The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 24, 1934, Page 8

Page & DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1984 Daily .<QWorker GNTRAL ORGAM COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Daily FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 56 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone Newspaper” ALgonquin 4-795 4. Telephone By Ma $6.00; | € months, $3.50; 3 months. Manhattan, Bronx, Foreign and Canada: 1 year, $9.00; 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, By Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1934 Greetings to the Silk Workers’ Convention! | ia DAILY WORKER greets the dele- gates to the Second Annual Convention of the American Federation of Silk Work- ers, which opens today at Woodstock Hotel, New York City. Tens of thousands t) kers are watching anxiously the proceed- that out of the convention wil d gram to meet the deplorable s for the workers in the in- ai | The termination of the General Textile Strike by Gorman and his strike committee was a com- plete surrender and left the silk workers in an even worse position than before the stmke. In Paterson the employers scrapped the contract and wages are slashed in most shops. There is no uniform wage scale and the empioyers hold the threat of moving with lower wage rates as a club over Contracts of different regions Many centers remain un- organized and undermine the conditions of those to d the 0: nized workers, expire at different times. e union lea ip has confined its resistance shop strikes, and depended upon the relation board. workers in the union now realizes that 'y a general silk strike can answer this attack, e erience has shown that the leadership ation must not again be left in the ‘ank Schw It is Schweitzer with Gorman and the United Tex- tile- Worker: ders in the shameful betrayal of the rec Gen Strike. The will of the rank and file was shown in the elections for delegates. to the convention, held in Paterson, where the reactionaries Fede: of such as who co-op nt representi: e Schweitzer-Keller machine in the union were overwhelmingly defeated. The members ate through with Keller's clique control. 2 only solution for the union is a new leader- ship, elected out of the ranks of the best rank and file. fighters in the union. Only such a rank and file. leadership and contzol can carry into life a 1 for the establishment of decent living stand- ich will receive primary attention at the (1) A general silk strike to smash the wage eult’ng and the increzse in loomage. @) A uniform wage scale in all silk centers. Discuss poss: IE y of merging with the Fed- eratcn of S. and Rayon Dyers. (*) That alf coniracts of silk centers expire at the same time. (5) Organizing the unorganized regions. (3) Demecracy the jon and repudiation of the policy of cxpeliing militants. (‘) For passage of the Werkers Unemployment once Bull (H. R. 7598). This is the pr m of the Rank and File ele- ments in the unicn. There should be a strong Possibility of carrying it into life. In addition to aterson many other locals have elected militant Gelegates. These will speak for the tens of thou- sands in the indus All delegates who want to build. a poworful fighting American Federation of Silk We: should give them full support. Mhoe ae Sweat Shops Ma As ‘Cooperative’ Plants While Independent Union Acts Agai sive Bosses, A.F.L. Leaders Accept Agree- ment Which Gives Up Basie Demands Demonstrations arranged Leather Workers Union, were held Thursday fore three more shoe sweat shops. These wer s Ri by the United Shoe Shoe Co., 225 Powell Street, Brooklyn, Hubb Shoe at 4 Unite Against Roosevelt’s New Hunger Drive | HE concerted drive of the Roosevelt regime on the workers’ living stand- y launched in conform- | | | ards, already open | ity with the demands of the recent con- | ferences of bankers and manufacturers, confronts every worker and workers’ organization with the questions: what steps ean and must be taken to defeat these new attacks? What steps can and must be taken to unite the workers’ ranks for the struggle? On Th Federal Relief Director Hopkins jered the thirty cents.an hour minimum wage on ef abolished. He announced that “unem- | ployables” will be cut off federal relief altogether. This order sets 2 precedent for reduction of wages of those still employed. Secretary of Interior, Ickes, simultaneously is- sued a statement that in new building construction “conceivably we can make an agreement with labor so that we can pay lower rates and offer year-round k.” This out-and-out. wage cut proposal of declared that the building workers have a “high hourly rate.” These proposals of the Roosevelt government to cut wages and pare down relief came on the heels of Donald Richberg’s speech in which fhe right hand man of Roosevelt assured the employers of “self government” and “flexible codes” and promised that the “reorganized” N.R.A. would give the em- ployers a free hand in dealing with labor. Rich- berg further promised the employers that the new “permanent” N.R.A. will preserve the freedom of the company union and the “open shop” by grant- ing “minority” and “individual” rights in collec- tive bargaining. The national officials of the American Federa- tion of Labor have cooperated with the employers and the Roosevelt government in putting over every phase of the campaign to drive down the workers’ living standards. William Green, president of the A. F. of L., answers Ickes’ wage cut proposals by declaring that the lowering of building workers’ wages will be given “fair consideration.” Green declares himself “pleased” with the recent N.R.A. Labor Board's ruling upholding the company union in the rubber company elections, and rejecting the Rubber Workers’ Union petition. Green follows out the relief slashing program of Roosevelt, and, like Roosevelt, opposes any Federal unemployment in- surance, irsday 'HE workers can answer and defeat the attempts of the employers to cut wages, reduce unem- ployment relief and smash the unions. The united front of the employers, the Roose- vel government and the A, F. of L. leadership in the attacks uu inc workers can be defeated only by the broad united front of the working class to deiend their conditions and their rights. ‘Tho working class demands can defeat the anti- labor drive by uniting to secure the following minimum demands: no more wage cuts; increased wages to keep pace with higher living costs; ade- quate unemployment relief, and passage by Con- gress of the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598); abolition of the com- pany unions; full recognition of the real trades unions; the full right of the workers to organize, to strike and to picket; the 30-hour week without any reduction in pay. These are the minimum demands of the work- ing class in the fight to defeat the anti-labor drive of the Roosevelt government and the employers. On the basis of the fight for these demands, every honest worker can unite. In every locality, the Socialist and Communist workers, and all members of the A. F. of L. unions, the unorganized workers—every member of the working class, should unite to fight for this minimum program. In every locality, united front conférences and committees of action should be organized to pre- pare the fight for these minimum demands and other agreed upon local demands. The Communist Party has repeatedly called on the leading committees of the Socialist Party for such a united front against the attacks of the Roosevelt government. We repeat our proposals for such united action. So far the Socialist Party leaders have blocked the consummation of the united , front of the Socialist and Communist workers to defend their elementary interests and needs. Now, however, without a moment's delay, new efforts should be made to achieve united action in every locality. | Defeat the wage cut, union smashing drive of the Roosevelt government, the employers and the A. of L. officials! Unite all workers to fight for their elementary demands! Forge the united front of the working class! rr. kers Picket i Ryan Dodges Dockers’ Call (OnBlacklisting A delegation of 15, representing 65 members of the Trenton Local of the International Longshore- men’s Unicn, who have been black- isted by their own officials, came to see Joseph Ryan, Inte:national President of the union, at his office in New York, but were told that Ryan was out. They came from Trenton by appointment, These workers have written to Ryan, to the secretary of the union, to William Green and other A, F, of L. officials, in their quect for an sked inst Oppres-: and y afternoon be- e at the A. and Party Life More Efficiency Urged in Handling The Daily Worker The Daily Worker Must Reach the Masses wes I joined Pariy, it was with the hope of bringing forward a “Soviet Amer- ica” and I am certain that you in the units feel the same way too. Yet! how is this to be done, com- rades, if the most important organ of the Communist Party which. is the Daily Worker, is not being pushed forward? As the Daily Worker agent in my unit, I have asked for volunteers to accept assignments for the dif- ferent evenings during the week. Wholeheartedly our comrades pledge themselves to be at the appointed place on the specific hour. What. happens—Two or three of the comrades show up, and the others stay away as though there is a germ in the air. The result of this is, the money for the papers has been invested, the masses who anxiously look for- ward to the purchasing of the paper never receive it, and the profits for the reinvestment of the Daily Worker is lost. Comrades, if we are to stave off fascism in this country, we in the units must pucker up more spirit, and see to it that the Daily Worker along with other literature reaches the masses without fail, and that we take big strides for- ward, leaving fascism lagging be- hind us like a spanked puppy. Only can this be done by the cooperation of the comrades in the unite, Comradely, 8. G. UNIT 3 SECTION il BORO PARK. CW ak Work Among the Negroes in 53 Los Angeles IN December 10th, 1933 we called together a group of individuals and laid the base for organizing the first branch (Angelo Herndon Branch) of the L. S. N. R. At this time wholesale discrimination was being practiced on C.W.A,. work, which brought about a lot of re- sentment from hundreds of Negro workers. The membership of our Party, of course, was comparatively new, due to the tremendous growth we had just prior to this. We did not understand just how to react to the situation, but this new branch of the L. S. N. R. together with the Young Communist League issued a leaflet at 2 p, m. one afternoon calling for a meeting at 10 a. m. the next morning, at 32nd and Cen- tral Avenues, in front of the Jim Crow C.W.A. employment office to protest this vicious discrimination. The response was wonderful. About 500 workers answered the call of this leaflet. In spite of all of the attempts at intimidation from the Los Angeles Red Squad, these workers stood firm. After the meeting about 150 marched to 9th and Broadway to the office of Roy C. Doanelly, at that time head of the C.W.A. office. The rest of the crowd remained for some two or three hours awaiting the report of the returning delegation. A large squad of police was on hand all of the time, but was unable to intimi- date these. workers. When at- tempts were made to recruit some oi these workers into the L. S. N. R., the answer was, “We want to join the Communist Party!” As a result of this demonstration, hundreds were put to work, but we did not put up a continued struggle to break down this Jim-Crowism. In spite of the Scottsboro campaign, which should have been the means of building a mass I. L. D., we have less than 200 Negroes in the or- ganization. However, with the re- cent steps taken in re-organizing the Scottsboro Action Committee into a Joint Conference for the Freedom of Herndon and_ the Scottsboro Boys, and with closer co-operation and guidance from: the we can make a wonderful improve- ment in this situation, particularly in view of the partial victory which was won in the Herndon case, and which has served to awaken tens of thousands of workers the world over. Here even the Negro papers were forced to admit that this was @ great accomplishment on the part of the revolutionary working class. Comradely yours, 2 I. L. D, ORGANIZER. Berlin Library Filled With Workers’ Leaflets When ‘Books’ Explode BERLIN, Noy. 23.—“Bombs” con- taining thousands of tiny sheets in- seribed with working class anti-fas- cist propaganda have been: expled- the Communist | National Office of the L. 8. N, R..| “MY PLAN IS PRACT | Burck will give the original drawing of Flanked by a $20 contribution HE LOVES THE BIRDS AND THE TREES. ICAL, BROTHE R!” f his cartocn, to the T. H. Seott from the Nature Friends of Brooklyn, Burck marches at the head of the Socialist competition column today, TOTAL Nature Friends, Brooklyn . Previously received .... by Burck By L, TALMY AKU, U.S.S.R.—that name brings to mind many historic associa- tions. The glamorous romantic East, old Persia and the Khans, Turkey, the Russian Czars, religious fanaticism and intolerance, na- tional hatreds, Armenian massacres and British “civilizers,” Baku spells oil, and oil, as is well known, has an irresistible at- traction for the imperialist. It is no wonder therefore that the hand of British imperialism is to be found in Baku. It was short-lived, the hold of this hand, but it left an indelible imprint upon the city: it is perpetuated in numerous monu- ments to the twenty-six Bolshevik Commissars who had been taken out of the city by the British in- terventionists and their local coun- ter-revolutionary allies and then murdered in the desert across the ; Caspian. That happened in 1938, before the Bolsheviks established themselves permanently in Baku Once Baku was the city of the millionaire and lesser oil. barons ;and baronets. It was a “regular” city, and a sort of Klondike for speculators, exploiters, adventurers, lovers of easy money. (To be sure; there were workers , too in Baku, even in those times. ;Many of them. But they did’ not count. They were there. to .slaye and sterve and. make money for those who counted, If it happened. that the workers resented their po- sition and struck and rose against their masters, there were the Czar’s police ready for such occasions." FO a ness AKU was a city of soot, and dirt, and little hovels, and squalor, and sand storms, and fabulous riches, and dire poverty, and broth- els, and prostitutes of many na- tionalities, and merchants galore, and fairs to which merchants from near and far came to sell their wares and buy. some pleasures It had churches, and mosques, end synagogues—it was a god-fear- ing city. and palaces where the kings of oil and satraps of the Czar lived. And it had mud-huts, and dug-outs, and narrow stinking alleys. Nobels, the Mantashevs, and other | It had some magnificent houses , And now—well, there still is aj; The Bolsheviks Raze an Old City~ But Build a New One on the Ruins jtake a walk. He crosses the plat- | form and comes to a terrace from | which cement steps lead down to |the street. He stops to look around. | His eves meet the huge mass of a | light gray stone building which he had never seen there before. Its \lines are straight, the architecture modern and rather severe. It ex- tends to the very end of the block. buildings. He looks down the street. Its Shape is not the same as it had been. It is wide and straight, and the: old cobbles are gone, torn out and replaced by smooth, shining asphalt, He turns to his right. That large building towering above the square with its Mauretanian-like features and towerlets is certainly new, al- though its architecture is reminis- cent’ of the Eastern tradition of old Baku. He finds out soon that this is the terminal of the electric rail- way built in 1926 to connect the city with the oil-fields and the new workers’ towns and_ settlements which had sprung up between the city and the oil-fields. He walks through unfamiliar well paved streets. The sound of music reaches his ears. It is marching music. He follows the sound and his eyes meet another unfamiliar sight. Young men and women, boys and girls, all dressed in neat sport suits oz various bright colors, white, blue, green, red, brown, purple, march to the strains of a lively tune. There are blond Russians among the marchers, and swarthy Tyurks, and Armenians, and Georgians, and Jews, = He finds out that there is an athletic meet being held in the city today which happens to be a free day. Popular athletic meets were not a common occurzence in old Baku. But that is not the point. The point is that Tyurk women and men march together, that the Tyurk ‘women walk in the parade not only with their faces uncovered but even their legs bared well ahove the | knees. The point is that Tyurks and Armenians, and Russians, and Jews march gaily together, and it seems entirely natura!—nobody seems to wonde:, and nobody seems to ex- | | Beyond it he can see more of such ; jcourts and dwellings of the Moslem inhabitants, In the distance, the jstony bulk of the round Maiden Tower. # { But even here, in this quazter, \there are some changes noticeable. |The traditional Tyurk robes are gone, men are dressed in ordinary workers’ clothes, many wear white collars, and the women have dis- }earded the ugiy hozse-hair veils ‘which had covered their faces in the past. 10° old-timer comes to a. large square which is flanked on one \side by a magnificent building ,Teminiscent of Gothic Renaissance | architecture. This building was re- ‘stored by the Soviet government jafter it had burned down during |the Tyurko-A:menian war following the revolution. At present it houses the Aserbaijan Academy of Sciences and Nationa! Library. On the other side of the large square is a grand building of more modern beauty, done in glass and concrete. It is the just completed Palace of the Press. He proceeds up Communist street, past the building of the Central Executive Committee of Aserbaijan, the Baku City Soviet, the Central Committee of the Aserbaijan Com- munist Party and other public buildings. He reaches a dense park and descends through its shaded walks towards the sea. Heze again a picture unfolds before his eyes, which is so remote from old Baku that he must stop and figure out whether he is really awake. Gone is the bleak sandy sea-shore. The semi-circle of shore-line rises. above the sea in hundreds of buildings. A wide boulevard runs along the sea, with asphalt drives fo: automobiles, and asphalt walks laid out amid |lawns and flower beds, and lined with trees. Piers, landing places, shore restaurants, bath houses seem to be growing out directly from the sea which is alive with steamers, motor boats and swift cutters, He walks on along the sea shore boulevard to what seems to be an entirely new qua:ter of the city. He comes upon a modern palatial building which, upon examination, turns out to be~a factory kitchen. | World Front —— By HARRY GANNES -—— New Deal War Pace | Followed in Japan | What Is “Imro” AKING their cue from | 4% President Roosevelt’s riotous war expenditures, the Japanese cabinet voted to pass the largest war budget in the history of Japan. The total budget, demanded on the threat of resignation of the war ministry, stupendous for Japan, is only one quarer the total New Deal expenditures for war. With the Peasants starving by the thousands, the Japanese Cabinet voted 1,020,« 000,900 yen ($297,000,000) for arms aments. The burden on the masses will be so crushing, the financial re- sults so drastic, the sharpening of the class struggle so severe, that the very passage of the budget will force the speeding of actual war- fare. The arguments on the bud- get were not made public. They were extremely bitter. We may be sure that War Minister General Hayashi, threatened imminent fas- cism and war, which would have forced the budget through, despite whatever opposition there was from those who feared financial catas- trophe. The day before the budget was passed, we received two important Pieces of information from Japan. One was from a Japanese comrade who tells me that never before in the history of Japan were so many peasants starving. I am_ getting translations now from the Ji Be press telling of wholesale deaths from hunger in Japan, The other comes from the Balti« more Evening Sun of Nov. 2ist, which reprints the following, writ- ten by. K. Hoshino, in the Neue Weiltbuehne (Prague): “In our village the peasants work in the fields from sunrise, not returning .until the evening Stars appear in the sky. They spend the whole day bent over their labor. Being undernourished, even the strongest of them soon weaken, and most of them die in their forties. They have a sun- scorched, dry, dirt-colored skin, deep lines in their faces, thin ‘ stomachs, with sharply protruding ribs, and blue splotches .under their eyes. Their clothes look like sacks. They walk barefoot, as do their wives and children, They are chary of words and mis- trust outsiders. . . . They earn so little, that they can hardly pay the interest on their debts and prepare for the next harvest. They have stopped eating meat and fish and cannot even afford vice. They live on the roots of plants, a little cooked wheat mash and turnips boiled in salt water.” Se es ND this is the lot of the avers age peasant. Millions are even worse off. To the above, the writer adds: “Today the spectre of prole- tarian revolution threatens Jap- ancse imperialism, A _ military conflict with the Soviet Union might bring many surprises.” “le ee COMRADE writes us, saying there seems to be some confu- sion over the political character of the Macedonian Imro organizations in Bulgaria. In some places in our international literature he reads of the Imro as “a counter-revolution- ary organization led by Michael- son.” In another place, he reads of it as “working for the right of Self-determination of the Mace- donian people and for an inde- pendent republic of the working people.” He asks us to clear up the matter. Here is the answer: There are three Imro organiza- tions in Macedonia. They are: 1, Imro, led by Michayloff, and supported by Italian fascism. Its representative in the U. S. is the so-called Macedonian Political Or- ganization. 2. Imro, led by the so-called Pro- togerovists, which is the fascist wing of the Macedonian movement supported by the French imperial- ists. After the military-fascist dic- tatorship, the orientation of the Bulgarian government now is to- ward French imperialism. 3. Imro (United), which is the organization struggling for the lib- eration of Macedonia from all fas- cist and imperialist control, and for real national independence under the leadership of the workers and peasants. ee te INEMPLOYMENT acreased by 37,000 in the month of October in England, the total number of unemployed on the registers at the end of the month being 2,119,635. Every area in the country except the Midlands shows an increase, The hardest hit industry is coal- mining, the number of whose un= employed has increased by 22.30 per cent. A section of the press endeavors \to explain this increase away by city, bigger than ever. Only, ac- cording to authentic information of |pect anything untoward, Next to it is a large modern school ‘talking of a “seasonal decline,” but Further or he comes across an ing regulazly in the reading rooms building. Further on, a walk through | explanation how it happens tha‘ Erst 16th Street and the Grant Shoe Shop, 18 W. 16th Street, | lan “examination of past figures are left The demonstrations are part of + z __- | they. unemployed while the Grive to elininate the so-called Cooperative shops, which are only 3 exploitation, long hours and low es. A committee ‘was also sent to the N.R.A. Regional Board to place responsibi the administration for pezmitting the long hours, Meanwhile the officials of the A. F..of L. Boot and Shoe Wor! Union completed conferences w the employers but gave up all ugh an offensive a’ the workers threuzh an agreement they have accepted. The officials of the A. F. of L. union have brought back the sa: agreoment which was in force, v itional claw: ich provid ‘the manufecturer may not duce his force withou ‘= it permiss of the union, but in event trere 1 a disag:eement the matter is sub- mi'ted to an arbitration board. Ii is pointed out by the rank and file | group in the union the consideration by the board, the workers pending remain dis- arhitration | charged. The employer may hire “temporaty” help for an indefinite pericd. The unicn is bound by the agreement not to interfere through any means other than arguments; before an arbitration board. The rank and file group within the union has called upon the werk- ers to ieject the agreement and fight against discharges and lay- offs, demanding that no -worker shall be discharged without the con- sent of the shop committee and that all workers .e ks should be con- ‘dd as permanent employees. Likewise the workers are called upen to support the p-oposal of the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union for a united front between the two organizations on the basis ‘of such a fighting program. “A sympathizer of the S. L. P. | gave th's money,” writes Jeff Scrib- , of Auburn, Wash., relaying a This is not unusne!. perience shows that S. L. P. mom.) t hers: and Socialist Party members| will contribute for the support 0° the Daily Worker if properly ap- proached, others a:e brought in by union offi- {cials to work their jobs. They have received no answer. A man named Owens, who said, however, that he had no authority to speak for the I.L.A., advised the delegates to go back to Trenton and wait until such time as Ryan would take action. The 15 workers declared that they give Ryan 48 hours in which |to take action. If this is not done, fe they will return to Trenton to {azouse all A. F. of L, locals against |this outrageous action of their of- icials, and in addition will hr'ng {the ease before every loeal of the | LLA, Members of the Rank and File Committee of the ILA, and oi the Marine Workers Industrial Union of New York met with the delegates and told them that full ~ Will be given their fight tance | A resolution was left in Ryan's office by the delegates in which they explein their case and insist — action immediately s, when they retucn to] | Employes of the United’ Hosiery | the result thot the: Berlin chief of police has offered 300 marks ($120) as a reward for any information as to how the “bombs” were smuggled into the library. More than a week ago an object: which had the outward appearance; of a book suddenly. exploded a shower of leaflets near seat “A-70” in the reading room, setting off 2 train of explosions for days. . At almost the same time another book with similer .contents exploded in the Hbrary of the High School for Politics. % WORKERS VOTE FOR UNION CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, (F.P.)— Mills at Chattanooga have voted 511 to 139 to have the American Federation of Hosiery Workers rep- resent them in collective ba:gaining. of the great state library here, with | old-timers, what is called Baku ‘to- day bears very little resemblance to the old city of Baku. Mos} of those things which had given the Baku of old its peculiar color, its atmosphere and reputations, are gone, have been ruthlessly de- stroyed. The Bolsheviks destroyed most of the old hovels and mud-huts. and replaced them by modern build- ings. They destroyed the reputa- tion of Baku as a city of holy in- tolerance and fierce national and religious hatreds. They even de- stroyed its reputaticn as a city in which no trees could take. root. In its pre-Bolshevk past Baku had a population of about 200,000. According to the information | of people who had known the city in that pest, less than half of old Baku is left in the present en- populetion. And the work of de- Balloting was supervised by the Textile Labor Relations Board. “With ail the misery we have to- we must send another dollar,” ites P. Stathes of New York City. Workers, no matter what the cir- cumsianets, can still raise money among oivier workers for the $60,000 fund, ‘struction still goes on apace. ET US say, this old-timer has just got off the train at the old rail- iv station (vos, the old railway. station is still there). It is a bricht larged city with its nearly 800,000 | jimposing building with the figures “26” prominently displayed cn its facade. It is tho palace cf culture built to perpetuate the memory of the twenty-six martyred Bolshevik Commissars of Baku. It faces a newly laid out park with sculptured ‘busts of some of the Commiss2rs Behind the houses, facing the other sidé of the park; still‘rise the Gothic spires of thd old protestant cathedral. He turns to the rigit, in the direction of the old main shopping district. Here the .sizhts are more famiiiar. The buildings are (mostly the same as of old, the streats as narrow and crcoked, only jthey are coated with asphalt, and the old herse-d-2wn droshkeys have r ¥ practically vanished from them, the, bulk of the traffic being made up of automobiles. T last there is something really; “43 familiar, something of the real old Baku which apparently e= the destroying hands of the Bol- sheviks—the old fortress of the Khans and within the old Tyurx quarter: little narzov strests, so a lan leads to another palatial structure with rectangular columns and a roof garden in mede:n style— the Stalin Palace cf Oultuze. “At some distance he can sce a forest of oil derricks where they had never been before. He finds out that it is jIlyich Bay where the sea had actu- ally been pushed away and the new cil fleld wrested from it. This is by far not all. Immediately outside te former city limits are the new wo:k>rs’ settlements, some ;98 the Shaumian Settlement made up mestly of large medern apa:t- ment houses, some as the Montin Settlement made up of twe- and four-family cottages, American s.yle, the kind one sees in the residential districts of Les Angeles. And. every- where Palaces of Culture, workers’ club, new roads, asphalt s'reets and avenues, lawns, gardens, pa: ks —the old Baku with all its iradi- onal reputations has vanished. | The Boisheviks destroyed the old city cf Baku. But they built a drzam instead, a dream materialized in ;steel and concrete, in a strange beauiy in which the flavor of the | H shows thet there is usuaily prac- |tically no difference between the ;September and October figures. When it is remembered that the inerease of registered unemployed is coupled with a steady rise in the numbers struck off benefit, and now forced onto Poor Law relief, it is obvious that the “steady march to prosperity,” of which the press ig talking, has once more proved to be a mere mirage. RETURN HARRY TO US! Gannes is stiil chstinate! He re fuses to come back until $25 is re= ceived in one day. Irving Schab ..,..........$ 5.00 Pen and Hammer Economic Re. .... 5.00 Previously received . 253.32 Tetal to date $263.32 190 DIE IN TYPHOON _ MANILLA, P. I., Nov. 13.—More than 100 persons were killed at Meuren by the typhoon which {struck the Philippine Islands over ithe week-end, it wes estimated by the Island constabulary. It is re+ ported that 48 persons were buried and 47 more were listed as missing. cummer morning precaging a hot nacrow that two people could hard-!old Bast is blended with the power Eight persons were known to hava ly walk abreast along any of them, and tempo of a modern Socialist|died at Samaloc and a few miles blind mud-walls hiding the interior! industrial metropolis day. But the coclness of the night jis still in the air, and it is good to distant 17 others were missing _