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ae, ‘Dail Yorker Central Porty U.S.A. Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Inc., daily axexept Sunday, at 50 E. UMNAL., New York City, N.'¥. Telephone ALgonquin 4-7986. Onble “DATWORK.” PAlldress and mail'checks to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St, New York, N.Y. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; two montl 3 excepting Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign: year, $8; Six, months, $4.50. Canada, $8 per year; 75 cents per month. A Socialist Candidate Is Welcomed by Business HE “AMERICAN BUSINESS WORLD” is a good business magazine!—good for business. It is defending the in- terest of business. It’s September issue deals with such important business topics as “American Zine, Lead & Smelt- ing Co., Warren Foundry Releases, Philip Carey Mfg. Co., etc.” The magazine also has a section devoted to political news. Among the news is a piece that is particularly sweet music to the ears of the Socialist. Tt sa “Mr. Viadeck, Daily Forward —Editor’s Note) is exceptionally well qualified to assume the important post for which he is a candidate this year. He represents tance on the par be a step whole-hea Wwe “exception and principl (business manager of the lis election as Representative would h would insure his constituents of World” that Mr. Viadeck is ss. He representsls “ideals ving the tinge of “radicalism” are fully publication which lives the Support of capitalist s pledged to overlook under in no antagonistic to Being the beneficiary of a ‘of a high business executive,,” holdin in Brooklyn, em. ng one of the se aim it is to dishearten pitalism, to deliver them aders who sell them out di achievements of the Soviet Union and the | leaders of the First Social Republic, to revile the\revolutionary class struggle and the Communist Party in the United States, and to prove to the workers that capitalism is invincible and no revolution ever has a ehance to win in the United States. Mr. Charney B. Vladeck is certainly welcome to the business world. s of the Jewi to break their resistance to c e company union m to the ADECK’S previous activities are such as to give full assurance to business. He was a New York City alderman at one time. He was a “convenient” alderman. He never had a quarrel with Tammany. He never raised his voice in an issue against Tammany thievery. He was “nice” and “respectable,” and he won the unqualified admiration of the Citizens’ Committee, representing the business men of New York. Mr. Charney B. Vladeck is welcome to business. But so is Mr. Thomas, who gets a police guard of honor in Meriden, Conn., where Chief Carroll Jet it be known that he wss going to send two police automobiles to meet Mr. Thomas at the Burlington Station to bring him into the city hall for his campaign speech. So is Mr. James Maurer, his running mate, who received the Rocs2y2!t School auditorium in Los Angeles from Mayor Porter, who saw to it that Comrade William Z. Foster and James W. Ford were thrown into jail upon their attempt to address the workers of that | “sunny” city. The American Business World is convinced that the election of | Mr. Charney B. Viadek would be “a step in the right direction.’ ’ Indeed | it would represent no harm for the business world. It would be a means of feeding the workers with illusions regarding congressional victories on their behalf. It would be a means of preventing the workers from organizing into revolutionary unions, and the Communist Party to fight wage cuts, hunger and starvation. 7 The Socialists do not hesitate to use “radical” phrases. This smoke- screen of revolutionary phrases is used by the Socialists in the present election campaign in profusion. Watch their central organ of this week. ‘The Socialists make grand gestures. They point an accusing finger at capitalism. The declare that “the army of liberation—the socialist army— is on the march.” They say grandiloquently that they summon capitalism “to the court of mankind” to pass judgment. They accuse capitalism of introducing slavery. The unitiated reader will think, upon reading these words, that the Socialists are real revolutionists. The workers who are ready to fight capitalism will believe that the Socialists are fighters. But the end of the verbose article reveals the friends of capitalism. It winds up in a great shout: “The liberators are gathered under the socialist banner, ballot-armed and determined.” This is what they want to reduce the workers’ struggle to. They then assume a heroic posture and declare proudly: “Stop us if you can!” . capitalists won't stop them—that is certain. te Charney B. Vladeck. They will even make him, if need be, a police captain in the city of New York. They will “raise” Mr. Panken to the position of chief of police. They will not hesitate to put a Socialist {nto the! Mayor's chair as the struggle rises, to help quell the rebellion of the workers. | And these gentlemen get sore and call in their “specialty” writer on the prostitute boss press, Mr. Broun, to pour out venom against the Communists, when the intellectuals who are being aroused by the collapse of capitalism come out in support of the Communist Party. ‘What do they need the support of the intellectuals for, if they have the support of the “Ameri¢an Business World,” and are given unlimited space in the prostitute press? Honest intellectuals, honest-thinking workers, who realize the collapse of capitalism, realize also the service rendered capitalism by the Socialist Party. They are turning to the Communist Party, which is the only one that is actually leading the masses to struggle, not only “ballot armed” but armed with readiness and organized to beat back the capitalist attacks, to storm the fortresses of capitalism, and looking towards the time when the workers and farmers will take over power to break the capitalist system and introduce Soviets. The roles are clear. The roads are parted. The capitalists and the Socialists one one side, the Communists and the masses on the other. Communism will win. How the Socialists Supported Imperialist War of 1914-18 The Daily Worker material showing how They will support today begins the publication of documentary the Second International (Socialist Parties) actively supported the imperialist war. The following is from an article by Vandervelde, Belgian Socialist leader. Vandervelde, at one time Cabinet head in the Belgian government, is today one of the chief leaders of the Second International. Other material to follow will be taken from the writings and speeches of leaders of the American Socialist Party, which is affiliated with and supports fully the actions _ of the treacherous Second International—EDITOR’S NOTE. * * « VANDERVELDE: “AS A SOCIALIST I AM FOR WARK TO THE END” «] HAVE come to you today to speak of the war, to speak in favor of the war. As an international and socialist friend of peace I am in favor of war to the end. I feel anger with those of our com- rades who want to make peace. No! Not until the crime has been fol- lowed by its punishment...” (Valdervelde at a speech in Paris on the 18th April 1915.) “To make peace now would be treachery to our country, would be to bow the knee to Prussian militarism, would be to declare the free- dom of Europe bankrupt. A precipitate peace would mean the arm- ing of the peoples to the teeth and would be followed by new wars. To make peace now would mean that the democratic countries of the west would be unable to defend themselves against the predatory governments which have attacked them. ‘To make peace now would mean that our allies would lose at the decisive moment the great advantage they hold in military strength, rithes and right. War has been forced upon us. We would not continue to ‘support the war for one moment should it develop into a war of conquest. But so long as German soldiers are in Antwerp, Brussels or Liege, so long as they are in our provinces and in the departments of France, both French and Belgians are united in the declaration: “We shall not treat with the enemy so long as he is on our territory.” However, I am in a position to assure you with the certainty that I shall not be contradicted by events, that a day of joy is approaching which will compensate in full measure for all our sufferings...” (Vandervelde’s “King’s Birthday Article” in the “Belzis aR, on ae. April 19169 eee | £ v DAILY PARTY LIFE Pittsburgh YCL School By JOE CHANDLER R. the first time in the life of the Young Communist League in the Pittsburgh district, a full- time four weeks’ school was held, The importance of having this, school, and the correctness of the methods of instruction used can alredy be seen in the work of the League today, LOCAL COMRADES NOW LEADERS, The ‘school has given a short training to thirty-one comrades, of whom twenty-nine are active mem- bers of the League today. Be- ginning with the district organizer, who by the way, is a local steel worker, and winding down to the section and unit organizers, local young miners and steel workers are now in the leadership, To my knowledge never before did we have a local leadership in the district, and sections, This fact makes a new page in the history of the Pittsburgh district. METHODS OF INSTRUCTION The methods of instruction are a definite departure from the past. Instead of taking up the funda- mentals of political economy in the dry form as it is very often done, we took it up in the light of the Programme of the Young Com- munist International, This has proven much more interesting, The Trade Union Course, which was the second basic course, was based on the recent resolution of the Communist International, on | the strike struggles in coal and textile, “The Strike of the Dredging Fleet,” (recently published serially | in the Daily Worker served as a | shining example of concentration and methods of mass work, His- tory of class struggles in America was mostly concentrated in the history of the United Mine Workers of America and the National Miners Union; in the coal fields; and the Amalgamated Association and the Metal Workers Industrial League (now the Steel and Metal Workers Union) in the steel in- dustry, Thus the living struggles provided the best material for in- struction. Since the school aimed mostly to train unit organizers, the organiza- tion of the school took the form of a Y, C, L, unit. The students’ council was the Unit Executive, the various school committees were the unit squads, and so on This method gave the students a prac- tical lesson on how to conduct a unit. RESULTS CAN ALREADY BE SEEN, No doubt many mistakes were made, and the methods of instruc- tion are far being perfect, But the fact that thesé methods are cor- rect can be seen from the results already obtained, During May, the district sold 138 dues stamps; in August it jumped to 535 stamps. Before the school started the League organization went down to about 75 members, today the League has grown back to about 150, It is interesting to note that the increase took place in two. most important places—the city of Pittsburgh and East Ohio, In Pittsburgh we had only one unit, ‘Today we have three. In East Ohio we had in May, one unit, (during the strike); today we have six units, ‘We can enumerate a few more facts to snow the direction the League is traveling, There is, of course, the danger that the above will be taken, not as proof of the impor- tance and benefits gained by having this schol, but rather that the League has broken from its isola- tion, and is now on the road of becoming a mass League, Anyone who will interpret the above facts in the latter light will not only blind himself, but also blind others. However, while the situation in the League is poor, and its weaknesses should be kept in the forefront, there is no reason why, we should not give a correct estimation of the value and benefits of the school, SECTARIAN METHODS IN PREPARING SCHOOL The preparation of the school, and specifically the question of funds showed the opportunist way the school was prepared, Out of a total sum of $342.44 that was raised for the school, $218 was raised out- side of the Pittsburgh district, Of the remaining $124 only $18 was raised before the school started, which shows that the League lead- ership had no faith that the mem- bership could raise funds for the school, with the result that the League, as such, was not fully mobilized for the school, The excuse that there is no money in the district, was used to justify the failure to mobilize the membership, was exposed when during the four weeks of the school, the students themselves raised $79.44, — WHAT REGISTRATION SHOWED ‘The chief shortcoming shows that work among the Negro young workers in the steel and mining district has been totally neglected, Out of 30 students only three were Negroes. This speaks for itself, The social composition occupa- tions of the students was not bad, but far from gcod for the Pitts- burgh district—25 workers and 5 students, Among the 25 workers we had seven miners and five steel workers, the rest made up of vari- ous trades, It is important to add here, that the occupation of the parents of the students were: 11 miners and 7 steel workers, and 8 of those who are now doing labor- ing jobs or unemployed have at one time or another been either a miner or a steel worker, Of the 25 workers, only\one is now working in a steel mill, which employs close to 10,000 workers, and one on strike, while the rest are unemployed. This ea firstly, that the ee did not do much > tae "ahope i spite ofthe: fact \VORBUR, N Negro Writer Tells How USSR WW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1932 “THE CITY MUST ECONOMIZE TO SATISFY THE BANKERS.” > —Mayor McKee. By BURCK. Wiped Out Nat’l Oppression Says Communist Program Would Liberate Negroes of the U. S. A. Loren Miller Urges Negro Workers to Support Communist Ticket By LOREN MILLER. (The well-known Negro writer, Loren Miller, sends us the follow- ing article from Odessa, Soviet Union. Miller with a group of Negro writers, workers, etc. has been traveling through the Soviet Union the past.two months ob- serving conditions there). ‘HE entire absence of racial strife and “race problems” in the a ritory now encompassed in. the So- viet Union makes it hard to realize that this part of the earth was once the scene of some of the bloodiest and most bitter national and racial conflicts in history. THE OLD AND THE NEW - I have just returned from a trip through the Ukraine, the Crimea and the Causasus. In these parts of the Soviet Union I saw at least a half hundred different races and nationalties living side by side in peace. Everywhere we went, we asked about the racial problems. ‘The question was met with surprise. So completely has strife disappear- ed that the people have put the words “race problems” out of ‘their vocabulary. The Ukraine may be taken as an example of the old and the new. Since the dawn of European his- tory, it has been the meeting place of migrations from the east and the west. Each has left its mark. With- in the present boundaries of this rich and fertile republic live Poles, Germans, Czechs, Ukrainians, Jews and at least ten other nationalities. that from among he unemployed, abou eight comrades had been em- ployed in some of the biggest mills and coal mines in the district. Secondly, our school took place during the strike in East Ohio, (the latter part of it) and only one © student from that section, which shows that we have done very little among the young striking miners, who by the way, played a very: important role, When we consider the above facts, in the strikes, we can perhaps better see why the League went down to 75 members before the school started, SCHOOL EXPENSES ‘The total amount spent for the school runs up to about$310.75, the remaining $31.69 was left over for the next schol, which the district is planning to hold some time ir December or January, This amov'¢ - could have been reduced,. if he neceseary arrangements were ‘Aade before hand, As for instanze, the total amount for food is $175.26, we. could have saved som of this money had we had a g«nmittee or- ganized, so as to @ilect food as well as to buy at lwiter prices than what we paid, The genera) »experiences gained from the school will not only be of value to our next schol, but it can be of great value to many other districts who are now preparing for schools, as well as for those” re aah tricts who do not think it is sible for them to hold-a stn | ~, Mew-of thelr. inane! Under the czarist rule, these peo- ples were kept at each other's throats. Blody outbreaks were the rule rather than the exception. Particularly was hatred of the non-Jewish peoples for Jews im- planted and kept alive. Pograms, massacres in the Ukraine were famed far and wide for their fre- quency and viciousness. Jews were barred from government positions, denied residence in most cities, the Jews were forced to live in “jim- crow” distdicts, called pales of set- ‘tlemént, in those towns where they were permitted. The Russian lan- guage was forced on all minor na- tionalities; their newspapers were suppressed, their schools forbidden and their culture attacked from every angle. Illiteracy was high, running as much as 50 per cent among many sections. Only four per cent of the children in any school could be Jewish, i Reasons, or rather excuses, as- signed for these oppressive acts sound strangely familiar to Negroes. It was said that the Jews were un- fitted for industrial work, that they were inferior, that they did not make good farmers and that the race problems were eternal. EQUALITY IN SOVIET RUSSIA But Alexander Glinsky, vice-of- ficial of the Kiev district of the Ukraine, will cite you facts and fig- ures to disprove the old official lids so often told you excuse racial op- pression. He is a Jew himself and the very fact that he holds his present position is impressive of the fact that a new order has come. Pogroms have disappeared. Tiliter- acy in the whole of the Ukraine has entirely vanisehd. Jewsh work- ers are proving their worth in fac- tories. Jewish collective farms rank high, in production and efficiency. ‘Education is free. Each national- pbs conducts schools in its own lan- Language newspapers, books, rrindicats are encouraged, The -culture- of each group is carefully nurtured. The result is the disap- pearance of all traces of national or racial hatreds. A. LESSON FOR A’AERICAN NEGROES ° Burdened as he is with racial op- pres‘don of the most vicious kind, the American Negro must be tre- mendously interested in the manner m which the Soviet Union has ban- ished its race hatreds, once sup- posed to have been as eternal as the) present American ones. The answer is simple. It has applied the doctrine of self determination for minority groups. Miike right is Se an empty phrase in the Soviet Union, As I have indicated, all groups are encouraged to seek self expression. Each group is given a proportionate voice in govern- mente affairs. The Soviet Union is meticulous in seeing that each minor group controls its own des- tiny. So far does this go that any of the national republics that com- prise the Soviet Union is given the Miergeg Leo) right to secede. political and social equality for the Negro and self determination for the Black Belt in its 1932 platform. That Party, alone of the American political parties, has a genuine de- sire to solve the Negro problem, as it is called. Its desire for a solu- tion has led it to settle on the only formula that has proved successful. The wave of lynching that has swept the United States in the past year; the wholesale discharge of Negro workers; the’ refusal to give adequate relief to the starving; the } brutal police Killings in Chicago, Cleveland and Camp Hill; the ap- paling stay of the Negro farmers in the South and the mounting rate of official discriminations force the Negro to grapple with the so-called racial problem as never before. Any honest evaluation of the situation must drive Negroes to the conclu- sion that it is to the Communist Party that he must turn. The old thraedbare lies of the republicans— violated at every opportunity— about equal rights; the record of the lynch ridden democrats and the jim-crow policy of the socialists show them in their true colors. WHO SHOULD THE NEGRO VOTE FOR Only the Communists with their straight-forward platform of relief for the por farmers and workers their demand for self determination for Negroes in the Black Belt and with a Negro, James W. Ford, as nominee for the vice-presidency de- serve the vote of the Negroes of the United States. It is for these reasons that I wish to renew my plea to Negroes everywhere in the United States to vote Communist! Spy on Unemployed to Cut Relief in New ‘Haven Further (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW HAVEN, Conn—There are only four factories that are consid- ered here at the present time, The Winchester Arms shut down for three weeks during August and opened again on a 3-day schedule. They dumped 300 employees. Wages are the lowest. ‘The Sargent Hardware Co. is op- erating on three days a week, eight hours a day, and 3-5 of the help laid off, and wages the. lowest. The New Haven Clock Co, four days a week, four-fifths of the help walking the streets, and wages low. A. C. Gilbert: toy factory, three days a week, short time. An Italian girl made 16 cents for one day on piece work. It is common to hear of a total of 80 cents for three days’ pay. All employment from the charity office is announced to terminate on September 17. Relief workers spy on the unemployed, cutting them off in every possible way, Every Saturday night Communist and socialist speakers debate on the street until 11 o'clock. Children, es- pecially, like to hear what is going on in the Soviet Union. Daily Work- ers are taken most eagezly. The so- cialists condemn them, while the See neater it ent dai 'Y first view of the “Scialist” city of Milwaukee—September 9—Socialist cops breaking up an unemployed demonstration with clubs and riot guns. Four thousand workers fought off a police attack for more than an hour at the Lincoln Ave. and South 10th St. relief station, Many were hurt, two seriously injured, Walter Ulatowski, unemployed worker, and Sergeant Westphal be- ing taken to the hospital. Two po- licemen were pushed through a plate glass window. Thirteea work- ers were thrown into jail by So- cialist Mayor Hoan’s, police, ‘The four thousand workers came to demonstrate at the call of the South Side Unemployed Council, against the cutting off of many families from relief. Under the lat- est scheme of slashing relief costs downward, the County Board of Su- pervisors have hired a horde of in- vestigators at $150 a month, head- ed by a new superinendent of re- lief, Benjamin Glassberg, at $4,500 a year. These additional salaries have more than been made up for by cutting off the relief lists on any pretext thousands of starving families, Investigators force their way into workers’ homes, ransack. the furniture and search the heus- es, and if they find anything which is salable, cut the workers off from relief until they have parted with the very last of their belongings, Even if the workers have simply serimped and saved part of their Telief foodsuffs, they get no relief until they starve sufficiently to convince the investigators that they will die. DEMONSTRATION WAS PROTEST It was in protest against this pol- icy that the demonstration was called. While the four thousand workers waited outside, a commit- tee tried to take three of the starv- ing families into the relief station. Mayor Hoan’s police drove them from the door. At the sight of the committee and the starving work- ers being denied entrance, the crowd surged forward. The cops at- tacked with swinging clubs. Work- ers and cops went down in hand to hand fighting. There was no dis- crimination by the Socialist po- lice, Workers, young or old, men or women, whoever was in the path of the clubs, got them on heads and shoulders. Walter Ula- towski had to have three stitches in his scalp. Another, Kravchik, was beaten over the head until he became unconscious; he had been @ member of Mayor Hoan’s So- cialist Party; this was his first lesson in the class struggle, at the -hands of Mayor Hoan’s police. Cee aaat s THAT is the amount of relief which the more “fortunate” re- ceive and which was denied these starving families, in the struggle for which workers were clubbed and arrested? For a family of five, $2.62 worth of starchy foods, once every two weeks. No green vegeta- bles, no butter, meat enough for one meal, and that usuallf rotten. A worker got on a street car with MILWAUKEE.-- “Socialist City” 30,000 FAMILIES LIVE ON $1.31 A WEEK IN CITY GOVERNED BY THOMAS’ PARTY FORCED LABOR, POLICE CLUBS FOR RKERS By GEORGE COOPER his relief package; the stench from it was overpowering. People sitting by, asked him what was in the package. He opened it and showed them: his meat ration from the relief station, a lump of ham with maggots crawling over it. Such is the relief under a so cialist administration. “But,” cries Mayor Hoan and the Milwaukee socialists, “it isn’t our fault! Relief is given by Milwaukee County, not by Milwaukee city. Our charter doesn’t permit us to give relief.” Greater Milwaukee covers prace- tically the whole county; but the socialists hide behind the legalistic subterfuge that Milwaukee’s char- ter prevents the city from supple- menting the horribly inadequate county relief. As if a real workers’ party would let a charter stand between the workers and food! CREATED FORCED LABOR PLAN. As a matter of fact, nine out of twenty officials who make up the County Board of Supervisors are socialists or vote with them on every measure. There is no record of their ever attempting to increase the amount of relief. What is even more to the point, it is the socialist supervisors themselves who brought into Milwaukee county its present system of forced labor. ebay figs ‘ORCED labor was the contribu- tion of the Socialist supervisors —Frank K, Metcalfe, socialist can- didate for governor and his eight associates, Every worker whose family receives the niggardly re- lief is compelled at any time he is called to dig ditches and go on the rock pile. Until recently it was foreed labor with no prtense of being anything else. Now, after the struggle of the Unemployed Coun- cils to do away with forced labor, each worker is credited with earn- ing $4 a day. But the catch is that he only receives $1. The rest is credited to his past and future re- lief, and is forced to work for $1 a day whenever the country wants him, If any workers refuse to do fore- ed labor, he is cut off from relief; then he is arrested for having no visible means of support, and is sent to jail for “vagrancy”. How many cases there have been of this kinds is not known. As Mommsen, warden of the House of Correction where they are sent, said: “I can’t tell. They’re sent here on the same commitment pa- pers as hobos and crooks, so I can’t tell which is which.” “STARVATION IN OUR TIME.” This is the situation of the un- employed in the socialist city of Milwaukee: 30,000 families forced to live on starvation rations of $2.62 for every two weeks, com- pelled to do forced labor more than making up for the relief, or be clubbed and arrested by socialist police. But these are the lucky ones. For the 30,000 relief tickets certainly do not cover the 120,000 admittedly unemployed in Milwau- kee. These others starve outright ig the socialist city of Milwaukee, Maxim Gorki’s Letter to the Intellectuals of America TO AMERICAN INTELLECTUALS. By Maxim Gorki, International Pamphlet No, 28. Price 10c. Reviewed by MILTON HOWARD THERE is evidence on every side to show that the American in- tellectuals and scientists have been hard hit by the crisis. Thousands of engineers, chemists, writers, teachers and professional men are feeling the terrible curse of capit- alism—unemployment and starva- tion, As a result there is taking place a great ferment among them, They are looking for a way out. It is important to remember that the intellectuals do not constitute a social class having a definite place in the scheme of production. Rather they form a_ secondary group serving a particular class. CU ets TORY has shown that as a group the intellectuals served the class which is economically and politically dominant. But does this mean that the workers must consider all intellectuals as their eternal enemi Absolutely not. It is possible for the revolutionary working class to recruit large sec- tions: of the intellectuals to their side,” The reason is that large numbers: of intellectuals are find- ing capitalism just as hateful as the workers find it. Only they do not know where the trouble lies. It is up to us to show them their place is side by side with the pro- letariat and poor farmers in the fight for a Soviet America. To Ameriean Intellectuals is a letter written by Maxin Gorki, the great Soviet writer, in reply to questions asked him by two Am- erican intellectuals. Gorki begins by showing how most prominent bourgeois intellectuals are bank- rupt and filled with hatred or des- pair. He shows how the bourgeois intellectuals, reflecting the econo- mic helplessness of the ruling class, are turning more and more against science and art, because they can find no use for them. Then he describes how the capitalist class itself is beginning to despise the intellectuals because it can no longer find any use for them. Gorki says. “The basic prob- Jems of science—intellectus] de- . velopment, impoverishment of ‘hygiene, which is maintained at yond the understanding of the bourgeois, and is no more interest to him than to the savage of Central Afriea.” se Then with clarity and precision Gorki analyzes such ideas as th role of the church and the pi played by violence in the revolue tion. He shows how the press— as well as the radio, movies and theatre—is occupied “almost ex- clusively with the task of lowering the cultural level of its readers.” aa eer) MUT of all this economic chaos and cultural bankruptcy arises the imminent danger of war, par- With burning anger Gorki writes, “The bourgeoisie rejected the Sov- iet Union’s plan for universal dis- armament, and this fact alone tells us clearly enough that the capit- alists are socially dangerous and are preparing a new world slaught- er. They are keeping the Soviet Union in a state of defense, fore- ing the working class to spend an enormous amount of precious time and materials on the production of weapons for defense against the capitalists. . . forces and resources which certainly could have been employed with greater advantage for the cultural regeneration of mankind—for the work of con- struction in the Soviet Union has a world-wide importance for the whole of humanity.” xt And Gorki concludes: “The bour- geois is hostile to culture, and at present can not help being hos- tile to it.. Such is the truth borne out by the facts in capitalist coun- tries, by the practice of capitalist states. . . It is time for you to decide, “Masters of culture’! Are you for the elemental labor force of culture, and for the creation of new forms of life, or are you a- gainst this force and for the pre- servation of the caste of impos- sible plunderers, the caste which is decaying from its head down and is continuing its existence only by inertia?” It is difficult in a few words, or with a few quotations, to give the reader even an idea cf the eloqu- ence, power and burning sincerity of Gerki’s writing. This illustrated pamphlet with an excellent picture of Gorki on the cover, sells for 10 cents. In bundle batches it can be ordered. at bce rates from Workers Libe Publishers, Box. 148, . ‘tation DiNew Yorke: Clty, wirsmscannee ticularly against the Soviet ran (t 4