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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15
Political Strikes

IN TUESDAY, 1000 Philadelphia workers in 48 A. +.
Of i. cleaning and dye shops struck for half an
hour, demanding the freedom Of the Scottsboro boys
At the time 500 school children walked out on
strike for the Scottsboro boys On December 49, metal
workers in the Lehman Brothers plant in New York
will strike for Is minutes demanding the release Of
the four framed-up Rechsteg fire trial defendants.
These actions, rejecting the growing struggle
against fascist in the United States in other
countries show the development OF higher forms of
political struggle Of the American workers.
The workers participating in these strikes are be-
ginning to feel the hand Of the capitalist state,
only in their economic strikes but its more oppres
sive acts against all workers.
TT ISeTRUE that these are small strikes, and the
movement has not yet reached or organized the great
masses of workers But they are fine beginning
They show the rising international feelings Of the
workers, and the necessity Of connecting economic
struggles with political strikes.
The organized workers in the shops are beginning
see that such struggles necessary to fight against
fascist oppression worldwide scale.
Political strikes because of their higher level 81
ways require better organization and above all the
necessity OF having real Close intimate contact with
the masses Of workers, to know their attitude and
sentiments
These strikes show how important it is to work
in the shops, and especially to raise political issues
among the workers and to organize them for struggle
around these issues.
More actions Of this kind are needed. They not
only add tremendous force to the movement for the
freedom Of the 5cottsboro boys and against the Nazi
murder threats lowering over the four defendants in
Germany, but they tend solidy to weld the ranks
Of the workers in the struggle against all of the po
stcsl oppression OF capitalism
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15
Going Where?

WRITING to his friend Grover Whalen today, Roose-
" welt declared;
The recovery program is an established fact
1t has worked, is working, and is going to work"
Two days ago, Roosevelt told the farmers:
I'VE are on our way"
These statements Of Roosevelt are beginning to
resemble more and more the famous statements of
Hoover about prosperity being around the corner in
sixty days" They Just about true and ac-
curate
Recovery program is working" Sure it is But
not for recovery. And not for the workers
The Roosevelt recovery program has given the AS
biggest Wall Street monopoles 45o per cent in
crease in profits since March For them it is working.
But, at the same time, the buying power of the
wages of the entire American working class has been
slashed by 10 per cent since March!
And the cost of food has gone up 1924 per cent
in the largest cities!
And the index Of steel production has dropped
80 per cent swifer than at any time in history from
the July peak.
And the New York Times Business index is at the
Hoover 1882 levels!
Recovery program is working" Sure, Public
Works Fund Of s3,300,000oO0 most Of which has gone
for war preparations and subsidies to industrial mono
poles, providing only $4,000 mot the 4,O0O0OO
originally promised by Roosevelt
Wage cuts unemployment, intensified crisis, and
preparations inhatonary price rises-that is Roo
sevelt's program.
I'VE are on our way" To deeper crisis, to i'm
perislist war, to more intensified class struggles
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15
Why the American Delegate Liked the Collective

These children come from homes
that look, inside, to me about like
good types of farm houses in America.
The Australian commented that they
were about the same as in his coun-
try. The floors were very clean, so
were Ile walls and ceilings. Pictures
were ON the walls, and the table had
white cloth. OF course there were
some differences. The walls would
be eight inch square tinbers, close
fitted; it's cold country in winter.
Heating would be by an enormous
white tiled stove. And among the
pictures, alongside Of family scenes
would be the faces of Lenin, Stain
and Vorosflilov.
There is a good reason for those
pictures. The Bolshevik revolution
represents to this formerly oppressed
nationality even more, perhaps, than
it does to the formerly oppressed
Russian. A race living in conditions
about like those of the American
Negro, jim Crowed as he is, doubly
oppressed as he is, forcibly kept in
ignorance as is the Negro, has been
completely liberated. The UNIVERSE
ties and the government posts OF his
autonomous republic are filled with
his people. He is being educated. His
standard of, living is immensely
raised. BY the old backward tech
nique he raised about half a ton Of
produce per hectare, now he raises
two tons more. Persons that existed
solely on black bread and wild grasses
now have an average annual income
Of ton per year of not only wheat
but apples, vegetables, poultry, etc.
to wl,et their appetites. They can't
eat it all, they sell part OF 1t, and
buy manufactured goods. They get
this, not by working from sunup tc
sunset as formerly, but by working
ten hours or longer only during the
fifteen days Of harvest. eight hours
during the rest Of the summer, and
only once In a while during the win
ter.
This sort OF thing explains why
out Of 100000 peasant farms in the
Tartar Republic $4,000 are now part
Of Kolkhozes (collectives); and why
the American Austin, a inachinist
from Minneapolis remarked: u
would kind Of like to live a few years
hare ,ras---,ss
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15
WelIes Writes a Letter

MALL STREETS Ambassador to Cuba, Sumner
" Welles, has returned to the United States But
the American battleships remain, American bankers
still control the economic life Of the country and the
whole structure OF intrigue with the counterrevolu-
ton built up by Weles is not budged one inch Roose
vets policythe policy Of securing the yoke Of Yankee
imperialism in Cuba--wil be represented in Cubs
by jefferson Cafrey. WeIes will do his share from
the Offices OF the State Department.
On Saturday, the Daily Worker will publish q
translation from the Spanish of Of the most sensa-
tional documents to come out Of Cuba, written by
Welles himself when the Grau-Batista regime first
into power
This letter throws a flood OF light Welles sup
port to the two conterrevoutionary armed uprisngs.
They will make clearer to all workers the future policy
Of American imperialism in Cuba.
Be sure to obtain copy of Saturdays Daily
Worker and read these documents which will be
printed exclusively in the United States in columns.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15
France and Britain
In Armament Race
In Rift Over Arms
BY Burck

PARIS, Dec 14-Despite all Off
cial talk Of peace, the fight for in
creasing ornaments is rising higher,
reports here indicate.
The rift Between Britain and
France over the question OF the
re-armament of Germany is grow
ing. The British Ambassador re-
turned here from London without
issuing any statement on Hitler's
demand for greater military forces.
Since France is determined that
the German bourgeoisie shall not
have an increased army, this cool
ness Of Britain to Frances demand
for its assistance in keeping the
German bourgeoisie within the linz
its Of the Versailles Treaty, is ag-
gravating the present race for in
creased ornaments all over Ell
rope. The munitions industry is
working day and night all over
the continent.
Leading officials of the League
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15
BY vERN SMITH
(Hfoscow Correspondent of the
naiJv W0rIxerl

KAzAN, u. S. S. r., Nov. 16 (By
Mat1).- This is description Of a
collective farm in the Soviet Union
but not just of any collective. 1t is
about Tartar collective, and the
Tartars in the old CZarist Russia oc-
cupied about-the same place in So
ciety that the Negroes do in the
American South, that the Hindus dc
in the British Empire, that the Ne
groes do in South Africa, that the
ahorigines do in Australia.
It was quite appropriate, therefore,
that the group which went out from
the main body of British and Amer
lean worker delegates to the Soviet
Union, to see this Tartar collective
should have included an American
an Englishmar, an Australian and q
couple of South Africans-and the
correspondent of the Daily Worker
Is Average Collective
The collective lies 40 miles from
Kazan, the city of over 100000, which
the rest OF the delegation was study
ing. The reason for that distance Is
that in Czarist Russia Tartars were
not allowed to live in the best parts
Of the province, along the main high
way. Also, this particular kolkhoz
or collective farm, is considered a
good average, neither the best nor the
worst. The assistant commissar OF
agriculture for the Autonomous Tar
tar Socialist Soviet Republic Travelled
out with us, and offered us a choice
Of any others around, and we picked
this one. This official, by the way
was once poor Tartar peasant. His
name Is Uunusun.
These collective farmers had never
been visited by foreigners before;
they made a big occasion of it. A
sign hurriedly painted on boards and
stuck over the door Of the clubhouse
greeted us when we climbed out OF
the automobiles and out of the fur
robes which Tartar hospitality had
swathed US In. The sign read, lit
orally, as follows: WELL KOMME
YOU" Somebody there is learning
English, though we never found out
who. And they made us welcome
with speeches, with parade OF
school children, with roast goose and
five kinds of bread and plenty soup
pickles, honey, cakes, tea and beer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15
Philippine Leader
Ordered to Prison
To Serve 4 Years

NEW York;. Feleo, outstanding
young peasant organizer of the Ma
tional Peasants Confederation Of the
Philippines has just lost his appeal
on "sedition" charges before the local
Supreme Court and will now have to
enter prison to serve a term Of four
years, nine months and II days and
pay $3.50 fine.
Feleo has led struggles against the
Landlords, who have lately adopted a
policy Of confiscating the entire crop
Of the peasant following the harvest.
After the ousting of Jabinto Man
ahan' (who was expelled from the
Communist Party of the P. I. as a
traitor), Feleo became the leader of
the National Peasants Confederation.
The entire Central Committee Of
the Communist Party is under arrest,
many of the members facing as high
IS eight years Punishment and jail
and huge fines. Leaders Of the Pro-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15
Visit to Tartar Collective Shows Advance of
Formerly Oppressed Nationality

When we couldn't eat any more, they
insisted on wrapping UP a big bundle
Of the cakes and forcing us to take
it along with us.
We found about 800 families, with
1900 people living on the koltshoz.
That many small family farms had
been united. 1t was very new, only
about two years old, but q clubhouse
with cheerful meeting rooms had
been built, three schools were in OPP
Grafton, a barn of $50 horses was be-
ing used, and a COW barn for 100 cat
tie was nearing completion, along
with other buildings, especially I'M
derground rooms for vegetables and
potatoes. A regular building boom
was going on.
Activity and Enthusiasm
What showed the spirit Of the
kolkhozniks as much as anything else
was that they couldn't get a saw mill
until next year--such things are pro-
duced as rapidly as possible in the
Soviet Union, but there are hundreds
of thousands of kolkhozes; these Tar
tars weren't waiting for the saw mill.
All their building were constructed
of planks and squared tinlbers, sawed
out by hand, over a big pit, with one
man above the log and one below.
Similarly, they we're starting the
winter with an ambitious program of
wagon and sleigh construction, all by
hand-even the wheels being made
by hand. Only their sowing and
harvesting was mechanical this year;
they rented tractors and machinery
from the nearest Machine Tractor
Station for / per cent of the crop
per hectare If the yield Is one ton
per hectare, and another one-half per
cent for each additional ton per hec-
tare. GA hectare is two and half
ecres.) The entire collective farm was
1850 hectares.
A big campaign has ben waged by
the Communist Party recently and
by the Commissariats of agriculture
and Of collective farms for winter
preparations. proper care Of live
stock, etc. Here was my first chance
to see it's concrete effects. On this
kolkhoz, not only will the stock have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15
C.P, of Spain Gives
Position on Recent
Election Results
C. C. Statement Analyses Reactionary Role of
Anarchists, Socialist Party Leadership

EDITORS NOTE:--With news of
rising armed struggles OF the work.
ers taking place in many centers of
Spain, after the recent elections,
the following statement of She Cen
trail Committee Of the Communist
P.rty OF Spain is of special i'm
portsnce. 1t emphasizes the cOun-
ter-revo.utionary role of the an
archists and the Socialist Party of
Spain, both of whom are engaged
in attempting to disorganize and
confuse the growing mass struggles
of the Spanish masses for the over
throw of the bourgeois die
tatOrship.
MADRID, NOV % (By Mail) To
days number of "Mundo Obrero," the
central organ Of the G. P. of Spain
publishes an extensive appeal of tbs
&C. of the C.P. of Spain to the work
ers, peasants and all exploited, ir
which it is stated:
1.-THE elections have taken place In
a period of powerful growth of the
revolutionary actions of the workers
and peasants. In view of this sit
uation, and frightened by the tremen-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15

warm quarters, stables with glass
windows and provision for hauling
water to them, but there are long
rows Of haystacks to sustain them.
And the warm underground storage
places, all newly constructed, will pre-
serve quantities of potatoes, vegetables
apples and honey, things the Tartars
never had in their long centuries of
segregation and oppression under the
Cars. They have now their own
bee farm, their own vegetable gar
dens and orchards.
Something else they have too, edu-
cation. Whereas when the kolkhoz
was formed, three-quarters of its pop
ulation could neither read nor write,
now there are only SIS people in the
whole farm that can not, and these
expect to learn during 1894. Three
nights a week classes are taught in
the club house on political subjects
scientific agriculture, cattle breeding
etc. Others go to night school nearby
Some will be sent to the higher
schools in Kazan, and will come back
with advanced knowledge. In the vii
lage are 81 radios, to keep them in
touch with the outside world. The
reporter from the Communist news
paper published in Tartar language in
Kazan was present, and his paper Is
widely read on the kolkhozes.
Children Well Cared For.
We saw the kindergarten for young
children up to seven years; and they
did a Tartar dance for us. We saw
the primary school where 1874 chill
dren from the age of seven and q
half to twelve and half study. They
were obviously well fed, well clad;
they assured us they were studying
hard, they were happy, that there
was no corporal punishment in schoo,
(this in answer to the Englishman)
and they asked us: "How do children
live in America" and "Why don't the
workers and farmers there make q
revolution?"
We saw the outside of the Sever
Year Agricultural School where 17s
children aged from twelve to nine
teen study, but we did not have time
to go through Il
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15
Stockyards and Recruiting

FURTHER proof of isolation from the workers in
decisive industry where major struggles have taken
place is contained in the report from the Chicago dis
trct recruiting for the Party for the past month.
Not one new member was enlisted in the Conn1u-
mist Party for the past month in the stockyardS dis
trict Of Chicago
Yet around the stockyards there exists a section
which was specially built for concentration on stock
yards. This Party section at present has member
ship of 1876. There is shop nucleus in one OF the
packing plants though it is very weak.
The stockyards was the scene recently of mil
liant and successful strike of 5000 workers There
was ferment and discomfort among ali other stock
yards workers that alarmed the bosses.
The stockyards have been concentration point
in Chicago and is extremely important because of
the large number of Negro workers employed along
with white workers.
WHAT are the main reasons for this dismal failure
" to recruit members for the Party in this concen-
tration industry in this most favorable situation?
First as was pointed out in editorial of the Daily
Worker the sockyards strike there is the isolation
Of our Party from the main body OF workers in the
stockyards. Serious efforts have not been carried
through on the concentration policy with the result
ing failure to strengthen the Party among the workers
as the leader of the struggles
many years. But when the recent strike broke out
our Party was isolated from the workers This shows
the failure of day to day work, correct application of
the united 'front.' particularly among workers under the
leadership and influence Of the A. F. of L. the failure
to win over individual workers for the Party it shows
the effect Of hiding the face and program of the Par
ty among the stockyards workers These workers are
not hostile to the Communist Party. They are filed
with prejudces misgivngs and lack of understanding
Of the Party program. But 1t task to break
these down. to enter their struggles and over the
advanced workers.
UERE we have concrete and glazing failure to carry
~ out the open Letter.
This situation must be remedied Immediately We
invite the Chicago district leadership to discuss this
poor showing in stockyards recruiting We especially
invite members of the stockyards section to send us
letters discussing the failures and proposing plans for
renedying the situation.
The whole Party can learn lesson from the
failures in the stockyards district and use it to ex-
anime their weaknesses In concentration and rapid
recruiting for the Party particularly In the decisive
basic industries
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15

and the Disarmament Conference
have openly admitted that the dan
ger Of war is growing closer, and
that all the so-cal1ed peace
agencies" have broken down.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15
BuIlitt Halls USSR
Progress; Greeted
By Pres. kalinir'
U.S.Ambassador Finds
Moscow Lively, Busy,
Prosperous City
Especial to Daily Worker


MOSCOW, Dec. IS (By Cable).-
Today, Mikhail Kalinin, President of
Council of Peoples Comnissars of
the U. S. s. r., received the United
States Ambassador william G. Bulltt,
who presented his official credentials.
Kalinin and Bullitt exchanged warm
greetings, as Bullitt issued q state
ment to the representatives Of the
Soviet Government and the foreign
press.
Among other things, Bullitt said: 'T
pledge you every effort within my
powers to forge strong and enduring
ties between our two countries. be-
heye the words of President Kalinin
when he says that the Soviet Gov
eminent has always been ready to es-
tablish friendly relations with the
United States"
Bullitt informed the press that the
staff of the American Embassy will be
very numerous, and that American
consulates will be organized in vari-
GUS points Of the U. S. s. r..
Bullitt continued:
81 was struck with the tremendous
changes in Moscow compared with
what saw the last time was here.
Moscow gives the impression of
great liveliness and active business.
Big new buildings can be seen
everywhere. The traffic is heavy,
and the pedestrians are welI-dressed.
1t is an extremely striking fact these
changes in the external appearance
of the city took place while the
country was devoting its main eff
forts to industrial construction"
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