The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 23, 1931, Page 4

- him to Racing for about. four days to. Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Inc., dally except Suuday, at 50 East (8th Street, New York City, N. Y. Telephone Algonquin 7956-7, Cable: “DAIWORK.” Address and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York, N, ¥. Page Four Dail forker Bory USA of Manhattan and Bronx. New SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months. $3; two months, $1: excepting Boroughs York Ctiy. Foreign: one year, $8+ six months. $4.50. MAY DAY AND ECONOMIC CRISIS Ry HARRY GANNES. Wee the second May Day to ke f e I of st The history. the mend. break, A black ter how optimis- how bountiful the re not enough to f£ continued, sharp- is and its termina- ‘hematical proposi- alism as unending, and time when the crisis verity” return at a higher economists put the course erage of 14 months. We h of the present crisis e continuation of the few months of n, economist, some time or e facts of the crisis was not reserved to the bottom out of ling institutions of hi s United States Cham- wrote the death-sentence of n a dozen times. The Na- trial Conference Board was sure the is spring. Roger Babson, In- vy the crisis could beyond las , the facts today? There was a slight nal upturn in some industries (but was bel the upturn of 1930); and that ded with a crash. Every basic industry is heading downward. les are far below produc- overproduction. Electrical Exports and imports ‘d, and freight-car load- look sick every time the latest f s. On top of it all, k market has had a new sinking spell; re be ageed to the pre-war level. t y-second monthly t of the Conference of Statisticians in In- nade on April 21, 1931) to state that the 1ent” in March “which was less than € to have been checked in April.” So they say, and nothing more. But mitted th the nature @ recent radio speech that the crisis will last at least five years, and that even’ after that the face of the capitalist world will not look as pros- Keynes, the British economist, who ad- he capitalists are unable to explain nd course of the crisis, tells us in perous a did before the great smash. Did the seasonal upturn benefit the workers in the form of greater employment? Not at all. ‘The Conference of Statisticians in Industry who ned us that March was the high point of g upturn merely added 0.8 per cent to yrolis of the country, which means that the workers employed on part-time worked about 15 minutes more each week for March. In basic industries thousands were thrown t of work We will now see a new stream of unemployed | the worst eco- | look forward to May | But in- | ist stories on | for the job that has not come for 20 months, The future is so blind for capitalism that one of its most optimistic spokesmen, James A. Far- rell, president of the United States Steel Cor- poration, speaking of this leading steel trust and its prospects for the coming year could find nothing rosier to say than: “No one can foretell or predict what 1931 will eventuate.” (Journal of Commerce, April 21, 1931). That doesn’t sound so good, because the U. S. Steel Corporation has its fingers on the steel orders that come in; it knows the trends in the various industries that buy steel, and if Farrell couldn’t squeeze any more hope out of the vol- uminous facts he has on hand than that which we quote, the workers can be assured that the future is black indeed. “ Now we come to the most important phases of the present crisis. Last year the American work- ing class suffered a $12,000,000,000 loss in wage cuts. Most of this was pocketed by the capi- talists in profits. Andrew Mellon, secretary of the treasury, handed the big corporations $160,- 000,000 in tax returns, which they pocketed as profits. The whole burden of the crisis was transferred to the backs of the workers, employed and unemployed, in the form of wage cuts and starvation. But a crisis cannot last as long as the present one has, without further endangering the profits of the bosses. Faced with this situation, the capitalists have worked out the most drastic wage cut for all the workers ever proposed. Whereas wage cuts hit here and there in the factories, first one department, then another; now they are coming down in one full swoop. The Commercial & Financial Chronicle, one of the leading organs of Wall Street, and especially of the owners of the $25,000,000,000 outstanding in railroad securities, points out there is only | one way of saving the profits of the railroad owners—and that is by a huge slice off the wages of the railroad workers. Hoover is one of the best friends and asso- ciates that the. railroad bosses ever had in this country. His personal maneuvering for the con- solidation of the leading five railroad systems is just one of the indications. A more important indication is his appointment of Doak as secre- tary of labor primarily with a view to putting over the wage cut in the railroad industry. The next point of attack is the steel industry. Nothing has been made clearer in the capitalist press, when the mass of lies about “maintaining wages” is cast aside, than that a definite plan is prepared for a wage cut to effect every ‘steel worker in the country. In Youngstown, Ohio, the steel basses openly admit it. The Wall Street Journal, which speaks for the Morgan interests—that is, for U. S. Steel and the Bethlehem Steel Corporation—recently said that if steel prices go down Wwagés thust gd down. Steel prices are going down. The next step is to be taken soon. At the end of April, just before the May Day demonstrations are held, the U. 8. Steel and Bethlehem Steel will hold their quarterly board of directors meetings—and it is here the plans for wage cutting may be announced. The road for these wage cuts was well pre- pared by Hoover and Green of the A. F. of L. in 1929 at the conference of the leading exploit- ers and misleaders of the American Federation of Labor. Because the bosses found wage cutting peacemeal so easy during 1930, they are now going to try their hand at wholesale slashes. This is the picture of the economic situation that faces the American workers as the Com- munist Party and Trade Union Unity League prepare May Day demonstrations throughout the country. May Day can be made into a powerful weapon to mobilize the American working class for a counter-offensive against the worst wage-cut joining the 10,000,000 on the streets waiting drive ever attempted by the American bosses. PRE-CONVENTION DISCUSSION YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE, U.S. A. Shortcomings in the Chicago Work of the League By KLING. N the work of our League in Chicago District we have gained much experience. Although here and there we can note that the YCL has made some gains as building the Young Worker, having Youth Organizations getting bundle or- ders, etc, the work of our comrades generally In the Unemployed Councils, recruitment of some Young Workers in the YCL, the organiza- “ion of a new branch of the I.W.O. (Youth), etc. We must state, however, that the situation ® : from satisfactory. Our trade union work isthe weakest work of Ore League. Although we have the task of or- ®enizing three shop nuclei and four shop com- Mittees none of the work here has been carried eut. We have in the Western Electric one com- rade we there for quite some time, But the comrade thinks that the work there must be d from the outside. As a result she has not as yet recruited one young worker into the al Trades League or the ¥.C.L. Our work around the factory has been of a spontaneous heracter and not of planned daily work. he next question and one of the most im- portant ones, is the question of leadership, Our District has a weak leadership, At the same time we failed and there is even resistance from the leadership. This resistance takes vari- ous forms. We usually send comrades from the District to the Milwaukee or the Gary Units, ‘The only ones we send are the D.O,, T.U.U.L. Youth Organizer, or the Agip Prop. The com- rades are afraid that other comrades won’t be able to do the work as good as they will end therefore are afraid ta send other comrades. ‘This is being broken down at the present and certain comrades are being drawn into respon- sible work. Although at the enlarged Buro held in New York we raised the question of all “League Cadres for Youth Work” we find a very bad situation here, Four of our Youth comrades in Chicagoare secretarys of Unemployed Coun- cils. Some of our League comrades are mem- bers on the Section Committee of the Party not representing the YCL but their Party Unit Buro, In Waukegan, 8 comrades between the pges of 18 and 25 are in the Party and. we heave not YCL Unit. From Milwaukee the unit erganizer of the YCL sent in a letter to the District that the Party will have a May First demonstration in Racine about 20 miles from Milwaukee so he thinks that the Party will send ard! of all preparations. This although the comrade is a unit organizer and must be in charge of all Preparation for National Youth Day which will be held in Milwaukee, The District Committee of the YCL is sharply fighting against the com- trades who are developing tendencies of general work instead of specific youth work. We find, however, there is a more healthy feel- ing among the membership for mass work, etc, But due to our failure to develop a leadership among the comrades from below the main work is in-the hands of a few. Instead of mobiliz- ing the entire unit only the unit organizer and one other comrade goes to the Campbell Soup Co. and sells 30 Young Workers. In Unit 4, the unit organizer sells one week 20 and the other week 30 Young Workers but fails to get the whole unit to do so. When he tried hard a young comrade only 2 weeks in the League sold 20 Young Workers alone. In Gary, although 24 showed up at the YCL unit meet- ing only 2 comrades are actually selling 20 and 30 Young Workers. The entire membership is not as yet involved in the daily work. We can point out to many more weakness about the unit life and also our preparatory work for Nat E of the YCL than before. But the only way we can overcome our shortcomings is only by the drawing in of the complete League membership in the every day League work, EF must uncover all cases of starvation, un- dernourishment, sickness. We must pub- lish these cases in our press, in the Daily Worker, in Labor Unity, tell’ them at all workers’ meetings. Un- PARTY LIFE Conducted by the Organization Department of the Central Committee, Communist Party, U.S.A. Safeguarding the Party (The following article is reprinted from the April Party Organizer. It is the second of a series of article in the Party Organizer on “Safeguarding the Party.”) SS le Cc is necessary for every Party member to be a Communist all the time, but it is not neces- sary for a Party member always to advertise that he is a Communist. When organizing in a shop, for example, a Party member may tell sympathetic workers that he is a Communist, but when the boss or the foreman is around, he keeps that information to himself. But there are other ways of advertising, be- sides just talk. For instance, in preparing for a demonstration some time ago, in which we ex- pected to be attacked by the police, the New York District Buro had to issue categorical or- ders to the membership to come to the demon- stration wearing hats and dressed like ordinary American workers. Why was this necessary? Because the police had come to connect this | going-without-hats, and a certain type of care- less dress and get-up (women as well as men) with Communists, and when the fighting began, they were in the habit of sptcially picking out and smashing the heads of the Communists, in- stead of the whole mass.of the workers becoming involved in the defense of their demonstration. Dress may seem like a little personal thing that is nobody else's affair. But the fact is that those Party members who do not do so now (especial- ly the youth), should dress like ordinary Amer- ican workers. From the practical viewpoint alone, they will find it will improve their approach to the workers. But in addition to ‘this, it is high time that all our members learned to go around without being identified as Communists. When we are at meetings, or in action, we show our- selves; but when doing preparatory work, or going to or from meetings, it is absolutely un- necessary, and under some conditions, positively harmful for us to identify ourselves as Commu- nists. We must learn to come and go from meetings without attracting any special attention. And in this connection, we cannot condemn too strongly the practice prevailing everywhere among our comrades, of all piling into two or three steady restaurants for coffee after every meeting. In the first place it advertises the fact that they have just come from a meeting nearby. In the second place, devoted comrades who would rather die than let in a dick to a Party meeting, will calmly spill out everything over their “cof- fee-and,” and will engage in hot arguments about what was proposed, what was voted down, and what is going to be done, without; the slight- est regard as to who may be sitting at the next table. ‘We must all begin to act a little more like ser- ious Bolsheviks, and rid ourselves of all these personal préjudices, failings, and indulgences that hinder or endanger the work of our Party. “The Demand for the ‘Daily’ Is Much Greater Than Ofte Thinks” on By JOHN PORTER. I WANT to thank you for sending me fifty copies of the Daily Worker instead of the 25 I ordered. I certainly would have been out of luck for I, like many others, did not realize that the demand for the Dailies is much greater than one thinks. The fifty copies sent me were sold in less than three hours within three blocks. Besides selling these, I also sold the five Dailies which the Communist Party here orders but has no one to sell. This morning I was somewhat disappointed when the Dailies did not arrive as many of the workers were anxiously awaiting them. Com- Trades, you must by all means get the copies here on time. The workers do not want to buy two copies at the same time, and think we are not on the job. (Note: We are straining every nerve to adjust the press time in order to catch the Mail train for early deliveries, but condi- in our apparatus, due to lack of finances, breaking down, do not always make this le.) Z i I’ took five copies and went to two houses where I had sold the Dailies yesterday. In one I sold three, in the other two. The latter told one of her friends about the Daily Worker and bought one for her. Of course, many of the 100 per centers refuse to take it because it says “Communist” on it; nevertheless, a little agitation quickly converts them to at least try @ copy. * 8 6 Editorial Note: The Daily Worker, between now and May Day must reach the largest mass of workers possible to rally them for May 1 dem- persecution and mass deportations of foreign born, for the defense of the Soviet Union, agaist imperialist wars. We are glad Comrade Porter is spreading the Daily Worker in the homes of New Bedford workers who will learn from it how to carry on a struggle against the wage cuts of the textile bosses under the leadership of the National Textile Workers’ Union. The Daily territory! . Use This Map to Order May Day Editions HOW TO ORGANIZE FOR MAY DAY (The report of the Detroit District on the preparations for May Day shows the correct method of linking .the day to day struggles for | partial demands with the May Day prepara- tions, Such reports of daily activities and preparations should be sent regularly for pub- lication in the Daily Worker and the Party press.—Ed.) Te ee INEMPLOYMENT: Because of the very favorable objective con- ditions and the application of the District plan | in the sections in developing local unemployment | activity, build up the party fractions and re- organize the unemployed councils, improvement in the unemployment work can be seen, every- where. Last Tuesday, a demonstration of 300 workers was held in Hamtramck against the closing of the flop house. The Unemployed Council No. 10 in Detroit held a, local demonstration yester- day. A demonstration was held of 1,500 work- ers in front of the city hall to protest against foreed labor, another demonstration will take place today. In Hamtramck, the demonstra- tion was broken up by the police. Meetings have been arranged in front of the flop houses. The demonstration held today was attended by | 2,000 unemployed workers in front of the City Hall. Mayor Murphy promised to the delega- tion that there would be no more forced labor for relief. That our unemployment campaign is being felt is attested to by the fact that in the flop | houses, the welfare department officials are making speeches to the workers advising them to stay away from Communist demonstrations, and attacking the Communist Party and indi- vidual leaders of the Party. The Party is being attacked even over the radio on the question of the demonstrations. In all of these activities, May First as well as the preparations for May First are strongly brought forth. The May First demonstration is to be the intensification and the summing up of all of these partial demonstrations. SCOTTSBORO CAMPAIGN: When news came about the Scottsboro cases, | we immediately decided, even before we re- | ceived directives from the Center, to start an | intensive campaign. Speakers were sent to Negro organizations, Negro churches, and or- ganizations of white workers, urging them to adopt resolutions of protest against the death sentence. Successful open air meetings are be- ing held almost every night in the Negro neighborhood on the Scottsboro cases. Two mass meetings will be held tonight, one at the Ferry Hall and the other at the Yeomans Hall, in protest against the sentence. Tag Days have been organized for Satufday and Sunday to raise money for their defense. We expect large masses of Negro workers to participate in the May First’ demonstration on the basis of our activities. Of course, all of these activities on the Scottsboro. cases are linked up with the May First demonstration, and building of L. S. N. R. branches of Liberators. cP SUNDAY CONFERENCE, APRIL 19TH: We expect from 200 to 250 delegates to the United Front Conference, on Sunday, April 19th. Delegates have already been secured from the A. F. of L. unions, and we expect, also, dele- gates from some shops. The mass organizations, such as benefit associations, have been covered. | They will have their delegates on top of the | | delegates from the T. U. U. L. unions, unem- | | en quite successful, although our forces, as far | | in front of Fisher Body, Chevrolet, Packard, and | | Preparations are made to hold them in front of | OUT OF TOWN PLACES: ployed councils, etc. OPEN AIR MEETINGS: Open air meetings are held every night in different parts of the town, and they have prov- | as speakers are concerned are terribly limited. SHOP GATE MEETINGS: So far, factory gate meetings have been held other factories. In all the factory gate meetings, we find it very difficult to apply the District plan, because most of the units do not have any speakers of their own, and we decided to hold a special meeting of Party functionaries and leading comrades to supply speakers to the units for factory gate meetings. LEAFLETS: 50,000 Party proclamations are printed. 25,000 Auto Workers Union leaflets, and 25,000 general Unemployment leaflets, 25,000 stickers, and 10,000 posters, aside from the language leaflets and ‘ocal leaflets by the Unemployed Councils. Attempts have been made by the units to issue leaflets to the shop on which they are con- centrating, but these turned out to be very poor, and the District Committee took steps to assign leading comrades to help secure information and draw up leaflets, at least for the most im- portant shops in the city. So far, only in the | Ford Plant is a shop paper for May First be- | ing prepared, and we are taking steps to issue at least a couple more in the most important factories. Up till now, we did not succeed in setting up any shop committees. This is be- cause of the weakness of our Section leader- ship and the units. Here again the District decided to take special steps in concentrating | on a few big factories in the holding of shop gate meetings, and making attempts to set up May First committees. Defense Corps are being organized. PERMIT: We did not succeed in getting a permit until today. We carried on a fight with the mayor and the police commissioner to secure either | Grand Circus Park or Cadillac Square. They tried to shove us off to Cass Park, which we did not accept. This, of course, is being made use of in our campaign. We served notice that we will hold our demonstration anyway, and are advertising the Grand Circus Park, Our plan of march is to go through the Negro and prole- tarian neighborhood from the Workers Home, on Ferry and Russell, to Grand Circus Park. Steps have been taken to prepare demonstra- tions in the following towns: Grand Rapids, Pontiac, Ecorse, possibly Port Huron (about 12 workers have just been arrested for their unem- ployment activities) and Muskegon. Because of the application of our plan of work coupled up with the objective favorable situa- tion, we can see an increase in organizational activity, which is reflected in a steady increase of payments of dues, better attendance in the units, although the leadership in the units and sections is very weak. We have great difficul- ties in building up our departments because of lack of forces. A new unit has just been organ- ized in Pontiac, one in Muskegon, and the basis for organizing one has been laid in Lansing, and also, we expect to have one in Kalamazoo and Sagenaw. We decided to have a Hunger March on May 25th, and are making preparations for it in De- troit as well as in the outlying cities. Tom Mann, Veteran Labor Leader----75 Years Old NEw YORK.—Tom Mann, veteran British la- bor leader who has always courageously and militantly fought all enemies of the working class for the past half a century, has now on his 75th brithday issued a call to the workers in support of the amnesty campaign conducted by the International Labor Defense for the un- conditional release of ail class war victims now serving sentences in prisons in the United States. In his statement issued in London, Tom Mann Stressed the fact that Mooney at San Quentin has retained “a stout heart for the past 15 years.” The veteran of the British labor movement re- joices that Mooney in his recently issued pam- phiet has taken a vigorous stand against the “labor leaders” of California and the rest of the country who have helped to keep him in jail these many years. Mooney'’s pamphlet is a militant appeal to the workers of the world to follow in the footsteps of the Russian workers who saved his life in 1917 by mass demonstra- tions. Mooney’s appeal in his pamphlet is for mass activity as the only method of freeing class war prisoners. ‘Tom Mass issued this appeal for the amnesty Worker carries the message of International Workers’ Solidarity to the workers of the U. S. Spread this message to every worker in your | many, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, New [esr on this fight for the immediate and campaign of the International Labor Defense came to the forefront as a militant leader of the working class in 1889 when he led the dock- er’s strike. He became president of the union during the same year. During the past 40 years Mann has held leadership in the trade union and workers’ political movements of Great Brit- ain. He has been president of the Ship, Dock and River Workers Union, general secretary of the Amalgamated Engineers Union, general sec- retary of the Independent Labor Party. Mann has edited various labor papers and has made speaking tours throughout France, Belgium, @7r- Zeland, South Africa, United States and Russia. He has heartily supported in militant fashion the first workers’ republic of Russia. Amidst many greetings from various workers’ organizations on his 75th birthday, Mann issued his statement promising that “I shall help to unconditional liberation’ of the Imperial Valley, the Centralia and all other courageous revo- lutionaries now rotting in Wall Street’s Ba- Stilles.” ‘The amnesty campaign for the release of all class war prisoners is not only rallying Amer- ican workers and their sympathizers to the aid of the International Labor Defense but MOPR in the world-wide campaign is helping the Amer- ican section of the organization by instituting .& world-wide movement in behalf of the im- prisoned militants in the United States. It is expected that European intellectuals like Maxim Gorky, Henry Barbusse, Ernst Glaeser and others will shortly make demands upon*the ruling class in support of this campaign. © ‘The statement issued by Tom Mann in behalf amnesty for U. S. class war prisoners led by the International Labor Defense reads in full: “I am right glad to know that the amnesty 1Of€ His Base campaign for the release of the class war pris- oners is now being run by the comrades of the United States.” “Comrade Tom Mooney hes maintained a stout heart for the past 15 years in San Quentin. I Tejoice to see from his pamphlet that he is clearly alert and militantly hopeful. We revo- lutionaries in Britain will Join vigorously in the agitation for his release.” ' “Personally I shall help carry on this fight and for the immediate and unconditional lib- eration of the Imperial Valley, the Centralia and all other courageous revolutionaries now rotting in Wall Streets Bastilles, I shall help carry on this fight with the keenest of zest, I om ) By JORGE “Dear Jorge: “Your criticism of the atheist ‘logic’ in Mon- day's Daily is sound, but you forget that it, is a two-edged sword. Why all the fuss about. the exploited masses if you are ‘godless’? How do the masses know that they can trust you to liberate them once you get into power? Why all | the tears about injustice? Why all the bloody battles for a better world? To my mind, emo- tion is the basis of all life, and Communism, beautifully systematized as it is, is at bottom an emotional protest against the misery of a man-made world. “Yours for the revolution, “Sympathizer.” With all due respect.to the comrade, he—or she—is talking nonsense, As Marx said in the Communist Manifesto: “The charges against Communism made from a religious, a philosophical, and. gener- ally, from an ideological standpoint, are not deserving of serious examination.” The comrade makes such charges under the name of friendship, and is “yours for the revo- lution” without, apparently, knowing what it is all about. Truly, in his case, his “Communism” is “at bottom an emotional protest”; which is precisely why it is not Communism. In the face of the overwhelming fact that re- ligious and “god-fearing” leaders are counter- revolutionary, while absolutely the only depend- able leaders of revolutionary struggle are athe- ists, the comrade is just plain stupid to ask how the masses can trust “godless” leaders. However, it is not us leaders who “get into power,” but the masses, and their liberation de- pends on themselves. There is a mutual inter- dependence, and you know nothing of Lenin- | ism when you set forth a contradiction as in- herent. Don’t compare us to Tammany. “To my mind,” says the comrade, flatly con- tradicting his very next words, “emotion is the basis of all life.” Yet the paragraph from Marx quoted above is followed by: “Does it require deep intuition to compre- hend that man’s ideas, views, and conceptions,., in one word, man’s consciousness, changes with every change in the conditions of his material existence, in his social relations and in his so- cial life?” Again, the comrade has come to the wrong address, asking “Why all the tears about. injus- tice?” Marxians leave tears over such abstrac- tions as “justice” and “injustice” to philistines. But they properly get angry at the concrete CLASS justice of the capitalist class. And cheer lustily for proletarian justice. Communists are devoted to revolution, but this is not religion. They are capable of emotion, but it serves the revolution. They have sentiment, but it is a class sentiment of affection for com- rades in arms and hatred for the enemy class. True, there is a petty bourgeois distortion; we recall an instance where certain comrades of petty bourgeois origin asked if it were not counter-revolutionary to say “Thank you” to a comrade. And in Chicago we are informed that one Party member deems it a Communist duty to be uncivil and refuses to say “Good morning, comrade,” for fear of losing his “revolutionary” balance. f But to return to religion and the comrade’s letter. “A man-made world,” is set as against something else un-named. What is it? Nature? Yet progress depends upon man’s conquering of nature. And this cannot be completed until “man” has been freed from capitalist constraint. According to the comrade “man” made the misery. Hence—remove “man”! What non- sense is this? More, the stupid idea that Bolshevism is “at bottom an emotional protest” serves to excuse every sort of opposition to it. We hear, fer ex- ample, the Menshevik blather about Commu-. nism being “inherent in the Russian characters” therefore, since we are not Russians, or “Asia- tics,” it don’t fit in with “American psychology.” Basically, the comrade is soaked in Christian socialism, about which Marx wrote: “Nothing is easier than to give Christian acseticism a socialist tinge.” Only the comrade gives Communism a Christian emotional tinge, in fact a large dose of it. And Marx added: “Christian socialism is but the Holy Water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat.” Snap out of it, comrade! Pa ey Not a Bad One A chap named William C. White, reviewing * list of four books on the Soviet Union for the N. Y. Times, got off a good one which shouldn't be missed. He says: “They tell in Moscow of an old peasant woman who saw a camel for the first time in her life. After looking for half an hour, she turned to her small son and said: ‘Just see what these damned Bolsheviki are doing to horses!’” Incidentally, White takes a fall out of that holy Jesuit liar, Father Edmund Walsh, S. J. (the S, J. meaning Society of Jesuits). For in- stance, about the trade ar ices, issued by the Soviet and.received by the manufacturer who sells it machinery, Father Walsh talks darkly about the Soviet “discounting” these at 36 per cent, and hints that the Soviet must be in a bad fix to pay so much for credit. But White points. out that it is the manufacturer who takes this discount when he wants credit at banks. Then Walsh, who became famous overnight by telling the Fish Committee that the Communist International created the capitalist crisis—be- cause it foretold it, playfully uses figures any way he likes. In one place he says the ruble is worth 51 cents, but when he wants to “prove” another point, he says it is worth four cents. We have a suspicion that the peasant woman whom White referred to as outraged at the evil result of Bolshevism on horses, was really Father Walsh, the priestly skirts naturally making the matter of sex @ subject of uncertainty. * 8 8 . The “Sacredness” of Human Life ee : Hoover will not send the Marines to the Bron to “protect American lives,” according to the “new policy” announced—not by -Stimson—but announced by a big sign-on the Waterside Con- crete Works at Commerce and Waterbury Aves. Bronx, N. ¥., which read as follows: