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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
The Growth of Red Moscoav>> Neev
Landmark of Victorious Socialist
Construction in the Soviet Union
NEW WORKERS
HOUSES BUILT
At Rate of One A Day
During 1882

Moscow, the capital of the Soviet
Union and the center Of the world
revolution, is experiencing a period
Of rsnid DEVELOPMENT From the be-
ginning Of 1880 to the beginning of
1882, the population of Moscow in
creased from "a millions to 1888 mil
lions, an unparalleled rate of devel-
opment imposing terrific tasks on the
local administration of the town.
Daily new masses of industrial work.
ers, technical experts, students and
others are flooding into Moscow. In
the same period the sums expended
for housing, road and pavement
repair and maintenance in
creased from two hundred million to
five hundred million roubles.
Fifty New Factories
Since the revolution fifty new Iarge
ecale factories have been erected in
end around Moscow. inclrding the
factory "Elektrosavod," the new Great
ball bearing works, the new auto
mobile works "stalin," and have
Transformed the capital OF the So
Wet Union into ore Of the most i'm
rcrtant industrial towns in the world.
Since the revolution over eight hun
dred industrial clubs ave been OPEN
ed in Moscow for the workers, and
big recreation parks have been Gre
ated. including the biggest and most
unique park in the world.
Illiteracy Wiped Out
Before the revolution illiteracy had
it's grip on Is per cent of the total
population. In 1926 the figure was
is per cent. The fact that it was
still comparatively high is due to the
daily inflow Of thousands of peasants
coming from the outlying districts
and thus swelling the average. To-
day, however, illiteracy in Moscow is
practically nonresident.
A New Dwelling House a Day
Compared with 1917 the water sup
ply and drainage system is fifty per
cent bigger and more effective in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
SENTENCE MARINE
UNION SECRETARY
Was Modelling for
Hunger March Today

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Aug. "a
The Marine Workers Industrial
Union arranged a meeting in front
of the Seamen's Institute to discuss
conditions there and mobilize the
seamen, together with the rest of
workers, to demonstrate for unem-
ployment relief on Aug. Is at 2 pm.
at Reyburn Plaza. While workers
were distributing the leaflets, the In
stitute police attacked the distribu-
tors. The workers resisted the at
tack. The police then went outside
and picked out Howard j. Farmer,
secretary Of the M. w. I. U. local in
Philadelphia, and charged him with
assault and battery. When his case
came up the magistrate Immediately
sentenced him to three months.
These attempts of the bosses to
terrorize the workers will not pre-
vent them from turning out in full
force on Aug. 25.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
A LIBRARY CLUB
" q Worker Correspondent

tby WORKER corresponding
FEW YORK.-In front of the Pub
lie Library, at And ST., at about lis
pm, observed the following:
Some young men we're sitting
around the flagpole, talking in low
toa,s. A policeman suddenly came
along and ordered them all to get
up and beat it." One man wasn't
cutie as quick as the others and the
policeman lifted his club at him.
TIE yourC man quickly left.
The officer then ordered another
vol'7g man to pick up newspaper
which was lying near him. The
.cnn~ ran stated that he did not
rut it there. The policeman then
lifted his club at him, too, and again
ordered him to pick up the paper,
whersupon the young man replied:
Il did not put it there; so why should
I be ordered to take it away. I am
not a street cleaner" The officer
seized the young man by the arm
and led him away, evidently to the
police station.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
RUEGG DEFENSE
in STATEMENT
Committee Exposes
Lynch Verdict
Gable by Inprecorrl

SHANGHAI, Aug. 23.-The COM
mittee for the Defense of Paul and
Gertrude Ruegg has published an ap-
peal against the lynch verdict of life
sentences following the farcical trial
in the Marking court.
The appeal enunerates the numer-
GUS violations of Chinese law by the
court during the trial. 1t presents ir-
REPUTABLE proof that the trial was
carried on entirely in violation OF the
Chinese laws, that the court was
solely motivated with the carrying
through of the frame-up of the Ru-
eggs as ordered by the British i'm
parialists and the Marking lackeys
of imperialism.
The publication of the appeal has
created a sensation in native and
foreign circles in Shanghai.
The Defense Committee urges the
working class throughout the world
and all sympathetic elements to in
tensify their protest actions in front
of the Chinese consulates and to send
protests to the Marking government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25

tiers.
Before the revolution the averave
daily consumption of water in Mos
COW was thirty-five million units of
water. Today the consumption has
risen to an average of $50 million
units daily. Big new water works are
in course Of construction in order to
keep up with the rapidly increasing
demand for water. The River Moskva
is being connected up with the Volga
by means of canal. When this work
is completed the level of the Moskya
will rise and the water works will be
able to supply much more water. The
work will also make Moscow into a
very important inland harbor town
and two big docks are in course of
construction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25

tial information" reads in part as
follows: kindly be very careful not
to discuss the following information
as it is a matter to be held con-
fidential. This office has information
that the Unemployed Council, which
is affiliated with the Communists,
and maintains headquarters at 1879
East Michigan Ave, is planning to
raid the stores in about week
possibly on August g."
When workers confronted the
Police Commissioner with the letter,
he admitted that he had issued the
letter and that he had no facts to
support it.
Kalamazoo is one of the few cities
in the country where the State Fed
Grafton of Labor fed and housed the
National Hunger Marchers last De-
cember-against the orders of the
Mayor, the City Manager and the
City Commission, and in spite of the
active interference Of the police de-
partment.
E. M. Curry, vice president of the
Michigan Federation of Labor, is the
Communist candidate for Congress
from the Kalamazoo district.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25

every way. During the period of So
Wet administration in Moscow whole
new quarters have been built. Dur
ing the year 1881, practically a new
block of many stored workers houses
was completed on an average every
third day. These blocks are all built
en- modern lines with electric light,
central heating or modern ovens,
modern drainage and in many cases
radio installation and modern n.y.
gienic rubbish choots. In 1882 new
many stored house of working class
homes was completed almost every
day. In 1881 fifty thousand working
class families moved into new mod
ern homes. In 1882 no less than
100000 Moscow workers, including
many foreign-born workers, have
moved into new and modern quar-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25

The scale of $1120 day was not
expected by any painter. But at
least the painter wants to see some
better conditions on the job. He was
sick of having the boss use him as a
rag-abuse him and fire him when
ever he pleased. But the tentative
agreement signed by the bosses with
the District Council does not improve
the conditions in the settled shops.
The shop steward is paid $11.20 a
day to keep his mouth shut on what
pay the other workers get. The
members of the Brotherhood have
seen that their officials have be-
trayed them. The only thing thetT
officials were interested in, was coll
lecting the SIS permit tax and other
money to get rich quick. Thousands
have refused to pay the 81 a day
strike assessment.
Fear United Front
The Alteration Painters Union
from the beginning of the strike has
called for a united front of all paint
ers against the united front Of the
bosses. The officials of the broth
erhood were afraid of this united
front and turned it down. They
spread lies about the Alteration
Painters Union to keep the painters
divided and so make it possible to
sell them out.
But the Alteration Painters Union
has forged ahead. Shops after shop
was called on strike and in each
strike settlement signed with the
bosses the workers won increases in
wages, hiring through the union Of
flee, firing only through the shop
committee, eight-hour five-day week;
and the workers in the shop, together
with the shop chairman and shop
committee that they hal elected saw
to it that the boss carried out these
demands.
The Alteration Painters Union
forced the bosses to sign agreements
that would not remain on paper.
The Alteration Painters Union is
now calling upon the members Of the
Brotherhood who are about to drop
out or have dropped out on account
of the treacherous strike action on
the part of their officials not to be-
come disorganized and demoralized
but to come over into the Altera-
ton Painters Union, that is growing
while it fights the bosses and i'm
proves conditions on the job. Join
it and help build union that will
be strong cough soon to declare a
real general strike in the trade, wipe
out the rotten conditions that exist,
and establish a general wage scale,
a scale that will not remain on paper,
but will be lived up to by the bosses.
To the workers in the Brother
hood who are working under miser-
able conditions in their shops, we
say GUST your bankrupt sell-out Of
ficials! Elect a shop chairman and a
shop committee on the job! Demand
that real union conditions prevail on
the job, and be ready to strike in
order to win your demands! The
Alteration Painters Union will give
you all the help, leadership and as
sistance you may ask. Forward to
the Improvement of conditions Of the
painters in the trade.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
DETROIT HITS NEW
LOW IN Sub DRIVE
Chicago Still Far In
Lead

Chicago continues to lead all dis
tricts in the Daily Worker subscrip-
ton drive with a record Of 261 new
subs, totalling 70 yearly subs. Follow
ing Chicago in the national standing
are New York with so and half
yearly subs; Cleveland with 80 and
one-half and Detroit with 36. All
the other districts lag far behind
these four leaders.
In the last week, however, there
has been an alarming decrease in
subscriptions from most of the dis
tricts involved in the campaign. The
greatest failure Of all can be laid to
the Detroit district Cd, which in the
past five days has sent in only two
one-month subs!
And one of these subs was secured
not through the district apparatus,
but through an individual worker,
grown disguised with the Socialist
Party, who decided of his own initia-
tive to subscribe to the Daily.
Reports on the work of all the
other districts viii appear in the
Daily Worker from time to time. The
above report, which indicates the abb
soluteIy inadequate work being done
by our Detroit comrades, should be
both a warning and an incentive
toward increased work for comrades
throughout the country. 80. go.
Detroit, Mich.
Dear Comrades:
I have ben a socialist for the past
five years and didn't know that the
Socialist Party was connected with
the capitalist parties
Now that I know, I think the
Communist Party is the Party for
me. 1 send so cents for a months
subscription to the Daily Worker. 1t
is a little amount, but that is all I
could afford now.
Your new subscriber,
+. X.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
TRIAL OF MOONEY
RUNNERS STARTS
Drag Sick Worker to
Prison Cell

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. ga
sensational struggle is raging around
the trial of the workers who Devon
strated for Tom Mooney at the Olym-
pic games. Judge Thurmond Clarke
was appointed by Gov. Rolph to pre-
side. He is the same judge who
helped frame Basil Dell who was shot
by the Red Squad ard imposed vici-
Gus sentences on Dell and four 9TH
ors
The trial started. on Friday. Tues
day morning Baylin was absent from
court. A physicians affidavit pre-
scented to court proving him seriously
i'll was ignored by the judge and a
warrant issued for him. Baylin's
physician appeared in court and tes-
titled that the defendant was I'M
able to stand trial as his tempera-
ture was at 101. The Red Squad
dragged him in nevertheless and
rlanhandled him. When workers in
t1a courtroom heoon to protest Of
ficers including Philips who shot Dell
reached for their guns. The court
then ordered Baylin examined by the
cnrntv physician, Blank, vl7o tes-
tfaJ Wi court t'lGt Parli-1 W hreat-
erred With Influenza and wa lot fit
to Stand tnai Ra advised that Bay
by he sent 10 the ilospital.
0I cancelled the bail and
osaarud nayila removed to jill. The
r yes aeain rcughhoused.
De court has refused all motions
IL ogfey Gallagher who is con-
Gf-cting an able defense. When the
"7g"~"d to answer why Baylyin
Esd been rearrested, Gallagher shout
q Because he is sick" The bail
t. Sld the judge threatened Gala
e.lar who has applied for writ Of
'.-',c7T corpus and for a trial includ-
ing the examination OF jury panel.
continually raising the Mooney
Issue is infuriating the court, The
court will convene again on Wednes-
dey.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25

to eat. 1 know little children in this
town who went to school without
lunch for period of three months.
know of one family consisting of
five boys, grown men, who are out of
work. This man owns farm and
rents one. He has 1000 bushels of
corn to sell but he cannot find a
market. His wife asked me few days
ago to lend her some school books
that my boy would not need this year
Il cans buy books for the baby,
hardly enough clothes to send her to
school this year, but have to send
her every day or be fined, if keep
her out"
Quite recently I wrote an article
along those lines, but so far every
paper and magazine to which it has
been submitted, has rejected it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
CANADA WORKERS PROTEST
HUNGARIAN TERROR

WINNIPEG, Canada.-Several hun
bred workers demonstrated before the
office of the Hungarian Consul
against the terror which murdered
the two Communist workers Sallat
and Fuerst and threatens Karikas
with the same fate.
A workers delegation went to see
the Consul handing over to the rep
resentative of Horty's murderous re-
gime a strong resolution in which the
arrests and hangings of workers
were numerically denounced.
The Consul informed the delegation
that the Hungarian Government
would be Immediately notified Of the
contents of the resolution. The dem
onstration was called by the Canadian
Labor Defense League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
Negro BOotblack
Rescued by Workers
(By a Worker Correspondent


NEW YORK.-A Negro boy, ar
rived just a few months ago from
North Carolina, worked as a boot
black in the barbershop at 1929 Mer-
maid Ave-, Coney Island. In return
for this privilege" he was compelled
to do the general work in the barber
shop. He suffered much abuse from
the boss but dared not leave his job
Last week this Negro boy was
cursed and Disseminated against so
much that he could no longer stand
it and grabbed bottle with which
he hit the boss. 0ashing cut for
safety he was grabbed by a couple
of taxi drivers and shopkeepers who
tried to lynch him. Workers, bathers
at Coney Island, snatched the bleed
ing colored boy from the mob which
had gathered.
AS usual, the Negro was framed up
by the police on a charge Of robbing
the barber.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
Political Prisoners
Lashed BY Permission
of Govt In Denmark

STOCKHOLM, Aug. "a (By Cable)
AT the Tammisaary Penitentiary
three political prisoners were lashed
on Aug. IS, it was revealed here.
The warden of the penitentiary
was present when the political pris-
oners we're lashed with the govern
ments's permission.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
IRISH RAILROAD WORKERS
ON STRIKE

DUBLIN.-The strike of the Rail
shopmen still continues in Dundalk,
rapidly extending to the garage work
ers in Drokheda. The Amien Street
men issued a call to all railway work
ers to prepare for a strike against
the threatened all-round wage cut.
The Free State Government is try
ing to break this strike, but the work
ers are militantly resisting all at
tempts to force them back to work
and to submit to the wage cut.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
International
Notes
KAISER SENDS MESSAGE TO
GERMANS

BERLIN.-At the unvailing Of the
monument to Frederick the Great re-
erected on the battlefield of Leu
then, the Field Marshal, Won Mack
ensen, read a message from the eX-
Kaiser thanking all those who con-
tributed to restoring this memorial
of glorious deeds"
"OnIy through hard fighting lies
the way to victory" the formed Kali
ser declared in his message to his
"old comrades of the Imperial Army"
gathered at Breslau.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
WEALTHY SCABS
by a Worker Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
BALTIMORE, Md.-Three wealthy,
strong fellows signed up on the Am
erican- Hampton Roads steamship
Capulin for one cent a month.
Charles M. Conner, son of local
wealthy broker, and Carl Wasmuth
of Pittsburgh got jobs as utility
men," and the other boy, G. H..
Parker, Jr., of Franklin, Va, signed
on as deck boy.
The local bosses paper, The Balti-
more Sun, heralded their return from
Europe as though they achieved
some wonderful feat.
More than 1900 seamen are on
the beach now, men who are de-
pendent on the sea for living, must
stand by and starve while these flu
ture parasites sign on for one penny
a month.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
VOTE COMMUNIST FOR

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 or
debts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
, Has 1000 Bushels of Corn,
Bat No Clothes for His Child
BY Carman d. WEIGH

RAMSEY, IHOr March of this
made the statement that there actual starvation in this
mis- information.
haven't been 20 miles from home the last but
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
TOLEDO JOBLESS WIN RELIEF FROM CITY
AFTER OFFICIALS ORDER IT WITHDRAWN
Prolonged Demonstration Court House Lawn Forces Officials to
Appropriate $4,000
KALAMAZOO. COPS TRY
TO FRAME UNEMPLOYED
Police ChiefIssues confidential Note
Then Admits He Has No Facts

KALAMAZOO 24The Unemployed Council has
which that the Commissioner Police
the basis a frame of local militant workers.
Confidential Information"
heading "Coniden
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
Worker Correspondence
PITTSBURGH WORKERS
BLOCK FIVE EVICTIONS
Days Work of Unemployed Council
(By a Worker Correspondent

PITTSBURGH Pa.-The landlord
constable into workers evicted the
wife and baby meeting
night of the which
furniture back into the council
eviction
city is certainly playing its part
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
AT. OF |. OFFICIALS FEAR
PAINTERS UNITED FRONT
Alteration Painters Union Win Many Shops
Strikes in Greater New York
Bv JOE HARRIS

painting
Union
the miserable
union that the strike
as was improved conditions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
VOTE COMMUNIST

Against Imperialist War; for the
defense of the Chinese people and
of the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25

Against Imperialist War; for the
defense Of the Chinese people and
of the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
Khan Burns Cross


ling the militant anti-Jim Crow de-
lmonstration Of 200 white and Negro
young workers at Washington Park
here on AUGUST 18, the Ku Klux Klan
burned a fiery cross in the back of
the Unemployed Councils hall in the
Negro section of Denver. The Ku
lKlux Khan activities were undoub-
ltedly inspired by the city officials.
Five more workers were viciously
ATTACKED and beaten by police for
ATTENDING the trial of the so arrest
ed workers. The new victims Of po-
lice brutality were also thrown in
L Jail. All the witnesses who testified
on the police attack en- the demon
stration were arrested after leaving
the court room. They are being held
for criminal investigation"
The trial of the thirty workers
was so openly farcical that the crowd
Of workers in the courtroom booed
repeatedly. The iudge then ordered
the attendants to clear the court.
The Tntrenational LorNr Defense o~-
ganiser was fined fifty dollars al
thourh he YVES arrested five blocks
awav from the srcro o. the 4
strstioN ~ Washington Park yhon
TeFro md white worEsr7 hgal;o Gow
the Vim Crow rpac'lc-s sp0rT7rad
1r1 runNorto5 ~ No c'lv odm'n'v-
+re+'9r. w'lic' tnrs Nn~~oes from
hat''irr in the lakes IN TIRE mark
Denver workers IRE preparing a r'ant
rnaes do-none+ra tim nagt InrdaV to
demand the immediate release Of all
the IMPRISONED workers and the ahol-
ition of Jim Crowism at the parks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
FIGHT JIM-CROW
TERROR In WEST
BULLETIN

DENVER, Col, August 24.--Po-
lice Chief Clark yesterday ordered
the arrest of Harry /. Cohen after
Cohen had testified against the
savage police attack on the anti
Jim Grow demonstration at Wash
ington Park. Charles Quinn, an-
ether witness against the police,
was also arrested. Clark threatens
to drive both witnesses out of
town. They are being held in Jail
On vagrancy charges. Both wit
nesses blame the police for the
fighting at Washington Park.
Pat Toohey, District Organizer
of the Communist Party, Cohen,
Guinn ard three white girls are
set for trial today. Six white work.
ers, 16 Negro workers, three white
girls and one Negro Firl tOgether
with three members of the Pioneers
are also facing trial. The Inter
national Labor Defense is defend
ing the workers and urges organ-
izations throughout the country to
wire emphatic protests TO Mayor
Beg0ll of Denver.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25
Sept. Labor Unity
Just Off the Press

The SEPTEMBER L ABB o
UNITY is Just off the press, con-
tanning number of important ar
ticIes dealing especially with the
wave of struggles that is spread
ing all over the country.
Literature agents of all workers
organizations are requested to call
or write direct to the Central Of
flee of LABOR UNITY for their
bundles, as well IS for some new
trade union literature that is on
hand, at ROOM Ala, 2 w. 18TH
ST., NEW YORK CITY.
VOTE COMMUNIST FOR
Equal rights for the Negroes and
seIf-d determination in the Black
Belt.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25

VOTE COMMUNIST
Against capitalist terror; against
all forms OF suppression or the
political rights of workers.
Evening star., 1932-05-22

Full-fashioned picoted top silk hose,
including: All-silk chiffon. chiffon
with pleated Isle so;es, silk-top service
weight and three-length adjustable hose.
Street Floor.
Evening star., 1932-05-22

ing the prospect of court action, until
the tangle was speedily unraveled by
Thomas F. Roche, an employe of the
building inspectors Office engaged as
the Districts sign inspector. MFR. Roche
came to the rescue by producing copy
of the contract between the billboard
company and private property owners.
The contract proved beyond further
dispute that the billboard company had
retained its ownership in the boards.
When this conclusive evidence was
sprung upon the conference, the bill
board attorneys promptly counseled the
company to agree to the terms. Inc
unauthorized billboards were taken
down.