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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-04

citizens of the USSR and Joined the
Communist Party.
Life in Red Army
We live very well in the army. The
commanders treat us with civihty
and train the soldiers to have a will
of their own "a political education
and a physical stamina, which makes
us into revolutionary troops, con-
sciously striving to get the best
training so that, at the necessary
moment, we can march with our
proletarian comrades in other coun-
tries to defend the Soviet Union,
the fatherland of the whole of the
world proletariat.
You know, comrades, that our
workers and peasants Red Army is
not a human machine ,blindly fight
ing for the interests of small group
of capitalist parasites and their
hangers on but is a machine which
works accurately and conscientiously,
carrying out the will of the millions
of the working class.
We are always with you, for the
cause of Lenin
Junior Commander V. SOrokin.
Mini Noygorod,
Sverdlovskaya %,
Nijkommuna.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-04
Many Cleve. Workers
Were Laid Off After
Christmas in Shops

CLEVELAND, GA bleak new
year confronts thousands of Cleve-
land workers who were laid off to-
ward the end of December. Half
the force OF the General Electric
plant on the east side here--about
1000 workers - got a layoff as the
bosses Christmas present. The New
York Central shops in Collinwood
we're also closed the week before
Christmas. They are scheduled to
reopen Jan. a. but only for ten days
work. After that the shopmen can
starve to death for all the company
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-04
MACHINE EASES
WORK IN USSR
No One Made Jobless
By INFLAMMATION
IBy a Worker Correspondent

Wy ~ bOEAeH GUFTESE0uOEntI
MOSCOW, USSR.-Comrades, we
have here no unemployment at all.
We work seven hours q day. we
have an hour for dinner. we work
five days and rest on the sixth. We
work conscientiously for a full reali-
zation of our responsibility.
l do not know how decentralization
is carried on in your works. In our
works it is done as follows. Fuel for
the steam engines was previously
brought in and loaded into the fur
naces by hand. Now 1t is mechanical,
which has made work easier, and
at the same time not a single worker
was thrown out into the streets and
no ones wages were lowered.
We will tell you Of some Of the
achievements Of our engine crew.
A shock brigade was organized of IL
persons. Its work was to raise steam
for October. The results showed that
they got an economy of 243 rubles
in the amount Of peat used. Ac-
cording to the agreement, they were
to receive half Of the value of the
economy, i. G. 121 rubles, so kopecks.
The twelve men received additional
prizes Of suit, coats and 2 pairs
of trousers. SO you see, comrades,
that our Soviet government knows
how to look after the best shock
brigades, the workers at our factory.
And this goes on all over the Soviet
Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-04
POLISH PEASANTS
GOING TO USSR
Polish Farm Situation
Grows Worse
Gable by 1nprecorr)

WARSAW, Dec. 1.-THE ''C;Umies
VillenSkt,' a periodical which supports
Pilsudsd, publishes an alarming arti-
Gle concerning the situation IA the
Polish agrarian districts. Il states
quite openly that widespread misery
is growing and that agriculture 10 IN
a state Of rapid decline. The situation
is just so much the worse because the
villages cannot give their surplus po-
pulation to the cities, since there Is
so much unemployment in urban
districts.
The newspaper calls for something
to be done about the matter. II goes
on to say that the peasants are be-
coming radicalized, and that reports
are coming in more and more oft0
from the frontier provinces TO the
effect that many peasants are taxing
their lives in their hands, daring the
storm Of bullets from the Polish
frontier guards. and making a daah
for the Soviet territory In tiis search
for bread and work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-04
1000 ARRESTED
FOR PROTESTING
Terror Used Against
Belgrade Workers
Gable By Inprecorrl


VIENNA, Dec. Is. - According to
police records here, over 1000 arrests
were made in Belgrade on the seventh
and eighth OF December in connection
with the demonstrations against the
dictatorship made at the time Of the
opening of Parliament. Most Of the
arrested persons were young people
and particularly students of both
sexes. Many of the arrested were
brutally handled. Two died in the
hands of the police as a result Of the
injuries received.
The League for the freedom OF the
Balcans is organizing protest cam
paign against the terror. Condemnas
tons of the terror in the Balkan
countries have been published from
Professor Gunbe1 (Heidelberg), the
famous sculptor OF Professor Kobe,
the art critic Adolph Behne, Professor
Paula Rost, and many others.
Striking
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-04
Police Terror in
New Orleans Grows
NegroW orkerArrested
for His Activity

NEW ORLEANS, Lain increased
police attacks on revolutionary work
ers, especially Negro workers, Bill
Ayers, Negro worker and active in the
workers movement here, was arrested
by the police for selling and distribut-
ing literature. Two charges were
lodged against Ayres, "inciting to
riot" and being dangerous and
suspicious character"
Ayers was fingerprinted and photo
graphed and subjected to brutal in
suits by the police who tried to third
degree him in an effort to pin some
thing on him. The police threat
ened violence against Ayres unless he
promised them he would leave town.
Coming to Ayers aid, workers Sc
cured the release OF the Negro work
on bail
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-04

tiona1 Bank of BishopWlle, S. c. shut
its doors In Columbia, S. c. the
Peoples State Bank closed I'D with
over $f,400,000 in deposits involved.
The First National Bank of Hender-
son, and the Farmers Bank and
Trust Co. of Madison N. G. shut
down.
At Williamsburg, W. Va, the Bank
of Williamsburg, closed. At Owens
boro, KY, the Central Trust Co.,
with deposits of s2.4S1 900 failed.
Two more bank failures were re-
ported from the Chicago district.
The First State Bank of Chicago
Heights with deposits of $2,ooo.ooo
closed. The Hammond National
Bank of Hammond, Indiana, also
with 100000 failed to open.
The seriousness of the banking sit
uation is stressed in the Kiplinger
Washington letter issued to a limited
number of business executives. Re.
ferrtng to banks, this letter of Dec.
26, syas:
BANKS Every one knows
privately but no one admits pub
IcIy that the low bond market
makes many banks technically in
solvent The fate Of each rests with
its piece of public. The public is
policy of news distribution. II Is
said in numerous private Washing
ton conversations that "the public
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-04

proven to be the work of a rich prop
erty owner.
The fascist tactic of placing and
exploding bombs to provoke terror
against the workers and their organ
izationS is well known the world over
as part OF their program to further
their movement against the masses.
The whole affair has all the car
marks OF a combined police and tas-
cist attempt to open q. new era of
Palmer raids on revolutionary work
ing class organizations. 1t IS part of
the Wall Street. Hoover hunger pro-
gram and is obviously designed to
arouse a new war hysteria against
the Soviet Union. The call for
drastic precautions and action on
the part of the government by both
the italian fasclsts and the chief
representative of American fascisr1,
Hamilton Fish, and other notorious
ntt-Comrnunist and anti working
class agents of big business must be
met by all workers organizations by
greater organization and mass strug-
gle against wage-cutS, jim Crowism
anc for unemployment insurance.
This new capitalist attack must be
met by a new counter offensive of
greater numbers of the American
workers.
Demand the immediate release of
the workers jailed in Allentown
Down with the provocateur agents
OF fascism and American journal
ISM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-04

at 10 a. m, Redrnen Hall, 431 10 z.
Monroe Street, Springfield, Illinois.
The Conference also endorsed tbs
calls for the local conferences which
viii take place on January II in
Springfield, January II IN Collins
vile and January "a in zeislsr.
Before the Conference was opened
a group Of Trotskyites nlascuerading
under the name Of Miners Educa-
tional Body, attempted to prevent the
meeting Of the United Front Miners
Conference under the pretense that
the hall can not be obtained for the
Mooney Conference, and therefore
the Conference should not be held
for Moneys release but should be
a meeting Of the so-called ~Eduea-
tionaI Body" This statement created
Indignation among the large num-
Der of miners present In the hail and
they demanded that the splitting
policy of the Trotsl1yites be stopped
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-04
Miners Hold Conference for
Release OF Mooney, Billings
Conference Prepares for Fight Against Anti-
Labor Criminal SyndicaIist Law

STAUNTON, nI.-The second Uni
ted Front Conference for the re-
lease of Tom Mooney and Warren
K. Billings and for the repeal of
the Criminal Syndicalist law in Il
linois was held here in the Labor
Temple with 43 delegates, who come
from the local unions of the United
Mine Workers of America, Unem-
ployed Council and the Communist
Party.
The conference elected Joe Law
rentia, president Of the local union
No. 27O7 of the UNIWA, chairman
Of the conference, who. in his open
ing remarks declared:
Our local union, in electing
delegates TO this conference, fully
understood that this is a united
front of the miners and workers in
general fighting against the vicious
anti-labor laws, 10 free Mooney
and Billings and 10 defeat the at
tempt of the bosses TO railroad Z
working class workers in Southern
Illinois, and to repeal the Criminal
Syndicalist Law"
Bill Browder reported for the IN
ternational Labor Defense, outlining
the campaign Of the 1. L. D. at the
present time, especially Mooney and
Billings, Scottsboro, Kentucky miners
defense and others.
Gebert Speaks on Issue
B. K. Gebert was invited to speak
on the issues involved around the
Criminal Syndicaist law and the
meaning Of it. He pointed out that
it is an attempt to suppress strikes
and other activities of the working
class which is for the interest Of
the workers against the bosses. After
this discussion the delegates dis
cussed the ways and means Of
reaching masses of miners and
farmers in the state to acquaint them
with the problems and mobilize them
to defeat the attempts OF the bosses.
The Conference unanimously
adopted the resolutions on the re-
lease Of Mooney, repeal of the Grim
inal SyndicaliSt Law in Illinois, re-
solutions in support of the Ken
lucky strike, pledging relief for the
miners and demanding release of all
arrested miners in Kentucky, re-
solution demanding a halt to the
deportation OF foreign born workers.
The Conference endorsed the State
Conference for the repeal of the
Criminal Syndica1ist Law, which is
called by the I. L. D. on January q,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-04

OF 10 monthS) and is being put into
operation. The exact date decided
on is January LIST, 1882, but the
YCLers have decided to put out ten
machines before this time. Our plant
is constructed in such a way that
the Ford system will fit in with the
tasks of socialist labor, i. e. labor
here is not a heavy burden, but, as
Stain said, "a matter of honor, self
respect and heroism."
You know that the old Russia was
the most backward country in the
world. Now 1t Is not so. Many pro-
vinces have already introduced gen.
eral secondary school education for
all children, because the fulfillment
of the Five Year Plan in four years
requires cultured workers in industry
and agriculture.
No Job Lines
You write about the Labor ex-
changes" which are always filled to
overlooking. We have no such in
stitutions, becaus eve have no unem-
ployment.
When 1 was working at the auto
mobile works, there was organized a
productional- commune, where the
wages were 250-300 rubles each. I
worked together with American
workers, almost all of whom became
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-04
COPS JAIL
WORKERS IN
BOMB PLOT
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oxE1

Investigation" and report that the
plot was organized by a Communist
group opposed to fascisr1." In New
Haven, Conn, the police have threat
ened to arrest all Communist leaders.
A workers. meeting at the Peoples
Auditorium in Chicago was raided
Friday night, the police attempting
to terrorize the workers, but making
no arrests.
A resolution denouncing the So
called plot as an attempt of the
American fascists to discredit the
Communist Party and smash the
struggles of the workers against hun
ger was unanimously adopted by the
workers present at the meeting.
Similar to Other PLOTS"
The same as the French fascists
issued the cry of Communist" on
Nov. II, 1880, when they themselves
exploded q bomb in Nice, so Oscar
Durante, Marco Adrogne, Giuseppe
Castruccio and other American fas-
cists take up the anti Communist cry
in America in 1882. The latest ''plot"
recalls the recent Hungarian train
dyraamiting plot which was attribu-
ted by the fascists and government
agents to Communists, but later was
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dian capitalists, who along with the
British masters share the profits
squeezed out of the Indian masses,
for the past year has been scraping
and bowling before the British, plead
ing for concessions for the Indian
capitalists in order to stem the grow
ing revolutionary tide Of the masses.
At first the British imperialists,
through the Labor Party govern
ment, offered some phrases about
cooperation" With the victory of
the National Government headed by
Macdonald the British masters de-
clared to Gandhi that they no longer
need his immediate help in fooling
the masses, and that they intended
to crush the revolution without con-
cessions to the Indian borgeoisie.
This new expression of violent at
tacks not so much against Gandhi
and the other faithful servants Of
British imperialism, but against the
masses OF workers and peasants, was
contained In the latest declarations
of Lord Wellington, British Viceroy
of India.
Knowing that mass struggles are
rising, the British imperialists mob
ilized their entire police and military
force. The imperialists in Bengal walk
about fully armed.
The All-India National Congress,
which Gandhi heads, is trying to
direct the encoming flood Of revolt
into such harmless grooves as boy
cotting Of British goods, and refusal
to pay salt tax In some instances
they call for rent strikes where the
British government gets the rent, but
do not call on the peasants not to
pay the rent to Gandhi's associates
who are rich landowners.
Gandhi just before he declared he
expected to be arrested called for CO.
operation with British imperialism.
"I would remind the nation of the
pledge" he said, 81 gave the prime
minister (the Socialist MacDonald)
toward the end Of the Round Table
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-04
Textile Workers New
Earn Less Than SIS

PATTERSON, N. il am a textile
worker and have been unemployed
for the past nine months. My lot
is the lot of thousands of textile
workers in this city.
The lucky workers who are work
ing, earn the magnificent sum of So
to $18 q week. Thanks to the treach-
cry of the A. f. of L., Gitlow and
Music, the conditions in the silk in
dustry are worse than before the
strike.
The National Hunger March, how
ever, has shown the way to the
workers all over the U. S. A. For
ward, then, to a greater struggle for
unemployment insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-04
Miners Organizing for Relief i'm Penn.

Washington County have double
crossed the workers and have made
no preparations to care for the IN
employed. They put forward the old
cry that they have no money. The
county has sinking fund of $780,
900, yet they will not appropriate a
cent for relief.
Mr.. Commissioner, what are you
going to do about the hunger that
exists in your county? We, the work
ers here, are organizing to demand
relief and we will not take no for
an answer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-04
Italian Regiment Balks
at Bad Treatment, Poor
Food: Tries to Mutiny
lBy Inprecorrl

PARIS, Dec. 31.-New recruits of
the 103rd Infantry Regiment, sta
toned in Cuneo (Piedmont), mu-
TIMED day or two ago because of
insufficient and poor quality food,
and against the general bad treat
ment accorded them.
Leaving the barracks, they marched
through the town, fraternizing with
the population. Militia and loyal
detachments oyerpowered the mu-
tineers after a sharp fight in which
many people were wounded by bull
let's and bayonet stabs on both sides
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-04
REGULATION OF
COPPER INDUSTRY
PROVES FAILURE
Capitalists Unable to
Control Rate of
Output

All the copper PRODUCERS in the
United States cut their wage rates
either on october l or shortly after
wards. Payrolls had been sharply
cut before then by mass 1ay-offs and
short-time work, for copper has been
hard hit by the crisis and the COM
panies compel the workers to carry
the burden.
Big copper producers have been
trying to regulate the industry, and
their efforts illustrate how competi-
ton and chaos rule under capitalism,
even when large corporations control
a large percentage of the output. A
world" conference Omitted States,
Latin America and Africa was held
in New York in October and No
vember TO organize limitation of out
put. The first big snag was the
Union Miniere du Haut Katanga, q
Belgian company exploiting native
workers in rich copper mines in the
Congo. This is the lowest cost pro-
ducer in the world and was making
profits even from 7-cent copper. It
refused to cut output to Is per cent
of capacity, but finally agreed to a
compromise limit.
Small Companies Fight
Small companies are Directing that
curtailrnent Of output gives special
advantage to the large companies
who have great accumulated stocks
Of copper, Another conflict has come
up within the special export cor
poratton set up some time ago to
handle all exports of copper refined
in the United States, Phelps Dodge
Corp.-probably the third largest
producer in the world-hss threat
ened to withdraw from Copper Ex-
porters, Inc, unless rules are relaxed.
Either way the control of exports
through Copper Exporters. Inc.
breaks down.
Still another conflict among the
big companies appears in the aEits-
ton for tariff on raw copper i'm
ported into the United States. Com
panies mining their copper chiefly in
the United States would expect to
benefit from tariff: Phelps Dodge,
Inspiration Copper, Calumet & Hecla,
Miami, Magma, United Verde Exten-
sion. But Anaconda, Cerro de Pasco,
Greene Canaea and American Metal
are mining their copper largely, or
entirely, outside of the United States
and oppose a tariff.
While the big copper interests of
the capitalist world fight among
themselves, the workers in American
copper mines are brought into sharper
competition with the eevn more ex-
plotted workers of Latin America
many Of whom work for American
companies
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-04

Is behaving" Hence tine rush b.
get early legislation 10 back UP ths
banks with government lczns be-
fore the public styets wizee and
starts new runs such 10 Nsese
which made such havoc fn OctobeE-
The weight Of cold evidence b that
the situation VIII be wo<xsd eat
with fair degree of xa4siSsesisn.
Even as cautions statement ~
this is not inspired by sentiment or
mere hope"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-04
Y.M.C.A. Robs in Name OF Charity

Out of that we have to take care of
our families, pay the rent, buy the
groceries, pay for medical care, etc.
while most Of our men are out OF
work.
Previously women were getting
four dollars a day for this work.
From the Kindred women the WV.
CA. robs one hundred dollars a day.
AL this in the name of charity and
helping the poor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-04
Pic in the Sky for
Hooverville COLONY
(By . Worker Ccrrespondent,

81. LOUIS, Mo--The box shack
colony called Hooverville along the
river front of thi scity which was
built by the homeless unemployed
will now have church.
1t has been definitely been decided
by the unemployed Of the colony that
the bread and fishes from the full
dinner pail, which was hailed far
and wide by Herbert Hoover, is a
hideous fairy tale.
Now some good souls are giving the
colony members something else to
think about. Pie in the sky is now
the order of the day.
As a result church, built out of
old boards, tin and waste material,
is being erected at the foot of La
fayette Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-04
BY a Worker Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Pa.-Starvation is
becoming certain among the coal
miners in Washington County. The
miners are only working two days a.
week and only earn from $3.50 to
S2.0o per day.
A miner must load five cars of
coal to earn s2.25. III the miner
wants to buy one of these cars for
bis own use he must pay $3.50 for
it. The operator gets four cars of
coal for less than the price OF one.
The County Commissioners of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-04
RED SOLDIER TELLS
HOW ARMY HELPS TO
BUILD UP SOCIALISM
Red Army Is Fighting Machine That Works to
Carry Out the Will of the Masses
Labor in Soviets Is Not Heavy Burden, But d
Matter Of Honor and Self-Respect
Mini Novgorod, USSR.
Dear comrade workers

Deaf cOnrade WOrkefS:
We have received several letters from you and the whole
regiment read them with great interest The letters
read in and Individually and everyone glad that
there exists such class international connection between the
proletariat Of the whole world
year has passed since came into the Red Army. Be
fore that worked the construction of socialist giant
the automobile works which is already finished the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-04
Scandinavian Workers
Score War Threats

ALLSTON, Mass.-Members OF the
Scandinavian Workers Club at its last
meeting adopted a resolution in pro-
test against the war preparations OF
imperialist nations, the Japanese inn
perialist aggression in Manchuria and
called for the defense of the Soviet
Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-04
By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK.-The Y.w.C.A. loca-
ted on 1872 St and 18th Ave. is playing
the charity giver's game and at the
same time is roaobing the women Of
their wages.
This organization has about 100
women working in two shifts sewing
dresses. We get only three dollars
a day and three days week. This
makes a total of nine dollars week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-04
Trenton Bank Busts

The Burlington City Loan and
Trust Co. of Trenton, N. ;: with de-
pests OF s2,o66.oOO was taken over
by the State Department of Banking.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-04

Daily Worker subscriptions help TO
build shop nuols
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-04
BANK FAILURES CONTINUE AS
CRISIS KEEPS GETTING WORSE

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