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The daily worker., 1933-02-14
NTL WOMENS' DAY
MARCH Sth
MARCH Sth
FROM THE LIPS OF
A SOVIET WOMAN
Former "Beggar' Now
Leader at "Stalin"

Golovinka, woman worker, is now
night director of the food depart
ment in the stain" automobile
works in the U.S.S.R., taking lead
ing part in the work OF building a
Socialist society. But, it was differ
ent before the Revolution which over
threw the oppressive power OF the
Car and the capitalist.
Golovkina'S story will inspire wo-
men in this country to rally behind
the International Women's Day on
March 9th, for the fight against
hunger and war. Golovkina speaks
This was in Moscow, near the
Brutitzky barracks, before the revo-
i lion. A barricade of live bodies.
II remember the day when l
hyed at home with sick child, and
waited long time for my husband,
I heard the door go in the passage.
The hinges squeaked ominously. A
"domiciliary search by the Cars
police was my first thuoght but
through the open door I could see
the backs of workmen carrying some
thing heavy. Then I saw feet, with
out boots, with bloody, swollen
stripes. l do not remember how /
forced my way to my husband
He is still alive heard them
say-'take heart Since then his
health failed. He didn't live long.
Then I had to beg food for my family
and myself in order to live"
She brushed away tear that was
dilnming her eyes. Golovkina was
overcome by her emotions. The
veins on her forehead Redeemed and
swelled. But soon her eyes were
shining again:
I'm october, we removed the mas
ters' from the au4o"'obile works.
"Mcsters of Our Own.'
"Aftcr that we were the m" sters Of
tie works. Now we cannot find the
v even in our own hcme: so much
b Is been built that 1t has become un-
:, tcTrizable. Where the grove and
the lakes were. big workshops stand
nov and one hears the sound of ma
chinery."
The room where Golovkina was re-
collecting the old trying years, was
suddenly invaded by her grand
daughter, reminding us of the new
life.
Il live here with my daughter
vent on Golovkina--"andw when re-
call the old hovel, I can hardly be-
lieve that I live in large house"
A light and sunny room. Under
.ha ceiling cut glass chandelier, a
handsome sofa. A sideboard ward
-obe. And in this large room lives
Matrema Golovkina who formerly
The daily worker., 1933-02-14
Vital Steps for
Mooney Defense

1.-Immediately send resolutions
addressed to Judge Ward, Superior
Court, Hall of Justice, San Fran
cisco, with copies TO Matthew
Brady, Dist. Atty, 1888 Kearny St.,
san Francisco, and James Rolph,
Jr., Sacramento California, de-
manding a new trial for Tom Moo.
ney, and that he be brought to
court personally to argue the mo-
tion for new trial at the hearing
before Judge Ward on March 25th.
2.-Secure the endorsement Of
the Tom Mooney Congress to be
held in Chicago, April 30th, to
May 2nd, 1888 by your organiza-
tions, insuriDg the election of del
egates and financial support for
the Congress.
3.-Help build a powerful, uni
ted labor front for Tom MONEYS
freedom by aiding every prelim-
mary conference, mass meeting
and other preparatory arrange
ments for the Congress.
The daily worker., 1933-02-14

Mooney and that he be brought to
the hearing where the motion for
new trial Will be heard are being
made, from one end Of the country to
the other.
Hand in hand with the efforts for
a new trial, preparations for the Free
Tom Mooney Congress, to be held in
Chicago on April 80, May l and 2, are
being reported from such centers as
San Francisco, New York, Denver and
others.
Giant Meet in Frisco
As the opening gun in the fight ia
free Tom Mooney and calculated to
rally around $4,000 workers, a giant
mass meeting has been arranged at
the Civic Auditorium in San Fran
cisco for March ).
Robert Minor, one OF the veteran
fighters for the release of Tom
Mooney, will speak at the Frisco.
meeting.
Prepare for Congress
In New York q preliminary confer
ence' is scheduled for 10 am, March
IL, at Irving Plaza, Is Irving Place
The Conference call, which has beer
endorsed by a number of trade union
political and other organizations.
urges the election OF two delegates
from each organization, and all pos
dble financial support in preparation
Tor the Mooney Congress.
In Denver, the Conference In prep.
aration for the Congress was begun
with mass meeting which took place
at l947 Stout Street, February 8. Here
plans were presented tor the broadest
possible united labor front in support
OF the Free Tom Mooney Congress.
Similar preparations are being made
in San Francisco and other cities.
All preparations for preliminary
conferences, collection of funds. and
the Chicago Congress itself are being
called under the auspices of the Tom
Mooney Molders Defense Committee.
or else through united front Of vari--
Gus organizations with the approval
of this committee. This committee
has headquarters at P. o. Box I475.
San Francisco, and in the east, Room
1901, 104 Fifth Avenue. New York
City.
Meaning of New Trial
Should the efforts to secure Moon,'
ey's trial on the remaining Indictment
be successful, the entire nonstrous
frame-up Of Mooney and Billings
would be laid bare. The boss courts.
Of California, which framed them
under the cloak of war hysteria,
would be compelled to declare Mooney
innocent.
The daily worker., 1933-02-14

b1lN A4hElo WlAANAA GNAN AAANSAJ w oAONb
the greatest response. The union has
capitalized such negligible issues as
the requirement OF uniforms for driv-
ers prescribed in the code of the Taxi
Board of Control, a requirement.
which was never taken seriously and
which, it was evident from the begin
ming, was not going to be enforced.
The union also made much of the
cab-cleanliness clause, which prom
ised to give considerable power to
unscrupulous cops and hack inspec-
tors.
Firing Is Big Issue.
All the literature of the union
which 1 have SO far seen has failed
to take note of the most serious
grievance under which the taxi driv-
er labors, namely the extreme inse-
curity of his job, the tremendous fir
ing process for low bookings.
Practically all the drivers who are
employed by fleet owners work on a
percentage basis, that is 40 per cent
of receipts. No attempt has been
made by the fleet owners to lower
this basic rate. They have found a
more subtle way of effecting what
amounts to a serious wage cut. By
a widely organized practice of re-
quiring minimum bookings the fleet
owners have succeeded in forcing
down the drivers share OF the re-
ceipts enormously.
1t works as follows: One fleet own
ing concern, the Palace, for example,
requires a minimum of four dollars
per shift. Under present conditions,
to get minimum of four dollars per
Gay, six days per week, is almost an
impossibility. The driver then is con-
fronted with the following situation.
Say that the driver manages to get
only $3.50 on a given night. He then
has two alternatives, one to make up
the $50 out Of his own pocket by
riding the ghost" that is driving an
empty cab with the flag down until
the clock runs up the $150, or Sec
ond, to look for another job the next
DAY, with a possible danger that he
may lose a weeks time before he gets
another cab. In most cases he
chooses to "ride the ghost"
Driver Gets $3.50 or Lower.
This process may repeat itself two
or three times a week and sometimes
more often. The consequence, OF
course, is that the driver is not get
ting 40 per cent. 1t will more nearly
be 25 per cent or even lower.
In some instances the driver is
plainly told that if he wants to get
a car the following day he better go
The daily worker., 1933-02-14
Bakery Workers Raise
S11.60 for The Daily

NEW YORK.--At a membership
meeting Saturday, despite the rule
of no collections to be made at such
meetings. 80 of the workers present
Of the Independent Italian Local,
Bakery Workers Industrial Union,
gave $1l.60 for the Daily Worker
Emergency Fund
I'VE cannot risk the calamity Of
losing the only English language
daily which helps us in our struggles
against wage-cuts and the general
worsening Of conditions in the bak-
cry trade" they declared I'VE call
upon all other union locals to help
save the Dailv'"
The daily worker., 1933-02-14
Big Drop in Saturday Total
Rush All Funds to Daily Noav
Only 1926 Received; Districts Silent; Signs
of Life in Connecticut, Philadelphia

Donations to the Daily Worker
drive have dropped successfully in
three days from $394.40 on Thursday
to S26413 on Friday to only $226.51
on Saturday! And this despite the
ever-growing danger that threatens
the "Dailys" life unless funds are
Immediately forthcoming!
Eight districts did not contribute
a cent to the drive on Friday: Boston
(which is steadily falling behind in
the rating), Cleveland, Kansas City,
the Dakotas, New Jersey (Which is
far behind, Alabama, Florida, Mil
waukee and Colorado. OF the
districts that did contribute, New
York fell to $164.S4 from $20s.43 the
The daily worker., 1933-02-14
Qation>W Wide Demand Made For A New Mooney Tria
International
Notes
SOCIALIST THEORY IN THE CAP
ITALIST CRISIS
Bu ROBERT HAMILTON


Here in American we have been
treated to Norman T'homass expo
zition Of the Socialists cure for the
capitalist crisis, outlined in his "The
Way Out" and "As I See It." But
Thomas himself would not claim that
he speaks with authority as an eco
nomist or a socialist theoretician.
There are, however, noted Socialist
theoreticians in Europe Especially in
Germany, the country where Social
ist theory originated who have given
the Socialist analysis Of the crisis
and Of the Socialist way out. Quota
lions from their remarks make
astounding reading.
<Tarnow, vice president Of the Ger
ian Federation Of Labor and member
81 the Central Council of the Ger
man Socialist Party, stated at the
Leipzig Convention of that party:
~We must be the doctors of sick cap
ttahsm." In other words, farewell
the revolutionary class-struggle OF
lark, with the Socialists competing
nth the owen D. Young and hour-
;aois professors of economics in cur
ing the ills OF a diseased social or
der without substituting new order.
Hilferding, the most eminent So
cialist Party theoretician in the world
today, at the 1927 Convention OF the
German Socialist Party in Kiel, said
Organized capitalism actually
signifies the basic substitution of
the Socialist principles Of planned
production for the capitalist prjn-
ciple of free competition"
That is, the organized capitalism
of the age of huge monopolies like
Dupont, General Electric and the
German Dye Trust is already social
iStic. and renders unnecessary the
revolutionary overthrow of the capi-
talist system; See. we have Social
ism already-hasn't free competition
been eliminated by the organized cap
'taliSm Of the big trustsi"
In the meantime, the tremendous
crisis of the capitalist system has
shot all these pretty theories full of
oleS. But that does not hinder Lei
art, the president Of the German
ederation of Labor and prominent
Socialist, from saying that:
I'VE as trade unions have no
right. nor even the possibility to
overthrow cabinet, say. We must
work together with every cabinet,
even when it does not possess our
confidence"
After nearly four years of world
depression, with capitalist society
wholly incapable of finding a way
out OF the crisis, the Socialists car
suggest nothing better than collabor-
ating Through the unions) with the
reactionary fascist government Of
Germany today.
And, in conclusion, let us not for
get that these are Socialists at the
head of a giant labor movement, with
vast power, who have already tasted
the sweet fruits" of governmental
office. Like Hoan in Milwaukee and
the Socialist Party in Reading, Pa,
they indicate that the closer the So
cialist Party goes to the seat of power
the lower it let's fall its vail of rad
icalism' and the more unabashedly
do the Socialist leaders come forward
the pillars of fascist reaction.
The daily worker., 1933-02-14
Reveals us. Troop
VI o V e m e n t S to
t h e f ar E a s t
(By a Worker Correspondents

by Worker Correspondent.J
BALTIMORE, Md.-Don't be
fooled by the bosses that there is
no war brewing. Troops are on
the move all over the U.S.A. Only
few days ago the artillery, eight
corps, left Fl. Meyers, Va. for
Kansas City via motor. All horses
were left at Ft. Meyers and the
whole corps was motorized and the
batteries were in full strength.
There are about 1000 men and
officers in a corps. They take
trains at X. c. to the coast, some
place in or near Vallejo, California
to embark for the Far East.
COmradely, -B.M.A.
The daily worker., 1933-02-14
TOXIC INSISTS ON
ITS CHINA LOOT
Refuses Equal Share
to Other Bandits

GENEVA. Feb. 13.-The Japanese
Government bluntly rejected today
the bid of its imperialist rivals, made
through the peace" machinery of
the robber League OF Nations, for an
equal share in the looting and ex-
ploitation Of Manchuria. The League 5
proposal called for international con-
troll by world Imperialism of the pup
pet state set up by japanese bayonets
in Manchuria. The proposal was
first put forward several months
ago by the imperialist Lytton Com
mission. The increasing antagon-
isms between the imperialist powers
was further emphasized today by a
sharp slump in the shares of leading
Japanese stocks, which fell to is
points.
Threat to Leave League
Japan's rejection Of the proposal is
accompanied by a threat to withdraw
from the League, and to completely
slam the door Of Manchuria in the
face of the other imperialist powers.
At the same time Japan attempts to
make a bargain with the other pow
ers by offering trade concessions in
NIanchuria in exchange for recogni-
ton Of Japans paramount position"
in the territory.
Revive Old Lie
japanese imperialism also mace
an additional attempt to overcome
the bitter imperialist antagonisnls by
broadcasting again the canard OF a
secret military alliance" between the
Soviet Union and China. 1t also en-
phasized its role of imperialist police
The daily worker., 1933-02-14
TEA PARTY RAISES s5

NEW YORK.-At a tea party given
by Comrade Greenwald, attended for
the greatest part by members of the
International Workers Order School
Is, SIS was raised for the Daily Work
er. This group calls on other TWO.
schools to follow its example.
The daily worker., 1933-02-14

day before; Philadelphia increased
its funds slightly by sending in
$l8.28; Connecticut returned to the
quota race by sending in $1,000.
Chicago managed to scrape to-
gether SO!
Where is that pickup in funds that
all the districts have promised2 Dig
down, organizationally and individu-
The daily worker., 1933-02-14
MASS MOONEY
CONGRESS FOR
CHICAGO APR. 80.
Minor at Frisco Tom
Mooney Meet March 5;
Denver, N. Y. Active

NATIONWIDE MASS MOONEY TC1
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. 49,
On request made by his attorneys
Tom Mooney has won postponement
of the hearing for a new trial This
hearing was originally scheduled tC
take place on February II, but ha
now been definitely set for March q
Demands for a new trial on the ono
remaining indictment against Ton
The daily worker., 1933-02-14

I6.1ii,0OO

The 1854 900 iobless are about AZ
per cent of the $1,000 coo wage-work-
ers in the United States. The larger
total, 16,774 900, including non wage
earners who are now unemployed. is
about "a per cert of the so-called
"gainfullv occupied" population.
With the total absence of business
revival d"rins the past three months,
the number out Of work certainly
cannot be smaller in February than
it was in November, and is probably
larger.
The daily worker., 1933-02-14
URGE SOVIET RECOGNITION

NEW YORK.--A petition urging
recognition OF the Soviet Union by
the U. S. government has been signed
by 430 Protestant clergylnen OF New
York State and forwarded to Presi-
dent-elect oosevelt.
The daily worker., 1933-02-14

Build workers correspondence
group in yoU- factory, shop or
neishborhood. Send regular letter.
TO the Daily Worker.
The daily worker., 1933-02-14
FARM PICkETS IN
MINI. ARRESTED

MARKHAM, MINI, Feb. i3.--
Ten farmers were arrested here today
and held for hearing on charges of
'rioting" in connection with the
fight OF the farmers to force County
Commissioner Koski to accept the
farmers grievance committee which
is demanding the right to distribute
equitably the little county work avail
able.
The st. Louis County Board OF the
United Farmers League today en-
dorsed the demands of the Markham
farmers and called for support for
the demonstration before Koski's Of
fee on February Is at p. m.
Farmers have been picketing the
roads with the view to enforcing their
demands. Farmers and workers are
urged to rush protests at once to Vic
tor Koski, County courthouse, Vir-
ginia, Mimi, demanding the imme-
diate release of the Jailed farm
pickets.
ABERDEEN. S. D., Feb. i3.-Wide-
spread interest is being displayed by
farmers from all all over the State
in the Farmers State Conference to
be held at Pierre on Feb. 20 to %.
Many locals of different farm Or
CARNATIONS have already elected their
delegates. Many others are writing
in to P. o. Box 290 at Aberdeen for
information and delegates creden-
tials preparatory to electing their
delegates.
From The response shown this con-
ference will mark a real step forward
in the determination of the farmers
to come together and work out their
own program of demands for relief.
WESLACO. Texas, Feb. 13.-Farm-
ers Of Hidalgo county-an area al
most as large as the state Of Della
ware have perfected a picketing or
ganization to prevent shipment OF
low priced produce.
Sheriff Gill announced he would
not permit picketing on the roads.
The daily worker., 1933-02-14

N. Y. Cab Drivers Ready
for Organization; Cheated
on Job, Forced to Break Lau,s
Worker Suggests That Union Has Had Wrong
Approach and Emphasis in the Past


repeated vctmzaOn drivers racket
is
the The industrial union existence has failed to
chiefly
The daily worker., 1933-02-14

A crime against the working class
TO permit the Daily Worker to sus-
pcnd. Rush funds today.
The daily worker., 1933-02-14

had to feed her family with pieces OF
bread picked up in the village OF
Kochcukhovo
The daily worker., 1933-02-14
l6,774,OOO ARE
JOBLESS IN j. S.
Careful Els tim a tie of
Labor Research Assn

NEW YOR K.-Nearly 1900 900
men, women and young workers we're
unemployed in the United States in
November, 1882, according to the
latest estimate made by Labor Re
search Association. This number
represents about one-third of all
"gainfully occupied persons. OF all
wage earners about AZ per cent are
jobleSs.
While Business Week, employers
journal estimated 15,250,000 for the
same autumn month and the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor counted only
11,590000, a more complete tabula-
ton reveals 16,774,0O0. OF these
l5,694,000 are wage workers-includ-
ing rank and file office Workers-and
some 1,080,000 are made up Of teach
ers, technicianS, minor executives,
petty traders and farmers families
pushed out by the crisis into the
mass of jobless workers. CW. Green
of the A. F. Of L. has just released
the figure Of more than 100000
unemployed" in January0
Omitted Two Groups.
Business Week has apparently
omitted entirely two important
groups: % the jobless migratory or
transient workers and others not
counted at all in the 1880 census;
and 90 the increase of population
during the past two years, which
added at least a million young work.
erS to the total number seeking jobs.
The Unemployment Census of April,
1880, is an important part of any
careful estimate-supplemented by
employment index figures published
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and
the Department of Agriculture, and
employment figures published by the
Bureau OF Mines, Interstate Com
merce Commission and in the Census
of Manufactures. Uncritical accept
ance of the Unemployment Census
therefore leads to understatement OF
the problem. What are the facts?
The unemployment figures gath
cred as a part of the federal census
of April, 1880, were recognized at the
time as incomplete. Uncounted tens
of thousands of jobless migratory or
homeless workers were overlooked en-
tirely. Uncounted persons inter-
viewed by the enumerators we're not
asked for information on employ
ment. Before the crash of October,
1929, several widely accepted esti-
mates had shown from 3,5O0050 to
100000 persons out of work during
years OF relative prosperity. But the
unemployment census showed only
3,700 900 out of work six months after
the crash. The Labor Research AS
sociation believes it is reasonable to
add at least 100000 jobless to bring
the basic total number already un-
employed in April, 1890, up to 4,500,-
coo. This addition (800,00O) is in
clCGeo in the following table in the
figure given as Industry not speci-
fled"
Estimate OF Unemployed, November, 1882
The daily worker., 1933-02-14

ally, and send in those funds with
out which the Daily Worker will not
be able to continue to exist!
The daily worker., 1933-02-14

The old hag with the U. S. A..
flag pinned into her brain, a dis
tinguished member Of the Daugh-
ters of the Amer, can Revolution,
has got the jitters, and she's got
1t bad! The mere sight of the
Daily Worker on a newsstand Is
enough to give her a At. She knows
that 1t is the voice Of the work
ingclass. which will chuck her and
her class out Of the picture. Sup
port the Daily Worker!
The daily worker., 1933-02-14

tAbove) What the bOs-
ses themselves say about
the lot of children under
capitalism.
Below a boss paper
makes an admission on
the conditions of children
in the U. S. S. r.
Evening star., 1933-09-16
BUILDING COSTS RISE
Index Figure on Wholesale Ma
terials, S1.4 From 81.

The index figure on wholesale costs
of building materials advanced to 81.4
from 81 during the week of September
2 to 9. according to the Bureau of La
Dor Statistics. Department of Labor.
The figure is based on the 1926 average
of 100.
Important groups showing advances
during the week were fuel and lighting
materials. metals and metal products
and house furnishings goods, increases
ranging from approximately qpe-tenth
of l per cent to per cent.
Evening star., 1933-09-16
S75,7OO ARLINGTON
REALTY TRANSFERRED
Insurance Company Statistics for
County Cover First Half of
September.

Real estate transfers in Arlington
County during the first half Of Sep
tember had total valuation of SIS, 700,
according to statistics compiled by the
Virginia Title Insurance Co. Of Clar-
endon.
Twenty sales transfers were recorded,
ranging between Sl.500 and $4,000 in
considerations. They included the fol-
lowing:
Ida Turner. ct vir. to Eva Harris
$4,000; Mamie w. Garrett. ct vir. to
Bernard E. Garrett. $4,000; Edward
Pape. ct ux. to Arthur H. Surprise,
81 900; Henry Hit. ct ux, to w. j. c.
Harris. $4,000; Minnie J. Jones, ct vir,
to Cora B. Shipley. $4,000; James Sher-
rier. ct al. to Stella Maddox, $1,000;
James B. Lockwood, ct ux. to George
w. Gallaher. $4,000: Elisha P. Taylor
ct vir, to Charles G. Schott, $4,000;
Raymond Robertson, ct ux. to George
H. Suddath. s3,700; Fred A. Gosnell,
ct ux. to NJ A. Secrist, $4,000; Lyon
g. Fitch. Inc. to Mary c. C. Jones,
$500: Lyon &, Fitch. Inc. to Herman
C. Jones, S. 1000; John B. Williams. ct
ux to A. Smith, $4,000: Clyde H.
Brumback, to A. G. Nyquist, 4.300;
Charles H. King, ct ux. to L. c. Strider,
So ,0GO; Loudon Loan & Title Co., to
Frank H. Allen, $4,000; Charlotte M
Smith, ct vir. to Everett C. Culp,
$4,000; Lloyd Bohannon. Inc, to Helen
S. Anderson. $4,000; Fannie D. Chase,
ct vir, to j. Lee Price, $4,000, and Gar
field Manor Corporation, 10 Beulah T.
Ostendorph, $4,000.