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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-20
Special to the Daily workerl

MOSCOW, Nov. 18 (By WireleSs) d.
When one remembers the orgy
Of cattle-slaughtering which ex-
tended all during the previous
summer throughout the United
States and when it is realized that
this criminal waste was caused by
the demand for greater profits in
the eat-packing monopolies, it
becomes one more sign Of the de-
velopment of a better, working
class world that in the US.S.R.
the greatest care and foresight is
exercised in increasing the meat
and dairy resources.
Stain had said at the 18th Con-
gress of the All-Union Communist
Party that 1884 can and must be-
come the year Of turning point
towards a rise in the entire stock
breeding field
Although at this moment only
ten months have passed since Stall
ms statement, data have already
been compiled sufficiently an d
clearly showing that the tagging
behind observed on this front in
past years has ceased, while re-
vival has begun and certain steps
forward made. Compared to 1888
the number of heads Of big horned
cattle of all ages increased 1914
per cent, hogs by 43.9 per cent,
sheep and goats "a per cent.
The tock-breeding state farms
themselves have considerably in
creased and strengthened. over
$4,000 new collective stock breeding
farms have been organized. The
herds Of big-horned cattle on the
farms have grown 18 per cent hogs
35 per cent, sheep 80 per cent. AL
ready more than $4,000 900 heads of
cattle are concentrated on 10000
collective farms. Since the stock
breeding state farms and collective
farms are the main producers OF
marketable milk, meat and wool,
and are the base for the extended
reproduction of cattle, stringent
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| them. Needless to say, the poor
diet doesn't help their teeth any"
Can a person be adequately fed
on 81 cents a day?"
DR.. c. treats many workers on
relief. Because of his professional
training / thought that he was in
a position to know even better than
John F. Ballenger whether the Wei
fare Department. food budgets are
adequate.
NO" DR.. c. replied decisively
IF a person is lying in bed and
not expanding energy, perhaps he
can get along on 81 cents day
Even then he would need 4 greater
variety of food than he can buy
with that money. 1t is true that
caloric requirements may be sat
isfied on 81 cents day, but science
has shown that caloric needs are
not the only ones that have to be
satisfied. Vitamins are equally, II
not more, important in the proven
ton Of disease. With food prices
rising, vitanin sources, particularly
vegetables, become impossible to OBJ
tain on 81 cents a day"
What effects will living on 81
cents day have on persons
health?"I asked.
he will probably be able to gel
enough caloric value not to lose
weight, providing he is leading a
sedentary life. But the lack OF vita
minis would make him more liable
to sIccumb to respiratory infection,
such as colds. coughs, sinus trouble
etc, which make the individual sus
ceptible TO tuberculosis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-20
.PublisherSeen
" e a kening Q.
In Guild Strike

NEWARK, N. j., Nov. 19.-The
first sign of weakening on the part
of the publisher in the strike of
the editorial workers of the Newark
Ledger was in the letter received
by William Hamilton osborne,
counsel for the Newspaper Guild,
from the attorney of the publish
ers. Merritt Lane, agreeing to confer
with committee of the Guild
The strike in which more than
IS per cent of the staff is already
involved is for reinstatement of IL
discharged workers, and recogni-
ton of the Newspaper Guild.
Osborne answered that the nego-
tiating committee would be ready
to meet the publishers and con-
ference was set This morning
through an editorial in the Ledger,
the employers proposed arbitration
through N. r. A. channels. The
Guild, however, countered this with
the demand that pending the out
come Of such action the discharged
workers be reinstated.
Picketing is going on uninter-
ruptedly, and the campaign against
the Ledger has reached every cor
ner Of the city. Eight hundred and
fifty newsdealers are scheduled to
meet tomorrow, and from all in
dications will decide to refuse to
handle the paper. They have in
virtually all cases given the strikers
permission to hang up signs at
their stands informing the public
of the strike and the Guilds strike.
The mechanical workers in the
Ledger plant have not yet taken
definite action, but have expressed
themselves as sympathetic to the
strike Of the writers, and solidarity
action is expected soon.
A membership meeting of the
New York Guild will take place
tonight at $50 at the Aston Hotel
to consider the Newark situation.
The representative assembly of the
New York guild voted support for
the action of the Newark men at
it's meeting last week.
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: BY A. b. NJ AGIL

ers are supposed to visit the clients
twice a month. Why is it that in
some cases they don't come around
for as long as four months?"
"Of course, there may be in
dividusl case workers who neglect
their duties, but the real trouble is
that we're understaffed and over
worked and just can't get around as
often as we're supposed to-"
She told me of the great dissatis-
faction among the case workers
with their own conditions. They
have had to take voluntary" salary
cuts, there is widespread discrim-
ination in regard to salaries, and a
whole system of favoritism and
spying that has been built UP under
Welfare Administrator Ballenger.
Under Ballenger's regime Negro
workers, as well as whites who are
overfriendly with them, are discrhn-
mated against.
Last year the case workers de-
cided to organize. At first this was
bitterly opposed by the officials, but
when they saw that the mood for
organization was too strong, they
adopted the naneuver of gaining
control Of the union and ''respec-
tabilizing it." as Miss A de-
scribed it. Today the Detroit We'll
fare F,rntllnyaas ASsocia tinr-which
incidentally, excludes all clerical
workers-is practically company
union. 1t has held only one mem
bership meeting, at which the pres
ent officers were elected. with an
administration flunkey. Paul Con-
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Young Communists
Appeal for Unity

CONTINUED from Page u
does Comrade Medrana secretary
of the Madrid district Of the
Young Communist League.
The toiling masses of Spain
need our support!
Shall we fail our comrades?
Shall we stand idly by while the
masses in Spain wade knee deep
through blood, shed by the fascist
hordes? Shall the international
solidarity actions which wrested
Dimitrov. Popov and Taney from
the clutches of the German fas-
eists not be thrown into the
breach to support the dauntless
Socialists and Communists of
Spain?
We cannot, we must not COM
nit such monStrous crime
against our class brothers who are
giving all they can give-their
very lives-in the fierce struggle
against the hated enemyl
Let us, the Socialist and Com
munist youth of the United
States, unite in solidarity actions
which will hearten our Spanish
comrades and strike fear into the
breasts of their murderers!
Let us at once Unite the forces
of the Young Communist League
and the Young Peoples Socialist
League to carry such actions
through. A united front between
our two organizations in defense
Of the revolutionary Spanish
youth, against the monarchist-
fascist reaction in Spain, for the
liberation of Caballero, Rosado,
Medrana and all other anti-fas-
cist prisoners, for fratsrnal sup
port to the fighting youth of
Spain and their families, against
all the repressive measures of the
Leroux- Robes government-such
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a united front will SO inspire the
youth in the United States that
tens Of thousands of them will be
set into motion in defense OF their
class brothers.
We propose:
Joint demonstrations for the
above demands in front of Span
ish Consulates in all cities.
2-To undertake a national
campaign to raise funds and other
material support for the revolu-
tionary Spanish youth and their
families.
$40 issue joint call to all
youth organizations to send their
representatives to form national
committee to direct such a cam
paign of political and material
support on the brosdest possible
scale.
Comrades Of the Young Peoples
Socialist League In the con-
limitations Committee of the
American Youth Congress our two
organizations have worked to-
gether successfully and fruitfully
since August Of this year. why
can we not go further on the
basis of an explicit united front
agreement between our organiza-
tons in defense of the heroic
Spanish proletariat and peas
antry?
Do you not see the burning
need for unity between our or
ganizations to carry out this all
important obligation of interna-
tional solidarity? The young So
cialists and Communists of
France, Spain, Belgium and Italy
have already achieved unity. Let
lis not be behind our class COM
redes in other countries in the
performance of the task which
now overshadows everything else!
We await your immediate ia
yorable reply.
For unity Of the working class
youth,
Conradely,
GIL GREEN,
National Secretary,
Young Communist League.
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Ian of the Fort Street Station, as
president.
DIR. B. is a dentist who treats
relief dependents under an ar
rangement which permits them the
services OF their own doctor or dem
list. Previously, he had been linn
tied to SIS worth Of work month
at the rate Of 81 for an extraction
and $150 for a filling. Each pa
tient was entitled to no more than
three Filings and ten extractions.
Il had one patient" he said, who
had II teeth that could be saved If
they we're filled. But the welfare
Department refused to allow me to
do what my scientific training has
taught me to do. I could fill only
three, had to pull out ten others
and leave the rest to rot. This
experience was by no means excep-
ticnal."
Since Oct. 10, medical and dental
aid has been cut one-third. AS q
result, even this inadequate treat
ment is being denied the unem-
ployed. DR.. B told me that he
had received instructions to handle
only acute cases. can acute case, .
he said, ais where the tooth is so
far gone that it can no longer be
caved and has to be pulled out. AM.
not even then unless the patient
has q toothache.
AS is well known, many diseases
and ailments are directly traceable
to defective teeth. The proportion
of bad teeth is naturally higher
among the unemployed because they
have had no money to look after
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-20

A conference ives held last
Thursday where arrangements were
made to visit all locals of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor to get en-
dorsement to the congress call and
election OF delegates.
The Federation Of Architects,
Engineers, Chemists and Tech
ricians, which is part of the local
arrangements committee. met at its
headquarters. 1906 Walnut Street,
and drew up plans for the election
of delegates from every white COL
lar workers group in the city.
The Federation has arranged to
hold a symposium on memploy-
ment insurance on Friday. Dec. IA.
at the Social Service Building, 311
South Juniper Street, at which la
Dor leaders, civic governmental
heads and others have been invited
to speak.
A city-wide mass meeting to send
OF the entire delegation from
Philadelphia to the national con-
gress viii be held Friday evening,
Dec rs. at the Broadway Arena.
Broad and Christian Streets.
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Misery and Hunger Stalk Detroit Working Class Neghborhood
Stories of Relief Workers Reveal Daily Correspondent

the unemployed families they visit
there is real class bond. ESpe-
cially since their own economic
position is neither prosperous nor
secure. Miss A. is one of
these.
What are the chief complaints
that you hear in the course of your
work." 1 asked.
That food prices are going up
and the budgets aren't enough to
live on; that they haven't enough
warm clothes for the winter; that
they haven't enough blankets"
Weren't the food budgets in
creased in Augusta"
Eyes, but that was because they
were so low that we were simply
being deluged with complaints and
they had to raise the budgets or
there would have been an explo-
sion. Even the case workers were
on the point of signing petition
asking that the budgets be in
creased because it was becoming
impossible to face the clients any
longer"
Would you agree with Mr.. Bal
lenger's statement that the new
budgets, with the 5 per cent cut
that went into effect on Oct. 10, are
adequate?"
IF by adequate he means just
enough to keep body and soul to-
gether, then the answer is yes. But
II adequate means enough to keep
in proper health, then decidedly no.
Especially for the children"
Il understand that the case work
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with the coming of cold weather
/ have found tremendous increase
In respiratory infections among
people on the Welfare. AS a result,
medicines containing vitamirls, such
as cod liver oil, have to be admin
istsfed. I was in house this morn
ing treating a boy of eight who had
fever. There are seven children and
everyone in the family has a cold,
from the months old baby to the
mother
I'm an interview he gave me, Br.
Ballenger said that In welfare fam
lies ur1dernourishment in children
runs no higher than in children OF
other families not on welfare From
your experience would you say that
this is true?"
Perhaps they are not more un-
dernourished than other children,
but they are certainly more mall
ncurished. Malnourishmeflt doesn't
mean lack of weight; 1t means lack
Of vitaf1ins, lack Of a properly bal
anced diet. For children this is
particularly serious. I have found
that welfare children are more
anenic and more susceptible I'd
respiratory diseases than children
not on the welfare. They start life
with handicap that they may
never be able to overcome
what is the way out for the
unemployed workers OF Detroit?
In the final article John Pace,
secretary OF the Michigan District
OF the Unemployment Councils,
himself welfare dependent, will
| tell what must be dont).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-20
Film League Leader
Urges Student Fight
On Pro-Fascist Movie

BOSTON, Mass, NOV. 1e.-Stu-
dents from various nearby colleges
heard David Plat secretary of the
National Film and Photo League,
on Friday night at the Phillips
Brooks House at Harvard University
describe the anti-radical movie Call
to Arms" now being produced by
Columbia Pictures.
Platt said that while officials of
the company had telegrapfed to
the League offering to eliminate
Objectionable parts, it was evident
from the studios own description
that the only way to eliminate the
pictures attack against labor was
to scrap the film entirely.
The students at the meeting voted
unanimously to support the protest
movement against the film organ
lied by the League, and sent a pro-
test telegram to Harry Cohn, pres
ident Of Columbia Pictures, de-
nouncing the film as "a vicious in
fluence designed to help bring on
fascism and destroy civil liberties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-20
Mass Pressure
Brings Action
On Shooting

HARTFORD, Conn, NOV. 1s.-As
result Of the mass anger and Or
gaf1iSed protest movement against
the brutal shooting OF Joe Allen
Negro G. 9. O. worker, by PatroIman
William Smith, an investigation
into the attack on the Negro youth
has been ordered by Mayor Beach
The Mayors action followed the
visit at his office last Friday of q
delegation composed of representa-
tives from nine local Negro and
white organizations, including the
international Labor De tense,
League of Struggle for Negro Rights
and the National Association for the
Advancement Of Colored People.
The Hartford Negro Ministerial
Alliance is holding a united front
protest mass meeting tonight at the
Union Baptist Church. Hartford
workers are clamoring for Ben j.
Davis, Jr., editor Of the Negro Lib
orator and veteran fighter for the
Scottsboro boys and Angelo Hern-
don, to come here to speak.
A conference on the proposals of
the Communist Party to the Social
list Party for a united front on the
Allen case is to be held here tomor-
rom.
Allen is in the Hartford Municipal
Hospital, critically wounded with a
bullet in his hip bone. Witnesses
have testified that Allen was shot
down by Patrolman Smith without
the slightest provocation. Smith
has a long record as a vicious
Negro-hater.
A demand that representatives
of the united front movement be
seated on the Mayors investigating
committee will be made on Mayor
Beach tomorrow.
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World S.P. Changes
Natl Unity Stand
(Conttnned from Page y

back to democracy" and numer-
GUS maneuvers were made for pro-
vocative refusal of united action.
The Left pointed out, however, that
this sort of diplomacy" would
prove to be catastrophe; but, in
spite of all its efforts, no basis was
established for unity of action with
the Communist International. All
through the debates it was care
fully defined that the question was
one of aiding the victims and not
the class struggle of the revelation
in Spain, and even this unity was
refused.
The representatives of the Scan
dinavian and English Socialist Par
ties actually reproached the Spanish
workers for having reveIted! The
lukewarm appeal of the Second In
ternational, the delegate from Spain
declared. was sheer rhetoric" and
compared it with the powerful and
enthusiastic call of the Communist
International.
The representative of the Ger
man Party, otto Wells, sorrowfully
outlined how he had saved the So
cialist Party there and completely
sided with the Right group. AS in
1918 he was again prepared to save
Germany from Bolshev I'M" and,
Unlike Bauer y, he had no con-
sideration for the will of the party
membership with regard to unity
and he would never yield to the de-
sire for united struggle. However,
he qualified, the united front might
be agreed upon wherever fsscism
threatened and wherever it had
conquered; but unity in ell other
countries must be denounced. in
spite Of the general capitalist Of
fensive.
In "L'Humanite" today Marcel
Cechin, chairman of the Central
Committee Of the Communist Party
Of France, said that "of course the
Communists would have preferred
that the Executive Committee of
the Second International had &C
cepted the appeal Of the Comintern
for broad united action in behalf
of Spain. This refusal will be a
SCATTERING disappointment to the
Spanish workers" Passing then to
the problem of strengthening the
Spanish action, Cachin declared
that "the positive result of the con-
ference was the freedom accorded
the Socialist Parties in each indi-
vidual country. 1t is the first step
and decisive result Of the success
Of the united front"
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Stock Breeding ShOws
Rapid Growth in USSR
10000 Cattle, Pig and Sheep Collective Farms
Are Organized-Vast Distribution of Cows to
Farmers Carried Out, More Planned

measures have been carried out in
order that there be no collective
farmers without cows. The number
of cowless peasants grew in the
personal---very. oou n tryside
ruined as it was by the landlords
and kulaks, and new hundreds of
thousands Of peasants and farm
steads were impoverished yearly:
now the collective farmers have re-
ceiv 100000 heifers and more than
1880, 900 sucking pigs in the course
Of only one year.
These are the tremendous prere-
quisites which have been created
for the speedy further development
of stock breeding in the U.S.S.R.
In this connection the Council OF
Peoples Commisssrs of the U. s.
S. R., with the object of further
ing the development of stock
breeding, has planned to sell to the
collective farms from the state
farms, beginning from 1885, 430, 1000
heads of big horned cattle, SOC, 900
sheep, and 100000 sucking pigs. A
decision was simultaneously adopted
regarding the sale to collective
farmers from the state farms in the
course of the next five months
100000 calves, 100000 sucking
pigs, and 100000 lambs.
At the same time credit has
been granted to those farmers who
are unable to pay fully the cost of
the calves under purchase. A plan
has been further fixed for this
same period to purchase from coll
lective and individual farmers and
also to sell from the collective
marketing farms to cowless collect
i've farmers, 100000 head of young
mich cattles. With the object Of
supplementing traction power 1t is
also planned to purchase 500 900
steers from collective and irdivid-
ual farmers for other collective
farms, for which purpose a credit
Of 25,0O0,o0o rubles has been as
signed.
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French Police Betray
Spanish Refugees in
Flight from Terrorism

PARIS. = Instances of violations
of the right of asylum by the
French government has come to
light daily in increasing numbers
The "Humanite" has received a let
ter from Costa Ricardo Zalbolsa
Official of the Spanish Union OF
Agricultural workers, now impris-
oned in Madrid, in which he re-
veals his betrayal by French police
into the hands of the Spanish po-
lice.
On October 81 four Spanish anti
fascistS were arrested and handed
over to Spanish authorities, who
promptly imprisoned them. On Oc-
tober Is Eueario Redin Isoate, sec
rotary of the chauffeurs' union Of
Pamplona, who had fed to Pau
was arrested and handed over tt
his prosecutors. In the past week
five refugees, including soldier
we're showed over the frontier by
the French authorities.
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vi.
D E T R o I T, Nov 19.-Case
workers employed in the Wayne
County Welfare Administration, a
physician and dentist who are
treating welfare dependents-their
names for obvious reasons cannot
be given-have independently told
me the same story about the De-
troit relief situation. 1t is a rather
different story from the one We'll
fare Administrator John F. Ballen-
ger told me, story written in the
life-blood Of tens Of thousands of
human beings whose labor created
the wealth and power of the Fords,
the Chryslers and the kings of Gen.
eral Motors.
Miss A. is an investigator of
the k district welfare station.
Workers on relief often speak Bit
terly of these case workers. They
are for them the living symbol of
munger rations, of inadequate
clothes, of broken health. of
humiliation, of all that being de-
pendent on government handouts
means. The case workers, under
constant pressure from their supe-
riors, in order to hold their Jobs
often fall in line with the game of
the government officials, the game
of spreading the relief butter as
thin as possible, of giving promises
instead of food, of artful lodging.
But a growing number Of case
workers are beginning to under
stand what it is ali about, to nm
derstand that between them and
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ALL A. F. L. LOCALS
ARE TO BE VISITED
FOR ENDORSEMENTS
Permanent Local Quarters Observation-Disclosures
Language Groups Plan to Reach Many Groups
White Collar Federation Also Is Active

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Nov. ia local arrange
ments committee for the National Congress for Unempoy
ment Insurance which will be held in Washington Jan
81 has been set up here with permanent offices at the
Flanders Building Room 7O7 2O7 South Fifteenth Street
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-20

A Y. C. Y. Ler elft copy of
the Daily Worker in a coffee pot.
An errand boy read it. Result
contribution for the Daily
Worker. Leave your 'Daiies' in
public places. Spread your paper!
Spread its $4,000 drive!
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Workers children can raise
money for the 100000 Daily
Worker fund by holding childrcn's
parties In the homes. in !. w. o.
schools, or In Pioneer headquar.
tiers.