The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 18, 1933, Page 6

Page Six | Because of space limitations | ichael Gold’s answer to a letter | by “Julia M.” in Saturday's colomn | was held oven, Ft follows betoww—~ { Ed. ‘ | An Attempt At An Answer * Dear Julia: “You are a sweet girl, and the way you face your own nature, and honest~ | ly confess what you find there, shows in you the beginning of a first-class mind. We can never get anywhere in life by ignoring reality, or by being hypocrites. Don’t let anyone make| you feel ashamed of wanting to be like Marlene Dietrich. It is the nor-} mal biological impulse for a girl your age. Most boys seem to want hero-| ism and adventure, but most girls | want love and dresses. | “Both of these longings, for hero- | ism and for love, are not trivial, but the deepest desires of the human race. Nature provided that this should be so, for without heroism and love the race could not survive. They have been called romantic impulses by the | dried-up liberal professors like Joseph Wood Krutch. He even has written @ book to prove love and heroism no longer exist in the world. But no Communist would write such a book “For Communism is the voice of the great mass of human beings who} do all the work and receive none of the rewards under capitalism. This enslaved mass has been deprived of love, heroism and romance by the tapitalist system. Is there anything more terrible than to see the youth withering away in mine, factory and field? One finds as much genius in the working class children as in any other class, But these children never receive an education; they must go to work at hateful fobs, they are driven and exploited for proft, And in twenty years they are gray plod- ding beasts of bi with blinders on their eyes, and no of heanty left in their hearts, “Communism $s Dabber exy of this mass for and light, Communism is the Fomance of our day. ers feel everywhere, and fhe world sum and total of thet feelings ts what we call Communism, “It demands for each member of the human race whed want tor yourself as an and a beautiful free world. thing definite ~ @ lover, beautiful dresses, the kind of existence Marlene Dietrich seems to lead in the movies, “If you were a Russian girl of the Same age, you would have the same biological impulses, but they would find a different expression. You would have been educated by your environment to want to do something heroic and good for your fellow-man and the community. Even your per- sonal love would be affected by this powerful wish. For instance, you would want a boy as your lover who Was a good worker and Communist— and you would know beautiful dresses and lackered pink nails alone would not get him to like you, but your Communist devotion would. And you wouldn’t fear the future with a worker as your lover—no, it would all seem simple and beautiful toe you, And Marlene Dietrich would seem evil and affected, with all her vampy poses and rather commercial- §ed_sex-charms. “But, Julia, you have been corrupt- ed by bourgeois America. What should be simple and beautiful has gotten mixed up with Hollywood esiortes You have been dazzled something unreal. Marlene Diet- Yieh and the rest of those people are | vulgar, greedy and ignorant types of y. You are a much finer hu- man being than most of them, if you but knew. Ask anyone who has been m Hollywood to tell you about some Qf these folks. You have seen only the false mask they present in public. “No, the true romance of life is not to be found in the Hollywood pic- tures. What they really present is a Propaganda for money-making, and you have fallen for it, little Julia. ‘You have begun to fear, for example, that you will have to marry a poor Worker. This frightens you, and it may grow into a fear that will keep you constantly unhappy. “For you will never associate with Tich people, any more than most of us. So do not spend your life dream- ing of some accident by which like Cinderella you will meet and marry @ millionaire prince. It will doubtless never happen. If it does happen in one case out of a million it still doesn’t mean happiness. Look at the case of Rose Pastor Stokes, who mar- ried a millionaire, then discovered her heart was really with the work~ ers, so she left him. “The Hollywood films are mostly based on the Cinderella theme. It is @ lie and it makes girls despise their own working class brothers and sweethearts. What a folly this is, to give up something real and true for @ false shadow on a screen. “No, Julia, the true romance is in your own neighborhood, among your own friends. There you are sure to find, if you will look, some young intelligent working-class boy, who studies at night, who, perhaps, soap- boxes for the Young Communist League, who has within him all the Poetry, heroism and love you will never meet in ten years at Holly- wood. Face the future with him bravely—this is the real romance of life. Study, learn, grow. Don’t Ruin Your Life “T repeat, don’t ruin your life by giving up the glory of reality for something which doesn’t exist. “Come down to earth, you will find more beautiful dreams here. You will find that Communism is not only tarsh and practical, but is the poetry that gives a meaning to our crazy ffe. And it develops one mentally nd spiritually, more than all the Pubitshed by the Gomprodatty Publishing 18th Bt., New Yerk City, N.Y. Telephone Address and mafl chacks to the Daily Worker faily except Sunday. af M0 BR. DA Oo. Ine ORK” yr. New York 4-7955 1ath St ALgonauin © 50 F N Silk Strikers Shop Del Elect egates to SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Mall everrwhsre: One year, 16 ous) of Manhs Canada: One year, six aa 39 excepting E months, $3.50; nd Bronx, New York City. Foreign and 4 months, 35; 3 months, $3 | TRYING TO CLOSE IT! Anti-War Congress Ra Against War Called in Haverhill; New England to Send 2 NEW YORK, Sept. 11.—Striking Textile Workers Union, on strike from tricts. gress, and every striking shop is | electing delegates to it. | Word was received today that a monster anti-war rally will be held | in Haverhill, Mass. Wednesday Sept. 20, at 7 p.m. The City Hall Auditorium has been obtained, and | H. W. L. Dana, well-known author- | ity on the drama, will be the main | speaker. The meeting is called to| protest U. S. intervention in Cuba, | and to endorse the -U .S. Congress | against War. | The Lithuanian Choir of Haverhill | elected a delegate to the congress last Friday night. Many New England Delegates. | In checking up the New England | states, the Arrangement Committee | of the United States Congress Against | War announced yesterday that at least 250 delegates will attend the congress from that section of the country. Many city committees have been set up in industrial centers of New England including Boston, Lynn Worcester, Providence, etc. where local organizations, trade unions, churches, worker's clubs, women’s clubs, fraternal orders, youth organi- zations, peace societies, are joining in the preliminary organizational work of recruiting new shops and unions in anti-war propaganda and the election of delegates to the con- gress. The Arrangement Committee also announced that among the latest ad- ditions of trade unions is Local 25, Upholsterers Weavers’ Union, A. F. of L., in Philadelphia, where dele- gates have been elected to attend the congress. ‘The Macedonian People’s League of America, an organization fighting for “a free and independent Mace- donia in the frame of the Balkan Federation of the Free People’s Re- public’, has forwarded its cre- dentials, Many new college and pro- gressive groups are electing their delegations with the Liberal Club of Harvard leading the list amongst the latest additions to the anti-war movement. ah Ae NEW YORK—The Women's In- ternational League for Peace and Freedom of which Jane Adams is the International President, has asked the United States Congress Against War to forward its invitation to Henri Barbusse to address them at their Fall Conference in Oct. Bar- busse who is arriving here the end of this month to attend the anti-war congress will be the principal speaker at the public mass reception in Mec- ca Temple and St. Nicholas Arena, Friday evening, Sept. 29. Sends Delegates to Anti-War Congress. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Sept. 17. The Unemployed Council sent a pro- test to Roosevelt against American intervention and the demand for the immediate withdrawal of all battle ships and armed forces from Cuban waters. An anti-war meeting has been ar- ranged for next Sunday afternoon at Labor Temple, where delegates for the United States Anti-War Congress will be elected, EVICTION DID NOT WORK DAVENPORT, Iowa.—Unable to} pay rent because he was unemployed, Bert Acosta and his family were evicted from 1123 Ripley. The prop- erty is owned by the Bethel A. M. E. Church. The workers, however, put the furniture back into the house. They have endorsed the con-8—————______- 250 to Congress silk workers of Paterson and Lodi, scores of plants from these three dis- 2 More Delegates Anti-War Congress N.Y. Marine Worker Sail Saturday NEW YORK, Sept. American delegates scism, which open in Paris Sept. 22, sailed yesterday for France. There had been insufficient funds for their passage when the first three dele- gates sailed last Wednesday. The two delegates are Lenny Wil- liams, Negro Ford worker, endorsed THOMAS JOYCE by the Auto Workers Union of De- troit, and Thomas Joyce, Brooklyn member of the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union. Lenny Williams joined the Young Communist League after the Dear- born massacre of 1932. Joyce is a young Irish-American seaman, who joined the Marine Workers Industrial Union after seeing the Soviet Union while working about an American ship, in 1930. He has been especially active in the struggle against war shipments. Both have been endorsed by thovsands of their fellow-workers, and both are pledged to make an ac- tive campaign to popularize the re- sults of the Paris Congress on their return, Soviet 190-Mile Train Tests Are Successful MOSCOW, Sept. 14——A new type of electric railroad, with trains running at 190 miles an hour on ball bearings instead of wheels, has undergone successful tests here. The invention of Nicholas Yar- molchuk, a 35-year old engineer, it has been tried Out with a ten-mile track, one-fifth normal size. A full sized line is soon to be put into operation. Ty Against Intervention in Cuba and | N. I, and Allentown, Pa., will be represented by delegates at the United | | States Congress Against War, to be held in New York Sept. 29 to Oct. 1. | There are more than 8,000 strikers under the leadership of the National | | Go to Paris Youth | Urges Irish-Americans to Fight Capitalism Here | Writer Calls on American-Irish to See Link Between Folks’ Struggles in Ireland and Workers’ Struggles Here NEW YORK.—That the Daily Worker's accounts of the struggles of Irish workers and farmers have made an impression on many Iri-h workers in America is made clear in letters the Daily Worker has received from | Irish workers. Two of these letters follow. | The Daily Worker will publish further accounts of events in Ireland, | and it invites all who are interested @————__ in the struggles of the Irish toilers to write their comments on the “Daily's” handling of these events. a To the Editor of “the Daily Worker: As an Irish revolutionary worker I am very much in agreement with the recent articles appearing in the Daily | Worker on the ‘struggles of the work- ers in Ireland. ‘The action of the | Fianna Fail government in deporting James Gralton:is deplorable but it just shows the feelings of that gov- ernment towards the working class. But the fact tt Gralton managed to evade the forces of the law dis- plays the sympathy of the people. De Valera grants Owen O'Duffy 520 pounds a year pension for the work he is doing in organizing a Fascist movement that has for its purpose the ing of @ workers’ move- ment, - In moving around New York I am often amazed to see Irish cops, sons of evicted farmers, standing guard for landlords and clubbing workers. These same cops were in many cases in sympathy with the fight made by the Irish Republican Army against the Black and Tans, while they them- selves do the same dirty work in this country. If the parents of these cops were to witness them clubbing aa. resting workers, who were putting back furniture from the sidewalks of New York, they would disown them. And again the Irishmen who are workers here getting linked up with the Tammany Hall machine; surely it is time for them to wake up and fall in with their class in their everyday struggles against the in- tolerable conditions that are at present existing here. Since these articles have appeared in the Daily Worker many Irishmen are getting-interested and have be- come “Daily” readers. Michael Gold’s article was applauded by many with the hope to see many more such ar- ticles. Good luck to the Daily Worker and best wishes for the success of the Communist candidates going forward in the elections and their exposure of the NRA, the bosses’ program, Fraternal grestings, Charles McGinnity, Comrade Editor: A few lines to express my delight at the articles that appeared in the “Daily” Aug. 30 and Aug. 31, deal- ing with Gralton and the conditions which led to his deportation. I have got some extra vopies and given them to some of my comrade workers in the IR.T. The article in the Daily Worker of Sept. 2 was one of the finest. It certainly dealt with the Irish siiua- tion and the writer was well versed in what the Irish workers are up against, —F. McD. British Officer Has Revenge for African Verdict He Upheld SEROWE, South Africa, Sept. 14. —British imperialist “justice,” which yesterday was forced to acknowledge the justice of a flogging ordered by a Negro court for Phineas McIntosh, British subject, who had assaulted Negro women, took its revenge today. Chief Tshekedi, who headed the Negro court, was deposed as ruler of the Bamengwato tribe by Vice-Ad- miral E. R. Evans, who came here with 200 marines and three how- itzers to “investigate.” McIntosh ad- mitted that he had yoluntarily sub- mitted to the native court, and de- served the flogging. _ The resolution on unemployment insurance printed below was adopted at the United Front Trade Union Conference, held in Cleveland on August 26 and 27. It was attended by more than 500 delegates from trade unions and unemployed organ- izations from all parts of the United States—Editor. This conference of Tepresentatives from the trade unions and principal unemployed organizations (unem- ployed councils, leagues and federa- tions) of the entire country, recog- nizes and calls the attention of the toiling masses to the grave relief crisis that faces the jobless and part-time workers during the coming, fifth winter of mass unemployment and hunger. Under cover of the most extensive Propaganda campaign ever con- ducted since the last world war, the Plan Wide Campai Cleve. Conference Resolution Urges Activity of Unions and Jobless. Organizations bosses and the government are at- tempting to conceal the fact that in consequence of the N. R. A. unem- ployment will increase, while no adequate provisions have been made for relief of the 17,000,000 of totally jobless workers and their families. Local relief has everywhere col- lapsed. The states and the federal government refuse to make adequate appropriations. With the help of the officials of the A. F. of L. the demand for unemployment insurance is evaded and resisted, Stark mass- starvation faces millions of families. United Struggle United struggle of the broadest Hollywoods. “Julia, unless you win a million to one shot in the lottery of life, you are certain not to realize your Cin- derella dreams, You will be a wage- slave like the rest of the youth, you cannot avoid the economic struggle. You have been fortunate up till now to escape its worst oppressions, but wait till something happens like Fas- cism and another world war. Wait till you have to work in some office sweatshop, and not for a kind Boss. Then you will understand why peo- ple become Communists. “So it’s better for you right now to think about these things, and to real- ize that sooner or later, you will have to fight bravely or perish. That is the fate of every worker today. Your dreams are dreams of escape, Julia. I assure you as earnestly as I can, that nobody escapes today. Even when he does, it is not worth the! doing. “Communism will not destroy your dreams, only what is false and shal- low in them. What is good, what is rooted in the biological romance of life, willbe deepened and made more beautiful. For instead of a cheap Hollywood romance, the kind of Greenwich Village thing many mis- led girls seem to long for, it may be your fate to find a Communist sweetheart, to whom you will be not just a girl, an inferior, but a loyal comrade in the great struggle, shar- ing everything in fair weather and foul. “T have written a longer letter than yours, and one possibly not as clear, but that's because many of us Com- munists have forgotten how to be simple and direct as we should be. Good luck to you whatever you do. “Sincerely, “Mike Gold.” oe masses is imperative in order to pre- vent further cuts in the miserable relief doles; in order to force the municipalities, counties and states to make appropriations to assure adequate relief; to put an end to evictions; in order to stop the ex- tension of the forced labor system; in order to replace the present “animal” and less than subsistence standards with maximum living standards and finally force the fed- eral government to enact the Work- ers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. This conference accordingly ur- gently calls upon all workers and all unemployed organizations every- where to proceed more rapidly to- wards the unification of the various unemployed organizations into one mighty. nationwide organization that will include all workers, regardless of Political affiliation or views. We earnestly call upon workers to re- pudiate and eliminate any and all persons and groups who try to pre- vent, delay, sabotage and disrupt the movement towards unification of all bi existing unemployed organiza- ons. Progtam of “Work ‘We endorse and recommend the following program, which has been Jointly presented by the two largest national unemployed organizations, the Unemploved. Councils and the Unemployed Leagues of the U. 8.: 1—The membership of the unions, as well as the unemployed organiza- tions represented in , shall be mobilized for the task; of building the existing unemployed or- gn Jor Unemployment Insurance ~ ganizations and for the formation of organizations in localities _ where none now exist. 2—United Front Federations shall be established in all neighborhoods, communities, cities and counties where two or more unemployed or- | ganizations exist side by side. 3—The formation of the local Fed- erations shall be followed as soon as possible by the establishment of similar Federations on a_ station- wide basis. * 4—The purpose of these Federa- tions shall be to provide for joint action and struggle around issues of concern to all the unemployed, re- gardless of affiliation and in addi- tion to such independent action as each organization may develop; and to promote the movement for the eventual merging of all the organ- izations into one single united or- ganization. 5—The Federation shall be founded on the principles of militant strug- gle and genuine democracy. Propor- tional representation from the lowest units of the participating organiza- tions shall determine the comnosi- tion of the Federation and their leading committees. 6—In addition to the struggles around the immediate local issues, the Federations shall also jointly conduct the fight for enactment by the federal and pending this by the state ‘governments, of the Workers’ eo and Social Insurance Bill. 7—The delegates and organiza- tions represented in this conference Pledge their every support to hely organize as soon as practi¢jnie a National Unity ‘Convention, ‘where the existing unemfioyed organiza- Jewish Farm Grevps: ‘in Soviet Union Are. Advane'ng Rapidly. ather Record Crops;| | Build Papers, High- | Schools, Soviets By VERN SMITH Specicl to the Daily Worker MOSCOW, Sept. 17. (By j cable). — The organization of Jewish workers into large farm collectives forming thriving Jewi communities is well on the hish-ord to comnlete success, the Commitize for the Pro- motion of Agriculture Among Jews has ju-* revorte? to Kalinin, Presi- dent of the USSR. More than 7.509 Jewish settlers have become part of the famous Birobid- jan Jewish settlement in the north- eastern part of the Soviet Union as r: of collcctive ferms, rge Stste grain farm stations 2d with tracto:s and o*her ulturel machinery have been esfully orsanized. As a result, nientcd evea has grown from he 14,090 to 27,500 hectares (a hectare is 2.7 acres). es tem: of co-operative industrial , enterprises to make full use of the! ‘ocal raw materi: and a school sys- tem which includes all children of school age have also been established. A Jewish high school and a school for Socialict farming are included in the school system. In addition, a | Dewopaper published in the Jewish and Russian language is being issued. In the rich lands of the Crimea, over 25,000 Jewish settlers are on the land orgeni: in collective farms. Remarkable successes have been achieved in certain dry districts in introducing fruit and grape-growing. Scores of National Soviets have been formed in the Jewish National district, including complete school tems with great number of high schools and agricultural schools. So successful has the farm program been that within the recent months, the Jewish settlers in the Ukraine heve planted about 100,000 hectares of grain and fruits. The standard of living of the Jew- ish colonies has risen rapidly, and is improving remerkably es one farm- 1,000 L. A. Worke 5 months, #2; 1 month, 10! SEPTEMBER 18, 193? "SE THREAT OF TROOP L‘NDI-G AS WEAPON 10 SWASH CUBAN STRIKES Government Strives to Break Strikes As Lead- ing Capitalists Call It Too Weak—Thousands in Anti-Imperialist, Demonstrations HAVANA, Sept. 17.—While workers and peasants throughout the Isiané nd monster demonsttations against American imperialism during the the leading industrialists and merchants of Havana issued a manifesto aitacking the Grau San Martin regime as too weak to smash the revolutionary movement of the Cuban. masses rs Hail Cuban Masses, Score Intervention Menv Join Party at 14th Anniversary Celebration LOS ANGELES.—One thow cd ers jammed the Walker Audi- im here to ce’sbrate the 14th an- ist Party Som n tve'r struggles.” He empha: the bui'ding up of the united front tgle for a gitentic hunger on October 2, and closed with ravning that “unless the Commu- Party continues in the leader- plored workers will be arve this winter. young Negro worker, received a tremendous ovation when he pointed out that in the Commu- nist Party lay the only hope ior the millions of doubly exploited Negro workers, A resolution was unanimously adcpted with prolonged cheering, pro- testing esainst the sending of snips and marines for intervention in Cuba, calling for the recall of Welles and expressing the solidarity of American workers with the revol gles of the Cuban wo. Many workers signed application cards for membership in the C. P., and others signified they would come up to the Party office to get more information. Welfare Causes Death of Militant Worker in Mich. PostponeOperation for Helen Semieniuk Until Tt Is Too Late HAMTRAMCK, Mich.—Due to in- sufficient food, Comrade Helen Sem- ieniuk, one of the most active and Joyal workers of the Working Women's Organization here, died in the Detroit Receiving Hospital. She had been a constant sufferer from gall bladder, and the Welfare, know- ing she was a militant worker, gave her laxatives and pills, postponing the date of an operation for her. It was only when she was near death that the operation was per- formed, In her weakened condition, due to starvation, the operation was unsuecessful, and five days later she died. Three thousand workers viewed the bedv as it lav in state in Yenans Hall. When Mary Kristalsky in a funeral! speech called upon the work- ers to join the organization for which Helen Semieniuk fought, five women signed up. cnary strug- ing group after another is collectiv- ized, Comrade Semieniuk leaves behind her a husband and two children. -~* Signea »y 37 leading business men, his mar ‘festo denounced the revolt which put Grau San Martin in power, and;a;manded that the government forma coalition with the openly re- ectionary parties, as the only way to emash the strike movement. It de- clared that if this was not done an attack on the workers by American ivgops. was inevitable. Grau San Martin’s Secretary of War and. the Interior, Antonio Guiteras, attgmpted to use the danger of an armed landing ky U. S. marines as a weapon against the striking workers, After demagogically accusing Amer- ican interests of causing strikes by cutting wages and laying off work- ets,he called on the workers to stop thgir struggles. He declared that the mary National Confederation ofWorkevs of Cuba (the CNOC) WOuld be held responsible if Amer- gan msrines were landed. President Grau San Martin today issued a decree dissolving all political purties. This decree once again makes the Communist Party illegal, after its brief period of legality following the Yescinding of the Machado amend- ments to the constitution. Workers in Havana today staged @ monster demonstration in front of the. Hotel Presidente, where Ambas- sador Sumner Welles is staying, and shouted “Down with Sumner Welles.” “Down with Yankee imperialism,” “Down with American intervention.” ‘The Women’s Auxiliary of the CNOC held an anti-intervention demonstra- tion in Fraternity Park this after- noon. Following a conference with U. 8S. Ambassador Welles, which had been meant to be secret, the Student Di- rectorate, the reactionary wing of the student movement, which is organiz- ing’ armed bands of students to “maintain order” by suppressing strikes and revolutionary demonstra~- tions, issued an appeal to all Cubans to“unite in support of the govern- ment.” A wildly enthusiastic demonstration at~Manzanillo, in support of sugar strikers and against American inter- vention approved a boycott of all American goods and a general strike in protest against intervention, ‘The 300 deposed officers remain quartered in the National Hotel, with a heavy guard with machine gun and field pieces posted outside, Strike Leader Blocks Aid from the Workers International Relief “WILMINGTON, Del.—At a meet- ing of the Worker's International Relief here it was decided to offer material and moral support to the strikers of the Amalgamated Leather Co., who have been out for eight weeks. When a W. I. R. committee carried the report to Joe Massidda of the National Leather Workers Associa- tion, who is the leader of the strike, he ‘sidestepped any cooperation with the organization. The W. I. R. is de- termined to bring its proposals of material support to the rank and file. Sends Funds to Cuban YCL. “CHICAGO, Ill, Sept. 17.—A masa meeting arranged by the Young Com- munist League to protest American intéfvention in Cuba was attended by 800. A telegram was sent to Presi- dent Roosevelt demanding “Hands Off'Cuba”. 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