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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-28
Rr A. G. ROSSE

A typical "srnychka" of Soviet sci
ence and its Socialist proletariat has
won a notable victory over the hith-
erto unconquerable Arctic, and at
the same time has given the U.S.SR.
a new and vastly important raw ma
terial. Agriculture, chemistry, metal
lurgy and a number Of other indus
tries are profiting by the exploita-
ton of the apatite fields Of the Kola
Peninsula, north Of the White Sea,
Upon the retreating footsteps Of
the British invaders in 1920, Soviet
scientists, headed by the eminent
academician, Prof Fersman, began
explorations for Khibin apatite. For
almost a decade they fought against
sub-Zero winters and summers in
tested with plague-mosquitoes.
Up to 1890 this polar desert-froz-
en- tundra and wooded taiga-was in
habited by a few nomad Lopar fami-
lies living by reindeer breeding, fish
ing and berry picking. Then spring
construction operations began.
From apatite may be obtained
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-28
Socialist Construction in the Arctic
Review of "USSR in Construction" 1892 No II

and engineers lived in box cars, then
tents and barracks, but with the
construction of the mines began the
building Of another Socialist city
Khibinogorsk. By 1882 this city had
over $4,000 inhabitants.
BY the fall Of 1881 one of the larg-
est refineries in Europe was COM
pleted there, fully mechanical, with
capacity of 250,00o tons OF concen-
trated ores. 1t cost seven and half
million rubles, but the first year
turned out its cost in apatite. An
interesting sidelight is the fact that
one of the building materials used in
its construction was khibinite, OBJ
tanned from apatite.
Another Refinery Being Built
A second refinery is now being put
up and will be finished by the middle
OF this year; with an annual output
valued at so million rubles.
These mills prepare the initial
stages of aluminium. A $4,000 kilo-
watt hydro-electric plant is being con-
structed which viii start operations
this year.
By 1887 hydro stations with nearly
five times that capacity will be in
operation, while others using peat
will likewise be generating current.
Power will be cheap, costing at most
half cent per klowatt hour.
Nearby, at Kandalaksha, chemical
combine Is under construction. The
Kola Peninsula also has important
deposits of iron ore, titanium, used
for making paints, molybdenum,
used for hardening steel and making
lamp and radio wire, chromium, for
ceramics, etc.
An almost more thrilling aspect of
the conquest Of the Soviet Arctic is
the victories of the agronomistS.
Where only cloudberries and lichen
grew, cultivated fields and lighthouses
are now flourishing. Potatoes are
grown which are of better quality
and higher yield than any other
region in the country can produce.
Hog Farms Organized.
TurnipS, carrots, strawberries, hay
and garden flowers grow we'll, and
the problem of grains is being tackl-
ed. Hundreds Of head Of cattle al
ready exist and hog farms are being
organized.
The cultural needs OF the popula-
ton are being taken care of with the
characteristic speed devoted TO such
problems. A socialist city is being
built at a cost Of rs million rubles.
A sound-movie theater with 1900
seats was finished last year, likewise
a public bath, as we'll a. nurseries,
clinic with accommodations for 1000
and a hospital for 275. Work is pro-
ceeding or completed on two parks of
culture and rest, factory kitchens and
restaurants, schools and research
laboratories, concert halls for 1000
persons etc.
This story Of Khibin is told by the
"USSR in Construction" with SOTO
beautiful photographs that bear Hv-
ing testimony to the difficulties and
heroic achievements in creating the
Soviet Arctic.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-28
SimOnS Guilty"
for DenOunCing
Imperialism

NEW YORK. William Simons,
national secretary Anti-Imperialist
League, was found guilty Monday in
the Jefferson Market Court on a
charge of disorderly conduct for
having delivered speech against
japanese Imperialism during the de-
rnonstration against Matsuoka, agent
of the japanese bosses.
Simons was not sentenced, but is
being held for investigation" until
April 80 apparently for the purpose
Of digging up" something against
him, so that a heavier sentence
might be given him.
Defended by Max j. Merbaum. at
torney for the N. Y. District, LID,
Simons will come up for sentence
Thursday morning in the Jefferson
Market Court. All workers are urged
to be in court when sentence is pas
sed.
Resolutions protesting the holding
of Simons were sent today to Mayor
O'Brien and chief of police Null
rooney by the Anti-Imperialist
League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-28
Nesv York Daily
Drive Flashes

The Eugene V. Debs Branch OF the
International Workers Order, Bronx
contributes $40 and challenges all
other Two. branches in New York
City to do likewise.
From the Fiatbush Workers Club:
'We're right behind our Daily IN
its struggle to live. We know that
ts struggle Is our struggle. En-
closed find SLIPS more. We pledge
to fill oar quota and are mp to date
so fart"
A worker who prefers to remain
anonymous writes: First Job in two
years. Made S.. Here 1t goes for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-28

oners on the banana plantations and
were not allowed to leave even for
a short time. Exposure of the atroci-
ties of the United Fruit agents was
made in the United States by the
Anti-Imperialist League which car
ries on campaigns against forced
labor in the colonies and the whole
imperialist system.
Watch tomOrrow's Daily Worker
for the fifth installment from the
sensational new book, Forced La
Dor in the United States" In 1t
for the first time will be told the
story of the heroic revolts against
forced labor in the United States
and its colonies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-28
Carolina Doctor Saves
|NegroYouth fromMob;
Then Calls the Sheriff

LOWELL, N. c.. March, ga
white physician, Or. James w. Reid
temporarily saved a twenty-year- old
Negro from lynching here yesterday
when he hid him in the basement
while a mob of several hundred
secured another part of the towr
for their victim.
After hiding the hunted youth for
several hours, the doctor called the
sheriff, who took the Negro to the
Mecklenburg county Jail at Char
lotte.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-28
WHAT'S ON
Wednesday

AFTERNOON CLASS IN ESPERANTO is
held every Wedi esday beginning pm.
sharp for beginners at the Workers Home,
$50 East Slst st. Room 8. This Is the
last call to those interested TO join this
class. Instruction free.
PROF. SCOTT NEARING will speak on
Division OF Income" at Burnside Manor.
IS W. Burnside Ave, Bronx, near University
Ave, at pm. Question period. Admis-
sion 2oc Auspices-Friends Of the Sovtet
Union, Bronx Branches.
Friday
PLAYWRIGHTrNG CLASS for BEGINNERS
starts Friday evening March Stst at
Workers Lab. Theatre OF w.IR., a y.
18th st., N. Y. C. Register Nowl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-28
White Jury Convicts
Tenn. Negro in Spite
of Sd Degree Evidence

JACKSON, Tenn, Mar. 27.-Ignor-
ing his sworn testimony that he was
Wciously third-degreed by police who
forced him to sign a confession,
Roy Ross, 26, was found guilty OF
killing Ernest Benson, white, by a
white jury here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-28
LANCER PROTEST FUNERAL TODAY
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE
bring their banners.

bring their banners.
YORK-ThOusands workers will the
Hoand and Singers hrelngs at funeral
demons at II am
The march will start headquarters
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-28
NEW "LIBERATOR" TO
BE LAUNCHED APRIL Is

The following is the first Of a series Of
three articles preparatory to the launching
Of the new "Liberator," weekly organ con
corning itself especially with the struggles
Of the Negro People against their capitalist
oppressors.
Negro and white women and men
marched Thursday, March %, on
the Home Relief Buro, 500 strong,
to demand immediate relief to all,
without discrimination to Negroes.
This demonstration, organized by the
Unemployed Council, is significant,
particularly because it is the first
such march carried through success
fully in recent months. In spite of
the short time given to the prepar-
atory work, the Negro and white
masses responded proving that with
the consolidation and organization of
our apparatus, Harlem will take its
logical place of leading in the strug-
giles in the city OF New York.
T h U n m p oy d
Councils, mass organizations and
particularly the units of the Party
must now realize the importance of
creating organizations in the blocks
and houses of Harlem. 1t is very
important at this time for every
worker, members of the Party, Unem-
ployed Council and mass organiza-
tons to actually have discussion on
the methods through which we can
best get to the workers in the neigh
borhood.
Comrades must initiate discussions
on the question of method Of ap-
proach. In the units planned &C
tiVity must replace the sporadic as
signments. The Unit Buro must be
established as the leading committee
Of the party In the territory, and the
unit as whole must become con-
scious Of its leading role in the
struggles Of the workers in the neigh
borhood.
THE LIBERATOR AND THE
STRUGGLES IN HARLEM
April is marks the first appear
ance of the Halrem Liberator a work
ing class Negro paper which will be
in position not only to answer the
attack of the Negro and white mis-
leaders in Harlem against the move
ment Of the Negro and white work
ers, but also because 1t will be a
means through which we can speak
to the Negro workers, get them to our
organizations, and strengthen the
unity Of the Negro and white work
erS for struggle against their COM
mon enemy.
With the 'Liberstor" our demon
STATIONS and mass meetings will
grow enormously with the Lberator
we can penetrate the hitherto re-
dictionary controlled organizations OF
workers. Therefore it is evident that
the greatest activity before us is the
creation Of mass base to maintain
the Liberator.
All workers must get busy getting
subs, raising the question Of sup
port for the Liberator in the neigh
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-28

Bank-or starve, as there is no other
Ia nnr-rn lining
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-28
BY WALTER WILSON

Editors Note: This Is the fourth
inStaIlment from the new book,
Forced Labor in the United
States" by Walter Wilson. A COM
plete picture of the forced labor
system will be rotten from a read
ing Of the book of which the fol-
loving is an extract. Prepared un-
der direction of the Labor Research
Association, Introduction by Theo-
dore Dresser. International Pub
fishers, 381 Fourth Ave, New York,
price 81.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-02
5000 in Cleveland
Acclaim PariSYOuth
Anti-War Congress
Young Con ferenc e
Delegates Vote Sup
port of World Meet

CLEVELAND, 0. = The 5000
workers who assembled here in a
mass demonstration in Public So.
during the recent Cleveland Trade
Union United Action Conference
enthusiastically endorsed pledge
to support the World Youth Con-
gress Against War and Fascism
which will be held in Paris on Sep
TENDER %.
A large number of young workers
took part in this huge rally which
listened to addresses by Earl Brow
der, Secretary of the Communist
Party, and other prominent speak
ers who exposed the National Re-
covery Act as an attack upon the
American working class.
Sixty-five young worker dele
gates to the Trade Union Confer
ence unanimously endorsed the Paris
Youth Anti-War Congress at a
meeting of the youth section held
during the general conference.
4
/ NEW YORK = All cities are
urged to report at once on their ac-
tivities for the Paris Youth Con-
gress to Carl Geiser of the Ameri-
can Committee for the World Con-
gress Of Youth in Paris, 104 Fifth
Ave, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-02
LID Leader Who Went
Back to Fight Nazis
Faces Death in Jail

BERLIN.-Because CT their work
in organizing defense for victims
of German fascism, in Germany it.
self, two functionaries of the Ger
man Red Aid Il. L. d., now illegal
in Germany are under arrest and
in danger of being framed and ex-
ecuted or murdered in the Nazi
barracks where they are held.
The two workers are Walter
Dittbender, well-known for his
years of work on behalf of political
emigrants from countries of the
white terror, and Hans Vogelsand,
one-time organizer of the l. L. D.
in Saxony, who returned to Ger
many after the Hitler counter
revolution, to devote himself to the
work of helping the Brown Ter
ror's victims.
Dittbender was for years the
head of the I. L. D. department of
political emigrants in Germany, and
in this capacity helped hundreds of
deportees and political refugees
from other countries, including the
United States.
The German I. L. D. has sent out
an appeal to workers of all coun-
tries to send protests. demanding
their release to German embassies
and consulates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-02
Army Called Out As
Sugar Strike Gains
New War Chief Orders
Force AgainstW orkers

HAVANA, Sept. 1.-Colonel Ho-
racio Ferrer, new secretary of war
and the navy, as his first act in his
new office issued strict orders to
the army to use call force neces-
sary" against the strike of sugar
workers, which is spreading ike
wildfire to every part of the island.
The sugar workers are paid an
average of 20 cents a day, and are
demanding so. American owners
yesterday demande& that President
de Cespedes take strong action
against the strikers. While ordering
the army to take the field, the
president pretended sympathy with
the workers and called for a "com-
promise" in order to break the
strike.
President de Cespedes by decree
yesterday set up consultative
commission" with extraordinary
powers, composed of 80 members to
be chosen by himself. They will sub
NIT recommendation which he will
put into effect by decree.
A further indication of the
strangle-hold of the Wall Street
government over Cuba is shown sby
the appointment of A. A. Berle, a
member of Roosevelt's brain
Trust" as financial expert to work
out methods of paying Cuba's debts
to the Wall Street bankers. Sumner
Welles, American ambassador and
real dictator of Cuba, will be award
ed the highest decoration Cuba can
bestow, the Grand Cross of the Or
der of Carlos Manuel de Cespedes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-02

Wall Street government throughout
the island.
In Principe Castillo, the most no.
torious dungeon in Cuba, among
many other working class prisoners,
are Mario Labrada, Salvador Fernan-
DEE and Antonio Fernandez, arrested
in Machado's regime by the Porra,
and framed on petty criminal
charges. Also held in this prison,
which is still governed by Diaz Gal
lup, Machado murderer directly re-
sponSible for the death of the Chi
nese Communist leader of the Cuban
masses, j. Wong, are Manuel Soto
longo, Jose Antonio Cuesta, Bernardo
Alfaro and Manuel Penalver, strike
leaders. Jose Vilar is also in prison
In Havana itself, where the ABC
press has announced that as, soon as
they get through with certain par
ticular porristas who are too notori-
GUS to be Of use to them, they will
turn their attention to exterminat-
ing the Communists, and putting
the Negroes in their place.. Julian
Rivero, Negro worker and organizer
of the building trades union was muir
dered by machine gun fire from a
window.
Unarned workers friendly to the
National Confederation Obrera de
Cuba (Red Trade Union) were re-
ceived with machine gun fire when
they went to meeting of the Fed
eracion Obrera de Havana.
In central Malay, striker was
arrested by the Rural Guards, tor
tured to death in police headquarters,
and decapitated.
All over the island, the ABC lead
ers are arresting, numbering, and
tortWing workers, with especial at
tention to the Negro workers.
In Sancti Spiritu, Abe agents daily
attack the striking workers, exactly
as Machado's Porristas did.
In Marianao, Madruga, and San
tiago de Cuba, hundreds of strikers
have been beaten by the same agents.
In the sugar mill Mercedita, four
workers were arrested for selling Eel
Trabajador', central organ of the
Communist Party of Cuba.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-02
Los Angeles Relief
Strike Wins Raise
for SalyageWorkerS
Relief Head Jensen
RefusesW orkersRight
to Strike

LOS ANGELES, Cal.-All Los An
geles County relief workers in the
Salvage Department of the Chart
ties have ben notified, following the
recent one-day strike, that they will
be given a full eight-hour day sched-
ule of work if they desire it regard
less of the A. or 6-hour work orders.
Although, at this time, it is not
known whether this policy will ex-
tend to other relief workers in diff
ferent departments, it is regarded as
victory obtained by the strike and
demonstration on Aug. %, 1888.
Among the workers arrested for
distributing leaflets calling on relief
workers to strike, not to scab, are:
Agnes Blankenship, Martin White,
Mrs. Romero, Thos. Decol, Glen An
derson, Mike Goberset, Elmer Wells,
Joseph 10th, Harry Weber and
Thos. Dematos. These workers have
been released on $50 bail each, date
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-02
Birth of a Hero

The lib-lab S and Sobsister. pinks
glave begun to build a myth around
General Hugh Johnson.e Kerensky
rode great white horse, but the
General is more versatile, they say.
Capitalist Tom Stokes, a soaring
Shelley who covers Washington for
the Scripps papers, MARBLES the fcl-
lowing: He has the dash Of the
Guerilla chief ~ the tenacity of O
Grant. He CAN threaten like a top
sergeant and compromise, when nee
essary, like politician. He is both
lowbrow and highbrow. He is a
scholar among scholars and rough
and tumble in fight. He can quote
from the classics and Scriptures and
swears like the proverbial trooper. He
can sing the songs that soldiers sing
and enjoy a symphony He has a
flair for the Napoleonic gesture -
above all, he has that divine quality
of being able to dramatic himself
The NRA is Johnson"
Well, well, for moment we thought
Mr.. Stokes was describing a manly
Y.M.C.A. parsons conception of the
two-fisted Yankee Christ.
We know three things about Capt.
talist Hugh Johnson. First, he was
the West Point officer who rugged up
the infamous CONSUMPTION law; sec
ond, he is the favorite Wall Street
protege Of slick Barney Baruch; third,
he used to write punk love stories of
army life for the pulp magazines.
Bastal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-02
GalloWS Raised All
Over Poland; $4,000
Workers in Prison

CRACOW, Poland. - Coincident
with the coming to power of the
Hitler regime in Germany, Fascist
terror and murder in Poland has
increased tremendously, according
to report on terror in the coun-
tryside, and prison conditions, made
by the Polish Red Aid,
Gallows have been erected all
over the country; punitive military
expeditions are raging through
Western Ukraine and Western
White Russia, killing hundreds of
unarmed inhabitants, and the 1900
political prisoners are struggling
against intensification of torture
and brutality in the crowded jails.
New statutes have been passed,
abolishing the status of political
prisoner. classifying politicals as
criminals, and legalizing new tor
lures against them. The politicals,
the report says are defending
themselves, and struggling against
inhuman treatment, torture, pun
ishment cells, military drill, for
fresh air, open windows, the right
to share food with fellow-prisoners,
medical assistance, books, news
papers. writing materials, visits
from friends and relatives, and the
right to send and receive letters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-02

berS Of the former so-called Army
Comrades Association (ex-army PEN
sioners, ex-army officials, the Ma
tional Guard, which is under the
leadership of General Owen O'Duffy,
the former Cosgrave Police Chief,
has been launched by the bankers,
ranchers and big capitalists who are
lined up with the camp of British
imperialism. The sponsors of the
Blueshirt Fascist organization have
already made it clear that their prin-
cipal aim is the crushing of the
working class and the Irish revolu-
tionary movement which is directed
against British imperialism.
When O'Duffy addressed the del
egates who were present at the OPEN
ing convention of his organization,
he declared
"One of the principal objects of
the Guard is to combat Communism.
We stand for an aggressive attitude
towards Communism"
At the same time O'Duffy and the
Leading figures of the Cosgrave Par
ty, such as Mulcahy, Blythe, ETC., who
stand at the head of the Blueshirt
organization, make it clear that they
are out to destroy the revolutionary
republican movement and to impose
the methods of Fascist terror upon
the Irish people. According to it's
leader, who, it is very significant
to note, is provided with a pension
of $40 Pounds year by the Fianna
Fall Government, the National Guard
Blueshirts is a movement which
strives to obtain "the best that is
in Fascism."
These Blueshirts, whose total
strength is estimated to be round
about 10000, are being aided by
members of the British Intelligence
Service and have been provided with
large quantities of machine guns and
ammunition from British capitalist
sources. They are constantly being
encouraged and supported quite
openly in the columns OF the Brit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-02
10000 Blue Shirts Open
Campaign of Terror
Against Workers

arms and ammunition to render it
very formidable discretionary
force and source of extreme
danger to the peace and stability
of the country"
The Fianna Fail Government is
not, as its gesture of banning the
Dublin Blueshirt parade would
seem to indicate on the surface,
showing any real opposition to the
advance of fascism in Ireland, but
on the contrary reveals itself as an
agency engaged in holding back
the masses from the struggle and
facilitating the process OF fascist
development.
Republicans Dangerously Tolerant
Attention must be drawn to the
extremely dangerous and harmful
viewpoint which has been expressed
by the petty bourgeois leadership of
the I. r. A., when they declared in
recent number of the "An p.cb-
lacht" with reference to the Blue
81. :. t.-..
This Fascist organization pro-
poses to regain power for the
imperialists by force. -. There
need be no alarm. The character
of the leaders of this movement
will ensure its failure"
Such an attitude will only be pro-
ductive of the most terrible harm
unless it is fought against unconi-
promisingly. The same also applies
"a tho x,ol;cx v,,b,ob thu 7 D A
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-02

of trial set for Sept. 10, 1888,
$3.50 am, division 7. They will |
defended by the I. L. D. attorney
Wirin and Strong.
A delegation of relief workers re
Gently entered the office of Jense
Superintendent of Charities, wi
tried to break the strike with poll
terror and demagogic appeals to !.
workers. The politician had his
parked on the desk in SNUG s.
satisfaction with his policies of Gu
failing relief work and grocery O.
ders.
He pompously declared worke
had the right of collective bargain
ing, but, if they tried to organi:
or strike, they would be discrimir
ated against as agitators. In 9th,
words, Jensen wants the relief worl
ers to submit to starvation withol
struggle and limit their right to CO
lective bargaining to talk. His dit
tatorial attitude did not impress tt
delegation of relief workers who to-
Jensen their answer to his threa
would be bigger and better delegs
tions, bigger demonstrations, an
bigger strikes"