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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29

houses as silent as the mills Of
which they are a part.
I could see him on the porch high
above the street level, a man
hunched over book, peering at me
pacing back and forth before the
house. I called up to him asking
the number. This was the house.
When I came u p and sat down
on the porch he laid the book aside,
removed his glasses and smiled
hello. A Pole, lanky with high
cheekbones and pale blue eyes. A
checked cap on his head and brok-
en- shoes out OF which the toes
stuck on his feet. Friendly and
curious. 1 had come to see his son
but he was away somewhere. Never
tells his fader or mudder where he
CO." And how was New York? Bad.
uh? Everywhere bad. No Jobs. Now
flve years and three months he had
no work, sitting here on the high
porch, facing the silent mills. His
girls worked in the weave-sheds.
Fifty years old I am" he says
1 go to the mill and they say,
How old you are? and I say. How
old you tink am? and the manager
say, Fifty year old, and say, What
you do with the people, 1 say, tell
you, you take them and put them
through your machines and make
bsloney yes, you make boloney from
them"
He laughs, the pale blue eyes re-
membering, my golly, that man
ager he don't know what to say"
And then he is still and sombre
again. Seventeen years he worked
in the mills here in Pawtucket, and
now he sits facing them, smokeless,
barred up, silent as tombs.
The striker No, he don't go. Too
old. His son goes. goes too much,
he says. He has a trick Of saying
maybe I no say right" meaning he
does not know the answer. 1 press
him. What people do2 Maybe win
one strike, maybe win all strikes.
Maybe I no say right"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29
TUNING In

Paul Kaminsky will discuss r. Paine
QUITS "Fascism and Social Revolution"
this afternoon at 4:30 over WARD.
700 M.-wEAF-Baseball Resume
WORKSHOPS Resume--Ford Prick
VITO Be Announced
WABC-Michhux Congregation
-Homespun-Dr. william H
Foulkes
woR-Maverick Jim-sketch
wJz-stsmp Club-Capt T. Healy
7:ao-wEAF-Martha Mesrs. Songs
wJz-From Honolulu; Hawaiian
Music
wABC-Jack Smith, Songs
7:45-wEAF-Fioyd Gibbons. Commentator
WOR-To Be Announced
wABC-Mary Eastman, Soprano;
Concert Orch.
oo-wEAF-Tenth Anniversary Celebrs-
tlon OF WEEP. Boston; Aleppo
Drum Corp s,Del Castillo, organ,
and Others
WOR-Orchestrsl Concert, Augusta
Brandt. Conductor
wJz-Pedro Via orch.
wABc-Roxy Revue; Larry Taylor,
Baritone; Kingsley and Chase,
Piano; Sue Read, Songs Aimee De-
loro, Soprano
s;3o-woR--orgsn Recital
wJz-Russian Symphonic Choir
a. i5-WABC-Fsts Waller, Songs
900 wEAF--Meroado Orch
WOR-Della Baker, Soprano; chss.
Massineer, Tenor
wJz-Radio City Party. with John
B. Kennedy; Black Orch.
WABC-steYens Orch.
o.3o-wEAF-The Gibson Fsmily--Musical
Comedy, with Conrad Thibault,
Baritone Lois Bennett. Soprano;
Jack and Loretta Clemens. Songs;
Voorhees, orch. and Others
wOf--woodworth Orch.
WJZ-Variety Musicale
wABC-Hirnber Orch.
1000 woR--John Kelvin, Tenor
WJz-To BE Announced
WABC--Dance Orch.
o:is-woR-Pauline Alpert, Piano
wABC-The Federal Housing Pre-
gram-John H. Fahey, chairme n
Federal Home Loan Bank Board;
Morton Bodhsh, Vice President
U. g. Building and Loan League
10:3 0-wEAF--Danny Malone, Tenor
woR-Dsntsis Orch
wJz--Barn Dance
WABc-Benjamin Franklin-Sketch
10: 45-wFAF-sberisn Singers. Direction
Nicholas vaslllefI. Tenor
IL -WEAF-weeks Orch
WOR-Gorodensky Orch.
wABC-Sylvia Froos, songs
I:l5-WAEC-Gray Orch
1850 whiteman Orch.
wOR-Winzt Orch.
WJZ-Msrtin Orch.
4S-wABC-Haymes Orch
1900 o7--Barnet Orch.
wJz-Dance Music tuntil AM
WABC-Danoe Music fnntli 2 AM
l2:lS-WEAF-care-Fre Carnival
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29
THE SOVIET BURBANK

This month marks the sixtieth
year OF productive work by Ivan
Vladimir Michurin, the world-fam-
GUS Soviet horticulturalist Many
functionaries and scientists from all
parts of the USSR. travelled to the
ancient town of Koslov, now re-
named Michurin, to celebrate The
eightieth birthday of the man who
has devised many new forms Of
fruit plants. They brought with
hem a new and strange blend of
apple and cherry from Siberia,
oranges and grapefruit from the
Black Sea coast, and apricots from
Just below the Arctic Circle, grown
on trees which are covered with
snow during most of the year.
Michurin has also developed frost
resisting grapes which flourish in
the Moscow and Ural regions. At
present he is experimenting with
tobacco to be grown on The lower
Volgs.
The story of Michurin's life-work
is a very good answer to the ques-
ton as to whether science is aided
by socialism. He is a self-taught
scientific worker who was expelled
from Russian high-school FOR re-
fusing to doff his hat to the prin-
cipal on cold day. After working
as an office clerk, he began his ex-
periments on a small patch of
ground which he rented with his
earnings.
AS his work developed, he was
offered thousands OF dollars ID
transfer his work to the United
States. He rejected this opportu-
nifty to become wealthy, although
the CSarist regime had turned down
his offer Of plant nurseries to be
used as the basis for an experiment
tai horticultural school.
After the October Revolution, the
Soviet government helped Michurin
as it helped all scientists who we're
carrying on important research. He
was supplied with scores of expert
assistants; he was granted a 10000
acre garden; he was given fine
laboratory equipped with the most
modern apparatus.
With this encouragement and
support Michurin developed into the
worlds leading horticulturalis- His
work is followed closely by foreign
scientists, and many Of his new
plants have been introduced into
foreign countries.
Most OF his recent work has been
devoted to developing fruit plants
which give q finer and more abund-
ant yield. and can endure the in
tense cold which prevails over the
territories of the Soviet North. He
has also developed fruits which can
stand the strain of long shipping
haulS. With the creation of these
new and hardy strains, he has
added ten of thousands of square
miles to the zone wherein the
U.S.SR. can successfully grow many
varieties Of fruit,
Among the most famous of his
experiments was his use of electri-
cal currents to speed up the muta-
ton processes which he uses to
produce new species and plant
strains.
Michurin has never attempted to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29
Eveleth

EVELETH, mining town, where
young miners have broken with
conservative" relations who still
control fat jobs, and are out fight
Ing for the immediate needs of the
workers. And that even includes the
right Of the unemployed to attend
free of charge hockey games
financed by the village administra-
ton. Here also these young miners
went to bat for the homeless older
miners, whom the city proposed to
bury in transient camps at 90 cents
per week. BY the way, Oscar Ben
rens, Farmer-Laborite and former
secretary of the Farmer-Laborite
Mayor Anderson of Minneapolis.
who tried to place the Minneapolis
unemployed on five cent day diet,
is in charge Of these transient
camps. But instead, these older
miners today have meal tickets on
the restaurants, and their rent is
paid too. So when Communist
election rally was called for a
downtown corner, the workers
turned out in large numbers. For
they may not know how to pro-
nounce communist in Eveieth,
but they know who they are and
are with them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29
A Genuine SOb-StOry
BY HARRY KERMIT

lar institution five years earlier but
his second wife, an unsympathetic
woman, refused to sign that she
would care for the child and the
authorities refused to turn him over
to the father. When the father sub
sequently had to give up his store
his wife let him to live with work.
er who could support her.
WHAT followed the runaway Incl
w dent was Characteristic Of the
law and justice which our present
society orders. A policeman came to
the fathers home and said the boy
would have to go back to the
orphanage. In the station house the
boy wept and chung to his father
and the father wept and chung to
his son. 1t was scene which moved
the photographers and the report
ers and the policemen. The police
sergeant in charge said it was tough
but since the father couldn't sup
port the boy he would have to go
back to the orphan home.
The reporters felt sorry about the
whole affair and the photographers
took pictures Of the boy weeping
alone and the boy standing with his
father and both looking as If their
hearts would break. Amelio went
back to the orphanage and the
newspapers decried the red tape"
which kept father and son apart
and then the incident was forgotten
But it was not forgotten incident
for the unhappy boy in orphansge
and his heartbroken father. And
the rewrite men who got the red
tape" angle did not get the story.
Even If they had understood the in
cident they could not have written
it for their class controlled papers-
the conclusion that it is capitalist
society which engenders cold
blooded private orphanages and de-
prives man of his job. drives his
wife into another mans arms, keeps
him from his son and breaks up his
hcn1e.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29

back in 1918, the U.T.W. first began
to organize in Fall River. He's an
old union man, member of an old
weaver's and loomf1xer's union, now
dead and buried, the American Fed
Grafton of Clothworkers.
That was a union, he tells me. a
real union, not a Sinking racket
like the U. T. w. Good, straight,
level-headed men as leaders, as
good a bunch of men as you'd find
anywhere in the States. "They
didn't go shooting their CABS of, I"
he says, they got the facts first."
He keeps hitting this: they had the
facts" He seems to think if the
strike collected enough facts" and
presented them to the millowners
everything would be settled. He's
all for a level-headed, old time
trade unionism, good, rockbound,
conservative trade unionism.
There's a finger missing on his
left hand. I want to ask him how
he lost his finger, but I don't. Look
at that Teller German" he says,
Shooting his CAB off. Any weaver
with half a cents worth of brains
could see it's just air, hot air" In
nocently I ask, who is this Burlak
woman they been writing about?"
20 my jesus" he says, "ain't she a
sonuvagun!" and his eyes mysteri-
ously pop open.
Shes been raising all kinds of
merry hell around here. They call
her the Flame"
He chuckles. 20 my jesus" he re-
peats, she's one sonuvagunl" and
again, for a hidebound trade union
ist tied up in the facts" his eyes
pop open with a mysterious delight.
V.
| CLIMB the long hill, Below, the
l bridge over Blackstone River; the
mills, low, spreading, silent. There
are no cops, no guardsmen their
chins buckled up to be seen here,
only the mills quiet as tombs,
barred up, smokeless. Houses here
like the houses in all mill towns.
Framework weather beaten; win
dows that hide from the sunlight;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29

NEW YORK reporters are a hard
~ boiled lot and ordinarily they do
not fall for the alleged "sob-stuff''
which they brew for the metropoli-
tan dailies, but even when they
stumble upon a genuinely tragic
story they are rarely awake to the
real cause and effect of the incident.
A runaway orphan story-always
good human interest material
broke several days ago and those
dailies which ran the story played
up the red tape angle which seemed
to be blighting working class
family's existence. None Of the &C
coufts-penned for the most part by
honest but astigmstic rewrite men
placed the blame where it belonged,
namely on the heartless order Of
life which capitalism spawns.
The facts of the story we're simple
A tin1id and sensitive eleven-year-
old boy of italian parentage, Amelio
Valerza, who had lived in charity
institutions all his life since the
death of his mother in child birth,
ran away from Catholic orphan
age to which he was latterly con-
fined. After cumming ride in
truck carrying bananas he appeared
at the home of his father, Joseph
Valenza, ragged and travel worm
He told his father and later the
police, that he did not like the
orphanage because they taught me
bad things there and the big boys
beat me and what they gave me to
eat was no good"
The father, simple and affec-
tionate man in his late forties, who
had once owned a small grocery store
but was now penniless and jobless
and a recipient of home relief, was
overjoyed to have his child back
with him. Out Of the meagre relief
check which he received for himself
and his other two children he
bought cheap but clean clothes for
Amelio and assured him he would
not have to go back to the orphan
age. Originally he had tried to
effect the boys release from a SINH
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29
Notes on an Election
Tour by C.P. Candidate
For Gov. of Minnesota

, and before long, I was keeping
pace with the Young Communist
League organizer packing butter
Good butter too. Even the Halonen-
it's (anti-Communist) stores are
foro2d to sell the cooperative CFSed)
butter because the customers de-
mand it. A pleasant thrill goes up
ones spine when one hears it. It
is our creamery; the creamery
that is always good for enough but
ter to carry through the Comrnu-
mist Party District Training School
held annually; the creamery that
established a milk station for the
workers when the farmers went on
strike to force Bridgeman and RUS
sci to shell cut better prices to the
farmers for milk; the creamery
that always sends generous dona-
tionS when the International Labor
Defense OF other working class or
gani2atioas are up against it. And
right on the desk, alongside the
ledger and adding machine, is the
Daily Worker, the New Masses, the
Farmers National Weekly-sll for
sale Not bad
And if you want literature sold,
take along the manager of a CO.
operative store. We took along the
manager of the Cook Cooperative
store to International Falls, way on
the Canadian border, or rather the
manager took us in his car. There
wasn't any paper mill worker that
left the meeting without q PAM
left the meeting without pamph-
let. And at Ely, MINI, where the
workers whispered as they passed
by and dropped a dime into the hat
Of the Coop manager who was
taking up the collections. There we
spoke off the oil station lot of the
workers cooperative, and through
q loud speaker mounted on a CO.
op truck. The loud speaker came in
handy. Dozens of miners who were
afraid to risk being seen near a
Communist election rally, listened
in easily two blocks away while
looking at pair of boots in the
store window.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29
Beridti

I'VE come into Bemidn. No trouble
w locating the Section Organizer.
Communists are we'll known in
Bemidji. They moved the relief Of
flee from a ground floor to the
third floor. They thought that the
Reds" wouldn't be able to get up
there as easy with their committees
fighting for more relief But they
were mistaken. Bemidji workers,
now that they have sawed off most
of the lumber around there; are
not going to starYe. They have seen
their men and women Jailed and
beaten fighting for relief. But that
does not stop them. They have a
fighting Womenis Council.
In the streets of Bemidji they are
selling xle Daily Worker and the
Farmers National Weekly. And
when the Party has a convention
or any large doing in Duluth or
Minneapolis, the whole family men,
women and children. hop a freight
and get there. The Reds are in
Bemidji to stay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29
Grand Rapids
GRAND RAPIDS is new territory

GRAND RAPIDS is new territory"
V All know is that a meeting
will be held opposite the main hotel.
1t began to look bad as the time
for the meeting approached and
no one shows up. A big fellow was
distributing leaflets, a member of
the Party who is farming about
twenty miles from town. A farmer
helping the workers to organize.
Only he, his wife and I. No one
else on the corner. Kind of a lone
some job to start speaking to two
people. But the size of the farmer,
his evident militancy gives one
courage. I dragged out chair from
a pool room and started speaking.
Fifteen minutes later there is a
good crowd.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29
Proctnr

IN Proctor, another steel plant con-
4 troled town where the railroad
shops is the principal industry,
there was a good attendance at the
open air meeting. The youth list
ened attentively. Not much of a
future for them in Proctor. The
number of railroad workers in the
shops have been reduced from a
couple of thousand to a couple of
hundred. And the boys who left
Proctor to hit the rails are not
sending any glowing reports of the
jungles, missions and Salvation
Armies, nor of the soup in the jails
which house" many of the wan
dering youth.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29
Pierre Degeyter Club
Musicale

Musical evening by the Pierre
Degeyter Club for the benefit of the
Macaulay strikers, Sunday, Sept. 30,
at 8 p. m, at S E. 10th st. The
program will include Mass Singing
led by r. H. Solomon. and Schu-
bert's Forellon by the Pierre Doggy
ter Quintette. Speaker, Meyer
Schapiro.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29
Music Notes
Otto KIemperer With
Philharmonic

Otto Klemperer, who will conduct
the first four weeks of the New York
Philharmonic Symptoms season, is
due today on the Aquitania. His
first concert Thursday night will in
troduce to New York audiences
Hindemith's symphony Mathis the
Painter"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29
COOperatiYes

IT was my first opportunity to see
the workers and farmers CO.
operative stores and creameries
functioning. In the Cooperative
Creamery in Virginia, MINI. the
comrades placed an apron on me.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29
BY ALFRED HAYES

EFTHAT night (Saylesville) you
couldn't see where you were
going. The boys knocked all the
lights out and it was dark as hell
and you could hear the whistles
blowing and then they'd see some
N. G.'s and bang the rocks would
fly and then you'd get the gas
choking you. Jesus, you'd run
one step here and you'd hit some
woman fainting and you'd run
one step and you'd hit some guy
bleeding. The cars had to put
their heads out or the boys bust
them. Somebody said Sylvia came
down in his car and the boys
yelled, turn them goddam lights
of, and he wouldn't and they took
him out Of the car and beat the
livin' hell out of him"
II.
LIE leans forward, shouts: When
AZ this strike is over do you know
what the bosses will be? Your SER
vantsl"
A laugh, embarrassed, goes up in
the Strike hall. Men turn to each
other and grin here in Borgia Hall
in the North End of Providence.
Think! The boss will be their SER
want! The laugh swells, awkwardly.
A new thought has crept into their
minds, hint of power that has
nothing to do with the demagogy of
the local U. T. w. organizer. Men
look at each o,her and laugh, won
deringly, boyishly Organization,
power. The boss will be their SER
vantl They laugh and laugh.
The meeting breaks up slowly,
The workers drift down into the
dark street. There is barbed wire at
the street-end, brand new barbed
wire stretched across the street a
block away from the Wanskuck
Mills. On the sidewalk stands a
short, stout dark woman She is
looking with hatred at the cop in
the raincoat in Colatti's Lunch.
Shoot" she says, lis it a law they
must shoot to kill? They're mean
Burgers. But some day they'll get
paid back, don't worry"
In the darkness clumps of men
have drifted over to Esek Hopkins
Park, a small patch of green with a
comfort station. Suddenly three
small sedanS, cops cars, drive up.
They halt outside the meeting hall.
Beside me somebody whispers, LET
EN- have It'll" Six or seven young
workers bend and straighten, move
away slowly, their hands behind
their backs.
Look at them maneuvering for
position" laughs a weaver beside
me. The boys have clustered around
the comfort station. Down the
street the cops have gotten out of
the cars. They wear steel helmets.
All lights have been turned on the
sedans. Again the whisper, LET
EN- have itw A shower of rocks,
stones crash against the sedans.
The cops duck, dodge, sneak up
against the cars, hiding. They make
no move to attack the hundreds of
workers in the park. Rocks are too
good for them shooting bastards,"
somebody mutters in the darkness.
III.
HANOTHER time wise guy bus
n driver tries to break through
our lines. Hey, you, Mike yells
out, you put that truck through
here again ard I'll bust all yer
goddom winders. Yeah, the wise
guy Gays, and shifts his gears.
Mike puts his fist with nothing
on 1t three times through the
winders. His hand comes out all
bloody"
w.
uES an old timer. Left the mills
ii in Fall River eleven years ago,
worked as weaver until he was
forty years old. Now he has little
home in Jamaica. Bound for Fall
River oooin coo COMA Of tho hove
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29
BY S. K. DAVIS
Communist Party Candidate for
Governor Of lEinnasota)

Communist Party Candidate for
Governor Of 1Ei1nesota)
just returned from a three weeks
tour Of the northern half of
Minnesota. Since it is the first time
that I made such an extensive
tour, 1 wish to share my impress
Slons with the readers Of the Daily
Worker and the Tyornies, the Fin
nlsh daily which has quite 2 large
circulation in that territory.
Gary
IN Gary, On the western outskirts
Of Duluth, where the United
States Steel Corporation has a steel
plant, steel plant workers crowded
around the speakers, paying no at
tention to the COD and the stool
pigeons that hung around. They
nave a company union in the steel
plant. Everything is fair. Half and
half. Half steel plant men and half
steel plant employees On the ad-
Justment committee. But when a
vote is taken on matter of inter
est to the employees there are al
ways a few of the so-can2d rsgly-
sentatives of the employees who
vote with the bosses. Now the steel
plant workers are putting UP a
hight that the voting by the ad-
lustment committee should be in
the open so that they can smoke
out the stool pigeons on the COM
mittee. So far they are not or
ganized, A big job on the hands of
the comrades in Duluth.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29

uE'S an old timer. Left the mills
III in Fall River eleven years ago,
worked as a weaver until he was
forty years old. Now he has little
home in Jamaica. Bound for Fall
River again, see some of the boys,
some of his family, We get talking
the strike He remembers with Bit
terness how before the war, way
Evening star., 1934-10-13

sign new tax system, constitutional
limitation Of the general tax levy,
advocated in the National Association
of Real Estate Boards for all States,
Is being actively considered.
Other States Active.
In Colorado tax action fo- real
estate relief is now centering on q
proposed IS to 20 mill overall limi-
tation; is mills in the rural districts
and 20 in the cities.
In Michigan, where Arthur J. Lacy,
former chairman of the property
owners division of the National Asso-
citation of Real Estate Boards, has won
the Democratic nomination for Gov.
ernor. and where Andrew Moore, also
former chairman Of that division.
will be Senate leader. pending legis-
lative action to stop local gaps in the
States well-established overall tan
limitation Gin home-rule cities) initis-
tive petitions are bringing local ac-
ton TO place the localities affected
within the limitation.
Platforms Of both major political
parties in Pennsylvania make notably
specific commitments for real estate
tax relief. Connecticut is another
State where both major parties are
pledged by their platforms to insti-
tute more equitable tax distribution.