The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 29, 1930, Page 4

eg ae a Page Rowe Published by the Comprodafly Publishing Co., Inc., daily, except Sunday, at 50 East 18th Street, New York City, N. ¥. s ——_— Telephone Algonquin 7956-7. Cable: ATWORK.” Yorker SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs Address and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 50 East 18th Street, New York, N. Y. Central Orgei Party US.A of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign: One year, $8; six months, $4.50 ars = <= ———— — Vote Communist! Shige cates as ® RTE D TH this pears Fall Elections (November 4, 1930) many important issues are raised in which the International Labor Defense is deeply inter- ested, These eleotiona (state and national) are being held in the midst of growing unemployment that continues to arouse and sharpen the discontent of the impoverished masses. The demands of labor for “Work or Wages!”, for unemployment relief, for social insurance, against sickness, disability, old age, meets an increasing resistance from the employers and their government, attempting to place the whole burden of the orisis on the working class. The boss class in its efforts to escape from this di- lemma also energetically seeks new markets as sources of plunder, for the conquest and holding of which war preparations are being pushed on a goale never before attempted. In the cities many workers die in the streets af starvation. Others collapse in the struggle for gobs before “Employment Agencies" in name oniy, since they have no jobs to offer, except to aot as scab-herding, strike-breaking agencies. There was a 900 daily increase during 1930 over 1929 of victims sent to New York City’s prisons, & direct result of the jobless situation with its eight to nine millions of unemployed. Winter Hes @irectly ahead, edding cold to hunger. In the country, the agrarian population faces both Grought and flood. The rapidly developing employing class terror against every working class protest against these conditions is revealed in the 4,688 arrests of ‘workers fought by the International Labor De- fense during the first seven months of the year 4488 during July). The cry of the millions of workers for jobs is met with the most brutal oppression. On the anniversary of the savage mob murder of Ella May (Bessemer City, September 14, 1929), the st Of our martyred dead has grown with the names of Steve Mina, Steve Katovis, Alfred Levy, Gonzalo Gonzales, Harzel Weizenberg, George Borkoff, end Lee Mason, while the wave of Iynching orgies, against both Negro and white ‘workers, continues to mount, taking its increas- fing toll of victims North as well as South. Congress appoints a “Fish Committee,” an of- iolal mouthpiece of the United States Govern- ment, to develop the propaganda campaign of malicious falsehood to provide the basis for new legislation, calling for special anti-labor police, with drastic laws against the foreign-born—reg- istration, photographing, and finger-printing. Its poisonous propaganda has incited new attacks egainst workers by such extra-legal organiza- tions ag the Ku Klux Klan (children’s camps, ‘an Etten, New York). Injunctions and de- Portations are used to break strikes and smash working class activities, Farcical trials result- ing im inevitable guilty verdicts are followed by the most vicious sentences to long terms of im- prisonment (Gastonia, Imperial Valley, New York, and Milwaukee Unemployed leaders; vic- tims of sedition laws (Pennsylvania, California) at the same time the prisoners of the last war (Mooney and Billings, the Centralia Victims) are still held behind bars by\ the orders of the great Dusiness interests, The American Federation of Labor; through its vice-president, Matthew Woll, recognized head of Easley's anti-labor National Civic Federation, appears as an outstanding supporter of the Fish Committee's drive against militant workers, and @s an ardent champion of Hx-Police Commis- sioner Whalen’s ridiculous and blasted forgeries @gainst the Soviet Union. In Milwaukee, with tts Socialist mayor, Daniel W. Hoan, workers re in prison for having been the leaders of the March Sixth Demonstration of the Unemployed. Repeated arrests take place in Milwaukee, of workers carrying on militant working class ac- tivities. In New York City, with its Hillquits, Brouns and Thomases, the Socialists seek to be- come the best advisers of the police on how to break up demonstrations of militant workers, erging a “more efficient” police department. Workers are sent to prison, workers’ demon- Strations are attatked, working class activities outlawed in republican Pennsylvania, Ohio, D- ‘Unois, and California; in democratic Georgia, New York City, Alabama, and Virginia; in so- elalist Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Reading, Pennsylvania. Everywhere, however, the Com- Munist Party fights for the working class and against capitalist class justice under the slogan ef CLASS AGAINST CLASS! _ ‘The class character of the election campaign struggle is also revealed in the fact that Com- munist candidates for governor (Foster, New Work; Bassett, Wisconsin; Story, Georgia) are prisoners of capitalism; that Lee Mason, Negro gandidate of the Communist Party for Congress, fs murdered by the police in Chicago. Labor in increasing numbers awakens to the fact that the 1928 national platform of the re- publican, democratic and socialist parties all en- ‘tirely ignored mention of political prisoners; up- held through their silence the whole system of sedition, criminal syndicalism and insurrection Jaws adopted by the various states and used solely against workers; and raised nowhere men- ton of the right of asylum for political refugees, e' except in the socialist platform where it appears merely as an afterthought. Both domecratic and | republican parties uphold the whole infamous in- | Junction system, while the socialists nierely utter | a pious wish the abolition of injunctions in labor disputes,” but glorifies capitalist class jus- tice when it throws workers into jail for violat-s ing injunctions (Magistrate Ewald’s sentence of left wing fu 's In New York City to long terms of imprisonment). While the democrats forget entirely about lynching, the republicans and so- cialists propose honeyed anti-lynching legislation, with no mention of the whole brutal system of race discrimination and Jim Crowism. The re- publicans in power have never adopted anti- | lynching laws and the socialists (Brotherhood of Pullman Porters), when the question has been proposed concretely have joined with the police in securing the arrest of those raising this issue (arrest and imprisonment of Sol Harper, New York City), Lynching outrages také place in re- publican Indiana as well as democratic Georgia. ‘The shading of difference, therefore, between the democratic, republican and socialist parties is al- most imperceptible. Only the Communist Party raises sharply the struggle for amnesty, for the release of all political prisoners, for the right of asylum, for the repeal of all criminal syndicalism laws and similar oppressive anti-labor legisla- tion, for full social, economic and political equal- ity for Negro workers, for the right of workers’ self-defense against the mob and police attacks of labor’s class enemies. The Communist Party struggles against the boss class terror in all capitalist countries, against fascism, for the right of the workers to organize, strike and picket. Being vitally interested as a working class or- ganization in all abéve issues, the National Ex- ecutive Committee of the International Labor Defense, therefore, endorses the United Front Election Campaign of the Communisi Party. Support of the Communist Party election cam- paign, however must not be mere lip service. It must be an intensive effort to mobilize such masses as can be reached by the International Labor Defense for active struggle, especially in the mines and mills, in the factories and’on the railroads. The election campaign offers the In- ternational Labor Defense the following ‘tre- mendous opportunities: First: To expose before the workers and farmers the real character of the growing fascist regime with its increasingly repressive measures against the working class—deportation, police terror, criminal syndicalism laws, legislation against the foreign born; to raise the demand for asylum for all political refugees. Second: Demands for the liberation of the imprisoned unemployed leaders (March 6th) in New York and Milwaukee. Third: Raising especially before the workers and poor farmers of the South the real meaning of the savage sentences to a living death im- Posed on the seven Gastonia textile strikers and organizers, and the attempt to send to the elec- tric chair six workers, including two Negro and two women workers, at Atlanta, Georgia, with numerous other arrests and vicious sentences im- posed in Virginia, Alabama, Tennessee, the Caro- linas, and Louisiana. Fqurth: Increasing struggle against lynching, and against all forms of race discrimination and Jim-crowism, and increasing fight against the barbarous chain gang system. Fifth: To raise more energetically the struggle for the defense of workers persecuted under the sedition laws (Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Il- linois, California, New Jersey), demanding the immediate and unconditional liberation of Peltz and Holmes, Muselin, Zima, and Resetar, In Penn sylvania; as well as freedom for the Imperial Valley victims of the same California despotism that is crushing out the lives of Mooney and Billings and that sends the young worker, Yetta Stromberg, to its dungeons for ten years. Sixth: To raise before new masses of workers the hangman's role of Yankee imperialism in China, in India, and in Latin America, where the machine gun diplomacy of the Washington gov- ernment has joined in the murder of thousands of struggling workers and peasants, and in the colonies of Yankee imperialism. Seventh: To champion more actively the right of workers to organize, to strike, to picket. To intensify the demand for the right of legal ex- istence of the Communist Party, the Trade Union Unity League and its affiliated organizations, and all other militant organizations of the working class, and to demand the right of self-defense against lynching mobs, organized gangsterism and police attacks. Eighth: To join in the demand for the recog- nition and defense of the Soviet Union and the struggle against the imperialist war danger. Thus the International Labor Defense joins in all election campaign demonstrations and mass meetings with its own speakers, slogans, litera- ture and banners. It organizes campaign meet- ings to which Communist candidates are invited. It mobilizes its forces for general activities in the election campaign (collection of signatures to put Communist candidates on the ballot, distribution and sale of literature, organization and direction of meetings, canvassing of voters, work at the polls, and the like). In order to amplify these activities, the National Executive Committee de- cides the following: First: That the October issue of the LABOR DEFENDER feature the election campaign. Second: That a special pamphlet be issued as well as suitable leaflets, especially by the various district organizations. Third: That this declaration be submitted to the various District Committees as the basis for the adoption of suitable resolutions on the elec- tion campaign within their various jurisdictions. Participation in the election campaign should’ be utilized fully for the purpose of BUILDING THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE INTO A MASS DEFENSE ORGANIZATION OF THE WORKING CLASS. Crisis Hits Marine Workers | By H. RAYMOND Whe economic crises which began sweeping @eross America last November has long ago weached international proportions. It has seri- ously affected the social order of every capitalist eountry in the world, and instead of the crisis ‘Deing liquidated, as the capitalist economists pre- dicted, it is becoming deeper and deeper as the days roll by. x a At present there are 8,000,000 workers unem- ployed in America and 25,000,000 throughout the capitalist world. These workers are fating starvation and misery, and the capitalist bosses hhaye scorned the idea of unemployment insur- @nce and have offered instead jails and fake charity proposals. For those who are still em- ployed, terrific speed up and sharp wage cuts is "the order of the day. F Marine Workers Hit One of the most exploited sections of the whole working class, a section upon which the burden the crisis bears with a most brutal weight, is é wae marine workers. This includes seamen, long- ‘and harbor workers. every ocean port in America thousands of y in, longshoremen and harbor workers walk the streets looking for jobs. Shipping has fallen off 80 per cent. New labor-saving devices—the fry gyroscopic compass, which takes the place the seaman at the helm, at the total mainte- e cost of 57 cents a day; belt-loading de- , ete, are constantly releasing more and ‘marine workers from the marine industry. the dock gangs have been re- duced and the drafts have been increased. Speed up and the introduction of new loading machi- nery has maimed and killed thousands of long- shoremen and permanently disemployed thou- sands more, On the sea the situation is the same. Fewer seamen are required to carry the cargoes. The pay on most American ships is at the low rate of $55 a month for an able seaman. ‘The living quarters are veritable hog pens, with jail house bunks and little or no linen and the food is of the vilest sort imaginable. Slave driv- ing captains and bull dozing mates and engineers strut the decks of the majority of American ships intimidating seamen by threats of fines and jail. High tyranny exists on almost every ship in the American merchant marine and the ship- owners are preparing to cut the already meagre wages of the enslaved seamen, The longshore- men, in spite of the fake agreement of the I’ L. A. are facing similar wage cuts. The Marine Workers Industrial Uniort is or- ganizing seamen and longshoremen to strike against these wage cuts and for an increase in the I. L. A. and their sell out methods, The MWIU fights for better conditions on the ships, for ship committees on every ship and dock com- mittees on every deck. The MWIU is fighting for immediate unemployment insurance and against the whole rotten capitalist system which has nothing to offer the workers but starvation and misery. Seamen, longshoremen! better conditions and pay. for immediate unemployment insurance! the Marine Workers Industrial Union! Prepare to fight for Don't. starve—fight Join pay. The MWIU is exposing the fascist role of » Here Is Something “New” About the Soviet Union By WM. Z. FOSTER Prisoner No. 52350 (Communist Candidate for Governor of New York State) The tremendous development of Socialism in the Soviet Union provides a problem for the so- celal fascists which constantly becomes more dif- ficult. The workers of all countries are beginning to realize the basic meaning of the Russian revolu- tion, that it points the way the world’s workers must travel to emancipate. This realization is fatal to the counter-revolutionary plans of the social fascists to sustain decaying capitalism and to lead its war attacks against the Soviet Union. Hence they spare no efforts to keep the workers in the dark as to the real course and signifi- cance of the great socialist development now tak- ing place in the Soviet Union. Social Fascist “Marxism” This leads them to repeat not only all the cur- rent capitalist propaganda, but also to issue in- numerable lying theories under a pretense of a Marxian analysis of the situation. One of their favorite arguments, which they try to make ap- pear with a Marxian foundation, is that the revo-" lution cannot succeed in the Soviet Union bey cause that country fs not sufficiently industrial- ized, that the success of the proletarian revolution presupposes the existence of an already highly- industrialized society. . This argument has been repeated innumerable times since the overthrow of the Kerensky regime and the setting up of the Soviet Government in November, 1917. It has become a sort of indis- putable point in the anti-Soviet gospel of the so- cial fascists, something “scientific” that is beyond question. Soviet Union 1S Building Socialism But the great progress of Socialist construction In the Soviet Union, which cannot be obscured even by the gigantic flood of lying by the capi- talists and social-fascists has shattered this men- shevik lie. The Russian workers and peasants are building Socialism, the pseudo Marxian argu- ments of the Socialist lackey of capitalism to the contrary notwithstanding. So the social-fascists are compelled to make various theoretical handsprings in order to ex- plain this contradiction, To what absurd ex- tremes they are driven is exemplified in an ar- ticle in “The New Trades” of September 13 by Rheinhold Niebuhr, “Socialist” Party candidate for State Senator. Mr. Niebuhr, just retcrned from Moscow, gets off his chest the usual slan- ders about tlie conditions of the Russian workers, but is compelled to admit that great progress is being made in building the industries. This he proceeds to explain by reversing the favorite Menshevik argument against the Rus- sian revolution by asserting that its success is because of the very lack of a well established in- dustrial system, but that Communism cannot suc- ceed in highly industrialized countries. He says: “If it works in Russia when there was no in- dustry that does not prove that it will work in America or Europe, where there is a highly developed industry.” Nonsense! ‘What nonsense to state that the working class, which in the Soviet Union has proved its'ability to build the industrial system almost from the ground up and to operate it with high efficiency, cannot take hold of and operate the highly de- | veloped industrial mechanism of the capitalist countries. i Niebuhr’s argumentation Shows the political bankruptcy of the social-fascists. It indicates how hard put they are to find arguments to bolster up their counter-revolutionary program of reforming capitalism in the face of the growing world capitalist crisis and the wor|d-shaking advance of Socialism in the Soviet Union, ~ During the present election campaign and in all our work of educating, organizing and leading the masses in struggle we must systematically ex- pose the ahti-Soviet les of such as Niebuhr and inform the workers as to what the Russian revo- lution actually means, This knowledge will in- spire them to fight all the more militantly for their every day struggles. It will show them clearly the revolutionary goal of the working class. Workers! Defend the Soviet Union! Join the Communist Party! Vote Communist! (Written at Hart's Island Penitentiary), PRE-PLENUM DISCUSSION YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE, U. S. A. : Along the Front Some News from the ‘We can record the following concrete results: We took in during the last two weeks twenty-one new members, nineteen in Cleveland and two in Akron, The number is not so high, but the sources where we took them in from as well as their composition is good indeed. Alongside with increasing our membership we strengthened our- selves in such important organizations as the Labor Sports Union and the National Guards. These comrades are bringing in with them an entirely different spirit, willingness and readiness to work. It will be our task to imbue the old membership with this spirit of the new young workers inour League. As one of the means of keeping them, we are immediately organizing a beginners’ class which starts this Saturday. On the first beginning has been made in fac- tory work. One shop paper issued by the Day~ ton unit. A couple of successful meetings in front of the Mechanical Rubber factory in Cleve- land, and the distribution of a special Interna- tional Youth Day-Negro leaflet at the Independ- ent Towel. We now have a shop nucleus in the Independent Towel, where all are young Negro girls. A good start has been made on the Young Worker, Within a period of six days we have Cleveland Shock Front sent in $50. The weakest spot is the getting of subs and the establishment of regular sales in front of factories. The Pioneer movement is definitely reviving after a collapse of several months. In the city of Cleveland we have now five functioning groups. Around the campaign or free school supplies and free carfare we can develop a mass movement, providing the proper political slogans and organizational forms for the children will be worked out, as well as for the parents. In Cleveland we see an increase in attendance and more willingness to do work on the part of the Units. Several shock troops have been or- ganized for the Young Worker and other tasks in connection with our campaigns. Out of town only Akron and Canton can be considered really functioning. Our anti-lynch conference, though not large, was highly enthusi- astic, and a real spirit for work was developed. The Young Liberators were organized and defi- nite plans for work are being made. The slogan of the National Committee to com- plete the plan of action by the time set is politi- cally correct and gives further stimulus and helps to increase the tempo of our work from day to day. A Shameful Unity of ‘Traitors By SAM DARCY From the Trotskyite organ, “the Militant,” to members of the American Legion extends tho new united front against the militant labor movement. These, together with the I W. W. and the renegade “Revolutionary Age,” are making a concerted drive in an attempt to dis- credit the struggles of the International Labor Defense against government. persecution of workers. The current issue of the “Industrial Worker,” one of the most bitter anti-working class, anti- Soviet Union, organs in this country, carries a six-column headline apropos the death of James MaclInerny, one of the Centralia prisoners, which reads, “Communists Sabotage the Dead.” Lud- wig Lore, in writing in his paper, the “Volks- zeitung,” joins the cry of these enemies of the working class. The “Militant,” in its last issue, announces with pride the unity of the Loveston- ites, the Loreites, the Socialist Party, the An- arheists, the Trotskyites, the I. W. W., etc. in bitter denunciations of militant workers, led by the International Labor Defense and the Com- munist Party. The ‘Militant,” using even the same words as the I. W. W. paper, reads, “The leaders of the Communist Party and ‘non-partisan I. L. D, refused to participate or send a speaker on the grounds that they would not occupy the same platform with Trotskyites and Loveston- ites’! This act of spiteful and criminal sabotage would not raise the prestige of the Party.” A combination of all the discredited renegades and class traitors, such as are connected with this united front could only produce the mass. of lies, misrepresentations and vicious anti-work- ing class propaganda, such as characterizes the mouthings of ‘these worthies, What are the facts in the death of James MclInerny? ‘While in the Communist Party, Cannon, the leader of thé Trotskyites, for years correctly fought against the syndicalist conceptions of the ILW.W. and held them in a large measure re- sponsible for the continued imprisonment of the Centralia workers, of which MecInerny was one, With his renegacy to the working class, Cannon and his colleagues became proper allies of the reactionary 1.W.W.,, the “Socialist” Party and this new united front. The struggle over the Cen- tralia cases is now more than a decade old. The LW.W. has done everything it possibly could to frustrate any mass mobilization of the working class to force the release of the Centralia pris- oners. It turned the case over in full charge to Elmer S. Smith, a local lawyer. Because of something he said in support of the LW.W., Smith had been disbarred from the profession, In July of this year, at the very time when the parole board was considering the cases of our Centralia comrades, Smith made an application for rein- statement as an attorney, Through the Asso- ciated Press he gave out a story in which he» stabs the Centralia prisoners in the back. In this statement he informed the Associated “Press that he “told the high court yesterday he would renounce all the principles which caused his disbarment.’ In his petition for reinstatement he wrote: “I have lived a life of probity, industry and sobriety since my disbarment. I have been more than sufficiently punished for the ex- treme utterances made during the heat and fervor of public speeches made on social, Political and economic issues.’ In the spirit of the leadership of such an in- dividual as this the IWW Centralia Publicity Committee, of which Elmer Smith is chairman, eliminated every trace of class action from the case and presented, with every resource of their command, the mobilization of the workers. With such agents to help them, the bosses found it possible to keep the Centralia prisoners incarce- rated with little difficulty. When MclInerny died, Yetta Stromberg, the Seattle District Organizer of the ILD, herself sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment for work- ing class activity, headed a committee of three to visit the IWW Arrangements Committee to ask for permission to participate with speakers, etc, in the funeral. The officials of the IWW passed the buck from one to another, but finally the chairman of the Arrangements Committee gathered enough courage to tell Yetta Stromberg that he could not grant her request because “the program is all arranged and cannot be changed.” When the ILD committee asked for permission to formally present a wreath of flowers, even this was denied. The automobiles which were in the funeral procession did not carry a single slogan or class demand. Singing or other demonstra- tions on the part of the workers was systemati- cally suppressed. The ILD delegation asked that the “Red Flag” be sung. The IWW, througir the attorney, Elmer Smith, answered, “I think not, for there are many people here who are not from Centralia and they would not understand, and since we get a lot of support from them, we can- not do it.” Although there was no room on the program for a message of class soliddrity, there was room for Captain Edward Patrick Coll, former officer and now a member of the American Legion, who made a characteristic patriotic and sentimental speech differing in no way from the public letters which he, from time to time, wrote op this cas One of these letters so pleased the Centralia Publicity Committee that they published it in leaflet form in their own name. The following excerpts indicate the utter degeneracy of the IWW into a reactionary and event patriotic body: “No one will ever point the finger of scorn at the physical courage of the Legion. The question is, has each one of us the moral brawn to stand by the constitution of the Legion-and of our courageous opposition to those who are guided by mob violence.” In New York, the National Office of the Inter- national Labor Defense already had an indica- By JORGE Rosh Ha-Shanah Postscript We are always under-estimating the Right danger. After writing that one girl from the Daily Worker business office had “got sick” on Rosh ha-shanah, bless me if it wasn't two girls and one boy, and not only one girl, nor did they give out any salami about “getting sick.” Incidentally, 1t seems that the printshop is full of Right danger also. Did you notice that on Rosh ha-shanah that “Red Sparks” was printed over half the back page, and in Jewish style, reading from right to left? The printer’s Yid- disher devil did that. It wasn't our fault. We got that piece of bad luck probably from not kissing the Mazuziss which the comrades who formerly occupied our flat left nailed to the right door casing. Perhaps you wonder why the Jews have two days of New Year. We did, and were informed that they got their dates mixed. Not being sure which of the two days was New Year Day, they settled the matter by Celebrating both. Father Jehovah is neglectful of his children, spoiling one day of good business like that. May We Butt In? That was @ hot rejoinder the “New Masses got for speaking slightingly of the International Publishers, wasn’t it? And it was a splendid comeback that Comrade Bedacht gave when he said that the “New Masses” clique might learn something if {t would read the books published by the International Publishers. We are in favor of that, but lots more in favor of having several thousand workers read them. We opine that Bedacht {s too optimistic on what the “New Masses” folks might learn. They know everything already. But we would interject that Comrade Bedacht might do a greater service if he would induce the International Publishers to print the books of Marx and Lenin at prices not beyond the reach of everybody except the man- ager of the International Publishers and the dilettante “New Masses” group. There are lots of workers who might buy Lenin's books, if printed on simple newsprint in paper cover and sold for about 35 cents. And we don’t imagine that Lenin wrote his stuff on an “art for art's sake” basis of water-marked egg-shell paper and beautiful bindings. He prob- ably expected even such poorly paid ducks as the Daily Worker staff writers to get his books. As it is, they are the exclusive property of members of the secretariat and Comrade Tracht- enberg. Canine Chauvinism Remember how Mr. S. Alexander of Long Beach, Calif, became indignant at our “anthro- pocentric chauvinism?” Well, a friend of “Red Sparks” sent us in a clipping, which tells how nicely the dogs of high society are getting along while proletarian dogs, not to mention the proletarians themselves, are starving. You see, capitalist society 1s so wonderful that it corrupts even the dogs, teaches them property rights and introduces a caste system among canines, How dare a poor shivering cur in the street even lopk at, let alone lay a dirty paw on the combed and perfumed Pomeranian pup of the lady in the Rolls-Royce? But we disagree. The contributor sends us a clipping from last month’s paper, when the no-~ bility of the nation’s capital city were taking their vacations. Here's what it said: “WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (AP).—Dogs of capital society are vacationing at the sea- shore and mountains along with their folks, or are boarding out at fashionable kennels at Silver Springs, Md. “Washington is a great dog-lover town. From the White House on down, nearly every family of prominence has one or more prized canine pets, “Tf hot weather develops ills, the dogs are given the best of care. Veterinary bills for one family often run into several hundred Ccllars for the summer.” These, workers, are the people who are fighte ing tooth and nail against real unemployment insurance, to prevent workers from eating and workers’ babies from dying of starvation and disease! * One. of “Our” Brainy Boys Santa Barbara, California, news say that—- “Agreement among relatives on a resident phy- sician to care for Stanley McCormick, incompe- tent multi-millionaire, at his Montecito estate was revealed today”—and so on. This awfully “brainy” chap is worth; no, his fortune {is worth, some $50,000,000. And his “lov- ing relatives,” each afraid that if the other's doctor is given charge of the rich nut, they will get swindled out of their share, have to hold a family council and sign an agreement that none will gouge the others out. Nice people! .So they pay Colonel Joseph Bere nard $20,000 a year to “manage” the “incompe- tent multi-millionaire's” fortune for him, and have agreed on hiring a certain physician at $30,- 000 a year to “take care of him”—probably to give him knockout drops when they can-reack a final agreement on how the $50,000,000 can be split to everybody's satisfaction. Nice people! Great country! Wonderful clvill- zation! tion as to the nature of these ghouls who were dancing around the body of our heroic comrade, James McInerny, to the tune of their own patri- otic and jingo addresses, boosting the constitution of the American Legion. We decided in New York that rather than to befoul the memory of Mc- Inerny bf lending any strength to these enemies of the working class, that we would use the mass Sacco-Vanzetti Memorial Demonstrations, sched- uled for August 22, two days after the funeral of MclInerny, to claim his memory and splendid fighting tradition for the working class where it belongs and to take it away from the Legionnaires, the renegades, the Social Fascists, and those other elements grouped with them, On the eve- ning before, ten street metings were held under LL.D. auspices, especially to commemorate James MciInerny’s life. The Trotskyites and the Lovestonites have, of course, an easy time in uniting with such ele- ments. They are all of the same ilk. It is not without significance that tlre very next> day, August 22, one of these new-found allies of the Lovestonites and Trotskyites, namely the anar- chists, murdered two workers who were protest~ ing against governmental persecution at the Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration at Avella, Penn- sylvania. In New York, on August 22, 15,000 workers re- membered James.MclInerny, together with Sacco and Vanzetti and pledged to carry on the struggle in the memory of their heroic life and death. ‘The workers had absolutely no trust whatsoever in the meeting held by the renegades and betray- ers the day before. The proof lies in the fact that all these. groups combined, even including the Socialist Party, rallied a total of 400 people to their meeting. That is the usual crowd on any ordinary street meeting on this corner. Little wonder the renegades rage. (To be Continued)