The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 3, 1931, Page 6

Co, Inc, daily, phone Algonquin 7956-7. excep: Sunday, Cable: at 50 East “DAIWORK." 1 all checks to the Daily Worker, 60 East 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Daily, Central PU, ‘then Cd i Yorker’ Porty USA sy. mail avarywhere: One year, of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $6; six months $3; two months, Foreign: One year, $1; excepting Boroughs $8; six months, $4.50. By L AMDUR (UMEROUS have been the dele Soviet Union, innumerable the inve: some governed by 2 warm, deep pride in achievements att osity as to exactly these “‘Bolshies” of whom ‘world press spoke in such dreaded what sort of a job had they made of of @ vast country. Varied and diverse have been the results ‘These embrace from whole-hearted enthusia to the milder approbation, with “more puzzled than. ever” a possible third, and condemnation an “also ran.” Rarely, however, have such damental con- elusions been noted than those reached py Mr. EL -Hessell Tiltman who recently embodied hi: observations in eight issues of that yellowish-tinted Londo: , which he is iné eminent Editc But.who, siy reader will ask in his mocence is our Hero, And, in ing tone, I'd reply—“What c Why, H. H. T. is author of a weighty biography of, H. M. the King’s “Socialist” Prime Minister the, Rt. Hon. James Ram: MacDonald. And if€ this fails to bring any light dif such unpard- onable h'ignorance exists) I can only add that he is further known as possessing a mind so Keen, so penetrating, so illuminating that words fail me. HOH. T. is anything but the common-and- sweet garden observer. This you may see from his yvery.own words where he says: “What is the truth about Russia? Is it a country of persecution, of tyranny, of anti- christianity (of industrial parties—I. A.), or, is Russia a place where many difficult social prob- emis have been solved and where Communism ts producing a happier, freer life for all?” (See “Answers” August 9th, 1930, p. 3.) Such, dear friend, is the touching humanistic altruistic and what not purpose that brought Hessell Tiltman to the land of the Soviets. In a to give his findings a touch of the genuine HL. T. tells us that he “completed a of-over 2,500 miles . . . and has returned (alive? L.A. to tell the truth (Oh blessed word) free from.any suspicion of propaganda or bias. This preliminary, effectively dispels any unfair thought that H. H. T. prepared his articles in Riga or Warsaw before entering the country, as s8o°many thoughtless investigators absentmind- edly"do. In‘his 2.500 miles journey over the Soviet Union jourr — | ingrad, Stalingrad. He went through Kiev and other cities. “I talked S$ in remote districts where few for- ers have been for years.” what, my readers ask in happy anticipa- are the results, the conclusions, the find- In what illuminating phrases does he paint great cultural work being carried out— ation of illiteracy, compulsory education, ocial work of clubs, of the schools and universities, hospitals and rest-homes. Our the liqui mass Hero has been in the village, spoken with peas- ants—then what does he say about Collectivi- tion; what, finaly, are his impressions of the r Plan, its second year of fulfilment, u reader, doomed to a cruel awak- ening, was not with these passing questions that this wonderful mind was engaged. It was to get to the root-matter of the entire system, of the whole “bag of tricks” that H. H. T. had devoted his extraordinary intelligence, and he found it (the root-matter)—Yea Bogo he found it—in the missing bath-plug of his bath-room at the Hotel Europa, Leningrad. This is the truth | as sure as I live, Yea Bogo! Listen: “Now the carpets are threadbare, the sheets on the bed too small to leave any edge for tucking in... and THE BATH-PLUG IS MISSING. Only small details—BUT IT IS BY THE DETAILS THAT ONE READS THE STORY OF SOVIET RUSSIA” (See “Answers” Aug. 9th, 1930, page 4). Mr. H. Hessell Tiltman reads the story of the October Revolution NOT in the building of a Dnieprstroi, a Stalingradstroi, a Bobrikovsk, NOT in the net of power stations and factories springing up all over the country, NOT in the gigantic Collective and State farms that are changing the social face of the village, NOT in the total liquidation of unemployment, the rap- idly rising cultural level and welfare of the workers and peasants, No, not in these petty, insignificant facts may one note the outcome of October, 1917—but in the absence of the bath- plug from our Hero’s bath. Poor, poor Mr. Tiltman, what a keen analytic mind is yours! What colossal powers of obser- vation! What a gigantic piece of intellectual reasoning to place your finger unerringly on the Achilles Heel of the system evolved in the USSR. We are humbled Mr. Tiltman, awed into bowed silence. For you, you have shown us the un- surmountable inferiority of the “decadent” Sov- iet system to that of “enlightened,” “civilized” Britain—in a missing wretched bath-plug. I. Amdur. Organizer in Jail Tells of Jobless By GRACE HUTCHINS NEW YORK (F,P.).—Caroline Drew, young organizer of the Trade Union Unity League is serving 30 days in the Women’s Workhouse on New York's so-called Welfare Island, among the jobless women arrested for stealing and drunk- enness. She explained to the visitor how her work last year in organizing southern textile workers had been held against her in the present ease, and told the stories of some of her fellow prisoners. As one of the original 17 strike leaders held im the Gastonia case, she was marked for worse treatment than the other two arrested with her for speaking at a street meeting last May in New York City. A cop pulled her down off the speakers’ stand at a meeting to organize white goods workers in the needle trades, and charged her with assault for biting his knuckle. At the trial, no witness could say he had seen her bite the cop, but her record in the famous southern strike was brought up against her. Three Tain- many judges sentenced her to 30 days while her fellow organizers served one day each in jail. Tammany politicians are scared just now of further revelations on the vice-ring and are not arresting so many women victims, to be framed on charges of prostitution. So the Women’s Workhouse, old and gray, with its steel barred @oors and windows, contains mostly victims of wmemployment,—girls and women driven to drink or te shop-lifting because of desperate need for food and clothing. A Passaic woman stole a dress for her child. She and her husband had both been out of work for-months. The workhouse is her reward. Fellow-Prisoners An older woman could not meet mortgage payment due on her little home. had been out of work a year. She stole a pair of gloves as a Christmas present for her daugh- ter. Now she’s on the island. Poor women who get drunk to forget for a few moments the haunting anxiety and misery of life are sentenced now to six months in jail. “So much drunkenness,” put in the lady keeper, a@ massive woman who said she had a “specia! aptitude” for her job of herding the poor into jJail—and looked it. “Yes, that is why we can’t let the prisoners have any literature from out- side, because of the drunkenness.” Just what drunkenness had to do with pam- phlets by Labor Research Assn. and the volume An Outline of Political Economy, which Caroline Drew wanted but was forbidden to receive, the lady keeper did not say. No literature is allowed at present except the somber volumes of the prison library. ‘, “It’s the monotony that is worst,” explained Caroline Drew. a.m, my bed is made and the floor mopped. There is nothing else to do and the day seems endless. But of course 30 days is not so long.” As the steel door clanged behind the departing visitor, a group of gray-clad men prisoners shuffled by—closely guarded by police. Hardly a tree is visible in the drab grayness of Welfare Island. But overshadowing the victims of pov- erty huddled in these gray buildings, are Chrys- ler’s pretty bauble, resplendent steeple of thc auto magnate, and Al Smith’s Empire State, | tallest building in the world, monument of Tam- } many, towering over this richest city. Build a Mass Basis tor‘IlLavoratore’ i banal Italian Buro of the Central Committee of our Party decided to discontinue the publica- tion..of “Il Lavoratore” for a period of three months as pert of the reorganizations process, {witli the aim to build a real mass foundation for this very important organ, of the revolutionary -labor movement, With the present reorganiza- tio of the leading committee, with sending of ‘s on the field, the decision, that instead yooncentrating all energy on getting the means fot“a next issue” of the paper, what under the existing organizational weaknesses always re- Sulted in publishing the paper irregularly, the | energy must be concentrated for the coming 3 months to emerge with an Ii Lavoratore deeply rooted among the Italian masses and coming out. regularly. - The millions of Italian workers need I) Lavora- tore, the entire American working class needs IL Lavoratore. The Serio deportation case throws light on the fact, that Italian fascism, keeping thé millions of workers and poor peasants in enslavement, starving, oppressed by armed biack- -shirts, menaced by preparation for war against the Soviet Union, reaches with its bloody hands th¥Ough the ocean and acts in full agreement with the enslavers and oppressors of the Amer- feap: working class, of which the Italian work- @f$-in this country are part. The struggle against the deportation of Serio intended as pre- eédent for the deportation of other workers into thectleath chambers 6f fascism, the struggle for immediate unemployment relief and insurance for the hundreds of thousands of Italian workers as hard. hit as all other American workers, cutting their wages, for the full com- @f those robbed by the bank failures, : Was ! must go hand in hand with building Il Lavora- tore which leads these struggles among the Ital- ian workers, into a mighty, strong weapon. The b apaign for Il Lavoratore which will be started in a few days by our Italian Buro, must have the support not only of our Italian speaking Party members, but of the entire Party and of broad non-Party masses. 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 Cum- murftst Party. . Name | Address City ... State ..ccccecees OCCUPATION ..ccseseceecevererseei ss -Mail this to the Central OMce, Communist Party, 43 East 125th St., New c “We get up at 6 a.m. By 7 | | i Although the plot of the inter ventionists paring to carry out their plans in 1931, LENIN CORNER On Defeating One’s “Own” Government «MJEARLY every one admits the present war to be an imperialist war, In most cases, how- ever, this term is either distorted, or applied to one side only, or.a loophole is left for the as- sertion that the war is a bourgeois-progressive means for national liberation. Imperialism is the highest stage in the development of capital- ism, one that has been ,reached only in the twentieth century. Capitalism began to fool cramped within the old national states, without the formation of which it could not overthrow | feudalism. Capitalism has brought about such Her husband | economic concentration that entire branches of industry are in the hands of syndicates, trusts, or corporations of billionaires; almost the entire globe has been parceled out among the “giants of capitaj,” either in the form of colonies, or through the entangling of foreign countries by theusands of threads of financial exploitation. Free trade and competition have been superseded oy tendencies towards monopoly, towards seizure of lands for the investment of capital, for the export of raw materials, etc. Capitalism, fore merly a liberator of nations, has now, in its im- perialist stage, become the greatest oppressor of nations. Formerly progressive, it has become a reactionary force. It has developed the produc- tive forces to such an extent that humanity must either pass over to socialism, or for years, nay, decades, witness armed conflicts of the “great” nations for an artificial maintenance of capital- ism by means of colonies, monopolies, privileges, and all sorts of national oppression. —Socialism and the War of 1914-1915. eer s “The bourgeois papers of all the bolligerent countries have quoted examples of fraternization between the soldiers of the bolligerent nations, even in the trenches. The fact that the military authorities of Germany and England have issued severe orders against such fraternization proves that the government and the hourgeoisie *con- sider it of serious importance. If at a time when opportunism among the leaders of the social- democratic parties of western Europe is supreme and social-chauvinism is supported by the entire social-democratic press as well by all influential figures of the Second International, such cases of fraternization are possible, how much nearer could we bring the end of this criminal, reac- tionary and slave-driving war and the organiza- tion of a revolutionary international movement if systematic work were conducted in this direc- tion, at least by the left socialist of al the bolligerent countries! —Socialism and the War of 1914-1915. “What is economi implied in the ‘defense of the fatherland’ during the war of 1914-1915? The answer was given in the Basle Manifesto. The war being fought by all great powers for the purpose of plundering, dividing the world, acquiring markets, enslaving peoples. For the bourgeoisie it brings an increase in profits; for a thin layer of labor bureaucracy and aristocracy, also for thé petty bourgeoisie (intelligentsia, etc.) that has “identified itself” with the labor move- ment, it promises crumbs from those profits, The economic basis of ‘social-chauvinism’ (this term being more precise than the term social-patriot- ism, as the latter embellishes thé evil) and of opportunism is the same, namely, an alliance of an insignificant section of the ‘top’ of the labor movement with {ts national bourgeoisie against the class that is exploited by the bourgeoisie. Social-chauvinism is opportunism brought to its logical conclusions. “The political essence of social-chauvinism and opportunism is the same. It expresses itself in class collaboraiton, repudiation of proletarian dictatorshfp, rejection of revolutionary action, obeisance te the bourgeoisie and bourgeois legal- ity, lack of cenfidence -in the proletariat, con- fidence ig the bourgeoisie, The political ideas are the same, the political principles of tactics are also the same. Social-chauvinism is a direct continuation of and a logical conclusion from Millerandism, Bernstenism, the English liberal Labor Party; it is their sum total, their consu- mation, their highest achievement. —Imperialist War-—-Opportunism and Second ‘Unternation — cs By G. T. GRINKO People’s Commissar of Finance, U. S. S. R. XIV. E 1913 Russia had a total population of 139.7 millions, of which 25.7 millions, or 18.4 per | cent, lived in the cities. By 1922-1923, at the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the economic development of the U. 8S. S. R., the total population of the country was reduced 4.6 per cent as compared with 1913, and the city population by 14.8 per cent. This reduction in population was caused by the Imperialist War and capitalist intervention against the U. S. S. R.; by the wartime destruction of the produc- tive forces of the country, the decline of industry and the great difficulties in supplying the popu- Jation with food. The heavy mark of economic destruction lay over the entire country, and had the effect of depopulating the cities. It is nec- essary to give careful thought to the conditions prevailing a few years ago in order to appre- ciate the result accomplished during the period of rehabilitation and the great tasks which are before us now with regard to the development of city life More than in any other European country, the cities of the U. S. S. R. carry the marks of the Imperialist War, as well as the subsequent civil var, the blockade and the intervention. For nore than six years there was no new housing onstructed. Neither was there any renovation w repair of existing facilities. On the con- rary, great housing destruction took place. | Under these conditions the rapid growth of the urban population during the rehabilitation period of 1921-1928 was necessarily accompanied by the continuous, reduction of the per capita housing floor space available in the cities. Only in 1927- 1928 was the continuous reduction of housing | facilities finally ehecked. It should be noted that the old pre- revolutionary “Russian city consisted of a more or less well arranged central part devoted to ad- ministrative and commercial enterprises and institutions, and a few streets consisting of man- sions literally drowned in flowers and surrounded by gardens giving evidence of exceptional luxury ‘Workers’ Housing Under the Plan and belonging to the feudal, bureaucratic, com- mercial and industrial aristocracy; but all the | from the tree. other parts of the town consisted of hopelessly | gray, poor, and dirty streets and suburbs where the toiling people in general and the proletariat in particular lived. revolutionary Russian Empire, the working class sections never had any general sewer or water supply system. This horrible condition of the cities, left over from pre-revolutionary days, underwent further deterioration during the years of civil war. The Soviet Government had to face this problem of intolerable city conditions during the very first stages of economic rehabilitation and reconstruc- tion, Out of the 160 million square miles (1.73 billion sq. ft.) of housing floor space in all urban settlements at the beginning of 1927-1928, about 74 million sq. m. (800 million sq. ft.) were na- tonalized. The rest, consisting mostly of small buildings, were in the hands of individual own- ers and tenants. The nationalized housing is either used directly for state, social and co- operative enterprises or is under the manage- ment of the municipalities. A growing part of the nationalized housing is being transferred to housing cooperatives or is rented to individual families. The building cooperatives have proved | to possess great advantages in the field of hous- ing and these cooperatives are gaining ever more recognition as the best means for the supervision and building of housing. * 8 From The Five Year Plan of the Soviet Union, by G. T. Grinko, one of the original collaborators on the Five-Year Plan of So- cialist industrialization, a complete account of the Plan, containing the first two years of its operation and a political estimate of its place in world economy. By special arrangement with Interna- tional Publishers this $2 book FREE WITH THE DAILY WORKER FOR ONE YEAR( $8 in Manhattan and the Bronx, $6 outside New York. Rush your subscription to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York. Mention this offer. In all the cities of the pre- | The Two Sport Internationals By FRANK HENDERSON. ‘Ti “lose of the year marks the Tenth Anni- versary of the Red Sport International. Its birth signified that millions of worker sportsmen all over the world gathered together under one banner to show their determination to utilize their sport activities for strengthening the class force of the proletariat; to utilize the whole power of their organizations to work for the vic- tory of the proletariat; and to defend victories already won by the workers of the €oviet Union. The aims of the Red Sport International differ fundamentally with the role of the Lucerne Sport International founded by a clique of re- formist leaders led by the Second (‘Socialist’) International declared “dead” long ago by the revolutionary proletariat. The Lucerne Sport International best shows its colors by excluding worker sportsmen of the Soviet Union; expelling sportsmen who participate in sports of the RSI; and particularly by being devoid of any revolu- tionary program and lending no support to the struggles of the proletariat. Just as different is the role of the two sport internationals in the preparations for interna- tional sport gatherings in 1931. How does the Lucerne prepare for the Lucerne Olympiad in Vienna in 1931? We note a systematic struggle on the part of the leaders of the Lucerne to clean out revolu- tionary tendencies within its ranks. They want a pure white sport international which will be a willing tool for black international social fos- cism. We witness expulsions of whole leagues of worker sportsmen who support the program of the RSI in such countries as Alsace-Lorraine and England. We find expulsions of hundreds of thousands of class, conscious ae 2 | land. Noteworthy is the violent slandering against the worker sportsmen of the Soviet Union who are developing a mighty physical culture movement in the workers’ republic without hin- drance from outside enemies or treacherous at- tacks by leaders of the Lucerne Sport Interna- tional. All of this shows a struggle within the ranks of the Lucerne by the worker sportsmen who are resisting the liquidation of the class character of the workers sport movement. The sportsmen in the Lucerne will oppose and fight the social fascist leadership of the Lucerne and the delivering of the sports movement into the black hands of fascism and the bourgeoisie. The Vienna Olympiad of the LSI is being organized in the spirit of the social fascist leaders of the LSI to split the workers sport movement. To-the sportsmen in the Lucerne Sports In- ternational in all countries the Red Sport Inter- nation holds high the banner of unity of worker sportsmen and extends a call for the workers International Spartakiade to be held in Berlin in 1931, The appeal of the RST is for unity—a united front of the worker sportsmen in the Lucerne and the worker sportsmen in the bour- geois sports movement against social fascism and the bourgeoisie—tor the Spartakiade and the Red Sport International. A fitting answer by the workers in the United States to the lackeys of the Lucerne in America and the bourgeois sport movement (Amateur Athletic Union) is the fulfillment of the call of the Labor Sports Union to send a large delega- tion of worker sportsmen from the U. S. to the Spartakiade. Down with the. splitting international--the Lu- cerne Sports International! For the inter tional revolutionary unity of workers sports Win the worker sportsmen from the Amateur Athletic Union into the Labor Sports Union! Long live the Red Sport International! Pre- pare and support the RSI Spartakiade in 19311 Red. By JORGE eee From Danville Jail From Bill Murdock, head of the National Tex- tile Workers Union, who was framed up by mill owners, police, federal agents and the Musteite leaders of the A. F. of L. “Unitel Textile Union” at the Danville strike,-we get the following, which speaks for itself: “Dear Jorge:—My- attention has been called to an article published inthe Baltimore Sun, and purporting to be the result of an interview between a ‘special correspondent’ and myself. This article contains one or two correct state- ments as a means of stamping it with the ear marks of truth. ‘omrades are entitled to know the following That the article. was. written by a stool- pigeon who tried to implicate the crews of the Soviet ships in ‘propaganda’ last Spring in Bal- timore. “2--The material for his article he must have received in the main through the local police and federal authoritiés, since certain of the statements accredited to me were only made in a ‘closed session’ with the immigration officer. “3—The references made to the habits of the local police and the Gastonia strike are just so much nonsense. The police here could qualify as first rank ‘New York dicks,’ and the working class does not vary the extent of its rebellion through mental processes’ or the beauties of ‘comradeship,’ but is moved by the relative depth of its economic exploitation and the capacity of the revolutionary moyement to lead it in action. “4—My ancestral urge to get as much as pos- sible for nothing is sufficient refutation of the statement that ‘we are satisfied with: beans, fat back and corn bread’ in the Danville jail.” erin agnining Horses Are Property If we had any doubts as.tq the function of “humane officers” under..capitalist society, the following item cleared it up: “Augusta, Ga., Dec, 25. (AP).—Fifty horses were invited guests at high noon today at a Christmas tree party and luncheon. “George F. Sousa, Augusta’s humane officer, sent out invitations several days ago to the horses of the community to come and enjéy his Christmas party. Fifty accepted. “It was a self-service affair, each horse taking his own nose bag filled with oats, corn and hay “Many owners who brought their animals to the luncheon themselves-had recently found the matter of eating a problem.” Piel See Pansies Flourish Under Capitalism : Being deprived of the questionable privilegy of moving in Broadway society, we never knew until someone informed us recently that the curs rent term for. desribing. those suffering from a rather repulsive form of sexual abnormality .or disease is that of “pansies.” But just when the capitalist press was all excited about the Pioneers making fun of Santa Claus, and preachers were denouncing this ter- rible Pioneer menace to-santified capitalism, our informant walked in with a copy of the capital- ist paper known as the Daily Mirror of Dee. 19, and showed us an ac on page 24, which ran ag follows: “Opens tonight; after theatre; Karyl Normary the Creole Fashion Plate, in ‘Something Different’ entitled ‘Pansies on Parade’—at the new PANSY CLUB, 48th and Broadway—Reserve your table.”’ The “glories that were Greece and the gran- deurs that were Rome” had nothing on little old New York, it appears. But they didn’t have daily capitalist papers to advertize such things in. But of course the Mirror is not barred from the mail. That honor is reserved for the Young Worker, the Young Pioneer, the Vida Obrera— and the next one selected by the capitalist gov- ernment. These are a menace, indeed, to a Pansy. social system. A Professor Who Tells ’ Sort of sick at the stomach with. Einstein, Milliken, et al., we felt refreshed at the plain speaking of a real scientist who don’t go about with the expression of a month old calf on his mug, but who speaks right up and tells the cap- italists what’s what. We refer to the speech of Dr. Leslie A. White,.Assistant Professor of An- thropology at the University of Michigan, ad- dressing the American Anthropological Associa- tion at Cleveland, Dec. 30. As related in the N. Y. Times ina fader from - the-eye section, Dr. White said: “The capitalist system “of society is doomed everywhere to be supplanted, as it has been in Russia. Professor White also challenged the statement of former Secretary of State Kellog, in his Nobel peace -prize-address, that he, Mr. Kellogg, could see no possibility of another war. “‘Any one who has any vision and grasp of cultural processes must xealize that war is not only likely but even imminent. Indeed one might say that capitalism needs a war now, for it would solve the two most pressing problems of the day —it would consume our excessive production of commodities and it would slaughter the unem- ployed. But the new lease of life would be temporary at best; war will eventually destroy the system that protiotes it. The logical conclu- sion of capitalism is martial suicide. ““All life means growth and change. Nothing. | is static and permanent. Capitalist society can- not contirfue to exist. It has almost realized itself and signs of disintegration are visible on all sides—and piready 9 post-capitalist ee has formed itself in our midst.’ ” Now, that’s a soe who knows his ontonst * Got Nothing: on This Planet! A scientist was talking the other day, and said that “other planets.cannot. support life” Well, if they can’t, still they have nothing on this one. So anybody- contemplating bumping. themselves off with~ “the idea that they go to some happy hunting-ground on some planet, had much better: stick around bas? the thing out here, \ Bere This planet can support life, but is town on the joo. Not. of-course, that the s to blame. On one-sixth of its land the Soviet Unfon) things ‘are going along t well, 4 Not, of course, for-eaplialists and kulaks | farmers). For them, “they . be on r~me other planetl.—