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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-24
Small, Rocky Isle of Sakhalin
Is Example of Soviet Progress

sea, the storm" sakhalin needed
/ daring, disciplined, untiring pioneers
Of Soviet colonization.
They came-fifteen hundred Young
Communists from the mainland. And
how they went into the depths Of
the gloomy Sakhalin forests, SOW,
without horses, without transport,
short Of clothing and rations, they
built the Young Communist Combine
out Of the stuff Of revolutionary zeal.
Is one OF the most stirring ssgas OF
new Soviet Sakhalln. And to the
shores of Sakhalin came red partizans
like Kuharsky, Black Sea fishermen
with bodies riddled with civil war
bullets to build fishermen's collectives
and net the flooding shoals Of herring
and salmon for the U.SS.R. a--
Caterpillar tractors, ploughs, now
ing machines, American saw mills,
shook the ancient ways Of the island.
Hospitals, schools, day nurseries, Of
fices, clubs, communal dining rooms,
communal dwellings, signalled the
cultural sproutings Of a new life. The
grandsons Of the conyictS were build
ing Socialism. The Guilyaks, the
Tunguses, the tiny primitive natiou-
alities, left their witch-dOctors, their
mud-houses, their diets of raw living
fish They built their own Soviet.
They sent their delegates to the ALI
Russian Congress,
I'VE are Guilyaks of slaya village"
said Prigan, delegate. I'VE have
left our smoky huts. We have built
houses. They are better to live I'M
There's only one communal house."
said another, "snd all the members,
can't live in it. it's not the house
that's important but the fact that it's
a common house and we all live in
common. The working man is
building himself mansion to live
in.
Today, Soviet Sakhalin, rich in oil,
coal, timber and fish, forgets its
dreaded past OF Devils Island-te-
day it is a Treasure Island" Of the
US.S.R., q great potential basis Of
fuel supply and export m the Far
East. ~
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speak against it on the floor9

MFR. DICKSTEIN did not oppose the
WI bill He did not speak against it.
When, as chairman of the House
Committee on immigration, he
moved ito suspend the rules and
pass the bill' he demonstrated in
the most compelling manner his COM
plete approval of the bill.
A complete united front was eff
fected in order to push the bill
through. Dickstein yielded his time
to political opponents" in order to
enable them to speak for the bill.
Chief among these was Hamilton
Fish.
After Dickstein had yielded three
minutes to the gentleman from New
York" Fish rose and said;
II congratulate the gentleman
from Texas (Dies) and his COM
mittee for bringing in legislation
of this kind. These alien Comnu-
nists do not fear our police, our
courts, or our jaiIs. The only thing
they fear is to be deported back
home. hope the members of
this House will be afforded a
chance to go ON record in favor of
this legislation, so that they can
so back home and tell the people
of their districts that they took the
first opportunity to vote to get rid
of the alien Communists in the
u. s."
Unfortunately, Fish did not get the
chance to go on record, nor. appar-
emily, did Congressman Dickstein.
The latter, elected from a congested
tenement district, was evidently not
so eager to go on record.
IN HIS speech Bachmann said that
L the Dies bill follows the recon-
mendations made by the committee
appointed to investigate. Communist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-24
1T Must Have Been Some Other Guy"
Said the Gentleman from New York
Congressional Record
Tells a Different
Story, Though

activities in the U. S., Of which I
was a member and Mr.. Fish was
chairman"
Moreover, of all the bills TO be
introduced, Fish found the Dies
bill most satisfactory, because it
not only called for the deportation
of militant workers, but it would
also require the enlargement of the
federal spy bureaus 70 enforce the
act.
The bill would permit deportation
of members of the Communist Party,
militant unions, and fraternal organ
izations merely for private opinions
or membership, and without proof Of
the character of the organization to
which they belong.
Passed by the House OF Represen-
tatives, and reported favorably by
the Senate Judiciary Committee, the
bill did not reach vote on the floor
of the Senate. This was due largely
to the widespread protest movement
against the bill, led by the Commu-
mist Party, the International Labor
Defense, and the Committee for the
Protection of the Foreign-Rorn.
The Dies Bill is by no means a
dead issue, however. It will Tin
doubtedly come up In the Senate
when Congress convenes in jan
uary, and may be rushed through
unless the workers are vigilant.
Mr. Dickstein is chairman Of the
rOf,,v,1itf0a 70 rrrI,fCh TAfou e
sent. If he were really opposed to
the bill, he might have contributed
to its death in committee. But was
he opposed to it? Will he say how
he voted in committee2 Undoubtedly
not, as is indicated by the fact that
the clerk Of the immigration Com
mittee has refused to divulge Dick
STEMS vote on the ground that the
committee had met in executive (se-
creD session.
Mr.. Dickstein, in implying that he
was not in favor Of the Dies Bill,
reveals, perhaps a poor memory. Per-
haps However, his feeble attempt to
associate himself from the vicious
Dies Bill IS the method which he has
followed for years in order to parade
as "a friend of the poor" while at
all times serving as a plant tool OF
the ruling class.
Some months ago in radio
speech Dickstein even ehided the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion"-few Of whom, incidentally, re-
side in the East Side district from
which he is elected.
AT THE moment Dickstein is wal
RI lowing in publicity as result Of
his announcement of plans for an
investigation into Nad activities in
the United States.
Thus far ne has confined him
self almost completely to innocuous
press statements, and is making
little effort to begin genuine and
aggressive investigation.
He has promised that he will Gem
barrasS no one" in quizzing the Nazis
while at the same time taking full
advantage OF the situation to appear
as the David Of the Jewish people,
Staying the Goliath of the Nazis.
*Bill Dunno, who a short time
previously, at hearing before the
House Committee on Immigration,
denounced the various deportation
and fingerprinting bills pending in
Congress.
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by ALFRED HAYES
SOVIET sAKHALIN, BY v. Kan
trOvitch. Issued by international
Publishers. IS cents.


The story Of this little rocky north
ern island, wreathed in perpetual
mist, It's ironbound coasts fronting
stormy seas, its rivers Astounding In
| fish, It's mountains Yeined with coal,
its taigas gloomy with pine, reads
like the history of the Soviet Union
in miniature.
Old men Of the island, new mem
bers of fishermen's collectiyes, re-
member the days when Sakhalin
was the dreaded devils island OF the
Russian monarchy. Here, where the
vicious Tartar Straits made escape
seemingly impossible, the government
exiled its criminals and its revolu-
tionists. Clerks in green braided uni
forms became the wardens of this
seabound torture chamber. Each pris-
on day was a round Of floggings;
Thirty, fifty, hundred strokes of the
whip or rod was punishment for the
! pettiest offense. Political prisoners
committed mass suicide. Serfdom and
| slavery flourished. The Women's bar
racks were turned into houses of pros
| titution operated by the wardens. The
conYicts sang Cursed ground and
the sea around. Around the tide
sorrow inside" of cdarist Sakhalin.
The Russo-Japanese war and the
occupation of the island by the Japa-
neSe ended this phase Of the history
of Sakhalin. But the population fled
the standard the tiny nationalities
in the interior were sucked dry by
clergy, police and traders. So SAX
hahn remained-a forbidding Leav-
enworth-until the crushing of Gar
ism, the defeat of intervention, the
withdrawal Of the japanese and the
declaration Of Soviet Sakhalin.
North Sakhalin was returned to the
U.S.SR. in 1925, almost uninhabited
and without industry. Life flowed
on as it did for ages, poverty-stricken,
primitive and superstitouS. "On the
land the bear was master! on the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-24
CongressmanDickstein
Denies Voting for
Dies Bill
By SENDER GARLIN

"In discussing the Dies Bill,
which provides for the exclusion
and expulsion of alien Commu-
nists, Dickstein maintained that he
has been falsely accused of having
voted faVorably upon it."-Inter-
view with Congressman Dickstein
by Washington Bureau, Daily
Worker, in today's issue, page one.
IT ALL happened on a love-
L ly spring day.
The story, though not de-
tailed, is given in all its essen
tials and with that uncon-
scious realism (and dullneSs) which
has long distinguished the Congress
sional Record.
The exact date was June 6, 1882.
The scene was laid in the tobacco
laden atmosphere Of the House of
Representatives, during the I'D Con-
gress, first session. congressman were
rambling about the place. Some of
them we're reading newspapers,
others were engaged in converse
tons, as the Clerk of the House was
droning out the numbers and de-
scriptions of the bills on the calen-
dar "A bill to amend bill to
authorize the appropriation a
The clock over the rostrun OF
Speaker Rainey Oem) OF Illinois
licked away as the clerks voice con-
tinued his parliamentary lullaby.
Grid for Action
The House had met bright and
early-12 o'clock noon. The Chaplain,
Rev. James Shera Montgomery, DID.
had offered the following prayer, as
reported in the Congressional Rec
ord"
"Our Heavenly Father, we thank
Thee, we praise Thee that the sweet
est word that ever sprang out Of
heaven is love. When the old earth
is moved and the heavens tremble;
when the sun and the moon are
darkened and the stars withdraw
their radiance, love shall live, for
Thou art love. Behind every floating
cloud it abides. We are grateful that
there is no dislocation in Thy SOW
ereignty and no interruption in the
divine order. Inspire us this day with
enlarged opportunities, with expand
ing powers that we may understand
completely our whole duty to Our
country.
THE Journal of the proceedings of
L the previous Saturday was read
and approved. The statesmen then
considered various bills including
HR. 1916, ito regulate the manufac-
ture and sale of stamped envelopes;
it gave its attention to bill to
erect bridge across the Ohio River
at Owensboro, KY.
Much more time was spent on
these bills, which involve graft for
public officials and favored contrac-
tors, than on the Dies bill, which
would affect the lives of countless
workers.
mfr. Speaker"
It was Mr.. Samuel Dickstein of
New York. He was promptly recog-
nized by the chair.
'rMr. Speaker, move TO suspend
the rules and pass the bill (H.R.
12044) to provide for the exclusion
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ana expNtStOn VI amen Couunh-
nisss."
The bill was read; there was some
discussion, four or five congressman
participating, including Hamilton
Fish, Jr., notorious red-baiter, New
York tenement-house owner and
chairman of the so-called committee
to Investigate" Communism, which
made recommendations similar to
those contained in the Dies bill.
Congressman jenkins CRep), Ohio,
then rose to declare sententiously
that Mr.. Bachmann Oem.) of West
Virginia was absolutely correct and
that the bill should pass, for it is
demanded by patriotic public. Those
who, like Mr.. Dunn adhere to
Russia rather than to America in
case Of war, should not complain at
our seeking to protect ourselves from
their doctrines"
The speaker then put the question
on the Dies Bill. I quote from the
Congressional Record:
The Speaker: THE question is on
the suspension Of the rules and the
passage Of the bill" The Record
then reports that:
"The question was taken; and
--two-thirds having voted in favor
thereof, the rules were suspended
and the bill was passed"
Without a record vote, and with
only handful OF the membership
present." reported the Washington
Bureau of the Federated Press the
following day, "the House approved
the Fish-Dies bill for exclusion and
deportation of alien Communists"
No roll call was taken since there
was clearly no sharp division on the
bill, and so, of course, Congressman
Dickstein didn't vote on the Dies bill.
But did he oppose the bill? Did he
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-24
BY ARTHUR PENsx

The October issue of 1.-The Taxi
Worker" teens with reports of strug-
giles and problems in New York and
other cities
The five-cent tax in New York
City has been a heavy blow to the
taxi drivers, whose earnings had al
ready been brought to a low ebb in
the last two years. The low wages
and the abuse by the traffic cops
has at last aroused the hackmen for
an organizational drive. Thus, the
struggle for the reinstatement of sew
eral hackmen at the Parmelee Co.,
reported recently in the Daily
Worker. was significant victory for
the Taxi Workers Union. The
bosses maneuvers to keep the work
ers out Of the union activity, which
led to the picketing of the Parmelee
garages. is reported in interesting
detail in The Taxi Worker"
The sellout tactics of the decrepit
4. F. OF L. bureaucratS and their
dues gobbling trade unionism," is
amply depicted in the reports of the
New Haven truckmen's strike. There
is the story of the publicity stunt of
the $00-a-week official, Patrick j.
Shea, who, in his filtration with the
Fifth Ave. Coach Co. in New York
to obtain a dues collecting agency,
has made no attempt to raise real
struggle to improve conditions of the
workers.
The editors of the Taxi Worker are
correct in pointing out the increasing
competition among the large fleet
owners themselves and between the
taxi companies and the individual
taxi owners. which are now hard
pressed The union is their only bull
wark against total elimination from
the field
The paper is enlivened by a num-
Der Of pertinent cartoons, including
a comic strip on the last page, a
full page Of workers correspondence
and lively short story.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-24
Moscow -NOcturne
BY ADOLF WOLFF

BY ADOLF WOLFF
Red Square
Night floods the quiet expanse
The Kremlin walls
turreted, medieval,
stand silent, breeding.
st. Basil's Dubious domes,
fantastic forms
born of hashish dream,
exude barbaric charm.
Close by there squats
that grim gray granite rock
on which mad Ivan
juggled with mems heads.
In his new marble house
The First Udarnik sleeps
And high above
the dusky Kremlin walls
the Red Flag flies,
a living flame
whose ever-spreading glow
will light world
till now engulfed in darkness.
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Workers Laboratory Theatre
Calls for Shock Brigaders

NEW YORK.-The unemployed
weskers who compose the Shock
Brigade Troupe of the Workers Lab
oratory Theatre ask all jobless work.
ers to join their troupe by coming
to headquarters, AZ E. 18th st., any
day at 2 pm. Experience is not
necessary.
The troupe has already played at
ten strike rallies, and at the banquet
and election rally for Robert Minor
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WORLD
Death of a White Collar Worker
BY Michael Gold

pURsUIN yesterday this whole problem of the relation
between the revolutionary and the so-caed nteectuas Cor
let's white collar workers. am leading off with most unusual
E Barlow the Communist leader
who ynced recently by the four NazKu Kxs in Fort WORTH
letter comes Berry City,
he sayst ri.
the National Nominating
Barlow considered
adboed Houston Barlow first
contacted Party thought that because he still had traces Of religion
of medical college that he would not fit it.
He a
that during preparations the Texas delegation
unanimously the
trip delivery all OF his office employ
stand hardship the Inhang the
him bad headaches We had to stop
position thought he
good Communist Party member And by the
travelling with people,
workers had been trained to
hardship membership in the Party and revolutionary
blythe delegation Convention
h Pnum Resolution had sunk home to the
admitted his one
the
poyed organizing committees the section leading
them to the relief station and getting relief Later he became candidate
Congress Although there NUMBER
political the served bring of the
the before large section of the Houston population He
organizer Of the Party Houston.
Going Worth this his native
ability winning workers. with knowledge
during the enabled Barlow
leadership Of the Socialist Party local there and start the rank
file the road to.revouionary activity.
july except of the
their Socialist cards and applied for membership the Com
mun Party AT about the time Barlow at the head Of
solitary follow
up of
sections of the
briefly
ecual sofe whom sectaranim had tried keep of the Party
revolutionary activity
equal
potentially this revolutionary the
dubbed sotie4"
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A BasicsFear


ONE ntecua
bringing worthless bourgeois baggage their
minds and trying 70 sell this junk to the movement
sometimes positions of leadership revise
the proetaria character of the Communist movement
that the intellectual
the rotten habits ndviduas
sights
sometimes rapid
that of an old keystone comedy.
they suddenly discover
world
they the original Columbuses.
they through
written articles
members various committees
banquets ".
realize
thing, that person
they discovered
mistakes that "Ienin
because they'd really never heard Of John Dewey.
the Day these completely
stoned Nowley hagea whole
share the Betrayed feelings Trotzky
Really it ntelectuals
his Communism and the right
nothing nothing revolutionary practice
their
such
these people anfthat should always be remembered
II -11I4 --
Helping the Daily Worker Through Michael Gold
Anonymous $500
BOD Allen
TOTAL TO DATE
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Theme for a ProIetarian Novel

SOMEONE could write simply with psychological insight the life
would be writing of the important documents
hitherto little
destined tiethe Proaan Intellectual
will BaowS coming from the mines and
steel mills, the office stools and draughting
The prejudice Cemrade Berry points believe temporary
ntelecuals fitted the
this bad But the matter passed onto
The Tatng of the bourgeois indduast
swampd today in the great need Of dnherd
middle bnktuphe small
they in the such Clerks and
religious like Barlow
revolutionary movemeneees out the dark toward the great
behind the leader
throw of capitalism.
this great and
difficult
which its for
this
height Txhtical wisdom.
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WHAT'S ON
Tuesday


NEW YORK FRIENDS OF THE SOVIET
UNION are sending Marine WORKER dele
gate to the Soviet Union. Our delegate
Hays Jones and others from various
parts Of the country will be greeted at a
dinner tonight at second Avenue Inn.
Second Ave. and Seventh St. The delegates
VIII report and after dinner the entire body
will escort them to the pier OF the Bsrsn-
garis for sending-on
Wednesday
ELECTION SYMPOSIUM arranged by the
Left Wing group Of Local q, win be held
at Memorial Hall 344 W 3sth ST. at
munist, Socialist, Fusion and Democratic
Parties
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING OF
Workers Film and Photo League ct new
headquarters, i1s Lexington Ave near 2etb
Street
PELHAM PARKWAY WORKERS CLUB.
2179A White Plains Road Bronx will hold
q movie showing OF Land OF Lenin" a.
Soviet Movie and THE Struggle for Bread
an American movie. John Adams Of Tho
Daily Worker. viii speak. tr.~
JAPANESE REVOLUTIONARY Literature.
and the Murder Of Kobayashi" lecture at
Bronx Hungarian Worke-7 Club 642 South
ern Blvd, p. IL Al = .ces The Anvil"
magazine. Speaker, Sachio Okla, poet and
short story writer.
Philadelphia, Pa.
ALL UNIONS AND WORKERS oreaniga-
tons are urged to keep December 18th and
18th open for Trade Union Unity Council
Bazaar
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-24
Wednesday

ALL UNIONS AND WORKERS ORGANIC,
tons are urged to keep December 18TH ar
10th open for Trade Union Unity count
Bazaar.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-06-09
SCANDINAVIAN VIEWS By ELMER w. PETERSON

STOCKHOLM, June 9--With new trade agreements with England and France in force and with export trade in general showing tendency to improve, Sweden, in common with the other Scandinavian coun- tries, looks to the world economic conference with a more confident tone in the daily press and finan- citl journals.
 Under the conditions it now ap- pears doubtful, experts are agreed, that the Scandinavian nations, jointly or severally, will present any plan or program of their own at London
 Specifically, Sweden, Norway and Finland want the market for wood products loosened up.
 Having in the main held fast to free trade theories, the Scandina- vian nations have comparatively little to sacrifice in the way of trade restrictions.
 Arvid Richert, chief of the com merce bureau of the Swedish state department, recently assured ex- porters that the northern nations would protest any move for gen. eral reduction of tariffs on per centage basis. Such system, he argued, would enable high tariff countries to maintain present ra- tios on protectionist lines.