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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14
Chelsea Shoe Company
Flies Blue Eagle and
Fires Workers in Plant

CHELSEA, Mass.-With the blue
eagle as their protector, the bosses
of the Avon Shoe company began to
fire many workers from their shop.
The leaders of the National Shoe
Workers Union urged the workers to
be calm and to submit to the out
rage. But the workers declared a
strike over the heads Of. the leaders.
The officials tried to soft pedal the
strike by calling it holiday" and
failed to organize a picket line.
Again the workers took the matter
into their own hands and picketed
the shop until the bosses signed an
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14
The Fighting
Vets
BY H. E. BRIGGS
Extral Rightly in Danger


Are we downhearted2 He'll mol
The British tars are up in arms over
their pay cut. H. M. s. Hood was
forced to abandon maneuvers when
the gobs refused to main their sta
lions at sea. The Telegram says,
cit was typical British revolt" Yes,
yes, and the rank and file ex-service-
men of America are leading typical
revolt against Roosevelt's New dirty
Deal and the Economy Act. And the
Dutch sailors led q typical revolt.
And the Chilean navy had a typical"
revolt. The Cuban soldiers and
sailors in typical fashion kicked
out their typical admirals and gen.
erals. These typical international
revolts will tickle the typical
bankers and capitalists to death
some day
1t Won't Be Long Now
Word comes to us that the AM
erican doughboyS are forming grew
ance committees to protest their pay
cuts. What with the dollar at 66
cents $1785 minus mass deductions,
laundry, canteen bills, upkeep of
uniform etc, there's hardly enough
left to pay for stamps at the Y. M.
c. A. And the gobs are building ship
committees also. AS rank and file
says, we've taken it on the chin long
enough, what the English tars can
do we can"
Initiation Hits the Marines
The marines at the Legation Guard
at Peiping are not living the life OF
Reilly these days. Their Debated
dollar and the Is per cent pay cut
makes seeing the world costly pro-
position. The boys are spending a
lot of time in the barracks now
studying the situation. The hero
business is in a bad way.
Step the Plague
The recent so-called uprising" Of
the Khaki Shirts in Philadelphia
must not be looked upon as flash
in the pan, but must be viewed as g
serious menace to the working class
Today the police raid" their head
quarters but tomorrow the police anc
Khaki Shirts may be united as ir
other places. We should not be con-
tent with calling these Fascist scoun-
drels lunatics. Hitler too was looked
upon as a damn fool He also wa!
arrested, at one time, one of the ways
to combat Fascists regardless of theil
shirts is to build a strong MASS
Veteran movement bound to the
working class in DISCIPLINED
SOLIDARITY. More than phrases
are needed to combat the Fascis
threat. Organization and struggl,
against the N. I. r. "A, against wage
cuts, and for the right of free speech
assembly, the right to strike and or
game, these are the methods tina
will defeat the Khaki Shirts.
Have You Any Songs?
The Artef is putting on a Bonu
play and requests some of the songs
dittes, etc, that the bonus marcher
used to sing on the road and il
Washington. Send all material t
the Artef, East 18th ST., New York
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14
JObless Conference
Called in Cleveland

CLEVELAND, GA united front
conference is called by the neighor-
hood council for the purpose of dis
cussing and plan ways and means of
how to organize the coming winter
struggles. In order to make this con-
ference a success we ask all mass or
CARNATIONS to send delegates. The
conference will be held Sunday, Oc-
tober % at Carpenters Hall, 1851
Kinsman Road at 10 a. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14
Marx-Lenin Exhibited in
Cleveland

CLEVELAND.-As a part of ma
tional presentation, Cleveland will
have the opportunity of seeing the
Marx-Lenin Exhibition being toured
from coast to coast in connection
with the son anniversary of Marx.
Open to all workers or groups of work
ers from 3 p. m. till midnight on
Monday, Oct. 10th. With a special
lecture by H. M. Wicks at 8 p. m.
sharp. Both the exhibit and lecture
will take place in the Prospect Audi
forum, 2612 Prospect Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14
National
Events
Barbusse Meetings This Week
In Cleveland

Henri Barbusse will speak in Cleve-
land on Tuesday, evening, Oct. II, at
huge anti-war mass meeting where
the Cleveland delegates to the United
States Congress Against War will
make their report. The meeting will
be held in the Prospect Auditorium,
2612 Prospect Ave.
Other speakers will include Prof.
Cole of Oberlin College, j. William
son, district organizer Of the Com
munist Party, and Carl Geiser, stu
dent delegate to the Latin-American
Congress Against War held in Uru-
quay
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14
500 Attend Meeting
to Protest Murder
of, JObless Leader

FORT WORTH, Tex-That there
is growing sympathy in this town
towards the Communist Party was
evident at the mass trial Of r. E.
Barlow's murderers. The meeting
which was held under the auspices
of the Unemployed Council has
brought about 500 workers and farm
ers to express their protest against
the murder of Barlow while in Jail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14
Schenectady Lectures

SCHENECTADY, N. Y.-An in
tense election campaign is in progress
here. A series of lectures on four
consecutive Sunday evenings has
been arranged with M E. Taft as
speaker in conjunction with the cam
paign.
They are as follows: Oct. Is, The
Crisis; Oct. %, London Economic
Conference; Oct. 20, NR.A.; Nov. S,
War Danger
The lectures will be held at 1873 s.
Church st. and start at p. m,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14
Needle Trades Workers

BOSTON, Mass.-The Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union of
Boston will run its Fifth Annual
Bazaar Nov. 8. 10, and II, at New
International Hall, AZ Wenonah ST.,
RoXbury.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14
In Chicago

Famous revolutionary writer of
France will be honor guest at open
ing of Communist Party Bazaar in
Chicago, on Friday evening, Oct. Goth
at the Peoples Auditorium, PAST West
Chicago Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14

agreement reinstating the workers.
But the trouble in the shop is by
no means over. OF late the workers
do not receive their pay on time ano
the families go very often without
food.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14
rs NEGRO, WHITE STRIKERS
IN NUT FACTORY JAILED FOR
MILITANT MASS PICKETING
/ 400 Out Demanding Reinstate m ent Of the
Workers; Mass Trial Condemns the MIA,
Company and City Plot
BY PETE CHAUNT.

LOUIS 13-Seventyhve nut pckers Negro and whe
while picketng going on at Funston
called the Food Workers Industrial
upon unemployment all lO
strike vote cast in each OF the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14
Anti-War Delegates to Report

LAWRENCE, Mass.-The delegates
to the Anti-War Congress will make
their reports this Sunday, 7:30 p. m.
at Italy Grande Hall, Oak st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14

The Daily Worker fights Fascism.
Fight for the "Daily" with your
dollars. Rush all funds to save the
DAILY"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14
.Living Costs Sweep
Upward in Fifth
Consecutive Rise
Food Rises % Per Cent Since May; Clothes
"a Per Cent, as Wages Lag Far Behind
Under Roosevelt MIRA. Codes

NEW YORK upward the cost OF
living high during September
by the National Industrial
Confer
This Roosevelt took ohcei
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14
@ UT OF TO w N
FOR THE
Daily WOrke!Esr.
GO ozsaS SsEgsSSs@,ais rr+s asA
Pittsburgh
OCT. Ia.

OCT. Ia:
Dance given by the Fifth Ward Daily
Worker Committee at Elks Rest, 73i5
Wylie Ave. Refreshments. Admis-
sion i5c.
Gary, Ind. j
OCT. IA:
vetcherinka given by the Working
Womens Progressive Organization
and all Russian Branches at 224 W.
18th Ave.
Los Angeles Section
Comrade MacHarris. touring for the
Daily Worker. with the great Soviet
Film "Ten Days That Shock The
World" and Bread" will be shown
in the following cities on the dates
listed below for the benefit Of the
Daily Worker:
Oct. 16-AIhdmbrd
Oct. 17-San Diego
Oct. 18-Long Beach
Oct. 21-Santd Barbara
Oct. % to 26 inclusive
Monterey, Santa Cruz
and WatsOnUiiie
Oct. 27-CGrmeL
Cleveland
OCT. IA:
Dance given by the Mcbride Block
Committee at Probulow Hall, $685.
Broadway, from pm. to am.
OCT. IA:
House Party arranged by Unit IT at
1889 W. 5Oth st. at pm. Coco
program.
OCT. IA:
Dance and Entertainment given by
Unit "a at the Finnish Workers Club,
4528 Detroit Ave. at pm.
OCT. Is:
House Party arranged by Unit Sac
at the home, of S. Halper, s779 e.
l54th St. at 8 pm.
OCT. Is:
Big Affair arranged by Section II
at Workers Center. 3843 Woodland
Ave, Ord floor, at 8 pm. Entertain
ment. Sterioptican slides on the
Workers Press, Columbus Relief
March and Views from the Soviet
Union.
Toledo
OCT. Is:
Testimonial Banquet and Program
for the readers and subscribers OF
the Daily Worker at the Jewish Nv
o. Hall. 40 e. Bancroft st., at
100 pm. Auspices. the Daily Worker
Committee OF Toledo Section. Ad-
mission free,
Shddyside, Ohio
OCT. Ia:
Dance at Junior Mechanics Hall. Ad-
mission use. Good time assured.
Chicago
OCT. ID:
Finnish workers Club, will give q
dance and entertainment al I'M
perial Hall, 24os No. Halsted Street
at 8 pm. Admission 30 cents.
OCT. Is:
Concert and Dance Auspices Of W
winchevsky Workers Club, at 1905
w. Roosevelt Road. Excellent pro
gram. Admission is cents.
OCT. II:
A city-wide meeting of Daily Worker
readers will be held at Peoples Au-
dsorium. 2457 W. Chicago Avenue.
The Volunteers Committee will be
elected at this meeting to carry on
the work for the benefit Of the DAILY
Worker.
,Argo, I'LL.
OCT. ID:
Dance given by all revolutionary or
CARNATIONS in Argo at 62l9 Archer
Avenue. Admission is cents.
philadelphia =
| OCT. IA:
Party and Dance given by the LID
at 1881 N. Franklin Street Admiss
sion 10 cents. This affair is for ths
benefit of the Daily Worker and the
LID. Convention.
| OCT. Goth:
Gala Concert at Turngemeinde Hall
Broad and Columbus Ave. Robert
Minor, candidate on the G. p. ticket
| in New York will be the rnair
speaker. Interesting program. Ad,
mission IS cents. II
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14
Gary, Ind.

OC I. H.
Vetcherinka given by the Working
Women's Progressive Organization
and all Russian Branches at 2z4 W.
18th Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14
Los Angeles Section

Comrade MacHarris. touring for the
Daily Worker. with the great Soviet
Film "Ten Days That Shock Tho
World" and Bread" will be showr
in the following cities on the dates
listed below for the benefit Of the
Daily Worker:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-14

Dance given by the Fifth Ward Daily
Worker Committee at Elks Rest, ISIS
Wylie Ave. Refreshments. Adnlis-
The daily worker., 1933-06-03
BY MILTON HOWARD.

In our article Of two weeks ago.
we pointed out that the present rise
in prices and the increase in produc-
ton in a few industries, like textiles,
automobile and steel was not due to
q real turn for the better in funda-
mental economic conditions, but all
most wholly TO the pressure of infla-
ton. Or, more accurately, in antici-
patton Of further initiation.
This has been strikingly confirmed
in the past week.
Prosperity Fake Becomes More
Evident.
The prosperity ballyhoo of Roose-
Velt becomes more and more a flag
rant piece of publicity based on a
business structure which gets more
hopelessly than ever before entang-
led in capitalist contradictions. AS the
season passes into the summer, the
evidence" which the Roosevelt pro-
paganda machine has been turning
out in such vast quantities gets thin
nef and thinner. The real facts be-
come more and more hidden under
false newspaper headlines, inspired
ballyhoo, etc.
The analysis which we made about
the spectacular rise in steel produc-
ton ) being confirmed everyday.
Theie is absolutely no real basis for
the expansion in steel production.
As we have been pointing out, there
can be no real prosperity in the steel
industry without substantial buying
by the railroads and the building
construction industry.
And from these vital industries
which constitute the main support
Of the steel industry in normal times,
there is coming less buying than ever
before In the history of the country.
The Engineering News Record re-
ports that the latest figures for heavy
construction activity as measured by
contract awards, is practically at a
complete standstill, contracts for May
18th totalling $76940O0, a low figure
for more than 30 years.
The latest figures from the United
States Bureau of Labor Statistics in
dicate that building construction in
the 352 largest cities of the United
States are running at the rate of Al
per cent below the same period last
year. There is not even the usual
seasonal increase in building.
From the railroads, we get similar
news. For the first four months of
this year, up TO May /, The American
The daily worker., 1933-06-03
The Emptiness of Roosevelt's "Prosberity"

Railway Association reports that all
the railroads Of the United States
combined placed one new locomotive
in service. Compared with the
average of 1900 for the last 10 years,
only three locomotives we're on order,
compared with 81 on the same day
last year and compared with an
average of 1000 for the similar per-
iod during the last ten years and
there is practically no buying of steel
rails going on.
Thus. from the two main pur-
chasers of steel there is coming no
real buying.
The backlog of untitled steel orders
is right close to the low point of the
crisis.
1t is clear that the much-hailed
rise in steel production is based on a
rotten foundation. 1t must soon col
lapse. The capitalist press is being
forced to admit this more openly
For example, a special dispatch from
Pittsburgh to the New York Evening
Post states:
'The particularly amazing thing
about the steel situation Is that the
increase occurs when so many of
the usually active consumers are
doing almost nothing"
Ultimate Consumers Cannot Buy.
The final proof that the crisis can
not be much longer hidden by pros
perity ballyhoo is given by the evil
| dences that indicate whether there
is any real buying going on by ulti-
mate consumers, by the people. 1t
is obvious that without this real,
fundamental buying, there can be no
easing Of the crisis. And no such
buying has developed or can develop
The buying of automobiles thru
out the country, despite all the opti-
mistic reports, has not even reached
the level Of last year. The reports
OF r. L. Polk & Co., experts in ana
lying retail sales Of automobiles,
show that automobile sales are run
ming behind 1892.
The most convincing proof that
manufactured goods are not being
bought by the people is given by the
amount Of merchandise carloadings,
which as we have been pointing out
shIw no improvement, despite the
fact that total carloadings of all pro-
ducts show very slight increase.
For the week ended May 20, merch-
| andise carlosdings showed decline
of $4,000 cars as compared with the
The daily worker., 1933-06-03

same week last year.
For, just as the advance in prices
was beginning to show unmistake-
able signs of exhaustion, the Rocse-
velt government was forced to give
business another inflationary shot.
The United States Treasury ordered
the Federal Reserve Banks to begin
an active cheapening OF the dollar
through deliberate policy of credit
expansion. And the purpose Of this
shot" is openly admitted by Secre-
tary OF the Treasury Woodin, who
said that the Federal Reserve Banks
were ordered to expand credit in
order to move things along" In
these words, Woodin not only ex-
plains what happened this week, but
he gives the clue to what the Roose-
welt government will be forced to do
again and again in the near future.
Rising Prices Forces More
Initiation.
In our articles for the past few
months, we have been emphasizing
all the time that the Roosevelt gov
ernment in its open attempt to raise
prices will be forced more and more
into inflationary measures. Roose-
velt and the capitalist class have
been talking of controlled initiation"
But we have shown that the price
raising effect of initiation depends
precisely on the fact that initiation
is not controlled, and cannot be con-
trolled. Initiation causes prices to
rise. As soon as the pressure of in
flation stops. prices win drop. There
prices, more and more initiation is
constantly required, to keep the eX-
panding bubble from bursting, The
phenomenon Of rising prices, which
is supposed to be the happy effect of
a controlled initiation, itself snashes
the control over initiation. And in
evitably, as more and more initiation
is pumped into the bubble of artifici-
ally rising prices, there comes the in
evitable explosion and collapse
More and more, and with increas-
ing speed, the Roosevelt government
is sliding down the creased rails OF
uncontrolled currency initiation. This
can only mean a steady drop in the
purchasing power Of the workers,
making it more and more difficult
for them to keep a-.e starvation
standard of living.
Farmers Pociticn Getting Worse.
In the last week, the position OF
the farmer has come in for increas-
The daily worker., 1933-06-03

ing attention The Roosevelt gov
ernment has as one of its main OBJ
jectives an increase in the selling
price of farm products, ostensibly to
help the millions Of mortgaged and
penniless farmers. The economists
of the Roosevelt administration the
crafty young demagogues Of the
Grain trust have hailed with great
joy the recent sharp rise in the
prices of farm products, interpret
ing this as the beginning of pros
perity for the American farmer
However, such an Interpretation of
the facts is a fraud. In the first
place. the benefit OF the present rise
in farm prices does not at all go to
the small farmers and farm laborers
who produce the grains. The pres
ent rise has proflted only the wheat
spectators of Chicago and Wall
Street.
But even more convincing proof
that there Is no prosperity for the
farmer is given by the facts made
BdGllG D1 bllC OlltGS1 CbabCo OCHubl
ment Of Agriculture which reveals
that between April 18th and May goth
farm products such as wheat and
cotton rose in price from 13 to 10
per cent. And at the same time, the
materials which the farmer must buy
rose in some cases as high as Al per
cent. Metals which the farmer must
buy in the form of machinery, etc,
rose as follows; Copper, 33 per cent;
tin, al per cent; sheetings, etc, 35
per cent, and 50 on. Fertilizers
which the farmer must buy. rose IL
per cent in price during the last four
weeks. Leather, which the farmer
must buy in various forms, rose 23
per cent. Lime, which the farmer
must buy, rose 2l per cent.
It is obvious that even If the farmer
were able to cash in on the present
advance in the price of farm pro-
ducts, he would not be one bit bet
te- of. And, as matter Of fact,
his cost Of living has advanced, he
is now more poverty stricken and
more crushed by debts and mortgages
than he has ever been. The Roose-
velt prosperity for the farmer is a
lie.
Thus, the Roosevelt government
has been unable to lessen the crisis
IN any way. On the contrary, the
deepening of the crisis is forcing it
more and more on to the road Of
open initiation. And this can mean
culy increasing misery for the people.
The daily worker., 1933-06-03
The Strike Movement Grows
Throughout u, S.

The greatest possible de-
velopment and strengthen
ing of the struggle of the
proletariat against wage
cuts and the worsening of
the conditions Of labor, the
exertion of all the efforts
of the Communist Parties
and the revolutionary trade
union organizations to en-
sure the independent lead
ership of strike struggles
! and the unemployed move
ment, the raising of the
fighting capacity of the
masses, leading them on the
basis of their own expert
ence from the struggle for
everyday partial demands
to the struggle for the gen.
eral class tasks of the pro-
letariat represent the chief
tasks for all sections of the
Communist International,
especially under the condi-
tions of the end of capitalist
stabilization.
From, the thesis of the 18th
pIenun, of the Executive
Committee of the COM
muniSt international.
The daily worker., 1933-06-03
1888 Foreign Trade
Drops to New Low

GENEVA, June 1.--Extraordin
airy evidences of the depth and
severity Of the present crisis, is
given by the figures just made
public by the Economic Section of
the League Of Nations.
A survey just issued by the Eco
nornic Section Of the League of
Nations reveals that the foreign
trade Of the capitalist countries of
the world dropped to new lows
during the first three months of
this year. Since 1929. the foreign
trade Of the capitalist countries
has crashed more than IS per cent,
the League survey shows.
The daily worker., 1933-06-03
The attitude of a political

The attitude of a political
party towards its errors is
one of the most important
and surest criterions of the
seriousness Of the party, and
of how it fulfills in practice
it's obligations towards its
class and towards the labor
ing masses. To admit a mis-
take openly, to disclose its
reasons, to analyze the sur
roundings, which created it,
to study attentively the
means of correcting this mis-
take-these are the signs of
a serious party, this means
a performance of it's duties,
this means educating and
training the class and conse-
quently the masses.
-LENIN.
The daily worker., 1933-06-03
World Wheat Crisis
Grows Steadily Worse

WASHINGTON, June 2.-The crisis
in the world wheat market is getting
worse, despite all attempts to raise
prices. This is definitely indicated
by the figures just made public b.
the U. s. Department of Agriculture.
which show that the four PRINCIPAL
wheat exporting countries in tho
world, now have supplies on hand
totalling more than $4,000, 900 bushels
of wheat. The normal surplus is cal
culated at 100000, 900 bushels.
This explains why the United
States exports Of wheat have dropped
steadily for the last 4 years.
The daily worker., 1933-06-03
Rx C. A. HATHAWAY

While, in the main, the united front
tactic has been applied correctly by
the Party, thereby forcing the issue Of
a united front of struggle into a cen
tral position in the whole working
class movement, there have been nu-
merous and serious shortcomings, and
also dangerous opportunist errors.
These shortcomings and errors-both
the right and left varieties, as well
as the Party's deep-rooted sectarian