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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-24
Railroad Situation in the u. S.
and Soviet Unton>>A Contrast
JOBS INCREASE IN THE WORKERS. REPUBLIC

tells of SAC locomotives being pro-
duced in the Soviet Union in the
first eight months Of 1882.
Consider the railroad achieve
ments the Soyiets already have to
their credit. In 1917 passenger and
freight traffic on the primitive
Russian railroad system had fallen
to Is per cent of the pre-war level,
Most of the track was in the war
zones when the SoViets were fight
ing for their existence against white
guardists and invading armies.
Some 1882 railroad bridges and
100000 buildings were destroyed.
In 1919 the Soviets still controlled
only one-third of the railroad sys-
tenn, and So per cent of the locomo-
tives were in need of repair.
SURPASs PRE-WAR LEVEL
But once they had driven out the
capitalist enemy. the Soviet work
ers soon showed their mettle in So
cialist construction. The pre-War
level Of railroad business was
reached in few years and has
since been far surpassed. Twice as
much freight and four times as
many passengers are now trans
ported as before the war. Old
trackage was repaired, and new
construction increased it by "a per
cent. At the same time money
wages have been increased more
than three times the pre-war scale,
and real wages far more than that.
Despite all this progress, how
ever, the Soviet railroads are not
yet in any way adequate for the
transportation needs of 100000
people whose standards are being
raised SO rapidly. They are consid-
cred one Of the weaker links of
the FiVe-Year Plan, tagging behind
the rate of progress in other in
dustries. Which only emphasizes
the tremendous pace being set by
Socialist construction in the Soviet
Union.
pUT let us continue our COMPARE
~ son with American railroads.
In the United States, the number
of railroad employees has been
halved since 1920, when 2,023 900
were on the payroll. Since 1926
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-24
BY L. MARTIN.

BY L. MARIlks
WHILE railroad wages are being
W cut in the United States, they
are being steadily raised in the So
Wet Union.
While the number of jobs on
American railroads has been cut in
half, the number of Soviet railroad
jobs has been doubled.
Hours are being progressively
shortened for Soviet railroad work
ers, working conditions improved
and living standards raised, at the
same time as the standards Of Am
erican railroaders are being rapid
" lowered.
Soviet railroad business in gen
eral has been expanding in the last
few years at almost the same rate
as the American railroad industry
has been declining.
STRIKING CONTRASTS
These are Just a few of the con-
trasts that will strike the American
railroad man in the Soviet Union.
The Soviet railroad system is next
largest to that of the United States;
1t operates under similar geograph-
ical conditions; and technically it
is modelling itself after the Amer
lean railroads. But the sinilarities
only make the contrasts the more
startling. For Soviet and Ameican
railroads belong to two worlds NOV
ing in opposite directions.
-T'he Soviet railroads are still far
below the high level of American
technical efficiency, it is true. They
started with little more than wreck
age after the years of the world
war, civil war and intervention
and they are still handicapped by
lack of equipment and trained per-
sonnet.
g
QUT even in this respect the U.
~ S. S. r. is rapidly overtaking
America, where technical progress
has been halted by the present
crisis. Only one new locomotive was
ordered by Glass American rail-
road between January / and No
vernber 30, 1882, according to Rail-
way Age.
At the same time, a Soviet report
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MARKHAM classics.


BECAUSE of lack of space I have
~ just touched on the wealth of
material in this magazine. Sum-
ming up, think the discussion of
tactics is very good, the analysis
of social forms involved is good,
but inadequate.
can naturally only just mention
the way the analysis and argument
IN the Communist is presented.
This is the painful subject.
The emphasis in the Communist
should be on accuracy and good
Judgment. So what will one say
about a sentence like this, in ST.
mons article page 1882. zone of
the aims of the native bourgeois
landlord governments is to exter-
inmate the oppressed national min
critics, the Indians and the Ne
groes, who constitute a majority of
the population of Latin America"
The emphasis is mine, of course.
just to indicate that if that state
ment is true it deserves a whole
article to prove it. Probably it is
largely due to careless use of such
words as "exterminate" and "na,-
tional minority" meaning perhaps.
"decimate' and oppressed ma
tionality."
Mistakes of this sort appear in
the Daily Worker when comrades
are writing madly to make a s pm.
"dead-line," but the Communist is
monthly magazine. Gwen in the
Daily" we do not excuse them.
said the important thing in the
Communist should be accuracy and
and Judgment, but clarity is also
vital. So why should Carpio's ar
tlcle refer to the Ang Bagong Kat
apunan over and over, without
once letting us in on the secret of
what that thing is, or was? We
gather it was some kind of fake
leftist movement, but how did it
differ from the present Civic
Union, for example? Older copies
of the Communist, of course, would
tell you, but suppose you never
saw them2 If Carpio doesn't tell,
an editorial Tote Is in order. We
read that K.A.P. is our trade union
movement, but it would be polite
to tell the workers what those mi
tials stand for.
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NOTE ON ARTICLE BY DON

A typographical error crept into
the article, "AlI In The Name of
Marxism," by Sam Don. The cor
rected sentence should read: "On
the one hand, left phrases by the
s. p. leaders about gaining power
and on the other hand holding
back the workers as to the precise
method of doing away with CAP
ITALIST private property" The
word capitalist was left out OF the
sentence. ---- -----
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TRADITIONS FOR LABOR


James S. Aliens article, "Distort-
ers of the Revolutionary Heritage
of the American Proletariat," is
move in the right direction. think
there is room for argument on some
of his points. Isn't it true that
the peculiar dilly- dallying of
northern capitalism over the ques-
ton of freeing the slaves was
mainly because it really had no in
terest in freeing them? AS proved
by The fact that in the end it did
not free them? The main inter-
est of northern capitalism was in
breaking the control of the slave
owning autocracy over the nation
al government, over the open land
to the west, over the tariff law.
True enough that it was parlia-
mentary cretanism not to see that
nothern capitalism at least had to
issue the emancipation proclana-
ton to mobilize in its support the
northern workers and farmers and
the southern slaves. 1t needed Just
then this support to break the
death grip of the slaVeocracy on
the national government without
giving it half the country. But
Marx already pointed that out;
what is needed next to show why
parliamentary crstanism took lust
the form it did. Maybe Aliens ar
ticle, to appear in the next issues
of the Communist will clear up
some of this.
Anyway, he demolishes the
Lovestoneite Herberg's idolizing
Of the bourgeois, many times
openly anti-working class Abol-
itionists. Allen brings the whole
discussion back into focus on the
proIetariat. Just by the way, the
polemic against false theories Is
. traditional method Of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-24

those places where we make avail
able the knowledge that has been
accumulated from the experience
of the past struggles in order to
solve the problems of present and
coming struggles. Only in these
struggles, by arning ourselves with
the lessons of the past struggles,
do we develop the theory the
knowledge and the practice that
makes up Marxisn1- Lenirisnl.
THE NECESSITY OF
WORKERS SCHOOL
1t is in this sense that we I'M
derstand the Workers School and
its place in the revolutionary
movement. This phase is becom-
ing more and more important.
And more and more keenly do we
feel the necessity of our school, of
the service that it renders.
Under the conditions of the class
struggle today, it is impossible to
imagine that we could tolerate for
one moment such influences as in
the past have exsrted themselves
quite strongly on our institution,
the Workers School, during the
ten years of its existence.
The Workers School itself is the
product of struggle, The
Workers School was built and
grew strong in the course of our
struggle against Trotskyisln, and
the driving out of the influence Of
the representatives of Trotskyism
in America. Perhaps you at pres
ent in the Workers School may
not know that an influence in
shaping the early years of the
Workers School was MI. Cannon,
the outstanding representative of
Trotsky in America. And for the
development of the Workers
School it was necessary to fight
against deviations and drive out
of the movement these Trotskyites
and Trotsky theories.
Perhaps some OF you can still
remember the days when the des-
TIMES of the Workers School were
in the hands of Bertram d. Wolfe,
representative of the right wing
revision Of MarXiSm- Lenilism in
America. Another big struggle was
necessary to defeat this open OPP
porsunism in the Party, in the
movement and in the Workers
School and to purify the Workers
School from the opporttinism Of
Mr. Bertram Wolfe and company,
representing the Lovestone group.
THE building and the develop
ment of the Workers School is
a constant struggle, just as the
building and development of
revolutionary workers party is a
constant struggle, against all of
the influences of the ideas of the
class enemy. The Workers School
is that institution where we arm
our leading cadres with weapons
which give them the ability to re-
Slst the influence of class enemy
ideas, to combat them, to over
come them. The school is where
they master the theological wea-
ponS of MarxiS1n-Le niniSm and
put them into effect in the mass
struggles. Let us grasp the full
meaning of that slogan of our
great leader, Marx, that an idea
becomes power when it is seized
upon by the masses. Our ideas
are not forces in themselves. They
are instruments of the masses for
the carrying through of the class
struggle.
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or peasant could find, it wayer.
ing on the trade union field. But
Carpio does not end without re-
minding us that the Filipino COM
rades made their errors under pres
sure of an extremely savage white
terror, while we in America made
our mistake of almost totally ne
glecting the struggle in colony of
the U. S. empire, without that ex-
cIISa
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"Theory Is Our Guide
to Action!"
In approach must be patient and stubb0n but
in field of revolutionary theory must be inolerant
against every deviation, every effort to revise
Marxism- Lennism."

speech at the mass meeting
of the Tenth Anniversary Cele-
bration of the Workers School,
New York, Dec. 8, 1897
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-24
APPROACHING
DECISIVE STRUGGLES

As our class struggle develops,
we more and more need the Work
ers' School. We more and more
need to sharpen these weapons, be-
cause we are rapidly approaching
the time when the struggles in
which we are engaged are taking
on more and more decisive as
pect, becoming more and more
serious, more widespread, involving
greater masses. We are coming
closer to the days of decisive strug-
gle, when through these instru-
ments that we are forging In the
Workers School and in the class
struggles led by our Party, we will
begin the transformation of society
to Communism which is inaugu-
rated with the seizure of power.
by the establishment of the Prole-
tartan Dictatorship. This historical
moment is coming Al the United
States just as inevitably as it came
in the Soviet Union.
We celebrate the Tenth Ami
versary of the Workers School be-
cause 1T has become one of the
essential instruments for the prep
aration and the carrying through
OF the proletarian revolution in
the United States.
tComrade OIgin's speech, re-
ferred to by Comrade Browder.
will appear in an early issue OF
the "Daily.")
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-04-07
Sugar and Insanity in
Bond of Relationship

There is relation between sugar
and melancholy.
investigations reported by Or. p. K.
MCGOWAN in the British Medical Jonr
nal, Lancet. show that in certain tvpes
OF insanity the amount of blood sugar
above the normal is closely associated
with the depth OF the depression.
Doctor MCGOWAN has devised tech
nique for measuring the .hyperglycae-
ic index" as measure of abnormal
blood content and believes that II has
some diagnostic value. Thus ma
tient who apparently had recovered
from a depression would not be re-
leased while the blood sugar remained
too high. In insane states character
lied by extreme excitement, he found
there is little abnormality in this re-
snect.
sometimes depressed patient will
be found, he reported. who has \ low
blood sugar index. This Is a bad sign
and greatly diminishes the likelihood
OF recovery
The sugar increase In depression.
he says, Is a secondary phenomenon
incidental to body changes that ac-
company emotion.
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Camp Fire

The Camp Fire Girls had their party
Saturday at the home of Mrs. Vogt.
Reports were given as follows.
Betty Riley reported on 1.-THE Ranks
in Camp Fire" Margaret Redfield on
The Ideals of Camp Fire Marie Ku-
Java on How to get into Camp Fire, 9
Helen Martin on Camp Sweylocan, .
and Mary Stevens gave book re-
port on, THE Pioneer Girl Of Ken
lucky -.
The Camp Fire Girls all gave the
law of the Camp Fire. Different arti-
cles were on display which had been
made by the members. Dainty favors
were given. The meeting ended with a
tea.
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C. DeSousley of Kalispell came over
to Libby Saturday evening.
P ]. Friesinger of Troy was bust
ness visitor in Libby Tuesday.
Miss Marian Noble and friend OF
Troy were visitors in Libby Tuesday.
John Franklin was a patient in the
Libby hospital few days during the
week.
Mr.. and Mrs John Rubard are the
parents of baby girl, born Sunday,
the 3rd.
Mrs. R. w. Smithberger and Mrs.
NJ. K. Kedzie spent the weekend in
Spokane.
John H. Mccarthy of Stonehill was
transacting business in the city the
first of the week
D. o. Mount, accompanied by his
mother arrived home from California
Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. George Vogt are spend
ing the spring vacation with MI
Vogt's parents at Hamilton.
Mrs. William Deissner came up from
Standpoint, Ida, Saturday to spend
a week visiting here with Mr.. Deissner.
Miss Isabel McGrade is in Spokane
this week attending the annual meet
ing of the Inland Empire Education
association
Julian Webb Graham of Troy and
Ruth Tana Graves of Plains were mar
RED in Libby last Thursday by the
Rev r. F. Wick of the Methodist
church, the ceremony being performed
at the parsonage. The young couple
were accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs. ].
r. Toothacker of Troy, who acted as
witnesses for them
Some time ago the county commits
sioners of Flathead county decided to
dispense with the services of the coun-
ty agent county nurse. demonstration
agent and county fair, in program
of economy. Some protested and the
newspapers conducted straw vote,
with te result that the citizens voted
to sustain the commissioners by four
to one vote-l067 for, to 1853 against
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H0nored with Birthday Party.

Friends to the number of sixteen
gathered at the home of Mr.. and MI !.
Lloyd Williamson Saturday night IN
honor Of Mr.. Williamson's birthday.
The evening was spent playing pi-
nochle, four tables being in play. High
score honors were won by Mrs Ell
mer WOLF and Harold Miller while
Mrs. A. N. Richard and Paul Church
won the consolation prizes. Serving Of
a dainty lunch closed most enjoy
able evening.
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Ross Leavitt was week end visitor
IN Spokane
Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Barrett were
Warland visitors Tuesday.
\
A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs Earl McCrory on Sunday, April 8.
Herbert Smith had dislocated wrist
reduced at the Libby hospital Tues
day.
Miss Jessie Staudacher and mother
left Tuesday for few days in Spo-
Kane
Charles Martin of Rexford under
went an operation at Libby hospital
Monday
Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Madison are
the parents of son, born at the Libby
hospital Friday.
Jack Hughes left Friday for Occur
dAlene, Ida, with his little daughter
who had been visiting him here.
Three year decorating course rs
years experience interior and exterior
decorating. Colors to match.-F. B.
Stowell II
Supt A. A. Wood left yesterday for
Spokane to attend the annual conven-
ton of the Inland Empire Education
association.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas Luscher and
baby returned to Libby last week aft
ter having visited with Mr.. Luscher's
parents in Canada
VIM Dedrick and family moved out
Wednesday to the fish hatchery where
he will resume work for the season.
He was employed there last fall.
County Commissioners Millegan of
Eureka and Monio of Troy were in
the city the first Of the week attend
ing the regular monthly meeting of the
board Of county commissioners.
Howard Olson, Dick Delzer and Carl
Bessey rode out to the West Fisher
last Friday with the Art Polette mail
stage and then hiked and snowshoed
some 10 or IL miles into the cabins
on Howard lake, where they planned
to spend the weekend on an outing in
the top of the mountains
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-04-07
Worlds Clearing House
for Dealings in Ivory

A sight that can be matched no.
where on earth is frequently seen in
one of the big warehouses of the Lon
don docks. On what is known as the
ivory floor of this warehouse some
times no fewer than 10000 tusks OF
elephants and other animals. among
them lao tusks of prehistoric mann
moths, some estimated to be nearly
10000 years old.
Every three months, when auctions
are held, more ivory than is collected
at any other place in the world is
brought to this warehouse and buyers
from the United States and Europe
come TO bid for It,
The largest Of the mammoth's tusks
measures IA feet from tip to tip, is
curved like the horns of some enor-
nous paleozoic ram and is worth $3.50
a hundredweight. These ice-preserved
fusks are found In the semi-arctic re-
gions of Siberia and more than ten
tons year arrive in this worlds clear
Ing house for ivory. In Siberia men
dig for these tusks as they dig for
gold In other parts of the world.
Some Of these great pieces OF ivory
are beautiful and wonderfully pre-
served, while others look like pieces
OF fossilized wood. The ivory. except
for the exterior diseoloration. is as
sound as If It had been taken of an
animal few weeks ago.
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l.. E.. KensIer Is a Candidate.

Leslie c. Kensler of Troy has an
nounced his candidacy for the republic
can nomination for the office of coun-
ty commissioner from the Troy dis
trict Kensler has been resident Of
the Troy district for the past 20 years,
and has been engaged in business and
farming. He was formerly engaged in
the garage business in Troy. He sow
operates ranch on the Bull Lake
road
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-04-07
End of Series Party.

The members of the Mid-week Bridge
Club and their husbands were enter
tanned by Mr.. and Mrs. ]. F. McCully
Wednesday evening at an end of the
series party, at which everyone reports
a most enjoyable time. Six tables
bridge were in play with Mr.. and Mrs.
Bernard Schlumm winning the high
score prizes and Mrs Clough and Mr..
Dan Rayome the consolation tokens.
Delicious refreshments were served
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-04-07
Ended Negro Slavery

The negroes in the British West In
dies were granted their freedom in
1883. France granted freedom in It's
possessions in the West Indies in 1S4S,
and Holland in 1859. These were by
legislation and not by force Of armies
or revolt.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-04-07
''IHadto Take Some
Kind of a LaxafiUe
Everyday, He Says

This new Sargor
treatment brought me
the frst and only re-
lief ! ever got for
stomach trouble and
constipation { hat l
suffere cd with for
twenty years. i had
to take some kind OF
purgative nearly ev-
cry night
-Four b titles OF
Sargon made me feel
like q new man. I now
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ST. Johns Lutheran Church.
THE Friendly Church"

Sunday, April 10th, II a. m.
Divine service. English language.
Holy Communion will be celebrated
Preparatory service, 1890 a. m. Sun
day school, $50 a. m
Those wishing to partake of Com
munion may make announcement al
the parsonage on Friday, either in the
afternoon or evening.
If you have no church affiliations
you are invited to worship with usl
H. L PFOTENHAUER, Pastor
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want to thank my friends for the
support they gave in the last City cleo
ton, although ! was defeated, and
will say have always stood for a
clean town, and | sincerely hope the
change the people have seen fit to
make means a cleaner town.
J. w. HAIGLER
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petite and the Pills regulated me thor
oughly. am now IN better shape ply
Sically than I have been in twenty
ycars.~-Myron P. Harwood- 10 Lenox.
Rochester. N. Y.
What Sargon did for Mr.. HArwood II
nAs done for many Thousands OF other
grateful men and women throughout
America. No wonder 1t II called the
medicine with = million friendsl
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-04-07
Notice OF Annual Meeting.

The annual meeting Of the Cemetery
Association will be held at the City
Hall Tuesday evening, April IL. All
persons interested in the cemetery are
requested to attend.
43-44 A. X. FLEETWOOD, Secy.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-04-07
Mockinr Bird Initiative

Tie biological survey says that
mockIng birds song is both natural
and initiative. 1t has good song OF
its own, but 1t lis such an incessanr
mimic that II would rather initiate
than sing It's own song.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-04-07
Church OF God.

Sunday school 10 a. m. Preaching
service IL a. m. Young Peoples meet
ing D. m. Preaching p m.
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening
1880
You are welcome to attend these
services.
REV. FRED DECKER, Pastor.
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NOTICE

DR.. F. H. Keller of Kalispell, spec
ialist in fitting glasses and treating
cross eyes, may be consulted on Fri
day, April 9th. Make appointments at
Libby Hotel. One day only 4244
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Christian Science Church.

The subject for the Lesson Sermon
Sunday, April 10, will be Are Sin,
Disease, and Death Real?7
Wednesday evening meeting at 500
o'clock.
Sunday school at 9:45 a. m.
The public is cordially invited to all
If these services.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-04-07
Then Came Hollywood

The settled frontier of the United
States in 1880 was only halfway across
the continent at independence, Mo. its
farthest point from the Atlantic