The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 13, 1930, Page 4

Page Four HUNGRY W HIS SHIRT FOR A MEAL Wealthy Parasite Bemo: ans Hardship as Forced by Crisis to Sell Race Horses By ANDERSOLL A few days ago the New York} Times published a few lines on an| Je page about an aged worker, | hn Murphy, who was found t ing to sell the shirt off his bach n order to get the price of a mea Murphy, obviously suffering from| xhaustion, was taken to a hospital | where the doctors stated that he] d been without food for so long} recovery. After forty years of slaving for the bosses, t was his reward—death from starva- ion. And there are literally hv ireds and thousands like Murpl he country today. On the front page of the Times| for August 29 another case of “hor-| rible hardship’ lescribed. Lord} Derby, a fat-headed, useless Briti parasite who never did a tap of work in his entire life, has been forced to sell some of his race hor | | ses so he can y his taxes, An- other victim of the econom which is sweeping the cap world. But wait, comrades. your tears, until the harrowing] details of this sad case have all) been told. The Times goes on to| say: “Thus far this year his hors: have won in stakes more than] $130,000. Two years ago he won $300,000, and never in years than $100,000. | Fearing that this description of| English poverty may leave us cold, | the Times continues, “In 1925, Lord} less [than $8,000,000, he sold his house and property at Liver Bootle, Kirkdale, and Waltore.” ‘This gives an fourteen ion during the t ten years. certain he ke to Lord, so the paper tells jropped seventy men from his } so little hope was held|roll at Knowsley Hall at the end of ¢ June, adding to England, more t ion unemployed, and “it tood that he is d sing of his London estate to ive in Kent’ Morrows Live In Palaces While Workers Starve. We do not know much about tha small estate in Kent, but we imagi that it is quite a simple spot, som |what similar to the little fifty castle and grounds that “our o Mexico Morrow o i over in Jersey. y hearts torn to shre and 0 s could pre grief we fell f idden parasite We sugge sperly express the this poverty- that his “Lordsh retain at le: one of his, horses because when 2 English arrive, we are reasonably wil! need it. The tale of John Murphy selling his shirt to get the price of a mea will not make muc mpression on Amer 59 Dictators, but we are wor sure he Sa a h considering | Derby sold his Bury and Pilking-|confident “His Lordship” ’s poverty ton estates for around $5,000,000.} will drive many of them to the race Two years later at a price of more | track. By MYRA PAGE With drawings by Ryan Walker Ella May Wiggins is enshrined in the great heart of the American working class forever. | | Ella May, one of the three hun-| dred thousand enslaved by the great greed of southern mill barons. WI she dared lead a revolt of her Ww workers agai ath by hi Working class | the sight of her children lacking for food and cloth- | ing and the opportunities she could | never given them. Bowed down with the sight of misery and degradation 11 around her in Dixie mill villages. * n slave, lifting up »ice in defiance of Leading the Reyolt. | | STO: | eg the rulers who choke working} people’s life in order to wring pro- fits. Throwing herself into organ- izing her fellow workers for bread DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1930 i Ella May Lives On in Workers’ Struggles and a chance to build a new life on cotton mill hands. Singing “Oh, how it hurts a mother”—in simple words expressing their sorrows and Enthusing the Workers by Her Fiery Speeches and Songs. | hopes. Enthusing them with new | faith and determination songs and fiery speeches. Ella May, a beacon light to south- ern toilers, pointing the path along which they must march, in firm ranks, colored and white side by side, on to freedom. Proof of the vast potentialities of courage and leadership which lie hidden in the | southern working class, and which | the revolutionary unions and Com- | munist Party will call forth. * * 8 | by her Falling in the cause of her work- on in their love and memory and in | the heart of the world’s working | class. For she stands forth as a symbol of the confidence and dar- ing with which America’s laboring millions take up the struggle, and as a pledge of southern toilers that they have taken their place, once| and for all, in the front ranks of the international working class in its battle for a working people's world. Shot by Company Thugs. IN BIRMINGHAM JAIL Children of the New Day |was introduced. Not merely a conscious baby, with such a virile, | iet Youth ~-A Story of Soviet Yout |Negro speaker, but one who inci-) healthy hate for cops, and especially A Written Version of the Russian Movie For trite dentally could speak. Straightway| coul and iron police. I sat on the ‘i if ‘ v : | Send it in care of Birmingham jail. |e began to attack the premise of | bunk listening to him and thought rk ass P | Ree : | American Working Class Children Birmingham jail, Birmingham jail,| white superiority and the Ku Klux| of what a fine revolutionist -he . Send it in care of Birmingham jail. Kian, the latter having only a few| would make! The next morning found the whole ; their eyes. Old furniture, pieces o: The above lines are taken from @|nights before paraded through the| ,.) 9 * troop of Pioneers on their. way to | lumber and boxes piled everywhere.| folk song of the south. The first Negro sections of the town terroriz- | EAI ea a oe th shout the begin work on the playroom. Lucki-| A flood of dust made them cough | time and place I heard it was two jing the workers. Pandemonium | ta Avs live in. The thing that pleavad ly it was summer, so there was | and sneeze. |o’clock one morning as several o: The bourgeois bastards | oy wae that note of the By GILBERT LEWIS me a letter, send it by mail; Negro and White Workers Defy Caste System and Police Terror reigned. plenty of free time. The troop made such a strange-looking brig- ade marching along with brooms, | mops, paint brushes, pails, and cans | of paint. There was also plenty of strong soap, for the committee re- ported that the room would need it. It was a lovely ‘morning, as the youngsters swung along, singing and happy over the job they were going to do. There were a few mis- haps, for these objects were awk- | ward to carry. Task accidentally banged Nick across the shoulders with her mop, and there were nu- merous calls of “Watch out, you’re poking me in the ribs with that| broom” or “That pail is banging | the back of my legs.” Alex, tripping, | dropped his brushes and cakes of | soap which landed on his compan- | ion’s toe. But no one’ got out of humor, all joining in a good laugh. | When the Pioneers reached the | courtyard, children ran from all| corners to greet them. ‘Here’re the Pioneers, the Pioneers,” they cho- | rused. Fatima was not among them. “What all have you got there?” “Are those the things?” pointing to Alex’s soap and brush- es, “that makes a playroom?” “No, of course not, but first we have to clean it up, and get everything ready.” Tash spoke in an important voice. “It’s going to be a surprise from us to you, so it’ll be a secret until it’s all done,” Alex put in excitedly. “How long will it take?” “Oh, days and days, maybe,” Nick spoke up. “Yes, there’s lots to be done, but we'll finish it up as soon as ever we can.” “Oh, do let us help,” the children begged. Yes, the Pio- neers agreed, it was right that the | courtyard children should have aj} part in making the playroom. Then they would feel it was more theirs. So . committees and shifts were chosen then and there and the work was divided up. As .they opened the door to the room the housing commission had assigned them, what a sight greeted NEW SOVIET NOVEL ~ Brusski, the Soil Redeemed, a story of peasant life in the Soviet Union, by F. Panferov, Inter- national Publishers. Energetically they set to work.|us drove along the highway to Chat- First the junk must be cleared out,|tanooga, Tenn. from Atlanta, Ga. next the murky, streaked windows | where we held a fine mass meeting. washed, and also the walls, and the |The comrade driving the car, him- floor swept. Then they would paint | self a southerner, broke into the re- the walls and floor and after that— | frain to keep awake. Someone For three days the Pioneers and joined him. Soon all were wailing children’s committees labored, while | away, fascinated by the calm, easy other children from the neighbor- | rhythm of the thing. Someone spoke hood whispered over what must be|of how the Gastonia strikers, fac- giving information, they were clams. To all questions they simply ans- wered, “Oh, we're still cleaning up,” or “ It'll be ready soon now.” Many buckets of paint disappeared inside, then chairs and small tables, and many boxes. But the Pioneers were not too absorbed in their work to forget about Fatima. But she was as hard as a white-tailed rabbit. The second day, Boris, a Pioneer who some- times let his temper get away with him, on coming into the courtyard chanced upon Mishka taunting Fa- tima. “Heh, there, you big bully, leave that little girl alone.” Once again Fatima disappeared while Mishka and Boris let their fists fly. The children of the neighborhood watched the fight from a distance crying to Boris, “Give it him! Give it him!” Boris was a head smaller than Mishka, but he was wiry and quick. Squeals of delight went up as Boris threw Mishka down and sat on him, to catch up and make friends with | going on inside. Everyone on the! ing electrocution for militantly| committees went about smiling | struggling for the right to live, had mysteriously, but when it came to|changed “Birmingham” to “Gas- |;, jtonia” and had sung the number with rousing gusto. | This was the way with the work- jers, ever changing the name to suit |their own locality, ever seeing in the words of the composer a reflec- |tion of their own misery. It was this that had made it one of the |most ponular numbers below the Mason and Dixon line, was in Birmingham jail. A fellow prisoner, sitting on his bunk play- ing solitaire, hummed it softly to | himself. Capitol Park in Birmingham is | Woodrow Wilson and white suprem- jacy. Negroes passing through this | park find it necessary to keep mov- jing. Under no circumstances may | they stand around or sit beneath the | shady trees, no matter how hot the | day or how tired they may be. A short time ago a joint meeting called by the Communist Party and | Trade Union Unity League to pro- |} test lynching assembled in this park | some two hundred white and four | a The next time I heard the song |’, “Now promise to quit bullying the children around here.” Shamefaced, Mishka slouched off. His power as | a bully was gone forever. hundred Negro workers, the latter already sufiiciently rallying to the program of the Communist Party ie rate A , |to hurl a certain defiance at their | fight ended. “Why, Boris, you | Midience was no small amount of know that is no way for Pioneers | Pl#in-clothed “dicks,” harness bulls, to act toward youth of the work- | high officials of the Klan and high inge lass. Mishka is a victim of city and State officials. his surroundings. We must seck| 10¢¥ ‘id not like the presence of | to win him over.” Boris flushed. | Neet0es, in the park but said noth- Yes, he had been too hasty. Mean- |i@: The white speaker for the while, the courtyard children cele- |COmmunist: Party spoke his | : ty z hour, an hour in which the system Brated tha, end: of the bully’s rule, of race and class oppression was | (to be continued.) picked to pieces with minute care and laid bare for all workers to behold. Then suddenly a Negro speaker what he a hoarder of sorely |needed grain in the earlier years, a saboteur of the Soviet power, an middle peasants, has been the bed- rock base of the Russian Revolu- tion. Its fruition is in the sweep- couldn’t sit still, It was not enough | that Negroes had come into the} park, it was not enough for a Negro to speak in the park, it was not enough for him to attack the klan . ++ he had dared talk about social equality! The bourgeois mind at work: White supremacy was being threat- It was alright for a white | man to talk about social equality . . if he wanted to sleep with a “nigger wench” that was his busi- ness. Bu ta Negro ... demanding the right to sleep with a white woman! And with four hundred Negroes listening to him. Some- thing had to be done. It took them | ten minutes, however, to make up their minds as to what, for after all the four hundred Negroes looked formidable indeed! Finally, he police on a_ signal from the head of the Klan, smashed the meeting. Two white organizers, the Negro organizer and two Ne- gro workers were arrested! “523-C. Dangerous and suspici- ous! Held for investigation!” This was the charge on which we were held. It mattered not that we had committed no crime; it mattered not that we had no connection with thugs and criminals; we were Reds, ened. Be. es, | Gilbert Lewis on Chain Gang organizers, advocates of racial equalit?, adyocates of the abolition of wage slavery, advocates of a new system of government. We were therefore dangerous and suspicious. Key-boys, trustees, ete., were not al- wanted to run away, to go north; they wanted to change the south. Most of them had been north and had lost their illusions. Arrested with us was a preacher, a small, heavy set fellow, with a cropped ear. He had been caught with a Daily Worker in his hand. He passed to and fro in the cell and gave us, in a soft, mellow voice, a splendid repertoire of Negro spirit- uals. But Negro spirituals are no long- er new in the south, no longer have the awe-inspiring appeal as in the North, and soon some of the boys began teasing him about his flock. “What are they going to do to- morrow, Rey.?” he was asked. “You won’t get any chicken this Sun- day!” (This was a Saturday), some- one else declared. Across the way was the cell of the women prisoners. From the window in our lavatory we could look into it. There were about sixty girls, arrested for diverse things, but mostly for prostitution, forced upon them, in many cases, by the merciless onslaught of the econo- mic crisis. Under pretense of us- ing the lavatory, the reverend watched them for nearly two hours. Being in jail was no great pun- ishment for him under these cir- cumstances, but were he removed to another cell from which he could not see the girls undress for the night, I am sure he would have renounced his god! I was unpleasantly re- minded of Somerset Maugham’s story “Miss Thompson.” In it a reverend, subject to years of repres- sion, of failure to fulfill the natural functions of mankind, had set him- self the task of bringing about the regeneration of a prostitute only to rape her when she had come under his influence, Souvenirs of capital- ism: Somerset Maugham’s reverend, | our ecropped-ear minister. Mistakes are sometitnes made by | the Birmingham police. A guiltless Negro legally or _ extra-legally lynched for an alleged rape only to have the woman confess she lied after his death; a Negro shot to |death on a dark and deserted street | because of his ‘sstriking resemb- | lance” to a cop’s memory-picture of |a police album character. .. mistake, idire, beastly, frequent. ing movement of collectivization, | historically the definite shunting of Brus catches vividly the ka-| the millions of the peasantry of the leidoseopie changes in a peasant) Soviet Republics on to the broad |lowed near us, to talk to us. Others | “i"® |could have books, magazines, papers,| Smaller mistakes are also some- i jbut we could have nothing, for we | | were dangerous and suspicious, This | * * * assassin of Soviet officials and the base for a recrudescent capitalism. We understand sharply the great historical necessity for the complete village on the banks of the Volga| ighroad to the building of the so- River, as class forces change, as| cialist economy. Already, on the the struggle between the poor pea-|threshhold of the third year of the sants and the kulaks, with the mid-| Five-Year Plan, the actual results dle peasant now neutral, now trail-| of the collectivifation movement ex- ing in the wake of the kulak, now|cced by far the original estimates recalled sharply back to the fight! and expectations of the Party and against the kulak, is waged inter-| the economic organs of the Soviet mittently. | Union, The scene at the district Soviet |, But, this historical achievement of conference conveys intrinsically the|the proletarian revolution was not tense atmosphere of kulak versus/ attained easily. Time and again poor peasant in a deadlock, with the | elements foreign to the proletarian Communist peasants battling on| revolution sought to swerve the concrete issues to win over the ma-| Communist Party from its Leninist jority of poor peasants and the hesi- | course, Successively the Party de- tant middle peasants. cisively defeated the Trotskyites, The author divides the book into| whose course led to the smashing what he calls the six links, the six|of the smytcha, and recently the | liquidation of the kulak class as a} | prerequisite and guarantee for the | building of socialism, | Brusski is an invaluable picture in arriving at a fuller understand- ing of the import of the stupendous achievements of collectivization un- |der the Five-Year Plan, its back- | ground, ete, Bri i rounds out the por- | traitures of different phases of the | Russian Revolution and _ socialist | construction contained in “Cement,” {a novel depicting the workers’ new life and the building up of industry shattered during the war period; | |“The Nineteen,” a, gripping story | of the Civil War days, and “Azure | | Cities,” a collection of short stories definite stages of the development of the peasants of the Volga village to the point of collectivization. The smytchka, the alliance of the industrial workers with the poor and , right opportunis who would make | hich deal with various phases of i tleks precisely when | tite in the Soviet Union. the time was ripe for their com-| Don't miss reading this Important novel of Soviet persant life. is always the charge they place against you when they have no def- inite charge to make—“Held for in- vestigation!” 4 There were seven of us in 528-0, an unusually small amount for this cell, with a capacity for about twen- ty-five. Three of the prisoners had been there for nearly two weeks. There were no charges against them, None would be placed against them. They would .simply hold them long enough to make them realize that Birmingham was a bad place for Negroes, especially militant Ne- groes. Jails, Klan, police terror, swords of Damocles over the heads of the Negro workers, But... One of the three was a coal miner from West Virginia. He had come to Birmingham in search of work in the mines, and had been arrested In Brusski we spe the kulak for’ Fa nial FRED VIGMAN. almost the moment he stepped off the freight. He was a real class- . Birmingham's Rock Pile times made. My being brought from | the city jail to the police station| on Monday to be finger-printed after having been photographed and finger-printed on Saturday was also a “mistake,” “What you bring that nigger back here for? We got him Saturday.” “His name wuz on the list.” “Hey, Cole, here’s that nigger ‘Red’ out here.” “Send that black son of a bitch in here.” “Sit down in that chair! "Round here telling the niggers they is as good as the white pepul.” Employing a rubber hose, after throwing a lighted cigarette in nfy face, they attempted to impress me with the logic of white supremacy. They failed miserably. With every blow that was placed upon my bare- head I became more convinced that here was a group of men who did not themselves accept the premise of white superiority, but on the contrary, did recognize the poten- tial equality of races and were re- sorting to such barbarous methods to maintain a position which they; recognized as having no base in actual fact. Later in the day a charge of vagrancy was placed against me and I was taken to the county jail, the real Birmingham jail. They call it the “big rock.” They didn’t mis- name it. It is close, hot and stuffy and between you and freedom there are nine locks. Escape seems im- possible, though it is said that a condemned man once got as far as the outer wall. I confess frankly T don’t believe it. But even so es- cape was a long way off as the wall is about twelve feet high and the top covered with bottle glass. Prayer Meetings And Prison Riots. Holidays (not Sundays) are ex- ceptions. On the Fourth of July we had roast pork, applesauce and pie, plus vegetables. An unfortun- ate incident, however, nearly spoiled the day for most of us. A preacher (not the one arrested with me) came down to bless the dinner. He started like this: “Lord, bless this state, bless this city, bless the state of- ficials, bless the city officials, etc,” and ended up with a demand that god bless the jail. This remark re- sulted in a small riot. It was fifteen minutes before the prisoners could be quitted again, and the preacher who had planned to eat with the boys thought better of the matter. The beds are about what you would expect in any jail. They are not lousy, or at least I did not see any lice, but there is a standing army of cockroaches with numbers and discipline surpassed only by that of the Red Army itself. Their | command seems to be to crow] over you at night and keep you from sleeping. The jail is filled with young workers ranging from the age of 18 to 82. They are charged, with but few exceptions, with very small crimes, petty crimes committed in the act of striving to survive. Theirs is a sort of revolt, a revolt that needs guidance, that needs direc- tion, that needs to:be marshalled into the channels of revolutionary struggle against capitalism. Talk with them in their cells and you are irresistibly drawn tosthis conclusion. They take you out of the “bull pen” where you are all together and lock you into your small cells eyery day at four o'clock. The boys then begin singing spirituals, blues, play- ing cards and occasionally hold church services, The last night I was there they had a prayer meet- ing—a fine prayer meeting, con- ducted by a burglar doing a ten | their working conditions in the f ing people, this woman toiler lives | the workers control +|me, by concrete example, show how HOW RUSSIAN WORKERS RUN THEIR INDUSTRIES Adjust Grievances and Improve Conditions Through Their Unions and Shop Committees |three are known here as the tri- Dear Mark: |angle and decide all questions) In my last letter I promised to}met a number of times but could write you something about how the|not formulate an agreement satis- workers of the Soviet Union cont actory to the workers. The ques- ac-| tion was then referred to the arbit- tory. | ration committee, consisting of shop Here is how and to what extent| chairman, director and a third im- and regulate} partial chairman from the workers’ Moscow, June 14, 1 their welfare and working condi-| inspection committee, This arbitra- tions in the factory. In the first) tion committee ruled in favor of place, they have their trade union) the administration. But the workers to safeguard their general economic} rejected it and appealed to the La- interests; then the workers’ regular| bor Department. The Labor Depart~ monthly meetings (sometimes more often), and the shop committee with its sub-committees. I shall write here about the latter form. Once each year ment, after hearing both sides, de- cided the last two points in favor df the workers, and on the first two points, they designated a spe- at their regular|cial commission to determine meeting the workers, elect a shop| whether these workers under dis- committee. This committee then|pute should be classed in the cate- elects its sub-committees: 1. Com-|gory of dangerous and unhealthy mittee on conflicts, 2. For labor| work. The workers then signed the protection, 3. Cultural, ete. |agreement. The special commission The chairman of the shop com-|later also decided in favor of the mittee devotes all his leisure to this} workers, pointing out that the work and is paid 75 per cent by,chemical vapors affect all workers, industry administration and 25 per|The whole controversy lasted three cent by the union. In large fac-| months, tories more than one such pz The committee on conflicts, in a worker is elected. Each y the} similar way, takes up each and workers draw up and sign a collec-|every complaint that a worker as tive agreement with the administra-| an individual, or the workers as a tion of the particular factory. It is| group or as a whole, may have, a most interesting document. It|from day to day during the year. provides in minute detail all the| Judging from my own shop and protections for the workers. Let|/from what I was told, the workers | don’t let any infringement go by un- this agreement is reached. In the| challenged. chemical laboratory where Mirel The committee on safety and pro- London (Noah’s wife—you remem-| tection looks after proper safety dee ber her from New York) works, the workers met last year a number of times and set forth what they thought should be included in the new agreement. The shop committee vices of the machines, proper vens tilation, light, cleanliness, etc. The chairman of this committee is a specially trained man and devotes all or part of his time to this work, presented it to the administrative committee. The administrative com-| mittee took exception to some de-| mands. Some of these disputed] points were as follows: The work-| ers demanded (1) that not only the chemists should receive four weeks’ vacation but all the wor! in the depending upon the size of the fac« tory. Large factories have at least one such specialist on full time. The Cultural Committee is one of the most active committees in the plant. They arrange classes, excure sions, visits to theatres or to any public ectacle of any interest. plant, including office workers, por-| They arrange special discussions. ters, ete.; (2) that all workers, not|In my place, for instance, there will only the chemists, should receive an|be in a few days a discussion on additional bottle of milk, butter,, the Five-Year Plan. Last week the ete, each day; (3) that the ad-| announcement was made and a list ministration should provide three} passed around for .all those who smocks a year instead of two; (4) |care to speak to designate their in- that two chem be sent to Europe! tention by signing their names. The to study. On the first two demands, the administration argued that these workers should not be classed in the category of dangerous and un- healthy work, since they are not | function of this committee is to get every worker to do some social work, to belong to some organization, and there are many such organizations, 'Believe me, the committee does its ‘S t Plant Run by Workers, directly in contact with the labora-) work. Every worker belongs to at tory, and even when they do enter] least one organization. Everybody, the laboratory, it is only for short| does something besides his daily periods. On the second two points,| routine work. That all this accum- the administration pleaded lack of| ulated growth in culture will show funds. The shop committee Bengt its effects in a few years, and to back to the meeting of workers. The| some extent already shows it, goes workers rejected the administra-| without saying. That it will be of tion’s plea and refused to sign the| tremendous importance and will af~ contract. The shop chairman, the| fect the workers in other countries, Communist Party fraction secretary|is also beyond doubt. (To Be Continued.) and the director of the plant (these | Pioneer Corner NEW YORK.—Five workers’ chil- Lenin, and representatives of the dren of this city were burnt by acid] Russian academies, the commis= while playing in the streets. The|sioner of education and of agricule children, Charles Link, Joseph Jen-| ture. nings, William Pash, Frank Smith In a speech Comrade Krupskaya and a girl, were playing near Cen-| showed how the development of the tral Park West, the home of some| system of education was not a new rich family. The rich woman didn’t} one. She pointed out how Lenin like the idea of the workers’ chil-| had always stressed the importance dzen playing in front of her house | of the schools for building of a pand so she spilled acid on them. | strong workers’ state. With the de« The girl was burned severely and! cision of the Communist Party to may lose her eyesight. have enough schools built so that The workers’ children, who had/ ll children of school age would be no playground where to play, went| ble to receive the proper educa out into the street of the rich sec-| tional training, the government is tion. This is nothing new to work- | C@!tying out the teachings of Lenin. ers’ children. We know that many | Only with the maling of the work« of us live in working-class sections | °"S’ #24 Peasants’ children of the where there are no playgrounds and! U- 5: 8. R. into intelligent and besa we have to play in the streets, tak- | ful member: of the workers’ society, ing the risk of being run over by #0 the socialist system be built up. trucks or" automobiles. ‘The bosses’) In 1914-15, when the tsar still government has plenty of money ruled in Russia, there were only for graft and big salaries for the | 1-286,000 children attending the “pig cheeses,” but they have #no | fchools. With the building of Soe money” when it comes to providing | 6 lism the figures of children ate for playgrounds and schools for the | *©@ding school mounted higher and workers’ children, | higher. In 1929-30 there were 20.3 Wa aust Cane fox ual | per cent more children attending tions for the workers’ children, Join | sc00! than in 1928-29. In absolute the Young. Pioneer AT SRE rr cect A Tt 000 Fight to make the government give | According to the new ple ny ae us he el better schools and play | pulsory education, in 1932 there will air wa ager rae ML | be 16,000,000 children of eight, nine, |ten and eleven years of age attend- More Schools: For Workers’ Children , ing school. z anon In Soviet Russia. MOSCOW.—The first All-Russian Congress of technical education or condi- Because the Soviet Government is interested in having every nation- ality, irregardless of how small or opened in the Trade Union Hall of the House of Labor, headquarters of the trade unions of Soviet Rus- sia, The executive committee of the congress consisted of Comrade year stretch for grand larceny! Krupskaya, the widow of Comrade large it is, develop itself, the gov- ernment has in some cases even made alphabets for the different tribes and at present in the U. S. S. R. 35 different languages are taught in the schools,