The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 18, 1931, Page 4

eu 13 Page Four gth Street, New York Cit ‘Address and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, lished by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Inc., daily except Sunday, at 50 East Cable: “DATWORE.” 50 Hast 18th Street, New York, N. ¥. N. Y¥. ‘Telephone Algonquin 7956-7. ay Ss SUBSCRIPTION RATE ~ y mall everywhere? One year, $6) six months, $3: two months, nhettan $1; extepting Boroughs ‘snd Bronx. New York Ctiy. Foreign: one year,”$8+ sig monthe $4.50 DF THE MICHIGAN SLAVE BILL | By ROBERT MINOR. “A pill... defining a legal resident of this state . . . prohibiting employment of persons illegally resident in this state ..- prohibiting domiciling within the state of persons dis- qualified from becoming legal residents .. .” “Sec. 7. No person, firm, corporation or association . .. shall have in his or its em- ploy any person of foreign birth who as in this act provided is disqualified from estab- lishing or maintaining legal residence in the state... “Sec, 9. The Commissioner of Public Safety is authorized and directed to issue to all aliens legally resident in Michigan after they have established proof of legality of their entrance to the United States from the records of the office of the United States Bureau of Immi- gration at the port of entry of such aliens, a certificate of legal residence ..- “Sec, 1... . Photographs, finger prints or such other evidence of identification as the discretion of the Commissioner shall demand, may be required of all applicants for such certificates. “Sec. 12. Every person. firm, corporation or association . . . employing directly or in- directly .. . persons of foreign birth. who are not naturalized citizens shall require that such persons as a condition precedent to securing or continuing employment shall procure a cer- tificate of legal residence . . . and such em- ployers shall, whenever application for em- ployment is made by any person of foreign birth, who is not in possession of such cer- tificate of legal residence .. . promptly report the circumstances to the Commissioner of Pub- lic Safety, giving the name used and the ad- dress furnished by said applicant ... “Sec. 13. It shall be the duty of all peace officers of the state, counties, cities and towns to take into custody any person of foreign birth, who is not a naturalized citizen, and who does not possess a certificate of legal resi- dence in the state as in this act provided, holding as provided in the misdemeanor cases such person until his right of residence shall be established or until the issue in such case is disposed of in accordance with the provisions of this act. “Sec. 14. . .. shall be punished by a fine of not less than $50 or more than $100, and the costs of prosecution or by imprisonment for not more than 90 days in a county jail or both such fine and imprisonment in the dis- cretion of the court. The peace officers . « on payment of the fine or serving of sentence shall at once deliver the person or such alien to the officers of the United States Bureau of Immigration, together with an abstract of evidence of the proceedings. The foregoing quotations are from the newest antilabor law of Michigan. This is one of the most transparent of the hundreds of measures that are being adopted throughout the United States in a systematic campaign further to chain down the American working class and to break up all possibility for the working class to resist the rising tide of wage-cuts and speed-up. “The operation of economic laws requires certain adjustments (of wages)”’—Employers’ Association Journal. Workers Will Fight It. But the operation of certain other laws re- uires that the whole American working class ust fight for its life against the attempt to force the working class to pay the price in starvation and slavery of the present greatest economic crisis that the capitalist system has ever seen. And the slave laws which are now being worked out and more or less silently put through all over the country on the initiative of such fascists as Matthew Woll and the A. F. of L. bureaucracy which he leads in this re- spect, together with Hamilton Fish, etc. are in- tended to hamstring the working class to pre- vent any successful resistance to the capitalist offensive. The social-fascist cliques of. the Socialist Party and the Muste group are fully assisting, but their own peculiar methods of work have to be adjusted to the need of deceiving the working- class elements, for instance, the necessity to re= tain a foothold among the foreign-born work- ers who would not follow the openly fascist pro- posals, while the Socialist Party and Muste are really assisting Woll and Fish (who openly com- plimented them for it) in every fascist move. Not “Only” Foreign-Born. ‘The new Michigan slave bill is the prototype of measures which are directly proposed by such men as Woll and Fish. These scoundrels —in the style of Adolph Hitler—attempt to work on the narrowest national prejudice of Ameri- can workers, who are expected to believe that such @ bill as this one will strike down “only” the foreign-born workers, or even “only” the unnaturalized foreign workers, and thus sup- posedly to “save the jobs for native American workers.” But this is, of course, a lie. The bill is aimed unreservedly against the whole American working class, native and for- eign-born. It is intended as a means of wiping out all strike activity and all union membership (except fascist and company union member- ship), and to place the entire working class, be- ginning with the basic sections of workers in heavy industry, directly under daily police super- vision of every movement. To Chain Labor In Basic Industries. First, let the American worker realize that when the capitalist class speaks of “foreign born” tt means the basic industries of America, and all of the workers in the basic industries, both foreign-born and native. We do not for- get that the majority of all the workers in the | that the ma- | steel industry are foreign-born; ty of all the workers in the coal industry re foreign-born; that the majority ofall the workers in the heavy industries in the country and a large proportion in all industries of any character, are foreign-born. Wage-Cuts, Arrests, Fingerprints. The Michigan slave bill is intended to become the basis upon which the police will raid, ar- rest and take finger prints, photographic police records of every worker (or, at least, every worker engaged in disputes with employers) in the Michigan big industries and especially de- signed to apply to the automobile industry of that state. The automobile industry is catas- trophically affected by the present economic de- pression, and wage-cuts, speed-up and a gen- eral harassing of the working class are the measures by which the auto manufacturers in- tend to drive down the “labor costs of the in- dustry” to a point never before seen in the United States. It is intended to bring about a where every worker, native American, natural- ized, or unnaturalized, will be reduced to a number on the police records, er to prove his “right” to be in the country as an alien, or to prove his naturalization, or else to prove his being a “legal resident.” Foreign-born workers are most directly affected by being required to carry “certificates of legal residence” with photo- graphs and fingerprints, and to be compelled to show. such certificates at every turn of their daily life. For the slightest stir of activity against wage-cuts, for the slightest hint of wil- lingness to join a union, such workers would be immediately thrown into the category of “un- desirable aliens,” reported by employers to the state police as required in this bill, taken into custody as also required in this bill, and turned over to the United States immigration officials to be deported. Establish State “Passports.” It will be observed that this bill goes beyond anything ever conceived before in the country, of establishing virtually “a passport control” at the borders of an individual state within the United States. The auto magnates of Michigan wish to have virtually a guarded frontier be- tween Michigan and all other states, with prac- tically a passport control for the entry of any worker into the state of Michigan. Let no American-born worker become the vic- tim of narrow nationalist spirit in this matter. Let him not think that this bill means that “the jobs will be given to Americans.” On the contrary, no foreign-born worker who is willing to scab and work cheap will be deported. Only those workers who fight for higher standards of living or resist the dtive for lower standards | of living will be deported under this law. It even goes so far as to make room for: “Any regulations that may hereafter be put into effect by the United States government to permit the temporary importation of emer- gency labor for agriculture or any other neces- sary work or art ...” etc. This means slavery for the whole American working class in Michigan—and more! For such Measures are cropping up in many states and a systematic drive to put them through not only in all states but also to put them through the federal government as national laws! Part of War Preparation. ‘These measures are adopted consciously also as a part of the preparation for imperialist war. It is well known that the chaining @own of the working class in prison-like slavery is one of the most necessary war measures, as the capi- talists know perfectly well that they cannot put throtigh another imperialist world slaughter without the war being interrupted by a revolu- tionary upsurge of the American working class —especially in defense of the U. S. S. R. The workers can meet this savage reaction only by fighting. Don’t let anyone dream that the voodooism of some “liberal” lawyer will get it declared “unconstitutional.” “Constitutional” and “unconstitutional” are words that mean nothing more than “what the bosses want” and “what the bosses don’t want.” Only by fighting can the workers make the slightest progress against these increasing mea- sires of slavery. Only by going ahead full speed, organizing unions under the revolutionary Trade Union Unity League, only by fighting wage-cuts, fighting against the speed-up, fighting every inch of the way, can these hideous slave mea- sures be defeated. But in this given case—the workers must as a mass resist the enforcement of this law. There must be a mass refusal to be regis- tered, to be fingerprinted and photographed as an acknowledged slave of the Michigan auto- mobile manufacturers. Native American Workers—Fight! But this mass resistance must be a demon- stration of the solidarity of the American-born workers with the foreign-born! Every American- born workere must march shoulder to shoulder with the foreign-born workers—and even in the front line—to defeat this additional yoke of slavery intended to be put upon the whole American working class in these stirring times when the capitalist system has struck the great- est crisis in its history and when everybody knows that facing us today are the most terrific class struggles and revolutionary events. Fight the Michigan slave law! Form a united front of all workers, native and foreign-born, Negro and white! Smash the Michigan Alien Regis- tration Law RKERS, native and immigrants, Negro and white, employed and unemployed! In addi- tion to the wild attacks against the militant workers, lynching of Negroes who dare to fight against starvation. fierce persecution and terror against foreign-born that were instituted throughout the country under the direct orders of Secretary of Labor Doak, the state of Michi- gan has adopted a severe reactionary plan to register “aliens,” to fingerprint them and de- port them wholesale. This Michigan law re- quires of every immigrant fo prove that he is not the one that could be classified as an “un- desirable alien.” ‘The definition of this term ts well known to Every foreign-born worker who the workers. who asks for relief, will fall into the category of “undesirable aliens.” If the Michigan registration law will be put into operation the immigrant worker in this state will be actually outlawed, he will tremble day and night; police will have the full freedom to arrest him without any warrant under any pretense that is provided by this registration Jaw. Spies will “shadow” the alleged “illegal” immigrant. The Michigan registration Jaw. while it is a part and parcel of the campaign against the entire working class, at this time of severe econ- omic crisis, is also a test case, If the ruling class will succeed to put this law in operation, it will inspire other states to adopt similar measures, On the other hand if we succeed condition | Party Life Communist Party, U. S. A. ‘Workers and Farmers Want to Know About Communism | Dear Sirs: We have read so many articles against Com- munism that we have come to think it must be a good thing but can’t procure any literature on it. We are wheat farmers, farming about 2,000 acres and have a small bunch of cattle— 60 Herfords. Not out of a job but feel gov- ernments are far from the point of perfection and that there must be some solution of a sit- uation grown worse every year. Would appreciate it if you could send me information on Communism or tell me how and where to get it. No one here seems to know much about Communism but the Literary Digest publishes so many things about Russia that we are interested. Mrs. J. C. Breckenridge, Tex. | Much interest was aroused here by our May Day meeting at the County Court House. We | had the District Court room and it was crowd- ed. All seats taken and many standing. We have many inquiries as to just what we stand for and are trying to get suitable liter- ature for use among non-Party workers. The Daily Worker does not seem to fill the bill in the matter of disseminating information as to the general principles and objects of the Party, but is devoted mostly to agitation. May I be permitted to suggest that more be saig in the Daily Worker about the things for which we stand. Would it not be a good idea to publish in a series of articles such works as “Fundamentals of Communism,” “Communist Manifesto,” “State and Revolution. etc.? It seems to me that one or more of these works | could be carried serially to excellent advantage. —k. B. “Party Organizer” Contents of June Issue IMPROVING INTERNAL LIFE OF THE PARTY Inner Life of the Units, by J. Peters (District 2) .... Distribution and Check-up of Party Tasks. 4 | What Is a Plenum? .............. Seraneuee 07 | Development of Self-Initiative of the Party Units 8 | How to Stabilize Finances in the District, By. C. Roselle ...............- cnmcianice, © A CENTRAL CONTROL COMMISSION DOCUMENTS Reminder on Finances ...................-- 10 THERE IS NO STRUGGLE TOO SMALL (LENIN) (From Resolution of 3rd Congress of C. I. u MASS WORK August First Preparations ................. 2 The Party Leaflet—Its Policy and Con- II iiss hg sis sos firings Kae oa 3 13 Dealing with the Soviet Union in the Shop Paper 15 Experience in Organizing a jommittee for Scottsboro Defense ..............-.. 16 ROOTING THE PARTY SHOPS Some Experiences in Shop Work, by Edit! Briscol (District 5) ........... a Pra | f Examine Our Factory Work, zy S. V. 19 HOW THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF GER- MANY SOLVES ITS PROBLEMS .......... 20 LENIN’S TEACHINGS ABOUT THE PARTY (Excerpts from Book by V. Sorin) Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party 0. S. A. P. O. Box 87 Station D. New York City. Please send me more information on the Com- munist Party. Name Prrrertetrtrerrirerr crt ries Address rrr ero CH... csecccrcccccccerccnces BUtAte -senscceees | Occupation .. -Mail this to the Central Office, Communist Party, P. O. Box 87 Station D. New York City. in smashing this reactionary law, the reaction- ary forces from the other states will not dare so freely to follow the example of Michigan. It will be up to the working class of this country to defeat it. We warn the working class not to depend on the theory that this reactionary measure is unconstitutional and because of that it will not be put into operation. That might be true from the judiciary standpoint, but the ruling class is the one who will pass the judg- ment about its constitutionality. And it will act in acord with her class interests regardless of any legality. Workers, you are the only ones who possess power to defeat this registration law provided you will organize a huge movement. We appeal to all workers’ organizations of this country to offer a united front of battle against this reactionary law. Mobilize against slave driving plans, lynching of Negroes and discrimination against foreign born. Join the nation-wide protest. Call meetings everywhere. Send telegrams of protest to the governor of Michigan State. Pass resolutions at the meetings of your organizations. Prepare for local conferences for the protec- tion of foreign born throughout the country. Spread the understanding of the dangerous situation for the foreign-born. Mobilize the minds. of the workers, both immigrants and na- tive, white anq Negro in order to be able to fgiht against discrimination against any section of the working class. Defeat the registration law in Michigan and prevent such laws in other states. Forward to ® mass campaign for the defense of the foreign- born workers. NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE ~ es IN OF FOREIGN BORN. -=, um ‘ oat Conducted by the Org. Dept. Central Com- { mittee, Brockton, Mont. | THE SPANISH REVOLUTION This series of three articles, of which this is the last, was written before the recent afti- clerical outbreaks and fresh upsurge of the revolutionary movement in Spain.—Editor. ta ae By N. MAJORSKY (Moscow). “The central question of every revolution is the question of State power,” says Lenin. The chief task of the Spanish Party is to lead the workers and peasants in their fight for power. In ruthlessly exposing the bourgeois reaction- ary character of the Zamora government the Communist Party must carry on the most en- ergetic fight for winning the masses, organ- izing the Soviets and developing the revolu- tionary movement in the open country. The C. P. of Spain must bear in mind that the revolution leads to power by the wave of a movement by the broad masses of the people. The Party must know how to organize this movement. ‘The present stage of the revolution demands of the C. P. of Spain such a tactical line as was characterized by Lenin as an “armed prepara~ tion of a broad basis for a higher stage” of the revolution. In these words of the strategic gen- ius of revolutionary fight there lies a profound meaning. One must proceed to a higher stage of the revolution, he said; for this purpose one must prepare and build up a broad mass basis and one must give it the force of an armed preparation. The C. P. of Spain must know how to proceed from those issues that move the masses, must know how to organize the masses and to lead them in the fight for the further development of the revolution. It is highly important for the Communist Party of Spain skillfully to expose the demo- cratic republican illusions which are very widely spread among the masses. The masses still be- lieve that the republic brings liberty to the people. Our Party must lead the masses in the practical, immediate realization of their liberty. The Spanish workers and peasants will then become convinced by their own experience that the Republic of Zamora is by no means the Republic that they need. The C. P. of Spain must set itself the task of immediately organizing all groups of toilers and concentrate special attention on the revo- lutionary liquidation of the feudal remnants in the village and on the setting up of factory councils. The chief task, however, is to create | workers, landworkers, peasants and soldiers So- viets. It is the weakness of these Soviets that they were not formed at the first moment of the revolution. Every weakness, however, can be overcome if the necessary prerequisites there- for are present. The prerequisites for the form- ation of Soviets exist, however. in Spain. Vari- ous spontaneous attempts have been and are being made in this respect. An organized and | general character must be given to these at- tempts, and the Party must know how to prove to the masses that the formation of Soviets lies in their immediate interest. Of special importance is the drawing of the soldiers into the Soviets. The general revolu- tionary revival has not left the soldiers un- touched. ‘There have been frequent cases of fraternization between soldeirs and the people; it has happened that soldiers have refused to fire on the workers. The Spanish soldier is deprived of the right to take part in the po- litical life of the country. He is still struck and beaten by his officerss. The Communist Party declares plainly and clearly: Such a state of affairs must not be tolerated any longer. The closest participation of the soldiers in the po- litical life of the country must be secured; sol- diers’ committees must be formed in every company, in every battery, in every squadron, and the right to elect their own offiters must be won. The Spanish Party will pay regard to the experiences of the Russian revolution. The winning of the masses of soldiers for the revolution is one of the means of arming the revolution. The most important and urgent task, however, is the arming of the proletariat, the creation of a revolutionary workers’ guard. A revolutionary attitude must be adopted to- wards the bourgeois laws which are contrary to the interests of the workers and peasants. The Communist Party must call upon the masses to realize on their own account such an important demand as the introduction of the seven-hour day, to defy the prohibition of work- ers’ meetings. demonstrations, etc. ‘The immediate realization of that which the masses want must become the gulding principle of the Spanish revolution in regard to its most important and pressing problem, the agrarian question. The Communist Party must recom- mend the masses to abandon petitioning the provisional government and hoping for any re- forms. They must expose most, ruthlessly the fact that the government is in reality trying to protect the big landowners and to deceive the peasants. The immediate seizure of the land of the big landowners, its distribution and armed defense.against any attack no matter from where it may come, that is the program of the revolu- tionary Party towards the peasant masses. In this way the organized proletarian leadership of the peasant movement must be realized. The measures for the special organization of the village poor must be adopted already today. ‘The fate of the Spanish revolution depends upon whether the C. P. of Spain has devoted too little attention to work in the village. 'To all the questions which are stirring pres- ent-day Spain the Communist Party must give direct, clear answers exact slogans which pen- etrate deeply into the masses and organize them. The Party will fight for the immediate evacu- ation of Morocco and for the unlimited right to self-determination of the people of Spain it- self, including the right to complete separa~ tion. ‘The class struggle of the workers and peasants against the bourgeoisie and against the land- owners must bé developed in every direction. The revolutionary situation demands not the cessation of the economic daily fight of the workers, but the development of economic strikes and their linking up with political demands. The factory must occupy the center of atten- tion of the Spanish Communist Party. The Party must attentively follow all the daily class conflicts and must realize the united front of the working masses. The slogan of the Soviet Republic is the gen- eral slogan of the Spanish revolution. This slogan will arouse a great response’ when the Soviets are already organized everywhere and have embraced broad masses of workers, peas- ants and soldiers, when the fight for land has developed, when the broadest strata of the pop- ulation have become clear regarding the reac- tionary, anti-popular character of the provisional government. At present special emphasis must be placed on those slogans that lead to the Soviet Republic; formation of Soviets, confisca- tion of the land of the big landowneds, arming of the workers and peasants. A very important and urgent task is the or- ganizational building up of the Communist Party itself. The existence of a strong Party of the proletariat is, of course, the most neces- sary presumption for the fulfillment of all those tasks of which we have spoken. ‘Thus the young Communist Party of Spain is confronted with very many complicated and difficult tasks. It must really, as Lenin ex- pressed it, accomplish wonders in organizing the proletariat and the whole people, m order to prepare for its victory in the second stage of the revolution. ‘The Spanish revolution shows how crumbly and tottery is the whole edifice of the rule of the exploiters. It is not without cause that the bourgeois press is following the events with such concern and is so openly expressing its sym- pathy for Alfonso, who has been kicked out. The world bourgeoisie is trembling at the conflag- ration which is commencing on the Pyrenian Peninsula; it is adopting every measure in or- der to prevent the fire spreading and to ex- tinguish it. The imperialists have already set their fleets in motion. The world proletariat must follow the events in Spain with unabated energy. It must give brotherly help to the Spanish proletariat. It must help it to expose the worst enemies of the revolution—the social fascists, the counter-revo- lutionary Trotskyists, the anarchists, etc. It must prevent the imperialists from dealing a blow at the Spanish workers and peasants. The revolutionary crisis has led to an aggravation of the political life in Spain, to the enrichment of the class struggle with new forms and ex- periences. It is exceedingly important for the international proletariat to take note of these newly acquired revolutionary experiences. How to Organize Protest Meetings Against the Michigan Law $ By E. ANDERSON. HE effectiveness of our protest against the Michigan law, both in immediate results and in permanent organizational gains will depend to a large extent on the manner we go about our work in organizing and conducting these meetings. Our organization is new and has very little experience, it is now forging its way ahead and its success will to a large extent depend upon how we will be able to really in- volve the affiliated and sympathetic organiza- tions to take part in the everyday work of the committee, and not only remain a body of pas- sive organizations limiting their activities to the passing of resolutions, giving donations when called upon to do so, etc. If we do not succeed to engage these organizations actively, we will be hampered from reaching broad masses of the workers and our activities would be limited to the sympathetic organizations only. Our work is too important and we have no time to lose, we must start with these Michigan protest meetings and through these involve our affiliated and sympathetic organizations in the direct work. This will be a little complicated to start with, because it will be the first time these organizations will engage in this kind of work. The problem of activizing the organizations that are affiliated to the City Committee P. F. B., must be solved, and also how we best shall be able to get the maximum work done with the small forces that are at the direct disposal of the City Committee. Ne In New York the City Committee is attempt- ing to solve this problem in the following man~- ner: Twenty-one protest meetings are being ar- ranged by the City Committee on three consecu- tive days, Of course it would be impossible for the committee itself to hold these meetings or even half of them if we only could count on the members of the City Committee. Instead we want, to involve these organizations in the actual been fm contest with ber—“y carried out—which can also be used to good ad- vantage by the committee of the P. F. B. in other cities. New York City has been divided into four territories. In every one of these terri- tories not less than two members of the City Committee Bureau are held responsible that the activities in their territory are being car- ried out. These two members are to get in con- tact with all our affiliated organizations there, approach them and ask these organizations to elect committees of two or more members that are willing and able to take part in the work for the arranging of these meetings, and in the future to carry on such activities as will be needed to organize further meetings, demon- strations, to visit organizations to secure affilia~ tions, etc. ‘We should also, if possible, issue leaflets for these meetings to be held to reach larger num- bers of workers that we wfll not get in touch with through our meetings directly, and to do this we must arrange to have the organizations in the territories issue these leaflets under the auspices of the City Committee P. F. B. It would be too complicated to leave this work for the City Committee itself, for two reasons, financial and technical. These leaflets showld be very concrete, dealing with the conditions in the given territory. Furthermore, this work will serve as a means to activize these organizations by giving them definite tasks to perform and to make them feel that they are actively engaged in the concrete work carried on for the pro- tection of the foreign-born. In this way the entire membership, or at least part of them, will be directly involved in the work, and this will not be in the hands of the Executive Committee only. This will stimu- late the activities of these organizations and we will in this way be able to secure a number of workers to act as propagandists in this work among their fellow-workers, and also be of great, help to the City Committee to reach and get with organizations that we have never eo we By JORGE Comradely Offers my A comrade sympathizer who read about our idea of camping, as distinguished from country hotels for tired liberals, writes us that she of- fers a few real workers who want to rough it, camp space up in New Hampshire at four bits only tor cooking privileges, you bring your own bedding and kit and bathe in either of three rivers. Write before going, to find out if the coast is clear, to Anna Salner, Route 1, Con- toocock, N. H. Bus fare there costs about $5. Next, another sympathizer from Boston will pass through New York June. 20 in a car bound, with his wife, for some seaside resort to the south. offers to give some New York worker's boy of 14 or 15 a vacation with them without cost.. If thare’s any Pioneer in this burg who has been badly handled by Mulrooney’s “gentle cops” or is otherwise in need of such a tonic as is offered, leave word at District Pioneer Office where you can be found. Red Sparks isn’t around on Saturdays, so the comrade sym- pathizer will report to the District Pioneer Of- fice, which, however, should get over the notion that the young comrade must go shock-troop- ing among the lobster pots and little necked clams. He's to enjoy himself. Don’t Discourage Non-Party Comrades “Dear Comrade:—I received a list from the International Labor Defense, with which to gather money for the Scottsboro case, and after collecting in my neighborhood I happened to attend a Y. C. L, (Young Communist League) open-air meeting at Pitkin and Bristol Sts., which was about to close. “I ventured to ask the chairman to allow me to speak on the Scottsboro case with the idea of taking up a collection, or on any subject they would suggest. The chairman was in favor, but the bickerings of the Y. C. L. members merited me a refusal. Their reason was my not being a Party member. It did not seem to matter'to them that I was doing work for the I L. D. and that I wanted to speak in the name of the I. L. D. They even refused to let me have the stand at the close of the meeting.” So writes a worker who wants to know who was right. “If I am in the wrong, chastise me, but if they are, I wish it would be brought to the attention of the Y. C. L. of. Brownsville.” Well, if the facts are straight, it seems that the Y. C. L. in Brownsville thinks that the revolution is the property of the Party and not of the proletariat. At least the incident smacks of Communist snobbery toward non-Party work- ers. This is a disease that is crippling our movement in lots of ways and places besides Brownsville and we advise the comrades in ques- tion to consult among themselves about the nee for and nature of a cure. ote ae “One of Many” Owing to many tasks, we were late in going over a clipping from the Chicago Dafly News of April 16, sent in by a comrade. But when we did get to read it, we were forcibly reminded of the reason that Young Communists in Germany are throwing bottles through windows of U. S. Con- sulates, The artificial righteousness of those who try to excuse the legal lynching of the nine Negro boys at Scottsboro on the grounds, false as they are, of the sancity of womanhood, is enough to turn one’s stomach. Here in this clipping referred to, is the story of a woman called Baroness Katherine Kuhle- windt, who kept a swell apartment at 515 Wrightwood Ave. in Chicago, as what is termed a “love exchange. No “free love” there! The Baroness made money by introducing “tired businessmen” to young girls, the younger the more money. Assistant State’s Attorney Mueller said it was only “one of many” such games. And the wealthy capitalists who used the Baroness to “get” young girls are not going to be sent to the electric chair! Not by a jugful! The prosecutor says: “We found the names of almost a hundred men, a lot of them very prominent residents of the Gold Coast, Rogers Park and Edge- water. Many of the names might be perfectly legitimate, merely friends of the baroness, as she claims.” Oh, yeah, blackbirds might be white! And Negroes might be white and—if they are rich in addition—get away with anything, be excused by State’s Attorneys from even explaining what they are doing with young girls. But the Scotts- boro boys were both black and of the working class. So any old lie about “rape” and a lot of hypocritical indignation about the sancity of womanhood will send them to the chair! There is no such thing as “sanctity” under capitalism, neither of womanhood or life of the workers. No wonder German bottles are coming through the windows! * * .The Post—*“Unashamed” One reader of the N. Y. Post, writing to it In protest at the revival of the last war by that paper (as propaganda for the next war) and correctly citing Ponsonby’s book “Falsehood in ‘War-Time” to show that war-time propagands was false—was met by the Post's rejoinder: “We are not ashamed of the war.” In other werds the Post is not ashamed of falsehood. ‘We'll agree that the N. Y. Post is not ashamed of anything. Here for weeks and months it has been raging against those American engin- eers who go to the Soviet Union to do the job they are paid for, against the American manufacturers who sell machinery to the Soviet Union, These are all “traitors” says the Post. ‘These are “scabbing” on capitalism “for the money there is in it.” So the N. Y. Post raves on day after day, citing quotations from Lenin, some wholly imaginary, to the effect that capitalism would dig its own grave for $1.25 cash profit, and blazing away at these engineers and companies for being on speaking acquaintance with Bolshevism for the money there is in it, But... But—alas, the N. Y. Post itself. for the extra high rates it can get for advertisements run on the same page as the Knickerbocker articles, plays “traitor to America” by taking one ad for the talking picture on the Five-Year Plan