The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 17, 1931, Page 4

By SASCHA GAUDINE A huge crowd of work together like sheep to keep warm. But they are not sheep. Now and then one can hear the grow gry and angry men. workers, bent by cold shuffled towards the house. “Say, Bill, where did you sleep last night? I bummed two bits from a silk hat Harry—slept down on tt Bowery.” “Where?” “In that Wi: erly joint. They called r yesterday and—now there's no job: bums today. We flopped in the old night Mission, and I sat up scratched meself all night long.” “If a war broke out tomorrow they would find a place for us to sleep P. very quickly.” “You bet.” “Say, the cook has no trouble to change the menu.” “Oh yeas.” “A man need not fear to gai weight from the abundance of sug in the coffee.” “If a man makes a ting his meals at the f flop house vt against the dread dise “The suthorities n enough at any one time, s Mr. Mannings has a certain i in our physical welfare and the vation Army looks after a spir of get- welfare so we have nothing to worry | about.” “Oh sure! Oh sure.” “I have not seen you here for a few days.” “I have had coffee and doughnuts 60 often from the church stens, I terms of bakeries.” huddle of hun-|t and 1 _DATLY_ WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1931 p swing- | hly capitalism on, step on h the door, is poured y For a cup of cold nd a crumb of “coffee-an shed han are chapped e from the are jump- keep warm. Ss are show- They gulp y out into ets A worker nto his pockets | ed eyes rage at the the mansions of jouse m their is meal and hi and then a curse he at I build for ing his fist ng it at the stony structure, We'll make the robbers pay ito the face of the depressed ‘This is the result of all my labors,” |the jobless man thought to himself. |“we must put an end to this once and forever.” He went on and on until| | weariness compelled him to seek rest | in a tenement hallway. He threw | himself down heavily on the -teps, | |comfortless sleep. Review by SOL HERTZ. “Justice For Organized Workers,” a pamphlet by Louis Kirshbaum, with endorsements and introductions by| Norman Thomas, Roger Baldwin, A. J. Muste, Professor Douglas, and D. Saposs. L Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America for the past 10 years. The pamphlet is written as an “appeal to the public” against the wrongs done to him by the Amalgamated Admin- istration. Kirshbaum, in all his naive- ness, insists on his “right” to fight against wage cuts and to demand his full quota of unemployed insurance. | He was framed and declared ex- pelled from the organization by the A. C. W. agents in Chicago, and the decision was later sustained by the general office. ‘There is nothing new about that. Expulsions and discriminations are an every-day occurrence in the A. C. W, What aroused interest was the indorsement and introduction of the | socialists and liberals who are staunch of the Hillman machine. “Justice for Organized Workers” is @ brilliant exposure of the maneuvers of the company union. It shatters to pieces the fake democracy built up by Hillman and it throws a powerful searchlight on the hook-up of the bosses and the company union agents through the “Unemployed Insurance Pund,” but Kirshbaum draws con- clusions which even a boss could sign his name to, and therefore such & pamphlet aroused enthusiasm on the part of the socialists and liberals. ‘The author exposes the role of the Hillman agents in continuously re- ducing the wages of the workers. He then follows this up with his exper- jence in fighting for unemployment insurance since it was due him, ac- cording to the official rules and regu- lations. (No tailor receives real in- surance, he gets dues stamps and the funds remain in the coffers of the company union.) His experience once more proves that getting insurance to which one is entitled is merely a legend. The “impartial committee” harnessing the fund are mainly agents of the Hillman machine. Doc- tor Squires, the then impartial chair- man of the Chicago market, also proves to be a mere agent of the machine, making decisions for the machine agents, and if they do not approve a certain decision, he changes it accordingly. , Louis Kirshbaum wrote his booklet ® continuous revolt on the art of the clothing workers against the company unionization of the A. ©. W. of A. In this struggle the of- ficlaldom expelled hundreds of mem- bers from New York, Chicago, Roch- ester, Philedelphia, Baltimore, Mon- ftreal and Toronto. They hired Pe KIRSHBAUM is a member of the | |gangster bands to make blood-baths | jupon the tailors. In New York in the pressers club |movement, Mazzini, Elison and Sen- | derowich were cut up and sent to the| |hospital. In Rochester, the Hillman | \gang attempted to murder Peter] |Teem, the courageous leader of the | |revolutionary tailors. ‘The entire| Italian local in Rochester was de-| jclared expelled. But Kirshbaum sees only “indifferent” masses outside of himself. During the same period, the | |revolting tailors exposed the role of the Hillman machine as the most cor- |rupted and grafting union adminis-| jtration in the country. The erafter | | gang of Harry Cohen in New York,! Kleinman in New Jersey and Harry Tailor were exposed by the workers. | This greater clique was covered up| by the general office. i} During the same period we had a | planned is developing, Book Reviews | n nildi Socialism By Al B. MAGIL A. B. Magil, proletarian writer and peet, has just returned from the Sov- In- iet Union, where he attended th ternational Conference of Rev tionary Writers as one of the d sates from the John Reed Club.—E It is snowing in Moscow. A win- er wind clips across the Red Squa: biting into bodies, driving the snow before it. Here on November 7 a mil ee workers marched, a million red, a million > Repub- | lic gave living testimony that the evelution that thirteen wept czarism out of tt still sweeps re! ng new stronghol¢ s In the center of the & the shadow of the Krei stands the new Lenin Here the dead form of Vladit itch, shut out of s can once again be se India the agor yoked to build dead wife of taj Mahal, marble pyromi a fi is an oblong struct are pillars. thing more. impressive. ou! We are waiting in line to see the . ‘have begun to think of heaven in groaned with misery and fell into a/dead body of Lenin. s nd I, worke: an Ameri- here | workers, comrad can, Here are fac Over all the world his burnt into the conscious lions of toilers, the deat of the workingclass stru; His hands lie in front of right hand clenched, his left open. His face is waxen. No, he doesn't look asleep. Don't believe those fairy tales. Vladimir Ilyitch is dead. We file past his body, pass into the street and see and know and feel in a thou- sand ways that— lig Lenin lives! Lenin lives everywhere. | where in the Soviet Union the work for which he eagerly labored and growing. Tractorstroy. “We came here January 15, 1930, says Mishkov, the director of opera- tons at Tractorstroy, the new huge | ik tractor factory being built near Char- kov, Ukraine. Mishkov is a former metal worker who fought in the Rev-| ution and the civil wars. Now he| simi the biggest battle of his} wea we saw when we snow and a little railway station, came was) ” he MEMORIAL were staited. The s built in 74 900 bi shed by Ja we will get ow any and the United on machinery of viet manufacture, made in Lenin- The entire plant will cost 120,000,- It will produce 50,000 means more —and will 1 ozk We expec e it finished by July 1, 192 1 the roof of ca2 of the build- s we i around us. The 1 th the ringing of hai e whirr of machinery. Women were working side by side| with men. This mammoth under- ng was veritably leaping into life | id all in a little over a year. But Tractorstroy will be much more than a huge factory. Workers’ apart- nts are going up, each apartment building with its own kitchens, oa dries, nurseries, and libraries. polyclinical hospital, a movie sae a cooperative restaurant that can feed 00 a day—all will be part of | | Around this tractor up which will eventually have a pop- tation of about 120,000. Part of the Five-Year Plan? “N,o” Misakov with a smile. “The s call this the ‘bastard fac- because it was not born within F Year Plan. Tractor- is an additional enterpri mething the Soyiet workers under- | ok to do because they are deter- ined to collectivize the land much| yuicker than specified by the original} Five-Year Plan, and because they} want to give the imperialists—another | | sick in the pants!” New Books for By William Z. Ree ota In the production of its “Labor and Industry” series of books, published by the International Publishing Co., of New York, the Labor Research As- sociation is doing a good and neces- sary piece of work. The books already cover the textile, coal, lumber, silk, and automobile in- |dustries. Others are to follow deal- ing with steél, transportation, etc. The books are a mine of informa- tion on the origin and development of the respective industries, the wages, Work kers to Read unions. Of course, in such a mass of mater- ial there are numerous errors and shortcomings. But these are offset by the informative value of the books. | Such detailed studies of the respective | industries have long been needed. One good feature of the books, which must be noted is their reas- onable price—$1.00 per volume. This |brings them within the reach of the | workers. The “Labor and Industry” series | can be profitably read by every wo nsport of machinery which | 40,000,000 rubles. Half of will be e d on ma- y of foreign m acture, im-| chance to learn of the open partner- hours, and working conditions of the ship between the bosses and the | Workers, the employers organizations, Amalgamated Union through the) the progress of rationalization, and | loans made by the Amalgamated |Bank to thse bosses, and the workers being forced to pay 7 per cent and as high as 10 per cent of their wages on these loans, the company union there- by sharing in the exploitation of these workers. The efficiency experts sent in by the company union in an open and brazen manner installed various schemes to speed up the workers and to squeeze more profits out of them. But of this Louis Kirshbaum sees nothing and hears nothing. He sees no one to appeal to but the liberals and professors, which ac- cording to him, make up public opin- jon. These very liberals and profes- sors are the henchmen of the Hill- man machine. They write for the papers issued by the Hillman com- pany union. They serve as “impar- tial chairmen,” they write poisonous articles in the press of the company union. To these people Kirshbaum makes his appeal. He completely fails to see the revolting masses, the tens of thousands of unemployed throughout the country who are thrown out as a result of the betray- als of the company union. The tailors must set up a united front with the {members of the N. T. W. I. U. in the ‘shops for their immediate dema and must join and build the N, T. |W. I. U., which will lead them in | struggles for better conditions, 1931 CALENDAR FREE! Historical data on biz events of the class struggle in the first an- nual Daily Worker Calendar. Free with six months sub or renewal. | the profits of the bosses. A central feature of these books is the trade union struggles of the work- ers. Here most useful and valuable material is at hand. The books con- W. W. in the lumber, textile, and other industries, and the growth of | the T. U. U. L. minorities and the present T. U. U. ly revolutionary LENIN? WHO I8 THAT GUX?, tain an ample record of the A. F. of | L. unions, the reactionary policies of | their leaders, the struggles of the I. | er. They should receive a wide dis- ribution. Lenin Pageant The pageant to be give t Lenin Memorial Meeting ¢ colorful and gigantic All the available forces in movement have been itiz this production : portrays develop» inist party and ¢ 1903 split to, and ir i Five-Year Plan. By BURCK THE WOMEN DRIVER Jos- t in 1026 She! was 18 years old and had been born | n Chuhloma. In the village she had) erded the cows; in Moscow she be- ame a servant girl At first, she was a source of con-| |stant surprise to all. The friends of | her mistress used to come with the special purpose of finding out if Na- tasha had pulled off another new jteat It took a long time to teach | her how to use the telephone; she used to hold the receiver upside down; whenever the radio broad- casted reports on the treatment of cattle she used to enter into a heated ont with the invisible speaker, ed him for his ignorance. not able to count mon Ss utterly earnest in her as- rticn that Chuhloma was bigger than Moscow. | The servant girts delegate in the |house where Natasha lived made her take up reading and writing; and jintroduced her to the trade union. | After a year Natasha went to |Work in a mirror factory. She had steed to read and’ to write, and jin the evenings, loved to study the | journal “Delegatka.” | After two years I met her at the |demonstration on May First. A long | line of motor trucks was crawling by. | Every-| factory a a new socialist city will grow|The trucks were full of noisy chil- | | dren. Natasha was sitting side by \side with the driver of the foremost car. When she saw me she jumped off. .She told me that she had mar- vied but had already parted with her ‘husbend as he would not allow her | |to take up studies in the automobile courses, | “Have I been born to wash the lines for men?” she cried angrily. “To | hell with them.” In a year she will have graduated jand will be an expert car-driver. “Tll work as a tractor-driver in} the timber lots at home,” she said! when she took leave. “Won't they be surprised when I come home. The engineer has arrived, they'll sa‘ eal the whole tribe I am the firs knows how to read and w |knows a trade. Father will joy, and grand-dad will cot a bull. Won't I have a them! Geel” | ° i TF amin Who Fo This ian sug- ng poem in com- seventh anniver- j Who is ¢ | Me is not big, ‘nd a pair of eyes, Just as human As you orl. But he led The workers To shake the world And break the sky hile ae Now the czarists, ‘The capitalists jone closes it with an oath. And be~ And all the beasts, They mourn, They cry, “Oh me! Oh w7! Lenin, ‘wd ell Retse the hammers up Fir’ Kee Shornen the sickles, You ond I, Chop! . Comr=des, Come! Defy! Show the Cossaks “Lenin, who is that guy?”! . 8 ‘We see The Red Flag fly. We see ‘The Ret Tide high-- Oh, Ten'n, He will never die? “My Country Tis of Thee” By W. RB. Unemployed millions ... Questing along the highways For a job Or a meal Ora jail... Eddying thru Manhattan’s can- yons Lashed by hunger And Tammany’s police .. . Looking into the cold hearth Of a dead furnace At Pittsburgh ... Gazing wistfully at the idle tipple Of a Rockefeller mine... Surging against the gates Of Henry’s empire Of machine-bui!ding machines Until from club and hose they learn That Henry tsn’t in the market For wage-slaves Today. Hoover reporting to the ‘59’ And their lieutenants that “The standard of living is 0. K.” While Calvin pratties A nitwit thought a day. The medicine men— From the agents Of the big gut at Rome, fo the purveyors Of gutter Chri With a nity ecute the verdic Fish Fishing for an alibi For social insanity. To the A.F. of L. (a bad risk). Bolsheviks . . . Treading class struggles . . . Being jailed, deported, lynched... Preparing to execute the the ver- dict of history On a bankrupt system. By MYRA PAGE Wee are the bulk of the working masses in this country reading? Get into any street car or subway train in the industrial centers, or go into working class homes in the Mid- dle West, in New England or South- ern textile areas, or where sailors hang out, and besides the local cap- italist sheet, you'll find—one or more copies of “Liberty,” “Colliers,” “Sat- urday Evening Post,” “True Story, “Argosy,” or others of these flouri: ing weeds of 5 and 10 cent magazine: Often one ot the sentimental, reac- tionary women’s magazines is also at hand. Where the Daily Worker and lan- guage press is able to reach, optim- istically speaking, perhaps 200,000 readers, these dope-peddlers have a combined circulation of well over fif- teen million. True, not all of these are from the industrial and ‘farm- ing clases—the white collar and stu- dent groups take their share—but the bulk of them are workers. “Liberty” has a paid circulation of over two and a onlay matiten each m iilion, and there are a 1 host o others. Pick up a copy of any one of these magazines at the newsstand, and examine the type of propaganda which is being fed the masses, under the guise of “love,” or “adventure,” America is the} great land of opportunity, where any | or “true” stories. ON OUR WAY! By QUIRT DIGGING FOR GOLD Parade,” by Harcourt, Brace 50. “Cl Chaplin's Michael Gold. and Company, By SI GERSON, When a big capitalist publishing s a book written by a $. 1, allegedly working class | ail honest workers can be jus- fe ecoming suspicious. “Char- nlin’s Parade” vindicates your ns. t One opens the gorgeously easbinua | et of this book with a question; | tween the opening question and the concluding oath one sandwiches in a lot of groans. ‘The book itself is a very poor mod- ern “Alice In onderland.” A little boy, Joe Adams, falls asleep and dreams that Charlie Chaplin comes to him. They both organize a par- ade, going like respectable, law- abiding citizens to the Mayor to ask for a permit. They have a gorgeous parade and many adventures, Finally | Joe wakes up to find that it’s all been a dream. Otto Soglow illustrates the dream in his own inimitable fashion. But when bread lines stretch them- selves for blocks, when wage cuts, lay- offs, speed-up are the order of the day; when the colonial countries are in the midst of revolutionary strug- gles; when barricades rise up in Spain—when all this {s’so, how can a so-called revolutionary writer sit down to spin a yarn for children, not only devoid of proletarian class con- tent but actually full of stupid (not even subtle) master class propaganda. Poor Mayor. Listen to this (page 41): “It’s parades that make all the work,” the Mayor blubbered, waving his hand towards the thousand stenographers. “If it weren't for ing class children will undoubtedly recognize this likeness. Some Questions To Mike Gold. Such stuff is impermissible for a supposedly proletarian writer. We therefore take the liberty of Mike a couple of questions: At a period of sharpening class! struggles when the working class is striving to organize all its forces for the battles, why do you spend time! on @ book like this? Why, when the Young Pioneers of America are try- ing their hardest to organize a work- ing class children’s movement in this country and need }iterature so badly, did you not write a book for workers’ children? That is what many work- ers want to know, Mike? What's the answer? (Reprinted from the Young Worker) A Good Reply ON. while Lenin was in prison for his revolutionary activities, his mother came to pay him a visit. She was accosted by one of the czar’s prison officials, who re- marked sarcastically. “You must be proud of your sons! One already hung” (he re- ferred to Lenin’s older brother whom the czar had previously put to death), and another (here he referred to Lenin) with the noose already about his neck!” Lenin's mother looked the offi- cial in the eye, and replied quietly, “Yes, I am proud of my sons.” parades we could all be having a good time. But everyone keeps wanting a parade, and parades take up so much time, and so much space in the streets, and we have to climb down so many stairs for every parade, and—and—” “The mayor was crying loudly again, even much worse than Joe Adams had cried when he wanted a parade... .” Isn’t this a beautiful picture of a Mayor in a capitalist country? Isn’t this a beautiful, exact description of our butterfly Jimmy alker, who with a wave of his hand sent scores of thugs on the worker, Sem Nessin, the leader of the unemployed dem- onstration at City Hall? All work Dope i qe the . Workers “the| sking | talented wage-earner or farm hand has the chance to “rise” to a position of factory owner or president of the United States,—provided the virtues of thrift, hard work, and “square deal” with his employers are prac- ticed, and all the sacred institutions of law and order, especially that of private property, are dully honored. America is the land of democracy, where peace and harmony of interests reigns between the classes, and strikes | a thing of the past except where |. few wild-eyed reds get loose and | (ir up trouble before they can be cked up and put sarely out of the’ way. And all the rest of it. During and since the world war and the Russian Revolution the reds have come in for an increasing smount of spleen, both in editorial ond fiction form, In addition to this he magazines are being more and nore used by the capitalists to whip np sentiment for military prepared- ness and war--wars of aggression vainst the colonial peoples, war against imperialist rivals, and war against those terrible Bolsheviks. The Jar The Elephant ‘Sahi ib”; and the : Phils | ippines, “The Flaming Horror.” There |is also a series running, which is die rected against the revolutionary movement and. the danger of Civil | War—‘When Death Went Blind; A Red War in a Black Pall of Smoke.” In the current issue of “Liberty,” | which treated its readers not so long |ngo to a vicious serial, “The Red Napoleon,” there appears a jingoistic editorial, jazzing it up for aggressive wars—wars against the colonials, and to “save civilization.” According to the business interests, the main dan- cer to their “civilization” comes from one main source—Moscow. The editorial appears appropriately § under the famous, father infamous, quotation, “Our Country! In her in- tercourse with foreign nations, may she always be right; but our country, ight or wrong!” The editorial is en- titled, “The Rough Road.” Under such a head, the reader might be lead to expect some reference to the present crisis, and the ten million unemployed? But not at all. The rough road is that of “the white man’s burden,” in “civilizing” the “packward peoples.” Scouting the idea that the United States (capital- ists) would not engage in aggressive wars, it takes openly the position that “we” have achieved our present dizzy heights—or depths—by ruth- lessly using “force and chicane” against the Indians and taking their Jand then; “Our war with Mexico vetted us about 700,000 square miles of new territory”; and so on through the whole list which “Liberty” des clares were all aggressive wars, with the exception of 1812, and which ha’ j all justified themselves, by advan “our civilization.” Back of the editorial “ we” used above stand the same financial tne terests that publish the Chicage | Tribune—the International Harvester | Trust, and banking, steel, packing, and other manufacturing interests of the | Middle West. British imperialism’s “offensive | war" against India, the editorial fully | approves. In fact, “the only bad wars are the wars between equal states }of civilization.” For example, it |would be regrettable if capitalist “we” had to undertake a war against \our imperialist rival, Great Britain. Ent, in that event, no doubt England ‘would have fallen to the role of “a weaker people,” and became one whom it is our duty to “civilize”? To the readers of the Daily Worker, this editorial in “Liberty” stands self~ ‘exposed. It ts imperialism openly |baring its claws. And this “Rough Road” editorial traveled into more than two and a quarter million homes, the majority of them working | class, during the past week. How many. toilers’ homes has our revolutionary press reached in this past week? What can class-conscious workers do to help to counteract such capitalist, propaganda as “Liberty” and “Argosy” and the whole tribe are broadcasting? The most telling counter-active is winning new reade ers for the Daily, and other organs § of our revolutionary press. Fight fire with fire! Another important method is to expose these dopesters before the working class. We would like to hear from our readers on this subject. What do the workers in your shop and neighborhood read, and how does the reading affect their ideas? Also, send in any material you have in exposing the dope in these anti- working-class magazines. t @