The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 28, 1932, Page 4

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Wage Four k 48th St, New f Address and ‘Telephones Atigonqutn” 4-7966. “Cable TOILING FARMERS AND | “tiene IMPERIALIST WAR By HENRY PURO S the economic crisis is deepening in all italist countries, the ruling capita looks more and more towards most effective way out other measures tha have resorted to, lik tariff walls, etc., tions between diff fore are lead isis. en aflation, setting up high narpening the contradic ernments and capitalists of all countrie: the Soviet Union and the gigantic gro ‘ocialism there, increases enormously the dan- ger of war in the form of a common attack of all capitalist powers against this workers and farmers republic ‘The question of the war danger is two-fold: 1) the question of the fight between two sys- tems; 2) the question of the redistribution of the world between leading imperialist powers. We do not need to speak any more about the | war danger only in abstract terms, for we have it already in concrete form. The war is already here. We have seen it in the attack of Japanese imperialists, supported by leading im- perialist powers, against Chinese masses in Man- churia and in Shanghal. In this attack of Japanese imperialism against the Chinese people th questions are involved. On the one hand {t involves the question of the partition of , taking away its national independence and bringing in sharp contradictions between imperialist powers, especially between the the imperialist powers, the United States, Japan, England, France and Italy, are trying to come to temporary agreements regarding the division of China in order to prepare a common attack against the Soviet Union. The feverish negotiations between imperialist powers on the spot (in Shanghai) and thru the League of Nations (in Geneva) to compel Japan on the one hand, and Chiang Kai-shek (the betrayer of the Chinese people) on the other hand to agree to the terms of imperialist powe: regarding to division of China, in order to turn the attack against Chinese Soviets and Soviet Union, points out very clearly the fact that the atta of Japanese imperialism against the Chinese people, is now being turned and extended to a common attack of all imperialist forces against the Soviet Union. The tmperialist armed forces of Japan in Manchuria are already advancing towards the Soviet border, while preparations are being made in Poland and other border states in order to launch a simultaneous attack against the Socialist Republic of Workers and Farmers irom the west. Alongside the feverish preparation of arma- ments, the imperialists all over the world are conducting enormous propaganda among the masses. They are trying to convince the masses that war is a good thing, that it would, set wheels of industry into motion which would mean plenty of work and good wages for the workers, that it would do away with the agricul- tural depression by opening up big markets for agricultural products, thereby creating high prices for farm commodities. First of all, this propaganda shows that capitalist exploiters and robbers are not concerning themselves with the question of humanity. They are ready to launch a murderous imperialist war on a large scale | and slaughter millions of workers and farmers in order to restore capitalist prosperity and to make more money. If we have forgotten what the last imperialist | World War meant for the masses, our memory ought to have been refreshed by the present Japanese robber war against the Chinese people, in which murderous bombs from airplanes, heavy guns and ships have been directed, not only against worker and peasant soldier defenders of Chinese independence, but also against defense- less Chinese workers, peasants, old folk, women and children. These horrible scenes would be repeated on a much larger scale if the imperial- United States and Japan; on the other hand all. | ist robbers for enlarging the present conflict into a world | imperialist. war or for a war against the Soviet Union. The imperialist robbers are ready to slaughter millions of workers and farmers in ) to destroy the independence of the Chin- ese people, the Chinese workers and peasants Revolution arid the Soviet Union. And even if someone wants to disregard this human side, does the war really mean better nomic conditions for the tollers? Absolutely not! War does not mean, as the capitalists and their henchmen try to assert, the overcoming of | the economic crisis, work and high wages for the workers and betterment of the conditions of the toiling farmers. On the contrary, it means increased misery, greater oppression and intensified terror against toiling millions, while the war profiteers and exploiters of workers and toiling farmers will make millions of profits. But, one may say, the last World War brought flourishing prosperity for the. American workers and farmers. While it is true, that to a certain extent American masses were able to maintain better standards of living during the lst World War, they are now paying dearly for the re- sults of that war. And there should be no doubt, that the ruling class puts all the sufferings and crifices that every war and especially modern rialist war brings forth, upon the shoulders of the working masses. Therefore, all the illusions which exist as a result of the vicious bourgeois propaganda that war would restore prosperity and raise the standard of living for the masses—these illu- | sions are only self-betrayal and must be done away with. There is no question that all im- perialist war means terrible, untold suffering and misery for the toiling masses at whose ex- pense they are being fought. It is clear to everyone that workers and farmers and their sons will be the first ones to be drafted and sent to the front as soon as the United States imperialism would be involved in war. Workers and toiling farmers must pay heavy taxation and make every sacrifice in their everyday lives in order to finance imperialist war._ United States imperialism, is very Heeply in- volved in the immediate preparations and in the joint war against the Soviet Union. It is therefore the duty of the toiling farmers in this country, together with the workers, to or- ganize energetic action against its own imperial- ist government's war preparations. Toiling farmers should demand that all money appro- priated for armaments and war preparations be distributed as relief for the unemployed and poor farmers thru Unemployed Councils and Committees of |Farmers, and that all Farm Board wheat be immediately distributed in a similar manner. The toiling farmers must also make the most energetic protests against the taxation burden that is now being added to the toilers in the cities and the country’ in’ order to finance the coming imperialist war. But this is not enough. Chinese men, wo- men and children are already béing Attacked and feverish preparations are being made to attack the Soviet Union. Thtreforé the toiling farmers together with the workets must otgan- ize powerful protest meetings and demonstra- tions and energetic action against transporte- tion of munitions and war material to Japan. Rally the masses to the big April 6 Anti-War meetings and demonstrations! Demand: Hands off Chinese masses. Hands off the Chinese workers Revolution! Hands off the Sdviet Union! “ In order to give the strongest possible effect to these slogans, to the fight against imperial- ist war and to their own immediate economic demands, the toiling farmers of the United States must begin in real éarnest-to build their organizations, Share .Croppers Union, Tenant Committees and Farmers Committees, and ‘to affiliate them around their ¢eritrdl organization, the United Farmers’ League. and farmers On the Presidential Elections in Germany Statement of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Germany) PART 2 (Conclusion) ‘The fact that the imperialist war has already started and that the danger.of a war of inter- vention against the Sovict Union is becoming More and more threatening, was not placed suf- ficiently as the central point of the agitational- propaganda mass work and of the organization | of concrete mass resistance against the wra prep- Arations. The fire of our sharpest self-criticism must be directed against the defective shop work, the lack of understanding for the necessity of placing the main emphasis of our entire work, especially of our revolutionary trade union work, in the shops. During the election campaign the main emphasis of our work did not lie in the shops, in the trade unions. It is not enough merely to talk in a declamatory way about shop work. A number of the most important Party decisions, such as the resolution declaring shop work and the opposition work in the reformist unions as “burning tasks,” particularly the last de- cisions of the Plenum of the Central Committee, hhave in many cases not been carried out. Here we must immediately make a turn reaching down into the deepest depths of the Party, of the Red Trade Union Opposition and of all mass organizations. Our activity among the masses of unemployed is also inadequate. The Communists in the Un- employed Committees were not active enough in the election fight. The mobilization and lead- ership of mighty struggles of the six million unemployed, who are suffering the most abject misery, is, together with the shop work, our most urgent task. Another serious weakness is the fact that with- in the frame-work of our strategically main at- tack the social democracy, we did not suffi- ciently put into effect the special tasks of our fight against the main influence of the ~na- tional socialists, and ‘The main shortcoming of our election cam- peign in general consists im the fact that our candidacy and policy of “class against class” was dealt with too schematically, and not suf- ficiently linked up with the concrete questions of the day to day policies. The fight for the socialist way out of the crisis of the capitalist fystem was conducted too weakly. These par- Maymentery deviations slso manifested theme ‘ | Selves in the fact that we did not conduct a | in Prussia, Wuertemberg and Bavaria. sufficient ruthless struggle against the impu- dent counter-revolutionary deceptive maneuvers of the Socialist Workers Party (left soclal-fas- cists) and the Trotskylsts—“For Thaelmann— Against the C.P.G.” ‘We must immediately draw the lessons from the main shortcomings and weaknesses, in order to determine our tasks in the se¢ond president- ial elections and the parliamentary elections In ac- cordance with the’ directives of the’ Comintern and of the Central Committee of our Party, we must place into the centre of -our struggle, in the center of our work in mobilizing the masses, the fight against the imperialist war, the de- fense of China and of the Soviet Union. We must know how to link up the fight against the imperialist war with the mobilization of the masses of workers for the fight against the emergency decree dictatorship of Bruening-Sev- ering, against wage cuts, and against the raid on the unemployed relief, against all attacks of the bourgeoisie on the toiling people. All the Party forces and our mass cadres must be so grouped that in carrying out our strategically principal tasks, the winning over of the ma- jority of the working class, we will attain the highest measure of success, ‘The main emphasis of our work must be laid on the decisive sections of the working class, ‘on the work in the shops. Without mobilizing the workers in the shops, without. organizing their fight against the offensive of the bosses, of the bourgeoisie, without the elosest connec- tion of the struggle of the shop workers and the struggle of the unemployed, a real revolutionary inass movement, a fight against imperialist war, is impossible. Without this fight the slogan “Defense of the Soviet Union” is a mere phrase. An army of the five million of the best, most class conscious section of the working class, 1s already following the banners of Communism, the only force which can lead the working class to vietory against the dictatorship of capitalism, against fascism. This ermy will grow. The Communist Party is entering the second clec- tion with its fighting condidacy of the red wor’ er candidate, Ernest Thaelmann. In this second election, it will carry its revolutionary program, its Communist slogans with the greatest sharp- ness and clarity into the masses of the German prolétariat and tollere, It will attack’ and ex- pose the treacherous polity of the: “légser “evil” “DAIWORK. Contre ARE sal Veseares arenorich in the United @ States,” sald Silas H. Strawn, , | close friend and personal adviser | of President Hoover, after consult- ing with Hoover on how to put the tax burdens on the masses. On the very same day that Strawn made this statement the New York World- Telegram pub- lished the fact that the personal | fortune of Andrew Mellon, former treasurer of the United States, and his family was $7,999,425,178, Mellon, who has the government machinery of Pennsylvania and | particularly of Pittsburgh and the | leading industrial centers of Penn- sylvania in his grasp, has ordered the shooting and murder of strik- | ing miners and steel workers, Mel- NO RICH IN THE | —= Mellon’s Billions Give the Lie to Strawn} Jon has been able, secretly to ha laws passed for his divorce case, and then, when the case was over, dust as quickly to have the laws revoked. The courts are his, and at the beck and call of his class. The state troopers quickly mobilize in heavy array to “protect” Mel- Jon's $7,999,425,178 from the de- mands of the starving millions who produced his wealth. The New York World-Telegram went to some great detail in order to describe the immensity of Mel- lon’s fortune—and his fortune is given « close run by the other 59 rulers of the United States, The Telegram pointed out that Mel- amount of— “All the 921,258). gui). 457). “It is approximately By aan WORT ORE Secs, e? Menbetign and Bronz, New Wee ye 3 . UNITED STATES.”—Silas H. Strawn. Jon's fortune is nearly twice the “All the money in the United States Treasury ($4,227,734,850). gold held in the United States Treasury ($4,955,- “All the money appropriated by Congress to run the government during the year 1932 (4,674,073- “All the money in circulation in the United States $4,821,933,- amount of the public debt of the United States ($16,801,485,143).” @USSCRIPTION RATES: es emt . $6; siz months, $3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs York City. Voreigs: one year, $2; six montha, 94.66. Besides, Mellon’s fortune would pay the government budget deficit, which the Hoover hunger govern- ment wants the workers to pay through heavy, increased taxes, Mellon’s billions were wrung out of the sweat and toil of the work- ers of this country, and now, that the crisis has plunged 12,000,000 out of work, the capitalists say “there are no rich in the United States.” Morgan and Norman Thomas, leading socialist, combine to protect these huge fortunes, to throw the burdens on the workers by all sorts of schemes, such as the “Block Aid” system, the “Ford sys- tem” .of mass murder, and by wholesale jailings and beatings. half the A Call to the Defence of All Workers’ and Farmers’ Children! To the Whole Working-Class of the United States! To All Workers’ Organizations! To All Working-Class Mothers and Fathers! ALLIONS of children of American toilers are today the victims of the most unheard of brutal child misery, want and labor. There are millions of workers’ homes in America where | there are children sick with some disease, or staying home for lack of clothing with which to 6 achool, ot vainly appealing to their mothers ot bread. © ‘The White House conference on Nov. 30, 1930, on “Child and Health Protection,” “tearfully” | admitted that even in “normal” times at least six million out of 45 million children in the | United States are not properly nourished, and that nearly four hundred thousand are tubercu- ler, On the basis of school board reports, the éapltalist press is forced to admit that 60% of the children are undernourished and starved. Ninety-five per cent of the workers’ children in the United States have defective teeth, while the granaries are overstocked with food. Doctors and health authorities predict a terrible rise of tuberculosis and rickets because of the conditions under which the children live. Millions. of. workers who have produced all the necessities of life are unemployed, underpaid, and surely too poor to buy food for their children. ‘The bosses dump thousands of tons of food and fruit and gallons of milk into oceans and rivers in an effort to keep up prices and increase profits while our children haven’t even the minimum ration of food toeat. Yet the capitalist millionaire promoter, President Hoover, has re- peatedly declared that it is not the business of the government to help the starving children. At the same time the government saves more money for the bankers by cutting the wages of the school teachers, by overcrowding the schools and by shutting them down altogether in many places. We Must Demand Government Support for All Child Laborers ‘Twelve million walk the streets in search of Jobs, while nearly five million of our children toil and sweat their lives away in farms, factories and in the streets. The capitalist press fills pages of sob stuff about baby Lindberg, but does not say one word of these five million little lives, and millions of starving children who are being sacrificed for the profits for the rich. The crime of child labor and misery rests on the heads of the rich class, A, F. of L. and socialist fakers, who all “attack” child labor as a “menace” to | adult workers, but have nothing to propose to relieve this situation. These Judases are ful- filling their tasks of reducing the standard of living of the workers and their children to sheer pauperism and to stop the workers from strug- gling for government support for the child toilers. Down With Discrimination Against Negro Children, ‘The Negro child, as well as the whole Negro race, has been made the special object of dis- crimination everywhere. In the giving out of relief in a school they are the last to get any- thing, and usually get nothing at all. In the South, where the capitalist uses child lator more than anywhere else, appropriations for the education of Negro children are refused. The Negro children have no schools at all, or are provided with miserable fire-traps and with the most inadequate teaching staff. In many cities children of the Negroes are forced into Jim Crow schools. Down With Discrimination of Foreign-Born Workers ‘The persecution of militant foreign-born fight against social democracy. ‘That is at the same time the best and most effective policy | for mobilizing the masses for the fight against the capitalist class front of Hindenburg-Bruen- ine-Severing-Hitler. Ta the coming weeks and months, in the sec- ond elections, in the Prussian elwtions and in the dally struggles of the masses uf workers, the Coramunist Party will develop its revolutionary class policy more boldly than ever, Under its leadership the working class will eonquer all its | enemies, a “with the roughest, most ruthless, passlonate Fight Against ‘Misery, Starvation, and Labor Among Children workers is increasing. Those who are opposed to the starvation program are either jailed or deported. Families are separated; children are jailed. In Tampa, Fla. Vesper Romero, a tobacco striker’s boy of 14, was jailed and put on parole for one year for having organized the children to help their parents fight for better conditions and higher wages. Children in the schools, under the guise of “Americanization,” are taught to hate their foreign-born parents and the entire working-class, Demand for Our Children Everything That the Soviet Union Gives Its Children. In contrast with these conditions, we see the ever brightening conditions of the children in the Soviet Union, There is no unemployment in the Soviet Union, and out of what the workers produce the children are the first to be cared for. There is no child labor in the Soviet Union. Instead, children are taught a trade in the school so that when they grow up they can be of real use to the socialist society. Every work- er’s child gets an opportunity to go to school and to college. ‘The bosses in the U. S. A. know that the workers will not stand for the murder of their children. They know that these children, to- gether with their parents will organize and fight. Therefore they make all efforts to cap- ture the children and stop them from fighting. ‘They build special organizations, like the Boy and Girl Scouts, etc., all of which have one aim in common: to win our children over to the support of the bosses, to prevent them from fighting for better conditions, and to teach them to hate the Soviet Union. All workingclass parents must rise as one to organize their children to struggle against these conditions. Our children must be organized to fight for their needs, and side by side with their parents, against the hunger and the war pro- gram of the bosses and their government. Build the Young Pioneers of America. ‘The Young Pioneers organize the children to carry on a fight for their everyday needs. In the miners’ strike in Pennsylvania and Ken- tucky, the tobacco strike in Florida the Y. P. A fought side by side with the adults on the picket line. Now they are carrying on a fight for free food and clothing. This fight, even though there was insufficient support from the adults, enabled them to force the government to give some relief to the children. The Campaign Against Child Misery and Labor Conditions are getting worse and the schools will be soon closing for the summer. The little miserable crumbs that we have forced the schools to give till now, will be stopped alto- gether. Our children will have to seek jobs, to help support the families and themselves. The Young Pioneers are organizing the children for @ strong fight against child misery, want and labor. The Young Pioneers give the children a workingclass education and counteract the bosses’ Propaganda. The whole workingclass must come to the support of this campaign. Only if the interest of the children becomes the interest of all workers, can we successfully carry on this fight. The Young Pioneers call upon all workers and upon all working-class organizations, Negro and white to actively support the campaign against child misery; want and labor. We calli you to organize mass demonstrations in the sup- port of the children’s demands. We call upon you to organize Pioneer troops, alongside every block committee of the Unemployed Councils, every local of the TUUL, every Party Unit, every branch of the WIR, ILD, Iwo, language organizations, etc. We call upon the united efforts of all organizations to set up relief cen- ters, shelter homes, camps and playgrounds for the children of the unemployed, part time and striking workers, The Young Pioneers of Amer- ica call for a sharp fight for adequate relief and Unemployment Insurance for all workers. Long live the united struggle of adult, youth and children against starvation and misery! Down with child labor! Government support for all child laborers! Free food and clothing for the workers’ chil- dren! Demand for our children everything the Fatherland of the Workers, the Soviet Union, gives its children! Defend the Soviet Union! Win the children in the Boy and Girl Scouts to fight with us—to join the Pioneers! Workingclass parents, children, fight for food in the schools, against hunger! Build the Young Pioneers of America! Work- ingclass children, join the Young Pioneers! —YOUNG PIONEERS OF AMERICA. . Soviet By MAX BEDACHT ‘The Friends of the Soviet Union are at this moment organizing a Workers’ Delegation to the Soviet Union. A Workers’ Delegation is not a group of people touring through the Soviet Union. A Workers’ Delegation is a group of workers each of whom is delegated by a group of American workers from certain factories, mines or workshops to represent them before the work- ers of the Soviet Union. The workers of the Soviet Union have extended to the workers of America an invitation to send such delegates to them for the first of May. The workers of certain factories or industries of the Soviet ‘Union have extended especial invitations to the workers of certain factories or industries in the United States to send such delegates. ‘Through such worker’ delegations it is made possible that the American workers see and learn of the conditions of the workers under the rule of the working-class in the Soviet Union directly from the Soviet workers themselves. Through can discuss with the Soviet workers their prob- Jems. Through such workers’ delegations the Am- erjcan workers can learn by the most direct method possible the malicious character of the anti-Soviet propaganda in the American cap- italist class, Through such workers’ delegations @ close tie will be established between tl. Am- erican and Soviet workers. Such a tie is a most effective facter in the prevention of a capitalist war against the Soviet Union. The workers’ delegations are eyes, ears and tongues of American workers brought in direct contact with the facts of the rapid progress of the building of socialism in the Soviet Union. Through them the American workers will see the se aS ps hl me cl vere Ve a a ll ill Ps | The Workers’ Delegation to the such workers’ delegates the American workers | Union There has been much too little attention paid to the organization of this delegation. Many who are active in its organization conceive of it as a tourist trip. They do not understand that the eyes, ears and tongues of American workers that will be sent to the Soviet Union must have an organic connection with the body of the American working-class. Otherwise what they see, hear or learn will have no value for the American workers and will, at best, only satisfy the individual tourist. The workers’ delegation during its stay in the Soviet Union will be the guest of the Soviet workers organized in the All-Union Trads Unions, No individual in America or elsewhere has the slightest right to claim the honor to be guest of the Soviet workers. This claim rests not with any individual, but with the American working- class. Only substantial groups of the American working-class can convey this honor to repre- sentatives selected by them.” To achieve such a selection the militant work- ers must become active in the organization of all the proletarian friends of the Soviet Union. They must become active in the organization of shop meetings so that the indication of the Soviet workers can bé brought before the American workers in different shops and industries. They must become active in convincing the American workers of the importance which the progress of the building of socialism in the Soviet Union has for the many millions of workers now suffering under the crisis of capitalism in the United States, i To achieve such a selection the Friends of the Soviet Union must be able to command the ‘ 1 We Crates Steven, “Hit and Run” Propaganda Every reader of the Daily Worker should take Part personally in #xposing to the broadest number of workefS, the propaganda campaign to create war sentiment against the Soviet Union, a campaign that is only beginning and Will be undoubtedly greatly intensified. This campaign, which is designed to weaken working-class defense for the Soviet Union while Japangse imperialism makes a “try out’ in ate tacking Soviet Siberia, and to “justify” Rumania, Poland and other French vassal governments in attacking from the West, is and will be signalizeé by “news,” usually but not always, dated from Riga, Helsingfors, Bucharest, Warsaw. A sample of this is the Associated Press dis- Patch of March 21, dated from Bucharest, Rue mania, telling the following damned He in the first paragraph: “Reports reaching here from Ramenia vile lazes on the Ukrainian border today said = number of women were shot down while des | fending their churches by Soviet troops in a ‘bloody Sunday’ yesterday.” Readers should brand such yarns es Hes to their fellow workers without hesitation, Many young workers never ex: d and many old workers have forgotten, the dally shower of such lying propaganda that filléd the capitalist press when world imperialism was invading the Soviet Union from 1919 1229, So this is necessary, In those days, the Red Au.) vtinied,” peas sants “revolted against the Sovieis.” Soviet troops “shot old women and children,” and workers “overthrow Lenin” every day—but only in the capitalist press, But, boys and girls, it isn’t enough just to tell your fellow workers that these things are les, Keep a pair of scissors around and use ’em to clip out stories which prove that capitalism, and not the Soviet Union is the one guilty in fact of the most atrocious crimes, For example, about this yarn from Bucharest that says “Soviet troops shoot women”; on the very same day, the same Associated Press re- | ported from the same town of Bucharest, that two Rumanian army officers, angered because a tavern-keeper refused to sell them drinks after closing time—‘“killed two waiters with thelr sabers.” Use that, to show what kind of nice country Rumania is, to be lying about atrocities in the Soviet Union, and what kind of army of- ficers are attacking the Soyiet Union. As far as abusing women is concerned, the same Associated Press on the same day (March 21), reported from right here in the good old U. S. A.,” from Scranton, Pa., that: “Women pickets took a prominent part in the unsanctioned anthracite strike, and as a result many of them were among the ninety arrested.” And about using troops against the masses, an< other Associated Press dispatch the same day from Athens, Ohio, told of martial law and troops called out against striking miners of Hocking Valley. Every militant and revolutionary worker should open up his or her own publicity bu- bureau against this “hit and run” anti-Soviet propaganda, . e ° Apes and Athlete In our enormous excitement about the Lindy kid, darned if we didn’t forget to follow the news, breathlessly, as to the fate of N’gi, the baby gorilla down at Washington. (No, not the one in the White House). You remember, the “po, little thing” the capitalist press was having all the cry over because it had pneumonia. And an oxygen tent was rushed from New York down to Washington, at the cost of a Mrs. Patterson, who owns a Washington newspaper and has a family interest in the Chicago Tribune, We forget all about “little N’gi.” Did he live or die? Andwhoamong the 12,000,000 unemployed cares a hoot? However, we are consoled to learn, from @ United Pres dispatch of March 4, that John D. Rockefeller is taking care of the apes; he having given Florida farm to Yale University for an “ape farm.” ‘The Yale University is deeply interested in cultivating apes (and strikebreakers), and also hhas recently given over a penthouse, atop the $7,000,000 “Institute of Human Relations” to apes, so they can “thrive in sunshine and fresh air.” Another reason for the sales tax and @ couple of wage cuts, we see in another United Press dispatch of March 4th, telling how a complete town with full modern equipment is being butlé west of Los Angeles “to house the Olympic Ath- letes.". When the games are over, it—“mey become a ghost town, or be salvaged for some use as yet undecided.” If the Unemployed Council is any good, its use ought to be “decided” soon. Anyhow, you workers who are evicted should be glad that capitalist athletes and apes are furnished homes. * * . “Equal Burdens” in War All workers should take note of the recent decisions of the so-called “War Poliices Board.” - This Board was set up, well, a few years ago, we've forgotten just when. But it was set up with @ loud beating of tom-toms by both thi pacifists and the American Legion, both of In the next war there wouldn’t be any prof- iteering allowed, as in the last war (you know, the “war to end war”). This board was figure it all out “how” to conscript: capit well as workers’ lives, In fact, the very Congres establishing the Board, instructed find out “how”—not “If’—the “burdens of eREE Saks i i F i i E pacifists and various other ceivers of the masses. But now what’s What's happened is, that the War Policies Board has not determined “how” war burdens can be distributed equally, but decided “if” they should be. And here is the Board’s own words deciding ! g i ag Stee and socialistic besides, and such a sweeping method of equalization of war burdens would be both unwieldy and unnecessary.” Now’ that’s a nice Christmas present to pull out of @ pacifist plan! The pacifists declared that if burdens were equalized there wouldn't be any war, without telling you that capitalists own this government and will never permit it to act against its interests, and that the only way to end war is to overthrow capitalist rule. A War Po-, lieies Board of the capitalist government won't And, given time, te that (ie “next” wag te ale needy wo akgck om * cot'é OT area th a Vd &