started on
such a shoeString basis, without any
support from the workers, that only
one issue could be printed, after
which the papers had to be dis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-26
l6 American Specialists in Moscow Gable
Protest Against Scottstoro Frame-Up

Sixteen American engineers and
specialists living in Moscow notified
the International Labor Defense
! New York by rad oram recently
that they had cabled Governor
Miller of Alabama emphatic pro-
test" against the death verdict
passed height young Negro boys
in Scottsboro, Ala. Six Of the
signers of the protest we're iden-
titled as New Workers.
The radiogram reads; Following
cable sent to Governor Miller of
Alabama: Resolution adopted in
Moscow by American engineers and
specialists: We American engineers
and specialists In meeting tonight
record emphatic protest against
death sentence passed on eight
Negro working class youths in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-26

made j. Pierpont Morgan the boss croupier OF
Wall Street; he united with the Philadelphia
Drexels and built the Drexel building where for
thirty years he sat in his glassed-in Office, red
faced and insolent, writing at his desk, smoking
great black cigars, or, if important issues were
involved, playing solitaire in his inner Office; he
was famous for his few words. Yes or No, and
for his way of suddenly blowing up in visitors
face and for the special gesture of the arm that
meant, What do / get out of it?
In TT Junius Morgan retired; j. Pierpont
got himself made a member Of the board of
directors of the New York Central railroad and
launched the first. COrsair. He liked yachting
and to have pretty actresses call him Commodore.
He founded the Lying in Hospital on stuy-
vesant Square, and was fond Of going into st.
in the afternoon quiet
In the panic Of SO.
at no inconsiderable profit to himself
Morgan saved the U. S. Treasury; gold
was draining out, the country was ruined, the
farmers were bowling for silver standard,
Grover Cleveland and his cabinet were walking
up and down in the blue room at the White
House without being able to come to decision
in Congress they were making speeches while the
gold reserves melted in the Subtreasuries; poor
pople were starving; Coxey's army was marching
to Washington; for a long time Grover Cleveland
couldn't bring himself to call in the representa-
tive OF the Wall Street money masters: Morgan
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-26
Call of Young Pioneers of
America To Be Published
In Daily Worker Monday

In Mondays issue of the Daily Worker there
will be published a call of the Young Pioneers
of America, Fight Against Misery, Starvation,
and Labor Among Children"
The Washington times., 1932-12-12
CALLED
|NPERS|A RIOT

LONDON, Dec. IL dN.s).
Serious trouble occurred at the
Anglo Persian Oil Company's pro-
perties in Persia, according to an
Exchange telegraph dispatch to-
day.
The message said a mob had
threatened the company's offices
at Abadam and that troops were
called out to protect the property.
The disorders are the result of
cancellation by the Persian gov
ernment of the company's conceS-
sion, which led to an acrimonious
exchange of notes between the
Persian and British governments.
Reynolds illustrated news said
the dispute might lead to war be-
cause the Persian government is
imperiling the fuel supply of the
British navy.
The Washington times., 1932-12-12
OFFERS
REJECTION
PROPOSAL
Mcclellan Also Opposes Hoover
Regrouping; Takes Up Case
of Engineers Status

Rejection by the Senate Of
President Hoover's proposal
for reorganization of So ex-
ecutive agencies was de-
manded today by Senator
William Fl. King (D.) of Utah.
In a resolution introduced in
the Senate, Senator King asked
that the upper branch of Con-
gress disapprove in its entirety
the Presidents recommendation
for consolidation of some agencies
and abolition Of others.
How the Plan Stands
Adoption Of the resolution
would prevent enactment Of the
Presidents plan, as under the.
law expression Of disapproval
within so da.-s by either branch
of Congress would void Hoover's
suggestions.
Otherwise the recommendations
would become effective at the ex-
piration of the 6O-day period.
Although Senator King said that
he did not disapprove of certain
parts of the Presidents recommen-
dations, he objected to the ma
jority of the proposals and said
that his resolution would bring
the entire matter up for debate
in the Senate.
Senator Kenneth D. McKellar
Cd, OF Tennessee, also expressed
his objection to the Presidents
proposal to place the Army engi-
reers under a new public works
division controlled by the Depart
ment of Interior.
Is The First Step
He objected, he said, to put
ting the engineers in a position
where they would be under the
control of the secretaries of two
departments.
He believes the Hoover proposal
viii be rejected.
Although there has been much
opposition to certain of the Pres
ident's proposals for reorganiza-
ton, Senator Kings resolution
is the first definite step taken
by a member of Congress to
GiiSapproVe the recommendation
The Washington times., 1932-12-12
BLEASE VOICES
SN|PES PLEA

COLUMBIA, S. c., Dec. II
UNS0.-Former United States
Senator Cole L. Blease today, in
an open letter, appealed to Gov
ernor Ibra C. Blackwood to COM
mute, the death sentence of Mrs.
Beatrice Ferguson Snipes, 29-year-
old expectant mother, to life i'm
prisonment "for the sake of hui
manity."
Numerous appeals to Governor
Blackwood from over the nation
ask clemency to the woman who
within three weeks will give birth
to a child, and three months Ia
ter, April Z, is sentenced to die in
the electric chair for the fatal
shooting of highway policeman.
Mrs. Snipes is in South Carolina
Penitentiary.
BleaSe said:
There should be no heSita-
tiOn in committing this wOman's
sentence to life imprisonment.
It is terrible for a woman to
bring a child into the world
knowing she must die in the
electric chair"
The Washington times., 1932-12-12
ToMHes Nice, !
Burglar Gives
Back Loot

Washington victims of the
housebreaking activities of Ken
meth M. Kronick, alias Hundred,
may be escorted by detectives TO-
morrow to Baltimore, where
Kronick is held, to view him for
possible Identification. -
Kronick's wife, formerly Miss
Frances Hodges, Of this city, has
been indicted in Baltimore on a
charge of receiving stolen goods,
and is held there without being
allowed to see her husband.
Kronick, in his account of his
loatings here, unfolded some
amazing tales to Washington de-
tectives who visited Baltimore.
He said he robbed one apart
ment and then cooked and ate
a meal Of ham and eggs.
At another place, he said, he
encountered lone woman and
told her he would not hurt her
if she kept quiet and gave him
money. He received So.
Kronick said the victim seemed
to be about to faint, so he gave
her a glass of water. The woman
told him:
"YOu are too nice q fellow
to be a crook"
So he gave her back the money
and left, he asserted.
The Washington times., 1932-12-12
Senate Moves to. Block Reorganization
Porch Fall
Kills Navy
Emphye

Lying undiSU Jvered for more
than IL hours in an areaway,
where he had fallen from a see
ond-story porch. Charles w. See,
SIS, of the 900 block Seventh st.
S. E., an employe of the Navy
Yard, was dead early today.
See. who roomed at the house,
apparently had fallen over the
porch rail into the areaway,
which was seldom frequented by
others in the house. He was
discovered this morning by the
owner who called Casualty Hos
pital.
According to police, See, whose
family lives in Martinsburg, w.
Va, had fallen from the porch
sometime between dusk yester.
day and 7 a. m. today, He had
apparently died of a fractured
skull.
Police said his father was a
retired Navy captain and that his
wife is living at Martinsburg.