The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 14, 1934, Page 7

" DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1934 Page Seven CHANGE | ——THE—— || WORLD! By SENDER GARLIN UT in Jamaica, Long Island, newspaper men are showing a fine example of solidarity. They are picketing the plant of the. Long Island Daily Press, which fired nine of its reportorial staff and took them back only after the pub- lisher’s campaign of intimidation had forced a dissolution of the chapter of the New York Newspaper Guild on the paper. ‘ Of course, the dissolution didn’t last long, for at once the chapter was reorganized and the issue brought to the attention of the New York Guild, which promptly, through its Delegate Assembly, mapped out & fighting program aimed to force the recognition of the Long Island Press chapter. Right now picketing is on in full blast, with reporters from many of the metropolitan newspapers taking their places on the line in shifts. Those who are under the impression that newspaper men are tyros in organization should have attended the meeting of the Delegate As- sembly the other night and seen nearly a dozen committees constituted in about 15 minutes. How Collective Farmers Live | “Individualist’”” Farmer Now Progressive Worker (Editor's Note: This is the sec- ond of a series of articles on the Don Basin.) By VERN SMITH LUGANSK, U. S. S. R.—“They} make good cars,” said the driver, as he swerved his Ford off the payed road into a ditch full of water from melting snow, then through a mud bank onto a trail across the plains, alongside a patch | of plowed ground and between it and a stretch of highway under construction, where a gang of men | were laying a cobble stone base for | @ continuation of the road. All over the Don Basin you can see such construction. The Ozarist- capitalist regime here left and never | had anything but streaks of mud | in winter and ditches of dust in| summer for roads. The new ma-| chine style of farming, the new | | the time horses could do it, —_—_—— + hire a tractor, and couldn't use it} effectively on his small acreage, But | these 150 farmers can rent ten} tractors from the Machine Tractor) Station for a small share of the} crop, and put im the seed in half and put it in better, because the tractor | and big plow plows deeper. I was looking all about for the “booth.” I had heard before that the center of operations: on the| collectivised fields was becoming the | “booth,” placed in the field so that! men won't have to tun way back to} the village to sleep and eat, or to| eat cold meals, “Booth,” says the| dictionary, means “a kind of tem- porary structure.” So we found the “booth” and here again was an old friend, none other than the “burik wagon” of my boy- hood on the bonanza farms of the West, in the days when they had large scale farming there, before | real estate men kited the price of | | collective farms, And Work in the Don Basin Foreclosure by Banks Unknown Fear for Soviet .'armer course, some of them did, But when the revolution brought in its wake and machinery— “the magneto demands clean hands.” as ee DF HE same day I saw another ex- hibition of the change in atti- tude which the collective brings. One drill was wasting seed, through a defect in one of its spouts. “What can we do,” said one drill tender, tractor station sent us.” “We'll do something, just the same,” said another, “It’s wasting my grain.” “Your grain?” spoke up another. “What about me?” Amd after that they called it “our grain.” “It's the drill the machine | FLASHES and CLOSE-UPS By LENS ILAVKO VORKAPICH, about whom you've heard much ‘ough this column, will give his ideas on the film Monday night at the Film and Photo League, 12 E. 1%h St. | | so “Ww. X.” sends us the following minute-review: “All reference to the Communist who organizes the student dem- onstration has been eliminated from the screen version of ‘She Loves Me Not.’ Instead the mo- tion picture company sponsors the demonstration for publicity pur- poses. Apparently Hollywood realizes that it was tinkering with dynamite, when it showed what mass action can do.” | (\NLY a few days after the recent | ¥ series of executions and their ac- |companying revelations of sexual | perversions and orgies among the | Nazi leaders had officially con- firmed what until then had been| vehemently denied by Hitler-Goer- ing-Goebbels and Co., the York~- ville Theatre in New York pre-| sented a film in which the “clean- liness and discipline of the Hitler} }youth are sharply contrasted with the slovenliness and vice obtaining AND Notes on Science By DAVID RAMSEY Science and Fascism pa in Italy and Germany haye proved beyond doubt that knowledge is despised and feared by fascism. Dying capitalism can-| not tolerate facts. For facts are the most merciless critics of the cap- italist scheme of things. Facts point out that fascism is the enemy of everything that makes for progress or a higher civilization, of every- one who utilizes reason and science. | Knowledge is forbidden and stified by the fascists. Scientists are beat- | en, Killed, exiled or forced into} silence. The “mysticism of blood” | replaces scientific explanation. | To the scientist under fascism | (when he is not forced to endure | compulsory labor or military drill) | there remains only one field in | which he can labor and please his masters. He can do research io| LABORATORY SHOP and Technology research jobs at $15 to $25 a week. The engineering codes have pro< posed wages of fifty cents an hour for highly-trained men. Capital- ism has np special favors for the scientist or technician. And as the situation gets-more desperate, the same punishment that befell scient- ists in Germany will be meted out here. Under a fascist dictatorship in America, all the present tendencies in science and technology would continue—at an accelerated speed, There would be mass unemployment of scientific workers. There would be murders and imprisonment of those scientists who dared to tell the truth. Those finding work would ‘be serfs of the war machine. Science would become completely subordinated to the goals of une reason and death—and Profits, CIENTISTS have nothing to gain from the continuance of cap- italism. A few big shots, hypocrites, needs of truck transport from town | to town, demand paved roads. And they are being built everywhere. Meanwhile though, you sometimes in the ranks of the Red Front youngsters.” (Times). | Words fail us to characterize this monstrous piece of “impudence | |thrust in the face of New York} perfect the weapons of war. Death | | and frightfulness become the prized | objectives of scientific research. } Every scientist. who is permitted to | work must toil and sweat so that) lickspittles, and just plain or fancy? liars, have got fat jobs, But what~ of the numbers of brilliant young> Of course, some of the delegates were a little diffident about picket- ing, and one of them expressed doubt about what he called “class struggle tactics,” but the majority called for immediate and vigorous action on the ground that the action of the Long Island Daily Press was a direct challenge to the very existence of the Guild. ‘The action of the printers, pressmen and stereotypers of the Daily Worker (many of them good, conservative union members) in con- tributing to the fighting fund in the Long Island Press struggle should conyince many of the members of the Guild that it can look for sup- port from rank and file members of the mechanical departments on other papers, also. Who’s Got the Blue Eagle? baie FINE to see the special issue of “The Reporter” gotten out by the Guild with such admirable speed and enterprise. However, I must confess that as a member of the New York Guild I liked the drop- head of the lead story on the Long Island situation much better than I did the main head, The drop-head wittily announced that “Labor- Loving Paper Backs Code Until It Begins to Cost Money.” The streamer line said, “L. I. Press Fights NRA Guild.” I think it would have been more effective if the words in this line were trans- posed to read, “Guild Fights N.R.A. Long Island Press.” The reason I make this comment is that the publisher of the Long Island Press flaunts a Blue Eagle in a conspicuous place in his window. Now, clearly, the Blue Eagle can’t possibly represent both the Newspaper Guild and the publisher! After the run-around the Guild has already been given by the N.RB.A., it ought to be clear to all of us that we can’t hitch-hike with the aid of the N.R.A, limousine. Our belief is that this limousine was built not for the newspaper folk, but for the publishers! In the mean- time, I’m planning to be on the picket line in the morning. Discovering “The Reds” fa Congressional Committee which is investigating “un-American activities” has made some sensational discoveries. Summed up they include: 1, That the Daily Worker is a Communist publication; 2. That it is the central organ of the Communist Party; 3. That the Communist Party is a section of the Communist In- ternational; 4. That the Communist International is the world leader of the proletarian revolution. Of course, they knew all this long ago; moreover, if the committee wasn’t aware of this it could have easily learned these amazing facts by buying any copy of the Daily Worker (3 cents). But that, of course, wouldn’t do the trick. The other day the Congressional Committee which started out orig- inally ostensibly to “investigate” Nazi activities in the United States, called in an “expert” witness to tell them a thing or two about Commu- nist activities, This bird is named Archibald E, Stevenson, who para- chuted into newspaper prominence back in 1920 when, as a member of the notorious Lusk Committee, he sought to expel five Socialist As- semblymen from the New York Legislature. This time Mr. Stevenson appeared as a representative of the Na- tional Civic Federation, the strikebreaking outfit of which Matthew Woll of the A, F, of L, is acting president. The “expert” witness proved conclusively that @ resolution of the 13th Plenum of the Executive Com- mittee of the Communist International declared that “there is no way out of the general crisis of capitalism other than the one shown by the October Revolution.” What is more, he volunteered the information tuat the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the U. S. en- dorsed the 13th Plenum Resolution and added that “analysis of the world situation and the tasks set for the various Communist parties by the 13th Plenum, applies fully to the United States.” F COURSE, all this information is availabie in the Daily Worker as well as scores of other revolutionary publications published in va- rious parts of the country. But that’s beside the point. This elaborate Gongressional investigation is not out to gather vital social facts. It is in reality a commission to justify fascism in the United States by going through the motions of “investigating” fascism abroad. The best proof of this is seen in the fact that it has decided to con- duct its hearings just at a time when the country is being torn by some of the most extraordinary strike struggles in American labor history. Is there any connection between this Congressional “investigation” and the militant strike of the maritime workers on the Pacifie Coast and the general. strike in San Francisco which is imminent? Naturally there is. The same capitalist papers, for example, which report these hear- ings into “un-American activities” are carrying on intensive red-baiting campaigns. We find the New York American and other Hearst papers, ‘for example, running a series which can best be described by the edi- torial note which leads it off. Here is how the series is introduced: “Following is the second of a special series of articles prepared for the New York American and Universal Service by Robert Matthews, delving into the activities of Communists in the United States. In this article he discleses how the Communists expect to profit by the San Francisco dock strike, and the recent strike in Toledo. He shows how the Communists hope to infiltrate their propaganda into the armed forces of the nation.” They Call It “Liberty” | Nabe? while Mr. Archibald E. Steyenson babbles before the Congres- sional Committee, his comrade-in-arms, Matthew Woll, vice-presi- dent of the American Federation of Labor and his immediate superior in the National Civic Federation publishes a vicious anti-Soviet article in “Liberty.” It is quite clear, therefore, that altl:ough the Congressicnal Investi- gation into “un-American activities” has a lot of humorous aspects, its have to take to the fields. The auto waded grimly through | ruts and snow water. I began to wonder if Henry Ford really did | make good cars, after all. But when | I looked again I saw that it wasn’t | a Ford. It looked like one, it was | modeled on one, But it was stur-| dier, a little bigger, the tires were a little larger. It was without the) scrawl that Ford puts on his run- ning boards. It was a Soviet car| from Gorki; produced in a Soviet | factory like all the rest of the} equipment belonging to that partic- ular machine tractor station at Lu- | gansk, | The driver was from the “Polito- | del” at the machine tractor station, his business was inspire, to lead and watch the spring sowing. Just now he was doing a little practical inspiring for a tractor at one of the collective farms of this vicinity, by taking out a new magneto to re- place one that needed repair. I was going along to see the farm. “Yes, I drove a real Ford once,” said the man from the Politodel. “It was all right in the beginning, but it wore out right away. Your Henry Ford likes to sell a new machine every year.” I evaded responsibility for Henry’s crimes. I said I had heard the same thing from farmers in Amer- ica, ‘gtr Bar 'E whizzed into a village, we were now on the roads of the collec- tive farm, pretty good ones, though not paved, Stretched. along both sides. were the white walled cot- tages. All through the south of Russia you see these white country houses, The walls are made of clay, about two feet thick. It is moulded on square lines inside, and being painted white there, too, looks like stone. Recesses form bookshelves, boards. Yes, bookshelves, farmer is reading here. His dren all go to school, and they taught him if he didn’t learn some other way, Some rooms still have clay floors, but lots of new board floors are going in. Formerly the roof was of thatch, straw, but now lots of new ruberoid and tile roofs are going on. The shutters and window casings, of wood, are always painted some bright color, red, blue, yellow, or green usually. Quite often there is an ornamental painted freize around the wall, outside, above the ground, or below the roof. They are warm in winter and cool in summer. They remind me of the adobe houses I used to see as a) boy all over the southwestern part of United States. Not a bad house to live in for the first 25 years, after which, though, they need too much patching. The collective farmers with most income, which means they put in most labor days for the grain. is divided according to the amount of work done, are beginning to sub- stitute stone houses, imperishable structures. We pulled up before the largest. I found out later, it used to be the priest's house, But the priest ran away during the civil war to join @ gang of bandits and never came back. Now the house is the offices of the village Soviet. In it are also the offices of the kolkhoz, the col- lective farm. ‘The offices were there, all right, but there was nobody in them but a woman scrubbing the floors. The driver, standing with the magneto in his hand, inquired rapidly for one man after another —the chairman of the Soviet, the pant of the collective farm, cup- the ehil- “On the fields, on the fields,” said the woman to each name. Every- body was on the fields, taking part in the spring sowing, making a crop that means bread not only fey them but for the more than a million steel workers and miners of the Don Basin. A “We'll go on the fields,” said the driver. “Anyway, there you'll see a booth.” - Cae steered out along a track of hard ground between two vast plowed fields, stretching away to Join other plowed fields in the dis- tance—very much like North Da- kota, except that there wasn’t a fence in sight. A hundred and fifty farmers here had pooled their land, to make one big farm of it, suit- able for plowing with tractors, and all obstructions to the free move- ment of the plows were gone. It made 2.500 acres, the average size of a kolkhoz in this vicinity. Farther northwest, around Dnie- propetrovsk, they told me their kolkhozes were larger, about 3.500 acres, But this was the biggest purpose is dead serious, namely, to smash the growing struggles of the workers everywhere. farm I ever saw aciuaily in opera- tion. The small individual farmer couldn't afford either to own or | Bringing in the Soviet Harvest on a Collective Farm | land from $2 an acre to $250 and before the great wave of migration rolling over westward from the hor- ror of capitalism and rack rent had | turned bonanza farming into a mass of little fields, tilled for an in- adequate reward by millions of little farmers. ee ee E Soviet bunk wagon is a little | bigger than those I remember, and has in it a kitchen and dining room, but like the old timer in California, it consists essentially of | a house on wheels, with bunks ranged around the walls. These wagons form the temporary homes of the tractor crews during sowing | and harvesting, neither of which | lasts many days in any one locality. I understand that in some places they really do erect “temporary structures” instead of using a) wagon, A brigade of five tractors operates from this “booth.” Two shifts of drivers, ten in all, a half dozen other men who tend the drills and carry seed, etc, a brigadier in charge of the brigade, and an oc- casional driver of a water wagon or seed wagon, or a visitor, like me, eat here. The tractorists and some of the others sleep in the booth, Around it are lying the drums of gas for the tractors, water tanks stand by, on wheels, and some spare parts and tools are kept here. Seed stands in wagons, with canvas covers over it. One tractor was plowing, far off in the distance, you could sce it only when it climbed over a roll in the ground. It was swinging around in a big square, the driver would come in to eat when it was nearest the booth. Three tractors were nearby, they were drilling in and harrowing the seed, the new crew was running them, the old shift had just come in to eat. One stood idle at the booth, waiting for the new magneto. ‘ ‘There was another similar bri- gade working on this farm, and a machinist went back and forth be- tween them, as he was needed. He was here now, only he could install the magneto; the drivers make minor repairs, but are not to mon-! key with the more delicate parts! of the machinery, The shift off duty were eating their meal of borsht, a thick soup of potatoes, meat, beets, and other things—a huge bowl of it, and with it roast meet, macaroni and bread, and a pudding for desert. They began, half humorously, half-seri- ously, to “guy” the machinist, who tried to join them without stopping to clean the grease off his hands. “We don’t mind you, they said, but the magneto likes clean hands. Don’t you touch my tractor with those hands!” And this was a practical exhibi- tion of how under the new condi- tions of life, a higher degree of cul- | ture and manners is permeating the whole of a peasant society. An in- dividual peasant who drove a horse could eat all year round without washing if he wanted to, and, of But I think that even “my grain” | showed an essential and profound | revolution in human nature, the| birth of a new socialist man. The | old individual farmer (of about five years ago), or the American farmer | today, would look with absolute in- | difference on grain wasted unless | it was meant for his. own little | patch of ground, inhabited and/ used by “me and my wife, my son | John and his wife, us four, and no more.” | ane ey |e interesting thing is that these | men were all peasants, five | years ago they were exactly those | same individual peasants, full of suspicion for everything new, grasp- ing and superstitious, hating the rich spider, the kulak, only until} they could become kulaks them- | sélves, which “was the ambition of | every one of them. Now they are} civilized progressive workers, fond | of their common enterprise, the farm, using most modern machinery on it, and, incidentally, making twice the income with much less work that they made while they were plowing their own narrow strips of land. The tractorist, bri- | gadier and machinist get more than | twice the income, an extra share for skilled work. This brigade of about 15 men, with five or six more tunning back and forth for it to the village, and another group also of about 20 men were plowing far better, and in half the time what it took 150 individual | peasants to do with horses before. | And that is important because the quicker the sowing is done once the} ground is dry enough for it, and be- | fore hot winds begin to blow, the| better the yield. | In some parts the airplane sow- ing directly into the mud of the} spring thaw is becoming a regular piece of agricultural machinery, “Where are the other hundred; peasants?” I asked. It turned out. they were mainly planting gardens, killing marmots (a kind of squirrel like animal that eats the grain), building roads and houses and gen- erally improving the common lot. This is the best time of year to do such work, but without colectivisa- tion and the tractor it could never be done during the sowing season. During the harvest, of course, all hands turn out to shock end stack and pitch the grain into the thresh- ers. Well, that’s a quick glance at the | revolution that has taken place in the countryside in just about six years, hardly a moment as history. goes. Millions of acres of land, about 86 per cent of the sown area of this tremendous country are be- ing farmed that way, by a new type of farmer, with new grip on the good things of life, with an un- limited’ possibility of progress ahead of him as he learns more and more of scientific farming. He has nur- series, clubhouses, movies, radio, theatres, lectures. And he doesn’t have to worry about selling his product for the growing cities wel- come it and the workers have money to buy it. No banker can foreclose on him, either. TUNIN So TN” 7:00 P, M.-WEAF—Baseball Resume WOR-Sports Resume WiZ-—Flying—Captain A, L, Williams WABC—Jones Orchestra :18-WEAF—Homespun—Dr, Foulkes WOR—Danny Dee, Commentator WJZ—Pickens Sisters, Songs _ 7:30-WEAF—Martha Mears, Songs WOR—Epanish Musicals WJZ—Restor Orchestra a5, WABC—Retty Barthel, Songs} ‘Melo- deers Quartet ‘T:4heWEAF—Jules Lande, Violin ‘WABC—Childs Orchestra 8:00-WEAF—Teddy Bergman, comedian; Betty Queen, Contralto; Bill Smith, Baritone; Stern Orchestra WOR—New York “Philarmonic-Sym- phony Orchestra; Operas, Cavalleria Rusticana, With Bruna’ Castagna, Ssprano; Anna Kaskas, Contralto; Dimitri Onofrei, Tenor; Alfredo Can- colfi, Baritone; Philine Falco, Con- tratto; and. Pagliacci, With’ Rosa Teatoni, Soprano; Frederick Jagel, Tener; Claudio Grigerio, Baritone; Albert. Mahler, Tener: Relvh M2 willitm a. gelssen, Baritone, at Lewischa Sta- dium, Alexender Smaliens, Cons ductor. WJZ—Play That Broadway Forgot WABC—Rich Orchestra; Morton Dow- | ney, Tenor 8:15-WOR—All Star_ Trio WJZ—Bavarian Band )-WEAF—Canadian Concert -WACB—Fats Waller, Songs )-WEAF—One Man's Family—fketch WJZ—Variety Musicale WABC—Grete Stueckgold, Kostelanetz Orchestra 9:30-WEAF—Chicago Symphony Orches- tra, Karl Krueger, Conductor WdzZ—Goldman Band Concert Prospect Park, Brooklyn WABC—Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Director Victor Kolar, From A Cen: tury of Progress 10:00-WEAF—Ray Knight's Cuckoos 10:15-WEAF—-Lombardo Orchestra WJZ—Male Quartet 10;30-WOR—Organ Recital | WJZ—Barn Dance WABC—Michaux Congregation 10:45-WEAP—fiberian * Singers | 11:00-WEAF—Press-Radto News | WOR-—Weather; Block Orchestra | WABC-Sylvia Froos, Songs Soprano; at audiences by Hitler's American | agents ... The film is still running and awaits our pleasure .. . As to the Congressional Com- | mittee Investigating un-American Activities . . . I guess it just doesn’t care for movies .. . After all, it’s Communists that are be- ing slandered and attacked, and why should they kick? ,. . | ARAMOUNT has inserted a wed-| ding sequence in “It Ain't No} Sin” .., Picture is being respec- tabilized after rejection by censors. Let those who want their Mae! West straight do the kicking .. . Wedding or no wedding, I don’t like the lady... Will Rogers going to the Soviet Union again... And so they took Henry Hull out of “Tobacco Road” to make him do “Robinson Crusoe” in Holly- wood! ... boi-Jeg IANDID Spiels No. 999: “Is there any question that the picture business is basically a national asset and, from the com- mercial angle, can it not be said that the American business man owes a debt to American pictures? For the screen has been his silent salesman in many things.” —From an editorial in Variety. OCTOR ROBERT P. FRAY, a professor at Pennsylvania State College, has made a profound in- vestigation of Hollywood films and concludes very learnedly that “Ag-| gressiveness, of a girl in lovemaking is the phase of morality in which motion pictures most often conflict | with present standards.” It would be not a little futile to inquire of the savant as to what he means by “present standards,” but if they are the standards of} the class for whom he “researches” and speaks, then I can understand his objection to “aggressiveness of @ girl in lovemaking”... Any kind of militancy scares those gentle- men to death... ae Teme “JERE Comes the Navy” opens at the Strand Theatre on the 18th . . , James Cagney is the star and I'm all atremble, comrades . . . Ernst Lubitsch wants to direct “Carmen” ,.. Bah! ... . George Arliss, Mae West and la Hepburn are unpopular in Buenos Aires . The Nazis have banned ‘Tarz: . .. Reason? .. . Hitler likes ‘em| with clothes on... | Newsreels of the sinking of the liner “Dresden” with 1,100 workers and their families during a pleasure trip have been banned by the| Nazis... | Mose aa ROOF that the newsreel com- | panies work hand in hand with | the bosses during strikes is found in the fact that during the Har- riman, Tenn., hosiery strike a com- pany-supplied stool-pigeon was filmed by Paramount .. . This stool supporters the company’s exploita- tion off the mill workers “stating that he is speaking for several hun- dred workers” (!) .. ee Saae 'HE high powers of the Catholic Church in Chicago have en- dorsed “No Greater Glory” as a splendid example of the kind of film they think Hollywood ought to produce . . . There’s the gat under the silk glove that we've been talk- | ing about... Stage and Screen BR ORS Rae is Scar Theatre Guild To Stage Maxwell Anderson’s New Play “Valley Forge” Maxwell Anderson's new play, “Valley Forge,” is cheduled for next season by the Theatre Guild. This is an historical drama with George Washington as the chief character. Anderson is the author of “Mary of Scotland,” which had a long run here, Wee and Leventhal, producers of “Her Majesty, the Widow,” in which Pauline Frederick is now ap- pearing at the Ritz Theatre, have acquired “The Reckoning,” a new play by Douglas Murray, English pa and will present it here this fall, Frances Williams will play an im- portant role in “Life Begins at 8:40,” the new revue by Ira Gersh- win, E. Y. Harburg, David Freed- man and Harold Arlen, now in re- | hearsal under the direction of John | Due to technical reasons it has been necessary to omit the fea- ture “Escape from the Nazis.” for the past two days. It will be re- cumed on this page in Monday's issue. | them refuse to admit that they are | America the ruling classes are not | H | the Thyssens and Krupps can con- tinue to clip coupons. Technicians and scientists, con- sider the Third Reich! The most | progressive and modern architects have been driven out of the coun- | try. German fascism forbids the | construction of modern housing, which it describes as “houses with- | out roofs in the oriental desert style.” Architects are urged to con- centrate on new kinds of master- | military roads, pieces—‘on gas- | proof cellars and concentration | camps.” | Professor Ewald Banse — Spen- | | gler’s chief competitor for the job| | of official Nazi theoretician — as-| signs the function to| biology: Biology will make war into an instrument of wholesale annihla- tion. We anticipate: infecting drinking water with typhoid ba- | cilli; the dissemination of typhus | by fleas; and spreading bubonic | plague by artificially infected rats. The biologist, like the chemist) and the physicist, becomes an in-| strument of mass murder. Physicians are no longer per- mitted to have as their function the healing of the sick. They are forced to sterilize helpless political | prisoners. They are not permitted to give sexual information to work- | ing class women. The latter must | breed more sons for the coming Slaughter. folowing Engineers and scientists are re- | w minded by Ernst Domier, another Nazi theoretician, that technology is not intended to be an instrument utilized for the benefit of mankind. “The profoundest and only great significance of Technology lies in its relationship to War. Technology as comfort, as entertainment, as prog- ress, are things that must be for- gotten. Decisive in the world’s political struggle, and enchanting to the manly spirit, is Technology as @ war weapon.” Ve eee OST scientists in America and England are righteously in- dignant about such a state of af- fairs. But unfortunately many of facing the same conditions in their own countries. They attempt to dis- tinguish between fascism and “de- — as if in England and doing their best to beat down the working class and establish fas- cism, Scientists and technicians must learn a decisive lesson. Their enemy and the enemy of all that is decent and important in human culture, is not merely fascism—it is capitalism in all its phases and forms. Fascism is the last desperate effort of the bourgeoisie to save their system. In America, Roose- velt, taking his orders from big business, is driving toward fascism. He will be stopped only if the work- ers defeat his program of hunger and war. The overwhelming majority of technicians and scientists in Amer- ica are proletarian in economic status if not in political belief. Ninety-five per cent of architects, 85 per cent of engineers, and 65 per cent of chemists are unemployed, according to a recent survey. Trained Ph. D's are glad to get scientists who can hot get positions of any sort? What of the con< tinuous shrinkage in scientific bud- gets? What of becoming an intel- lectual wet-nurse to a major or an ensign? What of devoting one’s life and talent to killing more and more people in less and less time? As capitalism decays the position of the scientist will grow progges-~ sively worse. The general crisis of capitalism has undermined the ma- terial basis of further scientific progress. Every accentuation of the capitalistic crisis means a corre spondingly deepened crisis in scien- tific work. There is but, one road that scientists can take if they wish to escape the fate of their German as- | sociates. That way is to link their | struggle with the great struggle of the revolutionary working class for a socialist society. Alone, the tech nicians and scientists can do nothing. They must not let false prophets delude them into believ- ing that they stand above the class struggle, that they must strive for an aristocracy of brains and tech< nique. Behind all such false schemes is the hidden or open de- | fense of capitalism. And the ex- perience of engineers and scientists has taught them only too well that capitalism and scientific progress have become incompatible, Subsidies to Bugs ‘ARMERS, besides being harassed by the A. A. A. and the bank- are now fighting one of the ‘st droughts in the history of the country. The drought has deprived the farmers’ crops of necessary water, and it has encouraged and multiplied insect pests and plant diseases. Grasshoppers, for example, thrive on the drought. The return of this pest to western farming regions has dated from the drought year of 1930.. Dry soil, especially when win- ters are mild, preserves their eggs, and dry soil in the spring is con- ducive to their hatching. This year’s unprecedented drought has been unusually kind to the grass- hoppers. Swarms of them are eat- ing their way from the Dakotas to Mexico, and from there to the Pacific Coast. The deadly chinch bug has also profited from the drought. Dry soil makes easy the migration of this in- sect through the grain belt. Up t now the chinch bug has been doin} more than his bit to support the scarcity program of Roosevelt, Wailace and the A. A. A. Fungus plant diseases such as wheat scab and the black-stem rust of grains are also flourishing. The dry air is unusually favorably for the transportation of their spores, and the dew on plant leaves <upplies the moisture needed for germination and development of the creeping fingers of these parasites. As a footnote to the spread of these insect and plant plagues it should be pointed out that the last Congress cut the appropriations of all governmental technical and ex- perimental bureaus. The farmer in his fight against his insect enemies is denied the advantages of scien- tific knowledge. If he won’t destroy his crops, the capitalists see to it that the bugs carry out the crop= reduction plans of the A. A. A. rrr AMUSE aed MENTS “Don't Fail to See This Im the Lamd ™oscow may pay of the Soviets” —1934 ACME THEATRE 14th STREET and UNION SQUARE Film.”—DAILY WORK 4 (FIRST COMPLETE SHOWING) KOLKHOZ (Life on Cooperatives); CHELYUSKIN EXPEDITION; MOSCOW 194; SLALANGRAD and GORKI plants; SNOW and ICE CARNIVAL, ete., etc. \| Days JAMES W. FORD Says: “By all means Negro and white workers should see LAST WEEK stevedore CIVIC REPERTORY THEA. 105 W It St. | Eves. 8:45, Mats. Tues. & Sat. 2:45 30¢-40¢-600~ “$1.00 & $1.50. No Tax | | | Watch Them Perform MOONLIGHT SAIL on New Masses and F. S. U. July 21, On Ss. From South Ferry Tickets 75c in advance on sale at Workers Book Shop. $1.00 at boat Arranged Through World Tourist, Inc. Lewisohn Stadium, Amst.Ave.&138 St. PHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY Symphonie Programs Sunday through Thursday Nights, 8:30 Conducted by ITURBI Opera Performances with Star Casts pire oe Nights at 8:30 onducted by SMALLEN: PRICES: 25e-50e-$1.00—(CIrcle S018) Sun CONCERTS——___ ! Ashley Pettis Valhalla Club Orchestra -DANCE The National Negro Theatre Presents: Cecil Mack's Choir Laura Bowman,— James soxwill— Thelma Minor— Orallia Banskina on the 7:30 p.m. Ambassador ~<a ast neice oa smaeiamamenneneeemtsi