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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
A. SOVIET HOME


The following letter from Rus
sian worker was received by a resi-
dent of Newark, a reader of the
Daily Worker.
Bashkiriya Republic, U.S.sR.
Dear Comrade:
Your sad letter is to hand How
can you live as you do not work at
all? Even if you work you can only
have half the suficiency. The big
part of your earnings you pay for
lodging, electricity, gas, and coal
How was it there four or five years
ago, before the crisis? Did you earn
at that time much more than at
present?
I am a teacher in a workers
school. We teach our youngsters
and girls to work there. We have
need of skillful workers. For that
reason we have arranged these
schools near factories and mills.
I am also married, and have a
wife, mother in-law, and one son
who is going to secondary school.
My wife works also. Together we
earn 500 rubles month or about
$3.50.
For lodging (three rooms and kit
chem, for electricity, light and heat,
7 pay nothing. Food and clothing
all workers obtain, partly on norms
and very cheap, and partly buy on
the market if there is need Of some
things we did not get on norns
Generally speaking we have suffi-
cient for our needs and we have
money left over. For children's
schooling we pay nothing.
We have an ideal nursing home
nursery for mothers and children,
and all that is free. In order to
judge your life and my life, we must
compare our weekly earnings and
expenses. Our weekly expense: five
gallons of milk, $40; four Kilograms
of meat. $40; 20 kilos of bread, $3.50;
one and one-half kilos Of butter,
1886; one kilo of honey or sugar,
$3.50; Is or 20 eggs, $500; for vege-
tables and other food products, $40
This is total of SAL My weekly
earnings are s625o together with
my wife's. The balance is almost
$22, and that is for clothing, theatre,
laundry and small things.
We have scarcity of sugar and
imported goods. But we have a
great deal of honey and fish. The
Bashkiriya Republic has very big
linden forests and rivers therefore
there are very big bee-hives and
good fishing.
I have indicated to you my ex-
pense on prices at the private mar
ket; part of the products I men
toned we obtain on States prices,
which are cheaper, and therefore
we have more money left over.
Most of the skilled workers earn
800 to $3.50 month. All workers
can if they want to, obtain food at
workers dining rooms. Their meals
cost from 80 cents up.
Write me, please, about the
workers lives, about your town,
Newark, nature, and especially
how the unemployed live. That is
an enigma for us Russian workers.
Is it so, that at present the crisis
is not so acute? We do not fear
A kilogram is about two and
one-fifth pounds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
Build the Order

Some comrades wrongly believe
that in centering attention on the
creation of a broad mass movement
for social insurance we necessarily
neglect the building of our Order
In reality the Order has an unpar-
alleled opportunity to establish it
self IN the minds of the working
masses by being an outstanding
champion Of HR. Bill 1898. 1t is
in championing such measures that
our Order can and must prove its
quality as class struggle organiza-
tion. 1t Is our activity in such
struggles as that for unemployment
and social insurance that we show
the workers at large the difference
between our proletarian fraternal-
ism and the mystic and treacherous
phrase-mongering of bourgeois fra
ternalism.
A systematic campaign for social
insurance among the millions of
American workers in fraternal or
CARNATIONS will make the Interna-
tional Workers Order the center Of
gravity for all masses of workers
who look for a fraternal organiza-
ton to join, or who are losing con-
fidence in the bourgeois fraternal
organizations to which they now
belong.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
Article vi.

Article vi.
The TWo-and-A-Half Interna-
tional had already in 1923 deserted
its revolutionary" talk, and had
gone back to the Second Interna-
tional But the Communist Inter
national coldly rejected that oppor-
tunistic and unreal view. ITO lead
means to foresee," says Stain; and
the Communist International, al
though capitalism had, with the aid
of the Social-Democratic parties, de-
feated the workers and peasants,
and, with the advantage Of its vic
tory Of force over the masses, had
succeeded in bringing about a rel
alive sterilization, clearly saw that
this sterilization was only a partial
sterilization and could be no more
than temporary.
"Out of the sterilization itself,
there is growing up the profound
est and Severest crisis of world
capitalism, a crisis which will
completely upset the stabiliza-
ton" stain, 1921.
THE Fifth Congress of the Com
munist International in June 1924
had before it the job Of cleaning up
the weaknesses and authorizations
within the revolutionary Communist
Parties left over as a heritage from
the Second International-the huge
task of Bolshevization. The master
ing of the experience of the best
seasoned of all the Communist
Parties, the BolShevik Party built
up and led by Lenin through three
revolutions, with a merciless ana
1ysis of the errors that had con-
tributed to defeat in Germany,
Poland and Bulgaria, became the
duty of all Communist Parties in
collective work with the aid of the
Fifth Congress. The discussion
sharpened around the basic ques-
tiOn of the dictatorship of the pro-
letariat-"the tap root of the revo-
luton" Gas Lenin called it)-and the
national and agrarian questions,
non-clarity Of which had played
such havoc in three great actions in
Germany, Poland and Bulgaria. The
problems of mass work, of trade
unions, and of the building of mass
Communist Parties, the reorganiza-
ton of the Parties on the basis of
shop nuclei (the Bolshevik form of
Party organization), the proletariza-
ton of the Party and its leading
cadres, the establishment Of demo-
cratic centralism and iron Bolshevik
discipline, the making Of the Com
munist Parties into monolithic
parties without federationism and
without Observation-Disclosures were
problems thoroughly discussed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
PARTY LIFE
4 Basic Task: to Organize
Negro Workers in the Shops
Detroit Ford Concentration Units Intensity
Drive for Negro Foundry Workers

not merely to criticize some OF our
comrades, but to prevent its repe-
tition in our Party.
For the past two months I have
been conducting a class in Marx
ism-Leninism. There are about Is
in the class, most of them profess
SIGNALS and all of them non-party
members. They are all sympathetic
to The movement and contribute to
the Party in number of ways. As
result of my activities in that
group, some of them are now &C
lively participating in the work OF
the Provisional Committee for the
Sustaining Fund for the Marine
Workers Industrial Union, and
three of them have made applica-
tons to join the Party. They ex-
pressed a strong desire to be pres
ent at a unit meeting, although
they still didn't get their Party
books. Last week I invited them
to a unit meeting. I notified the
organizer of my unit in advance
about this invitation through a
COlHTdue III uly OIllG.
Tuesday night I came to the unit
meeting earlier than usual to take
up the procedure and the conduct
of the meeting so as to give it the
proper atmosphere for the new
Corners. I was shocked when the
organizer informed me that the
bureau decided not to allow these
comrades to remain at this meet
ing The Agitprop Director of the
unit, an old Party member and a
developed comrade, argued that be-
cause they didn't as yet get their
books and because this was not an
open unit meeting, I had no right
to invite them. Meanwhile these
three new comrades came In and
took their seats. I quietly argued
with the bureau that would as
sumo responsibility for these COM
rades. I have been in the Party for
so many years "a charter member)
and they may trust me that /
wouldn't do anything to iniure the
Party I insisted that they allow
these comrades to remain and then
prefer charges against me for Wo-
lating the Imaginary" Party disci-
pline.
The Agitprop Director Of the unit
insisted that this was against the
Party rules and that he would en-
force Party discipline He would
take the floor and ask these COM
rades to leave. The organizer
agreed with him. I insisted on
using common sense; he argued the
point of discipline. It was a tense
moment for me. I pictured to my
self the reaction of these new COM
rades to a cold reception of this ma
ture. They might be driven from
the Party for good. resorted to a
tactic that the district sanctioned
my invitation and this kept the re-
luctant bureau in check for the time
being.
We carried through fine meet
ing. The new comrades contributed
literally to the Red-Press Banquet,
bought quite a bit of literature and
one of them even participated in
the discussion on the 18th Plenum
Resolution.
If this is not case Of secta-
rianism, then 1 don't know what
sectarianism is. Discipline In our
Party-yes. But to hide under the
phrase of discipline the chasing
of workers from our ranks, is
criminal. I have no doubt that
the bureau didn't mean to harm
the Party. But this is just the
reason am writing this, instead
of preferring charges against
them.
UNIT 13, SECTION /.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
Chicago Stockyards Vel.
Writes to Soviet Youth

Editors Note:-A letter (which
is published in part below has
been sent by Chicago stockyard
unit of the Young Communist
League to a group of young
stockyard workers in the Soviet
Union. The letter has been for
warded to the Soviet Union, and
the reply will be published in the
Daily Worker.
CHICAGO, Ill-We are a group
of Y.CL. members working in the
Stockyards of Chicago, the largest
stockyards in the world, exposed
and made famous in the Jungle"
Of Upton Sinclair.
The workers in the stockyards
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
JanitOr Lives In
Black Hole; Tied to
Job All the Time
lBy a Worker Correspondentl


NEW YORK; live with a jani-
tor, and I notice that he works "a
hours a day, because janitors are
not organized. They live in houses
with old stoves in the cellars to
make steam.
The landlord will not put bet
ter stove in. Every hour the jani-
tor has to run down to fix the fire
day and night. The coal that the
agency supplies is the cheapest
dust, and ruins the janitor's health
with so much dust.
For two years the ianitor has
been asking to have his rooms
painted. The walls are as black
as charcoal.
He has to take care of 80 apart
ments, making steam, cleaning and
dragging out garbage. Just figure
how much work a man is doing
for II cents a day. Living in a
stable. Even cattle are living better.
I wish the Daily Worker can tell
how janitors can be organized to
demand a living wage. The jani-
tors are entitled to better break.
Let's get together and help them
get out of slavery.
Editors NOte:-We want to in
form the cOmrade that sent in
this letter that there is an or
ganizatiOn of ianitors and all
building maintenance workers.
This is the Building Maintenance
Workers League, Room 23S, 799
Broadway. The cOmrade should
approach this janitor and others
with whom he comes in contact
to join up with this organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
E&LGN =
him thu, tonnes
1KS#aN HELEN ss5f LUXE y ID
Ces-NDGNIED BY
HELEN LUKE

that some time we shall be with
out work, and starve. That makes
us very happy. We are masters of
our lives, and have full security
from crisis. Greetings to your
family.
PETER w. NIKIFOROV.
My address is
Blagoveschensky Works,
Bashkiriya Republic Ufa,
Comrades who wish to do so may
write to Comrade Nikiforov. To-
morrow or next day we'll speak
about living expenses here, and
how live the unemployed"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
Jersey City Police Modified to Clear
Way for Wage Cut by Cafeteria Bosses
Union Members TerrOrized Into Giving Up
Militant Organizer, and Then Restaurants
Announce Wage Reductions.

that you have a free choice. Keep
Cleron and we smash the union or
have union without Cleron." The
members against their will, voted
for another organizer.
1t is not yet a week and the
restaurant bosses of Jersey City an
nounced a wage cut from So to IS
per week. My boss called every
worker to a meeting and he said:
ANY one who does not like the way
I run my business and the wages
I am paying, he is free to choose.
Accept my conditions or go out of
my place"
Every restaurant worker under
stands now who was behind the
move that Brother Cleron should
leave Jersey City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
Intensity Dues Collections

With the end of the first quarter
of this year the problem arises
again of more intensive work to
maintain the members in the ranks
Of our International Workers Order.
Experience has shown us that some
branch secretaries act in too formal
istic manner toward the mem
bers. They are satisfied to decide
on suspesion Just because a postal
card inviting the member to meet
ing for the payment of dues is not
answered. We must concern our
selves much more with our mem
bers. We must propaganda them.
We must acquaint ourselves with
their situation. Wherever the stu
alton warrants, we must try to help
them. Wherever a member is able
to maintain his membership, we
must try to convince him that he
should maintain it. We must draw
our members into our activities
around the campaign for social in
surance.
This requires much work. The
Secretary cannot carry the burden
of this work all by himself. Other
members of the branch must help.
In fact, the Secretary must mobi-
lie them to help. At any rate,
every branch should make it point
to be achieved, to eliminate all sus-
pensions. Wherever they cannot
eliminate all of them, they at least
should be able to say that they have
reduced suspensins TO the irreducible
minirnu
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
WO Branches Prepare United
Meet for Social Insurance

middle of January we have ceased
making special membership cam
paign efforts and have concentrated
on preparations for the struggle for
social insurance, yet during the
seven weeks since the end of the
campaign we have taken in an aver
age Of 429 new members per week.
During the same period we took in
a total of 1859 children.
On March 1st we entered a new
campaign to build the English,
Youth and Children's Sections. The
first week in March showed the re-
Spouse to this campaign. 1913 mem
bers were taken into the English
speaking branches in the week from
March 5th to 18th.
Youth Campaign Weak
The growth of the Youth Section
does not seem to be influenced very
much by campaigns. 1t is equally
bad in and out of campaigns. The
first campaign for the Youth Sec
ton only brought in 70 new mem
bers. This is a testimony to mac
tivity of the Youth branches on one
hand and inattention to the build
ing of the Youth Section by the
adult branches on the other.
Here, too, we must learn that the
struggle for social insurance can be
a base for mass recruiting of young
workers. 1t is a base for political
education of our own Youth Sec
ton. 1t gives US a chance to make
our Youth Section carry on propa-
ganda among the masses Of young
workers and thus make these young
workers acquainted with the exis-
tence and functioning of our Youth
Section.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
Wilcox Rich Co. Men
Told to Return All Pay
for Over 40 Hours
(By a Worker Correspondent)

~ :" ''~H1NNH OUI oTIOHItEt7l1VJ
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. - The
workers of the Wilcox Rich Co. are
being asked to pay back all the
money they earned over 40 hours.
This is urged by the State. That
is, all that has been earned from
November to July. Surely, this is
an outrage, that workers who earn
ed a little more must pay it back.
This is what the MIRA. has done
for workers who earned something.
But it surely hasn't done anything
for workers who haven't worked
more than three hours a day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
NEGRO WOMAN DEMANDS
RELIEF
(By Negro Worker Correspondent

(By Negro Worker Correspondent
OXFORD, Miss.-ThiS is to let
you know how the government
treats the Negroes. A woman went
to the government Saturday to see
if she could get something for a
one-legged woman. She signed up
three weeks ago and hasn't got
anything yet.
She told them that she was going
to write to Uncle Sam this morn
ing. This is what they said, Don't
do that, you might get in trouble
about it." But the last words she
said was she is going to write to
Uncle Sam Monday morning.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
ATTENTION COMRADE W. sLEIP
EUGENE CONAN,
signature authoriZed).
Comrade w. Sleip:

Comrade w. Sleip:
Since you did not send an adj
dress, we cannot answer you per-
sonally. We want to say, however,
that If you would read the Daily
Worker" every day you would find
literally pages full Of G. w. A.
news, on the firing Of workers, con-
ditions on the job, etc. The item
you mention in your letter ap-
peared in the March 18th issue Of
the Daily Worker" on pages l and
2. under the caption Fired c. w. A.
Men to Be Kept From Relief List"
EDITORIAL DEPT.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
Can You Make EN-
Yourself?

Pattern 1898 is available in sizes
4, 6, 8, 10, and II. Size 6 takes
yards 36-inch fabric and 70 yard
contrasting. Illustrated step-by-step
sewing instructions included.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19

Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c.) in
coins or stamps (coins preferred)
for this Anne Adams pattern. Write
plainly name, address and style
number. BE SURE TO STATE
SIZE.
Address orders to Daily Worker
Pattern Department, 245 West 18th
Street, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
Two. Growth Continues

That the campaign for social in
surance does not interfere with the
growth of the Order is decisively
proven by the continuous influx of
new members. Although since the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19

In New York
the general con-
ference OF dele
gates from fra
ternal bodies is
called for April
%. At that con-
ference pl an S
will be discussed
and adopted for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19

the carrying of the campaign to the
masses Of workers. All participating
fraternal organizations will be mo-
bilized for the carrying out of the
campaign.
To make the general conference
a success all Of our sections and
branches must canvass within their
territory all fraternal organizations
with proletarian membership. Wher-
ever bourgeois or social fascist lead
ers of fraternal organizations resist
the growth of the united front for
social insurance, the demand for the
support of H.R. Bill 1898 must be
made the rallying point of the work
ers into left wing.
Let us in the next few months
make the support of HR. Bill 1898
the most important issue in all fra
ternal organizations with proletarian
membership.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
BY MAX BEDACHT

The preparations for speedy ex-
tension of the fraternal united front
for social insurance are progressing
everywhere. All branches and city
organizations of the International
Workers Order are preparing for
united front conferences to organize
a broad mass campaign.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19

THE PLAGUE OF SECTARIANISM
Sectarianism is a cancer on the
body of our Party which retards
its growth and development. Be
cause this disease is deep-roOted
in the Party and manifests itself
in a number of ways under the
disguise of Simon Pure Commu-
nism, it is necessary to fight it at
all times.
You may classify this as pre-
convention discussion or general
discussion, but we must always bear
in mind that sectarianism is detri-
mental to our movement. Here is a
typical case. And I am stating this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
By L.B.. Detroit. Mich.l

Our main concentration of the
Party in District 2 is the Ford Mo-
tor Company. The Negroes in the
Black Belt on the East Side of De-
troit, at the present time, approx
mately, between 1000 and 5000 are
employed in the Ford Motor Com
pany in River Rouge plant.
The majority of these Negro
workers live on the East Side of
Detroit, the concentration area for
Negro work in the Party. The ma
jority of these Negro workers are
employed in the foundries. where
they face the most brutal speed-up
system in the auto industry, such
a terrific speed-up that the lives of
the workers are in danger, every
minute of the day.
Three workers, two white workers
and one Negro worker, were killed
in the foundry due to the speed-up
when a "cuaploaw" exploded Sun
dav. Feb. Is. due to the rotten con-
ditions that exist among the foundry
workers.
1t is quite evident that the
Ford Motor Co. realizes the grow
ing unrest of Negroes and white
workers. In the foundry they are
attempting to organize a COM
pany union to prevent them from
organizing into the Auto Workers
Union.
What attempts have we made to
organize these workers in the Ford
factory? At present time we could
register two Negro workers in the
Party in the Ford plant. Very little
effort was made to organize the
Negro workers into the Auto Work
ers Union, or bring them into the
Party.
Have we issued a special leaflet
for Negro workers in the Ford plant
explaining our position on the Ne
gro question, on our support to the
Auto Workers Union, in its pro-
gram against discrimination and for
better living conditions for Negro
WI hC1Os IL 10 Vic Ny NAAANAl 10 w
carry out a campaign in the shops
and neighborhoods, raising the
grievances in the shops and homes,
to expose the Negro reformist lead
ers and their agents in the Ford
Motor Company, such as Marshall
(their attempt to induce Negro
workers to join the A. F. of L..
unions, who keeps them separated
from the white workers by telling
them of the JIM Grow, not to join
the unions.
This can be accomplished by a
systematic campaign Of recruiting
Negroes into the Party by conduct
ing struggles in the neighborhoods,
against discrimination and for re-
lief, by organizing clubs, conduct
ing study class, lectures and SYM
posiums, to enlighten the Negro
workers on our program of the
revolutionary movement.
THE PLAGUE OF SECTARIANISM
Sectarianism is cancer on the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19

"A kilogram is about two and
one-fifth pounds.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-07-12
AS Husbands Co Is
Fine Entertainment
BY George Clark

Invested with q human understand
Ing that delves deeply into the hearts
OF its people. Fox Films latest re-
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be an unmistakable joy at yester-
days preview at the Paramount thea
ter. A story that is true and human,
dialogue that Is smart and acting that
Is indeed . revelation. stamps "As
Husbands Go" IS one OF the out
standing films Of the year.
Rachel Crothers, who is responsible
Tor such hits as Let Us Be Gay and
when Ladies Meet" again proves
herself to be q master in the art Of
writing. Her play from which the
picture was taken was q tremen-
dous success on Broadway. and FOX
Film has really done credit to itself
In producing It 80 well for the screen.
Falling In love with Z young Eng
lishman In Paris, young wife re-
turns home, determined to ask her
husband for : divorce. The husbands
kindness and devotion prove too
much for her to penetrate. The
atustion becomes III the more en-
barrassing when the lover arrives.
The husband discovering that the
EngliShman = the one his wife loves,
befriends him and decides 70 learn
what kind q . man he i. The. young
mans admiration for the husband be-
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conclusion he = doing him m injls-