The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 9, 1932, Page 4

Page Four = 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1932 ne tremendous interest of the woraing in what is going on in the Soviet Union and the development of the Five Year Plan socialist construction, greatly increased by the continually worsening crisis and the spread of unemployment and stravation in the United made it possible for I. Amter, District Organizer of the Communist Party in New York, to debate over the radio with Eve Gar- rette Grady, one of the most unscrupulous an- ti-Communist and anti-Soviet propagandist States Eve Garretie Grady, wife of an American engineer employed by the Soviet Union, at = far better salary than he ever received in he U d States, after her return to Amrica, lized the fact of their having been in the eviet Union, to peddle Wes and slanders inst the Communists in the United States, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union and the Five Year Vian in such openty reactionary magazines as “Liberty,” for. merly owned by the Chicago Tribune and now ewned by the MacFadden interests, and over the radio network. The opening speech of Comrade Amter and his rebuital contain a whole series of basic tacts in regard to the progress of the Soviet Union under the proletarian dictatorship and are a complete refutation of the lies of his eppenent and other anti-Soviet writers and peakers. This specch will be especially valu- ection with the struggle for work- ers’ unemployment insurance in the United States, inst the whole Hoover Hunger Pro- gram and in the struggle against the impe- rialist war danger. ce sviet Russia: The sent time, is net an : is the build- under the dictatorship of The workers and peasants Union are building up the new the Five Year Plan, based upon Production takes place in or- eeds and wants of the workers t is possible to plan ds, forces, etc. to that not possible under the and that reason the nd statesmen, from Hoover planning, face an stem they stand chaos, which ist system un planned ec therefore Nocating fu e the Planlessness > overvreduction, to rivalry for markets, une ly to wa Only the establish- me iet governments the world over can anarchy, to misery and and farmers, and to ment—and a world will bring peace to 9 capitalis' we 1 can and today? Only a few 1 Labor Bureau an- nounced that there is no unemployment in the Soviet Union, whereas in the capitalist coun- tries there are 100,000,000 people without income or means of existence. This number is under- stated, and yet it indicates one thing—that while the capitalist world is in the economic crisis and sinking ever deeper into it, only one coun- try, representing 163,000,000 people and one- sixth of the globe, is going forward with tre- mendous speed. The papers also announced a report of the German Economic Research [Institute that, whereas in 1928, the Soviet Union produced 5.5% of the world output, occupying 5th place the list, it had risen to third place:in June 931, passing Germany and England. In Au- fust 1931, the Soviet Union stood in the second place, with 11.4% of the world production, sec- ond only to the United States! This shows that in the midst of the world cataclysm, only the Soviet Union is marching forward. Whereas in the capitalist countries the annual increase of production is between 2 and 10%, in the Soviet Union production is increasing at the rate of 20 to 35% per year. his is unparalleled in the history of the world—and is due to the planned economy, the enthusiasm of the wor s and peasants and the leadership of the Communist Party in building Socialis: “Soviet Dumping” Nonsense The Soviet Union is not disconnected from the rest of the world. On the contrary, it is con- nected by diplomatic and trade relations. Be- fore the war, during the time of the Czars, the foreign trade of Russia w 19 per cent of the world tre Today it is only 1 per ceht of the world tra Her the wild tales of “Soviet dumping’ are nonsense and are concocted for the purpose of antagonizing the workers and farmers of the United States. Therefore in considering the building of socialism in the So- viet Union we must consider the time and period in which it is taking place, Tt is occurring at # time of the worst econ- omic crisis in history. According to reliable sta~ tistics, there are between 35 and 40 million un- employed in the capitalist countries; with the United States at the top of the Ist with 13,- 900,000. Wage cuts, speed-up and child labor— Terror Will Not Check the Kentucky Strike | SOCIALIST CONSTRU | only conduct these wars with the workers and | the ravage of the World War, the economic | | | | | | | | | | | | | CTION IN THE SOV om = Presentation and Rebuttal by Comrade I. Amter on Dec. 27, 1931, in the COMRADE AMTER | District Organizer of the Communist Party | in New York 3,336,000 children between 7 and 17 are working in the United States. The financial structure of the capitalist countries is breaking down. Germany is on the verge of collapse, and the German bankers and finance lords are compen- sating themselves by bleeding the German work- ers, with the aid of the German social demo- crats. The same is taking place in England and all other countries. The capitalist world “stands before a collapse,” as Hoover declared. This is pushing the imperialist world to war, and Man- | churia is the door to this war. ‘This war, how- | ever, is not among the imperialist powers alone, | who want markets and fields of investment for their billions of capital, but is in preparation for war against the Soviet Union. Hoover declares that “the ambition of my life is to crush out Soviet Russia.” This is the ambition of all tb- perialist governments, which conduct and can farmers as the cannon fodder. Socialist Upbuilding In the midst of this chaos and feverish prep- arations for war, the workers and easants of the Soviet Union are building up Socialism and pushing forward the Rive-Year Plan, which is ot | be completed in 1933. So splendid are the re- sults thus far attained that in some industries, the Plan has already been realized—in oil in2% years, in glectricity in 3 years, and the whole plan will completed in 4 years. Now the So- viet Government is organizing the second Five- Year Plan. What has been the development in dustry on the basis of the Five-Year Plan? In 1920 after blockade established by the U. S., British and French governments, after the attempted inter- ventions through counter-revolutionary armies, industrial production was only 20 per cent of By MYRA PAGE Foreign Correspondent of the “Daily Worker” FTER leaving Baku our international delega- tion came to Tiflis, main city of Soviet Geor- gia and capitol of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federated Soviet Republics. Situated on the fam- ous Georgian Pass in the Caucasian mountains, Tiflis developed as a fur trading center long be- fore the Norsemen set sail for America. Each day a caravan of 2,000 camels left over the long trail for India, Because of its luxurious vinyards and flower gardens the city became a pleasure resort for the czars and landed nobility. Many of the handsome palaces Which they once occupied have been transformed, we found, into workers’ clubs, trade union headquarters, museums, and Soviet and other public buildings. When Workers Inhabit Fifth Avenue Mansions, To realize what this means, picture the day, not so far off, when the American working class will take over the Florida and Fifth Avenue mansions of the Rockefellers and Morgans, trans- forming them into clubs for themselves and their families. When Newport, now sporting place for the idle rich will be a center of rest homes | for those who came directly from the machines | and the farms for their vacations. When the palaces of Pittsburgh’s steel and coal kings will house steel workers, when Chicago's Gold Coast boasts its Proletarian Avenue, the Soviets oo- cupy the city halls, and’ the wnions and Com- munist Party have heaGquarters in the main publie buildings, This is what has happened in Tiflis, as well a8 all over the Soviet Union. Peace Where War Once Ruled. Tts strategic position and natural resources made Tiflis and the swrounding Georgian tere ‘Radio Debate with Eva Garzette Grady 1913, agricultural production only 69 per cent. Today the picture is quite different. The big- gest power stations in the world are being erect- ed in the Soviet Union, tremendous steel and machine plants, big auto and tractor plants are being erected. Foundries and chemical, plants for the prodiction of fertilizers, etc., are being built in all parts of the country. Where they are being built, new cities are being established, with the most modern workers’ homes, hospitals, clubs, workers counters, theatres. This is the method of planning in the Soviet Union—which only the Soviets can produce. The Workers’ Lot What is the situation of the workers? The number is steadily increasing. Not only is there no unemployment, but there is need of 2,000,000 | | more workers in the factories of the Soviet Union. Compare this with the United States, where 12,000,000 workers can find no work. In the Soviet factories there is rationalization—not the speed-up system of Ford. The worker knows that increased production means more products for the workers, that new machinery means chea- er production. It means higher wages, and les~ hours of work. It enables the government to accumulate more funds to put into the erection of more factories, homes, clubs, for the benefit of the workers and peasants. In carrying out this work, the workers of the Soviet Union enter into socialist revolutionary competition to finish the Five-Year Plan in a shorter time. This enthusiasm is led by the mem- bers of the Communist Party and the Young Communist League, who are at the front in all these endeavors. Shock brigades go into the fac- tories, to the collective farms in all parts of the country, to lead in the completion of the Five- Year Plan, where workers are still backward. This enthusiasm can be evoked only where the work- ers know that increased effort, increased pro- | duction will be to the benefit only of the workers. Hours Down; Wages Up. Hours of work in the Soviet Union have stead- | ily been reduced, since there is continuous pro- duction in the factories, which makes it possible to get the full value out of the machine. Every worker is fully protected by social insurance. This means that they are protected against accident, sickness, invalidism, old age, etc. After 40 years of work, the worker may retire fully protected. | The funds devoted to social insurance by the Soviet Government amount to more than one billion dollars. There is no child labor in the Soviet Union. Women about to become mothers are allowed two months before childbirth and two months after childbirth with full pay. The trade unions in the Soviet Union are the most powerful in the world, having 14,500,000 | members. They ci cational and cultv most profound inter: and struggles of the worke countri Education is being promoted at a tremendous speed in the Soviet Union. Before the war, nearly on a whole em of edu- this number will be increased to 40,000,000. Mil- lions of peasants and workers are now for the first time learning to read and write—this ap- plying particularly to the~remote republics of the Soviet Union. Wliteracy is being wiped out. How does this compare with the U. S., with millions of native Americans getting no school- ing, and on account of poverty have to bring up their children in the same way? How does this compare with the Negroes in the South, whose children are given a few months of meager training, with the migratory workers’ children hardly seeing the inside of the school? Crowded Schools. The universities and technical schools in the Soviet Union are crowded, and yet the demand for engineers and technicians cannot be satisfied The factory schools are growing in number, but cannot supply the need of skilled labor. The situation of the peasantry is steadily im- proving. The collectivization plan—the cultiva- tion jointly of their plots of land—is teaching the peasants socialism on the land. During the tsars, and even till of late, they occupied small plots of land, which they tilled with primitive tools and implements. Now some of the collec- tives and Soviet farms cover an area of 500,000 acres—-the largest in the world, which are culti- vated with tractors and the most modern imple- ments. The peasants in the collectives procure the tractors through the co-operatives, which both in the city and on the land play a very prominent part in the life of the country. Today 54 per cent of the 26,000,000 peasants are in the collectives, The Five-Year Plan called for 22 per cent. The goal is 100 per cent collectivization which yill soon oe accomplished, Only in the Soviet Union, do the national mi- horities find full development and safety. In the capitalist countries, they are oppressed and ex- ploited by the ruling class, Self-determination, the beautiful slogan of Wilson, was only a snare. The Soviet Union put it into practice as only a workers’ government can do. The oppression of the Negroes in this country as a national minor- ity is an evidence of national oppression. ‘This is taken as @ matter of course by the white impe- tialists. But the Communists take up the fight for self-determination for the Negroes, just as ritory for many centuries the victim of warfare between feudal princes competing for the rich prize. To serve their own ends these successive rulers stirred up enmity between the various small nationalities in Georgia, and between Geor- gians, Turks, and Armenians. The Russian czars, who finally subjugated this country followed the same policy of divide and’ rule. The history of Tiflis and Georgia, therefore,—until 1931, when the native workers and peasants, with the help of the Red Army drove out the last of their op- Pressors and established their Soviet power,— Was one of continual strife and of economic and cultural stagnation. Today in Georgia we find a People being re- born. Nationalities that once fought bitterly are now united in building up industries, collective farms, schools, and new workers’ towns. Accord- ing to the policy of the Communist Party and Soviets each nationality enjoys full rights of self- government, with schools and press conducted in its own language. All of this was strictly for- bidden by the czarist regime. The small republic of Soviet Georgia, with its population of two and a half million is composed of three autonomous republics. Georgia, in turn, is united with the republics of Armenia and Azerjaidjan to form the Transcaucasian Federation, Joseph Stalin, a native Georgian, played a large part in the formulation of this correct na- tional policy. The pride and affection which his fellow-countrymen feel for him is evidenced in many ways. Life-size portraits and busts are even more numerous in workers’ clubs here than in Russia proper, while plant after Plant has been christened by its workers—textile or steel fac- tory—“in the name of Comrade Stalin.” From Oxearts to Hydroelectric Power An example of Georgia’s industrial develop- ment fe the electric power station erected on the PIONEER CORNER Kura river, near Tiflis. Begun in 1922, just one year after the last mensheviks and imperialists were driven out, it was completed in 1927. Four thousand workers took part in its construction. | ‘This woman textile worker can work in peace, confidént that her child is being well cared for in the factory's free nursery, 80 per cent of the peasants and 36 per cent of | the city population, were illiterate; today more than 20,000,000 children are in the and | Union has granted autonomy tional group for the fullest national culiure. No Butger—No Luxury. In the Soviet-Union, THERE IS NO HUNGER ~THERE 1§.ALSO NO LUXURY. The workers and peasants are working hard and with enthu- siasm in the building up of Socialism, which, if not interrupted by en imperialist war, will place the Sovet Union by the year 1940 abead of the United States, the foremost country in produc- tion. The Soviet Union is the only country that wants peace. Many provocations have been used against the Soviet Union. The murder of Sovict representatives in Geneva, Poland, China—the seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway, which, had it concerned any other government, would have led to war, The Soviet Government knows that only the workers and farmers bleed in war —and that they have to pay the price after the war. Therefore at the disarmament conference called by the League of Nations, it was the So- viet Government that proposed full disarmament and then partial disarmamént; but it was re- jected by the representatives of the capitalist. governments. It is the Soviet Government alone today that stands for peace. Other governments profess peace—but their actions belie them. The war in Manchuria, the provocations against the Soviet Union in Poland, the provocation of the Czechoslovakian diplomat in Moscow against the life of the Japanese ambassador, for the purpose of causing war between the Japanese and the Soviet governments, indicate that the imperial- ists are driving the war against the Soviet Union. Hoover is preparing to fulfil the “ambition of his life.” the Sovie' yvelop- U.S.S.R. for Peace. The Soviet Government declares that it wants peace—peace to build up Socialism. But it like- wise declares that it will defend every inch of the Workers Fatherland, the Soviet Union. The Red Army is made up of the youth of the young Soviet Republic. These young workers and peas- ants know that they are defending the country that is “theirs, the country that belongs to the working class and peasantry. Is the building of Socialism‘in the Soviet Union @ success? It is a tremendous success, and the capitalists know that this success, is challenging their system. That is why they fear the Soviet Union. They know that the Russian Revolution has shown the workers and farmers the way out of the capitalist system. Therefore, the capital- ists of the entire world are preparing to destroy the Soviet Union. In this they will not succeed, for the growth of Socialism in the Soviet Union and its defense also by the revolutionary workers outside the Soviet Union means the development of the revo- lutionary working class movement which will destroy capitalism and establish in its place So- THE SOVIET GEORGIANS.--A PEOPLE REBORN Its 36,000 horsepower will be quadrupled during the next year. This station is helping to trans- form th: cld Georgia of lamps and ox-carts into & modern land of electricity and motor power. At the same time the people, formerly so illit- erate, have built up their school system until ninety-eight percent of all children are now in school, In a Factory Narsery. Typical of the new social life in Georgia are the workers apartments, and the free nursery for children of mothers working at the looms in the Stalin silk factory in Tiflis. About 1,200 women girls are employed here, working a seven hour day and earning on an average from $20 to $25 a week. This sum is quite adequate because all medical attention is free, the new workers’ houses are practically rent free, food and clothes are bought at cheap prices in the co-operative stores, and full wages are paid to a woman who falls ill or who for any reason can not work. This in- cludes freedom from work, at full wages, for two months before and two months after childbirth. We donned white uniforms over our clothes in order to inspect the nursery. There are several light, airy rooms, tinted blue, rose, or yellow, and lined with neat rows of cots, along the walls. In the dining room are small chairs and table, where the children get their free meals and milk while their mothers are at work. Flowers and bright pictures give the rooms a lively, home- like appearance. ‘The nursery ts free to the workers, the factory management setting aside ® sum for its main- tenance equal to one-fourth of the total wage bill, IET UNION IS A SUCCESS viet governments throughout the world, united in the World Soviet Union, as the step to Com- munism. Amter’s Rebuttal. My oppponent declares that there is an instinct ong people for amassing private property. Thia se. This iews that my opponent does iow that olden society was organized upon a@ Commmunistic basis’and only in the develep- ment of society, and particularly under capital» ism, has the ‘so-called instinct for private prop- erty been developed. My opponent also does not know the difference between state capitalism and what is taking place in the Soviet Union. Under state capitalism the capitalists use the state for the purpose of organizing industry for their own benefit. In the Soviet ‘Union, on the contrary, the incustries are controlled by the workers and peasants and are operated through the govern. ment for the benefit of the great masses of the workers and peasants. This is a vast difference that my opponent does not understand whatever. Squeeze Greater Profits. My opponent declares that the U. S. Governs ment could, if it wished; wipe out unemployment by appropriating 35 billion dollars. We might ask the U. S. government does not do so. On December 7, when the Hunger Marchers pre~ sented their demands before the U. S. Congress, they were rejected. On the same day, in his message to mgress, Hoover declared himself against any, d of relief and insurance. But even if the .. Government did appropriate this sum, this could not end unemployment, for unemployment is a part of the entire capitalist system owing to the increasing pro -ctive ca- pacity of industry above th- °.,iag power of the masses. The speed-up i ethods on the job and the introduction of new machinery throw masses of workers out of a job every year, and this, together with the increasing productive capacity, faces capitalist industry with a prob- lem that it can never solve. Only when the workers and peasants take over government and plan production, can unemployment be put an end to, as has been done in the Soviet Union. My opponent is very much excited about de- mocracy in the Soviet Union, which is the only genuine democracy in the world, based upon the masses of workers in the shops and the peasants on the land, and is expressed through the So- viets. I would refer her, however, to the “ée- mocracy” in the U. S. “Democracy” in the U. 8. is a fake. How can one talk about democracy when Mooney and Billings have been languish- ing in prison for 15 years on the basis of » frame-up? How can one talk about democracy when the nine Scottsboro Negro boys face elec- treeution on one of the vilest frame-tips in his- tory? How can one talk about democracy when | injunctions are used against the workers, when police smash the heads of the workers on picker. lines and at demonstrations? Who can talk about democracy when miners in Kentucky are shot down in cold blood for fighting against the feu- dal conditions in Kentucky? Who can talk about democracy when 12 million workers are allowed to starve? How can ‘ohe talk about democracy when the foreign-born are terrorized in order to force them to accept the role of strike-breakers, when Negro workers, tenant farmers and share~ croppers are kept in a state of slavery? Fish’s “Democracy”. This is the great democracy that Matthew Woll, Hamilton Fish, the Socialist Party and the A. F. L, leaders boast about, but it is a capitalist dictatorship that expresses itself, and the workers are beginning to understand it, as the workers in Russia understood it when they overthrew the government that represented this so-called de- Taocracy. My opponent speaks against the leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and. especially assails Comrade Stalin, the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the leader of the Communist International. The workers of Germany are now passing through the bitterest struggles and are looking to the Com- munist Party for leadership. The masses of Chins. organized 80 million strong under the Soviets of China, recognize only the Communist leadership. In India, the masses are in movement and are rapidly moving in the direction of the Commu- (nist Party, for it is only the Communist Party throughout the world and the Communist Inter- national that are leading the workers and peas- ants in struggle against the crisis and against the whole syste mof capitalism. Communism Advances. What is being expressed here is the fear and hatred of the capitalists of the development of the Five-Year Plan in the Soviet Union. They know that it is a struggle today between indi- vidualism and.Communism, as Hoover says, and therefore in the hope of being able to stop the completion of the Five-Year Plan, the imperial- ists are organizing war against the Soviet Union. The revolutionary movement cannot be stepped. On the contrary, it is developing at the mosd rapid pace in Germany, Poland, China, India and will engulf the whole world including the United States, which can only result in the destruction of capitalism and the establishment of Soviet: government ‘ough the world and a world Soviet Unit the transitional step to Com- munism, Protest the Arrest of Kentucky Strike Leaders Just as I was thrown in to Harlan calism for organizing defense for the ‘Harlan miners, so now are four more women organizers put behind Pine- ville Jail’s iron bars—under the same charge—becausé they organized relief and defense*fr support of the mass strike of the miners, Bad as Harlan Jail was—with its beans and bugs—the women prison- ers there would look sick and faint when told they were to be taken to Pineville. (All liquor charge prisoners are sent there from adjoining coun- ties). In .the ancient Pineville Jail the women are herded into one cramped and stuffy room. all of them together: those who had sold @ little corn whiskey to buy their Kids school books; the prostitutes, at Yeast those who could not afford to ay the graft; and perhaps a murd- erer or two. While we would be cating our beans and cabbage out of rusty tin pans’ the women would tell how lucky ‘we were not to be in Pineville. There the food—if it can be called food— ¥$ passed around in one huge pail, ]trom which each one helps himself. #ail on charges of Criminal Syndi- } little red, brics: But what's the use of trying to eat, |anyway—all crowded together, sitt- | ing on the cots and on the floor, try- |ing to endure the foul odor of the | toilet in the middle of the room, watching the cockroaches scurrying by dozens around the walls, Last summer when Dan Brooks, union organizer, was driven from Harlan with a price over his head, and I was thrown into jail, thus clear- ing the field of the two “snake-doc- tors from New York,” the Kentucky operators were surprised to see that the union did not fall to pieces. The local organizers forged ahead build- ing the union in new mines and new territory. Then the local leaders were jailed or driven out, new leaders sprang up and took their place, ‘The Kentucky coal barons have their lesson to learn all over again. They won't halt a strike of 18,000 miners by jailing nine leaders. Not only are the miners spreading the strike in Kentucky, demonstrating by thousands under the leadership of the ‘International Labor Defense around the Pineville Jail and court house, demanding the freedom of A their leaders but a burst of TLD-led protest from workers everywhere wit shake this Holy of flies of Ameri- can boss terror. Kentucky is the fighting front of workers all over the world. The min- ers are fighting heroically... Help them. Rush funds for Kentucky de- fense to the LL.D., Room 430, 80 E. llth Street, New York City. Jessie Wakefield. LENIN 1870—1924, This month workers in all the countries of the world will gather in huge mass meetings and demonstra- tions to pay respect to their great leader—LENIN. In all the cities of the United States thousands of workers children will attend these meetings to show that they are will- ing to follow the teachings of this great leader. It was Lenin at the head of the Bolsheviks, who led the workers and peasants of Russia—now the Soviet Union—to freedom. He was not only the leader, but he was the teacher of the workingclass, teaching them how to build the movement of workers and farmers. Lenin was born in the town of Simbirsk on April 10, 1870. His an- cestors were peasants. He went to school in that little town and after being refused admittance because his brother had been executed by the czar for fighting for the workers, he was finally accepted. But soon the got rid of him by expelling him. Now Comrade Lenin became more active for the cause of the workers whom he loved well. The bitter life of the Russian and so crushed—-made Lenin's spirit stronger and his hatred toward the master class keener. From the very beginning he gained the love and confidence of the workers. He helped on organizing little strikes—such as strikes for shorter hours, higher wages, and hot tea for the workers. And not only did he work with the workers, but he wrote up also these experiences so that other workers could profit from them. He was soon imprisoned for his activities and then exiled, ‘His experience in the 1905 RevolD= tion, which was unsuccessful, helped him in 1917 to lead the workers and peasants of Russia to freedom. Lenin pointed out to the workers in the World War that they were fighting not for themselves, but for their authorities discovered that he was enemies—the bosses. After the so- active among the students, so theycalled “democratic” By ANN BARTON (Written in the Pineville, Ky, Jail) PINEVILLE, Ky., Jan. 7—Alarmed by the spread of the strike in Bell County the coal operators have made an unsuccessful attempt to break the mass movement of the miners against starvation. Arresting six of the leading work- ers in the strike, deputies of County Attorney Smith confiscated books, Kerensky was set up, Lenin, at the head of the workers, established the first workers and peasant’s govern- ment. At last the workers and farm- ers were free, ‘The bosses of the oth- er countries tried to overthrow the government by sending armies against it and by trying to kill Lenin. Although he ‘vas seriously wounded, he recovered—though not’ entirely— to see some of the results of his hard work. When on January 21, 1924, he died, the workers all over the world mourned the best friend, guide, teacher and comrade they ever had —he who led them to freedom. Let us as workers children follow Government of in the way of Lenin. letters, everything they could lay hands on, in the office of the Na- tional Miners’ Union at Pineville | yesterday. A-little later three more were picked up on the street. Held under $5,000 appearance bond each, Norman Martin, Vern Smith, Jonn Harvey, Ann Barton, Margaret Fontaine, Julia Parker, Dorothy Ross, Weber and C. Michelson are held under charge of criminal syn- dicalism, Ordering the miners giving reports on the strike out of the office, bran- dishing a gun, a deputy game war- den searched the office, confiscat- ing all paper, etc., and arrested the first named six. A little later Dor- othy Ross, Weber and Michelson were picked up on the street, A spontaneous demonstration of miners took place at the court house steps. Miners surrounded the court SS ANY $1.50 OR $1 INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS BOOK WITH ONE 12-MONTH SUBSCRIPTION TO THE DAILY WORKER house all day, Reports came in that a mass picket line of men, women and chil- dren marched from Glendon to Cary: and then back to Glendon, At Glendon a woman leading the picket line refused to move when the boss threatened to run her over with. @ car, The picket line stopped the car and the mine did not run, Relief must be rushed in. Renk and file organizers are continuing the spreading of the strike, This manete ver of the operators will not stop: the strike, but spur the miners and give them a clearer picture of the tactics of the operators, It has bem. reported that a committee headed by “Massy” Colman is checks of $200 to break the strike, In the court Mrs. Hutchins, who tese tified against the Dreiser Committe tee, was much in evidence, Although she has no official position she is om intimate terms with the court, terial taken from the office included. applications of the N. M. U. County Attorney Smith says he wi not rest until the “agitators” ere driven from the ecounte ° ¢ F i?