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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-15
Shielding Treasury Raids

pY MUTUAL agreement between
Democrats of the affairs of the Recon-
uon Finance Corporation the
the ruling parties the Republican
the Democratic Party implicated in the pagng Of the
United States treasury capitalists
unemployed hungry Masses they this
come to light.
Enough oOng of
the treasury the short history of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
the whole
system.
corporation
Chicago banking This $sOOooooo
that then set aside for the whole farming population of the
railroads benehciaries of this corporation the
avagely
received SoOOo the Milwaukee road got S0ooo other Dads OBJ
totang did
the half billion dollars continued handing out
,on run L treasury ~ 49, ~ "u siat % at ~ 49,
than billion dollars in three months time
And o to
employed to aid impoverished farmer Instead
ing there cent tax gasoline postage has increased to three
for ordinary letter. the federal
tinuing
typical whole Green president A of
that time when effort being by the politicians
plagng
forth in attempt wewsh the whole Reconstruction Finance Cor
porahon swinde Said Green the Atlantic City session the
people might
directly from the of the corporation with the banks
unemployment for umploy-
ment and social insurance employ
savage aagns movements the ue
down The high
government
Labor officials like
be blow the right
capitalists through their carry
out conspiracy to page the treasury they continue
dividends and presidents
bank officials but
grading
hypocrisy against thievery and farm
their stop
trusts and banks force appropriations for unemployment
In connection with the mighty struggles against
in connection with the August First
ment that gives billions to the rich while starving the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-15
"Let the Reader
Know MY Mistake"

So I thought thirteen years ago
and was mistaken. This page of
my "reminiscences should be torn
out. But what has been written
by the pen cannot be cut down by
the axe; and I'VE learn by our
mistakes" as v. Ilyitch often re-
peated. Let the reader know my
mistake. 1t will have done some
good If :; serves as a warning to
those who are inclined to draw
hasty conclusions. OF course after
a series Of cases Of the most dis.
spicable sabotaging by number Of
specialists, I had no alternative but
to change my attitude to the SCI
entific and technical professionals.
Such changes cost something-es-
pecially in old age. The duty of
true-hearted leaders Of the people
is superhumanly difficult. A leader
who is not in one degree or other
tyrant, is impossible. More peo-
pie, probably, were killed under
Lenin than under Thomas Munzer;
but without this, resistance to the
revolution of which Lenin was the
leader would have been more wide
ly and more powerfully organized.
In addition to this we must take
into account the fact that with the
development Of civilization the val
ue Of human life manifestly depre-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-15
A Fascist Hero

cAVATORE ARENA of the the
who killed 4th
onis ambassador ourneyed Washington
the
COUNSEL general New
of police
another fascist funeral is
This alliance
Msso who prominent in the fascisd
the police
try had long underworld and
Not
Hocega Bank hodup
Ayri 1924
Muon his fmkey in this country should glofy
hot the
tat light the character and activities of the Italian fascist
the United States which activity
csa that
the
murder Italy
The criminals through
the medium OF Doak department labor
deportation drive workers same
itahst hunger drive protects
IT, occasion Doaks
only pursuit of the policy of
ecting the big racketeer aiding
the smaller fry
fasci is being foered y
being prepared and carried out aaginst the working
The rank and file Italian should not
allow this without
nroade basis fight enling
organizations as the Sons OF Italy united
Mssohn henchmen should be
combined with hlmportant
workers rights and against all forms of capitalist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-15

tionaries within the trade unions
and mass organizations.
Urgent Tasks.
All these questions cannot be
solved by simply giving orders or
passing good resolutions. Definite
work must be done.
First, the Party down to the units
must assume the full responsibility
for the Daily Worker, seeing to it
that able comrades are elected for
the Daily Worker Committees un-
der the direct supervisor of the
District, Section and Unit Buros.
We must extend the Daily Worker
Committees in the localities with
non-Party workers.
Second, the trade unions and
mass organizations are to be drawn
nearer by involving them into di-
rect participation. Actives and
Press Committees are to be estab.
ished in all these organizations
and they must be closely connected
with the Daily Worker. Regular
meetings and discussions on the
content of the Daily Worker are
to be held.
Build Worker Correspondents.
The most important question is
to build the Worker Correspondents
A net of groups of worker CORE
spondents can be built up within
a short time, providing the Party,
trade unions and mass organiza-
tons will be brought nearer to the
Daily Worker and the Daily Worker
will begin to reflect all their strug-
giles.
A large Press Commission, COM
posed of all these actives and
worker correspondents for exam
lining and improving daily the con-
tent from the standpoint Of shop
conditions, trade unions, mass or
carnations and neighborhoods will
improve the Daily Worker. &
Through such method we will be
able to bring the Daily Worker to
the shop workers and the workers
to the Daily Worker. Then the
Daily Worker will become a mass
and popular paper of and by the
workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-15
Hoover's Wage Cutting Policy

Immediately raised in the daily
press Just what was meant by
Hoovers statement given to the
newspapers after the conference on
November 81, 1929? He said:
"The President is authorized to
announce that the employers will
not initiate any movement for wage
reduction and it is their strong
recommendation that this attitude
should be pursued by the country
as whole"
Former Secretary of Labor, James
j. Davis, who had been present at
the conference, Immediately ex-
planned for his chief, through the
press, that "the gentlemen's under
standing was only for a fixed per-
iod, but he could not recall how
long that period was to be-" al
though nothing had been stated
after the conference about any def
mite time limit on the agreement.
Wage Cutting Became General s
During the year Immediately fol-
lowing the White House conference,
an average reduction of ten per
cent for 81 manufacturing industries,
with 20 per cent drop in wages
of automobile workers, was reported
by the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statis-
tics. BY the end of 1881, wage cuts
had become practically universal,
the reductions ranging from ten
per cent to SIS per cent and more.
The sharpest cut recorded as taken
by any union was the reduction of
40 per cent to SIS per cent accepted
by the American Federation of Full
Fashioned Hosiery Workers, affil-
lated with the United Textile Work
ers and the American Federation of
Labor.
Three out of four of all concerns
in the leading fields of American
business cut wage rates during 1880
and 1881, according to a special
study of the National Industrial
Conference Board, and the reduc-
tons averaged 1879 per cent. The
survey covers lib concerns, en-
ploying 3,258,666 persons in 1929.
This report may be taken as con-
sentative statement of the cuts in
wage rates, and it does not include
any statement of the reduction in
the workers total earnings.
Seek Further Cuts
J cal payrolls of 80 manufacture
- industries dropped from an in
Tex of 104.8 in May, 1929, to 44.7
in April, 1882, according to the U.
S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In
other words, these industries are
now paying less than half the total
amounts paid to wage earners be-
fore the crisis; and the trend con-
tinues downward.
The employers and their econ
omic advisers, such as the Standard
Statistics Corporation, contend that
wages must be further Debated"
and interrupted propaganda for
more cuts enamates from sources
close to the White House. The
Democratic bosses are equally IA
vorable to wage cutting although
not SO open in their advocacy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-15
Fertile Field for
Hard Workers in
Election Campaign

We are now canvassing upstate
New York for signatures to put our
Party on the ballot. Everywhere we
have gone, in the Catskills. in the
Adirondacks, along the Hudson, in
farming territories, city slums, vaca-
ton resorts-we have found unem-
ployment, hunger, bankruptcy, hatred
and contempt for the boss govern
ment.
One socialist in Hudson who has
voted the socialist ticket for several
decades said that he was goin to
vote a straight Communist ticket for
the first time. We found many SYM
pathizers in out-of-the-way farms
and towns who read our literature.
But we also found many that never
ueard of us or heard nothing but
SANDER.
All this we found in the small pad
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-15
International
Notes
ALLEGED COMMUNIST
SENTENCED IN WARSAW

WARSAW, Poland.-A number Of
individuals, many of whom were
former officials and employees OF the
Polish Supreme Court, were tried in
Warsaw on charges of having con-
Quoted Communist activity and being
members Of the illegal Communist
Party.
The trial lasted over week. Ter
rible details were revealed OF the
brutal treatment accorded to the
accused while in prison.
One of them was sentenced to six
years of hard labor; two were con-
demned to four years and two more
to three years. Others we're acquitted.
PEASANTS REvOLTED AGAINST
FORCED AUCTION
BERLIN.-The whole peasant pop
ulation of Goebrichen, near Pforz-
helm, and the countryside modified
to protest against the attempt to
auction the chattel of peasant un-
able to pay his debts.
A large police force tried to clear
the crowd away but the indignation
Of the working population was so
high that the police had to be with
drawn. Seven arrests were made,
however.
In the evening the police entered
the village again, opening fire on the
population to break its resistance.
Five were wounded as result Of this.
The workers fought back the police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-15
Lenin's Youthful
Eagerness.

1t was the clearly expressed will
to live in him, his active hatred Of
LIES denominations, which attract
ed me to him. I loved the youthful
eagerness which he put into every
thing he did. His movements were
light and agile, and his rare but
powerful gestures we're in full laar-
mony with his speech, sparing as
1t was In words, in thought
Astounding; and on his slightly
Mongolian face glowed and SPAR
killed. the keen eyes of a tireless
fighter against the lies and sor-
rows of life,-now glowing and
burning, now screwed up, now
blinking, now ironically smiling,
now lashing with anger. The CLEAN
OF his eyes made his words more
glowing. Sometimes it seemed as If
the indomitable energy of his soul
flew out in sparks THROUGH his
eyes, and his words, shot through
and through with it, hung shining
in the air. Us words always gave
one the impression Of the physical
pressure Of an irresistible truth, 4
(To BE CONTYNUED1 -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-15

This article, prepared by La
Dor Research Association, Is a
factual review of the wage-cut-
ting program now SO widespread
in the United States and support
ed by the Republican and Demo-
cratic Parties. 1t is well to re-
member, while reading this ar
ticle, that Negro and foreign born
workers are even more affected
by this program than white ma
tive born workers. Plank in the
Communist Party Platform is
Against Hoover's wage cutting
policy and Plank is for "Un-
employment and Social Insurance
at the expense of the state and
employers.')
WHEN President Hoover, on June
" 80, 1882, signed the bill cutting
salaries of Federal employees by
8 1-3 per cent, he proved again that
his policy is one of wage cutting
and that he believes in throwing
the burden of the economic crisis
on the workers. On November 81,
1929, he and the nations Leading
induStriahSts, with American Fed
Grafton of Labor and Railroad
Brotherhood officials, entered into
"gentlemen's agreement" that there
should be no wage cutting during
the present situation" This agree
ment was openly broken in Sep
TENDER, 1881, without word of pro-
test from the White House, when
United States Steel Corp. and Beth
lehem Steel Corp, followed quickly
by other companies, announced a
ten per cent cut affecting all their,
employees.
Hoover Takes Lead
President Hoover himself has now
broken the agreement by requiring
Federal employees to take one
months forced vacation without
pay. He is personally credited with
pushing through this particular
measure, which was adopted, &C
cording to newspaper reports, "at
the insistence of the President"
This economy bill was amended
especially to include the lower paid
employees earning only 81 900 a year
or 1888 a months, although as first
proposed it provided exemption for
all those earning less than $4,000
a year. The reduction, as now put
through, affects about 100000 gov
eminent workers, whose average
wage is $1,441 a year. Moreoy~..,
under this new law, the worker Uses
his Is days annual vacatIn with
pay, as formerly provided, and thus
suffers a further rejection.
Not only hos President Hoover
uttered no word that would call a
halt in the general slashing of
wages, but he let it be known in
September, 1881, that he "has no
intention Of decrying or Directing
to the cuts that have been an
nounced." So clearly did the &C
ton OF the U. s. Steel Corp, in its
ten per cent wage cut. break the
promises made at the White House
conference that the question was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-15
with Lenin
BY MAXIM GORKY

ciateS, a fact which is clearly prov
ed BY the growth of contemporary ,
Europe of the technique of annihf-
lating people, sand the taste for)
doing SO.
challenge anyone to say frank
ly, how far he approves of, and
how far is he revolted by, the hypo.
crisy of the moralists who talk
about the bloodthirstiness of the
Russian Revolution when they not
only showed no pity for the people
who were exterminated during the
four years of the infamous Pam
European War, but by all possible
means famed the flame of this
abominable war to "the victorious
end. Today the civilized nations
are ruined, exhausted, decaying,
and vulgar petty bourgeois philis-
inism which is common to all races
reigns triumphant, there is no es-
cape from its halter and people are
being strangled to death.
Much has been said and written
about Lenin's cruelty. I have no
intention, of course, of doing any
thing so ridiculously tactless as to
defend him against lies and cali
umny. I know that lying and SLAM
dering is legitimate method in
petty bourgeois politics, usual
way of attacking an enemy. It
would be impossible to find a single
great man in the world today who
has not had some mud thrown at
him. This is known to everybody.
Besides this, there is tendency in
all people not only to reduce an
outstanding man to the level OF
their own comprehension, but to
roll him beneath their feet in the
viscid noisome mud which they
have created and call ~every day
life"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-15
For a Pobular>Mass Daily Worker

WThe Daily Worker must be made
Communist mass paper
through a radical change in and
through a radical change in and
improvement of its content. (Reso-
luton of the G.. c. Plenum.) Since
the Plenuln of the Central Com
mittee, the spokesman of our Party,
the Daily Worker, has changed.
An improvement in the content
of the Daily Worker from the
standpoint of a popular revolution
try paper is gradually being no.
ticed.
Those of us who have a little ex-
perience in shop work will agree
that the Daily Worker has ire
nendous Influence among the
workers. Why then is it that the
circulation of the Daily Worker
does not correspond with this in
fluence?
A few facts will answer the ques-
ton, showing that the Daily Worker
can increase its circulation and be-
come popular when we present in
details the living conditions of the
workers.
Increasing the Circulation.
The Daily Worker was not known
among the workers around the en-
ployment agencies in Sixth Ave. A
comrade was assigned to sell the
paper and was requested to write
articles about the conditions in the
agencies. The workers reading the
article on how the Gyp Agencies
mislead a worker with fake Job,
in an organized manner demanded
thereturn of the money. At pres
ent about 100 copies of the Daily
are being sold every day; at the
same time meetings and discussions
are being held about the Union and
the Daily Worker.
An article appeared on wage
cut in a certain factory; % copies
were sold.
One hundred and thirty-eight
copies were sold in one place on
account of the little cartoon of the
Understanding fight, June %.
Some workers complain that the
editorials and the fourth page
(Which has been improved recently)
cannot be understood without a
dictionary, that it is not written
in plain enough American Ian
guage, enabling the average Amer
lean worker to understand the po-
litical events which concern him
in his own language, in the way he
speaks, without too much philoso-
ply and too heavy theoretical
expressions.
What Worker Thinks Of the
Daily.
A worker from a plumbing shop
was asked: What is wrong with
the Daily Worker? The answer
was: TOO dry, too many hard
ships and misery; after work 1
want to read something that would
enable me to understand why 1
have SO many hardships and mis-
cry in my life"
How did you like the interview
by Ludwig with Stain? Every
good, splendid"
All these facts are not new, but
they are very important.
More and more popular articles
by the workers from the shops,
trade unions and mass organiza-
lions which reflect the life and
struggles of the workers, will make
the Daily Worker real mass
paper.
This can be achieved only then,
when our paper gets closer to the
masses. How can we achieve this
task?
THE struggle against American
Imperialism, its war preparations
and Intervention plans must be
thecenter OF the every day work
of the Party among the masses;
in the factories, trade unions, In
strikes, among the unemployed,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-15
Party, Unions and Mass Organizations Mus
Come Closer to Daily

Negroes, youth and women"
(From the G. c. Resolution.)
The Daily Worker must follow
precisely the same thing, if it is to
become a Communist mass paper.
The Daily and the Unions.
The Trade Union Unity League
does not consider the Daily Worker
as the paper for building up the
revolutionary trade unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-15
An Incident.

The following incident is for ms
repulsively memorable. In 1919
there was a congress in Petersburg
OF the village poor. From the VIII
lagos in the north of Russia came
several thousands of peasants,
some hundreds of whom were
housed in the Winter Palace of the
Romanovs. When the congress was
over, and these people had gone
away, it appeared that not only all
the baths of the palace, but also a
great number of priceless Sevres,
Saxon and oriental vases had been
befouled by them for lavatory use.
This had not been done because OF :
any need, the lavatories of the pal
ace were in good order and the
water system working. No, this
vandalism was an expression of the
desire to sully and debase things OF
beauty. Two revolutions and a war
have supplied me with hundreds OF
cases of this lurking, vindictive
tendency in people, to smash, de-
form, ridicule and defame the
beautiful. 1t must not be thought
that the conduct of the Village
Poor was emphasized by me be-
cause of my scepticaI attitude to
the peasants. This is not the case.
This malicious desire to deface
things of exceptional beauty is
fundamentally the same as the obi
Gus tendency to vilify an excep-
tional man. Anything exceptional
prevents people from living as they
want to live. People long, if they
have any longings, not for any
fundamental change in their So
cial habits, but to acquire addis
tional habits The gist of the wall.
ing and complaining of the ma
jority is, do not interfere with the
way of living to which we are &C
customed" Vladimir Lenin was O
man who knew better than any
one else how to prevent peopls
from leading the life to which they
were accustomed. The hatred OF
the world bourgeoisie for him is
markedly and repellently manifest
the livid plague spot of it shows
Enthusiastically. Disgusting in itself,
this hatred yet tells us how great
and terrible in the eyes of the
world bourgeoisie is Vladimir Le-
min, the inspirer and leader of the
proletarians of the whole world.
His physical body no longer exists,
but his voice sounds ever louder
and more triumphantly in the ears
of the workers of the earth, and
already there is no corner of 1t
where this voice does not rouse
the will of the people to revolu-
ton, to the new life, to the crea-
ton of world of equal people.
With ever growing confidence,
strength and success do those who
were the pupils of Lenin and are
now the inheritors Of his power.
carry on the great work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-15

In fact we hardly find single
article of the life and activities of
our revolutionary trade unions.
Leading comrades from trade
unions and mass organizations COM
plain that the Daily Worker does
not print the articles and notices
sent in by them. Consequently the
Daily Worker becomes a paper for
a narrow circle of leading func-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-15
Letters from Our Readers
HOBOMN EVICTION

Hoboken, N. j.
Dear Editor
A family was dispossessed in this
city on July S at 1872 Park Ave. The
father Of this family has been out of
work for the past year or so and owed
16 months rent. There are six child
rem in the family, all of school age.
The furniture was thrown into the
yard by the city marshel. Harry
Barck, the overseer of the city poor,
refused their place for help.
Where is the Unemployed Council
Of Hobokoen?
"A new reader Of the Daily Worker.
Of New York State that we covered.
From what I read, I gather the same
thing Is true of the entire country.
We must have more forces to utilize
this rehabilitation of the American
masses. Are we working as fast and
as hard as we should? Are we cor
recting our mistakes2 Only imnne-
date results can answer.
"A Young WorkeG.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-27
Too Much Leisure
 Bad For Business
Survey of Domestic Market Finds Merchandise Field
 Is Fast Giving Way to Service Charges

, Week, "has been compensated al- most wholly by corresponding rise in the proportion of expendi- ture for services, rising from 23.3 per cent of the total in 1919 to 20.7 per cent in 1030, and increas. ing even in the first year of de- precision, 1929.30.
 "In short, it Is clear that the consumer market for business 10 to-day not only less G merchandise market and more q service market than 1t was twelve years ago, but even in the merchandise market tho high replacement goods ap. parently have not been holding their share of tho consumers dol- lar"
 1 Merchandise with q high rec placement rate and services cur- rentIy consumed, together cover almost % per cent of tho domestic 1 purchaBes of consumer goods and of services commercially sold.
 Tho style factor lh the merchant disc field is not as ifnportant in ex- banding the volume of consump. ton as has been supposed, the sur- vcy report states. The most p0wor. ful influence in shifting the dis- tributton of the consumer dollar during these twelve years was probably that of leisure, or the de- mand for accompanying increased purchasing power which permitted expansion in consumption of scr. vices.