The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 4, 1933, Page 2

Page Twe DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1933 BARRICADES Printed by Special Permis N BERLIN 22305 PUBLISHERS, 36! Fourth be Avenue, New York City. AH Workers are urged to read this book and spread ads BY KLAUS NEWAHRANTZ L yY Ww TER QUIRT 2 ILLUSTRATED B’ ALTE u h-ameng diel tet THE STORY SO FAR: A group of young workers are gathered in the Red. Nightingale, a cafe in the proletarian Wedding district in Berlin which also se as a headquarters for revolutionary workers. A report comes that Nazis have attacked three of their comrades and they all rush out. IGHT O'CLOCK. Gradually, one |The first point on the agenda is the after another, they came through | trade unions and the Ist of May. the door and went towards the salt | hall. They were mostly mature work-|for the Ist of May. Before calling ing men and women in shabby, worn-| upon the comrade from the district out clothes. They knew and greety | to speak, I wish to ask group leaders ed each other, asking after the sick | and treasurers to stay for a few min- child, the morning’s evictions, and| utes after the meeting is oyer. No all the rest. People knew about} ome may leave before the end. And each other's worries here. | now, Comrade delegate——’ The door was opened again. “RED FRONT!” Hermann enter-| comrade, who had risen. His right ed with a packet of leaflets under | hand covered some written notes and his arm. newspaper clippings lying on the “Well, Hermann, anything new?” | table. The habitual question these days!| “Comrades, I will only speak for Too much was in the air. At the/& little while, so that we can have a Labour Exchanges, in the factorles,| thorough discussion afterwards.” on the streets, in the trams and| His speech at first was unemp! shops, everywhere fantastic rumours. | but clear, and every word was easily Agent-provocatew friends, enemies —who could tell? They say that the army will be brought into action on Wednesdey. The Police President | has issued a special decree about | Street fighting. The ban will, be} definitely lifted for the lst of May, | Reichsbanner and the Stahlhelm | have been put into police uniforms | —and so on, endlessly. The bour- | geois pap Tempo, and the evening edition of Vorwarts are bombarding | Berlin with jammatory headlines. | Which are facts? Which are lies? | Hermann placed his leaflets on the | table. | “Comrades—don't be so nervous! | Here is the news. The very latest | is that Brolat (Trade Union Official) has prohibited the Transport Work- ers from de~-"stratine on the Ist! of May! “What?” “That isn’t true!” | “If the evening edition of Vorwarts | S so it ourht to be true,” Her-| mann replied dryly. | understood. He bent forward slig! “The scouncrel, shame on him, and} as if to come nearer to the work @ Mayor of Wedding.” | kefore him. %. ‘USSION Ii om was filled wit) one after another, they came through the door... . spectacl: he repeated fr ‘So of his sreech, ANALYSIS OF SITUATION mine the events of the k, we find fa » & movement excited a So thet's © t her he Ist of Mav ocial Demo- 's two im- 2 rly opposed one another, facing each other with all sharpness. The new em- phasis began with the factory coun- | cil elections in the spring of thi: year! ughout Germany they signified an ineentestable victory for the Communist Party, and the Rev- de Union Opposition. large factories, in the mines smelting works of the | Ruhr at Siemens, the A.E.G., in the Berlin Transport Co., in the Leuna works, in the chemical hells of Associated Chemical Combine In- Sicie of young Communists re- | @ustry and, in the same way, in the pushed his way through the crowd,| Voss in Hamburg, the Germania nis face flushed with excitement.| Dockyard in Kiel, everywhere we Hermann greeted him kindly. He | S@ined a decisive victory, and th ‘husiastic little comrade, | Teformists suffered a decisive defeat. 2s bit: to olutione: |In all the and as a p' The second point, preparatory work | All faces turned towards the young | th one hand he ad- | equently in the | knew the en who came to him often when he led about something. was evening, Comrade Hermann, v o you think? Don’t you egree the ban will be lifted? Otto has a Social Democrat paper which thoroughly annoyed with their ‘Comrade Zoergiebel.’” He: n's gray eyes laughed mock- ir You dumb kid! Just wait and you'll see, on Wednesday his Excellency the President will go for a walk with a red carnation fixed to his top hat, whistling the Inter- national.” UPBRAIDS HERMANN stood snubbed among the/ laughing workers. Suddenly Grete | pushed past , and stopped with anery face, in front of Hermann. et we wanted to get such a silly it wasn't necessary to ask uu want to be a political talk 2 monkey to rade. Then you swear raunists for lack But dare to ad out come She turned her dumbfounded, room. you, Fritzi. what I told . “Go to hel m2 aeross the little ed his glass ene knew that things When Herma bis pencil evening this would be r of the Pariy unit man of about thirty, y scrutinising the faeces of the workers in front of him The District Committee had sent him, its representative, to lead off the discussion. On the wall above the table hung three large pictures of Lenin, Liebknecht and Rosa Lux- omburg; the Liebknecht and the Rosa Luxemburg drawn in charcoal by a young comrade. The restricted plat- verm was garnished with the chests and cupboards of the Workers’ Sorts Clubs. Dusty garlands, made of now faded tissue paper, festooned the blackened ceiling and were in wronge contrast with the serious and | nesslike conduct of the meeting. On a piece of cardboard above the ‘ano was a hand-written notice: Sunday Evening Dance. Entrance Free. EB STREET UNIT There were now about forty-five ien and women present—the street ‘nit of the Koeslin quarter. Some yf the men—most of them were still " working clothes—had their tool- tags with them. The faces, set and salorless, bore the common imprint f years of heavy labor, and daily He paused for a moment, and look. NEGRO LEADER IS DEPORTED BY NAZI PadmoreHeld Prisoner | for Two Weeks | NEW YORK ~George Padmore. tary of the International Trade Committe Negro Wo '! n and editor of “TY ogro Wor has been deported by the Nazi gov- ernment from Germany to England according to A Ward, secretary of the Negro Workers Association, in a | letter received by the International | Labor Defense. | Before his deportation Padmore was held incommunicado for two weeks The offices of the organization of | | which he was secretary have been | closed by the police and all the work- | | ers expelled | The extent to which the fasc | preach race hatred and support lyr jlaw may be seen in the following | quotation from the “National-Social- | istische Monathefte,” Nazi organ. “In each Negro, even in one of the} disposition, is the latent brute | primitive man who can be! ither by centuries of slavery external va modern zation. All assimilation, all edu- cation is bound to fail on account| oi nborn features of the can, therefore, under-| he Southern States of necessity compels the | act in an abhi rite race to Jand perhaps even cruel | against the Negroes, and of | ; most of the } es that are lynched do not merit any regret.” PARIS, ISTANBUL JOIN IN BOYCOTT. \Leaflets, Signs, Urge! |AgainstGerman Goods! | PARIS, April 3.-An anti-German | hoyeott began here Satur Jew= | ish displayed signs, an- | nouncing their refusal to have deal- jings with Ger while j appeais were izers | not to bu The bo} lay. hanis n salesmen. ade to symp at Germa’ owned stores. | e | | Semitism. ISTANBUL, Turkey. April 3.—Jews | here are distributing leaflets today urging a general boycott of German Anti-Hitler demonstrations have occurred here. VETER! | The Daily Worker i net out & special issue the anniversary of the entrance of the United States into the World War. Veterans are urged to send in letters desorihing their experience in the war and their victimization ince then, especially in connection with the new economy cuts, ANOTHER KLANSMAN AGAINST THE A recent article in the Daily Worker told of the tremendous effect that the demonstration of 100 work- ers in Brooklyn against the fitting out of the “Sea Fox” for the Colom- bian navy had in South and Central America. A few additional facts on this dem- onstration should be given to further stress the importance of these dem- onstrations and the sharp effect they | can have, Two sailors quit directly as a result of the demonstrations, The captain of the “Sea Fox” quit the ship before she left American waters. The third engineer quit the ship before she was out of American waters. ed towards the door where someone | {had come in noisily. Then he con- | ‘LESSONS FROM THE DEMONSTRATION | “SEA FOX” SAILING The consul's son, strutting on board ag a third mate, issued instructions a 12-hour instead of an 8-hour day, The cook on board quit in Wil- | mington, Delaware, where the ship | Was put in for additional repairs. He having signed on just for the trip to | Colombia. South American waters, it went down with 32 men on board, as a result of the aerial bombing by Peruvian planes. All these facts point to two. impor, tant lessons: If members of. the. been on board to react to the griev- ances of the men against the two- When the Sea Fox arrived in | for two watches instead of three, ie.,| ° | demanded pay for the extra 12 days,| | Marine Workers Industrial Union had, From The Amsterdam News watch system and for pay for the extra days in Wilmington, the ship would possibly have not sailed. The men’s economic demands could have been raised to a_ political level and embarressed the Hoover and Colom- bian governments. That the ship was laid up in Wilmington for 12 days without any further action by ur Party speaks for itself. In the demonstration, the pres- ence of 100 workers started such a train of events. What hundreds more present at similar demonstrations can do is clear, Every Party unit in the waterfront territory should be drawn | into a thorough discussion of the question of securing maximum mobil- ization for such demonstrations. RADIATOR WORKERS STRIKE UNIONTOWN, Pa., April 2.-—The whole crew of the Richmond Radiator Co. walked out on strike last week When 30 men were fired for joining ® union. The strikers are demanding , recognition of the union and re-in- statement of the fired workers, | tinued: “Comrades, there is a direct | ‘ |connection between these factory | By H. E. BRIGGS y fof Foreign Wars and Disabled Am- | council elections, and the ban on the | TODAY thre uoillions of rank and/erican Veterans doing anything to | i e ie file ve $ dependents are| oppose them? The answer is No. ais Reg gr gela ire “ FASS” | the victims of one of the most Tuth-| Ask any of the 16,000 rank and file lattaGeht tne: Ome e 2 bourgeois | 888 swindles ever put over on the | Legion men who have dropped their lBArdople main ace, & Hourgeols | American people. The vicious class} membership recently in New York | Paper hit the nail on the head when |legislation known as the Economy State alone. Their leaders blame the |t wrote recently: “The Rote Fahne | Bill not only affects the ex-soldiers, | crisis for the decrease in membership, |is right in considering hellish fear | but also their mothers, wives and| while the men condemn the leaders | to be the mother | of Comrade Zoer- | families dependent on them for food,|for betraying them on the - bonus | Slebel’s Courage. clothing and shelter. By lopping|and the Economy Bill, The fact is |. “That's right,” 2 woman called out jover $400,000,000 off the veterans’ | that these misleaders of the Amer- j loudly from the back of the hall. jbenefits the Wall Stroet-Roosevelt|ican Legion, the V. F, W. and the | When her neighbours turned round, | Economy Bill drives millions more|D. A. V. are at heart in sympathy she tried to hide her embarrassment | toward misery, poverty and starva-| With the N, E, L, and the A. V. A, by pretending to adjust her shawl. | tion. All this in order to preserve|and have helped put over the cuts, “That's right,” she muttered and|the incomes and profits of a few| Archibald Roosevelt, one of the fidgeted. Hermann tapped his glass. hundred thousand bankers, capital-| founders of the Legion, is now na- (TO BE CONTINUED) ists and ex-officers. | tional secretary of the N. E. L. Byrd Who is behind this? | quit the navy and a $4,200 pension to How is it) |done? The National Economy League | Rich Jews in America and the American Veterans Associa- | s| Deutsche Bar ‘tion ave the forces behind the “New | (dirty) Deal” of President Roocse- |velt. These two organizations have! 3 ‘ Cyrus | the same program, but since the Na-| Adler, chairman of the American | tional Economy League is the oldest Jewish Committee, Jewish bourgeois| in the field and the strongest poli-| organization, has repudiated all pro-| tically, we will confine ourseives to Repudiate Protests NEW YORK, April 3.—Dyr, test in the ‘ed States against the| them in particular. | anti-Semitic outrages of the Nazi United Front of Reaction regime. | The N. E. L. is a united front of | In reply to a cable from Oscar | the bankers, industrialists and ex- Wassermann, Jewish director of the | officers supported by leading Kk, Berlin, Dy. Adler lican and democratic | cabled: “American Jewish Committee, | against the ex-soldiers of which I am president, Repub- | Politicians, | and all other has taken | members of the tolling section of the no part in protest meetings. No| population. Th chief weapon is responsible body America has sug-| the deadly sword of Economy at the ested boycott. We have been and| expense of the ma: The talk of re doing all in our power to allay| their not being a political organiza- gitati WHAT'S ON | NOTE: In view of the crit- \ieal financial situation in the |Daily Worker, organizations |are asked to enclose money, | at the rate of one cent a word | per insertion, with announce- ments, Tuesday ; REGISTRATION IS NOW GOING ON for jthe Spring Term of the Workers School in Room 301, 35 E. 12th st, ATTENTION* ALL RED FRONT comrades | meet today instead of Wednesday at 85th | St. and Second Ave. for the anti-fascist Cemonstration; 7:30 p.m. FELIX MORROW, contributor to the NEW MASSES will deliver a series of siz lectures on “The Rise of American Capitalism” every Tuesday evening beginning tonight at & p.m. at the American Youth Federation, 122 | Second Ave, Admission 20¢, ss alae Saturday RUSSIAN VILLAGE COSTUME DANCE and ENTERTAINMENT at Zilsmere Hall, 264 E. 170th St., Bronx (near College Ave.). Refreshments. Admission 28c. Auspices Mt. Eden Branch, PSU. To be held on April 8. tion is a lie, a cloak to hide their conirol of government machinery and to disarm opposition. | A list of its members is a Who's| | Who of the ruling class. Admiral} | Byrd, the “Stalking Horse,” is na- |tional chairman, Among the gen- jerals are O'’Ryan of the 27th Di-| vision, The national secretary is Archibald Roosevelt, cousin to the president and director of the Roose- velt Steamship Co. The banking world is represented by a number of| j Well-known figures including E. R.| Harriman, vice president and direc- |tor of the W. A. Harriman Co., Inc., investment bankers, a director of Railroad Securities, Harriman Build- ing Corp., Morris (swindle) Plan Co., etc. Major Henry H. Curran, one of | the slickest Wall Street propagand- ists, is general manager of the N. E. L. He was former editor of the old New York Tribune and repub- lican candidate for mayor of New| York in 1921. The American Veterans Association | \is a similar outfit. Its chairman is! | Wm. R. Burlingame, free lance writer | j and yellow journalist. His slanderous | book, Peace Veterans, was part of the general campaign of vilification con-| ducted by both these organizations to| discredit the rank and file veterans take the national chairmanship. An- other ex-leader of the Legion, Paul V. McNutt, is now dictatorial Gov- ernor of Indiana. Phelps Newberry, of Michigan, resigned the Legion to become the Michigan chairman ot the N. E. L. He is vice president and director or was, of the Guardian De- troit Bank, Union Guardian Trust Co., etc, These it will be remembered were among the first banks to fai] in Michigan, wiping out millions in deposits. ‘Treachery of Legion Chiefs During the entire campaign for the ents the Legion leaders played a treacherous role. Forced by the overwhelming sentiment of the rank and file to take a stand against the cuts and for immediate payment of the bonus at the Portland convention last fall, they did everything in their power to prevent a real struggle around these issues. Finally, when the Economy Bill came before Con- gress, the Legion leaders gave up their sham battle and proposed a straight 25 per cent cut in all bene- fits. For tens of thousands of vet- erans this would have been an even bigger cut than that contained in the Economy Bill. After the passage of the bill, the Legion chiefs completed their be- trayal when National Commander Louis Johnson issued a statement urging all veterans to back up Roosevelt in carrying through the pcp attack on their living stand- ards, Shall we rank and file comyades, in the face of such traitorous actions, continue to believe and follow these men? The answer is a roaring NO, Comrades of the rank and file, our only defense and solution to our problems is the election of our rank and file committees and leadership to look after the interests of the rank and file. What little relief we have been get- ting has not been due to the goodness or militancy of the leaders of the American Legion, V. F. W. and D. A. Nbc h - | ANNOUNCEMENT 2 el Bee OF Boe Op NCR ENE oe essed class, Photo : ag and the 7. Termann rose. at John Ri quarters, 450 Sixth a Somrades, the meeting is opened. Prominent sper Ave, |V, as organizations. We got relief in the eyes of the public. | through these groups only because What about Vet “Leaders”? | We, the rank and file forced the The unattached veteran asks, how | leadership to give it to us, However, do they get away with this? Aren’t| we were not alert to the double- the leaders of the Legion, Veterans| dealing of our leaders and in many jinstances this forced relief | Bill would deprive us of even this meager relief, | | Who Are the Treasury Raiders? | Space forbids a detailed account of each preceding law leading up to the Disability Allowance Law. But a brief resume will proye that not we, but the officers are the privileged class, not the rank and file, but the of- | ficers are the treasury raiders, caer | eedeeed 1920 all matters pertaining to disabled vets were handled by the Public Health Service. For total disability, physical or mental, the maximum compensation was $30 a month, with no provisions for de- pendents. Swindler Heads Vet Bureau The Harding administration brought into existence the Veterans Bureau. What sins have been com- mitted in its name! Colonel Forbes of the famous Forbes scandal was in charge. Convicted of misappropriat- ing millions of dollars intended for disabled vets, evidence brought forth at his trial showed huge sums spent on cabarets, wine parties, etc. This money was squandered at a time | When many veterans were suffering from improper medical attention. | The Nationai Economy League, while calling the rank and file a “mer- cenary minority,’ never mentions this and similar millions appro- priated for the officer class under the Officers Retirement Act. Under Hoover, General Hines was made Director and still is. His of- fical salary was increased by several thousand dollars. The Sweet Bill named after Re- Presentative Sweet raised the maxi- mum from $30 to $100 per month, with corresponding increases for par- tlal disability. Yet $100 for total disability is hardly to be compared with the pension of $4,200 for a per- fectly sound and healthy admiral whose chief claim to fame was a trip to the Antarctic. With a few minor changes the Sweet Bill and the War Risk Insurance Law took care of all claims of disabled vets until 1924, A Treacherous Obstacle In June, 1924 the Reed-Johnson Bill was passed, providing a pre- sumptive service connection (for those who ‘were unable up to this time to establish service connection) for certain types of disabilities. These were tuberculosis and neuropsychia- tric cases. Those filing claims with the Veterans Bureau before 1924 and who were diagnosed as suffering from the above mentioned maladies were considered by the Bureau as non- service cases and automatically placed on a compensation status be- cause of the Reed-Johnson Bill. But there was a treacherous obstacle placed in the path of thousands of claimants that implied venereal dis- ease as being the primary cause of Provisions of the Emergency, Legion Leaders Aided Capitalists in Putting Over Cuts in Vet Benefits | had) the disability Many veterans suf- | Strings to it. And now the Economy fering nervous ailments from shell shock and belated consumption due to gas were ashamed to face this accusation and never applied. Others who faced the music found no provision for back pay up to 1924. | Thus tens of thousands of veterans, who were considered victims of mal- adies due to service, became in real- ity non-service cases, with no com- pensation for the preceding years. This, in itself, is reason enough to demand our bonus or back pay. The bonus we paid for with our own! service money, All this time the leaders of the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Disabled Am- erican Veterans were loudly bragging about the generosity of the govern- ment and how well it was taking care of the vets. Yet today we have the same question plaguing us; in fact, it was never settled, the question of So-called non-seryice connected dis- ability. Thousends of veterans roam- ing the streets apparently healthy are feeling the ravages of trench life, shell shock, bad food, gas, etc. Even in the case of those who did not go over seas, conditions were far from} favorable for the ‘maintenance of| good health. Many who met with what they considered minor injuries and who were ill with the flu are today the victims of neglected heart and lung cases. An instance will! prove this, An Example Private A is kicked by a horse in| the chest, He is ordered to the hos- | pital, given C. C. pills and a rub- down. Afier a few weeks he is out} and around. Six months later he |complains of 4 pain in the chest. The doctor says, a cold, and gives him some more C. C, pills. A year or two later he develops a cough. To- day he is a walking consumptive. If he worked for a boss and could prove his case, he would receive compensa- tion, but the benevolent government says no, this is a non-service con- nected case and doesn’t deserve com- pensation, Between 1925 and 1930 more ond more veterans no _ longer able to stand the strain filed claims with the Veterans’ Bureau. The mass demands made it tm- perative to pass legislation that would quiet criticism of the government. ‘The leaders of the American Legion, V. F. W. and D. A. V., no longer able to check the veterans’ demands, ad- vised that something be done. And so In 1930 the Disability Allowance Law was enacted to give the im- pression that something was being done for all sick veterans. The Legion officials now loudly deny any responsibility for this law. * 8 6 Tomorrow a concluding article will continue the exposure of the of veterans’ benefits and will out- line a program of action in the fight Against tho ant-- ‘Win Permit for Anti-Fascist | Parade in Phila. Thursday | Textile Union in Lawrence, Kenosha Workers, Swell Protest Against Nazi Terror PHILADELPHIA.—As a result of the mass resentment against tae atrocities of the Hitler regime, the police department has been compelled to grant the Communist Party a permit for a parade against German fascism on Thursday, April 6, the anniversary ef America’s entrance into the World War. The parade will start at 12 noon from Reyburn Plaza and go south on Broad to 13th and Reed Sts,,@—-— SGD | Where a mass meeting will be held.| Communist leaders, and ‘al lother po- | The police, however,“have refused to} litical prisoners, and the cessation of | allow the workers to march past the) the terror of the Hitler-Hindenburg German conpulate, The Communisi| regime and of all anti-Semitic ac- | Party, in calling o all organizations | tivities.” to participate in the demonstration, | urges them to demand the right to/ | march past the German consulate. Bakery Workers. NEW YORK.—At a meeting of 200 | ote | members of the Bakery Workers In- Textile Union, | dustrial Union, a resolution was LAWRENCE, Mass,—Under the in-| adopted and sent to the German em- fluence of Cohen, representative of| bassy denouncing the terror against: the “socialist” Workmen's Circle, and| Communist, Soclalist, Catholic and @ paper manufacturer named Teitie-| Jewish workers and demanding the | man, the Jewish Pest of the Veterans| release of those held in jail. |.of Foreign Wars, at a conference| ° ° 7 here, rejected the proposal of June} Ohio Club. | Croll, organizer of the National Tex-| CONNEAUT, ©—The Cosmopoli- tile Workers Union, for unity of all! tan Club here sent a resolution to the workers, veterans and oppressed | German embassy denouncing the fas- peoples against the fascist terror in cist terror in Germany and demand- | Germany. jing the release of all its victims. The textile union, at a membership ba bd . meeting, passed a resolution, which | was sent to the German ambassador, | denouncing the Nazi terror and de- manding the release of all its vic- |tims, A letter was sent to the city | couneil, calling on it to do likewise, but the council rejected the demands |of the Lawrence workers and merely | filed the communication away. Film and Photo League. NEW YORK.—The Workers Film and Photo League, an organization of cameramen, technicians, directors, ete,, has pledged itself to give full cooperation to the John Reed Club | Committee for Struggle Against Ger- man Fascism in its work of organiz- ing a powerful un’ ed front move- ment of writers, artists and all pro- fessional workers against the barbar- ous fascist regime in Germany. The Workers Film and Photo League calls upon all camera clubs, photographic leagues, individual photographers, cameramen, technicians, ete., to sup- port this united front against Fascism. SWEDISH SOCIALIST LEADERS TRY BUT FAIL TO SPLIT UNITED FRONT STOCKHOLM, Mar, 15 (By Mail).-At @ Socialist mass meeting in Miruna two prominent Social Democratic leaders defended the Socialist Swedish Government and opposed the Communist offer of a united front. In the discussion a Communist speaker shattered the puny arguments of the Social Democratic leaders, after which the meeting unanimously adopted a resolution in favor of a working-class united front on the basis of the Communist International's offer. SOVIET ICE BREAKER CREW WORKED IN 20 BELOW ZERO, SAVED SHIP MOSCOW, April 3.—The correspondent of the Investia on the ice-breaker “Lenin” reports the story of the brilliant salvaging by thie | Kenosha Workers, | KENOSHA, Wis—At a meeting | here in Danish Brotherhood Hall, ad- dressed by M, H. Childs, district or- ganizer of the Communist Party, a ;Sclegram was sent te the German embassy demanding “the immediate release of Thaelmann and Torgler, | ice-breaker of the “Malyguin™ ice-breaker which was stranded on a shoal near Spitzbergen. Achievement Never Equalted The correspondent writes: “By good fortune I was witness to this i |= ee mrenerpr enn ern remarkable achievement. The off. “Erylev, the head of this 6 cers and crew worked in polar weather 20 degrees below zero, with | tion, is a former sailor, a eer of fi ice threatening every minute to put| Markable energy. In connection an end to all our work, For the first | the brilliant feat of the paokine = time in the history of salvaging ves-| “Lenin,” the head of the expedi! sels on the Spitzbergen shores this | Teceived a telegram signed by Stalin, expedition by the application of sub-| Molotov, ‘Voroshiliv and Yansen, marine work took the icebreaker | People’s Commissar Waterways as fol- “Malyguin” off the reefs. * |lows: “Accept warm greetings to the Jeaders and all participants of the ex- pedition “ Former Sailor Directs Work salvaging ” who “After ten days’ work, carried on| accomplished all tasks with honor. under inhuman conditions, one of the best ice-breakers is given back Your work and your success turns 2 glorious page in the history of Soviet to the fleet. navigation.” MILLIONS OF COLLECTIVE FARMERS IN SOVIET UNION RESPOND TO THE CALL OF ALL UNION FARM CONGRESS New Shock Brigade Activity; Increase in Live Stock; Unity of Farmers and Workers By N. BUCHWALD (Special Correspondent of the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, April 3.—Tremendous response from millions of collective farmers throughout the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics followed the All-Union Congress of Collective Farm Shock Brigaders held in Moscow last February. Gorky, Dniepropetrovsk, Kiev, Odessa: regions, in the Crimea, etc. Living Standards Steadily Rise. The collective farmers show tre- mendous interest in these congresses, The congress in the Gorky region was marked by the farmers showing in industrial plants turning out farm machinery, ‘These tremendous achievements of socialist construction evoke great admiration and give the farmers confidence as they realize the matchless advance. Pledge Big Farming Arvance. At joint meetings with workers held at the industrial plants, the col~ lective farmers pledge that they will try to attain identical achievements in the field of building socialism in the agricultural areas. Well attended meetings of collec- tive farm shock brigades are taking Place not only in the regitns, but in thousands of districts throughout the U.S. 8. R. Women constitute a considerable number of participants in these meetings. In their appeal the wo- men of the collective farm shock bri- @ades of the Lozovo district. say: “In reply to the All-Union Congress we declare ourselves shock-brigaders in the first spring of the Second Five- Year Plan and undertake to justify calling ourselves such not by words but by deeds.” Socialist Competition Strong. ‘The growth of competition of the collective farms among themselves results in organization of shock bri- gades, the promotion of the best shock brigaders—these are some of the most important results of the numerous congresses of collective farm brigaders attended by hundreds of thousands of collective farmers, In the majority of districts the competition invoives the largest mas- ses of collective farmers and is turned Numerous regional congresses have been held in the Lower Volga, into a powerful lever for the success- ful carrying out of Spring sowing. Eee Ten Days That Shook the World! their speeches that their living stand- ' ards are rising monthly. The farm- China Express! ers are acquiring cows, other animals | Struggle for Bread! and poultry. Et Ft Et On arriving at the towns for these c. e. €. congresses the farmers always visit| cLassics oF THE orn MOVIES— the new gigantic works, especially the WORKERS’ FILM: Any organizetion can now at mominal cost, Information and Arrangements at District Daily Worker Office 385 E. 12TH STREET show them NEEDLEWORKERS APPRECIATE THE LITTLE WATCH REPAIR SHOP 017 SIXTH AVENUE, AT %TH STRRET DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 Bristol Street (Bet. Pitkin & Sutter Aves.) Iatys PHONE: DICKENS 2.9012 Office Hours: 8-10 AM. 1-2, 6-8 PIL tatern’] Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 8@ FIFTH AVENUE 15th FLOOB All Werk Dene Under Personal Gare of DR JOSEPRSON ANNOUNCEMENT Dr. Louis L. Schwartz SURGEON DENTIST ‘The removal of his office te larger quarters at 1 Union Square (8th Floor) Suite 308 ‘Tel. ALgongutn 4-p905 ' —— ~~