The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 13, 1931, Page 4

Severs ans 1 So eae | Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Inc New York City. Address and mail all checks to tne Daily Worker, 18th Street, Page Four N. Y. Telephone Algonquin 7956-7. Cable: 50 East , Gatey except Sunday. at AO Fast 13th Street, New York “DALWORK.” NY Daily, Central “er This is the second of a series of three arti- cles, showing how the capitalist propaganda machines manufacture and spread lies to poi- son the minds of the masses, and herd them into the slaughter of imperialist war, whipping up the fury of hate against the enemy nation. ‘The war propaganda machine is already worl ing, spreading lies for war against the Soviet Union. All out on August 1! Demonstrate against imperialist war! Defend the Soviet | Union!—Ea. | By N. SPARKS | Article 2 | IN the last world war each side tried to paint the other as a nation of devils. It was the lie- makers’ task to see to it that the furious resent- ment of the people for their colossal suffering should be directed only into the channels of hate against the official “enem and not against its proper object, the war-making capi- | talist government at home. In this field the Al- lied propagan far outstripped the Germans. A tremendous propaganda was developed about German “frightfulness’—that the German Army was instructed to kill ruthlessly in order to ter- rorize the enemy population. The kind-hearted Allies, of course, were against “frightfulness.” Yet what do we find in the instructions to the French army written by an officer Montaigne? “Terrify! and in order to terrify, destroy! One sets out to kill, one shoots to kill . one kills till there is nothing left to kill.” But the most terrible statement of all comes from “our own” General Phil Sheridan, the “hero” of the Civil War, “Cause the inhabi- tants so much suffering that they must long for peace. THE PEOPLE MUST BE LEFT NOTHING BUT THEIR EYES TO WEEP WITH over the war.” Here we have in one class- ic unforgettable phrase the object of imperialist war as contrasted with revolutionary war. While revolutionary war has for its aim to win eve thing for the masses, the object of imperialist war is that THE PEOPLE MUST BE LEFT NOTHING BUT THEIR EYES TO WEEP WITH. Imperi ar is the very acme of capitalist robbery and murder. In order to paint the Germans as a horde of devils, and also discourage tendencies to fra- ternization at the front, they were accused of every kind of atrocity, despite the fact that atrocities are the order of the day on both sides in imperialist wars. They were accused of cut- ting the hands off babies, mutilating nuns (this for the purpose of stimulating recruiting ng Catholics), crucifying prisoners, etc. “Here” (in Rumania went one story) “in the form of shin- ing balls, pencils and toys of various descrip- tions, bombs were systematically given out to children by Ger agents, and in handling them the children were either blown up or hor- ribly mutilated.” Yet Nitti, the war-time premier of Italy testi- fies: “Lloyd-George and myself carried on ex- tensive investigation as to the truth of these horrible accusations. some of which at least, were told specifically as to names and places. Every case investigated proved to be a myth.” But these apostles of truth did nothing to kill the atrocity stories. On the contrary, they spread them far and wide. for these stories were responsible for tens of thousands of Allied and Americen recruits. ‘The crowning story of this type was that of the thical German “Corpse Utilization Fac- tory,” where the corpses of German soldiers Were supposed to be sent to be turned into tal- low and poultry-feed. This was an invention out of the whole cloth by the British General Char- teris with the particular object of inflaming Germany, China and other Eastern ancestors are worshipped or d. Both German and allied prop- ulate Charteris today on this and chuckle over this lie that herded more thousands into the slaughter. But today, imperialist rivalries are at a different stage, and the British Parliament recently apolo- gized to Germany for this lie and stated it was without foundation. It was not sufficient to paint only the Ger- man army as di the whole nation had to be painted as natural-born fiends beyond the hope of regeneration. In this, as in every other case where the masses are to be slaughtered to save capitalism, the greatest service is rendered by the professors, the preachers, and the “So- cialist” misleaders. Scientists “proved” that German science is only destructive, artists “proved” that German art, literature and music are devilish, Gompers damned everything Ger- man and s| d fcr the war, Alexander Howat of the United Mine Workers and John Spargo of the Socialist Party were sent by the U. S. government to Italy to spread this gospel there and “keep the Italian radicals in line.” And pro- fessors and pre: ers bellowed that God and civilization could only be saved by the complete destruction of the entire German people. Thus Prof. Hobbs: “Can a nation that befouls or poisons wells, bombs hospitals, sinks hospital and relief ships, and turns over the women of a captured district to the pleasures of its soldiery . ever be made fit for civilization?” And Prof. Vernon L. Kellogg: “Will it be any wonder, if after the war the people of the world, when they recognize any human being as a German, will shrink aside so they may not touch him as he passes, or stoop for stones to drive him from their path?” But for the supreme outburst of hate we have to take the utterance of a preacher, for don’t we all know “God is love’? The words of the famous Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis: “Society has organized iisclf against the rattlesnake and the | against oples greatly rest agandists con| where “master s yellow fever. Boards of health are planning to wipe out cholera and the black plague. Not | | otherw lovers of their fellowmen (!) have | finally become perfectly hopeless about the | German people. They have no more relation to civilization than an orang-utan, a gorilla, a | Judas, a hyena, or a scalping-knife. In utter despair therefore, statesmen, generals, diplo- mats, editors (What lovers of their fellowmen!— | N.S.) are now talking about the duty of simply exterimnating the German peon!?. There will shortly be held a conference of surgeons in this country who are preparing to advocate the calling of a world conference to consider the | sterilization of ten million German soldiers and the segregation of their women, so that when this generation of Germans goes, civilized cities, | states and races may be rid of this awful cancer that must be clean out of the bedy of society.” Among themselves. the capitalists and their servants the lie-makers laughed at this sort of stuff, but to the masses it was handed out with the solemn authority of religion. The only ones that attempted to open the eyes of the masses, were the revolutionary workers, and against them the whole force of the war machine was directed. Hundreds of members of the I. W. W. (which was at that time, a revolutionary or- ganization), and revolutionary socialists, were imprisoned, beaten up, mobbed, deported into the desert (Bisbee, Arizona); Frank Little, or- ganizer in Montana was lynched by the Copper Trust. The capitalists knew that tomorrow they would be friends with their German partners, but that their real, implacable enemy was the working class. A Miner’s Boy Does His Bit for 'HIS is Mike’s story as he told it to us some days ago of how he helped the Daily Worker. He was sitting one night with his knees hitched up under his chain listening to his Dad and another miner named Bill talking over the plight of their paper. “Now with the strike on and the Brownsville Scandalizer (the miners’ name for the local capitalist sheet)” running all lies about us, it sure would go hard with us to lose our Daily,” Bill said. “Yah, it’s the only way we have to bring the truth to all the miners and working people,” the other striker answered. Mike edged his way under his Dad’s elbow. “Pop. how can we keep the paper from stop- ping?” The boy was only eleven but he already knew a good bit about the need of miners and all working people to organize and fight for better conditions. In the 1927 strike, hadn't he gone on the picket-line and hollered against the yellow dogs and scabs? Hadn't his parents explained to him why the miners had to live in two-room shacks and go hungry and cold winter after winter while the rich mine-owners and their children who lived in the city had the best of everything? Every time Mike’s Dad got hold of a copy of the Daily Worker, the boy looked it over, the pictures, letters, and news of the strike. “Pop.” he repeated, “how can we keep the pa- per from stopping?” The miner gave his son’s head a playful push. “Go away, boy, can’t you see Bill and I are busy?” “But Pa—” Bill looked thoughtful to help?” “Sure.” Bill puffed on his roll-your-own smoke, then spread a copy of the Daily on the kitchen table. “It says here to order bundles of Dailies and sell ‘em cond get new readers. That, Mike, would help the paper and us here at the mine, too.” He knocked his palm on the worn top, and looked toward his older friend. “Pete, if you'll let the boy do it, by golly, he can help us to pull out those patch men, too! He can scamper in and out that company patch carrying the Daily's strike news to the men still working. A boy could get by the yellow dogs where us men couldn't. And he can cake the papers to the striking families, too.” Mike jumped up, his brown eyes shining. 1, Pa—Can 1?” The miner thought it over. “Let’s see what Ma “Mike, you really want “Can says.” Finally it was settled. With Bill's and the family's help Mike composed a letter to the Daily Worker. He showed me a copy of the original, and this is as well as I can remember it: “Dear Comrades, “I am a miner's boy and there is a strike here. Because things are very bad. My Pa ain’t had much work all winter. Nobody has the right clothes or much to eat for a long time. “I heard the Daily Worker is in trouble, so I want to help. If you will send me ten copies I will try and sell therh. And send you the money, quick as I get it. “Hoping to hear from you soon, “Mike sd So every week day Mike and his younger brother Joe go up and down the rows of miners’ shacks selling the Daily. Now they have regular customers. The company’s thugs and yellow- dogs have chased and threatened the boys for distributing the paper. They would like to throw the family out of the mining town, but since Mike’s family happens to live off the patch, so far they are safe. However, Joy Edwardes, the superintendent, has told them that the company will keep the family from drawing water at the company pump if the boys “don’t stop trouble making.” For the miners wait eagerly for the paper. And its regular distribution at this Vesta mine has helped greatly in getting the other men out. Mike and Joey keep right on. Every Saturday they send the Daily 60 cents to pay for the week's bundle. They showed me the receipts. “I wrote that I want twenty papers a day now,” Mike says proudly. With the first pennies that he made this way he bought his Dad a surprise much-needed pair of socks. Now he and his brother are saving every penny that doesn’t have to go for food to get some shoes by the time school opens, in the fall. “You know what I'd like?” Mike announces, “A bathing suit. They cost ten cents, though. We can’t spend our money on things like that. It has to buy things we all gotta have.” So Mike and his brother are doing their bit for their paper, the Daily Worker, Are you doing yours? One way of defending the Soviet Union is to spread among the workers “Soviet ‘Forced Labor,’” by Max Bedacht, 10 cents per copy. Worker Sa Porty U.S.A. " MELLON SPEAKS Conducted by the Org. Dept. Central Com- mittee, Communist Party, U. 8. A. Neighborhood Group By R. Clark (Ohio) jae discussing the decisions of the Central Committee on the organization of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights published in the Daily Worker, our Section Buro (Section 2) sent out specific directives to the units on how to go about the work. The directives were sent out about four weeks ago to the Party units and up to date one unit (No. 25) reports the following: “We elected a committee of two at the unit meeting and assigned them to work on 79th and Cedar Ave. The committee took Liberators and the special leaflet on the Scottsboro case. We had the namé of a Negro woman which was re- ceived at an open air meeting in the neighbor- hood a short time before that. This was the | first contact to be visited. She was very much , interested and agreed to take some Liberators and speak to her neighbors about joining the LS.N.R. In the meantime the committee went from house to house, speaking to the workers on the Scottsboro case and explaining the purpose of the L.S.N.R, “They succeeded in getting eight contacts on the street. A meeting was arranged for the fol- lowing night in one of the workers’ homes. They all came to the meeting. The purpose of the or- ganization was explained by one of the comrades of the L.S.N.R. A president and secretary were elected. Ten Liberators were ordered to sell in the neighborhood and plans were made to spread the L.S.N.R. by having the members go to the adjoining streets to form groups. Eight Negro workers and two white workers belong to the group on 79th St. which they decided to name the “Nat Turner Group.” The group was represented at the Scottsboro-Barberton Defense Conference on May 29, by two delegates.” We find in organizing the neighborhood groups, we have more results in calling the meetings in a worker’s home in the neighbor- hood. Unit 24 had the experience of getting eight contacts for such a group but instead of calling the meeting to organize the group in a worker’s home it was called at the hall where the various organizations meet and not one ap- peared, although everyone was interested and had agreed to the formation of the LS.N.R. group. They are going to try again and will no doubt have the group organized in a few days. It is better that a Negro and white worker go together so that the Negro worker will see the solidarity immediately and will not feel that it is just another “white man coming to fool them,” as many think when the white worker goes alone, and gets the door slammed in his face, unless of course he gets a chance to explain. What is also necessary in order to keep these groups alive is some definite plan 0 f work. For instance, at the present time we can only give them the Liberator to sell and encourage the spreading out of the groups in adjoining streets. But we have no constitution of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, we have not even the decisions of the convention in St. Louis We must have definite forms of activities for the League of Struggle for Negro Rights which will actually make it an organization which war- rants the name. As yet we have no such infor- mation and the Section Buros cannot therefore send directives to the units on the groups they have organized in their territories. COMMENT A marked contrast is revealed here between the comrades’ obvious willingness to do concrete organizational work among the Negro masses and their lack of clarity concerning the work to be done. This unclarity is noticeable in many sections of the Party. The Scottsboro Case must serve to emphasize the brutal oppression and terror against the Negro masses, and to expose the open co-opera- tion of the N.A.A.C.P. leaders and other Uncle Tom reformists with the class responsible for this terror—the white ruling class. . . . Through the Scottsboro case we can bring to the Negro masses an understanding of our pro- gram and methods of struggle for their full so- cial, political and economic rights. The groups drawn together through their willingness to fight for the defense of the Scottsboro boys can be held together only if we link this case up with their concrete every day demands, ‘thus making the Scottsboro case a defnite part of their lives. We must give them Liberators to sell, we must spread the groups to adjoining streets, but above all we must stop the high turn-over in the LS.N.R. To do this, the fight for unemploy- ment insurance relief, against wage* cuts, speed-up. and for reduction of rents must be PARTY LIFE | HowWe Organized An L.S.N.R. By mat! everywhe ot Manhattan an SUBSCRAPTION RATER: One year, $6; six months. $3; two months, $1; Bronx, New York Ctiy, Foreign: one year, $8- six months. $4.50, eacepting Boroughs By BURCK By L AMTER The city executive committee of the poe party under pressure of mass sentiment has passed a re-olution demanding that Hillquit withdraw from the case. Se ee ORRIS HILLQUIT, leader of the American socialist party, on the eve of his departure for the congress of the Second International, was announced as lawyer for the Russian white guard concerns, formerly owners of the Baku oil fields. This created a sensation even in so- cialist circles, whéreupon Hillquit issued a state- ment. “It is purely a money dispute between differ- ent capitalist concerns. . . . If and when our (!) government will recognize Soviet Russia there will no longer be any basis for these actions,” Says Hillquit in his statement. The complaint filed by Hillquit declares that “In and after November, 1917, a revolution oc- curred in Russia and the supporters of the said revolution, acting together under the name or designation of the Federated Socialist Soviet Republics of Russia er Soviet Government of Russia, thereafter wrongfully, unlawftlly and by force of arms seized possession of all the plain- tiffs’ oil lands, wells, ete., ete....and have éver thereafter wrongfully and forcibly retained and maintained possession of said lands, wells, ete. - without the consent of the owners thereof and of the persons lawfully entitled to the pos- session of the same, including the plaintiffs.” Hillquit s: ‘it is purely a money 4ispute.” Charging that the Russian workers and peas- ants in November, 1917, had no right to confis- cate the land and property of their oppressors— a right recognized even by the United States imperialists, when it does not concern their booty—but a right demanded by the Working Class Revolution—Hillquit turns the guns of the black socialist party through its leaders on the rising Working Class Republic of the Soviet Union, side by side with those of the U. S., French, British, Italian imperialist governments. And at the same time, he has the nerve to call it “purely a money dispute.” Hillquit was on his way to the congress of the Second International, which will put the stamp of approval on his act. The leaders of the Sec- ond International are meeting te complete their war plans in league with the impe"“1list powers which have brought Germany into lie by help- ing the German bosses to keep off the coming German Revolution, which has been caused by the growing misery and starvation of the Ger- man masses and the growing prosperity in the Soviet Union. Hillquit speaks of recognition of the Soviet Union by “our government!” If the government is “ours,” which is preparing to sell out the min- ers to the coal operators; if the government is “ours,” which is breaking the strike of the tex- tile workers in Allentown; if the government is “ours,” which uses police, tear gas, shot guns and machine guns against the Kentucky min- ers, police, jails, injunctions, gangsters and rack- eteers against needle, food and other strikers who are fighting against hunger; if the gov- ernment is “ours,” which sends the unemployed to jail and the chain gang on charges of va- grancy; if the government is “ours,” which clubs and lets the unemployed starve; if the govern- ment is “ours,” which hounds the foreign-born and lynches the Negroes—then Hillquit is wel- come to it. It is the ktrd of government which Hillquit’s friends headed in Germany and murdered Lieb- kneicht and Luxemburg and tens of thousands of courageous working class fighters. It is the kind of government which, with Hillquit’s friends at its head, today in England is mur- dering the workers and peasants in India. It is indeed “our” government, which is preparing for war on the Soviet Union and has just concluded linked up with the struggle to save the boys. This will be dor.c if we show the Scottsboro case. to be a high point in the savage attack of the bosses who wish to terrorize the Negro masses so that they will not fight against their worsen- ing conditions. ‘Bring the unemployed in the block and neighborhood committees into the Unemployed Councils, men and women. Turn the attention of the women toward the women’s councils. Bring them all into our Tenants’ Leagues. But we must bring the L.S.N.R. into very concrete struggles by having it develop struggles against every form of discrimination, jim-crowism and segregation from which the Negro masses suf- fer; by organizing demonstrations against the- atres and restaurants which bar or Jim-Crow Negroes. These are functions of the L.S.N.R. groups. The constjtution of the League and the St. Louis convention decisions may be secured through the League National Office. ‘PURELY A MONEY DISPUTE” the pact with France, which forms the united front of the imperialist powers, the reactionary union leaders, Green and Woll, and the social- ist party leaders. Thomas pretends that he does not share Hill- quit’s opinion, That is a lie. Thomas knows that it was indiscreet for Hillquit to take over the complaint so openly, but Thomas in turn, praises Hoover's “master stroke” in bringing about the “debt holiday” for Germany, the price that the imperialists are paying for solidifying the united front of machine guns, airplanes ‘and war machinery against the Soviet Union and the coming German Working Class Revo- lution, Thomas is just as black though he covers it up with churchly hypocrisy. Workers! Hillquit says it is “purely a money dispute.” This attack is clearly a political and war move on the part of the socialist leader- ship of the United States, and the entire world. Answer this new step in the war front against the Soviet Union, at the monster United Front demonstration led by the Communist Party on Auguse 1! Make this demonstration the answer to the imperialist government ani its allies in arms, the leaders of the American Federa‘ion of Labor and the socialist party? Wes #Wiquit and Thomas know that the days of their treachery to the working class of this country are coming to an end! The Soviet Union yvows in power. The German Working Class Revolution and the Polish Revo- lution are advancing. The American working class, with hatred in its heart for the starvation and hunger that the bosses are forcing on it, and for the black fascist treason of the leaders of the socialist party, who are preparing for a new act of betrayal to the working class of the world, will answer the war plans of the enemies of the workers by organizing the solid ranks of | the revolutionary workers and poor farmers, white and Negro, in revolutionary declaration and struggle FOR DEFENSE OF THE SOVIET UNION, FOR OVERTHROW OF THE IMPE- RIALISTS AND THEIR FASCIST STOOL- PIGEONS, FOR THE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS REVOLUTION! Expose these rats! Crush them underfoot! Demonstrate on August 1! Support the Com- munist Party in the election campaign on the program of CLASS AGAINST CLASS! FOR THE WORKING CLASS AGAINST THE CAP- ITALIST CLASS! Lovestone Club in Brooklyn Losing Members T a meeting of the Borough Park Youth Club (which is controlled by Lovestune rene- gades), held in the latter part of June, a group of fifteen members split away from them, and have since then returned to the Borough Park Workers’ Club, which is a left-wing organiza- tion honestly supporting the revolutionary movement of the working class. The following are exerpts from a statement drawn up by these fifteen members: “At present we find a situation, where the working class is going through the most trying moments. Mass unemployment, wage-cuts, de- portations, lynchings, war danger, defense of the Soviet Union, etc., are immediate issues which demand the welding together of all forces of labor. In all of the above-mentioned ques- tions, we find that the Communist Party is the only one that really leads the working class. “Our Club (the Borough Park Youth Club), instead of unreservedly supporting the Commu- nist Party, used every excuse to tear down and to fight the Communist Party and its support- ing organizations. Every one of our political lec- turers wound up with an attack on the Com- munist Party. We constantly spread the “Rev- olutionary Age,” of which every issue spends no less than three-fourths of its space in attacking the revolutionary movement. “Lately the situation became still worse. In- dividuals of our club dare to call the Commu- nist Party a destroyer of the working class, For joining or supporting the Party one is la~ belled a spy and a traitor, and, for belonging to the left-wing unions, one is called a scab. » “All this must immediately come to an end. We cannot parade as a working-class club and yet fight against the very thing against which capitalism is also fighting, even if it is done with revolutionary phrases. “We must immediately condemn the Love- stone Group and the “Revolutionary Age” as the ones who constantly urge us to struggle against the Communist Party. We must bear in mind that the capitalists, liberals, socialists, labor reactionaries and all shades of those who have been expelled from the Communist Party BGoata | By JORGZ Yes, Kids, This Is Capitalism Under the headline: “A Waste Milk Peril," the N. ¥. Sun on July 6, published the follow- ing illuminating item: “This is the season in which there is a sur- plus of milk. It is Particularly muarked this year because business depression has caused con- siderable reduction in milk consumption, What to do with the waste milk is a problem. The state health authorities find it necessary to warn collection stations not to discharge it di- rectly into streams or into municipal sewer systems. “If milk in considerable quantities is dis- charged into streams, it poliutes them and kills the fish. If, under similar circumstances it is discharged into sewer systems, it upsets the operation ef sewage treatment plants. The state authorities urge !ocal authorities to pro- tect the ‘eams and the sewage disposal Plants by pelling milk handlers to obey the Public Health Law and Sanitary Code.” Now, isn’t that splendid! With millions of kids, hundreds of thousands of tiny babies of the poor in New York City being stunted in body for lack of milk, many of them actually dying for lack of it, capitalist, government authorities rush to protect “Public Health” by ordering milk handlers to dump it anywhere but in the streams—it might “kill the fish”! But the price of milk, under the marketing monopoly of the Borden Milk Trust, is 15 cents a quart for Grade 3 fm New York City, while the dairy farmers are getting two cents, when they can sell it at all! Farmers and workerg! You must make a joint fight against capitalism or you will both starve to death! He Had Been Sentenced to Death Just as in the Scottsboro frame-up, a United Press dispatch from Norfolk, Virginia, dated July 3, told us that William Harper, 20 years old, had been sentenced to death on the testimony of a Mrs. Dorothy Skaggs, who accused the Negro boy cf raping her. Differently than in the Scottsboro case, he was granied a new trial and acquitted. But, so we are informed by N. Y. World Telegram, he was acquitted only because—“Nine white men and women testified the woman was at a dance near Elizabeth City, N. C., when the alleged assault occurred.” If the nine men and women had been Ne- groes, then what... ? A Sheriff’s Sale you know that farmers pay high taxes to pay the sheriff his salary and ex- s in foreclosing en them and seizing their ‘operty, then the followi: item may interest. you. It is taken from the Cleveland “Plain Deal- er”-of June 7th: “Tiffin, Ohio, July, 6—A new record for low farm values was set here today at a sheriff's sale. Ten acres of oats in the field sold for ten dollars, a cream separator and a grain drill for a dollar each, a new corn planter for $3.50, and an ald one for ten cents,” To us there seems to be somthing left out. ‘The farmer and his family lumped together, ought to have brought about 65 cents. . . 6a Due to “Concatenation” “Comrade Jorge:—The Soviet Union and its successes have so bewildered its enemies that the latter can do nothing but mouth the most utter foolishness and contradictions. The fol- lowing are from Ludwig Kasti’s article in the N. Y. Times of July 5: “1, ‘It is a tragie concatenation of circum- stances that distress is increasing in the cari- talist countries.......’ “2. ‘Maintaining the dictatorship in Russia is being facilitated not only by the relatively low standards of life of the pecple, but also by thar docility, which distress has intensificd.’ “3, It—the Five Year Plan—would hardly have succeeded had not the Communistic agrarian psychology of the Russian village come to its aid.’ “In the first quotation, Kasti attempts to bluff his realers into the belief that the present crisis is the result of some unforeseen, acci- dental, uncontrollable ‘concatenation of circum- stances’, for which no one is to blame. This is the universal behaviour of the high priests of any system based on exploitation; when misfor- tune seizes the masses as the result of that very system itself, these high priests try to explain away the fact by some voodoo, mystical humbug. “In the second quotation, Kasti sets up the principle that distress makes people docile. ‘What nonsense! If distress makes people docile, how is it that 40,000 miners, distressed to the verge of starvation, are now conducting a most ener- getic struggle?” (While the comrade is correct in his comment on these cases, we can never judge the matter from the abstract question: Does misery make for docility or revolt? Be- cause it depends on concrete circumstances. Workers react against a worsening of their con- ditions, by revolution the Russian workers have won a higher standard than ever before and they would struggle against it being taken from them, as the American miners are now strug- gling—Jorge.) “In the third quotation, Kasti spins an argu- ment the direct opposite of the argument used by other miserable watch-dogs of capitalism, namely that Communism can never be success- ful because of the inherent and stubborn indi- vidualism of the Russian peasant. “What makes it necessary for us to watch these arguments is the fact that they are as dangerous in their effects as they are vicious in motive and unsound in their logic—W.W.M.” are fighting against the Communist Party, One cannot be a friend of the left-wing movement and co-operate with this kind of work. “We must remedy the harm we did in splite ting away, over a year ago, from the Borough Park Workers’ Club. We must go back to the revolutionary labor movement, “The Communist Party is the only organizae tion we should support, “(Signed)—Lester Diamond, Fannie Levin, Sylvia Rosenberg, Dan Cutler, Jack Broder, Betty Himmel, Leonard Polansky, Jack Michalee witz, Rose Himmel, Mildred Schuster, Rose Fish man, Lilly Zatcher, J, Smith, L Begun and Esther Hertzberg.” nf