The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 10, 1933, Page 4

Page Four Dail Yorker Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Inc., daily exeept 5 f sth 6t., New York City, N. ¥. Telephone ALgonquin 4-795 . ot OR. Cable “DAIWORE.” Party USA. | Address and mail checks to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York, N. ¥. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By mail everywhere: Canada: One year, One year, $6; six months, $3.50. excepting Boreush of Manhattan and Bronx, New 9; 6 months, months, $3; 1 month, 1 ork City. Foreign and $5; 3 months, 35 | The Roosevelt “Labor | Policy” IHE ROOSEVELT “labor policy” is a strengthening of the anti-working class policy of the Hoover administration and a sharpening of the capitalist offens This is no matter of guesswork. plain by a number of events since Roosevelt's election. head of his party he is responsible for ous states and we do not intend to let him escape that responsibility by theory which is only a convenient method hiding behind “the states rights’ of doing or not doing t! Capitalism. In the he Hor! state Roosevelt landslide, has sent five compa: Press striking miners defending themselv ve all along the line. It is a conclusion made As leaders in the vari- ne acts of things wanted or not wanted by American | jemocrat governor elected in the s of the National Guard to sup- i the murder-attacks of Peabody Coal Company gunmen ‘and the thugs of the John L. Lewis “union”, dominated by the Peabody interests. The wife of a miner has been killed by the gunmen. ers are held charged with murder. hibited. There is a reign of terror c Kincaid, etc., by the gunmer Here is a Democratic Party government he tected by 24 striking min- Miners’ gs have been pro- on in and around Taylorville. tro mee! ied by a Roosevelt hench- man, in action against unemployed and striking miners and their fami- ies, in one of the biggest industria! This is one instance of the Roosevelt ates ‘labor policy In Massachusetts, likewise a great industrial state, Governor Ely has eight-hour law for women, etc—in order to enable the manufacturers to | | come out for the repeal of all social legislation—minimum wage law and | | Meet southern competition. Ely is a wheel horse of the national Democratic Party machine. He | and Al Smith were mainly instrumental in carrying the state for Roose- ‘velt. As for Roosevelt himself, from the interminable conferences he has | been holding with his leaders of the house and senate, not one word has | come about the enactment of any of the unemployment relief and insur- | ance legislation he promised so volu * [ASS misery from unemployment, wage cuts and part-time work is in- in speed. All private relief organizations are creasing at express confessing their inability to raise enough funds for their budgets. Emergency Unemployment Relief Committee local organizations have i failed to make their quotas Roosevelt remains silent. Now comes the announcement of a new sweeping wage cut by the steel trust, affecting workers already dri The steel trust is sure of government support—both from the old and new administration. What is the answer? The answer for the working class, employed and unemployed, must be organization and preparation on a scale far larger than any yet seen, for mass struggles to defeat the capitalist drive against them. Organization and strike struggle against wage cuts. against all evictions of workers and mass fight for rent reductions and no rent payments for unemployed workers. hunger marches for immediate rélief and unemployment insurance and the bringing of these vital issues into the everyday life and struggles of workers everywhere. It is not taking workers long to learn that relief for and improve- ment of conditions by Roosevelt will not be forthcoming. the policy of American imperialism—it is the policy of getting out of the orisis by forcing the masses deeper into destitution. The Communist Party, which from the very first exposed the myth.. of Roosevelt as the “friend of labor’, calls upon workers to put into effect. ‘its program of struggle as the only way to fight starvation—as the only.. ‘way to force relief and to check the capitalist offensive. The Communist Party calls upon workers to join its ranks and help to strengthen it for the big class battles that are coming in this fourth . year of the crisis. bly during the campaign. The n to the starvation level. Mass struggles Mass demonstrations and His policy is Letters from Our Readers A VISIT TO THE SOUTH AND AN URGENT PLEA Editor of Daily Worker, Dear Comrade: I am writing you this letter from Jacksonville, Fla right in the heart of the Black | South. I have travelled all the ‘way down from New York in order to see the prisoners in the State Penitentiary at Raiford—the com- Fades who are the victims of the ‘Tampa frame-up and who are serv- ing sentences of from one to ten hnealg In particular, as you may Vhave guessed, I am specially inter- fested in the case of Jim Nine. This young organizer sent down from the North was given a ten-year k Sentence for speaking from the x same platform as a Negro comrade ‘and for leading the militant strug- gle of the Tampa tobacco workers for the improvement of their mis- erable conditions. The workers down “here are fighting incessantly tor their release and will be able to obtain it with a little co-opera- tion from the Daily Worker. qaavsnse > ‘REALITY LEFT ME DAZED.” I visited the homes of some Negro comrades here while a meeting was being held, at the risk of my own neck, and the sight of real, intense misery like this made me more of ‘w tebel than ever. In New York Thad started to read a book en- titled “Georgia Nigger,” but. laid it “aside as impossible and preposter- ous. But it isn’t impossible—it is ‘the truth, T can believe now be- eguse I've seen with my own eyes. Why, the Negroes down here live in ‘shacks that even a pig would blush to look at. I suppose you know all this, but you must excuse me. I 2 saw these things. I read ut the conditions in the South, it was superficial. Reality left , dazed. I could never, never ‘write on paper my feelings when I the Jim-Crowism, the terror the intense misery that exists the South. _ And we must fight for these com- fades who are in prison. They are ‘They have the courage of yeir convictions. They have given everything for the class struggle, now they are subjected to the treatment that human beings receive. In the Tampa county are Comrades Macdonald and in the Raiford State Peni- are Comrades Cruz, Ca- pra, Mario, Lopez and Jim Nine. me tell you of a little incident occurred here, so that you may stand the treatment they ve here. ING-CLASS i Crus is @ very sick vom- working in a road camp. As he was very weak, he only partially filled his wheelbarrow with the earth that the prisoners were dig- ging. The guard threatened him with an enormous stick or club, telling him that he isn’t carrying enough. When Cruz resisted his attempts to make him haul a heay- jer load, the guard fell upon him and almost beat him to death. Comrade Cabrera, a Spanish work- er from Tampa, rushed to his de- tense and broke the guard’s stick at the risk of his own life, because all guards carry a gun and for the least little thing they shoot you down in cold blood and declare that you were attempting to escape. Therefore you can see how utterly unselfish and heroic our comrades are here. The result was that Ca- brera received 52 days in the sweat- box with his. daily meal consisting of a single slice of bread and a measly drop of tepid water. Fifty- two days, deprived of human society | and exposed to the hot Florida sun. This is a true story as told to me | by the two comrades mentioned. | This is the treatment that workers receive in the State Penitentiary at Raiford. Please—you are a leading comrade in the Party—can’t you help spread the significance of the Tampa case and make the com- | rades up north realize that these | comrades must be freed? Mass | pressure has succeeded in the past, why not in this case. You must | write more about fhese comrades in the Daily Worker, RBM ike | LETTER FROM THE CITY| WITH COMMUNIST MAYOR Crosby, Minn. Editor of Daily Worker, Dear Comrade: Last year during the Lenin Drive I got six new Party members into our Party. I started this year in the Daily Worker and Party drive and I got four subscriptions and one member into the Party. © Every Party member and Daily Worker reader should do the same thing, One mistake of the Party mem- bers is when they go to talk to the masses they start to call *them nothing but dirty names, The com- rades should know how to approach the members. ‘Those members I got to the Party I didn’t get by friendliness, but through activity. I am @ foreigner, I got three Swedish nationalities to the Party and one | American, and it can be proved that I got the mthrough the Daily Worker and by reading Compgunist | Party books and pamphlets. TI appeal to all the comrades—it isn’t such a thing that they can’t get one sub for the Datly Worker, | compared with the 1932 budget. ~ Fought by C.P. in Milwaukee 1, By FRED BASSETT-BLAIR IN opposition to the scrip pay- ments, the Communist Party puts forward the following de- mands: 1, That all city and county ages be paid in full in cash— with a reduction of all official sal- aries, including the mayor's, to a maximum of $2,500 a year. That no system of scrip payment be considered for either public or private employment. | 2. That no delinquent tax- properties below $10,000 value own- ed by workers or small property holders be taken over by the city no matter how long in arrears. PROPERTY TAX 3. That in order to raise the funds necessary for cash payments of wages, a steeply graduated property tax be levied upon all property valuations over $10,000; while all properties below this yal- uation be tax exempt. 4. That in order to provide for more employment of workers now unemployed, the city budget pro- vide for an expanded public works program with full cash wages un- ion scale for all labor employed (no scrip.) That the police budget be cut three-quarters to proyide for this public works program; that no interest or principal be paid upon the city’s bonded in- debtedness and the money saved go to the public works program; that the city apply to the Recon- struction Finance Corp. for a loan sufficient to cover all cash wages and costs above what is realized by these measures... ‘HE Communist Party stand created a stir, and some divi- sion in the ranks of the politicians. After its appearance, many dema- gogues began to pretend “opposi- tion” to scrip. a ee IN Wednesday, Dec. 28, there was a public hearing on the budget, at which many interesting things came to light in addition to what was brought out by the scrip argu- ments. The 1933 budget of Mil- waukee is cut over $7,000,000 as Two things stand out with reference to the budget: a) While in the debate on the scrip system, Mayor Hoan and the councilmen, both Socialist and non-partisan, demagogically spoke of “unemploy- ment relief,” it is precisely this item which suffers most from the budget cuts; b) The police depart- ment, mayor's office, city attorney’s office, courts, and other organs of repression are cut either sparingly, or not at all. NO CUTS FOR POLICE AND HOAN The police department, taking up 8 per cent of the total budget, was cut only $16,500 (about half of one per cent) though the total budget cut was about 18 per cent. This cut represented the cost of maintaining the city’s mounted po- lice. The mayor has been trying to hide the great police appropria- tion by staging a mock-war with police chief Laubenheimer over the six horses. ‘The mayor's department was cut only $95—cigarette money. The mayor receives $13,500 a year (he donates 10 per cent to “unemploy- ed relief’—making his wages “on- ly” $12,150). Chief of Police Laubenheimer argued for the mounted police. “The horse is man’s best friend atid has been from the dawn of history,” he said, and told how gentle the horses were. But he em- phasized many times the real rea- sons for the horses. “There will be riots in these times of unrest. One policeman on horseback can do more against a mob than 40 patrolmen.” He showed how on March 6, 1930, the mounted police dispersed over 20,000 unemployed workers in only a few minutes time. “Don’t take the horses from me for the next three years,” he pleaded. » The debate at this hearing upon Laubenheimer’s horses brought out sharply the class nature of the budget. The Communist Party and T. U. U. L. speakers, coming in immediately after the police chief, were unable to seize upon the bud- get cuts, and expose particularly the role of the police and the mayor. ee eS ONTRASTED with the favorable C treatment which the police and the mayor received in the budget— the public employees and the un- employed workers of Milwaukee are being bitterly attacked in the 1933 budget. BIG CHUNK OUT OF RELIEF There are over 100,000 unem- ployed in the city. Relief has been promised them, and before elec- tions temporary jobs were given out. The 1933 budget cuts the Public Works Department almost $1,200,000—about 25 per cent. “All new construction work has been eliminated,” the invitation to the hearing read; $900,000 for unem~- ployment relief projects and $100,- 000 for snow removal, have been eliminated from the budget en- tirely. These funds went to the unemployed. Thus we see that out of the $7,000,000 budget cut, $2,200,000 is immediately at the expense of unemployed relief, in the form of temporary jobs, under the heading of “Public works, snow removal, etc.” But this is not all—the appro- priations for Health Department, Library Board, Museum Board, Park Board, are slashed so severely that hundreds of city employes are going to be thrown into the ranks of the unemployed, Already, as @ result of the budget slashes, some city departments have gone into the 30-hour week to avoid lay- offs, which means a cut of 26 per cent in wages through reduced hours—and, besides this, there is the additional 10 per it deduc- tion for “unemployed rejief.’” (To Be Comtiegea) x3 é DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDA Scrip Plan Is “THE HELL YOU WILL——! JANUARY 10, 1933 —By Burck to Present-Day Problems A Review of the January Issue of “The Communist” By H. M. WICKS. T is not possible to read the Janu- ary issue of The Communist without being impressed with its serious attempt to apply concrete- ly to the situation in the United States the Gecisions and lessons of the Twelfth Pl&num of the Execu- tive Committee of the Communist International. In this connection the reprinting of Comrade Gusev’s speech at the Twelfth Plenum on “The End of Capitalist Stabilization and the Basic Tasks of the American and British Sections of the Communist International”, was correct and necessary. It is essential that every Party member be thoroughly fa- miliar with this contribution to qur revolutionary theory and prac- tice and with all its implications. This means that, in studying all the decisions of the Twelfth Plen- um, this contribution by Comrade Gusev must become for us the guide to applying these decisions to our concrete problems, while the basic document is, of course, the thesis and ‘resolutions of the plenum, published in pamphlet form under the title “Capitalist Stabilization Has Ended”. EVIL OF SECTARIANISM. To apply the lessons of the ‘Twelfth Plenum there must be a decisive break with the past, especi- ally in the work of the Party units. But this change must be initiated by the Central Committee and the District Committees organizing fundamental political discussion for the study of the decisions of the E. C. C. I. plenum and of our own Party C. C. plenums. This is an Imperative task that has been delayed much too long. From this defect arises a whole series of mis- takes and shortcomings in our work, especially the most paralyz- ing blight that afflicts our Party— sectarianism. It isethis sectarian- ism which most of all hinders us in striving to obtain leadership of the masses who are, more and more, showing an increased determina- tion to struggle against the hunger and war program of the capitalist class, a sectarianism the real na- ture of which consists, to use the words of Comrade Gusev “in a right opportunist lagging behind the mass movement.” This central defect is further emphasized and elaborated in the editorial, “Forward in the Line of the Twelfth Plenum of the E. C. C. 1,” which appears as the opening article in the January Communist. ‘Therein is brought out the funda- mental task of decisively combat- ting right opportunism in theory and practice—all along the line. At the same time this fight against right opportunism, which is the main danger, is carried on, there must be a struggle against “left” deviations which lead to serious consequences of their own and, by distorting the line, objectively aid right opportunism. - The editorial brings out a whole series of concrete shortcomings, such as lack of decisive struggle against the maneuvers of the social- fascists in strikes (Lawrence, Pater- son, Southern Illinois), unclarity on work among the unemployed, neg- lect of work among the unem- ployed youth and women, the fact that although the Party has car- ried on effective campaigns and come closer to the Negro masses, there is great weakness due to the lack of local struggles, insufficient: mobilization of the masses against imperialist war, etc. Correctly it points out the failure to develop the political initiative of the mem- bership, which accounts for the low _ political Jevel of a considerable proportion of the membership. To overcome this and to train cadres, drawing new elements and there- fore new strength into the leader- ship is of utmost, importance. MRADE GUSEV sums up in ‘his speech the fundamental tasks of our Party as follows: (1) Direct the basic blogg against social-democracy, to win the mas- ses away from it, to isolate it from the masses; (2) Win over the majority of the proletariat and the poor farm- ers, train them in. a. series of fights and to convert them inte our political army; (3) Organize our Party into a mass Party on the basis of inner- Party democracy, based on iron discipline, into a revolutionary staff of this political army; (4) Enlarge, strengthen and re- new our Party general staff. It is obvious that these tasks must be pursued with the greatest determination if we are not to be placed in the positidh of having the mass upsurge sweep past us. At this historical moment, at the end of capitalist stabilization, with | the revolutionary upsurge as the most important factor, it is not sufficient for the Party merely to hold its own or only advance slow- ly. If we are to keep pace with events, we must advance rapidly, otherwise we will be further sep- arated from the basic strata of the American proletariat. If we are to fulfill the task which history has imposed upon us as the vanguard of the American working class, we must advance at great speed. STACHEL DISCUSSES IMPORTANT PROBLEMS. This fact is recognized by Com- rade Jack Stachel, who, im his ar- ticle “Struggle for Elementary Needs—the Main Link in Winning the Masses,” deals with strikes and unemployed struggles in the U. 8. A. in the light of the Twelfth Plenum resolution on this question. He correctly criticizes and stigma- tizes as a social-democratic sur- vival the division between trade union and Party work that exists in our ranks. He emphasizes that part of the resolution which de- clares that the Communist Parties are responsible for the organization of the economic struggle of the pro- letariat against the capitalist of- fensive. Many important problems are raised regarding the prepara- tion for strike struggles, the ques- tion of concentrating on basic in- dustries, united action of employed and unemployed, the shortcomings of our work in the concentration districts, the confusion existing re- garding new unions and old unions, the task of combating the maneuv- ers of Green, Muste and the social- fascists generally in regard to the thirty-hour week agitation, the un- employment insurance schemes, and other tricks calculated to dupe the workers and sidetrack them from the mass struggle. In his article Comrade Stachel correctly insists that a departure from the past be made and that resolutions of the E. C. C. I. and the Red In- ternational of Labor Unions be discussed in the lower Party or- ganizations and decisive steps be taken to correct wrong practices. ‘HERE are number of other fea- tures in the January Commu- nist, among them an exervt from Comrade Manuilsky’s speech at the Twelfth Plenum, under the caption “Stalin Deyelops the Teachings of Marx and Lenin”, showing how the period of Sociai- ist Construction and its victory in the YU. S. S. R. is linked with the name of Comrade Stalin, and Marxism” is the title of a translation from the Russian of M. Mitin. Full eredit is given to Spinoza as the foremost intellect of his time, but at the same time Mitin assails those who, like De- borin, gloss over the idealistic ele- ments in Spinoza’s materialism and try to make of him a consistent materialist. A contribution that is particu- larly welcome and’ that has al- ready attracted wide approval is that of V. J. Jerome, entitled “Un- masking an American Revisionist of Marxism.” This article deals with the vagaries of Sidney Hook, exposing him as a wilful perverter of Marxism, a shallow vulgarizer, an ‘insolent, muddled pretender, who strives to tear Marxism to pieces by separating the doctrines of surplus value, the class strug- gle and the materialist conception of history. Hook and a handful of muddled Individuals who pretend to some knowledge of philosophy and who echo Hook and Max Eastman (the original exponent of Trotskyism in the U. 8.) ave too long been car- tying their poison into the ranks “Spinoza. | People holding Hook's views try to make it appear that their differ- ences with the party of Marxism- Leninism are trivial. They only differ from our Party inasmuch as they hold that dialectic material- ism does not apply to nature, although they are willing to con- cede that it does apply to social movements. In other words (ac-. cording to Hook) dialectic material- ism can explain the ideas and the social organizations under which mankind moves, but cannot ex- plain the movement of natural forces. Such a theory is nothing other than idealism and to put forth such illusions in the name of materialism is an affront to all materialism. HOW HOOK SERVES CAPITALISTS. Comrade Jerome, in his eriticism of Hook, not only shows how Hook tries to emasculate Marxism and turn dialectics into the most shame- less sophistry, thus depriving the working class of its powerful weapon of Marxism-Leninism, but also how such distortion and cor- ruption serve the ruling class in this period of the general crisis of capitalism. It is thts philosophic hack, this insolent distorter of Marxism, who, bloated with his originality. his uniqueness, privately tells those Communist Party of the U. S. A. or in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union knows the first thing about philosophy. Only Hook knows. His great originality is ex- posed by Comrade Jerome who traces it to Duehring, Bernstein, Bogdanov, James and Dewey. With great erudition Hook says: “Dialectic materialism must take its cues from the scientific prag- matism of Dewey.” From that profound observation the present reviewer exercises his right to take a cue, and to add still another name to these who con- tributed to Hook's originality — William English Walling, the no- torious renegade, lackey of imper- jialism and former “left” leader of -the Socialist Party. Walling was the Sidney Hook of his day. He was associated with Max Eastman, Frank Bohn, Harry W. Laidler, Louis C. Fraina (of odoriferous memory), Floyd Dell, Ludwig Lore, Louis B, Boudin—renegades all— _in the publication of a magazine called “The New Review". In that sheet Walling wrote a series ot articles entitled, “The Prag- matism of Marx and Engels,” in which he said the same things in 1913 that Hook is saying today. But not even William James claims for pragmatism the orig- inality claimed by the novice, Hook. James calls it “a new name for some old ways of thinking”. Prag- | matism is an alleged philosophy that claims no one can know any- thing regarding the future, that in practice can we know whether it was correct or not. Thus, while past history can be explained, it can teach us nothing about what , history holds in store for us. ear In denying dialectics in nature Sidney Hook goes back to Bacon and Locke, back to the century preceding the eighteenth century materialists of France. But we do not, to be, sure, place such philis- tines as Hook, in the same cate- gory with these British philosoph- ers who were tha precursors of eighteenth century French mater- jalism (Diderot, Helvetius, Hol- bach.) These were all bourgeois philosophers, the most advanced of their time, but at that time the bourgeoisie was the revolutionary class. The material basis for the rise of dialectic materialism did not then exist for the simple reason that it was only in the so- cial movements that brought the bourgeoisie to power and the tem- pestuous emergence of the prole- tariat upon the stage of history that it was possible to perceive the key to all history. Hook also aspires to member- bourgeois ship in the ranks of ee philosophers. certainly we Revolutionary Theory Applied who will listen that no one in the | only after a thing has worked out ; FROM THE BLACK BELT By MYRA PAGE. These sketches of the life and struggle of Negro and white workers in the South are taken from “Gathering Storm”, by Myra Page, just published by International Publishers—EDITOR’S NOTE. BO eee vu. THE EXODUS ‘HE violins and saxaphone died away, the dance had ended. Drawing back in the bushes as a couple came near the window, he heard a male voice drawling, “Shay, I heard another good nigger joke today... .” Nigger joke! Nigger joke! Martha’s body. .. . Nigger joke... . His brain reeled, snapped back into place. With a crash of cymbals the music re-commenced—this time a jazz one-step, “Everybody's Doing IT—Doing What? Turkey Trot!” One woman with _ brilliantly- painted cheeks glancing coyly over her companion’s shoulder, stifled a surprised outcry. She had seen two black eyes glaring through that open” window! Her companion Jaughed at her. ‘Too much hootch, that’s what's wrong with you.” Nevertheless he and another man searched the bushes, but there was no one there. Jim, lying face down under the veranda steps held his breath, inwardly cursing his carelessness, He must get his man, Again the dance ended, couples wandered across the and out onto the lawn. “Oh El Haines,” a soft voice gig gled, “you're such a kidder.” ° and porch a is Sprung from his hiding place. In the full light which streamed from the dance hall stood a girl and alongside, his man. Bringing his rifle level with his shoulder and taking deliberate aim, Jim pulled the trigger. “You rape-er ’n mur- derer!” At the first shot young Haines slumped to his knees. ‘The last two were fired into his prostrate body. Panic and confusion broke loose among the revellers, Slipping back into the bushes Jim made his way rapidly from the club and back to the country road. Nigger joke... . Why hadn't he kicked him in the face, choked his white throat? Nigger joke... . The pounding at his temples blurred his vision. His mind dulled, clung tenaciously to one thought. He must warn Black Row, then make for the woods. oe On the dance veranda, Gross, between drunken sobs, poured out the story. ‘That nigger's kinsfolks did this to Haines.” In the greying light the shacks stood silent, deserted. All except one. Their occupants had taken hasty council, thrown a few belong- ings into a sheet or head shawl and fled in the wagons which the Hughes boys had quietly seized from two neighboring farmers, With a few hours’ start, they could make the next town and, hide among friends till the terror died down. Miss Laucey had gone to friends in Greenville. What could thirty adults and five shotguns Mf cZainst a wrecking mob of several hundred whites, re- inforced by the law? One or two hot-heads were for fighting it out, “But thar’d be no fair fight, jest a massacre,” the others retorted angrily. ‘The wagons were full, all except the Morgans were aboard. “Hurry up, git in ‘n let’s be off,” the driver urged. Ma Morgan drew herself up and scanned the black horizon. “Me ’n Pa is stayin’ behind,” she answered, “till Jim comes.” In vain the others argued, pleaded. Uncle Joe propped on a pallet, wept. with his helplessness, begging to remain. behind also, Uncle Ben reached over the wagon’s side to grip his hand. Good-bye, Joey.” The reins tightened, and the mules were off. Myrtle and Charlie slipped from. around the out-houses. “Chillen!” Ma’s eyes started in horror, “how'd you git out of that wagon? Ain't we told you—” They threw them- selves on her. “Ma, Pappy, we had to stay by you.” mee. ee GILENTLY, swiftly they sé about their grim work. It would be an hour or longer before Jim could reach here. Pa Morgan went into the fields and began digging while Ma_ collected provisions and wrapped them securely in a grey blanket. This done, she joined her husband and the two dug fran- tically, the tears and sweat drip- ping from their faces over their hands and into the open grave, This task done, they carried Mar- tha’'s shrouded form from the shack and lowered it into the earth, Gently, hurriedly, the grave was re-filled. “Lawd .... Gawd,” Ma sobbed, but the prayer died on her lips. They placed their shovels aside. Pa hesitated. “We gotta tromple it ’n bring that chicken coop, so they can’t find it,” Now there was nothing to do but wait for Jim. “Ma,” Uncle Ben urged, “go ahead with the chillen.” Slowly she shook her head. Some- where a cock crew, it must be near dawn. With a dull thud Jim threw him- Self against the door-sill. (To Be Continued.) ® b 4 THE EXODUS Unpublished “Memories of Lenin” in Daily Worker Anniversary Edition | eae sae unpublished exerpts from Volume 2 of “Memories of Lenin”, by N. K. Krupskaya will be one of the features in the Special Daily Worker Anniversary and Lenin Memorial Edition this Saturday, January 14, The first volume, already published, covered the period up to 1907, ‘The new volume deals with the years from 1907 to the October Revolus tion. The book will be published shortly by International Publishers, The Anniversary Edition will also contain another special feature cale led “Outstanding Events in the Life of Lenin”, compiled by Alexander Trachtenberg. can be preserved for reference. It will be printed in convenient tabular form so that it Other important articles. will include “Leninism and War’, by Earl Browder; “Lenin and the Daily Worker”, by Robert Minor; “Nine Years of the Daily Worker in American Labor Struggles”, by Bill Dunne; The Socialist Press in the Service of Capitalism”, by H. . Wicks; “The Study of Leninism in America”, by Sam Don; “Leninism and the Growth of So- cialism in the Soviet Union,” by Moissaye J. Olgin. Rapid Progress on the Railroads of the USSR lOSCOW—The rapid development. of the Soviet economic system, the unparalleled advance of the heavy industries, the increasing de- mand for coal and iron, etc., have placed enermous demands on the Soyiet railway system and whilst the railways have not been able to do complete justice to these de- mands, nevertheless great progress hhas been made. The final year of the Five Year Plan provided for the transport of 162,7 milliard tons of g This figure has been ex- eighteenth century philosophers by placing Hook in their company. Even though they all were bour- geois, they represented a rising revolutionary class, while Hook de- fends that same class in its of decay. It is not always possible to see this distinction in ‘philo- sophy. But it becomes quite clear and absurd if we substitute political personages and say that to com- pare the eighteenth century ma- terialists to Hook is like compar- ing Danton, Marat, Robespierre to Mayor O'Brien, Bill Thompson or ‘Huey Long. So much for Hook, ‘The critie~ ’ { ceeded. By the end of the year the figure will be about 168 mile liard tons. The transport of pase sengers increased _ still Whilst the final year of the Year Plan provided for the port of 453.8 million passengers, actual figure reached will be 976 millions. Exact figures available for the first ten mont of the current year and show @ total increase of 143 per cent ag eet with the first ten months Hy Est ism of his twaddle is a valuable contribution and is especially wele’ come inasmuch as it has been long delayed. It is to be from now on every time any compoop of the Hook or Catve: or Eastman or Boudin calibre rises to pervert Marx, he be met with unmerciful blasts from our Marx~ ist-Leninist arsenal. Two book reviews by Milton -Howard and W. Phelps, with other aspects of § i 3 e