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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-25

in the auto steel and coal industries.
Just as the first initiation shot answered with
rising of strike struggles, Roosevelt knows that
his present undermining of the workers standard OF
living, will be met with powerful movement of
resistance. He is already sharpening the knife in the
NRA (section 7s) to stab the workers in the back.
NO MATTER how much Roosevelt talks about the
~ right of collective bargaining" the employers know
that the heart of his Interpretation lies in the right to
hire and fire individually.
Rooseyelts Interpretation of the Section IA gives
the bosses club to single out all active union workers
for merit firing.
For example the New York Sun in its headlines in
tepres Roosevelts phrases about the labor sections
of the NFA. precisely as all exploiters Of labor will
Industry Codes Merit Clause Wins Approval of
welt" they declare President in his letter to John
son says employers rights maintained"
The bosses right to shoot down strikers to fire
union workers, to crush organization and struggle for
higher pay maintained" by the latest interpreta
ton of the President Of the United States
To answer this stamp of approval for more fascist
attacks against the workers and their organizations
it is necessary to strengthen the unions mobilize them
for resistance and struggle In the A. r. of L., where
besides the attacks of the BOSSES the workers face the
double drive of the A r. of L. officials and the MIRA
it is necessary for all militant workers to form oppo-
Sltlons to prepare for struggle. Where unions exist
shop and department committees should be set up.
The workers rights can be preserved only by their
own actions on every front Unity Of all workers.
CARELESS of their organzatonal Affiliations is the main
requisite for successful resistance to the holder
saughts of the bosses counnanced and supported by
the Roosevelt regime.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-25
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER rs, 1888
Fight for Bread!

IT is only by immediate organization in the factories
and neighborhoods, in front of the shops and
stores, that the workers and their families will be
able to defeat the latest Roosevelt attempt to rob
them of their daily bread.
For that Is exactly what the newly created financial
machinery for raising prices amounts to!
Ever since Roosevelt took Office he has been Jack
ing up the cost OF living.
Yesterday Roosevets cheapening of the dollar sent
the price of wheat cotton hogs, etc leepng upward
again
For the Wall Street Spectators, the meat packing
uaonopolies the rich cotton merchants, this all
huge profits They reaping fortunes under the
Roosevelt program.
But for the millions OF exploited workers and small
of the country, for them and their families,
it means more hunger more suffering in their daily
struggle to make ends meet.
When Roosevelt SENDS prices up, he IS actually cut
ting the wages of the workers by reducing the amount
ct food they buy
act az clamp to keep wages down while prices are
rasngl That Is why Roosevelt anxious to
tasten them upon the necks Of the workers.
Roosevelt tries to justify the robbing of the work
ers bread by proclaning that the farmer will benefit
Tl1is is fraud. The manufactured articles that the
fas1er must buy are rising faster than the goods
he sells Imitation really cuts the income of the small
farmers.
It is only the big landlords the wheat spectators,
and grain nonopo1ies VINO profit from imitation.
whole crisis in agriculture by choking the buying
power markets In the cities This spreads ruin
among the farmers.
And even ncse bsatak tire Roosevelt initiation
SEXES the eagre food allowances out OF the hands of
the unemployed workers ss1d their families It reduces
the amount Of food tAsy can buy with the relief
tickets or the nnessy eesh allowances
Against the Roosev&s hunger attack, tbs farmers
and workers Of the osAAntry must prepare to fight.
In every factory "a rane the workers must gather
to discuss ways and nsans 10 fight the Roosevelt dis
glised wage CUT
Where there are anpe.s, they must organise at
once Factory and Department Committees to demand
higher wages!
In the unions tae wsEaers most begin to prepare
for struggle for higher wages for strikes to meet the
rising cost of living.
The N.R.A. minimum starvation wages must be
smashed and lifted upward By the organized strug-
ges of TIE workers Coamittees must be Immediately
formed to demand upwass revision of the NFA. mini
NUNS which are being silently reduced By the rising
prices!
In tas neighborhoodS the housewives and families
must form Consumers groups to picket before the
bakesies, groceries, and food stores.
I've fight for lower food prices must begin at
once
Fight for higher vases to meet rising cost of living
Defeat the Roosevelt citation wage cuti
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-25
The Nazi Rally in N. Y.

MAYOR OBRIEN has real wish to stop the NaSi
Hi mass rally in the armory at Lexington Avenue and
Goth Street next Sunday evening
Having made his demagogic gesture for the sake
OF the votes of the strong anti-Naz elements in New
York, he is obviously prepared to allow the meeting
to go scheduled, with perhaps insignificant
changes in the program, which will not change its
vicious character.
This meeting is the supreme effort OF the agents
of the bloody Hitler in America to establish foot
hold after their successive defeats by the antNazi
forces in their smaller previous meetings.
This meeting is not only attempt TO rally New
York German sentiment to the support Of the Nazi
butchers of Germany. 1t is much than that
1t is effort to give Fascism it's foot-hod in Amer
lea, to rally Americas anti-workng class forces to
follow in the footsteps of Hitler and Mussolni.
This meeting is brazen challenge to the workers
OF New York.
Only the workers and Will thwart the plans
Of the Fascists.
Workers Of New York, come to the Workers Court
in Central Opera House tonight, hear the Nazi hang
placed on trial before workers jury
Workers of New York, mass in gigantic counter
demonstration the night of the Naz meeting next
Sunday at $50 pm, at Lexington Ave and Goth St
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5000 i'm Chicago
Cheer Barbusse, Call
for War Against War

CHICAGO, Ul.-Eight thousand
Negro and white workers and pro-
fessionals IN the Chicago Coliseum
cheered Henri Barbusse Monday
night when he urged a united
front in the struggle against war
ard fascism.
Charles Clayton Morrison, editor
of the Christian Century, was
chairman OF the meeting. Other
speakers were Rabbi Freehof:
Leonard Cobn, member OF the
Young Communist League who re-
Gently returned from Civilian
Conservation Camp: Robert Brown
Of the Steel and Metal Workers
Industrial Union; Joseph Gardner,
Negro Workers Ex-Servicemen's
leader; Henry W. L. Dana, and
Joseph Freeman, editor Of the
New Masses.
Resolutions were adopted con-
demning government terror against
the striking Illinois coal miners.
Other resolutions demanded free
dom for the German Communists
facing death In the Reichstag fire
frame-up. and the immediate with
drawal of American forces from
Cuba. The lynching Of George
Armwood in Princesse Anne. Md.
was condemned In still another
resolution. Unanimous support was
voted to the American League
| Against War and Fascism.
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General Strike to
Smash Grau Terror
Spreads Over Cuba
GovernmentSaysArmy
Will Break Up
Picket Lines

HAVANA, Oct 24--Rapidly spread
ing new strikes reveal that the Cuban
masses are we'll on the way to max
ing effective the new general strike
called by the revolutionary unions
and the Communist Party against
the terror campaign of the Grau San
Martin government.
Threats of ruthless suppression of
all strikes, and promise of armed at
tacks on all pickets were broadcast
last night by order Of President
Grau. who issued a manifesto declar-
ing the strike to be political one.
Warehouse workers. truckmen, and
butchers in Havana walked out yes
terday, and employees of many COM
mercial firms announced they would
strike in sympathy with the employees
of the Woolworth stores. who were
locked out several weeks ago.
The strike. of railway workers on the
Consolidated Railways appeared GER
tain to spread to cover almost all lines
in the island. Port workers and
workers In two United Fruit Com
pany sugar mills in Antills walked
out yesterday. Bakers, street clean
ers and garbage collectors walked out
in Santiago.
The military took over Havana city
hall yesterday as hundreds of unpaid
former city employees demonstrated,
demanding their back wages. These
are workers who have been replaced
by partisans Of the Grau San Martin
government.
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SOVIET WORKERS
WILL GREET NOV. Z
WITH new FEATS
Observation-Disclosures
By Surprising
Quotas
BY VERN SMITH
Especial to the DAILY woRkER)


MOSCOW, Oct. "a CBy cable).-
The workers of the Soviet Union are
preparing to celebrate the 18th ami
versary of the Bolshevik revolution,
on Nov. 7, in Bolshevik style, by maxi
ing it the occasion for greater
achievements of socialist construc-
ton.
The oil field equipment factories Of
Leningrad will send trainload OF
equipment as present to Baku, the
oil city. The shipment will be &C
companied by a delegation from the
Leningrad factories, which have
over-fulfilled their orders for equip
ment for the oil industry.
The northern ship-building yards
will finish by Nov. 7 the seventh of a
series of huge lumber schooners. It
will be named "Old Bolshevik."
Factory Workers Broadcast
which is named for Maxim Gorky,
will open the first club for the chill
dren of scientists on Nov. 7.
AS part Of the preparations for
NV. 7, five factories took part in a
nationwide radio hook-up directed
by Stetsky, manager Of the cultural
propaganda department, and men,
Der of the Central Executive Com
mittee of the Communist Party. In
this broadcast the workers Of Electro
sila, Leningrad electrical equip
ment factory, pledged itself to finish
its second $4,000 kilowatt generator
ahead of schedule, and to produce
five motors for Baku ten days ahead
of schedule.
The Ano auto works of Moscow
promised a better quality Of products,
and better living conditions for its
workers and engineers. Then the
Kharkov tractor plant took the air
and pledged itself to introduce two
shifts within three months instead
OF the present three-shift system,
without production loss.
Workers Beautify Kharkov
The Baku oil fields then took the
air and promised to carry out their
share of the plan to the full, but
demanded more and better mactin-
cry. Then the Ura1 Machine Works
VI SfSAC@Ots JAiC SAeaAIb ldCUOIy
this summer, announced it had mas
tered the production of 1000 differ
ent machine parts, and undertook to
master the production Of even more
complicated designs.
In the remote north Urai noun
tair1s, the city of Saligrad will open
a power station on Nov. 7. In Rhar-
kOv the factory workers are No rti,,p
the city to trees and flowse beds.
They will greet Nov. WA the slo-
gan, Turn the factory grounds, the
city, and the workers settlement into
an ideal, clean, green area!"
At Batum, Levinskys Lenin monu-
ment will be unveiled on the ami
versary of the revolution. At Pskov,
the first section of the new water
supply system will be opened on Nov.
Z, the day which will also see the
climax of a campaign to equip many
small towns with bath houses.
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Shows Socialists Responsible Worker

VIENNA, AUSTRIA blazing de-
nunciation the treechery Of the
Social Democratic parties is con-
tanned in letter TO the editor of
the "Arbeiter- zeitung," Social Dem
ocratic organ published here, from
Louise Lutgens, widow of August Lut-
gems, Altoona worker beheaded by Hit
ler's axemen
TN the 'Arbeiter Zeitung' of August
~. 1888, under the heading of Revo-
lutionary Deaths / read a descrip-
ton of the execution and the heroic
conduct of my Acknowledgements Lut-
gens--and the other three comrades, -
Frau Lutgens writes. This article
might give rise to the impression that
the 'Arbeiter zeitung,' i.e., the So
1a1 psnnocxat;e Party, is in solidarity
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-25
Interpreting la

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has two methods of inter
preting the LABOR clause of the N.RAs the now in
famous Section Ia. One is by deeds, and the other
is by periodic phrases to bolster up the workers rap
idly waning illusions
After his initiation speech forecasting smashing
cut in the American workers living standard, Roose
welt on Monday turned his attention to handing the
bosses powerful lash against union organization and
strikes To keep the workers from struggling for
increases and for union recognition to fight rising
living costs Roosevelt indicates 10 the bosses how they
can blast union organization.
He dealt with the so-called merit" clause. Under
this formulation the automobile bosses achieved full
NRA support for the open shop The "Inerit" clause
in the code provides that the bosses hire and
fire the basis of individual merit" Originally, this
clause read that TO preserve the open shop individual
merit should be the key. William Green John L.
Lewis and other A. F. OF L. officials on the National
Labor Board gave their approval to this merit" clause
Vow Roosevelt declares no other codes should con-
tain the merit clause. At the time he tells the
exploters there is nothing in Section la that inter-
feres with the right Of employer to select retain
This is the open shop.
WHEN Roosevelt signed the open shop auto code he
" automatically and simultaneously granted every
boss in the country the right of the open shop. He
did more. Both he and General johnson opened cam
paign against strikes at the very moment the steel trust
and coal operators shooting down strikers de-
handing union recognition.
Outstanding in the collapse OF the NRA's attempts
to solve the crisis of capitalism Is the fact that the
labor sections will be strengthened fascist measure
against the workers.
1t has already behind 1t the precedent Of a long
list of murders and fascist deeds against the workers
About this Roosevelt said not word He declared
that Section Ia win stand it is, to be used it
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who beheaded them on August l.,
1888.
II am stating this, SO that the
workers of all countries, and the Ger
man workers-who are now being so
bloodily prosecuted by the Hitler gov
ernment-see, by this example, that
it was the German Socialist Party
which delivered up the workers to
murderous brown shirt fascism. I
appeal to all workers to carry on the
revolutionary struggle against the
murderous brown pest-aagilst fas-
cism in general--in order to take re-
venge for my husband and for all
the murdered workers, and to over
throw the Hitler dictatorship.
(SigneO Louise Lutgens.~
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F.S.U. Invites GOrky
to First National
Convention in US.
Plans Wide Campaign
to Popularize
Soviet Union

NEW YORK-Foundati for an
intensified campaign to create a
closer bond between the people of
the United States and those CT the
Soviet Union will be laid by the first
national convention of the Friends of
the Soviet Union, at which thousands
of delegates are expected from every
part of the country. The convention
is to be held In New York City
Jan. 26-2S.
Maxim Gorky famous Soviet writ
er, has been invited to attend as an
honored guest. All organizations Of
workers, farmers, students, intellectu-
ais and professional people have been
invited to send delegates.
1.-THE Friends of the Soviet Union
have carried on constantly, ever since
the organization was launched in
1929. campaign for the establish
ment of normal diplomatic and trade
relations" said a statement issued by
the z. S. U.
I'VE will continue this campaign
until recognition is a fact and not
merely a prospect. The capitalist class
of the U. S. is hostile to the Soviet
Republics and will continue to be re-
CARELESS Of whether there is recogni-
ton Or not. Therefore we will con-
tinue to spread the truth about the
Soviet Union, to answer the innumer-
able ISLANDERS Of anti-Soviet propa-
gandists."
Recognition, if and when it comes,
will not only be a result of the des-
perate need of the U. S. for markets
in this crisis from which the MIRA,
is not rescuing it; it will also be re-
suit OF the mass pressure organized
and led by the F.S.U., the statement
said.
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We wish to make out OF starving,
freezing, homeless, unemployed and
illiterate people, well-fed, warmly
clothed people who live in houses,
have work, know how to read and
write and enjoy level Of culture
worthy of human beings. In order
to achieve this aim. we, the Soviet
Government, have given them land,
houses and work. We have built
houses and schools in which children
and adults are taught free. We have
established hospitals. We have in
troduced the eight-hour day. We
have relieved the women from the
letters of household slavery.
A handful of parasites who rule
China have refused and still refuse
our people these elementary rights
and conditions of decent human
life. They are foreign imperialists.
the native militarists, big landown-
ers, big capitalists and the rich ex-
tortioners.
THE Kuomintang armies are now
conducting the sixth campaign
against our emancipated territory.
The governments Of Marking and
Canton have sent against the Gen.
trail Soviet district (Kiangsi. Fukien
and Hunan) armies numbering 440, 900
men; armies equipped with all the
technical means Of present-day war
fQTn---w1fh
planes, tanks and poison gas.
From where do the Kuomintang
generals obtain these means of war
fare? From where do they obtain
the enormous sums which are neces-
sary for conducting a war lasting
for years? They received and re-
ceive them from the American, Brit
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military Intervention against Soviet
China.
BROTHERS and sisters, comrades
u and friends!
In this perilous moment of the
young Chinese Soviet Republic,
which in heroic fights, in which men
and women, young and old took part,
has already repealed five attacks Of
the forces Of the nter-revolution
superior u numbers and technique,
we appeal to you:
Help us against those who wish
to throw us back into an inhuman
life, who wish to take our lives. The
international imperialists are as
sembling their fleets, their armed
forces in the neighborhood Of the
Chinese Soviet districts.
The highest organ Of the Chinese
Soviet Republic, the Central Exec
utive Committee, summons you to
the mass struggle together with your
brothers.
Against imperialist intervention
against Soviet China!
Against the partitioning OF China
by the imperialist powers!
Against the intervention Of Amer
lean, English and Japanese imperial
lists, German generals and general
staff officers, who are conducting
aerial commandments and chemical
warfare against Soviet China
Against the transport of weapons
and munitions to China!
Long live the International solidar-
ity of the proletariat and the OPP
pressed peoples Of the whole world
The chairman Of the Central Exec
utive Committee Of the Chinese
Soviet Republic:
Mau TZe-Dun.
The deputy chairmen Of the Central
Executive Committee:
Sjan-In, Chang Coi-TaU.
The chairman Of the Revolutionary
Military Council Of the Chinese
Rcd Army:
Chu-Det
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Central Executive Committee Of Soviet
Republic Issues Appeal as Sixth Anti-Red
Campaign Begins

ish, Japanese, French and German
imperialistS.
The American imperialists have
given the Marking Government so
million dollars under the cloak of
cotton and grain loan, and in ad-
dition 40 million dollars aircraft
credits, which serve to finance milit-
airy Intervention against Soviet
China. One hundred and fifty Amer
lean aircraft, with American airmen,
are taking part in this military in
tervention. Under the leadership Of
American military experts, about ten
steamers, equipped with guns and
tanks, hundreds of machine guns,
means of chemical warfare produced
in America are devastating our coun-
try and destroying the lives of our
countrymen.
THE English, American and Japan
csc imperialists, who are all
quarrelling with each other over the
division Of the spoils in China, are
egging on the Northern and South
ern generals to intervene together
with Chang Kai-shek against Soviet
China. The German General Won
Seeckt, aided by the German gen.
erals Wetzel and Kriebel, drew up
the plan Of Chang Kai-shek's sixth
campaign. Under his leadership, 10
German staff officers are working in
Nanchalip on Chang Kai-sl1ely Z
staff, and taking part in the leader
ship of the operations of the Kuo-
mirtang armies against Soviet China
The League OF Nations has sent
to Marking commission which is
at the disposal Of the Marking Gov
eminent as technical aid and actu-
ally serves the purpose Of organizing
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Chinese Soviets Call for Aid Against New Drive

Editors Note:-As the sixth anti
Soviet campaign of the Chinese
Kuomintang government Is begin
ming, supported by American loans,
the Central Executive Committee
Of the Chinese Soviet Republic has
issued an appeal to all workers,
and to all friends of the Chinese
people. The text of the appeal fol-
lows, in part:
To the Workers, Peasants and In
tellectuaIs of the United States,
Great Britain, Japan, France, Ger
many,
To all Working People, to all Enc
mics of Imperialism, to all Friends
Of the Chinese People.
Dear Brothers, Sisters, Comrades
and Friends!
We workers, peasants, poor people
of the town and country, revolution
airy Aoldiers, students and workers in
the free professions, who did not
wish to remain for ever slaves of
foreign capital, OF our own feudal
big landlords, big capitalists and
other usurers, commenced to build
up new, free, life worthy of human
beings. We are now conducting the
emancipation struggle of a people
numbering 500,00o,000. We have SET
up with our own resources the Sow
let power, the only real peoples
power. We have built up the red
workers and peasants army of the
Chinese people in order to protect
from its enemies the freedom wor
with our blood. The peoples power
Of the Chinese Soviets already ex-
tends over sixth Of China, in the
provinces OF Kiangsi, Fukien, Human
Hupeh, Honan, Anwllei and SEE
chuan.
WE HAVE made it our aim funda-
W mentally to change the situa-
ton Of the workers, peasants, the
urban and rural poor. They are tc
become the rulers Of their own fate
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Half a Billion In
Gold Owned bv II. S.
Investors in London

LONDON, Oct. 24.--Over $780,
100000 of gold owned by rich
Americans now reposes in the
vaults Of London banks, it was es-
timated today by leading financial /,
experts.
Daspite the Roosevelt ban on
gold sllipments 7 has been COM
paratively easy. by means of varis /.
Gus commercial transactions, for
rich Wall Street, investors to ship.
gold abroad. 1t is only the small :
owner Of gold who has felt the full
force Of the Roosevelt embargo.
Some Of the names mentioned
as having ierge gold holdings in
foreign bani-s ere Bernard Ba-
ru"'', fiji" oeiai adviser OF Roose-~
,elt. and OGDEN Mills, Hoover's
Secretary OF the Treasury and
supporter of LaGuardia In the
present New York election cain-
paign.