The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 6, 1934, Page 4

Page Four Pittsburgh Hotel Pouce Stop Marine | Workers on Strike; Movement Sprea &. Y. Demonstrations at New Yorker, Park Cen- teal, Today at 11 a. ™. other hotels bef movement stea: according to fant Workers’ which is leading Aiter deliberately onference on the the usual N. R. out the striker acting chairmar bor Board, final tion of New Yo ferday. She gation” of the ing the strikers. Strikers denounced t ing activi of cies, which are veaping a harve: ing exorbitant exposed the r Local strikebreaking tary of the Ar different hotel: The Hote! picketing wi fons to be at the Park Yorker Hotel: ab two poin W. 52nd St., Eighth Ave march to held Industrial Prepara to win im terias thr made at a mass Hall, Wednesd: Parker oF, Cithes Appeals for | Solidarity of I Urges Support of Splendid Struggles of Tobaceo | and Sug Editor's Note: a Cuban wor written befo: ment conimitted ary deed and prep. the even more dieta govern ernment, which the Rooseve ministration recognized wit swiftness, is now inn} same policy of te 1 a its final reactior red the wa such (By a Cuban Worker Correspondent) , HAVANA, Cuba. — What does the ers? “80 per cent, Martin, the able agent ¢ jean domination in Cuba 80 per cent? It mply th ing of the h Works for th vorked fo: "rs of the United States, OW realize that conditions a “worse, that there is more ment, that there is no solutic system of blo landlords. ‘The hungry Young to under sodsucking | ®0 per cent act Streets of Havana. the following: 1. It means I the forei shop, store. any enterp ere he exploits them, and will threw the rest of the ‘Work on the remaining few, resulting ip-terrific speed-up, in vast unemploy- ment. Grau plans to ship the Spaniards to Spain, the Jamaicans to Jamaica, the Haitians to Haiti. These expert sugar workers, these splendid tobacco Park Workers from Joining Mass Meet CWA, Workers Telegraph Officials Jobless Insurance Demanding of police sur- nade it impos- rs to leave their the workers imme- p a collection and sent » the following gov- ir Governc Wagner “We C.W.A. workers of Marine Roosevelt, Harry Lehman, F. E Senator i as fol- Park demand the continuation of | the day C.W.A week against further cuts, , and unbearable working telegram to Senator Wagner as follows: “We 4,000 Marine Park workers endorse only Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bil William Bryan, militant Negro who was active in organiz- workers and in taking up ection for the telegram, was iately fired. Bryan had in- that the working conditions be improved, that it was im- to work in the freezing unless fires could be built me taken out to warm up. ryan informed the assembled that he had. been d, a was held on the spot and houted in unison, “We t Bryan be put back to t juncture, Bryan was » the office and told that 1 stay on the job if he would “a good boy.” srothers in U, ar Toilers women and children are gangster ABC's place Could there be Yet our comrades, under this bloody working, théy are .organ- ag the unemployed, to teach these masses, and to finally lead them: into @ revolution that will give them the only government to solve all the prob- lems. The Confederation of Labor is training its unions, teaching its young comrades, who managed to tear them- selyes out of the clutches of Machado and have bravely gone into the ranks of the organized workers. Tt is true that this organization | is only less than a half-year-old, but they are going forward with tremen- dous speed. What they need is the y of the American workers, who have already gone through ordeal of the N.R.A., American worker: ho can join hands with the splendid comrades of the sugar mills, }of the tobacco workers, and the | others under the yoke of Yankee im- perialism and the terror of Grau. | Comras the Cuban workers are |asking your help in solidarity. The Cuban workers need you in their struggle for their liberation un- der the banner of the proletariat. The Cuban workers will live under a Soviet Government, for no matter where they will be, they will have | the same exploiter, the capitalist. five dollar day, four | HAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1934 Section of yesterday's C.W.A., C.W.S. workers demonstration at City Hall against lay-offs, wage-cuts and discontinuance of C.W.A. “Keep your promise, La Guar in demonstration yesterday at New York City Hall. dia!” demand 5,000 C.W.A. workers 5,000 CWA Workers! | Demonstrate for — Jobless Insurance| (Continued from Page 1) } for the enlargement and continu- ance of the C. W. A., and the stop- ping of all lay-offs and wage cuts, On Jan. 2, we were here with these demands. You heard us with the same smothering courtesy that you now show us. At that time you promised us an answer. You also promised us cash relief, the pay- | ment of all rents before eviction. | Not only have you not carried out these demands, as the delegates | here will prove to you, but you have | | not answered our demands. Mean- while, all your agreements with the | bankers have been kept religiousiy, while the demands of the jobless are deliberately neglected.” Fired for Organizing Michael Davidoff, president of the Relief Workers League of Greater New York, demanded that all laid- off C.W.A. workers be immediately reinstated, and that wage cuts be rescinded. “Since you have expressed your sympathies with us,” he said, addr ing Deutch, “we expect your administration to petition Congress, |demanding that the demands of the C.W.A. workers be immediately car- | ried out. We also demand that we |be paid for this day which we have taken off from work to demonstrate | here, and also expect you to exercise your influence to see that we are paid.” When Davidoff pointed out that many workers ‘had been fired for organizational activities, and that the charge of “loafers” had. been hurled at these men by F, Moses, a| | LaGuardia appointee, Deutch asked, ‘Do you mean to insinuate that} these men have been fired for or} ganizational activities?” Davidoff} hurled back at him, “I do not mean to insinuate; I am here to tell you} this!” Official Favors Wage-Cuts Davidoff pointed out how during the recent snow storms he had been given a spade with which to clear snow, and other workers were given j hoes; and that despite this lack of} |tools and materials, workers were |fired for “loafing.” He also de- manded that job committees be rec- | ognized, and that all skilled workers be given jobs at their trades at union rates of pay. To this Detch replied that in his opinion it was better for the workers to get less money so that more men could get work, in this way: evading the workers | demands for union | wages. Other delegates raised the de- mands of the Bronx Unemployed Councils, C.W.S. groups, the Marine Workers Industrial Union, In closing, Deutch attempted to place the blame on the past admin- istration by pleading that the pres- ent government had only been in United Sh ais ie on Wins 9 Shops In Referendum; for New Vote NEW YORK.—The United Shoe and Leather Workers’ Union won nine out of the 19 shops involved in the two-day referendum conducted here last week by the National Labor Board. Challenging the results in the ten shops reported to have shown a min- ority vote for the union, the United Shoe Union in a sharp protest tele-'| gram to Senator Wagner, head of the National Labor Board, yesterday, de- manded that new elections be con- ducted on the ground that fraud, intimidation and outright terror had been used against the workers during the voting. | The United Shoe Union bases its demand for new elections in the ten shops on the fact that voting was not by secret ballot, but by open mark- ing of the ballot. The union charges also that in these shops meetings were called in advance of the refer- endum and the workers were virtu- ally ordered to vote for the scab Boot and Shoe Union or the shops would close down or move out of town. In most of the shops workers from the outside were brought in by the bosses to. swell the vote for the Boot and Shoe Union. Other fraudulent meth- ods were used. In the face of intimidation of the bosses, aided by the federal agents, the following shops voted to join the United Shoe and Leather Work- ers’ Union: Herman Grossman, Ka- dos, Delman, Weisman Sass, Morgan Grossman, Clarendon, Seymor Troy, La Presti and Elco. The Elco Shoe Co. was the shop | where Grover Whalen, as head of the local N. R. ing edict, o1 pickets during the recent shoe strike. |In this shop only six voted for the Boot and Shoe Union. The ten shops of which the union was defrauded are the Bressler, An- drew Geller, American Shoe, Wolf and Son, Grossman, Inc., Cornell Unity, Premier, LaValle, I. Miller and the Poulter Delisia, Federal agents refused to heed pro- tests of watchers at the Bressler shop who demanded that the boss stay away from the polling place. In the I, Miller shop every worker was given a card containing his name and the. number on his payroll. The worker marked the ballot in the presence of the federal agent, permitting him to see the worker's choice of his union. At the Poulter Delisia shop 150 work- ers from the Peekskill shop of the firm were brought down to vote for the New York shop, _ The threat of blacklisting, loss of jobs and discrimination against workers voting for the United Shoe and Leather Workers’ Union was an outstanding factor in terrorizing the workers and robbing the United of Y votes, the union declared to- $30 A Month for Cleaning 7-Roeom House, Washing By a Student Correspondent BROOKLYN, N. Y¥.--I met a young girl at the subway station who asked me the way to Brighton Beach. I told her I was going there too, She told me about her struggle to live in this big city. She is just two weeks from Youngs- town, Pa., where her family of nine children and an old mother are power for six weeks, and that tle workers should be “patient.” As the delegates left the city hall, the workers broke into the “Inter- national.” Loud cheering greeted them as they mounted the speakers stand. In reporting back to the workers, the delegates raised the jery that unless the demands were met, the workers would be back in greater numbers, as they had proven since the last demonstration at the city hall, As the meeting adjourned, the workers formed into orderly ranks and marched to Union Square, a dis- tance of two miles, living. One brother works in a C. C. C. camp and another for the C.W.A. The father of the family, a miner, has been dead for five years. mother lies on her back, paralyzed, for over a year. There is no money to pay for a doctor. The children have no clothes to wear. A’ marsied sistes of 26 wants to come to New York also to look for work. Her husband is a miner and makes barely enough to live on. This girl, K., whom I met, works at house- work. She receives $30 a month for cleaning a seven-room house, wash- ing clothes of a family of seven and minding the three smaller children. Her only time off is three hours one afternoon a week. She cannot eat properly at mealtime, as she is hur- ried along in order that she may continue her work sooner. She was eriabled to come here through a loan from the priest of her church. She was on her way to the employment office in order to pay her fee of $3. She is afraid to pro- test to her employer for fear that:she will lose her job. She must send money home to her folks, I went to the office with her an there we met another girl, a frien of. K.’s, who comes from the same town. H. is also doing housework. Her father is a small farmer and the family of seven just have enough to eat. H, needs clothes and so has come to the city. to earn, some money. A large part of her pay will go home, too, The} |AFL Workers Unite ‘in Laundry Strike With Militant LWIU NEW YORK. — Rank and file members of Local 280 of the A. F. of L. laundry uhion, disgusted with th “picketing” policy of their misleaders, consulted the Laundry Workers Industrial Union for advice and as a result decided to call a mass picketing demonstration last Monday, 7 a. m. in front of the Quick Service Laundry, 315 E, 99th Street. S. J. Berland, Secretary of the L. W. I. U., speaking before the membership of the A. F. of L. local No. 280 last oMnday, proposed a concrete plan for the amalgamation of both unions which was hailed with enthusiasm by the A. F. of L. rank and file, The L. W. I. U. calls on all work- ers and workingclass organizations to aid the strikers by coming to strike headquarters at 143 E. 103rd St., and by contributing food and money for the reilef of the strikers. Defend Fatherland ‘ofWorldProletariat, Urges Soviet Worker By a Soviet Worker Correspondent MOSCOW, U.S. S. R.—In the cap- italistic countries the greater part of the products of a worker's labor is taken by the capitalist for himself. ‘Therefore work there is considered as @ curse. But in the Soivet Union, where the state power is in the hands of the working population, work is a matter of honor and of valor. We are proud of it that we are workers. We know that all that we create, will belong to the working population, and therefore we try col- lectively to raise the productivity and the quality of our work and with this purpose we conclude among ourselves treaties of socialist competition, We help one another and try collectively to improve the methods of our work. Possibly in your country the work~- ers are also sent to the health re- sorts and rest-houses, but there these are only individual cases, while in our country it is a mass phenomenon. The international capitalists are preparing a war against our country, the only fatherland of the world pro- letariat. Organize a defense of Soviet Union, if it will be assaulted, Comradely yours; MENKIN P. Tf. U. 8. 5. R. Moscow, Maxim Gorky str. 3, “Vodny Transport. GERMANY ORDERS 600,000 TONS OF NITRATE SANTIAGO, Chile—A deal whereby Germany will import 600,000 tons of nitrates, the basic element of all military explosives, in the next five months, went into effect. on Feu. 2 Workers to sien ee SSNS Per ‘ Pe = : New York Demonstration at New Yorker and Park Central Today, 11 A.M. ILGW ULeadersOrder Scab in the Eagle Dress Co. Strike What Has Happened to Chelsea in Sub Drive? Asks Unit in Roxbury BOSTON, Mass—Recently Chelsea Unit challenged the Roxbury Unit to secure 25 new subscribers to the Daily Worker by Feb. 10th. Unit No. 1 in Roxbury accepted the challenge and has already sent in a number of new subs to the District office. But Chelsea seems to be doing a little or nothing on its own challenge. Roxbury Unit wants to know what has happened to the Chelsea sub drive. It is understood that the winning Unit is to be given-a party by the members of the Unit failing to win, Unless Chelsea wakes’up it will surely have to stage a party for the Rox- bury Unit. N.Y. Unions in Drive Against Injunctions Meet At Irving Plaza Saturday Plans Fight NEW YORK.—A wide representa- tion from trade unions and workers’ organizations in the city is expected at the anti-injunction conference scheduled to be held on Saturday, Feb. 10, at 1 p. m, at Irving Plaza hall, ‘The conference is called at the ini- tiative of the United Shoe and Leather Workers’ Industrial Union which has been among the unions hardest hit. by injunctions and which is now facing a damage suit prosecuted by the employers equal to the Danbury Hatters case in the menace it involves to the existence of the union. The conference has been endorsed by a number of A, F. of L. locals, the Trade Union Unity Council, the International Labor Defense, and by Roger Baldwin, director of the Amer- ican Civil Liberty Union. The conference call points out that no union is free from the danger of this strikebreaking weapon .used by the bosses to rob the workers of the right to organize. All unions are urged to immediately elect their del- egates to assure representation at the anti-injunction conference on Satur- for comeerted action to stop injunc- tions, f Strike a blow against Fascism! Suopo~’ the German Werkers’ Revo- tution! Feb, 11 at the Bronx Coli- seum! : e Strike On To Defeat Move To Force Workers Into A. F, of L. Union NEW YORK—The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union yesterday instructed the workers in contracting shops of the Eagle Dress Co., a jobber at 1400 Broadway, to scab on the strike of the Industrial Union called at this shop last week, after the workers had been locked out. The strike occurred when the owner of the Eagle Dress tried to force the dressmakers to join the International. The Eagle Dress shop-has long been controlled by the Industrial Union. During the recent general strike, the boss renewed his agree~ ment with the Industrial Union, After trying to force the workers into the LL.G.W.U, on a number of occasions, without success, the Inter- national officials staged a fake strike at the shop last week, which proved to be a scheme to help the bosses .break their agreement with the Industrial Union. They were forced to call off the strike, however, and the bosses then came out in the open with their demand that the workers join the LL.G.W.U, The I.L.G.W.U. officials in order- ing the workers to scab on the strik- ers justified it on the ground that the Eagle Dress Co. was an “open shop.” The strikers are determined %o carry the fight to a showdown and are calling on the workers in the contracting shops of the Eagle Dress Co, to repudiate the scabbery of their officials and help them win their struggle. Nazi Consul in Terror Threat Against Non-Naxi Germans Living Abroad LONDON, Feb. 5.—Anti-fascist citizens of Germany residing abroad are being threatened with Nazi terrorism, the London Times ' declared Saturday. The paper pub- lished a photographic copy of # letter sent to a German citizen in Amsterdam by the German Con- sulate General there. The letter ordered the recipient to report at the consulate tg and other papers, a r “If you fail to follow this in- struction, the German Consulate will, unfortunately, be compelled to insure your appearance by means.” other ‘The Consulate General also de~ manded that the recipient act as a spy for the Nazi terrorist gangs by informing the consulate of the in the letter. American Seamen in Leningrad Impressed by Healthy Children Edward Johnson, American work-, tional er; seaman, world war veteran, circus team driver and jack-of-all-trades, has travelled all. around the world. He has seen how workers live in In- the Soviet Union. In November, the S.S. “Scanmail” steamed into the harbor at Lenin- In contrast to ports of the capitalist world, Leningrad harbor was teeming with activity. About 130 the . Work was IN WHOSE INTEREST. WAS THE LAST WORLD WAR Workers, will be shipped in thousands| Surely no better than cattle, and e needed and 2 no longer $6 this beastly demagogy! Has Ob imprisoned our American com- Wades, our comrades of the Anti-Im- tg League? Comrade Run lek from the unbearable condi Yinder which Principe jail is governed. | Dampness and bad food can send an young, strong comrade into pneumo- or a two or three weeks’ sick- after leaving that hole. I have teld that out fio have recently been imprisoned in Principe jail, about 45 were con- to bed after having been re- i sf it any wonder that Comrade md is locked up? Has not heard his splendid speech in the » where Sheppard pinned him _ to the wall, and demanded answers to the demands of our comrades? .. What does Grau do for the Ne- i? He organized Ku Klux Klans promised them employment un- the 80 per cent for Cubans, With ripening race prejudice against legroes in Cuba, where there are 45 Cent Negroes out of the entire of Cuba, where and what a of employment under the 80 cent will our Negro workers have? there be any employment of Cubans, it will certainly not be Negro who will take the place ‘the white, and it will certainly be Negro who will first be fired. > Comrades, do not listen to the voice the new butcher Grau, whose kill- | ave. done en masse. In answer blinded hungry masses he sends Soldiers to, Xjll about the streets. Bebe we he. Sa and night. In- of 60 comrades} By V. I. LENIN ‘The European War, which the gov- ernments and the bourgeois parties of all countries were preparing for decades, has broken out. The growth of rmaments, the sharpening of the gle for markets in the epoch of | the latest, the imperialist, stage in | the development of capitalism of the foremost coutitries, the dynastic in- terests of the most backward East European monarchies, were inevitably | about, the present war. lands and to conquer foreign nations, to ruin competing nations, to pil- |lage their wealth, to divert the at- | tention of the laboring masses from | the domestic political crises of Rus-~ | Sia, Germany, Engiand, and other countries, to disunite the workers and fool them with nationalism, to anni- hilate their vanguards in order to weaken the revolutionary movement |of the proletariat, such is the only | real essence, the significance and the | meaning of the present war. | . Upon Social~Democracy, in the first place, devolves the duty to make clear this real meaning of the war, and mercilessly to unmask the falsehoods, the sophisms and the “patriotic” | phrases which are spread by the rul- | ing classes, the landowners and the | bourgeoisie, in defense of the war. Two Belligerent Groups One of the belligerent groups of nations is headed by the German bourgeoisie. It has fooled the work- ing class and the laboring masses by asserting that it wages the war for the defense of the fatherland, liberty, and civilization, for the liberation of the. peoples that are oppressed by tsarism, for the destruction of reac- tionary tsarism. | In reality, that same bound to bring about, and did bring | To seize! HOW THE “SOCIALIST” LEADERS BETRAYED THE WORKERS IN 1914 a bourgeoisie, servile in face of the Prussian Junkers, with Wilhelm IL at their head, has always been the most faithful ally of tsarism and the enemy of the revolutionary movement of the workers and peasants in Russia, In reality, that bourgeoisie will, together with the Junkers, direct all its efforts, no matter what the outcome of the war may be, to support the tsarist monarchy against a revolution in | Russia, In reality, the German bourgeoisie undertook a predatory campaign against Serbia with the aim of sub- | jugating it and throttling the na- | tional revolution of the Southern Slavs, at the same time directing the bulk of its military forces against freer countries, Belgium and France, in order to pillage the richer com- petitor. The German bourgeoisie, spreading the fable of a defensive war on its part, in reality chose the moment which was most propitious for its warfare, utilizing its latest improvements in military technique and forestalling the new armaments that had already been mapped out and approved of by Russia and France, At the head of, the other group of belligerent nations are the English and French bourgeoisie, which fool the working class and the laboring masses by asserting that this group lJeads a war for the fatherland, free- dom and civilization against the mil- itarism arid despotism of Germany. In realityy.this bourgeoisie has long been buying for its billions, and pre- paring for an attack on Germany, the armies of Russian tsarism, the most reactionary and barbarous mon- In reality, the task of the struggle of the English and French bourgeoisie is to seize the German colonies and to ruin a competing nation, which is distinguished by a more rapid eco- nomic development. For this noble aim, the “advanced” democratic na- tions are helping ferocious tsarism still more to choke Poland, the Ukraine, etc., still more to throttle the revolution in Russia, Deceiving the People Neither of the two groups of bel- ligerent countries is behind the other in robberies, bestialities and endless brutalities of war. But in order to fool the proletarians and detract their attention from the only war for real freedom, namely, a civil war against the bourgeoisie both of “their own” and “foreign” countries, in order to further this noble aim the bourgeoisie of each country strives, by means of patriotic phrases, to extol the sig- nificance of “its own” national war, and to assert that it strives to van- quish the adversary not for the sake of robbery and seizure of lands, but for the sake of “liberating” all the other peoples except its own. But the greater the efforts of the governments and the bourgeoisie of all countries to disunite the workers and to pit them one against the other, the more ferociously they use for this lofty purpose a system of martial law and military censorship (which meas- ures even now, in time of war, are more successful against the “enemy within” than against the eriemy with- out), the more urgent is the duty of the class-conscious proletariat to de- fend its class solidarity, its interna- tionalism, its Socialist convictions archy of Europe, against the orgy of chauvinism of A the “patriotic” bourgeois cliques of all countries. To repudiate thus task would, on the part of the class-con- scious workers, means to renounce all their striving towards freedoii and democracy, not to speak of Socialism. Socialist Parties Failed in Their Duties With a feeling of deepest chagrin it must be stated that the Socialist parties of the leading European coun- tries have not fulfilled this duty of theirs, while the behavior of the lead- ers of those parties—particularly that of the German party—borders on direct betrayal of the cause of Social- ism, At this moment, which is of the greatest importance in world his- tory, the majority of the leaders of the present, the Second (1889-1914) Socialist International, are attempting to substitute nationalism for Social- ism. Thanks to their behavior, the workers’ parties of those countries have not counterposed their position to the criminal behavior of the gov- ernments; on the contrary, tiey are appealing to the working class to identify its positicn with the po.iticn of the imperialist governments. The leaders of the International commit- when they vot<#i for military appro- priations, when they repeated the chauvinist (“patriotic”) slogans of the bourgeoisie of “their” countries, when they justified and defended the war, when they entered the bourgeois cab- inets of the belligerent countries, etc. The point of view of the most in- fluential Socialist leaders, and of the most influential organs of the Social- ist press of present-day Europe, is ted treachery with regard to Socialism Socialist at all, The responsibility for chauvinist, bourgeois, and liberal, not|- thus covering Socialism with shame rests, in the first place, on the Ger- man Social-Democrats who were the strongest and most influential party of the Second International. However, one cannot justify the French Social- ists either, who took ministerial ‘posts in the government of the same bour- geoisie which betrayed its fatherland and allied itself with Bismarck to crush the Commune, Workers Will Learn from Treachery of Social-Chauvinism In all other advanced countries, however, the war has placed on the order of the day, the slogan of a Socialist revolution, which becomes the more urgent the more heavily the burdens of war are pressing on the shoulders of the proletariat and as it becomes apparent that it will play a more active part in the restoration of Europe after the horrors of the present “patriotic” barbarism aided by the gigantic technical progress of big capitalism. The utilization by the bourgeoisie of the laws of war time for gagging the proletariat, makes it absolutely necessary to create illegal forms of agitation and organization. Let the opportunists “save” the jegal organizations at the price of betraying their convictions; the revo- lutionary Social-Democrats will uti- lize the 6rganizational habits and of the woes Pron leg organize illegal forms - tion befitting an epoch of crisis, in order to fight for Socialism and to unite the workers, not with the chau- vinist bourgeoisie of their respective countries, but with the workers of all countries, i The proletarian International has not perished and will not perish. The junists the workers and that it is neces- sary to turn the weapons against the governments and the bourgeoisie of the respective countries, ‘Turning Imperialist War Into Civil War countries, difficult such transformation may appear at one time or om never relinquish systematic, insistent, un- ith an inter- Seamen's Club. With an preter he and four other seamen of the Scanmail set off for the grand~- stand before the former Czar’s Win- ter Palace to watch the 16th anni- versary celebration of the Russian Revolution. “The demonstration started at 10 o'clock in the morning and lasted un~ til 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Sailors from every country in the world watched with ed Fil faces, trying un the millions of workers and soldiers came from. They watched well- trained soldiers and workers march through the square, ready to defend their fatherland from the enemy which is continually drawing closer. “The next morning,” Johnson con- tinued, “I went with an interpreter from the Seamen’s Clib to see how the Soviet reid , have progressed industrially. At the railroad yards 1 saw locomotives that had been im- ported from the United States and Germany. At their sides I saw su- perior locomotives made at the new locomotive factory at Lugansk in the Soviet Union, the gigantic factory that will turn out 1,100 engines year~ ly, the largest engine plant in Eu- which live many foreign visitors and _ technicians. There he met an elec- trical engineer from the United States who was interested in the con- ditions of the American workers. When Johnson told him of the mis- ery and hunger in America, the en- gineer told how during the last six months the Soviet Union had ad- vanced economically and K Especially since the last bi crop there has been plenty to eat for all, the workers. “There are shortcomings, however, minor sho} ;” Johnson told the Daily Worker. “There are not yet enough street cars. They are always crowded by workers who in Cazarist Russia could not afford to ride, Ni they use the cars to ride to work the morning, and to get to school college in the night. But more cars are built, and inside year there will be enough. One thing that impressed Jt was the thousands of healthy and smiling children and youth. “The young men and women discourage smoking and drinking, and it is rare- ly that one sees any smoking,” Johnson said. “On the morning that I left, I saw why the workers were hucky. and © healthy,” Johnson concluded. “Hun- dreds of trucks poured into Lenin- grad from the surrounding collec- tive farms, carrying fresh vegetables i .| and milk to be eaten by workers, who, with renewed vigor, will continue to socialism, ' i i }