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RUSSIAN WORKERS OF THEIR SHOP Nearing F inds Out Why Soviets Stick By SCOTT NEARING VLADIKAVKAZ, Caucasus—(FP)— Thero has been some difference of opinion as to whether the soviet re- public is stable. Many of these opin- fons came from Vienna or Helsingfors, Others were written in Moscow. Let me answer the question from the cifcumference of the soviet re- public—Vladikavkaz, a city in tho Caucasus, more than a thousand miles from the soviet capital. Workers in Viadikavkaz and peasants of the coun- tryside had an excellent chance to .@hoose between the forces of Deni- -kine, Wrangel and the other “whites” who, were attacking the soviet gove! ment from the south—and the “red: who finaily defeated the white armies, Vladikavkaz still bears many signs of the conflict. More than one build- ‘ing stands roofless and yawning. Along the railroad are the wrecks of hundreds of burned freight cars. The cement wall surrounding the railroad shops is loop-holed every few feet. It was behind this wall that the workers fought their battles. Workers and peasants with whom T talked all preferred the “red” army to the white. First, because it was well disciplined. The white soldiers plundered and burned indiscriminate- ly. Second, because the landlords and capitalists came with the whites, while the red army symbolized work- ing class control of the factories and more land for the peasants, Peasants in the neighborhood of Viadikavkaz have nearly twice as much land as before the revolution. Workers have not gained so much. They are earning only as good a liv- ing as in prewar days. But the fac- tories and shops are “ours.” They say this with pride as they show you about, introducing you to foremen and superintendents who only a short time ago were workers at the bench, and who are trained like the other work- men and are “comrade” to all. They take -you into the 12 reading rooms seattered through the Failroad shops and into the splendidly equipped workers club. Cooperatives abound in Vladikavkaz —bakeries, diningrooms, stores and the like. Again they are “ours” with a phrase of contempt for the private stores along the same street. Living quarters have been redis- tricted in the city. The big private houses of the old days are~ either used for public purposes or house peo- ple in proportion to the number of folks in the family. A visitor to Vladikavkaz has only one possible impression of the new social system: It is there to stay. The former owners are gone, leaving a noisome trail behind them. The Bew owners feel an intense pride in their property. Their economic and social interests compel them to defend it, mot because Moscow says so, but because it is “ours.” ' JUNIORS’ AND MISSES’ DRESS. “B118, Cut in 4 sizes: 14, 16, 18 and 20 years. As illustrated a 16-year size requires 2% yards of 40-inch material for the skirt, and 2 yards of 32-inch material for the blouse. If made with 2long sleeves the blouse Will require 2% yards. Price 12c. LADIBS’ DRESS FOR STOUT ‘WOMEN, 5227. Cut in 9 sizes: 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52 and 54 inches bust measure. A 46-inch size made as in the large view, requires 3% yards of 54-inch material, with % yard of con- trasting for the collar, With short sleeves % yard less is required, Width of the dress at the foot is 1% yard. Price 12c, ' WASHION BOOK NOTICE! Aue i st ‘ "Children's patterns, @ con fared Ete ie Boe nt AE i TB te a ‘YORK HOUSING (Special to The NEW YORK, Nov. 16.—The Thursday session of the aldermanic housing committee received a thrilling jar when the big banner carried by the repre- ESTIMONY OF WOMEN’S COUNCIb» ON MISERABLE CONDITIONS OF WORKERS ese THE COMMITTEE H RS Daily Worker) A DAILY WORKER HAVE A VISIT WITH WORKERS OF CAUCASUS sentatives of the United Council of Working Class Women was unfurled | Private Palace Now a before an audience that crowded the aldermanic chamber, carrying the in- scription: Working Women! Down with High Rents! we are compelled to fight for them,”+ the whole house broke into applause which the chairman declared was en- tirely out of place and must be omitted. Assail Landlords, That the housing condition in New York City ‘is worse than the city fathers had expected to find out was emphasized by every witness called before the committee now investigat- ing this subject. It has been the hope of the landlords to convince ‘the city council that the law now supposed to protect the tenants enacted as an emergency measure during the war must be repealed and in the mean- time be made inoperative. To make sure that public sentiment would not run too high against the officials’if this were done, the: com- mittee is calling various heads’ of associations and clubs to sound the pulse of those who are in touch with the poor in their everyday life. Untermeyers Etonomics. Every witness declared that housing conditions were very bad. Mr Unter- meyer admitted as much. But he said that the other workers should buy their own houses. Pay down a thol- sahd or two and then pay “like rent” and after the houses were tear rent them and make a lot of money. When all the workers had done that they would be able to be landlords them- selves. But he did not intimate who would rent from them if all owned houses, a singular omission not fully explained. i A priest followed and he got up his ire to a considerable degree'as he denounced thé “landlords who: suck the blood from the poor by criminally high ‘rents and rotten sanitary condi- tions.” ' His description of the ‘hells the workers have to live in was worthy of a Bolshevik. But he had not the slightest remedy to offer.:): Unfit for Cattle, Eaitone Tt ‘leaked out in uncomfortable ‘tor rents that hundreds of thousands ‘in’ the city of New York live in houses’ that are a disgrace and that are’ not’ fit for cattle to live in. “They showl@ be razed to the ground,” cried one of' the witnesses. Pei or Tn most of the cases it was shown that rents had gone up and in many cases more than doubled, in spite of the emergency law, that is still sap posed to be in force. Witnesses frotti different clubs wearing fine silks ‘and costly fur coats spilled tears over the poverty of the poor, but none except the representatives of the workers themselves could suggest a remedy. It leaked out in considerable and! unexpected.ways that wages paid to: girls working in the Grand Central, were $2.98 per day and that railroad OUR DAILY PATTERNS ____OUR DAILY PATTERNS S226 LADIES’ APRON. Mt 5226. Cut in 4 sizes: Small, 34-86; medium, 38-40; large, 42-44; extra large, 46-48 inches bust measure, A medium size requires 2% yards of 32- inch material. Price 12c. LADIES’ NIGHT DRESS. «+ 4586, Cut in 4 sizes: Small, 34-36; medium, 38-40; large, 42-44; extra large, 46-48 inches bust measure, A medium size requires 45% yards of 36- inch material. Price 12c¢, SOVWCE TO PATYERN BUYERS--The petrorns being sola chru the DAILY VORKER pattern department are fur+ nished by @ New York firm of pattern manufacturers, Orders dre forwarded by the DAILY WORKER every day us re+ ceived, and they ave mailed by the man- ufacturer direct, to the customer, The DAILY WORKER does not keep tock of patterns on |. Delivery of Pros terns ordinarily will take at least 10 days from the date of mailing the order. Do not become impatient if your pattern is Han en lunch in a copy of it (the DAILY WORKER. not the lunch) to your shop-mate. ae Join the United Council of Working Class Women in Their Demand That the City Build Homes and Rent Them at Cost. We Refuse to Be Herded Into Firetraps and Un- sanitary Death Holes for the Profit of the Landlord! ‘When Kate Gitlow finished her testimony by saying. that “We only de- mand decent houses at a rental that the workers can pay, houses with light and air, houses that are clean and decent, and we are going to have them if FORMER BRTISH OWNERS GET CONCESSION ON LENA GOLD FIELDS IN SIBERIA MOSCOK, Nov. 16—The Lena gold fields have been restored to their former owners under a conces- sion signed by the M. Djerzinsky and M, Litvinoff, for the supreme council of national economy and the foreign office, respectively, and Ma- jor Frederick Davis Gwynn, for the former British owners of the Lena company. The concession covers more than 200 miles of gold bearing land along the River Lena in Siberia; a mil- lion and a half acres of iron and copper deposits, with blast furnaces and big industrial plants, known as the Sissert property, on the western edge of the Urais, and three quar- ters of a million acres of Altai prop- erty in South Siberia, whose depos- its of gold, silver, copper, lead and zine are yet impossible to estimate. The Lena and Sissert properties have already been turned over to the British concern, which has con- siderable American backing for de- veloping. workers paid over 45% of their earn- ings for rent. One well-dressed woman deplored that the landlords are not entirely in favor of the law that is hampering them in their skin game, and cited a meeting of landlords where lan- Workers’ Club By SCOTT NEARING VLADIKAVKAZ, Caucasus—(FP)— Traveling across the northern Cau- casus in a railroad compartment with three peasants, a couple of carshop workers, a mechanic, two teachers and so on, the talk turned on the city to which we were going, Vladikavkaz. “You will stay thére only one day?” a carshop worker demanded, “surely you must see what we are doing there!” Some talk followed and the matter was arranged. The train was getting into town about seyen in the evening and there was little time to lose, We went first to, the workers club —along the main street to a great building that had_gnce been a private house before it Was wrecked during the occupation of the town by Deni- kin’s forces. Now it is remodeled. There is a fine auditorium seating 800; a well equipped library with a large reading room; # cafe and dining Toom; offices; oommittee and class rooms and @ @ay nursery. Behind the clubhouse is a big flower garden and an open air theater that has been in use all summer for concerts and plays. The whole Clubhouse is elec- trically lighted, freshly decorated, well appointed and spotlessly clean. “We did the whole job ourselves,” one of the railroad workers said, “It has taken us two years. We have a sport club and gymnasium just around the corner. You must step in and see that, too.” : There are more pretentious club- houses in the United States, bit few better adapted to educational and so- cial purposes. I have seen these clubs, They belong to business men, bankers, lawyers and doctors, My conductor in this club was a wood- worker in a railroad carshop. Of course he spoke no English and we had some difficulty talking. To bridge the gap we had picked up a tall, unshavenfpeasant—one of our fel- guage against the law and the govern- ment was “many times worse than anything ever uttered by Ben Gitlow who is now serving time in Atlanta.” The kind lady did not even know where Ben is. Comrade Unjus cited cases where there were several families in one house and where sanitary conditions were so horrible that inspectors can not stand the stench and so miss reporting them. “Houses built by the city for the workers and rented at cost, is what’ we want,” said Comrade Unjus, representing the Workers Party in the United Council of Work- ingclass Women. The investigation has aroused the people of New York and the demand made by the workers is taking hold. The daily press has carried a number of reports, usually colored in faver of the landlords, Religious Bigots to Teach Adam and Eve Myth on School Time SAULTE STE. MARIE, Mich., Nov. 16—Religious bigots here have suc- ceeded in getting the board of edu- cation to agree to allow students to leave school on Wednesday afternoon following recess time to attend churches of their own choosing to listen to bible talks. The students are to be given special credits for attendance at these bible school meet- ings by the public school officials. To Figure Evolution, A mass meeting is being called of all parents by the board at which the ministers will try to get parents en thused over the prospect that the doc trine of évolution will not “corrupt’ the “morals” of their young children Switchmen’s Unies to Call Wage Conference Thomas C. Cashen, internationa’ president of the Switchmen’s Unior of America, announced that a meet ing of the union’s chairmen has beer: called to revise wage scales and working conditions. He did not an- nounce the date. While the switchmen’s organizatior is independent, it is believed that i will co-operate with the Brotherhoo of Locomotive Engineers and th Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen in seeking a wage ad- vance, Taxi Strikers Get Benefit. BOSTON—(FP)—Noy, 16, — Eigh wundred striking Checker taxi ca drivers are receiving their econ strike benefit from the Taxi Drivers Union, Committees from the union are canvassing all local unions afiiliat ed with the Boston Central Labor Union for financial aid. erent To those who work hara tor their money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work, DR. RASNICK | DENTIAT 645 Smithfield Street “ "PITTSBURGH, PA, A { I f low'voyagers. ' From 1912 to 1916 this man had been\a shingle weaver in the Ndhiber mills of ‘Oregon, Washington and, ‘British Columbia. He remem- bered just enough English to act as interpreter. So he shouldered his bundle at the station, came’ over to the club with us and went around ex- Plaining. It was a motley group as far ag,clothes went. They were all workingmen. But it was as logical as fate, These men or their,like had once’ built this honse for a rich, profit- eer." Now the wheel of fortune had turned and the builders were owning and using thé products of their labor. Even Missionary in No Danger in Russia By MARTIN A. DILLMON, ST, LOUIS—(FP)—The findings of the Rey. F. W. Burnham, president United Christian Missions of St, Louis, on his visit to, Russia are at. variance with the blood-and-thungér stories fed the American people, “The streets of Moscow are actuajiy safer than the streets of St. uis,” Burnham asserts. With Mrs. Burnham he spent two months in Russia. “Not only are there fewer burglaries and holdups in Russia than in the United States, but there are practical- ly no beggars or tramps, and public officials are as adequate and com- petent there as here,” he says. The Missions of which Burnham is head are international, with headquarters in St. Louis. The organization's annual expenditures are $3,000,000. Burnham went to Russia to study church organizations, “Although there 8 no prohibition law in effect in Rus- sia now, there is practically no drunk- nness and no loafing. Everybody has o work,” he says. “This year’s grain rop in Russia is a bumper one. “hough it is difficult for a foreigner ) get in, once inside he finds travel onfortable, food adéquate and the tussians friendly and hospitable.” Viedical Attention Free to Workers in the Land of Soviets ROSTOV, Russia—(FP)-—For work- rs medical attention js virtually free 1 Russia, Drug stores are city insti- utions. Hospitals and sanitariums re public establishments. A worker in ill health goes to the loctor assigned to his industry or shop. After a physical examination, f the worker is found in chronic ill vealth he goes to a hospital or sant- ‘rium and stays till he is well, free of ‘arge with railroad fare paid both "ays, This is not charity. It is a public stitution, just as the public schools nd public highways are public in the Inited States, Each industry contrib- ‘tes to these health and insurance funds in propértion to the sickness or accidents existing in the industry. When a worker falls a victim to acci- dent or sickness, the health institu- tions of the soviet union act to ypro- tect his health just as a fire-engine ia the United Siales acts to protect prop erty, nile Build the DAILY WORKER, SWING TO THE LEFT IN BERLIN i ELECTIONS DOOMS LOCARNO PACT + AND VON HINDENBURG’S REGIME ¥¢ ae By KARL cipal elections here, in which the Comr 260,000 votes, demonstrates that as far j burg regime are doomed to go. resign and persistent rumors that the the nationalist and socialist parties+ are wary about openly supporting the Locarno pact in the face of the mood of the workers, who denounce the agreement whereby they are further enslaved by allied imperialism, Communists Get 43 Seats. The results of the election, con- ducted on the system of proportional representation, give the Communist Party, 43 representative in the city administration, as compared to 78 socialists and 47 for the German na- tional peoples’ party, the monéfchists. The Communist Party came within ten thousand votes of leading the na- tionalists, and thus becoming the second party of Germany. The Communist Party has issued a statement demanding that the social- ist representatives support a program of, the immediate demands of the workers, or brand themselves once more as merély another one of the bourgeois parties, There is a possibility of the work- ers having a majority in the city parl- jament says the Communist Party statement and if the socialist repres- entatives earnestly have the interests of the workers at heart they will sup- port the workers’ demands, The Ber- lin workers have sent a majority to the. city hall. Now then dt is neces- sary for this majority to represent the will of its constituents. Immediate Demands, The proposed immediate demands which the Communist Party calls on the socialist representatives to sup- port include: The eight-hour day and higher wage rates for the “Ungestel- len” (government employes); con- struction by the state and city of houses for the workers, to be rented to them without profit, measures for relief of the unemployed this winter, and definite steps to reduce the high prices which are further increasing. The Communist Party of Germany will direct the sharpest criticism to- | ward every attempt of the socialists to build a block with the bourgeois parties, the statement adds. The pro- gram of the.Communist Party of Ger many, against the Locarno pact and the Dawes plan and similiar moves to enslave the German workers ard form an alliance against the workers and peasants government of Soviet Russia, ‘and demanding the workers’ control of industry and the govern- ment, then summarized. The results of the elections show that hundreds of thousands of Berlin workers understand that the Com- munist Party of Germany is the revo- lutionary fighting organization of the working class. A large number of the Communist voters are not yet members of the party. The Commun- is§ party points out to these workers that merely giving their votes is not enuf, and calls on them to enroll in the revolutionary fighting front of the German proletariat to join the Com- munist Party. Monarchist Imperialist Ambitions. The monarchists coalition, which | won the last presidential election by promising a firmer stand against al- lied imperialism, altho their leaders frankly admitted to imperialist ambi- tions of their own, has now fully ex- posed itself. The petty bourgeoisie who were promised they would get back the money they lost in the war, have now again been disillusioned. While Hindenburg, and other old goosesteppers speak at the graves of kings where the monarchist flag is displayed, the Luther government docilely accepts the Dawes plan yoke and pays the allies by raising the prices charged the workers for food and ‘other necessities. voted for Hindenburg because he pro- mised them relief, are now calling for relief from the receiver.” The signing of the Locarno pact has been a heavy blow to the prestige of the monarchists, who by so doing accepted an agreement which more Books About His NICOLA! LENIN, Lite STATE AND REVOLUTION and Work G, Zinoviev 25 Cents bya trlund and? soaitiont ker of | IMPE M. ya fe dpe ditical co-worker 0! PERIALISM—Final Stage of Capitatisn mat, ears, Zinoviev, first osi- fort’ 0 the Comivnist Internationa bide dasog Paper 26 Cents INFANTILE SICKNESS—or ceftiem in LENIN, THE GREAT Sema : STRATEGIST A. Losevsky 18 Cents A portrayal of Lenin In action as a Marx. M ist, ingician, revylationary strateyi ud PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION—or Kaut- roletarian statesman, Sky the Renegade aper 165 Cents (Spectal to The Daily Worker) | BERLIN, Germany (By Mail.)—The definite swing to the left in the munt-| concerned, the robber pact signed at Locarno, and the monarchist Hinden- The election took place amid increasing demand that the Luther cabinet As Comrade Leon says “Those who |’ REEVE 4 munist Party of Germany polled over as the German working masses are Treichstag would be dissolved. Both Your Union Meeting Third Tuesday, Noy. 17, 19265, Page Five |PURCELL TALK IS PRAISED BY SCHLOSSBERG Interested in New York City Unity Meeting (Special:to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Nov. 16, — Carefully marking off on his calendar “Novem ber 17, New Star Casino, A, A. Pur cell,” Joseph Schlossberg, general secretary of the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers of America, today ex- pressed his great interest in the Pur- cell mass meetings arranged for Tues- day, and said that every worker in- terested in the cause of labor ought to attend. Altho it may not be possible for him to aecept.the invitation of the trade union committee to be present at the final conference of union rep resentatives which will meet in Bee- thoven Hall on Sunday afternoon, Mr. Schlossberg gave the mass meet- Name of lL nd Place No. of Meeting. 21 Bricklayers; 912 Monroe 8t. 68 Carpenters, Diversey_and Sheffield, 141 Carpenters, 1023 E. 75th St. 272 Carpenters, Moose Hall, Chicago Sprinafield and 26th, Engineers, ' 180 W, Washington St. 535 Firemen and Enginemen, 5438 8. Halsted St. 542 Federal Employes, Great Northern otel. Glove Workers’ Joint Council, 1710 N. Winchester Ave., 5:30 p. m. 8 Hod Carriers, 225 ©. 15th St., Chi- cago H 1 6 Hod Carriers, 414 W. Harrison St. 81 Ladies’ Garment Workers, 328 W. Van Buren St, Marine Fire and Oilers, 387 N. N. Clark. 147 Painters, 20 W. Randolph St. 180 Painters, N. E. cor. California and jad 5 184 Painters, 6414 S. Halsted St. 191 Painters, W. cor. State and ith. 275 Painters, 220 W. Oak St. 521 Painters, Trumbull and Ogden Ave. 80. Plasterers, Monroe and Perio. Sts. Printers and Die Stampers, 19 Adams St. 724. Railway Carmen, 75th and Drexel ve. 4047 Railway Clerks, 9 S. Clinton St. 2219 Rail Clerks, 509 W. Washing- 703 Teamsters, 159 N. State St. 7 Waiters, 234 W. Randolph St. 111. Upholsterers Union, 180, W. Wash- ington St. é 39 Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Kedzie and Ogden. 152 Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Robey St 534 N. le (Note: Unless otherwise stated, all meetings are at 8 p. m.) . openly enslaved the German masses than the Versailles treaty. Socialists and Locarno. But still the socialists refuse to take a firm stand against the right coalition. The socialist leaders an- nounced they would “not accept res- ponsibility for the Locarno pact UN- LESS THE NATIONALISTS AGREED TO SHARE IT.” The resignation of the three nation- alist cabinet ministers was a gesture to pacify the workers by seeming to oppose the pact, but at the same time to save the Luther government. In order to make it easier for the Luther government to enforce ratifi- cation of the Locarno treaty, it was decided that only a majority, and not a two thirds vote of the reichstag, would be required for. ratification. The swing to the left in the Berlin elections may force the ‘socialists to insist on new elections and the dis- solving of the reichstag, altho so far they have only “threatened” to op- pose the Locarno pact if new elec- tions are held. Employment Service Report Gives Lie to “Prosperity” Fables (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C. Nov. 16.— Allis not so rosy in American indus- try as the organs of the capitalist class like to paint conditions in this country, according to the October re- Port of the United States employment service which shows that many work- ers in southern cotton mills have been working on reduced schedules. These cotton mills in the south were opened by the textile bosses of the north in an attempt to slash the wages of the northern workers and also to break up whatever union organization the workers in the south might have. The. report also. points out that there are many workers in Pacific coast cities, especially in San Diego, Los. Angeles and Seattle, that are tramping the streets with no pros- pect” a job. The Feports of the local agents of the au in various States show a tendency on the part of highly skill- ed workers, who are thrown into the ranks of the unemployed, to accept work on road building and at com- mon labor in order to make both ends meet, V. 1, ULIANOV LENIN bia Ys ny AND PRACTICE OF LENINISM.” An my nt work on Communtst. theory and practice during: the period that Lenin Hved and ied-the period of Capitalist Inrerlalism. Written by a close co-worker of pe brent Sceretary of tho Lussian Communist 78 pp. Durofiex Covers, ings his heartiest support, saying: World Figure. “Purcell is today one of the lead- ing figures in the International Trade Union movement, as well as in the British Trade Union movement. He is bringing to us an inspiring message of international working class unity. His address delivered at the A. F. of +|L, convention aroused widespread in- terest. It was the first time that mem- bers of the American labor movement received such a ringing message from their fellow workers in other coun- tries. Purcell as president of the In- ternational Trade Union Federation of Amsterdam is working to bring all trade unions of the world into one body. All workers who are in- terested in the cause of labor should come to hear Purcell. “Personally, I have followed the efforts of the British workers for in- ternational trade union unity with in- tense interest. The fact that our British comrades have taken the ini- tiative in this work is to me most encouraging and full of promise of success.” BRITISH LABOR READY TO BOYCOTT MUSSOLINI AS WELCOME TO LONDON (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Nov. 16. — Premier Mussolini of italy will come to Lon- don for the signing of the Locarno treaties on December 1, the Ex- change Telegraph ys, denials from Rome notwithstanding. r A tense situation may arise if Mussolini comes to, London It is learned that labor leaders are Prepared to boycott him and wil! not attend any functions where is 2 guest, ‘ Wrap your lunch in a copy of the DAILY WORKER and give it (the DAILY WORKER, not the lunch) to vour shop-mate. 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