The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 27, 1933, Page 4

Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1933 rker cd Porty US.A. D il Poblished by the Comprodaily Publishing Co. y cxcept Sanday, af 56 §. Asth St., New York City, N.Y, Telephone ALgonquin 4-7956. Cable worn.” Address and mail checks to the Daily Worker, 50 F. 13th New York, N. ¥. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail everywhere: Ono year, $6; vix months, $5.50; & months excepting Borourh of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Canada: One year, 39 $2; 1 month, tee Foreign and months, $8 6 months, §: Trying to Head Off the Farmers’ Movement S the farmers’ fight against sheriffs’ sales spreads from DEVELOPING, FOLLOWING Northwestern Iowa through other parts of the state, and into Nebraska, and similar action is carried on in Wis- consin and other farm states, the authori in their alarm are compelled to resort to all sorts of tricks to try to stem the tide. Governor Clyde Herring of Iowa, according to press dispatches has issued a proclamation asking holders of realty or personal property mortgages to refrain from foreclosing until legislative bodies have had time “to enact laws meeting the economic emergency. This is a gesture to try to dupe th vigilance against the mortgage shark: panies, the farm machinery trust the farmers’ fight again: ducts has advanced of the state author The growing and cities with the farmers in the cour in the fight for immediate emergency relief, for poor farmers, against forced collections of rents and debts, and for relief and unemployment insurance for workers shows that the struggle is reaching a higher stage. It is this fact that has compelled such gestures as that of Governor Herring of Iowa. Such “proclamations” are also a part of the atte to head off the prepara- tions that are being carried out for m demonstrations through- ers so they will relax their ankers, the insurance com- that the upsurge of prices for their pro- pread mass defiance y of the w rs in the towns out the country on inauguration day, March 4th, to ‘insist that congress at once take up and act upon the demands of the tional Hunger Marchers All such manouvers should be met with greater demonstrations and more relentless struggle against hunger. Such united action can compel the ruling class and their governments—federal, state and local—to come through with relief NOW! Tariff Robbery 1 Disguised as Independence 1T the so-called independence bill for the Philippines recently adopt- ed by congress is in reality a tariff bill aimed at the Filipino people is emphasized-by Reginal Dykers of New Orleans, general manager of the American Sugar Cane League. Couched in the typical language of the lynch ruling class of the South, Dykers hails the bill as having a “beneficial effect upon ihe domestic sugar industry.” Commenting fur- ther he says: : “The most incredible thing that has occurred in connection with this legislation is the comment made that it is selfish. Nothing could better illustrate how warped the mentality of © Americans have become than their statements that to protect their own impoverished ) fellow citizens from ruin by refusing to allow an Asiatic race 7,000 miles away to fatten on them indefinitely is selfish.” This spokesman for the American sugar interests and the trustified domination of Cuba: hails the fake independence bill which was prepared. by their own lackeyes in congress and the senate. The above quotation {shows how these slave-drivers who own the sugar plantations are trying /to turn the growing discontent of the masses into support of their own ¢ Policies. Also involved in the tariff attack on Filipino imports is the : letermination of the United States sugar plantation owners and the js} #8? refineries to boost the prices of sugar to consumers, ‘nc At the same time the bill requires the Philippines to remain a dumping ‘yRround for American products, as all of them can enter free of duty. ce Dykers’ disparaging talk about “Asiatics” is also a part of the war ejpropaganda to back up the drive of American imperialism for conquest » of the Pacific, which is being increasingly challenged by Japan. +, See ot MERICAN workers and farmers must be on guard against such decep- + tive agitation as is carried on by the exploiters of the domestic sugar in- ¢ dustries. Against this spuricus independence bill the American masses »temust demand the immediate, unconditional independence of the Philip- [spines — must demand the withdrawal of all armed forces and all the ehehthmen of Wall Street, such as the governor-general and his political ajackeys. It is the duty of the toiling masses of the United States to sup- : ,e@ort with all means the struggle of the Filipino masses io drive out of ‘peheir country all agents of American imperialism, Green Again Tries to 'Deceive Rank and File ut [ATION’S BUSINESS, organ of the Chamber of Commerce of the United ty") States, carries an interview with William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, which says that “organized labor will wait no longer to redeem humanity from lawless greed.” Then follows a num- ber of demands such as (1) fede licenses for corporations doing an in- terstate business; (2) protective government service for investors; (3) na- _ tional economic planning; (4) Tecognition of “equities” of workers in in- dustries in which they work; (5) government control of credit to finance production; (6) a federal agency to determine economic balance; (7) higher wages; (8) organization of more and stronger unions. Bill Green, in the capitalist magazine, continues for the bureaucratic leadership with the boast that it has always “been patient.” “It has not clutched at the throat of the government. It has not chased after false “* \gods. It has not lost its head.” ‘With considerable bombast Green says that the workers have suffered for three years and now cry “enough.” All this is part of the desperate campaign by Green and company to try to stem the revolt in their own ranks against their infamous policies of helping the capitalist class carry out hunger offensive against the ie class. The fact that the interview was published in the cham- ber. of commerce organ: is evidence that the bosses are helping Green in 4 iis job of trying to dupe the workers in the ranks of the American Fed- eration of Labo Tt also comes at a convenier politicians try to head off the na thet. will sweep the country on tr | velt- becomes the head of the ¥ and republican istrations against hunger uration day, March 4th, when Roose- Street government at Washington. It is clear that the first six demands put forward by Green are all capitalist demands to help the bosses. The third demand for “economic 4 "can never be realized under capitalism, and no one will ever i Green approving a socialist system. ‘The last two demands have been fought by Green in action and are only now put forth to try gover up Green's attacks in behalf of his capitalist masters against the of life of the toiling masses. His attempt to expell Louis Wein- & leader of the A. F. of L. rank and file committee for unemployment = , is part of the drive. A, As against the deceptions of Green and company the rank and file ers of the American Federation of Labor will continue, in larger to join the fighting ranks of the class-conscious workers in the against the hunger and war program of the capitalist class, for im- relief, for unemployment insurance and against wage-cuts, ean in’s Speech on “First Five-Year Plan” to Appear in Full, Saturday aid the demor ion-wide dem: me to A believe that the Five-Year Plan is a private affair of the Soviet Union: an important and serious affair, but never- @ private national affair of the Soviet Union, s} °“History has shown, however, that the Five-Year Plan is not private affair of the Soviet Union, but an affair of the whole of international proletariat.” le Results of the First Five-Year Plan,” the speech delivered by le Stalin at the meeting of the Joint Plenum of the Central itteé ‘and’ the Cenfral Control Conimission of the Communist of the Soviet Union. This speech will be published in full ‘supplement form in Saturday's issue of the Daily Worker. » Saturday's “Daily” will also contain the closing speech by Com- +Ear) Browder at the Chicago Shop Conference held on Jan ee ie, Spat SecagamiePenszate oe aes / ‘EveryFactory Our Fortress’ Establish Intimate, Per- manent Contacts With the Workers. “The successful accomplishment of this task (winning the major- ity of the working class) requires that every Communist Party shall establish, extend and strengthen permanent and intimate contacts with the majority of the work~ ers, wherever workers may be found.”—From the 12th Plenum Resolution, E. C. C. 1. UP CONTACTS IN SHOP te E have a comrade here, sitting right in this room, who has an “unusual” way of making contacts. He makes friends with the workers on the job. You know the Junch buckets are not so full now. He manages to sarry a few extra ap- | ples in his lunch basket. He passes the apples to some of the workers and develops a friendship with them and so he was able to bring several workers into the union. He is an Italian worker, and yet he was able to bring some American workers in. Now we have this American worker, the same one this Italian worker drew into the union, and he is very interested. He wants to know why we can’t get American workers into the union. I ex- plained the resolutions of the plen- ums to him in a yery elementary language. I told him some of the mistakes that we make, what our troubles were. And he said: “You know down there in there were many fellows who may not be interested in the union, but they are interested in learning about radios, and he also knew a fellow who can give instructions, and they are going to start a radio club. Unemployed, work is very im- portant, particularly here. For- merly all our plans were on paper. But now we are actually putting them into effect. A thorough dis- cussion was held in the nucleus, especially on the question of the Hunger March. As a result of this it was proposed immediately that. the Unemployed Council should be formed, that is the organizational committee, and the development of commitiees in the steel workers’ section, Many comrades felt that the workers in this sect. were not ready to fight. Of course, it was known that there was misery to a certain degree, but how much we did not Know, because we did hot get among the workers in the neighborhoods. And there we found that within a radius of six blocks, with the ex- ception of two families, everybody was in immediate need of food, coal or clothing. As a result of this canvassing, three committees doing this work, two on each com- mittee going around from one fam- ily to another, talking to them, asking them about their conditions, talking to’ them about the neces- sity of getting together, we found @ splendid response. After the two day’s investigation we were able to form an unemployed committee on the following day, getting the house of a worker right in that block, and in this way we formed two block committees in two important steel workers’ streets. Following that we developed action and were able to win relief for unem- ployed stéel workers. This is just a beginning. Our perspective is for developing block committees on a wide area throughout the steel workers’ neighborhoods and a | March on the plant, possibly in six Mea (4P BY CONTIMED or seven weeks, according to how well we are able to mobilize and organize, Boe) & ees work is extremely important. On this question our ability to organize the unem- ployed steel workers will make it just that much easier for us to or- Sanize steel workers who still have a job. On the question of developing is- sues. Only through these personal contacts will we be able to sense the needs of the workers arid their moods. The developing and deep- ening of these issues bring into mo- tion many workers whom we other- wise have no contact with, A concrete example. Last Febru- wry, 1931, when one Greek comrade in a department, through personal contact with a few workers, was able to mobilize quite a number of workers, Without the aid of leaf- lets, through preparation ofa com- mittee inside that department, we were able to bring 135 workers to a meeting. ‘There is one conception that must be driven out of our minds and that is the question of big ac- tion without preparation. A few years ago we hod a bulletin with the slogan, “Down Tools on May 1,” in the mill and at 12 o'clock every- body was supposed to down tools. But what was the attitude of the workers? They all knew about this slogan and were discussing it, but not seriously, just in a joking man- ner. But why wasn’t it possible to arouse the workers to the point of downing tools on May 1? Because, there was no organizational basis established. If there had been a small group among the workers at that time probably the slogan would have been carried out, but the pre-requisite was not there, There is a possibility of develop- ing small actions inside the mill. There is a question there of the heaters who are getting bad ma- terial to work with. But we did not take advantage of this action— we did not get the heaters together to discuss what could be done, + | THE FIGHT BEGINS! ~By Burck For Unity in Action of the Illinois Coal Miners “Necessary to Concentrate Main Attack on Leadership of U.M.W.A. and ‘Progressive Miners of America’ ” By BILL GEBERT (E burning problem confronting the Illinois coal miners is to unite the rank and file members of the United Mine Workers of Amer- ica and the Progressive Miners of America and unemployed miners in one common, solid united front against the attacks of the coal op- erators and Governor Horner. To successfully establish a united front of action against starvation, hun- ger, terror and persecution of the miners, it is necessary to concen- trate the main attack upon the leadership of the U\M.W.A. and P.M.A., which is instrumental in carrying out the orders of the coal operators and Governor Horner. The following are some recent developments in the Illinois coal fields: John L. Lewis and John H. Walker, international and dis- trict presidents of the U.M.W.A,, signed an agreement with the Illi- nois coal operators for continuation of the present agreement of $5 a day wage scale for two more years, that is, until March 31, 1935, ‘This agreement was signed by the offi- cialdom of the U.M.W.A. without the knowledge or consultation of the membiirship of the U.M.W.A, and the membership has been de- nied the right to express their opinion. The reasons for this are very obvious, KNEW AGREEMENT WOULD BE DEFEATED The coal operators and the offi- cialdom of the U.M.W.A. are con- scious of the fact that this agree- ment would be defeated if sub- mitted for decision to the member- ship of the U.M.W.A., as it was twice defeated in referendum in 1932. As to the objectives of this agreement it is very clearly stated both by the coal operators and the officialdom of the U.M.W.A. “The Wall Street Journal” of Dec. 22, 1932, declares: “The labor troubles which fol- tenet the signing of the present contract appear to be com} settled.” pi John L. Lewis declares: “The signing of the agreement demonstrates that there is room for only one union and it will en- Sure peace and stability in the Mli- nois coal fields at least until 1935,” CSe males So the operators and the official- dom of the U.M.W.A. openly proclaim that the main aim is to keep the masses of miners in sub- mission to their dictum—that. is, submission to starvation and hun= ger which prevails throughout the coal fields in Illinois, The miners who are members of the P.M.A., also working under the $5 a day agreement the same as the U.M.W.A., look upon the pres- ent agreement which expires on March 31, 1933, as a temporary agreement and that with its expira- tion the miners will fight for the old wage scale of $6.10 a day. The membership of the U.M.W.A. is likewise against the extension of the present agreement for two more years. Because of this, Governor Horner, acting in the interests of the coal operators, is having secret conferences with the officialdom of the U. M. W. A., Lewis, Walker, Nesbitt and the officialdom of the P. M. A., Percy and Keck, to bring about the consolidation of the lead- ership of both these unions for the Purpose of putting over the two- year agreement despite the miners, ‘The officials of the U.M.W.A. and P.M.A. already openly betrayed the miners by agreeing with Governor mines now on strike, particularly mines of the Peabody Coal Co., to disarm the strikers, and that the National Guard remain, which is protecting the strike-breakers re- cruited by the U.M.W.A, official- dom from different parts of the country, who are working in the Peabody Coal mines in Christian County, . Wate nas egreement’ was being ner and the officialdom of the U. M. W. A. and P. M. A., 22 striking miners of Christian County have been indicted on frame-up charges of murder and were held without bail in the county jail in Taylor- ville, and a number of miners were killed on the picket lines by the armed thugs and the National Guard. The indignation of the miners, both in the P. M. A. and U. M. W. A. against these sell- outs and betrayals of the miners, is growing and is already assuming organizational forms. Here, for instance, is a letter written by a member of the U.M.W.A, to a mem- ber of the P.M.A. “Dear Brother: . “You are a member of one union and I am of another. But what we are striving for is & good union with correct leadership. I mean that the membership of both unions have common aims. T mean that the membership of our local (U.M.W.A.) has elected a committee to visit every local union in the sub-district to get them to elect committees of their own to serve with ours, without pay, unless they are called upon to serve and lose a shift at the mines. So far two locals have elected committees of three. Next week we will call on other locals. ‘Then we are going to call a sub- district conference of all elected committees to formulate a pro- gram of demands, to unite all miners to struggle against the operators’ and misleaders’ wage- cutting’ policy. We estimate that 90 per cent of the membership are disgusted and Have lost. confidence in the leadership. After we haye | Our sub-district meeting we are going to seek the other sub-dis- tricts’ cb-operation and have a state conference. We will circu- late literature and explain to the miners our aims. Our movement. does not intend to fight against members of the P.M.A., but want their co-operation as well as the co-operation of the unemployed and non-union miners. We will try to establish a united front on a class struggle basis—miners against coal operators, no dis- crimination or wage-cuts, short- ening working hours, unemploy- ment insurance at the expense of the bosses and government and Support the struggles of the un- employed for immediate relief. We are going to try to show the membership (U.M.W.A.) it’ is wrong to have grudges and ill- feelings against each other and it is best for sll of us to be brothers and put our shoulders to the wheel and push. I hope you will get a clear conception of what we are trying to start within the U.M.W.A. to make it #.good militant union and so that the membership will be the dicta- tors and not the officers, as the Present constitution reads. With best wishes to you... .” This letter of a rank and file miner, member of the U.M.W.A., to @ rank and file miner of the P.M.A., expresses the sentiment of the broad masses of miners in both unions, the U.M.W.A. and P.M.A,, the atmosphere for unity in action against the officialdom of the U. M. W. A. and P. M. A. is growing as the miners are learning in their tod task confronting the miners 4s to speed up the unity move- ment of all miners on a program of repudiation of the $5 a day agreement signee for the next two | years, for immediate relief, for un- employment insurance at the ex- | pense of the bosses and govern- | ment, and withdrawal of troops, disarm armed thugs and for free- dom of the miners to meet, or- ganize, picket and strike, and pre- pare organizationally for a strike on April 1, 4933. To carry this through succesifnily the miners local, sub-district and district scale. The beginning of such a movement in Illinois will have tre- mendous influence upon the min- ers throughout the coal fields of the entire country. This move- ment, started in Illinois, must be coordinated with a national move- ment of unity of all miners, unity that shall embrace rank and file members of the U.M.W.A.4 and the fighting national union of the miners, the National Miners’ Union. It must embrace the masses of un- organized miners and unemployed miners. Because of this movement and seeing that the officialdom of both unions, the U.M.W.A. and P.M.A. is beginning to lose ground, that the membership is beginning to reyolt, we see the officialdom of the U.M.W.A. and P.M.A. begins, under the orders of Governor Hor- ner and the coal operators, to work toward unity of all kinds of fakers, misleaders and miners, In spite of terror, the miners in the southern part of Illinois coz] fields, in Franklin and Saline Counties, are beginning to defy John L. Lewis, and recently O'Gara Mine, No. 10 (Saline County), de- cided to withdraw from the U. M. W. A. and join the P.M. A. This } is just an indication that the min- ers are discontented with the lead- ership of the U.M.W.A. The unity movement will meet with attacks from both the U.M.W.A. and P.M.A. officialdom, from the state and coal operators. But it will meet re- sponse from the masses. In this struggle for unity the miners must develop a struggle for the releasc of the 22 striking miners indicted on framed-up charges of murder and date for trial set for March 13, * ‘HE unity movement of the min- ers will be stimulated by the Illinois Anti-Hunger Conference, to which a large number of local unions of the P.M.A. and U.M.W.A. have elected delegates, together with a large number of unemployed miners who are organized into the Unemployed Councils, will strengthen this movement of the miners. The task of the support~ ers of the National Miners’ Union in Illinois is to give maximum sup- port to such a movement, to ac- tively participate in the unity movement, bringing agitationally the National Miners’ Union, pop- ularizing its program, the heroic struggles which it led in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky, showing that it is the only union whieh leads the miners | in struggle, us it is a union of the rank and file and not of the offi- | cials, as is the case with the unions | of the P.M.A. and U.M.W.A. €, P. BACKS MOVEMENT ‘The Communist Party supports such @ movement as an important step forward in the unification of the ranks of the miners and the task confronting the Party in the Mllinois coal fields is to develop such a movement and to do so it is necessary to strengthen the Party organization in the coal fields, building Party nuclei in the mines, embracing fighting miners. Such a movement as is beginning now in the Illinois coal fields cannot success- fully develop without building and strengthening the Party organiza- tion. Unity in the action of the miners of Illinois is the most burn- ing problem and task confronting the miners in the struggle against Wage-cuts and starvation, struggles of Tilinois miners must get support of the entire working class, by deeds, not words. This support was given to the struggles of the miners by the demonstration of the Chicago workers before the Pea- body Coal Co. office, by sending food to strikers, by defending 22 miners indicted for murder in Christian County. These activities must be extended and broadened “Technocracy and Marxism -A Review By A, MARKOFF. Pamphlet by Foster and Browder is Clear and Simple Refutation of Technocracy “Fechn and Marxism, Workers Library Publishers, 5 cents, pr day in every way we hear more and more about Tech- nocracy, the new Messiah of the bourgeoisie. Leading articles in magazines, newspapers, pamphlets, books, all dealing with Techno- eracy. And while the public is try- ing to find out what it is all about, the publishers are piling up for- tunes. It is true that Technocracy as- sails the “price system” but the publishers through the price sys- tem are getting rich by selling Technocracy. However this is the logic of the capitalist system which the Technocrats do not understand or do not want to understand. We have before us a number of publications dealing with Tech- nocracy: Harper's Monthly Science and Mechanics, Technocracy Re- view, The New Republic, New Out- look, ete. There are articles pro and con; statements and refuta- tions, all sorts of statistics and re~ ports one contradicting the other. Most of e articles are by scientific men in a most unscientific manner. We are ih fore glad to see the pamphlet g! ing a Communist view of Tech- necracy published by Workers Lib- rary Publishers. This pamphlet contains two im- ‘1 Browd- er; by W. Molotov at the Fifth All- Union Conference of Engineers and Technicians of the Soviet Union on November 26, 1932 The article by comrades Foster and Browder is the only clear analysis of Tech- nocracy because thi proach the subject armed with the Marxist- Leninist theory, the only theory which can throw a correct light on the new-fangled panaceas born as a result of the crumbling capitalist system of society. ee 'HILE the many articles appear- ing on Technocracy deal with the accuracy of the figures quoted by one or the other, Fosi and Browder correctly dismiss this es unimportant. “Exaggerations or inaccuracies that may be contained in the statements of Technocracy are only incidental and do not touch the essence of the question.” ‘They concentrate their analysis on the fundamental problems involved. The Technocrats as represented by their prophet Howard Scott, see the main cause of our present eco- nomic crisis in the “price system,” therefore the price system (but not the capitalist system!) must be done away with. FAIL TO UNDERSTAND CAUSE OF CRISIS ‘True to their petty bourgeois ideology the Technocrats are un- able to understand the real under- lying cause of the crisis. They treat the price system as a separ- ate phenomenon having nothing whatever to do with the capitalist system as a whole. Like all uto- pians they catch on to one par- ticular phase of social relations and wish to substitute another form which in their opinion will solve the problem. The “price system” is not an independent phe- nenon arising from nowhere and nged at will. It is a mode of xchange which in turn is a re- sult of the capitalist mode of pro- duction, ic. the production for profit for those who own and con- trol the means of production. This is made clear by comrades Foster and Browder when they state: “What is actually happening, how- ever, is not a in the mech- anism of hange (the price s: tem), but rather what Engels de- scribed as ‘the mode of produc- tion rising in rebellion against the form of exchange. The produc- tive forces have grown so great that they can no longer be con- tained within the social institutions which are based upon capitalist ownership of the means of produc- tion.” ep ohea EERE 'HE pamphlet “'Technocracy and Marxism” supplies us with a number of quotations from the Communist Manifesto and other sources which prove conclusively that the Technocrats do not under- stand the real nature of capitalism Although the economic crisis, now in its fourth year, bas shaken their confidence in the sestem, they only see superficial facts. The captains of industry and finance whom these scientists and technicians served faithfully for decades, have shown themselves incapable of steering the ship through the troubled waters. The technicians and scientists are disappointed in their masters. ‘The only logical thing they can see is for engineers and other technicians to take the rud- der and sail the ship of capitalism safely. They do not see that at the bottom of the crisis and the source of all the troubles in society is the chief basic contradiction of capitalism, namely the contradic- tion between socialized production and capitalistic appropriation of the products produced by the work- ers. “This contradiction, which gives to the mode of production its capitalistic character, contains the-germ of the whole of the social antagonisms of to-day” (“Socialism Utopian and Scientific,” Engels). Foster and Browder characterize the position of the Technocrats in the following: “Technocracy sees the separate facts ef the collapse of the eapi- talist system. But it does not. understand the cause of the col- lapse, inherent in the very nature of capitalist production. There- Sore it is blind to the existence of those forces of the working class which alone can find the solution ism” by | the other a speech delivered | itself to fight Marxism and to op- pose the Communist programs which alone shows the revolue tionary way out of the crisis.” This explains why the General Electric Company and the “Radic- al” Columbte Cniversity displayed such an interest in Techtiocracy, In this present period when’ the masses of workers and farmers in this country are becoming more and more impatient with the condie tions, when mass struggles are on the increase, when the revolution- ary elements appear stronger, it is necessary to find something new, to have a new messiah Appear, Technocracy can serve, temporarily only, as a means of creating further illusions in the minds of the mass- es and thus preyenting them from falling under the influence of the Communist Party. But like all other plans proposed to save the tottering system of capitalism it contains elements of danger for the working class, it is strongly fascist in tendency. The article by Foster and Browder characterizes jhis as follows: “When the Technocrats dismiss the working class as a diminish- ing and negligible factor, this only means that the general direction ot their theories is towards fas-~ cism, that is toward evolving new props to the collapsing capitalist system while intensifying the violent suppression of the only force capable of rescuing society from destruction, the revolution- ary working class.” ‘The appearance of Technocracy is in itself an indication and a proof of the disintegration of the capitalist system of society; it is. an indication of the confusion in the ranks of the technicians and scien- tists. There is only one way of clearing up the confusion. It is to take the advice given by Foster and Browder in the article which says: “Finally we recommend to the ‘Technocrats and to the technicians generally, who still have some il~ lusions of the possibility of a plan- ned capitalism, to not only study Marx (which they have seriously neglected), but to study the ex~- panding life of the Soviet Union and the writings of that great dis- ciple of Marx and Lenin, Joseph Stalin. Especially we would recom= mend to them to read Stalin’s poli-~ tical report to the 16th Party Cong- ress of the Russian Communist Party,” (and the recent speech made by comrade Stalin to the joint Conference of Central Com- mittee and the Centra? Control Commission of the Russian Com- munist Party, A. M.), The. publication of Comrade Molotov's speech, together with tha article Technocracy and Commun~ ism, in one pamphlet is indeed a splendid act, for Molotev’s speech illustrates vividly the great gap which separates the two worlds— the Socialist from the capitalist world. Here in the United States is a wasting of human. energy, more than fifteen million unem- ployed. ‘Thousands of, technicians, engineers, scientists who have spent: years in training find themselves idle unable to apply their know~ ledge, their skill. And as Molotov in his speech said: *The capitalists do not shrink from day after day throwing on to the street and reducing to beggary people who only yester- day occupied leading teehnical positions in their works and fac- tories. Naturally there is now heard even from the ranks of those specialists who only yes- terday had nothing whatever te do with politics — not to speak of the fight against the capitalists—voices of despair and protest agatnst the rule of the bourgeoisie, against the regime of capitalism.” But in the Soviet Union the situation is reversed. There the problem is not of unemployment but of a shortage of labor in every field. More technicians, more en- gineers, more scientists. “The technical intellegentsia,” says Molotov, “occupy advanced positions in the construction of the new society and much, very much depends upon the growth of their political consciousness and their seientifie-technical qualifications, which are so necessary for the management of industry, of agri~ cultural and transport undertake ings.” Enough has been said to show the timeliness and importance of this pamphlet, It should receive the widest circulation, Ask Marissa Relief Officials to Force Coal Miners to Scab By A MINER, BELLEVILLE, [l—The business people, bankers, Chamber of Come mezce and mine owners of Marrisa, of Saline County, have asked county officials to discontinue to tae unemployed miners, force the minei\ to go into the which have been idle since April They made it plain to the supervisors and relief agencies that pay a $4 wage scale a ton, whereas the Progressi pow is $5 a day based on mn. ‘What I would like to kn g, é a Marissa against this damnable prop= osition, which is in my estimation nothing more nor less than an effort on the part of the mine to force the members of the E sive Miners to scab on their ganization,