The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 1, 1934, Page 6

Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1934 i WWork = Daily .<QWorker GRETA ORGAE COMMUNIST PARTY LSA (SECTION OF COMMUNIST urvenmarvomea) “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC. E, 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. ALgonquin 4-795 4. Telephone onal Press Building, Midwes' Wells St., Room 705, Cheago, Ill. Telephone WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1934 Our Tasks Tomorrow > hapa the carnage of imperialist war looms close upon us. A handful of millionaires and billion- aires, the capitalist ruling clique in every country, cynically, brutally, and ceaselessly prepare for another world slaughter. Wall Street needs the blood of the masses to coin into profits. Roosevelt prepares to give it to them. He is polishing the bayonets. The masses were foully tricked in the last war. Under the infamous fraud of “defense of civiliza- tion” and “defense of the Fatherland,” millions of workers and their sons were slaughtered—for what? To make the world safe for the capitalist rob- bers, for the imperialist plunderers, to enslave the colonial masses of the world. Today we meet in the streets of the world to raise our banners of opposition to imperialist war and to its monstrous kin, fascism, For the masses, imperialist war and fascism mean hell. For the employers and the bankers, who organize these curses of modern society, they mean more profits, more ruthless parasitism. If the imperialists hurl us into war, there can be only one answer—to fight not only for peace, but for a final end to the rule of these ruthless parasites whose class existence has become a men- ace to the welfare and progress of the vast majority of the people of the world. Out of imperialist war we will generate open civil war for the annihila- tion of the yoke of capitalist wage slavery, ex- ploitation and oppression. . . . DAY we proclaim our opposition to war. But tomorrow we cannot fall back into a hopeless passivity. Tomorrow our work begins in dead earnest. Today and tomorrow the united front of the working class must be forged in the fires of struggle against: war and fascism. Tomorrow we must go into the factories, homes, schools, with the message of struggle against the intolerable crime of imperialist war. Tomorrow we must be as vigilant as hawks for every shipment of munitions which the war makers send to the Far East and to the countries border- ing the Soviet Union, ORE ELD girds his war machine for action. The engines of war propaganda whirr faster and faster every day. Jingoist poison—the reactionary distillation of the vats of the war mongers, rolls in inereasing floods over the land. The press shrills for a mighty Navy, “second to none.” We, the millions of toilers, workers, farmers, in- tellectuals, men, women and children, will not tolerate again the deadly trap of “defense of dem- ocracy,” the trap which masks the imperialist war aims of the Morgans and Rockefellers. If the imperialist jackals think that they can with impunity attack the country of the interna- tional proletariat, the Soviet Union, fortress of So- cialism, they are badly mistaken. They will dis- cover to their sorrow that the working class of the world is ready to die in defense of its only real fatherland, the Workers’ and Farmers’ Government of the Soviet: Union. CROSS the seas to our class brothers we send our solidarity! To our heroic class brothers in Soviet China, fighting the mercenary troops of a Chiang Kai Shek, we send our proclamation of ad- miration and support! Carry forward the fight against imperialist war! Let the preparations for the great Second Congress Against War to be held in Chicago in September sweep in a mighty wave over the country, reaching every trade union local, every workers’ group. Against imperialist war! Against fascist re- action and terrorism! For the stopping of all war shipments, all munitions shipments. For the de- fense of the Soviet Union and Soviet China! For all war funds for the unemployed! Against the Roosevelt strike-breaking terrorism! Picked Fascist Bands HE La Guardia administration on Mon- day began the training and drilling of the newly formed “police rifle regiment,” which will be used as firing squads to murder New York workers. Thus Mayor La Guardia carries for- ward more speedily the preparations of blood baths against workers who fight for decent living standards. * * (OW the LaGuardia administration takes still another example from the terroristic methods of Hitler and Mussolini, A picked regiment has been created. It is armed with Thompson sub- machine guns, army type rifles, gas bombs, armored cars and other weapons for the smashing of picket lines and unemployed demonstrations. The order was given on Saturday for the setting up of this regiment. Two days later the drilling of the men had already begun in two city armories, using the army drill. . wr this extreme haste? Because the govern- ment fears the rising tide of resentment of the workers of New York against relief cuts, against rising living costs, against low wages. Because the LaGuardia administration is determined to put over the bankers’ program, whatever the cost in workers’ blood. The LaGuardia administration is preparing its picked strike-breaking murderers in advance. The setting up of this regiment of carefully selected mercenaries is comparable to the black- shirted special police of Goering and Hitler. A special regiment is trained specifically for warfare against the workers. Only those are selected who have no sympathies with the workers, those who have the least ties with the working class, The employing class no longer relies on the militia alone to smash unions and other workers’ } organization ni to the czars’ cossacks, to Hitler’s Schutzstaffel—is to be perm: id to suppess the ele- hts of the king class. The New Deal's terroristic drive against the workers as seen in the shooting down of strikers and unemployed throughout the country, and in vigilante raids, is intensified with yet more ruth- less methods. Preparation is now made for whole- sale, coldblooded murder. F . > IN some cases the government has found the militia too close to the working class and to the farmers. Sons of workers and farmers dislike the dirty work of shooting down unarmed pickets with sub- machine guns. In Toledo and elsewhere national guardsmen refused to shoot their brothers. The national guards will still be used to shoot down strikers. But more “reliable,” picked legions are now being prepared. A special type of regi- ment is créated to carry out without question the most bloodthirsty, fascist acts ordered by the La- Guardia bankers’ government. This model will be copied in other cities, . . . HE workers must increase their protest against the setting up of this fascist band, which is at the beck and call of the former corporation lawyer, O‘Ryan. Every organization and every individual which has respect for the elementary rights of the workers to organize, to strike and to meet, must now raise his voice in protest. The police unionism, the Schutzstaffel, Hitler regiment must be abol- ished. : Pass resolutions for the abolition of this fascist, terror band. Do not let the LaGuardia adminis- tration create firing squads which will soon be shooting down workers, Relief and the Elections N ITS campaign against the Roosevelt “New Deal” attacks upon the living standards of the workers, in its day to day fight for higher wages, shorter hours and improved living standards, the Com- munist Party in its election campaign puts forward as one of its central issues the demand for the enactment of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. The Roosevelt administration, the various State, municipal and city governmental bodies throughout the country have launched a new wave of relief cuts and forced labor on the unemployed. For the country as a whole, avenge relief to each family is being slashed each month, and despite a rising demand for relief, the total number of relief clients is being systematically reduced. The vast numbers of unemployed remain with- out any form of relief whatsoever. Newton D. Baker, chairman of the “1934 Mobilization for Human Needs,” a Roosevelt-inspired body for shouldering self-help and Community Chest schemes on the backs of the working population, announced on July 4, that only half of the unemployed receive any government relief. In order to meet the attacks upon the unem- ployed population, every possible force must be unified behind the drive for adequate cash relief, for jobs at trade union wages, and for the enact- ment of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. * * + 'HE Republican and the Democratic parties, both parties of Wall Street finance capital, have slashed unemployment relief in order to bolster up the profits of monopoly capital while allocating billions of dollars for war funds. The Socialist Party, while giving lip-service to Socialism, practices the policies of the other capi- talist parties, and the “Socialist” administrations of Bridgeport and Milwaukee meet the demonstra- tions and strikes of the unemployed and employed workers with the same ruthless terror as the bosses’ parties elsewhere. ‘The Farmer-Laborites’ leaders, while also raising slogans for relief to the unemployed, unloose un- exampled terror against jobless and striking workers, ‘The Communist Party calls upon the workers to break with these parties of hunger and mass misery. Support of the workers’ demands means not the giving of lip service, but active support and a readiness to fight on the picket lines, in the relief bureaus and in the neighborhoods. By their leader- ship in the day to day struggles in the shops and in the relief stations, by their active support of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, only the candidates of the Communist Party have proven by their loyalty and leadership of working class struggles that they have won the right to the support of the working class. Rescue Angelo Herndon! N AUGUST 8, Angelo Herndon will be sent to torture and death on the no- torious Georgia chain gang unless he is rescued by the working-class and its allies. We can and must save Angelo Hern- don. We can and must prevent the murder on the chain gang of this heroic young Negro leader of Atlanta white and Negro unem- ployed workers. The sum of $15,000 is needed for his bail, pend- ing appeal. Over $10,000 already has been raised by loans of cash and Liberty bonds from organi- zations and individuals. Every cent of these loans will be repaid under a guarantee signed by Corliss Lamont, Robert W. Dunn and Anna Damon. Only one day now remains in which to raise the balance of the Herndon bail, deliberately set at the exorbitant sum of $15,000 by the Georgia lynch courts. In his fight against hunger, for unemployment. relief and in his courageous defiance of the lynch courts and the ruling class oppressors of Negro and white workers, Herndon fought for every section of the population oppressed and plundered by the capitalists. Rescue Angelo Herndon! Prevent his torture and death on the chain gang! Rush loans of cash and Liberty bonds to the International Labor De- fense, 80 East 11th Street, New York City. Rush contributions for the Scottsboro-Herndon appeals to the U. S. Supreme Court. Japanese militarists are calling to the Ger- man fascists and the British imperialists to unleash a counter-revolutionary war against the U.S.S.R., from the East and from the West. Pur- suing a policy of continuous provocation against the US.S.R. and contemplating the seizure of Soviet territory, the fascist militarists of Japan are acting as an outpost in a counter-revolutionary war against the Land of the Soviets. At the same time, German fascism is inviting the international bourgeoisie to purchase its national-socialist mercenaries to fight against the U.S.S.R., intriguing with British, Italian and Polish imperialists (the German-Polish nego- tiations), The British imperialists at the present time have taken the place of the French as the chief organizers of an anti-Soviet war.” (XIII Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Commu- nist International—December, 1933.) “ Nazis Push Maneuvers OnCombine VIENNA.—The Nazi, Otto Plan-| etta, who shot the Austrian Chan- cellor Dollfuss, was hanged at 4.33 p. m. here today, His accomplice, Franz Holzweber. was also hanged a few minutes later. | Other Nazis who took part in the putsch throughout Austria were | Sent to special concentration camps, | “I did not mean to kill the Chan- | |cellor,” Planetta, who is charged with having fired the shot, stated at the trial. “I anfisorry.” | Indications of new Nazi maneu- vers to force the union of Austria | with Germany were seen today in| |the declarations of the Nazi press ton the Austrian Cabinet headed by | | Kurt Schuschnigg. The Hitler Fas- | cist newspapers stated that the | Schuschnigg government would not | last very long. The Nazi press states that there is | great jealousy between the Heim- |wehr (Fascist Home Guard), and the Christian Social Party, of which | | Schucchnigg is one of the leading members. They maintain this will | result in further struggles for con- | jtrol of the government. Trouble j between the Heimwehr and the Christian Social Party, say the| | Nazis, has been delayed for only | |a@ short time. In the meantime, Von Papen has | not been accepted as German envoy | | to Austria. | | The Jugoslavian Ambassador to} | Berlin issued a declaration yester- | |day aimed at Italian troops which jwere massed on the Jugoslavian border. This statement is taken as showing a growing alliance be- tween Jugoslavia and Fascist Ger- many, and a weakening of French influence. ‘Halt Cuban Congress To Fight War (Special to the Daily Worker) HAVANA, Cuba, July 31.— The | Secretary of the government today denied authorization for a National! | Congress Against War and Fascism | and intervention scheduled to open | here tomorrow, The Wall Street-controlled offi- cialdom advised the delegates to consult with General Batista, Chief of Staff, who in turn also has re- fused permission. Hundreds of delegates elected inj the shops, unions, and schools are} on their way to Havana for the Congress. They call upon American workers and sympathizers to send immediate wires to President Mendieta and General Batista at Havana demand- ing guarantees for the security and safety of the Congress. Students at Columbia Protest As Nazis Are Honored by University NEW YORK. — Shouting “Free Thaelmann” and carrying banners denouncing the bloody rule of Hit- ler, Columbia University students protested today while school offi- cials accompanied by government agents escorted a group of 50 Nazis about the campus, The students, led by the National Student League, were assaulted by the Nazis who attempted to rip the placards from the hands of the girl demonstrators. While school officials escorted them, the Nazis, giving the Hitler salute and spitting epithets at the student demonstrators, received a police escort. One of the police escort. One of the police brandished a rifle. More lusty in his attacks on the students was a Nazi in the garb of a minister, who, while heaping insults on the protesting students, denounced them as, “Dirty Jews.” ‘The Nazis will be guests of honor Wednesday, at 12 noon at the Y.M. CA. 5 W. 63rd St. Farm Debts Will Be Utah Campaign Issue SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 31. —Repeal of the State Sales Tax, the Criminal Syndicalist Law and other anti-working class legislation, and complete cancellation of all debts and taxes for impoverished farmers, were the chief planks in the pro- gram adopted by the state nom- inating convention of the Commu- nist Party here on Sunday, The convention, attended by 105 delegates from farm communities and mining centers selected a state ticket consisting of: Cornelia John- son for United States Senator; Lawrence Mower, for Congressman in the First District, and Karl Bjork for Congressman in the Second District; Philip Roeberg for State Treasurer, John Silverzone for Justice of the Supreme Court and Francis Grant for State Auditor. A state election rally will be held at Geneva on Aug. 24 and 26, TELLS JAPAN’S PLANS TOKYO, July 31. — Japan would insist on a complete change in naval arms quotas, declared Keisuke Okada, the new Japanese premier today. He said Japan was entirely dissatisfied with the 5-5-3 ratio im- posed by the Washington 1922 con- ference, and that this must be changed at the proposed 1935 naval conference. The world is seething with unrest, Okada said, and was. in a more precarious position than just before the last world war. PROVIDENCE ANTI-WAR ‘MEET PROVIDENCE, R. I, July 31.— Workers will mass here against: | imperialist war in a demontsration! eed 1 at the City Hall Plaza at p.m. “ .. And Now to Mak e the Bulls See Red!” fue sete Burch NEWS ITEM: La Guardia’s Police Commissioner O’Ryan forms rifle regi- ment of 1,200 police to cope with threatening strike situation. Second Anti-War Congress Must Mobilize Broadest United Front, Says Max Bedacht « | ternational at Stuttgart in 1907, and in the extraordinary anti-war Con. gress of the Second International at Basle in 1912. Up to 1914 these traitors said: “We cannot obligate ourselves to the use of any partic- ular method of struggle against war until war becomes a fact, because the methods we will employ will de- pend on the conditions which then exist.’ When the war came, they said: “Now we cannot fight against war because the success of the war for our bourgeoisie requires the cessation of the class struggle.” The treachery of these social-democrats in 1914 was not a sudden event; it was opportunism brought to com- pletion. Deeds, Not “Intentions” The seriousness with which we consider our duty to fight against war cannot be measured by in- tended deeds in case of war. They must be demonstrated by action right now and every day. The second general world war is as yet in its economic and diplo- matic stage. From the Gran Chaco in South America reports of bloody battles reach us weekly. This strug- gle is not a war getween Paragua) and Bolivia. It is a battle between American and British imperialism for the possible oil resources of the Chaco. The Paraguayans and Bo- livians are merely the poor victims of this struggle.» The war for the Chaco is a lightning signal of the approaching general storm. It is @ manifestation of the serious an- tagonisms between the leading im- perialist Powers of the world, be- tween the United States and Great Britain. At the same time this Chaco war is, of course, a source of immediate profits for armament capital. It is one of those events which increase the capitalist appetites for profit. It is true, it costs the blood of the masses, but it produces a flow of golden profits for the manufacturers of those machines and means through which the blood of the masses is spilled. Even from the standpoint of the need of struggle against immediate military war, the anti-war congress is confronted with the tasy of ad- Calls, War a Certainty— Says Struggle Must Go On Now By MAX BEDACHT On September 28 the Second Con- gress of the American League Against War and Fascism will con- vene in Chicago. The success of this Congress is of momentous im- portance. It must be made a most intense effort to broaden the united front of the masses for struggle against war and fascism. The coming war is not a mere Possibility: It is a certainty. The chief French militarist, Marshall Petain, declared the other day that war will come overnight, without any preliminaries. American capi- talism is arming feverishly. Of course, it is preparing its steel-hel- meted army for use also against the workers at home, because they are beginning to rebel against star- vation by unemployment or starva- tion on account of miserable wages. But fundamentally this armament is a preparation for the coming world war. No time must be lost. If we wait with the organization of the strug- gle against war until war is actually upon us, we shall commit two crimes: first, we permit the im- perialists to prepare for war with- out a challenge; secondly, we pre- vent the organization of the forces for anti-war struggle. War Begins Long Before Declaration The struggle against war cannot be confined only to the period of actual military warfare. War starts long before the official declaration of war. War starts with economic antagonisms, These economic an- tagonisms Jead to measures of eco- nomic warfare. They lead to dip- lomatic maneuvers between the an- tagonistic governments. Only when these economic and diplomatic ma- neuvers no longer suffice to attain the imperialist object, do the gov- ernments resort to arms. Then military warfare is applied to ob- tain what the economic and diplo- matic warfare failed to obtain, The mobilization against war, therefore, must from the start be carried through against the very government policy which is leading to war. It must be a mobilization against the economic and political maneuvers that drive toward war. It must be a struggle against arm- aments and other preparations for war. It must be a mobilization against the chauvinist demagogy through which preparedness and war hysteria are produced. Action against war must be action against. the forces and interests making for war. Must Struggle against Preparations Without this struggle against the preparations for war, there can be no effective struggle against war it- self. Without struggle against these preparations, the war mongers have the road free to prepare the “need,” the armaments and the soldiers for the war. The struggle against war has a two-fold object: one is to prevent the outbreak of war as long as pos- sible; the other is to fight war when it comes and to turn it into a struggle against the imperialists. When war comes, it must be changed from a war of peoples against each other into a war of the people against their exploiters and oppressors, against the capital- ists, against the imperialists. Both of these objectives require a continuous and intensive struggle before and after war is a fact. Or- ganization and struggle against war before it is a fact is indispensable for organization and struggle against war after it becomes a fact. The idea that struggle against war can wait until war is here is a treacherous social-democratic theory. It was defended by the opportunists in the Second International at the regular Congress of the Second In- Workers of All Opinions Must Be Won for a Determined Fight vising and organizing definite ac- tion against the manufacture and shipment of armaments, against any act that contributes toward the maintenance and prolongation of this South American war. The eco- nomic factors which increase the capitalist governments are increas- imperialist antagonisms between the ing the capitalist crises; they have led to financial and political dif- ficulties in the leading countries of the world. They are making the ruling class more and more desper- ate day after day. That is why the danger of a desperate effort to es- cpae the logic of the bankruptcy of their system through a bloodbath is more real today than it ever was before. The Second Congress For all these reasons the prepara- tions for the Second Congress of the League Against War and Fascism in Chicago must be taken in hand with a will. They must be carried on politically. They must not merely become an effort to bring delegates to Chicago, but must be primarily an effort to mobilizee the millions of workers and other opponents of war for organization and action against war. We must go to Chicago not merely to a Congress. We must go to Chicago for an effort to es- tablish active connections with the broadest masses of workers for one united front. We must keep clearly in mind the needs of the struggle against war. We must learn to ap- proach the workers on the basis of their antagonism toward war, irre- spective of their political, religious, or other opinions. We must find the point of contact and agreement for a common struggle, for a com- mon aim. In this way alone can we build the united front. In this way alone will we be able to over- come and break down ideas and conceptions in the workers as yet antagonistic to a revolutionary so- lution of the problem of struggle against capitalism and its wars. Fascist Organization Begun By Ku Klux Klan Organizers In Penna. PITTSBURGH, July 31.—A new outspoken fascist group, calling it- self the “American Fascisti,” is be- ing formed here by the two ex- organizers of the Ku Klux Klan, H. N. Norton and Hugh Cobb, with national headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. Advocating a program of extreme jingoism and chauvinism, the pledge of the organization states, “I believe in the leadership and supremacy of the white race,” aping the lynch spirit of the Ku Klux The group calls for a mighty war machine to “impress the rest of the world with America’s greatness.” Charging an initiation fee of $3, the organization is seeking to clean up on the same kind of racket which was exposed in the frauds of the old Ku Klux Klan organizer, Simmons, who stole thousands of dollars from workers whom he had tricked into that the or- ganization was in their interests. NAZIS CALL CONVENTION BERLIN, July 31—A special con- vention of the Nazi Party has been called for September 5 to 10, it was announced here today. HUNGARY ARRESTS 14 BUDAPEST, Hungary, July 31.— Fourteen Communists were arrested today in a drive in anticipation of August 1st demonstrations against war and fascism, “Bread, Overalls Good Enough For Jobless” Says Brass Magnate WATERBURY, Conn., July 31.— Twenty-five hundred workers have been laid off in Waterbury, during the month of July, government fig- ures reveal. At a recent meeting of the manu- facturers held here, Mr. James H. Goss, brass magnate, stated that: “A pair of overalls and a loaf of bread is good enough for any worker.” Goss is also head of the Mutual Aid organization, for which the city is taxing workers one per cent of their wages to support the unem- ployed. Goss and his organization bitterly oppose the demand of the Unem- ployment Councils and the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union for increased relief, given not from workers wages, but from the city funds. This Mutual Aid organiza- tion, based on the so-called “Harris plan,” was organized by the mayor, @ puppet of Mr. Goss, MAY DISBAND S§. A. GROUPS MUNICH, July 31.—An order for the re-assembly on August 1 of the Storm Troops was issued today by the supreme commander Viktor Lutz, but the same document also forecast a complete reorganization, with the probable disbandment of the majority of the Storm Trooners. On ihe | World Front GANNES HARRY ‘By War Barometer | Japan Gets Most | A Rabbi on the U.S.S.R. HIPMENTS of scrap iron are generally taken as a | sort of barometer of war preparations. This is especi- ally true of countries which do not have iron ore resources, |On the basis of the tre mendous rise of scrap iron ship- ments from the United States, in |the past six months, for example, |the Herald-Tribune, is forced ta jadmit that the danger of war is |indeed great. Says a Herald Tribune report from Pittsburgh: | “Rumors of war fit into the recent buying of scrap iron and steel, It seems more than mere | coincidence that several countries | prominently mentioned in war- scare stories have developed enor- mous appetites for scrap metal. It | is assumed that these purchases | represented demand for metal for | the making of war material or the | building up of a reserve in case | regular sources of bupply are | blocked.” HE greatest purchasers have been Japan and Italy. Japan took 407.592 tons of scrap iron from the United States. This is 55 per cent of the total exported from this country, and represents an increase of 140,810 over shipments in the |similar six-month period of 1933. | And the 1933 scrap iron shipments |were about 100 per cent over 1932. That for six months Japanese im- perialism has been greatly speeding up its war preparations, lends added significance to Foreign Minister Hi- rota’s abrupt breaking off of all negotiations with the Soviet Am- bassador Konstantin Yureneff over the proffered sale of the Soviet share of the Chinese Eastern Rail- |way in Manchuria. Japanese im- | perialism, at this stage of world war |maneuvres, is deliberately attempt- ling to provoke war against the Soviet Union hoping to divert all of the imperialist conflicts into the channel of attack against the work- \ers’ fatherland. ' . | ANOTHER fact on Japanese war | preparations is one we receive from Kobe, Japan, in the Japanese |Chronicle, namely, that during the | month of April, 1934, Japan bought, | $7,999,258 of arms from the United States. Though this is a huge sum for one month it does not tell the whole story. This sum of nearly $8,000,000 is listed for war munitions that cannot be disguised, such as machine guns, rifles, revolvers, ex- plosives, airplane bombs, shells, etc, Many more millions were spent for “fertilizers” (nitrates for explosives), cotton for gun cotton, metals, and other raw materials for war pur- poses. Besides, millions more were paid to the du Pont chemical corporation for construction of a huge nitrate plant in Japan. . ORE interesting news on the Soviet Union comes from St, Louis. There Rabbi Samuel Thur- man, one of the most prominent rabbis of that city, returned after visiting the Soviet Union. Because of his leading position, the St. Louis papers prominently display his interview on what he found in the Soviet Union. While the rabbi forgets to men- tion what would be of the greatest importance to Jews, that a Jewish autonomous region has been estab- lished in Biro Bijan, he does say a lot which the capitalist press finds it hard to answer. We quote from his statement: * “DUSSIA is advancing culturally, industrially, morally, and 1s rapidly becoming a model which it might behoove other nations to consider. The old pre-revolution Russia has vanished. The Russia jof today is a nation of happy people, healthy, ambitious, every want satis- fied, every hope either realized or its realization this side of the hori- zon. It is a nation of students, every one of whom is being schooled in his particular aptitude and being paid a salary by the government While studying. “Work is assured for everyone. If a worker is found to be unfitted for a certain job he is placed in an- other and if he is found to be fit for none, he is paid a social insur- ance. There is no such thing as charity or social service in Russia today. There is no need for them. Everyone works and therefore earns his own way. Those who are men- tally or physically deprived of this privilege are taken care of by the best medical talent. Those who re- fuse to work simply vanish in time, “Fifty per cent of the nation is industrialized, I cannot describe the fruits of their construction pro- gram except to say they are literally colossal, An example is a tractor manufactory employing 20,000 per- sons. This factory is the center of @ separate community. It has its own recreation grounds, its own hospital where workers with ail- ments are provided the proper diet while they work and care when they cannot. It has its own gardens and its homes and its own theaters where the classics of the American, German, English cinemas are shown. Not, as you have heard, mere pic- tures propagandizing Russia, I my- self saw Douglas Fairbanks in ‘The Thief of Bagdad,’ in one of these theaters which are comparable to our own. Resorts to Psychology “Every sixth day is one of rec- jreation. And while discussing rec- reation, I saw a recreation center in Kiev which encompasses three times the area of Forest Park and which includes half a dozen theatres each seating between 2,000 and 2,500 per- sons and provisions for every con- ceivable sort of outdoor sport and it is jammed with workers on their holidays.” ly