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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-05

Of it. When we came down to IT.
we found Engineer Buiko on board
who, hearing that we wanted to
go out on it to the "Lisovsky," re-
fused to allow us to take it. We
decided to use force.
"Take the boat, you chaps, don't
stand looking at it," shouted Mich
ael, and jumped on board. Buiko
turned the rubber tubing on him
and let the steam off. Michael
tllmbled overheard. The machinist
at the same moment set the en-
CINE going and the boat left the
shore.
We cursed the engineer, who was
watching us with malignant joy.
One of the delegates stepped into
a rowboat with oars lying handy.
I'VE got into the rowboat and
w three pairs of oars quickly
brought us towards the "Lisovsky."
Buiko saw that we had made up
our minds to get on board the
'Lisovsky," urged the motorboat
towards her and then turned
sharply towards the military guard
ship that was lying in the roads.
This maneuver alarmed us; if
Buiko managed to get around the
guardship commander, he could
prevent our taking the "Lisovsky."
I told the delegates this.
make for the guardship." The
rowboat heeled around and we
came alongside on Buiko's heels.
Two other delegates and I climbed
the rope ladder; the commander
came forward. He stood and
laughed.
what strange visitors we have
this morning. said he cheerily,
greeting us.
awe are little alarmed that the
Port Engineer is paying you visit
You see, for economic reasons we
are on strike. One dredger is stand
ing in the Straits, and, fearing that
it might be harmed by a storm,
we decided to moor it to the quay,
but the engineer wants to hinder
us. We fear he wants to persuade
you to interfere with our removing
the Lisovsky' from the Straits"
"Quito So" said the captain, "he
asked me to interfere; but I
haven't the right to without an
order from my chief. 1 can inter-
fere only if you use force on the
Lisovsky.'"
There is no question of force.
The Lisovsky' is on strike anyway;
the only thing is that in the Straits
it risks running aground or getting
stuck in the mud, and we cannot
allow that"
81 beg your pardon, Mr.. Buiko,"
said he, turning to the engineer,
"but I cannot interfere with your
business"
We dropped down into our boat
and rowed to the ''Lisovsky." Hav-
ing spoken to the sailors and the
captain, we weigher anchor and
brought it to the quay. The work.
ers on the shore met the arrival
of the ship with shouts of delight.
ITO Be Continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-05
"THE COMMUNISM

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Issue)
l. The Fight E,r
pOyed and the Unemployed. EDITORIAL - $500
q How the ST. Louis Unemployed Victory Won-By
j. Lessons of the Central Committee
p,
The Significance of the Results of the Knorn
s. The Ottawa Empire Conferenoe-By Dut
g. The American Farmers Beginning Ffght-By H. Puro
The Capitalist EducationBy James
g. Lessons Of the Revolutionary v. l.
" 80 AAo1"HY Arouno 'ne Oorner!-By John irving
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-05
PAUL BLOCK>>A
HEART OF GOLD
High Finance, Dollar-a-Night Reporters and
Capitalist journalism

ploy could not possibly support
themselves, let alone family. on
this incredibly miserable wage.
Where was Paul Blocks big heart
for these men? Where his kindli-
ness, his "humaneness"?
"a HEART OF GOLD"
Shortly after the capitalist crisis
began to gain momentum, Block
announced in newspaper advertise
ments that he would keep his staff
1ntact-that his workers could be
certain of their jobs. Did he keep
his pledge? What did he actually
do?
Well, he disposed Of his paper to
the Brooklyn Daily Times, another
capitalist sheet, and all the workers
were kicked out on the streets with
out days notice! Only two or
three managed to get jobs on the
Brooklyn Times. The rest found
themselves betrayed in the coward
ly, cold-blooded manner of Big
Business!
A few days ago the financial pages
OF the boss press carried an "inno-
cent" announcement of the filing
OF petition in bankruptcy by the
Union Publishing Company. This
company, according to the petition,
was the publisher of the BROOKLYN
Standard Union. The company dis
closed liabilities of more than
$1,300,000. What made this Incl
dent SO remarkable was that Paul
Block set himself up as the prin-
cipal creditor of the defunct oon-
Germ. Block, who was the publisher,
suddenly transformed himself as
the creditor in the guise of the Paul
Block Corporation of Park Avenue.
For months a story ran riot
through the newspaper fraternity
that Paul Block sank a big heap of
money into the Standard Union
"Just to help the workers" Now it
develops that Paul Block did not
making claims of more than 81 ,000,-
600 against the paper and that he
actually lose a penny, that he is
stands to add neat little sum to
the millions he has reaped in his
sWeatshops' When the assets. of
the Standard Union-the presses,
linotypes and other equipment-are
Iquidated, Paul Block, as credi-
tor, Will share and pocket the
money just to show his big
heartedness.
TYPICAL OF BOSS SYSTEM
AS a capitalist publisher, as a
Wall Street luminary, Paul Block
is no exception. He typifes the
rotten capitalist journalism which
is not only saturated with this cor
ruption, but which is an active
instrument in the service of the
boss class .,------------------
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-05
Edith Berkman Facing Deportation and Death
in Poland, in Flaming Call to Workers

for deportation to fascist Poland
(although I am not citizen of
Poland, and, therefore, not deport-
able)-threw me into the East Bos-
ton immigration Station, where I
contracted tuberculosis-tri to
conceal my illness, because you
feared the wrath of the workers
forcibly dragged me from one in
titution to another, holding me in
communicate for days-refused me
private physicians, until the press
ure of the masses forced this con-
cession from you.
TORMENTED,
PROSECUTED
The workers know that in doing
the bidding of your masters, your
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-05
BY JOHN ADAMS.

THOUSANDS of workers, vainly
L searching for jobs. Daily they
tramp up ond down the morrow strip
of the slave market" as Sixth Ave.
in New York, from the lower 20's
to 50th st. is known.
mo AGITATORS"!
These workers are grist to the
mill of the job shark, the most bru-
tai exploiter of the hopes and mis-
cry of these workers. 1t is the job
shark who for years has been mail
ing his circulars to the boss, tel
ling him I'VE can furnish you with
a competent crew at consider
able reduction in your labor cost.
Men and women who are not union
or agitators." A scheme by which
they "split" fees with foremen who
fired workers in order to hire more
brought thousands of dollars to the
job sharks. Workers often lost
their last pennies are result of
this vicious practice.
Thousands come to the Ave.
Hunger drives workers there daily.
for the first time. They know
nothing of this racket. They do
not know that the .ammany
politicians receive their split in this
thievery for permitting the sharks
to send girls to houses of prostitu-
ton and using the police against
the individual militant who returns,
demanding his fee back as the
frame-up becomes apparent to him.
SLAVE MARKET
FROM COAST TO COAST
For the crisis, of course, has made
it practically impossible to get a
job. From New York to San Fran
cisco the "slave-market" exists.
And the job-shark wakes fatter
than ever because of the crisis. A
Benign federal Judge interpreted
as unconstitutional" the state law
which limited the shark to ten
percent fee. Now he can charge
as high as he wishes. The thou
sands who came to the market had
no voice. From all over the city
they converged, native-born and
foreign-born, young and old, men
and women workers, all searching
for jobs.
The Daily Worker, constantly al
ert to the interests OF the workers,
their organizing force, cast it's
searNNlight on the job-market. Mil
itaxdll Gorkers went into the dens Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-05

department. thrusts aside every
vestige of human decency. Despite
my grave illness, your department
kept guards at my bedside for two
weeks, tormenting me, thus ag-
gravating my illness. Though I
have been bed patient for the
past 6 months, and DR.. John B.
Halves, End, leading tuberculosis
expert, finds me seriously i'll,
running temperature, with rapid
pulse, suffering from the distressing
complication of violent spasms of
the diaphragm which would wear
the strongest person out, and suf-
fering from an active tubercular
infection"-in the face of this you
got certain doctors to declare that
I was well enough to be shipped
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-05
Letters from Our
Readers

HSWUuCheC, Il. 4.
Dear Editor:
About month ago I found your
paper, the Daily Worker and I was
so glad to read that you are really
fighting for the laborer.
have watched the strike here
last summer when the General
Fabrics was on strike and I saw
that the Communists meant bust
ness, when they say no wage cut,
they mean no wage cut. L have
read the "Pawtucket Times" for
many a year, but I never seen any
thing which pleased me more than
the Communist paper. I remember
when they called that little girl Ann
Burlak the most dirtiest names,
they spread rumors that she was
high paid, ETC., but no one believed
it Well, / heard she's running for
Mayor of Pawtucket. Well, 1 saw
this, whether you're red, black or
pink, I'm voting Communist this
year, because I saw that girl fight
for the workers last July, 1881, and
I'm pretty sure the workingmen of
Pawtucket is going to fight like the
devil "a set her up in office.
> u. Z. M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-05
"SldVe Market" Scenes and
the Fight on the Job Sharks
How the Unemployed Along Sixth Avenue in
NY. Are Conducting Struggle

the pirates. They investigated Sell
lers of the Daily" entered the
market with the stories of victim
izing Of workers. The thousands
stopped and looked. 1t sounded
familiar to them. A voice had APP
peared that would unite them.
A TYPICAL
INCIDENT.
A young girl has been refused
aid by a policeman. She paid five
dollars for Job. 1t was as a
"hostess" in a tea room. This was
the blind of the shark who was
recruiting agent for the white slav-
erS. He refused to return her fee.
Hundreds of job-seekers we're
grouped around the girl and a
Daily Worker seller. Husky IRON
workers from a construction job
fidgeted. They hesitated to tight
with the Reds" The paper seller
appealed: Comrades it means
fighting for ourselves when we fight
for this worker. We must stop this
racketee. -lg. Who will go with
me2"
Hesitation-Then a few hands 60
up. One holder than the rest
speaks: 1--WE gotta fight for
woman" The iron workers, A. F. Of
L. men, nod their heads. The
whole group moves.
A SPEEDY
VICTORY
The job shark is a woman, also.
No "chivalry" is shown. PAY this
worker or we'll come back by
thousands and drive you out.
Angry curses from the men. The
shark willis, and pays. vICTORYi
Back into the avenue they march.
The word of victory spreads like
wildfire. The thousands are DIFF
ferent now.
HOW FIGHT is
CARRIED ON
A job-agency grievance commit
tee was organized Scores Joined
Immediately. The day-to-day fight
is going on under its leadership.
Headquarters with financial support
directly from the workers of the
job-market have been opened. The
workers are an integral part of the
organized unemployed under the
leadership Of the Unemployed
Council and participate in the
fight for unemployment insurance.
They have their slogan Free en-
ployment agencies run by tbs
workers. The Job Shark Must Col"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-05

secretary OF LABOR DOdK,
Department of Labor
Washington, D. c.
From my sick bed, held your
prisoner in the Central New Eng
land Sanatorium, I address this
letter of protest to you I call
upon the workers to pass judgment
on the brutality and injustice you
are committing, not only against
me, but against the entire working
class of America.
Was it not fragrant violation of
the workers right to organize when
your agents arrested me twice in
1881 because, as organizer of the
National Textile Workers Union.
participated in the strikes of the
Lawrence textile workers against
the 8 comb, speed-up system and
the 10 per cent wage cut? In
pushing deportation charges against
me and other militant workers, the
Lawrence strikers recognized you
as the arch-strikebreaker of AM
erica and you and your Department
of Labor as the agents of the Am
erican Wooden Company.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-05
MURDOCH AND DEVINE
DEPORTED

AS result Of this strike you had
deported the two textile workers
leaders, William Murdoch and Pat
rick Devine, to Scotland and Eng
land. You bounded Barney Cree
gan into a deportation pen, despite
the fact that he is an American
citizn.
For more and one and one-half
years, your department, supervised
in Massachusetts by Mrs. Filling
hast, has prosecuted me-held me
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-05
1.-THE STRIKE"
STORY OF DREDGING FLEET sTRUGGLE-19O5
SYNOPSIS
By PETER NIKIFORoV


dredging fleet at Kh Straits He forms small circle of
gathers recruits which begins the
nine hour and
strike committee formed
the next strike These de-
recognition
the strike call
the Superintendent to meet the workers delegation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-05
BY JAMES CASEY

THIS is a chronicle about Paul
Block, the publisher, who gave
Tammany Jimmy Walker a gift of
$246000 out of the goodness of his
big heart. Called before Governor
Roosevelt in the removal farce to
account for this extraordinary piece
of generosity, Paul Blocks explain
alton was that it wasn't extraordi-
nary at all. He was Just a big,
kindly man and was accustomed to
bearing gifts-so said Paul Block to
the Wall Street Governor. Let's
see what the facts reveal about this
mans bigness, kindness and hui
maneness.
Paul Block is the owner of ten
newspapers, which daily spread lies
about the Soviet Union and about
the workers struggles in the United
States and elsewhere. Block en-
ploys thousands of workers and out
of their sweat and blood coins mil
lions Of dollars for himself,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-05
YOU CANNOT
CRUSH MY SPIRIT"

Mr.. Doak, you have broken my
health, but all your persecution
cannot crush my spirit. Now and
always, I stand with the workers
against wage-cuts, speed up, against
the A. F. of L. leadership and its
betrayal policy, for shorter hours
with no reduction in pay, for the
workers right to organize into
fighting union. And I know that
the workers of America stand with
me in demanding from an end to
deportation of foreign-born workers
and my immediate release for re-
covery!
Endorsed by; International Labor
Defense; National Textile Workers
Union; Committee for the Pro-
lection of the Foreign Born.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-05
An Open Letter to Doak
off to fascist Poland.

In the eyes of the workers, Mr..
Doak, you are guilty of a crime
a worthy disciple of Hoover, who
murders jobless veterans when they
demand their bonus. Your depart
ment, the government, and the
courts, including the fake Judge
Brandeis Gas exemplified in my
caSe) have exposed themselves as
tools of the boss class. Mr.. Doak,
the. workers know that you are
their enemy. They know that your
deportation drive is designated to
weaken their struggles against
wage-cuts unemployment, and war,
and is part of the general terror
drive against the American work
ing class-the terror that keeps
Tom Mooney in Jail for Is years,
and is trying to legally lynch the
nine Scottsboro boys.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-05
REPORTERS AT
81 A NIGHT

Until about last February, he was
the publisher of a capitalist propa-
ganda mill in his own home town,
the Brooklyn STANDARD Union"
Paul Block, the generous, hired re-
porters to work for him at unbeliev-
ably low wages. He hired reporters
at the rate of one dollar a night.
Men working seven nights for him
would receive a sum total of seven
collars a week. He hired men by
the night because it was much
cheaper than the maintenance of an
adequate permanent staff. Some
OF these men received only three
or four nights work. But, rather
than starve, these unorganized
white collar slaves came begging to
him for a nights work. The writer
knows of at least one family man
who was glad to earn even the
measly dollar SO that his wife and
children might not be thrown into
the cold winter streets to starve.
pUBLISHER BLOCK felt sorry for
= poor Mayor Jimmy because this
particular Tammany genius re-
cetved only one auto from the city
and $4,000 a year. He shed tears
over this spectacle of poverty and
his heart was so heavily burdened
that he talked the matter over with
his ten-year-old son. AS a result,
walker became richer by $246,OO0.
Paul Block gave, at about the
same time, a gift of 100000 to Yale
University for chair in journalism
SO that more young Americans
might become interested in Jour-
nalism-in the work for which he
paid men seven dollars a week.
Block knew these men in his en-
lsAl4-- s- -.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-05
Rutland, Mass.
August 80, 1882

Secretary of Labor Doak,
Department of Labor
Evening star., 1932-02-17
u. 5. LEADS WORLD
IN FOREIGN TRADE
Decrease Of $50, 1000, 900 Is
Noted, However, in JAM
uary Business.

Although dropping more than $50
100000 from the previous months level.
the United States was the world leader
In foreign trade during January, 1t was
said at the Commerce Department to-
day upon compilation CT cabled reports
from all sections Of the globe. This
country's merchandise exports were
worth $150,000,000 and imports from
abroad amounted to $136,OO0,000
A statistical study showed the decline
to $286, 100000 in value of the American
foreign trade for the month was due to
some extent to the widespread currency
depreciation in Europe and the Far
East. On the chart the export trade
has reached the lowest point since 1914
and on imports since 1915.
Drop Called Disquieting.
DR.. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary
OF Commerce.. said the drop was much
greater than had been anticipated and
"disquieting thing. to say the least" ;"
Until the beginning of the downward
trend In American foreign trade in the
latter part of 1929, January has been a
month Of usual seasonal increases, both
IN exports and imports. The export
hgure for January. 1882, compared with
Sl83577,O0O for the previous month,
while imports declined from S152,886,-
600 to s136,0 100000 in the same period.
The decline in the value of January
imports was regarded with interest by
some officials who had expected the
usual influx of foreign commodities
following exchange depreciations. That
this anticipated influx did not mater
ialize was not regarded however, as due
to the high protective tariff of this
country as much as to the belief that
Evening star., 1932-02-17
CITIZENS PROTEST
PROPOSED SCHOOL
Columbia Heights Forum Objects
to Project st Allison Street and
Rock Creek Church Road.

The proposed erection Of . school for
colored pupils at Allison street and
Rock Greek Church road northeast was
objected to last night by the Citizens
Forum Of Columbia Heights.
The objection was voiced at q meet
Ing In the Powell Junior High School
The resolution which was adopted also
supported the action Of the North
washington Citizens Joint Committee,
composed Of three citizens associations
and other North Washington citizens
In fighting the proposal.
A resolution favoring the erection Of
recreationial center on Kansas ave-
nue., between Shepherd and Upshur
streets, was adopted. Endorsement was
given the Capper bill. regulating the
sale Of firearms in the District OF Co.
lumbia. Members also voted the erec-
ton Of larger building and a better
location for the new Wilson Teachers
College
Burd w. Payne, president, and H. v.
Maybee. secretary, ofiiciated at the
meeting.
Evening star., 1932-02-17
w. Va. on their way back to Illinois
next week.

w. Va. on their way back TO Aiinoas
next week.
Zeta Chapter, Chi Sigma Sorority, Is
giving "leap year dance" Friday night
at the Dodge garden house. The mem
men On that night and will ask for
dances. This Is q closed dance and Is
under the direction Of Miss Catherine
Kindsfather.
Zetas pledges, Miss Anna Reith, Miss
Anna Welsh, Miss Virginia Walters, Miss
Louise Poore and Miss Myrtle Collins,
entertained the members in the chap
ter club rooms last night.
The Matrons and Patrons Associa-
ton Of 1924, Order Of the Eastern Star,
will hold its annual banquet and re-
union at Sholl's Cafe, 1882 Connecticut
avenue. at o'clock, February 20. Mr.:
Charles G. Morgan, jr.. Is chairman OF
the Committee on Arrangements. The
guests Of honor will include Miss Edith
A. Williams, grand matron, and Mr..
Paul B. Cromelin, grand patron. Mr..
Cromelin Is a member Of the 1924 as
ISOLATION, having been patron that year
Of Lebanon Chapter. No. rs, o. E. 8.
A supper was held at the home Of
Mrs. Lorena Galbraith. 6203 Stratford
road Chevy Chase. Md. Sunday eve
ming by the Omicron Chapter of Kappa
Beta Pi Legal Sorority as its last rush
party of the season. Rushees attend
ing were: Miss Georgia Alexander. Miss
Edna Almond, Mrs. Hattie M. Baden.
Miss Felicia 'Borrows, Miss Virginia
Crowder, Miss H. Marguerite Edwards,
Miss Lenora Graham, Miss Thelma
James, Miss Eunice Johnston. Miss
Maud Lands. Mrs. Anna L. Moulton.
Mrs. Hazel H. Philbrick. Miss Kathryn
Randall, Miss Louise Roe and Miss
Frances E. Warren.
Evening star., 1932-02-17
HEIRS FORBIDDEN TO FLY

Also Not Permitted to Play Stocks
on Margin.
MEDIA, Pa, February II R.-The
purchase Of airplanes and stocks on
margin is forbidden to beneficiaries Of
the will Of the late Emanuel Hey, who
died December 20.
In his will, probated yesterday, Hey
disposed of an estate Of $409.5S5. Three
children share in the estates income,
provided they don't play the market"
or purchase, hire. or use airplanes."
Evening star., 1932-02-17
PARADE ASSAILS JOHN D.
Mellon and insult Denounced by
Miners Sympathizers.

NEW YORK, February II R.-
Thirty sympathizers with the striking
miners in Bell County, KY, marched
through the financial district yesterday
carrying banners which denounced
Rockefeller, insult and Mellon"
The demonstration was held under
auspices Of the International Labor De-
fense. the National Committee for the
Defense Of Political Prisoners, and
Waldo Franks Committee of Writers
The paraders demonstrated for 10
minutes in front of the Offices of J. P.
Morgan g. Co.
Evening star., 1932-02-17
RATIEY R0CA ELECTION
Members Of Argentina Congress
Also o. X. Vice Presdent.

A1sU y. Il V1c0 FfeSd0out.
BUENO6 AIRES. February II R.-
Congress formally ratified today the
election Of Augristin p. Justo as Presi-
dent Of Argentina and Julio A. Roca
AS Vice President.
Tho President-elect. meanwhile, ap-
parently was having difficulty forming
his cabinet. Sources close to him said
DR.. Thomas lie Breton, Ambassador to
France and colleague Of Justo in the
cabinet Of former President Alyear. had
declined the portfolio Of finance min
ister regarded as the most important
in view Of the nations financial prob
lens.