The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 31, 1934, Page 3

SOUTH DAKOTA CANDIDATE HELPED STEM FARM FORECLOSURES. Pittsburgh J hile Plan Fight Against Relief Board Scheme — To Bar Grievance Committees’ 6,000 SIGNATURES | LH. SHARP PLACED C CLAIRE CITY, S. D., Oct. 30.—Time and time again JN BALLOT IN WEST Offers Communist Program of Struggle for F arm | Relief; Is Party District Organizer In Great Grain Belt DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1934 Toblews Fight Discrimination inPhiladelphia Negro Unemployed Get! Sub-Starvation Relief PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 29.— Starvation relief, evicfions and blatant discrimination of the Negro unemployed are being fought by the the workers and farmers of the First District of South | Unemployment Councils here. Dakota have participated in high hopes of improvement elections. Time and time again they have had their hopes | pa blasted and have seen their pre- election “friends” carry out the policy of the bankers and trusts. Still their living standards became lower; land and small savings continued. Today, like workers and farmers all over America, their faith in pol- iticians is shattered. Greater consciousness of their defeat in the field of parliamentary action has Jed, during the past few years, to the building and strengthening of their organiza- tions, the United Farmers Leagues, the Unemployed Leagues. In other places they are using the Holiday Associations and the Farmers’ Unions. And the Communist Party is steadily growing. The life story of C. H. Sharp, Workers’ and Farmers’ United Front candidate for Congress in the First District, corresponds very closely to the history of the farmers’ strug- gles in South Dakota. His parents came to South Dakota {nm 1883, Through the homesteading Jaws and by hard work, they ac- cumulated four or five quarters of land. Here they raised a large family. The childhood of the Sharp children was one of hard work, the usual lot of the farm child. The family worked hard try- ing to prove the bankers’ state- ment that farmers who worked hard and saved their money could look forward to the accumulation of a fortune. But with grain dealers fixing the price on the farmers’ grain and livestock; with the railroad com- panies and the bankers getting their “cuts,” together with monopoly on the things that the farm- ers had to buy, the farmers found it impossible to do more than make ® living. Stirring of Revolt Revolt was even at that time meking its first stirrings among the farmers. The old Populist Party was formed. Sharp’s father was one of those who joined it in a vain h that it would provide a solu- ins for the farmers’ problems. ys, a3 now, the bankers and ans tried to placate the ers and explain the “reasons” vy the farmers failed. At that time they told the farmer that he didn't know how to farm scien- tifically. So Sharg’s father, like many others, sent his boys to the State School of Agriculture at Brookings, South Dakota, to learn how to grow two blades of grass where one grew before. The knowl- edge gained at the Agricultural School was duly put into effect on the Sharp farm, but still the mort- gages continued to grow. In 1908 the old “Appeal to Reason” was widely circulated in the farm- ing states, and it was from ad- vertisements here that young Sharp, along with many others, first came in contact with the works of Marx, which gave him some understand- ing of the economic background behind the farmers’ struggles. In 1916 Sharp married and bought & farm of his own. At that time the farmers were enjoying the tem- porary prosperity brought on by the war-time demand for farm pro- ducts. But this was short-lived. Sharp was caught in the panic of 1921, and lost his well-improved farm. From 1921 on he worked as a sales- man and at various trades. But he could not escane from the work- ers’ and farmers’ struggles. Every day of the workers’ and farmers’ life, the economic strug- gles arises before him. Thousands of these toilers today have groped their way to the understanding of the class struggle. Sharp was among these. In 1930 he joined the Com- munist Party. Active Organizer Sharp has been active in organiz- ing the workers in the towns and cities, both employed and unem- ployed. that mighty army of toil- ers with whom the farmer must ally himself if they are to win against the common enemy. When the waves ef foreclosures and evictions began sweoving down upon the farmers in 1831 to 1933. Sharp was active, helping to mobilize the farmers to stem the wave. Totay, when the drought has burned away the prai- ries and relief is the only thing that keeps the farmers from actual starvation, Sharp leads the struggle for more relief. He is now South Dakota District Organizer for the Communist Party. Today he appears before worker and farmer audiences as their can- didate, placed on the ballot by six thousand signatures. He offers them a program of struggle for en- actment of the Farmers’ Emergency Relief Bill, against war and fascism, for full equality of all races. He brings to them the revolutionary program of the Communist Party. He points out the necessity for the revolutionary way out of the crisis, to wield the mighty power of the workers and farmers to smash the rotten capitalist system of exploita- tion and build a workers’ and farm- ers’ government in America. For a the gradual loss of their! the election campaigns with of their conditions after the Workers Ous | Machine Rule | ‘In Relief Unio ni EAST ST. LOUIS, Il., Oct. 30— Claude Broshears, exposed as a police ‘agent by the members of |the Federal and State Aid Associa- | tion, following his defeat for re- | election to the office of president of the organization, has joined hands with the Socialist Party con- trolled Illinois Workers Alliance in | an attempt to split the ranks of the | unemployed here. Working hand in hand with Police Commissioner Abbe Lauman, Broshears was appointed a deputy jand given a badge and gun. He| then proceeded to build up a machine control in the Association. Communists and militant workers were expelled, but at every oppor- tunity, they continued to expose the machine rule to the membership. When the members of the As- sociation gathered to stop an evic- tion, Broshears himself arrested one jof the members, Arthur Lipe, who | was held in bail of $20,000. After spending twenty-seven days in jail, Lipe was released through mass pressure and the aid of the Inter- national Lakor Defense, Leafiets distributed to the mem- bers took effect. At the recent con- vention of the Association, members questioned Broshears about scme two hundred dollars which they |charged Broshears refused to turn over to the Association. On these charges and his link with the police department he was defeated for of- |fice in his own local, The newly elected officers called upon the ex- pelled members to again join the Federal State Aid Association. The Communist Party of East St. | Louis is making every effort to have State President of the Federal State Aid Association Cooper, a Socialist, explain the position of the Socialist Party , in accepting |Brosheazs as an organizer for the Socialist controlled Illinois Workers Association, The Communist Party has also issued a statement to all the unemployed to join with the Federal State Aid Association and establish joint committees of ac- tion and enlist the support of the members of the A. F. of L. in the fight for adequate relief and union wages and conditions on the relief jobs. It further calls upon all | workers to join in the struggle for, the enactment of the Workers Un- | employment Insuzance Bill. While making every effort to isolate the few remaining petty |politicians in Local 1 of the Fed-| eral State Aid Association, the Com- munist Party here has called upon its entire membership to intensify their daily work at the relief sta- tions, serve on the relief commit- tees, recruit members into the As- sociation, fight in the forefront against Negro discrimination, and carry forward the fight for the en- actment of the Workers Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill. Jobless Pledge Support Of Textile Dye Strike PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 29—In the shower of protests against the threat of the Dyers Institute to apply to the Federal Re-Employ- ment Service for scabs, were those of the United Unemployment and Relief Workers Association of Pas- saic County and Paterson branches. “We, as organized unemployed,” Says one of the resolutions, “pledge our entire support to any organized action by members of the Dyers Union, and that our members will not scab. Instead, we assure the) Dyers’ locals that we will cooperate with them in every manner within our power.” Leaflets to all unemployed in the strike are being issued, appealing to all to follow the lead of the above organizations, to help the strikers. Workers Join Party At Election Meeting JEANNETTE, Pa., Oct. 29.—Five workers made application for mem- bership in the Communist Party at an election rally held here recently in the City Hall. More than 250 attended. The rally was addressed by James | Allander and Ike Hawkins. H. F. Robinson, secretary of the County Unemployment Councils, was chair- man. Allander discussed in detail the chief demands of the Commu- nist Party in the campaign, and Hawkins stressed the work of the Communist Party in the fight for While relief to all unemployed is | below subsistence levels, the Negro workers are handed the lowest pos- sible relief if it is at all granted. Despite official denial, reports re- ceived by the Unemployment Coun- cils, 919 Locust St., amply bear this out. One Negro worker, jobless for years, was notified by the relief department that he had been as- signed a job on the projects. After one week’s work he was paid nine dollars. For his family of four, the relief figured out a budget as fol- lows: $5.20 for food, $1.50 for milk, $1.20 for fuel, gas and light, forty- five cents carfare to and from work —a total of $8.35. Allowing him to earn $9 a week, the relief heads told him to save the extra sixty-five cents for rent, clothing, medical aid, and other needs. The family is living rent free in a condemned house, all four sleping in one room. Fifteen Negro workers, members of the Christian St. Council, re- sponded to an urgent call by Coun- \cil Organizer Hutchinson, a Negro worker, and formed a committee to demand immediate relief for Florence Stanton, a widow, who was evicted with her child. Mrs. Stanton her furniture seized by the land- lord, had made her home on the steps of the house from which she was evicted. The Councils are mobilizing the jobless around a program of de- mands calling for union wages and conditions on all relief jobs; $8 | weekly cash relief plus $3 for each | dependent; no evictions; with- drawal of police from the relief stations; no discrimination; and for the enactment of the Workers Un- employment Insurance Bill Communist Candidates | On Ballot in Mining Region of West Va. FAIRMONT, W. Va., Oct. 29.— The Communist Party has been officially placed on the ballot in Marion and Monongalia Counties, important mining areas in this state. Election campaign activities by the Communist Party here are under way, with an encouraging, degree of response from workers in the communities where the cam- paign is centered. Large numbers of the Communist election platform have been distributed and a num- ber of open air and indoor meet- ings have been held. Others are being arranged. Plan Big Election Wind-Up in St. Paul ST. PAUL, Minn., Oct. 30. — The finel election rally of the Commu- nist Party here will be combined with a celebration of the seventeenth anniversary of the Bolstevik Revo- lution at a meeting in the St. Paul Labor Temple on Saturday evening. Thomas Tracy, Communist can- didate for Congressman in Fourth District and Robert Turner, nominee for Secretary of State will be the principal speakers. Tracy is an ex- serviceman active in anti-war and anti-fascist activity, and Turner is a@ Negro worker who has been ac- tive in organizing the unemployed. PITTSBURGH, Pa. Oct. 30, — The Unemployment Councils of Al- |legheny County have began or- ganizing demonstrations before each local unit of the. county relief administration to prevent the in- auguration of the Emergency Re- lief Board’s new scheme for evading committees of the unemployed — the Public Relations’ Office—which went into effect yesterday. The Unemployment Council's move for immediate demonstrations followed a meeting between dele- gates of all recognized county un- employed organizations and the Re- lief Board, when the Board refused to heed demands of the representa- tives that the P. R. O. be abandoned, Five groups were present at the board meeting, each sending two representatives to protest the P.R.O. scheme—Doyle and Careathers, of | the Unemployment Councils; Lieb- erman and McCarthy, for the Un- employed Citizens’ League (Social- ist group); McKinney and Irwin, for the Pennsylvania Unemployed League (Muste); Moran for the In- dependent Unemployed Citizens League, and Carreno for the Rank and File Veterans. The delegation from the Unem- ployment Council categorically op- posed the P. R. O. as a move on the part of the board to deprive the or- ganized unemployed workers of their hard-won recognition, and the other delegates cited various reasons for turning down the plan. The board declared flatly, how- ever, that the plan would go into effect Monday. The establishment of a Public Relations Office, which would de- vote all its time to the hearing of complaints of committees from or- ganizations of the unemployed and would be powerless to act in any way on the cases which it heard, is merely the placing of a barrier be- tween responsible relief officials and the workers whom they are sup- posed to provide for. Doyle, county chairman of the Unemployment Councils, character- ized the scheme as “an N.R.Afor the unemployed workers and their or- | ganizations”—an attempt to harness direct action under the yoke of an “arbitration” board similar to Roosevelt's N.R.A. Labor. Boards, powerless to act, and thus codify the administration of relief. Under the P.R.O., faulty adminis- | ration and actual neglect, to say nothing of deliberate discrimina- tion against certain families or those of Negro workers, could pro- |ceed unhindered by the protest ac- tions of unemployed organizations. At present, after long struggles which have sent many militant leaders to jail, the unemployed com- | mittees meet with local, district, and county relief heads to present their grievances and demand action on neglected cases. The P.R.O. would handle all such meetings in the fu- |ture, making them abortive and | meaningless. | The Emergency Board was warned by the Unemployment Councils that they will fight against the P.R.O. |@8 bitterly as against the commis- |sary plan which Governor Pinchot | once tried to foist upon them. It was at the height of the latter struggle, on March 4, 1933, that Jim Egan was framed to the year in jail which he now faces. | The Unemployment Councils and the Unemployed Citizens’ League have taken some united action against the P.R.O. in joint meet- |ings, but as yet no definite pact | has been signed by the two to form a basis of a solid united front. The only two organizations which are Preparing for immediate struggle against the scheme are the veterans | and the councils. In the meantime it is hoped that & program of action can be evolved upon which the Unemployed Cit- izens’ Leagues can be drawn into a! solid, united front fight against the | establishment of a Public Relations Office for the county. To Fight Na Enlist in Communist Party Yard Pay Cuts By a Worker Correspondent I have been employed in the New York Navy Yard for the past sev- eral years, Several things have al- ways puzzled me. ‘Why wages were always being cut? Firstly in the form of reduced ratings. Then through legislation. Why we were always worked faster and faster? Why working condi- tions became steadily worsened, such as sanitary conditions. Work from whistle to whistle and spend much of our own time in getting to and from our particular jobs. A snapper always at our heels. Why the most fundamental con- veniences, if they cost money, were not given to us? An instance is the building of a temporary bridge when a caisson is out. Furnishing us with decent eating places, de- | cent lockers, decent washrooms. We were always made to feel that to be a worker in overalls is the low- est thing that anybody can fall to; like a whipped dog that. slinks away with his tail between his legs. And why, if we did not submit to all this treatment, we were imme- diately laid off? Why we were really building these battleships? ‘Will we workers ever get any bene- fit or Joy out of them? Are they not to be used to kill other work- ers? I decided to look around for a solution to these problems, I stud- ied the Democratic Party, Repub- lican Party and the Socialist Party, but they did not answer these prob- | lems to the satisfaction of a worker. | The Democratic and Republican Parties were controlled by bosses. | The Socialist Party was trying to | get itself thrown a bone by those bosses by proving that they could successfully keep the workers in check. Only the Communist Party pro- gram stated the answer clearly. It was the worker against the boss, |@nd the only thing for the workers | to do was to organize behind a| clear-cut program, and fight like hell until they won. It is not only the bad conditions that the Communist Party fights against. The Communist Party or- | ganizes and leads the fight against | |the system that brings about such conditions. I read about the Soviet Union. | There the Communist Party pro- | gram was successfully carried through. I read about the lot of the worker there becoming better all the time. I compared it with | our lives here. I saw that they were going forward, but we were being forced down. | Seeing the correctness of this program proved, there was but one thing left for me to do: That was to join this Party, spread its program, | bring all my fellow men into it, and together to go forward to a system where our economic and social lives will be secure and ever Five Jo bless , To Face Trial In Cincinnati Workers Atta cked by Armed Thugs Appeal For Packed Court CINCINNATI, Ohio, Oct. 30.—The Unemployment Councils have called upon all workers here to jam the court Friday morning when five workers, part of a delegation which was assaulted by armed thugs on/ Oct. 25, come up for trial. The arrests grew out of an attack upon them after about ninety job- less workers met at their Council headquarters, 1327 Clay Street, elected spokesmen, and marched to! the Welfare Department at 312 East Court Street to present their | demands. As they gathered before the building, John Matthews, an armed thug who is stationed there, shoved @ gun in the stomach of Arthur Faulkner and shouted, “You dirty red son of a bitch, I’m going to blow your god damned brains out!” Although surprised by the sudden attack, the workers wrenched the pistol from his hand and threw it into a sewer. Fifteen thugs, armed with blackjacks and brass knuckles surged forward. Singling out Will-| jam Reamy, a Negro worker, they beat him across the face with a blackjack. When the workers saw the blood streaming from Reamy’s| face, they jumped to his rescue and beat up the armed thugs. From the office of Leroy Clem- ents, boss of the guards, a tele- phone call brought police riot squads who arrested five members of the delegation: Albert Faulkner, William Reamy, John Martin, Al- bert Simmons and Patsy Lawrence. All were charged with “assault and battery” but Lawrence, who was charged with “disorderly conduct.” Bail ‘or the five was set at $1,300. which workers raised the next day. While Faulkner was held in jail, Jack Davis, a stool pigeon, he said, was sent to bribe him. His offers were met with contempt by Faulkner, who said, “ with the working clas All of the workers have appealed to their fellow workers in Cincin- nati to appear at the trial Friday. Frank Reamy, secretary of the Council, declared: “Workers who have been subjected to the degrad- ing relief in Hamilton County real- ize that they must fight together to get their demands. Now is the time for the workers to show their solidarity, Show your working-class comrades that you stand behind them.” Communist Candidate Jailed in California (Special to the Daily Worker) SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct. 30. —Two Communist candidates for Assembly, Alex Naral and Gus Dah- lin, and five other workers were arrested yesterday while conduct- ing a meeting in Jefferson Park. All are being held in $1,000 cash bail. The names of the other five are: Louis Bradley, William Ensign, Bill Booth, Henry Hoffman, Abe Bird and Eve Crew. Strike at Troy Shirt Mill Reported Ended TROY, N. Y., Oct. 29.—The strike of workers in the three plants of the Artistic Shirt Co., here and in Albany and Kingston, owned by J. C. Jaccdson, has been settled, it was announced in a joint statement of the employer and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union. The wage improving. A NAVY YARD WORKER. | demands were referred to arbitra- tion. Communists Fight for LikeriGea of Women Struggle for Full Equality By MARGARET COWL Women in Factories and Offices, Women in the Home, Women on the Farm, Professional Women, This appeal is for you. In the Toledo, Ohio, Autolite strike of this year, young girl pick- ets prevented the arrest of Commu- nist leaders; in the Hillsboro de- fense demonstrations, _ workers’ -wives played a leading part; in the general strike in California, work- ing-class housewives assisted in the struggle against police, thugs and scabs. Women Negro agricultural workers in the Seabrook, New Jer- sey, strike displayed the most heroic action in fighting off uni- formed police attacks against the pickets. The wives of Negro miners in Alabama were especially active alongside their husbands, fighting for the right to exist, even facing the bayonets of the National Guard. Last year, as never before, the women of the United States have done heroic work along the work- ing-class bat‘lefront. In the fight for better conditions, in factory, on the farm, and against the codes of the N. R. A., which also followed out the policy of double exploita- tion of women workers (lower wages for women workers in the 120 codes). From Maine to Louisiana in the Negro rights and for the liberation of the Seottshoro boys. general textile strike just ended, | Only P arty Which Leads | unforgettable examples of courage and determination, carrying into action a demonstration of working- class solidarity which shall be cop- ied by workers everywhere. They stretched across train tracks to prevent the shipmen: of scab goods. They forced bayonets to part and let the picket lines pass. They went through tear gas and gunfire, forming kernels of the fly- ing squadrons that broadened the strike. In the South, textile women strikers were thrown into concen- tration camps by armed troops to prevent picketing, which resembles Hitler fascist methods. In the past year women through- out the coun‘ry were very active in the campaign against developing fascism and the preparations for imperialist war. Out of this activ- ity there resulted a delegation of 40 American women to the Women’s ‘World Congress Against War and Fascism in Paris, among whom there were women from the fac- tories, Negro and white women from the farm, Negro and white | professional women. It is to these women who have responded to the call of the work- ers to fight for the right to live, that this appeal is particularly made. It is to remind them that the best women fighters in the Com- munist Party have never failed when the workers’ need for leader- ship was uppermost; especially when the workers were ou: on the streets fighting for the right to live, while the leaders of the Social- ‘masses of girls and women made | ist Party co-operated with the re- actionary labor leaders to betray | | workers’ strikes. | Remember how the Daily Worker, the official organ of the Commu- nist Party, acted as the collective organizer in the recent general tex- | tile strike? How the mass picket | | lines were kept alive because the | | Strikers of different cities had con- tact with each other through the columns of the Daily Worker? How the textile workers spread their | strike by using the methods sug- gested by the Daily Worker. | How much more effective would | our work be in the struggle against capitalism if more of us were mem- bers of the Communist Party, the Party which has contact with work- ers in all industries, in all cities throughout the country. The Party which organizes the workers for a joyous, happy life, for abolishing the capitalist system which feeds upon the working class, for making t the workers the masters of their | own life, under a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government. Double Exploitation The Communist Party exposes the double exploitation of women workers under capitalism. Shows how capitalism condemns the work- ing women to in‘olerable condi- tions of existence, that in the capi- | talist factory a large number of women “lose the ability to bear) children.” The Communist Party | organizes the working women into a joint s‘ruggle with men workers for a way out of this situatian. One of the basic demands of the | Communist International, of which the American Communist Party is ‘a section, is: | Women ‘Peably Ex- ploited in Factories Thru Unequal Wages Social equality for women and men before the law and in every- day life, a radical change of the marriage and family laws, recog- nition of maternity as a social function, protection of maternity and infancy. A beginning of the realization by society of the need for the care of children and youth and of their upbringing (day nurseries, kinderzartes, hemes, ete.). Establishment of in- “stitutions for fhe zradual release of the housewife (communal kit- chens and laundries), a planned cultural struggle against the ideology and traditions enslaving women. This demand of the Communist International has already been realized in the land of the Soviets —the U. S. S. R., where “women have been given in law and in fact all the necessary conditions for bearing and rearing a healthy race of builders of Communism, under conditions of equality both in pro- duction and in government.” Women who work—is this not something worth while fighting for? Join the ranks of the Communist Party—your best friend—under whose leadership we women become s'ronger and mightier in our work of mobilizing the masses of women in the U. S. A. for complete free- dom. ly place is| Page 3 Olgin Points to ‘Daily’ | As ‘Americ | Present Situation in the | niscent of Time Wh Organize ation in the U. S. A. There \David L. Jone Repudiates His Former Acts DETROIT, Oct. 30. — Admitting that certain of his actions recently were against the interests of the| working class in this city and di-| | rectly in the interests of the em- ployers, David L. Jones, who wa supported by the Communist Party last year in the Dearborn elections, publicly repudiated his acts and re- quested the District Committee of the Communist Party to grant him the opportunity to rectify his op- portunistic mistakes. Jones’ full statement to the Party Committee follows: To the District Committee, Dear Comrades: I wish to inform the District Com- mittee that last week I committed }an impermissable act against the interests of the workers and the Communist Party. I was requested by two election workers of Swiacki | to loan my car to tack up placards for the Democratic candidate Swiacki, which I did. I did this because I thought that I was out of the Communist Party in view of some minor disagreements in re- gard to the methods of work in the Dearborn section. Upon further consideration, I feel that these mat- ters would have been easily ad- justed as they did not constitute questions of principle. Nevertheless, I feel that this act of posting up placards for a Dem- ocratic candidate constitutes direct | and indirect support of this can- didate who is aligned with the Democratic machine and with the | enemies and exploiters of the work- |ing class. Such an act can only be | construed as departing from work- ing-class principles and from the Communist Party and the Party | would be justified in expelling me from its ranks. Such acts violate not only the princinles of the Party, |but serve to aid the Republicans | and Democrats who not only gen- erally but specially in the Ford | Domain (Dearborn) are sold body jand soul to the exploiters of the workers. Realizing my mistake, I request that the Party take into considera- tion my opportunistic past and give me a further opportunity of chang- ing by remaining in its ranks and working wholeheartedly in support of its princivles and in the election campaign. Irrespec- tive of the ection of the: Party I shall attempt to make good this er- ror and to overcome my opportunis- tic attitudes. As a Party of principles which are true to the interests of the workers, I feel that it was correct for the Party not to put me on the ballot in this election campaign and to demand of me that I show in practice that I can be trusted by the Party and the working class. (Signed) DAVID L. JONES. Young Workers Hear Communist Candidates HILLSBORO, N. H.. Oct. 29.— More than a hundred workers. most of them near the age of 21. at- the Communist Party campaign committee in Broad Street Park at Claremont, small mill village near | here, Mr. Steinfeld, owner of the local shoddy mill, was present with a few henchmen, who tried to break up the meeting by provocative, heckling questions. The speakers} janswered these, to Mr. Steinfeld’s discomfiture, and the meeting turned into an interesting informal discussion of the position of the Cemmunist Party on all questions. | The audience asked for information jabout the Soviet Union with great eagerness. | Workers on Wisconsin | HURLEY, Wis., Oct. 30.—For the first time Iron County has Commu- | nist candidates on the ballot. The | Communist Party has come out with a progrem of struggle to meet the pressing needs of the workers and farmers. working population is very serious. The mines are at a standstill. The relief sys‘em is so inadequate that the county nurse reports large num- bers of undernourished children | who are suffering from lack of food and clothing. The Communist Party has the only program that meets the im- mediate needs of food, clothing and relief. And on this program it is rallying the workers and farmers to fighs for better conditions. By Moissaye Olgin - There was a time in the history of Russia when the workers lived in a situation reminiscent of the present situ- candidates | tended an election meeting held by | Communist Ticket The situation that confronts the | a’s Pravda’ | In Appeal for Funds te United States Is Remi- en Pravda Began to Workers was a system of government which was parliamentary in name, and capitalist landlord dictatorship in practice. There was a nominal right to ize, but organizational - ties re interfered with by the Czarist government. There was a right to strike, but strikes were sv pressed, strike leaders arrested; - strike picketing broken up. Fass cism was rampant under a different name. It was called the Union of** the Russian People, but the sub-~_ stance was—suppression of the workers, Anti-foreignism, anti. semitism was one of the corner-,, stones of the Czarist capitalist pol- aotts Pravda Appeared In 1912 Into this political scene came the Pravda. It began appearance in -- 1912. It was at first a small paper,..; much smaller than the Daily: Worker is today. It began to orem ganize the workers. It began ta lead their battles. Back of the paper was the Bolshevik Party headed by Lenin. In 1914, for opposition to the war, the paper was suppressed. In the* Spring of 1917, in the course of the victorious revolution, it reappeared?” In November, 1917, it became thé” central organ of the rallying party of the Soviet Union. It has re- mained so ‘o this very day. Capitalist Papers Forgotten How proud are those workers to- day who, twenty-two years ago, helped build the Pravda! Their names are recorded in history. They were building something that. endures. They were building their own power, the power of their class, While all the papers that appeared’ in Russia before the Revolution, the Times and the Herald Tribunes and the America the other sheets of the ca ist class, are | thoroughly forgotten, so that the young generation does not even know their names, the Pravda stands out as the great leading paper not only for the workers of the U. S. S. R., but for the workers of the world. The Daily Worker is the Central Organ of the Communist Party of America. The Daily Worker is do¥ ing the very same work that was |earried on by its older brother, Pravda. In these historic timesy when the struct of capitalism is” shek and when it is the duty~- of workers to organize themselves in tremendous mass organizations. and advance against hunger and | exploitation and powerful armies," the Daily Worker is more necessary than ever. The Daily Worker is the builder of the united front of all the workers against hunger, against war, against fascism, and for the immediate demands which will | strengthen the working class and enhance its power of aggression, in order tha it may soon be abl ch the cavitelist state and esta the n of the toilers, the American Soviet. oe “Daily” Is Investment = When the workers aid the Daily | Worker, they aid themselves, Amer= icans like to speak of investment. | know no better investment than to put your dollars and cents into the Daily Worker, the leader of the fu- ture American Revolution and the > Central Organ of the Party that i | going to rule in the United State © in years not so far distant. pees lish CELEBRATION IN MASSILON MASSILON, Ohio, Oct. 29.—Yetta Land, Communist candidate for~ Governor, will be the chief speak- er at a meeting in celebration of the seventeenth anniversary of the” Bolshevik revolution to be held here’ on Saturday evening at the City: Hall Auditorium, AFFAIRS FOR THE-. DAILY WORKER ~ Boston, Mass. Pops Concert and Dance, Friday, Now 2, 42 Wencneh St., Roxbury, Mass@ Auspices: John Reed Br. TLD. and George Borden L.S.N.R. | Subscription 25 cents. Philadelphia, Pa. Last meeting ef 2rrangement: for Nev. 2 Celebration wil ‘Thursday, Nov. 1 at 8 P. M. Organiza- tions and Party Units should send their representatives. Organizations are requested to arrange for transportation. in Sec. 3, 6, 2, and 5. Fe “Potamkin” Soviet film masterpiece shown at the Kensington Labor Lyceum, 2914-26 N. 2nd St., Thursday, Nov. 1. Adm. 10c. Auspices: Noture Friends. Los Angeles, Cal. Annual Workers, Press Concert, Sun day, Nov, 4 at Mason Theatre, 127 S. Broadway. Concert Program. Promise. nent speakers. Buffalo, N. Y. ee Dance given by the Buffalo City Comm LW.O. and Russian National Mutwah Aid, Saturday, Nov. 3 at 8 p.m. The Teck Theatre Building (3rd floor), 760 Main St. Tickets in ady. 20¢, wt door 25c. Detroit, Mich. ‘ Benquet and Dance given by Ukrais nian, Polish and Lithuanian Workers Organizations, Martin Hall, 4959 Mare tin Ave, Sat. Nov. 10, 72. M. Wm. W. Weinstone, speaker. Adm. Banquet 5c, Dance 15¢. 44 Vote Communist for Adequate Winter Reliet for Workers and for. Impoverished Farmere »