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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-06
RooseveIt's Program of
Hunger and War!

ROOSEVELT very
making pro-
Again" keynote inaugural speech however
"only foolish omis the dark realities the
The Forgotten Man completely forgotten Roosevelt
augaion address phrase
unemployed have waiting
the new president who made SO many promises OF relief to the
reference not whisper about IN
employment Insurance What did the president offer to the
employed citizens face the problem Of existence What did he Of
Street president did unemployment but
military training camps homeless youth to the millions Of
unemployed throughout the country He speaks about putting people
the emergency
asaon Of the 0 unen P5sF 0 '0 "0 0 program 0F mill
Further Mr. Roosevelt proposes to a the Industrial Of the
country where
mat these nco1efenta bsnEers had g6dG These o1eT nbngs
in his very cabinet
Woodn the new Secretary OF the Treasury who connected with the
National City Bank with the House Of Morgan with Rockefeller with
Remington
o. Wall abdcad They
than Washington
outlines program Of
ruthless struggle against the toe Of the country Roosevelt asked for
the constitution in order enforce The
ruthless suppression OF the growing struggles Of the ng for
very inaugurated thousands upon
thousands OF unemployed workers marched through the streets in the
various cities OF the country demanding that Roosevelt make good his
promises demanding that system OF Unemployment Insurance be
that Mr. Roosevelt uttered such bold demanding unlimited
Capitalism punging deeper crisis The various pro-
Every which
growing struggle world sharp
ing The program OF American capitalism the program Of hs Roose-
ys Pfo OIL war al nome and abroad as
OF uuo 10 the tradition OF the
LIBERAL President Wilson It the Democratic administration
With the phrases o new freedom and behind OF pacst decp
tons plunged the country into the last mpal world Row in
a eneTgeg the true servant nj Wal street and issues o6v sl
UAo WEI 0leeO 9no Issues cali
The call Of Roosevelt for against the starving millions will be
struggle their immediate needs the abolition
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-06
The Government of the
Bankers

WrFuN holiday that began i'll Michigan swept
economic crisis seldom has there been such quick and nnos acton
on the part Of the political machinery OF the capitalist this
situation where question the of the big bank
example power OF govern
At exists only o e purpose OF defending the ruling class at the
pense OF the rest OF the population The 8 state
Of the rpsd vrters ven abe to TserSd } r{d io1 q5e
nnds OF the starving population
farm debts greatest alacty
spending deposits
when the bankers asked Tor such action
state and national controlled politicians
10 they
The Tammany
Neither have been asked b anyone to do Three hour, later in o
holiday
issue OF the Journal
en that there would be holiday Saturday March 4)
soion Ne" l0' bankers ~ ''o'9 opposed 10 '0A type Of
preceded by bded pagng bank
FUNDS by the heads OF these institutions Mitchell
ssarv NJ s25 nm Tbis q1e 21iccer Dg o the ~ ~ 10 L
cover their stock gambling deals while selling those customers
the bank unable to cover their marsins
ators followed period which hundreds millions dollars
Finance Corporation today
TO the small deposors who reduced begga the big
ank ANYMORE naI I mad a9yJhg with winch TO relieve the mass
hunger OF the men women and children the working and farming
T9s serious , nancisi crash nsf daito,1 7 iors f m
population in that mass OF misery suffering and poverty that has been
poverished professionals bankrupt small business
This stage OF the must determined
the suffering gang
OF its stolen loot in the form OF immediate relief
cannot hope for anything their depoers They should
such as: put ''' spectral os'S'O'
Fun immediate payment depositors
Payment dollars clearing
3 The government to guarantee 100 percent payment to small
only through organization every part OF the
country and the most decisive demonse action Wall Street
responsible the backs the rest population
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-06
Soviet Woman Takes Her Place
in Socialist Construction

series to us, from q magazine, and
told us we ought to organize one
here. We discussed it at a meet
ing and elected q commission of
twelve women of which I was q
member. We DECIDED to wait I'M
I'll the roads were better and then
G1lect funds and start work. We
had amateur theatricals and so got
our flrst money. Then the hens
began to lay and we went round
to cottages with a subscription list
and collected 1000 eggs, IL pools
Of flour, some butter, some veget-
able oil and about a hundred rubIes.
With the funds raised in this way,
in the spring, we opened a day
nursery. There was room for so
babies and a playground for forty
children. I baked bread for them.
FROM 1924 to 1926 1 was organ
L izer of women's work. We plant
ed sunflowers and weeded the sun
flower fields. In 1927 applied for
membership in the Communist
Party. I was doing social work all
the time, but did not give up my
house work, so as to be left in
peace. Everybody was surprised at
the amount of work I managed
to 90.
For two years 1 did not tell my
husband that was q candidate
for the Party. When T became a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-06
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
The Bosses Forget the Women
and Children

school, working in the streets az
newsboys, bootblacks, errand boys,
Thousands Of schools have closed /
down because OF economy and
more will soon shut their doors. More
than S,5O0,000 children are working
for one or two dollars week. because
fathers and mothers are denied work.
because relief means starvation. More
than 100000 boys and girls are
tramping the country honeiesg
youth, unable to find work, hounde6
and prosecuted, thrown into jail and
onto the chain gang.
During the election campaign, Ma
Roosevelt, you talked about "StX 20
ten million children who are faint
ing at their desks" They continue
to faint, because the governments
refusal to provide adequate relief and
unemployment inSurancs.
mORKINQ Glass Women. Mothers
w and Fathers Of the Working
Glass: Are women and girls to be
forced to commit suicide and into
prostitution; are they to work for
starvation wages? Shall we allow olS.
children's lives to be stunted and
broken, so that the bosses may retairH
more profit they take from our hvesS
on March sth we will mobilize
for International Women's Day, the
day of the women Of the working
class of the entire world. On this
day the women enslayed in the capi~
talist and colonial countries wiz
raise the demands OF the working
class women. On this day the libeo
rated women OF the Soviet Union
will celebrate the victory OF the
working class in the U. S. S. r.
This year, more than ever, we must
mobilize our forces. This year, more
than ever, the women must demol1e
strate. They are workers, home-keep-
ers, mothers ofthe starving children,
Thrice exploited Il and the Negro
mothers four times exploited. We
must rally our forces to demand
that Roosevelt, the bosses and the
government OF this country remenla
Der and Immediately provide in de-
cent measure for the forgotten"
people Of this country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-06
COMMUNIST SPECIAL ENLARGED
MARX ANNIVERSARY EDITION

FOR MARX WAS BEFORE REvoLUrroN1sT"-
Speech grave
SOME STRIKE STRUGGLES DETROIT-Edtorial
SCIENTIFIC COMMUNISM ORGANIZER
COMMUNIST PARTY-By 2.
THE RELATIVE CAPITALIST
OF PARTYExcerpts from the 10th
Central Committee usA, January % 1888 by Browder
RX.-ByM
AMERICAN CIVIL Neutrality-suspicious.
THE ENfERGENCE AN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY PROBE
the the Application
the American Glass Struggle-By
AND REVISIONISNI-By I
SIDNEY HOOK-Contnued-
THE STRUGGLE OF MARX AND ENGELs AGAINST THE oPPoR
SOCIAL DEAGOCRACY-By G.
TIE AMERICAN ECONOMIC CRISIS-By Irving
by Milton Howard
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-06
WOMEN IN FIGHT FOR
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

I'VE go to an Unemployed Con-
w ference in Dearborn-rnen and
women get up one after another
and tell how Ford is sapping out
their life and blood. a woman
speaks: Il have 10 in the family.
My husband worked at Fords for
Is years. Now he has no job.
They take my boy in the Ford
Trade School. He is IL years old.
He is the only one that they give
work to. lie tainted three times
in one day. His back aches, and
the foreman says speed-up. We
mothers Of Dearborn demand work
for our husbands and against child
labor, for free food, transportation
and hospital care for our children"
Negro and white women in De-
troit: Further your militant strug-
giles for the right to livel Organ
iSe into the Auto Workers Unionl
Join the Women's Auxiliaries!
Working and farm women Of
other cities: Follow the militant
struggles Of the women of De-
troiti
Let International Wonen's Day
the historic day Of struggle
against misery and oppression Of
the working and farm women IN
der capitahsm-be q day Of SOL
idifying our forces IN struggle
against wage-cuts, for unenpIoy-
naent insurance and immediate re-
lief, against in1perialist war and
for the defense Of the Soviet Union
and Chinese maSseSl
All out in demonstration on
March 8th--International Women's
Dayl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-06

everything; then 1 would come
back and tell it all to the soviet
and we would work together &C
Cordingly.
IN 1929 we took stock OF all the
i agricultural implements. The
forgers made agreements with the
village soviet for the repairing Of
the farming tools before spring, SO
that we could plant our whole corn
field area. We had a great deal
of trouble over it. If we asked a
peasant how much he would plant
today he would answer: '"Three
hectares" but next day it turned
out to be something different. 1t
was the same with the repairs;
they would say everything was all
right when most of it needed re-
pairs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-06
STUDIES At
EVENING SCHOOL

We went to school evenings: the
teacher told me that I must ask
my children to help me. was
ashamed to know less than they
did and my little girl began to
teach me. The other. peasants
laughted and joked when they saw
me walking down the village street
with my copy book in my hand.
BY that time another teacher az
rived; he was g. young Communist
who organized q Comsomol nucleus
and a Pioneer detachment. L let
all my children join the latter.
When some OF the villagers saw
them wearing their red ties, they
said to me:
do you know what you are do
ing? You are taking the wrong
road and are dragging your chill
dren with you. Make them take
off those red ties
But l would not listen. soon I
finished the school for reading and
writing and got q certificate, but
the teacher said I could go on
studying if I wanted, and so I did.
When 7 came home from school,
my ioster-mother and my husband
often refused to let me in. 1t was
said in the village that we were
not studying at all, but spending
our time flirting. I begged my
husband to come and see what we
were doing; he came three times
and, after that, let me go when
7 liked.
We had also political studies at
our school, and for these we often
remained until midnight.
I began to do social work in 1924
and was elected TO the village
Soviet. I started to work among
the women and organized q sewing
circle to which I was the first to
take my sewing machine and others
soon followed my example. AL
our women used to spin in the
evenings, except on Friday which
was our day for cleaning up and
baking We organized our sewing
circle ON Fridays and it was there
we first thought OF having a day
nursery.
The teacher read about day ntm-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-06
REFUSES ORDERS
FROM A WOMAN"

I called eight smiths to my Of
fee, had a talk with them and gave
them an agreement to sign. They
all signed except one Emelyan, who
said he would not take orders from
8 woman.
L told him IT was not I that
gave the orders but the Soviet
Government.
After the harvest we notified
Emelyan Of the amount of grain
he had to deliver but he did not
deliver it, saying he had no grain.
That evening called a meeting
of all the poor ana middle peasants
and spoke to them about our grain
delivery. Enlelyan said;
''You talk about the plan, well,
I fulfilled it before you cid. My
grain is already delivered, 1 have
none left. You can go and see for
yourselves.
Everybody was furious at him
and accused him Of having sold his
grain for speculation. AS he con-
tinued to assure us that he had
no gain left, we decided that if
this was true he would be fined
and a levy put on his property for
five times the value Of the grain
sold for speculation.
We called the committee of as
sistance together and decided to
proceed with the levy, but nobody
wanted to go, nor did I want to
go myself, since he was our neigh
Dor. At last I made up my mind
and, taking three men with me,
went. Enlelyan's son had dis
appeared and the old man did not
want to let us in. But / told him
to get out of the way and we went
in. He would not give Us a lantern
at first, but We got one and went
into the barn.
There we found that he had
ground all his grain into flour, SO
that was why he could not deliver
any grain. We made up q list OF
his stores and his cattle, found
some bee hives and put them in
also and announced an auction for
the next day. But the kulaks were
still so much feared, that we could
not find anybody to take the pro-
perty away. Antonio Shishkova
agreed to help me. l gave her a
cart and five Pioneers to assist her
and they took everything away.
Later, when we had mass collec-
Invitation, that whole family was
expelled from the village.
I spent July and August, 1929, In
Moscow, taking courses Of study
to be chairman Of a village soviet,
where N. G. Krupskaya lectured.
She told Us in vivid words that we,
who were the leaders of our vii
lagos, must not be raid Of the
propaganda that the kulals were
making, but must be firm in fight
ing our class enemies.
In the beginning Of 1880 I was
chairman Of the women's work
conference, where spoke to the
workers about public feeding and
made the women take q leading
part in that work. At the end of
1880 7 was political head of our
storm regiment.
In May, 1881, the Regional Party
Committee assigned me to work in
the region. Ihad to go round to the
village soyiets and arrange womens
work meetings, day nurseries and
Fairgrounds and draw women into
social work. II is hard work, but
that cannot be helped. We must
all work for the Party and the
Soviet Government needs us wo-
men no less than menI
Anna tyanoyna Chepurnays.
aged 2s n
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-06
BY L AMTER.

0F the 100000 workers that are
v out Of work in this rich country,
more than 100000 are women.
These are not the women Of the we'll
to-do class, who wanted pin money,
Or desired TO be independent" They
are the women of the working class,
girls and women, who had to go to
work to help out the family income.
Tens of thousands of the girls have
left home in search of Work--work
that is nowhere to be found. These
girls and women are out on the road,
with their families; in the Y. w. c.
AS and other institutions. They are
on the streets looking for food.
Some of them are left in the fac
tories. They slave as never before
70 to 80 hours q week. They work for
beggar's pittance-5O to 60 hours a
week in sweatshops in Connecticut
for IS cents! Two weeks Of slave
labor in Pennsylvania, in return for
$1.65! Three cents an hour--in the
glorious commonwealth Of Pennsyl-
wanna! Eight cents, ten cents an hour
this is slavery that breeds disease,
misery, crime, prostitution! These are
some of the forgotten" people
President Roosevelt talked so much
about.
s
YOU spent the summer, MIR. Roose-
l welt, at your fine estate at Hyde
Park, surrounded by your grand
children in the green of the vast
woods. When tired" from your "la-
bors," you went to the south, on a
splendid yacht. You swan and fished
while millions of children sweat,
starved and died. The children's
bureau OF the government that you
now head tells us that in 1890 there
were more than 100000 children
working in sweatshops and on the
farms of this Countrywide millions
Of adults are unemployed! These
figures are not true, for they do not
count the hundreds of thousands OF
children of the migratory workers
who are not reached.
Since 1880, hundreds Of thousands
of children have been forced out OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-06

The following article by a wo-
man worker on q collective farm
in the North Caucasus region of
the Soviet Union is one of
series collected by the Peasants
Newspaper for These Beginning
to Read" published in the Soviet
Union, at a general meeting at
which members of the collective
farm were asked to write about
their daily work.
This series, now published in
a booklet called 'tKokhoznikis a."
shows by concrete example how
the working peasants have cast
off the shackles that bound them
to the landlords, capitalists, ku-
laks, and priests.)
7 lost my parents when I was six
l years cid; they had been poor
peasants and died of cholera.
was sent to a home for foundiings,
from which a farmer Of Mash
lykino, Chepurnoy by name, and
his wife took me and adopted me,
for they were Childless. When I
became a little older they made me
work. I took the cattle to Craze
and never had a holiday; I was
not even taught to read ana write.
My adopted parents were middle
peasants. They had adopted me
so as to get an additional. plot Of
land, as land was then allotted
per head. When I was Is they
decided that I should marry, as
they wanted an additional worker
in the family. They wanted a SON
ln-laW who would not have to do
military service, SO they chose q
man who had done his already.
did not want to marry him, but
they beat e and I agreed.
After I married we were four
workers iii the family. We had q
pair Of horses and a COW. 7 began
to have children.
GO I lived until 1924, when a
y teacher came to our village and
taught the grown-ups to read and
write. He called a meeting and
told US that all persons between
the ages of 16 and 40 could come
and learn. I was TOO happy for
words. I had three children then
but decided that would learn In
spite Of everything.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-06

Edith Berkman, who contracted
tuberculosis as q result OF the per
secution Of the bosses for her mill
tant leadership of striking textile
workers. still faces danxer of de-
portation TO fascist Poland. Only
mass pressure Of the working class
ca,1 ears b. .
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-06

member told him and he was
quite surprised.
II don't see why you give your
self all that trouble" he said,
working at home and in the Par
ty. What pleasure you find in it
I can't understand; is the Party
dearer to you than your own fam
ily?"
Il have led d miserable life" I
told him, land now I want to be
free and take part in ruling my
country as Lenin said all women
should"
After that ne and I constantly
quarreled.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-06
WOMEN WORKERS ARE
PAID LOW WAGES.

AL census of the United
States Labor department
prove that women are paid
one-half to one-t third less
than men for the same kind
Of work. In 1880 there were
about 100000 gainfully &C
Cupied women in the United
States. Today millions Of them
are looking for work. And if
they are single they don't even
receive relief. Low wages OF the
husband force many married
women to seek jobs.
AS result OF many powerful
struggles some labor laws against
night work for women have been
won. Some states have introduced
the hour law for women work
ers. But all these laws are ig-
nored and discarded.
While a great deal of space is
given in all capitalist papers to
talk about the 6 hour days day
week, or share the work week."
steps are being taken for longer
hom5 Of work and wage cuts.
AL workers, uOel and women
must organize to defeat the
slavery.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-06
Equal Pay for Equal Work"
By EDITH HERMAN,

Edith Bekman has facing deportation
the textile workers better conditions
meetings should demand
the 0 the U. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-06
Women TOiLers
in the DetrOt5
Auto Strtke
BY ANNA DAMON

HINDER the leadership OF the Auto
u Workers Union, four strikes i'm
Briggs Manufacturing Plants, Mo
tor Products, Murray Body and
Hudson's, took place during tha
month Of January, which brouen
splendid victories to the auto work
ers. These strikes electrified t1
entire City-tied up Ford, ChIysle-
and other plants.
Inspired by the successes OF the
strikes in the auto plants in De
troit, workers in department stores,
in dress factories and other indus
tries, put up struggle for higher
wages and gained increases.
In all these strikes and struggle.
the women factory workers played
d leading role At the Auto Work
ers' Union strike call, although I'M
organized and with little attention
by the factory groups, the women
came out at a moments notice to-
gether with the men and joined
and led militant picket demonstra-
tions.
The women workers on strike
gained substantial wage increases
from 20 to 200 per cent--a mini
mum wage of 80 cents per hour
pay for waiting time dead tinle)--
bonus increaSes-shortening of
working hours.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-06

q week. One day, because OF ill-
ness, the knitter did not come
to work. The boss asked me to
try to operate the machines by
myself. To the satisfaction Of my
boss I operated the machines
VIII. After the days work I was
told by the boss that I will be
put in charge Of the machines
and will receive $40 per week. L
was to do the work of man who
was paid $35 per week for $40 @
week. No wonder the boss was
satisfied. The next day the knit
ter came to work. The boss met
him with a "blue envelope" He
was fired.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-06
EXPERIENCE In
a KNITTING MILL.

I worked as kniUters helper
in q knitting mill The knitter
received $35 per week. (Knitters
are highly skilled workers.. 1, a
woman, his helper, received SIC
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-06

"WOMEN take the jobs Of
" men," or Women should
stay home and let the men
work" are some OF the popular
sayings of the day. AT the
same time the mill-owners'
organizations such as the AS
ISOLATED Industries Of Massa-
chussetts come out with the
demand, For Women's Work
till 10 o'clock at night" In
Massachusetts, women may
work only s houTs q day and
only till 6 at Right.) In this
manner through the employ
ment of women workers at
lower wages and longer work
day the bosses hope to in
crease their already fat pro-
fits.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-06
WE DEMAND EQUAL PAY
FOR EQUAL WORK"

Our committee demanded: -
The kritter be given back his job.
% All women doing a mans job
to receive the same pay as the
man.
At first the boss refused to tals
to us. We then told him that
no one works until our demands
will be granted. He Gained down,
told us to sit down, gave cigars
to the men, even to the one he
fired in the morning. After one
hour of talk we went out Of the
office smiling - we announced
that all would go back to work
our demands were granted.
Unity of all workers plus Or
ganization will bring victories to
the workers.
Equal pay for equal work is one
OF the most important demands
of all workers, men and women.