The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 23, 1932, Page 4

Page Four > ~_..0- Yorker Porty U.S.A. Dail Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Inc., daily excxept Sunday, at 5@ E. 18th jew York City, N. ¥. Telephone ALgonquin 4-7956. Cable “DATWORK.”” Address and mail checks to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St,, New York, N. ¥. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By mati everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3 Borough of Manhatian snd Bronx. New York six_months, $4.50. two months, $1; Foreign: one cents per month, A Socialist on the S.P. -- Trade Union Officialdom K and file members of the Socialist Party who still believe that the Communists “slander” their leaders by calling them outright social-fascists, should pause to find out what is behind the following editorial notice which ap- peared in the “Questions and Answers” column of the New Leader,” Socialist Party organ, in its issue of September 17: Canada, $8 per year: **. ..Too much space has been taken in the New Leader Forum in recent months and since the convention we have tried to discourage discussion as much as possible.” * * * * these rank and file members think that the above is an innocent “space same “open mindedness” accept and pr ioned. sure to be accepted with the ders of the ist Party ation, they are bound to be terribly ise capital For the real reason for the New Lead letter, typical of scores of others, publ It was written by a member of the Soci convention of the American Federation of 1 notice is to be found in a in the New Leader Forum. Party who, discussing the or in New York, writes: “Let me say emphatic: that our socialist trade-union officials not there. They remained at home where it is safe for them rather than go to Utica and be recorded. Here's something for you fo do, com- rade Beardsley and the Labor Committee. Investigate this condition and find out whether our so-called socialist trade-union leaders are not morally bankrupt, fearing to act in a convention where the spot- light will be upon them.” were * * * DING this rank and file worker Committee frankly states in his letter who will never sce “comrade” (oNche: Beard d° the “Labor” vestigate the corruption of on leaders, “They are too closely linked with Tammany through Tammany members 6f organized labor; by getting a favor done for them once in a while they don’t have the courage to act as socialists when attending conventions, so they simply stay away.” he explosion of nk Socialist Par tinuation of the “open forum.” enlig! and file workers’ protest against the hich prompted the New Leader’s discon- Nothing, however, could better serve to n- the workers as to the treacherous character of the “socialist” leaders than the editorial not of the New leaders of e which, served as a reply Leader editor to the le it quoted. The New Leade~ does not condemn this “moral bankruptcy.” The editor pleads, in ti.c same note, that “some factors must be taken into account” for this alliance of the soci: bureaucrats with Tammany Hall. Among these factors whicp supposedly explains the conduct of the s0- cialist trade union officials the lying charge that “Communists wreck all the unions” and secon that a change in the compositfon of the | membership of the unions have oceurred which have supposedly wiped out the pre-war “socialist idealism.” * * * CCORDING to the New Leader, the unions in the pre-war times were progressive, but this has been changed not because of the conduct of the trade union officials, but because of the membership. Is this not pitiful apology and justification for the conduct of the trade union offi- cials? Indeed the Communists have been fighting against the socialist bureaucrats because of this very cooperation with Tammany Hall and above all with the bosses. It was because the opportunist socialist leaders were cooperating with the bosses and sacrificing the interests of the workers'that they came ever closer to Tammany Hall. The workers have been growing more revolutionary in the trade unions, they have de- manded action against the bosses to which the trade union bureaucrats responded with attacks by gangsters, denial of trade union democracy in the interest of putting over the policy of the bosses. The unions, under the A. F. of L.-Socialist leadership, have been turned into auxiliary organs of the bosses. This has been most crassly expressed in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and in the International Ladies. Garment Workers Unions. This socialist worker should see that it was not for the sake of @ mere occasional favor from Tammany Hall that they have allied them- selves with the capitalist politicians. It was because the socialist leader- ship of these organizations have been doing the will of the bosses and met with increasing resistance of the workers, that they inevitably allied themselves with the open institutions of the bosses. The corruption of the socialist officialdom which was already present in the old opportun- istic policy, irgvitably led to full and complete corruption. One further explanation is given by the editor and that ts that changes in the industries have occurred which have under-mined the unions.” What these changes have been the editor does not explain; for an analysis would show that the concentration of the industries, re- duction of skill and rationalization which the employers have put through with the aid of the bureaucrats, did not create any conditions for thé destruction of the A. F. of L. unions, but laid every basis for widening and broadening the trade unions. But precisely because the trade union bureaucrats have sacrificed the mass of unskilled labor, because they have expelled as members the workers driven out of employment by the crisis; because they have been carrying through wage cuts, many work- ers have left in disgust. What the New Leader says is a cause for the treachery of the bureaucrats is indeed the effect of the latter's actions. One fact stands out, however, in the letter and reply, and that is that the New Leader dare not even deny that the bureaucrats are henchmen of Tammany Hall. Why in reality should they deny this, when in New ‘York the socialist leaders, Thomas and Hillquit, have proposed a fusion with democrats? Why should they deny it when Hillquit acted as attor- ney in common with a section of Tammany Hall on the question of the mayoralty elections. The socialists look with pride upon the favor they are winning in capitalist circles. The Socialist Party becomes ever more reactionary-and becomes more and more part of the whole capitalist state machinery. * * * iS worker cannot expect any purification of the trade union. leader- ship by the Socialist Party. A real fight against the treachery of the American Federation of La- bor leadership and socialist labor officialdom must include a fight against. the Socialist Party. The present situation demands the unification of the ranks of the Socialist and A. F. of L. workers with the Communist and non-party masses. Inside the A. F. of L. unions militant mass oppo- sition groups must be formed. Inside these unions the united front of the rank and file must be set up to meet the capitalist attacks. Re- lance upon the treacherous Tammany-Soclalist Party officialdom means only defeat for the workers. WORKER ASKS WHY SP. REFUSES DEBATE Answer Is That If He Doesn’t Shut Up, He'll | Be Beaten Up! | NEW YORK —The social-fascist ership refuse to debate with Com- tactics of the Socialist Party, which |munist candidates?” Sas fender of “democracy,” Ber bradenttnone te ine ee a, | Tmmediately = gang of at least 20 day afternoon at the Town Hall. |'d badged guards tore down to After listening wich a greot deal of where I sat, and in tones a la ‘Tam- patience to the saviors of capitalism, | ™&2Y told me that if “I didn’t keep in the person of Solomon and Wald. |™Y, yap shut” they would “break me man, and’ to plea of the starving |! half. humans from the lips of Hillquit,| Al) through the meeting I had this Jawyer for Ozarist agents, to back/gvard of honor around me to see the Socialist Party and save the/thst the audience should not hear starving people, I interrupted to ask |arother mention of the Communist “Why does the Socialist Party lead- | Party, é i aay Power . ap Roosevelt. in his Portland speech on the power question repeated that he supports private trust own- ership of the industry, At the same time he presented 8 meaningless points calling for more “publicity” Trust: “Stop the tickling, Fraklin, yer m and stricter “government regulation” of utilities, The Historic Significance of the World Anti-War Congress & Tunity With Socialist By WILLIAM SIMONS, (Delegate from the Anti-Imperialist League of the U. 8.) World Congress Against War, held in Amsterdam, Holland, August 27-29, was an event of great importance for the workers of the world, It was not merely a mighty demonstration of power, concen- trated in 2,195 delegates from 27 countries, representing over 30,000,- 000 people; it was also a starting point for further and more intensi- fied struggle against imperialist war, Representatives of all shades of political opinion gathered, Com- munists, socialists, non-party work- ers, writers, physicians, students, ex-servicemen, for the purpose, as expressed by Henri Barbusse in his opening speech of “finding and cre- ating effective methods of struggle against the immediate danger of imperialist war”. It was a congress prepared under the greatest difficulties, , barred from one city after another, its or- ganizers hampered, hundreds of workers for the congress jailed in Poland, propaganda for the con- gress banned in Bulgaria, and in other fascist countries, preparations for the congress aroused unusual interest among the working masses, particularly in France and Germany. The election of delegates was a part of the ac- tive struggle against imperialist war, as in France, where workers destroyed war material, where elec- trical workers in some towns re- fused to obey orders to turn off lights during the recent war ma- neuyers, A WORKERS’ CONGRESS. It was a congress c: y_ intel- lectuals, by Romain Roliand and Henri Barbusee, sneered at by the “superior” Trotskyites, who prefer- red to rub shoulders with Fritz Ad- ler and Vandervelde, the leaders of the Second International, At the August 8th Anti-War Conference in New York City, the Trotskyites solemnly buried the world congress against war; but it rose from the dead, and became the most all-in- clusive, the most enthusiastic, the most inspiring anti-war gathering the world had ever seen. Yes, there were intellectuals present, noted writers and artists, with Barbusse playing a prominent role through- out the entire historic congress, But the congress was predominately @ workers’ congress, with 1861 work- ers present as delegates out of a total of 2,195 delegates. Romain Rolland in his greeting sent to the @ongress pointed out that the intel- lectuals were “incapable of carry- ing on the least action, in these conflicts where the fate of human- ity is at stake, without the support the army of laborers and of workmen which is the lever of all action... And we should seal here the union of those intellectuals worthy of the name with those who. are the very substance of living action: the working people.” UNITY WITH SOCIALIST WORKERS, One of the outstanding achieve- ments of the congress was to bring together 291 members of the Sec- ond Socialist International, despite the opposition of the leadership of But the | aking me laugh!” i Bure By BURCK. Workers Hailed As Achievement the Second International, They, together with 24 other socialists, adopted a special resolution against imperialist war. The congress greeted this resolution with thun- derous acclaim. This strong desire for unity on the pdrt of the dele- gates was echoed in Paris, at the mass meeting on September 2 in the Salle Pullier to hear the Am- sterdam report, where 10,000 French workers greeted Poupy, a leader of the revolutionary opposition inside of the French Socialist Party with loud and prolonged cries of L’Unite! UUnite! L’Unite- (Unity! Unity! Unity!) The desire for unity of all sincere forces for the fight against imperialist war dominated the: en- tire work of the congress, Poupy and the other socialists present | gave the lie to Fritz Adler’s pre- diction of a “Communist maneuver- ed congress” by declaring that no attempt was made to prevent spokesmen of any point of view from expressing their views freely, This same opinion was voiced by the American delegation, including Joe Roth, a member of the Social- ist Party Local, Ithaca, New York. Roth made this clear when report- ing at the mass meeting in \/eb- ster Hall, on Sunday, September 11. There were 830 Communist dele- gates at the congress, interested not in petty maneuvers, but in helping create a lasting united front with rank and file members of the So- cialist Party, with nén-perty work- ers, and with intellectuals, The congress itself, its manifesto, its International Committee—all indi- cated a sincere desire for unity of all-fmperialist war forces, Under the same sincere slogan of unuwy thé rank and file of the Socialist Party, and of the American Feder- ation of Labor can and should be won over for a genuine united front struggle against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union, CACHIN OUTLINES COMMUNIST POSITION. ‘The Communist position on im- Pperialist war was ably presented in a speech by Marcel Cachin, editor of L’'Humanite, He particularly stressed the struggle of the Japa- nese masses against war, where both legal and illegal methods were being combined, Cachin expressed joy over the presence at the con- gress of so many socialist workers, “With these workers, with these socialist workers”, he said, “we are always ready to carry through a united front without reservations and loyally. We attach the greatest importance to our union with them,” The Soviet delegation was pre- vented by the Dutch government from entering Holland, but the greeting sent by Gorki to the con- gress was acclaimed with the wild- est enthusiasm, During the con- gress, four indoor meetings were held in Moscow, with an atend- ance of 150,000, where resolutions of greeting to the congress were adopted, HIGH LIGHTS. More than two days of speech: by workers and intellectuals, Work- | ers coming from fiélds of struggle, | the Belgian miners, the Lanca- shire textile strikers. Mighty cries of “Abasso Il Fascimo” when a uniformed sailor ‘from the Italian army took the platform, A fiery speech from the stocky leader of the Invergordon naval mutiny in Great Britain. A masterful speech by Willie Munzenberg, the orator- ical peak of the congress, A scath- ing denunciation of British imper- ialism by Patel, Indian Nationalist leader, Our own Joe Gardner, del- egate from the Ex-Servicemen’s League spoke on the fight for Ne- gro rights, Ada Wright, taking the congress by storm, with her simple plea for the Scottsboro boys; a special reso- lution demanding their release was adopted by the congress. And so on and on for two days, In German, in French and in English, A cross. section of workers struggles thru- out the world, particularly against imperialist war, Great enthusiasm for the Soviet Union— in the speeches, in the response by the delegates, and in the manifesto, a firm determination not to permit the’ Soviet Union to be touched. Great interest in the Chinese peo- ple, and against the dismember- ment of China, Freedom for the colonies, of India, of Indo-China, of Java, of Latin America, of all the colonies, It is unfortunate that there were no delegates from Latin America, ON WITH THE FIGHT AGAINST IMPERIALIST WAR! The congress was a tremendous event, a living thing, that created an International Committee to car- ty on an intensive anti-war cam- paign, to create anti-war commit- tees in every city and town, in | every factory, on every farm. To | make the masses of workers, farm- ets, intellectuals and students con- scious of the existence of war in the Far East; to create a broad mass movement against imperialist war, Every delegate to the congress, pledged himself to carry out the line laid down by the congress, Every sincere fighter against war should take the same pledge and be active in the struggle, The report of the Amsterdam world congress against war should reach into the factories, into or- ganizations of workers, of farm- ers, of intellectuals, and of students. Already, at the request of the In- ternational Committee, the Na- tional Students League is planning a National Students Conference Against War for December of this year, Discussion of the Congress Manifesto should take place, par- ‘ticularly in the shops and on the farms, Concrete acts against war preparations should be planned and carried through, demonstrations against shipments of munitions are insufficient, shipments should be stopped, mass actions against. war maneuvers should be organized, ‘The situation in the Far East does not permit of delay. We must act — and act quickly, The Auti-Imperialist League is arranging a series of mass meetings in New York City, for a report by its delegate to the World Congress DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1932. INGARY--STEEL, STARVATION BOSS TERROR FAILED TO HALT ORGANIZATION ¢™ Indiana—The mind grows dulléd to facts and figures when they are very much alike: so many starving-living at so much per week “relief’—from city to city I have been going and hearing these things. The mirid even grows dull- ed to the sight of long lines of gaunt workers waiting day after day for a pittance of relief, Then I arrive in'Gary and am confronted with a scene of mass starvation so terrible in its intensity and extent that it is as if I had never seen a starving person before, as if I am being confronted for the first time with the inhuman fact that workers and their wives and chil- dren are dying before my eyes, “FREE SPEECH,” DID YOU SAY? This city is owned, lock, stock and barrel by the Unitéd States Steel Corporation. And that in- cludes the city officials. Mayor Johnson frani:ty declared, when the Communists demanded a_ permit for an open air meeting, that the permit would first have'to be OK.d by William. P. Gleason, president of the Park Board and President of the Illinois Steel Corporation, chief subsidiary of the U. S. Steel. This subsidiary, together with the others, American Sheet & Tin, American Bridge, and Gary Screw and Bolt, have worked out the most fiendish scheme for mass starvation. pairs Specs ‘HIS city’s population is over 100,000. Yet only 3,000 families are registered for relief, while the factories’ output is down to next to nothing. Where are the other families? They are not eigible for relief. And why? Because they are still employed by the U. S. Steel companies. The scheme is very simple. The stagger system here is more extensive than in any other city in the United States. The twenty odd thousand workers normally employed by the steel companies are still on the pay rolls. ‘They get one day’s work every pay, that is every two weeks. In other words, the majority of the fam- ilies-of Gary are living on $1.75 a week. HOW “RELIEF” TS PAID FOR The three thousand families who have been lucky enough to get off the U. S. Steel payrolls and thus are eligible for relief are more fortunate. Yes, they get $2.00 a week, or even a little more. Those who have nine in the family or By GEORGE COOPER more are in a special category—it must be remembered that the late Elbert Gary, Ozar of stecl, liked | big families and kept birth control out of Gary, because “a free labor market is the prime necessity of industry.” So if you have nine or more in the family in Gary, you get the top rating of $22 a month relief. Five dollars a week for nine the favored few. All relief is»more than paid for. Forced labor is exacted in return. Two days a week work from each man whose family is on relief. That means that the worker gets a dollar a day for working in the vegetable gardens of the city of Gary. With the passage of the Commissary Bill in Indiana, the city plans to give the workers nei- ther money nor scrip this winter, but ,intends to feed them on the vegetables they have raised, and in return exact further work. At the rate of a dollar a day for its la- bor, the city-U. S. Steel gang are sure to make a handsome profit. Sat elt The Gary Heat, Light & Water Company owns these services; and as the workers of Gary have been uhable to pay their bills, they have cut off light, heat and water. Ac- cording to a statement some months. ago by Health Commis- sioner Behn himself there are well over 500 families without water in their homes; the actual number runs by now into the thousands. Long lines of women and children stand for hours waiting their turn to fill buckets of water at a few public sinks in the city. Those to far away from these sources of water are charged five cents a bucket by the storekeepers. BUT THE FIGHT GROWS Thus do the workers “of Gary “live,” without water, without food, without paid work. And their struggle against these conditions meets with grim terror. Only the fakers, the Democrats, the Repub- licans and the Socialists can hold open air meetings in Gary. No permit has been issued ‘for years to the Communist Party, the Un- employed Councils or any other fighting organization. The United States Steel Corporation rears like a monster over the city, and only its willing tools have any rights in Gary, but the fight of the work- ers— employed and unemployed— grows in intensity each day. ‘ (Tomorrow: “Socialist” Milwaukee—Starvation and Forced Labor) The Membership Drive of the International Workers Order By MAX BEDACHT, The National Executive Committee of the International Workers Order has initiated a campaign to raise its membership to 40,000 by May, 1933, when its second convention will be held. This campaign is of importance to the whole militant labor movement. The absence of social insurance in the United States forces the workers into mutual aid organiza- tions. Mutual aid is an emergency measure which helps the workers to some extent bridge the gap cre- ated by the absence of social in- surance, NEED FOR MUTUAL AID The capitalist class has fully rec- ognzed the need of mutual aid for the workers. It has made this need another source of capitalist influ- ence and capitalist leadership over the workers. It has organized scores of mutual aid organizations to win the workers’ affiliation. But none of these capitalist mutual aid organizations serve primarily the workers need for mutual aid; they all serve instead the capitalist pur- pose of feeding to or maintaining in the worker members anti- proletarian capitalist illusions, All of these mutual aid organzations are built on religious, national, pa- triotic or other purposes, which di- vide the workers, The workers join these organizations primarily to get mutual aid; but the main thing they do get is religion, na- tionalism, patriotism, The work- ers join for what they have in com- mon—need of aid in case of sick- ness, death or other emergencies, But they are organized not on what they have in common, but on what divides them, on religion, national- ity, patriotism, etc. oe 'HE International Workers Order, in its form of organization, its composition and its principles, chal- lenges this capitalist misleadership over the workers in the field of mu- We Sing the 5-Year Plan... tual insurance organizations, It organizes workers of all nationali- ties in one organization; and yet it provides inner life for all na- tionalities in separate language sec- tions, The Internatfonal Workers Order endeavors to develop unify- ing class consciousness among its members, and not religious and na- tional division, It is clear that all militant work- ers organizations are interested in | the growth of the I. W. O, If the members of a fighting union as members of mutual aid organiza- tions, for example, are divided in- to knights of one saint, and dis- ciples of another, loyal sons of one country and true patriots of an- other, the very unity of actions of such a union is constantly in danger. The united action organized by the unions are weakened by the divid- ing propaganda to which the union members are exposed in the vari- ous so-called fraternal organiza- tions, NEED OF I, W. 0. The I. W, O, is therefore a most necessary and most important link in the chain of fighting wotking class organizations, The I, W, O. is a link, the strength of which helps to determine the strength of the whole chain. But the International Workers Order is also, and primarily, a mu- tual aid organization, It provides aid to its members at a low rate of dues unequalled by our other or- ganizations of its kind, That is why the I. W. O, has a right to expect every class-consci- ous worker, and every militant workers’ organization to help it in its membership drive. When the I, W. O, rounds out its membership to 40,000 it will mean 40,000 orga- nized workers in the army of de- fenders of the interests of the working class, The campaign will start Sept, 15. With the help of the whole militant labor movement the success of the campaign is assured, By JOHANNES R. BECHER stated from the German by P. Rahv and F. Miller om Revolutionary Writers’ Federation Service) Seraffimovitch wrote “The Iron Siream,” An epic poem of the Civil War, Maiakovski brought 150 million to their feet ‘To celebrate the revolution. In rhymes and free rhythms The name of Lenin was cha Stubbornly digging ‘nto the problems of the NF The proletarian poets fough Tor the revolution vith the weapon Of language. Vast were the themes Against War. The Anti-Imperial- ist League calls on all those who oppose imperialism, Americans as well as colonial workers, to give full campaign support to its _ eealnst fel Sag ‘That the poems of all time Sang before us. ‘The vastest of all however Remained for us to sing: WE SING ‘TE EAVES, ELAN 2 people—that is the good fortune of | RED SPARKS By JORGE [Dog Catcher Wanted Yep! Here we are again. Risen from the grave, so to speak. We kinda hate to toss off the daisies, push aside the tombstone and walk in like a ghost to the Daily Worker office. But we had to. There are too many leading comrades who are being over-assassinated. After my insides went back on me from overwork, under-consumption and years in Uncle Sam’s best penitene tiary, I had to retire. Neverthe= less, the rumor got about that we, the crocodile and» Jorge himself, had been asassinated by the “Stale inites.” ’ Well, we hate to be assassinated, particularly by “Stalinites.” But if we ever are, we'll run another col- umn_ explaining how we deserved it. But we're not the only one, Party leaders are being knocked off every now anq then by the backstairs gossipers who edit the miserable sheets published by the equally miserable renegades from our Party. If, in the Central Com-~ mittze, Comrade “A” proposes that a demonstration be held on Tues- day, while Comrade “B” obstinately insists it be on Wednesday, some blabbering fool (who really should have been assassinated the previous Monday) ig busy gossiping, and the next issue of the renegade papers informs an astonished world that the “Right-Center Bloc is split” and that the “Stalinites” have slated Comrade “A” or “B,” or both, for the graveyard. * UT when the socialist paper with ,the democratic columnst, the New York World-Telegram, sees fit to declare that Bill Foster is not sick at all, but has been sent by the “Stalinites” to join McGinty at the bottom of the sea, well, even the dead _will rise from the grave to call Heywood Broun a dirty, contemptible liar. We refer to Broun’t tripe. published in the World-Telegram on Sept. 21. It is clear that the tndorsement of the Communist Party candidates by a long list of America’s out- standing intellectuals, has got un- der the hide of the leaders of that particular capitalist political party which falsely calls itself “socialist.” In European countries it talls itself the “social-democratic” party, and in honor of Heywood Broun’s ability to support both the “socialist” party and the “democratic” party at the same time, for a considera- tion in cash paid by Roy W. How- ard, the European name should be adopted here, The intellectuals have gotten un- der “socialist” hide. So Broun is trotted out to slander them and to put Bill Foster out of the way. And Broun’s telephone seems to be connected, rather faultily it is true, with another liar who is named “Lovestone.” Foster isn’t sick, says Broun, he has been politically as- sassinated by “orders from Mos- cow” and Bill Dunne, who Broun says is. “Mr. Foster's bitterest enemy,” has taken Foster's place in everything but on the ballot. ro ee ‘HAT is Heywood Broun's “social- democratic” yarn, and from that he branches out to mistreat the truth from all points of the compass. If Foster’s doctor allows, he will probably mention Broun unfavorably. As for Bill Dunne, the Daily Worker business manager is already worried in anticpation of a C. O. D. telegram calling Broun $17.50 worth of liars. But that will not move Broun to confess. When it comes to stick- ing to a lie, Broun is like a Rock of Gibraltar preserved in alcohol. It will not matter that we ourselves swear on the Communist Mani- festo (issued by International Pub- lishers) that before Foster started the trip which he had to give up later, he and I had a heart-to-liver |. talk about our respective illnesses, Broun would find a way to men- tion his “mistake” only if the Scripps-Howard press would fire him and the Daily Worker give him a job at a pent-house salary with a liberal allowance of gin. Not much chance. Broun further asserts that Scott Nearing, being among those assas- sinated by the “Stalinites,” has gone into “sobbing seclusion.” Well, Scott Nearing just now has rung us up to tell us that he will deliver six speeches in #tr differ- ent cities for the Communist Party election campaign and will not only _ expose the “socialist” party of Hay~, wood Broun as a capitalist party? in disguise, but will urge the elec torate to vote for his fellow victimy of the “Stalinites,” William Z. Fos- ter. For “sobbing seclusion” that is doing pretty well. a ee EYWOOD BROUN has the habit. Recently he said that the Com- munist Party would be on the bal- Jot in only “12 or 14 states,” so nobody c ld vote the Communist ticket. It is on the ballot now in forty states. But Broun says not a word about that. He does use a heap of space, however, in sympa- thizing with a certain “Lovestone” who was sure en bounced out of the Communist Party. And this is why: 8 In the year of Hoover, 1929, Lovestone contended that uneme ployment, wage-cuts and crisis generally was not due in America. To Lovestone, prosperity was as sure as with Hoover. the working class, should not pre- pare tie workers for rising class battles, for a sharpening war dan- ger and to fight for unemployment insurance and against wage-cuts. The harmfulness to the workers of such a leader is obvious. Love- stone and Hoover policy were fun- damentally the same. Lovestone no more belonged at the head of the Communist Party than did Hoover, He was kicked out, Let Broun weep. But, before the rooster crows and, according to ghost rules, we must return to our grave, we wish to special foward if he Wil. impound special rewar‘ n yaller “socialist” gin: the original sin of having sat five ~ / id