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DAILY WORKER, NEW YOR! K, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2 4, 1931 _” Page Faree — IN IRON RIVER, MICH., SAYS OLD ORE MINER Mine Operators Introduce Stagger System, Call It Jobless Relief Miners Desperate, Awaken to Real Cause of Misery and Hunger (By a Worker Correspondent) IRON RIVER, Mich.—When the Forbes mine, operated by the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company, resumed operation after a shutdown of six months, it did so with the general wage cut of ten per cent, effective in the mining fields all over the coun- try. It also resumed operation on the same Hoover stagger system of two days a wesk, a basis it operated on for a while before the shutdown. Now when the mine has been in operation on this basis for one month, the captain of name, had an article put in the locale paper entitled “Prosperity Is Near,” “Forbes mine starts on a nine-day basis; Captain Sleeman wishes all mines would follow the example of the Forbes mine.” This would bring prosperity back.” ‘This article was ~ accompanied by a lot of the same kind of prosperity ballyhoo. Why did the Forbes mine and the others start operation on the stagger plan? Why did the Forbes mine give this extra day a month to the miners? ‘The mining companies say: “We are doing this to help the workers. To give workers relief.” No, the mining companies are not for the interest of the miners. The mining companies are afraid the miners are going to rebel against these miserable living conditions; that the miners would fight back. The local businessmen also were afraid that the starving miners and their families are going to take food, clothes and things which they needed. ‘The Business Men’s Association and the County Board of Commissioners promised the mining companies tax ‘reduction exemption on ore now on the stockpile. This exemption is a great thing for the mining companies. ‘This proposal was accepted by the Board and the Association. This helped the local and chain store business men. It helped the steel trust, but it brought misery to the ‘miners ani their families. Some are given meagre relief. The rest live r the mine, Captain Sleeman by on hopes. “Rellef” Proves to be Pay Cut ‘The reason the Forbes mines gave the miners one day extra a month, is that before the wage cut of ten per cent the miner received $4.65 a day. When the wage cut took effect, the miners received $4.20 per day—a 45c reduction in wages per day. Now what did the mining company figure? They figured like this: $5.65 for eight days makes $37.20 per month; $4.20 \for nine days makes $37.80 a month; making a difference of only 60c. That the miners today have to work nine days to make the same money that they made in eight days before. That the mining company gets one day more production from the miners at the same rate as when they were on an eight day production basis per month. _The mining company fools the miners into believing this as re- lief, that they are big-hearted, all for the miners. Bread Rebellion Looms This winter will be a bread rebellion in Iron River and Iron County. The fake relief is giving out. Workers are awakening to the real cause and who is to blame for all this misery which the workers have to face. Miners, do not let yourself be fooled by the steel trust, but join the Na- tional Miners Union, which fights for your every day needs and tells you how to get rid of your real enemies, the; boss class. , Toledo Jobless Council Stops Eviction (By a Worker Correspondent) ‘TOLEDO, Ohio.—A delegation from Branch No. 11 of the Lucas County Unemployed Council were on their way to a Central Council meeting, Dec. 18, when they saw the furniture of a worker’s family sitting on the street at 1758 Summitt St. They stop- ped and investigated. ‘The worker, the Council members learned, had never been given a notice from the court, yet the deputy marshall came and threw the furni- ture oup in the street because the worker could not pay his rent, The whole Council soon rallied and was on the job putting the fur- niture back in the house. The worker is still in the house and is now a member of the’ Unemployed Council. It is high time that all the work- ers rallied to the struggle against evictions. Stop this landlord terror, this moving of workers out into the street when they have no money or jobs. , Soviet Masses Rally te Complete 5-Year Plan In 4 Years By End of 1932 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONT) Stalin, who received a rising ovation from the assembly while the presence of the presidents of the Uzbek, Turk- menistan, Tajik, Ukrainian and other republics emphasized the interna- tional character of the Soviet Union. In his opening speech, Chairman Petrovsky, President of the Ukrain- ian Republic pointed out that Soviet industry in strategic branches such as electric, chemical and oil had al- ready reached the level of Anierican, -and German technique while the or- ganization of agriculture surpasses them, While the state budget for 1931 reached the big total of twenty and one half billion rubles, for the next year it has been increased to twenty seven biloiln, at the same time attention is being concentrated on _ improving the quality and decreasing “the cost of production and the train~ _jdng of cadres of skilled workers and _ \technichians. ¢\ Capitalist Production Drops. _ Molotov, who was warmly greeted, quoted figures from bourgeois sta- tisticians demonstrating that while Soviet industry was developing at an L unequalled tempo, industry in thirty- * nine capitalist countries dropped by _ 25 per cent since 1928, world trade _ had fallen to the level of pre-war. » Today only one country, the Soviet Union, is able to increase its im- ports and industry. The socialists’ theory of organized capitalism has been shattered by the facts of the world crisis, The growth of Soviet industry, as shown by facts, was three billion rubles in 1928 four bil- ‘lion six hundred million in 1930. |ADVERTISE ; “Your mew ings | Your halls While wages and the standard of living of the workers under capital- ism has fallen drastically, the wages of Soviet workers this year alone in- creased 18 per cent. The Five-Year Plan has already been over-fulfilled in the basic in- dustries, such as machine, building, tractor and oil. Each year the achievements have been greater than the plan called for. The first year plan was 106 per cent achieved; the second year 107 per cent and this year 113 per cent, so that the rate of over-fulfilling is increasing. The Plan called for a capital in- vestment of forty-seven billion rubles, and up to the present thirty-three billion has been invested and next year there will be invested twenty- one billion, so that the final total will be fifty-four billion, or seven billion above the original plan, which will be completed in four years. Soviet Workers Forge Ahead, Developments have proved beyond doubt that Soviet workers are able not only to build industrial giants, but are also able to run them, mas- ter technique and problems of man- agement. During the next year four million additional workers will be drawn into industry, making a total of twenty-one million or twenty-two per cent above the original plan. In dealing with the shortcomings, such as insufficient increase in labor productivity, lack of personal respon- sibility for machinery, Molotov pointed out that energetic measures are being taken to overcome these. “Special interest was exhibited in his analysis of the international situation and its relation to the Soviet Union. The Soviet aim ts to guarantee peace and develop the fountry. Soviet masses, Molotov declared amid applause, are busy with work bettering their life, and wish the same for workers of the rest of the world. While relations with some coun- tries. have been progressing in the past along normal lines and are de= veloping satisfactorily, relations with other powers’ have become more strained, as the imperialists are seek- ing a way out of the crisis at the expense of the Soviet Union. ‘The Soviet-Poland pacts of non- aggression are still under way, Fin- Jand, Roumania and Estonia have also entered into negotiations for non-aggression pacts with the Soviet Union. Imperialist Robbers Discuss War. “Byents in Manchuria exhibit the Mooney Repudiates Walker's Demand to Quit Labor Fight NEW YORK —Tom Mooney’s first public statement, a telegram to the Labor Sports Union, since Mayor James J. Walker of New York visited him, is regarded here by-the Interna- tional Labor Defense as a repydiation of the mayor's proposal that Mooney abstain from labor activities if he is released, ‘The telegram by Mooney accepts the invitation to hecome honorary chair- man of the united front anti-Olym- pic committee. Mooney endorses the labor sport’s program of boycotting the capitalist Olympiad dnd urges the workets to keep up their mass demonstrations and struggle. ‘The counter-Olympiad will be held in Chicago by the Labor Sports Un- ion with the co-operation of the In- ternational Labor Defense at the same time that the California meet will be run off. Working class ath- letes in every nation are being ufged by the Sports Union and the Labor Defense to shun the California meet *| and send their amateur athletes to the Chicago contests. Soviet Union which will send no delegation to Los Angeles, will have a large corp of contestants at Chicago. A number of former Olympic figures, notably a group of crack Finnish runners, will be among those joining the Califor- nia boycott. “The International Labor Defense, which for years has been fighting for Mooney’s release, will do everything in its power to insure a powerful counter-Olympic campaign and a} successful International Workers’ | Athletic Meet,” George Maurer, sec- retary of the Labor Defense said today “A contest which assembles thous- ands of amateur working class ath- letes from every part of ‘the world in the stiuggle against the Olympics and with the object of demanding release of class-war prisoners is a historic thing in the annals of pre- sent-day professionaljzed sport. “We whole-heartedly endorse the boycott of the Los Angeles Olympics | and approve the action of the Pro-| visional Counter-Olympic Commit- | tee in electing as honorary chairman Tom Mooney, victim of the most hor- rible frame-ups ever planted agafnst | @ worker.” U.S. Prepares Huge Fleet for | “Maneuvers” In Far East Waters (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) partisan troops are answering the new Japanese murder offensive with guerilla warfare. Partison bands totalling over 3,000 men defended for several hours the city of Fakumen, harassing the Japanese and slowing up their advance toward Chinchow. The partison troops are active all over Manchuria. A partisan hand of 60 attacked the Japanese garrison at Koalimen station, 28 miles from An- tung on the Korean border. An en- gagement occurred northwest of Tish- ling, the partisan troops putting up an heroic rear guard action against superior Japanese forces, -A Mukden dispatch reports: “In a second engagement an un- named Japanese batallion is still engaged in a long-distance battle with 100 bandits and irregulars equipped with field guns.” ‘The Tokyo war office reports that “Chinese attivities had spread to Changchun, Kirin, and Tunghia.” 910 Engagements Since Nov. 21 The Japanese admit that the par- tisan troops have fought 438 engag- ments against them between Nov. 21 and 30. The Japanese claim that only 5 actions have been fought since Nov. 30, but a Washington dispatch quoting the figures of the Japanese War Office declares that 472 raids by partisan troops were carried out against the Japanese between Dec. 1 and 10. “Of this number there were thirty raids conducted by 300 or more men and six by 1,000 or more men.” Over 713 Japanese are held as prisoners of war. The Washing- ton dispatch estimates that a total of 28,000 partisan troops are oper- ating against the Japanese west of the South Manchuria Railway. Fears Chinese Revolutionary Move- ment. A Tientsin dispatch reveals the fears of the imperialists that a tre- mendous revolutionary struggle is imminent in Kuomintang China. The dispatch expresses alarm over the growing influence “of the Chinese Communist Party, and deolares that the recent anti-imperialist, anti- Kuomintang demonstrations of work~ ers and students were organized by the Communists. The imperialists are now afraid that another tremendous mass up- surge may occur before the Canton and Nanking groups and the various cliques within these groups can straighten out their differences and present @ united front against the masses. These differences reflec: the inherent conflict of interests between the imperialisi masters of the var- ious cliques, U. S. Sanctions Slaughter of Man- churian Masses. Washington officials are watching like hawks the Japanese moves to- ward Chinchow and the Great Wall. While gravely concerned at the threat contained in the Japanese moves against the hegemony of Wall Street over Kuomintang China, the United States has discontinued its protest against the seizure fo Chin- chow. There are indications that the Wall Street’ government has been forced to make further concessions to Japan in order to maintain intact of the Peoples Commissars further stated that the Soviet Goyernment has sufficient convincing evidence that diplomatic cabinets of several foreign powers are discussing the possibility of war against the Sov- iet Union. He exposed the role of the League of Nations and the dis- armament conference as instru- ments of war and not cf pesce. ¥ the Soviet Union does not want a foot of territory of any other country, it will not relinquish a hand’s breadth of its own terri- tory. Molotov declared: “We know we can rely upon the heroes of the Eastern Army to protect our fron- tiers.” The asesmbly greeted the statement with prolonged applause. Molotov concluded his report by re- minding the delegates of Stalin's words: “The reality of our plan of pro- duction consists in millions of toilers who are engaged in creating a new life” By completing the Five-Year Plan in four the Soviet Union will fortify its position both externally and internally, it will further the cause of international peace and the final vieh@y, of the world’s worging class, ~ the United States leadership of the anit-Soviet front and to avoid throwing Japan into the arms of British imperialism. A Washington dispatch to the New York Times quotes U. S. government officials as stating “that Japan is prepared to brook no interference from internal or external sources in proceeding to dominate all Manchuria, south and west of Tsitsihar.” The dispatch further declares: © “Asked whether the United States planned to make any diplo- matic move at this juncture, they in turn asked: ‘What can be done?” Wall St. Leads Anti-Soviet Front. The Wall Street bandits supported from the very first the Japanese seibure and looting of Manchuria. The United States is today sanction- ing and supporting the Japanese campaign of suppression and anni- hilation against the Manchurian masses. Under the anti-Soviet leadership of the United States, Manchuria is being converted into a military base for armed intervention against the Soviet Union. The imperialist government of the United States is leading the attack on the Chinese masses for the destruction of the Chinese Revolu- tion and the partition of China. The United States armed its Kuomintang militarist tools for the unsuccessful onslaught against the Central Chin- ese Soviet Government and the Chinese Red Army, The United States is leading in the preparation for a new and bloodier world war, aimed at crush- ing the revolutionary struggles of the hungry unemployed workers and colonial masses. The workers of the United States whose lives are being gambled away by the Wall Street imperialists must resist the war moves of the imperialist vultures! Workers! Stop the ‘preparations for a new world slaughter! Defend the Chinese and colonial masses! De- fend the Soviet Union, the Socialist Fatherland! Demand all war funds for the unemployed! Demand social insurance! White Guards Training Secret Ter- rorist Police. Further proof of the imperialist plot for armed intervention against the Soviet Union is contained in a dispatch from Paris reporting White Guard activities in organizing and training a terrorist secret police force for use against the Russian masses should the armed intervention suc- ceed. It is the duty of the world proletariat to smash the interven- tion plans! ‘The Paris dispatch admits that the movement is being sponsored by the French imperialists. Headquarters have been established in many capi- talist countries. The delegate in the United States is the former advo- cate-general of the Russian navy, Alexandroff, Two hundred and fifty White Guardists have been enrolled: in the Paris school. The new secret po- lice is admitted to be organized on the line of the infamous Tsarist Okrana, but is to be “more efficient,” utilizing the experience of American and German police in suppressing the struggles of the masses. Instruc- tion ds given in the use of poison gas. Notorious Tsarist Police Chief Heads School. ‘The notorious murderer, Col. Mik- | hail Felitchkin, who as sub-prefect of Odessa and later chief of police in Riga, earned the undying hatred of the Russian masses, is in charge of the work of training the new Tsarist police. The dispatch says: “Col. Felitchkin made no secret, of his plans when questioned. “He declared that the former Okrana of the Ozars, though it worked ardently for the preserva- tion of the regime, depended on ancient police methods which were inadequate to cope with the revo- lutionary movement in 1917. For this reason, he insisted, it is of the utmost importance to prepare the framework for a thoroughly up-to- date police organization, which will be ready to enter Russia and begin functioning as soon as the existing regime is overthrown.” This scoundrel was forced to ad- mit the impossibility of carrying out his counter-revolutionary work in @oviet Russia itself, where the (CONTINUED FROM & ONE) | | pledge ourselves to avenge this | worker's life by greater organiza~ | tional efforts in fighting against the boss system of robbery and violence which you represent. For the murder of this worker we hold you responsible.” The I. L. D. issued the following call to the workers and their organ- | izations to join the mass fight to free the Scottsboro boy: | “Scottsboro’—A Call To Action | In the prison at Kilby, Ala., eight innocent Negro working class boys- .| Willie Robinson, Andy Wright, Hay- wood Patterson, Olen Montgomery, Clarence Norris, Charlie Weems, Ozie | Powell and Eugene Williams—are be- | ing held for the electric chair, for death by legal lynching. Another boy Roy Wright, though not even con- victed is held in the Birmingham jail. | For eight months they have endured the turture of awaiting death on framed charges. During all the time the lynch terror has raged high all around them. The murder of Camp Hill share-croppers, | the lynch attack upon the ex-war| veteran Willie Peterson, the massacre | of white and Negro miners in Harlan | Kentucky, the fiendish hanging and | roasting. of Matthew Williams, the | hanging to a telegraph pole of two Negro. boys—Tom Jackson and George Banks—in West Virginia, the lynch | attack upon Orphan Jones and George | Davis, the recent roasting in the| electric chair of young Barney Lee | Ross on a frame-up charge by the | Texas government, and the lynching of unreported scores all over the’ South, are parts of the definite plan expressed in the savage outburst in Scottsboro. “Scottsboro” is a basic attack of | the capitalist landlords and bankers upon the working class. It is a direct attack upon the developing unity of the Negro and white workers engaged in struggle against unemployment, wage-cuts, starvation, misery, and war preparations. It is inseparably con- nected with the campaign of the de- portation of the foreign-born workers and the imprisonment of the native- born, under Criminal Syndicalist laws, etc. It is the epitome of the South- | ern landowners’ government attacks | upon the National liberation struggles | of the Negro masses in the Black | Belt of the South. “Scottsboro” is a challenge to the American and world | working-class, | January 18, will be a day of mass} and legal struggles. On January 18, | the Southern land-robbers will make | another desperate attempt, through the Alabama Supreme Court, to carry through this. mass lynching. They. will be supported by the entire capit- | alist class of the country and their | agents of the “Socialist” party, which | exists for the sole purpose of mis- leading the workers, the leaders of the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People, the “running dogs” of Ameri€an Imperi- alsim and betrayers of the Negro masses, the Church, which preaches the love of god, while assisting the rich in robbing the poor, and the capitalist press—all the hosts of rob- bery and hell will be lined up on the side of the Southern bosses. Against this aray of plunder, mass terror and treachery, the Interna- tional Labor Defense supported by millions of workers and poor farmers, black and white, nationally and in- ternationally, will lead in defending | the Scottsboro boys against the lynch- ers, in defending the Negro masses, and the entire working class. Together with its legal preparations | for the gigantic struggles ahead, the | workers and peasants would de- fend the revolution against such activities. He says: “An alternative solution would | be to train our future police force secretly in Soviet Russia itself, but that plan presents too many dif- ficulties and dangers.” U. S. Fleet To Go To Pacific By Spring. ‘The California capitalist press re- ports that the new dirigible “Akron” is to be detailed to the Pacific Coast with Long Beach, Calif., as its base. In the same reports it is admitted that the whole of the United States Navy will be assembled off the coast of California by February Ist, and will then proceed, together with over 300 fighting air craft to a joint army and navy “war game” in the Hawaiian Islands, Over 130 surface ships will be in this armada. This moye gives sinister significance to the statements of Washington offi- cials indicating a spring drive by the Japanese against inner Mongolia. This drive would be directed against Soviet Outer Mongolia and the Chin- ese Revolution in order to complete the preparations for armed interven- tion against the Soviet Union. LL.D. Denounces Murder of Ross; Calls for Mass Fight to Free Scottsboro Boys, | are. | many. | follow. International Labor Defense is mobi- lizing its forces, north and south, in this, and every other capitalist and colonial country for mass protest, street, demonstrations on January 8, and 10, to shatter the corrupted pillars of boss-class robbery _and sup pression in the struggle against lynch- ing. Marching forward to the ltber- ation of the 9 Scottsboro boys and all other clas: Victims, bearing high | the slogan of the right of the Negroes | to arm and defend themselves against lynchings, for the abolition of lynch- ing through fighting for the right of self-determination for the Negro mas- ses in the Black Belt! The I. L. D. appeals to all its affi- liated organizations, to the Commu- nist Pa the revolutionary unions | of the Trade Union Unity League, th League of Struggle for Negro Rights, | the International Workers Order an the Language Organizations, etc.; to | join in the fight to save the Scotts- boro boys; to hold mass protest meet~ ings on January 8, 9 and 10, sending | telegrams and resolutions to the Sup- | reme Court and Governor B. M. Mil- ler at Montgomery, Alabama, de- manding the immediate and safe re- lease of the 9 Scottsboro boys. Thousands of Dollars Needed for In- | vestigation, Publicity, Ete. | Three thousand dollars must be raised before January 18. All organ- | izations are requested to establish and send in their quotas of the Special Scottsboro Fund. | Workers of the American Federa-| tion of Labor! Take up the struggle in your unions. Contribute to the fund, Unemployed Workers! On to the sttreets! Into the houses! Distribute | Scottsboro leaflets! Collect funds! | Build Scottsboro-Harlan-Moeney De- fense Committees! FIGHT AGAINST LYNCHINGS! NEGRO AND WHITE WORKERS AND POOR FARMERS, UNITE! FIGHT AGAINST THE NA- TIONAL OPPRESSION OF THE} NEGRO PEOPLE! FREE THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS! R.R. WORKERS HIT | WAGE SLASH SELL OUT OF LEADERS CLEVELAND, Ohio., Dec, 23—A railroad worker here, exposing the role of the union misleaders in help- ing the rail bosses put over wage cuts, | writes to the Daily Worker as follows: “Great Mind” Willard, president of the B. & O. sure pulled a dirty trick on the labor misleaders when) he explainedsthat the thirty day ul- timatum was issued at the “sugges- tion of some of the labor leaders.” And that he had “every confidence” that negotiations for railroad wage cuts would be settled peaceably. Woll, he ought to know. He has been “in close touche with the situ- ation” al the time, But if he had| kept quiet -like “Silent Cal” they might have been able to keep up the delusion that the union misleaders were opposing the move. Beats hell how dumb some of our great minds Railroad workers are disgusted with the way these negotiations have been conducted, and are all ready to sign up with the National Railroad Workers Industrial League. J. P. Morgan and Company can stage a triumphant march down Broadway after this is all over, using for waste- paper, the union cards which the workers have torn up’ But workers throwing their cards from high buildings should be very careful not to get any bricks mixed:in with them, Railroad workers, cutting your wages wont solve the capitalist: eco- nomie problems, as has been amply demonstrated in England and Ger- Other wage cuts are sure to) Organize the Railroad Work- ers Industrial League for the fight which we have got to win to avoid starvation. New England Workers’ Organizations Open Bazaar in Roxbury BOSTON, Dec. 22.—Tonight the four-day bazaar in which the Com- munist Party and’ many other work- ers’ organizations are participating opens at the New International Hall, 42 Wenonah Street, Roxbury. Fif- teen booths of valuable merchandise will be sold at half price. The New England Working Women’s Council is running a restaurant at the bazaar with good food at proletarian prices. ‘There will be a good each night, Nat Kaplan speaks tonight and Biedenkapp on Thursday. \ Comes Out THE WESTERN WORKER January Ist RAISE FUNDS! 52 Issnes $2 BUILD ~ Name City .. Western | A fighter to organize and lead our struggles in the West 26 Issues $1 Worker Campaign Committee u“ rounee STREET, San Francisco, Calif. ITt SUBSCRIBE NOW! 13 Issues 50c avveeees Stale .csceeee Qeee CHICAGO, Ill—The International Labor Defense is mobilizing the mas- ses for a monster protest meeting against the Illinois Criminal Syndi- calist law to be held on Wednesday, December 30th, 8 p. m, at the Coli seum, 15th and Wabash. This will be the starting the campaign for the repeal of the crimi- nal syndicalist law in Illinois and the rallying of the workers behind the defense of the seven indicted leaders of the workers. The coal barons and of the courts in southern Illinois are charging the defendants with injur- ing the business of the Orient Coal Company, also with having tried to hurt the prestige of the United Mine Workers of America. In reality it is nothing more than an attempt to terrorize the miners in nticipation of the wage cut sche |duled for April fst, 1932. It is an ttack on the ndards of living of I Illinois workers and is a denial of the right to organize and strike. Bill Gebert, one of the defendants , Plan Huge Protest Against Il. Syndicalist Law, Deportation and the district organizer of the Communist Party, will speak. ‘There will also be Mels Kjar, s miftant fighter who is now being held for deportation and who was convicted under the criminal syndicalist Jaw |in 1919 as one of the defendants in the Communist Labor Party case. J. Louis Engdahl, national secretary of the International Labor Defense and a leader well known in Chicago, will be the speaker for the International Labor Defense. The meeting while called for the repeal of the criminal syndicalist law will also demand the uncondi- tional release of the Scottsboro boys and the other class war fighters in the penitentiaries the United States. Protests will be lodged with ot the Federal Department of Labor st the deportation of the for- born fighters of the workers The International Labor Defense calls upon ali workers to come to the Coliseum to demonstrate on Dec. 30. (CONTINLED FROM PAGE ONE) vance of the living level of the Soviet workers. The delegations, which were spon- sored by the Friends of the Soviet Union-and the Workers International Relief and were elected at mass meetings of unions and workers’ or- ganizations, not only witnessed the) gigantic demonstration on Red| Square on Nov. 7 but toured exten- | sively throughout the Soviet Union inspecting the factories, visiting homes and schools and talking to the workers. | Martin Kampo, a Pennsylvania steel worker, summed up what he| saw in a few words: | “The most won- | derful country I ever saw. It is a workers’ country, being built up for | the workers.” “I would like to go right back,” said Dewy Dobinson, a AMERICAN DELEGATION RETURNS FROM U.S. S. R, running the factories, and the farms — possessing every opportu- nity to develop themselves cultur- ally, politically and economically. We are able to refute the capitalist slander that the 5 year plan is a failure. Wherever we went we saw the five year plan being accom- plished in 2 1-2 and three years, everywhere there is enormous en- thusiasm in the carrying out of the plan, the shock brigades are the driving force in this enormous tem- po, In direct contrast to the con- ditions of the workers of capitalist countries whose conditions become worse daily, we saw the workers of the Soviet Union marching from victory to victory under the politi- cal guidance of the Communist Party.” The F. S. U. delegation was com- posed of workers chiefly from the Pennsylvania miier, “but the National | } avy industries. Hudson; Hop: Miners Union needs every militant | xine Thos. aaebhcoaik M. ct a miner to help fight starvation in| the jatter a Negro worker, came from America.” Roy Hudson, a seaman | tne marine industry. J. Lewis from and chairman of the F. S. U. delega- | Youngstown and S. Langford, a ion, told of conversations he had) Negro worker from Gary, nated ete hechgeatd ay Leningrad, MOSCOW | the steel workers. Paul Baum from ae ell over: the Sovieh Union) 5 Pittsburgh represented the miners. Urge U. S. Workers to Organize. | ~orman Tallentire, member of the “The first question they generally | ational Committee of the F. S. U asked_us,” said Hudson, “was about |is building trades worker from unemployment in the United States.! Ney york. Markoff represented the When we told them of the mass/ chemical workers. Mrs. Lynch, a hunger and misery and that there | Negro and wife of a Pennsylvania were 12 million out of work im-Amer-| miner, was elected to the delegation ica, they pointed to the fact that) py the Women’s Auxiallary of the there is no unemployment in the So- National Miners Union. John Pas- viet Union and urged us to advise tercayk is a railroad worker. the American workers to follow their) me workers International Relief example. Organize into the red un- delegation, which attended the 8th jons and. the Communist Party and) wor Congress in Berlin in October build a Soviet America was their) ang joined the F. S. U. delegation in sere ee the U. 8. S. R. before Nov. 7th, was BR Hovis Workers Insured. composed of the following workers When asked if the workers in the) peng Saltzberg, a woman textile U. S. S, R. were protected by social worker from New Jersey: John Rob- insurance, Hudson told of a worker inson, a Pennsylvania miner; Martin he visited in one of the modern Crampo, a Pennsylvania steel worker: apartments in Baku. The worker Dewey Armstrong, a Pennsylvania had been sick for some time, but was| miner; C. Williams, a worker from receiving full wages and the best | yrason, Canada, and E. Royce of medical attention. Members of the | New york. delegation told of talking to aged To Tour Countey, workers who were receiving from the government old age insurance.|_ The delegates will tour the country “Every worker in the Soviet Union | SPeaking in workers’ mass organiza is rete by social insurance,” de- | sera bya iat id aes ar ee clared Hudson. e : “The only ones who are jobless and | Doak and Company, calling on the do not seem to want to work in the | Workers to organize against starva- whole U. 8. S. R..” said a member | (Or mnt 00 tne Gelense o of the delegation, “are a few of the 3 priests and clergy who stand in front; A report of the F. S. U. deiegates of churches unmolested begging Ko-| Will be heard in Philadelphia, Dec. peks.” 26, at 8 p. m. at Girard Manor; New On Red Square, | York, Dec. 27, at the New Star Casino, ‘The whole delegation declared that ,@¢ 2 p.m. The W. I. R. delegates they were astounded at the size, en-| Will report at a mass meeting at the thusiasm and strength of the dem- |New Star Casino in New York, Dea onstration on Red Square in Moscow | 28, at 8 p.m on Nov. 7. In answer to Comrade | Vorosholov’s appeal for the speeding | ‘ up of the Five Year Plan and defense ian Breigtiben A ti ow On tor of the workers’ fatherland, the work- | ers and Red soldiers pledged enthu- siastically to carry out the plan in ‘The John Reed Club is exhibiting record time and to defend the So-| the paintings and drawings of Wil- viet Union against all imperialist | liam Gropper at the club headquar- invaders. ters, 63 West 15th Street, until “Our dlegates saw for the first | Jan. 1, 1932, between 2:30 and 8 pm. time the solution of the national | daily. minority problem. 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