The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 14, 1931, Page 3

VAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY SEP’ TEMBER 14, 1931 vage inree ELECTRO-MOTOR PLANT COMPLETES FIVE YEAR PLAN IN TWO YEARS Grows from Shop Employing Seven Workers to Huge Plant Employing Three Thousand New Homes, Libraries, Playgrounds, Schools, Dramatic Clubs Built As Part of Plan Moscow, U.S. S. R. Dear Comrades: As a worker who spent 25 years of my life in the fac- tories and shops of America, [ want to share with you through the “Daily Worker” my impressions gained in a few months in the Soviet Union. I was invited to a celebration of a large electro-motor fac- | tory called “Lepse” (named after a well-known leader), one of the important factories in Moscow. The celebration was held | in their own commune—the home of the workers in the fac- ry. At this time I will not discourse on the delightfully situ- ated workers’ honie, which stands in@—-——. ® veritable park—their spacious con- tent and meeting hall—their dining hall—the library and _ reading room, the playground for the children—their tennis and _ foot- ball grounds. Nor have we time to dwell on the workers’ dramatic ‘and music clubs, their dancing per- formances. Suffice to say that the achievements based on the workers’ own talent was nothing if not ex- traordinary. 4-Day Week—7-Hour Day. The chairman of the evening, a young apprentice metal worker, in his introduction explained the his- tory of the factory. Five years ago (1926) it was a small shop, with only seven workers. Today about 8,000 are working in the plant and are completing a new section of the plant that will absorb another thou- sand workers. Starting with a six- day week and the eight-hour day these workers have reduced the work- ing week to four days, followed by one rest day. The working day con- sists of seven hours with a ten-min- ute rest period in both the afternoon and the morning and a forty-minute lunch period. Each worker receives from two to three weeks’ vacation every year in their rest home. ‘The workers share the responsibil- ity of the management of the fac- tory. They have & school and courses in the factory to prepare from their own ranks qualified workers and engineers for theirown plants. Such remarkable progress has’ been made that the workers of “Lepse” have been able to complete their share of the Five-Year Plan in two years and seven months. Another’ speaker, a shock trooper, informed the workers that only 9812 per cent of the month’s quota had been achieved and urged them to speed up and, if possible, double their output. Proletarian Art. The third speakers’ topic was proletarian art, music and literature. The proletarian art expresses the life of the working masses, beautifying and developing their cultural level to jahigher plane. The art and musi¢ of the capitalist states does nothing to assist the struggles of the work- ers—that is, the bourgeois artists may be more or less correct in their diagnosis of the social order, but they offer no cure. The speaker stated that the Soviet State, an “un- civilized” country, is doing its ut- most to reduce the percentage of il- literacy, whereas in the capitalist “civilized” states, in the Southern part of the United States, for in- stance, illiteracy runs into heavy fig- ures. The last speaker was a young working girl. She spoke of the role of the women in building the Social- ist state. You find the women in the industry as both skilled and un- | skilled workers and engineers, receiv- ing the same pay as the men for the same kind of work and occupy- ing high positions in every phase of life. Refreshments and songs of workers’ children ended the celebra- tion. Comradely yours. I. Likow. ' Hartford Jobless Duped With Fake Ad (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW HAVEN, Conn, — In the “Register” September 6 there ap- peared the following advertisement: “Factory office is now hiring men. Bookkeepers, clerks mechan- ics, and factory workers considered. Also several neat appearing men who own cars and can furnish A-1 references. Apply 9.30 sharp Tues- day only. Interviews will not be granted at any other time, 87 Orange St, Room 202.” I arrived on time. The room was big square room with many seats in it. An agent entered the room and locked the door and I realized that we were prisoners for the time being. The agent then counted 38 men. “well,” he began, “I suppose you are all looking for employment.” He then talked on evolution and unemployment. “You fellows are not of any more I was wondering what was coming next. He produced a piece of chalk and a blackboard. “How many men have earned $40 a week during the last six months?” he asked. Four men replied and he put that down on the blaekboard. Six said that they earned $30 and a few claimed that they earned from $20 to $25. He then did a problem on the board which showed that we averaged $7 a piece. The faker then turned to the crowd and said: ‘You men ought to be ashamed of yourselves. If there is a man here who will not take up salesmanship let him get right out of this room.” He unlocked the door and all left the room but four. Once in the hall the crowd of unemployed gave him the razz. The agent had a large supply of old junk, novelties, that nobody wanted to buy even if they had the money to pay for it. Such fakers would be use. You might as well give up. You! will never be wanted again.” out of luck in the Soviet Union. ‘AFL Expels Unemployed Baker for Exposing Fakers was sick and was operated on. He | (By a Worker Correspondent) has a wife and four children and NEW YORK, N. Y.,—Meyer Sturm, ‘an unemployed worker, twenty-three *years a member of local 505 of the International Bakers Union; was ex- pelled last week from the union by the A. F. of L. fakers for exposing the unions corrupt officiais at an open air meeting at 7th Street and Avenue B where A. Baron, the union’s publicity agent, was talking on the “great achievements of the union.” Sturm had been unemployed for ‘wer a year. During that time he owing to the fact that he was unable to pay dues, the union officials would give his no work. At the meeting on Seventh Street, where ‘Baron the faker was telling the workers of the “great benefits” of the International, Sturm, unable to tolerate the lies of the faker, shouted, “It’s a bluff!” He thereby explairied the facts to the crowd. One of the grafters phoned to the officials and for this crime he was pronounced out of membership. | Turn AFL Picnic Into Commun: Tampa, Fla, Daily Worker: The A. F. of L. sponsored a picnic at one of our parks and collected a big crowd. One of our leading or- ganizers climbed on a platform and spoke to the people. This was like @ spark to powder. The people crowded to hear him and applauded efter every pause. Pi This comrade that spoke sold one hundred Labor Defenders at the same gathering, he was selling t Rally “Daily Workers” when he was ac- costed by a policeman and asked what he was selling, He said “Daily Workers,” The cop said, “Get out of the grounds immediately with that junk.” The comrade responded, “This is not junk this is a workers’ paper and you have no authority to throw me out,” after which the cop kept quiet. 5 After the meeting the audience sang the Internationale and other Communist songs—V. R. Jamestown Laundry Workers Get Two Wage L § Jamestown, N. Y. Daily Worker: The Pearl City Laundry of this city formerly paid the workers by the week regardless of the time they put in, Now they have a new way to exploit workers. They asked the workers if they would rather have a time clock installed or a dollar deducted from their pay. The work- ers thought that it would be better to take the dollar cut and they got 4t. The following week the’ clock Jmas jnstalled also. the workers thus Cuts in Two Weeks getting their wages cut both ways. The cost of the laundry, however, is the same as it always was. A Worker. Editorial Note—This shows what the bosses can do when the work- ers are not organized, Workers in the Pearl Laundry, get busy. Organize a committee in the shop representing every department. Demand the return of the original wage scale. Get in touch with the Laundry Workers League, 36 W. |Omaha, Neb. Workers, | Rally to TUUL, Party) |On Labor Day Meeting OMAHA, Neb, — The Communist | Party for the first time in three years held a real successful meeting | on “Labor” Day in this city. A meet- | ing at 7 o'clock was called for in the Park at 16th and Chicago Street. About 300 workers attended the) meeting at which George Staulker of Sioux City spoke exposing the Am- lerican Federation of Labor and its | | cfficials, Aiter the meeting in the Paik. a niteting was called for in| the hall at the 1116 Chicago Street, where Comrade Staulker again delivered a talk on |the program of the Communist Par- | ty. Comrade George J. Papcun, sec- | tion organizer of the Communist |Party, for Iowa and Nebraska, acted | |as Chairman for the meeting. After | the talk there was entertainment | with a dance. This is one of the most enthusiastic meetings that the Party | has held and the first one that was | a real success in three years. AYR. OLD ROY WRIGHT SENDS LETTER 10 LLD: | (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) guilty of such hideous crime. Oh, to say spiritually and only physic- ally living to my prison inmates. You know that really is hard for me, Mr. Maurer. I hope I'll get out of here soon with the help of you all and my prayers. You know I pray every night of my life. Maybe he knows that I know nothing of that crime. I mean the good mas- ter above. May God have merck on such people as those to accuse me of such. I am not guilty, whether anybody believes it or not. I wouldn’t even attempt to do such, even if I had ever thought of such a thing in my whole life. So you know that almost runs me crazy in here. You know I am idle in here and I think the whole thing over and over. To think there is people so unjust that they put things on people they don’t know anything about. Well, nevertheless the good lord don’t like ugly things so Yl trust in him for those that try to punish me for a deed I didn’t commit, I forgot to tell you that I got a@ letter from Mama. She’s Ok. Well I guess I'll close for this time. I hope I get out of here this month so T’ll close. from yours as ever Poor little Roy Wright. This letter from 14-year old Roy Wright tells its own story more powerfully than anything else could do. This innocent child suddenly snatched up by the white terror of the south, has suddenly snatched up by the white terror of the south, has no idea what it is all about and is almost losing his reason turning it over in his child’s mind without finding any solution or explanation for his suffering. He does not un- derstand that thousands of Negroes have suffered as he is suffering now. He does not understand that he is suffering not because of any crime but because of the attempt of the white ruling class to continue his people in oppression. Little Roy has been taught like most workers in the capitalist and colonial countries that there is a god that watches over the rich and poor alike. So Roy waits and prays for that god to perform the miracle that will cause the jail doors to swing open to permit him to go home to his mother, But he sees that this god of the white bosses allows him to suffer although he is innocent. He does not understand that this god is just one of the many illusions with which the ruling class fills the minds of workers, He does not un- derstand that he will only be freed as the working-class rallies to his defense; as the fear of the working- class is thrown into the hearts of the murderous southern boss lynchers and as the masses sweep aside the white and Negro reformists at the head of the N. A. A. C. P. who are co-operating with the white bosses in attacking the mass defense move- ment which alone can free little Roy and the other eight children in the clutches of the southern master class, If this child, Roy, could under- stand something something of the gigantic movement for the unity of Negro and white workers which had arisen as the result of the at- tempts of the bosses to murder him, he would not feel so lonely and sad. If he could understand the class forces lined up in the fight against and for him, he would have the answer to all of his questions. On one hand he would see the southern bosses, backed by the United States Government, backed by capitalists all over the United States and throughout the world, trying to mur- der him, and on the other hand, opposing these forces and their mur- derous oppression of his people, little Roy would see the mighty millions of the international proletariat, rallying to his defense under the leadership of the Communist Parties in every country of the world. He would see in the Soviet Union, a mighty people standing as one in his defense. He would see white and Negro workers uniting on every hand, with millions of Chinese, In- dian and other Asiatic workers, for the fight to free himself and the eight other child victims of mur- derous capitalism, Workers! On with the fight to to think I have got to suffer so as | Sharpen Attack On British | Workers On Local Scale Mass Terror in India Grows ® The attack on the living standards of the British working class by the National government under the lead- ership of McDonald, the “Socialist,” and under orders from the British capitalist class is revealed by the latest news from England as only part of the immediate general at- tack. The attack thus far made in the recent weeks has been on a na- tional scale. This will be sharpened tremendously by the attack of the local authorities. The New York Times reported from London Satur- day that the “local-authorities thru- out the country are nerving them- selves to equally urgent and unpleas- ant economies.” These “economies” are going to be a vicious slashing of the appropria- tions that have been used for hous- ing, new schools, poor relief, mater- nity and health centers, and parks. The Times reports that the local au- thorities “have been awaiting the na- tional budget before making their own decisions.” The national bud- get has been made public, the budget of hunger and starvation. The local authorities will follow the lead of the national government. Starvation and hunger will be line of the budgets of the local authorities. Both MacDonald and the capital- ist press have exposed the “struggle” of Henderson against the national | government program as nothing but | hypocritical lying in order to main- tain an “opposition” to the present capitalist government. MacDonald pointed out in the House of Com- mons Saturday that of the $350,000,- 000 of cuts that the government had Proposed the Labor members of the former government and now mem- bers of the “opposition” had agreed ‘Henderson Shown By | Boss Press As Worst! Traitor to Workers | openly to cuts of $280,000,000. The | opposition is ready to go thru with all the cuts included in the attack | on the workers that the government | is ready to make. This is clearly stated in the fol- lowing item from the Times: “Snowden’'s patriotic exordium sums up more strikingly than any other utterance during the last few weeks in Great Britain the feeling | of mingled fear and devotion that underlies the present political situ- ation in that country. And from | this sentiment there is very good reason for believing the Labor Par- ty under the new leadership of Ar- thur Henderson is really in no such violent dissent as the superficial events might indicate.” The same report of the Times points out in startling clarity the real significance of the “opposition” of Henderson. The “opposition” of Henderson is designed to mislead the workers now as to the role of the Labor Party so that in the future, when the crisis becomes sharper, the Labor Party can be used as a final resort to drive the workers into the hunger slavery of the British capit- alist class. The Times states this | straight out as follows: “At the present moment, there- fore, it would seem that the break between the Labor Party and its matter of strategy. It has mobil- ized against future dangers rather than against an actual assault. Mr. Henderson, speaking for the erst- veteran leaders came partly on a | should be brought within the con. while followers of Ramsay Mac- Donald, may yet find it expedient and proper to assert that he does not yield to Mr, Snowden in his love for Britain and in his desire to preserve his country as a going concern and as an agency for building socialism. It is by identi- fying the interests of socialism with the interests of the German people that the German Socialists have found it practicable to accept sa- erifices as heavy as those against which British Labor is now pro- testing—formally.” The correspondent of the Times | understands that the policy of Mac- | | Donald and of Henderson is the same | traitor policy that has been pursued by the Socialists in Germany. Mis- | | Congress has chosen as a means of Gandhi Clowns in London as The clowning misleader of the sisted by members of the Frontier Indian revolution, Mahatma Gandhi | Constabulary, collected all “Red arrived in London on Saturday with | Shirt” volunteers who had not paid Join cloth, goat's milk and some/| their land revenue and shut six of sacred Indian mud. He is to take| them in a room full of hornets, part in the congress at which rep-| which were stimulated to anger resentatives of British capital and | by means of smoke.” After the men the Indian landowners will work out | were released, they were told to sell plans to stifle the Indian revolution. | their wives in order to pay their Gandhi stated that he came in the | t@xes. The same document mentions interests of the “dumb and semi-| Other means used to torture the starved millions” of India. “The peasants of India. The Indian police forces are being enlarged, For months Gandhi has been co- operating with the tax-collectors and he insists that all rents be paid. He makes these charges now in attaining this truth and and non- violence.” While he was spouting these beau- tiful phrases, the terror in India| was advancing. Gandhi himself re- | leaders, traitors, whose task for the | cently stated that “women have been | capitalist class is to make possible | maltreated and men tortured by the | the saving of the capitalist system | agents of the landlords in the course order to regain his influence over the peasants which had declined greatly since he stopped the non- payment of Tax-Campaign. Gandhi thru the starvation of the millions of the working masses. Like the Ger- man Socialists, the MacDonalds and | Hendersons will not stop at mislead- ership in their attack on the work- | ers. Like the German Social-fascists they are ready to crush the growing revolt of the British masses in blood. The same attack on MacDonald was carried on by the reactionary Citrine at the Trades Union Con- gress Saturday. He continued all of the hypocritical “attacks” that the Laborites have used in Parliament. | The real nature of the Congress came out in a resolution carried by @ substantial margin which provided that “the iron and steel industrie trol of a public utilities corporation.” | This is the policy of the Trades Un- ion leaders for speed up under gov- ernment supervision. | DETROIT, Sept. 13. — While the | Federal Government and the local | Murphy regime try to cover up the miserable conditions of the unem- ployed workers and their families in this country, the toll of suicides con- tinues to mount among the jobless workers, Last evening the body of Walter Kobyliniska, 45, was found hanging from a rafter in a barn at the rear of his home at 5562 Dubois avenue. His wife, who discovered the body, said that despondency over his in- ability to find work and the bosses denial of relief prompted his suicide. The case“ was reported in the boss | press in a two inch article buried on an inside page. eee RICHMOND, Calif—Charles Me- lenich, 29-year old unemployed worker took his life yesterday morn- ing by breathing poisonous carbon- moncxide gas. Mrs. Wilhelmina Melenich, 167 Sev- enteenth Street, who told the police her son had been out of work for two years. Cee oe | NEW BRITAIN, Conn., — Issac Abraham, 22-year old jobless worker, of 54 Talcott Street, attempted sui- cide by turning on the gas in the kitchen of his home. Ybraham’s small brother smelled gas and called his father. Abraham vived with a pulmotor and sent tc the New Britain General Hospital. He will be released in a few days to start all over again the hopeless hunt for work while the bosses deny him any relief. Suicide is not the way out. Abraham and the millions of other unemployed workers froced to exist in misery and starvation Malenich lived with his mother, | was found unconscious. He was re- | Capitalist Class Responsible For Every Jobless Suicide must join in the fight for unem- ployed relief and against the cap- italist starvation of the workers. Se * Ruined Farmer A Suicide ALTA, Iowa.—Berts Wyoune, 51 | years of age, living about 8 miles south of Alta, committed suicide by hanging in the barn at his place. He is survived by his widow and two children. The reasons for com- | worries such as mortgages, | failures, etc. oie oo CHICAGO, Sept. 13.—George A. Heldt, 45, of 3926 N. Irving Avenue, committed suicide by turning on the gas and slashing his throat with a | Yazor blade. Heldt had been unem- | ployed and suffering from starvation | and deprivation. The boss paper, | Chicago American, disposed of his | case with @ one inch article on an inside page, which attempted to cover up the fact that the worker had been unemployed by saying that he was “in financial dif- diculties.” crop | Another unemployed worker, Irv- ,ing Carrivoau, the father of 18- months-old twins, was sentenced a few days ago to 15 years in Jackson State Prison for attempting to steal funds with which to feed his starv- | ing wife and babies. | Mrs. Carriveau left the court in | tears after Recorder’s Judge John V. Brennan handed out | sentence to her husband. “I don’t know how my wife and two little babies will live now with me in prison,” Carriveau said with | an effort to control the tears which | filled his eyes. “I couldn't get a job | for the last year and took to holdups | as a way out. But I should have known better.” mitting suicide were due to financial | this brutal | kept. | |Trade Union’ Unity League of Sioux | | workers joined the Trade Union Un- RAILROADS PREPARE TO CUT WAGES {CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED the threat of the capitalist class to cut the wages of all employed work- ers to the starvation level. “Railway Age” admits this plan for a general attack as follows: “The question of reducing wages in these industries is constantly be- ing given more consideration and discussion. The starting of a move- ment by the railways for reductions unquestionably would be quickly followed by the starting of move- ments for reductions in other im- portant industries.” This plan for a general attack by the capitalist class was also brutally stated by Creighton J. Hill of the Babson Institute on Saturday. capitalist statistician points not only to the wholesale: wage slashes but also to the growing resistance of the workers to the sharpened exploita- tion by the capitalist class, Hill said that: “In brief, the outstanding factors to watch in the Imbor outlook are: The increasing spread of wage re- ductions throughout general indus- | try; growing unrest of labor with a probable upturn in strikes during the latter half of 1931 and extend- Raise a new demand for the im- mediate unconditional release of the nine innocent Scottsboro children! Smash the boss terror against the working-class! Demand the release of Tom Mooney and all class war prisoners! Stop the deportation of August Yokinen, now held on Ellis Island, because of his defense of the _ Huron Sty Buffalo, Ne Ys ae. Smash the Scotighoro Frame-up! | Negro masses! This. OF 1,500,000 RAILROAD WORKERS ing into 1932.” Hill uses the past experience of the present crisis as an indication of what the working class can expect in the coming months. He exposes in the following that the Hoover “stand against wage-cuts” was nothing but a hypocritical lie to the working class while the capitalist class continued to increase the number of wage-cuts every month. “Since the first of June we have recorded a total of 937 wage-cuts | spread across fifty-two industries in the United States and Canada.” Despite President Hoover’s stand against wage reductions, these cuts have been increasing in num- ber each month.” ‘The program of the capitalist class is to spread these slashes again and again to every worker in the next several months, The official organ of the railroads states it in unmis- takeable terms and Hill, a spokes- man for Wall Street, adds clearly that the attack is not going to be confined to the railway workers, but is to spread to every worker in the country if the capitalist class can do it. Against this attack the workers of the United States must build their defenses. Prepare to fight against wage-cuts. Organize to strike against wage-cuts, Prevent the bosses from throwing this additional burden on | the working masses in their attempts to save their profits in the present crisis. Join the revolutionary unions and leagues of the Trade Union Unity Unity League. Organize to strike against the nation-wide war of the abosses against the workers, ) Trade Union Unity League Meet Held | In Council Bluffs) COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia.—Tuesday the 8th, a mass me¢ting was held by the Unemployed Council in an an- swer to the attack of the American Federation of Labor on the Trade Union Unity League. Over 500 work- ers responded to the meeting of the Trade Union Unity League at Beylis Park at 8 o'clock where Comrade George Staulker, the leader of the City, Towa, spoke, exposing the Am- | erican Federation of Labor and its | leadership. He was very enthusiastic- | ally received by the workers. He also dealt with the Iowa Hunger Margqh which is to take place this fall. Many ity League Local Unions. | Force Relief For | Children; Miners and Wives Starving | (CONTINUED O¥ PAGE THREE) —_—_—_—_——_ | ehed, board members came to the| Cedar Grove barracks and told Dan | Lane, section organizer of the Na- | tional Miners Union, that food would | be served in school, that milk would | be given to all children on the list | the committee is now compiling, and, | “although there is no money in the board treasury” they promised to do their “best” to provide shoes and | clothing, The women’s committee | intends to see that this promise is Meetings are now being held all through Washington County to prepare for a demonstration before | the county commissioners to demand | shoes and clothing for all children who need it. Similarly, a meeting of the Wo- men’s Auxiliary branch in Spring- dale, Allegheny County, will rally all the parents of that town today and next Wednesday New Kensington parents will meet to make plans to feed them and dress their children that they will be able to go to school. The truant officer of Moffatt Sterling, a coal mining community of Pittsburgh is going around telling the children that they can quit school at the age of 14. The school | law requiring all children to go to| school till they are sixteen is all bunk, the truant officer tells the kids. It’s perfectly all right for them to go out and take their father’s jobs when they are fourteen, these servants of steel and coal bosses say. Under pressure of starvation | wages and rotten working conditions for their fathers many of the boys are quitting school early and trying to get work to help feed the family. This truant officer is encouraging the boys to quit before the legal age and go to work. Jobs around here, however, are just as scarce as every- where else, FRANCE SENDS 300 TO LIVING DEATH Another cargo of human freight was shipp ed by French imperialism to the notorious penal colony, Devils Island. Closely guarded by soldiers the 300 prisoners were marched from the prison at St. Martin De Re Rance aboard the steamer La Martiniere where they were locked below deck in iron cages like so many animals. The ship is equipped with pipes carry- ing live steam which {s turned on the prisoners if they show any signs of | resistance to the fiendish brutality of French capitalist class “justice.” | Workers Correspondence fs the backbone of the revolutionary press. Build sour press by writing for it aboul your day-to-day struggle. | the Daily’s benefit. of the collection of rents.” These occurrences are approved and even encouraged by the Govern- ment officials. “In one village no one was allowed to draw water from any well until part of the payments had been made.” “In a village on the North-West Frontier a landlord, as- revealed his London plans in the paper “Young India” when he wrote: | “Even the most reactionary Eng- lishman, however, must not be afraid of my notorious ‘stubborness.’ I can assure him that I go over to England | will purely friendly feelings towards that country.” MASS GROWTH OF DEPENDS ON ONE IN Comrades! It is up to all of us in the army of Daily Worker fighters to pledge financial aid to the Daily Worker Sustaining Fund. Workers everywhere have shown their readi- ness to support the Daily with regu- lar contributions weekly, monthly and yearly. Regular amounts every week have been set aside by many workers to support their fighting or- gan, Especially in these hard times this shows a splendid spirit of sacrifice and loyalty to the Daily Worker, the | organizer of the struggles on every front. Small organizations have pledged donations to the Sustaining | Fund. Daily Worker Clubs ever; where! You can organize a regular sustain- ing list. Workers who might other- wise not contribute funds can readily do so by handing in the donation large or small, to their Daily Worker Club secretary. Sympathizers can be approached to support the Daily Worker with regular. sustaining pledges. Start the ball rolling now, send in a bunch of pledges to the Daily Worker. Hold Affairs for Daily. But, above all, affairs, picnics, entertainments and outings should be held all through September for Even small units can afford to hold an affair. If expenses can be kept at mini- mum, substantial sums can be raised for the Daily. Mimeograph a leaflet today; several hundred copies can be run off for a dollar and a half or less; spread them where they will do the most good; pass the word among your friends and tell them to bring their fam- ilies. There are now over 30 Daily Worker Clubs in existence. Besides discussion of contents of the paper, | all meetings of the Daily Worker Clubs should make preparations for selling the Daily. Unemployed work- ers who are members of the club should be urged to sell the paper and collect subs on the street, factory gates, from house to house. Workers who are employed should be asked to pledge weekly or monthly sums to the Daily Worker Sustain- ing Fund; Daily Worker Clubs should organize affairs and benefits for the Daily, at which time new members should be sought out amongst those at DAILY D. W. CLUBS; EVERY TOWN! Every one of the 2,000 cities in the United States covered by the Daily Worker could maintain a Daily Worker Club. This is not asking too much. If every comrade in these cities would cet together a small group of five or more work- ers and sympathizers of the Daily, elect a secretary and a committee of two or three, hold regular weekly or semi-weekly meetings, with simple entertainment and much | discussion of the Daily, it would be possible in a very short while to number a huge army of workers organized into clubs for the defense and building of the Daily. Let the workers do the talking |The comrades should not lecture them; it is enough to tell them briefly what it’s all about and then let them have the floor for hot dis- cussion as long as they want. While it is still warm, meetings can be held in the open—making sure, of course, | to advertise the meeting all over the |city. All work in the club must be voluntary; don't force the progress of the club, either; let it grow | slowly and naturally as a social get- | together with a lot of fun as well as talk. Later, as the club grows, it jcan change its policy in accordance | with its growth. Make the Daily a Mass Paper. | _ Districts! Sections! _ Units! | Agents! Red Builders! Worker Correspondents! The Daily Worker Club offers a great opportunity of making the Daily a mars paper. Without the support of thousand: | of workers and sympathizers of the | Daily circling 2round a yoluntary organization, criticizing, comment- | ing and exchanging ideas with the ' editorial and business departments of the Daily Worker, the Daily growth must be stunted. The workers themselves want these clubs. They want to know what others think about the paper; they want to talk, read discuss. The Daily | Worker Club will fulfill this need and |more. It is up to the functionaries lin the districts, sections and units to build up these mass voluntary groups. | This can and must be done. Call a meeting of the friends of the Daily jat once. Now. Send reports of | meetings to the Daily Worker Club Department, 60 E. 13th St., New York City. Write for an outline on how who attend. to start a club! Workers, Get Ready a Daily Big Days for the Fifth Annual 4 Big Days Worker MADISON SQUARE GARDEN Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday October 8, 9, 10, 11 Buy a combination ticket ($1.00) and get one of the following subscriptions free: 1 Mo. to the 3 Mos. to the Big Nights 1 Mo, to Morning Freiheit Daily Worker Big Nights Young Worker