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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-10
90 Million To Vote in u. S. S. r.
by Burck

tor stations have been built and now
cover all parts of the country. New
cities have grown up, the First Five
Year Plan has been. successfully
completed and there is a steady
march forward to the realization of
the Second Five Year Plan, the
building of a classics society and
the liquidation of capitalist ele-
ments and classes in general.
In reporting of their work during
these years, the deputies from the
city, town, district and village So
VETS will have much ia tell. Theirs
will be a story, not of how they
cut down relief and saved the rates,
not of the failure to build new
houses for the workers, etc. = the
story that has to be told in any
capitalist country-but story of
the number of workers rehoused, the
new clinics, creches, hospitals and
welfare institutions that have been
opened, the new factories that have
been built, ETC., etc. Theirs indeed
will be reports of success after sue
cess in tackling and meeting the
ever growing demands of the work.
ing class and peasantry.
Let me give an illustration. Speak
ing at the plenum of the Moscow
City Soviet last month, Comrade
Bulganin its chairman, in reviewing
the work of the Soviet of the Red
capital since the last election, de-
clared:
-Four years ago we only discussed
at the plenuIm of the Moscow So
Wet questions of building new
plants. We only set before ourselves
the task of securing the technical
and economic independence of the
country We spoke of building a
large automobile plant, ball-bear-
ing, bicycle plant.
To-day, we can declare to the
whole world that we are already
producing our own automobiles, our
own electric locomotives, our own
ball-bearings."
And further Bulganin in his
speech, chock-full of facts concern
ing the achievements of the Moscow
Soviet, was able to state:
"Since the last Soviet elections,
1000 new apartment houses for
100000 persons have been built in
Moscow. And this means that a
sixth part of Moscow has been built
anew"
But this is only Moscow. To get
an idea of the striking victories of
the toilers of the Soviet Union ore
needs to realize that similar achieve
ments can be recorded to a greater
or lesser degree, over the whole of
this great country. Having begun
to realize this one can then begin
to understand the truth of Comrade
Kalinin's words, in his appeal to the
electors cit may be confidently de-
clared that in no other country are
there such close ties with the state,
such an organic interest of the
masses of the people in the general
policy of the state as in ours"
The elections to the Soviets now
proceeding demand the closest at
tention of all workers in Britain and
the United States as they provide
glorious opportunity for us to un-
derstand "the class nature and pro-
letarian essence of the Soviets," and
that only under the Soviets is there
democracy for the working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-10

Collective farmers and individual
peasants, cannot be deprived of their
election rights if they temporarily
apply wage labor of one worker for
the harvesting of grain, technical
crops and so on, under special cir
cumstances fitness, mobilization,
election to a post which requires
absence from their farms.
Besides the above, the following
persons are also not deprived Of
election rights
Journeymen and handicraft work
ers who carry on an enterprise with
out the employment of wage labor;
those who have more than two ap-
prentices or who employ, by reason
of the conditions of their produc-
ton, the wage labor of one adult
worker former officers and officials
of white armies who have SUISSE
quently served in the ranks of the
Red Army; persons who are either
employed for or elected to admins
trative, business and technical posi-
tions in religious communities for
the service of religious ritual and
premises (choir singers, Organists,
doorkeepers, bell-ringers and so on,
also members of church councils).
Rights Restored
But this is not all. Many people
who we're formerly deprived of their
electoral rights as belonging to the
class of exploiters Landlords, cap
italists, clergy, etc. are now in
position to have their electoral
rights restored providing they have
engaged in productive and socially
useful labor during the course of five
years and have proved their loyalty
to the Soviet Power. Further, they
can also have their rights restored
before this period on appropriate
appeals if they are members of trade
unions and have recommended
themselves by honest labor. To
complete the list of those restored
to electoral rights one must men,
ton that: children of exiled kulaks
may vote if they are engaged in So
cially useful labor and are working
conscientiously, and that: exiled
kulaks can have their rights re-
stored after five years if they have
recommended themselves by honest
labor. Persons of this category, who
are shock workers of production and
are actively participating in social
work, may also be restored to their
electoral rights before the expira-
ton of the five-yeer period.
So much for those who can and
who cannot vote in the elections
to the Soviets. 1 have stated them
at length to show that the right to
vote under Soviet Power primarily
depends on the fact that the eIector
is engaged in socially useful labor"
and the figures of the number of
electcr lover ninety million) show
that this is the case with the over
whelming ajority Of the workers
and peasants of the Land of the
Soyiets.
More than three years have
passed since the last election and
the Sixth Congress of Soviets. These
have been years of achievement after
achievement in the building of So
cialism on the part of the masses
OF the Soviet Union led by the Com
munist Party.
New factories, plants. state farms,
collective farms and machine trac-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-10
BY w. G. SHEPPARD

THE campaign for the elections
to the Soviets and for the
Seventh Congress of Soviets, sched-
uled to take place in January, is
now gathering force throughout the
length and breadth of the great
Soviet Union. In many parts the
election Of deputies to the village
Soviets have already taken place,
while in the towns and cities prep
arations for the elections are being
carried through.
All the newspapers, from the
great "Pravda" down to the smallest
factory newspaper, are focusing at
tention on the elections. Deputies
are busy reporting on their steward
ship since the last elections in 1881,
meetings Of young voters are TAX
ing place; posters with suitable
slogans for the elections are being
issued, and the electors in the
cities, towns and villages are busy
compiling their suggestions and in
structions for the deputies who will
be elected at the forthcoming cleo
ton meetings. In the coming weeks
the elections will occupy the center
of the Soviet stage.
30 Million Will Vote
Over 80 million electors will par
ticipate in the elections of the Sow
lets throughout the US.S.R. in the
period between now and the first
days of 1885. an increase of more
than ten million as compared with
the number of electors in 1881.
These ten million are the youth of
the Soviet Union who have be-
come of voting age (18 years. dur
ing the period since the last cleo
lions, and they will be taking part
in the elections for the first time.
The right to vote and to be elected
to the Soviets is enjoyed by all citi-
zens of Is years of age and upwards,
irrespective of sex, religion, race,
nationality, domicile and so on, who
earn their livelihood by productive
and socially useful labor, also by
persons engaged in household
duties which ensures for the for
mer the possibility of productive
labor, and by members of the Red
Army and Navy.
8 Per Cent Deprived
However, certain categories about
8 per cent of the population) are
excluded from voting for, and be-
ing elected to, the Soviets. These
include persons who have resorted
and are resorting to employment of
labor with the object of making a
profit, those who have lived or are
living on incomes not derived from
labor, former officers and officials
of white armies, leaders of counter
revolutionary bands, employers and
agents of the former police and
gendarmerie, and also persons who
have directly or indirectly guided
the activity of the police and gen.
darmerie, and former and present
clergy of all religions.
In order to get really clear idea
of the class elements who are ac-
tually denied voting powers it is
necessary to state the following,
from the Instructions on the
Elections to the Soviets and Con-
crosses of Soviets of the R. S. F. S.
r." issued by the All-Russian Gen.
trail Executive Committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-10
Starhemberg Admits
He Can't Win Workers

VIENNA, Dec. 9.-The Austrian
Vic Chancellor, Starhemberg,
granted an interview to a Vienna
correspondent of Hung arian
newspaper. In the course of the in
terview he admitted that it was use
less to attempt to win over the Aus
TRAN workers for fascism.
Starhemberg declared: "All at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-10

tempts at persuading the Marxist
workers are useless, for the workers
do not believe us, but despise us
I maintain that we can never win
over the Marxist workers politically
for u.s.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-10
Anti-F Gain Seats
In Election in Poland

WARSAW, Dec. 9.-At the by
elections held in a number of
places at the end of November
where the previous election results
had been declared invalid in the
Dombrova coalfleld the snti-fascist
bloc gained four seats in Bendzin
and two in Dombrova.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-10

Canvass social clubs in the neigh
bcrhood for funds for the Daily
Worker. Only one week is left in
which TO complete the full quota
Of 100000.
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S. o. S.
Nothing was received today to the
credit of World Front.
Total to Date-s3496s
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-15
DROUCHTS MAY
. BRING CHINA'S
FATE TO U. S,
Roosevelt Policy to Restore
Denuded Land Offers
Way Out.
JUNE Is. 1884
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
Scripps- Howard Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, June 15.-Is the
United States doomed to become a
land of Cobb deserts, of Rivers of
Sorrow, or droughts, famine and
pestilence, like China?
Americas latest and worst
drought, President Roosevelt warns,
assumed the proportions of ma
tional catastrophe. 1T will materi-
ally affect the food supply of the
nation" says the department of
agriculture.
The records reveal that American
droughts and floods are becoming
more frequent and increasingly dis
astrous. The tell-tale dust-storms
trailing hundreds of miles across
the country, have commenced.
Recently was in Tientsin, North
China. Despite two unusually large
windows in my outside room, I was
obliged, at midday, to turn on the
lights to see what I was doing.
Outside a thick yellow fog drifted
across the city, completely shutting
out the sun. Dinly, across the Bund,
I could see the great black hull of
a motionless freighter. In trying
to make the turn in the binding
dust blanketing the Hal Ho, it had
run aground.
did not need to ask questions.
had been in China before. This
was just another dust-Storm blow
ing in from the Cobb desert hun
dredS of miles to the west.
Once all China, including the
Cobb, was a fertile, tree-grown
country. Centuries of paying no
attention to what happened to the
forests and fields, however, has done
its work. The answer is irremedi-
able erosion, disastrous floods, ca
lamitous famines, accompanying
Scourges, starvation and death.
Today most of the country is
either sun baked mountains or tree
less mud plains. Sometimes almost
whole provinces are covered with
water. The flood extends, like the
sea, farther than the eye can reach.
Sometimes the fields are parched,
like they are now in the American
west, every stalk of grain or other
crops burned to crisp. And some
times, of course, there are harvestS.
But at no time can the Chinese be
reasonably sure.
When it rains, the drops splash
against the mountain sides like
they were falling on concrete. Down
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was on dared not try to navigate,
so thick was the dust originating
1900 miles away. Ships at sea, off
the China coast, sometimes have to
slow down and sound their sirens
precisely like vessels in a North At
lantic fog.
Chinese weather, scientists claim,
has been entirely changed, thanks
to deforestation and careless farm
ing. Summers are hotter, rains
more cratic, floods more destruc-
tive.
The Tientsin dust-storm men
toned above lasted about five days,
said a Chinese scholar educated in
the United States:
These droughts, dust-storms and
famines are just what you Ameri-
cans are in for unless you wake up
in time. I can understand them
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the gullies and gulches the water
rushes to the rivers. These rise al
most as if a dam had burst some
where above. Then, almost as sud-
denly, the flood subsidies. Little or
no moisture remains behind to keep
things green the rest of the season.
Dust-storms, like the one which
visited the United States recently,
are common occurrences in China.
They can even be forecast with
greater certainty than showers in
this country. Close your doors and
windows as tightly as ever you may,
and still your clothes and every
thing else you have in your house
will be covered with saffron dust as
fine as smoke.
In the green valley Of the
Yangtze, was held up for twenty
four hours because the steamer
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in China because the damage was
done centuries, even thousands of
years ago-before people knew what
deforestation and bad farming
could do to a nation. But I can not
understand a country like the
United States allowing such thing
to happen.
China" he observed, fought to
be the horrible example in this re-
Spect to all the rest of the world"
But will it?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-15

Stolen Car Rams Parked Machines
An automobile reported stolen
from Charles Squirting, 1901 Peck
street, early today crashed into two
cars owned by James and o. A.
Birr, 1865 West Thirty-fourth street,
parked in front of that address.
The driver fed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-15
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-15
CHINESE KILL AMERICAN
Veteran Medical Missionary Is Slain
by Bandits.
RvT7Oitod Press

By Untfed PfeSs
PEIPING,- China, June 15.-Dr.
]. H. Ingram, 10, veteran Ameri-
can medical missionary, was shot to
death by bandits today at his sum-
mer home, fifteen miles from Peip-
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ing. His terrified wife and three
grandchildren escaped to the city.
Gas Station Bandit Gets SS6

An armed bandit last night took
$50 from the Phoenix Oil Company
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De Bruler, 1919 West Michigan
street, attendant.
The Washington times., 1934-03-15
DEMAND.
SPURTS HERE

Demands on the local emerg.
ency relief unit are increasing
rapidly since demobilization of the
local Civil Works Administration
forces was begun several weeks
ago, relief officials revealed today.
There are now on relief rolls
1874 "open cases.. These include
cases actually receiving relief and
those who have applied and are
under investigation.
Last week the relief division rO-
ceived 927 applications for relief.
OF this number, $50 were new
applicants. Most Of these had been
taken off the rolls when they re-
ceived jobs with the CWA. These
jobs now are ended.
Relief officials estimated today
that there are between $4,000 and
10000 families on the relief rolls,
as compared with $4,000 two weeks
ago.
The Washington times., 1934-03-15

shine, mother, as though you're
going to cry?"
I'm so glad about you, Pip
pin. Glad al the happy
things-the sweet, joyous
things-are yours. I've wanted
them for you. I remember so
much. I've prayed"
"You f-ighten me. Oh,
mother, often you frighten me.
Don't love me like that. I
mightn't be worth it,"
When the letters were from
Kevin, a misty, far-away look
came to Pippin's eyes. She re-
fused dates and went with her
father to his laboratory.
'I've decided to go in for
science, mother, and David is
a wonderful teacher. I want to
be a great technician. Then I'll
be valuable to him in his re-
search work"
David knew it was Kevin she
longed to serve. He didn't care.
He loved to have her come
cumming along; loved the
hard, Furnishing zeal with which
she struck at a task.
And they had grand, intim-
ate talks that he reported to
Chickie and that made her
heart sing all the week long.
Once, for instance, Pippin
said:
you're a swell guy, DAN"
He folded his arms and grim
ned:
II know, but why?"
"You gave me the coupe and
you didn't append any lectures,
though you surely know a ma
chine can be a great aid to a
gal in losing her reputation.
David felt pale, but he said
breezily:
mot exactly necessary. Many
managed to lose it centuries be-
fore automobiles were in
vented"
Pippin perked her head in
that quick bird-like way. She
winked:
Took it right between the
eyes and didn't vince! You old
sport, you! But you should hear
Edward. He wonders if you
realize what a menace it might
be. Kathie and I shouldn't be
surprised if he'd pay you a little
visit and wise you up about
flaming youth and advise you
to take the car and temptation
away from u.s.
Does he lecture you very
much?"
"Oh, baby-does he! You'd
think we invented original sin.
Hes taken the joy out of
Continued on End Comic Page,
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HELP
SLASH DUE

Temporary employees Of the
Government Printing Office to the
number Of several hundred may
be dismissed within the next few
weeks, it was said today. No
regular employees will be affected.
NRA, PWA and other emer.
gency organizations are requiring
less work than formerly, and pro-
duction is declining, it is under
stood. Printing office personnel
now totals 4,727, about 500 above
normal
However, business is picking up
in the proofreading department,
where it has been necessary to
hire 80 men in the last two weeks.
The only furloughs are in the
photo-engraving.
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REP.SHOEMAKER
CASE GRANTED
NEW DELAY
Assault Charges to Be Aired
Before Jury April 4; No
Further Change Allowed

Representative Francis H. Shoe
maker F.-L0 Of Minnesota ap-
peared in Police Court early today
pleaded not guilty to a charge of
assault and battery on Charles
Newman, taxicab driver, and was
given a continuance until April 4,
when the case will be presented
before a jury.
Contrasting the stormy session
in the office of District Attorney
Leslie Garnett, which was fol-
lowed by orders from Mr.. Gar
nett's office to have Mr.. Shoe
maker arrested, the Congressman
from Minnesota withheld any
barbs he might be thinking in
court today.
Not RambunctiOus
He addressed Judge Isaac Hit
with a IF your honor please" as
nice as any lawyer might have
done.
His attorney, Representative
Raymond L. Cannon CD of
Wisconsin, asked for the continu-
ance on the grounds that he had
just entered the case and re-
quired at least two weeks to pre-
pare it.
Preceding Mr.. Shoemaker on
the docket were five colored men
charged with various law viola
tions ranging from larceny to
housebreaking and assault.
When Mr.. Shoemaker'S name
was called he showed no outward
evidence of Straining at the
leash.
Representative Cannon stepped
forward and entered a plea Of
not guilty and asked for trial by
jury.
Date in Minnesota
Then Mr.. Shoemaker came be-
fore the judge and told him that
he had an appointment in Min
nesota on March %, and could
not be in court on that date.
Finally after polite quibbling
between the court and the de-
fendant the date of April 4 was
set.
This however was with the
proviso from Judge Hit that at
that time no further continuance
would be asked for.
Mr.. Shoemaker preferred not to
talk about the assault charge.
He branded the Lorton in
vestigators the "self admiration
and white wash society,""
He said that even though the
committee is not finding out any
thing at the prison, he would see
to it that something will come of
the investigation.
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One afternoon Chickle came
home to find The radios
whanging in every room, each
on a different station. When
she gave a startled look and
went to turn them off, Jona-
than grinned sheepiShly. They
both missed the gay young bed
lam-sorely.
Over the week-ends the
house burst into life. Pippin
came singing upstairs and
rushing down. How many let
ters did get? Is my blue
dress pressed? Why, mother
you're not going out, are you?
You have all week for lunch
cons! I certainly expect Satur-
days saved for me!
Never mind that she had
dates last week and the week
before-she had none today!
So Chickie stood by while
Pippin rushed to teas or
dressed for dancing. all the
while pouring out a glib. JOY
Gus narrative. College was
wonderful - why, mother, old
you know that long ago in
Mexico the Mayans had a civ
ilization equal to ours? And
wasn't it grand of David to
give me the little coupe!
don't know how Kathie and
could ever get along without
it. We appreciate you-really
we do! Some day I want an
airplane. I'm just mad to fly.
You won't stop me, will you?
There were always letters:
sometimes two a week from
Bill. Now and then one from
KeVin.
Pippin grabbed them and ran
to her room. If they we're
from Bill she reappeared in
light, capricious mood. All her
gaiety heightened, she went out
with one or another of the COL
lege boys, who were now her
constant attendants.
Once Chickie teased: "You
go quite joyously from one to
another, don't you?"
Didn't you tell me that was
the proper caper and I'm far
too young to be homogeneous?
Oh, why do they make men so
wonderful! I wish I had a
hundred hearts and could love
them ALL"
Chickie caught the girl to
her in a sobbing laugh. Her
own youth returned with the
tang of spring, the song of a
bird in the tree. She re-
membered every fervor. Pip
pins eagernesS EMBODIED her
like a shower of light. Often
she had to brush away tears.
''Why do your eyes so often
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P FAIRGROUNDS
PARKING HIT

Fairgrounds adjoining school
buildings are for the use Of chill
dren in the school and not for
parking automobiles of Navy Yard
workers, according to Mrs. l.. T.
Leapley, principal of the VaneSs
School, on M Street between
Third and Fourth Streets, South
east.
Mrs. Leapley said more than II
cars belonging to Navy Yard
workers were parked on the
schools playground. wearing deep
ruts in the ground and making
it impossible for the pupils to
use it for recreational activities.
She further said she complained
to a policeman who covers the
beat, and he said he was unable
to do anything about the parking
because the cars were owned by
Government employees.