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Evening star., 1935-07-28

Samuel W Thorneton OF Rutherford,
N. Y: Mr. and Mrs. William s. Nor
man and Mr.. and Mrs Joseph H.
Norman of Richmond, Va, attended
the ceremony.
The marriage Of Miss Gertrude Yoel-
son. daughter of the Rev NJ. r. Yoelson
and Mrs. Yoelson of Lanier place north
west, and Mr.. Isadore I. Sollod OF
Wilmington, Del. and Baltimore took
place in the home Of her parents on
LGnier place Sunday. June 16, the
Rev. DR.. Yoelson performing the cere-
mony The improvised altar was
formed of flowers palms and ferns.
The brides gown was of satin.
made on princess lines, with q high
neck. long. tight sleeves, and the skirt
terminated in a long train. Her
modesty veil was Of tulle and lace,
the lace cap forming a tricorn. She
carried shower bouquet of brides
roses and lilies of the valley.
Miss Florence Sollod of Baltimore,
Md, sister of the groom, was maid
of honor. She wore a trailing gown
of hyacinth chiffon. Her hat and
accessories were dubonet color, and
she carried American Beauty roses
Miss Helen Selznick of Pittsburgh,
Pa, and Miss Libby Aronson were
bridesmaids. They wore trailing
gowns of ecru and tearose lace. Their
Evening star., 1935-07-28
Postman Serves As Years.

Having served as messenger boy and
postman for As years at Stonehaven,
Scotland, George Brown has retired,
and fellow workers presented him an
easy chair.
Evening star., 1935-07-28

MRS. MYRTLE TROTTER,
11ho sailed Friday on the Ber-
engGriG for q months tour OF
Europe. She iDtH Uisit London,
Paris, Rome, Vienna and
Carlsbad and return to Wash
ington the latter part OF Au-
gust.
-Harris-Ewing Photo.
Evening star., 1935-07-28
.Baehraeh Photo.

hats of tulle matched their dresses,
and they carried bouquets Of tails
man roses and blue delphinium.
Mr.. Sollod had as his best man Mr..
George Yoelson, brother of the bride.
Mr.. Nathaniel Berlin and Mr.. Her
bert Sollod. brother of the bride
groom. were uShers.
A large reception, attended by sew
eral hundred persons, followed the
ceremony. Later in the evening NJ.
and Mrs. Sollod left for an extended
trip through the White Mountains,
Quebec, Montreal and the thousand
Islands. Upon their return they will
reside in Wilmington, Del, where Mr..
Sollod is executive director of the
Y. MY. w. H. A.
The marriage of Miss Sarah Har-
per Williams, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Claude Shelton Williams of At
lanta, Ga, and Mr.. Raymond Keep
Peck, son of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice K.
Peck of Silver Spring. Md, took place
Thursday evening. July II, at the
home of the brides parents. The
Rev. DR.. A. M. Pierce of Dalton, Ga.
performed the ceremony in the pres
ence of an assemblage of friends and
relatives from Georgia and other
States.
There was an improvised altar of
palms and ferns against a back
Evening star., 1935-07-28

Trains to Have Radios.
Electric trains Of Soviet Russia will
have radio programs.
Evening star., 1935-07-28

Faces Burglary Epidemic.
Johannesburg. South Africa, has an
.pidemic Of burglaries.
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And they decided to concentrate
on the care of crippleS, old people
and orphans! Two special rest
homes for old kolkhozniks have al
ready been built in this republic.
Throughout the Ukraine and
Caucasus the slogan has been raised
for every village to have a mater
nifty house, a special hospital for
expectant mothers, a place where
they can stay several weeks. amidst
flowers, in rooms with white cur
tains and generally cheerful and
hygienic surroundings. Of these
maternity houses, 1876 were already
functioning before Jan. l of this
year, and during 1885 1,08o will be
opened in the Ukraine alone. Such
village maternity hospitals are un-
der the care of the Peoples Com
missariat of Health of the Ukrain-
ian Socialist Soviet Republic, in
other republics under the CORE
spending health department.
In the Khabardino-B alkarian dis
tricts just mentioned the Novem-
Der Seventh celebration had as one
of its slogans: Care for Mothers
and Children and one kolkhoz
painted on it's walls: Hold Up
Your Children as a Banner!"
Achievements of Farmers
Kolkhozniks are doing big things
anyway, unusual things, which
farmers never did before. In one
village, Mischerina, near Moscow, a
recent survey showed that about a
hundred farmers sons had become
teachers, agricultural experts, doc
tors, or were engaged in other
learned professions. One man, Kos
low, had become the head of a
politodel in transport. A politodel
is the group of especially gifted and
trusted Communist Party members
sent into any industry to bring
vigor initiative, new energy and
better leadership to it.
Another, Frolov, was head OF a
politodel in agriculture. A certain
villager named Sergeyey had be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
A. A. Head Blocks
Uion's Growth
BY a Worker Correspondent

BIRMINGHAM, Crawford,
District Organizer of the Amalga-
mated Association of Iron, Steel and
Tin Workers In Alabama, has called
another mass meeting of steel
workers to hear such rotten labor
takers as Bill Mitch district presi-
dent OF the U.M.W.A. and Walter
Jones, Negro U.MW.A. district Of
fetal.
The steel workers are fed up with
Crawford and his yellow fakery.
The Blue Eagle Lodge, which is
under his wing, has lost almost its
entire membership. This lodge,
situated in the heart Of the T. C. I.
giant steel mills with steel workers
5warming in all directions, has done
nothing to better the conditions of
the workers. The steel workers
have grown tired of hearing Craw-
ford's speech, which he has repeated
almost word for word since the
workers can remember. Nothing
was ever done in the union.
The Communist Party is having
struggle to get the workers to join
the union because of the general
disgust with the leaders. When a
militant worker was invited by
rank and file members to speak,
Crawford always refused the speaker
On the floor. When a militant
member told Crawford what was
wrong with the union. Crawford
a9ked him not to come back.
The steel workers are getting
ready to do something about the
miserable conditions IN the mills
and groups are forming that intend
to go into the union and GUST
Crawford and his cronieS. The
rank and file coal miners are anxi-
Gus to have the steel workers or
ganized because the sentiment in
the air now points to a giant strike
of ore, coal and steel in the near
future.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
Second Congress Of Collective Farm Shock Iriaaters

MOSCOW, u. S. S. R.-This is
written before the Second Congress
Of Kolkhoz Udarniks COLLECTIVE
Farm Shock Workers. assemblies.
The same unique election system is
being used that characterized the
famous First Congress of Kolkhoz
Udarniks. Election is by merit.
Those selected are the best of the
best, those who have given the most
to the country by learning and be-
ing willing to apply whole heart
eddy the new methods which the
collective farm system makes pos
sible, work by brigades, use of trac-
tors and other machinery, blowing
of fallow land, more autumn SOW
ing, wedding, struggle against losses
of grain during harvest, and the
fight for the improvement of live
stock and increase in the numbers
Of cattle and horses.
New Methods, New Spirit
The report of Molotov, Chairman
of the Council of the Peoples Com
n1issars, to the Seventh Congress of
Soviets, concluded just before the
Kolkhoz Congress assemblies. indi-
Gates the enormous successes of this
new technique. In spite of the bad
year, in spite of the world wide
drought which also affected some
districts in the Soviet Union, there
was an actual increase in the grain
yield in 1884 amounting to 81, 800 900
tons more than in 1888. Remem-
Der that the 1888 crop was the
largest ever raised in Russia up to
that time.
The new methods and the new
spirit among the farmers also
started in 1884 an increase of the
herds of cattle and horses which
had been diminishing during the
reorganization stage of agriculture.
The diminishing was largely the
result of the resistance Of kulak or
rich farmer elements. These are
now practically abolished. and 1894
showed thirty per cent increase
in sheep, a twenty-seven per cent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
DiferentiaI Hits
Gary Switchmen
BY a Steel Worker Correspondent

BY Steel Worker Correspondent
GARY, Ind.-It doesn't make any
difference in what department of
the Illinois Steel Company you
work, the bosses are always asking
for everything you got and more.
Take the transportation depart
ment for example. The switchmen
are making s4.58 a day, while
switchmen on the outside make
from $3.50 to $745 a day.
Not only that, but on the out
side they have five men in a crew,
two men no and three men down.
We in the mill have only two men
in a crew. One man up, COM
bination fireman-engineer doing
two mems work for a lousy $500
a day. The man on the ground
gets only s4.58 a day.
No matter which way you turn
there is always somebody grabbing
you to do something. You are al
ways getting he'll from somebody
the open hearth foreman, the yard
boss, or somebody else.
Our only solution is to organize
and build a strong A. A. here in
Gary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19

increase in hogs and an 8.5 per
cent increase in horses.
To be one of the leaders in such
victories as these is to be one of
the heroes of the community, one
of the honored people of the coun-
try-and to attend this Second Con-
greSs of Kolkhozntks is, like at
tendance at the first, high honor.
That is one side of the question.
The other side is that those best
fitted to plan the future, to ar
range for the raising of the grain
yield by 1874 per cent in 1895 as
the. Second Five-Year Plan de-
mands, are just exactly those who
did best work and showed they I'M
derstood the work best, in 1894.
So, throughout the whole coun-
tryside of the Soviet Union, kolk-
hoz has been competing with kolk-
hoz for the right to send delegate
to this congress, and within the
kolkhozes one man or woman COM
petes with all the others for the
right to be that delegate. A close
check-up is being made, and the
victors will be announced and rati-
fled at meetings of all the collec-
tive farmers.
Some of the contestants are al
ready far in the lead. For example
the press reports about a certain
Novikov in the Voronezh district.
This man has won many contests
in the past He became so famous
as the best leader of a brigade in
his own collective farm that there
was a special article in Pravda
about him last year. Now he has
been promoted to Craftsmanship
elected of course) of another kolk-
hoz which was tagging behind in
production.
Then, there is another case which
shows how the contest stimulates
grain production in the whole COM
n1unity The Collective Farm "For
Communism is certain to have
delegate. But at a recent meeting
of the members it was reported that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19

workers hand was cut off at the
wrist.
Some time ago a four-inch bush
ing fell from the main elbow of the
press which makes the first opera
ton on the top left hood. The
worker escaped injury. The BUSH
ing was put back A few days later
it fell out again, but the workers
operating the machine did not no
tice it. Another worker saw it but
did not know where it came from.
Later some one passing by noticed
it and knew where it came from.
Then it was found out that the
press had been in operation at a
high rate Of speed for three hours
with the bushing missing. The
bushing was put back but not very
securely. This press is being OPP
Grated right now with the bushing
protruding out almost an inch.
Several weeks ago in this depart
ment a crash was heard and then
a big noise, workers were seen
running and jumping out Of the
way of sliding piles of oily, sharp
edged sheet metal They we're
running into the paths Of those
feeding the presses with this sharp
edged stock. 1t was a miracle that
many of these workers were not
severely cut or that some operator
was not run into, forcing him
against the press with the danger
of having an arm amputated. 1t
is very seldom in this department
No. 1877 that one can move more
than eight or ten inches without
colliding with press in motion or
pile of sharp-edged stock.
The cause of all of the above
commotion was that a mammoth
press, first operation Likelihood,
had failed. 1t could no longer
stand the "a hour six days a week
continuous grind. One of its giant
arms, Weighing six to eight hum
dred pounds broke and fell, Just
missing two workers. On exanina-
ton it was found that the arm had
been broken for some time.
These incidents show that the
company in its mad rush for profits,
wastes no time or expense to in
spect machines. A press is in
spected only when it breaks down
and then only the part that is
broken Is inspected and repaired in
some fashion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
BY an Auto Worker Correspondent

OT nAA AAFu EgVIAEt
DETROIT, Mich. clear-cut
example of how the automobile in
dustry stabilized employment is
further supplied by the Hupp Motor
Car Corporation. Just two months
ago they set their die shop into
operation, after prolonged period
of inactivity, and hired approx
mately 100 die makers. Friday, Feb
s, a sweeping layoff had been or
dered, leaving only skeleton group
on the job.
These men scarcely worked two
months and were utterly stunned
by the sudden action taken. In
view Of all the display publicity
given the matter of sterilization in
the lying capitalist press, those laid
off (all seasoned die makers) felt
as if bomb shell exploded in their
midst. During this brief period,
the company insisted UPON working
seven days per week, issuing passes
covering Saturdays and Sundays.
Mr. Ogger, the foreman, had kept
a very close watch at all times and
an atmosphere of fear had been
maintained to obtain the highest
speed-up. Ogger is regarded as a
pusher, not a man Of ability. Al
though the Hupp people never en-
ployed women on punch press work
before, this year battery Of punch
presses is being run by women,
driving men out of their jobs. who
spent years at the plant. Another
significant feature of a decided
change in the direction of a lower
standard of living, which already
is unbearable, is the abolition of
the individual piece work plan. The
company served notice that from
now on, the vicious group or gang
work plan shall be introduced,
which will enable the company to
pay anything it pleases as there is
no definite way Of checking up ones
earnings.
Service Men on the job
A 1unkey, not a die-n1aker but
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
BY Vern Smith

in the village soviet are repre-
sented several farms that are not
up to the average. The members
OF the collective farm For Cornmu-
nism" resolved: I'VE must make
them catch up so that we will not
be ashamed of our district when we
go to Moscow" and they sent some
of the best shock workers of For
Communism" to the other kolk-
hozes as teachers and good ex-
amples.
Some of the collective farms have
done quite startling things in the
course of the competition, though
they are the same sort of things
that all are doing anyway, to a
greater or lesser extent. In the
course of the checking up on the
preparations for the spring sowing
campaign, on repairs of machinery
and buildings, on care of cattle,
these being the main points of the
contest, the investigators found in
this same Voronezh region a COL
lective farm that has in addition
built a House of Culture" for
classes and recreation, has organ
lied a chorus, has music classes, has
its own theatre, has built a public
bath house, opened a barber shop
and set up buffet.
In a congress of soviets recently
held for the autonomous region of
Khabardino- Balkaria, the territory
of two small national minorities in
the Caucasus, the kolkhozniks Sc
riously debated the question:
What shall we fight for in 1885?
We have already 81 pounds of grain
for each collective farmer for each
working day he put in, besides
meat, butter, vegetables, fruits,
honey, cheese, wool and money. We
have built clubs, hospitals, vet
Urinary stations, new houses, kin
dergartens, new stables. In our dis
trict there are brick factories, we
have good discipline and good crops.
We have everything we need to live
WE'LL
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
Worker Criticizes
Shop Paper
BY a MetaI Worker Correspondent

CHICAGO. I'LL am a worker at
Stewart Warner, Chicago, and a
subscriber to the Daily Worker.
We had a talk about the brother,
or cousin, Of the Daily Worker I
mean the Stewart Warner Worker"
that is given out by some Commu-
nists here. Most of the fellows
praised the paper, some bum raped
it pretty hard though, I must say.
Most of us like it. The men that
write it sure know their stuff. Some
times you'd wonder how they find
all that out They have put out
one of the rottenest foremen,
Davids; they have caused the COM
pany to at least make an attempt
at preventing accidents. They have
published many wage and other
grievances and shown ways and
means to improve our condition.
When it comes down to brass lacks
we have to admit that the COM
pany published the Stewart War
nerite" precisely because they were
scared of the effect of the stewart
Warner Worker"
But in spite of all the good quail
ties of the Stewart Warner Work
er" it has serious weaknesses, too,
and I want to point them out to
you
They had one where they said
under two important articles, Con
tinued on page g." And when you'd
turn to page 6 you'd find blank
staring at you. The printing is poor
too, it Shout be type print. But what
is the most foolish thing for them
to do, when they accomplish some
thing in the plant they let some
big shot or the company get away
with the credit The company makes
somebody accident supervisor" and
he takes the credit for what these
fellows have fought for in the
Stewart Warner Worker" The
fellows have worked hard and have
achieved some unity and solidarity
amongst the workers here. Along
comes Highton and claims that he
and his Stewart Warnerite" have
made US a happy family"
1t is not that I want to bum-rap
your fellows. AS a matter of fact
I am with them, and I'd give a
dozen company books for one
Stewart Warner Worker" But
nevertheless, the weaknesses have
to be pointed out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19
One-Week Limit
In Open Hearth
BY steel Worker Correspondent

GARY, Ind.-Speed-up is the or
der of the day here at the Illinois
Steel Company mill.
Take the case of Tom Kane, la
Dor foreman on the No. S Open
Hearth. This fellow happens to be
some kind of relative to w. P. Glea-
son, General Superintendent Of the
Gary works, and therefor has all
sorts Of pull with the higher Off
cials. No worker can last with him
more than a week on the job. For
some reason or other he always
turns the workers in to the bosses
blaming them for being slow
What is the meaning of this
changing the workers so often? BY
doing this, he thinks he get more
work out of us. BY getting new
men all the time on that particular
job, he feels that he can speed them
up more.
The reason why he can get away
with this is because we are not or
ganized in each and every depart
ment. We have the A.A. here in
Gary, but it isn't strong enough
yet to fight the bosses.
Whenever anything goes wrong
because Of the speed-up, they put
the blame on the little fellow. In
the yards of the Gary steel works
the engines are limited to eight
miles an hour or u at the most
If you obey these rules, you are toe
SLOW for the open hearth boss. II
you don't obey them, the yard
bosses give you he'll for Disregard
ing safety rules.
You know as we'll as I do that
there is no such things as safety
in the Gary mill. I don't care who
breaches it; the only rule the Gary
bosses know is speed up and more
speed-up. If you can't keep up with
the pace, it's the scrap pile for you
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The exhibition was opened by
Peoples Commissar of Education
Bubnov who indicated that plans
would be made to bring the best of
these farmer artists to Moscow for
education in the Academy of Art,
and that older painters would be
persuaded to go to country districts
where several young artists are
working to give them some help.
One dramatic feature was the as
cent of Mount Elbruss, one of
the two highest and most inaces-
sible peaks OF the Caucasus, by a
group of farmer sportsmen from the
Krasny Elbruss Collective Farm in
Khabardino- Balkaria. There were
ten in the group, and they did it
lin honor of the Second Congress
of Kolkhozniks."
So, you see, the congress is at
tracing country wide attention.
What will it do when it meets?
Its problems will not be the same
as those Of the historic First Con-
gress. 1t is safe to say that the
famous slogan issued by Stain to
the First Congress: ITO make all
kolkhozes Bolsheyik and to make all
kolkhozniks we'll to do" will be re-
peated, but the reports will be on
the extent to which it has been APP
piled, on the progress made in
various parts of the country. The
kolkhozniks have firmly planted
their feet on the path pointed out
by Stain.
The second congress will take up
new tasks and develop new forms.
It will revise the standard collec-
tive farm constitution, in the light
of the last two years experience
and in view of the progress already
made. 1t will take up the i'm
portsnt problem of still further in
creasing the herds of cattle. Ii
will evolve new ways Of speeding the
epring sowing, of rushing through
the harvest ard saving grain from
spelling, and still further technical
| improvements in agriculture.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-19

come an engineer at Kuznetsk, coal
and iron center. Kostilov, another
village boy, had become prosecuting
attorney for whole district. Two
were commanders in the Red Army
and one political instructor in the
Red Army. At various times similar
surveys of other villages have been
made and published, always with
such results as given for Mischer-
ina.
In the Museum of Fine Art in
Moscow there has just been opened
an exhibition of TOO pictures
selected out of 5000 submitted in
competition for collective farm
ers who have learned to paint or
draw. The contest was organized
by the Central House of Self Activ-
ity Art. Farmers from all parts of
the country, including minority ma
tionalities like the Karelian (F'inn
tribes in the northwest) and the
Chuvashian Ca Monaghan people,
competed.
art Belongs to the People"
The newspaper WORKERS Mos
cow" opens its comment on this
exhibition by quotation from
Lenin: art belongs to the people.
1t must strike deep roots in them
and awaken artists in them"
The paper goes on to point out
that already rich vein of artistic
ability has appeared-among farm
ers. The art is not finished, be-
cause too few years have gone by
and there has not been enough in
struction yet, but it shows versa
tility. Especially noteworthy pic
lures are those of a market, Q pond
and a mill by a 17-year -old farmer
boy. A painter from the Far North
brings a picture of native medi-
cine man, "Snaman." A con-
triouting eartconist, Aristov, from
a farm in the Kuibyshev formerly
Samara, on the Volga) states: "For
me, the best school was tae news.
paper of the politodel in our dis
| trict.'
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great favorite with the foreman
and superintendent and is often
seen carrying on conversations with
them.
The following is a quotation from
the Articles of the Association.
Article A. page 5, section L.
Every member shall pay into the
Association the sum of IS cents per
month, such sum to be deducted
from his pay envelope and remitted
by the Company to the treasurer
of this Association"
In addition to this the Company
charges $40 per month for COM
pulsory life insurance, also deducted
from the pay check.
This is the manner in which the
auto industry is being stabilized. !"
The Hump Motor Car Corporation
occupied prominent position
among auto plants at one time.
Today it is merely a shade Of its
former greatness.