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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-08
2 Pennsylvania Farmers
Pledge Anti-W ar Work
Rv . Farmer CORRESPONDENT.

HLLTOWN PaDing National Defense Week.
Of the locals the United Protective
At this meeting discussed preparations
sentiment
sent resolution the President National Defense They
said A President National Defense
American find how
wish to inform that opposed such
That producers Of food will
war; and that the paying
war" while know profits
There opposition
sania It is that unite organizations opposed
to in broad united front against and Hascs
ready action.
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A BOOST FOR WHY COMMU.
NISM"
Detroit Mich

Editor Daily Worker:
So many workers have written in
to the Daily Worker expressing their
appreciation OF Comrade Olgin's
pamphlet Why Communism" that
too feel like throwing my hat in
the ring. IN my many years in the
revolutionary movement, reading
hundreds of pamphlets, have not
yet come across piece OF literature
that hits the nail right on the head
like why Communism" Written in
the language that the worker can
understand. one only wishes that
there were many more pamphlets
written in that style. Unfortunately,
many Of our writer's write too aca-
demically for the workers to under
stand. It is one pamphlet that
should be distributed on mass scale
if only our comrades would get to
work.
We have a big field ahead III US
and the workers are clamoring for
literature that will explain to them
the problems that confront them,
If only it viii be brought to their
attention As it is, when a new
pamphlet comes Off the press, most
Of our comrades buy one copy for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-08
By D. 2. MANULSKY
Article XVI


sFIE drsJ improvements to be IN
! troduced into Workin class quar-
srs were, as a rule, street cars,
7ater supply and sewers. New
rect car systems have been built
large working class centers,
lch as Baku, Grozny, SverdloVsk,
fakeyevka, dolotovo, Chelyabinsk,
talino, ETC. Many palaces, clubs,
az nurseries, schools, sanatoriums,
inics, hospitals, forest schools, rest
ONES, parks of culture and rest,
Universities, factory kitchens, etc,
C., have been built. All for the
orkers, for their wives and chill
ren. They say that socialist"
Jenna is redeeming winter clothing
ON the pawnshopS for some cat
yories Of the unemployed. But the
J.. S. S. r. has developed a speed OF
disqualification, socialist construc-
on, unprecendented in the history
mankind, destroying the terrible
3ourge Of unemployment entirely
n one-sixth Of the globe. They
~ that Vienna has developed q
shool system. In the U. S. S. r.,
100000 workers and peasants are
5udying in universities, colleges,
lorkers' faculties ad trade schools
+ the expense Of the government.
lne half OF the whole population
f the country is taking part in
ONE form Of study. The cir
ulation Of newspapers has in
reased from 100000 to 10000 600.
During the last ten years, thirty
)illion rubles have been spent on
ocial and cultural construction.
And what is the Soviet power
loing in the mater Of mastering
eehnicaI knowledge? During the
asst three years the number Of en-
dneers ana Jechnicians in the
ountry has increased four fold. In
$50 there were $1,000 engineers
nd technicians in heavy industry
done, while in 1892 the number
lad increased to 226,000 Seventy
Der cent of the students in Soviet
universities are industrial WOEh6IS
and collective farmers
Is the Working Class Responsible
for the Defeat Of Democracy?
And yet Otto Bauer wonders why
democracy" has lost prestige among
he workers. Almost a century and
half has passed since the great
ional working class has seen dem
)cracy" at work. Through its own
experience, it has come to realize
is true nature.
Since 1918 the Austrian workers
lave sustained more than one blow
rom this democracy" i. e., cap
talism in the republican form Of
he bourgeois dictatorship. But
ince then they have seen the pro-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-08
Unity of Cannery Workers in San Pedro
Plant Wins All Demands in 6-Day Strike
Union, With Aid of Young Communist
League, Helps in Struggle

down anyway. Three A. P. Of L.
members working in the plant tried
to mislead the workers by telling
them that the N.R.A. would take
care Of them, and settle the strike.
At a mass meeting demands were
raised as follows:
y Decent drinking water and bet
ter sanitary conditions.
o Time clock to be reinstaIled.
CThe time clock had been taken out
SO the workers could not know how
many hours they had worked.
81 The boss and foreman TO re-
frain from using vile and abusive
language, and the use OF such ex-
pressions as Snap it up" or Make
it snappy"
q No worker to be fired for his
or her union or strike activities.
81 Recognition Of the F.C.WI.U.
and grievance committees In the
plant.
g. Regular meals at $50 even II
there Is only one hour more to work
y Full so minutes for lunch.
All these demands, including the
demands for wage increases, were
won after a six day battle.
Other important results have been
that the plant is now organised rs
per cent in the Fishermen and Can
merry Workers Industrial Union (75
OF these members we're recruited
during the strike).
During this struggle, members OF
the Young Communist League es-
pecially distinguished themselves by
their own militancy.
The workers in the plant realize
that only because Of the solidarity
of the various races and nationali-
ties, Philippine, Mexican, Italian,
Japanese, Slavonian, and native
born Americans, as well as the vari-
Gus crafts in the plant, was this
victory won. They realize that the
correct leadership and tactics of the
F.CWIU., and the Trade Union
Unity League, which is unity of all
workers, is the only means by which
the workers can defend themselves
against attacks Of the boss-class.
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AFL Bars Struggle
For Two Workers
Fired On Hog Kill
DIV a Worker Correspondent


OMAHA, Neb.-About six weeks
ago the A. F. Of L. union in the
Dolds packing plant had a com
mittee on the hog kill, a sort Of a
grievance committee. Especially
two Of these workers were very
militant, and demanded that things
should be improved there. They
went after the boss strongly, and
the rest Of the fellows on the kill
began more and more to support
their committee openly.
One day the boss came along and
told these two fellows that the gang
would be cut. and they would be
laid of. The funny part is that
the gang has been cut much lower
before, and these two fellows who
had been working there q long
time have been kept on. Now they
were laid off.
Everybody realizes why these two
fellows were fred. and it was taken
up with the A. F. OF L. heads. They
sent a letter to the II. r. a. re-
gionaI committee, but the letter
was forwarded to washington.
After six weeks 6 letter comes back
stating that the workers in the hog
kill must sign an affidavit to the
effect that these two workers were.
fired, and this is to be sent in to
Washington.
When ANYTHING Ike this hap-
pened On the beef Kill all the
workers there Just walked up and
told the boss that il he wouldn't
take back so and 50. everybody
would walk off the kill. This ai-
ways brc2gl-5 a good result. But
now the a. 7. Of L. officials don't
want any struggle and now they
are actually helping The company
to keep these two militant workers
OF the kill by refusing TO help to
develop a struggle right on the hog
kill for the reinstatement OF these
two work..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-08
RED" Vienna Built Houses:
USSR Destroyed Landlords
Austrian S. P. Leaders Turn SOciaI-Fascist
To Defend Capitalist Democracy

letartan revolution in the o. S. S. r.
They have seen the party OF the
working class in the U. S. S. R., the
Bolshevi& Party, tackling the gil
gantic work Of the socialist con-
Struction. Socialism in the U. s.
S. R. has not yet completely killed
the faith Of the International
working class in democracy" but
it is killing it every day, and will
ultimately kill it for good. And the
fact that the Austrian workers are
not showing enthusiasm in the de-
tense Of democracy" now is no
proof at all Of q counter-reyolu-
tiOnary situation, but is an express
sion Of the. process Of rehabilitation
going on among the working class.
This is only the first stage OF
rehabilitation as yet, in which the
Reputation Of democracy has not
yet turned into revolutionary action
on the part Of the masses. The
central question is whether the
establishments will be able to
restrain the transition of the
masses from the reputation of
democracy to the revolutionary
struggle Tor the proletarian dictator
ship. If we suppose that social
democracy might succeed in this, it
would mean nothing more or less
than the victory Of faScism. Fas-
cism would corquer-and could not
help conqueIIng, if there were COM
plete passiyity on the part of the
working class, which has lost its
faith in the bourgeois democracy.
And therefore Otto Bauer and his
party, by doing everything possible
to prevent this transition, dragging
the wClkin class backwards to an
objactively hopeless cause which is
historically out-of-date, are only
assisting fasCism.
And now Otto Bauer fastens res
possibility on the workers for the
bankruptcy OF social democracy
policy If fascism IS increasing in
Austria, then it is just because the
workers are not defending demo-
crazy enough, says Bauer. If Braun,
Sevaring and GrezinsIzi wer e
thrown out Of the Prussian govern
ment, it was because the German
working class did not move q finger
to prevent it. But why should the
German workers defend" Gree
sinski and Severing when they are
not defended by their own Party
Executive Committee, when they
are not defended BY their own So
ciaI-de1nocratic police, when both
they themselves and the Party
Executive Committee shun any
defense" Of the masses like the
plague, realizing that working class
mass action will go beyond mere
defense OF the Prussian govern
ment and lead to struggle against
the capitalist system in generals
ITO Ee CorCinuec)
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80 DOcEot
,kGGASHaQe'1
>AdG,dAea:
BY PAUL LUTTNGER, MD.

centrate in my right side Of the
neck, shoulder, elbow and wrist. At
first 1t wasn't so bad, later 1t got
worse so I couldn't bend my head
to the right, then my hand troubled
me days and nights. I have been
rubbing them with liniments. but
they didn't help.
Then the pain penstrAted TO my
kness. At first it wasn't steady and
so bad, then later Il began to
trouble me steadily and the pains
got sharper and another trouble
was added to my pains. Each time
I was In q sitting position to mark
the marble down below, have been.
getting cramps in my feet and this
happened Just when I was very
warm from work. The same began
to happen to my right hand when
I had to nove it UP and down. The
cramps have started In the knees
and in the elbow and always In the
right side first and worst.
Ito be continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-08
FROM A FARMERS SON
By = Farmers Child Correspondent

BRANCH. Mich.-I am a farm
erS Coy. We are a family of six
brothers and three sisters. Our
father and mother bought this billy
brush 20 years ago, and worked
hard all the time to make a living
and to raise up US poor children.
Now the government is offering us
50 an acre SO that we can get off
here. 7 do not know what they
are going TO do about it yet.
OF course I know that the Com
munist way is the only way out of
all the misery here. There are a
lot OF G. C. @. camps around here.
When we ask for work on the c.
W. A. they tell me TO go to the
camps. They just seem to be crazy
to set young fellow in like me.
I am enclosing Is cents to help
along with the expense for you. I'll
try and do better next time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-08
PARTY LIFE
Cleveland Section Challenges
to Daily Yorker Competition
Detroit Workers BOOkshOp Stimulates Sales
Of Anniversary and Special Issues
Open Challenge to Socialist Co

Open Challenge to Socialist Com,
petition From Cleveland
To the Section Committee, Section
Three,
To the Membership, Section Three.
Comrades:
Comrade Browder's keynote speech
before the 18th Plenum Of the Cen
trail Committee said: 1.-THE problem
Of building the Party Is a prob
lem Of struggle for the Party line
among the masses" Comrade
Browder also indicated ''the instru-
ment Of reaching the masses" with
our political line which includes the
printed word Of which the most
important is the Daily Worker.
Our section has already chal-
lenged your section in revolutionary
competition in the recruiting drive.
So far we have recruited IA new
members and the reports are that
you have already recruited % new
members as against the quotas of
IS and 40, respectively. Inasmuch
as the campaigns OF recruitment
and the circulation Of the Daily
Worker are so closely connected, we
are, therefore, CHALLENGING you in
revolutionary competition in the
Dsily Worker circulation drive also.
Your quota is so yearly daily
subs and rs Saturday yearly subs.
Our quota is IS daily yearly subs
and so Saturday yearly subs. Our
challenge is that we will reach our
quota FIRST before the drive is
over.
Besides the sub drive we will also
continue to increase the bundle or
ders both daily and the Saturday
edition. Already in the Saturday
edition our section has increased
from so TO 100, in which all the
units in the section are involving
the membership in selling. We
pledge that by the end Of the drive
the units in our section will sell 300
Saturday papers and 100 daily
papers, including regular sales be-
fore at least two shops, before the
end of the drive.
We are determined to make this
challenge and pledge more than an
empty boast on paper but to trans
form them into revolutionary deeds.
Cornradely yours,
NJ g.,
Section Organizer,
Section IA, District s.
Editor, Daily Worker:
It may be OF some benefit to our
comrades to know one Of the meth
DDS used by the Workers Bookshop
in Detroit to stimulate the distribu-
ton Of the 10th Anniversary num-
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lives of my two sons. Yet have
Just been in police stations, jaiIs
and prisons. :"
Arrested at KlOdno, near
Prague, and thrust into filthy
dungeon, she wrote:
cat that moment I never felt so
much alone in all my life. ad-
nit that I nearly broke down and
cried. But in that very same
moment I resolved not to shed a
single tear in any boss class jail
or prison. :"
Daportsd from Czach0- Slov akia,
the two continued their tour. Eng
dahl, worn with strain, died in
Moscow.
"The workers in Moscow gave me
a beautiful candy horseshoe" re-
lates Mrs. Wright. IT wanted all
our scottsboro bows to share /. But
I'd have to break 1t into so many
pieces, it wouldn't be pretty any
more. So I keen it on the msntel-
piece, and, when the boys get out,
thew can al see it"
Mother Wright feared to make
an airplane triD from Paris to AM
sterdam until she was assured that
Engdahl had done so. "He did?"
uueried Mother Wright. We'll,
then, T guess If he isn't afraid, I'm
not either''-and fly she did.
Meanwhile-in Anerics-the case
was up for hearing before the U. s..
Supreme Court. Cyril Briggs wrote
in the Labor Defender Of Novern-
Der. 1882:
'oThe solidarity of the white
workers Of the whole world with
the prosecuted Negro masses was
dramatically demonstrated in the
court room itself, with the en-
trance of Mother Mooney, mother
Of Tom Mooney, victim Of another
notorious frame-up by the Ameri-
can ruling class. A f1unky Of
capitalism, in the person Of the
U. s. Marshal, attempted TO bar
Mrs. Mooney on the grounds that
she could have no interest in the
Scottsboro case and the fate Of
the nine Negro lads. Mother
Mooney. who. in the company OF
Richard B. Moore, Negro proIe-
tartan orator, had Travelled thou
sands of miles throughout the
United States, in defiance of the
orders of her physician, for the
ScottsbOro- Mooney defense cam
paign, brushed aside the argu-
ments of the q. S. Marshal. She
was permitted to remain"
What proletarian woman can
hear such stories as those Of
Mother Mooney and the Scottsboro
mothers, and hope to remain aloof
to refrain from participating fully
in the great effort to free the work
ers of all capitalist countries? The
grief and hopes Of one Of us are
the grief and hopes Of all Of us.
Clara Ze+kin, until her death
president of the I. r. A., stated:
every International women's
Day must be an I. L. D. day; every
I. L. D. must signify a stride for
ward in the struggle for the enan-
cipation of women. Both the one
and the other must be an offensive
against capitalism against this tor
turer and destroyer Of humanity"
Mrs. Wright is now at home in
Chattanooga, though she is ex-
pected to be IN New York again
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81
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A18##sAN ns1s, fss. - "a
.--.-.,.-s-AJ 81
HELEN LUKE
0hAzNG GLASS
MOTHERS

sL 70 0hAEdif GLASS
MOTHERS
(Eote:-Ine following brief accounts are
Acluded in our Miniatures Of our Mill
ant Women seriss)
living, breathing symbols OF the
Il victimization of proletarian
motherhood by the sweeping claws
Of CAPITALIST Justice" the two
mothers, Ada Wright and Mary
Mooney. are testimony to the fact
hat the battle Of the workingmen,
black or white. IS the battle Of the
working-Wouen. black or white;
that in the struggle Of the workers
for freedom from exploitation, the
women cannot stand aloof. none
knowing when she NAV be drawn
suddenly into the very heart Of the
struggle
The campaigns Of these two
mothers in the effort to wrest their
innocent children from the clutches
Of American imperialism have taken
them back and forth across this
continent and across the Atlantic
into Europe.
AS recently as 1882, Mary Moo
ney. then IS years old, made a tour
OF Europe in Toms behalf. during
which she attended the World Con-
gress Of the I. r. A. She has made
countless fruitless-appeals to
State and Federal executives for
the release Of her son, to Governor
Roiph and to Roosevelt, who re-
fused to see her. Now she says she
is convinced that there Is only one
voice that can demand and secure
hss freedoni--the mighty voice Of
organized labor.
The frst mass sentence Of death
was passed on the Scottsboro boys
April 10, 1881. The next day the
n7W mass protest meet was held in
Eariem in st. Luke's Hall. On April
IS the FIRST big protest parade in
Hariem was broken w by police.
June 70. Mrs. Wright (rnother Of
twc Of the bovs). who was already
campaigning in their behalf. was
excluded from mass meeting. held
BY the N.A.A,CP. in Pittsburgh.
In sprfng Of 1882 after Alabama
Supreme Court had upheld death
verdicts, the international Red Aid
invited j. Louis Engdahl and a
Scottsboro mother to tour Europe
10 publicize the frame-up.
Mrs. Wright remembers in detail
and speaks wildly of each town
through which they passed in
France. Germany. Belgium. Holland,
England. Norway, Sweden, Den
mark. Czechoslovakia and other
countries.
IN the Labor Defender Of 1882
she wrote: 'T am not strong. NV
health has heen undermined by
Iifelcne and difficult toll. I have
brou~ht seven children into the
world and did my best for them.
l am row rrore than as wears Old
-. never dreamed that I had the
stren~th to make p seven-nHntls'
tour cs the United States and then
to cross the AtISrtic and for more
th@r fovr months now to carry
on in the European Scottsbc-o
canlpaign
"But my love for my two sons
with the growing desire
10 achieve something for my
people and my class, have kept me
strong
"BUt didn't think that they
cgcr send me to jail and 10
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-08
Time of Phila.
Workers Wasted
At MGWU Meet
BY Needle Worker Correspondent

by Needle Worker Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-The lead
ership OF the international Ladies
Garment Workers Union gave us q
new lesson in dernagogy this week.
A general membership meeting Of
the silk branch of our union was
called for last Wednesday. The
turnout was tremendous. Over a
thousand workers came Everybody
was anxious to know the results Of
the so-csIled investigation, carried
On By the union, concerning the
code and the minimum scales. No
end Of complaints came into the
union that workers are making way
below the scale.
Right from the start IS was OBJ
vious that the chairman wanted to
kill time About 10 different sets Of
minutes were read and approved.
Every time someone asked ques-
zion or wanted something explained,
the chairman told them that Refs
berg will answer all questions in
his report. Then a few unimportant
matters were taken up but no dis
cussion was allowed.
Finally Reisberg started reporting.
9e told us that he had nothing to
report, that negotiations between
the committee Of the union and
the association are still going on.
There are four items up for settle
ment," he said Three Of which
are agreed on but not the fourth
And since the fourth isn't settled
nothing is settled"
On the question Of Just what are
these items, he answered he could
not tell, It's a secret. "You must
trust me-" he pleaded, "after every
thing will be settled, well let you
know through your shop chairman.
Well call a shop chairman meet
ing and tell them the results"
But before starting his report Mr..
Reisberg said that after his report
We'll have plenty Of time to dis
cuss.
When he finished his report, he
said, That's ALL" and adjourned
the meeting.
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I. L. ID. DEFEATS VICIOUS
NEW ORLEANS Law

NEW ORLEANS, La, March t.
Smashing the dangerous and sus-
picious character" ordinance which
has been used here in a whole
series Of frane-ups, and to behead
the workers movement In times Of
struggle, the International Labor
Defense has forced the release Of
Joseph Nelson, militant seaman held
for organizing the workers In the
Seamen's Institute here and sen
fenced to thirty days in jail.
The I. L. D. forced Judge Eche-
zabal to rule that the ordinance
was insufficient TO hold anyone
pending investigation"
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Der Of the Daily Worker. This idea
and others can be advantageously
utilized for any and all special Is
sues.
When the announcement was
made that there would be an An
niverSary issue Of the Daily Worker
to commemorate the ten years Of
its existence, we Immediately set
ourselves the task to dispose Of at
least 800 copies. Our success went
beyond our expectations.
First we contacted as many work
ers that came into the Bookshop
to order from us in advance as
MANY Daily Workers as they could,
explaining and emphasizing 10
them the necessity Of spreading our
paper on 8 broader scale. We also
canvassed on the outside our
friends and sympathizerS.
The result was that they took
five, ten and Is copies each. BY
the time the Anniversary issue was
ready for distribution we had ad-
vance orders for ITS copies. Many
that we spoke to we're willing to
donate nickel or a dime, provid-.
ing we gave them away ourselves
to workers that were unemployed
and who could not afford to buy &
cow themselves.
On that suggestion we obtained a
box. and wrote on it the purpose
of the fund. Surprising though It
may seem, when opening 1t we
found over 81 in It.
When the papers arrived here, we
covered the whole Of our show win
dow with COPIES Of the Daily
Worker, with the result that hun
dreds Of workers in passing stopped
to read it's contents. We also
painted on the window the fact
that it was q 25-page, 10th Ami
versary number, that It is the only
working class paper, that the work
ers should read it, and that it sells
at its usual price, three cents
CODY.
One Of us stood outside the store
with the papers and offered them
to the workers, shouting slogans at
the same time.
Lest there be some nisunder-
standing, let me state that only two
Of us are in the Bookshop, and car
ried this work out.
We settled for all the papers we
took on the wholesale price, and
thereby had little left for the run
ming expenses Of the Bookshop.
We disposed Of 600 copies.
Comradely yours,
J. B.,
B. G.,
Workers Bookshop.