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The daily worker., 1933-12-23

the organization and apparatus,
trained Office employees, etc, for ad-
nlinistering this fund were. placed
under the orders Of the trade unions.
AL sanitariurns, rest homes, scientific
institutes and other buildings and
property connected in any way with
social insurance we're handed over to
the trade unions.
The four and llelf million rubles
was already budgsted as follows;
relief for Temporary incapacity, 500
million rublea; pensions, $50 million
rubles; upkeep Of sanitariunls and
rest homes, 200 million; support of
children's institutions, 100 million,
and for building and repairing work
ers' houses, 600 million rubles. No
other country in the world provides
so much for social insurance, nor in
so many forms, even If there is no
unemployment insurance here. The
only reason there is no unenploy-
ment insurance is because there is
no unemployment Of industrial work.
ers.
Union Leaders in Charge
The decree instructed the AL
Union Central Committee of Trade
Unions to carry on social Insurance.
ION industrial principles" The prac-
tical leadership is to be concentrated
in the central committees Of the trade
unions. In the republics and the
various provinces, the republic or re-
The daily worker., 1933-12-23
Students to Rally
Against R.0.T.C. in
Washington, Dec. Is
NSL Convention Will
Feature Symposium
on Negro Problems

NEW YORK-A united front anti
war demonstration will be the feature
Of the National Student League Third
Annual Convention in Washington,
Dec. 1928. The demonstration Will
take place on the afternoon of the
third day as close to the White House
as possible. A delegation will visit
the President of the United States
TO present q petition signed by thou
sands of students throughout the
country calling for the abolition of
the R.O.T.C., the military training
units on the campuses.
The convention, which is being held
in Howard University, the largest Ne
gro college in the country, will at
tempt TO work out a plan of struggle
for the students in the coming year.
4 symposium on the Negro problem
and the lynch wave, in which Donald
Henderson, Of the American League
Against War and Fascism; Richard
B. Moore, of the League of Struggle
for Negro Rights, and representa-
tive of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People,
will participate, will be one OF the
highlights Of the convention.
The evening Of the second day
viii feature a dance and entertain
ment which sll the delegates, Negro
and white, will attend.
From Yale to the University OF
Southern California, students will
represent hundreds OF campus clubs
and students groups. New York del
egates leave Monday afternoon at Il
o'clock from the N.S.L. headquarters,
ia w. 14th ST. They will return
Friday afternoon.
The daily worker., 1933-12-23
Roosevelt Buys Silver

RooSEVELT has just taken another step along that
- road OF imitation which he Is now travelling with
accelerating speed. He ordered that the United
States Treasury buy all the silver mined IN this coua-
try, at price 211z cents above the present market
Ias amount involved is not grand s5oooooo though
1t undoubtedly sudden, easy profits for the
investors who own silver mines
Roosevelt, in preparation for the coming Con
g-ess in January, s by his silver buying attempting
to disorganize the so-caled "sver bloc" of wild in
ationsts the group that Is attempting to precipitate
him toward greenback" currency faster than he wishes
TO go.
At the same time. Roosevelt continues his owl,
method Of imitation the method that is in the In
terests Of Wall Street monopoly capital
The real meaning Of Roosevelts act is that It
gives un1istakable indication that the Roosevelt gov
erninent is continuing It's infatonary drive in an
effort TO hold up the jacked-up price structure which
begins to sag as soon the infaticnary shots are
stopped Particularly Roosevels action Is part of the
growing inperialist drive Of wall Street against its
rivals, British and Japanese i,nperialisms
It Is particularly against Britain and Japanese i'm
periaisrn, against whom the Wall Street Roosevelt
government is now wagins bitter commercial and f.
nancia1 warfare the textile markets Of China
India, Argentina and Brazil
By cheapening the japanese Yen, japanese I'M
perialis succeeded in beating British manufacturers
TO the Indian markets. Now India under the heel
OF British imperialism, has declared an embargo on
the import Of Japanese textiles This has forced Japan
to drive ahead into the Chinese markets dominated
by the Wall Street inperialsts
So fierce has been the japanese infiationary
dumping" drvs Of japanese imperialism, against its
American and British rivals that u s. exporters are
being forced out OF the South American markets
Roosevelt's raising Of the silver price is, there
FORE renewed inperalist drive to beat of the i'm
peralist rivals of Wall Street the Chinese Indian
and South American taxtile markets. And it is
drive that brings the explosion of perialst warfare
closer
The daily worker., 1933-12-23
DiCtatorial Powers
Given President by
Mexican Congress
Natl Revolu tionary
Party Paves Way
for Fascisfn

MEXICO CITY, Dec. 22.-Govern-
ment by decree, paving the way for
virtual fascist dictatorship, was es-
tablished in Mexico today under die
tatorial powers voted to President
Ahelardo Rodriguez tonight by the
Senate. The measure, sponsored by
the dominant National Revolutionary
Farty, was passed by the Chamber
OF Deputies yesterday.
The measure empowers the presi-
dent to act through the medium Of
DEGREES and virtually abolishes the
authority of the legislative bodies.
A number OF sweeping DEGREES are
expected to be issued at once.
The leaders of the National Rev
olutionary Party, in an attempt to
conceal fro n the masses the fascist
aims of the measure, have given
demagogie promises that the extra
ordinary powers voted TO the Presi-
dent will be used to achieve nation
alization Of the sub-soil wealth Of
Mexico" and to carry through the
asrarian reforms long ago promised
by the party. These promises are
fatty contradicted in the preamble
of the bill which states its purpose as
merely seeking to discourage" con-
tinued exploitation of natural re-
sources by fcreign interests, in order
to hand over these resources to
Mexican capitalists
The daily worker., 1933-12-23
Chinese RedArmyi in
Fierce Fighting on
the Chekiang Front
Martial Law Decreed
in Canton Against
Workers

CANTON, Dec. 22-This city was
put under martial law today by the
Canton regime, alarmed at the rapid
upsurC5 Of the anti-innperialist strug-
giles Of the workers, rallying to the
defense Of the Chinese Soviet Re-
public against the inperialist direct
ed Nanking Sixth Offensive. Dis
covery Of wide spread preparations
for a mass uprising was claimed by
the government
The Canton warlords, while sup
porting the British INSPIRED seces-
siorist movement in Fukien Province,
is at the same time attacking the
Chinese Soviet Republic from the
south in cooperation with the Nan
king campaign.
Fierce fighting has begun on the
Fukien- -Chekiang front. The Chinese
Red Army has halted its advance In
to Chekiang and is entrenched along
strategic line from Julian and Shah
sier1 in Kiangsi to Yenping in F'ukien.
The Fukien Nineteenth Route Army,
whose rank and file are greatly sym :
pathetic to the Red Army, is holding
another line from Yenping to the
coast.
Meanwhile, the EukieIt regime con-
tinues its demagogic gestures of op-
position to the imperialists in an at
tempt to deceive the workers under
its Jurisdiction. Announcement was
made yesterday that the regime will
abolish the irnperialist courts estab-
The daily worker., 1933-12-23
i. S. ConsuIates 10
Be Opened in USSR
Bullitt on Way Home
To Report

WASHINGTON, Dec. zz.-w.niscn
G. Bullitt, first q. S. Ambassador to
the Soviet Union, is enroute to the
United States from Moscow, where he
made q preliminary survey for the
early opening of 2 U. S. Embassy in
the Soviet capital.
On the basis Of his cabled reports.
U. s Consular offices will be opersec
soon in several Soviet cities, the State
Department revealed today.
Consulate Generals are expected to
open at Moscow, Leningrad and Od-
essa, while other consular offices
probably will be established in Vladi-
vostok and one or two other cities.
it was stated. With the realization of
Soviet orders for American machinery
and other material needed in the
giant Second Year Plan, offices will
be established in other Soviet cities
Bullitt is expected to arrive about
January 5, and will remain h1re
at lesst a month for conference with
Roosevelt and the State Department.
The daily worker., 1933-12-23
Call for Struggle
A 1os.ae.4 IToo.r.y IXTnI
Against H6dFy " IL
Outlay by Govt
Manifesto of League
of Struggle Against
War Outlines Plans

NEW YORK.-Calling upon all or
ganizations and groups to initiate
nationwide campaign during De-
cember and January against the con-
uinued appropriations OF the govern
ment for war purposes, the Executivs
Committee Of the American League
Against War and Fascisln issued to-
day through its secretaries, Donald
Henderson and Francis A. Henson,
q national manifesto urging all op-
ponents of war to mobilize nation
wide action to culminate January 20
With demonstrations throughout the
country and a delegation to Washing
ton to present these demands"
Calls for Protest, Strikes on War Jobs
The manifesto issued by the League
points cut that more industries are
daily turned into war shops and that
funds appropriated for public works
are converted for war purposes
'Day by day the policies OF this
war government" continues the ma
nifesto, "are turning more factories
into war shops-Ynunitiofls take the
place of machinery; uniforms take
the place Of clothes; battleships take
the place Of schools and houses; civil
conservation encampments take the
place of homes for the youth; war
chemicals take the place Of fertilizers:
tanks take the place of tractors"
"The American League in its stirring
call to all workers and farmers, to
people of al faiths and political af-
f1liations, urges the immediate back
ing of the delegation to Washington
On January 20, with mass demonstrs-
tons and meetings throughout the
country, in every state and city Of
the union. The call especially urges
all workers to organize temporary
stoppages of work in the factories.
on the docks, on ali war jobs on
January 29@
In its campaign for Public Works
and not War Works the League urges
ell organizations and groups to "elect
Or appoint q representative to join
the Washington delegation to cali on
President Roosevelt and Congress on
January 29."
The daily worker., 1933-12-23
Anniversary "Daily'' to Recount
History Of Labor Press IN Z. S

United states7
Do know that shortly
daily in United
What the character OF publications.
or labor
What difference marks Daily Worker publications.
All these Historically important interesting questions
answered special article history press America
which will in the 2apase tenth edition of the Daily
Worker, coming on the January
No this anniversary special
features cartoons historical assembled in
wokng-cas publication copies The
24pag anniversary number will gift for
your friends neighbors fellow shop
The daily worker., 1933-12-23

insurance payments, assigns people
to the rest homes or sanitariunls, etc.
Unions Take Political Power
Furthermore, all political powers
enjoyed by the Cemmissariat Of
Labor are handed over to the trade
unicns. The central councils of trade
unions in each locality have the right
to inspect, sec that labor laws and
sanitary laws are carried out, and
can levy fines for their violation
The Central Committee Of the
Trade Unions publishes the rules and
forms for safety Of labor and sanitary
conditions. 1t registers collective
agreements between the union repre-
ssatad by the factory committee and
the management of each factory, and
has the right to alter or abolish those
which Violate the laws for safety Of
labor, sanitation, hours CT work, etc.
All the above was contained in the
historic decree Of the AL Union
Council of Peoples Cornnissars, Of
Sept. II, 1888
Unions Enforce Labor Laws
To get an idea of what it means,
ycu might imagine ali powers of
factory inspection, or enforcement Of
labor laws (and coed deal Of the
power to make labor lawa) plus al
handling OF the biggest social insur-
arce scheme in the world, placed in
the hands Of the National Committee
CT the Trade Union Unity League.
O-gaa of tl,c Soviet Gcvex1r,,ent
An editorial in HIzvsstia," of Sept.
II, points out some Of the reasons
and results CT this decree, 1t was
corrsct to keep social insurance in
the hands Of the Connnlissariat Of
Labor in the beginning, while Soviet
industry was getting ON its feet. But
with the progress Of industry, num-
Der of functions of the Comrnissariat
Of Labor died out, such as unenl-
ployn1ent insurance On the other
hand, such functions as inspection
automatically were shouldered over
onto the unions This union factory
or mill committee. wit, its network
of departmental and work room COM
nittees throughout the plant, with
it's groups of active volunteer as
sistarts, with its every day and every
hour contact with the individual
workers in the plant, IS ths best
inspector.
The factory committee also knows
who deserves special care and treat
ment, who is q Stacker trying to
get something he doesn't deserve. 1t
The daily worker., 1933-12-23
Govt Decree Puts En-
tire Labor Board in
Hands of Workers

wife simply doesn't know how to take
care Of it. 1t knows how much
money to give in such a case. and
whether to follow it up with instruc
ton, or by 1noVing the family to
better surroundings, or by sending
the child to a hospital or to sani-
tarium. Only the union with its
wide membership and first hand
knowledge could and did 90 these
things, even before the decree was
passed, In doing SO, 1t acted as the
agent CT the Peoples Conmissariat Of
Labor.
"Our Workers Belong To U.s.
T asked the insurance secretary Of
the mill committee at the First state
Sail Bearing Plant in Moscow what
effect the new decree had on the
vcrk of the union, and he scratched
his head and said that it seemed TO
him they had been doing most os
the things the decree told them to
90, but tney were doing them in
directly, through. recommendations to
various bodies, and now they did
them directly with less wasted mo-
ton.
Furthermore, a certain impetus
was given to the work by the realiza-
ton that: Nov our workers belong
to us, we watch their care as they
grow up, when they go to work, we
are watching over them, and when
they are full grown and working
steadily, ws still have charge Of their
care The protective power Of tbs
union now extends over the worker
from the moment OF his birth to the
date of his death, and continues then
over his widow and children"
The "Izvestia" editorial points out
that this situation now makes it
possible for us to draw in the WORK
Of social insurance management the
masses of workers, to fight for i'm
proyement of the social insurance
system, and for the well being cf
wide masses Of workers"
Managers Of social insurance funds,
especially at the payment points in
the factory, ''Tzvestiap points out
should guarantee distribution. "Tllis
means it says. summer resorts, rest
homes, special dining rooms, scholar
ships, etc, should be given to thoss
who fight for tbs fulfillnnent Of the
industrial program. The most at
tention should go to those best fight
ers for social construction"
The daily worker., 1933-12-23

gional organizations of trade unions
are to be in charge. The decree also
ordered that the first secretary Of
the ALL Union Central Committee. Of
Trade Unions was to be in chargs
Of and to organize control, inspec-
tion and instruction, to compose the
budget and scale of payments. Tbs
same committee is responsible for the
management Of the sanitariums and
rest homes connected with social in
surance.
The social insurance monies, how
ever, are held IN the state bank at
the account Of the various unions.
And at all plants and Offices The in
6u5trial union to which practically
every one in the plant or off1ce would
bs,clg. sets up the insurance office,
and the factory or mill committee
Of the union manages it, makes the
The daily worker., 1933-12-23
Unions in Complete
Control of All
Insurance
BY yERN SMITH

MOSCOW, U. S. S. r. (By ynail) -
The demand which more than any
thing else made the Workers Social
Insurance Bill in America different
from ali the liberal and Socialist
Party and Musteite and capitalist
demagogic proposals was the demand
for control and administration OF the
Insurance funds by the workers in
the factories and the unemployed
themselves.
Now, in the Soviet Union social
Insurance Is administered by the
workers. There are no unemployed.
There are no capitalists to insist or,
control, with the privilege attached
OF strikebreaking and blacknailing.
The insurance was administered by
the state until this year, but that is
a workers state, quite different from
the state which the American Soci-
alist Party proposes should run social
insurance.
Unions Control Insurance Funds
AT present, even that purely fic-
titious resemblance to the fake In
SS<A e'iiOC SOAlCiAiCS VI <aliiCl iOG ID SOliC-
and social insurance in U. S. s. r.
is managed, funds controlled and ad-
nlirlistered, by the labor unions, to
which practically all workers belong
All newspapers in the Soviet Union
published on Sept. II Of this year
a decree signed by the Council of
Peoples Commissars and by the All
Union Central Committee Of Trade
Unions. This decree completed the
work Of preliminary preparatory
decree issued last June.
The effect of the two DEGREES, and
particularly Of the last one, was to
merge the Peoples Comnissariat Of
Labor with the trade union appar-
atus. That is, the unions actually
take over and begin to operate one
Of the parts OF the government,
equivalent roughly to what would be
called the Department of Labor in
the United States government,
though its powers were greater than
those welded by Secretary Perkins.
Unions Administer s2,250, 100000 a
& Year
Beginning Sept. Is, al social in
surance funds of the Conn1issarist
Of Labor for the year 1888 were
turned over to the trade unions. They
amount to four and a half billion
rubles (s2,25oooo, o,0ooD this year. All
The daily worker., 1933-12-23
Fire Exposes Nazi
Propaganda Plant

Newark, Dec. PA Nazi propa-
ganda, plant was discovered today
wnen g fire broke out at "a Gillette
Pl. A developing room and 9 camera
negatives that we're to be used for
Nazi propaganda, were found by the
police.
Oscar Schilling was detained for
questioning, The police, however, pre-
ferred no charges against him.
The daily worker., 1933-12-23
Plan New Hunger
March on London

LONDON, Dec 22.-Britisa ,lnen-
ployed workers are preparing for an
other Hunger March to converge on
London from all parts OF the country.
The mercllers will demand aboli-
ton of the Means Test under which
unemployed relief has been ruthlessly
cut for over 100000 workers, while
more than 8S,0oS have been COM
pletely denied relief, even on the
basis Of official figures
Plans for the March were de-
ncunced il, the House Of Commons to-
day by Sir John GilInour, House Sec
retary, who told the House that the
Communist Party was the prime in
stigator" Of the movement which is
causing great alarm among the Brit
isfi ruling class.
The daily worker., 1933-12-23

lislled under the extra-territoriality
treaties impose on China.
HONGKONG. Dec 22.-Nanking
planes carried out murdsrous aerial
bombardnent OF Changchow, Fukien
Province, killing scores of persons and
wouuding large numbers. Many build
ings were destroyed.
The daily worker., 1933-12-23
''Soviet Factory
Center of Socialist
Life" !" il, Daily Mon.

A series Of articles by yern
Smith, Daily Worker Moscow cor
respondent, on 'The Soviet Fac
tory--Center of Socialist Life
will begin in Mondays issue.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-05-26
Stainless Steel Teeth
Is Latest Dental Idea

Some people carry little gold
mines in their mouths. Now that
gold has reached prohibitive price,
however. dentists have been seeking
some inventive genius who could find
or make reliable substitute Gold
was used because of its malleable,
rustless, and practically indestructi-
BILE qualities, and to find another
metal with these characteristics
seemed a forlorn hope, notes writ
er in London Tit-Bits.
Necessity has again mOthered in
vention, and British inventor has
designed an electric welder which
makes stainless steel lie down and
behave itself, just as easily and read
lily as gold. Steel dentures are now
the fashion. and are better, cheaper,
and stronger than gold.
The dental mechanic takes an in
geniously designed pair of pliers,
holds the parts to bewelded between
the electrodes of the pliers, turns on
the juice, and electricity does the
trick to perfection. Thus the prob
lem of making hard metal act like
q soft one is solved, and in future
your teeth should cost less and last
longer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-05-26
WATCH YOUR STANCE

TN ASSUMING ones stance 1t Is well
to watch certain preparations, for
the beginning of the swing often fore
tells what the entire stroke win be
like. For example: ~ Grasplng the
club with the left hand first lessons
chances of a too frightened grip with
the right, thus reducing tension. (2)
Exerting a pressure against the shaft
with either Of the two thumbs tautens
the forearm muscles with the result
that one of the hands is pressing too
hard This prevents the hands from
working together and exerting sim.
liar force. (3) Gripping the club while
it is in its natural lie on the ground
so that the angle of the grip will co,
incide with the lie of the clubhead
az Placing the clubhead back of the
ball before assuming your stance in
.sures standing just the right distance
away with no tendency of crouch
that might tie one up and hurry the
swing. 20 Putting most of the weight
on the right foot which might cause
lowering of the left shoulder in the
upswing and result In a miss hit.
O. 1898. Bell syndicate-wNU Service.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-05-26
Have We Forgotten?
BY DOUGLAS MALLocH

HAVE we forgotten, mourning losses
1 1 And sadly counting as our
crosses
The absent ease, the missing pleasure,
AS though these were our only treasure,
Have we forgotten days behind US
And do these little losses blind us
10 larger things, less rich, less clever,
We dreamed. and won, and have for
ever?
Have we forgotten all the walking
Together armin-arm and talking,
And asking this-not asking whether
We might be rich. but be together?
Have we forgotten. love beside US,
How little would have satisfied us,
The things that set our pulses leaping,
That we have kept, may go on keep
ing?
have we forgotten7 Let's remember,
And light again the fading ember
OF other days with less Of scheming,
With less of dross but more of dream.
:. ing.
Have we forgotten7 Let US neveri
We two are still as rich as ever,
Yes, richer If this rougher weather
Shall make us dream again together.
@. 1888. Douglas Malioch.-WNU Service.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-05-26
BONERS are actual humorous
tid-bits found in examination pa
pers, essays, ETC., by teachers.

Napoleon was a dark complexioned
man. He was of short build FREEDOM
mating, and very young when he be-
gan.
Ploughmen wear guitars round
their legs while at work.
Harold mustarded his men before
the Battle of Hastings.
In case Of asphyxiation apply arti-
fetal respiration until the patient is
dead.
A peninsula is an island but not
quite.
To be healthy don't eat any kind Of
food.
What happens when there is an
eclipse of the sun?
A great many people come out to
look at 1t.
@. 1898. Bell syndicate.-wNU Service.