The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 29, 1931, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSD 4 Page Three VOTE COMMUNIST -- VOTE AGAINST HUNGER, WAR! A. F.ot L. Sells Out Dock Strike in (By a Worker Correspondent) GALVESTON, Tex—The long- shoremen’s strike was called off on Oct. 21 through the usual sellout of compromising officials. J. P. Ryan urged the men to sub- mit to a cut from 80 to 65 cents an hour and from 18 to 13 cents per bale on cotton loading. But like the Bos- ton men they refused to accept his decision and struck the first of Oc- tober for the right to live. ‘The’ bosses brought 800 scabs from Houston, herded them in pens on the docks and moved them in boats to the ship’s side so that the strikers @ould not get in contact with them. Not a move was made by the strik- Galveston, Texas ers to picket the docks. Not a leaflet was distributed. The longshoremen had earned on an average of $6 a week all summer and were urged by the officials of the International Longshoremen’s Association to settle the strike. Union Leader a Policeman. F. J. Mellina, the district secretary of the LL.A., is also chief of police. He made no move to assist the fight- ing spirit of the longshoremen. The officials of the fake union succeeded in getting the dockers to accept a 10-cent an hour cut and a 3-cent an hour cut on cotton bales. ‘The bosses are well pleased and the men are sore. Workers Under Two Systems: USA and USSR (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—The other day a fellow worker and myself were hurt on the job, The other worker was standing on an extension ladder and I was at the foot of the ladder. A machine came along at a fast pace knocking the ladder down on my head and the other worker came hurling down on top of me. ‘We were both knocked out for a time. My friend was taken to a hos- pital and I was taken to a drug store and then to a police station where a doctor patched me up and where I was joined with my friend. Here we were, two workers, one*with a bleed- ing head and badly shaken up and the other with two broken hands, patched up and left to go on our way (our homes were many miles away). Imagine a millionaire being treated that way. Now let us look across the sea to the Soviet Union where the workers rule. In the first place every safety precaution possible is taken for the welfare of the workers. However, when a worker is injured in the So- viet Union he is given the best at- tention possible. He or she is sent to a rest home until recovered. And all this free of charge to the workers. And they get full pay while laid up. What a contrast! For this reason the workers should support the Com- munist Party in the coming election campaign. Farmers Must Demand Full Price for All Cattle Killed Daily Worker: I note in the Indianapolis Times, a Scripps-Howard paper, an article stating that the governor of Iowa hhas called out 1,500 of the state tin guards to force the milk test. Reading between the lines tells me that the boss government is going to force the hard working farmers to ac- cept $20 to $25 for a cow if killed that cost from $50 to $150. This is what the farmers are objecting to. ‘They are not objecting to the test. in T. B. Test What the farmers must demand is that the money spent for troops be used to pay the farmers for the cat- tle killed. The farmers should band together and demand the full cost of each head of cattle killed. If the gov- ernor refuses this the farmers with the workers should get together and throw this boss class governor out into the ranks of the unemployed. What we'll have to do is to put some Communists in office.- Let’s vote Communist in the coming elections. One Girl Does Work of 20 in N. Y. Factory (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—I was working in a factory at 365 Green Street. I was supposed to ‘pack salted nuts. But what I really did was pack nuts, roast nuts, salt the nuts, pack olives, help roast coffee and pack sauce for the large sum of $9 a week 9 and 10 hours every day. The boss thought we did not have enough work to do, so every evening we had to clean the floors and do other work that threw a janitor out of a job. There were only four girls, includ- ing myself, in the shop who are doing the work formerly done by 20 workers. One day we came to work at 830 and the boss told us not to go up- stairs as there was no work. The floor lady that day did all the work. Gradually the days of work per week became less and less till at last the boss told us not to come back again. The floor lady was doing the work of all of us. Amalgamated Head Says He Works for Boss | “Correspondence Briefs SLAVERY IN N.J. LAUNDRY — MC PARK, N. J—I am letting you know about the condi- tions in the Westwood Laundry. We are women working here nights. We work 11 and 12 hours a night, four nights a week, and receive $11.75 for that work. The boss who speeds us up is Mr. Murphy, a member of the American Legion. C, T. oo ee THE REIGN OF HUNGER TOCOMA, Wash.—It is the favor- ite theme of the reactionary elements here, especially the priests, to point with horror to the French revolution and speak of the reign of terror, but there are as many killing themselves in America under the present Hoover reign of hunger. There are six to ) eight suicides in Tacoma every day that are not reported in the press. And the press is reporting hundreds of suicides. : TAL, ree ea | WELFARE GYPS FARMER ST. JOSEPH, Mich.-A farmer, Otto Krause, donated a truckload of peaches to the Chicago Welfare to give to the jobless, They needed 150 baskets to fill out the load and the farmer loaned them new baskets which cost him $16.. They were to be returned at the end of the trip. He received the baskets like the poor got the peaches. Like hell. ED, o 8 BOSSES DEMAND THE IMPOSSIBLE ‘ ‘TRENTON, N. J—The two slave- drivers who run the GHP. Cigar Factory on Broad St. are dragging the hearts out of the workers by try- ing to make them do the impossible— ( that is, to make 100 cigars out of \\ tobacco that will make only 80, They \gall the women workers all kinds of vile names, The bosses look on the workers here as criminals. We mi organize this factory. 4 ONE OF THE WORKERS. . 8 « WORKERS STOP EVICTION INDIANAPOLIS.--P aul Mitchell, with his sick mother and three chil- dren, were to be evicted from his home last week. ‘The Unemployed Council rallied 175 workers in front of the house and when the constable came with his trucks and help he de- cided that he had better not try to throw the worker out of the house. ‘This is one of the many evictions, | that we have stopped here recently. ~ BG if (By a Worker Correspondent) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—A couple weeks ago the Chicago Amalgamated leaders called a few hand-picked re- presentatives from different cities and also from this city to go to Chicago to discuss wage-cuts. While they were in Chicago they decided to accept a 10 per cent slash without giving any notice to the locals. When Frank Rosenblum, one of the leaches, came to inform us here of the dirty work he was received in our local hall with a big BOO, which let him know what the people think of him. As soon as he took the floor to cover up things and call the people dumb for not supporting the union offiials the workers put a stop to him gnd told him to get off the floor. Latter he took the floor again and tried to tell us how important it was to support the company so it can stay in business. He said he did not depend on the local for a living the gets his from the bosses for selling us out). He said that five years ago the company nearly went out of business, but the union came to their aid with a loan and a wage-cut of 10 per cent, Amalgamated Clothing workers, these are the kind of leaders we have been supporting—to sell us out. Now is the time to throw them of our backs and organize under the lead- ership of the militant T. U. U. L. Union Pacific Shops . to Fire a Thousand Omaha, Nebraska. Dear Comrades: The Union Pacific “back shops” suspended work here on Monday. Eearly in the summer this railroad company adopted the five-day week Program. Later, on Aug. 24, they again decreased the work period by taking five days off of each month. Now, with 446 locomotives serviceable and “stored” away, they haye de- cided t. oabsolutely close the general overhauling and rebuilding plants here. This action involves about 1,000 men here in Omaha, Many of the small stations, on all lines in the state, are being put on the “flag station basis.” ‘This means that many agents and operators are losing their jobs and the depot is put in charge of a custodian (a jan- itor who receives a small wage). A Worker Correspondent. Over 11 million unemployed In capitalist America. | Unemploy- ment liquidated in the Soviet Union, Attend the November 7 Celebration mass meetings, JAIL PICKET LINE LEADERS IN LAWRENCE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) National Textile Workers Union on \this fact finding commission is that yit is a propaganda move to discourage the strikers and prepare the sell-out by publishing fake figures. The Woolen mills, along with Gov- ernor Ely and the United Textile Workers, are preparing a sell-out through this new move. It is part of the scheme to drive the workers back into the mills on the basis of “ar- bitration” on the basis of the “fact jfinding commission,” The material that will be issued by this “fact finding commission” will be prepared to help put over the wage cut, and is designed to make it easier for the UTW to betray the strike and en- ,Sure the wage cut of 25 per cent. { Actual Conditions | LAWRENCE, Mass., Oct. 28.—Here are a few actual cases which show jwhy the Lawrence mill workers can |not accept the ten per cent wage cut, against which 25,000 of them are now on strike. A com bixer in a woolen mill has a wife and eight children. After doing this work for 22 years, with occasional spells of comb minding when the other work was slack, he was being paid, just before the strike, at the rate of $22.92 a week for five stretches of 11 hours each on the night shift. Once in a while his work was intensified by giving him three combs to mind instead of two, then he got $27 for a full week. But in 1931 he had only five full weeks. Three weks he was laid off alto- gether, and the rest of the time he worked from two to four days a week, In all, he made for the past 12 months $525. To make up the deficit and feed his family, he borrowed $250, and the city charity department also had to step in to prevent out- right starvation. Even with the help of this charity, he owes $15 for groc- eries, $45 for last winter's coal, $3 for gas, $7 for rent, and $12 for doctor's bills. The ten people in his family are crowded into five rooms, for which they pay $2.50 a week. ee eS A 35 year old man doing tacking worked 12 hours a night, five days a week. For a full 60-hour week at night work he would get $36, but dur- ing 1931 he never made a full week, and has gotten as low as $8 for a week’s work. With a family of eight besides himself to support, he got in tota wages for the last year $728. This he eked out by selling radios and furniture on the side, by which he made $120 more, and by borrowing $200. When the strike started, he owed the grocer $25, the milk man $10 and the gas company $7.50, besides $150 on furniture bought on the in- stallment plan. eer A married woman and her -hus- band, with no children, are both weavers in different mills. Two years ago she got $30 for a week’s work on two old style looms. Now she runs six automatic looms, produces three times as much cloth a day, and got (before the strike) got $24 for an average week’s work. Last year her total wages were $408. Her husband’s total earnings were $260, and the two had $668 to live on for twelve months, Speed-up “Starvation A wet finisher has a wife and two children under the age of 12 to sup- port. A few years ago he worked on an eight piece washer. First the company puts new gears on the ma- chine to speed it up, then the® put him on a new machine with double capacity. From 24 pieces a day his output leaped to 96. On the old washer he got $2. a week. Just be- fore the strike he was getting an average of $14 a week, for four times as much work as when he started. He was laid off during the last year enough weeks and parts of weeks to total four months’ lost time, out of 12 month, es yt, A married man with a wife and four children has worked as a filling boy for three years. Before his eyes went bad on him he was a weaver. His pay as filling boy was $18 a week, but because of the spending up of the looms, he carried one and a half times as much filling as when he took the job, Being one of the rare per> sons who worked full time for the last 12 months, he received a total of $936. Out of that he paid $45 a month for food, $11.25 rent, $2.50 for gas and electricity. Clothing for the whole family of six had to be held down to $59 last year. His children need more milk and fruit, and the whole family is in need of winter clothes. Refuse Common for Strikers LAWRENCE, Mass., Oct, 28.—The United Textile Workers has a permit to speak on Lawrence Common. The Common is a fine open park, with a big bandstand to speak from, . and only five blocks from the heart of the mill section. But the real strike leadership, the United Front Rank and File Strike Committee and the National Textile Workers Union, is not permitted to speak on Lawrence Common. Strikers who want to hear their real leaders have to walk past the huge Common, then walk north for blocks to Elm St., then east on Elm to where an unpaved street runs north for half a block, That is Lin- Class Against Class in the Election ORKERS, you have something to gain by Communist! ‘True, you are not going to put an end to capitalism and the miseries capitalism causes the working class, merely and only by casting your ballots. The capitalist class will not surrender the power of government so easily, and will finally have to be put out by force, by a vast revolu- tionary movement of masses of workers and farmers led by the Commu- nist Party who will establish their own Soviet Government. None the less, today and now you can gain something by voting Com- munist, and ONLY by voting Gemmunist. Let us tell you how and why: You know from your own bitter experience of the hunger that the capitalist crisis has brought to millions of. workers and still more millions of their families. There have been a thousand fakers to tell you that it was “neces- sary” or “inevitable,” its “causes” and its “cures.” But ONLY the Com- munists have explained that crises are in@vitable under capitalism and any “return of former prosperity” is hopeless. The starvation of the work- ers is NOT NECESSARY. It exists ONLY becatise the capitalist class re- fused to give up part of the profits taken from your labor, and insists on . the working class bearing the whole burden of crisis. But still more, the Communist Party is the ONLY party which has Jed and will lead the workers in struggle against this starvation. There have been all kinds of “remedies” and Mr. Swope, the General Electric capitalist, is pretending to “grant” tinemployment insurance—but he asks the workers to pay for it! The so-called “socialist” party, which is really AGAINST socialism, has switched around, first standing for what Swope wants, then saying that it wanted unemployment insurance to be paid by the bosses. But it only TALKS and it does not FIGHT for anything! - Only the Communist Party FIGHYS for unemployment insurance— at the entire cost of the bosses, at FULL WAGES, and to be managed by workers, not grafters. You know that ONLY the Communist Party has led the workers everywhere in struggle, not only for unemployment insurance, but in strikes against wage cuts! And ONLY the Communists actually FIGHT to get Winter Relief of $150 for each jobless worker, $50 for each de- pendent. And only the Communists rally masses to fight for the imme- diate aid and against evictions of the penniless jobless and part-time workers, Vote Communist and put Communists in your city governments, where they will be able to lead the fight better to force relief for the jobless! Without the struggles already led by the Communists, in hunger marches and demonstrations, not even the stingy and miserable relief now given by capitalist “charity” would have been obtained. Vote Com- munist and carry the struggle into the city governments! Only the Communists can and do lead the workers in organizing and striking against wage cuts! Miners, steel workers, textile workers, rail- road workers, all of you and millions more know that the republicans, democrats and the fake “socialists,” too, support and lead the treacherous American Federation of Labor, which sells out and betrays strikes, which consents and really puts over wage cuts! The Communist Party supports the revolutionary trade unions of the Trade Union Unity League that ore industrial unions and shop committees to strike against wage cuts! Put Communists in office to block the strikebreaking city govern- ments, the police tools of the bosses! Don’t throw away your vote by voting for ANY republican, democrat or fake “socialist” under the notion that they are “not so bad” as,the other fellow who might win! They are ALL for capitalism, and the ONLY WAY you can vote against capi- talism and for your own class is to VOTE COMMUNIST! The capitalists have, in some cities, like Philadelphia, barred the Communist Party off the ballot! Do you know why, workers? It is be- cause they are afraid that Communists might be elected! Isn't that PROOF that you are not “losing your vote” when you vote Communist? Workers should want to put into city offices the very Communists: that. the capitalists try to keep out! Don’t lose your vote! Write in the names of the Communist candidates in cities where the Party has been barred voting—if you Vote off the ballot! Workers should vote! ‘They should yote CLASS AGAINST CLASS! And the only way they can vote for the working class against the capi- talist class is to VOTE COMMUNIST! ‘i Japan SENDS “WARNING” TO SOVIET UNION (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ern Railway in the armed struggle against the Soviet Union. In order to intensify further the Preparations for the attack on the Soviet Union the capitalist press is printing additional rumors from a dozen different points in Manchuria, telling of the movement of Soviet Troops and munitions, Behind the cover of these rumors the Japanese imperialists are actually moving more and more troops into Manchuria. More than 200 Japanese troops were moved westward to Cheng Chiatun on the Taonanfu Railway after “re- ports” of bandit outbreaks. The Japanese excuse is that the railway was built with Japanese loans of more than $30,000,000, the principal and interest of which are in arrears. Reports from the Chinchow area state that 3,000 Japanese troops are entrenching there for the winter. ‘The power of General Chang Tso- hsiang, former Governor of Kirin, is spreading rapidly through Manchu- ria with the aid of the Japanese im- Pperialists, In Peiping and in Soochow the masses have been increasing the economic struggle against the Japa~ nese imperialists and many Japa- nese shops have had to close. In Peiping 20,000 students are reported to have joined the Anti-Jepanese Association, ‘ While the preparations for the at- tack on the Soviet Union go on on the eastern frontier under the lead- ership of the Japanese imperialists, the French imperialists are carrying forward the preparations on the western frontier. Coordinating the attack of the imperialists against the Soviet Union is the United States. It is Wall Street which came to an agreement with Japan for the divi- sion of China. It is Wall Street which, in the Hoover-Laval confer- ence, prepared the attack on the German masses and on the western front of the Soviet Union. At the very time that the capital- ist press is admitting that far more Jay behind the statement of Hoover and Laval than was contained in it Laval comes out with the proposal for the Briand “United Europe” plan. Qn board the Isle de France Laval stated that the first thing that would be done as the result of the meeting with Hoover would be to “complete the France-German rapprochement which is necessary to produce the confidence needed as a basis for economic recovery.” This Franco-German rapproche- ment is the preparation for the at- tack on the German revolutionary masses in the coming months and for the attack on the Soviet Union. Allentown Meeting Nov. 14 to Protest Jailing of Powers ALLENTOWN, Pa.—The newly or- ganized branch of the Allentown In- ternational Labor Defense held its third meeting on Sunday at the new headquarters, Tilghman and Jordan Sts. After the regular business meet- ing plans were formulated to hold @ mass meeting on November 14 24-8 protest against the imprisonment of H. M. Powers, who is now serving a four-months jail sentence in the Al- lentown fail, because of his activities during the recent silk mill strike in Allentown, - coln Court. At the end, through a gate, is a vacant lot back of @ gar- age. Alongside the garage is a pile of old tumber, and something which looks like part of a show case is standing on its side and provides a platform, LAWRENCE, Mass., Oct. 28.—Ten or 15 A, F. L carpenters, drawing union wages of $1.25 an hour are going into the Wood Mill with the excuse that they are “repairing the roof over the dye house.” Dye house strikers report that the roof was finished several weeks ago. It has just been discovered that these good A. F, L, carpenters are really crating some looms-to be shipped to the Am- erican Woolen Company’s Globe Mill in Utica, N. Y. Not many looms are being shipped, but the Lawrence papers are pub- lishing huge headlines about “Mill wf Machinery Moved”—‘If the Strike Goes on There Will Be No More Jobs in Lawrence, etc. : The United Front Rank and File Strike Committee points out in its Strike Bulletin No. 3 that this is the most outrageous propaganda. The company has spent tens of thousands of dollars rationalizing production, dismantling mills like the Globe, and concentrating everything in Law- rence. The Globe has been shut down for jnonths. The company will not reverse its efficiency scheme. It is bluffing. It is shipping only enough looms to excuse the headlines. Furthermore, the national board meeting of the National Textile Workers Union is alive to the sit- uation, and has already sent organ- izers to Utica, where, when the mill opens, if it opens at all, a month from now, there will be a strike situation immediately. healt Pa. What Is Socialist Competition? Lenin Pamphlet to Answer American efficiency experts and world famous engineers and tech- nicians cannot understand how the inexperienced and techni- cally “backward” workers of the Soviet Union could creat the Stalingrad Tractor factory, the Magnitostroy, build the Turksib Railroad, establih and develop new industrial giants? Just think of it! Without credits, without all the necessary machinery, the workers of the Soviet Union dared to work faster and better than the American workers? And What is this “magic” and power that stirred up the traditionally in- dividual -peasants to join the col- lectives to develop and build So- cialism on the land? What js the key to this “secret”? Watch the Daily Worker Sat- urday, Oct. 31, for the first in- stallment of a newly published pamphlet written by Lenin en- titled “How to Organize Com- petition” telling how the working- class as the ruling class can or- ganize its production on a higher seale than bourgeois production. Jare having regular’ meetings, CLASS SOLIDAR ITY BY SUBSCRIPTIONS; WORKERS ON WAY TO USS.R. SEND DAILY $22 It looks as if Ohio will have a regular Daily Worker Club in the near future. A group to discuss t) Daily is being formed, and the or- ganizer is a crippled comrade! The greatest obstacles do not stop workers from organizing in their fight against the bosses. ‘This news comes to us in a letter from Comrade J. U., of Mechanics- town, O., who is in her 70th year, and who, sends us $3 for a renewal of her subscription. “My brothes,” she writes, “has been a cripple almost his entire life. For years he has been reading and talking to those who came to his home, handing out the Daily Worker and booklets that he could afford to buy. .In the last few months a few men in his home town, got awakened up enough with the help of organ- izers from Canton and Cleveland, O., and after a good deal of trouble my brother got a few together and they and once a week some of them come to my brother’s home and hold a meet- XN MO. GOVERNOR REFUSES HUNGER MARCH DEMANDS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) at the joint demonstration at the court house steps, comprising thou- sands of employed and unemployed who voiced ‘their struggle against wage-cuts and starvation, “No one is hungry in Steubenville,” said the authorities, and they were booed by the hungry workers present who were a living answer to this lie. The unemployed endorsed every de- mand headed by immediate cash relief and free milk for babies. The workers voted to mass a dele- gation of 2,000 to present the de- mands at the next meeting of the City Council on Tuesday, Nov. 10. ‘There was an enthusiastic endorse- ment of the Communist Party can- didates here, among whom are Joe Dallet, steel organizer, for mayor; Raymond Pranko, steel worker, for council president, and Mary Drazich, housewife, for treasurer. Unemployment’ relief and aboli- tion of the vicious Jim-Crow system are the points that head the Com- munist platform. The speakers in- cluded Dallet, Calvert, Stuart of the Young Communist League, and Pat- terson, Negro representative of the Communist Party. One-third of the workers at the demonstration were Negroes four.Negro workers being on the committee pesenting the de- mands, ae ee Youngstown Council Active. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Oct. 28— When a notice was given to an un- employed family with four small children that they would be evicted on Monday, Oct. 26, at 9 a.m., the Unemployed Branch of Youngstown rallied the neighbors in the immedi- ate vicinity and was on the spot where the eviction was to take place at 9 am. A great success was scored by the branch as the police, knowing that the workers were mobilized, were conspicuous by their absence. After waiting for over two hours a meet- ing was called and a member of the Unemployed Branch got up and told the workers to go home and to be ready in a moment's notice to mob- ilize in case the law would try to evict the family in the evening or at any other time. ete Ye Verona, Pa., Demands. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 27.—The Verona unemployed workers are put- ting up a militant struggle for unem- loyment relief from the Borough Council of Verona. Monday night, at @ mass meeting of the unemployed, @ committee of unemployed workers" was elected and sent to the Borough Council to present the demands worked out by the unemployed work- ers of Verona. Afraid to meet the celegation of the unemployed workers, the Borough Council had its meeting only for 15 minutes, and adjourned before the committee arrived. Meeting the Burgess the committee demanded a special meeting ‘of the council. In face of the committee the Burgess was forced to promise a special hear- ing next Monday. The demands worked out by a committee of the unemployed were unanimously acepted. The demands read as follows: (1) $15 a week for married men and $3 additional for every dependent; (2) $10 a week for single unemployed workers; (3) no evictions of unemployed for mon- payment of rent; (4) no\ ment on mortgages, nor any foreti.cures on Properties of unemployed workers; (5) free ront, gas, light and water for the unemployed workers; (6) no payment of taxes by the unemployed workers; (76 free food an dclothing for the school children of the unem- ployed workers; (8) no discrimina- tion of Negro, foreign-born or young workers in giving out relief. ‘The Unemployed Council of Verona is now preparing a huge demonstra- tion for hext Monday in front of the Borough Council to demand immedi- ate action of the demands of the unemployed. Canton Relief Body Sends 5 Trucks of Food to Mine Strikers CANTON, @., Oct, 28—The local Pennsylvania and Ohio Relief Com- mittee has sent to date 5 truck loads of food to the striking miners at Bridgeport, O. The committee has also raised $210 by house to house collections and affairs. On October 18, a dance was ar- ranged in the Greek School hall with a large crowd in attendance, but was broken up by the police on the pre- text that the committee did not have a permit for the dance. ‘This, in spite of the fact that dances had been held constantly at the same hall without a permit. “The committee later learned that a Greek lawyer who is a rank fascist vali jing there, as he is not able to go to |the hall with them. “I am in my 70th year. I am busy woman, and I know full well what hard times are.” This letter is an indication of what farmers all over the country are thinking and doing. The farmers are waking up to the realization that their interests are the same as the interests of the workers in the cities and that they both have a common enemy—the bosses, who rob the farm- ers and the workers of the fruit of their toil. For example we quote from another farmer's letter, sent from Pillager, Minn., “I am enclosing $1,” Comrade M. C. writes, “to renew your sub- scription to the Daily Worker. This subscription is a month ove?due, but with potatoes 25 cents a hundred |pounds a dollar is hard to spare all at once. All other farm produce is priced just as low as potatoes, and the farmers are asking, ‘Why?’ “Potatoes are a dollar a bushel in western Minnesota and southern Wis- consin, and why should they be 9 to 19 cents a bushel here? We never miss a chance to tell them why.” This Minnesota farmer wants the Daily Worker so hard that he is will- ing to send us the price of 400 pounds of potatoes just for a two months’ subscription. This case and many other cases of the awakening class consciousness of the American farmer is a good sign of the coming of the American workers’ and farmers’ pro- letarian government. American Greetings to America Meanwhile we can get inspiration from the news of the first workers’ and farmers’ government, the U. S. S. R., and from the realization of the class solidarity that’ unites our fate with the fate of the proletarian fatherland. A splendid sign of this solidarity is the donations the Daily ‘Worker has been receiving from Am- erican workers who have been for- tunate enough to be able to get to the Soviet Union to help in the work of socialist construction. Four groups of workers, carpenters, bricklayers, plumbers and miners, who left the United States for the Soviet Union on the Majestic at the beginning of this month, held an entertainment in the ship's dining salon, and in a collec- tion there for the Daily Worker ob- tained $22, which they have sent us. Workers of the workers’ fatherland do not forget their comrades in cap- {talist countries who hae still the old order to clear away before they can build the new future. We must show these workers in the U. S. S. R. that we are deterntined to follow the path that they have shown us. That is one of the reasons for the Noember 7 special edition of the Daily Worker which will contain a special page for the greetings of the workers of the United States to the 14th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. Only a week is left to obtain these greetings. The special page must be ready Oct. 31. Greetings are 25 cents and up for individuals, and $1 and up for organizations and units. Use the blank at the bottom of this page or use the regular blank form if you have received it. Also get in the extra orders for this special edition November 7, which will contain articles by Rus- siart workers telling of their pro- gress under the five year plan. We need the money at once for these extra orders, Fill out this order blank at the end of this paragraph and send it in with the cash at once. was responsible for the attack on this attempt to raise funds for the mine strikers. The dance was later held, and the money raised sent to Pittsburgh to help pay the freight on the potatoes collected among thet farmers in Michigan. HONOR ROLL GREETINGS We, the undersigned through the 14th anniversary edition of the DAILY WORKER, greet the workers of th U.S.S.R. on the 14th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. The success of the Five-Year Plan and the advance in the economic and cultural fields have strengthened our determination to advance our own struggles against the growing attacks of the boss class. The DAILY WORKER, the Central Organ of the Communist Party, is the mass organizer of the American workers and farmers in this fight. NAME | ADDRESS AMOUNT Dollars Cents Cut this out, get busy, collect greetings from workers in your shop, or factory, mass organiza~ tion, and everywhere. Twenty-five cents and up for individuals, $1 and up for organizations, Mafl immediately to get into the November 7th edition of the Daily Worker, ‘