The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 3, 1934, Page 5

et erreer New Pamphlet Relates Dramatic Story of Mine - Strike in New Mexico N.B.A., MARTIAL LAW, “INSUR- Colorado farmers, who had sent ree RECTION.” The Miners Strike in lief trucks to the strikers, took up New Mexico. By Pat Toohey. The their guns and vowed to shoot any- DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, PRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1034 . Lif Page Five |Only United Fight Can Win, Palme Dutte Says in New Book on Fascism ‘A Mine Bess ANGE Shows Us How ‘Things | Work’ 4 By M. W. Yi genial superintendent of the | |4 Oak Hill Mine in Minersville, |Pa., known to his friends as “El- mer,” is showing us around. “This| THE RED BATTLE CRY Fea —_§THE—- || WORLD! By SENDER GARLIN “The fight against fascism cannot he conducted on the basis of trust-| ing to bourgeois ‘democracy’ as the defense against fascism,” R. Palme Dutte, editor of the British Labor Monthly, declares in his forthcom- ing book “Fascism and Social Revo- lution,” which International Pub- lishers will release in August. PES is Y EDITORIAL writer in the liberal New Republic cyn- ically observes that workers in the United States will not support their own press. Moreover, that it remains to be seen whether hte events on the Pacific Coast have taught the workers anything on this score. Of course, there is no doubt that the bosses have a pretty complete stranglehold on the minds of millions of American workers as a re- sult of their monopoly over the press, radio and other agencies of capitalist propaganda Yet, it is clear that the influence of the revo- lutionary press is growing, even though the pace is not as rapid as it should be considering that the American workingclass has experienced five years of crisis. * . . One Thing They Can’t Buy wealthy publishers can buy printing presses, new-fangled stereo- typing and engraving equipment; they can buy editors, writers and artists, but there’s one thing they cannot buy and that is the devotion of readers such as the revolutionary press enjoys. Right now, for example, there are at least 220,000 subscribers (many more readers) of Communist newspapers in 22 languages, of which nine are daily papers, including the Daily Worker. The various financial drives to maintain the “Daily” have time and again shown the devotion of the workers and farmers in various parts of the country to their Daily Worker. The present circulation campaign brings scores of letters every day from workers who are battling against the terror, against company spies, many of them struggling singlehanded in communities where revolutionary activity has not yet made itself felt. sent down and come up loaded. One hundred an hour. Yesiree.| And if it's less we want to know | why.” | As the cars clattered up to the| surface loaded high with coal I) | inquire for the method by which it | is determined whether the car is/ fully loaded. “When the loader | thinks he’s full up we get him to put on a little more.” “How do you manage that?” | “We got ways. Kinda kid 'em| along—or something,” and he winks | impishly. | We inspect the breakers where the coal is sorted and made ready | for delivery, and where the work- | ers are constantly surrounded by a | heavy cloud of coal dust. Five min- | utes of it and we come out chok- ing with the effects of it. “Yeah, | they get asthma and all that, | working in there just like they get it down in the mines.” “Do they get any compensation for it?” | “No siree, that ain’t due them./| No sir.” Next we venture into a horizon- tal shaft and though the day is} unbearably hot inside it is cold and | dark. “Rheumatism, plenty. But that’s like asthma—not entitled to is the shaft. The empty cars are | Trust in ruling class “democracy” Workers Library Publishers. 5 one who attempted to interfere with This cartoon, reproduced from the arch-reactionary Chicago Tribune, is an example of the nationwide “anti- Red” campaign now being conducted in the newspapers. Communists seek only to “destroy”—this is the keynote |means “to invite and to guarantee | the victory of fascism,” Dutt shows. | “The fight against fascism can only | be conducted on the basis of the united class fight of the workers (leading all the exploited strata) against all the attacks of finance- | capital, whether these attacks are conducted through nominal “demo- cratic” forms or through open fas- cist forms.” The great lesson the workers must learn from the fascist record in Europe, Dutt insists, is that bour- geois democracy, far frem constitu- ting a defense against fascism, “ac- tually breeds fascism. Fascism grows j organically out of bourgeois democ- | racy.” Besides a Marxist analysis of the | fascist regimes of Europe, Dutt’s | book warns against fascist tenden- cies in Western Europe and | America, WHAT’S ON Friday JOE GILBERT, organizer, Taxi Drivers Union, lectures on “Recent Strike Struggles in U.S.A." at Coney Island Workers Club, | 2874 W. 27th Bt., 8:30 p.m. cents, Reviewed by PHILIP STERLING F you want to combine political study with stirring drama, read Pat Toohey’s pamphlet. It is pos- sible that there has been no strike in recent years under such condi- tions as those in New Mexico de- scribed by Toohey. Martial law, secret printing plants. strike meetings held in the desert, solidarity of National Guard troops with the strikers—these are the dramatic and instructive elements of which the New Mexico strike was composed. The strike has current historic Significance. It was the first im- |Portant wedge between the N.R.A. and the masses of workers who were on the verge of being misled. | ‘The instructiveness and interest of |the pamphlet is enhanced by |Toohey’s simple, lucid narrative | style and his intimate knowledge of the struggle, which only a leader in |it could have, |. In proportion to its importance, little is known about this strike | from which more than 10,000 miners | CHAMBER MUSIC—dancing to follow—| emerged victorious in the face of their passage. In this respect the strike was a fine example of Lenin- ist action. There was complete unity of the strikers, the unemployed, the poor farmers of New Mexico and neigh- boring states. Not only that; on one occasion ik and file National Guardsmen refused to fire on a strike demonstration when they were ordered to do so by their officers. Twenty of them subsequently joined the Communist Party and the Young Communist League. Toohey also describes the ree sourcefulness and the capacity for self-leadership of the rank and files When all of the leaders were cast into a military concentration camp to pave the way for an “arbitration” maneuver, the military authorities hoped that the arbitrator would have an easy job because he would have to deal merely with rank and file miners. “The Communist leadership was safely behind the bars. But on are riving in Gallup Moore (the arbi- trator) was met by a barrage of leaflets. ‘Why does Moore Come to Gallup?) ‘Why Have Our Leaders Been Arrested?’ Who issued such circulars and held ranks firm whert leaders were jailed? It was the rank From the little town of Aitkin, Minn., for example, comes a letter refreshments at the Pierre Degeyter Club,| armed troops, martial law and fas- and file miners, following the steady 5 E. 19th St. Adm, 250. of the press campaign. This vicious stuff is being peddled any compensation. (The miners in enclosing 48 cents for a bundle order of the August 1st Anti-War edition. The same letter says, “Can you tell me where copies of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill can be obtained for distribu- tion, and what the cost is?” This shows vividly how the workers loox upon the “Daily”: not merely “just another paper,” but a real organizer in the Leninist sense of the word. Up in Canada, in the dominion of the British Empire, the Com- munist Party operates on a basis of illegality. Yet a worker writes from Toronto asking for a daily bundle order of 30 copies of the Daily Worker. “Dangerous thoughts,” it seems to have a way of seeping into places despite all the snarling statutes that terrified capitalist law- makers write into the law books, From Waco, Texas, a reader of the “Daily” writes: “My sub- scription expired July, and I thank you very much for sending it on. I couldn't afford to miss the paper, especially at the present time, when’ such struggles are fought as on the West Coast, the events in Ger- many, the Scottsboro boys, Angelo Herndon, etc.” Most stirring of all is a letter from Mrs. Ida Norris, one of the Scottsboro mothers. From Molena, Georgia, she writes: “I am will- ing to try to do all I can as I am a mother of one of the Scottsboro prisoners. Send me two bundles of the Daily Worker paper. I will try to get up all the subscriptions I can. Of course, my chances for prosperity is indeed poor here in the South, although I am willing to do my best. Comradely, Mrs. Norris.” Every time the bosses in the South arrest a Communist they think they’ve eliminated the possibility of struggle against exploitation by the workers. “The terror has not yet subsided,” a Daily Worker agent writes from Birmingham. “Present conditions are not favorable for house-to-house canvassing, so our alternative is mainly personal contact.” Strange tales could be told how the Daily Worker and other revolutionary publications are spread in the Black Belt of the South. So sharp is the terror in many sections of the South that the most ingenious methods have to be worked out to elude the bosses’ police and thugs who are ever on the look-out for those who are fighting for the liberation of the Negro masses, The schemes for underground propaganda are strangely reminiscent of the methods that had to be followed in the darkest days of the czar. Every Day for Ten Years ‘OR more than ten years the Daily Worker has appeared—without missing a single issue. It’s easy enough for the capitalist papers to do this, with their pages of advertisements from the big corpora- tions and department stores and their millions available through “friendly” bankers and other connections. But for the Daily Worker to appear every day for more than ten years is nothing short of a miracle. This miracle is explained by the. fact that the maintaining and building of the “Daily” is considered the collective responsibility of the militant workers of the entire country. In nearly 2,000 cities the Daily Worker is sold and read. During the past six weeks of the “Daily’s” circulation drive more than 100 cities have been added. New territory has been broken into and a visit to the mailing department of the Daily Worker will reveal such destinations as Algeirs, Louisiana; Red Budd, Kentucky; Woods Hole, Mass.; Dollar Bay, Michigan; Swogersyville, Pa.; Apelika, Alabama, and other cities. While there is no doubt that the chief centers for the Daily Worker must be in the vital concentration districts—in centers of basic industry, such as Pittsburgh, Chicago, Cleveland, etc.—the fact that the Daily Worker is reaching out into hundreds of smaller communities through- out the country shows thaé the Daily Worker is becoming known as a fighter for the interests of the workers and farmers everywhere. * . . The “Red Builders” y Nes INTERESTING recent development are the “Red Builders,” groups of workers in hundreds of cities who sell the Daily Worker on the streets. I have been thrilled on a tour of the West to see workers selling the “Daily” on the streets of Spokane, Wash., in company- controlled towns in Montana and in small, isolated farming communi- ties. In New York these “Red Builders” have placed themselves in strategic centers of the town and are acquainting ever wider circles of readers with the “Daily.” There was a time when the Daily Worker could be bought in New York only along Fourteenth Street. It took a long time in getting around to the discovery that workers could be found in other sections of the city as well. I believe it has already been pointed out that the Daily Worker circulation has developed the nasty habit of dropping 4,000 a month during the summer. This year, not only has this drop not occurred, but instead 6,000 new readers have been obtained. Last week I printed a letter from a comrade who made a number of suggestions for making the Daily Worker more popular and effec- tive. Since that time a large number of letters have arrived from readers who ask for various new features, make criticisms, etc. All the letters, however, make note of the inprovement in the Daily Worker during the past year. Often sound suggestions for improvements are made, but they remain abstract because of the difficulty of putting them into effect with our limited resources. For example, there must have been at least several hundred readers who wrote letters (oftentimes attaching signatures of their friends and shopmates) protesting against the dis- continuance of Quirt’s cartoon strip, “Jim Martin.” The sad editorial response in each case was that our large photo-engraving bill forced the discontinuance of the strip which was obviously very popular with our readers. Incidentally, a number of changes which will funda-- mentally improve the paper have already been worked out and will be announced shortly. Naturally, many improvements can be brought about without added expenditure, but this is a subject for discussion some other day. Anti-War Articles in August ‘Communist’ ‘The August issue of “The Com- munist,” organ of the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party of the U.S.A., has just appeared. It is an anti-war issue and contains the following important articles: Wicks; “Imperialist War and Poli- “In the Midst of Great Historic|tics in the Far East,’ by R. Doon- Battles,” editorial; “The Tasks of |ping; “The United Farmers League Revolutionary Social-Democracy in| Convention,” by John Barnett; “The the European War,” by V. I. Lenin;| Veterans in the Struggle Against “For a Bolshevik Anti-War Strug-| Fascism and Imperialist War,” by gle,” by Alex Bittelman; “The/| Emanuel Levin; Book Review, Bloody 30th of June in Germany”; “Lessons of the Milwaukee Street Carmen's Strike”; “The Leninist Party as Leader of the Struggle Against Imperialist War,” by H. M. Pennsylvania had supported Pin- chot on the theory that he would hold to his pre-election promises: adequate compensation for the miners for asthmatic, rheumatic and other occupational diseases.) Thence to the “hospital,” where @ nurse, but no doctor, attends for a few hours a day. When a miner is hurt a form must be filled out answering such questions as: Does the injured person speak English? Is he foreign born? Is he a citizen? The nurse explains, “You see we must know all this in order to see where the compensation is go- ing, if any.” a ime YY THIS time Elmer and I are fast friends. We sit on the steps and chew the fat a bit. Elmer speaks sotto voce, glancing around constantly. “Our only real trouble is with the shoemakers.” The term is strange to me. “Shoemaker is polite for a s-- of a b----. You know these here guys that stir up trouble and get the miners think- ing they ain’t gettin’ enough or that their conditions is bad—then there’s hell to pay. Strikes and plenty of trouble and the company loses plenty. Sometimes we even gotta give in to them. They're tough as hell. But we trim them shoemakers when we get a chance.” At this moment the day shift emerges, quite as black as the coal they mine. Elmer cheerily greets each as they pass, the while keep- ing up a running commentary con- cerning the history of each man. “That's Joe P., good guy. Gives us lots of stuff on the shoemakers. Goddam them. They're planning trouble right now. Want higher wages. And they're gettin’ too much right now. That’s the reason miners is always striking. Because they get such big wages. “That’s Nick D. Gotta family of eight kids. He better watch his step. I'm on to him. There’s two shoemakers, watch how nice I talk to them. Hi, there boys—how goes it. But they don’t know what I’m planning for them. I can kid a lot of the boys, drink with them and all that. I make them think I’m their friend. But those shoemakers | are tough. You see, they wouldn't even say hello to me.” And so on for half an hour. We rise to leave and I thank Elmer for everything. Elmer says it’s OK. “TI like people to under- stand what really goes on in a mine. So they shoudn’t get no wrong im- pression. Then they can tell their friends the truth, y'know.” We shook hands, “I will,” I said. | | TUNING IN| 7:00 P. M.-WEAF—Baseball Resume WOR-Sports Resume—Food Frick WdJZ—Johnson Orchestra ‘WABC-Theodore Ernwood, Baritone 1:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketch WOR—Front-Page Drama WABC—Irene Bordon!, Songs 7:30-WEAF—Martha Mears,Contralto WOR—The O’Neills—Sketch ‘WJZ—Grace Hayes, Sones WABC—Paul Keast, Baritone 7:45-WEAF—Vladimir Brenner and Josef Honti, Piano WOR—Larry Taylor, Baritone ‘WJZ-Frank Buck's Adventures WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Bourdon Orchestra; Olga Al- bani, Soprano; Revelers Quartet WOR—Selvin Orchestra; Al and Lee Reiser, Piano * WJZ—Walter O'Keefe, Comedian; Ethel Shutta, Songs; Dolan Orch. WABC—Kate Smith, Songs 8:15-WABO—Columbians Orchestra 8:30-WOR—Novelty Orchestra; Slim Tim- ; Cavaliers Quartet ion on Indus- try and the Individual—Dr. Virgil Jordon, President National Indus- trial Conference Board 8:45-WJZ—Jack and Loretta Clemens, Songs “WEAF —Lyman Orchestra; Frank Munn, Tenor; Vivienne Segal, Songs WOR-—Italics—H. 8. Lott Jr. ‘WJZ—Harris Orch.; Leah Ray, Songs WABC—California Melodies 9:15-WEAF—Bonime Orchestra; Pat, Commedians WOR—Brokenshire Orchestra ‘WJZ—Phil Baker, Comedian WABC—Green Orchestra; Sylvia Proos, Songs 10:00-WEAF—Dead Timber—fketch ‘With June Meredith, Don Ameche and Cliff Soubier WOR—Eeternal Life—Drama WJZ—Mario Cozzi, Baritone; Lucille Manners, Soprano; Concert Orch. ‘WABC—Young Orchestra; Everett Marshall, Baritone; Frank Crumit, Songs, Stoopnagle and Budd 10:15-WOR—Current Events—H. E. Read 10:30-WEAF—Jack Benny, Comedian; Bes- tor Orchestra; Frank Parker, Tenor ‘WOR—Robison Orchestra WJ2Z—Chicago Symphony Orchestra 10:48-WABC—Carlile and London, Piano Duo; “Warwick Sisters, Songs 11:00-WEAF—George R. Holmes, Washington Bureau I. N. 8. WOR—Weather; Kahn Orchestra WJZ—Davis Orchestra WABC—Edith Murray, Songs 11:15-WEAF—Coleman Orchestra ‘WABC—Jones Orchestra 11:30-WEAF--Martin Orchestra WOR—Berrens Orchestra Pic and Chief | to millions of readers while Roosevelt’s A.A.A. (Agricul- tural Adjustment Administration) continues its policy of «, destroying the nation’s Mii ssippi. surplus” food supply. Already more than one-third of the country’s wheat, corn, cotton, tobacco and dairy products have been destroyed; more than a million young porkers have been drowned in the | | | | MOONLIGHT music, dancing, entertain-| |ment, beer at Garden Party at Post 191| WESL., 69 E. Third St. Caricatures by| |C. Dibner, John Reed Club artist. Adm. |10c, Auspices Units 10, 11, Sec. 1 C. P. A’ IN ANTI-NAZIS: Help picket the anti-semitic “Cinelab Inc.” 60th St. Join mass picket lines |12 noon and 5 p.m. |Photo League, American League Against | War and Fascism and Anti-Nazi Federa- tion. LECTURE on “The Life of National Minorities in Soviet Russia,” at 1401 | Jerome Ave., Bronx, cor. 170th 8., 8:30) Auspices Film and| 27 P.C. Increase in Production Due to Speed-Up, L.R.A. Finds VICIOUS speed-up of workers in U. S. industry is reflected in the rise in productivity of labor, which has increased at least 27% in the last five years, according to the Au- gust issue of Economic Notes, organ of the Labor Research Association. The steady advance in “output per man hour” is due to the faster pace at which the workers are being driven, says an article in this issue on “Crisis Increases Speed-Up.” A gradual increase in the cost of living is also noted in a discussion of real wages. taken the so-called “health and decency budget” prepared in 1919} by the U. S. Bureau of Labor Sta- tistics, and priced it as of June, 1934, for ten cities. It finds that the highest cost of this very mini- mum family budget is in San Fran- cisco where it would take $2,101 to reach even this admittedly meager standard. Retail food costs have risen 21% since Roosevelt came into office, the L. R. A. finds, while profits of food and other corporations have ad- vanced sharply, Another article in The L. R. A. has} | |p.m. Speaker, N. Phillips. Very cool} e ee ae | quarters. Adm. 10, Auspices Mt, Eden Br. F. Saturday | DANCE — ENTERTAINMENT—Delicious refreshments given by Y.O.L. and Young Pioneers, at 884 Columbus Ave. (103rd and | 104th Sts.) Adm. 8c. Send a Young| Pioneer to Camp. Good time for all. Economic Notes contrasts the mil- Rockaway lions of profits of the big chain| OUTDOOR ANTI-WAR Demonstration, id to| eth St. and the Boulevard. Followed by Reed with the $8.50 wages paid to| midnight ‘lm showing of “Sniper,” and | |Norman H. Tallentire ms speaker, at Other articles cover the Laid Ret. Seighrse onli ee ly ge taxation burdens on the workers, the | yi teen - Rock: a carl League status of milk consumption with re- | ania War and Passi. ae 3 lation to the plight of the farmer | . * * under the A. A. A, latest facts| OUTING TO CAMP UNITY, under the| about the Second Five-Year Plan of eee orucen the. Soviet Union, and ‘a. special | errs sn coer tan wan atnrnine strike survey of Wisconsin which sunday Sighe Bound trip $1.28, c refers to the role of the Socialists | _ SOVIET FILM NIGHTS at Coney island) in certain Milwaukee strikes. A| Workers Club, fe eK ae Bete cle Saturday, August 4: “Di ft’ a Revolu- special survey of the U. 8. construc- | tlonist™ with 801 “Bloody “Memorial ane industry explodes the ballyhoo poe sine — Stipa t tin cones: | that a building boom is in the offing. | Spacay: Augut Gate latest f ; | t,”” latest y y eiystagen pe ne velt question, ‘Two showings ‘each night at 8:30, ‘and | “Are you . vere |.m. Subscrtption 20c one night; both last vat" the LR. i aunaete | nighte = ladel ph : . sale of groceries and other commodi- iladelphia, Pa. ties and declares: “In terms of food | oe es ee ‘United Workers | ganizations ion No. esi pormibort the answer defintely is| phi.) Sunday, August 12 at Sand and ecieile Notes is le at ee on sale workers’ bookshops. Those who wish | it regularly by mail may subscribe at the rate of 65 cents a year from Labor Research Association, 80 East | llth Street, New York City. A Red Builder on every busy street corner in the country means a tremendous step toward the dictatorship of the proletariat! From the First World War to the Second By NEMO VL INCE the conclusion of the Locarno Treaty, hardly ten years have passed. The “Spirit of Locarno” has, however, long since evaporated. German fas- cism is pursuing an intense policy of rearmament in order to replace the French Versailles by a German French imperialism, for its part, is firmly resolved to defend its Versailles booty against Germany by all the means of armed force. The cry for military sanctions against Germany is once again resounding in France, the eastern frontier. of which has been transformed into an unbroken fort- ress wall. The Saar territory has become a new Alsace between Germany and France. pletion of Western Locarno by an Eastern Locarno Britain, which signed the Locarno Treaty in order to set bounds to Germany’s expansion towards the west, is the leading force in preventing any Eastern Locarno. British imperial- ism has no objection to an alteration of frontiers in the east at the expense of the Soviet Union. The dreams of Pan-Europe and of the United States of Europe have long since come to an end. If in 1914, the Balkans represented a hearth of war, in 1934, the whole of Balkanized Europe represents a hearth Versailles. is no longer talked of. of war conflagration. . . . THE “OUTLAWRY” OF WAR Let us not forget that the imperialists have even No less than 15 powers solemnly signed the Kellogg Pact in 1928 and thereby de- clared war to be outlawed. The renunciation of war as a means of national policy—that was the official According to Article 2 of the Pact, the signatories agreed “that the set- tlement or solution of all disputes or conflicts, from whatever cause, which might arise between them, shall never be solved by other than peaceful means.” The powers attached in advance so many reserva- tions to the Kellogg Pact, they reserved so much “freedom of action” for themselves, that the whole worthlessness of the agreement becomes obvious. War is to be outlawed? Yes, but not war against the colonial peoples. War is to be outlawed? right, but not the war against the proletariat. War 4s to be outlawed? ‘But, of course, in no case war We are ready to outlaw war, but of course, “wars of defense’ will be permit- ted. By 1932 the number of signatories to the Kel- It was the same year in which the flames of war broke out in the Far “outlawed” war, contents of the Kellogg Pact. against Bolshevik Russia! logg Pact had risen to 62. East and in Latin America... . Even today, when the post-war period has long passed into a new pre-war period, the imperialists are concluding “peace pacts.” After the Four Power Pact, the fiasco of which was obvious after only a year, came the organizational pact of the Little Entente which represented its closer military union. This was followed by the Three-Power Agreement of Mussolini, which resulted in the creation of a war bloc between Italy, Austria and Hungary, and which WJZ—Madriguera Orchestra i 11:45-WABC—Barnet Orchestra is directed towards South-East Europe. Finally, Hitler himself concluded a non-aggression pact with Poland, the object of which is to obtain a breathing space for the purpose of adequate arming of Ger- many and the establishment of a united front of intervention against the Soviet Union. . . . ALL HATE U.8.3.R, W tied German-Polish non-aggression pact is a typical | example of the possibility which exists at all times for a temporary agreement between the im- Perialists, in spite of the existing insoluble antagon- isms between them. The common hatred of the Soviet Union forms the central axis around which the imperialist powers are gathering. The conclu- sion of the German-Polish non-aggression pact aimed not at safeguarding peace, but at the crea- tion, with British assistance, of an intervention bloc for which it was intended to win the fascist military dictatorships of the Baltic countries as immediate allies. German fascism has rejected the guarantee pact for the independence of the Baltic countries proposed by the Soviet Union in the same way as Japan has refused the Soviet proposal of a non-aggression pact. German fascism regards the Baltic region not only as its future colony but also as a bridge for its crusade towards the Soviet East. The system of non-aggression pacts was intro- duced by the Soviet government and could only be put through by it against the sharpest resistance of the imperialists. Thus, the non-aggression pact concluded between the Soviet Union and Poland in 1932 has behind it a ten years’ history of incessant sabotage on the part of the imperialists. Today, the Soviet government is able to point to a whole series of non-aggression and peace pacts which have been proposed and carried through by it. The im- Pperialist war blocs would have long ago come into operation if it had not been for the peace maneu- vers of the Soviet Union, which have put the great- est difficulties in their way. j ‘When two people do the same thing, it is still not the same thing. When the imperialists conclude | non-aggression pacts, they are only making maneu- vers in order by this means to deceive the masses as to their real intentions and to gain time for a better preparation for war. Imperialism is as little able to renounce war as a beast of prey can re- nounce its predatory activities. In full agreement with the world proletariat, the Soviet Government is well aware that the roots of imperialist war are not to be eradicated by paper treaties. The im- perialists will tear up even their most sacred treaties without a scruple if the moment seems to them suitable for so doing. The conclusion of non-aggression pacts between the Soviet Union and the imperialist states renders, it is true, the war plans of the imperialists more difficult to realize, but does not decrease in the slightest degree the seriousness of the danger of intervention. Only the most intense revolutionary struggle of the masses of workers in all countries will safeguard the real content of the system of non-aggression pacts of the Soviet Union as a guar- antee of peace. The com- All (To Be Contin | cist terror. Toohey points to the strike as a prime refutation of Norman Thomas’ reformist wail that “strikes cannot be won in time of crisis.” |The strike also offered concrete {l- ,|lustration of the correct role of the Communist Party in such a situ- ation. “The Communist functionarie: says Toohey, “learned early in this struggle to abolish a disease pre- valent in the workers movement, of waiting until after the struggle to build the Communist Party.” Toohey’s pamphlet abounds not only in political lessons but in dram- atic incident. Not one of the thou- sands of unemployed miners scabbed. and firm leadership of the Com- munist Party.” It was at this time, Toohey re= lates, that a 13-year-old striker's daughter, imbued with the spirit of her elders, took it on herself to go to the telegraph station and wire New York and Denver: “Send some= one at once, Everybody in jail.” The need for fearless and pere sistent self-criticism oftentimes pre- vents Communists from devoting as much discussion as they might to their victories. Toohey’s pamphlet helps to remedy this condition and | to record a glorious if little known | chapter in the growing revolutionary | will and ability of the American | working class. Goanee Salles Describes Life and Activities of Artists in U. S. S. R. NEW YORK.—The national office of the John Reed Club has just re- ceived a bulletin dealing with the activities of Séviet artists. The fol- lowing excerpts describe some of their accomplishments. The Moscow Regional Union of Soviet Artists (MRUS.A.) was formed as a result of the decision of | the Central Committee of the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union on April 23, 1932, which dissolved the barriers then separating the Soviet artists into various societies and organizations. Exhibitions organized by the gov- ernment together with the M.R.U. S.A. include: “Fifteen Years of Painting,” “Fifteen Years of Grav- ure,” “Fifteen Years of Journalistic Sketching and Posters,” ete. The journal, “Art,” is the organ of the | illus- | trated fortnightly magazine, is also} MRUS-A. “Creation,” an issued by the Union. The Central Bureau of the MR. US.A. sends travelling exhibitions through the region. A number of artists prepare frescoes for the walls of clubs and factories. The textile artists of the designing bureau of the MR.US.A. have produced a large number of designs for textiles, of which many have been adopted in} industry. The artists in the theatre carry on practical work in producing the decorations for plays. They have held a number of discussions on the subject, “The Path of Decorative Art.” Poster artists held a big competi- tion together with the Art Publish- ing House’ on the 10th Anniversary of the Death of Lenin. The Soviet artiste are supplied with living quarters, workshops, studios and materials, and are given places in rest homes and sanitori- ums. In 1928 two houses were built | for artists and they formed the be- ginning of the “Artists’ Colony.” In one of these houses there are studios, library, kindergarten, din- ing room, laundry. The other house is divided into apartments. Both houses accommodate 100 artists. More studios and apartments are being built. In 1935 the construc- tion of a big exhibition hall will be started. Every year the government and the social organizations issue large sums of money for the purpose of sending artists away to study. Over 150 qualified artists and a consid- erable part of the youth are thus provided for. }_ During 1932-33 the Revolutionary. | Military. Council of the USSR. | spent a great deal of money on the | organization of an exhibition deal- |ing with the fifteen years of the Red Army. Similar commissions | were received from the Ural organ- izations, where as a result of the repeated journeys of brigades of artists to the industrial centers of |the Urals, a big regional artistic’ | museum is being organized. Actress Backs ‘Leo Gallagher For Judgeship LOS ANGELES, Calif., Aug. 2—~ Madge Bellamy, star of stage and: sereen has added her endorsement’ of Leo Gallagher's candidacy for | associate judge of the State Su- | preme Court to that of Theodore | Dreiser and others. Gallagher, run- |ming as a non-partisan, has the | unqualified endorsement of the, | Communist Party. “ } Miss Bellamy, in her statement of | support says: | “Mr. Gallagher's friends and well- | wishers are said to be workers. 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