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were "dekulaked" and exiled, their
fine homes and stock reverting to the
newly formed colhoz.
Included in this confiscated prop~
erty was a flour mill Its owner was
an engineer who had himself In
stalled the engine and other ma
chinery He was "dekulaked and ex-
lied. but apparently the urge OF ere-
alive work triumphed in him over his
class grudge, for this ex-kulak, I was
told. now works as an engineer In the
Urals, trusted by the Soviet authori-
ties as an honest and capable spec
cialist,
Live Very Wen.
The present population OF Nor
genrot," about 300 in all, consists Of
former farn-hands and poor and
middle peasants. They live very well,
and the comparison with their con-
diticn prior to the collectivization u
entirely in favor of the latter. Be-
fore 1929 the average income per
peasant family was about 300 rubles,
now it is 1000 rubles. This does not
lllClu0C SQboIdlltAdl luCO1Ale dOe
rived by each colhoznik from its own
cows, hogs, hens and vegetable patch.
The colhoz as whole is clear a
debts and the members Of the colho1
have good homes good clothes. ample
food and a chance to enjoy their
leisure in a cultural way. 'Morgen-
rot" has an excellent school, fine
nursery and kindergarten. conmu-
nal kitchen and mess hall. They are
planning new clubhouse. bath
house and the installation Of tele-
phones. There are seven Party rnern-
bers in the community, six candi-
dates and eight members OF the COM
sonnol They all work in the fields,
and by way of "nagruzka" (publio
work without pay they head the
various departments Of TIE lscN "a.
Wet
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STRIKE CALLED
ON S. S. STARK
Show Solidarity with
Seamen of Finnish
Fleet

NEW YORK. their
solidarity with 30 per cent Of the
Finnish fleet, which Is on strike at
AL ports, especially in Finland. the
crew of the SIS. Stark went out on
strike yesterday and formed a COM
r1littee OF seanen who went TO the
Finnish consul and demanded i'm
mediate draw Of money, better food,
2 drinking water tanks scourged and
cleaned and fresh water.
This was the first step TO prepare
the rest of the crew to go out on
strike and. along with their com
rades in other ports, demand a 20
per cent increase in wages.
When the consul came aboard the
ship the captain offered the excuse
that the Stark was a Swedish owned
ship, that he would first have to
wire to Stockholm for money with
which to pay the crew. The seamen.
however, refused to accept the cap
tain's statement and immediately
ceased work. Two men were left to
keep up steam till tomorrow at 3
o'clock at which time, if the demands
Tor a 20 per cent wage increase are
1ot met, they will withdraw fully
In the meantime the ships Capt.
'ain and Steward have attempted to
placate the crew by serving toms \
sces. oranges and other fresh vege
iables and fruits for the first time
IN this voyage,A seaman who burned
kLS leg against a stnan nine rras
wen immediate treatment whereas
sefore frs. aid was withheld from
henns
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YOUNG PEASANTS AND OLD
SCIENTIST SIDE BY Side
IN SOVIET COLLECTIVE
Managers Spend Time in Fields; Pure Bred
Stock Live in Disinfected Sheds
New Process Of Treating Seeds Developed on
Farm Doubles Yield Of Grain
tunity to apply his knowledge and "a
engage in experimentation.

tunity to apply his knowledge aEad "a
engage in experimentation
"AGorgenrot'' has given him COM
Portable home and made him full
fledged member of the colhoz, but
that is not all The colhoz set aside
for him a score of acres of land for
his experiments of "bionization"-a
process of treating seeds with certain
concentrated chemicals which act at
once as fungicides and stimulants. In
the first year he doubled the yield
of corn on the experimental area.
This year something like 200 hectares
about 500 acres will be "bionized."
Ahead of Spring Schedule.
"Morgenrot' was we'll ahead of it's
schedule of spring sowing when I
visited the colhoz. BY the first of
April they had finished their early
sowing of wheat (some 500 hectares),
and we're beginning to pillow for vim
ter sowing. They were ready to start
their sowing of corn, polly5eeds and
other late crops. Men and women
were busy in the vineyard and the
extensive vegetable garden. Excel
lently equipped shops, including a
sinitly, q wood working shop and q
harness shop, were going full blast.
The colhoz manager, the Soviet
chairman and the secretary OF the
Party nucleus returned from thu
fields, With them came a strapping
young man in high boots and higher
,,,f &c II he -. rrAr@ rxf a
neighboring Jewish colhoz, "Ieor. He
came on an important mission. to
consult with the authorities of Nor
genrot' how "Icor" could beat them
in the race for the better showing
in the spring campaign.
A Socialist Race.
Nov, this may sound as q joke, but
the authorities of "Morgenrot' really
coached their rival how to defeat
them in the race. This is the differ
ence between contests in capitalist
countries and Socialist competition"
in the Soviet Union. 1t is matter
of honor for the competing individu-
els or organizations to help one an
other obtain these results for the
cumulative result of their effort re-
bounds to the benefit OF socialist con-
stslction as a whole.
What is now Soviet collective farm
used to be landowners estate. The
landowner disappeared with the dis
appearance of czarism, but the colhoz
did not come into being before the
recent campaign of collectiyization, A
number of kulaks still exploited the
labor of poor arln-hands when the
tide of collectiUzation reached Nor
genrot." Several of those parasites
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-29
S PA r K S

OVERHEARD in a subway converse
" zion,
What is the function of the
Brain Trust?"
ITO make Blockheads Of us ALL"
Naturally We won't let them get
away with it,
A CONTRIBUTOR sends us the fol-
n lowing;
An epidemic of huge jack rabbits,
called war horses are infesting the
state Of Kansas. An Indian legend
says that they never appear except
when war is brewing and they have
the farmers worried
But the best sign of an approach
ing irnperialistic conflict is the pres
ence Of war horse jack rabbits run
ming around the streets of Washing
ton juggling gold standards and
bleating for naval appropriations,
News item, Seven Octopuses Ar
" rive and Take Up Residence At
the Aquarium.
No you're wrong, they are not
members Of the Roosevelt Cabinet.
Though they very well might be.
THEY'RE fully qualified as blood suck
ers.
THEY have Just erected nice, new
marble monument for the Amer
lean soldiers who were slaughtered at
the Meuse in France during the
World War for Morgan's profits.
That must be q great comfort TO
the living vets, who are now starving,
and who tasted the tear gas fed to
them at Washington not so long ago,
Bullets and marble monuments
that's the program the capitalist gov
ernments have for the vets.
DUT the lessons of the Bonus March
ID have sunk deeply into the con-
seriousness of millions Of young work
ers whom the innperialist wolves are
getting ready for the next slaughter
And these young workers will have
an unpleasant surprise ready for the
finance money lords.
otto KAHN, declared before the
" Senate Finance Committee that he
Is the doctor of the country's rail-
roads.
And how he knows how to bleed
them
And he certainly is expert in the
.Ise Of leeches.
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"The Party Lives" Leading the German Workers

Reprinted from London Daily Worker
I have recently had she opportunity
OF seeing for myself how the Com
munist Party of Germany is working
carrying on its fight to unite the
working class in the struggle against
the fascist terror.
Under the present conditions of
Nazi rule, it goes without saying that
the whole of the Partyis work has to
be carried on Illegally" that is to say,
by secret means, and always in face
of the risk Of arrest and torture at
the hands Of the Nazis.
In spite Of this, one cannot observe
the mass Of papers distributed in the
factories, bulletins distributed in the
streets, leaflets, the illegal Party
newspaper "Rote Fahne,' and scores
of similar secretly printed publica-
tons without understanding that the
Party is alive.
The slogan THE Party Lives" is
to be found chalked and posted on
the walls In factories, in the streets
Of working class quarters and in all
sorts Of unexpected places where the
workers gather.
You pick up a box Of matches, and
inside it you will find a piece of
paper bearing some slogan of the
Communist Party. You pick up a
cigarette card and find stamped upon
it some revolutionary call to the work
erS.
A MESSAGE TO THE WORKERS
Thus in hundred and one ways
the workers of the Party are finding
means Of carrying their message to
the workers.
Here is big block of working class
flats. Suddenly group Of comrades
appc,s In the courtyard Some slo-
gan Is shouted and every window is
opened, A short meeting takes place
1t lasts only few minutes and then
the comrades vanish.
In some other quarter the window
o, a flat is opened and q gramophone
record is heard giving ., short speech.
From another window come the
strains Of the international
As you walk down a street leaf
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Hitler-P Pope Alliance
Sought by Won Papen

ROME, June 28-It was stated au-
thoritatively today chat Chan
cellor Franz Won Papen of Germany
who is Catholic, is expected in
Rome shortly to conclude a Concor-
dA between the Vatican and the
Hitler regime.
Some of the provisions of the pro-
posed virtual alliance between the
Catholic Church and the Nazis are
expected to be the following: Priests
will have civil rights to perform mar
riage ceremonies, Catholic ecclesias-
tics will be accorded the honors due
their rank" youth organizations will
be controlled by the Nazi state but
their religious activities will be a
matter for the religious authorities
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c. E. R. SALE TALKS
OPENED AT TOXIC
U.S.S.R. Renounces
Czarist Policy of
Conquest

TOXIC, June 28-Count Uchida
Japanese Foreign Minister, opened
Yesterday the three-sided negotia-
lions here for the sale of the Chi
nese Eastern Railway by the Soviet
Union to Manchukuo.
Ostensibly, the Japanese delegates
are acting in an advisory capacity in
the negotiations for sale of the 1000
mile railway; actually, Japan will die
tate ManchukuoS part Of the bar
gaining, which is expected by all
concerned to be long drawn out.
Ambassador Konstantin Yurenev,
head of the Soviet delegation, pointed
out that the Chinese Eastern had
been built by Czarist Russia as a
means Of conquest, but that the
revolution of 1917 had changed the
aims Of Russian policy, and the So
Wet Government had always looked
on the railway as a commercial en-
terprise and was concerned only to
safeguard its material interests. Yu-
renew declared that friendly relations
with Japan formed a fundamental
part of Soviet foreign policy.
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zation in Germany, that 1t is working
from it's Central Committee through
it's local and district organizations
and cells ensures that in the coming
months there will be great mass
struggles. Every day sees an improve
ment in the work of the Communist
Party. More and more leaflets and
newspapers are being produced.
To handle some OF these, as I have
done, dirty and begrimed as they
have passed from hand to hand in
factory and street, is to be assured
that the Communist Party of Ger
many is setting glorious example
to all brother parties of the Com
munist international.
Soon it will be able to lead the way
forward for the great counter attack
by the German WORKING -class i san
the Fascist dictatorship, when the
German working class will give Q
final answer to Hitler and all his
promises.
Is the work of the Communist Party
bearing fruits? Within the last six
"CChso 4Oo SIllhCo nave ACTUALLY UeSIl
recorded in Germany In many cases
they were small strikes-but from
these small beginnings will come big
ger strikes and wider struggles.
The Hitler Government has sup
pressed the trade unions. But the
Communist Party calls upon the
workers, by its leaflets, papers and
factory cell meetings to rally to the
trade unions. 1t calls upon the un-
organized workers to join the unions.
This call is meeting with great
response. 1t is leading to strength
ening of the Revolutionary Trade
Union Opposition, and thus increas-
ing the workers power to fight in
the factories against the Nazi tyr
amy.
In the factortes the Communists
find many differe1t ways of carrying
on their worf. One simple method
is TO demand that the management
put into operation the promises
which have been made by the Fascist
government,
This form Of autatsnn has become
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inspect the brigades, see If the ma
chimes work. right, check up on the
quality of the work and on the area
covered.
The Pig Farm.
The hour of waiting. for the
bosses we spent in inspecting the
dairy farm and the pig farm Of the
colhoz. A chippery old man, the ag
ricultural expert of the colhoz, soon
Joined us and showed us through the
place.
The pigsty Of 'Morgenrot" was
very clean and smelled of silo and
disinfectants. With great pride the
old agriculturist pointed out the pedi-
greed boars and the pure stock OBJ
tanned through couple of years of
careful breeding. The cowbarn was
lust as clean and Well-kept. Two
monstrous bulls were kept chained in
a separate she'd What do you think
of these boys?' the old man eX
claimed lovingly. They were born
and raised here-purest blood"
The old agriculturist was Ukrain-
ian l learned later that he was a
scientist Of standing. Some of the
leading experts of the Agricultural
Institute at Leningrad were among
his former pupils. He was the direc-
tor of local agricultural school and
was at the same time advising the
"Morgenrot" farmers in the matter
of scientific farming.
Old Shackles Broken.
This old scientist had the enthusi-
asm and buoyancy OF Comsomoletz
young Communist. Under the old
order he Used to advise landowners
and czarist officials on various agra
rian matters. His advanced ideas
were scoffed at and his suggestions
for improvement viewed with distrust
and suspicion--the distrtst and sus-
picion Of the ignorant Under the
Soviet regime he has every onpor-
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the effect that Roosevelt, before the
conference, hailed it as step to-
ward recovery" and then from the
beginning instructed the American
delegates to declare a world trade
war
German Financial Crisis Near
A further factor deepening the
world economic crisis is the fact that
Germany is on the eve of a f1nan-
cisl catastrophe. DR.. H ia m e r
Schacht, head of the Reichsbank.
admitted that Germany would not
be able to meet payments on the
Dawes and Young Plan loans and
the long term credits chiefly held by
the United States. Unless Wall Street
is able TO pump more money into
Germany, that country will default
even on its private loans.
Dollar Lowest in History
The instability of currencies thru
out the world was further accentu-
ated today by the dollar sinking to
the lowest level for all time 1t was
below n cents in relation to the
franc, which is now the leading gold
currency of the world but tottering
to a fan The rapid decline of the
dollar creates greater difficulties as
far as any attempt to come to the
rescue of fascist Germany is con-
cerned.
Motley Boasts of Recovery"
Prof. Raymond Moley, assistant
sec'y of state in the, Roosevelt admi-
nistration, gave out a short state
ment to the press today in which
he said, the recovery of the Uni
ted States is encouraging and genu-
inc rather than purely inflationary"
This is seen as an attempt to win
support for American policy on the
part of the smaller nations and to
strengthen the hand of the American
delegation in striving to conclude
trade and preferential tariff pactS
with Latin American countries
He also made public gesture TO
try to persuade the delegates of
other countries that he is not in
London to supersede Secretary of
State Cordell Hull At the press
conference Hull introduced Moley as
"one of our most able and forward
looking citizens Moley twice re-
ferred TO Hull as my chief This
gesture is recognized as intended to
reassure delegates of those countries
with whom Hull has been carrying
on intrigues to try to win support for
the policy of American imperialist
aggression.
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y
ditional burdens upon the toilin,
masses, already enduring the lowest
standards of life in the history of
capitalism.
Macdonald Hastens Fall of Franc
Until late last night France tried
70 postpone for a while longer the
abandonment Of the gold standard,
Seeking to take advantage of the
Intensified conflict between the Uni
tee States and Great Britain in their
worldwide economic war, the French
finance minister, Georges Bonnet.
appealed to the British prime min
lister, Ramsay Macdonald. to peg the
pound in relation to the franc in
order to support the latter currency.
Bonnet, in telephone conversation
NTH Premier Daladier of France,
stated that hope of British aid had
been abandoned 1t was then that
the announcement was made from
Paris that it is only q question of
time wher France will have to go
of the gold standard and devalortze
Its currency.
Report Action of Bankers
The American news agency, the
United Press, however, reported that
it had information from source
close. to the Bank of England" that
such an agreement had been reached
with Bank Of France representatives.
This story is unconfirmed by any
one, Even if true, it is certain that
such a move can only temporarily
stave off the inevitable fall of the
franc, taking with it the last of the
gold currencies.
Press Assails U. S. Hypocrisy
The whole French press and a
considerable section of the European
press engages in caustic attacks to
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FURLOUGH NAVY
YARD WORKERS
WITHOUT WAGES
Places to Be Taken by
$50 a Month Workers
Under 'NeW Deal"
AAE<g

WASHINGTON. June 28.-Secre-
tary of Navy Swanson announced to-
day he had ordered approximately
800 employees of naval yards and
stations to be placed on furlough
without pay until Sept. 30 Attempts
will then be made to speed up those
still working in an effort to perman-
entity eliminate those furloughed.
Many workers in the yards who have
been receiving from $3.50 to $225 a
month, will be replaced by workers
recruited from the unemployed who
will get $50 month, the standard set
for forced labor by the Roosevelt new
deal"
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into a fighting union and is taking
an active part in organizing it.
bongshorenen are not footloose
like seamen. For longshoremen to
make the trip by road or freight
from Portland, Olympia and Everett
to Seattle shows the strength of the
union idea among these men who
for ten years past have been saddled
with the Fink Hall system of com
peny unions.
Fishermen Too.
Another significant feature of the
conference was the presence of sew
eral delegates from the fishermen OF
the Columbia River and Puget Sound
where q strike was fought to a sue
cessful conclusion during the last two
months.
Prior to the conference. M.WI.u.
organizers held meetings with long
shore and seamen's groups in all the
Northwest ports. The marine work
ers showed by their enthusiasm that
they mean business in building the
union.
The conference in Seattle elected
delegates to the Second National
Convention of the M.WI.U., to be
held in New York July is to 1S.
Besides this. delegates will come
to the convention from several long
shore groups and ship crews, as well
as from the port organizations of the
Northwest.
For Day-to-D Day Demands.
The conference also worked out a
plan OF work for the Northwest. The
delegates will go home to build united
front committees and groups on ali
docks and ships and in the Fink Halls,
irrespective of afflliation, to develop
struggle around the day-to-day de-
mands of the workers.
A great deal of emphasis was laid
on the solidarity of the longshore-
men and seamen in the Seattle con-
ference, for the first time uniting the
demands and struggles of the two
marine workers groups in the North
west.
The conference called a mass con-
ference for the fall where the pro-
gram of the National Convention of
the M.WIU. will be taken up and
efforts extended to build fighting
of the marine workers
cf the Northwest
A similar conference for Southern
5orts Of the Pacific Coast was held
4. San Francisco on june 5sth.
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BY NATHANIEL BUCHWALD
DAILY Worker Correspondent


MOSCOW.-At the District Soviet
in EvpatOria obtained list Of col
hozes in the neighborhood which in
cluded good bad and indifferent
ones. Topping the list was the Ger
man collective farm "Morgenrot'
cDawn'D. The District Agricultural
Director happened to be going that
way. so he offe@s1 me a lift in his
battered old DodE.
We had the road all to our
selves, except for an occasional truck
laden with gasoline for the tractors
or with seeds for the sowing brigades
working in the neighborhood.
In striking contrast to these fast
and furious trucks was a hay Wagon
drawn by q pair of oxen. Perched
on top of the hayload was young
girl of Monaghan appearance. She
leaned her elbows on the hay, resting
her head in her hands and gazing
into the steppe. apparently lust as
unnindftll of the oxen as the oxen
were unmindful of her.
This idyllic picture struck me as
being out of step with tine times, but
the Agricultural Director of the Ev-
patoria District was rather in favor
of oxen, preferring them to horses
for heavy hauling along bad roads.
Live draught- power he explained,
was indispensable on large farm,
even if the basic processes of cultiya
ton are fully mechanical. and oxen
can stand the parching heat better
than horses.
Busy In the Fields.
The "Morgenrot" colhoz is also the
seat of the local rural Soviet. Both
at the office of the Colhoz admins
tration and at the Soviet we found
only clerk or two at work. The
manager Of "Morgenrot" and tbs
chairman Of the Soviet we're both
away. The secretary of the Party
nucleus was also out.
They we're "out in the steppe,' we
were told, and would probably return
for lunch in an hour or so. The
Agricultural Director beamed with
approval When the leaders are out
in the field instead of staying at the
office, it is sign of good work, good
leadership good colhoz. This was
no ordinary time, he pointed out, it
was spring sowing when every day
counts and every hectare won in the
race with the weather means q better
crop. There are a thousand and one
things to attend to during the spring
sowing. and a good "1ozyain' (boss,
manager should be out in the fields,