The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 28, 1933, Page 2

PAGE TWO DAILY WORKER, Imperialism Wrings Millions from Forced Labor in Colonies Negroes and £ ido Aenerioan Masses ‘Mecaart bed. One-Fifth of Total American Imports Enslaved; Terrorized and Produced by Forced Labor By WALTER WILSON Editor's Note: This is the fourth installment from the new book, “Forced Labor in the United States,” by Walter Wilson. A com- plete picture of the forced labor ystom will be rotten from a read- ing of the book of which the fol- lowing is an ext-act. Prepared un- rection of the Labor Research Association, Introduction by Theo- Dreiser. International Pub- 1 381 Fourth Ave., New York, price $1. BrHC )UGH much direct forced la- homeland of cou prevails greater exte: in the col- onies. In nearly all colonial and semi- ~colonial countries there are ices which | the major- jon to work for gn cavitalists with- out pay or for only a nominal wage. It has been revealed that about one-fifth of the total imports into the United States are products which in whole or in part result from one of the forms of direct forced labor. These include rub- ber, coffee, sugar, cocoa, tea, to- bacco, as well as fruits and nuts in addition to certain oils, spices, min- erals and related products. A list of the most “respectable” citizens engaged in this exploita- tion of colonial forced labor would include some of the biggest capi- talists in the United States such as Rockefeller, Guggenheim, Ford, Mellon, Morgan and many others. They super-exploit this labor in much the same manner as did Herbert Hoover, who was for many years an executive in the Kaiping mines in China, IN CENTRAL AMERICA In the “independent” republics of Central America, dominated by American imperialism, forced labor is used in varying forms and under various names. Peonage, however, is the most typical form. Indeed, the South and Central American coun- tries are the traditional home of peonage. American capitalists, who own vast sugar, banana, and chicle Plantations in Central America, are the foremost exploiters of this type of forced labor. They also dominate the public utilities, wharves, mines and other industries of the region. Conditions in Guatemala, where about 50 million dollars of United States capital are invested, are typi- cal of those found in almost every Central American country. In Guate- mala the system is quite open. Even the 1932 “World Almanac” admits that many of the Indians—who com- prise about 60 per cent of the popu- lation—are held “under a system of peonage.” In Liberia, on the west coast of Africa, we find actual slavery—the buying and selling of human beings as proverty. In return for a loan to the Liberian government, the Fire- stone Rubber Co. secured a conces- sion of 1,000,000 acres of rubber land in 1925. This deal was pushed through with the aid of Herbert Hoover, who was then engaged, as U. S. Secretary of Commerce, in breaking the British rubber monopo- ly. The land given Firestone had for- merly been held by natives, but it was taken from them without ask- ing their views in the matter. In carrying through its large-scale plantations project the Firestone company has been confronted with two mejor problems: (1) confiscation of native lands, and (2) an adequate supply of cheap labor. The Liberian government, then headed by Presi- A dent King, actively co-operated in solving both. The land was expro- priated and attempts of the natives tO escape labor on the plantations | Fiam were defeated by terroristic methods. Not only did the government supply Firestone with forced laborers, but it supplied other imperialists operating im other parts of Africa with such labor, . IN BLOODY CUBA ‘The writer Arnold Roller has cited the cases of such big American cor- peretions as the United Fruit Co., which have “made their own laws, disregarding Cuban iaws, and are establishing a kind of industrial ex- tra-territoriality.” These companies improved upon the ancient slave- trading methods, in importing Negro slaves from Jamaica into Cuba. The General Sugar Co. stimulated the trade by paying $25 for every Negro delivered on its reservations, in ad- dition to a small bonus. Once in Cuba the Negroes are kept * a5 virtua] prisoners on the reserva- tions until the crop is gathered. They are imprisoned in large, wooden bar- racks surrounded by armed guards. They cannot leave the company’s yeservation during the entire time of their contract. They must buy all their provisions in company stores. Usually at the end of the crop they are indebted to the contractor. Often, after the season is over, the masters “aNrw” them to remain in the bar- racks, without having to pay rent, where they are kindly “protected” by armed company guards who shoot any one trying to escape. Thus the company saves the additional ex- pense of importing new workers for the next season's work. Harvey O'Connor, Federated Press aa wrote from Cuba March 20, 1930: “These companies ip’cnsify the chronic unemployment on the island by importing Negro la- borers—under slave terms — from Haiti and Santo Domingo. These are a~mas dont kept in semi-military compounds, guarded by troops and denied every civil Iberty.” ‘The usual imperialist practice of robbing land from peasant owners thas also operated in Haiti, a coun- try long dominated by American bankers, coffee, sugar and fruit barons. Despite Haitian laws, much arable land has been taken over by these American interests. The peas- ants must work under forced labor conditions for Wail Street financial |, interests—notabir: + Stina Oty Ts , | plantations, Bank—or starve, as there is no other way to earn a living. FORCED LABOR IN HAWAIL In 1920, following a strike of Jap- | anese workers on the Hawaiian plan- | tations, the Sugar Planters’ Associa- | tion tried to secure permission from | the United States Congress to im- port Chinese, regardless of immigra- tion restrictions. Failing in this they | began to import Filipinos. | The rich sugar planters import il- | literate laborers and when the latter | discover after their arrival in Hawaii | that they are held in peonage, they | go on strike. The planters then pro- ceed to import new workers whom | they attempt to use as strike-break- oa Following the strike of Japanese | ers in 1920—between 1922 and 1920 66,184 Filipinos were imported. American capitalists have invested over $400,000,000 in the Philippine Islands, the most important posses- sion of the United States in the Orient. In this country, as in all other colonies, a wide expropriation of the peasants’ land has taken place, | although probably 90 per cent of} the masses are dependent upon agri- | culture for a livelihood. Over 325 ranging from 1,500 to 25,000 acres each, are operated in the Philippines. Around 2,000,000 ten- ants and farm laborers are employed on them. The rich landlords usually contrive to involve their tenants and farm laborers in debt, They cannot leave their employment until the debt is paid. In describing the peonage, which is the most important type of forced labor in the Philippines, Dean C. Worcester, a leading authority, said: “Peonage is so common and wide- spread that it may be called general. . .. It lies at the very root of the industrial system of the Philippines.” The extent of forced labor in Co- lombia was disclosed by the great strike of the banana workers of the United Fruit Co., in the district of Santa Marta in 1928, when over 1,500 men, women and children were mur- dered by troops. These Colombian la- borers had been held virtually pris- oners on the banana plantations and | were not allowed to leave even for a short time. Exposure of the atroci- ties of the United Fruit agents was | made in the United States by the Anti-Imperialist League which car- ries on campaigns against forced labor in the colonies and the whole | imperialist system. | Watch tomorrow’s Daily Worker | for the fifth installment from the sensational new book, “Forced La- | bor in the United States.” In it for the first time will be told the story of the heroic revolts against forced labor in the United States | and its colonies. Simons “Guilty” for Denouncing Imperialism) NEW YORK.—William Simons, |} national secretary Anti-Imperialist League, was found guilty Monday in the Jefferson Market Court on a charge of disorderly conduct for having delivered a speech against Japanese imperialism during the de- monstration against Matsuoka, agent of the Japanese bosses. Simons was not sentenced, but is being held for “investigation” until April 30, apparently for the purpose of “digging up” something against him, so that a heavier sentence might be given him. Defended by Max J. Merbaum, at- torney for the N. Y, District, LL.D., Simons will come up for sentence Thursday morning in the Jefferson Market Court. All workers are urged to be in court when sentence is pas- sed, Resolutions protesting the holding of Simons were sent today to Mayor O’Brien and chief of police Mul- rooney by the Anti-Imperialist League. New York ‘Daily’ Drive Flashes International Workers Order, Bronx, contributes $10 and challenges all other I.W.O. branches in New York City to do likewise. ‘ From the Flatbush Workers Ciub: “We're right behind our ‘Daily’ in its struggie to live. We know that ite struggle is our struggle. En- closed find $11.25 more. We pledge to fill our quota and are up to date So far!” e 6% A worker who prefers to remain anonymous writes: “First job in two years. Made $5. The Eugene V. Debs Branch of the| Here it goes for “I CONTRIBUTED” the ‘Daily’ ”! . eo Two unemployed dish-washers and two unemployed cooks worked at a banquet held last week, and | turned their combined wages—$11.65 over to the Daily Worker, through Women’s Council 1, Staten Island. ea saa Unit 1-D, Section 1 of the Com- munist Party, composed of night workers, raised $25 for the Daily Worker by holding a luncheon at the Workers Center. 7s 6 At a house-party at the home of Comrade Dubrosky, under the aus- pices of East Side Post 191, of the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, $2.87 was raised for the Daily Work- er. Post 191 suggests that all other W.ES.L. posts follow this example and support the only workers’ paper. AMUSE MENTS Beginn. Today—3 Days Only! Return Engagement by Popular Demand! SOVIET PUDOVKIN’S wasren rum Director of “End of St. Petersburg,” ete. “Life Is Beautiful” Gripping Romantic Story of the Civil War—Prodaced in U.S.S.R. by Mefradpomfilm—English Titles worxers Acme Theatre ®KO JEFFERSON ‘4 & 2|NOW Bra Ave. DUNNE and PHILLIPS HOLMES in meTHE SHCRET OF MADAME BLANCHE” Added Featu: UCKY DEVILS" with BILL BOYD and DOROTHY WILSON exo CAMEO fv. Now! “VOODOO” Predueed by FAUSTIN WIRKUS Extra Attraction: “SONG OF LIFE” FRANCIS LEDERER & DOROTHY GISH iv AUTUMN CROCUS ‘The New York and oes Success U4TH ST. AND UNION SQUARE x RO! co ‘THEATRE, Spl Bway 40 ON FRIDAY, At Irving Plaza, 15th Street and Irving Place COME TO THE HUNGER FIGHTERS DANCE MARCH 31 ADMISSION 25 CENTS Awspices: Unemployed Council of Greater New York, and Needle Trades ‘Unemployed Councils Picket Amalgam. Soe Busine: ak in protest against the action of the hundreds of toilers and passersby, W YORK, TUES ated Union Head Eleven tailors of the Goldstein shop at 27th St. and 6th Ave. picketed the offices of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers on Union Square today Hillman official machine which took them off the job because they resisted a wage cut. Several times the pickets attempted to see Hillman, who is also the president of the Amalgamated Bank (in the same building) to demand their jobs, but were told “we cannot do anything.” The picketing attracted NEW “LIBER The following is the first of a threo articles preparatory to the of the new “Liberator,” weekly of cerning itself especially with the of the Negro People against their oppressors. Negro and white women and men marched Thursday, March 23, on the Home Relief Buro, 500 strong, to demand immediate relief to all, without discrimination to Negroes. This demonstration, organized by the Unemployed Council, is significant, particularly because it is the first such march carried through success- fully in recent months. In spite of the short time given to the prepar- atory work, the Negro and white masses responded proving that with the consolidation and organization of our apparatus, Harlem will take its logical place of leading in the strug- gles in the city of New York. The Unemployed Councils, mass organizations and particularly the units of the Party must now realize the importance of creating organizations in the blocks and houses of Harlem. It is very important at this time for every worker, members of the Party, Unem- ployed Council and mass organiza- tions to actually have discussion on the methods through which we can best get to the workers in the neigh- borhood. Comrades must initiate discussions on the question of method of ap- proach. In the units planned ac- tivity must replace the sporadic as- sighments. The Unit Buro must be established as the leading committee of the party in the territory, and the unit as a whole must become con- scious of its leading role in the struggles of the workers in the neigh- borhood, THE LIBERATOR AND THE STRUGGLES IN HARLEM April 15 marks the first appear- ance of the Halrem Liberator a work~- ing class Negro paper which will be in a position not only to answer the DISTRICT 2 Council 9 $.20| Unit 24 See 15 on |W. Nudelman 1.00 attack of the Negro and white mis- New York — = 4 a id cdl reg g 1.00) leaders in Harlem against the move- ‘Unit 12, Section 15 Coune! 5 ist 11 +75} Coin Car 3 ‘Affair 7.50| Council 16 10.00, Berman en Mist | Letters 2.10 pia ie cabinet and white work- D Silverberg 6.50 | ell 19 2.20| 28587 2.30! A. Valente 1.00} ers, but also because it will be a E Horn 1.00 | Couneil 83 6.30 Zenkewieh on list |S. Horowitz 1.00, Means through which we can speak J Wortsmank 2.06 Council 41 .25| 14364 2.85| T. Puret -70| to the Negro workers, get them to our A Morgentrah 1.00 | Paterson 5.00 | Rolder on list Boro Park otkanieations: and” strengthen” 44 H Krufethal —*1.00 | Coll by E Edelson on| 28548 55) Schule 1 1.15 2 8 ie J Manuel 1.00| — list 34825 1.25| Adamick "25| Collected at Camp | Unity of the Negro and white work- Concourse Workers | Unit 10, Sec 2 on | L Wesserle 110| __ Nitgedaiget: ers for struggle against their com- 30| Bat 8S 6H Brite “| Johnson 190 mon enemy. 5.00 Unit 6, , om | H Vorovich 105) Anna Cass x a 4 “70| list 13686 4.60 | Hans Enget ‘28| L. Grossman .50|_, With the “Liberator” our demon- | K Erikson \E Sehwertiy 10) M. Brandel .25|Strations and mass meetings will 1.00| E Johanson F Firska ‘yo! Pearl Shapiro 2.25| grow enormously with the Liberator 3.00| Coll by See Ton = | J Adamick ‘10| E. Epstein 35] we can penetrate the hitherto re- 7.05 | | Ust 14260 50 A Friend “10| J. Weber 10) eta 38.20 | Nelson 1.50/ A Friend ‘io| R. Schiffman 25] 8Ctionary controlled organizations of .05| § Kalena 1.00, W Chalad ‘10| E. Hertzberg col. 4.00] Workers. Therefore it is evident that 200| Unit § Sec 11 om | Friend 8] Veg, Ware. Onh the greatest activity before us is the 1.00 | ist 14192 35 | Newton E a E 100|¥ J Coughion 0] A Friend 119| Unit 9, Sec. 2, pekige a ee a mass base to maintain 38 P 25 | Friend 110] Mont, ’Tag Day _.82| the Liberator. 1.00 | M Goldbers 50 | Dour 10) G. Brown 2.00} All workers must get busy getting Chudnoy | Anonymous 110 © Cobliek 2.20| Slim 100| subs, raising the question of sup- |D Hand ‘80 | Party by Units 1 and| Anonymous 100] port’ for the Liberator in the nel LSNR Ronsld Kéward | T Hartman om Het 4, Rockford —3.50| WESL Post 82 berator in the neigh- Group 14835 2%) Tyolsisniasten Klubl | Tag Day it 7 8 Syanery Dait 15, | 8 Goldman on Mat ‘of Waukegan 1.00| Schulle 1 Iwo WHAT’S ON Section 5.00| 28887 .40| © Garfinkle 5.00] Brownsville Tag Jerome, "Workers Unit 29, Section 15 | (WO Schulle 5 3.00] Day b8r) oe re 228 ott Be sete, ab | Miseand "5.00 | arement Wars oh Wednesday ‘Newton 1.00 | Unit 29, jon ewan H M Kants 5.00| on list 14849 = 60 | B.S. 1.00} Tag Day ‘ AFTERNOON CLASS IN ESPERANTO is Vinchevsky's Mem. | Unit 4, Section 15 | Susan Woodniff 3.00 spartacts Club held every Wediesday beginning $ p.m. Affair 4.00) on Mist 14919 1.45) A. R. -15| Tag Day .80| Sharp for beginners at the Workers Home, Pen & Hammer 1.00) Unit 28, Seetion 15 | J. Small 1.00 | Glovervilie a 350 East Sist Bt. Room 8. This ts Boro Park Workers | om list 14501 — .60/ Antonfeld 25] Johnstown 2.00| last ‘call to ‘those interested to"fomn" this > 5.00| Unit 28, See 15 om | Scotty '28| Spartacus Club 1.27] Class. Instruction free. | Mst 14896 .75| 1. 8. Lock 1.00} Wkrs. Sch. Teg «PROF. SCOTT NEARING will speak on 1.40) Dora Rich on list Meyer Youmen 1.10] Day 5.80| “Division of Income’ at Burnside Manor, | 302085 1.60/T. Alarkens -70| Le. ante, Coin 85 W. Burnside Ave., Bronx, near University 4.00 | Pioneers .25|C. A. Meyers 50 1.00] Ave, at 8 p.m. Question period. Admis- |S Greenberg ‘25 | Geo. ‘Cen 2100 | Novy Mir Olu sion 5c. Auspices—Friends of the Sortet |W Josetowite .25| Yonkers Meet. 2.33) Tag Da: .90) Union, Bronx Branches, J Boyer 260] A. Smith 100 | cot at Party, i . | enue $3] Tadhane’’s > 1,00] wera Behoot | Friday reenderg ule 2 Sean 2 5.00 Unit 24 See 15 om Mrs. A. Keller 1.00! Tag Day ana Stine eee CLASS for beginners evening Mareh Workers Lab. Theatre of 12th Bt., N. ¥. C. Register Now Ten Days That Shook the World! China Express! Struggle for Bread! Ete. Ete. Ete. CLASSICS OF THE SOVIET MOVIEG— WORKERS’ FILMS a, at z Any organization can now shew them at nominal cost. Information and Arrangements at District Daily Worker Office 35 E. 12TH STREET BROOKLYN For Brownsville Proletarians SOKAL CAFETERIA 1689 PITKIN AVENUE AVALON Cafeteria| 1610 KINGS HIGHWAY PEN DAY AN a. NY Dewey 9-0512 sett ruRITY QUALITY SUTTER Vegetorian and Dairy Restaorant 689 SUTTER AVE. (Cor, George) B'tIyn ATOR” TO BE LAUNCHED APRIL 15) borhood, in the house and block | committees and in the various or- ganizations. It is particularly important to un- derstand why it is necessary for the white workers to be in the forefront in the work for the Liberator. The demonstrations we have had proved that the people of Harlem must unite if they want to gain their demands. The white workers must see that without the united action of Negro and white the working class move- ment can not progress. While the Liberator will mainly represent the Negro workers of Harlem it will also give space to the plight of the white workers. It will be a Harlem paper through which our movement can grow fast. Let us all get our shoul- ders to the wheel, close our ranks, and improve our work by mak- ing the Liberator a real mass organ in Harlem, ‘The mass organizations must take the lead in securing subs before the Liberator affair. The coming three weeks must mark the most successful campaign in the history of Harlem. | Three hundred subs must be secured before the paper actually appears. Carolina Doctor Saves | NegroYouth fromMob; Then Calls the Sheriff LOWELL, N. C., March, 27.-A white physician, Dr. James W. Reid, temporarily saved a twenty-year-old Negro from lynching here yesterday when he hid him in the basement while a mob of several hundred scoured another part of the town for their victim. After hiding the hunted youth for several hours, the doctor called the sheriff, who took the Negro to the Mecklenburg county jail at Char- White Jury Convicts Tenn. Negro in Spite of 3d Degree Evidence JACKSON, Tenn., Mar. 27.—Ignor- ing his sworn testimony that he was viciously third-degreed by police who forced him to sign a “confession,” Roy Ross, 26, was found guilty of killing Ernest Benson, white, by a white jury here. Organizations Partici- pating in Raising Funds for the Daily, <Worker a AFFAIR & LECTURE WEDNESDAY,. MARCH 29 at 8 P.M. 249 Glove Road, Staten Island Arranged by Women's Council No. 1 and Finnish Women's Council BRONX Mott Maven 9-8749 DR. JULIUS JAFFE Surgeon Dentist 401 EAST 140th STREET (Cor. Willie Ave.) DAYTON 9-4000 D, BACKER INTERVAL'E Moving & Storage Co., Inc. BRONX, N.Y. 902 WESTCHESTER AVE. City Phene—EStabrook 3-1400 Do You Know of the Reduction in Rates at CAMP NITGEDAIGET BEACON, N. Y. Special Program Every Week-End $12.50 Includes Tax to members of I. W. ©. and Co-operative with a letter from your organization OPEN ALL YEAR—HEALTHFUL FOOD, REST, RECREATION SPORT AND CULTURE All Winter Comforts—Steam Heat—Hot and Cold Running Water in Every Room Workers organizations write for Special Excursions and Rates AUTOMOBILES LEAVE DAILY FROM CO-OPERATIVE . REQTAURANT, 2700 BRONX PARK EAST, BRONX, N. Y. DAY, MARCH 28, 1933 et Socialist Construction in the Arctic Review of “USSR in Construction,” 1932, N By A. G. BOSSE A typical “‘smychka” of Soviet sci- ence and its Socialist proletariat has won a notable victory over the hith- erto unconquerable Arctic, and at the same time has given the U.S.S.R. a new and vastly important raw ma- terial. Agriculture, chemistry, metal- lurgy and a number of other indus- tries are profiting by the exploita- tion of the apatite fields of the Kola Peninsula, north of the White Sea, Upon the retreating footsteps of the British invaders in 1920, Soviet scientists, headed by the eminent academician, Prof. Fersman, began explorations for Khibin apatite. For almost a decade they fought against sub-zero winters and summers in- fested with plague-mosquitoes. Up to 1930 this polar desert—froz- en tundra and wooded taiga—was in- habited by a few nomad Lopar fami- lies living by reindeer breeding, fish- ing and berry-picking. Then spring construction operations began. rom apatite may be obtained napthalene, chemical fertilizers, aluminum, soda and potash, cement, glass, paper and building materials. The task set the industry in 1930 was to free the country from the necessity of importing fertilizer phos] ites. By the end of the year this task was achieved, 220,000 metric tons of apatite ore being produced. ‘The following year the output was nearly doubled. By the end of the Second Five-Year Plan production is expected to reach four and half to five million tons. Means were found to keep the apa- tite from crumbling, lumping or freezing, and to overcome the chem- icals in the ore which sliced into ribbons the iron chutes used to con- vey the ore down the hillside, Railroad Built An auto road was built, and trucks supplanted tractor-hauled platforms. Next followed a railroad branch line, connecting the mines with Mur- mansk. The first groups of workers LANGER PROTEST FUNERAL TODAY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) bring their banners. * . * NEW YORK.—Thousands of workers will honor the memory of Morris Langer, martyred strike leader, who died early Sunday morning, the victim of a bomb placed by Hollander and Singer's hirelings, at a mass funeral and protest demonstration today at 11 a.m. The march will start from the union headquarters, 151 W. 28th 5t., where the body is lying in state and @———--—-—— will proceed along 7th Ave. to 40th St. and from there to the 59th St. bridge. The General Executive Board of the Union, in a statement today called upon the workers to swell the demonstration in protest against Langer’s murder and to strengthen their ranks in the struggle against wage cuts, unemployment and for decent living conditions. The state- ment says in part: “Morris Langer is the fourth vie- tim of the bloody open shoppers of “he fur dressing and dyeing com- panies. In the strike of 1915 con- ducted against the same firm, two strikers, Rubin and Novack, were killed. Four weeks ago Natale Bo- lero, an active striker, was shot and now Langer is murdered in the strug- gle for decent living conditions in the sweat shops of Hollander and Singer. “The responsibility for the murder |of Langer and the other workers rests on Hollander and Singer, toge- ther with the racketeers Harris, Kaufman, Beckerman and Luchhi, who conspired together with the bosses to break the strike through terror and murder. Langer was murdered because he led the victori- ous strike of the fur dressers and the successful organization campaign of the fur dyers in which the workers won shorter hours, increases in wages and a 3 per cent unemployment in- surance fund. “Let us with more determination carry on the struggle conducted by Langer against the fur dressing and dyeing open shoppers. Through this mass funeral let us express our con- demnation of the cold blooded mur- der of these workers and share our solidarity with the strikers.” SPLENDID LARGE Hall and Meeting Rooms TO BIRE Perfect for BALLS, DANCES, LECTURES, MEETINGS, Etc. IN THE New ESTONIAN Morris Langer’s life is a record of militancy, courage and devotion to the working class. As strike leader of the fur rabbit dressers in 1932 he succeeded in organizing the workers in this trade in Jersey City, Bayonne, Newark, Gloversville, N. Y., and New York City. In 1930 he was framed on a sedition charge, was tried and acquitted. He organized the fur dyers for the first time in 1933 and helped them to win a 25 per cent inerease in wages and a reduction in hours from 60 to 44 a week. Langer died at the age of 38, leaving a wife and two children. On Mike Hollander’s return from Europe there has been a united front of all fur bosses against the union in which terror has played an im- portant part, financed largely by funds furnished by Hollander. Against this terror campaign the union is calling a united front con- ference for April 8 and asks all fur workers to join, including the two remaining locals in the International Fur Floor Workers local 3 and Fancy Fur Fleshers 3, A memorial meeting for Motris Langer has been arranged by the Needle Trades Union for Thursday evening March 30 at Cooper Union, 8th Street and 4th Ave. REGISTER Principles of Communism Political Economy Marxism-Leninism Negro Problems Colonial Problems Trade Union Strategy Youth Problems WORKERS HOME 27-29 W.115th St., N.Y.C. Phone UNiversity 4-0165 ANNOUNCEMENT Dr. Louis L. Schwartz SURGEON DENTIST Announces The removal of his office te larger quarters at 1 Union Square (8th Floor) Suite 808 ‘Tel. Algonquin 4-9905 {atern’) Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 80 FIFTH AVENUE 15th FLOOR AU Work Done Under Versonai Cary af DR. JOREPASON DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 Bristol Street (Bes. Pitkin & Sutter Aves.) B'kiyo PHONE: DICKENS 32-8012 Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-2, 6-8 PML COMRADES MEET AT ROYAL CAFETERIA 827 BROADWAY, NEAR 13TH BT. Best Food—Proletarian Prices. Wateh Our Daily Specisls for 2¢ ‘ 100% Food Workers’ Union Shop $10.50 per week Camp Phonc—Beacon 73) Classes fill up quickly. Don’t wait till the last week. Avoid disappoint- ment. Register right now! Get new descriptive booklet at the Workers School, 35 East 12th Street, 3rd Floor Phone Algonquin 4-1199 12 and engineers lived in box-cars, then tents and barracks, but with the construction of the mines began the building of another Socialist city— Khibinogorsk. By 1932. this city had over 32,000 inhabitants. By the fall of 1931 one of the larg- est refineries in Europe was com- pleted there, fully mechanized, with a capacity of 260,000 tons of concen- trated ores. It cost seven and a half million rubles, but the first year turned out its cost in apatite, An interesting sidelight is the fact that one of the building materials used in its construction was khibinite, ob- tained from apatite. Another Refinery Being Built A second refinery is now being put up and will be finished by the middle of this year; with an annual output valued at 50 million rubles. ‘These mills prepare the initial Stages of aluminum. A 60,000 kilo- watt hydro-electric plant is being con- structed which will start operations this year. By 1937 hydro stations with nearly five times that capacity will be in operation, while others using peat will likewise be generating current. Power will be cheap, costing at most half a cent per kilowatt hour. Nearby, at Kandalaksha, a chemical combine is under construction. The Kola Peninsula also has important deposits of iron ore, titanium, used for making paints, molybdenum, used for hardening steel and making Jamp and radio wire, zirconium, for ceramics, etc, An almost more thrilling aspect of the conquest of the Soviet Arctic is the victories of the agronomists. Where only cloudberries and lichen grew, cultivated fields and hothouses are now flourishing. Potatoes are grown which are of better quality and higher yield than any other region in the country can produce. Hog Farms Organized. Turnips, carrots, strawberries, hay and garden flowers grow well, and the problem of grains is being tackl- ed. Hundreds of head of cattle al- ready exist and hog farms are being organized. The cultural needs of the popula- tion are being taken care of with the characteristic speed devoted to such problems. A socialist city is being built at a cost of 75 million rubles. A sound-movie theater with 1,200 seats was finished last year, likewise @ public bath, as well ag nurseries, clinic with accommodations for 1,000 and a hospital for 275. Work is pro- ceeding or completed on two parks of culture and rest, factory kitchens and restaurants, schools and research laboratories, concert halls for 2,000 Persons ete. This story of Khibin is told by the “USSR in Construction” with 60-70 beautiful photographs that bear liv- ing testimony to the difficulties and heroic achievements in creating the Soviet Arctic. SPRING TERM STARTS APRIL 17th NOW! 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