The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 21, 1930, Page 4

Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Inc, dally SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Page Four ‘ 1 re New York City, N. Y. Telephone Algonquin By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs Address and mail all s to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign: One year, $8; six months, $4.50 By HARRISON GEORGE of the growth of machine industry and the les- thea: HE crisis in fascism which sent Primo de vino ae | 2 sons of the Bolshevik revolution. Unfortunately, Rivera into oblivion continues and bids fair | due partly to a sectarian opportunism allied to By JORGE ee ; to send the monarchy after him. And today is a picture of Italy tomorrow ‘The economic crisis which forced Rivera out Spain Trotzkyism and to collateral factional struggles up till 1928, the Comrnunist Party of Spain was unable to consolidate in organization the wide S-Sh! A Red Plot continued. Thus, despite all the promises of a influence Communism enjoyed amon; he ae “ ; cama t yored Joe HEN such eminent scoundrels as Mr. Fish resumption of “constitutional” government, the masses. Berenguer regime is exercising pre the same Thus the brazenly reformist “socialists” were and Gaston B. Means get together some- methods of fascist terror as did that of Rivera. The peseta kept falling, and unable as for- merly to depend upon the British Rivera nor Berenguer could prevent the ris Mass discontent as the working-class found its Money wage would no longer buy even the mis- erable crust of bread it formerly would. It is worth noting that in not one of the cap- italist press dispatches is this basic reason for the strikes given. The “strikers” are, as usual, represented as mysterious demons who, without rhyme or reason, are causing the “citizens” use- Tess discomfort and even danger. Such is the “logic” of the capitalist press. These ,“citizens,’ the good old standby of apologists for any terror against the workers, able to dominate the labor movement, to find a fitting ally in fascim and collaboration with Primo de Rivera. The “socialists” were over joyed to set up practical company unions, joint committees of bosses and “socialist” trade union officials in the factories. But the growing crisis and the fall of Primo de Rivera before the tide of mass discontent is smashing this wonderful arrangement. The Communists, united on the correct line of the IV Congress of the Red International of Labor Unions and the VI Congress of the Communist International have been burying deep roots in the factories and mines. The breathing spell of civil liberty that followed the downfall of de Rivera was taken advantage of, and the Com- thing is bound to happen. Means, who has just gotten out of the penitentiary for bootlegging or murder or some slight peccadillo, is obviously the kind to gravitate to the employ of Mr. Fish in “investigating” the “red menace.” Means has the means, it appears, to spend some $500 a week at it, with headquarters in a New York hotel. But here the plot thickens like tallow gravy. And the scene shifts to Balti- more. Now, we are completely ignorant of what the “red menace” is doing in Baltimore. We do are, upon examination, found to be the capital- ist exploiters of the working-class, a working- elass driven to desperation by hunger and mis- ery which capitalist papers can find only in the Soviet Union, where it doesn’t exist It is true that because of the contradictions and antagonisms inherent in Spanish society, large sections of the Spanish bourgeoisie are opposed to the monarchy and other strong rem- fiants of feudalism which persist in the form of the landed nobility. ‘These are the elements known as the licans,” standing for abolition of the monarchy. Bourgeois student elements constitute the spear head of this force, which also has allies among the army. the Catalonian separtists around Barcelona, Cataluna regarding itself as a nation oppressed and unjustly subjected to the Spanish throne. But the wiping out of the decrepit and rotten monarchy along with all other feudal remains cannot be successfully accomplished by the cap- italist class, which is in its historic decline and | cannot either in Spain or elsewhere, repeat its progressive role of the French revolution. It cannot begause a proletariat has arisen which ft fears more than it fears the monarchy and Tanded nobility with which it has’ proprietorial interests in common in spite of their mutual struggle for political dominance. Tt is. the struggle of the Spanish proletariat which comes as a rude interruption to the pomp of the syphilitic King, and to shatter alike the ambitions of the Spanish bourgeoisie, anxious to establish, under the name of a “modern re- | public” and “reform,” their heaven-born destiny to enslave the working class for their own profit. Anarchism and “pure” syndicalism has lost its former major influence as a logical consequence “repub- | Also in the bourgeois opposition is | munist Party of Spain won wide adherance in both the “socialist” and anarchist trade unions. The “socialists” have, of course, been the most loyal upholders of the bourgeoisie among the mas They have been as fearful as their “re- publican” masters of the revolutionary masses. When the masses, under Communist influence, went on strike in spite of “socialist” leaders and the masses were already battling in the streets of Madrid, the “socialist” trade union leaders hastened to “ratify” the strike in order to limit its duration and to betray it. “The strike is all over,” they cried at the end | of 48 hours, but it spread to every city and broke forth in fury. What the Communists are leading the masses to battle for, and what the “social- ists” are betraying, is recited reluctantly in the N. Y. Times of Nov. 19, in an obscure paragraph. It says: “The general strike has had as its avowed objective more pay for shorter hours in all crafts.” This is the meat of the argument. The capi- talist reporter goes on to add, of course:—“But underneath that, authorities assert, was the agi- tation of Communist organizers who were driv- ing toward revolution.” The Communists of Spain do not, of course, conceal their revolutionary aims. They are leading the fight for bread, but precisely because they know that bread cannot be won under either a monarchy or a bourgeois republic, they raise the banner of revolution against both. They call for a Soviet Republic of Workers and Peasants and for self-determination of Cataluna! Only under these slogans will bread be assured to the masses and the vestiges of feudalism re- maining from the days of Cervantes, give way to real progress on the Iberian peninsula, Chinese Communists In Yangtze Valley . Shanghai, China, October 26, 1930. ‘The shakening, panics and chaos of the pres- ent Chinese situation are more serious, though the war between Chiang Kai-shek, Yen-Shi-shan and Feng Yu-hsiang was ended and the pacifi- cation and unification were once more announced bythe Kuomintang. All of us may remember that in the last three years such pacification and unification were announced as many times @s We could not enumerate. While Shiang-Kai- shih was victoriously coming back to the south and while the Nanking Government was being very cheerful to celebrate the victory over the northern militarists, Chang-Hsueh-liang des- perately enlarged his territory in north China refused all the officials appointed by the Nan- king Government and all the surplus-duties of the customs at Tientsin (they were the surplus of the duties of the customs which are handed over to the imperialist powers as to pay indemni- ties, loans, etc., and their interests) were sent to Mukden. The present position and attitude of Chang-Hsueh-liang towards Nanking were just the same as that of Yen Shi-shan and Feng- Yu-hsiang six months ego. This point has been confirmed by all the information from the north and from all the foreign press in Shanghai. On the surface it seems that the Nanking Gov- ernment is not offended by Chang-Hsueh-liang at all. Chiang-Kai-shih has come to Shanghai and is going home at Ningpu of Chekiang prov- fneé and it is said that he will soon come to ‘Tsintao to meet Chang Hsueh-lieng. Such a ‘movement seems that he is quite agreeable with the Mukden warlord. But your correspondent is told that it is the old manner of Chiang-Kai-shih and that he did the seme when he was being prepared to fight with Yen Shi-shan and Feng- ‘Yu-hsiang some months ago. On the other hand the Nanking Government ts: making a big scheme to “exterminate commu- nist bandits.” At meetings held et Hankow the militarists of Hunan, Hupeh and Kiangsi prov- imces decided that each of the three provinces send six to eight aeroplanes, eight to ten war- ships and three to eight divisions of the troops respectively to carry out the scheme of the “com- munist bandits extermination.” In each of the provinces of Kiangsu, Shantung, Honan, Fukien, ‘Kwangtung, eic., a commissioner was appointed to devote his time and to bear the responsibility to clear out the Red forces from the country. From the interview with the Nanking authori- ties your correspondent learns that this is the tactics of Chiang-Kai-shih who is being prepared to fight with Chang Hsueh-liang in near future by first clearing out the revolutionary elements from the rear of the field. Because in the last "war when it was very critical in the front (hot fighting on the Tientsin-Pukow Line) the Red Armies suddenly occupied Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, making all the troops in the _ front very much vacillating and nearly collapse all at once. “But the Red troops were smarter than the white ones and had more tremendous develop- ment Just when the “communist exterminating” loners were being appointed, when the being held for discussing how to deal ith the Red armies and when many divisions the troops being sent back to various prov- finces, especially more to Hunan, Hupeh and |. Now Kian, the very important city in Southern Eiangsi, is still very firmly in the hands of Chu Ten and Mao Tsetung, the most well-known revolutionary generals, end Peng- se in northeastern Kiangsi, a disirict between and Anking, was occupied by the Red under Fang Chi-ming on Ocicber 16. At same time Chingtehcheng in northern Iiang- where the best Chinawares are produced, was by another group of the Red troops led Fang Chi-ming. This is the sixth occupa- tion of Chingtehcheng by the Red armies. As for eastern Hunan, up to the present Pingkiang, an important district, is in the hands of the Red troops under Kung-Ho-tsung; and Liu Yang, another important city, is being beseiged by seven thousand Red troops. Further, Nanchang, the capital of Kiangsi, and Kiukiang are more dan- gerous than before. Those troops sent by the Kuomintang Government to Kian to fight the Red forces manifest entirely useless. Some of the Red troops at Pengtse are launching an atack on Kiukiang on the one side and very rapidly dev- eloping to Anhui province on the other. From the recent movement of the Red armies we can see that it seems that they have very good con- nections between themselves. Although from every side the imperialists have been using much energy to help the Kuomin- tang to attack the Red troops, particularly the German military advisers used up their mental power to make minute plans of attacking the Red forces for the Kuomintang, yet it has been very often that the Kuomintang troops were utterly defeated and routed. According to the reports from the Kiangsi people who are resid- ing at Shanghai, all the troops sent to Kiangsi province dare not fight with the Red forces and just stay at those places where there are no Red troops; and sixty out of eighty one districts in Kiangsi are occupied and besieged by the Red armies. Because of the uselessness of the Kuo- mintang troops, the warships of the foreign pow- ers, especially of the U.S.A., British and Japan, have been always firing on the Red forces on the both shores of the Yangtse River. For instance, on October 17 a Japanese warship named the Tali Maru fired on the Red troops at Pengtse of northeastern Kiangsi and next day is accom- panied a Chinese gunboat to fire on them; and the latier defended themselves by firing on the former. Not long ago a British warship spent twenty-seven minutes to fire on the Red troops at Hesueh (23 miles from Shasi of Hupeh prov- ince) with cannons and water machine guns. Recently an American battleship at Sanchiawan (forty miles from Yochow, the Hunan-Hupeh border) shot the Red troops 270 shois with rifles and water washine guns. Nearly every day the imperialist warships are firing on the Red troops. So, all the Red troops and revolutionary masses hate the imperialists to the utmost and endeavor their very best to propagate and agitate among the foreign merines in China. Basing on the information from the sailors of the foreign steamers, from Shasi to Pengtse, over 400 miles in distance, there are more than twenty places on the both shores of the Yangtze River where many Red Flags are hoisted.inthe sky, very many posters such as “Support the Red Armies!”, “Long Live the Chinese Soviets!”, etc., are posted on the boards on the shores ofthe river and thousands of handbilis written with broken Eng- lish are distributed to the foreign marines agitat- ing them not to fight against the Chinese Red troops but to turn back their guns to shoot their own officers, Not long before there was a kind of manifesto in English by the name of the Cen- tral Committee of the Chinese Communist Party secretly distributed among the forcign scilors. ‘This was discovered by the foreign navy authori- ties in China who dered not announce this to the public. But the said manifesto was secured by the correspondent and a part of it is quoted as follows: “..,Our brethren, foreign sailors! We Chinese workers, peasants and toiling masses are now waging life and death struggles egainst our com- mon foes—the imperialists and Kuomintang—for emancipating ourselves and for establishing the Soviet regime in China. “All of you are the sons of the laboring and peasant class in Durope and America. Both the laboring and peasant clags in Europe and America and the laboring Capitalist Trickeries in Connecticut ‘OR fifteen years the democrats in Connecti- cut, have tried to penetrate the Roraback Republican machine. This year, by making capital of the prevailing depression and exces- sive unemployment, by campaigning with false | and empty promises, they have wrung from the workers, a large enough vote to elect some of their tools. A governor, for instance who can discuss learnedly abqut the Ethics of Aesthetics, | but to whom the question of unemployment, suffering and privation of the masses is not com- | | this year in the midst of severe crisis, tremen- prehensible. In a statement to the capitalist press imme- diately following his election, he thanked the public for the support given him, and promised to do his utmost to repay their confidence. His first step in this direction was to leave for Florida, in order to recuperate from the effects of the campaign. This is the answer of the democratic party to the masses. In thousands of homes throughout Connecticut there is no coal | and no food. Everyday men and women walk | the streets in increasing numbers. Each day brings the news of another lay-off, another shut- down and another wage-cut. In Norwalk, Sonn. we find a republican mayor, trying to save the face of his party. “Enjoying himself,” according to the local capitalist press, in New York state, hunting, he has suddenly become anxious about unemployment in Nor- walk. In a wire to the City Clerk, he advises that a meeting be called for Monday, Nov. 17, and in order to be present he will cut short the holiday. At this meeting local” unemployment will be discussed, and the worthy Mayor feels that this will solve everything, especially since in his August opinion that situation here is not | at all serious. It would be interesting to know what the bosses consider serious. Only one week ago a local job advertised for forty men. Fifteen hun- dred men applied for work the very next day, and in order to stop the flow of workers, it was necessary to post two men at the gates of the property with shot guns. Not one factory in town is working as per schedule, the majority are not working at all. Everywhere one runs into a group of workers, there is the same story; no job and no job to be gotten. One thing stands out clearly, very clearly, that the workers are beginning to understand that they are being fooled, that they can ex- pect starvation only from the boss parties. In trying to find out the opinion of workers, one finds that the attitude towards the generosity of the bosses is valued as it deserves to be. The workers know and admit that it is another empty gesture. It is a thick wall that we have to smash, but it begins to crumble before our solidarity. and peasant class in China are the same class. ‘The imperialists are oppressing ycu yourselves on the one side and utilizing and forcing you to slaughter the Chinese workers, peasants and Red troops on the other. It is that your enemies ask you to massacre the members of your class.... We know very well thet in the past menths the imperialist warships have often fired on the Red armies and revolutionary masses, that it was not done at your will but that you were forced to do so by your officers. You should unite the work- ers and peasants in your countries to demand that your governments at once withdraw oll your warships from the Chinese soil, not to despatch any more warships or gunboats to China for attacking the Chinese workers, peasants and Red troops, and to abolish all the unequal treaties between China and your countries and. returning all the settlements and. concessions to. China. At the same time you ought to defend the Chi- nese revolution and support the revolution and the establishment of the Soviet rogime in your countries, especially turn back your guns to shoot your enemies as well as our enemies—your offi- cers and the imperialists. Immediately with- draw your warships by yourselves from China....” Besides, there have been many similar leaflets sent to various countries in Europe and America, calling upon the western workers and peasants to demand for withdrawing all the warships from China, for preventing any more battleships from being. sent to China, for calling back the military advisers who are helping the Kuomintang to massacre the Chinese masses and calling on them to wage demonstrations to defend the Chi- nese revolution and oppose the imperialists in their countries who directly and indirectly help the Kuomintang to attack the Red troops and to demand for abolishing all the special privi- leges of the imperialists in China and for giv- ing up all the settlements and concessions in this country. North-West Workers Unite to Fight Anti-Alien Bills By BEATRICE SISKIND. Te National Convention for the Protection of the Foreign Born Workers, to, meet in Wash- ington on the opening session of the U. 8. Congress, will be a culmination of the bitterest resentment and the beginning of a relentless struggle against the growing fascism in the U. S. The U. S. imperialist congress will meet. dous unemployment, at home, and ‘revolt in the colonies. Congress will be instructed to pass bills calling for the finger-printing, registration and deportation of foreign-born workers who dare to resist the further lowering of their al- ready miserable standard of living. Already, before the passage of these infamous “anti-alien” bills, in reality anti-labor bills, the capitalist persecution machine is in full swing. Two hundred workers are awaiting deportation on Ellis Island, the steel trust. spy system is systematically pitting the native against the for- eign-born- workers. The city officials of Du- luth, Minn., when forced, through the militant demands and demonstrations of the Unemployed Councils, to “talk” about beginning city works, declared that only citizens will be permitted to work on the city construction. The same state- ment was made by the city council in Minneap- olis, where the A. F. of L. racketeers run the city. In the lumber camps of Northern Michigan and Minnesota, which are only working 10 per cent capacity, it is the “Yankee” that gets the good jobs, as a small boss, etc. Thousands of foreign- born miners have been blacklisted in Northern Minnesota, and are now living on mortgaged farms. When the city officials get real gen- erous with their jobs and allow the foreign- born worker to continue building for capitalist profits, they are given the worst jobs‘ and are exploited the most. One worker, delegate to the Minnesota District Conference for the Protc- tion of the Foreign Born, held in Duluth, Oct. 26, reported: “In Duluth the foreign-born work- ers are forced to work three to four hours under the “rollers,” under conditions most filthy and dangerous to the health. The delicate city of- ficials would never think of taking the place of these workers without a gas mask.” The steel and copper turst in the Iron Range and the copper countries of Michigan have long used the method of pitting one nationality against another. They follow the policy of keep- ing the different nationalities in segregated groups. Hundreds of the workers have been in this country since 1900 and have not been per- mitted by the company to learn English. We have in this integral “union” of the Copper Trust, “Finn towns,” “Italian towns,” “Pole towns,” etc., with almost no contact with each other. In the copper mines in Northern Michi- gan,-even in the days of “prosperity,” a foreign- born worker could not. get a job as hoisting en- gineer or Small boss. These jobs are easier, with, better pay, and are reserved for the “Yan- kee” to make him feel superior to the foreign- born worker. This is the system by which American capi- talism built up its huge profits. Now, that the foreign-born workers, who are in great majority in the heavy industry, have produced more than can be sold, now that the bosses are able to export capital to exploit the foreign-born abroad, they say that the foreign-born worker is re- sponsible for the crisis. The bosses and their government say our trouble is that we have too many foreign-born workers. We must have stricter laws to keep them out and more effec- tive deportation system. It is not possible to recognize a foreign-born worker in the street, hence finger-printing, registration, etc., be pro- vided to spot him. This vicious attack on the foreign-born work- | ers has the support of the entire social fascist machine of the Farmer-Labor party. The con- vention of the American Federation of Labor, which is the backbone of the Farmer-Labor party in the state of Minnesota, passed a reso- lution last August to drive out the Mexican workers slaving in the beet fields in the south- ern part of the state. These workers were im- ported to use as cheap labor, and now, that they are not needed, the A. F. of L. officialdom and their social fascist Farmer-Labor party de- mand that they be sent back. This policy of the Minnesota social fascists is not an isolated policy. Mr. Green, president of the A. F. of L., the arch agent of the American capitalists, has set the keynote when he declared on January 25, 1930, “The immigration laws should be amended so as to require the registration of all immigrants and the issuance of certificates to those legally in this country, so that when called upon the immigrant can show he is officially here, or be deported.” This is the proposal of Mr. Green, which has the full endorsement of the “59” rulers of America, who intend to have it put through when their Congress meets to make the laws for them. The contribution, finger-print foreign-born workers, comes from no other than the Steel Trust. Here is the testimony of a steel worker, delegate to the Duluth conference: “I am sure that finger-printing originated in the Steel Trust. When we are hired they take our fingers, and when fired you must demand them to get it back.” Here we have the combination of the bosses, their government and the social fascist agents all contributing to attack the working class. The struggle for the protection of the foreign- born workers under the direction of the pro- visional committee, for the protection of foreign- born, with headquarters at 32 Union Square, New York, has gained a tremendous response among the workers in District Nine, comprising as it does the home of the iron and copper in- dustries, as well as lumber camps, steel plants and packing houses, which employ (when they do) the vast majority of foreign-born workers. It is estimated that in St. Louis County alone about 80 per cent of the workers and farmers are foreign-born. The District Conference in Duluth, Oct. 26, which was greeted with enthusiasm by 88 dele- gates, represented 3,390 workers from Northern Michigan, Northern Wisconsin and the state of Minnesota, and laid down a plan of action to rouse the entire working class against the vicious attack of the bosses, to rally a mass delegation to the Washington Convention, to prevent the passage of the infamous bills, to develop a strug- gle against the steel trust terror, and to give aid to the struggle of the workers in European and Latin American countries in their struggles against fascism. The District Conference also provided that lo- cal conferences be held to rally those workers, that have not been mobilized by the District Conference. A series of such conferences have been arranged for and will be held on Nov. 23 in the cities of Hancock, Michigan, rallying work- ers from the copper country; Ironwood, Michi- gan, iron miners and lumber workers; Northern Minnesota, taking in the Mesaba Iron Range; Superior and Duluth; St. Paul and Minneapolis. An extensive leaflet distribution is now in prog- ress to ensure a mass conference. The main task of these conferences will be to broaden the struggle, elect and finance delegates to the Washington Conference, and to establish func- tioning councils for the protection of the for- eign-born. All workers’ organizations are urged to send their delegates and raise finances. Write to Provisional Secretary, Eric Nillson, 2323 Cleve- land St., N. E. Minneapolis, Minn. Every Party member, every Young Communist must sell 25 copies of the Daily Worker before fac- tory gates each week to be in good standing. Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party U. S. A. 43 East 125th Street, New York City. Please send me more information on the Com- munist Party. Name . Address: City . State .... Occupation ... -Mail this to the Central Office, Communist Party, 43 East 125th St., New York, N. Y. recall that, some months ago, all the high dig- nitaries of that fair city and the state of Mary- land, headed by the governor, took the effigies of “Old Man Depression” and “Old Lady Pes- simism” and mid solemn ceremony dumped them into the ocean. Probably the ocean objected to “dumping” and dumped them back again. Perhaps they became animate and went into hiding. Some- thing or somebody went into hiding, it appears, for Wednesday the Associated Press told us that a raid was made Tuesday on a refrigera- tion plant in Baltimore." In part, it said: “Representative Fish, accompanied a party of unidentified men who were escorted by Bal- timore police and detectives to the plant. The men were in two-taxicabs and a five-ton post office truck accompanied the party. Several crates of lettuce were moved out to the side- walk, the searchers remaining in the building for two hours. Then they emerged, dismissed the police escort and departed with no ex- plenation of their activities.” Now, what the devil do you make of that? Nothing except that Fish has again proven that he is a fool besides being several other things. But there is more. The A. P. adds: “At the warehouse (the refrigeration plant has been transmogrofied into a warehouse in the course of the story, for which the A. P. and not we are responsible—Jorge) it was said that several days ago Means, who re- cently served a term at the Atlanta peniten- tiary, visited the office. He wanted to store some trunks and asked to see a copy of the receipt he would receive. It was said a bank receipt was given him.” What the devil would you make of that? “My dear Gaston” evidently wanted to look at the warehouse’s receipt to compare it with some other one his Sherlockian genius had trailed: down as being given to one or more “red men- aces,” undoubtedly for storage of bombs, artil< lery or even battleships—who knows? And once his eagle eye perceived that the form of receipts were the same, he reported to his superior jackass, Mr. Fish, who thought to make a flutter on the front page of the capital- ist press by himself, alone (except for a regi< ment of cops) and unaided (except by the ex= convict Means who must remain out of sight), discovering, exposing and so on, a “vast muni- tions depot for red uprisings” and» all that, doubtless as a part of the Amtorg “plot” to make guileless Yankees buy Soviet fiddle strings or some other nefarious method of ruining American homes and families. The Associated Press, not being in on the affair, unwittingly spilled the beans, and wound up by saying that: “A dispatch from Washington quoted Mr. Fish’s secretary as saying that Mr. Fish had stopped in Baltimore ‘to view some docu- ments.’” So! Documents, eh? Where then are thé bombs? Where, indeed, are the “documents?” Alas, it appears that the particular warehouse receipt which Means had traced down as rep- resenting machine guns, etc., stored by the “red. menace” for future reference, turned out to be “several crates of lettuce.” All we can say just now is that the lettuce should have been cabbage heads. Cabbage is much more attractive to the ordinary jackass, But then Mr. Fish is an extraordinary jackass. * *# 2 “Just As Good” Sometimes a capitalist newspaper man accl- dentally gets an idea and says something. Then another accident happens and the editor fails to read copy on it and the darned thing gets into the paper. This probably accounts for the funny man on the N. Y. American having sneaked into his column on Tuesday, the following: “Congressman Frisby (an imaginary person, we hasten to add, but one fully deserving of a seat in Congress beside Mr. Fish—Jorge) sums up the present economic conditions as follows: “‘We have a surplus of wheat. Right? We have a surplus of unemployment. Right? Now, my idea is to feed the surplus wheat to the mice. The mice will multiply under such ad- vantageous living conditions. We can then put the unemployed to work setting mouse traps. Furthermore, my program will increase the de+ mand for cheese to bait the mouse traps. And the increased demand for cheese will take care of the surplus song writers who are stranded at Hollywood.’ “Now we reach the point in prozressive logic, where the song writers are prosperous due to the demand for cheese. Prosperous song writers will be able to buy more berets. Demand for berets revives the woolen textile industry. Farm- ers will get top prices for sheep. This’ means lamb chops will be out of reach of the masses, thus forcing them to abandon diet fads. Con- sequently everybody will get fat, which puts an end to all this talk about lean times.” Well, the American’s funny man idea is hardly likely to be effective in “restoring prosperity.” But it's just as good as the insufferably long columns of hokum about what Col. Wood's Hoover Commission and Gov, Roosevelt's Com- mission and Mayor Walker's Commission and all the other co} ions are proposing “to re- lieve unemployment.” Only the N. Y. American puts all this hokum out on the front page and not in its funny column. Deportation and criminal syndicalist laws are twins; elect delegates to the National Con- ference for the Protection of Foreign ‘Born, Nov. 30, Dec. bniows, manok