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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-14
BY vERN SMITH

MOSCOW, Nov. 13.-While I was
waiting recently in the Office of the
organization department of the
Moscow Soviet to ask question on
some other matter, I heard an ami
mated conversation at a desk near
by. The woman seated at the desk
seems to have been an organizer of
special courses of instruction given
by the Soviet. The man she was
talking with was deputy to the
Soviet.
The organizer wanted to know
why he was persistently absent from
the study course to which he was
assigned. Was he dissatisfied with
the course? Did he want to change
to another, more useful to him?
The man made answer that he
couldn't attend the courses because
he had to take his children to the
kindergarten at the time the classes
met.
The organizer insisted that he
should have notified the Soviet, that
arrangements could have been made
for somebody else to conduct the
children to the kindergarten, that
probably another course, meeting at
different time, could have been
selected, and that it was the duty
of all deputies to the Soviet to
qualify themselves to do the work
ers business.
Political Courses
The facts came out during their
conversation that the courses teach
Soviet law, especially labor protec-
ton and trade laws, that they teach
the details of Soviet, union, Party
and government industrial organi-
zation structure, that they teach
accounting, and various practica,
technique for a deputy. Included ir
the latter was public speaking, cor
respondence for newspapers, meth.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-14

Burok via give the original drawing Of hts cartoon to Il
CONFIDENTIAL!
Comrade Burck confided to us yesterday that
the encouraging response of Daily Worker readers
in helping him achieve his 1000 quota in the fl
nancial drive is proving great stimulus in his work
He hopes that the cartoons inspired by this response
will yet convince his nearly three year-old son that
his pictures are worth looking at!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-14
The Mooney Writ

AFTER eighteen years of unceasing
mass agitation for the unconditional
release of Tom Mooney, the United States
Supreme Court has seen fit to peer into
the case officially by ordering the Cali
fornis authorities to show cause why writ of
habeas corpus in MONEYS behalf should not be
granted.
This does not of course, signify that the august
sentinel of capitalist justice has decided to liberate
this brave working fighter 1t means only that
the mass demand for Mooney has reached such pro-
portions that the cry for MONEYS freedom can not
much longer be ignored.
For Is years Mooney has been the victim of one
of the cruellest most vicious frame-ups in the his
tory of the class struggle in America. The fine
art Of perjury was never more effectively utilized
by the capitalists of California than in the case of
Mooney and his co-defendant, Warren K. Billings
And never has frame-up been more effectively ex-
posed mountain of lies
Every important prosecution witness bought and
paid for by the utility interests of California has
either confessed or been revealed as perjuror-
the dope hend Mcdonald, the prostitute Estelle
Smith, and the rest of the sordid procession which
took the witness stand in the plot to hang Mooney
Let those who still have illusions in the jus
tce" Of the capitalist courts bear in mind that ten
Of the living jurors who convicted Mooney now
declare that he should be freed; that even the
judge who presided in his trial insists that Mooney
was railroaded on perjured evidence.
But evidence alone means nothing to the iailors
Of Tom Mooney. From the day back in 1917
when Russian workers under the leadership of Lenin
demonstrated before the American consulate in
Petrograd, to the latest mass protest meeting of
workers the only force that has brought the liberia
ton of Mooney closer has been the organized pro-
test movement of the working class
The millions throughout the world who have been
battling for MONEYS freedom must force the agen
cies of capitalist Justice to liberate this working
man in San Quentin, who has become a glowing
symbol of the proletariat
Let there be no illusions in the 'impartiality"
and generosity of the United States Supreme Court
Now more than ever, it is imperative that the mil
lions of workers throughout the country raise such
mighty voice of protest that even the back-robed
agents of the capitalist class sitting on the u s.
Supreme Court will be unable to ignore It'll ,-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-14
Block the Sales Tax!

EVERY possible force in the New York
District of the Communist Party must
oe modified at once to defeat the La
Guardia plans for taxation on the COM
monest articles of mass consumption for
the purpose of financing Unemployment relief
Protest resolutions echong the mass resent
ment OF the working class against any attempts to
further tax the masses, petitions circulated in the
neighborhoods and signed by hundreds of thousands
OF the population, who will brook no additional
taxation, must Immediately pour into City Hall.
Resolutions and mass delegations must immedi
ately swamp each of the members of the Board of
Aldermen and of the Board of Apportionment and
Estimate
The Communist Party has in addition called
upon all its members in the Unemployment Coun-
ellis to initiate mass meetings on a neighborhood
scale in protest against attempts to tax the working
population further.
In modifying the workers against the IaGuardia
schemes to follow the dictates of the bankers on
rellet financing and for slaShing relief the Com
mlnlst Party clearly enunciates its program for
relief-taxes where they belong
This program of taxation calls for steeulv gradu-
ated taxes on the large incomes and inhertances
on the super-profits of the ndustrialsts and the
public utilities, on stock transfers and on large
realty holdings and business and Office sites Side
by SIDE with this, the Communist Party demands
complete abrogation of the Four-Year Bankers
agreement, which reserves rs million dollars year
ana an end to the payments on the debt service
The last item alone provides payment of 1870 mill
hon collars to the bankers in 1885 under the La
Guarda budget.
On the basis of these tax plans cutting deepv
into the profits of the owning class the Communist
Party demands standard of relief COMPATIBLE with
the rising cost Of living, and union wages and con-
ditions on the relief jobs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-14
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER IA. 1884
p Days Left

DECEMBER is the date set when the
~ State of Alabama intends to strap
Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris
into the electric chair.
This leaves % days in which to stop
the hand Of the executioner.
The International Labor Defense, which has
been the bulwark of the boys defense from the day
three and a half years ago when the I. L. D.
sounded the first world alarm at the monstrous
lynch plot has taken every possible legal step to
carry the fight to the Supreme Court. All the
legal papers and appeals have been fled, and the
best legal defense possible stands ready to wage
the Scottsboro fight in the Supreme Court, where
the case will probably be heard in few days
Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris must
not del
The Supreme Court is of course an integral
part of the whole judicial system which sentenced
the boys to die. The Supreme Court in the last
analysis, is subseryent to the needs and commands
of the American ruling class the class which is sup
ported by the lynch system. We must fight for the
Scottsboro boys within the Supreme Court. But
we cannot have any illusions that this fight can
alone wrest the boys from the hands of the lynch
ers.
The Leibowitz plottings and attacks against the
L. D. Scottsboro defense, his treachery and betray-
ais together with the reactionary elements among
the Negro churches and groups, have made tenn
porary division in the ranks of the Scottsboro de-
Tense front. But already visible signs of dsintegra-
ton appearing within the ranks of the enc
mics of the Scottsboro I. L. D. defense as result
primarily, of the merciess exposure by the I. L. D.
and the Daily Worker and Negro Liberator of the
Leibowitz treachery and the mass pressure which
has been exerted upon them from the Negro people.
THE approach of the execution day. the growing
dissension in the ranks of the Leibowitz traitors
and the tremendous feeling among the masses,
Negro and white, makes the present moment vital
for the throwing of all our forces into the Scots
boro fight.
All forces for the Scottsboro boys will be modified
in nationwide scottsboro week from Nov. 26 to
Dec. g.
In these seven days, the country must resound
with every possible mass action demanding the
freedom Of the scottsboro boys. Mass meetings in
the streets, protest marches every possible form of
dramatizing the struggle for the boys liberation
must be employed. Funds should be rushed to the
offices Of the I, L. D. at 1919 Broadway New York
City
In these actions it is the broadest united front
OF every honest person who is eager to work for the
liberation OF the boys that must be built Every
sincere person, those who have been Temporarily
confused or misled by the Lebowitz maneuvers,
members OF the church and ministers groups must
be approached with proposals for united front ac-
TONS
Prepare for Scottsboro Week for nationwide
struggle against the December executionsl Close
ranks against the lynchers and their agents!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-14
Fight n eW Moves
for Cheap Labor

MANY employers are now threatening to
4'A move or are actually moving their
factories, in an effort to increase profits
by escaping from union agreements. In
the A. and P. case, in the present dye
strike in Paterson, in the pocketbook makers strike
and in New England many shoe shop owners have
tried to reduce wages through making threats to
move out. In the industries such as knitting and
fur dressing, shops have already moved
The moving of plants to on-union fields with
employers breaking sacred" contracts is mart
of the present anti-labor drive of the employers
and the government. 1t has the purpose of
smashing the unions and blackiisting union mem
bers; and at the time of decreasing wages
and enforcing cheaper living standard ON the
workers.
These firms move to sections where they think
1t possible to get cheap, unorganized labor.
The chief weapon of the workers in combating
this form OF union smashing is to follow the moved
plants and quickly organize the new workers into
the union. The organization of the unorganized will
prevent the employers from lowering the whole
standard Of living of the workers by wage-cut
drives carried through by moving into non-union
fields.
The American Federation Of Labor oficialdom
has not met this widespread problem. An immedi-
ate organization drive and the sending out of field
organizers to moved plants would go q long way
toward solving the problem. Instead the Green bu-
resucracy, as in the case of the A. and p in the
face of the threat Of moving, made concessions to
the A and P which we're detrimental to the
workers.
One danger in relation to this problem is the
spreading of illusions by the n r. A. that they are
supporting the union workers. The New York
NJ r. A. made hypocritical decision in the case of
fur dressing concerns which broke their contract
and moved from New York to Connecticut and
Long Island ruling that the ninety workers in
volved must be taken back.
Actually, the N. r. A. decisions such as this are
never lived UP to, and serve to keep the workers
from taking action themselves, while the concerns
are moving.
The facts are that it is through the N R. A.
boards of Roosevelt that the whole wage-cuttng,
anti-union drive of the employers are being car
ried through
The only effective weapon in the hands OF the
workers is their own organized strength Picketing
rua9s pressure,-and extension of the union to the
unorganzed fields is the answer Of the unions to
this form Of anti-union wage-cutting migration Of
employers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-14
The Red Cross ShakedosVn

THE big guns have opened for the Red
L Cross drive.
The Roosevelt government has oiled
all its propaganda machines. Mrs. Roose-
welt has made radio speeches. Other not
abes of the capitalist world viii make radio speeches
And the great annual shakedown will be on.
For that is just what the Red Cross drive actually
is-s shakedown of the American people for one of
the most gigantic rackets in the country.
The Red Cross is not a relief organization.
The revelations made by John L. Spivak in the
current issue of the American Mercury show the
Red Cross collecting SS5OOOOO for relief and
spending S2,5OO,O0O for the support Of a swollen,
official machinery Of capitalist OfHcehoders
The Red Cross is part of the Roosevelt war
machine. The Red Cross is constant sluce of
patriotic propaganda how nice it is to die for
the defense of Morgan Rockefeller profits and in
vestments.
The Red Cross acts with great eagerness as
strkebreaker letting starving workers and their
families go hungry when they dare to strike for
better conditions.
Yesterday Senator Borah demanded an nvesti-
cation of the whole Roosevelt relief machinery
whom it was intended the jobless and destitute
Borsh pointed out that the Shameless waste" of
relief funds extends to every government agency
But investigation will not clean up the ILL
smelling mess of Red Cross and government relief
This is part of the whole capitalist charity"
system Where the workers themselves do not have
charge of Che distribution of relief the vultures
and buzzards Of capitalism will quickly gather
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-14
Elections Are Political School
For Workers in the Soviet Union
by Burck

I also non-Party, is praised for her
work as a brigadier of the group
inspecting the stockings factories.
Her most famous feat was the gath
ering Of a mass Of arguments and
the organization of a successful
campaign to change for the better
the form of organization of indus
try. She succeeded in getting two
other mills attached to the knit
goods factory trust" in Moscow
(the so-called trust" is the state
administration of the knit goods
factories in this locality. One of
them is a plant in Podolsk which
manufactures spare parts of knitting
machinery. The other is factory
that makes yarn especially suitable
for stockings.
This guarantees rapid replace
ment of worn parts and less nego-
tiation and red tape in getting these
parts to the places where they are
needed, and it guarantees the sort
of yarn needed for special types of
knitting, instead of any sort of yarn
that might be available.
The workers are not slow to criti-
CHE both favorably and unfavorably
those who deserve such criticism,
the workers know what they want
from their elected representatives.
The papers are printing many such
letters from workers as the follow
ing, from member of the Trans
port Department of the Hammer
and Sickle steel mill in Moscow:
We have a member of the Soviet
Comrade Kayenov. Everybody will
say of him that he has justified his
title of deputy and workers repre-
sentative. He worked at the potato
warehouse and helped to keep the
vegetables in good condition through
the winter. He was attached TO in
spect Store No. 100, and the store
became much cleaner and it's work
more efficient. He took patronage
over kolkhoz collective farm
near the city, and the kolkhozniks
benefited Immediately. He organized
brigades of workers to go and help
them with their machinery, etc.
But if you ask me about an
other member of the Soviet, Sokolov
will ask you how that man dare,
to show himself at the elections
On his job he is not a uda-nik
(shock worker. His locomotive very
often breaks down.
I'm Sokolov's department, there
was swinole, due to the writing
down of more hours Of work thar
we're actually worked in this de.
partment. Sokolov did not expose
this misstatement of the accounts
I'VE built a house for udarniks
Sokolov did not spend his time al
he should have, making sure tina
the best udarniks would be assigned
apartments in this house. Instead
he tried to get one of the apart
ments for himself, though investi
cation shows that he has perfectl,
suitable quarters already.
Such people are only by acciden
in the Soviet. We should think twic
: before we vote for such man"
| This particular example of fire
speech was printed in the Work
, ers' Moscow" daily paper with
, huge circulation, Oct. %.
All three of the examples givel
. above, examples which might b
{ multiplied by thousands. show VIVA
, the workers expect of their govern
t ment representatives, in addition t
the main business Of legislation an
, enforcement of laws.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-14

DDS of conducting meetings, meth
DDS of organizing the work of Sec
tionnaires," that is, of the volun-
teers from the mass of non-mem-
bers of the Soviet help the Soviets.
in their work. The courses teach
the deputies how to conduct a
political five minutes" among
workers, short meeting between
shifts or during the noon hour on
matters of Importance before the
country.
Other courses are designed to ex-
plain to the deputy himself the
reason for some of the policies of
the government and Communist
Party. One course which these two
were discussing was designed to
answer the question, why do we
have a working week of five days
and rest on the sixth day?"
AS this is written, the newspapers
announce that special eight months
courses for old members of Moscow
City Soviet have 1872 students, who
will graduate next July. They also
announce that preparations are
made for new courses to be given
500 newly elected Soviet members
as soon as their elections are COM
pleted.
Representatives Remain Workers
The Soviet member does not re-
tire to an Office when ele:ted, sit
there and become a bureaucrat, as
do in capitalist countries the mem
bers of city councils, parliaments
congresses and legislatures. The
Soviet member remains worker
and continues to earn his living az
, he did before election. But he be.
comes very much part of the gov.
eminent, an agent of the enforce.
ment of law, and of government
assistance to the industry, of i'm.
provement in living conditions, anc
a force for progress.
At this time, when elections arr
being prepared for, all members O.
the government are passing unde,
review; the meetings of the Soviet
and of their volunteer assistants ar,
preparing regular character studio
of the Soviet members. Some O
these show what is regarded as goot
and what is considered bad worl
by an elected worker. They snow
what the working class expects o
the government, not only in tn
big things, the matters of larg
| scale construction and production
and government" generally wher
the government owns everything
but also in the little matters Of de
J tailed enforcement of decisions, am
every day working out of the pro
gram of progress.
Women Prominent
From the Moscow Soviet I go
these two transformations. III
deputy Kurdomassova, a woman
textile worker, a weaver in tn
Markov factory, is not Communis
Party member, and is only barrel
| literate.
| Three years ago she was electe
to the City Soviet, and began work
ing in brigade organized undo
the leadership of a more advance
deputy, checking up on the qualit
of production in textile mills. Sh
learned rapidly, and finally becan,
leader of such brigade compose
of deputies and volunteers) hersel
Finally she was placed in charge {
the inspection of the whole grou
Of factories and auxiliary plants {
the textile industry in Moscow.
The deputy Pankina, a housewife
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-14

by friend of his He spoke for
awhile BRIEFLY, and then we re-
sumed our way. We continued, to
walk, when AL spied three fellows
he had seen at the meeting. He ap-
preached them, asking for direc-
tons. They di not pause, but went
calmly on their way. The comrade
to whom AL had spoken said in a
loud voice to his friends, They've
probably just joined The tone Of
contumely was deliberately adopted.
He then added something under his
breath, which did not reach us but
did meet with the approval of the
other two. One laughed in a man.
ner which was suggestive enough
to make me furiously angry, and
said, You didn't use the right
word Needless to say, we did not
follow them, but turned away and
walked off in different direction.
ut will be hard for you to be-
lieve this. 1 should have questioned
the sanity of my senses had 1 been
alone. But AL will confirm all that
I have said. You can understand, of
course, that the attitude described
will not win friends for the Com
munist Party. The doctrines OF
Communism have been inculcated
in me and have imbedded them
selves so firmly that this incident
will not turn me away from nv be-
liefs. But. and perhaps this is more
serious than it sounds, I am afraid
that it will deter me from joining
any Y. c. l.. group. l prefer wait
ing another year and then allyine
myself with the Party proper. Il
these be our future leaders, an
! worried about Soviet America
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-14
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-15
VALENTINE PARTY
 AT 28PARK PLACE
Given By Private Singing Society Under Direction
 of Mrs Drufa

The members of the senior pri- vate singing class conducted by Mrs Ernest Drufa enjoyed a val entine party Monday evening at 2s Park place. A buffet luncheon was served and a musical program was presented, followed by dancing Those present were the Misses Jane Boyle, Helen and Kay Heffernan Betty Maher, Margaret Connell Eleanor Rafferty, Olive Hiclox Gus Corden, John Collins, Otto Wilke, Daniel Barrett, Edward Streamen, Robert Cruess, William Cruess and Joseph Detelle.
 In the afternoon Mrs Drufa's juvenile singing class held a valen. tine party at the studio at 28 Park place. The decorations were in red and white. The little guests ex. changed valentine greetings. A de- licious luncheon was served. Those in attendance were: Edward Hick- OK, Mary Ryan, Betty Bowes, Marie Caffrey, Marie Brennan, Margaret Honan, Frances Lariviere, Nancy Joy, Freddy Fuso, Helena Barna Helen Bowling, Shirley Kenney Loretta Peters, Joseph Shea, Ed ward Maher, Arthur Woods, Fran cis Woods, Joseph Donahue, James Luddy, Peter Luddy, Rosetta Sey- mour, Beatrice Perrault, Shirley Belanger, Junior Belanger. Mary Mccormack, Peggy Mccormack, Mary Carney, Marjorie Healey, Anna Wethered, Peggy Franz, Yer onica Diorio, Bobby Scanell, Helen Dvorkas, Judith Boyle, Harriet Eapkie. Solos were rendered by the different members of the class and piano selections were given by John Collins.