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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22

your business?"
Real estate" He grinned. 1t
was the first sign Of amusement
that showed on his worried face.
Now look at me-"
Haven't things picked up any
since the government came in here?"
Not much. Whatever improve
ments there have been are mostly
Of a seasonal nature"
What does it cost you to live
here?"
He smiled. Nothing. I have
nothing. I've hooked everything I
ever had after we drew out the
money I had saved up. We had it
in two banks. From one of them
I got 80 cents on the dollar and
from the other nothing. That went
long ago. Our food have wife
and two children-comes from the
organizations. But I guess what
you mean is the price Of food for
those who can buy. That's gone
up, anywhere from 20 to so per
cent of what it was before the N.
r. A. came in here"
Wholesalers and retailers contend
that because of the N. r. A. they
had to raise" wages and cut hours
which made it necessary for them
to increase the cost of foodstuffs.
Since general conditions have not
improved and wages have actually
been reduced instead of raised, this
has served merely to put essential
food stuffs like bread, milk and
meats out of the reach of thousands
of people"
"The governments firing men,
not hiring them" I finally said.
He nodded glumly. Il know, but
they must have some kind of work
before everybody's let go. I've got
to get q job no matter what it
pays. This relief food is not enough
for us"
"what1l you do if you can't get
a job?"
He stared at the information desk
visible in the corridor from where
we sat. He shook his head slowly.
Just live on charity, I guess"
he said slowly.
"All charity money is now COM
ing from the government" I said.
"And that can't keep up indefl-
nitely."
TT better keep up - somehow,
someway," he said grinly. I'm a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22
Revitalize Our Slogan
of ''Face to the
Factories

units in the city. The result is that
with scores of comrades in each de-
partment, with functioning units
and vell-attended meetings, never
theless, the political life of these
units is dampened, because the gen.
eral campaigns of the Party, as
well as the relations between the
leadership and the members of the
shop nucleus are bad.
This can be explained probably
by the fact that on the Section
Committee, out of Is members, only
one il @ steel worker, in spite Of
the fact that the steel member
ship in the city makes up about
IS per cent of the total. These
problems must receive serious at
tention at the coming section con-
ventions, District, as we'll as the
National convention of our Party.
Face to the factories and con-
centration is but an empty phrase,
unless our best forces, leading party
committees and Party campaigns
are so coordinated and directed to
reach the workers in the basic in
dustry. Only then will we be able
to solve the problems of factory
and the building Of trade
unions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22

well as of our Union. were faced
with lay-offs. We initiated meet
lngs. The workers responded, and
as q result of this movement. most
of the workers were given Jobs on
other operations. In the sheet
mill, so Negro openers demanded
pay for dead work. They were
gotten together to a meeting for the
first time in the history of the plant.
The Negro workers elected their
own committee and went up to the
company office. The superin-
tendent refused to see them because
they we're Negroes. But t. next
day the demand was granted,
amounting to an increase of about
S1.50 week, because we modified
the support of the white workers.
These partial struggles were con-
nected up with the exposure of the
N. r. a., and the popularization of
our Union. In the course of these
actions, our union continually
gained membership.
This 81 how the present condi-
lions necessitate new methods OF
organization in connection with the
exposure of the N. r. A. and the
building of our Union.
Our General Campaign and
Concentration
Our work in the factories at
present mainly suffers from the
lack of understanding as to what
concentration really is. For ex-
ample: These actions mentioned
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22
Pre-Conyention Discussion

of the company union, etc, is very
much concretized. This sort of
concentration" actually binders
concentration and hampers the shop
nucleus to carry on political &C.
tivity in the factory, It divorces
cur economic fight from political
struggles and hampers the growth
of our Party and union. Comrades
say that you cannot give up gen.
eral activity, but this is incorrect.
The success of our activity in the
streets and neighborhoods mainly
depends upon the success in mobi-
LIKING the workers in the factories,
A movement Of $4,000 workers in
single plant would automatically
have reviving effect upon all our
activity. But it will never work
the other way around. These are
the lessons and meaning of con-
centration. 1t really means all our
forces for factory work even at the
expense of having some of our
secondary work suffer.
Shop Nucleus and Party Leadership
The functioning Of our shop
nucleus in the Bethlehem Steel
Plant and It's work is of tremend-
GUS significance. IF you compare
the fluctuation IN the shop nu-
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WOR-710 X

Torrance was disturbed. How about
some show there, comrades, of revo-
lutionary discipline, not to speak Of
courtesy and musical taste?
THE Degeyter Club is growing
l rapidly in size and in import
ance. 1t must put on more shows
of the musical worth of last Fri
days. It must also show a more
consistent policy in discussion and
in planning, Not only must its
political grasp of music be sharper
and firmer, but it must penetrate
and dispel the mystery in the minds
of many of its members in regard
to the inevitable identity of revo-
lutionary technique and revolution
airy content. No musician today
can live without Illustration and
inner conflict in a musical eight
zenith century boudoir while pro-
testing a verbal, twentieth century
adherence to the party of Marx and
Lenin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22
Leaders of the PrOIetarian Red
Army of the U.S.S.R
Reviewed by Earl BROWDER

VII
JOHN YAKIR was born In 1896
in Kishenev (Besssrabia). He took
an early part in the revolutionary
student movement. He joined the
Bolshevik Party in 1917. During
the Civil War, Yakir was active in
the front and the rear of the enemy
in Roumania. He organized the
45th Division of the Ukrainian Red
Army and headed the breaking
through of the Southern Front Of
the Whites.
In 1925, Yakir was appointed
Chief of the Kiev Military District
and in 1927 was head of the Mill
tary Schools of the Red Army. He
is member of the Political Bureau
of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of the Ukraine
and Commander of the Ukrainian
Military District, as we'll as mem
Der of the Supreme Revolutionary
Military Council,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22
Must Take Up the Daily
Grievances of Workers,
Large and Small
BY M. H. POWERS

Our experiences during the past
month proves that concentration
means to take up the daily grew
ances of the workers, no matter how
small. In the Sheet Mill in Spar
rows Point the nd-shearmen
were faced with a wage-cut of 40
per cent. 1t only effected some
u or Is workers. These workers
were all non-union members. In
spite of this, our comrades man
aged to get them together, elect
committee of action and protest
against the wage-cut. The result,
the wage-cut was stopped. In the
Sheet Mill again, some SO workers
were modified through our con-
tact, to go up to the company Of
flee and demand one hours pay
when reporting to work and when
told that there is no work for them.
The company was forced to grant
them the demand, with a result
that now all the workers report
ing to work get rs cents when
turned down.
In the mill, new shearing
machine ives installed. Many work
ers. members of the A. F. L., as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22
WHAT'S ON
Thursday

WORKERS SCHOOL SPRING TERM, IS
E. 18th St, New York Second week of
registration. Register now before it is too
late.
ALL WORKERS Book Shops are now
conducting a 90 to so per cent Discount
Sale. Also Circulating Library at New
York Workers Book Shop, SO E, 18th st.
MORRIS KANfdAN speaks on THE
Role Of the Daily Worker in the Reyo-
lutionary Struggles Of the Austrian Work
ers" at the Middle Bronx Workers Club
492 Claremont Parkway, Bronx. $50 pm.
MEETING Of the Short Wave Radio
Club Of America at the Middle Bronx
Workers Club, 432 Claremont Parkway,
$50 pm. All comrades capable Of teach
ing the Morse Code are urged to attend,
TOM TRUESDALE speaks on THE Ne
gro in the Professions" at the Pen and
Hammer Club, ia W. 21st St, $3.50 pm.
IMPORTANT Meeting Potamkin Film
School at 10 E. 18th St., 800 pm. All
students of school urged to be present.
THE SOVIET SYSTEM Contrssted with
Parliamentary System lecture by Theo-
dore Bayer at West Side Br FS.U., 2642
Broadway at Tooth St, pm. Adm free.
IMPORTANT Membership Meeting Tom
Mooney Br. LID, 323 E. 18th St, SIS
pm. Lawrence Emery will speak on the
Organization of the LID. All welcome
REPORT on the LID. Bazaar at 1903
E. 14th St., Room 3o4, 75o pm Dele
gates can settle for tickets at this meet
ing.
STRUGGLES Of the Western WORKERS
q first hand account by Belle Taub at
the Edith Berkman Br. LID. and Boro
Park Workers Club, 47o4 18th Ave, Brook
lyn, $50 pm.
FRIDAY
SYMPOSIUM on How to Stop the Next
War" Speakers Annie Gray, Harold
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22
Browder Reviews Report of
Stain to 18th Party Congress

He: With the sowing. Cemrade
Stain? We have Modified our
selves. tLaughter).
1: Well, and what then?
He: We have put the question
bluntly. tLaughter).
L: And What next?
He: There is a turn. COmrade
Stain; soon there will be a turn.
0aughterl.
/: But still?
He: We can observe some prog
resS. lLaughter).
I: But for all that, how are you
getting on with the sowing?
He: Nothing has come of the
sowing as yet, Comrade Stain.
General laughter.
This little story deserves fully as
much attention on our part in the
U. S. A. as the deep and clear ana
lysis given of the world situation
and the problems Of Socialist con-
struction. We Also and perhaps
more than others, have our chat
terboxes who can talk by the hour
and repeat all the slogans so long
as they are abstract enough, but
cannot carry out in practice the
first simple tasks Of the workers
struggle. Bolshevik responsibility,
the relentless carrying through in
reality Of the agreed-upon line Of
action, is the lesson being learned
from Stain by the workers of the
entire world. Small wonder that
all traitors and weaklings hate the
name-it is for the same reasons
that the masses love it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22
By JOHN L. SPIvAK

NEW ORLEANS, La.-On
a wooden bench in the C.W.A.
building l sat beside a man
who was waiting to be inter
viewed before his plea for any
kind Of work was passed upon. We
had q long talk, and what he said
I heard from others in this same
building, in Offices and on the
streets
At first he thought I was there
for a job too, for he eyed my over
coat carefully and said:
You'll never get a job with that
coat on you, better hoIk it; then
maybe they'll give you something
to do. Mine went long ago."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
BY SENDER GARLIN.

WILLIAM GROPPER, the brilliant revolutionary artist,
" is the subject of a leading editorial in the Socialist
Jewish Daily Forward "a Communist and His Con-
science" is the heading the mpassoned editorial which
asas Copper-n vicious mpotene-for having taken
project under the direction OF the Regional
Committee Of Public Works of Art.
argues the Forward Communists fighting the Roose
welt gm-how that Communist artist is taking
ney enemy?
The ouburst followed the publication OF
ont-page story Tribune exposing the fact that the
Daily Worker Morning cartoon receiving $38
making white drawings athletes decorate the
walls public school cassrooms
There is among artist cartoonis and he is
William his name writes the
IF other Communists
other Communists simply walk Gropper runs where otn
shrieks In brief what Communist
Current jazz translation. and how!")
There is no newspaper which will
Soviet Russia he is popular
found the OF the
Little Father Particularly Chopper against the Social
friendship with Roosevt MIRA and
other projects provide work for
Chopper for all Communists the whole N
which all What does
below? Well he poked around
poked that this holy shouter
excellence whose Communism has the seal
this Communist pork the table Roosevts
Of the NRA, which provides
the PVAP and Gropper is in the
reporter of the
asked him. Well? And Chopper
swered witly My work is worth much more than that
the of the Tribune this perhaps
that takes from the Communist
on which question remains you
unholy money and carry it to the Communists"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22
Phil Bard MuraLS
In the NesV York
Workers Center.
By WILLIAM sIEGEL

nIGNIFIED art critics and bOur-
" geois intellectuals who believe
that revolutionary art is crude"
and inferior" are cordially in
vited to visit the headquarters of
the Daily Worker Builders on the
fifth floor Of the Workers Center
in New York City and inspect the
mural paintings just completed
by Phil Bard, John Reed Club
artist.
Such critics-and particularly
those who talk about American
ism" in art-will see series Of
murals which depict the real
American scene" with an honesty
that is not to be found in the
work of any recognized" mural
painter in this country.
Instead of pale professions of
allegoric figures which signify
nothing, they will see a moving
panorama Of the class struggle
in America today - scenes in
which we take part and which
are foremost in the minds of
workers and revolutionary intel
lectuals.
This picture of contemporary
America opens with a mural rep
resenting farm foreclosure.
It shows the farmers struggling
with the militia and burning the
mortgage. The next large panel
shows the revolt Of the industrial
workers miners, steel workers,
lumbermen-who threaten the fat
capitalist who is about to devour
a whole pig.
This is followed by the familiar
theme Of starvation amidst plenty.
Unemployed workers search the
garbage cans for food, while
Roosevelt grins at them near an
empty plate over which hovers
the Blue Buzzard,
At right angles to this story of
America today is another mural
the largest one of all-depict-
ing, in contrast, the great achieve
ments of the Soviet people.
Around portraits of the leaders of
the working class are woven SYM
bols of all the great victories of
the Soviet Union. This painting
is an epic which synthesizes the
gigantic industrial, agricultural,
scientific, educational, and artistic
accomplishments Of victorious
working class.
THE idea for these murals origin
l ated few months ago, when
a competition was announced by
the John Reed Club of New York
for mural design for the Daily
Worker Builders room. A number
Of designs were submitted. From
these Phil Bard's sketches were
selected.
The murals had to be painted
under the most adverse condi-
tions. Being a true revolutionary
artist, Bard was not easily dis
couraged and he completed the
project with practically no assist
ance.
Inspired by this outstanding
example Of revolutionary mural
painting, other working class or
CARNATIONS are planning to have
similar paintings on their club
room walls. In order to select
designs for these new projects, the
John Reed Club of New York is
going to hold an exhibition of
mural sketches to be opened
May LIST.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22

Hickerson, Norman Tallentire and Sadie
Van Veen. Auspices Of Ella May Branch
LID. at TWO Center, 1873 4srd Street,
Brooklyn, $40 IN.
ANTI-FASCIsT and Scottsboro Meeting
caned by Scottsboro Br. LID. at Temple
Club, 9el Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, $40
pm. Speakers; Rabbi Goldstein, J, W,
Wise. and Joseph Taubsr. chairman
LECTURE "ons Year Of Hitler and What
Next" ct fremont Prog. Club, s66 z,
fremont Ave s;45 pm
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81 hLAN. hEEOhl6s luttTuhE4tiAAl
Publishers, Ss1 Fourth Ave, New
York. IS pages. Ten Cents.
Reviewed by EARL BROWDER
uERE Is the complete text of Sta
II Inns historic report to the 18th
Congress Of the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union, in a handy
book form. A large edition makes
it available at small cost, political
consideration, because this is a do
cument for mass distribution and
study. It is indispensable for every
one who wishes to know what is 60
ing on in the world. For the workers
generally it is a revelation of the
meaning Of the phrase building So
cialism"; for the Party member and
leader it is daily textbook Of Boil
shevism.
1t will go into many editions, and
become one of the classics Of revolu-
tionary literature. First presented
to America in an abridged cable re-
port covering two pages of the Daily
Worker, the complete report is now
given us in a 96-page booklet. The
cover photo of Stain delivering his
report, showing other Bolshevik
leaders listening with broad smiles,
was taken when Stain was telling
the already-famous story about the
"chatterbox" (page 87-88).
Here is the conversation, as told
by Stain:
/: How are yOu getting on with
the sowing?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22
Extra! Extra!

THIS expose Chopper funny.
past in the influential Of the
bourgeois revolutionary publications 1919 to 1925
revolutionary outtand
ing cartoonist Chopper
Tribune the World for the New York American His
illustrations authors helped ven the
sodgy it
Willard the old from the Nation His
appeared Vanity Fair, the Bookman
we'll in Shadowland
that time Choppers and by
literally millions of country back 1921 he
which had broken the of the Socialist
Party
Later his devastating cartoons appeared the Iibeo the Work
Monthly the Weekly well the Daily Worker the Labor
fender the New Masses addition foreignanguage
Communist published cities the United
Gropper incidentally, nearly books
Shadows Men" Tuly
Cowboy" Necessary Nonsense"
Burgess Others What Chopper
sdered critics
the political philosophy implicit in his
Chopper week. working for the Tribune and
other publications. neither the Tribune
exposes" of him. But when he himself into
revolutionary and his barb miserable
defended with equal both the Herald Tribune Socialist
"Forward"-then Chopper must Exposed"
Exposed did say? Certainly fight N. r.
certainly show the nadequacy the C.. A.
Forward" tries revolutionary
accepting government
again its utter charatanism For
W. work but rather for
c. W. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22

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l0:0O-Canadisn Program
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Philadelphia

FIST Annual Ball given by Workers
Gu al and Sports Club Of Strawberry
Ma N on Friday, March az, at Savoy
Plage 1851 North Broad St. Featuring
Dave Kantor and his orchestra,
COMMEMORATE the Paris Commune,
Friday, March %, 8 pm. Main Speaker:
Joseph Brodsky, Program John Reed Club,
Nature Friends, Famous North Carolina
Singers. Ambassador Hall, ITO N. Broad
Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22

How Ions
have you been
out Of a iob?"
"A little over
a year. Things
b e e n getting
worse all the
time. I h a d
some m n e v
saved, but that
We Mt months
ago. I used to
get SIS a week, "
he added, but
that was long
ago." He smiled
wistfully.
What wa S
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22
In
ToNIGHT's PROGRAM

WEAF-660 Kc.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22
Why They Hate Gropper

THE Jewish Daily Forward has good
his powerful cartoons biting
rpt Bureaucracy the Socialist
needle
per is the best evidence of his effectiveness fighting
tried to rangle militant trade unonism
About five
in charge complaint was brought
by the late Morris Sgman the time
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
Louis Brodss court that and
graduating from school Sgman didn't his
charges, al points he
couldn't collect much in damages Gropper!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22
ChicnCO. III,

CARL HAEsSLER will speak before the
John Reed Club, 1475 S. Michigan Ave.
this Saturday, pm. on China, the New
American Frontier"
Dao41n Mocc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22
you'll Never Get a JOl
With a Coat; Hook 1t!

good American and I've always be,
honest and law abiding but"
He did not finish. just sat the
with his shoulders hunched. stsrin
at the information desk.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22

Although they that trying get publicity the
comrades charge IS East 18th St New
YORK point out as matter objective lion that the
book shop in today which conducting
1000 per cent discount SALE which
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22
Boston, Mass.

MONSTER Annual LID. Ball on Fri
dav. March 23, at Repertory Hall, Hun
tington Ave. near Mass. Ave. Adm. S5c.
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Fridnu

SYMPOSIUM on How to Stop the Next
War" Speakers: Annie Gray, Harold
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