The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 14, 1934, Page 5

{ | CHANGE Se. Se | WORLD! By SENDER GARLIN HAVE just finished reading a piece in the New Leader, official Socialist Party paper, and I feel a little nauseated. The composition is written by a genteel lady named Ger- ude Weil Klein, and it’s called, “Spinach and Other Things.” The title itself is really not half as interesting as the actual topic of discussion, which is the recently defeated plan of the La Guardia administration to register leadership of labor unions. Miss Klein whimsically defends Mayor La Guardia and observes, “I don't think it was the Mayor’s baby at all. He is too astute a politician and knows his labor unions too well to believe they would stand for anything that held such potential danger to their existence.” Of course, Miss Klein naturaliy fails to make a distinction between the existence of the thousands of workers in New York City and the officials who rule over them. I must therefore agree that the mayor would hardly do anything that “held such potential danger” to the existence of the trade union bureaucrats who are such intimate chums of Mr. La Guardia. The really revealing touch in Miss Klein’s composition, comes a little later. Discussing the scheme to register trade union leaders, she says, “Even though it might have put a crimp on racketeers and on the Communist nuisance, both consummations devoutly to be wished for, it held too much dynamite for any union’s comfort.” . This coupling of racketeers and Communists is the latest formula of the fascist gangs in the United States, It is the original “discovery,” I believe, of Mr.. Raymond Moley, widely-heralded authority on crime, who was recently characterized by Bill Dunne as the “provocateur-in- chief of the New Deal.” The New Leader, official organ of the Socialist Party, now gives its blessing to this fascist war-cry against militant workers and their leaders. It joins the newsreel commentator, who, after a film showing of Dillinger and the Pacific Coast strike struggle, announced that “neither gangsters nor radicals will rule America.” . . * F Miss Gertrude Weil Klein knows as much about labor racketeers as she pretends, she ought to have a lot of first-hand information gathered from her friends among the leadership of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. She might bring her data on racketeering and gangsterism up to date by taking lunch with some of the friends of the New Leader and the Rand School in the neckwear union, for example. As a de- fender of those labor brreaucrats who have expelled thousands of rank and file workers who insisted on elementary union democracy, who have “won” elections by means of the gangster and the blackjack, Miss Gertrude Weil Klein’s pious prattle about putting “a crimp on rack- eteers” seems a, little off-color. What, for example, does Miss Weil and her New Leader friends think of the dastardly murder—by a bomb—of Morris Langer, a leader of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, on March 22, 1933? Or of the gangster attack upon the headquarters of the same union the following month, organized by the “Socialist” union, the Joint Council? HE New Leader sob-sister seems to have had a tremendous experience this week. She tells of meeting a private guard hired to help break a Jersey strike who expressed admiration for her articles in the New Leader. What I fail to understand is why that should surprise Miss Klein? If leading New York capitalists found it reasonable to endorse the candidacy of Norman Thomas for mayor of the city of New York in a recent election, it is not hard to understand why a strikebreaking guard should like her stuff in the New Leader. If Miss Klein or some of her admirers don’t get my point, let me remind you that while she formally goes on record as saying that she regards what he is doing “as worse than pimping for street-walkers,” she actually fashions a neat apology for this strikebreaking guard, “The worst of it is,” she writes, “that a lot of rotten things are done by essentially decent and intelligent people.” Of course, it depends on what one means by “decent” and “intelli- gent.” No doubt, Gen. Hugh L. Johnson or that other fascist, Law- rence Dennis, are both decent in the sense that they wouldn't pick a man’s pockets in broad daylight, or even expectorate in public. No doubt. they are “intelligent” in the sense that they are acutely conscious of their own class interests. But it is obvious that this irreleyant and thoroughly sickening em- phasis on “decency” and “intelligence” in the abstract serves, objectively, only one purpose: to whitewash the crime of the bourgeoisie, and to make one tolerant toward those whom the workers should hate. Despite Mr. Westbrook Pegler’s observations to the contrary, hatred if directed by a politically conscious purpose, is one of the most potent weapons in the hands of the working class, Miss Klein's fatuous “philosophizing” about “a lot of rotten things” that are done by “essentially decent and intelligent people” is plain and unvarnished apology for the killers of working men and women, . . . It’s An Inside Story this sounds too strong, permit me to quote some more of Miss Klein’s article entitled, “Spinach and Other Things.” After her solemn declaration that “the worst of it is that a lot of rotten things are done by essentially decent and intelligent people,” she goes on to say that, “I’m not thinking of the guard now but of an inside story told me the other evening of how a strike was broken. It was told me by people who I know are kindly and generous to a fault, yet they were respon- sible for breaking the strike in a particularly mean and underhanded fashion. They have fruit-growing interests out in California, and when the 400 poor devils working there—casual laborers who are picked up during the busy season and dropped when not needed—went on strike, my friends found it an easy matter to have all the ‘faithful’ em- ployes sworn in as special deputies, gave them guns and instructions to shoot to kill.” You see, the owners of the fruit plantation were “kindly and gen- erous to a fault,” but they handed out the guns to the deputies, just the same. The lesson to be derived from this little playlet is that, regard- less of the “decency,” “intelligence,” or “charm” of any individual, it is class interest which dominates the action of bosses in dealing with workers. And notice, please, the disgusting “upper-class” reference to the “400 poor devils” who went on strike. Miss Klein proceeds to weave her little apology for these owners of the California fruit plantation who were “kindly and generous to a fault” although they handed out “guns and instructions to kill.” Whim- peringly, she goes on to say that: “The point was—and his reason for telling me the story—that the unions (the Mexican and Japanese workers are organized) and the workers didn't give a hang about the thousands of dollars worth of fruit that was going to rot and ruin. What did I think of that? How ee I justify it? Acording to his point of view, his action justified Have You Got a Point of View? go!. IT all depends on the point of view. In other words, the Cali- fornia plantation owner was probably justified, from his point of view, in arming his deputies to shoot down the “poor devils” (the strikers); Hitler is probably justified, from his point of view, in jail- ing and torturing anti-fascist fighters. In brief, according to Miss Klein, the workers are justified from their point of view, the bosses from their point of view, and the sun goes around the earth 24 hours! Interesting, too, in this connection is the fact that Miss Klein quotes without comment a newspaper story to the effect that “when the California state convention of the American Legion meets next August a plan will be submitted to it for the establishment of a colony for undesirable aliens, Communists, agitators and trouble-makers in practically inaccessible lands east of Point Barrow, Alaska.” Just what does Miss Klein of the Socialist New Leader think of this scheme? Can we infer that failure to comment implies approval of this scheme? In view of the fact that she observed that police registra- tion of trade union leaders “might have put a crimp on racketeers and on the Communist nuisance,” I feel thatthe American Legion proposal meets with no active resistance from Miss Gertrude Weil Kl On the contrary, she probably thinks it’s a dandy ideas ‘ What’s Doing in Workers Schools Of U.S. Central School Opening in Chicago The Chicago Workers School an-/ nounces the opening of its new Central School in the Loop in Chi- cago. The Central School, with branches on the northwest side and on the South Side of Chicago and in South Chicago and Gary, will be located at 505 S. State St. All workers’. organizations are urged to aid the school in equip- ping this new and large headquar- | ters primarily by turning in the} money for the Chicago Workers/ School Expansion stamps now be- ing circulated. | securing a headquarters on the| South Side with special attention | to the stovkyards workers. | Headquarters haye already been | secured for the Northwest Side| Workers School. The upper floor of the Northwest Side Workers Cen- ter will be used for the Northwest Side Workers School. The building is well equipped for proper class- | Tooms, etc. | South Chicago has also secured headquarters at 9133 Baltimore. A ning of September to reopen for | the second semester of ihe Workers | School in the steel region. The complete expansion program will be finalized in October when all the schools will be opened. An elaborate program is being prepared for a campaign during the next two months and for the popularization of the school, the enlarging of the library and the improvement of the curriculum and the instructors. A course for instructors will be con- ducted during the month of Sep- tember to improve the quality of teaching. The aid of all workers’ organiza- tions is absolutely imperative to make the Chicago Workers School system the educator and trainer of forces for the entire revolutionary movement. n> cena Cleveland Workers School Plans Picnic + The Cleveland Workers School will hold a First Annual Picnic, August 19th, at Bastz’s Grove, 6275 Turney Rd. They are planning two new features which are entirely new to working class picnics. First, a “Children’s Village” where par- ents may leave their children for the day under the supervision of Pioneer Leaders, who have mapped out a most entertaining program for the kiddies. There will be pony rides and story hours for the very young, games, faces, a clown and organized entertainment by young- sters and for youngsters, as well as a fish pond, etc. Second, a group of Cleyeland attorneys will present a skit called “A Day in Court,” exposing the “justice” and “law and order” of a capitalist po- lice court. In addition, there will be games for adults, a bar, refresh- ments, and an excellent orchestra. . Elaborate Preparations for Harlem Workers School Fall Term For the Fall Term, which begins Sept. 25, the Harlem Workers School has added a course in the History of the American Labor Movement by James Allen, which will stress the numerous instances of unity of black and white work- ers which have occurred throughout the development of the labor move- ment in America. Comrade Allen will also conduct a seminar which will undertake to prepare short brochures of the lives of Negro revolutionary leaders for popular mass distribution. The students in this seminar must be persons who can write and carry through inde- pendent research work. Some art- ists are also necessary to carry out such a project. A third new course is one in Colonial Problems to be given by Ernesto Soto. Because of the importance of the fight against imperialism, students must be def- initely assigned to take this course, in preparation for leadership in the growing struggles of the colonial workers. Registration for the Fall Term at the new headquarters, 415 Lenox Ave., on Sept. 4th, ROG See | Registration Begins Sept. 4th At New York Workers School The New York Workers School is preparing an elaborate program for the coming Fall Term. Additional new courses, of interest to all, will be given. In addition, a special feature of the term will be short- term courses, consisting of a se- ries of lectures on special topics | ceived last week Work is proceeding rapidly in| F . D conference will be held the begin-| relating to present-day problems. Comrades Browder, Hathaway, Sta- Tt Turners owned half the land * in the small town, a good por- tion of the oil in the surrounding country-side and the tube mill on the east side of town. The tube mill had recently been having “labor trouble,” the workers de- manding an increase in pay and shorter hours, and the Turners had called a family conference in the mansion of Old Nick Turner, the head of the clan. The workers of the tube mill also were gathered in conference. Not in a mansion, certainly, but in one of the pocket valleys at the head of a gully on the creek. The con- ference was called a meeting, a placed before the Turners be re- fused. The deadline was the day after tomorrow, Monday. Old Nick Turner snorted sten- toriously into the red bandanna he affected, in keeping with his char- acter as a man of the people, a pioneer who didn’t go in for the new fangled ideas of a weaker gen- eration, and bellowed, “Not an inch, We ain’t givin’ in to ’em one single, solitary inch. Ungrateful pups!” At the strike meeting, a worker, an old man, unemployed and father of unemployed sons, with a grand- son working in the tube mill, raised a clenched fist in the air The Line-Up DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1934 Scottsboro Boys Hail NEW XORK.—How the release | on bail of Angelo Herndon, young | Negro organizer, from the Fulton | Tower prison in Atlanta, has raised the spirits of the Scottsboro | boys, is shown in two letters re- | from Kilby | Prison, Montgomery, Ala. The letters are written by Hay- ‘wood Patterson and Clarence Nor- | ris, the two boys whose death sentences have been upheld by the Alabama Supreme Court. “I am very happy to hear the good news that the workers have succeeded in gaining Angelo Herhdon’s liberty on bail, which is great,” writes Haywood Patterson, three times sentenced to die by the Alabama courts. “I trust that he will be back on the job before long and will continue his great work in behalf of the organiza- tion, It makes me feel happy to hear of the victories that the I. L, D. accomplishes and my only wish is that the workers will lead on to greater accomplishment and have me free from suffering | for something I know nothing of and disburden this dreadful sit- uation I am now facing without cause. “I have the greatest of faith that the workers will bring about my liberty in the near future. So far they have put up a great fight in this mighty struggle for my release, Therefore I have no reason in the world to feel any ways but confident, and keep in good courage and cheerful. All have done their very best to make prison life bearable for me during these trying years, through the power of the organization. I have tiga faith that I will be in the position to do considerable great work in behalf of the organization. I shall always be indebted to the organi- | zation and its faithful members.” “If you should see Angelo Hern- don give him my warmest re- gards,” writes Clarence Norris. “E was very happy to hear that the workers have succeeded in gaining Angelo Herndon liberty on bail. I trust that he will be able to go out into the field and continue his great work on behalf of the or- ganization. I have the greatest faith and courage that some day I will be in the position to do great work for the organization and the uplifting of my race and the foreign-born workers. “I want to inform gll comrades and sympathizers that I am al- ways in the very best of spirits and courage and appreciate the grand fight that they are putting up for my freedom.” 7:00 P. M.-WEAF—Baseball Resume ‘WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Frick WsZ—Stamp Ciub—Capt. Tim Healy WABC—Beale Street Boys, Songs 7:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketch WOR—Comedy; Music WJZ—Jack Parker, Tenor WABC—Wayside Cottage—Sketch 1:30-WEAF-—Danny Malone, Tenor WOR—Talk—Harry Hershfield ‘WJZ—A New Charter for New York Gity—Professors Roy V. Peel and Paul Studenski, of N.Y.U. WABC—Hiljo Orchestra 1:45-WEAF—Sisters of the Skillet WOR—The O'Neills—Sketch WJZ—Prank Buck's Adventures ‘WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Reisman Orch.; Phil Duey, Baritone ‘WOR—Variety Musical WJZ—King Orchestra ‘WABC—Concert Orch.; Frank Munn, Tenor; Muriel Wilson, Soprano 8:30-WEAF—Wayne King Orchestra WOR—Van Duzer Orchestra WJZ—Goldman Band Concert, Pros- pect Park, Brooklyn ‘WABC—Lyman Orchestra; Vivienne Segal, Soprano; Oliver Smith, Tenor 9:00-WEAF—Duluth Symphony Orchestra, Paul Lemay, Conductor ‘WOR—Variety Musicale Edgar Guest, Poet; Concert Orch.; Charles Sears, Tenor WABC—George Givot, Comedian; Rich Orch.; Edith Murray, Songs 9:30-WEAF—The Caballero’s Way—Sketch WOR—Michael Bartlett, Tenor WiZ—Symphony Orchestra, Frank Black, Conductor WABC—Himber Orchestra 9:45-WOR—Eddy Brown, Violin 10:00-WEAF—Operetta, The Prince of Pil- sen, With Gladys Swarthout, So- prano; John Barclay, and Others WABG—Troopers Band 10:15-WOR—Current Events—S. E. Read WABC—Mountaincers Music 10:30-WOR—Lane Orchestra WJZ—Tim Ryan's Rendecyous WABC—Melodic Strings 11:00-WEAF—Wireless Amateurs—Bketch ‘WOR—Whiteman Orchestra WJZ—Orlando Orchestra WABC—Republican Issues—Silas Strawn, Vice President, Interna- tional Chamber of Commerce 11:18-WEAF—Berger Orchestra ‘WJZ—Robert Royce, Tenor WABC—Jones Orchestra 11:30-WEAF—Soff Orchestra WOR—Dantzig Orchestra WdZ—Vallee Orchestra 11:45-WABC—Reichman Orchestra chel, Bedacht and others are to be among the lecturers. . Leafiets and posters announcing the Fall Term registration are ready. Comrades are urged to take these posters and leaflets and dis- tribute them widely, among their friends, meetings, affairs, mass or- ganizations, etc. The preparations for the Fall Term brings with it the need of se- curing volunteers to do_ typing, clerical work, etc. Comrades who are willing to volunteer will call at the school office any time between 10 a.m. and 6 pm.,, 35 E, 12th St., Room 301. es ae Associated Workers’ Clubs to Estab- lish a Class in Workers’ Schools The Associated Workers’ Clubs of New York, together with the Work- ers School, will conduct special classes on Tuesday nights from 7 to 8:30 p. m. for members of the various English-speaking clubs con- nected with the organization. The curriculum will consist of a com- bination of general revolutionary political education together with special problems of the workers’ clubs. This class is to begin with class will be taken by the Associated Workers Clubs shortly. The Friends of the Workers School announce the opening of their new headquarters located at 116 University Place, New York City. A surprise is in store for all who visit the place. alg eT Additional New Courses at Boston School for Fall Term The Fall Term of the Boston Workers School will begin Sept. 15. New courses will be added. A drive for finances has already begun. The School Committee will be much broader this year. Mass or- ganizations will be directly repre- sented on the committee. For in- stance, the I. L. D., I. W. O., John Reed Club, ete., are appointing per- manent delegates who will bring the decisions and policies of the school directly into their respective organizations. ans ie More News from Other Cities Wanted We again ask t he Workers Schools in the various parts of the country to send in information for this column. Send it to A. Markoff, Room 301, 35 E. 12th St., New York the opening of the Workers School term, Sept. 24. Registration for the and said, “What you're askin’ ain’t one jot or tittle more’n what you’re entitled to. Fact is it’s prob’ly a durned, sight less. You gotta make them buzzards up there on the hill understand you're not so much askin’ as demandin’, an’ you ain't goin’ to backstep not eyen one single, solitary inch.” Then the old man sat down and, with a shirt sleeve, wiped the perspiration from his face. Se ke FN the mansion on the hill, the proud, sophisticated wife of the eldest son of Old Nick shuddered in disgust with the mannexs of her father-in-law and said, “But, father, you can’t tell what such people might do. Mother writes from San Francisco that, really, they are capable of anything. Per- haps Marie and Thelma and I might take the children and go for the time being to... .” A mother in the valley was giv- ing her babe the breast. She glanced alternately at the child in her arms and at the “young feller” from the county seat who was one of “them there Reds.” The “young feller” was saying, “We'll stand firm. And no proyocations. We won't give them an excuse for at- tacking us and breaking up our picket lines; they find excuses easily enough as it is. But let them try to break up the picket lines; they won't get away wth it. We'll form City. \J.B, McNamara | Thanks I.L. D. of Herndon) Branch for Aid | In Two New Pamphlets The following letter was re- cently received by Edward F. | Gaham from J. B. McNamara, | famous labor prisoner, serving a | | life sentence for alleged com- | | plicity in the Los Angeles Times | explosion. im 1911. McNamara has already served for more than 20 years.—Editor’s Note. | San Quentin Prison, | California. | Dear Comrade: | | Your registered, air mail, mili- | tant class-conscious letter, with the | money order for one dollar en-| | closed, arrived here on the 2tst. I} | would love to set forth, in black} |and white, my deep apprecation of | |the militancy and class-conscious | | spirit of you and all the members| |of the Rose Pastor Stokes Branch and all branches of the L L. D., and what I feel and think, but I would be branded a Red—the highest |honor I assure you—and my letter| would not leave here and reach | you. | We must devote all our time and} | energy in pointing out to the work- ers that they have no freedom, and} never will have, without concrete assurances of economic security for who toil and spin from child- hood to old age. In all those long dreary years I have never permit- ted the faintest doubt to creep | within my senses as to the final outcome of the perpetual struggles | and sacrifices of the workers, waged |and made, on the agricultural and industrial fields, What my host of ‘lends in the craft unions, and all my foes, failed to grasp, as they went rushing through life, for power and profits, was that all the per- petual struggles and sacrifices of the workers were not in vain. They were inherited by the offspring of the workers and are deeply etched upon their hearts and minds. Their social vision is being constantly lighted from lofty heights by the | star and powerful rays of ma- | terialistic ideals which have brought |forth a fatherland of the workers. I never give quarter to friend or foe who denounces and finds fault with the workers and fails to go beneath the surface to the roots of all social ills. We must see our |own faults and frajilities; uproot them and correct them; then comes a great awakening. The workers have no faults; they create and produce all the material things of life and are denied them by the exploiters. For generations the sword and pen had the toilers be- fuddled and bemuddled with con- tradiction after contradiction. The sword did one thing, the pen said another. The sword and pen drew one generation after another away from the hammer and sickle until they have brought all humankind, with the exception of one-sixth of the world, on the brink of ruin. The older generation says: “The pen is mightier than the sword.” The younger generation, denied economic security, are drifting back to the hammer and sickle and are beginning to chant: The sword and pen is mighty for the exploiters; but the hammer and sickle is mightier for the workers. With warm comradely greetings to you, and all the twigs and all the leaves of all the branches of the I. L, D, and all the students and workers in the struggle, I remain. Comradely yours, J. B. McNAMARA, 25310, WHAT’S ON KEEP Sunday, August 26, Open! Daily Worker Picnic at North Beach Park, Splendid program being arranged. eo € e Tuesday CHORUS membership drive of Tremont Prog. Club, 866 E. Tremont Ave=~Bronx. Everyone eligible, competent instructor. Meets at 8:30 p.m. RES ake 9 JACK SM@ACHEL will review Lenin's “Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder” on. Friday, Aug. 17, 8 p.m. at 50 E. 13th St., 2nd floor. Auspices of Workers Book Shop. Adm. 25c, or by pur- chase of $1 worth of literature from Workers Book Shops. SHOW BOAT CRUISE up Long Island Sound on “SS Ambassador” Friday, August 17, 8 pm. Entertainment — dancing. Leaves Battery Park, Pier 1. Tickets 65 cents in advance, 90 cents at pier. The Daily Worker keeps you informed of the world-wide strug- | gles by the working class against unemployment, hunger, fascism and war. The Daily Worker for one month daily or six months of the Saturday edition costs only 75 cents. Send your sub to the Daily Worker, 50 E, 13th St., New York City. A Short Story by Tom Butler it again, doubly strong.” Then the mother arose and said, “Yes, and I’m comin’ along.” And when the workers had ceased shouting and cheering they asked, what about the baby. “If need be, I'll bring ‘im with me,” said the mother. “It'll give ’im the proper kind o’ start in life.” Harold, the second son of Old Nick, the one with the slender, ar- tistic hands which he always was careful to let others see, leaned for- ward in his chair and said, “Now listen. Let them strike. How will they live? None of them have any- thing. Their kind never have. Be- sides, tonight I'l write an adver- tisement for the paper and I'll get Jim Watson to hammer away with editorials. We'll throw a scare into the business folk, and I'll go see the sheriff. Better still, you invite him to dinner after your sermon to- morrow, Jack.” Thelma, Old Nick’s only daughter, nodded at her hus- band, and Jack, pursing his lips, also nodded. After all, he thought, he owed something to the Turners; and in his mind he reflected upon certain juicy phrases which on the morrow he would use for the edi- fication of his congregation, Pee ee JOVIAL Irishman from the county seat was speaking to the workers in the valley. I’m repre- sentin’ the Unemployed Council,” he was saying, “and I’m here to tell you we're with you. We'll be holdin’ demonstrations for you, and we’ll be comin’ out to help you hold the picket line. We'll fight for relief for you while you're out on strike, and we'll try every way we know to help you raise money.” After the Irishman sat down there were mations put for the election of a press committee and for the discussion of the leaflet is- sued by the Communist cell in the mill. Then followed a series of in- structions to the strike committee and a speech by the A. F. of L. organizer sent to the meeting by the trades council in the county seat. On the hill, Old Nick Turner pounded the arm of his chair and shouted, “By god, what we need in these parts are them old vigilantes they had when I was a kid; they'd show ’em.” Before the workers the A. F. of L. organizer flashed a red herring and counseled moderation and de- lay. One of “them there Reds” answered him, and, while he spoke, the mother, crooning to her child, nodded affirmation and the old man with the unemployed sons said, “By gosh, the feller’s got the right dope.” And when all the talking was done, each in his camp, the one in the mansion on the hill and the other in the valley by the creek, voted in accordance with the dic- Page Five Clara Zetkin on War, Youth in the U.S.S. R. THE TONERS AGAINST THE WAR. By Clara Zetkin. 188 pages. Workers Library Publishers. Price 28 cents, . *# * Reviewed by SASHA SMALL URING the August 4 anti-war demonstration, I overheard a discussion between two taxi drivers. One was saying to the other, some- | what cynically, “Why aren't you in that parade?” The other answered “You won’t catch me in there. I hope there’s another war. I'll be the first to go.” At this, the first taxi driver dropped his cynicism. “That's be- you weren't in the last one. And you bet your life they won't catch me a second time.” But the other stuck to his position. "I'll be the first to go.” The new Clara Zetkin pamphlet, “The Toilers Against the War,” would have been the most effective argument to present to that taxi- driver and to the hundreds upon hundreds of other workers who feel the same way about it. It’s one hundred and twenty- eight pages are packed with the sort of arguments that would con- vince the workers. This is no mere repetition of exposures of the true nature and role of imperialist war. This is no mere agitational docu- ment recounting the horrors of war on the battlefields, listing the mil- lions of dead and wounded, the widows, the orphans, the destruc- tion of property. This pamphlet not only tears away any sham glory of war. It digs down into the real horror, the real meaning of war for the work- ing class. populations of every coun- try in the world, not only the de- struction of life and property, but the destruction of culture, the de- struction of liberty, the destruction of the last vestiges of civilization. Clara Zetkin devotes a large part of the first half of the pamphlet, headed “Imperialist Wars are Wars Against the Workers,” to the effects of war upon the children: “The imperialist war has left behind it as a heritage an in- numerable host of scrofulous, rickety and otherwise diseased youths and children. Its ravages to health have not come to an end with its termination; they last on from year to year in the post-war period, intensified by the economic and social devastion of the capitalist states which the war has brought about, by the ravages of the world economic crisis, for whose outbreak and ex- tent the war undoubtedly con- stitutes a contributory cause. Un- der the social conditions of bour- geois society, the fathers and mothers whose health is being so severely undermined will create a generation of sick and weak chil- dren unto the third and fourth generation, until the victorious proletarian revolution gradually effaces the results of the crime committed by the imperialist World War, by creating new social conditions. Until that time the proletariat and the working pop- ulation will remain the chief vie- tims of the terrible heritage which this world massacre has decreed.” As a result of the undermined health of the children, their schooling, such as it was, suffered. Teachers were forced to send them home. Juvenile delinquency devel- oped tremendously. “Was it pos- sible” that ‘he ideas and the tem- peraments of the young should not grow wilder and more brutal when the horrors of imperialist war, the act of murdering and letting one- self be murdered in this war, were being praised as the loftiest heroism in the schools, the pulpits, the press and on all public occasions?” In contrast to all this child mis- ery there is a glowing section on what the Soviet Union is providing Iw Pease ® picture of flourishing ife, ies Mates id the second half of the pam- phlet called, “The Workers Are Against Imperialist Wars,” Clara Zetkin puts the question squarely: “The time is ripe for the general settlement of accounts between the proletariat and the bour- goisie, between the unfree, down- trodden and exploited of the whole world and their masters and torturers. The alternative is, on the one hand a class dictator- ship of the big yropertr owners, intensified into fascism, as per- manent conditions for the millions of the propertyless or nearly prop- ertyless; or, on the other hand the class dictatorship of the pro- letariat as the representative and leader of all the enslaved and ex- ploited, as an unavoidable, tem- Porary transition measure in order to safeguard the establishment of the Socialist economic and social order, which alone destroys the basis for the enslayement and ex- ploitation of man by man. In other words: forward to the vic- torious and gloriously begun pro- letarian world revolution, or back- wards to the darkness and bar- for the children of the workers and | ¥ dead wealth over the living men who have created it.” | The foreword states that this pamphlet was one of the last writ- }ten by Clara Zetkin, penned with |her own trembling fingers, page after page often without even notic- |ing that the pen she used had run dry. It makes one marvel even more than the pamphlet itself at the magnificence and fire of her writing. The pamphlet is not only |@ thorough basic discussion of the prbolems facing workers in the fight against war; it is an inspiring call to action. Its pages breath with the greatness of Clara Zetkin’s Personality. Its words convince the reader once more of her qualities of leadership. The taxi driver would have scratched his head and thought twice about his determination to be the “first to go in the next war,” had he read this pamphlet. It should be put into the hands of every worker. Every speaker who addresses workers on the subject should immediately avail himself of the invaluable material con- tained in this pamphlet. It is a powerful weapon in the fight against war and fascism. YOUTH OF THE HAPPY LAND, By Lillian Andrews. 5 cents. Youth Publishers. Box 28, Station D, New York City. se Reviewed by GRACE HUTCHENS TOR the first time a pamphlet ap» pears in English on young work- ers in the Soviet Union. An excellent Pamphlet too. Lillian Andrews has writen it after a first-hand study of the subject and she well knows the difference between the situation of youth in the United States and of youth in the workers’ state. Workers remember that Lillian Andrews was in prison in Ohio, convicted of “criminal syndicalism” by a steel and coal jury for leading the struggle of the young workers for better conditions. She was later released and then had the chance to see for herself the land where children and youth are a first consideration. Out of these experience she writes vividly and convincingly. With a picture on the cover of laughing young workers, girls and boys, in a Moscow May Day demon- stration, the pamphlet gets off to a good start. Two worlds are. de- scribed, the Russia of pre-Czarist days, the kind of world in which Americans still live, and the Soviet Russia of today. The part played by youth in the remarkable con- struction of recent years 1s set forth in a section entitled “Socialist Giants Built by Youth.” Dniepro- stroy. Kerchsteel. Bobricki. Names full of significance to Soviet youth become significant to Americans as we read of giant after giant rising where before there was nothing. Figures are woven into the pic- tures, giving facts for many Speeches by youth organizers in this country. “Education under the Soviets,” another section of this valuable booklet, presents latest data on the wiping out of illiteracy. Today, ninety per cent of the popluation can read and write. Here, too, are figures on the growth of the school system and of the cultural life in the U. S. S. R. Comparative fig- ures, from official sources, show the decline in Germany, France and the United States. Not only in industry but on the agricultural field, also, youth are taking an important part in the building of ‘socialism. Comrade Andrews describes this work in a section on “Soviet Youth on the Land.” When trained young work- ers from the city go out to show older peasants how to work, the sparks sometimes fly, but this pamphlet tells of the cooperation between city and village by which uth of big plants in the cities give direct assistance to the youth in the villages, In two closing sections, Guard for World Peace” and “Lenin’s Young Generation,” the pamphlet presents a challenge to the youth of America to follow the example of Soviet Youth. This argument is especially timely as fascism spreads its tentacles, like a gigantic octopus, over the chil- dren and youth of capitalist coun- tries. We have no time to lose, Boys and girls in the working class of the United States must be freed from the ideas promoted by the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts, and such organizations. This ‘44-page pamphlet, selling only for five cents and for less than that in bundle orders, is one method of counteracting fascist in- fluences on American youth. It sounds trite to say it, but Youth in the Happy Land should have the widest possible circulation in the United States, wherever there are young workers—and where are there not?—who will look at pic- tures and read English. It is at- tractively printed and illustrated “on with nine good photographs. It lends itself well to wide mass distribution. : barism of unrestrained rule of 20,000 New Readers by Sept. Ist. AMUSEMENTS GREED The fight against capitalism and ————First American Showing of Soviet Talkie! HOUSE OF i. °Govniniy Goroveey: By SALTYKOV-SCHEDRIN With V. GARDIN (OF “SHAME”) ENGLISH TITLES reli % ACME Thea. 14th St. and Union Sq. — Always Cool_——— resent 3 films “kK AMER ADSCHAFT” Pabst’s stirring anti-war film ‘SQVIETS SING AND DANCE” @ Charlie Chaplin in ‘THE COUNT’ Thurs. 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