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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28
Auto Worker In US. S. r.
Creets American Workers

and almost Immediately afterwards
was blacklisted throughout Moscow
Province. Lisenkov was sixteen at
that time.
After many hardships he found
himself in Petersburg Oeningrad
and through the aid of friendly
workers obtained a job in a NUM-
ton plant.
when the war broke out" he
said the workers, under the leader
ship Of the Bolshiviks, decided to
strike for higher wages. After a
bloody demonstration in which the
police and Kossaks were called in
to beat up the workers, the bosses
found that they were up against
it. They finally mad to give in and
raise our wages
I asked Lisenkov whether he took
part in the October Revolution.
YES" he replied I took some
part in it, but the Bolsheviks were
the ones who did the real fighting
was not and am not. Party
member but I have undying ad-
miration for the Bolsheviks - we
workers have them to be thankful
to for our liberty"
/ ISENKOV explained that the
Il trade union Immediately after
! the Revolution played a tremendous
role. They with the aid of the
Bolsheviks helped to drive out the
social democrats and reformist
leaders. They reorganized produc-
ton in the factories and the dis
tribution of products. They helped
to select the best workers for the
Red Army.
In January, 1918, Lisenkov re-
turned to Moscow where he worked
in the A. NJ o. plant. At that
time there we're only 500 workers
there and the plant was terribly
disorganized.
Thanks to the trade union coun-
Gil, under the leadership of the
Bolsheviks, we succeeded in reor-
ganizing things at the plant" he
said. ITO solve the problem of
food we established a collective
farm right on this spot where these
new buildings are now" he swept
his hand out toward a nearby block
of apartment houses built by the
factory for the workers
Until 1925 the A. M. o. plant pro-
duced only agricultural machinery.
The year before approximately 70
automobile workers who were de-
ported from America came to work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28
Formerly Employed At
Ford Automobile Plant
In Detroit
By 7. ANTONOFF

The writer of this letter was a
former worker in the Ford Auto
mobile Plant in Detroit. Because
Of his labor activities among the
automobile workers in that city
he was deported last year. In
the following letter he gives an
account of a visit to the family of
a Soviet automobile worker en-
] ployed in the giant Stain "A. NJ.
o. Automobile Plant, in Moscow.
BECAUSE my father could not
" support his family on seven
rubles a month, was turned over
to the tsar's army when I was only
seven years old" said Lisenkov.
worker in the Stain GA. M. o.
Auto Plant, in Moscow, when 1
visited him.
Il was not allowed to see my fam
lily for three years." he continued,
"and it was only once, when I be-
came very sick, that my father was
permitted to visit me.
I'm 1903, when I was only four
teen, I was sent to the Russo-Jap-
anese War, all the way out to Via
divostok, and was not even per-
mitted to tell my family that I was
going away. All the fellows, how
ever, under nineteen years of age
we're sent back to Moscow shortly
after we arrived in the East"
Lisenkov's face was grim when he
related how upon his return home
he learned that his two sisters had
persisted from starvation and how
his mother was worn and sick from
undernourishment. He Immediately
sought work and soon, through the
aid of friends, obtained a job in
g. foundry owned by some German
capitalists. He worked there day
after day, ten hours each day, for
six months-his pay was 20 kopeks
q day.
Joined Political Circle
Some time later, while working
in a machine shop for five rubles
a month, he joined a group of work
ers in a political circle Gllegal, of
course) where they studied Marx
and Engels. Eventually the work
ers decided to demand ruble raise
and Lisenkov was elected spokes-
man. AS soon as he presented his
demands to the boss he was fired
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28
Marshals, Captains
To Receive Final Nav
Day Instruct'ns TODAY

All organizations affiliated to the
United Front May Day Conference
are again reminded to make sure
that their grand marshalls, mar
shalls and captains attend a meet
ing for final instructions on parade
arrangements on Saturday, April
28th, l D. M, at the Workers Center.
End floor.
All marshalls' and captains
badges and sashes will be given out
at this meeting. T.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28
SOVIET GOVERNMENT
100 Gold Bonds
YOUR MONEY IS SAFE

These bonds backed by all the tremendous the
entire wealth and the good faith of the Soviet Union They
the bonds of nation which has had steady economic advance
the face of worldwide depression Furthermore the Soviet
Union has scrupuousy every obligation throughout the
sixteen of its existence This record has convinced the
integrity
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28

want to keep money safe place. to receive
good return and yet have it readily available then
should put your money into
Askov American., 1934-05-10
BEEVES REACH
EIGHT DOLLARS
Highest Since Summer of 1932-SOme.
thing Strictly Choice QuOtable
Higher; Hogs Hold Steady Few
Up to $3.50; Lambs Slow.

(By y. S. Bureau of Agricultural Eco
nonlics and Minnesota Department OF
ASrlculture.)
South ST. Paul. Minn., May z, 1884:
Some good long yearling steers sold
up to $500 at this weeks opening
or a new high point here since July
1892. Strictly choice long-fed med
iumweight and heavy beeves are quot
able considerably above that figure.
Odd lots of medium to good 100 to
1900 pound steers sold at $3.50 to
$500, desirable $50 to 900 pound year
lings $500 to $500, best $3.50, COM
mon to medium kinds $4.00 to S5.35.
Odd head of heifers ranged from $500
to S5.25, choice being salable up to
$500 and above. Low cutters and
cutters bulked at $3.50 to $3.50, beef
cows S2.75 to S4.35. Common to med
ium bulls earned S2.4O to $3.50. Bet
ter grade vealers bulked at $500 to
$3.50. few $500, inbetween and low
er grades $500 to $3.50. Medium to
good feeder steers sold at 1915 to
S4.S5, common stOckers $2.75 to $3.50.
Hogs held steady, few choice med
iumweights reaching $3.50, bulk bet
ter 10 to 26O pounds $3.35 to $3.45,
heavier weights and medium to good
grade lightweights $500 to $3.35,
most sows $2.65 to $3.50, better light
lights $500 to $3.40, pigs mostly $500
to $2.75.
Lamb trade opened slowly and
mostly steady. One deck of clipped
lambs sold at SS.75, some held around
$500, a part deck of fed wooled lambs
being bid $500. with best spring
lambs held around $10.5O. Fat wooled
ewes sold from $500 down, better
shorn ewes $500 to S4.OO.
Askov American., 1934-05-10
TARIFF AND HOME MARKET

1t is good to be we'll balanced and
to have a sense of proportions. That
in other words means understanding
In this connection the we'll edited
newspaper, Labor, at Washington, car
ried an editorial this week on the
pending tariff legislation. 1t was
given its proper place-no more nc
less.
The editorial is headed Don't For
get the Home Market" and calls at
tention to the fact that the remedy
for hard times is to be found in Amer
lea and not abroad; buying power is
more important than tariffs. Labor
goes on:
1.-The American people will hear a
lot about the tariff in the next few
weeks. The bill giving the President
power to negotiate tariff changes with
foreign nations is coming before the
Senate and the flood gates OF par
tisan oratory are to be opened. Re-
publicans will tell us the country is
about to be ruined and Democrats
will insist that the President will
make trades which will fabulously
increase our foreign trade.
LABOR does not share either
view. The President of the United
States will not use his tariff power
TO ruin American industries or throw
American workers out of jobs. But
LABOR fears that in seeking foreign
markets. we may neglect the market
at home.
Roughly SO per cent of all that
we produce in this country Is sold
i'm this country-if sold at all. only
about One-fOurteenth of our output, or
: per cent, goes abroad. With these
figures in mind, it is easy to see that
a 10 per cent increase in buying power
at home would be worth more to our
producers than 100 per cent increase
in our exports. That is just plain
arithmetic.
"The development of buying power
at home is in our own hands. NO
treaties or negotiations are needed.
Raise wages, shorten hours; put men
to work and give them money with
which to buy things, and that PROB.
lem Is solved. But foreign markets
are guarded by barbed wire entangle-
ments of tariffs, regulations and sub
sides difficult to get through, ana
with nothing on the other side as rich
as the possible market within our
own door.
LABOR does not decry foreign
trade. The more we get OF it-on
fair terms-the better. But LABOh
knows that foreign markets alone Will
not bring prosperity; and it knows
that many of those who shout for
foreign trade are blocking economic
reforms at home
Askov American., 1934-05-10
SEN. ROCKNE FOOL OR KNAVE
(MIDLAND CO.OPERATOR)


claims of
group cooperation spirit fairness
does follow that should not and show political
The recently broad
the radio which attacking the platform the
someone explain the coop+
eraive enterprises corporation with hundred stock
the leader Republican ranks does
regarding
should know we have special laws relating to
the between and then MS
The senator NAV take either horn of the dilemma he chooses we care
who
the difference bonahde and corporations
the cooperative and the corporation as follows:
~ The Cooperative - The Corporation.
Organized people, Organized capital
members at cost public profit
METHODS
people it. trol of
a all the profits
interest the S the
ant of the people. B. Profits distributed among
Surplus savings distributed the stockholders proportion to
members their holdings Money receives
their patronage The people re- the benefits.
ceive the benefits
RESULTS is centered in the posses
Human Rights Property Rights.
Coraors ask special favo from political from
They the kind the hands of those
public office and those who aspire public office That reason
As evidence Of fair dealing on the part part Of poiea, parties ties toward
furnished inspiration for his
CONSUMERS cooPERATvEs powers government
allow freely organize cooperative basis unre
This plank eminently that
Grafton would be likely to fare rather badly The Least one
inexcuable of the old guard political
public office like Rockne
the question he
Askov American., 1934-05-10

we have had the form of a New Deal
but the substance of the Old Deal.
That is why the President and Con-
gress must go even further to the
Left-not in theory but in practice
unless the new pace of concentration
of riches is to land Us again in the
mire.
The Wirts and the Rands and the
other baiters of the President stand
confounded.
The same men of money who con.
trOIled the bulk of the nations wealth
i'm 1929, who controlled still more or
it in 1888, are possessed Of more yet
I'm 1894.
1t shows why the Administration
must change it's money policy and re-
distribute purchasing power by Great
ing new credit for the millions on
the short end of our economic norm
of plenty.
The New Deal Is still hamstrung
by the Old Deals ''queer" deck.
Askov American., 1934-05-10
GOOD CRITICISM BUILDS

A candidate for office tried to take
a person to task for criticising the
methods or policies of a church, Civ
ing as his reason that the critic was
not member of the church and
therefore had no right to criticise.
Later the candidate was criticising
the opposite political party and then
the church critic asked him: What
right have you to criticise a political
party of which you are not a member,
any more than l may criticise a
church denomination of which l am
not a member?
The fact remains that criticism is
good and builds when the critic knows
what he is talking about, when he is
grounded, and especially when the
criticism offers improvement. A
good word at the right time is tact
full and helpful. but the fellow who
agrees, pats on the back, and is al
ways willing to leave well enough
alone is not the fellow who makes
for progress and betterment.
Askov American., 1934-05-10
BLOOD ON THE COAL
Tahnr~\

There is more blood on the coal
was last-72 lives have been crushed
out in the coal mines of that state
during the first three months Of 1884
as compared to 4S in the same period
a year ago. OF these deaths, Al, more
than half the total, were due to falls
of coal or slate from the roofs of
workings.
The large majority of all such
deaths are needless. George A. Laugh
lin, West Virginia capitalist and
newspaper owner, has been conduct
ing a self financed crusade for years
to bring safety to the coal mines of
that state. His repeated call is for
more ppsts." If there are posts
enough under the roof, it will not fall.
Ohio has tried it; the timbering of
mines there is controlled by the dis
trict mine inspector not by the 1nd1-
vidual mine boss, and the result has
been a marked lessening of fatal ac-
cidents.
Laughlin tried to get similar bill
through the West Virginia legisla-
ture; and the mine owners blocked 1t
on the ground of expense. Now, he
is in Washington, trying to get the
substance of the Ohio law adopted as
part of the coal mining codes of the
NRA.
10 is one of the most unselfish mis-
sions that any man ever set himself;
and LABOR devoutly wishes Mr..
Laughlin success. But why is it so
hard to save life when saving life
appears to interfere with the saving
of money?
Askov American., 1934-05-10
SCARE WAS USED

The reactionaries who are opposed
to the Farmer-LabOr platform and
program like to call it a program of
Communism. 1t is a little amusing
for the Communists are not members
of the Farmer-Labor party and when
ever they stage rallies or demOnstra-
tions il is generally the Farmer-Labor
party and its leaders they lambast the
most.
In the recent city election of st.
Paul where the conservatives won out
with Gehan over Mayor MahOney, the
Labor Progressive candidate, by 444
votes in a total of over $4,000 votes.
all kinds of political and economic
scares were played to full extent. The
Pioneer Press gave a list of factories
in the city with the number of en-
ployes in each. OF course they tried
to make out that if the Laborites won
out those factories would be taken
over by them and the workers left
high and dry. The scare worked to
some degree. Going back far enough
in our history we had private schools.
Today they are mostly public, but it
seems that teachers are still employed
and many more Of them.
If the Farmer-LabOr party can put
idle factories to use, lease them from
owners, paying them for the use, and
thus give work to the unemployed. they
to make clothing, shoes, and other nee
essities for themselves and other un-
employed, it would seem like sem
Sible move. The federal government
has since proposed the same program.
The output of those presently closed
factories where unemployed would be
given work will not be thrown into
the ordinary channels of trade to COM
pete with privately owned factories.
The output will be used to reduce hu-
making them self-supporting and to
reduce taxation for relief.
The power interests were naturally
also much on the job in the ST. Paul
election, for they do not want a NUM-
cipal electric light and power plant
as proposed by the Laborites.
To have the voters forget that issue,
u iiHc "dS pldycu up OH the lTOul
page of the Daily News for about two
months previous to the election. All
three ST. Paul daily newspapers were
against Mahoney and his fellow can
didates for the council.
The outcome of the st. Paul elec-
tion has been played up by the reac-
tiOnaries as criterion for what will
take place in the state election this
fall. In this connection it is well to
reflect on the fact that quite frequent
ly men are elected to the office of
mayor in larger cities who would have
little chance running for statewide
office. That has been proven time
and again.
Commenting editorially on the St
Paul election, The Minnesota Daily
the University newspaper, said in part
While the Farmer-Labor state pro.
gram may have been somewhat of 9
handicap to the candidates, the Large
vote polled shows that the electorate
is not as terror-stricken by the Farm
er-LabOr ideas as might be assumed
from a glance at some Twin CITY
newspapers. Whatever the result, i
the state election follows the tempo
staked out for it by the overture il
st. Paul, Minnesotans are in for
stirring rough and tumble fight in tn
coming campaign"
Askov American., 1934-05-10
"SLAMS" G. o. p.
Editor AskOv American:

Editor Askov American:
Republican state convention is over
and when it died it died all over
and so did the cheerful smiles, the
spirit, the hope, and the friendly
hand-shakers, that we all love and
enjoy so we'll. In spite of all efforts
to revive the G. o. p. dead spirit
daily ration in the de-organized ranks
of the Republican party today, with
no end in sight.
When men assemble at a large con-
ventiOn in order to water G. U. p.
plant, a plant that failed to bloom
in 63 years, it's just foolish for any
political expert to induce the voters
to carry more water on their already
sore and bent-dOwn shoulders. on a
flimsy theory that the different
planets in our universe will be in
right position next fall, favoring the
G. o. p. plant to come to a full
bloom.
My heart and my sympathy goes
out to these men; men that sacrifice
their time and with great courage
and devotion, sit down to write the
G.. O. p. platform, men that are pa
triotic to their country, men that are
willing to fight for their God, country
and home, and men that understand
and can interpret the constitution OF
the United States on any occasion.
But friends writing G. 0. P. plat
form today, one that does not mean
any more to the farmer, laborer, and
small business men than the G. 0. p.
platform of 1928, the one that Her
bert Hoover got elected on is more
than | can understand.
The job of writing the G. o. p plat
form was a ticklish proposition from
start to finish and the way the re-
dictionary Republican press plastered
with it the entire country by sections,
reminds one of the last feeble kick
of a cottontail rabbit that absorbed
the contents of double barrel H.
gauge shotgun at a close range.
JOE HAMPEYS.
RrOOk Park
Askov American., 1934-05-10

the hands of few while others starve.
1t is better distribution of wealth
that we need, and not cOrn-hog reduc-
tion to help the starving people get
more to eat. 1t is lower salaries OF
capitalists and higher income taxes
that we need, and not the destruction
of IS per cent Of the 100000 hogs
that the government bought last fall
to bring back prosperity.
ANTHONY e. KANIS.
Sturgeon Lake. MINI.
Askov American., 1934-05-10
THE RICH GET RICHER
New York POSt)


The rich are getting richer and the
poor are getting poorer.
That was the case in the boom days
of Coolidge. 1t also was the case In
the depression days of Hoover.
And it still is the case I'm the re-
cOvery days of Roosevelt.
Let those shuddering Tories who
moan about Administration radical
ism observe these figures from the
Treasury:
Taxes paid by corporations in
creased from $62.S01.192. the March
payment of 1888. to $92,2OO,S5S for
the March payment of this year.
Taxes paid by persons with in
comes of more than $1,000 jumped
from SSS,599.235 last year to $1O9.-
766.752 this year;
And taxes on incomes UNDER
$1,000 dropped from S14.974.6S9 to
$12,936,134.
Concentration of wealth goes on at
a more rapid pace under the New
Deal than before.
These figures, to be sure, are neith-
er complete nor conclusive. But they
show a definite trend. And the pros
pect is that the contrast will be EVEN
GREATER before the year is up.
That is SO because nearly two out of
three of the taxpayers with incomes
of more than $4,000 made only partial
payments ts-while smaller taxpayers
PAID IN FULL at the rate of to 1.
AS for those millions who pay no
income taxes at all, the figures reveal
that while wages increased rs per
cent between January and April, food
costs scared 16.7 per cent and the
prices of clothing and furnishings
27.5 per cent.
1t is obvious that President Roose-
welt has not been positive enough in
redistribution of purchasing power.
the essential requirement for lasting
recovery.
The Tory attackers of the President
are the ones waxing fat on his present
policies.
The reason for all this is plain.
There has been no redistribution
of purchasing power because no new
credit has been created and d1stri.
buted to our millions who lack buying
power. That's the cruX of 1t all.
Those social reforms achieved by
the Administration only appear rad
ical to the Tories because they are
so far behind the times. Other coun-
tries have had such reforms for many
years.
Roosevelt's labor policy has seemed
pro-labor only because labor itself
was punch-drunk throughout the
| Hoover regime.
The Presidents money policy
through the Warren gold-jugglins
scheme. APPEARED radical, but II
| was quite the reverse.
| Indeed, with these factors; with
notification of MIRA by compromises
on vital questions; with the approval
of code after code with provisions
that wipe out the spirit of the Pres
ident's re-employment agreement
Askov American., 1934-05-10
NEEDED CHANGE
Brook Park.
Editor Askov American:

Editor Askov American:
Since Governor Olson made MS
speech at the Farmer-LabOr conven-
ton, great deal of criticism mas
stirred up. Most of the criticism was
over the statement that Olson made
about himself being radical and want
ing a change in the system.
l say that if ever the government
needed a change, it needs it today.
We need radicals like him in every
important office. What good Is there
in the present method of distribution?
There are thousands of people under
fed and underclad, yet food and cotton
are being destroyed. On the other
hand, some people are not earning
anything and can't flnd job no mat
ter how hard they look for one, while
others earn S5OO,O00 or $1,OOO,OOO a
year, and the government stands for
it. Many farmers are losing their
homes; that is, they are paying to
have the privilege of working.
If we looked back in history we
should have found that many men OF
Importance were radicals and were
prosecuted Lincoln was radical, so
was Franklin, Charles Goodyear, Rob-
ert Fulton. Christopher Columbus,
Darwin, Spencer, Calico, Huxley.
Their theories were rebelled, but they
are accepted today.
| believe that the time is coming
when the same will happen with Oh
sons theory that had happened with
Lincoln's. Now, everybody admits
that slavery is wrong; they didn't
when Lincoln was president. Now,
the people believe-or at least some
people believe-that it is right for
one per cent of the people to have 81
per cent of the nations wealth, and
for 76 per cent of the people to have
less than six per cent of the wealth
of the nation. Now, some people be-
Iieve that it is right for one man to
earn S1,5OO,O0O a year while others
starve, but that might change some
day.
When | went to business college,
| used a text book entitled Salesman
ship and Business Efficiency" by
James Samuel Knox. This book was
first copyrighted in 1912 in the United
States, and later it was copyrighted
in about half of the countries on the
globe.
| The author of that book made the
following statement: "A man is worth
only about two dollars a day from his
chin down, selling muscle, but as high
as $144,OOO a year from his chin ur
selling brain, as president of the Ma
tiOnal Cash Register" That book was
copyrighted in 1912, so that statement
is about 90 years old. Therefore, 2:
years ago, $144,0OO year was con
sidered a top salary. In 1929, E. G
Grace received $1,635,753 a year, ant
that is more than eleven times as much
as the cash register man received 2:
years ago.
If the "big shots wages increased
more than eleven times, why didn'
the laborer's wages increase in th'
same ratio? That is, why didn't th'
laborer,s wages increase to $22 day
In that case we probably wouldn'
have had this depression. According
to that, things have been gettin.
worse; the benefit of the machiner!
went to the capitalists and not to th'
laborer and the consumer.
Since machinery and inventions ar'
making progress, we must make prog
ress with our government. Under th'
present system. the wealth goes int