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members They carry on & whole system of edu-
catonal and cultural activities, and show the
most profound international solidarity IN strikes
and struggles of the workers in the capitalist
countries.
Education is being promoted at tremendous
speed in the Soviet Union Before the war nearly
80 per cent Of the peasants and &c per cent OF
the city population, illiterate; today more
than 100000 children are in the schools. and
this number will be increased to 100000 0G0. Mill
lions Of peasants and workers are now for the
first time learning to read and Write-tllis ap-
plying particularly to the remote republics of
the Soviet Union Illiteracy is being wiped out
How does this compare with the u S. with
millions of native Americans getting no school
ing, and on account of poverty have to bring up
their children in the same way? How does this
compare with the Negroes in the South whose
children are given a few months of meager
training with the migratory workers children
hardly seeing the inside of the school?
Crowded Schools
The universities and technical schools in the
Soviet Union are crowded, and yet the demand
for engineers and tecl1nicianS cannot be satisfied
The factory schools are growing in number, but
cannot supply the need of skilled labor
The situation Of the peaSantry is steadily i'm
proving The collectivization plan--the cultiVa-
ton jointly of their plots of lands teaching
the peasants socialism on the land During the
tsars, and even till of late, they occupied small
plots of land, which they titled with primitive
tools and implements. Now some of the collec-
tives and Soviet farms cover an area of 100000
acres--the largest in the world, which are cult
waited with tractors and the most modern impe-
ments. The peasants in the collectives procure
the tractors through the co-operatives which
both in the city and on the land play very
prominent part in the life of the country Today
81 per cent of the 26,0O00O0 peasants are in the
collectives. The Five-Year Plan called for % per
cent. The goal is 100 per cent colIectivization
which yill soon oe accomplished
Only in the Soviet Union, do the national mi
norities find full development and safety In the
capitalist countries, they are oppressed and ex-
plotted by the ruling class Self-determination
the beautiful slogan of Wilson, was only snare
The Soviet Union put it into practice ss only q
workers government can do. The oppression Of
the Negroes in this country as a national minor
lty Is an evidence Of national oppression This is
taken as a matter of course by the white impe-
rtalists. But the Communists take I'D the fight
Tor self-determination for the Negroes, lust as
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r1tory for many centuries the victim of warfare
between feudal princes competing for the rich
prize. To serve their own ends these successive
rulers stirred up enmity between the various
small nationalitieS in Georgia, and between Geor-
CLANS, Turks, and Armenians. The Russian czars,
who finally Subjugated this country followed the
same policy of divide and rule. The history of
Ttflis and Georgia, therefore,-until 1921, when
the native workers and peasants, with the help
OF the Red Army drove out the last Of their op-
pressors and established their Soviet power
was one Of continual strife and Of economic and
cultural stagnation
Today in Georgia we find people being re-
born. Nationaities that once fought bitterly are
now united in building up industries, collective
farms, schools and new workers towns, Accord
ing to the policy Of the Communist PARTY and
SoV1ets each nationality enjoys full rights of self
government with schools and press conducted In
It's own language All Of this was strictly for
hidden by the czarist regime The small republic
OF Soviet Georgia, with its population of two and
a half million is composed of three autonomous
repuphcs Georgia, in turn, is united with the
republics OF Armenia and Azerjaidjan to form
the Transcaucasian Federation.
Joseph Stain, native Georgian, played a
large part in the formulation of this correct ma
tonal policy. The pride and affection which his
-countrymen feel for him is evidenced In
many ways Life-si1e portraits and busts are even
more numerous in workers clubs here than in
Russia proper, while plant after plant has been
ahrastened by its workers-textile or steel fac
sory-"in the name Of Comrade Stain"
From Oxearts to Hydroelectrse Power
An exauhpls Of Georgias industrial develop
mefs ss TIE electric power station erected on the
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house all day.
Reports came in that a mas
picket line OF men, women and chill
dren marched from Glendon to Cary
and then back to Glendon.
AT Glendon a woman leading the
picket line refused to move when thu
boss threatened to run her over with
a car. The picket line stopped tn
car and the mine did not run
Relief must be rushed in. Rank
and file organizers are continuing thu
spreading of the strike. This maneu-
yer of the operators will not stop.
the strike, but spur the miners and
give them a clearer picture OF thu
tactics OF the operators. 1t has been
reported that committee headed
by "Massy" Colman Is catherine
checks OF 5000 to break the strike
In the court Mrs. Hutchins, who tss-
titled against the Dresser Commit.
tee, was much in evidence. ALTHOUGH
she has no official position she is ON
intimate terms with the court. Ma
terial taken from the office included
applications of the N. M. U.
County Attorney Smith says he wsa
not rest until the "agitatuex- sRs
driven from the county
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Radio Debate evith EVa Garrette Grady

1915 agricultural production only SO per cent
Today the picture is quite different. The big
gest power stations in the world are being erect
ed in the Soviet Union, tremendous steel and
machine plants, big auto and tractor plants are
being erected Foundries and chemical plants
for the prodl ction Of fertilizers etc. are being
built in all parts of the country. Where they
are being built new cities are being established,
with the most modern workers homes hospitals,
clubs workers counters, theatres. This Is the
method of planning in the Soviet Union--wtlich
only the Soviets can produce.
The Workers Lot
What is the situation of the workers? The
number is steadily increasing. Not only is there
no unemployment, but there is need of 100000
more workers in the factories of the Soviet Union.
Compare this with the United States, where
100000 workers can find no work In the
Soviet factories there is acknowledgements the
speed-up system of Ford. The worker knows that
increased production means more products for
the workers. that new machinery means chea-
er production. It means higher wages and les
hours of work 1t enables the government to
accumulate more funds to put into the erection
of more factories, homes clubs for the benefit of
the workers and peasants
In carrying out this work, the workers Of the
Soviet Union enter into socialist revolutionary
competition to finish the Five-Year Plan in g
shorter time This enthusiasm is led by the mem
bers Of the Communist Party and the Young
Communist League, who are at the front in all
these endeavors. Shock brigades go into the fac
tories, to the collective farms in all parts Of the
country to lead in the completion of the Five
Year Plan, where workers are still backward This
enthusiasm can be evoked only where the work
ers know that increased effort, increased pro-
duction will be to the benefit only of the workers
Hours Down; Wages Up.
Hours Of work in the Soviet Union have stead
lily been reduced, since there is continuous pro-
duction in the factories, which makes it possible
to get the full value out of the machine. Every
worker is fully protected by social insurance This
means that they are protected against accident,
sickness, invalidiSm old age, etc. After 40 years
Of work, the worker may retire fully protected.
The funds devoted to social insurance by the
Soviet Government amount to more than one
billion dollars. There is no child labor in the
Soviet Union. Women about to become mothers
are allowed two months before childbirth and
two months after childbirth with full pay.
The trade unions in the Soviet Union are the
most powerful in the world. having 145oO,oo0
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PIONEER CORNER

got rid of him by expelhng him. Now
Comrade Lenin became more active
for the cause of the workers whom
he loved well.
The bitter life OF the Russian
and SO crllshed--made Lenin's spirit
stronger and his hatred toward the
master class keener. From the yery
beginning he gained the love and
confidence of the workers. He helped
on organizing little strikes-such as
strikes for shorter hours, higher
wages, and hot tea for the workers.
And not only did he work with the
workers, but he wrote up also these
experiences SO that other workers
could profit from them. He was soon
imprisoned for his activities and then
exiled,
His experience III the 1905 Revofp-
ton, which was unsuccessful, helped
him In 1917 to lead the workers and
peasants of Russia to freedom. Lenin
pointed out to the workers In the
World War that they we're fighting
not for themselves. but for their
enemies-the bosses. After the So
ycalled democratic" government OF
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Its $4,000 horsepower will be Qusdrupled during
the next year. This station Is helping to trans
form tha cid Georgia OF lamps and ox-cartS into
a modern land Of electricity and motor power
At the same time the people, formerly SO illit-
crate have built up their school system until
ninety-eight percent of all children are now in
school.
In Factory Nursery.
Typical Of the new social life in Georaia are
the workers apartments, and the free nursery for
children OF mothers working at the looms In the
Stain silk factory in Tiflis. About 1900 women
girls are employed here working a seven hour
cay and earning on an average from $40 to S25
a week. This sum is quite adequate because all
medical attention is Free the new workers houses
are practically rent free, food and clothes are
bought at cheap prices In the cooperative stores
ano ruIl wages are paid to woman who falls
Ill or who for any reason can not work This in
cudes freedom from work, at full wages, for two
months before and two months after childbirth.
We donned white uniforms over our clothes in
oroer to inspect the nursery. There are several
light airy rooms, tinted blue, rose, or yellow, and
lined with neat rows Of cots, along the walls. In
the dining room are small chairs and table.
where the children get their free meals and milk
while their mothers are at work. Flowers and
bright pictures give the rooms q lively, home
like appearance
the nursery is free to the workers the factory
management setting aside sum for its main
tenance equal to one fourth of the total wage
bill
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Protest the Arrest of Kentucky Strike Leaders

letters, everything they could lay
hands on, In the office OF the Ma
tional Miners Union at Pineville
yesterday. A little later three more
we're picked up on the street.
Held under 5000 appearance bond
each, Norman Martin, vern Smith,
Jonn Harvey, Ann Barton, Margaret
Fontaine, Julia Parker, Dorothy
Ross, Weber and c. Nicholson are
held under charge OF criminal syn
dicalism.
Ordering the miners giving reports
on the strike out Of the office, BRAN
dishiag a gun, deputy game war
den searched the office, confiscat-
ing all paper, ETC., and arrested the
first named six. A little later Dor
othy Ross, Weber and Nicholson
were picked up on the street.
A spontaneous demonstration of
miners took place at the court house
steps. Miners surrounded the court
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3,535000 children between and II are working
in the United States. The financial structure
Of the capitalist countries is breaking down.
Germany is on the verge Of collapse, and the
German bankers and finance lords are compen-
Sating themselves by bleeding the German work
erS, with the aid of the German social demo-
Gratis. The same is taking place in England and
all other countries. The capitalist world stands
before collapse" as Hoover declared. This is
pushing the imperialist world to war and Man
churia is the door to this war. This war, how
ever, is not among the imperialist powers alone,
who want markets and fields of investment for
their billions OF capital but is in preparation for
war against the Soviet Union Hoover declares
that the ambition of my life Is to crush out
Soviet Russia" This is the ambition of all ib-
periaIst governments, which conduct and can
only conduct these wars with the workers and
farmers as the cannon fodder.
Socialist Upbuilding
In the midst of this chaos and feYeriSh prep
arations for war, the workers and easants OF
the Soviet Union are building up Socialism and
pushing forward the Rive-Year Plan, which Is OF
be completed in 1888 So splendid are the re-
suits thus far attained that in some industries,
the Plan has already been realized-in oil in2la
years, in electricity in years, and the whole
plan will Be completed In years. Nov the So
Wet Government is organizing the second Five
Year Plan.
What has been the development in dl1stry on
the basis of the Five-Year Plan? In 1920 after
the ravage of the World War. the economic
blockade established by the U. s.. British and
French governments, after the attempted inter-
ventions through counter revolutionary armies,
industrial production was only 20 per cent OF
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Kerensky was set up, Ienjn, at the
head Of the workers, established the
first workers and peasants govern
ment. At last the workers and farm
ers were free. The bosses OF the 9TH
er countries tried to overthrow the
government by sending armies
against It and by trying to kill Lenin.
Although he vas seriously wounded,
he recovered-though not entirely
to see some Of the results OF his hard
work. When on January 81, 1924, he
died, the workers all over the world
mourned the best friend, guide,
teacher and conrade they ever had
he who led them to freedom.
Let us as workers children follow
in the way Of Lenin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-09
By M'YRA PAGE


Foreign Correspondent Of the Daily Worker"
AFTER leaving Baku our international delega-
n ton came to Tif1is, main city of Soviet Geor-
gia and capitol of the Transcaucasan Socialist
Federated Soviet Republics Situated on the fam
GUS Georgian Pass in the Caucasian mountains,
Tiflis developed as fur trading center long be-
fore the Norsemen set sail for America. Each
day caravan OF 1000 can1els left over the long
trail for India.
Because of It's luxurious Vineyards and flower
gardens the city became pleasure resort for the
czars and landed nobility. Many of the handsome
palaces which they once occupied have been
transformed. we found, into workers clubs, trade
union headquarters, museums, and Soviet and
other public buildings.
When Workers Inhabit Fifth Avenue Mansions
To realize what this means picture the day,
not SO far off, when the American working class
will take over the Florida and Fifth Avenue
mansions of the Rockefellers and Morgans, trans
forming them into clubs for themselves and
their families. When Newport now sporting place
for the idle rich will be center of rest homes
for those who came directly from the machines
and the farms for their vacations. When the
palaces of Pittsburghs steel and coal kings will
house steel workers, when Chicagos Gold Coast
boasts its Proletarian Ayenus. the SovietS oc-
cupy the city haIs, sud ths unions and Com
munist Party have headquarters in the main
public buildings.
This ID what has happsned IN Taflis as well %
sN over the Soviet Union
Peace Where War Once Ruled.
rts strategic position and natural resources
made Ttflis and the surrounding Qeorkian tar
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SOCIALIST CONSTRUCTION IN THE SOVIET UNION IS SUCCESS

The tremendous interest Of tbs WORKING
class in what Is going on IN the Soviet Union
and the development of the Five Year Plan
Of socialist construction, greatly increased by
the continually Worsening crisis and the spread
Of unemployment and starvation in the United
States, made It possible for l. Amter, District
Organizer of the Communist Party in New
York, to debate over the radio with Eve Gar
rette Grady, one of the most Inscriptions an
tiCormunist and anti Soviet propaganda
Eve Garrette Grady, wife of an American
engineer employed by the Soviet Union, at
: far better salary than he ever received In
the United States, after her return to Amrica,
capitalized the fact Of their having been In the
Soviet Union. to peddIe lies and ISLANDERS
against the Communists in the United States
the Communist Party Of the Soviet Union, the
Soviet Union and the Five Year Plan in such
openly reaCtonary magazines Liberty" for
srerly owned by the Chicago Tribune and now
owned by the MacFadden interests, and over
thc radio network,
The opening speech Of Comrade Amter and
his rebuttal contain whole series of basic
facts in regard to the progress Of the Soviet
Union under the prOletarlan dictatorship and
are a complete refutation of the lies of his
opponent and other anti-Soviet writer's and
able in connection with the struggle for work
ers' unemployment insurance in the United
states, against the whole Hoover Hunger Pro-
gram and in the struggle against the impe-
rialist war danger.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-09
BY ANN BARTON

written In the Pineville, KY, JaiD
PINEVlLLE, KY, Jan. Alarmed
by the spread Of the strike in Bell
County the coal operators have made
an unsuccessful attempt to break the
mass movement Of the miners
against starvation.
Arresting six Of the leading work
ers in the strike, deputies OF County
Attorney Smith confiscated books,
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their leaders but burst OF uD-led
protest from workers everywhere win
shake this Holy Of Holies of Aneri-
can boss terror.
Kentucky is the fighting front of
workers all over the world. The min
ers are fighting heroically... Help
them. Rush funds for Kentucky de-
tense to the LID, Room 43o, 80 e.
18th Street, New York City.
Jessie Wakefield.
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Kurs river, near Tiflis. Begun in 1922 Just one
year after the last mensheviks and imperialists
were driven out it was completed in 1927 -Four
thousand workers took part in its construction.
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Wet governments throughout the world, united
in the World Soviet Union, as the step to Com
munisn1,
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Letters from Our Readers

tention, arouse and set one to think.
Thus you will be able to materially
to increase your newsstand sale.
90 Let your front page be sensa-
tional. Let 1t shout. Don't be suuea-
mish about it. Don't let making the
paper look nice" be your main con-
Germ. The capitalist papers realize
the drawing effect of glaring head
lines and use it successfully to in
crease circulation.
hope you will take these sugges-
tons under consideration.
M. G., Chicago.
For instance:
Must we Starve?
Hoover. the Hunger President.
Bread, Not Bulletsl
The Capitalist Way Out.
Beware OF Socialist Betrayers.
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On Making the "Daily"
More Interesting to
Masses Of Workers
Editor, Daily Worker:

Editor, Daily Worker:
Dear Comrade.
Allow me to make the following
suggestions concerning making the
Daily Worker of greater appeal to
the masses, more interesting and
more widely read
% Place your editorials on the
first page on the left hand side,
first four columns.
(2) Choose as topics for your edi-
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he oppressed masses. Choose for
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NO PLACE
TO GO

Dee would have left the county
but there was no place to so. There
was not even mule to pull the few
sticks of furniture that were his
household goods, no. food for a
journey, and no matter where
penniless Negro went he would have
to work for someone. In Ochloc-
konee county they knew him for a
good niger" and would be more
considerate than would strange
whites in another county or another
state, so two days later Dee Jackson
put his cross to the usual cropper
contract.
1t provided that Pearson supply
him with a mule, seed, and
monthly advance of twelve dollars
between February and August in
elusive, in return for half his crop
after all advances and interest
thereon we're deducted. The agree
ment specified that should the
said tenant fail to pay the advances
made by the owner when due, the
tenant agrees to surrender the pos
session of said premises, in which
event the owner is hereby author
lied TO sell or dispose of all prop
erty thereon the tenant has any
interest in" and concluded with the
ominous words land shall be so
construed between the parties
thereto, any law, usage or custom
to the contrary notwithstanding"
Dee could not read but he knew
what it contained. Others had
signed cropper agreements and
were charged eighteen per cent in
terest on advances, and with the
Pearson bookkeeping system,
Negro never got out of debt. And
Dee knew also that the Georgia
law provided that as long as he
owed the planter one dollar he
could not leave the Pearson farm
without s:seing arrest and the
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I'll mex you scrub hit FUN top tub
bottom, lawd mex me stumble an
fall in sin if doan!"
THE COTTON
MILLS
The southern night and the still
ness around the cabin lost in the
twenty acres, the kerosene lamp and
its CHEEKY light, the cream-colored
dishes and heavy cups on the red
and-white, checkered table-cloth
gave David a sense of peace and
security. And in Dee and Louise
was a deep thankfulness that the
lord had returned them their son.
After supper zebulon was put to
bed and the women washed the
dishes in a large, tin pan while
Dee and his son sat on the porch
steps and smoked their corn-cob
pipes.
II hears dey's payin' a dollar an
half day in de cotton mills" Dee
said slowly,
Yeah. How you figger'n gittin'
dey? @
81 got fo' dollars an sixty cents.
Made hit shootin' crap once in
town" he added alphabetically.
-
DAVID did not answer.
" 81 started wild a quarter" Dee
explained with touch of pride,
and then hastily, "but dat was a
sin an 1 ain sinned Sence. I ain
chen spent hit caise I got hit
gambelin' but fingered maybe some
time I'd git chance tub spend hit
on somethin, de lawd wouldn't
mind"
Yeah? On whut?"
Well, I fingered maybe you'd
lax tub git outuh de county an go
tub work in a mill town."
The boy peered at him suspi-
ciously.
"Whut you want tub 81 rid O. me
fo'?" he asked. Ain you wantin'
me roun' here no MOP"
''Sho I want you roun' here, Son,
but I figgered maybe dis county
ain no place fo' a young niger.
1 b'longs tub Mist Shay an fo' /
knows hit Mist Shay'lI glib you
twenty acres an you'll b'long tub
him, too"
NO CHANCE
FOR A NEGRO
Got tJl1 be somebody's niger.
An Mist Shays as good as lot O
dem an maybe some better. If I
takes yo' TO dollars an sixty cents
come deputy'll pick me UP TO I gifts
outen de@nexs county an take my
money away an den sen me tub de
chain gang fo' bein' vagrant."
Il fingered maybe you could git
tub mill town if you pays de bus
fare" his father said hesitantly.