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Evening star., 1933-10-08
D|SBURS|NC OFFICE
TO Be SET GOING
Transfer of 250 Treasury
Workers Expected to Be
First Step.

A start will be made within the next
two weeks toward setting up the CEN
trail disbursing Office for the entire
Government establishment, under the
supervision of the Treasury Depart
ment, it was learned yesterday.
The first step, in what is felt certain
will be long-drawn-o procedure, will
be the transfer to the Treasury of some
$50 employees on disbursement duty in
the finance section of the Veterans
Administration. Desk room now is
being made for these in the annex just
to the north of the Treasury, where
the Coast Guard has been located.
Other additions will be made to this
nucleus as rapidly as possible, but Off
cials believe the new division will be
many months in formation.
Division Chief Necessary.
Before the new organization can be
developed to any extent it will be nee
essary to appoint division chief This
official then, along with Undersecretary
AcheSon, will attend to the details of
pushing it along to its completed form.
It is expected also that Assistant Sec
retary Hewes also will have a part in
working out the ultimate plan, mas
much as Mr.. Acheson now has been
drawn into the foreign debt negoti-
atiOnS
Under the tentative program thus far
discussed, the disbursing Offices in the
local agencies will first be brought un-
der the centralized establishment, and
after these, those groups in the field.
Eventually this disbursing division and
its related unit-the centralized pro-
curement division. which also is con-
templated-Will assume duties now per-
formed by hundreds of employees. Slow
progress, however, Is being made to-
ward consolidating the procurement
work.
Personnel Undisturbed.
The transfer of the Veterans Admin
istration workers to the Treasury, it is
understood, will be effected without any
disturbance of personnel. While under
the reorganization order all employees
affected by reorganization automatically
are dropped, 1t was said in an informed
quarter that those involved in this in
itial shift will be reappointed imme-
diately.
So far as is known, no selection has
yet been made of a head for the new
disbursing division.
The disbursing and procurement divi-
sions originally were scheduled to be set
up on August 10. but there was so
much to be done before they could be
gotten under way that President Roose-
velt amended his original order and al
lowed until December 81 for the start.
Evening star., 1933-10-08
ZACK MILLER INJURED
101 Ranch Impresario Hurt When
Auto Overturns in Ditch.

ADA, Okla, October N1.-Col. Zack
Miller of the 101 Ranch, was injured
near here late today when the car in
which he and Fred K. Olmstead, a
business associate. were riding over
turned in ditch after a rear tire blew
out. Miller was brought to a hospital
here by passing motorist.
Physicians said they did not believe
his injuries were serious. Olmstead was
uniniured.
Evening star., 1933-10-08
Named G. O. P. Committeeman.

SEATTLE. october 7 P).-State
Representative Frank Burns of Seattle
was elected Republican national COM
mitteeman for Washington today, sue
ceeding the late Mark E. Reed. Burns
Is an insurance man, aged At.
Evening star., 1933-10-08
WILL PLACE BLAME.
British War Minister Warns on Farley
Failure

LONDON, October Z L4Y-If the dis
armament conference at Geneva fails,
Great Britain will saddle the blame
where it rightly belongs" Lord Hail
sham minister of war. indicated in
speech this afternoon at Birmingham.
A few hours earlier Arthur Hender-
son. former foreign secretary. had left
Continued on Page 4, Column So
Evening star., 1933-10-08

Partly cloudy today, probably followed
by showers tonight or tomorrow: colder
tomorrow afternoon or night. Tempera-
tures-Highest, IA, at 3 pm. yesterday;
lowest, 81, at am. yesterday.
Full report on page ALL.
Evening star., 1933-10-08

Continued On Page 2, Column 1)
Evening star., 1933-10-08

The Star is delivered every evening and
Sunday morning to city and suburban
homes by The Stars exclusive carrier serv-
ice. Phone National 5000 to start delivery.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Writer Visits Happy Conucs Who Built Gigantic White

This group presented among other
things a mass recitation of poem
written by some of the constructors
Of. the canal. A collective poem,
mighty and artistic. 1t told of those
who came here to work, with heavy
sentences. BY good work they got
their rehabilitation period consider
ably shortened. This was the first
thrust forward.
Another light came over their
hopelessness. They were isolated
from society, but they were not
thrown out--cast aside. Here in con-
nection with their work they came
into contact with society, not the old,
but the new, the socialist society.
This was the second thrust.
Then came socialist competition.
They got together collectively, one
discussed matters over with them,
one wanted to hear their opinion.
They themselves were allowed to or
ganize and improve their work. Then,
one Of the groups was given Labor's
Order of the Red Banner! These
prisoners received hundreds OF them,
a whole shock brigade, Soviet soci-
ety's honorable distinction. This was
a thrust felt by thousands.
We saw our own "udarniks," we
began to feel proud. We got self
respect, our ties with the working
class became real--living. Our pride
in and love for our work grew. We
dug in hundredfold more, with
greater energy The canal grew I'M
der our blows and shocks. The spades
dug-picks broke, sledge hammers
struck, our machines excavated and
gripped. Long before schedule the
canal to the White Sea was COM
pleted.
We began to sum up our work.
1t was as follows: freedom awaits us,
we have obtained here
during our work-freedom we already
have. Now other jobs awaits us.
We are now skilled workers, we have
been schooled-we know how canals
are built. The Moscow canal job
awaits us, we will now proceed there.
Then comes the canal on the river
Volga-the canal between the Black
and Caspian Seas socialism Ayaite
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04

us. the building of the classics So
ciety.
This was poem! Words and &C
tors melted together, yes, surround
ings and all. The canal, its builders,
its artists, all stood here and inter-
preted in words and tones, for even
the music accompanying this poem
was composed by the prisoners"
themselves, how tens of thousands of
lawbreakers had been won back for
society by means of labor, by means
of socialism under Bolshevik leader
ship. Serious, quiet, but intensively
following the play, thousands of pris-
oner-workers stood at the side Of
the ship during its trip through the
sluices. The greetings, the applause
came from them laundering and
spontaneous.
Not All Regenerated
It, is only in the Soviet Union,
where thousands Of prisoners can
government, talk with them, discuss
their work with them. Here one saw
how deep in the masses Of the work.
ers the government has its roots.
They were workers themselves, and
therefore every worker is q comrade.
Here Is no Chinese Wall between
them and the workers. Here one saw
one feature Of the dictatorship Of the
proletariat.
But don't run away with the idea
that all these hundreds Of thousands
Of workers that GPU sent here have
been remade overnight. Among them
we're many Of our class enemies, who
still had deeply entrenched within
them capitalism's roots ktllaks, spies,
wreckers, etc. But even hundreds Of
such were remade, and this work OF
making them socially conscious MEM
bers Of a socialist society is being
continued. But the sociological feat,
that saved couple Of tens Of thou
sands of former criminals to society,
brought them into socialist views and
opinions, to new life, this feat can
not be sufficiently appreciated.
Prisoner Rejects Freedom
Earlier, two comrades from Mos
COL bad visited the canal during It's
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
By ALLAN WALLENIUS

WHO has QUILT this canal?
w The answer to this question Is
the most interesting chapter of Bel
morstroi white Sea Construction) /.
Imagine, if one could, giving the task
to the British police to build canal?
Such thing is impossible. Even If
the prison authorities were modified,
they would not be able to solve the
problem. Certainly not canal of
such gigantic proportions as this
canal from Lake Omega to the White
Sea. But in the Soviet Union, the
GP.U. was given the task of building
this canal. In one year and nine
months it was completed, built by
prisoners"
"Ah, ha! Forced labor!" I hear
someone shouting.
OF course, if one insists on calling
it by that term. But allow me to
relate the true story of it's construc-
tion-those prisoners" who wanted
to participate in socialist construc-
ton had the choice between working
in one of the rehabilitation" insti-
buttons, or in building for example
such project as this canal. Only
those prisoners" who chose the lat
ter, that is to say volunteered, were
taken to the canal territory, where
of course they were paid full wages.
Almost two hundred thousand peo-
pie, who had been isolated from So
ciety, arrived here and built the
well. let us illustrate their
work with few episodes.
On board the steamer Karl Marx"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
NaziS Call Selves
Chief Bar Against
World Communism
Offer No Program for
Hungry at Big
Congress

NUREMBERG, Sept. ANY
weakening of Nazi Germany means
strengthening world Communism, "
This declaration by Alfred Rosen-
berg was the keynote of the ad-
dress of Nazi leaders to $4,000
Nazi district leaders gathered here
from all parts of Germany for a
party congress- which is dis
tinguished by the fact that those
who attend are not delegates, and
are not allowed to discuss any
thing.
Paul Joseph Goebbels, propa-
ganda minister, explained that the
Nazi attack on the Jews was merely
a phase of the attack on Marxism.
What he did not explain is that
the attack on the Jews is designed
to divert the anger of the masses
from an attack on capitalism.
A delegation of black-shirted
British Fascists, another of Italian
Fascists, and Gil Robes, leader of
the Spanish Catholic Party, were
conspicuous at the congress.
Hitler offered no program in his
speech for the hungry and desper-
ate German masses. All he did was
to call on his followers to form an
iron front" against their enemies.
Rosenberg's speech was devoted
to justification of the Nazi pog-
roms AGAINST the Jews, and both he
and Goebbels declared that all other
countries would soon follow their
example.
The congress closed today with
two parades, in which over 100000
Nazis who had been routed from
bed at $3.50 am. marched past Hit
Ter and the other Nazi leaders, and
a handful of representatives OF
foreign governments. The repre-
sentatives of France, England, the
United States and most other i'm
portant powers were conspicuously
absent.
Not girl or woman was to be
seen anywhere. According to the
Nazis, their place is in the kitchen
u. S. Student Beaten
BERLIN, Sept. 8. = The U. S
Consul-General protested to the
German government today against
the beating up of Samuel B. Bos-
sard, 21-year old student from
Chester, Pa, who was attacked or
a Berlin street Wednesday by 6
gang of young Nazis, apparently be
cause he failed to give the Naz
salute.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Building at Record Rate Despite Privationa
Led by GPU, Former Criminals Refuse
Freedom Until Job sSDone

school that has been working &C Bei'
morstroi.
Success Under Great Odds
During the night, on board the
Karl Marx" spoke with the leads
er of the GPU, young enthusiast.
He said:
ITO built this canal, this the caps
italistS also could have done. Not 50
quickly, not with such labor enthu-
siasm as we, but they can master
technique. But what the capitalists
never could have done is to reilabili.
tate tens of thousands of criminals
This we have done. And this Is tn
most important single thing in tn
construction job" He was wrong Oh
one point. To build under capitalism
is one thing, it is another to build
under socialist conditions. The con-
struction under socialism throws on
such by-products as the fact that tens
of thousands, hundreds Of thousands,
of people are remade. Under social.
ism one cannot separate this fact
from the construction Of the canal.
They belong together. Capitalism has
never and can never be able to build
in this fashion. This is an illustra.
ton of the character OF Socialist
labor.
But mark well, these results were
reached under great odds and strug.
giles, under tremendous difficulties.
Shortages of food and bread - not
hunger, but not big enough portions
insufficient variety of foods andl
dishes that a table for workers del
mands. Only think when we shall
have succeeded In wiping out such
difficulties, we, can march ahead in
this work with much greater success
Remember this is the last year Of
the difficulties. This is Stains pron-
Use, and it is more than empty talk;
behind this promise stands the Conn
munist party Of the Soviet Union, tho
party OF BolshevikI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Joint City H all
Meet Planned With
out JoblesS Council
Unemployed League
Invites Council After
Date Is Set

NEW YORK. - Determined to
prevent the misuse of the term
United Front in any demonstration
of unemployed workers, the Unem-
ployed Council told conference
called by the Workers Unemployed
League of four central unemployed
organizations that the proposed City
Hall demonstration must draw in
trade unions and must permit joint
local preparatory struggles.
The conference held last Thurs
day at the League for Industrial
Democracy included the Unemployed
Councils, Workers Unemployed
League, Workers Committee on I'm
employment, and Association of the
Unemployed.
The conference was called for the
purpose of setting a date for the
demonstration, after the New Lead
er came out with an announcement
of "joint" City Hall demonstration
for Sept. %. This is called joint
demonstration, without any mem
ton made of the Unemployed Coun-
Gil, and of the three organizations
included two are Socialist and the
other Observation-Disclosures.
However pressure from the rank
and file of the Socialist organiza-
tions for joint action with the I'm
employed Council compelled the
Workers Unemployed League to
make the gesture of inviting the
Council to the conference for the So
called reason of Setting date for
the demonstration" The tactics of
the League at the conference was
to Illustrate the desires of the Coun-
Gil for real United Front so the
league can come to their rank and
file with the twisted statement that
the Council refuses to cooperate.
At an enlarged meeting of the
Unemployed Council held Saturday
at Irving Plaza the workers voted
to endorse the action of the commit
tee to the conference in its insistence
on joint local struggles to build up
for the demonstration, and de-
nounced the maneuvering of the
Workers Unemployed League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04

word, from a review of Gertrude
STEMS autobiography by Bernard
Fay to appear on September 2, 1888,
in the Saturday Review of Litera-
ture.
And I had to listen to this stuff,
this stale straw that had been
thrashed so often by j. w. Krutch,
Henry Hazlitt, Gasset Y Ortega, Rudy
Vallee, John Spargo, Mary Pickofrd,
Ernest Boyd, Harry K. Thaw, Eugene
O'Neill-.
Oh well, he went on and on, and
had gotten himself so lathered I'D
before the approving audience, that
he didn't mind my drifting away.
I had just been his springboard, the
fuse that had touched off his power
full mind, ETC., ETC..
Listen" I said to Fawcett In a
corner, 'I'm going home. I'm bored.
But who in the devil is this host of
ours? What has he writtenP I'm
kind of interested"
Fawcett stroked his little waxy
moustache, and smiled coyly.
IT work for him now" he said.
why, Lloyd Cabot is one of the big
gest advertising men in New York.
L knew you'd get him going-he likes
to argue. He's really genius in
his way; he's the man who thought
up the selling campaign for colored
toilet paper"
"What?" stammered, "is that
him?"
Then to Hart Fawcett's surprise,
I roared with laughter. 1t was the
first time that day. Really, you
cheerful people who aren't authors
can't imagine how much better I felt
that moment, and how even my
toothache improved. So this was
Paris and Gertrude Stein! What
relief! At least i didn't have to
worry about beauty, the mob, God,
individualism, the soul and colored
toilet paper. was only failure,
a Grass materialist, revolutionary
author
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04

construction and as guide had had a
prisoner" who had been advanced
as leader of one of the construction
divisions. During this inspection tour
this guide several times stopped to
give orders as to the procedure of
the work, but he did it with such
familiarity and skill, showing such
technical ability and knowledge that
the two guests from Moscow were as
tonished. After their inspection was
completed, these Moscow comrades
urged that their guide should imme-
diately be set free. He was already a
worthy member of society. The
political leader Of this division an
swered: Free him? We shall put the
question to his division tonight"
In the evening meeting was
called. THE prisoner" in question
led in the discussion of one of the
political subjects on the agenda,
think it was an international ques-
ton. At the end of the meeting his
being set free was placed before the
meeting of about two hundred work.
ers. A complete silence followed. No
body desired the floor. At last, one,
without asking for the floor, said,
Eyes, but the canal is not yet COM
pleted!"
This broke the silence. Several
spoke now at once. Then one after
the other spoke in an organized dis
cussion. Everybody considered that the
question of freeing this comrade could
no the considered separate from the
question of the completion of the
canal. Then the man spoke himself:
THE canal must be constructed. We
need all forces. also mine. The canal
has made me new being. want
to finish the creation Of the Canal, to
remain here until the Job is done. I
do not need to be freed, belong to
the Soviet"
Such were his words-they give
" . powerful picture Of the mighty
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04

recent happenings over there" says
communication from the club.
"The continued tenancy of Con-
molly House is of paramount i'm
portance to the progress of the
struggle there. Contributions can
be sent to the treasurer, Irish
Workers Club, 40 W. 65th St.,
New York. Members of the club
are also making collections. Only
those with credentials and name
lists should be recognized. The
names of all contributors will be
acknowledged in future issues of
the "Irish Workers Voice..
The club is organizing a picnic
to raise funds for this purpose in
Van Cortlandt Park, September TO-
NEW YORK.-Jim Grafton, Irish
revolutionary leader, recently de-
ported to the United States, has
written to the Daily Worker the
following correction to the articles
on Ireland recently published in
the Daily Worker in the form of
an interview with him:
Dear Comrades:
Workers in Ireland will be glad
to see news of their struggle re-
ported in the American workers
paper, the Daily Worker. But
there was a little mistake in the
first article on the growth of the
revolutionary movement in Ire
land. There was no Eighth Bat
talon" of the South Leitrim Bri-
gade, Ira. l was member of
H Number 81 Company of the
Third Battalion in South. Leitrim.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Opposition Parties
Join Irish Fascists

DUBLIN, Sept. 3-Irish Fascism
gained new strength as the Center
Farmers Party and ex-President
William Cosgraye's Cumann ma
nGaedheal Party voted to unite with
Owen O'Duffys National" Guard,
the blue shirted Irish Fascist party
recently outlawed by President Ea-
NOM de Valera.
The new coalition will call itself
the National United Ireland Party
Despite de Valera's proclamation
banning the Fascists, they are hold
ing many meetings throughout the
Free State, unchallenged by the gov
eminent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04

o band of 80 men performed. And
how they could play! Sun-tanned,
muscular musicians. During inter-
mezzos, fun and laughter, unstilted
JOY. This was one of the construc-
ton workers Of Belmorstroi's bands.
This was the prize band, and could
compete favorably with any one that
1 have heard perform, even with
SouSa. Everyone Of the musicians,
plus the leader were prisoners" No
guard was on board-nor were they
under guard when they left the ship.
This band was a living part of the
canal-builders collective. They knew
the canal and its builders. They
needed no guards. They had learned
self discipline.
Workers Greet Their Government.
AS we. climbed up the canal (after
the eighth lock the canal goes down,
the fall being 104 meters to the
White Seal, along the shores of the
canal were lined thousands upon
thousands of workers, prisoners
who knew that on board the SIS.
"Karl Marx" were travelling mem
bers Of the Karelian government,
members of the Soviet HARLAN Ex-
ecutive Committee. They were greet
ed with never ending hurras. won
der whether any European govern
ment in visiting its prisoners would
be met in the same fashion? Let the
socialist" Macdonald attempt a
visit to the Meerut prisoners, or the
Socialist" Pres. Roosevelt the Scots
boro boys!
Another episodel From the first
lock to the seventh we were accom-
panied by a troupe of actors who
played one improvisation after the
other, mostly concerning the canal
or something in connection with It's
construction. Every member of this
troupe were young 'slawbreakers."
The leader Of the troupe had muir
dered six people!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-04
Chinese Reds Fight
on Three Fronts as
Hupeh Soviets Rise
U. S. Officers Prepare
to Help Chinese Bomb
Soviet Forces

SHANGHAI, Sept. s. - Fierce
fighting is reported on three fronts
of the Chinese Soviet Army ad-
vance which has already doubled
the Soviet territory in the seacoast
province of Fukien.
In addition to the north and south
fronts in Fukien province, a new
Red advance is reported in Hupeh
province, northwest of Fukien. The
Soviet armies have gained thou
sands of new recruits.
Seven warships of the Canton
fleet are on their way to Foochow,
in north Fukien province, where
they will go inland up the Min
river to Yenping, which is in Red
hands, and Kienning; which the Red
army is attacking.
Work is being rushed on four
airfields near Nanchang, in Kiang-
81 province, from which bombers
will be sent against the Red armies.
These fields are under the direc-
ton of American and Italian army
officers who have been hired by
the Chinese government to train
pilots.
AT the southern border of Kiang-
81 province, just west of Fukien
province, fierce fighting is report
ed. The Soviet armies are fight
ing to get control of a mountain
pass which commands the plains of
Kwantung province. The high
mountain range which divides the
Soviet area of Kiangsi from Kwan-
tung province has prevented the
revolutionary farmers of the south
ern province from uniting with the
Soviets north of them.