The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 2, 1933, Page 1

\ y on “f: EVERY READER GETS A NEW SUBSCRIBER! 1. Mentien the Daily Worker in all leaf- lets, posters and cards issued in your district. Ne 2. Visit former expired subscribers and ask them to renew their subs. 3. Take advantage of the combination of- y fers in subscribing for the “Daily”. ail Central 4 NCD (Section of the Communist International) unist PD, orker erty U.S.A. ~ SEND GREETINGS FOR THE ANNIVERSARY EDITION! 1. Send greetings for the special Ninth Anniversary-Lenin Memorial edition of the Daily Worker, Jan. 14. 2. Get your friends and shepmates and sympathetic organizations to send greetings. All greetings must be in not later than Jan- 8, Vol. X, No ‘1: In the Day’s News ARMY WAR MANOUVERS. WASHINGTON, Jan, 1—Simulat- W first motorized field artillery battery will Ieave from Fort. Bragg, N. C., on Jan. 3 for thirty days of maneu- vers, which will take it through the principal cities of the several states ‘on the way to Washington. Every detail has been arranged to test the |FormWorker Advisory | deadly effectiveness of the new war | apparatus and to stimulate the war) spirit among the population. | Pe SY FORM NEW CABINET IN SOFIA SOFIA, Jan. 1—Bulgarian fascism attempted to tighten its grip through the move of Premier Muschanoff, who established a new cabinet today which is not even representative of the majority of the present conser- yative parliament. The move comes as a result of Communist victories in the elections and the growing revolu- tionary upsurge of the workers and peasants. It is predicted that the life | of the new cabinet will not be very | long. PLAN DEATH FOR MILLIONS | LONDON, Jan. 1—Deadly gases, | being prepared for the next impreial- ist slaughter, capable of wiping out} the entire population of cities as} large as London, to be carried in! small bombs each of which would kill everybody within an area of a square mile, are described by the Earl of Halsbury in the British Legion Journal. Munition com- panies have declated their readiness to produce such gasses at the rate of 100 tons daily. . SPEED WAR PRODUCTION STEYR, Austria, Jan. 1—The Steyr Works munition plant is ex~ pected to re-open here Tuesday as a result, of the growing conflict in South America, as well as orders from Brazil and Portugal trying to keep step with preparations for an- other imperialist war by the capi- | talist powers. The socialist, officials | ‘of the Metal Workers’ Union again showed their willing co-operation the war-mongers by agreeing that the workers begin in the plant wander a 5 per cent wage-cut. LRA. IN CALL 10 WORLD'S TOILERS Urges Increased Fight for Scottsboro 9 NEW YORK —A call to the toilers | of the world to intensify the fight for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys has just been issued by the In- ternational Red Aid, of which the International Labor Defense is the American section, to every one of its sections in seventy-one countrics. ‘The cali analyzes the decision of the U. 8. Supreme Couri, showing that American imperialism, from this very decision which was forced cut of the “court of last illusions” by paign and thereby enable the lynch- ers to carry through their murder plans. 4 “To slacken 4 international cam- paign at this period,” the call points out, means to destroy all that has already been accomplished, and to hand over the Negro boys to sure wt the hands of the Alabama lynchers. It is more essential than ever to raise this campaign to a new level, mobilizing wider and masses of toilers into struggle, to intensify the wrath and indigna- tion of the masses. “The name of Comrade J. Louis |, who died in Moscow on , 21, must forever’ be associated with this campaign. It was directly as & consequence of the strenuous fight he put up on behalf of the ‘Scottsboro boys, particularly in rela- to the an tour, that un- lermined his strength and health, meade him an easy victim to which he constacted. reality he is also one of the victims, murdered by His name will 4 assumes office. rican imperialism. go down in working-class history as valiantly fought for the and white workers, as the persecution and | of the black race, as one we his life for the freedom of boro boys in Alabama. Let ‘life be an inspiration to the toil- throughout the world, to inten- the struggle, to carry on the until we have finally achieved Engdant strenuously | for, the unconditional release the Scottsboro Negro boys.” close linking between the Scotts- Brera and other interna- y Entered as second-class matier at the Post Offles at S— Mow York, N.Y, under the Ast of March $, 1372. 7 COMMUNIST Council in Crosby RED CROSS SABOTAGES | | Jobless to. Get City | Work; Moratorium BULLETIN New Year Opens Even Greater CITY OFFICIALS Outlook for Soviet Masses As IN MINNESOTA Ist 5-Yr. Plan Ends, 2nd Begins Year aonitens tee Ge. mules Communist Mayor Will "Tremendous Achievements of Past 4 Years in | Contrast to Capitalist Decline Greatest Triumphs in Agriculture; New Plan | to Improve Living Standards Still More By N. BUCHWALD (European Correspondent, Daily Worker) | MOSCOW, Jan. 1, (By Radio).—The Soviet Union greets 1933 without needing to rely on the mystic pOwer of the new year, so characteristic of January 1 marks the conclusion of the first and the capitalist countries, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1933 NATIONAL EDITION Price 3 Cents MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—Jan. 1— | beginning of the second Five-Year Plan. The great accomplishments of the | Another Communist municipal of- | past four years (the Five-Year Plan has been completed in a little more | f'eial has been’ added to the grow- ing list in Minnesota, now seven in all, Peter Smiliovich was elected | to the Village Council of Trom- mald, a mining village on the Cuyuna Range, in the local elec- tions, Trommald is not far from Crosby, where a Commun’st Mayor was recently elected. The other five Communist muni- cipal officials were elected in three towns on the Mesaba Range Jast | spring. | + Communist Mayor's Plan. H MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 1— Mayor-elect Emil Nygard came here to meet with the Provisional Com- mittee for the Minnesota State Hun- ger March, which will proceed to St. Paul in February to demand relief for thousands of hungry unemployed. While here he gave an interview to the representatives of the © Dai Worker and other workers’ paper: and outlined his plans for carrying out the working-class prograhh on which he was elected by the miners of Crosby, He said: “I am the only Communist on the City Council, and my fight in the council for unemployment relief will haye to be backed up by organized mass pressure of the workers them- selves. I will call upon the unem- ployed workers in Crosby to join the | Unemployed Council, and their com- mittee will receive official recogni-| tion from me. I will ask them to draw uv their own proposals for un- employment relief to present to the} } City Council, and I will fight for | | these demands.” i bourgeoisie in Crosby ate preparing | to conduct an open fight against his administration. The Relief Commis- sion, the Red Cross and the charity organizations are already telling the workers that they will discontinue their relief activities the day Nygard | When workers come to them asking for relief, they are | told “Go to the Communist Mayor for. relief.” Asked how he intended to fight these sabotaging ~ activities, Nygard declared: “I am going to organize a Work- ers’ Advisory Council, with represen- | tatives from all. workers’ organiza- | tions in Crosby, to meet with me and | help me formulate a policy in the} best interests of the working class. The mayors of other cities, who were elected by the capitalist parties, also have advisory committees, but these consist of bankers and business men, the exploiters of labor. My advisory committee will consist of miners, ur- employed workers and small taxpay- ers. This Advisory Council will call frequent mass mgetings of the work- ers of Crosby, where I will report on municipal questions of interest to the workers, and where the opinions of the workers will get full expression and will be listened to. I will expose the sabotage of the Red Cross and private relief agencies, and the work- ers ‘Will see for themselves how the bosses act when a workers’ candidate is elected to office.” Nygard will propose to the new City Council that the amount of re- lief to the unemployed be increased by the city at least 50 per cent and ways and means found to finance it. at the expense of the employers. Most of the funds of the city are} tied up in the defunct First National | Bank, which just re-opened its doors after robbing the workers of 55 per cent of their savings. | “Who will be the new Chief of Po- | lice?” Nygard was asked. He re-| plied: “The miners themselves will be asked to propose some one whom. they can trust and who will not use his office against the interests of the workers.” No, Spoils System. “How will other municipal em- ployees be selected? Will Commu- nists get preference on city jobs?” was the next question. The answer was, “There will be no ‘snotls svs- tem’ such as capitalist politicians practice. Municipal work will be given out to unemployed workers ac- cording to need.” “What will you do when the funds of the city for relief are run out?” he was asked. Nygerd replied: “We will declare 2 moratorium on debts owed for bonds. We will demand state aid, and a share of the Recon- struction Finance Corporation Funds.” Nygard also stated he would lead a Crosby delegation of unemployed on the State Hunger March'to the gislature and Governor Olson. ‘The Communist Mayor will take over his duties on Jan. 3. His in- auguration speech before the opening session of the new City Council will be published in these columns in a few days. he complete independence of India, “in ice of toilers to declare ec. arity in action with the Tediae'\ ye tt of socialist construction. No period in history can match the stupendous achievements of the Sov- iet masses in the course of the first Five-Year Plan. Contrast of Two Worlds The face of the country has been completely transformed during the Jast four years. The year 1928-29, which was the first of the Five- Year Plan, also marked the last year of ‘osperity” in the capitalist coun- tries and the beginning of the gigan- tic world-wide economie crisis. The unparalleled decline in the economic life of the capitalist countries em- phasizes even more the great tise in the productive energy and the stand- | than four years) vie with the even@- | greater outlook fgr the next period | | ‘ SIX STATES IN BIG WAR MOVES South American Wars Spreading The armed forces of four South} American governments are rapidly | converging on the Leticia region for | IN PERMIT FOR | ARIZONA STATE HUNGER MARCH State Conference in Phoenix Makes Plan; Organizers Sent PLACE DEMANDS JAN. 9 i\Communist Mayor Leads in Minn. March PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. 1.—/ The State Hunger March Con- ference here Saturday was in- formed that the authorities had granted a permit for the marchers to mass in front of thé capitol building at 9 a. m. Await Slain Husbands | Miners’ ives | waiting beside the entrance to the Moweaqua mine, where 54 miners were killed the day before Cbrist- mas in” a preventable accident. Each expects momentarily the rais- ing of the crushed and burned forms of her husband, brother or father, a | and daughters © MASS FUNERAL FRIDAY FOR NEGRO CROPPERS Bodies of Cliff James, Milo Bentley Lie in State; Thousands, White and Negro, Pay Tribute Many Organizatons Send Flowers, Messages of Solidarity with Croppers’ Struggles BIRMINHAM, Ala., Jan. 1—The mass funeral for the two murdered Negro cropper leaders, Cliff James and Milo Bentley, will be held in this city on Firday. The bodies of the two victims of the murderous landlord- police terror in, Tallapoosa County, Ala., now lie in state in the Welsh Brothers Funeral Home, with a Guard of Honor -com- posed of white and Negro workers standing at attention night on Jan. 9 and present to the legislature and to the governor the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill and their demands against evic- tions, forced labor and discrimina- | tion in relief. The marchers will de- | mand more relief. ‘The conference made plans for tl election of delegates at mass mee’ VET MISLEADERS URGE WAGE-CUTS | participation in the undeclared war| ings and by workers’ organizations Committee of V. F. W. ard of living of the masses of the | U, 8. 8. R. A backward agricultural country is being speedily industrial- | ter rivalry between U. 8. and British | by 44 delegates, repr ized; dozens of towns and cities have | imperialists over control of markets | WO!xXers’ organizations. were | and natural resources of these semi- firm in- | colonial countries. sprung up where swamps and wastelands. dustrial foundation has been laid by the building up of heavy industry for the production of machinery that formerly are equipping factories which are | 2nd 46 fighting planes are already | One of the delegaves, Fd Krauss, was | budget by cutting wages and firin producing goods for immediate use. Upward Of 100,000 Soviet~Dbuilt tractors, the huge extension of the sowing area and the development of the fertilizer industry have laid the basis for the tremendous. increase. in now raging between Colombia and Peru, The war arises out of the} catastrophic economic crisis of world | capitalism and the inereasingly bit- | Prepared for Major Conflict, Ten thousand troops, 11 warships gathered at the scene of the con- | flict, These forces represent the} governments of Colombia, Brazil, Eucador and Peru and the imperial- ist bandits dominating those govern- | ments, The first three are domin- | throughout tlie state. and returned National Hunger Marchers and local | leaders are already rousing the com- muniti 10 action. Petition O’Brien é NEW YORK.—The executive wel- The siate conference was attended > committee of the Veterans of nting nine | Fe-rign Wars has petitioned M. O'Brien, urging that the wages of . a all city employes be cut, but that Delegate Injured. | veterans be kep at jobs as automobile MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 1—/|enginemen. The new city budget had The car with Seattle delegates was| eliminated this job as part of the wrecked Dec. 23, near Winona, Minn. | bankers’. program of balancing the injured enough to make it necessary | workers while keeping the Tammany to send him to a hospital, The) graft machine intact. others escaped injury. | In the petition the leaders of the The delegation notifies those ar-7.V. F. W. reveal themselves as sup- Yanging mass meetings in the + ,vorting the bankers’ wage-cut pro- on the way to the coast for reports | gram behind the dodge that they are the productivity of the Soviet soil | ated by the Wall Street imperialists, of these marchers to get in touch | protecting the interests of the vet- Perhaps the greatest achieveme of | Who are the main instigators of the | and possibly postpone some of the | erans. economy on a socialist basis. {the Five-Year Plan consists 1 the | undeclared war at Leticia as well as| meetings. Two delegates, in | complete transformation of the rural | the undeclared war further south be-| event the car cannot be quickly The | tween Bolivia and Paraguay. Brazil has two warships, six planes } (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | and 2,000 troops at the scene of the | PRESS DISTORTS NEW USSR LAWS Foodstuffs, Passport Decrees Aid Masses By N. BUCHWALD (European Correspondent For Daily) | (By Radio).— | MOSCOW, Jan., 1, The decree regulating the dissribu- tion of foodstuffs and the new pass- port law both of which were an- nounced here a few days ago, have been grossly distorted in the capital- ist press. The reports that under the new regulations housewives will be deprived of their food cards is un- true; they will continue to receive food cards on the old basis. In regard to the new passport law, requiring every citizen of the Soviet Union to have a passport, this will introduce uniformity in identifica- tion documents. Instead of various indentifications, such as trade union, Communist Party or other organiza- tion membership cards or birth cer- tificates, the passport will become the uniform means of indentification throughout the U. S. S. R. Hits At Parasites The passport system is designed to rid the cities of crimnal parasitic elements and relieve the great con- gestion caused by the influx of ele- ments having no occupation. Every- body in the Soviet Union, unlike the situation in capitalist countries, has the opportunity to obtain work, but. remnants of the former exploiting classes often shirk productive work and engage ins‘ead in criminal prac- tices, such as stealing, cheating, pro- fiteering, etc. The passport system will hit such elements hard, depriving them of the chance of residing in cities. Drifters and adventures who flock to the cities will also be unable to obtain residence. jern military district of Brazil armed struggle. General Almerido| Ae. Moura, comnander.of the PE | | ceeding to the scene with his entire 1 | staff. Additional Brazilian troops | are moving to the frontiers. Peru} has 3,000 troops with 10 fighting planes on hand, and is rapidly mob- ilizing other forces. Colombia has an Nort in Real Needs of Veis At the same time the petition says paired, will beat their way westward nothing about immediate winter re- ahead of the others and make re-| lief for the tens of thousands of Ports, and others will follow later.| unemployed veterans of this city, ‘This car was attached to Column! about opening armories,) churches ¥Ocoatrypales: aot police pertca:, Hscilaticets tion on’the way and return wore out | for sleep the | Lex-encthapt terans to Jobless the delegates, but in spite of that about the wholesale eviction of stary-/ this is the first serious accident en- | ing vets and their families for non- countered. | Payment cf rent, about the jobs ' given several thousand veterans on e€Bar Mountain, where they were a ae =. Nygard In State March. ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan. 1—Emil/ forced to work under police guard | under the most brutal conditions. and da Smashing through t many white work- lunteered 4 of Honor, ers the members of hich is con- Guard Stantly changed at regular intery Thousands Pay Tribute Thousands of white and Negro workers are flocking daily to the fun- last tribute lead of the ruggles of the Negro share- |ecroppers and exploited farmers against landolrd robber starvation and brutal national oppression. An increasing number of organ- izations are sending flowers together with messages of tribute to the dead leaders and solidarity for the con- tinuing struggle of the Negro crop- | pers in the Sharecroppers Union, and the fight for immediate and uncondi- tional release of the arrested croppers still held in jail. Organizations thru- jout the country are urged to wire flowers and messages of solidarity | with the struggles of the croppers for which James and Bentley gave their lives. Build United Front A broad united front movement is | being developed on a gratifying scale. | Speakers are penetrating the ehurch- winning es and mass organizations, the white and Negro masi port of the croppers strugel sands of leaflets are being distribu:ed in turning over Cliff James and an- other Negro cropper to the police at the same time furnishing the boss lynchers with lynch incitement ma- terial in the lying information that Cliff James had confided to Dr. Dib- eek to divide and weaken 4— 1: he race-hatred poison by which ROOSEVELT IN ~ BOSS PLAN MEET Will Not ( Consider Jobless Insurance NEW YORK.—The conference of Democratic party leaders in the Sen- ate and House announced for next Thursday by President-elect Roose- velt and to be held here is important n its bearing on the policy to be fol- lowed by him during the remaining days of the present session of Con- ress, and as an indication of what | the working class of this country, es- pecially the 16,000,000 unemployed can ard can not exvect from his ad- | ministration imnnediately after his | inauguration March 4. Press Comments, and Composition | Just as important as the confer- ence itself are the comments of the leading Democrat and Republican papers in regard to it. The composition of the conference is thoroughly reactionary,» 2ts out- standing member is Thomas T, Rob- inson of Arkansas, Demogr 2 Phe oregite notorious for his reactionary views on all labor questions. His important role in the conference is a measure of the sincerity of the Roosevelt ut- terances relative to “public contro)” | of “hydro-electric power. CRS RSS undetermined number of troops and | Nygard, Communist Mayor of Crosby, several warships near Leticia, and is| has endorsed the call for a’ Wor! rushing reinforcements up the Ama- ers’ and Farmers’ State Relief March zon. River on gunboats and trams-|to the State Legislature in St. Paul, ports purchased in this country with and will actively participate in the the knowledge and consent of the! mobilization of the workers and Washington government. The gov-| farmers for the march, according to |ernment of Ecuador has mobilized! an announcemen; from the head- troops on the Peruvian border in|quarters of the Provisional State |Support of the war moves of Colom- | bia and Brazil, Argentina Moves Troops. In the south, where the Gran| Chaca war is raging with unabated | intensity, the Argentina government is moving additional troops to the! frontier in preparation to give active | aid to Paraguay, whose forces have | recently suffered serious reverses as | a result of the arrival of huge war) supplies from the U. S. for the Boli- vian troops. The governments of Argentina and Paraguay are under British influence, * The Chilean government, which is also a pawn in the struggle between the two imrerialist rivals and is faced with increasing struggles of the masses against starvation, is prepar- ing to side with Colombia, Brazil and Ecquador against Peru. Both Chile | and Brazil are expected to also enter | the Gran Chaca war should the Ar- gentina government carry out its present plans to aid Paraguay. Protest Boss Wars. The tolling masses of the two} American’ continents must answer | the war mongers with stern resist-| former years found roast pig anq | iMternationalism, and said that the| ance against imperialist war. The | | |singing and poetry, Committee, at 184 W. Seventh St., . Paul. Comrade Nygard is a member of the provisional committe, which is calling for a preliminary conference in St. Paul on Jan. 5. 10,000 in New York’ (Cetebrate the Daily |Worker Anniversary NEW YORK.—Ten thousand workers gathered in Bronx Coli- seum Saturday night to celebrate the Ninth Anniversary of the Daily Worker. They heard a long and elaborate program of music, including | poems of Langston Hughes recited by his mother. They heard the | _gteetings of William Z. Foster, a_ \speech by Max Bedacht in the jname of the Communist Party, | and other speakers, Dancing con- | tinued to 3 a.m. HOLIDAY OF STARVATION HAVANA, Cuba (by Mail).—Christ- mas eve, December 24, which in wine on the tables of even poor Rank and File Score Pay Cuts Only the Greater New York Vet- erans’ Rank and File Committee and the Warkers League have raised these important issues and organized strugles around them together with |the national strugle for immediate | payment of the bonus. The Veterans’ | Rank and File Committee and the W. E. S. L. call on the members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars to repudiate the wage-cut proposals of \¢heir leaders and to join in a real united front fight. for the vets’ de- mands. | |Woll’s New Year Plea ‘Is for Peace with the Boss; No U.S. Relief WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 1— Maithew Woll, vice-president of the |a New Year’s statement calling for }more co-operation between capital and labor. This has been the A. F. | of L. policy thru the years, and its | fruits are more than half the work- | ers unemployed or on part time, | wage-cuts of more than 50 per cent jin the last three years. But Woll | wants more of it, | He praised the beer biil,, proposed | more nationalism as distinct from | government could and should do American Committee for Struggle workers and peasants, was this year | little. Against War has called a protest meeting for January 12 at Irv¥g Plaza, to protest against the activi- |ties of U. S. imperialists in arming observed quite differently by the working masses of this Wall Street- controlled country. With mass star- |_ In direct contrast to this A. F. of |L. policy the Trade Union Unit, |League and its militant unions pro- Ex-Servicemen’s | all- | } ble of the Tuskegee hospital that “he was sorry he didn't kill any of the e officers The leaflets place the} Another prominent member of the murder of James and Bentiey directly | Conference will be Henry T. Rainey, at the doors of the rich landlords and | Congressman from Illinois and one Insull Favorite d by the treacherous Negro reformist | nancial favors from the now bank- leaders of Tuskegee Institute. The | rupt Insull light and power interests. their state and county authorities aid} of the well-known recipients of i+» i? American Federation of Labor, issued | leaflets point out that both James | In addiion to Robinson, other Sen= / and Bentley died not of the wounds | ators will include Key Pitman of | received in the Reeltown Battle with | Nevada, representing railroads, min- the landlord-police lynch gangs, but| ing and light and power, Cordell Hu from neglect and infection of the |of Tennessee, James Byrne of Sout, wounds, the authorities denying them | Carolina and Pat Harrison of Missis- medical aid. |sippi, one of the most fervid apostles Daily Plays Big Role of “white supremacy” in the South, ‘The Daily Worker is playing a/For Railroads; Against Negro Massés) tremendous role in this exposure and The House of Representatives in rallying the southern white and Negro masses to the support and| (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) defense of the struggles of the Negrq, croppers and exploited farmers. Cop- | ies of the Daily are eagerly reed NEW WAGE CUT by Negro and whi'e workers and poor | farmers. Expressions of solidarity | | with the Negro masses continue to R. ¢ A VICTO pour in from white workers and poor ° . farmers. RAI ES | The funeral will leaded by the | py. 2 sete ies of a number of the eropeers,(P Ltn Cut an iene | including the families of the two) | murdered leaders. |The procession | Months will proceed through the Negro an White: working-class districts. All in-| CAMDEN, N. J.—Just @ point | dications point to a tremendous out- | information concerning the emp! pouring of the masses at the cemet- | workers of the R. C. A. Victor, ery, where they will be addressed by | About three years ago there were Negro and white speakers | while 20,000 workers. Of cot Forty thousand additional leaflets|that number was cut long ago,» have been issued for the mass fun-| there remain about 3,000 more or eral, calling upon all workers and| We have had four wage-cuts | their organizations, and upon allj fast year and a haif. Now 3.eq elements opposed to lynching andjof weeks ago we just had a 1095 the landlord-police massacres in the|cent cut h&nded to us. E “Black Belt” to turn out for the | funeral. ‘The new system will make impos- sible the clogging of cities and using up of dwelling space and foodstuffs at the expense of the basic productive population. their puppet states in South America | vation sweeping ihe country, thou- | pose organization and struggle against. sands considered themselves lucky to wage-cuts, and for relief, poses and to mobilize support for the South |.be able to afford a meal of beans and/ federal unemployment insurance at American Anti-War Congress called for Feb. 28 at Montevideo, Uruguay. | “DAILY- rice. Many got no better than the usual garbage leavings. the expense of the government and capitalists. ONE PAPER THAT LEADS”, SAYS FOSTER Greets. 9th Anniversary with Record of Struggle, Call to New Action By WILLIAM Z, FOSTER (Read at Bronx Coliseum, New York, Ninth Anniversary Cele- bration of the Daily Worker, by ° Revolutionary tings to the Ninth Anniversary Colebration of the Daily Worker! The \years since the Daily was merprigk A we seen the capitalist world rom the heights of ts relative stabilization, to the present catastrophit; crisis. The Daily Worker, great odds, has en a revolutionary le: masses in the struggle against the bestial tyranny of ited States im- ism, In the, columns of the Worker can Ye found a record of the crimes acumulative in- impprialism avored to give { to the toiling aictment, of shoe strygeling against | every day of its life during these nine years. True, we have suffered from many weaknesses, we have not always been able at the precise moment to guage the full implications for agressive action in a given situation. The rec- ord of these nine years struggles shows that we have tried to under- stand and to overcome these weak- nesses; that we have ruthlessly ex- amined every experience in the struggle and hayé tried to eliminate | everything that contributed to our | shortcomings. Champion of Workers | But, in spite of everything the’ Daily Worker during all the stormy years of its existance has been the one daily paper in the United Slates that has been in advance of all others in the Of any event and in championing every Protest against the despotism of American imperialism. The 1924 strike in Paterson, the year the Daily was launched, the election campaign world-wide movement to, save and liberate these innocent boys, the drive to free Mooney, the mass strug- gle against hunger and for unem- ployment and social nsurance, the EDITOR'S NOTE:—No doubt. ey worker in this plant resents thig] | Wage cut, and immediate steps be taken to organize small workers who can be trusted, department, to lay the basis shop organization which cai Blast Tales of | Recovery Based on Large Orders OSHKOSH, Wis.—For your infor- mation I am one of the delegates of the National Hungry March. I am busy getting contacts and investigat- ing the conditions. Paine Lumber Co., a sash and door factory that had the reputation of making 1500 doors an hour, employed 1,850 men and women before the depression. Today they employ 750 on the stagger system, 375 working 5 hours each day, 5 days every other week. The watchman gets 17% cents of that year and the exposure of the | fight against the ravages of American LaFollette third party movement, the | imperialism in the colonial and semi- betrayals of the miners by the trea-| colonial countries especially in Latin | cherous Lewis machine in 1925, the; America, the defense of the Chinese Passaic strike, the New SBedford| people and the Chinese revolution, strike, the historic conflict, in Gas-! the fight against imperialist war and tonia, the Imperial Valley struggle in| the defense of the Soviet Union, the Califrnia, the mine strkes in Penn-| campaign for equal rights for Neg- sylvania, Ohio, Mlinois, Kentucky, the | roes and self-determination for the ie struggle of the needle trades| Black Belt of the South—these are re in New York, the upsurge of! some of the outstanding events in the movement of the Negro and! the nine years’ record the Daily white share croppers in Alabama, the Worker, the official © of our fight to save Sacco and Vanzetti, the Communist Party. campaign against lynching, the ex-| Tt was but. a few dayp after our Will not be able to keep the present posure of the infamous aoe e| —— \crew busy. The rumor was frawe-up and the development of ibe| (CONTINUED QM REREB '1o the sigrkgra thal Falnen had 9 big: |per hour for a twelve-hour night | shift, and the highest gets 26 cents per hour. The average worker gets | $3.75 in two weeks, and most of these workers are getting relief from the | city so that they can live. | They got an order just lately that | was to be completed by the first of March. This order was for 8,000 | tourist cabins for the Worlds Fair. | They had all the stock already on ihand, and do not need any extra men to build or run this stock, and \ ley, Jr., left his widow which {s valued around