The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 8, 1931, Page 4

eurlished by the ath Street. ae Comprodally Publishing Co. New York City, Addrese and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 60 Inc. daily Algon Telephone N.Y. Part I. Main Tasks of the Indian Revolution. 'HE Indian people are groaning under the yoke and the exploitation of British imperialism. Relying upon their political and economic su- premacy, and squeezing billions of rupees year by year out of the miserable national income of India, the blood-thirsty imperialists have brought the toiling masses of the people to a state of famine, hopeless poverty, intolerable slavery and mass extinction as a people. With all the power of the state in its hands, controlling the main branches of industry, rail- ways, sea and river transport, banks and the credit system, the greater part of the land, forests and the irrigation system, British imper- falism has retarded and still obstructs the eco- nomic development of our country in every ‘5 supporting and relying upon all that is back- ward and reactionary in town and country. The supremacy of British imperialism is the basis of the backwardness, poverty and endless suffering of our people. Only by the merciless and violent destruction of the political and eco- nomic supremacy of the British imperialists will the working masses of India succeed in rising to their feet, achieving their independence and creating the conditions requisite for their further development, and for the reconstruction of so- ciety in the interests of the workers and peas- ants, and with the purpose of developing fur- ther towards Socialism. In the enslavement of the Indian people Bri- | tish imperialism relies upon the native princes, the landlords, the mcfieylenders and the mer- chants, atilizng the assistance of the national bourgeol@le. The system of landownership by the landlords, native princes and moneylenders, and the relics of serfdom in the land s India (and consequently in all India's so political institutions) represent the main bulwark of British supremacy. In order to destroy the slavery of the Indian neople and emancipate the working class and he peasants from the poverty which is crush- ng them down, it is essential to win the inde- vendence of the country and to raise the banner f agrarian revolution, which would smash the ystem of landiordism surviving from the middle ges and would cleanse the whole of the land vom all this mediaeval rubbish. An agrarian 2volution, against British capitalism and land- ordism must be the basis for the revolutionary mancipation of India. Linked up as it is with the system of land- owrdism and usury, and terrified at the thought f a revolutionary insurrection by the toiling iasses, the capitalist class has long ago be- vayed the struggle for the independence of the ountry and the radical solution of the agrarian roblem. Its present “opposition” represents verely maneuvers with Britsh imperialism, cal- ilated to swindle the mass of the toilers and 6 the same time to secure the best possible ms of compromise with the British robbers. he assistance granted to British imperialism 7 the capitalist class and its political organ- ation, the National Congress, takes the shape 5 the present time of a consistent policy. of ympromise with British imperialism at the ex- anse of the people, it \takes the form of the ‘ sorganization of the revolutionary struggle of 1e native states. the system of landlordism and 1e reinforced exploitation, jointly with the im- crialists, of the mass of the people, of the orking class in particular. The greatest threat » the victory of the Indian revolution is the et that great masses of our people still harbor usions about the National Congress, and have wt realized that it represents a class organiza- m of the capitalists working against the fun- mental interests of the toiling masses of our untry. The policy of Gandhi-ism, on which the pro- am of the Congress is founded, uses the cloak vague phrases about love, meekness, modest id hardworking existence, lightening the bur- m on the peasantry, the national unity, the ecial historic mission of Hinduism, etc. But ‘ der this.cloak it preaches and defends the terests of the Indian capitalists, the inevita- ‘ity and wisdom of the division of society into ch and poor, eternal social inequality and ex- aitation. That is, it preaches the interests of 2 capitalist development of India, on the bones ople, in alliance with world imperialism. The vtional Congress betrayed and disorganized the cuggle of the toilers in 1919-21. The National ingress supported the manufacturers against 2 workers during the textile strikes and in fact sisted in the passing of anti-labor legislation. ye National Congress refused to support the cht of the railwaymen against British imper- d the sweat of the working masses of the | ism, suggesting that they should ask Lord | win and MacDonald to arbitrate. The Na- mal Congress opposed the peasantry in their vuggle against the moneylenders, the big land- | ‘ds and the native princes. Jointly with the Liberals, the landlords ® manufacturers, oduced the anti-popular Nehru Constitution, » which it declared the necessity of preserv- and the National Congress has | z the landlords, the rajahs and the money- , ‘-aders, remaining as a junior partner in the | itish Empire and leaving supreme authority in 2 hands of the British Viceroy and the Goy- | nors General. The National Congress issued the Delhi Mani- * sto supporting Gandhi's eleven points, which presented the moderate program of the Cham- rs of Commerce and similar associations. rried on negotiations with the Liverals in ison, trying behind the scenes to come to an aderstanding with the British Government, and » forth. The National Congress, and particu- ‘ly its “Left” Wing, have done and are doing { in their power to restrain the struggle of @ masses within the framework of the British « wperialist Constitution and legislation. {nm this connection—world history and the les- as of the class struggle in India prove that ly the leadership of the working class can - sure the fulfillment of the historic task of iancipating the Indian people, abolishing na- mal slavery, sweeping aside all the fetters uich check national development, confiscat- z the land and effecting far reaching demo- « atic reconstruction of a revolutionary charac- The working class of India, organized by 2 industrial process itself and by the class vuggle, will, under the leadership of its Com- unist vanguard, perform its historic task of ‘ganizing the scattered masses of peasantry id town poor for struggle against British dom- ation and landlordism. But in order to organize the mass of the » orkers, in order to rally the proletariat as a * stinet class foree, conscious of these distinct ass interests and fighting for the leadership the national movement for emancipation; It | | People of the working class and the peasantry; in or to liberate the working class, the peasantry anc the town poor from the hands of national re formism, and direct their revolution: strugg|c towards an anti-imperialist and anti-feudal revc lution—for all these purposes the working cla: requires its own proletarian Communist Pa The Communist Party of India is the part; of the working class, the final aim of which the achievement of Socialism and ult: tely © complete Communism. The program of Communist Party of India is totally differer in principle from the programs and ideas of th: other parties and groups, which are parties ci the capitalist class and petty bourgeoisie, not excepting the national revolutionary parties. While the latter are striving for the develop- ment of capitalism in India, the Communist Party is consistently and firmly fighting for a Socialist path of development. While the na- tional revolutionary groups are fighting for bour- geois rule and a bourgeois form of government the C. P. of India is fighting for the democratic dictatorship of the working class and the peas- , & Workers’ and Peasants’ Soviet Govern- ment of India The only form of government which can safe- guard the interests of the workers, peasants and & Pr ying out the agrarian revolution and hieving democratic, reconstruction, is the path truggle of the widest pos- mass of the people, developing into a gen- | ral national armed insurrection against the | British exploiters and all their allies in our | country. The propaganda of non-violence of Gandhi, Nehru and the other leaders of the National | Congress is intended to prevent a general na- tional armed insurrection of the toiling masses ainst British rule. By his own confession in autobiography, Gandhi took part in the ed supp: ion of the rising of the Zulu peas- ants in,Africa and assisted the British robbers in their fight against the German capitalists for the right to exploit colonial peoples. Gandhi re- | cruited Indian peasants into the British army, and sent to their deaths hundreds of thousands | of Indian workers and peasants in the interests | of the British robbers. And today Gandhi tells the peasants and workers of India that they have no right to and must not revolt against their ex- | ploiters. He tells them this at the very time when the British robbers are making war on the Indian people in the North West Province | and throughout the country. N THE MARCH toilers generally is the Soviets. The Soviets, set up in*the course of the revolutionary revolt of the working masses, as insurrectionary bodies for the overthrow of British supremacy, will be the sole genuine seats of authority, elected di- rectly in the factories, works, villages, etc., en- suring confiscation of the land and the satis- faction of the vital needs of the people. The Soviet Government alone will be capable of suring to national minorities their right to self- determination, including that of complete sep- aration, and at the same time achi ig the maximum unity in the ranks of the toilers of various: nationalities, engaged in common revo- lutionary struggle against the enemies of the Indian revolution. The Soviet Government alone will be able to effect an alliance with the world proletariat for the purpose of defending the lib- erty and the achievements of the Indian revo- lution against the attacks of world imperialism and the Indian exploiters. Only such a gov- ernment will be able to make an alliance with all other Soviet States against international im- lism and for the final victory of the world revolution. : Firmly and courageously, ahd notwithstanding any sacrifices, the Communist Party will defeat the disorganizing and treacherous work of the national reformists. It will organize the masses of workers and peasants and lead them to vic- tory over imperialism, and take the lead in the further march towards Socialism. Adopting these as its guiding principles, the C. P. of India advances tlic following main ob- jects for the present stage cf the Indian revo- jution. 1, The complete, independence of India by the violent overthrow of British rule. The can- cellation of all debts. The confiscation and na- tionalization of all British factories, banks, rail- ways, sea and river transport and plantations. 2. Establishment of a Soviet Government. The realization of the right of national minorities to self-determination including separation. Aboli- tion of the native states. The creation of an Indian Federal Workers’ and Peasants’ Soviet Republic. 3. The confiscation without compensation of all the lands, forests and other property of the landlords, ruling princes, churches, the British Government, officials and moneylenders, and handing over for use to the toiling peasantry. Cancellation of slave agreements and all the in- debtedness of the peasantry to moneylenders and banks. 4, The 3-hour working day and the radical improvement of conditions of labor. Increase in wages and state maintenance for the unemployed. The Communist Party of India will fight for these main demands, which express the inter- ests of the mass of the people, and the achieve- ments of which will create the conditions for and render possible further development in the direction of the building of a socialist state of society in India. At the same time, with the object of developing the mass revolutionary struggle and revolutionary education of the mass of the toilers, the C. P. of India puts forward partial demands, the struggle for which will facilitate the mobilization of the mass of the in revolutionary insurrection for its emancipation. Part 11. The Fight for Partial Demands of the Revolu- tionary Movement. The C. P. of India considers that the sole and Lopder to bring about the revolutionary alliance ' historically tested means of winning indepen- Draft Platters of Action of the C. P. of India native exploiters, who set the toilers of different nationalities and religious beliefs against one another, and provoke conflicts between them. The C.P. of India calls upon all the toilers, in- cluding the untouchables (pariahs) not to per- mit such disorganization and splitting of the united revolutionary front of the oppressed, who suffer equally at the hands of their own and British exploiters. In its struggle to win leadership of the masses, the C.P. of India calls upon all its supporters | to make resolute use of any legal and semi-legal opportunity for public action and mobilization of the masses around working class slogans. On every occasion they must expose the treacherous part played by the National Congress. Against the bourgeois front of compromise established by the national reformists, they must create the united front of the toilers from below, on the basis of definite proletarian revolutionary de- mands and activities. As one of the practical means of explaining to the toiling masses the exploiting and treecher- ous policy of the Congress leaders, the C.P. of India recommends to its supporters to make use of their activity in the trade unions, municipal | councils (Calcutta, Bombay, etc.) and similar in- stitutions. The toiling masses will understand this double , game of the National Congress. The workers { and peasants. of India will not give up their ht to smash the whole feudal and imper- alist system of exploitation, and their right to | g about the violent overthrow of British rule. § emancipation of India canot be achieved by a terrorist movement. The supporters of the terrorist movement of our country do not see | and do not believe in,the struggle of the broad masses of the people, and do not understand the connection between the agrarian revolution, the struggle of the working class and the overthrow of British domination. They try by brave and single-handed terrorist acts to achieve victory over British imperialism. While recognizing the devotion and self-sacri- fice of the terrorists in the cause of the national | emancipation of India, the Communist Party declares that the road to victory is not the method of individual terror but the struggle and the| revolutionary armed insurrection of the widest possible masses of the working class, the peasantry, the poor of the towns and the In- dian soldiers, around the banner and under the leadership of the Communist Party of India. The most harmful and dangerous obstacle to the victory of the Indian revolution is the ag- itation carried on by the “Left” elements of the National Congress, led by Jawaharlal Nehru, Bose, Ginwalla and others. Under the cloak of revolutionary phraseology, they carry on- the bourgeois policy of confusing and disorganizing the revolutionary struggle of the masses and help the Congress to come to an understanding with British imperialism.. guardly and harmful is the part played by the national reformists in the labor movement, in which they try in every possible way to substi- tute the methods of class collaboration for the methods of class struggle, doing their best to bring the workers under the influence of the ideas, and the organizations of the Indian and British exploiters. The treacherous part played by the National Congress as' regards the peas- antry has once again shown itself in the appeal of the “Left” Congress leaders to the British Governor-General of Bengal to send troops to crush the peasant revolts at Kishoreganj. In these circumstances some of the “Left” national reformists (supporters of Roy and others), who realize that the masses are becoming disillusioned | in the Congress have cleverly put forward the advice to “win” the National Congress from with- in. Nominally their object is to revolutionize the Congress, in reality it is to restore the prestige of the Congress by replacing the old treacher- ous leaders by new leaders who are no better than the old. The exposure of the “Left” Congress leaders, who may again undertake to set up a new party or organization like the former League of In- dependence, in order once again to bamboozle the mass of the workers, is the primary task of our Party. Ruthless war on the “Left” national reformists is an essential condition if we are to isolate the latter from the workers and mass of the peasantry and mobilize the latter under the banner of the Communist Party and the anti- imperialist agrarian revolution in India. The Communist Party of India calls upon all the toilers to form a united front against the imperialists, the landlords, the moneylendeis and the capitalists, The C.P. of India calls upon the Moslem and Indian workers and peasants not to be tricked by the cunning provocative methods chmein eke NR ROR Mo) Particularly black- | | therefore omitted—Editor.). | toilers, vnd abolition of all anti-populars and | portation of revolutionary workers, press act, By BURCK The C.P. of India calls upon its supporters and organizations to develop mass revolutionary | activities and struggle of the working class for | their political and economic demands, mass re- fusal by the peasants to pay taxes, levies, rent, debts, particularly in districts where there are large landed estates—thereby mobilizing anc pre- | paring the mass of the toilers for revolutionary struggle against imperialism. The C.P. of India calls upon all class-conscious workers and revo- | lutionaries to assist in transforming individual | strikes of the workers into a general political strike, as a resolute step in organizing the revo- lutionary struggle of the mass of the people for independence, land and a Workers’ and Peasants’ pre beaa under the guidance of the working class. A. General Demands. In order to develop mass revolutionary struggle and the political training of the people, the C.P. of India puts forward and fights for the folow- ing demands: 1. Expulsion of the British troops, abolition of the police and general armament of the toilers. 2. Immediate liberation of all political pris- oners, including those who have committed acts of individual and mass violence. 3. Unlimited freedom of speech, conscience, press, meeting, strikes and association for the anti-labor laws (Trades Dispute Act, the pro- hibition of picketing, the regulations for the de- ete.) 4. The abolition of rank, estate, national and communal privileges, and the full equality of. all citizens irrespective of sex, religion anc race. 5. Complete separation of religion from the State, and the expulsion of the missionaries as direct agents, of the imperialists, with confisca- tion of their property. 6. (Reached us in mutilated form and is B. Special Workers’ Demands. In order to organize the widest masses of the working class, defend the day-to-day interests of the workers and maintain the general revolu- tionary struggle of the toiling masses in our country, the C.P. of India calls upon all class- conscious workers to concentrate every effort on the creation of a revolutionary trade union move- ment. The C.P. of India. deems it essential to organize inass trade unions based on factory committees, with the leadership elected directly by the workers and consisting of advanced revo- lutionary workers. The trade unions must be- come regularly functioning mass organizations, working in the spirit of the class struggle, and all efforts must be made to expel and isolate re- formists of al Ishades, from the open agents of British capitalism such as Joshi, Chamanial, Giri, etc., to the sham “Left” national reform- ists such as Bose, Ruikar, Ginwalla and other agents of the Indian bourgeoisie, who constitute va reactionary bloc for joint struggle against the revolutionary wing of the trade union movement. At the same time the C.P. of India works for the transformation of the All-India centre of the labor movement on a class basis. 1, The C.P. of India calls upon all its sup-, porters and all class-conscious workers to help By malt evarywh ef Manhattan and Bronx, | lutionary activities. — / in organizing factory committees in all factories, railways, docks, etc. througnout the country. In cases where owing to the victimization of the SUBSCRIPTION RATES! : One y New York City, Foreign: see See $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; One year, Ae xcepting Boroughs $8; glx months, $4.50. committees have to work semi-legally, the C.P. advocates putting forward the demand for ,ecog- nition of the factory committees as one of the principal demands in strike movements. C.P. of India calls for the country-wide organ- ization of workers’ defense detachments, both to defend workers’ strikes and demonstrations and to take part in the general revolutionary struggle. 2. The C.P. of India calls upon all class-con- scious workers to help the Party to organize the movement and the struggle of the unemployed for regular relief at the expense of the State and the employers. It calls for the country-wide or- ganization of unemployed councils, demonstra- tions and joint struggle with the workers in in- dustry for the partial demands of the unem- pleyed—monthly unemployment benefit at the ; cost of living minimum, refusal to pay rent, free supply of fuel and food stuffs by the municipal authorities, ete. 3. Taking note of the semi-slave conditions of plantation and agricultural workers, the C.P. of India calls upon class-conscious workers to take part and assist in the organization of trade unions of plantation and agricultural workers. The fight for complete abolition of all systems of serfdom, compulsory and contract labor, de- privation of rights and unprecedented exploita- tion of the agricultural proletariat is one of our main aims, linked up closely wtih the aim of mobilizing the broad masses of peasantry to fight imperialist and feudal exploitation, under the leadership of the working class. 4. With the object of protecting the working class from physical and moral degeneration, and also in order to raise its capacity to fight for emancipation, the C. P. of India fights for: The | 1, Limitation of the working day to 8 hours | for adults and 6 hours for youths from 1 to 20. Introduction of the 6 hour working day in all harmful industries, including coal mining, and free supply of milk and butter to the workers in these industries. 2. Complete fredom of trade unions, demon- strations, picketing and strikes. 3 Equal pay for equal work for women, youths and men, . 4. Complete abolition of compulsory contract labor and systems of legal bondage of the work- ers. 5. A compulsory weekly rest period at full | Pay, and a paid annual holiday of four weeks for adults and six weeks for youths. 6. State insurance @gainst unemployment, sickness, accidents, industrial diseases, old age, loss of working capacity, orphanage and com- pensation for disablement. 7. Establishment of a State minimum wage of 50 rupees a month, prohibition of the contract system and establishment by law of weekly pay- ment of wages. 8. Prohibition of deductions from wages for any reason or purpos¢ whatsoever (fines, bad work, etc.) 9. Introduction of properly organized factory inspection, workers elected members: thereof, to supervise labor conditions in all factories em- ploying hired labor. 10. The abolition of the system of hiring work- ers through jobbers, sarangs, etc., employment and dismissal of workers to take place through labor exchanges, controlled and supervised by | the trade unions. The abolition of all caste and feudal customs and regulations within the factories. In addition, the C. P. of India supports and fights for each and every demand intended to improve the conditions of the workers (buildhg of new homes at government or employers’ ex- pense, provis'-- of proper lavatories,—clean dining roms, etc.). The C. P. of India is definitely against the principle of arbitration and interference by capi- talist arbitration courts. It emphasizes most de- finitely that the sole means for ing any ious concessions on the part of the exp! resol...e class ~‘vuggle by strikes and mass revo- C. Peasant Demands. 1. The C. P. of India fights for the confiscation without compensation of all land and estates, forests and pastures of the native princes, land- lords, money lenders and the British Govern- ment. -- 7 the transference to peasant comm’’- tees for use by the toiling masses of the peas- antry. The C. P. of India fights for the complete wipng out of the mediaevel system of landhold- ing, to cleanse the whole of the land fr-~ the Tubbish of the middle ages. II. The C. P. of India fights for the immediate confiscation of all planta’ions and their trans- ference to revolutionary committees elected by the plant “ers. The allotments to »"‘ch the planters assig- their contract work~’" and also the land not in cultivation to be handed over to the laborers and poor peasants cs their prop- erty. At the same time the C. P. of India is in favor of the nationalization of large-scale me- chanically equipped plantations, and workshops connected therewith, for utilization in the inter- ests of the whole Indian people. lI. The C. P. of India fights for the immediate nationalization of the whole system of irrigation, complete cancellation of all indebtedness and taxes, and the transference of-the control and supervision of the work of irrigation to revolu- lutionary peasant committees elected by the working peasantry. Iv. In crder to disorganize Britsh rule and maintain revolutionary pressure against it, the C. P. of India calls upon the peasantry and ag- ricultural proletariat to engage in all kinds of political demonstrations, and collective refusal to pay taxes and dues, or to carry out the orders and decisions of the government and its agents. V. The C. P, of India calls for refusal to pay rent, irrigation charges or other exactions, and tefusal to carry out any labor services whatsoever (behars) for the landlords, native princes and their ‘agents. VI. The C. P. of India calls for refusal to pay debts and arrears to government, the landlords and the money-lenders in any form whatsoever. VM. As a practical watchword for the cam- paign’ among the peasantry, and as a means of developing more political consciousness in the peasant movement, the C. P. of India calls for the immediate organization of revolutionary peasant committees in order to carry o> a fight to achieve all the revolutionary democratic changes required in the interests of emancipating the peasantry from the yoke of British imperial- ism and its feudal allies. VIII. The ©. P. of India calls for the indepr> 4- ent organization of the agricultural proletariat, particularly the plantation workers, and its amalgamation with the proletariat of the towns under the banner of the Communist Party, as well as its representation in the peasant com- mittees. ” a (To Be Continued.) & ‘ lffrate By JORGE cee | Junior’s Education Junior: Who's Henry Epstein, pa?—Pa: I don’t know. Why? Junior: I see the N. Y. Times says he has been appointed First Assistant Attorney General of the State of New rork—Pa: Well, what of it? Junior: Nothin’, pa. But, pa, ain’t the Attorney General supposed to prosecute any crooks that took the money of small depositors in banks they run?—Pa: Suré. But what's that to do with Epstein? Junior: Nothin’, pa. But,ain’t there a lawyer by the name of Max D. Steuer who is attorney for some depositors in the Bank of United States?—Pa: Yep, and he’s making a big row. that millions of dollars are missing.. Junior: Uh nuz. But, pa. How does it hap- pen that this lawyer Steuer is attorney for de- positors who lost their money in one Tammany bank, and is also attorney-for the former State Superintendent of Banks who got bribed to al- low the swindle of depositors in another Tam- many bank?—Pa: H-m-m., Seems a, little queer. But lawyers take cases of anybody who pays them for it. But what's that go to do with the Ep- stein chap? Junior: Nothin’, pa. But I was just wonderin’, *cause I see that this Epstein is the son-in-law of Steuer. Do you suppose that Tammany has appointed Steuer’s son-in-law to prosecute crooked Tammany bankers that Steuer is de- fending?—Pa: What? You repeating Red Ru- mors! Never Jet me hear you impugning the uprightness of teading citizens again! Nor the scrupulous honesty of bankers and banking sup- erintendents! Dietskoe Selo As an incident actually observed, a reader sends us the following: ‘sarkoe Seio. The Tsar’s city. His summer home. The palace with its tens upon tens of rooms. His ultra-ornate bejeweled church. The gem-studded carriages. ‘The lapis-lazuli and ambe.: inlaid ballroom, The mirror-like dance floor, upon which now tread the heavy unpol- ished boo's of the workers and peasants. “Suddenly a rousing cheer, A group of about cne hundred children, their red scarfs flying, marching to the rhythm of a rousing revolution- ary song. Symbol of the times. In the city of formes monarchy, former pomp, former greed, are banded together the children of the new freedom. “The evolution of the name illustrates the revolution of the times. It had been Tsarkoe Selo—the Tsar’s City. It is now Dietskoe Selo— the Children’s City.” Down With Wax Candles! The Chicago Tribune of Dec. 31, commenting on the “depression” takes cheer in telling every- body that it’s not only in the U. S. A. Then it finds what’s to blame: the Russian revolution. “One of the Russian revolution’s results was to make unfashionable or illegal the burning of wax candles in churches, and the Ethiopian trade in wax as a result has been destroyed.” Now, this is downright bad. Moreover, from the way the Bolsheviks acted up when a “lily- | white” American tried the Jim Crow on a Negro worker at Stalingrad, showed that the Russian revolution is not only against Luraing Ethiopian wax candies, but is against the best traditions of Dixie n burning the Ethiopians themselves. Something will have to be done about the Russian Revolution! ahs Mecca A Complete Mystery A poorly dressed man, with empty pockets d in front of a southbound Jerome Ave express trcin at Moshulu Parkway station, Bronx, at 10.A. M. yesterday and was killed, He was identified as Meyer Solomon, 35, of 25 Stuyves- ant St., but there was nothing to indicate why he ended his life."—N, Y. Daily News, Jan, 2. About this, a contributor semarks:—‘“Every- thing that happens today, seems to be a mys- tery to the capitalist press. The capitalist press doesn’t know that there is a crisis and ten mil- lion jobless. How could it be expected to know why this man ended his life? The only thing it does know is that there is what it calls a “depression” that will be over soon. How soon? ‘That, too, is a mystery?” ese A Lesson on Belly-Crawling A piece of protoplasm crawling about under the name of Don O'Day writes this paper a let- ter, sending—please note—a copy to the N. Y. American. That was his only purpose in writ- ing us. In it he criticizes, in his best threadbare upper class arty style, the story published in the Daily Worker about a story it printed describing the “charity” handout by the “American” on New | Year's as a “lousy sandwich.” ‘This, he writes—with tail wagging in the direc- tion of the editor of the “American”—“Referred to a sandwich—a token of mercy—given to the needy.” And it was not lousy; indeed the Daily Worker reporter “must have meant delicious, or, possibly, even, luscious—surely not lousy.” He confesses to the Daily Worker—or rather to the American—that he is a newspaper man out of a job, That he was in the “American’s” breadline and loves and reverences it for its “token of pieey Also, he thinks that the Daily Worker should reprimand its\“reporter, ew. Then he gets real clever, and slashes out: “Just where is the Daily Worker’s food dispens- ing station?” That, surely, ought to get him a job on the Hearst papers! Our “reporter”? He was a worker, jobless, aungry, cold—and sore at being forced to stand in line to provide the Hearst camera men with publicity. Cheap publicity at that, because the. American collected cash to buy sandwiches for’ “ts” breadline, We'll believe that worker as to whether the sandwich was “lousy” in its specific content. We know it was lousy in every social sense, * And we also know, as does the worker, that if it were not for the militant mass action of the workers encouraged and guided by the “Daily Worker,” there would be not even the lousy eondwich from the Hearst press. No Daily Worker, no fight; no fight, no sandwich, We can go further: No sandwich, no belly crawling Mr. O'Day to show the N. Y. American that he is the best belly-crawler extant and out of a job, a Be Nae A