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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-05-25
Series of Misfortunes

HOWARD LAKE-The members of the Gabbert
family have been the victims of series of misfor-
tunes lately. Mrs Caroline Gabbert was taken i'll
first and after suffering for time passed away
last Friday. Then Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Gabbert were
very seriously injured in automobile accident and
were in the hospital for several weeks. They were
released from the hospital last week but two of their
children now in the hospital, seriously i'll with
pneumonia. Twins were born last week to Mr.. and
Mrs. Emil Gabbert but lived only few hours. Her
Gabbert is very ill at his home in Dickinson,
N, D., and Dan Scheer, brother-in-law, is i'll with
erysipelas.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-17
CHICAGO HEARING
BARES BOSSES
ATTACK ON RELIEF
Workers T es tify to
Officials Methods
of Evasion

CHICAGO, Ill.-The following is
part Of a report Of the open hearing
at Ellis Park called by Ward 2 Unen
ployed Council to protest the relief
affidavit system.
A Negro worker, Miller told how
when he applied for box order, he
was told that he wasn't qualified. He
then asked what he must do in order
to be qualified. The relief agent re-
piled, Nothing. you just amt quail
fed" Miller said he had a job once
IS janitor and the reason he didn't
have it now was that the workers
were all evicted. Many a night he
slept in the park in preference to the
flop house. When asked what he
had done to better his condition, By
the boss attorney, he replied he had
joined the Unemployed Council and
participated in the struggles CT the
working class.
Next q Negro woman worker testi-
fed she had not worked since 1881.
When asked if she wanted to work.
she replied, It sure do" The bosses
tried to send her son, who is 10 years
Old to the forest camp, but he re-
fused, saying that his mothers health
was bad, and that he wanted to take
care of her. The relief agent called
at her home and because her son was
not in they cut of her relief.
Next a Negro worker. named Nor
gan. He wasn't working because the
bosses at the steel mill had fired him
off along with many other workers.
He was a single man and when he
applied for relief the bosses tried TO
sentence him to a flop house. He
didn't think he had committed
crime and wouldn't 60 Then they
tried to sentence him to an institu-
ton, the county farm, again he re
fused and couldn't understand why,
if they could feed him at these places,
they couldn't feed him at home.
Harris, a blind Negro worker, fired
from his JOB years ago because, as
result of the work he was becoming
blind. Had no money in the bank
but few dollars in his pocket. DID
not make enough to live and save
too. Was living on charity. Recently
was cut 81 20 and box cut 48 cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-17

it. One day, company was drilling,
and a mud-puddle was in their way.
The young workers hesitated, but the
officer shouted: who told you to
STOP" and SO they splashed through
the nlush.
Military Discipline.
At first there wasn't much signs OF
strictness, but gradually more disci-
pline was introduced, and now it is
getting stricter each day. In fact
regular military discipline was being
introduced.
Many of the young workers are
grumbling against the strict military
rules, and IS of them have run away.
Now guards are stationed at all the
entrances, and no one is allowed to
leave without pass.
One and three -fourths days leave
are allotted in month for each
person, but at their own expense
They receive $50 a month, $25 of it
goes to the family, and IS left for
them. The toilet articles, cigar
cites, and other little things are ex-
pensive. In fact they are charged
one and half times the price which
we pay in the city, and so nothing
can be saved out of their paltry sum
OF S..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-17
in CAMP
AGAINST B A D
CONDITIONS
BY a Worker Correspondent

OMAHA. Neb.-Discontent nour-
ished by intolerable army discipline,
army drill and poor food caused a
riot in President Roosevelt's forced
labor camp at Fort Crook on June 8.
For weeks the capitalist press has
been publishing articles and printing
false photographs in an effort to con-
vince the masses that the reforest-
ration troops are contented lot of
young men. Tie fact is that dis
content is general in this forced la
Dor camp.
While Colonel Thomas Anderson
claims that the forced labor troops
have much more freedom than SOL
diers of the regular army the truth
is that they have less.
The capitalist press refrained from
stating the cause of the riot and
Colonel Anderson evaded an expla-
nation by saying that it was merely
brawl "by a small ,lawless element
within the demonstration army
Six members of the REPRESENTATION
troop were dismissed after being de-
MED a hearing in regard to the cause
of the riot. The capitahstic Omaha
Bee-News and the Omaha World
Herald arc trying to make it look
like a grudge fight between enlisted
men of the regular army and the
men of the reforestration group.
e, b.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-17
DRILL EVERY DAY
NO MATTER WHAT
THE WEATHER Isl
(By a Worker Correspondent.)


FORT SHERIDAN, ul.-When the
recruited young workers arrive at
camp they are inoculated for such
diseases as typhoid, etc. They are
given four injections. The first two
injections are the hardest to pass,
and if you pull through with the
first two shots, then you are physi-
cally fit.
The young workers in my brothers
company are getting three square
meals, including fruit, every day. The
diet varies from day-to-day. But
ever so often there are complaints
from the other companies in camp
saying that they don't get enough to
eat.
BURR -rr-r was it cold" was my
brothers reply to my question OF
how did he like to sleep in the tentsP
Everybody was kicking about not
having enough blankets, too cold,
etc. About half of the young
workers have colds.
They drill every day. 1t makes no
difference whether it rains or not
The drilling must go on. If mud
puddle happens to be in the way
they have to march right through
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-17

the mass struggle and the organ
national preparations for mass ac-
tivity, were raised in the Party and
its leadership. Serious differences
arose among the Party leaders on
the question Of which is more i'm
portant-the political leadership of
mass struggles or the organizational
preparations for them. Such con-
trasting of politics and organization,
from the point of view of Marxism-
Leninism, is absolutely incorrect.
Without correct policy, and our
whole policy is directed to winning
the masses to our side, the mob
ilizing of the masses for struggle
against the bourgeoisie, there can be
no question of victory. But no pol
icy, even the most correct one, can
give victory of itself, and requires
organiZational measures to carry it
out. Policy cannot replace organiza-
ton; organization cannot replace pol
icy. One is impossible without the
other. Policy predetermines; organ
ization decides. Policy is the basis;
organization the deriyative. Not poll
tics for organization, but organiza-
ton for politics. For victory, both
policy and organization are equally
necessary. Therefore, to raise the
question-which is more important
for victory-policy or organization
Is utterly wrong. To reduce every
thing to policy alone without organ
national measures, means to con-
yav tho Do ~ fr,tA nd Al
society, a narrow sect, proud of the
purity Of its principles, but abso-
lutely separated from the masses.
To reduce everything to organ
ization and the preparation of strug-
giles, also means to convert the Party
into a sectarian, petty, business" or
ganization, urging the masses to be
patient and wait, until the Party
prepares everything.
Party Must Lead Mass Movements.
But the masses cannot be salts
fled with political directives alone,
and demand organizational guidance.
The masses cannot wait and will not
postpone their activity until the
Party has made organizational prep
arations, but demand leadership i'm
mediately at every manifestation
they make. Therefore, while carry
ing on persistent political and or
ganizational preparation of mass ac-
tivity, the Party must, together with
this, take the leadership of all mass
movements, even in cases when it
is by no means ready for this move
ment orsanizationally. Ths Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-17
Recruits Arriving at
Camp Called Suckers
by Earlier Arrivals

(By a Labor Camp Correspondent
CAMP DIX, N. il arrived here
with 80 other boys. Some Of them
were from Newark, and others from
New York. During my three days
there, about 40 Of the boys, who
were already there, left the camp.
They complained that the food was
lousy, and the coffee is served with
out sugar or milk, and that they put
salt-petre in it.
AS soon as we came into camp, the
boys there called us suckers. We
sleep in tents without any bed-sheets
or pillows, and we froze at night On
Wednesday night, when we got here,
one got off the bus and got right on
again after look around. The water
tastes lousy.
AS soon as We got 10 SO whitehall
Street, New York we had beans, a
pickle and one slice of bread and
ley gave us coffee with saltpetre in
Il. At camp tor breakfast we had
black mud supposed to be coffee, cold
potatoes without any flavor, and
scrambled eggs without salt or pep
per. And there was some kind Of
Chemicals in the eggs because had
to use the toilet three times that day.
Friday for lunch we had some fish
and it sure tasted lousy. We had
mashed potatoes that we're hall de-
cent. The only good part Of the meal
was the chocolate pudding they gave
us.
The camp is run by army officers
and there is an army man at the
head of every company. I am home
now for the weekend. but am going
to quit as soon as get back if they
keep giving us that garbage they call
food.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-17
BY JOSEPH FREEMAN

The Soviet workers real wage con-
sists not only of direct money wages,
but also of "sccialized wages" which
includes such factors as social insur-
ance for illness, accident, maternity,
industrial and occupational diseases,
old age pensions; sums spent for the
prevention of accidents and prophy-
Tactic measures; sociali5ed medicine;
socialized housing and tenancy; mu-
nicipal services; and the construction
of socialist cities. AS a separate fac
tor, quite peculiar in its character
and of major Importance, is the fact
that the workers have at their service
the socialized distribution of commo-
dities and services, and the increased
consumption Of food, clothing and
other articles at low prices.
The Labor Code
Among the most important factors
in the Soviet workers "socialized
wage" is social insurance. The Labor
Code provides for social insurance to
cover free medical aid payment dur
ing temporary incapacity to work due
to illness. accident, quarantine, preg-
nancy, childbirth, or the necessity of
caring for sick member of the fam
lily; supplementary benefits for re-
tirement, the care of infants, and
death; unemployment relief; the pay
ment of invalid insurance; and pay
ment to persons whose breadwinner
has died or disappeared. In addition
to these insurance services, an old
age pension system was established
on May Is, 1929. None of the persons
eceivins the benefits of social insur-
ance contr butte to the insurance
funds.
Each OF the insurance organizations
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-17
SOCIAL INSURANCE IN SOVIET UNION AFFORDS
COMPLETE PROTECTION TO WORKERS

ings. The Capitalization and integra-
ton are convenient for the insured
and save a great deal Of overhead
cost, leaving more Of the insurance
funds for actual benefits to the work.
ers. Thus, while insurance organize
tions in other countries commonly de-
vote six or seven per cent Of their
expenditures to overhead, the Soviet
insurance bodies pay out for this pur-
pose only about two per cent OF their
OUTLAWS.
Maternity Insurance
Insurance for pregnancy and child
birth covers eight weeks before and
eight weeks after confinement. For
women engaged in mental work the
insurance period is six weeks before
and six weeks after confinement, al
though in types of mental work in
volving special strain the period Is
the same as for industrial workers.
The payment Is equivalent to the
woman workers full wages beginning
with the first day of the twelve or
sixteen-we period. In addition,
maternity benefits include lump
sum for the layette, free medical at
tention, and supplementary sums for
feeding the child for nine months
after its birth. If the mother is not
well enough to return to work eight
weeks after confinement, she receives
an additional eight weeks vacation
with full pay. during which time her
Job must be held for her. Maternity
relief covers not only women who are
working but also those who are un-
employed or who are receiving insur-
ance benefits for other reasons. 1t
ESQ covers the wives OF workers, both
employed and unemployed. as well as
the wives of workers on insurance re-
lief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-17
INTERVIEWS WITH
3UNEM BY
DAILY REPORTER
Show Wide Support
for Unemployment
Insurance
BY PAsCUAL

by FASOOAL
The reporter of the Daily Worker
selected at random Is families on
the lower east and west side of New
York to inquire as to main prob
lens facing them. The questions
asked were: How were you effected
by the Mayors decision to stop pay
ing rents of the unemployed? What
DO you think of the mayors scheme
for a 2-cent tax on subways? Should
we demand the adoption of men-
ployment insurance, to be paid by
the bosses and the government?
The reaction to the 7-cent fare was
Fclear cut and immediate. Mayor
EO'Brien was called everything from
idiot to crook. But the second ques-
ton, on rent payments, enabled most
of the workers to Indignantly link
graft to Mayer O'Brien. In discus
sing Unemployment Insurance, one
worker concluded that she favored
it because half the poor people
don't get relief anyhow, on account
Of the graft"
Not Clear On Unemployment
Insurance.
Unemployment insurance, how
ever, was not clear to the workers.
Some thought it a kind of insurance
policy, others thought the employed
should have to support the unem-
l)loyed But when it was explained
that it was to be raised by a tax on
incomes above 5000, the workers
were quick to understand it.
As i. Lederfnan, for example, Of
80 Suffolk ST.. said: Something has
got to be done; and this Unemploy-
ment Insurance is the most inlpor-
tant thing" A woman living at BIZ
w. 18th st. pointed out sharply: THE
/, rich have everything to live for, let
them give the poor people a chance
to live"
/ Family of 9.
With a family OF nine to lock after.
seven of whom are unemployed
longshoremen, the mother at 245 w.
18Th ST. commented: MY poor boys
will have to walk they legs off If
they raise the fare"
Lederman. who is unemployed for
10 months and who lives near the
MaNtlGLGuil GI2uSSs Sdld tll1S A4S 1Aelo
to walk the bridge mangitimes when
looking for painting jobs in Brook
Ign, so how could he pay 7-cent
fare. TN fact he added. II spend
40 cents day sometimes looking for
work. And lots of times have to
stay home and feed the kid with the
40 cents
Don't Want Charity.
]. Spector OF 396 Grand St., who
as a carpenter has been trying to
ge- > lob through the Relief Bureau
f,v / ) lss5 year, "All they do, is
a-i. me questions and more ques-
tions," he remarked heatedly. He
made an application five weeks ago
1 and when The investigator came
three weeks later and began asking
& the same old questions he cut him
Q short with: IT don't want charity; !
only want a couple of days work. u
He thought Unemployment Insur-
ance is the best thing for poor
man. To prove he understood how
it could be won, he said, And the
more that workers stick together, the
better is the chance to get it" He
made assurances that he would GER
tainly read the Daily Worker left
with him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-17
STRUGGLE FOR UNEMPLOYMENT
INSURANCE MAIN TASK IN u. S.

ecutive Committee Of the Communist
International, which said that the
immediate task of the Communist
Party of the U. S A. was the "strug-
gle against the capitalist offensive
and the organization Of wide coun-
ter offensive for social insurance
at the expense of the capitalists and
the State"
What has the Party done in the
course of the four years since May,
1929, when the struggle for the
seven-hour day and for social in
surance was first put forward as the
central task?
Main Slogan
In 1880, the Party carried on q
wide campaign for collecting indi-
vidual and collective signatures to g.
Bill on social insurance, and gath
cred about million signatures.
Then the Party put forward the slo-
gan Of social insurance as the CEN
trail slogan during the hunger march
Of 1881. In the same way this slo-
gan was put forward during the
Veterans march and in the election
campaign, and also during the last
hunger march. However, both in
these marches and especially in the
election campaign, the agitation for
this slogan was completely INSULT
cient.
Thus the campaign for social in
surance was carried on unsystem-
atically by the Party, in fits and
starts. It had not sufficiently
mass character, and the Party only
carried out the plan contained in
the decisions of the XXI Plenum to
organize a wide counter-offensive of
the proletariat for social insurance
at the expense Of the capitalists and
the State" to an insufficient degree.
And this took place in spite of the
fact that the Party had monopoly
in the working class for almost three
years on the struggle for social in
surance, in spite of the fact that the
number Of unemployed increased
year by year, and, at the present
time, has reached 1916 millions.
Sectaxian Teudencies.
The basic source Of the tagging of
the Party behind the mass movement
consists in the sectaiian tendencies
still very strong in the Party. These
tendencies have found clear ex-
preston, especially recently, in the
incorrect manner in which the ques-
ton Of the relation between the po-
litical and organizational tasks OF
the Party. between the leadership Of
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must take the leadership Of mass &C.
tons in the condition in which these
mass actions find it, introducing
further organizational measures in
the course of the struggle itself, on
the basis of wide application of
the tactic Of the united front from
below, as was stressed by the de-
cision of the xIIth Pienum of the
Executive Committee of the Com
munist International.
lTo Be Continuedl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-17
Demand a Special Session of Congre
Statement of the Central Committee, opus
NO ALL WORKERS. EAp1oYEp ANp uNEMpIoYEp:


Congress- lasting
joned democratic campaign
the bankers and manufacturers 1t has brazen ignored the
promises made to Rooseves soed forgotten mano the
workers and small farmers
Roosevelt at the head Party specifically promised
unemployed specifically
believed in these promises
the unemployed left to exist
miserable charity ration The Democratic
Party
contention the Communist Party that both of these
parties parties of the big capitalists and only their
terests
meantime conditions unemployed much
of the unemployed families completely
Eons taking by the thousands Mass arva-
misery
time since the crisis began four years ago
General Hugh Johnson
that million viii be
This absolutely false claim comparable only
Hoos periodical promises Of prosperity in sixty days But what
cor What then would happen to the remaining thirteen
unemployed they forgotten
and their families to continue the miserable existence OF the past four
yearsP
HIS CONCERN
So far as Roosevelt concerned they
ingl by the of Congress just closed
has the rich. Beginning with the
banking legislation Roosevels administration has proceeded
billions dollars directly appropriated to aid the bankers the rail
companies the manufacturers the big real estate
the nations life
removed; of millions appropriated the
the interests Wall Street After four months
Roosevelt rule the Mans and Rockeers firmly in the
BILL TO ENsLAvE WORKERS.
adopted still directly aimed against the
hundred thou
into Rooeyelts mitarized
miserable conditions
the rapidly maturing
legislation have
disability allowances of the vet
hed the government has set the for the private
attacks the living standards of the
initiation the interests the rich has
resulted rapidly soaring prices for the peoples food
point this the adoption Of the
Industrial enbodng Rooseyets whole
pograplacing industry firmly in the hands of the Wall
bankers attacks concealed behind empty
the to destroy the militant
organizations through the compulsory establishment OF the
the oulawng strikes improved conditions and
authorization OF country preparation for
significant concluded its with the
preparation its for the building of SO battle
ships millions of people starving for lack of bread
greater misery suffering for the workers
determined and united struggles the
SOCIAL INsURANCE-NEED WORKERS
Rooseyels offer Of the crisis
is coming months will
Of capitalist anagonm and further deepening of
Roosves designed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-17
BY $. GusEv.

The tagging behind the mass
struggle must be. noted in the cam
paign for all kinds of social insurance
at the expense of the capitalists and
the government, which was begun by
the Party in 1880. Compared with
1881, this campaign carried on by the
Party in 1882 was weaker, and on a
narrower mass basis. And this took
! place in spite of the fact that, during
sthe last few years, the campaign for
the seven-hour day, for social insur-
ance, has been Systematically put be-
fore the Party as central task re-
curing insistent, constant and plan
ned work by the Party.
1t was stressed with the greatest
urgency in the Communist press as
early as May, 1929, that the main de-
mands, capable of uniting the colos-
sal masses of American workers, were
the seven-hour day and all kinds Of
social insurance, at the expense OF
the capitalists and the government,
and that the widest and most tireless
agitation for these demands must be-
come the chief task of the Party for
a whole period, which must stimuli
taneously start to organize the I'M
employed.
Unemployment Insurance
Since then it has been repeated on
numerous occasions that the struggle
for social insurance, especially un-
employment insurance, must occupy
the central place in the struggle for
immediate demands 1880, that the
struggle for social insurance and un-
employment insurance must be con-
Rverted into genuine mass campaign
4 t193D, that the directly central task
l Of the Party is the mobilization Of
the masses for the struggle for inn
mediate aid for the unemployed, the
hlsuring of the unemployed, social in
surance (1932). This fundamental
task Of the Party has been repeatedly
explained In the most detailed man.
ner, and simultaneously detailed and
concrete organizational measures
have been worked out with the aim
Of mobilizing the masses for the
struggle, Of creating a system of vari-
GUS organs, of organizationally en-
bracing the great masses. In this
very way, the necessity of system
attic campaign in the press for social
insurance of all kinds at the expense
Of the capitalists and the State has
been constantly emphasized with the
greatest insistence.
1t is also necessary TO recall the de-
siEons Of the XII Pisntmn Of the Ax-
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is headed by committee elected by
the district or regional trade union
conventions. The trade unions also
choose the auditing commissions
which supervise the committees at the
head Of the insurance organizations.
To facilitate contact with the rank
and file of workers, there are branch
insurance offices in the individual en-
terprises. Branch offices also exist
in the various sections of the city and