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Page Six rapes er ne THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1927 Fhe Soviet Evrerndiegt “The Brain Institute” [Helps the Countryside Solve the Mysteries of the Human Mind | [Solve lts Many Problems} Aid to the Countryside. | ed to give| jowners up| e. The land-tax alone con-| f 665 million roubles, i. e., | al revenue of the peasantry. | sonfronted with the task of} of the peasantry, the poor] | Government tim jan peasants a pre-revolutio! up to the cza to one-third of their stituted the enormo about 14% of the en The Soviet government wi helping the fundamental mz and middle p: ts, to improve and develop their home- Ssteads. THe Soviet government initiated a big campaign which | took the form of adva eed to the peasants. In the} course of the last eight years about 2 million poods of} seed were advanced to the peasantry. Two-thirds of| this amount went to the poor homeste and one-third to the homesteads of the middle peasantry. | The legacy (fields sep longing to o of the past bad land management from each other by strips of land be- s of land a long dis- impeded the de-} of agriculture. In the period between 1919 and 1926, 105 million desiatins of land, i. e. about 30% of the European part of the Soviet U modelled on an up-to-date basis, The first to steads of the po The villages provided with ag I @ peasantry. nt much more adequately 1 implements than prior to the revolution. The at present throughout the U. S. S. R. 27.000 tract most of which (90%) are in the hands of middle and poor peasants. Credit co-operatives y an important role in regard to raising the level of poor and middle homesteads. In the course of two yea from October 1924 to October 1926,—the membe: p of agricultural credit co-opera- tives increased nearly three-fold (from 1% million to 43 million). Most of the members (up to 90%) are poor and middle peasants, Up to 25% cf peasant homesteads have been exempted this year from the agricultural tax. The greatest per-| centage of this tax has been transferred to the sulak| sections of the peasantry. | The price reduction campaign leads slowly, but surely | to the elin tion of the disproportion between prices for manufactured goods and those for agricultural pro- duce. This is a general outline of the policy of the Soviet State in the countryside. Wage-Rises Thruout the Moscow Gubernia. | The average wage-rise per head in all the industries of the Moscow Gubernia is shown by the following fig- ures: in 1925—68 roubles 68 kopeks; in 1926—77 rbls. 97 kps.; in 1927—60 rbls. 40 kps. The railwaymen’s month- ly wage was in 1926—68 1 75 kps. and in 1927—71 rbls. 1 kp. These wage rises are guaranteed by real price reductions, which has led to the reduction of the cost of living provided for in the budget, (cost of forty necessaries of life on January 1, 1927—25 roubles, 98 . on August Ist—24 rbls. 40 kps., which means a re- of 6.1%). 1 yegard to unemployment an improvement has taken “ace during the last seven months, There has been a reduction of unemployment between April 1st and ist Ist throughout the Moscow Gubernia. Opening of Another 18 Kilowatt Radio Station. Another 18 kilowatt broadcasting radio station has been opened in Leningrad. It is proposed to raise the power of this radio station to 30 kilowatt by January 1928. It will be possible to have its transmissions received by the simplest and cheapest radio apparatuses. A Working Man’s Invention. On the Tver station of the October Railway two pow- erful cranes for lifting coal onto locomotives are in the course of construction. These cranes are the invention of a worker employed in the railway workshops, Com- rade Rudakc Engineers think that these cranes are very economical. American Sayants on the U. S. S. R. Prior to their departure from Moscow to Leningrad the delegation of five American savants gave their im- pressions of their tour to representatives of the press. Professor L, Dunnington said: “The first thing that strikes one when studying the life of the U. S. S. R., which is being constructed on entirely new principles, is the high social development and also the development in all enterprises. In all the places and institutions which we visited we were asked to transmit to America a pro- test against the sentence of death on Sacco and Van- zetti. In one of the villages near Moscow, where the delegation found itself quite unexpectedly, we met in the fields an old peasant, who, on learning that we were Americans, startled us by the question: How is it that the American people have not yet torn Sacco and Van- zetti out of the hands of their executioners? “As we had full opportunity to convince ourselves, the Soviet government does not only take measures for improving the economic position of the workers, it also pays considerable attention to everything connected with education and culture.” “Here,” said Professor A. Wood, “labor, science, education and culture work hand in ” “In the U. S. S. R. there are no national or racial prejudices which are still so strong in other countries, particularly in South America. The populations of all the republics of the Soviet Union feel themselves full- | fledged citizens. Confidence in human nature and labor) In answer to the question: What are the causes which | is the foundatién of Soviet construction.” prevent rapprochement between the U. S. S. R. and the. American people? Professor L. Dunnington said: “In the course of a conversation which we had with one of the leading members of the Soviet government, he remarked that the main reason preventing rapproche- | ment between the U. S. S. R. and America is that here life is being constructed on principles which lead to Socialism whereas life in America is based on capitalist principles.” “We have been able to see for ourselves that Social- ism is really being constructed in the U, S. S. R., and we are convinced of it. Another impediment to rapproche- is the political ignorance of America in regard to! vything which is being created in the Soviet Union. | Even those cl of American society which are very} near to the L . S. R. are very badly informed about your country.” | “On our return home,” said Professor Dunnington in| conclusion, “we will do our utmost to dispel all preju-| dices concerning the Soviet State which are the result of false information spread by a section of the foreign press about conditions in Soviet Russia.” | Professor Spider expressed his conviction that more frequent mutual visits by social delegations of the two countries will greatly help to bring about a rapproche- | ment. He said: “To judge by my own feelings, I am} tty sure that such mutual visits will break down all Bigiers erected by that section of the press which is hostile to the U.S. S. R. j / By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. HERE so much to be seen and studied, so much to be discussed in Moscow, that one feels continually before an avalanche of things to be accomplished. Thus I swi ched in a two-hour visit to the I tute for the i of the Higher Nervou tween an interview with rietta Derman, head of the Library of the Communist Academy, and a hear- ing called by the Organization De- partment of the Communist Interna- |tional to discuss the problems of our American Party. * “The Commun called Institute” t Academy. The Brain is a part of the In short, it is Institute,” and Comrade Derman had emphasized, “You must visit our ‘Brain Insti- tute.’ ” You will find it very interest- ing. It is hoped some day, soon, to as- semble all the activities of the Com- munist Academy at one spot. Com- rade Derr had pointed out that that would possible if the im- perialist powers do not soon plunge the Soviet Union into another wai At present, however, the Lib located at No. 11, Snamenka Street, while “The Institut some distance away at No. 1, Mar ngels Street, with the Marx-Engels Institute, of which I have already written, as its close neighbor. The building is not very impressive, but this is forgotten as one seeks to grasp the tremendous work that is being attempted within its walls. The director of “The Institute” is Fursi- koy, a pupil of Pavlov, of Leningrad, and its general secretary is Salmon- son. It is the aim of “The Institute” to apply the ideas inherent in the works of the great Russian physiologist, Pavlov, to the mentality of man. Pavlov has succeeded in sketching out a physiological theory of certain states in the dog known as sleep, hypnotism, unconscious cerebration and suggestion. These states are usually regarded as having something to do with the “mind.” If it is so, then Pavlov has succeeded in giving a physiological explanation of certain “mental” phenomena. Now physi- ology deals with matter, and in so far as mental states can reccive a physi- ological explanation, they can receive | a materialistic explanation. In his book, “Conditioned Reflexes,” just issued in English by Oxford Uni- versity, in England, Pavlov makes no reference to any animals except dogs. He is not himself concerned with the reasonable implications of his experi- ments for animals other than dogs, such as man. Though Pavlov him- self refuses to draw any such con- clusions, there is no reason why others should not. That is exactly the task of this “Brain Institute” in Mos- cow. The great conclusion is simply this. If certain “mental” states of the dog can be given a physiological ex- planation, is it not likely that’ some, and perhaps all, “mental” states in man can be given a physiological, i.e., a materialistic explanation. As a result, therefore, of the work that is here being carried forward, with energy and enthusiasm, many of the less complicated common “men- tal” states of men may soon receive fairly complete physiological explana- tions, and a great deal of the mys- ticism associated with the operation of the “mind” and “spirit” of man will evaporate. * * * Pavlov has directed an extensive research for the last 25 years into the physiological activities of the cere- bral cortex, ie., of the top part of the brain in the highest animals, such as men and dogs. He has carried on this work in Leningrad and the re- sults have been published in about 150 papers nearly all written in Rus- sian. Owing to the language diffi- culty and the Bolshevik Revolution, Western European and American scientists were temporarily cut off from a detailed knowledge of the re- sults of this extensive research. This condition is now being remedied and as a result much in- terest is being shown in the work of “The Brain Institute’ in Moscow, which is being visited not only by Crashes to Earth ae RA 8 CARS MEET Louis E. Royal of Flint, Mich. (above) whose plane was wrecked by dropping into a street in Chicago. Royal was No. 16 in the Spokane Derby. He and his passenger, James Patten, escaped without serious injuries. international Newsreel) in European but by American scientistsgto salivate at the sound of the buzzer as well. | alone. od | This is a simple example of what Pavlov was world-famous before he| Pavlov calls a “conditioned reflex”; commenced his cerebral cortex re- | the inborn alimentary reflex has been searches, as he had laid the founda-| “conditioned” to respond not only to tions’ of the modern theory of the food, but to a noise. physiology of digestive processes. | oy 3 be Dogs, like men, salivate at the sug-; This may not seem very extraor- gestion of food. Obviously such|dinary at first, | “psychic” reflexes have to be investi-| soon shows how important is the gated in researches on digestion. In-; principle involved. | stead of speculating why the dog, Consider a man reading a political should suddenly start thinking about, pamphlet. He sees print, he reacts food, he began to record all the ex-| to the print as if he were denouncing ternal stimuli falling on the animal! the injustice described, yet it is the at the time its reflex action was’ print he is seeing, not the injustice. manifested. | He has a “conditioned reflex” based = _on his fundamental social reflexes or Among the inborn -reflexes is the| instincts. It is due to conditioned re- ‘alimentary reflex, one factor of|flexes that words may be more ‘which is salivation at the mouth. In| stimulating than the experiences of newly-born puppies this reflex acts) the events described, and conditioned | only when they actually have things| reflexes are one of the factors that \in their mouths, they do not. know] sometimes makes the that meat is food until they have] definitely stronger than the sword. tasted it, they cannot “recognize” it | * id = at sight. After they have learned; Pavlov considers that the desire that meat is good food, they always | for freedom is based on a complex of livate on seeing it. If a buzzer is| physiological reflexes, i.e., it is in- started just before meat is presented | stinctive. He was experimenting with | to them which they are subsequently|a dog that refused to be placed under | | allowed to taste, they ultimately come! the slightest restraint, and after much | [Geet eee ee ee BOOK * * * * Sw EDITOR OF “WORLD” DISCOVERS SOME GREAT MEN. Men of Destiny, by Walter Lippmann. Illustrated by Rollin Kirby. Mac- millan, $2.50. Thruout this whole book there is an atmosphere of promiscuous cheer- fulness. Written by the man who dictates editorials (not policy) on the New York World, the volume contains embalmed political and semi-literary essays which have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, Har- pers, the Saturday Review of Literature, the Yale Review, and the New Republic, “ The book is pleasant. Its themes dealing with the “principles” of state rights, majority rule, referendum and recall—and the other political fictions of an earlier decade in the present century—bring back vividly the innocent school courses on “civics,” with its chapters on “The Electoral College” and “How We Choose Our Public Servants.” For Lippmann, the former editor of the New Republie, the fiercest winds which blow in world polities row seem to concern themselves largely with| the subject of (1) censorship; (2) Bryan, and “the dogma of majority rule”; (3) the causes of political indifference, * * * The leading piece in the book is on Al. Smith, one of Lippmann’s men of destiny. “Governor Smith is the first man of the new immigration who by every professed standard of American politics is completely available as a candidate for president. He cannot be attacked as an alien bent on de- stroying American institutions, or even as a revolutionist, like the elder La Follette, for example, who would undermine the rights of property and the power of the courts.” v Smith can’t win, however, Lippmann laments. Not because he’s a cath- olic, nor because he is the darling of Wall Street—a reason the author fails to suggest—but because “there is an opposition to Smith which is authentic, and as poignant as his support. It is inspired by the feeling that the clamorous life of the city should not be acknowledged as the American ideal.” * * ’ | Another “man of destiny” is Borah of Idaho, who, as state prosecutor, | for murder in 1907, and who voted against the child labor amendment.| Lippman says that Borah is independent: he reached the chairmanship of the Committee on Foreign Relations under the rule of seniority. Since there are only 75,000 voters in his state to whom Borah has to truckle in order to keep his job, Lippmann argues that he is “independent” and is “under no compulsion to regard himself as the mere mouthpieces of a president or a secretary of state.” This is a curiously provincial view of political “independence.” Were Borah content merely to remain a senator from Idaho, then he would have to ingratiate himself (apparently) with the voters in his state and (actually) with the lumber, mining, railway and waterpower interests of that territory. But Borah, like the other man of destiny, Al. Smith, would like much to attain to the birthright of every American lad. And here his “independence” becomes more dubious than ever. * * * In his essay entitled “The days of Our Nonage Are Over,” Lippmann reveals a directness and an apparent honesty seldom found on the editorial page over which he presides. He discards, for the moment, the vague and ingratiating generalities made familiar in the Woodrovian Era, and returns to the logic and bluster of the Big Stick: Says he: “Americans must make up their minds to recognize the fact that they are no longer a virginal republic in a wicked world, but they are themselves a world power, and one of the most portentous which has appeared in the history of mankind. When they have let that truth sink in, have digested it, and appraised it, they will cast aside the old phrases which conceal the reality, and as a fully adult nation, they will begin to prepare themselves for the part that their power and their position compel them to play.” Walter Lippmann has progressed much since the time when he was secre- tary to the ex-socialist mayor of Schenectady, George R. Lunn. He has been an editor of the New Republic. He served as assistant to the secre- tary of war from June to October, 1917; as captain in the U. S. Army Military Intelligence, and was a member of Wilson’s Peace Commission in Paris. During that time he has achieved a reputation as a “publicist.” A publicist is a ¢ross between a magazine sociologist and a prophet. Hence his minor genius for applying his doubtful “analyses” to the most obvious Moscow Plans to | but consideration | pen quite | escaped the political isolation of his home town by yelping for the blood } of Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone when an attempt was made to frame them} | i elucidatory experiment and reflection he decided that its desire to be free was instinctive and reflex. On look- ing up the list of instincts given by William James | psychology, he found no reference to} |the freedom instinct. Accepting Pavlov’s view that the jdesire to be free is based on a physiological reflex, it follows that |the thwarting of that desire must lead | to reflex defense-actions. || The worker who feels that he is not free will make reflex defense-ac- jtions, howver comfortable his mere} conditions of work may be. Thus it is not necessary for the American worker and farmer to be reduced to the misery and agony of the Russian worker and peasant in 1917, the third jyear of the great war, in order to cause him to rebel against the ruling class that forces intolerable conditions upon him. The standard of living of the Amer- | ican worker may be reduced to a | point still considered “comfortable” by jsome, in comparison to conditions in jother countries, and yet result in | widespread discontent driving toward |@ social upheaval, : * a * The work of “The Brain Institute” was thus explained to me thru an interpreter, a comrade who had learned English as a worker with Hoover’s American Relief Administra- tion at the time of the famine, Wherever we went there were cages filled with dogs under observation. Some of these were very lively, bark- ing lustily. Others’ were quiet, in a stupor, as a result of the anaesthetics that had been administered to them. There was one cage of monkeys. “The Brain Institute” seemed well equipped with instruments, altho there ‘was the Bolshevik impatience that de- clared the equipment could be much better. The chemical laboratory was an attractive place. * ’ * Fulop-Miller has written a book called “The Mind and Face of Bol- shevism,” in which he seeks to at- tack these scientific, researches. But he has attracted little attention. On the other hand a well-informed scientific authority and _ scientific writer, giving his views in “The Plebs,” the organ of the Plebs League in England, says: “The recesses of the human mind will be seen to be no more and no less mysterious, though certainly much more complicated, than the recesses of a coal-scuttle. It is certain that the elimination of mysticism from the explanation of the behavior of man will assist in the elimination of mysticism from the explanation of the nature of his social institutions.” | Current Events (Continued from Page One) ployers to understand that they will drop their trucks and park their hooks on their shoulders until their de- mands are complied with. s # * ee big muguls of the American ~ Federation of Labor are to meet in Los Angeles in the early part of October for the annual talk-fest. Jewelry will gleam from the persons of pompous and prosperous labor ey After all a business that pays its executives anything from $7,500 to $25,000 is not to be need at. There will be little said about the class struggle. The “wicked em- ployers” and the still more wicked Communists will be flayed. The good employers—those that recognize the usefulness of the labor leaders in the capitalist scheme of things—will be praised. And nothing will be done by the reactionary labor leaders to organize the unorganized. * * * AS predicted in The DAILY WORK- ER a week or so ago, the Irish election was a neck and neck race be- tween the government party and the Republican Party led by DeValera. The Labor Party representation was cut almost in half and for the first time a Communist was elected to the Trish parliament. Granting that the | farmers and independents will sup- port the government and that the facts and situations, and his eagerness to describe a spade as a sharp, shiny instrument hungry for the soil. —SENDER GARLIN. i COMMENTS. Mr. Fortune’s Maggot, by Sylvia Townsend Warner. Viking Press. $2. Mr. Fortune, a London clerical worker of piety and good will, got a ‘maggot in his brain—the notion that he should be a missionary to the heathen. The particular heathen selected were, unfortunately for Mr. For- | tune’s state of mind, not the Esquimaux. Life on a South Sea island became la delightful idy! of laziness, good nature, swimming and flower picking. Poor Fortune rapidly degenerated-—from a christian point of view. He struggled to’ male himself sufficiently hard and severe to lash these ‘work, and destroying their idols. Out of friendship one boy consents to | wear garments—-the result is laughable, and worthless, from a christian {point of view. When this boy loses his idol he tries to commit suicide, |! not even geometry can prevent him. | Finally Mr. Fortune, christian missionary, whittles the lad anothey idol, ‘and finally realising that he is out of place, resigns. { 1 —vV. Ss. BOOKS RECEIVED—TO BE REVIEWED LATER. | Rise of American Civilization, by Charles and Mary Beard. Macmillan, | Chains, by Theodore Dreiser. Boni & Liveright. | Memoirs of a Revolutionist, ‘by Vera Figner. International. | Life of Tim Healey, by Lliam O’Flaherty. Harcourt, Brace & Co. | Faney Lady, by. Homer Croy. Harcourt, Brace & Co. | Gallion’s Reach, by H. M. Tomlinson, Harpers. Daughters of the Revolution, by John Reed. With an introduction by Floyd dancers, these swimmers, these fishermen, into clothing themselves, going to: 14 = Labor Party and the few National | League deputies and Larkin will vote | for DeValera as against Cosgrave, | the returns to date would give the | government party only a majority of \six, The election has not settled any- ithing, but the British government will insist that Cosgrave carry on un- | til such time as Downing Strect is |thoroly convinced that DeValera is ‘safe, * * * RESIDENT Von Hindenburg of Germany now thinks it can be ; told that Germany was not responsible ‘for the world war that burst upon jthe world in the year 1914. And Hindenburg is correct. Germany was no more responsible than England, | France and Czarist Russia. In fact | England was the chief war wire- |puller and used France and Russia as tools to crush her mighty commercial ‘rival. Germany. Of course all the bandit powers were to blame and from our point of view there is no ‘good purpose to be served in giving |any of them a conditional clean bill (of health. It is interesting to note ‘that shortly after Germany is ac- | cepted as a respectable member of the league of nations Germany kicks one Dell. Vanguard Press. | Upton Sinclair: A Study in Social Protest, by Floyd Dell. Doran & Co. ’ of the clauses of the treaty of Ver- | sailles in the slats, and the treaty of | Versailles is a part of the league. i, ‘ in his treatise on/’ Militancy Grows Among, the Textile Workers in the Anthracite Regions By VERA BUCH. The growing militancy of the textile workers of the anthracite, as witnessed by the recent strikes of silk workers involving in some places as Many as seven or eight hundred employes, mostly young girls, draws at- tention forcibly to the textile industry of that region. Silk and knit goods mills, producing goods of tremen- dous value, and paying unbelievably low wages, are scat- tered throughout the entire anthracite territory. These textile mills of the anthracite are an illustration of a light industry following a heavy one. They came into that territory in the wake of the coal mines. Two considerations drew them there; first, the closeness to fuel, the source of power; second, the existence there of plenty of cheap labor, which means, in plain terms, the women and children of the coal miners’ families. When we consider that the textile employers of this region pay their help seven and eight dollars a week, and in some cases as low as five or six dollars, we readily see what inducement led them to locate in that part of the coun- try. Two varieties of textile mills predominate in this region, knitting (including underwear, stockings, sweat- ers and bathing suits) and silk. In the southern anthra- cite strip reaching from Lehighton to Shamokin’ and including the cities of Shenandoah, Pottsville and Maha- noy, it is the knit goods mills which are more numerous, with some silk mills. In the upper anthracite, on the other hand, the district which runs from Carbondale to Nanticoke, and includes the cities of Scranton, Pittston, Plymouth and Wilkes-Barre, it is silk which predomin- ates, with a few knitting and other sorts of textile mills. There are, according to Davison’s Textile Blue Book (1926), 54 knitting mills in the counties of Carbon, Schuylkill, and Northumberland, the southern anthracite counties, and 35 silk mills. In the upper anthracite region, comprising the counties of Lackawanna and Luzerne, there are 140 silk and 16 knitting mills. The only con- siderable textile mills outside of these two branches are the Scranton Lace Co. in Scranton, employing 800 people and the Wilkes-Barre Lace Mfg. Co., with a capital of $1,500,000 and employing 1250. * , * * The anthracite is not only a silk center, but is in fact the most important center of the entire country for one branch of the silk industry, namely, silk throwing. To’ understand the significance of these facts we must look a little into the various processes of silk manufac- ture. The first stage of broad silk manufacture is the im- portation into this country—chiefly from the Orient—of raw silk. This means silk, in long, fine, strands, wound just as it comes from the cocoon onto spools, threads from several cocoons being .combined together. There are cer- tain silks, like pongees which are made directly from this raw silk. In others, raw silk is used for the warp. However, most silk cloths require the silk to be first, “thrown” or twisted before weaving. Throwing is a} process by which several of the long, tenuous fibres (which are already several of the original ones combined) are twisted together. This process gives great+ er durability to the silk and in some eases, as in crepes, | by an extra hard twist imparts a special texture. Of all the raw silk imported into the country—which means all the raw silk used—65 per cent is thrown, 2 For the most part, this throwing process is a separate industry, carried on in mills especially equipped for it, which do nothing else. Most broad silk producers buy raw silk themselves for their orders (because they can better judge of the quality before the silk is thrown) and give it out to throwing mills to be thrown on commission, * * * These silk mills are scattered over the region, not only in the cities but in the smallest towns and villages. Sixty-one mill units of Lackawanna and Luzerne coun- ties are found in towns of less than 10,000 inhabitants and 51 towns of this class possess at least one silk mill. Outside of Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, only 22 mills are located in towns of over 10,000. There is hardly a vil- lage of the anthracite big enough to cluster a few hun- dreds of families together around its coal mine, which has not also a silk mill, generally small and dingy. The greatest number of workers in these mills are young girls, and most of them are daughters of coal miners. While the wives of the miners do not as a rule go out to work, except in cases of sickness or long un- employment of the husband, their daughters as a reg- ular thing go out for a job at the age of fourteen. There are not many industries in the anthracite. Outside of the large cities, the silk mills are almost the only places where girls can work. The conditions under which these young girls are working are poor, their wages unbelievably low. The speed-up has been universally introduced. The nine-hour day or longer prevails. As for wages, let us look at the U. S. Labor Statistics Bulletin No. 190, “Wages and hours in the cotton, woolen and silk industries.” This bulletin gives as the wages of doublers in silk throwing mills for 1914 the magnificent sum of $5.80 per week. These figures are an average for the industry at large. Figures are not available for the present time and for the anthracite region specifically. The writer would place the average there—judging from personal accounts —at about $8 a week. The U. S. Tariff Commission report mentioned above speaks of the “peaceful labor conditions” and Iack of labor “troubles” as one of the inducements for the sil mills to locate in the anthracite. This may have” true in the past, but recent indications would show these glorious (for the employers) days of workers’ “peaceful” submission to outrageous wages and condi- tions are about over. Witness the fine militant /fight lasting for many weeks put up this summer by 300 girl employees of the Klots Throwing Co.’s plant in Carbo dale (a powerful $2,000,000 corporation: with branches in twelve different localities). Witness the snappy struggle of 700 young workers of several silk companies in Wilkes-Barre within recent weeks, a struggle which won recognition of their union and better sanitary con- ditions and was followed by a strike of eight or nine hundred more silk workers in Kingston. These are American young girls and youths who work here. Whether their parents were born here or in Eu- rope, they themselves are American bred, with the Amer ican pep and push, with higher standards than their parents. They are showing their appreciation of or- ganization and their readiness to struggle to wipe out the miserable conditions now prevailing in those mills, SEND IN YOUR LETTERS The DAILY WORKER is anxious to receive letters from its readers stating their views on the issues con- fronting the labor movement. It is our hope to de- velop a “Letter Box” department that will be of wide interest to all members of The DAILY WORKER family. Send in your letter today to “The Letter Box,” DAILY WORKER, 388 First street, New York City. oe en ASASSNGSESNEN | Il