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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-22

A number of speakers participated
in the discussion and all evinced
great eagerness in supporting the
Daily and enlarging its influence.
Upon a motion from the floor, pro-
visional committee was elected whose
main task is the building up of COM
mittees in mass organizations and
calling the next conference.
The provisional committee consists
of P. German, Brownsville Workers
Club; Rosenfeld Bronx Workers Club;
7. Greenberg, American Youth Club;
j. Williams, t. Hartman, of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union; Saunders, Young, of the
Workers advertisements League,
and Carroll, of the Hinsdale Workers
Club.
This committee is to enlarge itself
with representatives from trade
unions, factories, etc. After the
meeting of the committee. the date
of the next conference will be set.
In the meantime, workers are urged
to take up the appeal, to send oin
their contributions, to spread The
circulation lists and to build the
committees.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-22
Not Individual Action But
Mass Defense Against Gangs
Bosses Thugs More Active In All Strikes;
Meet Them With Largest Possible Force !,

ups. etc.
The nature OF workers defense.
organization against these attacks, as
well as its role in the struggle, will
depend on its mass character. Mass
defense can be accomplished only If
it is developed on a genuine united
front basis, of workers from the
shops, unemployed. from the ranks Of
the A F. of L., Trade Union Unity
League, and workers from fraternal
organizations In other words organ
lied from the bottom and centralized
from the top.
Not Small Groups
The bulk of the workers involved
must be those who daily participate
in the various phases of the class
struggle and not specially picked for
this purpose" We must reject all
ideas of defense as the mere organi-
cation of a few groups" This will
not be mass defense. We cannot
pattern workers mass defense on the
model Of the enemy organization.
Theirs consist of specially paid
bodies of gangsters. Our Defense
must rest on the broad masses, must
draw in the workers, as only by the
strength of the masses can the gangs
be smashed.
The establishment of mass defense
is not just an organizational task.
without the development of genuine
working class solidarity this para
mount task will not be accomplished.
Concretely, this means the overcom-
ing of narrow craft practices which
are so widespread in the ranks Of
our unions. When the shoe workers
strike. the food workers will not par
ticipate; when the food workers
strike the needle workers will not
participate, etc. Especially is this
bad habit clearly expressed in the
struggle against injunctions.
Because defense was not organized
on mass scale, because the political
significance of it was not popularized
among the workers, we find that from
time to time bad and costly mistakes
are made, as, for example, actions
that do not correspond with the
political Importance of the particu-
lar strike struggles, with the result
that the workers 90 not participate
and it thus becomes individual action.
when 1900 Act
Many times when our comrades are
slugeed, there is a feeling among
some OF our comrades to go out and
"mc.-e a job on the gangsters." OF
CO. y not one blow our workers re-
ceive shall be allowed to pass by,
but this shall not become the task
of only specialized committees, but OF
masses of workers. Two weeks ago a
fur striker was bsaten up by gang
sters. Comrsde Gold. the leader of
the union, reported this to a thou
sand furriers and called upon them
to drive the gang out of the fur mar
ket In not more than ten minutes
ia thousand went out into the fur
market. This is a good example Of
mass defense, where the matter was
not left to small committees alone.
All attempts to substitute mass de-
Tense by individual action must be
met with open criticism and imme-
date correction. But the best way
to do it is to actually build mass
defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-22
.SOVIETS SCORE
NEW TRIUMPH
Complete L a r G, e S t
Power Project In
World

A new triumph of the proletarian
energy employed in the successful
construction of Socialism in the
Soviet Union will be celebrated this
Thursday, when the. largest hydro
electric power project in the world
will be officially completed and dedi-
Gated.
A Giant Project.
The gigantic project called the
Dnieprostroy and including a power
plant, dam on the Dnieper River, a
Socialist city of 100000 inhabitants
and several other enterprises, costs
about $420o,ooo,0o0. Up to $4,000
workers participated in the accom-
plishment of this project, completed
in slightly more than five years.
The project testifies to the capacity
of Soviet planning and engineering
The chief construction engineer was
A. V. Winter, Soviet engineer, who
was assisted by staff of high-grade
Soviet collaborators Colonel Hugh l..
Cooper, American Engineer, was con-
sulting engineer.
The Dnieprostroy will provide
power for industrial and domestic use
to a territory of more than 10000
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-22

modic and irregular, because of the
lack of an organized conference based
on committees and workers organi-
cations to carry 1t on.
Role of Daily
He pointed out the role of the Daily
in the present situation against the
capitalist offensive, the growing pop
ularity of the paper and at the same
time a number of weaknesses with
respect to its role as an organizer of
mass struggles. He stated that the
Daily Worker editorial staff, along
with the Party is conscious of these
weaknesses and was making a sys-
tematic attempt to overcome them,
as already shown from the improve
ment of the Daily. He above all
urged that firmer connection be
established between the Daily and
the mass organizations through the
setting up of conferences of worker
correspondents, formation of groups
Of friends of the Daily Worker and
above all by the formation of commit
tees consisting Of one to three men,
bers in mass organizations. factories,
etc. This would assure at all times
regular support
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-22
Is NEW ARRESTS
MADE IN HUNGARY
Gable BY Inprecorr.)

BERLIN, Aug. 20.-It was just re-
vealed that the Hungarian police
made about 25 new arrests in the
last few days. Several left-wing So
cialists, including the well-known
authors, Madzar and Sander, editors
of the Socialist Economic Journal,
were arrested.
The leader Of the political police,
Hetenyi, ordered the press to refrain
from publishing the news of the
socialists and played a prominent role
arrests. Madzar is university pro-
fessor, leader of the left-wing
in the bourgeois revolution. He is
said to have joined in protests against
the execution of Sallai and Fuerst.
Madzar's courageous opposition to
the Horthy terror caused his expul-
sion from the Socialist Party The
police declared that the arrests were
made "in connection with the arrival
of a new Comintern emissary," re-
porting that an Illegal printing shop
with modern machinery was discov-
cred and its manager arrested.
Among the arrested are Sebes and
Pohl. whom the police charge with
carrying on the work of Sa]lai and
Fuerst. The police alleged that the
secret communist organization" dis
covered is the same organization
which Sallai and Fuerst led.
The authorities deny that deci-
sion already taken places the accused
before the exceptional court. which
can only sentence to death, but the
danger is intense, as is shown by the
insistence of the police that the
arrested continued the work of Sallai
and Fuerst.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-22
BRITISH ARMED
TIBETAN ARMY
Inspired D rive On
Soviet Mongolia

In statement issued in Marking,
China, on Saturday, the Panchen
Lama, or spiritual head of Tibet,
exposes the present armed Tibetan
movement against Soviet Mongolia as
inspired and financed by the British
imperialists. He charged that the
Dalai Lama, the temporal ruler of
Tibet, had concluded a secret pact
with the British authorities in India,
aimed at securing the violent separa-
ton of Tibet from China and tight
ening British control over Tibet.
The secret agreement contains five
points, he declared. The first three
points call for preferential treatment
for British goods, concessions to the
British to exploit Tibetan mineral
resources, to open British banks in
the country and to have first rights
on the financing of Tbetan loans.
The other two points call for the
election of Chinese troops from Tibet,
and pledge British military aid to the
Dalai Lama in carrying out this and
other projects not named in the
secret agreement but understood to
have been discussed verbally.
The Pancfen Lama further charges
that the British Army headquarters
in India has already furnished the
Tibetan forces with 40 pieces of field
artillery, a large supply of shells,
1000 service rifles and 100000 rounds
of ammunition.
These supplies were furnished to
the Tibetan army which is now
striking through western Inner Mon
golia toward the southern borders of
Soviet Mongolia. Heavy fighting Is
reported to be occurring between the
Tibetan invaders and Chinese pro-
vincial troops in Szerhuan Province
and Inner Mongolia. The Marking
Government is withholding support
from the provincial troops in their
resistance to the invasion.
In an article on Saturday, the So
Wet newspaper "Pravda" reviews the
situation and points out:
"The general aims of British pol
icy in Tibet have not changed since
1914. The Dalai Lama and the
whole feudal aristocratic clique
which rules in Tibet are little more
than puppets for the establishment
of greater Tibet. British i'm
perialism hopes, in that way, to
strengthen its influence over the
western province of China, and in
particular over Chinese Turkestan,
which lies directly on, the Soviet
frontier"
The British-directed Tibetan drive
against Soviet Mongolia is accom-
panied at the same time by a rapid
concentration of Japanese troops on
the eastern frontier of Soviet Mon
golia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-22

The frame-up nature of the arrest
and trial Of the two accused is glar-
ingly revealed in the following points
(the accused were handed over to the
Marking butchers together with man
ufac5ured evidence by the British
controlled International Settlement
police):
Cd One hundred documents were
allegedly found in the rooms of the
accused by the police in the absence
of the accused or other reliable wit
nesses; ~ the original lists of the
documents were not presented during
the trial; 90 there was not even a
copy of the list of the three steel
boxes confiscated by the police and
alleged to be the property Of the ac-
cused. There was no explanation of
the fact that none of the keys found
on the accused fitted any of these
steel boxes, which were broken open
by the police. ca In violation of
Chinese law the accused were trans
ferred from the Civil Court in Shang-
hal to the Exceptional Court at Nam
king, upon orders of the Marking
Government, in order to more easily
deprive the accused of their defense
rights. (5) Both courts were accused
by the defendants of inhuman treat
ment, endangering their health and
lives. CO. The defendants were re-
fused the right to employ their own
lawyers. CD Numerous witnesses
cited by the prosecution in its at
tempt to build up case in the press
did not appear in court. 90 The
defendants were refused the right to
present important evidence, which
would have cleared the defendants.
CD The Chinese court Interpreters
were thoroughly incapable and served
the prosecution with deliberate mis-
representation and distortions of the
statements by the accused. (10) The
protocol of the proceedings was writ
ten in Chinese text, with only spoken
translations in English, and with the
court refusing to order a written
translation into English. I'D The
greater part of the documents were
not shown to the accused at all.
CD Policemen were accepted as "im-
partial experts and witnesses" for
instance, Mason as a handwriting
expert" Q3) On the last day of
the trial the accused were dragged
from the court room because they
protested against the refusal of the
court to permit them to make clos
ing speech in defense, while the
prosecutor was permitted to make his
closing speech in the absence of the
accused, at the same time using his
closing speech to introduce new ma
terial which was not previously dealt
with.
The Ruegg Defense Committee,
headed by Madame Sun Yat-Sen,
has issued statement condemning
the verdict as a lynch verdict and
calling upon the workers and hon
est intellectuals throughout the
world to renew more vigorously the
protest against this outrageous per-
secution of the Rueggs by the Brit
ish imperialists and their Marking
lackeys.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-22

square miles, with a population of
100000. Its great storage of water
will provide irrigation for thousands
of acres of farm land on the sur
rounding steppe.
The power plant Of the Dniepros-
troy has nine hydraulic turbines with
a generating capacity Of $4,000
horsepower which surpass the gen.
Grating capacity of Niagara Falls, as
certained at 100000 horsepower, and
that Of Muscle Shoals, which stands
at $4,000 horsepower.
A coke, a chemical and an alum
mum plant is also part of the Nniep-
rostroy.
In addition to the above-men-
toned features the Dnieper River has
been opened to deep-draft vessels
throughout its entire length of 1900
miles, providing a navigable way from
the Baltic to the Black Sea.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-22
Young SoViet TramqVay
Workers Greet US. Youth
Work 7-Hour day. Paid for Studying Ask
About Conditions Here

which previously belonged to the
bourgeoisie.
At our park one line is run ex-
clusively by young workers. They
fulfilled their speed norm, which
shows high-grade discipline. They
received premiums more than once
We have a study combine which
prepares us to be qualified workers
and specialists. This combine pro-
vides all necessities free of charge.
We have IS young workers studying
in the combine.
We get two weeks vacation with
full pay every year. Last spring
nearly all our young workers re-
ceived two weeks vacation in rest
homes free of charge.
The One-Day Rest Home.
Often we go for our rest day to
the one-day rest homes. We arrive
there at $50 in the morning. The
day begins with physical culture ex-
ercises. Then breakfast-milk, eggs,
tea or coffee. Before dinner we have
mass games, excursions in the vicin-
ity, rowing, etc.
After dinner is rest hour Then
tea. AT 8 o'clock in the evening is
supper. In the evening there are
concerts, performances, motorboats.
Dear comrades, please write in de-
tail about the conditions of your
work and how you spend your leisure
time.
With comradely greetings.
DcnskOv, LsrniacOv, ProkhOrov,
Plankova.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-22
Ohio Steel Workers
Resisting Swarm of
Spies, Splitters

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Aug. 81.
Like flies and insects which
swarm around a cake baked by
a housewife are takers and reac-
t1onarieS fiocking and sending
their organizers into the Youngs-
town steel district to disrupt the
building of the union by the Metal
and Steel Workers Industrial
Union. Organizers of the Metal
Workers Industrial League, who
have been active in building the
Union, report that the I. w. W.,
Socialist Labor Party, Musteites
and A. F. of L. takers are in the
field creating confusion and trying
to disrupt the splendid work
which has been done by the or
ganizers of the Metal Workers
Industrial League.
Following the National Conven-
ton in Pittsburgh, special cam
paign will be launched to build a
powerful union in every mill in
the Youngstown steel district.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-22
BY JOHN STEUBEN

The Frankly Madden gang operates
on the New York waterfront for
Ryan of the International Longshore-
men Association, the strawberry"
and Murder" gangs working" for
the garment manufacturers and their
right hand-the A. F. of L. bureau
Gratis. In fact, in each industry, a
gang operates, first of all against the
militant and. class-conscious workers.
This is not only true of New York,
but rather general characteristic
throughout the industrial centers of
the county. In Chicago, Capone had
hand in the trade unions for a
period of years. In the coal fields
this dirty work is done by deputized
gunner. Down South the Negroes
are continually attacked by we'll or
ganized gangs of whites. financed
and backed by the white landowners
and manufacturers.
Gangdom is a serious menace to
the organized as well as unorganized
workers. Inside the A. F. of L., es-
pecially in those unions where the
bureaucracy has completely lost the
confidence of the workers, the gangs
are called in to terrorize the rank
and file into submission, endangering
rot only the workers jobs, but many
times their very lives. Thousands Of
dollars are spent every month from
the treasures of the unions for the
maintenance of the sluggers. Only
recently it was exposed that the
Amalgamated alone has spent over a
million dollars on gangsters.
Dozens of militant workers were
murdered, hundreds were crippled
for life. AS is well known, each
gang has its own '1aw and order"
which, of course, always works hand
in glove with the police department
and its "red squad" bomb squad"
industrial squad" radical squad"
etc.
Clash In Strikes
The unorganized workers meet
gangdonl when they are on strike
against wage cuts. In such situattoa-
the gangs supply scabs and protect
them, smash Up picket lines, beat up
active strikers, participate in frame
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-22

Dear Comrades:
The Komsomol and non Party
young workers Of the Tramway Park,
bearing the name of Comrade Buk-
HARM, want to tell you about their
life and work.
In 1913 the park consisted of 40
two-car and one-car units and en-
ployed 40 people. At present the
park consists of SO three-car units
with 1000 workers employed.
The workers employed in the
tramway operation work from 7:3O
in the morning until $3.50 in the
afternoon, with one hour for lunch.
For As copecks we can get good din
ner. During dinner we have con-
certs and discussions.
The conductors and motormen
work in three shifts-7 hours each.
The average pay of the third cate
CORY is, for conductors, 1870 roubles,
and motormen 1855 rouhles a month.
The average speed of a car in our
park is IS kilometers an hour against
IA in the plan. The failure to fulfill
the plan is due to the overcrowded
Moscow streets. With the construc-
ton of the subway Git is already in
the process of constructionl the az
erage speed of the cars will increase
800 Families Get New Apartments.
Our enterprise constructed two new
houses, at its own expense, for 200
workers families. Besides, 100 FAM
lilies were moved into good houses
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-22

union viii organize a defense COM
mittee to work with and become a
part of the I. L. D. Workers not vet
members of the union should be re-
cruited into the defense committees
also.
The most important single resolu-
ton, that on organization, was not
ready for the convention, and was
referred to the national board.
Elect National Committee.
Thirty members were elected to the
national committee of the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union by
the convention. They come from
nine states and all the most impor-
tant centers. -Four were youth men,
bers, two were women, five were Ne
gro members,
The national committee will meet
every three months, and the leader
ship in the meantime will be carried
on by a national board Of nine, resi-
dents of districts near the national
headquarters in Pittsburgh.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-22
us. State Department
Tries to Hide Facts
On Tenhunen's Arrest

NEW YORK.-The United States
State Department, working hand-in-
hand with the fascist government of
Finland, has refused to make any
satisfactory investigation of the de-
tention of Matti Tenhunen, Ameri-
can worker held in Helsingfors on
vague charges of "Communistic &C
tivity," the International Labor De-
Tense announced yesterday. A prom
Use to investigate the case has re-
suited so far only in a verification of
the fact that Tenhunen is held, and
a statement that he had money to
buy tobacco and was in communica-
ton with his friends.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-22

authorities to suppress picketing and
meet the marching miners with vio-
lence. Lewis says: ANY man who
expects to work in the future in the
coal mines will inevitably be obliged
to work under the provisions of the
contract" (for $110 wage cuD.
Lewis and Walker signed the wage
cut contract in Illinois in the face of
two referendums in which the min
ers voted against it. The Walker
machine stole the tally sheets of the
last referendum and refuse to admit
the vote was against the cut.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-22

loom system in the General Fabric
Mills in Central Falls two years ago.
He wants now also to introduce the
I2-loom system in the Lorraine mill
Since January the weavers here
have received six wage cuts. In JAM
uary they were making little enough,
SLIT per 100000 picks. But now they
IRE making 60 cents. And those
running the Stafford Automatic
looms make 80 cents per 100000 picks.
Against these wage cuts, and
against the monstrous new IMPOSE
ton of wearing a white uniform so
they VIII look nice when buyers come
the National Textile workers
Union calls to action If Lorraine
wants white uniforms, let the come
pany provide them!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-22
Soviet Harvest Shows
Marked Gain; Exnect
Bumper Cotton Crop

MOSCOW, Aug. 21,-The harvest
figures for the third five-day period
Of August have been more than sat
isfactory, cutting a big piece out of
the deficit in the plan caused by
heavy rains in the North Caucasus
region.
State grain collections improved
80 per cent over the previous five-day
period. The machine and tractor sta
tons have completed 80 per cent of
their program.
The cotton harvest began Friday
in Central Asia Ti'a crop is expected
to be bumper one.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-22
Steel and Metal Workers
Build A Fighting Union
Lorraine Mills Forcing
WeaVerS to Buy Uniforms

PROVIDENCE, R, L, Aug. 21.-The
Lorraine Manufacturing Co., one of
the biggest textile mills in Rhode
Island, has adopted a new sort Of
wage cut. The weavers have been
ordered to wear white uniforms at
their work, at their own expense
Everyone who knows anything at all
about weaving realizes that this
means a uniform will last only day
around the greasy looms without
washing. The order condemns these
weavers, drawing at the most now
only $14 week, to take food out OF
the mouths of their children and
spend it for whites"
The idea is that of Mr.. Viens,
superintendent of the rayon division,
and the man who put over the r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-22
Report Nine Attacks
On Nicaraguan Rebels
In Last Eight Days

WASHINGTON Aug. 21.-Detach-
ments of the Nicaraguan National
Guard, differed by United States
marines, had nine engagements with
groups of the Nicaragua National
Army of Liberation since August IL,
Lieutenant Colonel Calvin B. Mat
thews reported to the Navy Depart
ment yesterday. Eight members of
the Army of Liberation were killed
and many wounded, he said.
Surprise attacks upon contingents
of the Army Of Liberation were re-
ported yesterday IN a dispatch from
Managua.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-22

Emergency Relief for the poor
farmers without restrictions by the
government and banks; exemption
of poor farmers from taxes, and
no forced collection OF rents o.
debts.