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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-26

over the country and transportation
limits. Kudnoff dived without hes
itation into the rive. swan under
the ice, recovered his axe, struggled
out, and finished his shift. Surpris-
ingly enough, 1t didn't kill him; he
Is alive and honored today. That is
one Of the things to sing about.
While we are on the subject OF
dams, we might mention that this
one, though it provides enough water
for the present equipment of the
mill, will not be sufficient for the
mill when fully completed, and they
are building another dam to provide
ten times as much water in the
neighborhood, and still another,
smaller one, besides. But these are
not such rush jobs.
Meet U. S. Strike Leader,
The English speaking delegations
had dinner with the udarniks of
Magnitogorsk. In a beautiful din
ing room with indirect lighting, at
flower covered tables, with a ban
quet that started with bread and
cheese and smoked sturgeon, wan
dered through soup and roast meat
and ended with cookies, tea, apples
and the ubiquitous Nazaran mineral
water, the sailor from New York,
the tool maker from Minneapolis,
the machinist from Mare Island
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-26
The Presidents Pardon

TO SHOW has niagnanimity President Roosevelt is
sued Chrstmas-day amnesty" declaration re-
storing citizenship rights to 1900 persons who were
convicted during the last world war provided they had
served their long terms in capitalist prisons for writ
ing, speaking in other ways opposed the last i'm
perialist world slaughter.
Roosevelt is clearing the dockets for the new world
laughter that American capitalism is rapidly prepar-
ing for.
q In his proclamation Roosevelt declared:
They have paid the penalty that the law I'M
posed on them. The emergency that made it neces-
sary to punish them has long expired Fifteen years
have elapsed since the end of the war"
What was this emergency" that Roosevelt speaks
eof? Morgan Rockefeller, Ford, and Mellon found it
necessary to plunge the country into the World Slaugh
ter in order to anass huge profits at the expense of
numbering millions of workers Roosevelt today speaks
CT another emergency" to justify now is years after
the last World War, preparations for new imperiast
blood fest
In the throes Of five-year economic crisis Amer
lean capitalism is rapidly preparing for war The
Roosevelt government, not only handed the war mag
mates half billion dollars in the regular budget but
10 bring war closer he spent billion through the
NRA and through other projects disguised as public
works schemes
TIE pardonS mean very little nothing at all to
those who supposed to receive them. Not a
one is released from prison. The attacks against those
lighting the present mperalist war preparations in
creased with greater fury Glass war prisoners are
sui in jail for opposing in many instances the present
-sr policy OF the Roosevelt regime.
Tom Mooney who was framed-up on the 1915
preparedness day parade explosion In Los Angeles by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-26
us. Navy Orders Fl
New Planes; Seek to
Increase War Funds
japanese Diet Meets
to Push Military
Increases

WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.-The o. -
Navy hiss ordered q new flying posts
with a nonstop fuel range Of 5000
miles at q cost of 81 992 900 from the
consolidated Aircraft Corporation Of
Buffalo. Twenty similar craft, de-
signed for long-range action against
enemy cities, were delivered to the
Nsvy earlier in the year.
In the annual report to the Sec
rotary Of the Navy, Rear Admiral
King, chief of the Bureau of Aero
nautics, yesterday asked for additional
appropriations. He declared it had
bsen necessary to divert 212 planes
from the Nays authorized program
for LOCO planes, to service on Is new
heavy cruisers. The report reveals
that besides these warships, there are
now seven additional heavy cruisers
under construction. The report also
disclosed plans for the complete
standardization of army and navy air
equipment, to put the air forces on q
war basis. The report also asks ad-
ditional appropriations for air pilots
and their training, and recommends
the construction of another giant
dirigible, with similar types for
training purposes.
The Nays report was accom-
panied by demand by Leighton w.
Rogers, executive vice president of the
Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce
of America, for increased subsidies to
the aircraft industry, through further
diversion of funds ostensibly appro-
priated for unemployment relief. The
two related moves are accompanied by
columns Of propaganda in the
capitalist press stressing the needs of
so-called national defense"
TOKYO, Dec. 25.-Under the slogan
OF national Defense" the Japanese
Diet convened yesterday to consider
ways and means of raising funds for
the huge record military and naval
appropriations recently adopted by the
Diet, under pressure of the militarists.
Unless the Diet finds means to
realize these appropriations, 1t is faced
with dissolution by the military, &C
cording to an intimation conveyed
through the press.
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neighboring province Of Szechwan. In
this district, the Second Red Army is
under the command of the famous
Red Army commander, Ho Lung.
Central District Greatly Strengthened
The Soviet district in the north
east of Kiangsi and the northwest of
Fuhen has so extended its area that
it now adjoins the Central Soviet
District in Kiangsi, seat of the pro-
visional government of the Chinese
Soviet Republic. The Central Dis
trict itself has also increased It's ter
ritorial extent towards the north
west.
There is also a Soviet district in
Kwangtuns province, which all the
efforts of Gen. Tchen Tchi-tang,
supported by British imperialism,
have failed to destroy.
The Soviet movement is developing
even in the comparatively backward
areas of Shansi province.
In Manchuria, the Red Army,
known there Is the Revolutionary
Peoples Army, is continuing its guer-
lila tactics with telling effect against
the Japanese invaders. The centers
Of its operations are in Pansi In the
province OF Kirir, and Tanyuan In
Heilungkiang province.
Revolutionary peasant instructions
and guerilla fighting against the Kuo-
mintang are also developing in vari-
GUS other provinces at present under
Kuon1intang control. The chief of
these are: Kiang-Yin and Nantung
In Kiangsi province, and Tchietchu
In Shantung province.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-26
History Of Worldwide Communist
Press to Appear in n Page Daily

In special article the 24page, tenth
anniversary edition Hamilton
gives rounded picture the Communist countries
side of the United
Hamilton travelled widely
in
His article tells about the publications
In Germany before Hs suppression history Pravda
Soviet BolshevK paper.
He also writes about the Communist the mneoaphd
underground Communist China
about the publications put out by the Chinese Soviets
The article is popularity written Informs
ton, hitherto unpublished
This feature well others interesting informative
will in the sixteen
edition Of which at least 100000 copies will be printed
Besides the
will the appearing every
Daily" ff
workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-26
Main Job Done in
Laying Basis for
Better Life

work. This same high opinion of
shock brigade work, this feeling that
it and the privileges too are needed
to build socialism, Is what makes
people become udarniks.
"They do not mind working ex-
ira, because they know there il no
exploitation. Whatever they do
benefits them, first, because
thesgh they do not get extra rates
of pay, they do more work and get
more because after certain
amount of work Is done by day
work rates, piece work rates begin
to apply. But then, the greater
quantity of work done makes .
higher standard OF living for all
workers, udarniks and the Others
too.
"They do not mind It, because
they consider these mills their own,
the more they produce the richer
they are, and that the whole sys-
tenn Is richer"
Suppose a foreman Is udarnik,
trying to fulfill the plan with hia
gang, but the members Of the gang
are not udarniks?" 4
HE couldn't drive them. He could
call a meeting, and try to persuade
them to extra efforts-but anybody
who wanted to could move into an
other gang. But usually they agree,
if not to become udarniks them
selves, at least not to interfere with
others by slowing up the work"
Does the udarnik system establish
a special aristocracy of labor?"
mo, for anybody can be udar7,ik.
his extra privileges only pay for the
extra work he does-not even for all
that"
Suppose all In the shop become
udarniks, is there then some special
group that gets privileges above the
rest?
mo, they all get the privileged
since they all are doing extra work.
1t amounts to a general increase n
living standards" M
And that seems to be the secree
Of the udarnik system. A volun.
tary increase in productivity, with
the idea Of spreading this, and with
it Of course the raised standard q
living, to the whole mass Of work.
ers. The udarnik system Is an ed.
ucational factor, or system. Il y
remodeling the methods Of work g
> former peasant nen-lnAu1KlD1
population. 4
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-26
CHINESE SOVIET
DISTRICTS SHOW
IMMENSE GROWTH
over One Hundred
Million Living Under
the Red Flag
BULLETIN

BULLETIN
LONDON. Dec. 25.-A HOngkong
dispatch TO the Exchange Teie-
graph" said that rs persons were
killed when eight Marking planes
bombed the Fukien city of Foochow
this afternoon.
The dispatch adds that mot
since the Old Peiping Government
rested on the bayonets of Marshal
WI Pei-Fu has there been so much
unrest in China"
SHANGHAI, Dec. 25.-The recent
victories of the Chinese Red Army
against the Marking Kuomintang
troops in Fukien province are accom-
panied by a tremendous anti-imper-
ialist upsurge of the masses in the
Kuomintang territories.
Defended by the heroic Chinese
Red Armies and supported by this
mass anti-Kuomintang, anEi-imper-
ialist upsurge, the Soviet districts
have greatly extended their territor-
les since the Fifth Kuomintang cru
SADIE which was decisively repulsed.
The total population of the districts
under Soviet control is now estimated
as over 100 million.
Gen. Tsai Tingkai'S proclamation
Of an independent state in Fukien
Province is an attempt TO exploit the
mass upsurge in This own interests
and the interests of the British i'm
perialists who are supporting him.
The Generals War precipitated by
his action is naturally extremely da-
maging to the conduct of the present
Sixth anti-Communist crusade of the
Kuomintang, under the direction and
with the support of the imperialist
powers. This Sixth crusade is faring
no better than the preceding five
crusades.
New Soviet Districts Set Up
The Chinese Red Army has won
back all the territory lost in the Fifth
crusade, and has won new large ter
ritories in addition. When the Fourth
Red Army retreated from the Hupeh-
Honan-Anhwei district, the reaction
airy Kuomintang press raised great
shout of triumph, and announced
that this Soviet district had been
destroyed for good and all. Today,
however, these same newspapers are
compelled to admit that the final
balance of the fighting leaves all the
Soviet districts once again indisput-
ably under Soviet control. The
strongest areas of this district, for
instance, Kwang-San, Matzen, HUI
ang-An, Yinsan, ETC., are more
strongly Soviet today than ever they
were. And that is also the case with
the Soviet districts in South Hupeh
on the Hung Lake. This Soviet dis
trict with the important harbor town
of Peloydi stretches down to the
Yangtse River.
Powerful S0yfets in Sxechwan
Province
In addition, when the Fourth Army
retreated from this district, 1t pene-
trated into Shansi and Szechwan,
where, with the support of local
peasant instructions, it established
new powerful Soviet districts. In the
southwest of Szechwan, a Soviet dis
trict extends to the borders of Yunan
province, which the French imper-
ialistS are seeking to wrest from
China.
The Soviet district along the south
west frontier of Hupeh and the
northwest frontier of Human has
considerably enlarged the area under
its control. The administrative in
huence of this district stretches to-
wards the east over a part of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-26

and what does it niean2" I asked
Zilich.
Il never was late to work." he said,
II always fulfilled or exceeded my
assigned norm of work. 7 always
taught several Of the other boys. If
ever saw anything going wrong, I
jumped in and showed them how to
do it. I attended all the meetings
and participated in planning. Espe-
cially was active in the meetings
held for a few minutes after each
shift for criticism and explanation
of the technique used. Besides this,
I taught cultural subjects in the
groups and classes organized. took
part in all voluntary shock work.
When these things were reported
at the regular union departmental
meetings, the department committee
took notice. The workers began to
refer. to me as a "udarnik." After
about six months the union and the
mill management gave me a certifi-
cate, with pictures of Lenin, Stain
and Molotov, Of the mill, and state
ment that was a udarnik.
"Then got premiums, Of
money voted by the union and
mana cement, trip during yaca-
ton down the whole length of the
Volga on steamer with 200 other
udarniks,s the same right as any
other Udarnik for first choice at
new apartments being built, the
.s~t@k a. hAk%n, fnnI = haitian
place in the dining room, and a
chance to buy certain amount Of
better clothes and other goods
than those shipped in for the rest.
"Along with this goes the right to
sit on the reviewing stand at celebra-
lions, and the right to attend free
such banquets as these given in
honor of visiting delegations, etc."
Others brought out that a udarnik
usually takes part in socialist COM
petition, gives and accepts challenges,
and when receiving his udarnik card
usually makes a pledge to continue
doing good work.
Go Together
"Why do you become udarniks?"
I asked of Gerassimo, first keeper"
assistant to the blower Of Blast
Furnace No. 8, run entirely by Young
Communist League members. and
breaking the, record continuously.
Does one become a udarnik to
build socialism, or do most Of them
do 1t for the premiums and privi-
leges?"
THE two things go together" he
said. 1.-THE privileges show the re-
gard In which . udarnik Is held, they
make u easier Tor him to do his
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-26
Sees errible Misery
In Hitler's Germany
BY Burck

how did they receive your arrival?"
with a charge of five marks for
signing my passport, which was never
charged before Hitler's regime. They
even come to your home to get you
out on the street for any celebration
or demonstration. Women and chill
dren- everybody must be on the street
and salute the Nazi flag. If some
one is seen with a closed fist, he is
arrested at once. Plenty OF them are
arrested for not saluting or for clos
ing their fist.
Know Nazis Guilty in Fire
what do the German people think
about the Reichstag fire?"
THE newspapers are full of the
Reichstag fire trial, with Van der
Lubbe's picture with his head down
all the time. Everybody knows that
the Nazis themselves burned the
Reichstag, but everybody is afraid to
say anything even in his own home"
rs it true that Hitler got 80 per
cent Of the German votes in the last
election?"
II will tell you the truth. How
Hitler got 80 per cent he could just
as well have 100 per cent that way.
On election day the storm troopers
came around in big car and or
dered everybody to vote. They came
to my mothers house. Everybody
must vote. You too they pointed
at me. I said, Not me. I am an
American citizen Tt don't make no
difference. We will take you down.
But I refused. My brother told me
that there were thousands of ballots
blank without anything on it. But
it counts for Hitler anyhow"
My neighbor also told me that
when she went on board ship she
heard everybody say that Hitler won't
rule very long. hope not.
IT. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-26
BY VERNE SMITH

Daily Worker Moscow Correspondent
MAGNITOGORSK, U.s.sR., Nov.
"a (By MaiD. They built dam over
the Ural River and created a lake
covering eight square miles to pro-
vide the Magnitogorsk steel mills
with water. Steel mills are as thirsty
for water as all the camels in the
world; water cools the conyeyors. it
circulates in water jackets around the
frames of the furnaces, it gushes out
around the ends of rollers--it is vital.
IN large quantities, for operation.
Also, a city of 100000 inhabitants.
which Magnitogorsk has now, needs
a water supply.
They built the dam with 1875 900
cubic yards of concrete, over three
fifths of mile long, before they did
thing in the way of building the
mill. They built it as a rush lob in
100 days, in the heart of winter,
across a wild, untamed river.
Songs are sung all over Russia
about the heroism and endurance
of the udarniks who put through
tliS Jam as a single big piece of
shock brigade work, rushing so as
not to delay the building of the
mill below it.
Workers Visit
The American and English work
ers' delegations to the Soviet Union
rode out in buses to the dam, and
admired concrete pyramid topped
with a bust of Lenin, erected by
these udarnilss in one day at the
end Of the dam as permanent mon
ument of their success.
Just one example of what it meant
to be. a shock worker on this dam.
A certain Kudnoff dropped his axe
into the river. There was always a
shortage Of hand tools, because Of
pressure Of other construction all
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-26
DIV a Worker Correspondentl

so. MILWAUKEE,, Dec. 25.-Here
is some fresh news from Germany.
Mrs. l.. B. (name deleted by the
Daily WORKER, neighbor, has just
returned from three months visit to
relatives in Bendorf, Germany.
I told Mrs. B. before she left about
Hitler and his gang and about the
conditions in Germany, but she al
ways said, II don't believe it."
Now it's 8 different story. We
hardly recognized her on her return.
She lost is pounds.
How are conditions over there?"
We asked her.
Terrible" she said. IT wanted to
go back the second day, but my
mother was anxious to see me after
is years and it cost me money to go
there. / decided to stay for while,
anyhow. There is more unemploy-
ment than the outside world knows
about. When one works, it's for the
miserable pay Of from to 20 marks
$3.50 to IS q week, and everything
is so high. One pound of pork costs
go to 65 pfenigs. They buy one-quar-
ter or one-half pound of soup bones
for five or six in a family. On Sun
day every family has to cook in one
pot whatever little they can get and
a Hitler man comes around with a
box to collect the money you saved
that Sunday"
What about the dole in Germany"
I asked. "Ha, good for nothing. They
get very little of it. Hitler wants
to show how much money he saves
while the poor people starve and yet
he wants to raise bigger popula-
ton to starve them by promising a
thousand marks for every couple
that gets married and raises four
children in four years"
did you talk to city officials and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-26
Red Flag Flies from
Steeple in Hamburg

HAMBURG, Germany Thousands
of workers gathered in front OF the
Michaelis Church to look at the large
red flag with the hammer and sickle,
floating from the tallest steeple in
Hamburg, on Nov. ~.
The flag foated for hours before
it was finally hauled down by the
fire brigade. for the Nazi storm
troopers did not dare to climb up the
steeple. The man who hoisted the
flag was not caught.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-26
Z in YCL Arrested for
Prague Army Activity

PRAGUE, Dec. 10. BY Mail. -
Seven Young Communists were ar
rested and brought up for trial at
Hungarian Hradisch, charged with
carrying on anti-militarist activity
in the army. They were sentenced
to terms of Imprisonment totaling
10 months and fined 5000 crowns.
One defendent was acquitted.
The Young Communists were
said to have formed soldiers cells
in the barracks at Kremsier, and
of distributing the Illegally pub
lished soldiers paper ''Vojak' C'The
SOLDIER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-26
Many Ho ored for
Heroic Work for
Socialism

EDITORS NOTE: The following
article on the life of Soviet work.
ers in Magnitogorsk by the Daily
Worker correspondent is Of especial
interest in view of the editorials
now being printed In the Socialist
Jewish Daily Forward" regarding
the slavery" in one of the largest
parts of the Soviet Union. To-
morrow, the Daily Worker will con-
tinue the series on the Moscow
bal-bearing plant.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-26
Arrest 10 Soldiers As
Greek Communists

ATHENS, Dec. 10. (By MaiD.-
Ten soldiers, charged with engaging
in Communist agitation, were ar
rested at the airport of Tatoi il
the early part Of this month.
The soldiers were Immediately
isolated and brutally beaten. They
are to be banished to Kalpaki. Two
have entered on hunger strike as
a protest.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-26

the warfrenzied California ruling class is stn in his
dungeon in San Quentin penitentiary. Hundreds OF
other class prisoners are still in prison.
This new gesture Of Roosevelt will be followed by
more speedy preparations, by increased expendi-
lures for new slaughter and by new prosecutions
of those fighting against imperialst war and for
the end Of capitalism, which is insepa-able from war
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-26

TUESDAY, DECEMBER %, 1888
The Washington times., 1933-11-15
COUNTY SCHOOL
FACES DEFICIT
Of S31,537
Operation for All But a Month
Of Present Term Assured;
Economies in Effect

Arlington county public schools
will have a deficit of $31 ,537.72,
according to estimates for the
fiscal year made today by the
school board. This indicates, 1t
is said, that the county schools
will be able to operate for all but
one month of the present term
and officials said that sufficient
funds could be borrowed to carry
out the full program.
Officials said that the cost of
operation of schools and capital
outlay this year was 1927, ,430.53.
Debt service will cost 83,817 80.
Estimated revenue of the
schools is $279,710.63 as compared
with 1862, ADOPT for last year.
Last year revenues we're boosted
by $68,084.09 from the settlement
of the bonding company which
provided surety for E. Wade Ball,
convicted county treasurer.
Members of the school board
said economies were in effect
in the schools and that even
further reductions might be af-
fected in the costs of education
for this year.
The Washington times., 1933-11-15
Trick Names, IIIiteracy, Authorizations and
MisspeIIings Prove Puzzles to
Inquiry Division Here

''To the wife of the tone-legged
colored man who lives on l Street,
Washington"
Should the average layman pick
up a letter so addressed, it would
mean little or nothing, but to the
sixty-odd handwriting and de-
ciphering experts of the Post
Office Department, whose job it is
to see that such poorly directed
mail reaches it's destination, it is
just another one of their many
odd experiences.
Letter Reached Goal
A letter thus addressed was
actually mailed in Washington,
and, strange as it may seem,
reached the party for whom it was
intended.
Much mail of this sort has been
eliminated since it has been made
unlawful to post letters with
trick" names and addresses. but,
according to Assistant Superin-
tendent of Mails w. c. Gilbert.