The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 31, 1931, Page 4

“(Praemysl, Lods, Poitrkow, A Savage Reign of Police Daw Wwoonun, ivi 2UNA, DALUNDAYL, OUrobduil ol, loi Terror in Los Angeles | By €©YRIL BRIGC LOS ANGELES, Oct. protests angry storm of ma been ‘aroused here by the brutal tacks of Mayor Porte: Red Squa 0G unemployed workers demc ing against starvation and tion rallies of the Communist F that the boss press is forced to Columns of front page news ar torials to the exposure of the reign of terror by a delegat erals and Communist wo bearded Mayor Porter in h The hearing in the mayor's of Mas been followed by a fake gesture investigation” by the grand jury evidence of O4,;' of the police brutality shoved under the reluctant nose Mayor, Porter. Scores of work have appeared before the grand jury and, told of being brutally beaten by the police and of having their meet- ings and demonstrations broken up. One Japanese worker told of being struck m behind and his he; open as he stood holding a ba with the words, “Our Chi Food,” A young Negro worker told brutally beaten up by police wh attempted to cross the street to a meeting at Fiftieth and Hooper Ave- mue,. where speakers of the Unem- Ployed Council were rallying the Masses to support the of the unemployed for unemployment relief and social insurance. Nelson, another wor told how plain clothes men broke into his Home without a warrant, and, when he protested, beat him and ripped the clothes off his back in the pres- fice of his two children. Marx and Logan, both San Pedro Jongshoremen, gave accounts of frac- tured ribs and painful bruises in- flicted by the cossack cops. Meyer Bailin, local manager for the campaign for the repeal of the criminal syndicalism law, told of being beaten and kicked downstairs while speaking in a Spring Street han. So intense is the r of the workers of Los Angeles against the brutal police attacks and the cynical denial of their constitutional ri; that, fearing the growing unrest f the ers as a result of their Yealization that capitalism has no solution of ther crisis except starva- tion for the working class and bul- The LU.R.W. h than once mobili. on behalf of the victir tei and t justice of the bourgeoisie. It was thanks to the protests made by the writers, of the Whole world that the Lettish writer and revolutionary, Linard Laicen was Teleasedefrommprison. It was the ac- | tion of the world’s writers that open- ed the prison gates for the Ruman- jan proletarian writer Moses Kahana, &nd secured the release of the Hun- @arian revolutionary writer Aladar Tames. Again it was these same writers’that frustrated the trial of Johannes R. Becher, by which the German bourgeoisie hoped to close the mouth of this great poet, Ger- many's greatest proletarian writer, ‘The deepening of the economic cri- | sis, which itself is inseparably linked Up with the capitalist system as such, together withthe growth of the re- yolutionary. movement favor the de- velopment of proletarian literature @md enhance its value as a weapon of class struggle. And this leads the world bourgeoisie to persecute with increased fury the representatives of | this literature and to aim at their | Physical extermination. | The only way to assist the tortured | revolntionary writers in China is by mobilizing public opinion for strug- gle against those imperialist powe which. support and finance the bloody power of the Kuomintang cut- throats, ' The position of the revolutionary | Writers in Palestine, Egypt, Indo-| China gnd India is not a whit better. | In the yery centre of civilized Europe, | Germany, we find an extensive sys- | tem of persecution, whose aim is the | destructi¢n of revolutionary literat- ure, thé proletarian press and all representatives of revolutionary thought. Tt is a matter of common knowledg that novels of the prole- tarian writers Marchwitze and Neu- krantz describing the role of social democracy in the struggle against the revolutionary proletariat have been confiscated. It is well known that the social-democratic police | presidents have banned well nigh all working class newspapers in Ger- many. ‘The German committee for strug- gle for the freedom of literature state that special decrees issued by the government enable the authorities to carry on an unprecedented persecu- ition of revolutoinary literature and the revolutionary press, Last November the International Conference of revolutionary writers, which, met in Kharkov, called upon @ll the writers of the world to strug- | gle against Polish fascism. %t ex- posed before the whole world the ar- bitrariness of Pilsudski’s regime both in the occupied territory of the West Ukraine and in West White Russia. Every day we receive new informa- tion from all the Polish prisons Pinsk, Ferdon, Vilna, etc.) on political pris- | oners being forced to wear prison clothing, on how prisoners are de- prived of the right to exercise and | lic opinion s of the white Appeal of the Int'l of Revolutionary Writers | those who resist, boss 1 forced to pretend con- the police brutality. Record, in a front ys in part: the ry going to do about Raner, and bout the dozens of other Los An- geles policemen who have been ac- cused of specific bi “hos wait for three months now for the g to put a stop to the car- nival of police beatings.” les a satirical photograph The same paper ¢ advertisement” with a of Mayor Porter blindfolded and un- able to see any wrong with his police departr The advertise- ment reads in part: on the famous Goose- ficial Blinders, Porter was the police department and point out anything wrong with it. “But he couldn't. he shouted with police department e in the w I can't see wrong with it. hen he looked at Chief Steckel through the magic bandage. ‘He's wonderful,’ exclaimed Hizzoner, ‘and city this is to have such e chief!’ showed Mayor Porter a on, ‘I can't see or took a look at the crime statistics. ‘Can't see a ‘ing wrong ther either. Why, t is pract no crime or vice at all, you might say.’ “Honestly, folks, with cops beating | up people right in front of him, big nbling joints running full blast, | id robberies and burglaries galo yor Porte! a beautiful, e nd there are Mayor Porters in city and town throughout America. It is not only this Los Angeles Mayor Porter that is all wrong, as the Los Angeles boss paper tries to make out. It is the whole damnable capitalist system under which the workers are sentenced to starvation and clubbed and shot down if they re- sist. It is not only this Mayor Por- ter who must be thrown out, but the entire rotten, brutal capitalist system. Union { already more! cation to cells for criminals, who play the game of tion, he prison administra- The culminating point of this state duction -martial, which is equivalent to introducing martial law through- cut the whole count | Recently a group of proletarian writers, Comrades Broniewski, Wat, | Hempel and Stawar were thrown into | prison for having dared to protest in an “open letter against the brutal/ opened the way for an attack against | torturings of political prisoners. Ac- cording to the Polish press, these writers will be brought before a mil- itary court. Confronted with a cat- trophic crisis and a growth of the revolutionary movement, the govern- | ment of Pilsudski shrinks at nothing. | In Esthonia the proletarian writer, | Comrade Johann Lauristin, who re- cently finished a prison term of 8 years, has again been thrown into prison. Comrade Lauristin, who is| editor of the Was arrested in 1923 and in 1924 was | condemned to 7 years hard labor on | a false charge, the only “material evidence” being’ a faked letter alleged | to have been found in the pocket of | @ member of the Central Committee | of the Esthonian Communist Party, | Comrade Kreuks, who was murdered | by the secret police. After his prison term, Comrade Laur was altogether only a week at liberty before being arrested a second time, on @ provocatory charge, again on the basis of a forged letter. The Es- thonian bourgeoisie is wreaking ven- | geance on Comrade Lauristin, who 1s | known as an uncomprimising fighter | for the revolution. Only a Vigorous and concerted protest by the world’s writers can influence the outcome of the trial, which has been fixed for a near date. In Finland, among the hundreds of servi writers: Otto Oinonen, Rudolf Parvi- ainen, Armal Eikkio, Karlo Vaallii, Ratu Vaarainen, Antti Timonen and Anni Suonio. The chief crime of these revolutionary writers was that they came out against the prepara- tion for an imperialist war on the Soviet Union. In Czechoslovakia the proletarian writer Fucik has been arrested. The Austrian proletarian writer Erich Freudmann has been deported from Spain. The proletarian writer Josep Beiser has been deported from Aus- tria. The attack on the proletarian lit- erature is, in its turn, a component part of the campaign organized by the international bourgeoisie against the proletariat; is an inseparable part of their prepgrations for war against the Soviet Union, being one of the means for making sure of the rear. Proletarian and revolutionary writ- ers, defend yourselves! Using all the means at your disposal, make known the true reasons for the’ onslaught of the bourgeoisie on you! ‘The capy italists are attempting to transfer the burden of the crisis onto the backs of the proletarians and seek a way share provisions, on beatings and torturings of prisoners, on their allo- out of the crisis by preparing war on attempts at secrecy, plays a more di- “Young Communist,” |, political prisoners, there are seven| FACING DEATH IN ALABAMA Andy Wright, one of the 8 inno- cent Scottsboro boys whom Ala- bama boss lynchers and their Ne- gto agents are trying to railroad to the death chair on a framed-up The workers of the whole world have taken up their fight and under the leadership of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the International Labor Defense are demanding their un- conditional release, charge of “rape.” O VICTIMS OF CAPITALIS a T OPPRESSION | | The 60-year old Negro farm hand, facing death in Maryland on a framed-up charge of murdering a being robbed of his wages. The pic had been extorted out of him by 16 hours of revolting torture. a” bandages show why he “confess rich farmer and his family after ‘ture shows him after a “confession” | The | The International Labor Defense has furnished him a lawyer and is rallying the masses to his defense, The New World Against the Old By TH. NEUBAUER (Berlin). Every day brings fresh news from the socialist world of victories on the front of socialist construction: 183 new industrial plants commenced work in the first half of 1931; 15 mil- lion peasant farms have been collec- tivized. The oil plan for five years has been fulfilled in two and a half years. Many works and factories have already gone beyond the aim set_ by the Five-Year Plan. The output of the Stalingrad tractor works was 2,151 in September. In Kharkov, the new tractor giant, with an annual production of 50,000 trac- tors, has commenced working. In lapsed. The second largest private bank in France has to be “support- ed.” In the United States of Amer- ica there is a general run on the | banks, and nobody knows How it will jend. The huge Ivar Kreuger trust is beginning to totter. The Ameri- can Gianninj Trust, with a capital | of over 1,000 million dollars, has col- lapsed. England and the S¢éanal- |navian countries are plunging ever |deeper into inflation. Germany is | approaching a fresh disaster, which |when it breaks out, will be worse than the July disaster. What will to- morrow, the day after tomorrow bring? |The flood of the capitalist Moscow, the new Amo works have | World crisis is rising ever higher. commenced operations with an an- nual production of 50,000 autos. In Magnitogorsk, the first blast ~ fur- naces have commenced to work. In | Nishni-Novgorod, the new auto giant, capable of turning out 140,000 motor lorries a year, has just been* completed. On the Dneiper the gi- | gantic industiral combine — electric- ity, chemicals, aluminum, metal- lurgy—is nearing completion. The | whole of Soviet Russia is engaged in building—building factories, mining works, railways, roads, hospttals, dwellings, whole towns—an entirely |new world, the world of Socialism! And in the capitalist world? All| the horrors of a rapidly disintegrat- ing society are let loose. Every day brings fresh alarming news from the capitalist world. The biggest bank in Denmark has .ol- v The House of Morgan and the Coming War By HARRY GA J. P. Morgan, American finance capital, despite all | central figure of! rect and open role in the rapid moye- ment of the imperialist powers to| War, especially in their war prepara- | tions against the Soviet Union; as well as in the wage cut attacks that grow more frequent daily aaginst the American workers, Morgan manner moves aboard in a mysterious his palatial yacht | Corsair, following in the trail of An-| drew Mellon to England and Ger- many. His associates, Owen D. Young, of the powerful General Electric; Albert H, Wiggins, Wall Street figure in the Bank of International Settle- ments; and Eugene Meyer, head of the Federal Reserve System, map out the policy for the Hoover govern- ment in connection with reparations payments, attempts to save the crumbling banking system, and in the whole financial and political policy of American imperialism, When the British pound collapsed and the MacDonald government the British “present” workers, Morgan was at the operation and deigned to give an official interview, | because his role could not longer be | hid. Laval spoke to Morgan in Paris before he visited Hoover, and Louis Seibold, special writer for the Hearst papers goes so far as to-say that J. P. Morgan personally arranged the visit, laying down the basic policy of Wall Street. It is not Morgan, the individual, | against the workers’ standard of liv- who moves about various scenes of; action plotting a new world war in an effort to save collapsing world capitalisnf, or preparing the attacks | ing. Morgan most. typically repre- | sents finance capital, the small group of powerful bankers who are closely intertwined and rule under the mask | of the Hoover government, ‘The present world economic crisis | is bringing about a more solid merger of the leading group of bankers and | the capitalist state. This movement | was already expressed in the role of Andrew Mellon, one of the leading imperialists in the country, a banker- appoinment of the Morgan partner, Morrow, as ambassador to Mexico. But this process is now taking on a headlong pace, laid bare by the se- vere crisis with Morgan himself per- sonally supervising the international | war preparations conferences, While ex-ambassador Gerard, in a lax moment declared that 59 rich bankers and industrialists are the real rulers of the country, he told only part of the truth. Among the 59 industrialist in the Harding-Coolidge- | Hoover government, as well as the are in the most decisive position, and who because of their control of the of the leading and decisive banks and trusts, become the generals before the war, laying out the future war al- liances and directing the drive against the workers’ living standard. ‘A review of the position of the House of Morgan will show how de- cisive the control of this pivotal group of bankers is. It must be re- membered there is no sharp division between the other leading financial groups and Morgan. The Mellon, Morgan, Rockefeller, Baker and Har- |riman interests intertwine making a |network covering the entire country, stretching out its golden bands» to the leading colonies. But the House of Morgan is the most mobile and strategically placed force, setting. the line and expressing most consciously the drive of the imperialists to war. In the last world war the House of Morgan did the major share of the financing for the allied powers, mak- ing hundreds of millions out of the slaughter. In the process of trusti- fication in American industry, the Morgan cluster of banks take the lead. there is still a smaller group who Murder | CLEVELAND, Ohio. — While the Cleveland boss: and their police thugs are answering with bullets and |terror the demands of the unem- | ployed workers for relief and for food for their children, the suicide toll on jobless workers continues to mount in this city. The Cleveland Press, one of the J. P. MORGAN opinion against ‘the capitalist on- slaught! Writers, journalists, artists sym- pathizing with the Soviet Union, it 4s up to you to take active part in this struggle. Our struggle is part and parcel of the struggle of the world proletariat against the preparations for an im- perialist war on the Soviet Union, of their fight for the first socialist state in the world, for the emancipation: of the world’s workers and exploited people, for the liberation of all op- pressed nations! ray a ea The John Reed Club, the American Section of the International Union of Revolutionary Writers, in endors- ing the above appeal, calls.npon all American writers, artists, scientists, teachers and other intellectual work- ers to join tn protesting against the brutal terror which has the direct and indirect support of American impe- rialism, Send your protests to the the Soviet Union, Mobilize public | John Reed Club, 63 E. 15th St., New York City boss papers howling for an increased | terror against the unemployed, re- | ports the suicide of an tiidentified man in an office of the Union Trust | Building. The Cleveland Plain¢ boss paper howling for the blood of aler, another workers who dare to fight for un-| | facgblieoiede relief and against evic+ | tions, reports: “A woman identified as Mrs. Rose Sanburg, 55, died yesterday at City Hospital as a result of taking poison in a downtown hotel, according to police. “Police pronounced the case sui- cide, and said Mrs. Sanburg had recently lost a position as house- Keeper.” Decline In Employment. At the same time, the boss press are forced to admit a further decline in employment in Cleveland, declar- ing that jobs in factories “declined 7 per cent in September in 100 repre- sentative manufacturing concerns.” They also admit that “closing down of body plants and automobile works accounted for the large decline,” and that the employment index now stands “at the lowest in the ten years Ahese statistics have been available.” They also admit a general slashing of the wages of those still employed. This gives the lie to the fakers who are trying to hide from the workers the fact that the economic crisis is rapidly worsening. re ier | Mother of 8 Commits Suicide, TOLEDO, Ohio, Oct. 29.—Under the caption “Mother of 8 Who Ended Battle With Want, Is Buried,” the boss newspaper, the Toledo Blade, admits the death by suicide of an ; unemployed working class mother who, feeling herself\no longer able to bear the anguish of seeing her children starving before her eyes, hung herself here a few days ago. ‘The worker's name is Mrs. Lillian to maintain her children and home Capitalism Continues to Luce, whose husband died four years | ago leaving her to carry on the fight | ‘The House of Morgan consists of Workers under a murderous system which | throws workers out of jobs to starve, | denies them relief and finally throws |them on the streets when they can no longer pay the rent extortions of | the greedy landlords. In her fight to feed her children, Mrs. Luce contracted tuberculosis. She lost her job a few months ago and could not find another. The Toledo Blade admits that this jobless | worker made a desperate struggle to | maintain her home but has nothing |to say of the thousands of other workers who are in the same situa-.| | tion today, with their children starv- | ing before their eyes while the boss | The Blade | | clacs“denies them relief. says, “Paying the grocer, the landlord, and keeping her children in school beeame a desperate stfuggle.” _ Only a short time ago, the doctor told her she could not possibly live more than @ year even if she could have proper nourishment and care. Most of the eight children she leaves are very young, one only 3 years. Kisses Baby, Commits Suicide. (Clyde Laws, unemployed and with a wife and five children to support, came home from a futile quest for work, kissed his youngest baby, drank a bottle of poison and threw the empty bottle into his wife's lap. He ‘died almost immediately. ‘The state commissioner of pardons is holding over 450 men in their cells because, although otherwise they have qualified for parole, it is a rule that paroled men must have a job ready for them. There are no jobs. Mrs. Hattie Webb, mother of six children . and expecting another, drank whole bottle of poison. When taken to a Detroit hospital, it was discovered that she had nothing to eat for three days, and the chil- dren were undernourished. She will probably recover from the poison, but authorities offer no cure for starva- tion. Two unemployed Dearborn men killed themselves on the same day last week, one with a borrowed shot- gun and one by hanging himself with a light cord. “Good fishing in the Detroit River,” say the Morgue attendants. Last week, bodies of four men, emacited 19 partners, each situated in a stra- tegic financial or industrial position. The House of Morgan holds 99 di- rectorships in 72 of the leading cor- porations, with combined assets of around $20,000,000,000. These corpo- rations are the main banks or basic industries of the United States. The Morgan firm, together with the five leading New York banks which are interlocked with it, control 33 per cent of the country’s banking resources. Morgan has a strangle- hold on the powerful Federal Re- serve system. The total combination of the group of which Morgan forms the apex controls banks and indus- tries holding wealth amounting to $74,000,000,000 or about one-fourth of the total wealth of the United States. All the war industries, as well as war financing, lead to Morgan & Co. In international finances this group Plays a powerful role. The so-called Young Plan was drawn up in the of- fices of Morgan and three of the Morgan associates, headed by Owen D. Young, headed the conference that put the plan into effec’. Loans to Germany to pay repcrations were floated through Morgan and Co. The Hoover moratorium plan for Ger- many was a Morgan scheme. No in- ternational move of American capi- talism takes place without the House of Morgan playing a prominent, if not the decisive, part. It was Morgan who floated loans to Ozarist Russia and now maneuvers with Laval for a war against the So- viet Union to batter down the work- ers’ republic, open the country to capitalist exploitation, and insure the payment of the Czarist loans. Both American directors on the Bank of Iaternational Settlements, which is the machinery for regulat- ing the Young Plan, are ‘chosen by Morgan. ‘The “liberal” fakers in the United States Senate attempt to direct their fire against Morgan as an individual and thereby hope to fool the workers into the belief that the interest of the capitalist class as a whole is not identical with the interests of its dominant section. To do this they Jet loose a meaningless tirade against “Wall Street” and “Morgan” hoping to deflect the struggle of the workers away from an attack against the whole capitalist class as well as against its dominant group. It is not only in world maneuvers that the Morgan group directs the war moves of the entire capitalist class, but in the internal struggle to save profits at the expense of the workers’ the Morgan _ interests, through the Hoover government, and with the aid of the A. F. of L. are the driving force. vine Morgan and Wage Cuts. It is no accident that the wide- open wage cut drive began in the Morgan-controlled industries such as the United States Steel Corporation, Bethlehem Steel, Anaconda Copper, Du Pont chemical interests, spread- ing to Standard Oil, then to the rub- ber trust, and now being prepared on the railroads in which Morgan & Co. have heavy interests. The capitalist state, the executive committee of the capitalist class, be- comes more closely fused with the leading bankers, in many instances the bankers not even taking the trou- ble to cloak themselves with official titles, but acting directly as the rep- resentatives of the exploiting class and their state. ‘The nearer war comes the more fe- verish the actions of the financial magnates, directing the war alliances, ‘The whoie process of bolstering up capitalism at the expense of the workers—through driving to war at the same time that they smash down the workers’ living standard—is more openly directed by the bankers who from starvation, have been dragged oub in the last world war made billions out of the slaughter of the masses. | Nothing is safe any longer. Nothing stands firm. In the womb of this crisis revolutions are maturing. What will happen jn Poland, in Hun- |gary, in Germany? *« * & Soviet Russia is showing the world @ new economic order, a new social order. In the capitalist countries fac- tories and works are being closed down in thousands, the machines jare converted into scrap iron, the furnaces are extinguished, the pits are flooded, the factories are falling into decay, the ships are broken up. In Soviet Russia, however, 518 new works and factories are set going. In the capitalist countries food is destroyed wholesale, the area under cultivation is reduced, whilst the masses of the working people. are starving. At the same time the So- viet Union is increasing on a tre- mendous scale the area under wheat, sugar and vegetables. In the capi- talist_ countries 22 million unem- ployed are starving and a tremen- dous campaign for cutting down wages and social policy is being car- ried out. In the Soviet Union, how- ever, there is not a single unem- ployed, wages are being increased by 20 to 30 per cent, social services are being extended on a scale which is absolutely unthinkable in the capi- talist. countries. Why is this so? Millions of working people who put this question find only one an- swer to it: Because in Soviet Rus- sia there are no capitalists nor capi- talism. The capitalist world is falling. to pieces, because it is no longer able to contro! the productive forces which it has itself called into being. It can only cope with them by destroying the productive forces and also the products. The more food the earth yields, the greater the hunger of the masses; the more the machines pro- duce, the greater the misery. In its hunt after profits capitalism has cre- ated ever more powerful productive forces. Now they turn against their own creators. In order to gain high- er profits, capitalism reduces wages, cuts down social services and ruins the home markets; now it complains that sales are bad. For the sake of profits capitalism has glutted the world market; now it complains that the world markets are completely dis- organized. For the sake of profits, for the sake of economic and politi- cal power, capitalism has intensified Class antagonisms to the extreme; now it cries out that the working people are threatening with the rey- olution! Is there a more pitiable, miserable archy of capitalism and its devastate ing consequences. eo La For 14 years the capitalist. of ali | countries, and with them their social democratic lackeys, have hoped in vain for a collapse of. the Soviet Union. Today, anybody. who ventures to express such an illusion only, makes himself ridiculous. For it is gradually becoming clear even to the -most blind and bigoted defender of bank- Tupt capitalism that the. Five-Year Plan, with its miracles .of “heroic achievement and gigantic suceesses, has been possible only because it has behind it a whole people. The capi- talists are able to maintain. their bloody regime only by means Of the | most brutal methods of: oppression jof the masses. We see how fas¢ism, as the ultimo ratio of the capitalist class war, is spreading more~and more. Summary courts, exceptional laws against the working clasé,:po- lice terror, these are the methods in all capitalist countries? Why?° be- | cause the small handful of exptoit- ers are unable otherwise to maititain their rule. But this system ofneapi- talist class rule is being profoundly shaken. The proletarian slavés-are striving to burst their chains. Orisis of democracy, crisis of Parliamentar- ism, crisis of fascist dictatorship. Why no “crisis of the Soviet State”? Because the Soviet State is the work- |ing people, their State, their instru- ment of power, their form of politi- cal organization, r A bourgeois doctor who hag, just returned to Berlin from a long \visit to’Soviet Russia reports: “The great- est, the most amazing thing that we witnessed there is the indescribable enthusiasm with which the masses work on the Five-Year Plan and-with which they regard the Soviet Power. Here there is quite another world. These are really emancipated men and women who feel themselves mas- ters im a free country.” “Bolshevism Jeads to chaos”, This is what was one time proclaimed. by means of placards, newspapers, meet ings. Today, everyone sees-where the chaos is, namely in the declining cap- italist world. “Think of the sacri- fices”! We have before our eyes ev- ery day the sacrifices which the work- ing masses have to make for. the sake of bankrupt society, It is true, the working class of Soviet Russia have made sacrifices, in fact heroic sacrifices. But they made them in order to do away with capitalism, to achieve victory. These sacrifices were necessary in order thatthe sacri- fices of the working class should cease, i be “It is no longer possible to proceed along the capitalist path/whines the social democratic Vienna’ “Arbeiter- Zeitung”. Quite right, But it ds pos- sible to proceed on socialist’ lines, wher ethere are no capitalists: any longer, where the working people themselves control economy and the State. It is not only possible to do without the capitalists, but the -work- ers are a hundred times better off without them. Here is thé “way of escape from misery which the-masses of the working people itt all‘ coun- tries are seeking. Soviet’Russia is an example, a way into the future, a call spectacle than this capitalist class, to the millions and millions: You have a world to win! ; which stands helpless and bewildered in face of the crisis which it has it- self produced and gives ear to the most stupid advice, which adopts the most ridiculous measures as reme- dies and makes the greatest charla- tans of its leaders? Could an eco- nomic and social order be more bank- rupt than capitalism is today? In socialist economy there is no contradiction between production and consumption: for production is no longer carried on for the sake of profits but to meet human needs. No matter how the productive forces may grow, no matter how production increases, Soviet Russia has no need to fear over-production. How alto- gether absurd is the question which one continually hears put by the cap- italists: will not Russia, after the completion of the Five-Year Plan, or later when the next Five-Year Plan has been fulfilled, have to suffer from crises similar to that which capital- ism is at present suffering? The Rus- sian worker laughs at the question and answers:'Then we shall have twice as much clothing, we shall have larger dwellitigs and lead a still bet- ter life and have higher cultural de- mands; then we shall work only 5 hours a day insiead of 7 as at pres- ent and shall be able to devote a larger part of our lives to higher cul- tural activity. The economy of the Soviet State is carried out according The Russell Sage tion published another volume in its ger aimed at promoting “peace” in indus- try and preventing the. 1 of class consciousness among, the workers. ‘ Lite the earlier book on ployee representation” in Rockefeller’s Colorado Fuel and Iron (which tried to prove the hymane attitude of the management after;the brutalities that led up to the Ludlow Massacre), this book on the U. ML. W. A. in Illinois is so extreme that a rank and file worker who happened to read it, would not be shaken but strengthened in his class. cons¢ious- ness. The tone is too academic, how- ever, to give it a wide appeal. Left. wing organizers will find in. “Labor Agreements in Coal Mines” by Louis Bloch many concrete illustrations of their argument that U. M. W. A,.of- ficials are closer to the coal opera» tors than they are to the rankk,and file miners. Caer ot No analysis of union politics is ate tempted. The whole question. of graft and corruption is sidestepped. But valuable for reference, are,the summary history of Illinois agree- ments and the case records.of scores of typical individual grievances, The Ig to plan and knows nothing of the an- book costs $2 saat’ ‘ss 3 : |