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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07
START ON NEGRO
FILM THIS YEAR
By ALAN MCKENZIE
(Menber BLACK and White" Group

MOSCOW, March 6 (By Radio
gram).-1n a special interview with
the directors OF the MeschrabpomfiIm
organization regarding Black and
White the film OF the life of the
American Negro masses, whose pro-
duction was postponed last August, 1
was informed that the scenario is
now being rewritten by Grebner and
production will start before the end
of the year.
The mistakes of the previous see
mario will be eliminated, while new
artistic, theological and technical ma
terial will be added. The scenario
will be ready by August, and from
August to November the technical
arrangements for the film will be
completed. The actual filming will
start in December.
The picture will be made in Mos
COW and wherever the location is
suitable. A minimum of mass scenes
are scheduled to be made in the
United States, if possible. The direc-
tor has not yet been decided on, but
someone with wide experience will be
secured.
In casting the film, members of
the former group who were brought
here from the United States last year
will be given preference where their
types are in accord with the new
scenario. Their expenses will be paid
in full
The postponement of the produc-
ton of the film, BLACK and White, -
made necessary last August because
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07

penetrate. The class enemy wages
a struggle for reducing the area sown
and lowering the yield"
Prepare Spring Sowing.
Local conferences were also held in
the Moscow region, Dniepro- Petrovs
region in Ukraine and similarly
throughout the other regions Great
mobilization everywhere promises the
success of the spring campaign and
the early liquidation of shortcomings
in management of the collectives, as
well as ruthless struggle against the
kulak diSrupters.
Eight hundred workers at Dniepro-
stroy Power Dam volunteered to go
to the collective farms to help get
things ready for the spring sowing.
One hundred of the best "udarniks'
(shock- workers. were chosen from
among the volunteers. This is typical
Of the tie which exists between the
workers and peasants throughout the
Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07
ALBANY MEET
SCORES ENEMIES
Purpose Is to Unite
Toilers, Not Split Them

ALBANY, N. Y, March Sat the
first session of the Workers Confer
ence the delegates listened to a re-
port by Carl Winters of the Unem-
ployed Councils and a speech by C.
A. Hathaway Of the Communist
Party.
The first speaker in the discussion
after Winters report was the Love
Stoneite, Herman. Herman's main
argument was that the Socialist lead
erS should have been in the confer
ence and were not because Of failure
OF the leaders of the conference, all
Of whom he labelled Communist, to
properly invite the Socialists. Hatha-
way showed that they were invited
the general call of the conference
having been sent to the state COM
mittee Of the Socialist Party along
with all other organizations. But the
Socialist leaders did not come be-
cause they are on record Hathaway
read from the New Leader of Feb. 49,
in favor of the Byrne fake insurance
bill.
Wen meet the Socialist leaders in
the capitol. and they will be there on
the side of Tammany,' said Hatha-
way. I'VE can only state that il
Herman comes proposing, as others
here will also propose, a united front
with Tammany, that he is acting as
the agent of Tanmany." tGreat ap-
plause and laughter)
The Others" referred to we're the
Trotzkyites. Cannon. their CHIEF
spokesman in America, is also pres
ent at the conference.
Previously Hathaway analysed the
so-called unemployment bills" nov
before the legislatures. He showed
they are all modelled on the Wiscon.
sin plan, which is one of unemploy-
ment reserves, company by company
for its own workers, and not unem-
ployment insurance, even where the
company pays the whole cost of in
surance. All provide for payment OF
a few weeks, 10 to Is in each year
and all provide waiting period. AL
provide nothing for the 100000 tC
100000 now unemployed, and offer
something only to those who become
unemployed in the future. The Byrne
and Mastick bills before the New
York legislature are of this type.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07
HATHAWAY AT LIST
ALBANY SESSION
Social In surance Is
Greatest Need Now

ALBANY, N. Y, March 6.-The
Workers Conference closed its first
days session last night before an
applauding throng, swept to a high
pitch OF enthusiasm by the stirring
speech OF c. A. Hathaway, speaking
in the name Of the Communist Party
Hathaway was received by the
delegates standing and applauding
when he walked on to the stage, and
even before he was introduced by
Sam Weissman, yesterday elected
chairman Of the conference. F. Cary,
delegate of the Shoe and Leather
Workers Industrial Union, woman
worker, was yesterday elected secre-
tary of the conference.
Burning Need for Insurance.
Hathaway began by pointing to the
burning need today for social insur-
ance, of which unemployment insur-
ance is the most important.
But in social insurance in its
broadcast aspect" said Hathaway, lis
an issue on which all workers, native
and foreign-born, Negro and white,
men and women, adults and youth,
employed and unemployed, can be
united for struggle, and we must
carry forward this struggle, to mass
strikes, leading finally to the general
strike
This point he drove home again
at the end of his report, amidst the
enthusiasm of the delegates: The
struggle will start on Tuesday, when
we present demands to the legisla-
| ture for adoption of our bills. We
should not crawl on our bellies to
the governor and capitalist hench-
men. If we came to them asking
them to please give us unemployment
| insurance because we are hungry
and our families are starving, they
would sheer at us and throw US out
But we must go to them with de-
mands, telling them that if they re-
ject us, we Will go back and mob
ilize tens of thousands Of workers
moving in waves against them until
they have to grant what they would
like to refuse. Every worker, young
! and old, must find expression of his
needs in our demands. This confer
ence cannot call a general strike
but if it sets in motion series Of
rent strikes, relief bureau struggles
and if in the midst of this we propa-
gandize the general strike, and Wher
through the partial struggles more
strength and training is gained, 8
movement will be built UP that will
eventually sweep all capitalists Out
Of the seats OF power and place the
workers there"
Another thing emphasized By
Hathaway, to the delight Of the con.
ference, was that the conference wa
being held in spite of the sabotage
of the Socialist, A. F.. of L. leaders
LoYestoneites and Csnnonites.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07
A Good Program
Wednesday Night at
Sc0ttsbOrO Benefit

NEW YORK.-A spectacular pro-
gram. with four bands and group
Of famous Negro artists, has been
arranged for the Scottsboro Benefit
Dance this Wednesday night, March
8 at the Savoy Ballroom, Lenox Ave-
nue. and l4Oth Street. The program
includes Fletcher Henderson and his
band, Red Mckenzie and his band,
Bonnie Carter and his band, Monette
Moore Of Flying Colors," Chiffon
and Thomas, dancers, and the Three
Black Dots, dancers. Tickets are SO
cents, and are on sale at the Work.
ers Bookshop, so East 18th Street,
the John Reed Club, and 80 East 18th
Street, Room COL.
The affair is arranged by the
Scottsboro Unity Defense Committee,
q Harlem group organized around
the fight for the Scottsboro Boys.
The group already has had two large
mass meetings in Harlem churches,
and Is doing excellent work in mobiI-
izing the Negro people Of Harlem in
behalf Of the Scottsboro boys.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07
MANY REGIONAL FARM MEETS IN
U.S.S R. PREPARE SPRING SOWING
800 Workers of Power Dam Go to Collective
Farms to Aid Drive

MOSCOW, U.S.S.R. (By Radio
gram) Numerous regional confer
ences of the collective farm shock
workers are now taking place, follow
ing the historic All-Union Collective
Farm Congress i'll Moscow.
The Conference in Northern eau
casus showed high spirit Of Bolshe-
visit determination to carry out the
decisions Of the Moscow Congress,
making good the shortcomings of last
year, carrying out the full program
for the spring sowing and wedding
out the remnants Of kulak (rich
farmer counter-revolution
Addressing this conference, Kali
min said: ITO work like you did last
year, will not do. The past year
showed that the majority of couec-
tive farms are sound, strong estab-
lishments. But, among the collec-
tive members there are still plenty
of loafers. In many collective farm
kulaks, white gusrdists managed to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07
Districts Continue to Lag as
Bank Crisis Increases Danger

Only a long delayed contribution
of s376.46 from the International
Workers order enabled Saturdays
total in the Daily Worker $4,000
drive to hit the sum of $66003 New
York raised $15s63 of this total, the
other districts being scattered be-
hind with small sums. Minnesota
(s2s02), Boston ($24.85) and Pitts
burgh ($22.77), were the only other
districts that raised over $50 for the
day. With The exception Of Cleve-
land and Detroit, none Of the other
districts hit the $40 mark.
Nothing at all came in from seven
districts: Kansas City, North and
South Dakota, Seattle, Connecticut,
North and South Carolina, Alabama
Florida and Colorado.
Both large and small districts
must speed all funds to the Daily"
now! AS much money as possible
must be raised before the two Tag
Days on March II and IL, which will
start the last big collection-o offensive
of the present drive.
So far only four districts have
raised so per cent of their quotas!
Four out Of nineteen!
The banking crisis has greatly in
creased the danger to the Daily"
and makes immediate funds essential
Let's have every district do all in its
power to send in a flood of contribu-
tons to keep our most powerful
weapon from being destroyed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07

jumped up saying, what the he'll
difference does it make if theyrs
farmers CT not? They helped us-snd
we're going to get them out If you're
not!'
The workers in fail were being held
under the charges OF "inciting 10
riot" "disorderly conduct" resisting
an officer, etc, When they came up
for trial few days after the ssovs
meeting was held, 200 farmers
crowded the courtroom, the stairway
and overlooked 70 the street. Berg,
the International Labor Defense al
I, ney from Milwaukee, represented
The defense. The district attorney,
after looking the crowd Of farmers
over, informed the judge that all
charges had been dropped except
disorderly conduct.
Mistakenly, the four workers
pleaded guilty to this charge ard
we're released with suspended SEN
fences and costs OF stso which
was paid by the farmers who
had thousand dollars ready II the
ietepss .-0rsas q -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07

By V. l. LENIN
THE second anniversary of the
1 Soviet Power compels us to make
a general survey and evaluation of
the Importance and aims Of the &C
complished revolution.
The bourgeoisie ard its adher-
ents accuse us OF breaking the rules
of democracy, while we assert that
the revolution gave an unheard OF
impetus to the development in all
directions of democracy for the
toiling oppressed masses-conse-
quently socialistic democracy (for
the workers., in distinction to a
democracy for the rich, exploiters
and capitalists)
Who is right;
To consider this question tho
roughly, to get a clear understand
ing-means to take into account
the experience Of these two years
and to develop this further.
The position of women shows
clearly the difference between
bourgeois and socialistic democra-
cies and offers a straight answer
to the above question.
In bourgeois republic, (where
private ownership exists of land,
shops, factories, etc., be it the
most democratic republic, nowhere
in the world have women acquired
complete equality with men. And
that in spite of the fact that more
than half a century has passed
since the great French bourgeois
democratic) revolution.
The bourgeois democracy is a de-
words only promises equality and
freedom. In fact, however, not even
the most advanced bourgeois re-
public offers to the female half of
humankind either lawfully equal
rights with men, or freedom from
mans custody and oppression.
The bourgeois democracy is a de-
mocracy of Understanding words,
pompous words, empty promises,
solemn slogans for freedom and
equality, in order to cover up the
lack of freedom for women as we'll
as for all the exploited toiling
masses.
Away with these infamous lies!
There cannot be and will not be
any equality between oppressors
and oppressed, exploiters and ex-
plotted. There cannot and will not
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07

be any real freedom, as long as the
workers and toiling peasants are
not free from the yoke Of capitalists
landlords and merchants, as long
as women have to give up their
privileges legally for the benefit
During these two years the So
Wet Union, which was the most
backward country in all Europe,
Gid more for the liberation of wom-
en-, for her equality with the
stronger" sex, than all the ad-
vanced, enlightened democratic"
republics in the world put together
have Gone in the period of 1870
years.
CULTURE, civilization, freedom
v all those pompous words are
connected in all the capitalist,
bourgeois republics of the world
with the most base, disgustingly
filthy, beastly laws for. women's
inequality, laws for matrimonial
rights and divorce, for the Unequal
ity Of children born out of wedlock
with those lawfully" born, priv
legged laws for men and huipiliating
insulting laws for women.
The yoke of capitalism, the OPP
preston resulting from sacred
private ownership despotism of
petti-bourgeois stupidity. narrow
minded greediness-all these fac
tors stand in the way of removing
or even of attempting to epcroach
upon those filthy, beastiy laws.
The Soviet Republic of workers
and peasants swept out all such
laws, did not leave a stone I'M
turned in the edifice of bourgeois
lies and hypocrisy.
Down with the liars who talk
of freedom while there is an OPP
pressed sex, oppressed classes, while
there is private ownership of capt.
tai and land, while a few enjoy
wealth in order to enslave the
hungry. Our slogans are:
Freedom and equality for the
oppressed sexi
Freedom and equality for the
workers and toiling peasants!
Fight against oppressors, capt
talists, profiteers, kulaks!
These are our militant slogans
our proletarian truth by which we
challenge the world capitalism with
its sugar-coated, hypocritical pom
pous phrases about freedom and
equality for all.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07

rally still broader support for
the demands in order to force
the state legislature to grant
them.
The farmer delegates also sent a
cable Of solidarity greetings to the
German workers and farmers in their
struggle against the fascist dictator
ship
Adopt Demands
The demands presented to the
legislature included: cash relief; ad-
ministration of relief by committees
Of farmers; no evictions, and mora
forum on foreclosures, taxes, inter
est and rent; the establishment Of q
price-regUlating body Of farmers and
consumers to raise prices Of farm
products and reduce prices to con-
sumers the defeat Of all legislation
aiming TO raise farm prices at the
expense Of the consumers; the defeat
of all legislation based on the sur
plus production" theory; the enact
ment of legislation supplying produc-
ton credit to all farmers.
Calls for Song
After the demands we're read in
the Senate, the chairman OF the dele
cation. dirt farmer from the Red
River Valley, rose and said: Though
some of you Senators were attentive
others closed their eyes and went to
sleep. I therefore call upon the
farmers here present to sing our
song, Solidarity to wake up thoSc
who are sleeping"
With a roar the farmers burst into
their song No Senators were asleep
at the end
The Committee for Action will cal
united front meetings in every COUNTY
in the state and will work in CO.
operation with farmers and worker
Of other parts Of the country.
Farmers Pack Arizona Senate
PHOENIX, Ariz. CBy aiD.-Uni-
formed police were placed in the gal
lery of the Arizona Senate as Salt
River farmers gathered to demand
consideration Of the Phillips CourJ
discretionary real estate mortgage
foreclosure moratorium bill
The farmers demanded that relief
be given TO the farmers, who are los
ing their homes by the thousand
daily. The galleries we're packed with
approximately 500 farmers. and many
were in the halls Of the capitol
building.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07
GOVERNOR URGES STAG
GER SYSTEM ON HIGHWAY
WORK

PHOENIX, Ariz.-Governor B. 3.
Moeur, who attended conference OF
his henchmen, the Arizona state
highway commission on February g.
urged it to stagger employment in
the department to create more jobs.
Moeur urged that this policy be
adopted until conditions improve SO
as to furnish work for persons now
unable to secure other work. This Is
obviously another attempt to place
the burden OF the crisis on the work
ing masses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07
(story of japanese Soldier In the
Utsunomiya Division, who came
back from Manchuria.)

back from Manchuria.)
I'VE we're dispatched directly to the
W interior of Ku Shiang district
Immediately after the Shanghai war
was over. None of us liked war, SO
that when our first fixed period of
two months stay was postponed to
three months and then finally to sew
en- months, we we're full of indigna-
ton. The officers become aware of
this and tacitly permitted us to plum
der whatever we could find in the
villages in order to soothe us and
turn aside our indignation. Military
discipline had been ignored for a few
months now.
Officsrs Make Living on War.
What we were most anxious about
was the starvation in our own vii
lage and about our parents and
brothers. What irritated us most was
the fact that the officers made their
living on the war and received good
salaries while we soldiers were al
ways exposed to the danger of losing
our lives as our compulsory duty to
the emperor, and yet we received lit
tie pay.
So, at last, even when an officer
commanding us from behind said,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07

OF an unsatisfactory scenario, was
the occasion for vicious slanderous
attacks on the Soviet Union in the
capitalist press of the world by three
OF the members of the group of
Negro actors and intellectuals who
had been brought to the Soviet Union
to produce the picture.
The other members of the group
OF %, which included the noted
Negro poet, Langston Hughes, quick
ly exposed these ISLANDERS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07
DEsTITUTIoN IN OIL FIELDS

NEW ORLEANS, lathe people
working in the oil fields near here
have no picnic. The conditions are
terrible. The vast majority are un-
employed and for homes they live in
Hoovervilles, shacks built from
scraps OF wood, paper and tin.
For relief they depend upon the
Red Cross (the crooks, which is
now we'll known to be a grating or
ganization upheld by the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation.
Wherever you turn in this part of
the oil country, you see towns shut
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07

Your letters must arrive three days
in advance of publication addressed
to Worker Correspondence Dept.
Order an extra bundle for special dis
tribution when you send the letter.
District d. w. agents, organize spe-
cial distribution at selected places.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07

is IS cents.
The wages went down, the prices
went down Why don't they reduce
the price of the newspapers? The
trusts which control the newspapers
get the profits. The workers get the
wage cuts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07
NEGRO REFORMISTS SABOTACES THE
UNITED FRONT IN CARLOCK CASE
Repeat Memphis That Lad Was Killed While
Fleeing Arrest

g. behind the de-
hands Of the international Labor Defense for death penalties for the six uniformed lynch
rapidly Advancement
Cded People ms organizing their smash the for
in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07
237 DELEGATES AT NORTH DAKOTA FARM
RELIEF MEET ADOPT PROGRAM OF ACTION
Legislature; Solitary Cable German
Masses, Committee of Al to Build Broad United Front

counties tday relief conference here
prsen thei demands
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07

Build a workers correspondence
group In you< factory, shpp OF
nsighbcrhood. Send regular letters
10 the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07
Soviet Power and the Position
of Women

Excerpts article Working Page"
OF the Prayda November T. 1919
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-01-11
House Shows HEAVY
SENTIMENT AGAINST
DROPPING farm BILL
Defeats Motion to Strike Out
Measures Enacting Clause
161 to 100
JONES FORCED SHOWDOWN
Efforts to Include Hogs, Flax
Seed and Corn in Program
Are Beaten

Washington, Jan. ll.-(AP)-The
house showed In larger majorities
Wednesday an overwhelming senti-
ment against killing the emergency
farm bill.
It rejected, 16l to 100, a motion to
strike out the measures enacting
clause which, If carried, would have
ended the bill.
Then quickly, after a plea from
Chairman Jones not to further add or
subtract from the commodities In the
plan, house members divided l89 to
1913 against eliminating hogs.
an amendment to include flaxseed
also was voted down as was one to
include corn.
The vote on the enactment clause
was forced by Jones himself. who said
I'VE might as well have q show down
on this BILL"
Goss, Connecticut Republican who
originally sought to force the ballot,
had expressed a willingness to fore
go 1t.
Said Bill Was Dead
Earlier, Senator Dickinson (Rep.,
Iowa. had told President Hoover the
bill was dead"
One the chief Republican foes
at the capitol, Clarke Of New York,
predicted its passage by the house
and the vote on the enacting clause
seemed to bear him out.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-01-11
To Hold Philbrick
Funeral Thursday

Funeral services for John r. Phil
brick. picturesque Bismarck pioneer
who died last Saturday, will be con-
Quoted from Perry's Funeral Home
here at 2 p. m. Thursday.
Rev. Floyd E. Logee. pastor Of the
Presbyterian church, will officiate and
burial will be made in Fairview Gene
terry.
Special music will be sung by Henry
Halverson, Of the Grand Pacific hotel.
Pallbearers will be Clarence w. and
Robert A. Ritterbush and four mem
bers Of the local bar association.
George M. Register, G. F. Dullam. E.
Is Allen and Alfred Zuger.
Philbrick came here as an attorney
SO years ago. served in several state
and county official positions. and Il.
ter became an extensive property
holder. During his last years he
sought solitude, living much Of the
time in q hut In the Missouri river
bottoms several miles south Of the
city.