The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 2, 1934, Page 5

Ni CHANGE ——THE— WORLD! By SENDER GARLIN HEN the smoke of battle of the World War had cleared | and the graves in Flanders Field were neatly ticketed | and the mothers duly notified that their sons would not come home, a flood of books began to appear saying that “now it can be told.” Some were written by army men, others by politicians, but the most illuminating came from the facile pens of journalists. | | Some revealed the intrigues of various military cliques, others boasted of the canny methods used to whip up the “public” behind the imperialist war. In the United States, George Creel, appointed by President Wilson to run the “Committee on Public Information” emerged with a book entitled “How We Advertised America.” Creel told in detail just how the war propaganda machine of the U. S. had operated under his leadership; how the Four-Minute speakers were | recruited, Liberty Bonds palmed off on the public; churches, Y.M.C.A.’s | and Salvation Army groups lined up behind the imperialist slaughter. | Creel, now a strikebreaker for the N. R. A. on the Coast, is Upton Sinelear's rival for the Democratic nomination for governor of California, | Now comes a confession, or, to be more accurate—a boast—from the | Pacific Coast. “Editor and Publisher,” the trade publication of the newspaper publishers, in its issue of July 28, gives some “inside dope” | on how the San Francisco press helped the Industrial Association de- feat the General Strike, with the aid of the “right-thinking” labor leaders. What’s more, how it laid the basis for the fascist attacks on workers’ organizations, inspired the vigilante raids and instituted a reign of terror. “Dailies Helped Break General Strike” is the headline in the “Editor and Publisher.” After bribing the printers and pressmen with | ® new contract restoring a ten per cent wage cut, the publishers set up a council to conduct the press campaign against the General Strike. “Just before the zero hour a group of publishers of the Bay region newspapers comprising Clarence B. Lindner, general manager of the San Francisco Examiner; George T. Cameron, publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle; Robert O, Holliday, ‘publisher of the San Fran- cisco Call-Bulletin; Joseph R. Knowland, publisher of the Oakland Tribune, and Richard A, Carrington, Jr., publisher of the Oakland Post-Enquirer, met to devise ways and means to meet the crisis.” London and Moscow KX ‘THIS holy war against labor, John Francis Neyland, general counsel for the sterling patriot, William Randolph Hearst, who had just re- turned from an Hawaiian vacation, was chosen as field marshal The “Editor and Publisher” grimly reports that Hearst telephoned from London to Clarence R. Lindner, general manager of the San Francisco Examiner, “saying that a story was being cabled telling how the general strike in England in 1928 had been crushed when the government took control of the situation. This was published on Mon- day in the Examiner, Chronicle, Call-Bulletin, Post-Enquirer and all Hearst papers.” Here we find the ruling class of one country caHing upon the experience of the ruling class ef another country in the fight against the working class. It’s quite proper, of course, for the American shipowners to study the strikebreaking methods of the British capitalists, but for the American workers to emulate the Russian workers—this is called by the capitalist press “alien influence.” Those squeamish individuals who gasp with horror every time a Communist writer charges the capitalist press with active strikebreak- ing will be interested to know, according to the “Editor and Publisher,” that Mr. Neyland (Hearst lawyer) entered into negotiations with con- servative labor leaders . . . newspaper editorials" built up the strength and influence of the conservative leaders and aided in splitting the conservative membership away from the radicals. . .” Concluding its exuberant report, “Editor and Publisher” says that “the strategy of Mr. Neyland and the publishers’ council had now be- gun to work. By Wednesday night the strike strategy committee re- laxed its restrictions on food and the power of public opinion was running like a strong flood tide against the strikers. On Thursday the general strike was called off in San Francisco and the next day in East Bay area.” . ’ . Don’t Be Naive, Lady | ay on the activities of the California press in helping to break the General Strike (working hand-in-hand with the labor traitors of the A. F. of L.), is also found in an article entitled “Journalistic Strikebreakers” in the August 1 issue of the New Republic. Here the writer, Evelyn Seeley, cites specific examples of bare- faced lies, distortions and outright provocations by the press. Miss Beeley declared that, “As was no doubt to be expected, deliberate jour- nalistie ‘malpractice’ reached its height in San Francisco, where the provocative tactics of the Chronicle and William Randolph Hearst’s Examiner earned the former a brick through its plate-glass front win- dow and necessitated a police guard over the premises of both.” The phrase “journalistic malpractice” on the part of the capitalist press in labor struggles is as deceptive as “miscarriage of justice” is in describing the deliberate frame-up of Sacco and Vanzetti, Tom Mooney, the Scottsboro boys, and Angelo Herndon. Far from being “journalistic malpractice” or “misuse” of the power of the press, it is, on the contrary, the highest fulfillment of the function of the capi- talist press. ' In San Francisco, the fighting spirit of the workers was so high that the publishers found it necessary to organize an “emergency” council to help the Industrial Association and the A. F. of L. bureau- crats break the strike. But in every other city of the U. 8. the capi- talist press responded with true class instinct, and joinetl in a vicious assault upon the striking workers. In San Francisco the stock-in-trade of the newspapers was the great solicitude for “the public.” How hollow this pretense is can be seen from the fact that during the General Strike the workers, their wives and children were easily a majority of the population. Who then, was the public? The newspaper publishers and their pimp editors? * * * “Freedom of the Press!” ‘REEDOM of the press! What miserable hypocrisy! As Lenin ob- \served, the freedom of the press under capitalism consists in the ability of the capitalists to buy and sell writers and to control opinion in the interests of the bosses. This talk about regimentation under Communism! What could have been more regimented than the organized barrage of anti-work- ing class propaganda unloosed during the General Strike? And the important fact to remember is that this was not limited to the Pacific Coast. With the most amazing unanimiy, every capitalist newspaper in the United States—from the Los Angeles Times to the Long Island Daily Press—echoed the interests of the San Francisco Industrial Asso- y ciation. This was a war-time mobilization of the press. It was a dress- rehearsal for “bigger things” to come. With the Associated Press send- “/y ing cut wire dispatches to 1,250 daily newspapers, with the United Press serving nearly 1,000 other papers, and the scores of syndicated “special” writers—from Arthur Brisbane to Philip Wylie—grinding out \ poison to be consumed by millions of readers daily, what “miracles” could not the capitalist press accomplish on the signal of war against the Soviet. Union? Against this capitalist newspaper line-up, only one English-lan- guage daily newspaper stood out, boldly and defiantly fighting for vic- tory for the West Coast workers. This was the Daily Worker, which demanded that the shipowners accede to every demand of the strikers, regardless of the dent it would make in the bosses’ wallets. Most important, the Daily Worker and the rest of the revolutionary press (particularly the Western Worker) showed the relationship be- tween the Pacific Coast shipowners and the Roosevelt-Wall Street gov- ~' DABLY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1934 July-August Issue of Workers Club Review WORKERS CLUB REVIEW. Offi- Sie, cial of the A: d Work- CLEVELAND, O.. July 2. — oa plete V1 W. 18th St. Juty- | Whenever election time or any ~ : ther good excuse rolls around, the August Issue No. 5-6. g , x : 3 | newspapers of this midwestern met- ait be. ropolis clash the cymbals and beat RY ARNOLD | the drums for Florence E. Allen, ; - is as od at | who in 1998 won for herself the dis- is a brilliant example of w’ a tinction of being the first woman a workers’ organization can d0|t, sit on a State Supreme Court with @ mimeograph machine When | bench. She started in the law game they can’t afford to put out a Li 5 | Way back in 1914, has been doing ed magazine. The Workers Club| obviously well at it ever since and Review is easily one of the neatest| the home town newspaper loves to jobs in mimeograph magazine I've| talk about it, for Cleveland marks ever seen in this country. Clear-cut, even paragraphs, attractive layouts —even the stenciled illustrations are clear. ‘There are some good articles on the Scottsboro case and lynching in the South, some fair poetry and a) short story and -a spirited editorial | calling for the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann. The Thaelmann editorial, however, contains an error which must be | “Whoever at this time,” the edi-| torial states, “fails to raise his voice| in protest against this planned ex-| ecution [of Thaelmann—Ed] can} only be classed in the same category as Hitler, and will be equally guilty | of the murder of Ernst ‘Thaelmann | if it shall come to pass.” | Just read the paragraph over) again, comrades of the Workers) Club Review. How about workers who have never heard of Thael-| mann? How about those who have) yet don’t realize the significance and | the importance of saving the life of | this heroic German working class leader? How about those misled workers, intellectuals and impover- ished middle class people who don’t care about fascism at all or who even favor it mildly? Certainly these cannot be classed | with Hitler. It doesn’t need an elaborate explaination either. Hit- ler is the deadly enemy of the work- ers.. The others, intellectuals, im- poverished middle classes and some workers can be won over to the side of the militant working class. It’s just a careless error that more careful editing could have) eliminated. Outstanding in the magazine is the organizational problems. Per- haps too much space is devoted to this matter—or, rather, I should say too little is devoted to articles, short stories, poetry, interviews and other features. There are reports on| neighborhood work, letters of crit-) icism and suggestions for improved | work, club correspondence, how to} make leaflets, ete—all very valuable | and concretely treated. | The magazine on the whole is an) unusually fine piece of work. So fine, indeed, that we can look for- ward to one of the finest looking magazines in the working class Movement when the Workers Club Review is actually printed. WHAT’S ON A POPULAR DISCUSSION on Marxist Strategy and Tactics in relation to trade union work in U. &, Friday, August inh, & . Ja Stacl “Let-Wing Adm. 25¢ or $1's worth of literature. Thursday SYMPOSIUM—China Depicted in Our- rent Fiction—A Political and Literary analysis of recent novels about Ohina. Speakers: H. 8. Chan, John Phillips, Con- rad Komorowsk!. Well-known writers have been invited to take part in general dii cussion, Auspices Priends of the Chines People, 168 W. 23rd St., Room 12, 8:30 pm, Adm. 150. by Jose Calderon on ““Pascism LECTURE in Spain.” United Front Supporters, W. 18th St., 8:45 p.m. LECTURE — Revolt in the Romantic Poets, by D. Gamzue, Instructor of English at NLY.U., at National Student League, 114 W. 14th St. 4-5:30 p.m. Adm. 15c. LECTURE on Marxian Oriticism of Freud by the Pen & Hammer Psychology Comm. | at National Student League, 114 W. 14th/ St., 6:30-8 p.m. Adm. 15¢. SACCO-VANZETTI Br. I.L.D. Important membership meeting at 792 E, Tremont Ave., Bronx. All members must be present. PROFESSIONAL ALLIANCE Against War & Fascism will hold Mass Anti-War Meet- ing at Franklin Manor, 836 Franklin Ave. near Eastern Parkway. Alfred Wagen- knecht and Rey. Kenneth Kingston, speak- ers. Friday JOE GILBERT, organizer, Taxi_ Drivers Union, lectures on “Recent Strike Struggles * at Coney Island Workers Club, Yith St., 8:30 p.m. CHAMBER MUSIC—dancing to follow— refreshments at the Pierre Degeyter Club, 5 EF. 19th St. Adm. 25c. . + 8 MOONLITE DANCE FESTIVAL, Open- Air Dancnig, given by Brooklyn Section Associated Workers Clubs at Frank's Inn, 1307 E. 92nd St., Canarsie, Sunday, August 12, 7:30 p.m, Ben Posner and his music. Program: Workers Lab. Theatre in “Pree D ‘lage,’ Dun- in Person. re! Tickets for sale at Workers Book Shops, 50 E. 13th ‘St, 369 Sutter Ave., all Workers Clubs. irecti St. Line to Avenue K. . a Philadelphia, Pa. SOCIAL AND TEA, given by the Unem- ployment Council, Friday, August 3, 8 p.m. at 346 Christian St. Games, enter- tainment, music, dancin STAGE and SCREEN “Soviet Close-Ups” Remains Second Week at The Acme “Soviet Close-Ups,” the new So- viet film, will continue for a second week at the Acme Theatre. The picture is a comprehensive study of Soviet life as it is today. It gives a graphic picture of what one-sixth of the world—the Soviet Union—is doing. The film also covers many parts of the U.S.S.R. with which we are not familiar. “Aida” To Be Presented at The Stadium Tonight This week’s opera at the Stadium will be “Aida,” under the direction of Alexander Smailens, and will be performed this evening and Satur- day night. The principal singers include Rosa Tentoni, Kathryn Meisle, Louis D’Angelo, Frederick dJagel, Harold Kravitt and Claudio Frigerio. The ballet will be dariced ag De Leporte and Corps de On Sunday Willem Van Hoog- straten will conduct the Overture to “Der Freischuetz,” by Weber; Deems Taylor’s Suite, “Through the ernment Without their own press, workers are blind and can easily be misled, for they do not always see the close liaks between the bosses and the capitalist government 6 Gre ye wee ed u% Looking Glass”: Prelude and Lov: Death from “Tristan and Isolde’ the beginning of the belt where| local pride still flourishes. What's the reason for raking over the back files of Cleveland news- papers on the subject of Miss Allen | < at this late date? it may be asked. Nothing, save that there is an- other election campaign beginning and that the candidate running for attorney-general of Ohio on the Communist ticket is a woman whose career has some interesting paral- lels with that of Miss Allen. Yetta Land is also a lawyer. She got her start a bit later than Miss Allen because she had to devote a number of years to the bringing up of two sons. Long before that, however, she worked in a cigar factory at the age of 13 and leading the first Cleveland cigar-makers’ strike at the age of 16, so that somehow she | didn’t get around to attending law school. Ohio Women Lawyer Named Is Impressive Example Red Candidate for State Office trial of Eugene V. Debs in Cleve- land. Debs was convicted of vio- lating the infamous war-time Es- pionage Act, and Comrade Land’s indignation was aroused by the in- competence of the Socialist defense attorney, Joseph W. Sharts. She determined then and there to study law, and study she did—at about the same time that her oldest son was completing his college courses. But unlike Florence Allen, Yetta | Land aspired to no posts as a coun- ty prosecutor, which was one of Miss Allen’s first jobs. Instead she applied herself immediately to the legal defense of workers under the direction of the InternaSfmmal La- bor Defense. In 1931 she conducted the successful defense for Paul Cas- i charges of sabotaging ction of a giant Navy dirigible in Akron. Her victory in this case nipped an incipient “red scare” in the bud. She has scored other successes in defending work- ers charged with Criminal Syndi- | calism before the Ohio Court of Appeals, and in numerous minor cases. She was attorney for I. O. Ford, now Communist candidate for Governor in Ohio; when he was charged with desecrating the Amer- ican flag. She won that case, too. Like many working class law- yers, she doesn’t confine her defense of working class interests to court rooms. She is active in working class organizations. And it’s a sure thing that if Yetta Land is elected Attorney-General of Ohio, she will not confine her activities on behalf 4 For Attorney-General Yetia Land Page Five ~ Fascist Terror Adds ~ New Interest to Jack | London’s “Tron Heel” ‘THE YRON HEEL, by Jack London.;for the surplus grabbed by U. S In new, special edition for Work- | °@pPital from its working masses, yet ih American eapitalism seems to oce ba M is Bublishers,-50 E. 13th cupy an exceptional position (shades | St, New York. Price 95 cents. | of Tovestone!). For three centuries * ng bs it manages to crush revolt after Reviewed by revolt by methods familiar now to } S. SHERMAN workers in Germany and San Fran- ciseo alike. That London is somehow aware of | FN these days of bestial fury used Unemployment Council Formed in Ranshaw, Pa. RANSHAW, Pa. Aug. 1.—Fifty unemployed workers organized the Ranshaw Unemployment Council meeting held here, under the auspices of the Sham- at a mass okin Councils on July 24. Joseph Koyack was elected re- cording secretary, and Edward | Markoskie,. treasurer. An executive |committee was elected and will meet with the’ committee from the Just what made Florence E. Al- Jen take up law is not explained by the 1926-27 edition of “Who's Who in America,” which is quite free with other bits of information about her, but Yetta Land's interest start- a ed in 1918 when she attended the of the working class to her cham- bers in the State Capitol. Earn Expenses Selling “Daily” Join the Red Builders! Shamokin Unemployment Council to plan action on relief cases and | grievances, after which they will report back to the Ranshaw Un- jemployment Council on Augus' first. Strring Scene From “Soviet Close-Ups” Now at Acme Part of the great throng who greeted Prof. Otto Schmidt on his arrival at the railway station in Moscow, a scene from “Soviet Close Ups,” now This is one of the playing at the Acme Theatre. most exciting films of the year. From the: First World War te the Second By NEMO Vv. NEVER AGAIN “The first and the last World War’ was the slogan put forwatd when the imperialist peace was concluded on the fields of Europe, which were strewn with corpses and ruins. “No more war,” was the cry on every First of May of the Social- Democrats who but yesterday had voted the war credits. The toiling masses of the people were thirsting for peace and disarmament. Article 1, paragraph 2, of the deceitful League of Nations Covenant laid down that only such states could become members of the League as ac- cepted the reduction of armaments fixed by the League of Nations. Fifteen years have passed since the solemn proclamation of this principle, but in- stead of disarmament the members of the League have gone forward to increased armament. The so-called dtsarmament negotiations of the League of Nations lasted from 1925 to 1933 and even today they have not yet come to a termina- tion. The number of declamatory speeches, of ses- sions, proposals and projects, has taken on bound- Jess dimensions. Mountains of dossiers have been accumulated. Long pauses were interpolated be- tween the separate negotiations, ostensibly in order to make better preparation for the sessions. The elite of the world of bourgeois diplomacy gathered at Geneva. The year 1932 was declared “disarnt- ament celebration year.” It was the memorable year in which the Geneva peace speeches were re- inforced by the bursting of the shells from the Japanese bombing airplanes. Up to today not a single soldier has been dis- charged, not a single warship dispensed with, not a single airplane dismantled, not a penny spared from armament expenditure. Can one speak of the bankruptcy of Geneya on that account? Noth- ing would be more incorrect! By making.the League of Nations the guardians of disarmament, the im- perialists were, so to speak, setting up the wolf as shepherd. As an executive instrument of the im- Perialists, the League of Nations could not and was not intended to encroach upon the apparatus of armed power of the bourgeoisie. Under cover of the Geneva peace screen, the governments of the capitalist countries succeeded in deceiving gen- eral public opinion as to the seriousness of the war danger and in accelerating their own arma- ments without disturbance. Finally, the imperial- ists declared that they were compelled to arm in the interests of “national security,” referring cyni- cally to Article 8 of the Covenant of the League of Nations which makes disarmament dependent on the minimum amount of armaments compatible with national security and the execution of inter- national duties. Instead of creating the best se- curity against war by general disarmament, as de- manded by the Soviet government, the imperialists brought about security against disarmament, an armed peace. Each imperialist power looked on the struggle at Geneva as a struggle for disarmament of the Wagner and Beethoven's “Rastorale” Symphony, re wy | Sem others, a struggle for winning an increase of its own military powers, The deceitful disarmament % maneuvers only became impossible when the sharp- ening of the imperialist antagonisms endowed the war danger with a new acute character. Japan and Germany, those two chief war-mak- ing powers of the world, turned their backs on the conference. When the imperialists had already extensively armed themselves for war and now wanted to undertake their last war preparations without. restrictions, they noted with hypocritical regret: The Disarmament Conference is bankrupt. The Geneva Conference became a new source of incessant conflicts which further stimulated to the imperialist antagonisms. The Geneva Disarmament Conference proved to be a stage in the progress to war of the imperialist groupings. The Geneva Dis- armament Conference has encountered the same fate as that peace committee in the year 1912, of which the symposium published in Zurich, 1932, by the Inter-Parliamentary Union, under the title of “What would a new war be like?” records. Immediately before the war a very representa- tive special committee was set up and entrusted with the task of examining the technical side of the problem; but the committee was prevented by the outbreak of the World War in 1914 from taking up its activity. Let us take the question of naval disarmament. The Washington conference of 1921-22 laid down a definite proportion for the strength of the fleets of the five leading Great Powers. It limited the construction of heayy battleships, forbade the build- ing of new naval bases and agreed upon a united action of the powers in China, The London Con- ference of 1930, in continuation of the Washington Conference, was intended to limit also the smaller units such as cruisers, destroyers and submarines which are decisive for a future naval war. And what was the result of these two disarmament con- ferences? The naval building yards working at high pressure, the launching of warship after war- ship, war fleets consisting predominantly of new vessels, general feverish competition in naval arm- aments, the Pacific Ocean converted into a huge naval base and the chief hearth of the war con- flagration of 1934. Then came the treaty of Locarno. With the “spirit of Locarno,” the war period was supposed to have come to a final conclusion and the prom- ised era. of peace to haye un. Had not the hereditary enemies, Germany and France, become reconciled for ever and ever by renouncing any alteration of frontiers or employment of force? No less than seven treaties were concluded, in order, it was alleged, to protect the partners “from the scourge of war” and to “provide for peaceful settle- ment of all conflicts which might possibly arise between them.” The International Court of Arbitra- tion was given the sublime task of arbitrating on all disputes between the nations, As the same time, however, the Locarno treaty envisaged a united advance of the powers against the Soviet Union. Crowned with the Nobel Peace Prize and accom- panied by the Hosannah paeans of the Social- Democratic press, Stresemann, Briand and Cham- bedeip returned from Locarno, (To Be Continued) ”, by crumbling German fascism against any opposition; when work- }ers’ quarters are being savagely de- molished by the Vigilantes, those | professional thugs of a capitalist so- ciety whose putrescence is becoming daily more offensive to ever wider numbers of the working-class, one is | Startled in reading Jack London’s The Iron Heel, written in 1907 and yet today contemporaneous, Like Bellamy’s Looking Backward, | London’s book uses the familar lit-| erary device of dating his work seven centuries in the future when what he calls the Brotherhood of Man has been achieved for four |centuries. But while the former) | book is frankly utopian and makes |no pretense at being Marxian, Lon- | |don’s well-known. work is obviously |the product of a man who in his |day was a militant Socialist and jeonsidered himself a disctple of Marx. Tt is idle to speculate whether London, were he alive today, would have recognized the inconsistency | of his petty-bourgeois brand of So-| cialism and probably developed into |a@ thorough-going Marxist, we can omprehend some of his mistakes |as the natural confusion almost in-| evitable in one who calls the iron | | heél of fascism “The great curiosity | jf history—a whim, a fantasy, an| apparition, a thing unexpected and | undreamed; and it should serve as/| la warning to those rash political) theorists of to-day who speak with certitude of social processes.” Yet |he had enough political insight to |Yecognize that “Capitalism, rotten- | ripe, sent forth that monstrous off- | shoot, the Oligarchy” — a system bearing a remarkable resemblance to! fascism. manuscript found in the heart of an| old oak tree in the year 419 B.OM. | (Brotherhood of Man), hidden there |seven centuries earlier by Avis | | Everhard, on the eve of a period of | | terror accompanying the Second Revolt. The manuscript is supposed to de- | scribe the period between 1912 and} | 1932. Since, however, the Iron Heel| | Was written in 1907, we realize that |London wrote the book as a bit of | | political forecasting. Avis is the| |daughter of a professor of physics | jin the State University at Berkeley, | California, whose interest in the revolutionary movement has been | created by meeting Ernest Everhard, |“& working-class philosopher,” who) jis identified with London himself and expounds the latter's views. | * * * | |] ONDON showed an almost un-| |4 canny ability to forsee some poli- | tical events, along with an extremely | pessimistic viewpoint of others. An| especially interesting illustration at present, with the general strike on the Western coast, just smashed by the betrayal of the A. F. of L. lead- ers, is the war between Germany | and the United States which is stopped by a general strike in both countries, The ruling classes of both countries then realized the strength of organized labor and formed an alliance for the purpose of defeating their common foe, the revolutionary proletariat of both countries. It was now January, 1913 and once again London saw correctly that American imperialism would control more and more of the world market | So that scores of countries were flung jout of that market with unconsum-| lable and unsalable surpluses on their hands. They could not con- tinue their method of producing sur- pluses. The capitalist system, so far as they were concerned, had/ hopelessly broken down.” The confusion of London’s poli- | tical ideology gives rise to some as- | tounding conclusions. In spite of, the fact that the workers of a score | European countries revolt and form | “cooperative commonwealths,” Amer- | ican capitalism seems all-powerful. | With these countries presumably | self-sufficient (though not a word is/| said about them from this point on) and further restricting the market the paradoxical nature of such a protracted reign of capitalism in the twentieth century is shown by the fact that he tries to explain away the contradiction by creating the Mercenaries—a sort of American Storm Troops and a labor aristoc- racy, who consume the major por- tion of the surplus of wealth, That no-capitalist class would give away praetically all its profits in order to bribe one section of the working class is shown by Hitler's dissolution of the Storm Troops. : It must be pointed out, also, that London’s attitude toward the pros letariat is often quite condescending, and he dwells too much on the ter< roristic side of the revolution. In spite of these shortcomings “The Tron Heel” is a good revolutionary novel. It is written in that simple, fascinating style so truly London's and holds the reader's interest from first to last page. The picture it gives of the callous brutality of the capitalist class is etched so power- fully in the reader's mind as to refute without another word the Socialist Party theories about the peaceful, democratic change to Socialism, Portrait of the U.S.S.R. In. August Issue of “Soviet Russia Today” The August issue of “Soviet Rus sia Today,” is literally packed with information about the Soviet Union, in a diversity of articles and photo- graphs. “The Soviet Union and the Inter national Situation” by. A. A. Heller, is a careful analysis of the forces at work against the Soviet Union, and the determined effort of the Russians for peace. Heller quotes Litvinov to the Geneva Conference: “The Soviet Government is prepared to use its power for the broadest measures for the preservation of universal peace. I can assure you that the gavernment which I repre- sent will continue with all the energy possible its labor to strengthen universal peace.” Liston M. Oak contributes a long and detailed article on the OGPU, “The OGPU is Abolished.” He traces the course of the OGPU from its inception as the Cheka to the present day, when it is no longer needed as a safeguard of socialist construction. A visit to the Boishevo Commune, made famous by the motion picture, | “Road to Life,” is described by Drs |C. M. Stoycoff, of Gary, Indiana.. “A Repair Shop for Broken Souls,” Dr. Stoycoff describes the Come mune and life and background of. the Communards. In 1924, Yagoda started the Commune with 18 boys, Today it has a. population of 2,500, who live, work and govern their own lives. Bs “A New Era in the Caucasus,” by. Wm. Osgood Field, Jr., deals with the civilization of wild mountains of the Caucasus, and how the So- viets have brought a new meaning of life to these once backward people, When Max Hittleman went back: to Odessa recently, and walked the streets he once knew well, he rea- lized that the 29 years he was away he saw 100 years of progress. In “Odessa Revisited,” he describes thi “bread factory” with its elub an library and recreation halls. He describes a night at the Opera, crowded with workers, with chil- dren filling the boxes formerly re= served for “nobles.” There are also letters from the Soviet Union, the resolytion of the. United Farmers’ League to send & delegate to the Soviet, Union for Nov, .7th,. and book reviews by Charles Recht and Margaret Irsh Lamont. oe A Red Builder on every busy street corner in the country means a tremendous step toward the. dictatorship of the proletariat! 7: P. M.-WEAF—Baseball Resume WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Prick WJZ—Stamp Club—Capt. 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