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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-26
ACTION OF N. s. l.. FORCES RE-
INSTATEMENT OF STUDENT


Dear Comrade Editor:
I am writing in an account of an
event which took place at Manley
High School here in Chicago and
resulted in swift victory for the
organized students forces.
The present week has been de-
signated by the American Legion as
American Week." In this connec-
ton some sort patriotic assembly
was held al -.-anley. Max Shain,
a student who has been very ac-
tive both in the Chicago Committee
against War and Fasoism and the
National Student League, asked the
Principal for an opportunity to pre-
cent the point of view of these Or
~anizations at the exercises. The
request was refused. During the as
ssmbly Shain refused to stand and
pledge allegiance, etc." expressing
his indignation against the jingoistic
rpeeches. A teacher bawled him out.
He would not be intimidated. Within
IN hour he was summoned to the
PRINCIPALS office and summarily dis
missed without hearing or explana-
ton.
He Immediately got In touch with
N. S. l.. leaders, and a campaign
was organized on the spot. The next
morning countless slogans were
challed w around the school, the
students were handed leaflets, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-26

In IeL4 =. .emark l
made to the effect that l had
heard that Russians do not
eat much dessert Comrade M.
Swetlowa sends another good
Russian recipe. He-or is it
she?- says, Russians do eat
dessert: here is a nice pastry
called
PROG
Rub one cup OF buocer 10 cream.
Add four cups OF Silteo flour, pinch
of salt, and tablespoon Of sugar.
Work these together until the flour
looks like SAND. Then take the yolk
OF an egg, and one half cup Of ice
water and work them into the flour
mixture lightly.
Divide the dough into two parts;
roll out one part and place on a
CREASED baking pan. Spread some
bread crumbs over it. Over this
spread pounds of apples that have
been peeled and cut fine and mixed
with one-half cup of sugar. Roll out
the other half of the dough, place on
top, and bake in hot oven"
7 hove Just firishcd making prog
according to this formula. but made
only half CT it. GA cup of butter-my
goodness) ] cheated when came to
the egg yolk, though. and put in
nearly the whole yolk instead Of
only half. And there were plenty of
apples in it too: had five apples for
two pounds, so used the three small
est ones, which made g. lot Of filling.
My oven was just little too hot.
The prog Drowned too quickly, es-
pecially since / glazed the top with
what egg-yolk was left in the cup.
Anyhow it came out great-the crust
is nice and tender
1 have heard that there are diff
ferent kinds of pirogs. (This one is
somewhat similar to the American
apple pie.) I think it could be varied
little by the addition Of bit Of
grated lemon rind. or a few chopped
nuts or raisins, to the filling. BY the
way, I turned IN the edge of the
lower crust little bit all around,
just in case the apple juice should
take notion to run out. 1t didn't.
We Got the Goods
Comrade P. H. w. of Croton-on-
Hudson sent us a package of rem
nants of material to be given to
children. AS Comrade Natalie had
more than enough Of such scraps to
fill the requests for them she re-
ceived from children when she an
nounced that she would distribute
them, we shall use these to make
for-9 thin~5 for the International
Labor Defense Bazaar. which takes
place in the middle of February, ]
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-26
Prosperity" Fades
Away at MOsSberg
Gun Establishment
lBy a WOrksr Correspondentl


NEW HAVEN, Conn.-About three
months ago, the o. S. Mossberg
Guns factory threw the Blue Eagle
outfit into a spasm of JOY. Look,
said they, prosperity is coming back.
Mossberg's is working "a hours a day,
three SHIFTS, lots of work Thou
sands rushed on the factory. Sorry,
boys said the Blue Eagle boomers,
We could put on as many more, but
we have not got the room. But
about two weeks ago the bonny Blue
Eagle folded up its wings and sailed
away from the factory, for smash
went things.
Half the workers were let go. Those
left are working three days week.
The women are getting one day a
week. Another part of what is left
IS going to get the gate next week.
so you can see things are bound to
-et worse.
was listening to a man who has
been working at the Winchester plant
since the year 1907 He told me q
man goes through the factory reg
ularly picking out those that are
working there a long number of
years. They are simply laid off, never
to return.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-26
PREPARING THE YOUTH FOR
WARM FASCIST GERMANY
AND DEMOCRATIC U.S.A.

Comrade Editor:
The new "educational', program
that Mr.. Hitler has in mind for
German schools reveals to the en-
tire world the stark, naked program
Of Fascism preparing for the next
world slaughterhouse. The eight
points in this program" are:
/. G ERMAN HISTORY: Elk
amples of comradeship, spirit OF
abnegation (self denial) OF energy
sacrifice of individual to the people
ID and the state.
2. GEOGRAPHY AND DRAW
ING: knowledge of maps, finding
of bearings on maps, observations
in the field.
8. MATHEMATICS: Land sur
veying, ground dwelling methods
estimation and measuring of dist
anceS in the field.
4. BIOLOGY: General hygiene
especially of the feet, first aid.
5. SWIMMING: Long distance
and life saving.
6. GYMNASTICS: obstacle races
climbing and crawling, field-practice
elementary elementary commands
and signals for mastering and march
ing.
7. CHEMISTRY. Poisonous gas
ses, protection against gases, pro-
lection against air attacks, incendi-
airy bombs, bursting bombs.
3. PHYSICS: Ballistics, wireless
telephony, and telegraphy, Morse
alphabet, meterology, use of marin
ers' compass, astronomy, orientation
and liaison servire by day and by
night, signalling.
The brutal spirit Of pre-war Prus-
sian militarisn egcin rides t iunl-
plant In the saddle, attempting tc
crush out the life and soul of the
toiling masses of Germany. THE
sons and daughters of the work ne
class are to be taught that mas
murder and destruction of people
is for the good of the state" that
the highest culture Is that Ct
knowing how to protect yourself
against military enemies.
Yet Is this so very different from
the methods "our" government rises
to h1ilitarize youth in the schools?
The beautiful uniforms the medals
and the guns, the pretty co-eds in
uniforms, the flags, the patriotic
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-26
Hayes Body Plant
Workers 90 PC. in
Rank, File Union
lBy Am Auto worker Correspondentl

(By An Auto Worker Correspondent
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich-The
Hayes Body and Continental Auto
mobile plants here are organized
about 80 per cent in the Auto Work
ers Union. The workers were offered
chance to Join an A. F. of L. fed
eral union, but by exposing A. F. Of
L. leadership tactics to the workers,
the Auto Workers Union proved that
a rank and file union was the only
union for the workers.
The union has compelled the COM
pany to grant a 20 per cent increase
in wages in the past, and recently
got them to furnish all periShab.e
tools, which has been bone of con-
tention here for IL or Is years. When
the union was started it was started
by nine men getting together and
discussing the need for organization.
They joined the A. w. q. and started
building their ranks by approaching
workers who could be trusted and
carefully taking in workers until they
were sure they were strong enough
w NOAAC OuO Ia VAC OPCAAs
When a strike threatened in Aug
ust, the A.W.U. came out in the open
and took united front stand with
the unorganized workers who had as
their leaders reactionarieS and COM
pany stool pigeons. The tactics of
these enemies of the working class
were exposed by the leadership of
the A.W.U., and the strike was won
with recognition of the Departmental
and Shop Committees, which we have
kept active ever since.
We believe that an organization can
be kept going only by having a pro-
gram and following it, by activizing
all workers and constantly developing
new leadership.
At this writing the Hayes Body and
Continental auto plants are shut
down. Quite a number of the work
ers are working in the Kelvinator
Corp. plant and are starting an in
dustrial union there. They have been
told that this plant is 100 per cent
organized by the A. F. of L., but the
workers in the plant say different
They are anxious to find out more
about industrial unionism. About one
half the workers who have joined the
A. F. of L. don't know what the A
F. of L. stands for except that they
are told the government is back Of
them.
There is a deep unrest growing
in the plant and the need for higher
wages is felt by all workers. Unless
the workers join rank and file unions
they can arbitrate forever and moi
| better their conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-26
Graduate Chemist Gets $40
For 40 Hours i'm Ink Factory
Gets That Much After College Training and
Long Work in Laboratories

in plain talk. The American Chem
zeal Society tells me that their sole
object is to advance the welfare OF
chemists; they fail to explain how
they are doing this; they somehow
fail to realize that the wages chemists
earn have a certain effect upon che
welfare of such chemists.
1t is my observation that the
chemists are not yet class conscious
many of them feel they are members
of the great American middle class
They fail to realize that today this
class is neither great nor middle;
Take, for instance, the chemists
who work together with me. The
man in charge, whose salary is $40
per week, is college graduate, with
many years of experience in the fac
tories of millionaire ink and color
manufacturers. However, this man
feels that it is not dignified for pro-
fessional CD men to belong to a
Union, and cannot understand that
without organization he is at the
mercy of the boss.
I myself have spent four years and
plenty of money going to college to
become a graduate chemist. I have
put in several years of hard work in
laboratories and factories besides
Now 1 am paid $40 a week for 40
hour week,
My wife and I cannot afford our
own apartment, and live with rela-
tives. In college, I showed more than
average ability. I was chemical
student. In factory laboratories,
took an interest in my work and per-
formed my duties capably and salts
factorily. Therefore, cannot be-
lieve that my small wages are due to
incompetence. I have met chemists
with more training than myself, who
were offered jobs at even less than
$40 per week.
In conclusion, I am constant
reader of your paper, which con-
slider a very good one.
Editors Note: The chemist was
Immediately put in touch with the
organization to which he should
belong, the Federation of Architects,
Engineers, Chemists and Techni-
clans, at 232 Seventh Ave-, N. Y. C.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-26
Letters from Our Readers

speeches and all the rest of it, that
the youngsters in the R.O.T.C. are
taught to glory in, are they not
essentially the same Qualification of
militarisln as Mr.. Hitler?
The other day a student in one
of the Chicago schools was sus-
pended because he refused to take
an oath of allegiance to the Amer
lean flag. He was reinstated only
on the mass protest raised through
out the city. Things like that hap
pen very often, and are no acct
dent; they are part of a thought
out and conscious plan for glorify-
ing patriotism and "our" country.
just as much as we expose the
actual, military and political prep
arations for war to the masses Of
the people, SO we must continually
and relentlessly expose the ideologi-
cal preparation of the minds of our
youth for the poison Of militarism
and war. M G.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-26
Antonio Rea Tells How Sick
Workers Are Treated i'm USSR
Gets Free Hospital Care at Full Pay Even
Though He Worked Only One Month

(By a Steel Worker Correspondent
(Antonio Rea, the steel worker
who was arrested for his militancy
and ordered deported, and for
whom the International Labor De-
Tense won a voluntary departure
to the Soviet Union, tells in the
following letter how he is getting
along in the land where the work
ers rule.)
KHARKOv, U.S.SR.-When ask
ed for a job in the Soviet Union,
somebody in the Office asked me,
What organization do you belong
to?" I told him the International
Labor Defense, and he says. "All
right, it is a good workers organi-
zation." Now I will take you into
the steel mill and let you look over
the jobs. I got job at $50 rubles
month.
Now I want to tell you friends /
worked one month and fell sick. l
went to see the doctor. He said, "You
need good rest. Go to the hospital y
Now I am in the rest house and
everything is free, and get my $50
rubles month just the same as
when I worked.
When I worked in the United
States at the tube pipe plant In
Washington, Washington County, Pa,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-26
lBy a Graduate Chemistl

NEW YORK; am a graduate
chemist, with B. S. Degree, and
several years of practical experience
At present l am employed in an ink
factory as a chemist, at $40 week
Interested in knowing how earnings
of ink chemists employed in manu-
facture of printing ink compare with
salaries of other types of skilled labor
I formulated the following three
questions:
I. How many chemists are en-
ployed in printing ink factories in the
U. s.?
2. What do such chemists earn
yearly at PRESENT.
3. What was the average salary OF
such chemists during the period If
1914-18, 1929?
1 wrote to the Census Bureau;
U. S. Department of Labor; United
Typothetae of America: international
Printing Ink Co.; National Associa-
ton of Printing Ink Makers; Amer
lean Chemical Society. None of these
six seem able to answer these ques-
lions, or even gives an estimate Of
the approximate figures.
In other words, no chemist has any
idea of the wages paid in his pro-
fession or trade, no private or gov
ernmental organization has any idea
of what such wages may be, and even
the associations of chemists seem tc
have the idea that chemists should
show no interest in wages. Perhaps
it is assumed that chemists should
live on theories, formulas, and chem
ical books, instead of on three square
meals of food day.
What Does American Chemical
Society Offer?
I have just received a letter from
the American Chemical Society. This
organization has just sent me a
pamphlet explaining the advantages
I would gain by paying SO to joir
their society. These advantages arr
explained in vague yet glowing terms
which, however, remind me too much
of the New Leader" editorial page
leaving me with the feeling that
have read some excellent English
prose which means little or nothing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-26
Hamburg Dock
Workers Eager
to Read Daily
(By a Worker Correspondent)

ENROUTE TO THE U.S.S.R.-We
are now about Is hours away from
the Workers Republic and on the
north Baltic. Had very interesting
trip-three days in London, three
days in Hamburg, Germany. To-
morrow morning at about five, we
arrive in port.
In coming into Hamburg from the
sea, it seems as if one were viewing
the remains of some lost civilization
(perhaps, they are). Miles and miles
of docks and loading craneS-all
standing idle, only the gulls flying in
and out to give it life. The Soviet
boat, Rykoff, that we are on, was the
only one of any size that was doing
my loading or unloading.
The great wharf and warehouses
stand there unused, the rails leading
up to them are rusty with weed grow
ing between them. This vast equip
ment stands there rotting, while the
population of Hamburg is slipping
back to savagery. Hundreds of ocean
going ships are tied up and stand
there rocking on the water. We load
ed green COW hides for three DAYS,
so the Russians should have shoes for
the next five years. We also have
Swiss cheese that we took on, several
carloads of Swedish ball bearings
steel, and a live African lion.
Eager for Daily Worker
While the German crew was on
board loading hides, I came across
the deck with London paper under
my arm. Three of the crew came
running over and wanted to see it.
When they discovered that it was the
Times, they were disappointed.
I'VE want to see the Daily Worker, !"
they said. "All we get here is lies.
I told him might be able to find
some of them too, if were sure that
he wasn't a Hitler spy. 1 took a
chance, he hid them in his clothing
and they were all highly pleased. He
said that If he were caught with
them, it would be a concentration
camp and torture.
Everywhere one sees Nazi uniforms.
Kids wear them as we'll as grown
ups. They carry big knives and re-
volvers, as if they were in front
line trench. The knives have etched
on the blade, Blood and Honor" and
Blood and Revenge"
One sees them in all port store
windows. In their newspapers under
birth notices they print Happy
Birthday to another Hitler Baby
and Thus we will beat France" In
general, the people would say nothing
for or against Hitler, just shrug their
shoulders and grin. However, when
we were discovered to be Americans,
in many cases they weren't SO re-
served.
There was a definite feeling against
him among the workers. They say,
"He is doing all he can for the rich,
but is making it worse for the COM
mon people" One sailor said he had
been out Of work for five years
and was now getting two marks o
week (75c) to live on. For the last
half hour the sea has been covered
with floating timbers. Apparently a
lumber boat must have been wrecked
in the storm last night.
There are good many Germans
on the boat going to the Soviet Union
to work, and about Is children of
Soviet representatives in Germany
are going to the Soviet Union for
schooling. due to the things being
taught in the schools in Germany.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-26

in 1922, every worker was forced to
give $40 each for building hospital.
Those who did not give $40 were
fired. About the end of 1929 this
mill shut down tight.
Hazel Atlas Glass Co. also COL
lected money from workers for the
hospital. But you know that If you
go to the hospital and you do not
have the money you will die like
dogs on the road.
It is up to you workers and friends
of the workers to build strong LID.
in the U.S.A. We must fight for our
own benefit and turn the guns against
the capitalist class. I toured for one
month all over Russia. I never saw
starvation as in the U.S.A.
In the Soviet Union a coal digger
works four out of five days, and the
day men work six hours day and
get $50 to 875 rlbles month. We
don't see big men in white shirts
who make us work like mules, be-
cause what We make belongs to us
and not to Morgan or Ford or Mel
lon.
Comradely
ANTONIO REA,
N. II Karl Marx st.
Hospital No. 3.
Kharkov, U.S.S.R.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-26

ated machine hands. They pay on
the average 5 cents an hour less than
the National Production Co., where
1 formerly worked.
The boss on the day shift, a big
eyed, bow-legged fellow, who tries
to act tough, told me to come in and
start at $3.50 pm, at 80 cents per
hour. At $40 by their own clock ]
had made my appearance. He
looked at me several times, but as
by this time, the clock registered ABS
and still he didn't put me to work.
I inquired: when do start?" He
led me to a bench. rolled up my
sleeves and began working on die
about IS per cent completed by the
day man.
A fellow named 'Augie" Augustine,
who is scared stiff Of his job, had
been watching me very closely.
asked the day-shift foreman to OK,
my card (time card) from $3.50, but
he refused.
This practice of stealing time on
the diemakers is carried on by all
the cheap, slave driving shops. All
respectable shops pay a man from
the appointed time if he is on hand.
"Augie" Augustine was my foreman
and was formerly connected with the
Kestlin Tool and Die Co., another
slave shop. "Augie' is supposed to
be an MESA. man, but as such ]
would say he is a disgrace to the or
ganization.
OF course we must do days work
But to carry on along "Augie's" style,
who makes a fellow member of the
same outfit feel miserable because
the boss made him straw-boss
ought to be condemned.
These puppet bosses go around
yelling: PUT it in the fire, put it in
the fire!" They want to get dies out
like Henry Ford puts out his tin lizzies
yelling around until they are blue
under the gills.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-26

The 18th Plenum of the &C. en-
phasized that the slight beginnings in
carrying out the Open Letter has
been of a very uneven character;
some important districts (Cleveland)
have hardly participated in this adj
vance" The Cleveland District
Plenum held in the beginning Of
November affirmed this Judgment
stating:
This enlarged District Committee
meeting endorses the resolution Of
the 18th Plenum of the Central Com
mittee and recognizes that its char
acterization of the work in the Cleve-
land District is correct"
1--WE recognize that the main causes
Of our tagging behind, despite few
advances in trade union and unem-
ployed work, which indicate posi-
bilities rather than basis for sat-
isfaction, have been correctly en-
phasized in the Central Committee
resolution. An additional reason has
been the weakness Of the District
leadership during the past period to
carry effectively into life the Open
Letter"
The events since the issuing of the
Open Letter, in Ohio, as elsewhere,
proved the correctness of its analysis.
Workers Develop Strike Struggles
The workers of Ohio during the
summer developed a series of i'm
portant strike struggles. The most
important of these was the Weirton-
Steubenville steel strike Of 10000 in
which the Communist Party and
S.M.WIU. played very small part,
limited to few leaflets and meetings
after the workers had declared the
strike against advice of company and
A. F. of L. officials. A series of
smaller. strike struggles took place in
Cleveland, some of them initiated
and led by T.U.UL. unions. In
youngstown, small department strikes
in the Republic Mill took place
under the SM.WIU. leadership.
Many strikes were initiated by the
workers where the party was too
slow or completely isolated and the
A. F. of l.. took over the leadership,
invariably selling out the workers
through NR.A. negotiations.
While several thousand were re-
cruited to the T.U.UL. urtons during
this period, about 1900 of these have
been consolidated into locals or
groups with dues paying member
ship. While recognizing these posi-
tive sides, compared with situation
previously where no T.U.U.L. existed
the District Plenum resolution en-
phasized that the few advances in
trade union and unemployed work,
indicates possibilities, rather than a
basis for satisfaction" 1t is i'm
portant to emphasize that this union
work was not the activity of the
Party as whole but too much the
work of a few top comrades with the
help of individual comrades from in
terested units OF the Party. In prac-
tically no case was it result of
Party members working in factories
with the assistance Of their unit On
the outside, that resulted In strike
struggles or union organization. :.
A burning problem confronting the
unions already established is to see
that they continue active work, in
the shops, meeting the new offensive
of the MIRA. This can be done
most successfully if they are given
the greatest opportunity to develop