The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 9, 1928, Page 4

I ( Page row \ . rn DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1928. Company Stock Trick Cheats Ohio Miners Out of Wages, -Correspon HANaOuTS PERILOUS MINE Oil Companies Profit, Too, in Byrd Flight — ‘Eva the Fifth den t Writes 3 MEETING PROVES New Kallesser Play Tonight, \JRGES SUPPORT | il Set for Aug.24 4. Fifty school children listened to IS UNINSPECTED pe as 3am address of Park Commisisoner | JOHN GOLDEN’S initial produc- CONRAD NAGLE | Walter Herrick and then went | Hon SAX tha aneein ee) eae j mee ee Park picking up ESTSF LLOW sce the joint work of Kenyon iN SEPTEM Paper and ba a peels. These are *y 7 A | Nicholson and John Golden, is | excellent tactics for Tamany Hall. rc sae Anne eae | PR Persuade the kids they’re having — | BS ra 2 heat: Tuesday ite: Mapua 98, | , i sf 3 r feck ee tun and then add @ score) Reveal “Collaboration” Young Prisoners Sing | Cieitborne Foster wilt play. the [Seung tele of-fiames to the padded payroll for | f- ipcay, folate I Sonfarence “Avark cleaning and pocket the differ- as Murder | Labor Songs in Jail | teading role. Bie: Back Cor . once. — ‘ x i kebemanyalierg | | ce Ss cks and Arvid Paulson | (By « WORKED. Correapondént) t s+ (By a Worker Correspondent) | | (By a Worker Correspondent) Bi get ancrcar eri pian “Goin’ | | bs & es fe ~ she ¢ Everybody knows that capitalist * 2 = i | | ROCKFORD, Ill. (By Mail).—Ten | ts © San none | Im Coney Island, the local chamber €"* newspaper editor will relinquish his}, POWHATTAN, 0. (By Mail).— ly oung Workers (Communist) | ae : cng Fee Bee | of commerce is conducting a mem- 2 shonor for a four column ad. James| The. Powhattan Mining Company |Teague members, eight boys and | PToduction of the season. | bership drive taking place betwean 1” B. Sheridan, of St. Louis, power “me time ago imported 875 Negro |two girls, attending the Workers’ + ok ® : | August Ist and August 15th. € trust propagandist, told the Federal | *ttikebreakers from all parts of the Training School in Rockford, Tl-| Michael Kallesser will present his| | The campaign for more members £ Trade Commission about newspaper country for the purpose of operat- linois, were arrested while holding | new play, “He Understood Women,’ |is in full swing. Show cards have 1 editors who handed over their honor | the mine.open shop. These men Commander Richard Byrd's flight to the South Pole is not en- |en open-air meeting on the night of|at the Belmont Theatre this even: |been placed in many establishments # and never got the ads. He was| *¢T® brought in by Paul Arcal, who) tircly for scientific purposes. Outside the imperialist implications in | August 1. ing. The cast is headed by Peggy| § iall over the Island, urging the busi- } Speaking of the editors of country) received $20. for the use of his) the expedition there is Henry Fords interest, He ig an active backer |” athe chief of police had refused | Allenby, Hilda Spong, Frank Bond | } |ness men to join the organization. SUeeMepapirs and referred to them as| 7% 924 $1 & head. | of the flight. The oil containers in front of Byrd’s plane suggest ts sive the League a permit and as{and’ Allen deWitt. Mr. Kaliesser | |So far, the response has been very { "God's Fools.” Th@y used power| The scabs have not been very) that even the petroleum companics as usual will use the flight as | tooo s. tha meeting was started | and Frances Lynch are the author |“pleasing.” because the business * trust propaganda and kept pes hed civil to the native population, espe-| an advertisement for the qualities of their product. two big-bellied cops came up and ar- Fh jmen realize that there is more ' ? S : |cially when they discovered that the |} -———--———— 3 Ta Re ER i 4 + 3 s i Sin | e : iva ; tests against boosted power rates on authorities would -protect them oo Bees! TS Lig | pested the\ speaker, pacleoney, ene! anton Heind! has becn engaged | eianles a pails ¢ organiza the promise of getting ads which|; 5 This is the 4: A | y | League member after another got}, ‘iiduct the voreheatra-“of the | tion than in individual action. } fever arrived It’s getting so acapi-|striker: have no viento Thee een | Botler Company fe] UE on the) soa bare tho eramGs of | ue terhes Davee aaa the | ,,Co-star with Renee Adoree in | Local newspapers are supporting | talist editor will have to Haveacus-|heen nightly brawls in which the 300 all the while cheering the speak- | BPO» vo usical version of “The| “The Michigan Kid,” screened |the movement. In this way business + tomer slip the money under the police rs dolet chad keine hat oe and Beles spe the SE i calca, gh Shick Hab Just gone | #70 Rex Beach’s novel, showing | interests are more advanced than | door before he opens it they did not do so. On the con- deat Lage Ne sald Bib ontisas ts | at the Broadway Theatre this |our “official” labor movement. tn |trary, a strikebreaker attacked two | Virtue, Rear View | a he young girls, but the case was dis- | missed. | Vile; Pay Low a Worker Correspondent.) | Conditions Are | Twenty Thousand Now! | After six speakers | had been jerked off the box and placed under arrest one of the offi-! cers made the remark, “Where in| raced over to the police station, a, * * Myron C. Fagan has completed the cast for “The Great Power,” his tember 10. Minna Gombell will UNION NEEDED BY | Stead of admitting them, they are ; throwing .out members who have bese trade unionists for years. No The scabs were told by the wife TaeRuai Ae | |,,NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J. (By | |the h— are they all coming from?” |rew play which will open at the pean sai AON Meets alia : of one of the militant miners that Unorganized Mail),—The conditions at this! |Pinally the riot quad was sent for| Adelphi “Theatre, Philadelphia, [are, Hath eee shone. Bisie: 28 § they would receive protection for . — Prospect Boiler Company is of| /and the meeting was dispersed. | August 27, and have its New York| jGhste oskera ene Jetreeh tare ge the time being, but later they would! (By a Worker Correspondent) the worst type to be found inthis] |The ten Leagie members were | pre-r'ere st the atts Theatre, Ser 4 ee : . Gis eruielts Ree see what would happen. Over twenty Wank section. Besides working ten| | 1 Most of all, the youth is neglected. Now it is happening. The same| |Paul Arcal is now trying to circu- }late a petition among the foreign- |born miners in which they are to long hours per day, some times |more, the workers here make all types of tanks, gasolifie, water jand oil burners, stacks, breech- are today working in the laundry industry conditions owners are under the most inhuman imaginable. While the making millions of dol- pathizers following the wagon to the city jail. | Upon the request of the prosecut- | |crowd of League members ani sym-| head the cast, which also includes| - patrol | John T. Doyle, Alan Birmingham; Jaap, | Conway Wingfield, Nelan Action Must Be Taken | Against Speed-up Such “liberal” institutions as the | Brookwood Labor *(?) Collegé pre- | tend to organize the young workers. | When actual proposals are given, | i i f Jack Leslie, Edmund Elton, Paul . Fi demand that the scabs are to be 1 é oe vee |ings and chute all kinds of | |. ‘ 1s % | Brookwood is deaf, dumb and blind y |sent out of the city. This the for- tee epee sae Lngele vis | |Welding and revairing, some out-| |N& attorney the sly-faced judge | Stanton and Helen Joy. |to them. This was clearly shown at : i laves, the workers are virtually | : ‘ vork. | /continued the case until 2:30 in the| + By a Worker Correspondent | |) 3 i i eign-born miners refuse to do. They starving. of-town jobs, for which the work- afternoon, ‘The ten, boys and’ giris| S25) ok | rae | their conference which, was held in i say that Areal brought them in|” ‘The workers put in 18 to 11hours| |°°S Who are assigned to do this| | ometam, cane ven bays and sitls| cy suming Pollock’s “Mr. Money- denen, ae Ae, bee nG to| May, 1928. 4 i m j oe . k work ry ¢ Mm ‘S § ” .. is i ; x 's s izi: 74 e r iza- urd now he can get them out again. of strenuous toil per day, sometimes| |ind of Work very seldom gets| |Or\. hundred dollars. In the aft. | Penny” begins rehearsals this week, iHUtiod chery WET ste eee ne ns back its men, but on the following |each pay until lately. Now the mén do not know whether they are be- ing checked off, or what they are earning altogether. They have to accept the pay that is given them, paid for it, unless he fights for | sixteen, with an irregular period of it it. twenty minutes for lunch. It is He doesn’t even get extra Poor Quarters. Most all of the plants are located in old dilapidated buildings which need renovating; there are few windows, usually small; many of the boilermaker helpers, get only 40 to 45 zents per hour and the boilermakers (only a few) get 75 cents per hour. The machine ernoon, after walking nearly two miles to the police court under a did not show up and the case was again continued until the next day | at nine o’clock a.m. The prosecut: | ing attorney still needed time to| build up his weak case. The group under direction of Richard Boles lavsky, opening in Philadelphia, The company of 60 includes Hale Hamilton, Donald Meek, Margaret Wycherly, Catherine Dale Owen, Ruth Nugent, Frank Sylvester and Robert Vivian. |The distribution every Wednesday | of Daily Workers before the entran- Your correspondent, heard some of the workers recently arguing that it is impossible to organize the National Biscuit Company workers \tions are earnest in organizing the young workers and a Working basis: Each man is required to buy | wctimated that each worker h: |time. Several workers got ; eet | September 24, and at the Liberty | °¢S to the factory and the speeches/ Youth Conference will be held in i S ate a ach worker handles | | A torgid sun and waiting in the stuffy September ,» and al e Libel! Y | every week have aroused the i ‘i | way ady. y 7 y, ie inter- cae speed pias hans about five tons of clothes per day | cnet i oiactaiy court room for, an hour, the judge | Theatre, New York, on October 16.| oct Of the workers, the latter part of September for this purpose in this city. All progressive labor organiza- tions should support this confer- jence. The bosses are strongly or- | ganized, why can’t we workers be welders get from 50 to 60 cents} |) oon, i ; because “our work is not a trade,| ized also? This Worki 5 3, 1 rn Si Pinan represented evidently were afraid a | ; 3s s|organized also? is orking and they do not know whether they Lay pants aha ato in epee mr an hour. the ten. speakers would slip throtgh if 2 and if we walk out, the company | Youth Conference will be a big Bre pene. Paid ov that chen cen careful for fone ae Teens: the} | The company does not have! |sncis hands and be acquitted so(Man, Wife Get 2 Years | will casily be able to replace us”. move towards that direction and day.” They only know that they get|careful for fear of bumping his! | .utficient gupplies uf tools to||4,<. saad tor Vine for InterRace Marriage Year to Learn Speed-up trade unions and unorganized young : so and so much pay, and that is all|head against the ceiling. Almost! | vor with, aa y ‘ 4 ‘ . “¢ Prald Asda oy ea x ci there is to it. Whether it is on the |in all, without exception, the floors Here sanitary conditions are The newspapers were very “in- ———— However, in every such discus.| Workers § look to it as such, co-operative basis of 60-40 or the The photo shows the hind end of 1917 scale, they have not the slight- the statue of Civic Virtue in City | est idea. Hall Park. The boys, unconscious, One thing, however, they do know. of its pretended significance, are |The Powhatian mine is a very dan- using it, very sensibly, to dive off.|gerous mine. Not long ago, a man| Since the Queens sewer scandal and | was killed and his body was placed the Bronz street cleaning orgy, the|in a hox-car until leaving time. Cwie Virtue monument has been|Then the body was taken out, while weleetant to look a camera inathe the miners climbed in to go home, face. It has even been suggested|and was taken awa: the statue be stored temporarily for The men working in this mine on possible use at some future date. the so-called co-operative basis, be- ing “stockholders,” have no protec- . tion of,the workmen’s compensation law. The-mine is not inspected, and if there are any men injured, that Gems of L arning is their bad luck. | So it goes in the mining camps, at-|1ow that John Lewis has destroyed ee Thomas Craddock Hughes, of the laundries are flooded with water, six inches deep, and the workers must wear rubber boots und rubber aprons. They also have to be very careful that they do not : ; : poison their hands and bodies trom | Besides there are no lockers to] the chemicals and blues that they | Put their clothes in for over night | | put in the washing of the clothes. | 9% for period of a day. s The average wages of the laun-|| This company is so greedy for dry workers ranges, from $9 to $20) | ‘heir, profits that the workers per week. Many workers are not| | are compelled to chip SOAs otic) given a full week's work, but are | themselves to have ice for drink-| | only put on when the place is over-| | !n&- 5 ‘ burdened with work, usually during Recently this company laid off | | the beginning of the week. more than half of their force and | | Wakiek Ruvioited: practically all the night shift.| | The girls and women who work | When in full swing there are| | in the mangle room have to stay in| | Usually about 40 workers em- rooms poorly ventilated, with very |Ployed here. The reason for lay- few windows and where the humid- | | ing off, the officials claim, is that also very bad. The lavatory is) very filthy; the, wash basin is unfit to wash in; no towels are furnished or soap for washing. dignant” about the Young Workers (Communist) League daring to hold | an open-air meeting in defiance of | the law.” They used three-inch seare-lines on front pages, reading “Police Stop Communist Meeting,” “Ten Pinks Land in Jaii for ‘Soap- | Boxing.’” At this meeting nearly one hun- | dred :copies of the Daily Worker | were sold. On the morning of August ’3, the case finally came up for trial. The League members demanded a jury- | trial... However, each of the jurors | summoned were members of the American Legion, chamber of com- merce, ex-soldiers, etc., and were prejudiced from the start. They promptly brought in the capitalist RICHMOND, Va., Aug. 8.—Mott Hamilton Wood and his wife, Mary, are serving two years'in the Vir- ginia State Penitentiary fo violation of the “Virginia Racial Integrity Law.” At the time or marriage Wood himself know that he had a trace of “Negro blood” and that according to the Virginia authorities it was a terri- ble crime for him to marry one 100} per cent white. Wood appears white, has straight hair and bluish gray eyes. He lost both legs while working on the Nor- folk and Western Railway. Prisoner No. 3,380, in other words Mary Wood, victim of legalized southern prejudice, has been ill their did not) sion, others are ready to point out that the biscuit company worker is | not so easily replaced. We all know that a woman must take six months to learn packing, and learning the speed-up rate the company requires will take a year. |« The dough mixers also need no less experience than the oven men. Then there are many other jobs | around the shop which are unorgan- lized, even though they belong to what are usually called the skilled | trades; we have carpenters, machin- ists, drivers, painters, electricians, jete. working in our midst. | . Strike Won in Ten Minutes. In every such discussion, too, | | 2 ; some workers will remind the others | This strike won the half day Satur- support it and build strong the la- bor movement by orgahizing the youth who work in the factories. | , —CASSELL. would not have the 44-hour week if it were not for this strike six years ago. And we know that long work days mean more product piling up, and more layoffs. “Daily” Worries Bosses. Already we see the bosses in the | National Biscuit Company becom- ing very much worried over the dis- |tribution of the Daily Worker and the lectures, which the Workers Party is holding every week. Dur- ing the last week’s lecture, just out- side the factory, all the bosses were walking nervously around near the | n g uch of the time since her im-|°f the unorganized but successful| ¥® rea ‘ “Mz : jut | the: tte WAYNE. ity reads 97, with a temperature as | the company lost 80 per cent. of| |verdict of “guilty” and each of the | TUCh Of the time since her ime) os of the girls in the cen windows, listening and looking pale. torney—“Many supreme court jug the union. ) ‘ \ : ‘ e | prisonment ten months ago. 1 Th f the dace a tices undoubtedly have stock in the —— tigh as 105 degrees Farenheit. orders from steady customers | [boys and girls were fingd the maxi- “ Governor Byrd, who recently| Street factory in September, 1922, The manager of the factory pace I “f . Almost every worker is suffering | | and too much production of tanks | | rum. : - from window to window like a wolf Working Women Interborough Transit Company and J]] yet this company has a contract!” age with the city. Yow can carry the Denounce Imperialist situation to any absurd lengths you i i like.” Another reason why the court War at Federation Meet is not opposed to a seven cent fare is that he usually rides in a packard. fei CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 7.—The hicago . Federation of Working laying around the yard now. “ARNOLD.” from one or more of the industrial diseases due to the long hours, high | | humidity and temperature, damp- © BT ca” Ra hae PAY ness, diseased clothing and lint dust, which affects the lungs and nos- trils. ®. From many medical minations They are appealing the verdict. In the meantime the Young Work- ers (Communist) League is going to hold open-air meetings every | Wednesday and Friday nights until | August 26, the date the Training | visited the prison, listened to the story of this outrage, but made no comment, except to ask if Wood had received credit for the time spent in jail while awaiting trial. day, within ten minutes. The bos- ses were afraid to let the strike spread, and granted the demands before the strikers reached the door jon the way out. It shows the bos- ses’ fear of a general strike. We in a cage. That shows they know what a union means for the workers, and they are watching every mo- tion toward forwarding an organi- | zation that would prevent the: bosses from having their way all the time. | THE UNITEL COUNCIL OF WORKINGWOMEN Requests all members and sec- retariex to participate in the ds. Women’s. Organizations held a suc- of the laundry workers it has been WORKER-STUDENT. ~. : "cessful anti-war meeting Saturday found that almost every worker suf- bape the Grand Jury may investi-/in North West Hall. This was the|fers from high blood pressure, due gate the deaths of Mr. Phillips. _| first, of @ series of meetings ‘that|to the strenuous work, long hours | School en | Henry H. Klein, attorney—“Per- | 25 GENTS AN HOUR ‘Killed by Guard for “T have no donbt the investigation are b will develop that he made $6,000,000 out of Queens sewer contrac: have reason to believe that Phillips put up $800,000 in gambling ven- | ¢y, tures at Saratoga and elsewhere. | He had twelve safe deposit boxes ten months before he died, in which his assets and securities were de- posited. When some of the boxes were opened in the search for Phil- lip’s assets, I have been informed, peace under capitalism. notes were found in his handwriting |that the programmes of the Women’s Stating: “You can go to hell.'” This| Peace Society, and kindred pacifist is the usual attitude of grafters in a| organizations were mere nonsense _ eapitalist country. because they appeal on a humani- tarian basis and forget that the ) Wm. Green, President of the | causes for wf&r lies in the class basis _ American Federation of Labor—| of capitalist society. » “We shall deal with ‘each situation Irge Aid For Miners. @8 seems best, and we shall do| Ida Rothstein told of her experi-| @verything possible to protect Amer-|ences in the Southern Illinois coal jean wage earners against the deé- fields, and urged intensive work for _ Signs of Moscow, which are entirely| the relief of the miners. Anna David } revolutionary, and which we spoke on the coming elections and ? thoroughly understand.” Outside of |the roll of the Workers (Commu- | ¢lass collaboration what Bill Green| nist) Party, urging all to partici- thoroughly understands could be| pate and to vote for the working Placed on the figure “1” of a lady’s|class candidates on the Workers watch. | (Comunist) Party ticket, season where working class prob- lems will be discussed. speaker. workers of the true nature of the | Foster and Gitlow As the candidates of the Workers (Communist) Party Stand for the emancipation of the proletariat from the slavery of capitalism, from the horrors of imperialist war, unemployment and poverty, work and vote for | Communism. Read The DAILY WORKER. Read the | National Platform of the Workers (Communist) Party, | Write for it to the National Election Campaign Commit- | tee, 43 East 125th Street, New York City. Ten cents a copy. eing arranged for the coming |and unsanitary conditions. imperialist war, told of the propa-|ilies ganda machinery that is being pre- widows and have to st pared to lure and misinform the children on the starvation wages. |struggles, and the impossibility of |0f these wage slaves, the laundry | She said| bosses hire profe * sluggers to ter Girls Get 1 Cent Less; | 49 1-2 Hour Week | Widows, Minors. The greater percentage of these Edith Rudquist the organizer of workers are Negroes and married | ¢ federation was the principal women who have to work and help She outlined the causes of their husbands support their fam- HOPEWELL, Va. (FP).—Tubize Artificial Silk Company, with its huge mill at Hopewell, Va., capi- talized at $10,000,000, is paying its : sto¢ion | men spinners and twisters 25 cents Besides che intense exploitation | Tour. ‘They work in alternating shifts each week, from 7 a. m., to 8 p. m., and then from 11 p. m. to 7 a.m. At one time spinners were paid for overtime, but now they get | their straight 26 cents for all Sun-| day and overtime labor. i $11.88 a Week. 72 Hours for $15.53 i 1 Girls working in thé finis} Per Week in South room, beating out artificial classifying it and putting it into WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 8.—| Models Bet one cent less than the Cottonseed oil mill workers, most of | men spinners bs their 49*#-hour whom are Negroes; have been Te) 611.88 ceiving miserable pay for long)?" A hours work, it is gathered from the| The erly get their jobs through report of a survey of a number of | 2nswering ads in the farm journals. mills made by the Bureau of Labor |Down from the hills and back coun- Statistics of the Department of La-| ‘ty they come, utterly ignorant of bor for 1927. | industrial life, unaware of unionism The workers have been working | and unable to bargain with the boss 12 hours a day on ‘the average,|¢ven on an individual basis. They women are pport their | Many of these ional thugs and | vize the workers. Many 2 case has been reported of workers taken up in a room and slugged into insensibility. weck brings which makes a total of 72 working | s¢t rooms in the company dormitory | hours per week since they work six | fr $2 a week. There they are su- days per week. Extremely lower | Pervised and spied upon by a com- and out of proportion with the |Pany matron, Morals is the excuse amount of working hours the wok. | for this spying, but a girl who talks ers received only $15.63 per week | Unionism and gets caught at it loses wages. her job without, delay. Lights go No additional pay to the regular | Ut at 10 p. m. in the company and rate was given for overtime work in |* Sitl has as much control over her all mills with but three exceptions, | Private life as a child of three. The workers comprised three Company Stores. groups. They were Negroes, who| Rent and meal tickets are de- numbered 3,818; Mexicans, 133 in| ducted from the weekly checks. The number and 152 whites. |new girl worker gets no money at Pee AR rite BEN ‘all for two weeks, the company MACHINES REPLACE MEN. holding back one week, All payment MESABA, Minn. Aug. 8—Four/is by check, never by cash. The hundred and ninety-nine men must|checks are good at the company be thrown out of work by the in-| store, where the girls are required stallation of each 360-ton shovel in/either to buy some goods or pay a the Mesaba iron mines, These / fee for the privilege of getting hard shovels can do the work of 500 men.|cash for their piece of paper. « » 4 | This is due to the recent severe hail At 25 cents art hour, | in} Carrying Whiskey | A U. S. customs guard, James MacGurkin, is in jail, while his father is. trying to raise the $10,000 bail, on a charge of murder in con- nection with the killing of a Ho- boken longshoreman, Leo Boise, when he tried to escape with two bottles of whiskey. . FARMERS LOSE HEAVILY. OPHEIM, Mont., Aug. 8.—Heavy losses by farmers southwest of Opheim and Glentana are reported. Tag Day for the Chinese Workers which will take place on AUGUST 11th and 12th Boxes are available in the office at 80 East 11th St., Room 653, from 10 a. m. to 6 p. m. every day, except Saturday and Sunday, Secretary of the must mobilize their for this TagDay. Councils members storm in these vicinities, 14th St. an THE MOST EXCITING EVENT. KATE GITLOW, Sec'y. DON’T MISS THE ew Masses Debate TOMORROW Subject: “Do Radicals Pussyfoot on Sex?” YES—Says V. F. CALVERTON Editor of Modern Quarterly NO—Says MICHAEL GOLD Editor of New Masses OF THE SEASON nent Friday Night, 8 P. M., August 10, 1928, AT LABOR TEMPLE d 2nd Ave. ADMISSION: 75 CENTS AT THE DOOR COME EARLY 'TO GET A GOOD SEAT! Thea., 45 St., W. of B'wa: BOOTH Evenings 8:30 f Mats. Tuesday and Thursday, 2:30 GRAND ST. FOLLIES The LADDER SEATS NOW ON SALE 8 WEEKS IN ADVANCE. CORT THEATRE, W. 48 St. Eves. 8:30. Mats. Wed. & Sat. Money Refunded if Not Satisfied With Play. You're in the fight when you write for The DAILY WORKER. | marmnacth StF erst wi wna MANDEL'S A with GEO. OLSEN and HIS MUSIC ICAMEO “4, Now ADOLPHE MENJOU in “The Woman of Paris” and “CALIGARI” ‘THE GERMAN FILM CLASSIC with CONRAD VEIDT COMMUNIST. INTERNATIONAL Special Congress Number A Fascist CONTENTS: Trial of Communists; The Les- sons of the German Elections (R. Gerber) ; The Transition Period from Capitalism to Socialism (E. Varga) ; The Nature of Mod- ‘ern Capitalism (A.M.) ; The Problems of the Blockade (E. Paul); India’s Part in the World Revolution (Clemens Dutt); The Economic Consequences of the New Tech- nique (E. Varga) ; Organizational Problems in the Eastern Countries; Some Remarks on the Draft Programme of the ©. I. Ten Cents “ (Special Price in Quantity Tots) WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 43 East 125th St., New York City