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The daily worker., 1932-11-05
LETTER TO THE MEMBERS or
THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE

Con1radeSl
I am writing these lines on the eve
ming of the 9Th. The situation Is
eextremely critical 1t is as clear as
can be that delaying the uprising
now really means death.
With all my power wish to per-
suade the comrades that now every
thing hangs on hair, that on the
order Of the day are questions that
are not solved by conferences, by con-
crosses (even by Congresses Of So
viets), but only by the people, by
the masses, by the struggle of arm
ed masses.
The bourgeois onslaught Of the
KorniloviStS, the removal of Kerk-
hoVsky show that we must not wait.
We must at any price, this evening,
tonight, arrest the Ministers, having
disarmed defeated if they offer re-
sistance) the military cadets, etc.
We must not wait! We may lose
everythingl
The immediate gain from the seix-
ure of power at present is: defense
Of the people (not the congress, but
the people, in the first place, the
army and the peasants) against the
KorniloviSt government which has
driven out Verkhovsky and has
Matched a second Kornilov plot.
Who should seize power?
At present this Is not important.
Let the Military Revolutionary Com
nlittee seize 1t, or some other in
stitution" which declares that it will
relinquish the power only to the
real representatives Of the interests
Of the people, the interests Of the
Army Immediate offer Of peace), the
interests Of the peasants (take the
land Immediately, abolish private
property, the interests Of the hun
CRY.
1t Is necessary that all the bor-
oughs, all regiments, all forces should
be modified and should inlmedi-
ately send delegations to the Military
Revolutionary Committee, to the
Central Committee of the Bolsheviks,
insistently demanding that under no
circumstances is power to be left in
the hands Of Kerensky and Co. un-
til the 7th, by~ne. means!-but that
the matter must absolutely be de-
ctded this evening or tonight.
History will not forgive delay by
revolutionistS who could be Hctori-
GUS today (and will surely be vic
torious today, while they risk los
ing much tomorrow, they risk losing
all.
II we seize power today, we seize
1t not against the Soviets but for
them.
Seizure Of power is the point Of
the uprising; its political task will
be clarified after the seizure.
1t would be a disaster or Journalism
to wait for the uncertain voting of
Nov. 7. The people have a right and
duty to decide such questions not
by voting but by force; the people
have a right and duty in critical
moments Of a revolution to give di-
rections to their representatives. even
their best representatives, and not to
wait for them.
This has been proven by the his
tory Of all revolutions, and the crime
of revolutionists would be nmitless
II they let go the proper moment,
knowing that upon them depends the
wing of the revolution, the offer of
peace, the saving of Petrograd, the
saving from starvation, the transfer
of the land to the peasants.
The government is tottering. We
must deal it the death blow at any
cost.
To delay action is the same as
Written November 6, 1917.
daof1
The daily worker., 1932-11-05
BY NAT ROSS.

oy NAL AAOS6s
IN THE South, the impoverished
] both white and Negro (and es-
pecial1y the later) are denied the
most elementary democratic rights.
1t is therefore necessary in order
to build a really powerful mass
movement against the ruling class
to make a sharp fight for the A.
B. G. rights of the Southern toilers.
SOME MISTAKEN IDEAS
In this brief article I want to
deal with one small part of this
question, namely, the recent fight
for free speech (ald assembly, in
Birmingham. First, we must men
ton a fesa wrong ideas held by
come comrades which had to be
overcome before and during this
struggle II we were to have any
success.
Some comrades said we could
not come out in the open because
the ruling class was too strong and
united, with the Democratic Party
in full control. They said we were
too weak and the workers would
be afraid to make the, fight. Quick
developments soon proved that this
was wrong. At the same time it
should be mentioned right here
that Of the dozen arrests in Bir-
mingham in August and September
every one, including new workers
including some who were badly
beaten, came out with a more de-
terf1ined spirit than ever.
2.-Other comrades said that the
Party will be illigal before the Re-
volution anyway so we might as
well get used to underground work
and stay where we are now.
3.-There was also the remark
that the fight for democratic RIGHTS
is a liberal fight and not a revolu-
tionary one.
4.-And finally we had some bold
comrades who wanted to break out
In the open on all fronts in Bir-
n1ingham "all at once" These are
the same comrades who don't ask
for permits when it is necessary.
who want downtown demonstrations
when there is no organizational
base in the neighborhoods or shops.
These same comrades are the ones
who think CONSULTATIVE work is
''cowardly," and do not see that
conspiratiye work, small committee
meetings, tight organizational
forms, secret inner meetings etc,
are necessary precisely to develop
the mass fight for legality.
The moving of the Southern Dis
trict of the International Labor De-
fense from Chattanooga to a down.
town office in Birmingham and the
calling of the All-Southern Con-
ference for Civil and Political Rights
on october 2, at the big Colored
Masonic Temple was the first shot
in the fight, and was to be followed
on October 8, with the Communist
election rally with Foster speaking
at the popular Lyric Theatre. The
All-Southern Conference was called
to plan action in the fight for free
speech, against he barbarous
Southern prison methods, for
Scottsboro freedom and for Negro
rights, for the right to vote without
payment Of poll tax.
THE BOSSES PREPARE A
DRIVE
The Birmingham ruling class led
by the Tennessee Coal and Iron
company United States SteeD be-
came enraged. The demands Of the
conference found warm reaction
In the bitter hearts OF the oppressed
Southern people. The I. L. d. was
calling on the white workers TO
come to the front in the fight for
Negro rights. The struggle for
The daily worker., 1932-11-05
An Epic of Socialist
Construction

HNIEPROSTROI is which all the world knows Scores
of correspondents bourgeois well proetarian have
described the wonders of this great enterprise and recorded
the gigantic dimensions of the plan which to make this the
most powerful hydroeecc station in the world Some bour
o correspondents tried when the greater part of the enter
prise still existed only in the form of plans to by
ent could not be realized But bourgeois arguments
stand against Boshevk deeds After three of
ceaseess effort Dnieprosroi is living reality. The turbines
The daily worker., 1932-11-05
EDITORS NOTE

The Communist Party has not
endorsed in any form Jacob Pan
ken or any other Socialist candi-
date. 1t Is emphatically opposed to
Panken and to the entire Socialist
ticket and Socialist Party. The
statement of Panken could only be
q. piece Of trickery comparable to
the Parliamentary tricks OF Republic
cans and Democrats, in whose foot
steps the Socialist Party is following
and whose parliamentary wis
dom 1t has fully imbibed.
The daily worker., 1932-11-05
A PLEA FOR AID

Ramsey pursed his lips and
stared at his fields naked in the
winters day.
The daily worker., 1932-11-05

laboration with the Workers Music
League. Workers Library Publish
ers. Is cents.
Reviewed by EDWIN ROLFE
THIS collection of revolutionary
songs-26 of them, all set to
nusic--marks definite accomplish
ment in a much neglected field OF
workers cultural activity. Since the
days of Joe Hill during the time Of
the militant T. w. W., who wrote his
words to fit the music of current pop
ular tunes, no effort has been spent
in the writing and composition of
new workers songs; and very little
effort has been made, despite casual
attempts now and then, to collect
scattered pieces.
Red Song Book" therefore, comes
none too soon, in an attractive formal
made to fit the pocket of the worker
both in price and in size. Its very
publication marks progress. More inn
portant, however, is the progress in
dicated in the type of songs included.
Instead of the old hobo, lumpen-pro-
letarian songs which made up the
bulk of the /. w. w. collections, the
Red Song Book" reveals a greater
ass-consciousness in its choice of
material, a clarity which has been
fostered by the historical develop
lnents in the United States during
the past fifteen years.
There are, of course, the songs
which are sung throughout the world,
songs which are an intimate part OF
the revolutionary movement. "The
Internationale," THE Barricades,"
Red Cavalry" Red Army March,"
Solidarity" and many others COM
prise this section of the book. And in
addition to these, we have for the
first time two songs composed by
Americans: Red Brigader' by Jacob
Schaefer, and Stand Guard" by
Lain Adohmyan The inclusion of
"Comintern" by the foremost prole-
tartan composer in the world, Hans
Eisler of Germany, testif1es to the
broad scope covered by this collection.
Finally, but most significant of all,
we must stress the inclusion of songs
Writtens by workers and workers
groups in the midst OF specific strug-
giles. John Reed, long ago, in his
book ''Insurgent Mexico, described
the manner in which the peasants
composed their songs, improvising
the words and music during their few
and far-between periods of rest.
These songs usually found their way
into illustrated. printed sheets (sifn-
liar to our Leaflets and we're distrib-
uted by the thousands Finally they
became woven into the revolutionary
tradition of the country, and exist
today as part of the history of the
peasants struggle for land during
that phase of Mexico's revolutionary
development.
In Red Song Book" there are such
pieces as Miners Flux,' Miners
Song the Soup Song, written by
unemployed workers in Detroit in the
heat of their struggles against evic-
ticns and starvation There are Poor
Miners Farewell" by Aunt Mollie
Jackson. and the 81 L. D. Song by
Ella May Virgins, and several others
that originated in The midst Of
strikes, unemployed struggles demon
strations. etc. These are our songs
IN the fullest sense. Written not
from above, for workers, but coming
from the ranks of the workers them
selves during their own battles, they
too will become, as they grow more
popular, pages Of American class.
struggle history.
The daily worker., 1932-11-05

carry out the jinl-croW terror pol
icy of the ruling class, while the
Communist Party is the only Party
which was fighting for free speech
and was carrying on in practice
the Fourth plank of its national
election demands. Most import
ant, however, the Conference and
meeting we're not smashed and the
murder plans of the police and K.
XXX. came to naught because of
the tremendous mass response of
the Birmingham workers at both
the meeting and the Conference.
MISTAKES
IN THE WORK
In all of this activity a number
of serious mistakes were made.
First and foremost, inadequate
building of the Party during this
activities and in particular failure
to make contact with the workers
at the Conference and meeting
(partly due to police conditions).
Secondly, we did not place suffi-
cient emphasis on winning the
white workers for this struggle. We
didn't clearly see that at the par
ticular moment the key to winning
the white workers for the struggle
for democratic rights, which in
cludes primarily the struggle for
equal rights for Negroes, was by
developing relief activities among
the unemployed in the blocks and
building our widespread shop con-
tact into committees of struggle
against wage cuts, and tying this
up with the whole struggle for dem
ocratic rights.
AFTER the success in the fight
RI for free speech it becomes
necessary to raise this struggle on
q higher plan. The lid must be-
come the main instrument in the
struggle for the LEGALITY of the revo-
lutionary movement in Birming-
ham and in the South. 1t must
become a truly mass organization
including in its ranks, not only
Communists and sympathizers, but
also revolutionary workers and
middle class elements of all poll
tical and religious faiths and even
certain liberal elements who ac-
cent its minimum program. Mass
defense struggles can be led with
such elements, provided the Party
gives close guidance. In the South
IN particular the LID must become
more sensitive to the daily attacks
on Negroes and to the ever -increas-
ing terror against all workers in the
South.
NEXT STEPS
The fight for free speech must
be sharpened in preparation for the
local struggles for relief and for the
March to Washington in Decem-
Der with a column coming thru
The south from New Orleans. IN
its recent struggles the Birming-
ham Party organization has gone
through the first process or Boil
shevi2ation. No police or fascist
terror can smash the solid ranks
Of the Party in Birmingham But
bigger and fiercer battles are at
hand. 1t will be necessary to take
the streets and break down the
jim-crow policy enforced by the
police at the conference and the
election rally. 1t is necessary to
build more determined party of
Negro and white workers firmly
leading the down-trodden and poor
workers and farmers of the South
against hunger and for the re-
lease of the Scottsboro boys. For
free speech and the right to vote
and for a large vote for Foster and
Ford on November 8thi
The daily worker., 1932-11-05
Red Song Book Is Out;
Music and Words
for Workers !

RED SONG BOOK, prepared in coll
laboration with the Workers Music
League. Workers Library Publish
ers. Is cents,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-08-22
BULLS AGAIN TAKE
CHARGEOF MARKET
AND STOCKS BOOM
List Throws Off Reactionary
Tendencies and Many
Issues Go Higher

New York, Aug. 22.-(P)-Another
roaring bull market in stocks develop
ed Monday as the list threw off its
reactionary tendencies of last week.
A short-squeeze developed in the last
hour, which carried a number of is
sues up 3 to considerably more than
points, to new peak levels for the
summer recovery. The closing tone
was strong. Transfers were around
100000 shares.
Traders were encouraged by the
drying up of selling late last week
and the cheerful tenor of weekend
trade surveys. Bull forces succeed
ed in getting the list back to within
striking distance of the peak levels of
the recovery, touched nearly a fort
night ago. Advances of l to 4 points
appeared throughout the list in
moderately active trading.
Issues up to points included
Union Pacific, Santa Fe, Norfolk g.
Western. New Haven, Atlantic Coast
line, Chicago & Northwestern, U. S.
Steel, youngstown Sheet g. Tube, AL
lied Chemical, DUPONT, American
Can, American Telephone, American
Tobacco "B,' United Fruit, Liggett g.
Myers "B," Eastman, Johns Manville,
and others. General Electric, Gen.
eral Foods, Bethlehem, National Bis
cult, and wide assortment of rails,
utilities, foods. merchandising issues,
and specialties, gained a point or
more.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-08-22
Livestock
so. ST. PAUL LIVESTOCK

81. 81. FAUL LlVESIOCh
South st. Paul, Aug 22.-(P)-U.
8. Dep. Agr.)-Cattle 1900; opening
very slow; general undertone weak to
lower on most slaughter classes; three
cars choice heavy steers held around
$50; yearlings 1875: bulk grassy
steers 4.00-5.75; few better westerns
600 early; she stock largely palmer
grades cows 225-3.50; better westerns
held above 400; heifers 300-450; bulk
all cutters 1.25-2.50; medium grade
bulls mostly ESQ down; feeders and
stockers steady to Is lower; bulk SAL
able 3.50-4.75; better western to 500
and above.
Calves 1900; vealers around so low
er; bulk 3.00-5.50.
Hogs $500; moderately active;
mostly 10 lower than Friday; better
160 to $50 lbs. 400 to 4.40; top 4.40
for sorted 100 to 200 lbs; $50 to $50
lbs. $50 to 400: fancy 467 Id. weights
$50; desirable pigs and light lights
largely 400 to AIS; plain kinds down
to 800; bulk light and medium pack
ing sows 3.25 to $50; heavyweights
down to 500 and below; average cost
Saturday 3.84; weight 239.
Sheep 5000; supply includes rs cars
western lambs including IL cars held
over from Saturday and five cars
western ewes; early bids Is lower on
slaughter lambs or 500 down on best
natives: sellers holding best lambs
above $50.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-08-22
Iribut1e's Grain, Livestock and
Market Report for M0r., Auq 20
TRADE in CHICAGO
GRAIN PIT LACS AS
TRADE IS CAUTIOUS
Try to AnaIyze
Probable Effects of New
British Tariff

Chicago, Aug. 22.-(F)-G.ain trad.
crs were standing by" Monday, watt
ing to see how the results of the en-
pire trade conference at Ottawa
would affect United States markets.
Announcement that all wheat not
grown in the British colonies would
be taxed cents bushel brought
trade in Chicago almost to a stand
still and operators tried to analyze
the effects of the tariff on future
dealings Of the United States with
the worlds biggest market for wheat,
the United Kingdom.
The surplus of wheat afloat for
Europe decreased $4,000 bushels last
week and now total 23,552,000 COM
pared with 47,872,000 year ago. but
this was ignored and trade Jagged.
Wheat closed fairly strong at as-3s
higher than Saturday finish, Sept.
(ol6 50%-ls. new SOS; Dec. 54-
54b; May 50Ss-a.
Corn steady to u lower, Sept. 303s =
"; Dec. 32A: May 36A; Oats ia
higher, and provisions mixed, 3 cents
lower to 5 cents higher.
Traders conferred attention chiefly
on the British empire agreement. In
certainty and doubt prevailed, espe-
cially in the wheat pit, and trading
Jagged as operators sought to ana
lyze the situation. Some market
leaders feared possibility of a further
outbreak of tariff warfare between
this country and the British empire.
Quotations ranged fraction q lily
higher on all grains but for long min
utes the pit was quiet, in contrast
with the usual feverish activity. Big
traders were SO uncertain as to mar
ket movement that they quickly COW
cred all commitments and appeared
to be standing by" waiting develop
ments. Corn and oats we're also az
fected by the unsettling announce
ment and followed wheat closely.
Provisions were steady.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-08-22

Duluth. Mimi. Aug. 22.-iP)-Clos-
ing cash prices: Wheat, No. l dark
northern 81 Sd to 81 3-4; No. 2 do.
So ga to 66 3-4; No. 3 do. so 3-4 to
81 ga; No. northern 81 ga to 81
3-4; No. do. SO 3-4 to 6S 3-4; No. 1
amber durum ~ So to 50 5-8: No. 2
do. 46 SO to SO So; No. durum
As SD to 48 So; No. 2 do. 43 So to
As 5-8; No. mixed durum ~ SD to
So SD; No. 2 do. Al SD to So So;
No. l red durum AZ 5-8.
Flax on track 1.02 to 1.O4 1-2: to
arrive 1.0l Ia to 1.02; Sept. 101 10;
Oct. l. OF IA; Nov. 1.O2 10; Dec. l.O2.
Oats, No. white II 7-8.
No. rye 81 IA.
Barley, mating 26 3-8 to % 3-8;
SPECIAL No. 2, Is 3-S to 26 3-8; No. 3,
20 7-8 to rs 3-8; lower grades 81 3-8
to % 3-8.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-08-22
BISMARCK GRAIN
FURNISHED by Russell Miller Co. J
Produce Markets
CHICAGO PRODUCE

Chicago. Aug. 22.-P)--Eggs were
steady, prices unchanged. Butter was
easy, prices unchanged to ID cent
lower. Poultry was steady.
Butter, 1855. easy; creamery spe-
Gals (93 score) 1872 -19; extras 1927
10; extra firsts (9019D 17-17k; firsts
$500 1864; seconds (86-8O IS
151s; standards centralized carlots)
IL.
Eggs. 1850, easy; extra firsts car.
loads 18-10h; local II; fresh graded
firsts carloads 171s; local 1919; cur
rent receipts 12-15h.
Cheese per pound: Twins 1890;
Daisies lac; Long Horns 14c; young
Americas lac; Swiss domestic 1890;
imported 36-37c.
Poultry live, car, % trucks;
steady; hens Is, leghorn hens IL;
colored broilers and fryers 10; color
ed springs ID; ROSTERS 10; turkeys
10 to IL; spring ducks 10 to IL 10:
old 10 to IL; geese 10 to II; leghorn
broilers II IL.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-08-22
Farm Youth Injured
In Fall from Horse

Towner, N. D., Aug. 22.-(F- Milo
Hardie, %, son Of the chairman Of
the board Of county commissioners Of
McHenry county, Is in serious con-
dition in a Rugby hospital as the re-
suit Of having been thrown from Q
horse Monday morning.
Hardie was on his way home from
Towner when the accident occurred.
The horse jumped and Hardie was
thrown to the ground. His skull was
fractured by the fall.
Hardie resided with his father on .
ranch IL miles from Towner.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-08-22
MINNEAPOLIS FUTURES
CLOSE SHADE HIGHER

Minneapolis, Aug. 22.-(P)-News Of
the day was pretty we'll balanced and
wheat futures closed a shade higher.
There were liberal spring wheat re-
ceipts in Minneapolis and Winnipeg
which were offset by weekly statistics
that were quite bullish. Reports from
Europe were that rust was worse
again and world shipments last week
proved to be the smallest in years.
Coarse grain futures followed wheat.
September. December, and May
wheat closed sc higher. September
oats closed unchanged. with Deem
Der unchanged to &c lower. Septem-
Der rye was unchanged and December
Ac higher. September barley closed
the session unchanged and December
&c lower. September and December
flax showed a gain of one cent.
Cash wheat demand is still force
full but some of the chief buyers dis
eliminated slightly against the low
err protein quality at diversion points.
Durum was unchanged and in good
demand. Winter wheat was in fair to
good demand and firm.
Cash corn was in slow demand and
weaker. Oats demand was quiet to
fair. Rye demand was fair to good.
Barley demand was fair to good. Flax
demand was very good.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-08-22
New Wholesale House
Will Open in Min0t

Minot, N. D., Aug. 22.-(P)-Open-
ing in Minot of wholesale grocery
branch of GriggsC Cooper and COM
pany, st. Paul, Mimi, manufacture
ing wholesale grocers, was announced
Monday.
Managing the Minot branch will be
Fred F. Werstlein, of Grand Forks,
who has been connected with the
Griggs-Cooper concern for the last
nine years, part of the time as a
travelling representative and the re-
mainder in the st. Paul offices.
Werstlein expects the Minot branch
will be ready to open about Sept. S,
only three days after the company
will observe the golden anniversary OF
it's founding.
A territory from Devils Lake on the
east to Havre, Mont, on the west, is
to be served by the Minot branch, the
first opened by the firm in this state.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-08-22
SIOUX CITY

Sioux City. Iowa. Aug. 22.-(AP-
U. g. D. A)-Cattle $500; fed steers
and yearlings about steady: she stock
steady to IS lower; stockers and feed
ers dull: early sales as off; many bids
IS to so lower: few choice yearlings
$50; plain short feds and grassy
kinds 600 down; fed heifers up to
7.:e; carly bulk cows ZOO to 500; low
cutters and cutters 1856 to lbs; two
loads fleshy 1900 lbs. steers to deal
ers 7.25; choice lighter feeders GAO;
numerous loads eligible around 400
to $50.
Hogs 1000: mostly IS to Is lower
than Friday; top AIS on choice 246 lb.
butchers; bulk 100 to $50 lb. weights
400 to 40: other weights practically
absent; packing sows 3.25 to 800.
Sheep 5000: no early sales lambs;
other classes steady: packers bidding
500 down for best slaughter offerings
rs to so lower: one load So ID. Wyom-
ing feeding lambs $50.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-08-22
Z. o N T l N U E ID
from page one
Would Use Troops
To Assist Farmers

Monday at meeting of distributors
and producers.
Leaders hope a contract contain
ing the provisions temporarily adopt
ed Friday would be signed by the
farm leaders who originally asked
$2.17 a hundredweight for raw milk
with 3.5 butterfat content but who
have indicated they will accept $l90.
Whether the $1.80 figure will be &C
ceptable to the farmers not belong
ing to the Sioux City Milk Producers
association was problematical a S
some leaders protested they would
not sell their milk for less than SILT.
Meanwhile, Mayor w o. Hayes of
Sioux City issued a statement asking
a conference of governors of the
states involved to consider the farm
strike situation, saying the "situa-
ton transcends any question of mere
ly local interest"