The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 7, 1932, Page 4

Page ear Workers’ Letters Tell WAGES OF $1.50 ; A WEEK FOR COAL MINERS IN PENNA. Workers in Old Forge Greet Anniversa “OLD FORGE, Pa f the Union: | old | Soviet We, of Forge, reeting to; the.workers of 3. S. R. on the | 15th an: s evolution. It was chain. five-sixths of Comrad miners in in this cour There 2 coal 1 operatir e your | control Worker-sportsmen on parade during a recent demonstration held in Moscow. Millions of young workers belong to sport clubs in the Soviet Union. American Workers in U.S.S.R. in Mills ed miners are their daughters, being 4 who have to leave school at an early age in o job to help keep ° . I d phe verre Refute Anti-Soviet Slanders they receive n for them | to live al an beings. N. Tagil, U. S. S. jhere: how we never havé to worry On we fe a week, these ate ‘ 7 October 7, 1932. | tor the morrow, for paying rent, doc- otcre Metin ee eee ©: | viaily “Winches, Mow York |tors’ bills, no fear of losing our jobs, | keeping th ares “burning pees : and so on. But let facts speak for | The $5 for s is given only | Comrades i eeetiesives to those who have been able to work | “We have just received a clipping of | s tno y is considered |...” article,” from - the’ Philaeeiohis | 26 Dessent we are. about 260 for- - \eigners in this city, half of whom are Bulletin of Sept. 7, in which Mrs.| americans. Most of us have been Winner pours a torrent of lies about |here almost two years and have no |living conditions in the Soviet Union. |intentions of going back, either. Since Mrs. Winner and her husband | phere are a number of men who spent a few weeks in N. Tagil and are | came here “to see what it’s like.” Now | known to the American workers here, |they have already sent for their fame we could not resist asking the Daily |iiies we are not only very well satis- Yorker to expose these liars. fied with conditions here, but are so Would space permit, we could tell a|enthusiastic that we are taking an high! these work- ers still, 3 scald. many more nh of inhuman ‘able condition: like t wall on. top. er they the boss and give a |such as taking part in | (volunteer work on the di scribing to the loan, etc. “subotniks” 'y off), sub- where they ood ‘exct’se “Lenin Showed the WwW ay” Say: Ss Farmer It is very obvious that the Winners did not come here to help the Soviet of Minnesota union, put to get as much out of it las they could without working. He -|Comrades of the U.S. S. R Greeting! I live out in the farming country | and the farmers are very hard up. | Every one is eating up their farms. | |chanic, another that he was a radio expert, a third that he was a painter, |and a fourth a photographer, but he | |forgot to say that his real specialty is what a.glorio cess capitalism |was that of lying. Of course, Mrs. a it is. ato, : te though they: ay set de in post | Winner does not mention in her arti- We, young Kors, Pledge to dee aoe anys are still lots of them |cle that they both received two week's fend our land, the Soviet Union, crepe hospital care totally free of charge in the politicians’ word for it that it will soon be all right again. They have gone through so many economic crises in their lifetime that | jeven now they hope against hepe | |that it will soon right itself. The | leapitalist politician and the news- papers are besmirching the Commu- | nist, so the backward ones are afraid | to lend an ear when they find you are ja Communist, but. there is a great | ferment among the farmers just the | agains’ Moscow, having become the strain of the voyage was too much for them. Would they get such care and attention free of charge in their dear United States, to which | |they “have returned ot stay”? Yes— maybe for inventing some more filthy |lies about the Soviet Union! Comradely yours, ick because id Mod SID MODELSKI ANTHONY WANDOLOSKY, skit and Anthony worker :n | mill went | the Dutc blind due to ve i same, They are talking strike, and a | Ys to pave 7 Buleatian few of the bolder ones have banded (Letles Vebeiia MeithYy. Worker from Gallows |tnemsewes together, and -are picket- | a ing the roads leading to the market | st the |centers. Without doubt the farmers protest fovern- |0f the United States will learn very the Bulgarian of g ment to frame and send to the gal- |fast in the coming few years. attempt IT am a man about sixty, and with | lows Jakno Panoff, former secretary | health; the only thing which | of the Communist Party, on charges | poor of participation in a bomb explosion | makes life endurable is the hope of | in the Sofia Cathedral in urged by Defense. 1925, is|the revolution. Labor! Comrade Lenin showed the way. | |By following his precepts you are| demanding his uncon- |accomplishing the great task, and by | your successes you lend encourage- ment to the rest of the world toilers, and your experience guides us in the way, Fraternally, the International new d be sent Lega- and the arian nd the fia Council. | Bethel, Minn. great deal about our living conditions | active part in socialist construction, | |told one of us that he was a me- | NEW YORK, ! MONDA NOVEMBER 7, 1932 WORKER, o80 4 ORKERS RULE USSR.” WRITES SOVIET ENGINEER ‘Old 1 Lenin on Evictions “wil fe Pena iks Retain’ Iwill Defend { the USSR Revolutionist In| arom ’M the Bolshev fe Pow ara | Stirring Me ae HE capitalist state evicts a work-| Against A Attacks : ..|fer’s family which has lost. its si paper NS Tints | breadwinner ‘and does not pay rent.| | (Continued from Page Three) ee jan Rai | TE Ci eS pon the scene a bail- bean crmecaaiand I have been 8 worl Clift peeeman, of militiaman, with a| by the Ford workers will be a-chal- Lace anies Aleiilie, 2 whole platoon of men. In a work-| lenge against Ford and all other the-czs During the driven from one | At last I was per ernment f year of 1905 ‘on to 9 the ' confine three left to s When T came out | of prison, the Oc | tober revolution saved me from | further sufferings. | We workers of the Soviet Union have war mongers, as a methog to find a way out of the present economic crisis which will mean another slaughter of workers for the in- terest of the profit system of Ford and all other capitalists. The Ford factory is being mobilized to pro- duce war materials. The Ford workers by voting for the Commu- nist Party will pledge themselves to organize anti-war committees and to stop production of war materials. district a whole detachment of Cossacks is necessary for the evic- | tion. Why? Because the bailiff and | policeman refuse to go without mil- itary protection of considerable strength. They know that the sight of an eviction brings forth such mad fury among the neighboring popu- | lation, among thousands and thou- | sands driven well-nigh to despair, such hatred against the capitalists | and the capitalist state that the| bailiff and the squad of police might at any moment be torn to weces.) Large military forces are necessary; ing cla wife a pledge themselves to fight together with the heroic Chinese people who WORKERS SHOULD _ VOTE COMMUNIST | of whether they are fully or par- And the Ford workers will further | : i in \havae. with several regiments of soldiers must z| cree etree er Art| | griten etortecte brought into the town from a prov-| EOC i ee weackes Mis ily distant, so that the| Pérlalists, such as , | der the leadership ano Seceaner! 2 feller, etc. | soldiers may know nothing of the | life of the town poor, so that the | soldiers may not be “infected” with | of the Communist ° Party and the So- viet Government, Ford factory will stand together we are building [- F | socialism, with the automobile workers in | raed enn ne x | A Workers’ Militia the Soviet ge a pestered pe actories an i 8 fatherland ! le «workers an | * Te aa The proletarian state has forcibly | eee MDE Sag || to move a very needy family into the| Peasants who have abolished this eae eee || dwelling of a rich man. Our detach-| System which breeds “Fordism” and Leathe |ment of workers’ militia consists, let| Where the workers and peasants seine Eius say of fifteen people—two sol-| fe building ete Se on to diers, two sailors, two clasé-consclous|. The Ford workers stows vole | abe ernie Ie workers (of which only one needs to| Communist because it wil labor, while there be a member of our party or sym-| ™ass mobilization and mass fight are millions Of jierzog, U.S. S | against ‘he following condition ex- n| bathizing with it) one intellectual, |and eight poor laborers, of whom there would be at least five women, servants, unskilled workmen and so 5: on. The detachment comes to the ucate ow children. Under czarism | rich man’s house, investigates, and a worker could not even dream of | tings five rooms for two men and | such opportuniti Thanks to the Soviet Goverr my children re On eae SE oe children te-| “For this winter, citizens, you must | unemployed in the | capitalist countries. We, workers of the Soviet Union, | have an opportunity to study and ed- x Honored by pressed by a Ford worker, R. L. Cruden, in the pamphlet in “The End of the Ford Myth.” “The Ford Myth has been washed away in blood, The legend of high wages, good conditions, contented workers, was riddled by the bullets which killed four celved a thorough education. One of | confine yourselves’ to two rooms and| Unemployed workers and wounded la newspaper-and a well-known jour- | Pfebare two rooms for two families! Now the world knows that all this toni anoiiestb 6a engineer’ the | at are now living in cellars. For) tary of Ford's paternal interest in third’ an artist. My daughter stil|% time, until with the help of en-| his workers is the sheerest hypo- goes to school, Iam a udamik|simeers (you are an engineer, I} cricy. built up by him own pub- \(shock worker) and was rewarded | ink?) we built good houses for all. icity agents and dished out by twice for excellent work. I was also |You Will have to put yourselves out| the capitalist press. elected member to the Tiflis Soviet. |# bit. Your telephone will serve ten| put for Ford workers, the Ford | families, This will save about a hun-| ; myth exploded years ago. Workers far from the Forg plant might be misled by the unending stream of bunk emanating from the Ford publicity department. We who have worked for Ford long ago learned, by bitter first-hand experience what the Ford policy means in action. Driven at an inhuman pace by foremen picked for their brutality and kicked out when we slowed up; shifted to other departments at a lower salary, or fired and then rehired at the lower wage, while the Ford publicity men blared forth “no wage cuts”; at the mercy of the armed Ford guards and secret men with power to fire any worker instantly whose walk or talk or look any of them found disp'easing; our work-week cut at the expense of our pay en- velopes and then driven to pro- |day for nine cents a day, which is| 20ce the seme amount of work T live in Lawrence Park, a suburb| given out by the company for gro-| in {he fewer hours; our “week” of of Erei, Pa, which is owned and|ceries to live on. I's; gw or! odes tie ake G8 atlas controlled by the General Electric.) I often thing of you workers in| out of work altogether, waiting What few workers are left are work-|the Soviet Union. It must be great | day after day for those long pro- ing on the stagger system two and|to be a worker there, and to start} miseq jobs; standing hour after | three day: st enough to|to work in the morning and know) four at the Ford plant gate, under keep them off the Poor Board, which | that you are working for the benefit the arrogant and brutal surveil- a a| of all the people and not for a bunch| Jance of Ford’s servicemen, shoved nem-| of grafters or robbers. I am working around and builied, beaten up oF haye worked for| towards the day we can shake hands| siuged, if we dare talk Beck, for years piling} with you workers of the Soviet Union| such is the famous Ford policy as S and have | and say we have chased our robbers| we auto workers get it.” on account of | and grafters out. That is why the Ford workers should vote Communist on Nov, 8. a sorrespondent of many newspapers, The workers of | | the Soviet Union work, nof for bosses Jand landlords, but for themselves | dred hours’ work in running to the} | stores, and so on. Then in your| |family there are two unovcupied | semi-workers capable of doing light. | work—a woman of fifty-five and a} | boy of fourteen. They will be on duty for three hours daily, superin- tending the distribution of products for the ten families and they will |Keep the necessary accounts. _ The/ s i % student in our detachment will write | Sends Greeting's ou two copies of the text of this| state order and you will kindly.give ERIE, Pa—I am a former worker | US @ signed declaration of your un- | jof the General Electric for two years, | dertaking to carry out the duties ac- but have been unemployed two years | curately.” | count of the capitalist depres- jew, could be demon- after | strated in v clear examples the | ng system on| difference between the old bourgeois | id le nty of wage cuts, | and, the new socialist state apparatus | a depression for | and state admniistration. the capitalist system} , 80 I joined the work~ Former. General | | Electric Werker ers’ movement. up profits for t spent all —A. R. ND finally, the workers in the | ‘WHY THE FORD) =|What ee Workers Have Achieved In Fitteen Years (Continued from: Page Three) tially insured. Fully insured work- ers receive full wages when dis- abled, All workers under twenty years of age get full wages no mat- ter for how short a time they were insured. Old age pensions are gua>snteed to all workers in the mining, mctal- lurgical, electrical, chemical, tex- tile, printing, glass and railway and water transportation industries. Miners engaged work are entitled to a pension after 50. Old age pensions are awarded to men of 60 with 25 years of work behind them, and women of 55 with 20 years of work. The safety and health of all Soviet workers - are safeguarded by an elaborate ma- chinery for the enforcement of the most favorable Labor Code in the world, a machinery which includes not only the government, but the | trade unions, the Party and many other workers’ organizations. URING 1930 the City of New York evicted 150,000 workers’ families into the street for non~ payment of rent. What becomes of them and their children does not concern the capitalist government. Throughout the U.S.A. hundreds of thousands of workers’ families are forcibly thrown out of their houses to starve and freeze. ‘The Russian workers have put an end to such capitalist “property rights.” The renting arrangements of the Soviet workers are superior to any in the world. A worker's family rents a house for an indef- inite period and cannot be ejected when he ceases to work for the municipality that owns it. The amount of rent he pays depends on his income. The more children and dependents he has, the less is his rent. Workers get all kinds of -special deductions, certain categories get~ ting as much as 80 per cent in re- bates. In many enterprises thoy get rent, light and fuel free of charge. In America, as in all capitalist countries, the average worker when he is not jobless and penniless, pays at least 20 per cent, or one-fifth of his income for rent. In the So- viet Union, the workers, don’t pay more than 64 per cent of their wages for rent. THE FORCED LABOR LIES The way Freeman tears the ri- diculous “forced labor” slander to pieces is a joy to read. He exam- ines all the “proofs” that the wage- cutting labor-hating lumber barons in underground | and manganése producers of this country have brought forth, and exposes their rottenness. “The duty to p&rform some useful work is universal in the Soviet Union,” he says, “because the So- viet system is based on the absence of social classos whose needs ar¢ provided for by others.” Any worker’in tne soviet Union can accept or refuse any specified job. In no ease can a worker be forced to accept any job which he does not desire. ;'The Labor Code guarantees all workers against dis- missal without cause. A worker can break an agreement made for an indefinite period ‘whether he has cause or not. Ifthe management of a particular enterprise violates any section of the Labor Code per- taining to working conditions, a worker has the-right to leave with- out giving notice. “Forced labor” isa slander invented by reactionary apitalists fighting Soviet trade and by the equally reactionary labor | bureaucracy. | The cry of “forced” labor must have a mocking sound to the hun- dreds of thousands of American workers breaking rocks and digging on the highways in order to receive $2 or $3 a week in. groceries from the so-called Relief Boards. . 8 8 It is made-clear in Freeman’s book that the Socialist planning of the Five-Year Plan is separated by millions of miles from the mis- erable “economic planning” schemes hatched by slick “liberals” like Stu- art Chase, or by “socialist” dema- gogues like Norman Thomas. ‘These smooth-sounding schemes are silent on. the . life-and-death question, what class will control the government and the industries? By whom, and in whose interest will these plans be made? All these “plans” in which the workers will be “partners” for: the “common good” are nothing but disguises for fascism, the open military dictator- ship of the bourgeoisie. Freeman never lets the’ read- er forget what most books on the Seviet Union ‘try to pass over very quietly, that’ the ‘epoch-making meaning of the’ victorious Five- Year Plan lies not only in its heroic economic and cultural victories, but in the lesson that to escape from capitalist robbery the workers must themselves take control of the gov- ernment and the industries. Although the. book is written with coolness. and objectivity of a scientific report;.there beats be- neath it a powerful excitement bee cause the author.is aware that he is describing the most significant event in modern history, the build~ ing of Socialism. He knows that the capitalist.wolves will not let this workers’ government develop without an attempt.to chush it by force. By making the truth about the Soviet worker available to Am- erican workers, Freeman has con- tributed ammunition for the de- fense of the Soviet Union. Right here in this book is what the American’ workers and small farmers must fight for if they do not wish to be ‘driven down to coolie standards of living by the attacks of the capitalist ‘tlass. To accept the program “of ‘the Communist Party and to struggle for its real- ization, to vote for Foster and Ford, is to give noticé to the capitalist masters of America that we are determined to get’ for ourselves the economic security, the real work- ing class democracy and the stead- ily rising living. standards. which Freeman has’ so masterfully put down for all to see in The Soviet Worker. We, he workers in the United States, gongesenlare you upon the wonded fala success seat your Five-Year bien the revolutionary banner of the Communist Party of the U. S. 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