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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04
No Unemployment in USSR, Trade Unions Give
2 Ia Billion Dollars for Social Insurance

have laid the foundations of a So
cialist society.
There is no unemployment in the
Soviet Union because the workers
state has a planned economy, and
runs industry for the use Of the
masses of the workers and farmers.
In the Soviet Union there is no priv
ate ownership of industries. Bigger
machines in the Soviet Union means
shorter hours for all. The workers
and farmers, through their state, run
and own the industries. That is why
there is no crisis in the Soviet Union
no unemployment, and production has
increased under planned economy,
while declining in the capitalist coun-
tries.
The workers of the United States,
led by the Communist Party of the
U. 8. A. and the world Communist
Party (the Communist internationally f,
will abolish unemployment and starv-
alton in this country, by following the
example of the Bolshevik
Party of Russia and overthrowing the
capitalist society here, setting up
workers" state a Soviet United
Slater
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04

In the United States there Is no
unemployment or social insurance OF
any kind. Instead, the New Deal'
of Roosevelt is putting the unem-
ployed workers on the salt pork
standard" The government does
everything possible to thwart the
workers demand for the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill.
Relief has been cut down IN New
York City, Detroit, Cleveland, Buff
falo, Syracuse, and many other cities
in the past six weeks. This is what
the MIRA. has brought the workers
of the United States.
Food is being destroyed in the
United States, at the direction Of
Roosevelt, because there is no mar
ket for it," while millions starve.
When the workers demand unem-
ployment insurance and relief In the
United States they are shot down and
killed by the government forces
cleveland, Chicago, Detroit. When
the workers strike against small
MIRA. wages their strikes are out
lawed" by the N.R.A., and gunner
are sent to shoot them down on the
picket line cambridge. mine strikes,
Paterson, etc., and injunctions are
issued and strikers are arrested and
beaten New York;.
It is an open secret that the MIRA.
has not reduced unemployment, An
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04

the Socialist Party, and I am pref
udiced against lawyers. can't say
that I even thought much Of
Hillquit.
Don't Want Lawyers
1--WE don't want lawyers to lead
us. we want workingmen. A lawyer
will listen to a workingman's theories,
pat him on the back, but he really
isn't interested. We have the case
right now of Mr.. Frank P. Walsh,
also a lawyer I see by the press
that he is representing Mr.. Virgins,
a banker who gets half million
dollars a year salary"
The Russians do not want war,
Dean asserted. THAT is the very
last thing they want. They are
working on plans. They are now on
the Second Five Year Plan and war
would disorganize everything. They
are working for peace.
The American people, in case of
war, should defend the Soviet Union.
They have wiped out poverty there
and crime and this ought to be wiped
out here. Crime cannot be wiped
out by merely making laws against
it. The fact that they are not work
ing for profit In the Soviet Union,
Is the reason that there is no crime
there and all are brothers"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04

United States 1t means more unem-
ployment and speed up. Tn employ
ing class tries to ind more markets.
but these markets can not be found,
and now war threatens between the
capitalist countries.
The crisis in the United States is
deepening and broadening, produce
ton is at low ebb, starvation is
the lot Of the workers, while the
members Of the boss class live in lux
ury.
Under the leadership Of the Com
munist Party, the party of Lenin, the
workers Of the Soviet Union have
done away with the capitalist sys-
tenn. The workers and farmers of
the Soviet Union are now celebrating
the sixteenth anniversary Of the VIC
torious October Revolution, the 18th
successful year Of the rule Of the
workers and farmers. Sixteen years
ago, led by the Communist Party.
the Russian workers drove out the
bankers and employers, destroyed the
profit ssytem and smashed UP the
capitalist government. Now the work
ers and farmers of the Soviet Union
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04

more than any other. That GER
tainIy brings contentment and also
wipes out crime.
Forced labor? If anybody talks
about slavery in the Soviet Union"
Dean continued, 81 should say he
doesn't know what he Is talking
about. They have absolutely no
slavery there. Everybody works, both
men and women. There is no reason
for enslavement there. There is no
slavery over there because the people
own everything themselves. They all
belong to trade unions, and as a
member of a trade union, the worker
gets all the benefits. If there were
unemployment there, work would be
divided and hours of work cut down.
Social Insurance Fact
"They have a real system of social
insurance. 1t is a fact, and it is
working out there. There Is no I'M
employment now so you really can't
speak Of unemployment insurance.
The workers there receive a vaca-
ton Of two weeks with pay. In
heavier industries mining, ETC.
they receive four weeks with pay.
They also have Day Rest Homes,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04
BY CARL REEVE

NEW YORK.-This week an I'M
employed woman, Katherine Pilking-
ton, wandered the streets Of New
York City for four days, begging and
starving, before she collapsed and was
taken to the Metropolitan Hospital
She had been evicted. Almost as
desparate conditions face more than
seventeen million totally unemployed
workers in the United States today,
as well as the millions more in their
families. Thousands of homeless
wander the country, men, women and
youth. 1857 families were evicted In
New York City alone in the month
ef Aug, 1888, and scores Of thousands
more were evicted in the principal
cities Of tbs country.
The Soviet Union, through its
Council Of Peoples Commissars and
the Central Council of Soviet Labor
Unions In the same month announced
that four and one half billion rubles
(two and one quarter billion dollars)
will be spent in 1888 by the Soviet
Onion for social insurance for the
Workers Of the U.S.5.R. This state
fund, 1t Is further announced, will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04

Official New York City relief COM
mittee connected with the city gov
eminent, writes this week, ito date
unemployment has not kept pace
with the number Of unemployed who
are forced to ask for help" (Queens
Relief Committee CIRCULAR.
The seventeen million unemployed
workers, the additional millions on
part time, their wives and children,
look across at the Soviet Union,
covering one sixth Of the surface Of
the earth, where there Is no unem-
ployment, where there Is complete So
cial insurance and security for all
workers and farmers. In the midst
Of starvation diets Of salt pork hash
and bacon rinds and beans, the I'M
employed workers Of the United
States are inspired by the example of
the working class OF the Soviet Union
which has accomplished so much for
the workers.
Why is 1t that there is security for
the workers In the Soviet Union and
at the same time starvation for the
workers OF the United tSates. The
United States is ruled by capitalist
government operating in the interests
Of the bankers and employers. The
boss class owns all the factories priv
ately, forcing the workers to produce
to make profits for the rich. When
bigger machines are installed In the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04
LGWU Dress Chiefs
Refuse Strike Unity
to Halt Low Wages

o NEW Y0RK.--In the first battle
of the dressmakers TO maintain
their wages and prevent wage
slashing campaign by the dress
bosses, the officials of the Inter-
national Ladies Garment Workers
Union are giving direct aid to the
jobbers in the drive TO lower the
recent standards won in the dress
strike. This was evident in Julius
Hochman's refusal to see q CONF
mittee of dressmakers, who cams
out on strike under the leadership
of the Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union when q 1obber, own
er of the Romance Frock, ordered
the contractors in whose shops they
were employed to lower piece work
prices. The shops on strike are the
Ben Joe Dress Co., at ISL West
18th St and the Bann1ore Dress st
119 West 25th st.
I.L.G.W controlled shops Of t6e
same jobber continue at work. Ass
though the strikers called on the
workers of the Frank Dress Co. and
on the cutters employed on the job
bers' premises, to join the strike,
the Joint Dress Board and Local
10 have taken no steps to call them
out.
In IT'S appeal to an dressmekers
to support the strike, the Industrial
Union points out that the ]. L. C.
W. U. officials ars proving that
they are not ready to struggle to
maintain the higher standards
gained in the dress strike. The
union calls all dressrnakers Of the
Industrial Union and of the I. l..
G. W. U. rank and file to join the
picket line at the Romance Frock,
463 It'll Ave, and stop the wage
cutting drive of the dress bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04
Natl Labor Board
Announces N.Y.ShOe
Strike Decision

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 3. -
After weeks of hearings before the
N.R,A., the National Labor Board an
nounced its decision last night on the
New York shoe strike. Declaring that
the difference between the en-
ployers and strikers are too deep
seated to justify further attempts at
mediation" the Board orders the
strike terminated Immediately and
provides for an election to be held
by the workers under its supervision
in January to determine who shall
represent them in all negotiations
with the employers"
The terms of the National Labor
Boards order to call off the strike
include the following main points:
The workers are to return to their
jobs Immediately. Although rein
statement is promised without dis
elimination, clauses are included
which provide that no worker con
victed Of the commission or violence
or the destruction of property" shall
be reinstated. There is also a clause
providing exemptions to certain
plants claiming it a hardship. to
provide equal division of work.
The elections to take place on
January 2, 1884 to select their repre-
sentatives, are to allow workers on
the payrolls of the companies be-
fore the strike as well as those at
work on January 2 to participate.
Union contracts made during the
strike which did not result in re-
turn of the majority of the workers
are held invalid. Only the Boot and
Shoe Union made such contracts.
Wages are ordered to be increased
by 10 per cent over the wages paid
before the strike on the basis of 40
hours of work. Working hours are
to be reduced to 40 hours. The Ma
tional Labor Board retains the right
to remake final settlement of any
dispute In connection with the deci-
sion.
AS we go to press, the Executive
Board Of the Shoe and Leather Work
ers' Union is discussing the decision
and its recommendations are to be
brought before the membership for
final action.
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vine is a college graduate and
student of psychiatry. He tells me
in great detail that this family is
special case, he keeps analyz-
ing the family history-it is his
opinion that the rash on the daugh-
ter's face is probably due to ven7
ereal heritage. To him, mis-
guided student falling for the bunk
UNI handed out in our colleges,
this is a very interesting case. l
insist that the family must be fed.
There is a possibility the rash is
caused by eating swill. But then
I'm not college graduate nor a
student of psychiatry. Mr.. Lee
vines intention is to go more thor
oughly into the case. His stuff
ness and learning are suffocating.
l wonder if the Millers ever will
be fed?
0OCIAL workers: Do you still be-
v lieve that charity under capital
ism can cure any of our ills? What
do you think is the future posi-
bility of children under democra-
cies, who stand for days in front of
Home Relief Bureaus at their IT.
ritable mothers SIDES, and say
monotonously: Mons, is this our
investigator" What hope is there
for the child who sits in darkness,
lights shut off?
Four-year-old Marie asks her
friends if they have electricity at
their house. What hope is there
for children who, because their par
ents do not understand as yet how
to organize their rage against their
oppressors beat their children over
the head because they ask for
bread? Children under burden of
Home Relief are becoming un-
healthily sensitive. Sensitive be-
ings do not survive in a society
where only thugs and gangsters
find fertile fields to grow fat in.
Psychologists of Capitalism
Our psychologists will tell us
later that these children have pc
culiar neurosis. There will be more
documents and theories advanced
lnIlHlCum. w nat pOSSlDll1Cy is
there for the future of our COM
munities if we give our energies
to preserve our present state? So
cial workers are prone to look up
on themselves as public servants.
Yet how arrogant and mean | have
seen them act to those poor in
dividuals who are to be militant
and wrathful in their demands for
what belongs to them by every hui
man right.
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not let me see her. Yet I must,
in order to put on my history sheet;
Saw all working members of fam
lily, conditions unchanged" How
often and how true this statement
has been. Mrs. Miller is feeding
Louis a withered lettuce leaf
cleaned from the garbage can. 1
gagged when l saw this sick child
try to eat it. l run back to the
Home Relief Office. This is an
emergency case to me. must have
the electricity opened. I must feed
this family. But there is hitch,
On the social service exchange slip
which acts as clearing house for
social service agencies-relief must
never be duplicated-there is an
item saying that the Miller family
is under care OF Jewish Board of
Guardians. Therefore we cannot
step in to feed this starving fam
lily.
If the Miller family is an active
case, cannot feed them, but l
know that they are starving. Con-
ditions in the home did not at all
prove that the family was getting
any kind of relief. | make this my
own particular concern. | leave
the Bureau office and phone the
Jewish Board of Custodians. eyes,
the Miller family is under our care
at present" But" / said, "they
are starving" "What are you do
ing for them"
A College Investigator
They agreed to send one of their
investigators. Mr.. Levine comes,
and | go again to Millers. | would
like to see them fed. But Mr.. Lee
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04
NOTHING LIKE THIS
IN THE u. s. s. r.

George l.. Berry president of
the Printing Pressmen's Union and
Roosevelt appointee on MIRA. La
Dor Board. - s. CD is shining
example Of corruption. AT last ac-
counts his salary was 1880 yearly.
His hotel expenses run to about $65
per week and are usually drawn
whether he Is on the road or not.
Below are few items, taken from
his unions financial report of
March / to May 81, 1924, dealing
with a little trip of Berry,s to ad-
Jacent southern cities. They H..
lustrate why expense account re-
ports OF trade union leaders are
commonly called swindle sheets.
March 18th.-George L. Berry,
railroad fare, berth, meals, en-
route to Nashville for conference
on road to Pressmen's Home with
Governor, Highway Commissioner
and Engineers and expenses as
ISOLATED Herewith, also meeting
on organization matters dealing
with Knoxville, Nashville and
Chatanooga-$19S.
March 18th.-George l.. Berry,
railroad fare, berth, meals, en-
route to New Orleans, meeting Of
local unions In connection with
organization, cost OF luncheon
given to employers, union and
non-union, and conference with
newspaper publishers on Web
Press matters-$328.16.
March 18th.-George L. Berry,
railroad fare, berth, meals, en-
route on organization work and
mass meeting, and meeting of the
Board Of Governors OF the Allied
Printing Trades Association; also
conferences and mass meeting ut
jacksonville, Tampa, st. Angus
tine, West Palm Beach and
Miami, also conferences on or
ganization Of newspaper press
rooms ut Tampa, Jacksonville,
and Miami
From 'shIisleaders Of Labor"
By VIM. z. Foster.
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Continued from Page II
full-fledged member OF the Bolshe-
viks.
The next year, 1903, he was en-
trusted by Lenin with responsible
organlzational work and he returned
Illegally to Russia to carry out the
orders of the Central Committee of
the Bolshevik Party.
In 1905, as a result of his re-
Markable successes, he was entrust-
ed by the Central Committee with
the handling of illegal transporta-
tion of weapons into Russia for use
by the revolutionary workers.
When the International Congress
of the Second International was
called at Stuttgart, in 1907, Litvin-
ov was chosen to be Secretary of the
Russian delegation to that confer
ence.
In Close Touch with Lenin
In his succeeding years he con-
tanued his work in the closest touch
with Lenin and the Central Com
mittee, mainly in England.
At the 1915 Conference of Social
lists he acted for the Central Com
lnittee of the Communist Party in
protesting against the Socialist sup
port of the imperialist war.
When his protests were not heed
cd, he quit the conference.
After the October Revolution in
1917, he was appointed first Soviet
representative to England, but be-
cause he predicted in one of his
speeches that the working class of
Europe would sooner or later rise
up in Proletarian Revolution, he was
arrested by the British Government.
Later he was exchanged by the
British Government for Lockhart,
the British Consul arrested by the
Soviet Government, and he returned
TO the Soviet Union.
He is a man of medium height,
rather stocky. He is famous for the
extreme sharpness of his wit. At the
same time he is unsurpassed for
the suavity and imperturbability of
his speech when he is fencing with
the capitalist diplomats who think
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Morgans. Johnsons and DuPonts may
be forced to retreat-to await bet-
ter opportunity to spring forward q
greater distance-by such significant
events as the adament refusal Of the
captive" miners to return to their
pits without winning their main de-
mand, for unconditional union recog-
milton. But whatever may be the
speed of action of the new N. r. A.
brood, their objective is obvious
the open and brazen absorption Of tho
entire government mechanism by the
ruling clique dominated by q Wall
Street. -
This winter will bring militant la~
boris answer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04
COastwise Dockers Get
&c Hour Raise; Bosses
Fear Union Activities

NEW YORK.-The Clyde-Mal-
lory and Morgan Steamship lines
posted notice yesterday of an 8 cent
an hour increase in pay, effective
today. The companies are trying to
spike organization of the men now
being conducted by the Marine
Workers Industrial Union and also
to keep the men from sending repre-
sentatives to Washington to fight
the 40 cent an hour code at the
hearings on Nov. 9.
NEW YORK.-A lareg number
of ships crews have reported to the
Marine Workers Industrial Union
that they have sent cablegrams and
wires to Washington, demanding
that the union be recognized as their
representative at the marine code
hearings, next week. The messages
also condemned the International
Seamen's Union for it's cooperating
with the bosses and the N.R.A. in
attempting to put over the $40 q
month wage for seamen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04

representative in The Presidents
and the coal owners pact was none
other than John L. Lewis, against
whose express orders the miners
struck in the first place" Marguerite
Young of the Daily Worker inter
jected.
well, we'll see what happens, the
Senator complacently concluded.
AND what happened-on the very
n next day-was that Myron Taylor,
chairman Of the board of directors
of the United States Steel Corpora
ton, the most powerful band Of all
the plunderers, exploiters and muir
derers Of American labor, the COM
pletely integrated unit without which
j. P. Morgan and Co. would be mere
moneyIenders- Myron Taylor Of
ficially became q member of the Mr..
A. Industrial Advisory Board. And,
into the MIRA. edifice, behind Tay-
lor, marched Pierre Du Pont, chair
man Of the great ammunition and
chemical firm of z. I. DUPONT de
Nemours 81 Co., apd General r. z.
Wood, president Of Sears, Roebuck e.
Co., better known to Congressional
investigators as the wartime quarter
master general Of the US. army, who
kept 200,000,000 cans Of vegetables,
owned by the government, off the
domestic market ito protect the can
ners, who had sold the produce, from
competition with the governmental
surplus" (See July %, 1919, Report
of the Graham Committee.)
Truly November was a portentous
day, one that the historian with any
sense of economic reality must neces-
Sarily refer to-the day of the is
suance of the first official manifesto
of emerging American fascisn, the
Gerard Swope plan, This prospectus
proposes a super National Chamber
of Commerce, National Chamber of
Commerce and Industry" to absorb
the NR.A. apparatus. One Of the
chief purposes Of this move would
be to stem the tide of workers oppo-
sition by absolutely outlawing the
strike.
All Of which brings to mind Wall
Street whisper echoed here: that the
National Chamber of Commerce soon
will rally the local chambers of COM
merce, the American Legion leader
ship. the dear old OAR, and other
reactionary elements into fascist
watch and ward societies, with quasi
legal power to recruit gangsters and
other offal Of the capitalist system,
into local terror bands. American
castor oil brigades.
IT WAS only natural for N.R.A. Ad-
1 ministrator General johnson to be
godfather to the Swope baby since it
was the general, the aide-de-camp Of
Wall Street Barney Baruch, who
recently prodded the A. F. of l..
bureaucrats into more intensive strike
breaking. "The Swope plan is a
thing that he and I have talked over
for years. I am in thorough agree
ment with him" Fascism coming
into the open. U. S. steel enters the
front door of the White House.
In short, Swope, the president of
Morgan's General Electric Company,
openly claims the strike breaking and
monopoly mechanism which was SO
carefully built under government
auspices with the liberal front and
the demagogic facade to instill IL
lusions into the workers. Now that
the sword has been forged, the de-
signer claims his own.
OF course, the Swopes, Teagles,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04
Columbia Students
Pledge Fight on War


NEW YORK.-Representa-
tives of the students of Col
umbia University, meeting in
the Columbia ference
Against War last Tuesday and
Wednesday, unan m ousIy
adopted resolutions to fight
war and war preparations in
the University, to call on all
other students to do the same,
and to support a permanent
Anti-War Committee. A full
account, of the conference will
appear In Mondays Daily
Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04

Of the National La
Dor Board, on Tues
day, the day after
the White House
a n n oun C e d it's
S trike = breaking
agreement with the
steel and coal lords
CT America.
But the workers
representatives &C
cepted the agree
ment," replied SEN
ator Wagner.
1.-The workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04

employed. His
mother distract
ed. T h ere is
nothing to eat.
Mrs. Miller has
been feeding her
family with gar
bage g e a n e d
from markets on
Monroe st. When
| visit the house,
the sister hides
h e r h e a d in
shame. She does
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-04
Dnn WALL STREETS.
nEN CAPITOL
By SEYMOUR WALDMAN
Washington Bureau.)

It UNDERSTAND that the captive miners will not accept the
Presidents agreement with the mine and the official
dom of the United Mine Workers of America of group
of newpapaen remarked to Senator Wagner liberal chairman