The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 4, 1930, Page 4

vage Four _ 1930 I.W.W. DEAD m and Mill N.C. STRIKERIS TO LABOR | Far ORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, BYERS SAYS BAGK Exploited ation and Death in Ind - sect BUT ALIV TO SCAB nm Leaders Who Had Ti 1e Walk Through Picket Lines Try to Dedge | Claim Old tin to jail after being in the 7 ses The croppers, during the period | the ly shocked t Union.” lis aL PURE prt Oy that they are raising a an are | Convention just ended in Pittsburgh, members That's the impression K. O. Byers. | italist exploitation. Its last refuge, /f¥rnished with the necessary work | was the splendid fight made by the ville, Ill, wa 20-year-old Gastonia striker, had lthe ‘fame Yeoin which the workers | #nimals by their landlords. These |I. L. D, against racial discrimination. lines and ship passed the Statue of | originally camer” fae definitely | 272 fed out of the employer’s feed.| “The spirit of the Negro and white E ENOUGH ON MINERS ir One Locai in Illinois Isn’t Bad If It’s Organized | on | | | | | | | IN U.S, SAME AS BACK IN JAIL Byers Praises Condi- tions in the Soviet Union a NEW YORK, Jan, 2.—‘Coming back to the U. S. A. is like coming pon his return trip to the @ England. y” yesterday from a three month: U. 8.8. B,, G Workers ot South Learn to hight Back at Bosses Farmers Face Peonage; Effort to Improve Conditions Communist Party Must Organize Negro and/ White Agricultural Workers | By JACK HARDY. Their | closed its doors upon them. plight is, if anything, worse even than that of the mill hands. INSPIRED BY ILD FIGHT FOR NEGRO Struggle Against Race | Discrimination at Convention Driven to Mills in Vain | What impressed Louis McLaugh- | lin, one of the Gastonia seven, about sleeping quarters. International Labor Defense The landlords advance credit, at §| workers there was fine,” he said. per cent interest, to purchase seed,| “The convention of the Interna- fertilizer, ginning ,bagging, etc, The | tional Labor Defense, where I was ployment—and t quired Presence of 1 The above shows worl who were. wounded falane rai “They woul t me off at Eng- : ‘ la : 5 in| 2 z s BOO Oh ie he above sho workers ¢ wounded in a factory as y woul at Ei The . inhabitants andlords also advance sums in| a delegate, showed me clearly what ee hee howe cvouinen hy vi a boiler eaplosion In this explosion two workers were {land. They got a ‘Labor’ government | 9, nre, mnpitants of the Piedmont, counts of $2 to $3 per week to| the I. L. D. staod for. It showed ut ; Sed ed ve — ee . : nto bits, Ina Linda ries, the greed of the capit there under Ramsay MacDonald. almost entirely, descendants of the meet living expens When the | that it was for the interests of the at es that the ah p and more profiis, further endangers the 3 of t He's A. F. of L. Al Colonial settlers. For many decades |°TP is sold the cropper receives working class of people. We went n both United a c The profits of the capitalists drips with the blood of the faker government | = ‘ved li + : half the sale price of what he has|to a hotel and there were some LW.W. 1 p: é tee Rous hd won't let a worker off the boat.” | they received little migration, either eases Swag he : ELE ea eee ener and n st « or ker e he boat.” |from other states or from abroad. produced, minus the advances which | Negro comrades in the buneh, Ané Hi ia Raa C10 INNDE eAr = j I Dee nore tied te discribe the |ilies continued to cultivate cotton. ; WTS: s couldn't have Negro folks in the ae eine. See do Ha eae aS SN Cit AN jless_when he tried to describe the |'s5q result of the labor of the en.| The Southern workers have fight- | hotel. So we then decided to have 2 kes ne 4 a aC sa aseithas a8 Wie | U i 0. Se R in comparison w ith Gas- | tire family, they managed to eke |ing blood in their veins and they | demonstration and we all came from Hi crel ace. > to the Illinois ; tA | | eWhy. fh 1000 ier ak *atlae [out a meager existence. | erent aie oa oie a en We sive aa othe Aa to arouse all class conscious w ation and the coal a ANS FoR W h R TQ GERMA NY there,” he said, “You can’t com- ‘4 pees the ax uric newer hea ihe Watieatarecule Wane Cynida ae tents ee len ers who hear them, that the I.W.W 2 of Never | Sa ; | Se Hay | pare it.” ouy Changer cabve: baker Wace si isa ent it it © - |r hi refi : Shabaqua, rum that will hardly juniens she gomspynieta have BSS ay (Continued from Page One) | (Continued from Page Ouu) in the textile mills of the U. S. S, R. [sane which ae of theamal Gt | tion as fast aa it can send organ- | the hotel we had a wonderful mass be squelched the report of an)! ig f course, it m AYE Porat Raxeyyn! Board: eniapitee ot tha « eo “Why the unemployed workers there | 00 growers had accumulated as ®/;) 2.5 into the field. The Commu-| meeting. Then we all went marching L.W.W. commitiee which visited the |to be done when th Leeda diahisethrown on thie point te ~! get more money from the govern-|result of generations of labor have |; “anil a-|out and goi hi . ‘ . | More light is thrown on this point | e; vywhere 1 ied on » ca laneltad’ Ps nist Party and the International La- | out and going up the street. Every- camps, and asked the s Tho Portland ¢ 3 ae Hiatt on ieee . ment and the union, than we do in| Melted before their eyes; (2) thou-| 14. note fig: giant | bod hi in li i pethee any of th a . by P. W. Garrett, financial editor|to preveint the nefarious scheme i ty : sande Ge thanndve Slimsated to: the jor Defense are also making giant | body on the street got in line anc say, whether any of them were How did this idea come to pene-|of the N. Y. Post: of the Calles-Rubio-Hoover Mexican | Castoni™ for working twelve hours | 5%. | ; ie |strides forward in this hitherto al-| went to the convention and there ” papecotiibe TW Weretter wh trate the “revolutio WANE ic Gog eener A Sicet tye got ley aiteeate : ja day.” mills in the vain hope of somehow | noc¢ untouched section of the coun- | was a lot of them joined the I. L. D LW.W. committee whit Phe last’ time. wa heard’ of ‘auch | pci \cc serica thees onthe be me. sur comrades who are bein | _BY¢TS.is one of the Gastonia strik-|or other improving their lot; (3) jtry. ‘The next task of our Party in| after they saw it was for the work LW.W. theory and such action as this WaS| fore the (stock) edb ieate ariildénorisacte “ErAWbere Tene ete | tS oviginaly held under first degree | those ee se eS us Pied: | gg Southern work isto follow up| ing clasd of peaple, _A Strange Defense. hack in the Portland: longshore) Gores of disturbance. The mar- [out of Mexico penniless, “Thay will | murer charees. He was freed at |mont have been reduced to tn | its successes on the industrial front | “The spirit of the Negro an Tet’s drop the Shabaqua 1 strike, when a Marine Transport! jet's decline did not bring on the be met by represen s of the| the beginning of the second trial. | feudal status of tenants or crop-| ith an agricultural program of ac-| white workers at the conventioi for lack of evidence. There is plenty |Workers Industrial Union No. 510! jvcinese recession.” ses tiowal Hed Aid in Geemany, | JAl over the Soviet Union,” he said, | Pers: and (4) a distinct process of| 41.) ‘The exploited Negro and|was fine. And they learned some of evidence on the Collinsville /of the LW.W. secretary named Ford | Ws ne’ Tecession | Hea ie ot nortan wis | “they knew about Gastonia and the radicalization is going on among | white agricultural workers must be| thing at the convention they wil seabbing. Some of it has just been ced, and some Wobblies there ow ee m c¢ gen Sue Nee RES bee eal oan | Black Hundreds.” the masses of the South. |united with the Negro and white | never forget in all their lives. I supplied by a hysterical article, !acted on the theory that “You can . eaaeite anaes - ae Pini ees ently paredeuted’ ate aoe esl. | The Soviet work rs pressed Byers| Since 1920, land values and other | industrial workers in their common | was the spirit of workers’ solidarit; headded “Expose Rotten Communist |scab the A.F.L. out of existence.” |found | APE PENGS DENN ie 'Sinhiay aie’ Hetag HOTU ET By etre eee eee erates a eo LHe Fee mnOntE have been | fight against capitalist exploitation. | —regardless of race, color or na Lies,’ written in Industrial Solida-| Umer protection of the police, I.W. tal strength and powerfulness of 1° wy vican authorities through |2"S, to have the revolution in/dropping steadily. In Gwinnett is eee ai a tionality. It was a wonderful con tity, official organ of the I.W.W.,|W, members rode in patrol wagons | U: &- imperialist economy that one | (ov Ti logio Ortiz, commander | America so you can live like us|County, Georgia, for example, the | vention, the best I saw—and th foe cP iibecisee 25) by ‘Forrest |thfoueh the plouce lines gt the gocks (mest to the pages of the “Counter- |General Bulogio ruin, commande? | iere 2” average land and buildings per farm| Metal Workers Meet) jest thet. 1. D. ever had.” Edwards, ILW.W. organizer injto scab against the International | Revolutionary Aid.” taken personal charge of the dirty |, 2 told them,” Byers said, “we'd jin 1920 were valued at $4,510. Bylin, Philadelphia, Mon ——————— Southern Illinois. Longihorerien's Union airike, Thére|,, The capitalist class madly: organ-| Ta Cowart (treet and Ortig | ave tne kevolutlon cust a8 Boon #5 182) fhis hed “aren ped to AME ’ *) has simplifivd clase antagontamn In this article, attempting to an-|were extenuating circumstances | 1#€S its forces to pull its in Rubio. | we could.” |Implements and machinery per farm| pyyy ADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 3.—| ah iain cine cornea swer the charge of scabbing, For-|urged by some I.W.W-'s in the Port- | ut of the most severe d Bulogio. Ontig teach Ge ana: Byers went to Europe under the! dropped during the same period} 4 13:: meeting to ith at va. | into twe and dir vest Edwards states: land strike. The LL.A. had not|50 years by a He a Pe Sea ae th 5 Mavican ‘geeern. | Sampice® of the International Labor | from $253 to $70; livestock from | (3; h naa E base # pies | paned eta hourgeo against the standard of living of |t@7y arm e Mexican govern-| Defense and the National Textile | $395 to $192. shine shop, foundry, elects SDD | eR ei eed “On Friday, December 15 (evi- |p) dently meant for 13—V.S.) some 40 | or 50 men who had arrived earlier in the morning blocked the narrow roadway leading to a mine at Col-| linsville. The miners were thus pre- vented from entering and going to|I.W.W. which has dwindled to a work. ismall and narrow sect. You can “On the same day at 2 p. m. the}look in vain through recent issues miners held a meeting at the Miners’ |of the I.W.W. ‘ans for one single Temple for the purpose of deciding |case of job action, of strike or any vhether they would strike or work.|/other sort of struggle for better The vote to return to work the next | wages, hco->3 or conditions, to say| norning, Saturday, was 164. Those | nothing of any industrial action for | Aho voted to respond to the Nation-|the revolution. The I.W.W. is a lit- sl Miners’ Union strike call num- jtle dues-gathering agency, with a “ered 11. The miners also called |scattered membership. Where it has d fair, But the mass member- ship in the I.W.W. revolted against seabbing. Ford was repudiated and forced out. | New things seem to be different, There is no mass membership in the American workers. Every indication points to a fur- ther sharpening of the crisis, and Jespecially mass growth of unem- ployment. The net earn of all railroads dropped 22 per cent in November, indicating a severe interruption in the production and movement of commodities. The Pennsylvania Rail- road for the week ended Dee. 28 handled 30,000 cars less than the preceding week and 25,000 cars less than in 1928. The Department of Labor, always months late in its reports on unem- ment which is faking this direct as- sault on the Communist Party, Young Communist League, Work- ers and Peasants Block and the Confederacion Sindical Unitaria Mexi The basis of the campaign of ter- ror is the effective propaganda of exposure of the Wall Street ties of the Gil-Rubio-Calles government. A brilliant anti-militarist campaign has been carried on amongst the soldiers by the Young Communist League. Many young Communi: have been arrested for their ac- tivity. ij Many of the Mexican workers ar- | Workers Union. “I’m going back} | South and let all my fellow workers | know what it is like in the Soviet | Union. I’m going to wave the Red | | Flag right in front on the Loray) mill.” | Byers stated he will speak| throughout the South and the coun- |try in the campaign of the Inter- | national Labor Defense to free the | remaining seven Gastonia strikers who face as high as twenty years imprisonment. | Free the Gastonia Strikers! | “All the workers in Europe want | to know why we don’t get the seven | strikers freed. Not only that,” he | house, The overwhelming majority, how- ever, are the so-called croppers. | These people have no property, ani- | mals or implements of their own. They are, therefore, forced to let out the services of themselves and their families much after the man- ner of feudal peasants. The employer furnished the ten- ants and croppers with land and a The latter is usually noth- ing but a wall of lapped siding or weather-boarding or rough-sawn, un- painted vertical boards with thin strips covering the cracks. Room | partitions consist of similar un- painted rough boards, often with ance, radio, bolier shop and ship yard workers are especially invited, | will be held as part of the organi- zation campaign ¢* the Trade Union Unity Metal League, Monday, Jan 6, at 8 p. m., in Odd Fellows Hall, Kensington Ave., Cumberland and A St. The principal speaker will be An- drew Overgaard, national secretary of the T. U. U. L. Metal League. | Low wages, cuts, longer hours anda| — Build The Daiiy Worker—Sen: speed up program of the bosses) in Your Share ef the 15,000 Nev that is burning up all the strength | Subs, ix distinguished by ¢his—thi in the bodies of the mtal worker are causes of much dissatisfactio here, and many workers. will follov the league’s plea to organize an fight for the 7-hcur day and 5-da; week, highr wags, no speed-up, n discrimination against Negro, youn and women workers. fof volunteers to clear the way if|organized a few workers together|ployment, and most often suppress-| apy obstructions were: present. jin one locality, the best use it can “The so-called pickets never re- | find for them—is to scab (in an erned thereafter and all of the|organized fashion, we are assured wa have been working since except |by Edwards) on other workers, Is *»@2 or three who were fired.” \this the only present function of the | “Oh, It’s Organized.” {LW.W.? Try and find what else it| Here we have something new in has done in the last year. A few L.W.W. philosophy, something that/dances and other affairs. A few) ought to make every old time Wob- | meetings. But where there is not! bly, of the days of Lawrence, Eve- complete inactivity on the industrial | rett, Mesaba Range, and Centralia, ‘field, the only activity is—scabbing. | cut loose from. such an organization It Failed the Workers. | and get into a real class union.) This of course is nothing new in! Here we have the theory that scab- the history of Labor. Movements bing is all right, if it is organized |have their historical mission. The seabbing, if you hold a meeting, and 1.W.W. was at one time the left vote to scab on your fellow workers ;wing of the American Labor Move- out on strike against the boss.)ment. It was a healthy, though Even the capitalist press admits twisted and ineffective, reaction to that there were 10,000 miners fight- \the socialist party parliamentarism, ing for their lives when this meet-|and social passivism. The I.W.W. ing at Collinsville was held, appar-|led some great strikes. The LW.W. | ently a joint U.M.W. and 1.W.W.!more than any other agency, popu-) meeting, or at least a U.M.W. meet-|larized the idea of industrial union- | ing in which the I.W.W. members |ism. participated, for there are not 168 | But the I.W.W. failed the labor! Wobblies in the coal fields. There|movement when it refused to ac- big mass conference at Collinsville |comodate its theories to the fact of on the 15th mustered only 35— the Bolshevik revolution, refused to though perhaps some who had been |learn the lesson of political action, in the mine at work Friday and Sat-|refused to even understand the par- urday—scabbing—failed to show |liamentarism of the socialists, which up at the conference. \Haywood and others of its founders But whether the 40 Wobblies at-|fought so hard against, was another tended this meeting or not, they|thing from the revolutionary poli- agreed to the program of Collins- |tical action of the Communists. ville mine working when 10,000] Corruption. ing the facts of unemployment, has ie . to admit what every worker in the |Jail sentences in the hell hole on United States not only knows but | Maria Island. Maria Island is a feels—that there is growing mass| Place of fiendish torture for the unemployment. victims of the Ortiz Rubio regime. “Duri »|Other prisoners are faced with | th t fi th: P | Sage te ater ement Gt Labor “in. [death at the hands of Wall Street "nent | tools. dustry receded and unemployment became pronounced toward the close of the year.” t ‘Lumberton Secretary Not one word on the number of unemployed! Is it 5,000,000, 6,000,-|in Jail May Be Lynched 000 or 7,000,000? None of these| figures are unlikely. (Continued from Page One) The workers are assailed by un-jganizer of the N. T. W. U., and this employment by a double-edged|kidnapping was inspired by the sword: first, drastic, increased | bosses because of his work in or- speed-up—less workers for the|ganizing the textile workers of same amount of work—secondly, a|North Carolina. fifty per cent stoppage in nearly| “Ve are mobilizing the textile every basic industry in the country. | workers all over the country to pro- In this situation, the big imper-|t-:t against class justice and ter- ialists are strengthening their war|rorization handed out to the textile machinery for a gigantic battle for| workers of North Carolina. This is the world markets. Says the Wallja continuation of the terror that Street Journal: “President Hoover | murdered Ella May, the six Marion has rightly said that foreign trade| strikers, and sent the seven Gas- is the backlog of our national sta-!tonia defendants to long prison bility. . . . If it has been a sta-|terms.” (Signed) “National Execu- bilizer in the past, it gives promise| tive Committee of the N.T.W.U.” of still greater aid to industry in Blame on Police Chief. the future.” The following telegram was yes- This means not only the usual/terday sent to the chief of police at wage cuts that capitalism is pre-| Lumberton by the National Textile paring to transfer the effects of the| Workers Union southern office at crisis to the backs of the workers, | Charlotte: but a drastic campaign of a general! “The District Executive Board of men, at least, were striking against | tong hours and low wages and dan- gerous conditions. They went to work under the protection of the gunmen “volunteers” sent by the When the LW.W. in 1922 finally took its stand against the Bolshe- \vik revolution and proceeded to (crush out of the organization al! |wr> defended it, it entered on the slash in the standard of living of imperialism can begin its dumping) process on the world markets. With | \this goes the rapid war prepara- tions. the American workers so that U. S.\} the National Textile Workers Union olds the Lumberton city officials and the Lumbertor chief of -police along with the mill owners directly | responsible for the kidnapping of Elbert Totherow, Youth Organizer rested are faced with interminable | said, “but they kept asking me when large uncovered cracks between | | we're going to make the revolution.” | “In Gastonia I worked 72 hours a | week, and 60 hours at the minimum. In the U. S. S. R. they work seven | hours a day. In Gastonia they have | speed-up so terrible one worker has to tend 100 looms. In the U. S. S, R. }one worker only tends four looms. | They got more working, there, and |no unemployment at all like in the | United States.” |Millinery Workers ‘Endorse Womens’ Anti War Meet Tomorrow | Ina letter addressed to the Dis- | trict Women’s Committee over the | signature of Sylvia Blecher, secre- tary of the Millinery Handworkers’ | Union, Local 43, in regard to the Working Women’s Anti-War Con-| \ference to be held tomorrow tells} lof the enthusiastic response of |these workers to the call for the conference. The millinery workers realize that they are being exploited now more than ever before. mS SIS 22 ETS The owner, fearing the destruc- tion that the gunmen might cause, and fearing that the organizers would defend themselves, refused | permission to have the lynching start in his hotel, but gave permis- sion for a committee of the mill cwners’ gunmen to camp all night in the lobby of the hotel and wait for the organizers in the morning. In the morning Summey and Totherow went into a cafe. Sammey U.M.W. to chase away the pickets. | path to its present state of degra- There is a direct charge by the N.!dation and degeneration. M.U. that the I.W.W. cooperated in| It proceeded, not with a single driving away the pickets. jleap, but step by step. As late as Edwards does not anywhere say |192% it could throw off the poison the I.W.W. did not work in the mine. |of “scab on the A.F.L.” in the He could’t say that, for everybody | waterfront strike, but it had for- knows they did. His defense is that feited the confidence of the marine |of the N. T. W. U. in Lumberton, at bourgeviale | wbout 8.30 a. m. today. Any bodily pooh ed harm that comes to Totherow will be placed squarely on the shoulders lof tho partios responsible. | “For the District Executive Board \ef district 9, National Textile Work- Not only has forged the wei death to ttreity tt into existence the men who are to wield those weapons—the modern working class—the prolet: Karl Mars (Communist Ma: “there was no strike”—which is ridiculous. Even the Industrial Worker reports from various Illinois cities show some men on strike, though all I.W.W. articles take a strong strikebreaking stand, belit- jworkers. As late as 1926 it could! cervices in the past to the cause of lorganize, temporarily, some thous- lands of harvest workers; since then lit has never done that, for it could not organize on any other basis than ‘a hold up—control of the freight tling the movement far more than |trains. As late as 1927 it led a fine even the operators’ papers, than|strike in the Colorado coal fields, even the U.M.W. papers. \and betrayed it. The leaders were “Starve the Strikers.” not bought out, but simply yielded In addition, the Industrial Soli- |to an old doctrinaire religion of the darity carries editorials and arti- |I.W.W. “carrying the strike to the eles appealing to workers to starve |job.” They took the strike hack to these striking miners into submis- the job, and the.bosses said, “Thank sion to their bosses, to help drive you.” No more strike, and no more them back to slavery in the mines,|Wobbly organization in Colorado. by refusing to donate strike relief.| Now we have open scabbing in Ili- “Don't give anything to the Work- |nois, the same situation as in Port- ers International Relief,” is the I.|land, but with the organization of- W.W. slogan, accompanied by base- |ficially endorsing it. less, proofless slander of the W.LR. ' This is the easier to understand when we read the main headlines in the Industrial Worker, of December 21, also an official organ of the LWW., its “Official Western Or- gan,” and see the curious way in which the new Wobblies fight the -. yse of militia in the coal fields. militia sent to break the miners’ / | Those militant elements who were forced out, or who left the I.W.W. of their own account, were lucky. Most of those, like Forrest (“Pop”) Edwards, the leader in this Collins- Labor can wipe out this scabbing at Collinsville — confessed scabbing, though he hates the sound of the word. The I.W.W. fought for the Amer- jean workers for years. In the course of that fighting, it received a mortal wound, it had inflicted on it an anarcho-syndicalist philosophy, and from this wound it has died. corpse is still above ground, but it smells bad. the life that goes with putrefaction. This rotteness is no good to anyone not rotten too, it is of use only to the rotten capitalist system. Give this body decent burial. Let all class conscious, all militant workers in the I.W.W. join the class struggle unions of the Trade Union Unity League. Let all real revolutionaries in the LW.W. join the Communist Party. ville affair, its defender in the I. W.W. press, who stayed in the I.W. W., became “a product of their en- vironment.” Not all of “Pop's” pri- son years, not any of his undoubted Send Grectings to the Workers in the Soviet Union Through the Its | It has a kind of life,; jers Union: Dewey Martin,” | Met kz Thugs. Additional details of the kidnap- ping available today showed that when Totherow and C. W. Summey. |organizers of the N. T. W., reached Lumberton day before yesterday, both were met at the bus station by groups of thugs who followed them about town a«. into the mill village. Exactiy 30 minutes after arriving in town they were told by a group of 20 thugs: ,“You god damn Reds get out of town.” About 30 irere gunmen of the inill owners thes collected, and fol- lowed Totherow and Summey Into the telegraph station. At the door of the office, the thugs told the two organizers: “We'll give you 35 min- utes {o get out of town.” The organizers disregarded all these threats and went to the hotel to register for the night. Ask Permission to Lynch. Sam Turner, superintendent of the mills, came to the owner of the hotel ard asked permission for the “Special Printing of The Daily Worker in the Russian Language! gang to enter the room of Totherow and Summey to “get them.” remained *iere, and Totherow went for the baggage, Totherow was fo rthe baggage, Totherow was jerked into a big car by a group of thugs and was “taken for a ride,” A few hours later, a worker came to Summey and reported that the Youth Organizer was taken on a | ride by the thugs. By this time the mil] bosses’ henchmen were swarin- ing around Summey in the effort to get him, too, Won't Stop Union. However, Summey walked up the street, armed only with a short stick, and with the aid of workers} and a c¢wift car, finally reinaged to elude the gang and to report this; entire story to the district office, where ke stayed last night. Summey says: “I won't rest until Totherow is found and until the union is carried on successfully in Lumberton. The Gastonia thugs, gangsters, police and bullets couldn't stop us. The Lumberton | thugs and the whcle machinery that js controlled by the ex-Governor, McLean, a big mill owner, won't stop the workers from organizing.” The National “Textile Workers Union is mobilizing all available} forces to locate Totherow. Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! them. In most cases only one thick- | ness of boards separates the occu- pants from the outside air. Fire- places are the only means of, warmth. 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