The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 23, 1933, Page 8

Ci ‘i ¥ Seed Ong eEPiyce Pets GSA “America’s Only Working Closes Deir FOUNDED 1984 detly, axcept Sundey, by the Petes Pub Go, the, 50 Bast ists Street, New ok, BY. Welephone: Atgonquin 4-795: Cable Address: “Datwork,” Mew York, ¥. ¥ Washington Bureau: Room 94 Mettonel 14th ant F. St., Washington, D. ©. Subscription Bates: (except Manhatten and Sroum) $3.50; 8 months, $2.00; 1 month, Maphatten, Bronx, Forsigr smd Canséer € months, 95.00; $ months 92.00. By Cerrler: Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, 76 cents. ¢ 2 year, 98. 7S cemts. 1 year, ge.ee: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1938 What Do YOU Mean B Discipline, Mr. Thomas? IORMAN THOMAS speaking about “discipline” is a DY strange twist. But en two leading Socialists go ment or to open capitalist and 5B to cover some of their naked- ‘Thomas ‘The fornia and of Blanshard in New York has naturally in party discipline.” 6 word “discipline” begins to craw! back, to avoid the whole auestion. “On the other hand,” he writes, “I think we may fall into certain Commu- nist errors and into the Communist unpopularity !f im labor unions, farmers’ societies, cooperatives, or involving political action or any repudiation of fundamental socialist principles, we tind our members to act only on one line.” Mr. Thomas doesn’t want discipline if it em- warrases the strikebreaking tactics of Mr. Green & Co. the A. F. of L. He doesn’t want discipline if it hampers any strikebreaking actions of the IL.G.W.U. leaders. ‘The wily Thomas does not want so much looseness as to be embarrassed by Blanshard and Sinclair. But he wants to continue his freedom in the Socialist Patty so he can do as he pleases to help Mr. Roose- veit or Mr. Green. He wants freedom to continue to-fight against a revolutionary class struggle. TO aa DOES not want that democracy im the Socialist Party that leads to « serious discussion of problems, and then when @ decision is made, to be bound by it Norman jomas, who advises the workers “this is not ‘the time to strike,” does not want the discipline the..workers find necessary in their struggles. The workers have learned discipline and its value through their bitter struggles against the bosses. discuss thelr demands. They discuss -strike and a vote is taken. When the strike is‘on, l workers are bound by proletarian discipline. They enter into the strike te carry it through to victory, and even those who voted against it ate expected to joim in the struggle. Those who betray the struggles are looked on as scabs and traitors. _ Norman Thomas and the Socialist leaders want fone of: this discipline. ~ The only discipline they seek is to oust members so Seciaist Party who try to achieve 2 common front of stylgele with the Communists. ~¥ou, Mr. Thomas, and your ilk in the Socialist Patty, don’t hesitate to take action against Socialist Party locals who voted for a united front in the strug- gle against war by participation in the Anti-War Con- gress. Party members and Y.P.9.L. members have been @xpelled for declaring for the united front with Com- munists. other organizations, not ‘T you want, Mr. Thomas, when you spéak° of discipline, 1s re aul ity to smash the actions of the wor! in your r But, at the same Thomas wants full freedom of for if and the trade union bureaucrats to support , the Roosevelt in- flation program, contrary to the interest of the S i ist’ workers high priest of the Socialist Party Wants no discipline to hamper n in such activities. In the Communist Party we have real democracy. Byery_unit, every section of the Party has the fullest ooportunity for 2 discussion of all questions. The Poli¢y..of the Pa is collectively decided on, in the sameé way as workers collectively decide to strike and t decisions. The whole Party acts as its decisions ie the Communist Party is able to aid tHe workers in their struggles, for higher wages, for union organization and against the slave program of the NRA. It is able to prepare and steel itself for the struggle against war, and to meet the conditions of illegality that the workers meet in the revolutionary struggle for the overthrow of capitalism and the seizure of. power. What this means is shown by events in Germany. There, the Communist Party, based on ciscipline, has withstood the attack of the fascists. The Social- Democratic Party, based on Norman Thomas’s con- eeptien.of discipline, has surrendered to the blows of the: Mazis. This would inevitably occur in every country. i Thomas wants, in reality, neither democracy nor discipline. The Communist Party insists on both democracy and discipline. ‘The discipline of the Communist Party, one of its most outstanding and revolutionary features, grows out Of its revolutionary principles and organization. As the fighting organization of the working class it alls for discipline to carry on the most effective strug- gle for the workers’ needs, for the revolutionary strug- gle against capitalism. theory and practice ts based om class collaboration, betraying the Interests cf the workers, based on 2 the revolutionary struggles of the wort- ing class for the overthrow of capitalism—denies and e the need of discipline. A fighting organization e discipline. An organization of peace with the bosses rejects discipline, but maintains 2 bureaucratic apparatus te stifle revolutionary criticism from its own rank and file membership. A i Car soe HE discipline of the Communist Party has nothing ~ Of the discipline of the church or army. _ It is based on the revolutionary conviction that & united party of the workers is necessary, firmly founded on the revolutionary principles of Marxism- Leninism. Tt is the discipline of conviction. Within the Party open discussion goes on around all ques- thons of struggle. There is established the principle of democratic centralism—the democratic functioning of the Party units, with a centralization of leadership for the most effective revolutionary struggle. When decisions are reached, the whole force of the Party is mobilized behind them. Here the iron discipline of the Gommunist Party is based on inner democracy, om democratic cenuralism. “The question of discipline has been put as one of thé central reasons for the victory of the proletarian revolution tn Russia by Comrade Lenin, . ee Se an: EYOND question,” wrote Lenin, “almost every one knows by this time that the bolsheviks would | know why the Communist Party DAILY WORKER, not have been able to hold power for two and a halt years, nor even for two and 3 half months, had there not beer the strictest possible discipline, truly fron discipiine, within the Party.” To understand the basis of this discipline is to is the only revolu- tionary Party leading the struggle against capitalism. Lenin explains the roots of discipline in the fol- lowing clear manner “How is disciplins maintained within the revo- Istionary Party of the proletariat? What controls this disctpline, and what strengthens it? First of all, there is the class consciousness of the proletarian vanguard, its devotion to the revolution, its self- control, its self-sacrifice, its heroism. “Secondly, there is the capacity of the prole~ tarian vanguard for linking itself with, for keeping in close touch with, for to some extent amalgamating with, the broad masses of those who labor... “Thirdly, we have the soundness of the van- guard’s political leadership, the soundness of its poli- teal strategy and tactics...” This is the type of discipline the Socialist Party cam never have and does not want. Norman Thomas’ talk about “discipline” is a shield to cover the ex- posure of the Socialist Party’s service to capitalism Only the Communist Pariy has this discipline. Only 2 Party unflinchingly, unitedly, unswervingly fighting against capitalism, steeling if for the leadership of the victorious revolution can have this discipline, a discipline which workers can understand. ‘We appeal to all workers.to join our ranks, to help knit a powerful, disciplined revolutionary Party as the most effective weapon in the struggle against capitalism and all its agénts. Save Them from Goering! Topas, the ‘verdict of the Nazi judges at the Reich- * stag frame-up is expected. To prepare for t the latest dispatches from Germany, printed in the capitalist press, bear the all- too obvious mark of Goering’s Nazi publicity agents, They are craftily calculated to give the impression that the Fascist murderers of the Leipzig Court, that Goering’s Storm Troopers have experienced a sudden softening of heart toward Dimitroff, Torgler, Popoff and Taneff, the Communist defendants. This strategy, forced upon the Fascists by the rising power of world mass protest, is also connécted with the Nazi Leipzig court: move to seemingly relent toward Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff by admitting their innocence in the Reichstag fire. But this sudden “liberalism” of the Hitler gov- ernment is nothing but the sugar coating of the Nazi fury against our comrades. The Hitler Fascists are the same brutal torturers. They have not changed. Every day, reports come from Germany of the shooting down of Germ: workers, and imprisoned Communists in the concentration camps. At this very moment 36 German Communists await the Nazi axe, doomed te execution by exactly such Nazi Courts as the Leipzig Court. Our comrade Thaelmann, Communist leader of the German working class, is now in the hands of the Fascist jailers, kept in isolation. The concentra~ tion camps are filled with thousands of the best work- ers and anti-fascist fighters in Germany, who daily feel the lash of Nazi torture, whose bodies are found mangled and beaten. Pera per 'HE Fascist news releases in the capitalist press talk hopefully of a new trial for Torgler. This means that Torgler will go back again into 2 Nazi dungeon to feel again the tortures and isolation of a prison cell. This means that Torgler’s life is in greater danger than ever. The press talks about Dimitroff and his Bulgarian comrades as if they are no longer in any danger sinee the Fascist prosecutor was forced to grant their innocence. But the cry of Goering at the Court: “Wait till you leave the custody of this court. Then you will have reason to be afraid!” is still the real program of the Hitler government. One thought burns in the minds of the work- ets—as long as Dimittoff, Torgler and their comrades are in the hands of the Fascists, they face torture and death! The mass protest against the Leipzig frame-up cannot be permitted to slacken for one moment. It is this alone that stays the execution of our heroic comrades. This alone can save them. We Communists, answering the call of Dimitroff, tinging throughout the world as the challenge to Fascism, must go to the A. F. of L. workers, to the Socialist workers with the comradely hand of United Front struggle against Fascism, for the release of the Reichstag defendants. The United Front struggles of the aroused masses of the world, united with all intellectuals, professionals, can wrest our comrades from the hands of the Nazis, can force them to release them in safety, The Nazis have their eyes on us, warily calculating the strength of our resistance. Can we fail to’ meet their challenge? Toward United Front Mass Actions, demonstra- tions, protests against the Nazi frame-up! Roosevelt Buys Silver Reet has just taken another step along that Toad of inflation on which he is now traveling with secelerating speed. He has ordered thatthe United States Treasury buy all the silver mined in this coun- try, at @ price 21% cents above the present market. The amount involved is not grand, $15,000,000, though it undoubtedly means sudden, easy profits for the investors who own silver mines. Roosevelt, in preparation for the coming Con- gress in January, is, by his silver buying, attempting to disorganize the so-called “silver bloc” of “wild in- flationists,” the group that is attempting to precipitate him toward “greenback” currency, faster than he wishes to go. At the same time, Roosevelt continues his own method of inflation, the method that is in the In- terests of Wall Street monopoly capital. The real meaning of Roosevelt's act is that tt gives unmistakable indication that the Roosevelt gov- ernment is continuing its inflationary drive in an effort to hold up the jacked-up price structure, which begins to sag as soon as the inflationary shots are stopped. Particularly, Roosevelt’s action is part of the growing imperialist drive of Wall Street against its rivals, British and Japanese imperialisms, It is particularly ageinst Britain and Japanese im- Perlalism, against whom the Wall Street Roosevelt government is now waging bitter commercial and fi- nancial warfare over the textile markets of China, India, Argentine and Brazil. By cheapening the Japanese Yen, Japanese im~ perialism succeeded in beating British manufacturers to the Indian markets. Now India, under the heel of British imperialism, has declared an embargo on the import of Japanese textiles, This has forced Japan to drive ahead into the Chinese markets dominated by the Wall Street imperialists. So fierce has been the Japanese inflationary “dumping” drive of Japanese imperialism against its American and British rivals, thet U. 8. exporters are being forced out of the South American markets. Roosevelt's raising of the silver price is, there- fore, a renewed imperialist drive to beat off the im- Perialist rivals of Wall Street in the Chinese, Indian, and South American taxtile markets. And it is a oe that brings the explosion of imperialist warfare loser. British Seek to Win French Government ito Nazi Demands, | Push Drive for Armed Intervention Against Soviet Union PARIS, Dec. 22—Sir John Simon, British Foreign Minister, was closet- ed today in'a secret conference with Premier Camille Chautemps’ ‘and | French Foreign Minister Joseph Paul~ Boncour;.on the question of the Nazi demands for arms equality. The British Foreign Minister, be- fore leaving. London yesterday, made it clear he would seek to persuade the French government to adopt a conciliatory attitude to the Nazi de- mands. For the past week there has been an increasingly aggressive sup- | port for the Nazi demands in British ' imperialist circles, seeking to aid the Nazis in their proclaimed intention of ; conquering and partitioning the Sov- | iet' Ukraine. This support coincides with Sir Austin Chamberlain's at-| tack yesterday on the World Inquiry | into the Reichstag fire and its report exonerating the Communist defend- ants. | ‘The French imperialists, while sym- pathetic to the anti-Soviet interven- tion scheme, distrust the Nazis and fear that increased. German ‘arma- ments. would in time be turned against “France. The discovery of 2 wide-spread Nazi spy system in| France has further crystellized the, opposition of the French government ; to. any compromise on the question of German arms equality. Students to Rally, Against R.0.7.C. in Washington, Dec. 28: NSL Convention Will! Feature Symposium } on Negro Problenis NEW YORE.—A united front anti- war demonstration will be the feature of the National Student League Third Annual- Convention. in Washington, Dec, 26-28. The demonstration will take place on the afternoon of the third day as close to the White House’ as possible, A delegagtion will visit the President of the United States to present a petition signed by thou- Sands ‘of “Students throughout the country'calling for the abolition of the R.0.T.C., the military training units on the campuses. ‘The convention, which is being held in Howard University, the largest Ne- jgto college in the country, will at-~ tempt to work out a plan of struggle for the students in the coming year. |A symposium on the Negro.problem and the Jynch wave, in which Donald Henderson, of the American League Against War and Fascism; Richard B. Moore,.of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, and a representa- tive of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, will participate, will be one of the highlights of the convention. The evening of the second day will feature a dance and entertain- ment which all the delegates, Negro and white, will attend. From Yale to the University of Southern. California, students will vepresent hundreds of campus clubs jand students’ groups. New York del- legates leave Monday afternoon at 12 lo'clock from the N.S.L. headquartets, 114 W. 14th St. They will return Friday afternoon. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1933 Chinese RedArmy in Fierce Fighting on! ithe Chekiang Front Martial Law Decreed in Canton Against Workers CANTON, Dec. 22.—This city was put under martial law today by the Canton regime, alarmed at the rapid upsurcs of the anti-imperialist strug- gles of the workers, rallying to the defense of the Chinese Soviet Re- public against the imperialist direct- ed Nanking Sixth Offensive. Dis- covery of wide-spread preparations for a mass uprising was claimed by the government. ‘The Canton warlords, while sup- porting the British-inspired —seces- stonist movement in Fukien Province, | is at the same time attacking the Chinese Soviet Republic from the south in cooperation with the Nan- king campaign. Fierce fighting has begun on the Fukien-Chekiang front. The Chinese Red Army has halted its advance in- to Chekiang and is entrenched along a strategic line from Juian and Shah- sien in Kiangsi to Yenping in Fukien. The Fukien Nineteenth Route Army, whose rank and file are greatly sym- Pathetic to the Red Army, is holding another line from Yenping to the coast. Meanwhile, the 'Fukien regime con- tinues its demagogic gestures of op- position to the imperialists in an at- tempt to deceive the workers under its jurisdiction, Announcement was made yesterday that the regime will abolish the imperialist courts estab- Fire Exposes Nazi | Propaganda Plant NEWARK, Dec. 22.-A Nazi prope- ;Sanda plant was discovered tod: | when 4 fire broke out at 34 Gill Pi. A developing room and 9 came: negatives that were to be used for| Nazi propaganda, were found by the} police. | Oscar Schilling was detained for; questioning. The police, however, pre- ferred no charges inst him. { | Plan New Hunger March on London, LONDON, Dec. 22.—British uneim-! | Ployed workers are preparing for an~- other Hunger March to converge on London from all parts of the country. | The merchers will demand aboli-| tion of the Means Test under which } unemployed relief has been ruthlessly j cut for over 404,000 workers, while more than 88,003 have been com-}| pletely denied relief, even on the) basis of official figures. Plans for the March were de- nounced inthe House of Commons to- day by Sir John Gilmour, House Sec- | retary, who told the House that the; ; Communist Party was the “prime in- 1 stigator” of the movement which is| causing great alarm among the Brit- | ish ruling class. lished under the extra-territoriality | treaties impose on China. Par aa HONGKONG, Dec. Naa planes carried out a murderou: bombardment of Changcho Province, killing scores of pe: wounding large numbers. Many build- ings were destroyed. Dictatorial Powers Given President by; Mexican Congress Nat'l Revolutionary Party Paves Way for Fascism MEXICO CITY, Dec. 22.—Govern- ment by decree, paying the way for ‘ual fascist dictatorship, was es~ tablished in Mexico today under dic~ torial powers voted to President Abelardo Rodriguez to-night by the Senate. The measure, sponsored by ¢ dominant National Revolutionary Ss passed by the Chamber of Deputies yesterday. The measure empowers the presi- dent to act through the medium of decrees and virtually abolishes the authority of the legislative bodies. A number of sweeping decrees are expected to be issued at once. The leaders of the National Rev- olutionary Party, in an attempt to conceal frcm the masses the fascist aims of th® measure, have given demagogic premises that the extra- ordinary powers voted to the Presi- dent will be used to achieve “nation- alization of the sub-soil wealth of Mexico” and to carry through the rian reforms long age promised the party. These promises are the preamble by flatly contradicted in of the bill which states its purpose as ‘ing to “discourage” con- exploitation of natural re- by fereign interests, in order to hand over these resources to Call for Struggle Against Heavy War Outlay by Gov't | Manifesto of League of Struggle Against | War Outlines Plans NEW YORK.—Calling upon all or- ganizations and groups to initiate » nation-wide campaign during De- cember and January against the tone tinued appropri: ns of the govern ment for war purnoses, the Executive Committee of the American League Against War and Fascism issued to- day through its secretaries, Donald Henderson and Francis A. Henson, tional manifesto “urging all op- S of war to mobilize nation~ ide action to culminate January 29 with demonstrations throughout the country and a delegation to Washing- ton to present these demands.” Calis for Protest, Strikes on War Jobe The manifesto issued by the League points out that more industries are daily turned into war shops and that funds appropriated for public works ere converted for war purposes. “Day by day the policies of this war government,” continues the ma- nifesto, “are turning more factories into war shops—munitions take the place of machinery; uniforms take the placs of clothes; battleships take the place of schools and houses; civil conservation encampments take the place of homes for the youth; war chemicals iake the place of fertilizers; tanks take the place of tractors.” “The American League in its stirring call to all workers and farmers, to people of all faiths and political af- filiations, urges the immediate back~ ing of the delegation to Washington on January 29, with mass demonstra- tions and meetings throughout the country, in every state and city of the union. The call especially urges all, workers to organize “temporary stoppages of work in the factories, en the docks, on all war jobs on January 29.” In its campaign for Public Works and net. War Works the League urges all organizations and grouns to “elect or appdint a representative to join the Washington delegation to call on President Roosevelt. and Congress on January 29.” U. S. Consulates Te Be Opened in USSR Bullitt on Way Home To Report WASHINGTON, Dec. 22—William C. Bullitt, first U. 8. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, is enroute to the United States from Moscow, where he made 2 preliminary survey for the early opening of a U. S. Embassy in the Soviet capital. On the basis of his cabled - U. S. Consular offices will be scon in several Soviet cities, the State | Department revealed today. Consulate Generals are expected to |open at Moscow, Leningrad and Od- essa, while other consular offices probably will be established in Vladi- vostok and one or two other cities, it was stated. With the realization of Soviet orders for American machinery and other material needed in the giant Second Year Plan, offices. will be established in other Soviet cities. Bullitt is expected to arrive about January 5, and will remain hire at lesst’a month for conference with Roosevelt and the State Department. Unions in Complete Control of All Insurance By VERN SMITH MOSCOW, U. 8. 8. R. (By mail) — The demand which more than any- thing else made the Workers Social Insurance Bill in America different from all the liberal and Socialist Party and Musteité and italist demagogic proposals was the demand for control-and administration of the insurance. funds by the workers in the factories and the unemployed themselves. Now, in' the Soviet Union social insurance is administered .by the workers, ‘There are ho unemployed. There are no capitalists to insist on control, with the privilege attached of strikebreaking and blackmailing. The insurance was: administered the state until this year, but that is @ workers’ state, quite different from the state which the American Soci- alist Party proposes should run socia) insurance, as Unions Control Insurance Funds At present, even that purely fic- titious resemblance to the fake tn- surance ‘schemes of America is gone, and social~insurance in U. S. 8. R- is managed, funds controlled and ad- ministered, by the labor unions, to which practically all workers belong. All newspapers in the Soviet Union Published on Sept. 11 of this year a decree signed by the Council of Dnion Central Committee of Trade mions. ‘This decree completed the work of a preliminary preparatory decres issued last June. The effect of the two decrées, and particularly of the last one, was to merge the Peoples Commissariat of Labor with the trade union appar- atus. That is, the unions actually take over and begin to operate one ff the parts of the government, equivalent roughly to what would be called the “Department of Labor in the United States government, though its powers were greater than those wielded by Secretary Perkins. Unions Administer $2,250,000,000 2 > Year Beginning Sept. 15, all social in- surance funds of the Commissariat of Labor for the year 1933 were turned over to the trade uniohs. They amount to four and a half billion Tubles’ ($2,250,000,000) this year. All Peoples Commissars and by the All-|~ Soviet Social Insurance Administered By Mexican capitalists. the organization and apparatus, trained office employees, etc., for ad- ministering this fund were. placed under the orders of the trade unions. All sanitariums, rest homes, scientific institutes. and other bujldings and property connected in any way with social insurance were handed over to the trade unions. The four and 4 helf million rubles was already budested 28 follows: rélief -for tervocrary incapacity, $00 million rubles; pensions, 530 million tubles; upkeep of sanitariums and rest homes, 200 million; support of children’s “institutions, 190 million, and for building and repairing work- ers’ houses, 600 million rubles. No other country in the world provides so much for social insurance, nor in so many forms, even if there is no unemployment insurance here. The only reason there is no unemploy- ment insurance is because there is »y/ no unemployment of industrial work Union Leaders in Charge The decree instructed the All- Union Central Committee of Trade Unions to carry on social insuranc3 “on industrial principles.” The prac- tical leadership is to be concentrated in the central committees of the trade unions. In the republics and the various ‘provinées, the republic or re~ “Soviet Factory— Center of Socialist Life,” in ‘Daily’ Mon. A series of articles by Vern Smith, Daily Worker Moscow cor- respondent, on “The Soviet Fac- tory—Center of Socialist Life,” will begin in Monday’s issue. gional organizations of trade unions are to in charge. The decree also; ordered that the first secretary of the All,Union Central Committee of ‘Trade Unions was to be in charge of end to organize control, inspec- tion and instruction, to compose the budget and scale of payments. The same committee is responsible for the management of the sanitariums and rest homes connected with social in- surance. The social insurance monies, how- ever, aro held in the state bank at the. account of the various unions. And at all plants and offices ths in- dustrial union to which practically every one in the plant or effice would belcrg. sets up the insurance office, yand the factory. or mill committes of the union manages it, makes the Anniversary “Daily” to Recount History of Labor Press in U. S. Do you know when the first workers’ publication was (ssued in the United States? Do you know that shortly after dafly newspaper in the United Sta What was the character of these for labor? What were their short the Civil War there was @ workers’ tes? publications? Wat did they demand insurance payments, assigns people to the rest homes or sanitariums, etc. Unions Take Political Power Furthermore, all political powers enjoyed by the Commissariat of Labor até handed over to the trade} uniens. The central councils of trade unions in each locality have the right to inspect, sco that labor laws and sanitary laws are carried out, and can levy es for their. violation. The Central Committee of the Trade Unions publishes the rules and forms for safety of labor and sanitary conditions... It registers collective agreements between the union repro- sontad by the factory committee and the management of each factory, and has the right to alter or abolish those which violate thé laws for safety of labor, sanitation, hours of work, etc. All the above was contained in the historic Council of Peoples Commissars, of Sent. 11, 1988. + Unions Enforce Labor Laws To get an idea of what it means, you might imagine ell powers. of factory inspection, or enforcement, of labor Jaws’ (and a good’ deal of the power to make labor laws) plus all handling .of the biggest social insur- ance schome in the world, placed in the hands ef the National Committee of the Trade Union Unity. League! Ozgan of the Soviet Goverament An editorial in “Izvestia,” of Sopt. 11, points out some of the. reasons | and results of ‘this, decree, It was eorrset to keep social insurance in the hands of the Commissariat of Labor in the beginning, while Soviet industry was getting on its fect. But with the progress of industry, 2 num~ ber of functions of the Commissariat of Labor died out, sich as unem- ployment insurance. On the. other hand, such functions as inspection automatically were shouldered over onto the unions. Ths union factory ecmings? Vhy did they go under? What difference marks our Daily Worker from thess publications? All these bistorically important answered in a special article on the t and interesting questions will be history of the labor press in America, which will appear im the 24-page, tenth anniversary edition of the Daily Worker, coming off the press on January 6th. No worker can afford to miss this anniversary edition with !t8 specie! news, features, cartoons, historical informagion never before assembled in one issue of any working-class publication. Order several copi¢s. The 24-page anniversary number will make a splendid revolutionary gift for your friends, neighbors, and fellow shop workers or mill committee, with its network of departmental and work room com- mittees throughout the plant, with its groups of active volunteer a5- sistants, with its every day and every hour contact with the individual workers in the plant, is the best inspector. 7 The factory committee also knows who deserves special care and ireat- ment, who is @ slacker trying to get something he doesn’t’ deserve. It can find out whether So-and- So's child is sick because of tmavoid- able causes, or because his living conditions are bad, or because his Workers @eezee of the All Union| Gov't Decree Puts En- itire Labor Board in | Hands of Workers wife simply doesn’t know how to take feare of it. It knows how much | money to give in such a case, and whether to follow it up with instruc- | tion, or by moving the family to | better surroundings, or by sending | the child to a hospital or to a sani- jtarium.. Only the union with its wide membership and first hand {knowledge could and did do these things, even ‘before the decree was passed, In doing so, it acted as the agent cf the Peoples Commissariat of Labor. “Our Workers Belong To Us” I asked the insurance secretary of the‘ mill commiitee ‘at the First state | Sall Bosring Plant in Moscow what cflect the new decree had on the work of the union, and he scratched his head and said that it seemed to him they had been doing most | of the ‘things the decree told them to do, but they were dcing them in- directly, through, recommendations to yatigus. bodies, and now they did them directly with less. wasted mo- tion. cettain impetiis Furthermore, a was given to the work by the realiza- tion that: “Now our workers belong to us, we watch their care as they | grow up, when they go to wt we are watching over them, and they are full grown and working steadily, we still have charge of their care. The protective power of the” union now extends over.the worker from the moment of his birth to the date of his death, and continues then over his widow and children.” | The “Izvestia” editorial points out that this. situation now “makes it- possible for us to draw in the work of social insurance management the Taasses of workers, to, fight for im- provement of the social insurance system, and for the well being ef wide masses of workers.” i ‘Managers of social insurance funds, especially at the payment points in the factory, “Izvestia” points should guarantes distribution. ~ mesons,” it says, “summer oe as ae ips, ete., be given te who fight for the fulfillment tent should go to tee best lon, BO ers for social construction.” — ’