The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 29, 1934, Page 6

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1934 Worker Daily. CEUTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. Cable Address: “Daiwork,” New York, N. ¥ Washin; Bureau 4th and F St., Washi Midwest Bureau: 101 Telephone Dearborn Subseription Rates: By--Mail: (except M an and Bronx $3.50; 3 1 $2.00; 1 month Bronx and Canada $5.00 $3.00. Week! nts; mi 78 cents MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1934 How the Dyers Can Win HE iron solidarity and militancy of the silk and rayon dye workers has made the strike of the 30,000 dye workers 100 per cent effective. Because of the mass picket lines, the discipline and organiza- zation of the rank and file, the dye shops in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, are tied up tight. A great victory is well within the grasp of the fighting dye strikers. But the leaders of the Dvers and Finishers Federation (U.T.W.) have already taken steps which, if allowed to continue, will weaken the strike and endanger the victory which the strikers have earned First, the leaders of the Federation are con- ducting secret negotiations behind closed doors. They have conferred for several days with the employers and with the Roosevelt Boards at Wash- ington without letting the strikers know exactly what has been discussed in these negotiations. The dye strikers have a right to know what proposals their leaders are making and discussing with the bosses and the government. The rank and file must demand an immediate end of secret negotiations behind closed doors, Every step of the negotiations should be reported to the strikers, These leaders of the Federation, such as Bal- danzi and Ammirato, claim to be opposed to Gor- man’s sell-out tactics. If they are, they will not eppose further the demands of the rank and file to know what stage has been reached in negotia- tions. Disquieting rumors will only be killed by AN END OF SECRET NEGOTIATIONS. NEGO- ‘TTIATIONS MUST BE IN FULL CONTROL OF THE RANK AND FILE. Second, Ammirato and other leaders of the dyers’ Federation are trying to split the ranks of the strikers by raising the red scare in the approved style of Green, Gorman and Woll. Ammi- rato attacked a Daily Worker distributor. The red scare was raised in Lodi The red scare is now also being raised by the employers and the capitalist press in New Jersey. ‘The employers want to throw all the Communists and most militant strikers out of the union. The rank and file strikers must take an immediate stand against the red scare campaign of some of the union officials, The red scare is aimed to divide the workers, to throw out the best union fighters, to keep control of the strike out of the hands of the rank and file. The so-called “Lovestoneite” officials of the union, that is, the clique of the A. F. of L. bureau- tracy who were expelled from the Communist Part? for their anti-Communist deeds, are joining in this red scare. Rubenstein, official in the dyers’ Federation, did not say a word against the attack on the Communists and militants when he spoke at Lodi Saturday. The clique of Eli Keller, leader of the Silk Federation (U.T.W.), used the red scare and Green’s anti-Communist letter, at Saturday's membership meeting of the silk workers in order to keep control from the hands of the rank and file. Dye strikers! Maintain unity in your ranks. Defeat the red scare. Do not allow your leaders to divide you. Do not allow them to put a damper @n your militant conduct of the strike. The whole aim of the Green-Keller clique, the A=F, of L. officialdom, is now to prevent a new broad general textile strike which is demanded by the workers. That is why Keller stalled the mem- bership meeting Saturday and stalled off a vote on a silk strike in solidarity with the dyers. That is why Gorman is trying to prevent a broad strike movement in the South, and is trying to confine strikes to individual and isolated mills. Dye strikers! Call on the silk workers, organ- ized in the same union to which yeu belong, the United Textile Union, to strike with you, for recognition, against wage-cuts, stretchout, for the thirty-hour week, for an agreement expiring at the same time in both silk and dye shops. Demand rank and file control of negotiations and an end to secret negotiations. Stay out on strike until you win your de- mands. Do not allow any major demand to be taken away from you. Defeat the red scare. Maintain your soli- darity and unity. All power to the rank and file «in- control of the strike. ~ Continue militant mass picketing until the strike is won. Workers! Answer the Lynching of Neal IHE trail of responsibility for the kid- napping and subsequent fiendish tor- ture and lynching of Claude Neal, 24-year- old Negro youth, near Marianna, Fla., Saturday night, leads clearly and unmis- takably to the state governments of Florida and Alabama, to the Federal government and to the Jesser lynch authorities of the two Southern states involved. _ All news dispatches agree that Neal was held Captive for 36 hours by his lynchers, while their plans for his murder were cpenly broadcast throughout several counties of the two states, and in the capitalist press of the entire country. Invi- tations “to all white folks to witness the slaying” Were published in the boss press of several Florida amd Alabama counties, and sent by couriers throughout the countryside. During those 36 hours, with the plans of the lynchers openly announced, with the location where ‘Neal was held captive published in the Dothan, Ala., Eagle, with various officials admitting knowl- ecge of these facts, what did the forces of capi- talist “law and order” do? They lifted not one finger to prevent the perpetration of this outrage. From Washington, U. S. Attorney General Cum- mings gave the seal of Federal approvement to hing with the declaration, issued several hours before the commission of the crime, that “there was no basis for Federal action” in the Case because “it did not involve a kidnapping for Sansom.” The Federal kidnapping statute was Daily Newspaper” BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 56 E, 13th thus openly declared for the protection only of bankers and other ich men, certainly not workers, least of all Negro toilers. Governor Dave Scholtz of Florida refused to call out troops wu after the lynching had oc- curred, when he cc dered it necessary to rush troops into Jackson County for use against the gnant Negro toilers who were mobilizing to protest the outrage and to defend their homes and lives against the lynch gangs encouraged to spread their act es by the attitude of the Fed- eral, state and county governments. Several depu- ties are quoted as saying: “There would be no interference with the mob either before or after." Governor Miller of Alabama, from whose state Neal was kidnapped across the Florida line, after being handed over to the lynchers by Sheriff F. 8, Byrne. charge of the jail at Brewton, Ala., refused to raise a whisper of protest against the kidnapping, or against the action of Sheriff Byrnes in turning over the keys of the jail to the lynchers. The increased activities of the fascist lynch gangs, inspired by the present widespread police raids and terror against militant Negro and white workers in the South, must sound the alarm to all friends of the Negro people and the Scottsboro boys to intensify the mass fight against lynching, for the lives and freedom of the boys, for the rights of the oppressed Negro people. The Scottsboro boys, with their appeals to the U. S. Supreme Court already endangered by the disruptive tactics of Samuel Leibowitz, renegade defense attorney, and the Negro misleaders, Wil- liam Dayis,. publisher of the Amsterdam News, Rev. Lorenzo King, etc., are today in the gravest danger from both the lynch courts and the fascist gangs. The increased terror against the Negro masses in the South is the first fruit of the traitorous alliance of Leibowitz, William Davis, etc., with the Southern ruling class lynchers. Every organization of workers and intellectuals, every sincere opponent of lynching, should flood President Roosevelt and Governors Scholtz of Florida and Miller of Alabama with protests against Saturday's lynching, and demands for the immediate, unconditional and safe release of the Scottsboro boys and the safeguarding of the con- stitutional rights of the Negro people. A Socialist Mayor and | the Nazis OCIALIST workers, if they knew the truth, would undoubtedly be horrified at what happened in Bridgeport, Con- necticut, on Friday. Clubs swung furiously, six workers were jailed, and many were beaten as the Bridge- port police smashed into an anti-fascist demon- stration outside the hall where a Hitler agent, the | Nazi Consul of New York, was spreading fascist propaganda. | Bridgeport’s police are under the direct control of the Socialist Mayor, Jasper McLevy. More than this, it was obvious before the attack that it would occur if not stopped by McLevy's in- terference with the Police Chief Wheeler, who had been decorated by the Italian Fascist government But McLevy deliberately refused “to interfere.” No delegation’s argument, no telegrams from the American Civil Liberties Union, nothing could budge the Socialist Mayor from his determination not to permit a workers’ protest meeting in front of the hall where a leading Nazi official was to speak! Thus we have the following situation in this | “Socialist” city: workers and opponents of fascism | being beaten and jailed for attempting to protest the presence of an avowed Nazi agent, who gets the full protection of the city administration. Free speech for the Nazis—jail and beatings for the Bridgeport anti-fascist workers! Tr justify this attack on anti-fascist workers, the Socialist Mayor McLevy declares that in his ci‘y “there will be no political interference with the po- | lice departmeni,” reiterating a statement he made | at the Washington Convention of the International Police Chiefs’ Association. Let every Socialist Party member, let every | class-conscious worker ponder this platform of the | Socialist Mayor of Bridgeport—‘no political inter- ference with the police departmen’.” What does this do if not give the police free rein to fulfill their class function—to smash work- ers’ meetings, violate all civil rights of free speech, | institute a reign of terrorism in order to protect the reactionary interests of the employers and the fascists? | Socialist Party rank and file workers are haters of Fascism. How can they fight the menace of fascism in this country if a Socialist Mayor like McLevy tramples on all free speech rights of anti- fascist workers? | Ss the members of the Socialist Party we say that. we must build the united front against Nazi agents, with all who want to protest at Nazi offi- cials spreading fascist propaganda. Certainly it is not the function of a “Socialist” Mayor to protect Hitler agents! We propose that Socialist Party locals take im- mediate action on McLevy’s denial of a permit for an anti-fascist meeting, that these locals elect dele- gations to inves‘igate what happened in Bridge- | Port on Friday. We urge that the Socialist Party members investigate for themselves. We propose practical steps for holding united front meetings against war and fascism, pro‘est meetings wherever a Nazi official dares to speak. For class struggle against fascism! For united front against the fascists! Vote for the Commu- nist Party! | Daily Worker Greets | ‘Unidad Obrero’ E extend the warmest revolutionary greetings to “Unidad Obrero” (Labor | Unity), newly established weekly organ of the Latin-American and Spanish- speaking revolutionary workers in the | United States. The first issue of “Unidad Obrero” appeared last Saturday. “Unidad Obrero” is supported by the revolu- | tionary Latin-American and Spanish workers’ mass organizations in the United States. Its main task is to mobilize these Spanish-speaking workers throughout the U. S. for a revolutionary struggle | against our common oppression, Yankee imperial- } ism. The establishment of this Spanish language revolutionary organ is of the greatest significance, especially at this time, when the workers of Spain are in a life and death struggle against fascism; when the Cuban workers are mobilizing for the battle. to establish a Soviet Cuba. The Daily Worker calls on all its readers to support “Unidad Obrero” in every way, by dis- tributing it to Spanish-speaking workers; by aiding | it financially, by popularizing it in their shops. Write for copies to 1413 Fifth Avenue, New York. “Unidad Obrero” is a new and mighty weapon added to the ever-growing revolutionary press in the United States. Long live the solidarity between the American and Latin-American workers! Party Life Party Committee Criticises N. Y. Union Fraction ECTION 2, District 2, of the Com- munist Party, functioning main- ly in an industrial territory, recog- nizes that unless it understands and becomes a factor in the problems |and struggles of the workers in the section, it will not fulfill its tasks as a section of the Communist Party; as a leader of the workers in the shops and localities. Within Section 2 territory some of the largest A. F. of L. Unions have the bulk of their membership work- ing. One of the most important of these is the needle trades, with both the revolutionary and A. F. of L. ‘Unions controlling large sections of the workers; thereby raising “some jof the most basic problems con- |fronting our Party at the present |time, namely the development of {revolutionary oppositions and the united front. | In this situation, Section 2 can become an active factor through proper coordination between the Party Section as such and the trade} union leadership, both in the rev- olutionary unions and A. F. of L. jand through the establishment of proper working relations between the shop and building nuclei (of which Section 2 has 60) and the Trade Union fractions. | LTHOUGH much effort on the part of the Section leadership has been made to achieve this co- ordinated activity, little progress has) been made. There is still evidenced |@ considerable amount of resistance on the part of the mass organiza- tion leadership to the establish-| ment of such relations. There is/| | still insufficient clarity on the role! of the shop nuclei, for instance, as the basic organization of the Party! which discusses and acts on all| | problems in connection with the shop; we still have not learned how |to bring forward the Party in our every day activity. There still does not exist that firm conviction, necessary, that the Sec- tion Committee of the various sec- | j tions must and can become the |leaders in their territories. This situation where important political problems are not discused with the section committees, but as in the} case of the mass organizations in our Section—particularly the Needle Trades Union—but are discussed di- rectly with the district; is injurious to the development of the Section | Committee. If the Sectioi: Committee on the one hand would ptish itself forward through an intensification of its mass activities; and if the mass) leaderships of our Party—the union functionaries — would orientate toward the development of the Sec- tion Committees and te import-| ance of involving these leading ‘Party bodies in their day-to-day | work, the building of shop nuclei; the organization of firm and active fractions; the recruiting of workers from the unions into the Party; would present an entirely different | | picture today. As one means of drawing the sec- tion into the mass work of the trade unions, the section convention de- | cided to include in the section lead- | ership some of the leading trade- | unionists, feelirig that such a lead- ership composed of the best com- rades of the section proper as well as from mass organizations, should | result in well planned and rounded! ‘ activity. j Fear | | QUT what are the actual results? |® Out of three union functionaries | elected to the Section Committee; | and one assigned as a District Rep- resentative to the Section, only one, | |Comrade Albertson attends meet- | ings regularly. Comrade Koretz and | Comrade Fleiss feel that a strike) | situation warrants their staying way | |from meetings, instead of using their membership in the section | committee to draw the section into Comrade Potash, assigned by the; District Committee as representa- tive to the Section has not attended one Section Committee meeting. Comrade Potash has been informed that unless he did so, open criticism will be made against him in the Daily Worker. Upon Comrade Potash’s failure to attend a very important meeting of | the Section Committee where the | problems of the oppositions of Local 22 of the LL.G.W.U. were discussed, the Section Committee decided to carry through its decision to openly criticize Comrade Potash’s action. |, 7m view of the situation briefly described above and in view of the urgent necessity of drawing the Party membership as a whole in discussion of these very important | Problems, our Section presents these | through the Daily Worker. We hope this will result in constructive dis- cussion which will lead to. improve- ment in our work. Section Committee, Section Two, District Two. Negro Is Elected to | High Post in Soviet Trade Union Council MOSCOW, Oct. 26—Among the Negroes who hold important posts in the various Soviet Republics is an | African Negro who has been elected to the All-Scviet Centzal Council of Trade Unions. Formerly a teacher in South Africa, this scholar is master of seven African dialects, speaks excellent English and en- joys a splendid command of Russian. He gives. private instruction in English to a group of professors of jthe Red Institute. RELIEF CUT IN PUERTO RICO | SAN JUAN, P. R., Oct. 28.—The November wages of all relief wor! ers in Puerto Rico will b> cut 25% Relicf Administrator Bourne an- nounced Saturday. The relief ac- ministration declared that recent ; expenditures of $150,000 because of the influenza epidemic made tie cut necessary. The entire Public ; Works Division will be laid off for lone week without pay. | THE SERMON ON THE MOUNTAIN by Burck Burck will give the original drawing of his cartoon to the highest contributor each day towards his quota of $1,000. Contributions received to the credit of Burck in Ex-Section 1 member left out Oct. 26, 1934, his Socialist competition with Mike Gold, Harry in error $9.00 Gannes, “del,” the Medical Advisory Board, Helen I a 95.09 Luke, David Ramsey, in the Daily Worker drive for 1s ad wil a ia baggie ale renga ts Total to date $108.09 L, Linder (gets cartoon) $4.00 A Representative of . the Workers | 4 | into my heart. He said: “After the these strikes. | revolution we will build big, sunny By VERN SMITH MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., Oct. 28.—| Sorokovikh, delegate to the city| Soviet of Prokopyevsk, a town of | the Kuznetsk coal and iron basin | in Siberia, has made his report | Members of the Soviets, before the | elections scheduled for next month, | must show that they have effi-| ciently carried out their trust, or they will not even be nominated for office again, to say nothing of | being elected. Sorokovikh is an electrician and was assigned by the Soviet to work in the section of the | Soviet that deals with such things as lighting, etc. His report comes just when the population is prepar- ing to celebrate with joyous en- thusiasm the Seventeenth Anniver- | sary, Nov. 7, of the revolution which abolished capitalism, and | placed the government and man- | agemen: of the system of produc- | tion in the hands of workers and | farmers. Sorokovikh begins by telling how, | immediately after the revolution, he saw before him his particular path- | way of service. “In 1918,” he says, “in old Kuznetsk, I was a delegate to the first congress of Soviets of workers, peasants and_ soldiers’ deputies for that region. I heard a speaker whose words fell deeply cities; there will be no nights for them. A sea of lights will shine for our cities which we will have built with our own hands.’ “Since then I have dreamed of living and working in such a big sunny city as Kuzbas. (Old Kuzbas was almost a wilderness.) Now, just such cities are growing before our eyes. One of these is Pro-! | kopyevsk. When I was elected a deputy to its city Soviet, I got at- tached to the municipality section. I had been elected a deputy by the workers ai the power station and by the workers in the mine tool shops. They had told me to fight for a big city here, ‘because this is the pearl of the Kuzbas.’ But I |. was dreaming already of such a big, | well managed and lighted city since | the first congress of Soviets in Kuzbas.” Instruc ions by the electors to the man they have just elected are the common rule in the Soviet Union. | These instructions must be fil- filled, and frequent meetings of the | electors and constant contact be-, tween electors and deputy guaran- | tee it. | | The deputy continues: “From the | | very beginning I decided it was necessary to give others an ex- ample. Therefore I involved my wife, son and daughter, the whole | family, in my wor’. We go‘ others t to help. At first we worked to. bring good conditions in one street, for an example. That was Lieb- knecht Street. I worked with the others to lay the first sidewalk in| the city. I worked, too, when the first street car line was installed.” Kelp Lay Sidewalk T brigade of members of the Soviet, | stand , establishment of the dictatorship of Reports on Progress in U.S.S. R. to. which we drew in a number of electricians from the mines, and we took obligations to put up 400 lights in the streets when our regular work was finished. We did put up @ good many, and would have put up all 400 if we did not have to wait for more wire and lamps. “At one plenum of our city Soviet a woman deputy scolded us for not bringing electricity into the houses in the suburbs. I felt terribly ashamed, and talked to the other | deputies, and our ‘active’ (he means these volunteers from among the electorate, the workers who are not deputies), and we went out our- selves and installed electricity in two workers’ apartments on Michaelovskaya Street and 35 on Bolsheviskaya Street.” Then, another feature of the workers’ government appears. This deputy was elected in Prokopyevsk. But because he did good work (of course in addition to these things he tells of doing himself, he was aiding through the regular meet- ings of the Soviet to direct similar | tasks at city expense) another town asked for his services. He says: “I had a message from the city Soviet of Anzhero-Sudzhenko to} come and inspect and advise. For five days I and some others poked our noses into all details there, visited miners at home and had long talks with housewives, scolded, advised, brought dozens of ex- amples from our own experience, criticized in the plenum of their’ Soviet and wrote articles to the newspapers. I proved to them that they couldn’t carry out the im- provement of well being of a city by administrative measures only. I showed them that we were making Prokopyevsk into a model city by involving the masses of the popu- lation in this work, which, after all, is their interest. “Now we are starting a big com- petition to end before the Seventh Congress of Soviets (Jan. 15, 1935) | for the best kept courtyard, for the best, cleanest and most cultured ' apartment in the city. Hundreds of houses have joined in the com- petition, but this is Just the begin- ning. Well-being is a great job and results when the whole mass joins the movement for well-being. We active people consider ourselves part of the social movement for well-being.” This using of the dates of the November Seventh celebration, or date of the meeting of the Congress of Soviets as a period by which some magnificent task shall be ac- complished, is a regular thing here, too, and shows the workers realize the connection between their own life and the things those even‘s for—the revolution and the proletariat. Another deputy in Prokopyev, a woman worker, a machinist on ihe hoist in a coal mine—her name is By this he means that he ac- tually, physically helped, along with volunteers, the laying of the side- walk and building of the line. It is a deputy’s job to gather groups of volun‘eers like that about him, to help carry out his tasks, and it \is his job to lead them in every | kind of labor, whether manual or merely checking up end inspecting. Sorokovikh goes on: “Probably the most important job for members of our group was the lighting of the city. I spoke about it at a plenum (full meetings) of Chaschina—is called to Moscow to report before a meeting of the presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic. She is famous for her daily inspec’ions of apartments of miners and other workers, to see that they have elec- tricity, water supplics, that the courtyards are clean, ete. Chas- china is one of the sors of people who are regarded by the workers as really carrying out the duties imposed upon them by election to the Soviet. Deputies elected from a factory the city Soviet, and I organized a! form the deputy group of that fac- | there, , factory for its workers. tory, and draw around themselves volunteers, the “active,” which in large factories has a tremendous, detailed and organized activity. ! In the Kauchuk (rubber) factory , in Moscow, for example, the deputy | group and volunteers are divided | into eleven sections, which super- | vise, inspect, check up and organize | volunteer help for: co-operatives, dining room, a bread factory, kin- | dergarten, nursery and _ schools patronized by workers of the fac- tory. The deputy group has also | a brigade of assistants to watch for | violations of labor laws, etc. | When two members of the sec- | tion on the bread factory first went they found a shortage of workers and lack of building ma- | terial. The bread factory was then | under construction. The deputy | group organized six “subotniks” or half days of volunteer mass work by the Kauchuk workers on the | bread factory construction. One of the Kauchuk deputies went person- | ally to Voronezh and found supplies | of building material which could be and were sent to the bread factory | job, so that it was finished on time. | Two deputies investigated the hog farm owned by the factory to sup- | ply meat to the stores run by the | They ad-| vised the immunization of the pigs | against cholera, and saw that their order was carried out. Deputies and their volunteer as- sistants investigated the vegetable stores, secured building material and had them enlarged. They investigated a store which sold bread, and where the workers complained they had to stand in line and wait. They found that the man in charge of the bread counter got a friend of his, an inexperi- enced man, to take his place some- | times, and they. stopped. this. sub- | stitution of incapable for capable service. They investigated the kindergar- ‘en, and found the paint worn off utensils used there, and had them repainted. Look After Everything As thé workers say, “Our depu- ‘not | World Front HARRY GANNES ——' By Tides in Siam “China Today” More News From Italy ‘OU would never believe that one who was the “supreme arbiter of the ebb and flow of tides,” the “brother of the moon,” be- sides being the possessor of 24 umbrellas would have to submit to a political upsurge and | the conflict between various ime perialist powers and abdicate the throne of Siam. | But that’s exactly what King | Prajadhipok of Siam, who has all | of these titles, and a few more, had , to do. Just what in Siam were that the forces forced the King to take this move while he was sojourning in London have not been made clear. He claims it’s a quarrel over criminal law, whether he or the courts should have the last word as to whether a peasant should be tor- tured to death. Among the feudal lords of Siam, this is not really an important matter. ‘OR some time now, the king has been sitting on a wobbly throne. A furious struggle has been going on between Franch and British im- perialism for domination of Siam, The king came to the United States several years ago, flirting with Wall Street, and the U. S. ambassador is more than persona grata. But that didn’t help much. Both the French and British utilized the growing discontent of the ruling cliques, which, in turn, was em- Phasized by the upsurge from be- low. The falling price of rice, the increased resistance of the peas- ants to the feudal landowners, had. /more to do with the king’s abdica- tion than the fine points of whose | word should accompany the peasant | to the torture wrack. Prajadhipok quit while he was in | London preparing to make a trip to the United States. Since British imperialism prefers to rule through | native puppet kings and princes, | the king must have done something jor said something to indicate that jhis allegiance rested with some {other power. The king’s leaving | will not solve whatever conflict is going on, but will intensify it. The masses, observing that the “supreme | arbiter of the ebb and flow of tides” | can be gotten rid of, will try to rid themselves of the “supreme arbiters of the soil and their labor.” ear BRE E have just received the second number (November, 1934) of the magazine “China Today,” which even surpasses the first issue. Space does not permit of an adequate re- view, but we quote the following from the London “Daily Worker” on the first issue of this splendid magazine, “China Today:” A highly interesting develop- ment is the appearance of an American monthly ‘China Today.’ Interesting because it marks the growth of a public which wants to know the facts about events in China, ‘I believe it true to say that this is the only periodical in the English language reporting the progress of Soviet China. But it ought not to remain for long the only one. There’s room for a ‘Chima Today’ in England, too.” We are sure, when this magazine reaches Soviet China, or the reyo- lutionary workers and peasants in Kuomintang China, its praise will ring throughout the vast reaches of that country. It is one of the greatest accomplishments ever made in. this country to mobilize the American workers for support of the Chinese revolution, the Chinese Soviets. The last issue sold out rapidly. We urge our readers to write today to the Friends of the Chinese Peo- ple, 168 West 23rd Street, New York City, enclosing 15 cents for one copy, or $1.50 for a yéarly subscrip- tion. ' #8 oe ITALY.—The fascist newspaper “Ti Cantiere,” writing on the situa- tion in the sulphur mines of Sicily, is forced to admit that in the 12 years of the fascist regime the con- ditions under which the sulphur miners work have not improved, but worsened. The number of workers employed in the sulphup mines has fallen off from 13,000 te about. 7,000, and many of these have even regular work. Wages, which were 16 lire per day in 1923, had sunk to about 12 by 1929. In this year the firs: working agree- ment was concluded between the sulphur miners and the owners. The above-mentioned paper is, how= ties look after everything from the | ever, obliged to admit that: “Today subway to utensils in the kinder-| the wages are even lower, as the garien.” Lots of investigation, but} agreement has never been. com- not in vain, for the bread factory | pletely adhered to... .” This is is functioning, the vegetables have ‘the reason of the repeated demon- been ‘increased, the pigs are grow- strations by the sulphur miners for ing, and painting has been done in work and aioe oe ne aS the kindergar‘en. ; cent demonstration was in Catani- Soviets a relatively large. AN setta. American city council might have: A correspondent ot the “Voce 40 or 50 members ae a city of | Operaia” iirorkers Vote) has Se 4,000,000 inhabitants. Moscow, which | ceived the fol ing details is Thales has in its city Soviet | woman who has just returned from 2,600 members, and in addition has|a visi: to her family at Serravezza ten “rayon,” or ward Soviets with | near Carrara, in Italy. This woman up to seven or eight husdred mem- eee ee ins bended bs ‘a ice where the popul octane are no deadheads in fairly well. Most of the workers the Soviets. Each aes Et a oe empire iat ae ae hed to such sections, wor rics or in workin; marble; Bee depity groups as described some were employed in a metal- above. He works, he deads, he cat- jurgic workshop. But now both the ries out the Pane anit es ae eae ees se et Niedea rid elected him. He does Ss, are laid le. e whole po} _ wane con'inuing to work in the fac- | tion is out of work. tory; he does it in his spare time. | Of the whole membership of Mos- cow city Soviet, only 24 are released from their factory work and placed on the payroll of the Soviet. Twenty-one members of Moscow Soviet have been recalled, by mc2t- ings of the workers who elected them. In each case the recall was for not carrying out the instructions Contributions received to the credit of Harry Gannes in his So- cialist competition with Del, Mike Gold, the Medical Advisory Board, In the Home, Jacob Burck and Devid Ramsey, in the Daily Worker drive for $60,000. Quote—s500. Ann Barton, Jacob Burck’ and given them, for negligence of their Harry Horwitz $ 50 duties to lead such work as men- Group of Students 3.20 tioned above, for slothfulness or in- Previously received 105.47 capability. The Soviet worker runs | hee fe geyenctene | Total to date $109.17