The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 16, 1934, Page 5

< CHANGE ——THE — WORLD! By MICHAEL GOLD LD Cornelius Vanderbilt was one of the first of what Matthew Josephson has called “The Robber Barons,” the young American bourgeois who plundered the seas, looted the vast grants of government land, stole field and forest, speculated with huge stocks, financed wars, ripped and tore at the American continent to build the basis for the world-rule of the American capitalist class that was to follow. “Commodore” Vanderbilt blustered, swore, stank of tobacco, hated soft living, kept a harem of the best looking chorus girls of the for- gotten Follies, and crushed his financial opponents with the ruthless- ness of a Spanish Main pirate, or the Conquistadors of Mexico. He was cunning, merciless. He bribed and bought legislatures. He ate of the best at the grand feast of America. He founded the dynasty of Vanderbilt, * * . Vanderbilt I 'ANDERBILT towered high among the Captains of Industry who roared into the turbulent days following’ the Civil War. Released from the fetters of Southern slavery, young American capitalist economy expanded with the rapidity and power of a.tidal wave. America was rich; its soil fertile; prairie land and oil fields, mine and manufacture, waited exploitation. The Robber Barons came, riding the wave. The Jay Goulds, the Fisks, the Morgans, the Vanderbilts, the Whitneys, plunged their thick, hairy wrists into the earth; they tore it out in huge chunks; they built railroads which the government financed where the land was still empty of settlers. Then they imported immigrants, emptied Europe to stock the land to breed the cattle and raise the corn to ship on their railroads. In the “History of the Great American Fortunes,” Gustave Myers has written the chronicle of mean cunning, of vast swindle, of buccaneering and piracy that distinguishes the founders of the families of our “best people.” . . . The Ghost City Robber Barons were historically inevitable in the scheme of the development of capitalism in America. The vastness of their plun- der, the brutality of their exploitation, the insane passion of their dreams of power was born out of the peculiar historical and geograph- ical conditions of American development itself. In Colorado you can see today huge empty cities where not a soul lives, dead, silent left-overs of the days of the silver and gold rushes of the pigneers. Cities built and deserted and left to rot in the sun. They characterize the early period of American capitalism. A magnifi- cent and destructive energy poured through the land. The Vanderbilts and the Morgans who seized control of the nation’s resources reflected this period. They were buccaneers, pirates, but red blood ran in the veins of most of them. * . . Blue Bloods . . . LD Cornelius should look at some of his descendants today. The red blood’s gone blue, as in corpses. The blue bloods in silk stockings who shop in the swankiest Fifth Avenue shops have forgotten out of what muck and grime their for- tunes were built. Thousands of unknown Hungarians and nameless Chinese and forgotten Irish died that they might spend their winters on the Riviera. Teamsters flogging heavy oxen dragging the logs for tele- graph poles, have frozen in midwestern plains for Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt. They buried Poles in the brush who hadn't yet learned to speak English so that Mrs, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney could keep a fine stud of race horses. But the class has run its course. Decay cats the Vanderbilt dynasty as once degeneration ate the court of the French Louis. In the courts today one sees the scions of the Vanderbilt line wrangling like street-corner hucksters, like penny peddlers over the fortune of little Gloria Vanderbilt. There’s four million dollars at stake and for four million dollars our “best families” are ready to strip their social selyes naked for all the tabloids to look at, . . * Vanderbilt The Last 'HILE starvation rages through the world, while workers are forced © to hunt like scavengers for food through the ashcans of restaurants and alleyways, in her swanky apartments the Lady Vanderbilt, accord- ing to the testimony of her personal maid, has been living a life composed largely of adultery, drunkenness, and double-crossing. The papers have gone easy on the “beautiful young mother” whose little Gloria rides a black pony all unaware of how her darling mother and kind aunt are cutting each other's throats for her four million bucks. Whoever gets the custody of the child, it won't make a particle of difference to the millions of American workers who are the slaves of the Morgan and Vanderbilt dynasties. As for Gloria, she'll either grow up among the stud of race horses or in a Park Avenue whorehouse. In time, she'll probably also learn the holy art of adultery as practiced by the smart set. Moral indignation is no good—the stench that comes out of the court is not the stench of the individual degeneration of one rich woman, but of a whole class. A dying class. The workers must say— Look! these degenerates are the people who rule us! And sweep them out of, this world. . * . Contributions received to the credit of Mike Gold in his socialist competition with Jacob Burck, David Ramsey, Harry Gannes, Helen Luke, Del and the Medical Advisory Board, in the Daily Worker drive for $60,000. Quota—$500. J. Harlo x. ¥. 4 Previously Teceived TOTAL TO DATE TUNING IN 00-WEAF—Ben Bernie Orchestra ‘WOR—Dave Vine, Comedian WABC—Bing Crosby, Songs; Sisters Trio; Stoll Orchestra 9:15-WJZ—Story Behind the Claim — Sketch 9:30-WEAF—Ed Wynn, Comedian; Duchin Orchestra WOR—Lun and Abner—Sketch WJZ—Canadian Concert WABC—Jones Orchestra; Bettina Hall, Soprano; Jan Peerce, ‘Tenor 9:48-WOR—Dance Orchestra 10:00-WEAF—Operetta—Dearest Enemy, With Gladys Swarthcut, Soprano; John Barclay, and Others WJZ—To Be Announced WABC—Gray Orchestra; Annette Har- shaw, Songs; Walter O'Keefe 10:15-WOR—Current Events—H. E. Read 10:30-WOR—That’s Life—Sketch ‘WJZ—Tim and Irene, Comedy ‘WABC—George Givot, Comedian; Rich Orchestra 11:00-WEAF—Robinson Orchestra WOR—Moonbeams Trio WJZ—Campo Orchestra WABC—Ealter Orchestra 11:15-WEAP—Robert Royce, Tenor 11:30-WEAF—Hoff Orchestra WOR—Dance Music ‘WJZ—Dorsey 1:00-WEAF—Gould and Sheffer, Piano ‘Ws2—Amos 'n’ Andy —Sketch WABC—Myrt and Marge—fiketch 1:18-WEAF—Gene and Gleen—Sketch WOR—Comedy; Music WJZ—Irene Bordoni, Songs DOR—Sports Resume—Ford Frick WABC—Just Plain Bill—Sketch Basis—L. P. Mansfield, Supervisor Bond Department, Prudential In- surance Company WOR—The O’Neills—Sketch WJZ—Edgar Guest, Poet; Charles 7:30-WEAF—Putting Cities on a Cash Sears, Tenor; Concert Orchestra wi jack Smith, Songs 1:45-WEAF—Frank Buck's Adventures WABO—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Reisman Orchestra; Phil Duey, Baritone wOR—Eddy Brown, Violin ‘WJZ—Execution Alley— Sketch WABC—Concert Orchestra; Frank WOR—Studio Music Munn, Tenor; Hazel Glenn, Soprano 8:30-WEAF—Weyne King Orchestra ‘WOR—Variety Musicale ‘WiZ—Lawrence Tibbett, Baritone; Concert Orchestra; John B. Kennedy, Narrator WABC—Lyman Orchestra: Vivienne Segal, Soprano; Oliver Smith, Tenor Boswell DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. ‘WORLD of the| | THEATRE RECRUITS, a play in three acts and | nine scenes, by L. Resnick; pro- | duced by the Artef, at the Artef | Theatre, 48th St., west of Broad- | | way. | | = | 7 Reviewed by | LRON ALEXANDER | 1S new play of the Artef The- | atre is again stuff of the tradi- tional material of the Polish-Jewish |folk drama: with the oppressed j | poor, the hypocritical, grasping rich, | | the village idiot, the Hassidem, the | | lecherous, mercenary rabbi, the | wronged daughter of Israel. | | To the town, brought by two of the most inanely comical policemen | |it has ever been our joy to meet | | on the stage, comes the ukase of the | Czar of all the Russias, decreeing that henceforth the Jews shall be | Hable to military service. An ukase! The whole town shrinks from it even before it has learned | what it contains; takes a glance at | it and grows pale; delays reading it as long as possible while the two unlettered police go from Jew to Jew, looking for the scribe of the community to have the decree read. And when the people finally learn | the nature of the new decree, there are wailings in all the houses for the children who are to be torn from their mothers’ arms. At a loss what to do, the commu- nity goes to its richest man, the | “liberal,” free-thinking Jew, Kruger. | Kruger convinces them that this | ukase is a good thing for Jewry. For isn’t military service the first recognition that the Jew is a citi- zen of the state? And if he is al- lowed to enter the army today, who knows but that tomorrow he may be permitted to trade and to travel freely throughout the Russian em- pire? Just think of that, Jews! And all the Czar asks of us is that we | send just one little recruit to his/ army. But who? The son of a mer- chant? Intolerable! Military ser- vice, that is a thing for the children of the poor, for the “kapsunem”; just as trading is a thing for the | sons of the rich. And isn’t there | a certain Nachem in this town, a journeyman tailor, a reckless fellow, a trouble maker, who stirs the poor Jews against their richer brothers; |a fine, healthy, strong boy, just the kind who is well fitted to represent the town in the Czar’s army? Kruger is the one who manages to get Nachem to his house. Under the pretext of meeting his sweetheart for a secret wedding, Kruger gets Nachem drunk, makes him sign enlistment papers in the belief that it is a marriage pact, and before the tailor can quite real- ize what has happened to him, the Cossacks, forewarned, drag him away. Suddenly, the blind mother of Nachem comes looking for her son, her only support, sensing that some- thing has happened to him, calling his name. For just 2 moment, hor- ror and shame get the best of the rich men’s cupidity: the only son of | a poor widow—and blind! Surely the Lord will strike them for their sin. And the town drunkard, out- |raged, rising suddenly to the dig- nity of a man, grabs a chair for a weapon to destroy the whole foul breed. ee sae IVEN even the broadest latitude, | this play cannot be called either revolutionary or proletarian drama. For the form is: still that of the Jewish folk play, diffused and un- dramatic, the characters are those that tradition has set into a per- manent mould. Scene follows scene, now tender, now ironic, now broadly grotesque, but without compelling, dramatic continuity. The mood is not that of the revolutionary play, intense and militant. But the play is approached with such freshness and humor, written in a speech so racy that we forget its dramatic shortcomings. And if the characters are drawn in two dimensions, caricatures rather than flesh and blood beings, the town, on the other hand, assumes a vivid reality. The acting is most competent where it is most natural; the stylized sometimes has a way of becoming the stilted. There are other weaknesses in the production. The play is too slow- Paced, especially in the beginning; I would like to see more nervously taut acting and direction. The Cos- sacks might have a more military bearing, and the Polish Pan might be less of a showboat Simon Legree. The lighting throws blotches of color upon the actors, predominantly green, and is too high in key for the mood of the settings. But these all are minor technical defects that intrude but slightly into an enjoy- able evening. However, no matter how pleasant an evening in the theatre “Recruits” provides, we would like to see the Artef present a play that would be closer in purpose and in temper to the experience of its audiences. "Phe success of the Daily Worker $60,000 drive means a better, larger newspaper. Donate and get dona- tions today. Send the money im- SDAY, OCTOBER 16, 193 Lincoln Steffens Reads Daily Worker For Labor ‘Scoops’ “Q@COOPS” are what I read the Daily Worker and the Western Worker for, news and views I can't get anywhere else, Call it labor news, if you will. I have a much more penetrating conception of the ex- clusive, sensational thrills I read da’ month in these labor class papers. They understand and they make me understand the news they print, as no other paper does. Their “strikes” are not merely “labor troubles”; their arbitra- tions are clearly strikebreakings and their “settlements” are never victories or defeats. They handle these aright as but bat- tles in the war upon which they keep their eyes, and mine— the continuing struggle which they, and apparently they alone, are forever aware of. The uncelebrated editors of these unconspicuous labor sheets are intelligent; not only “intel- lectual.” They are history-con- scious. They believe verily, as our intelligentsia do not, that this is an “evolutionary” world that changes every minute Y . of every day, and their news PENUOEN BIEEFENE is a record of their conscious history. We are literally on the way and they, amazing me, have a definite, prophetic sense of where we are headed for. They, and their reporters, and their readers—and nobody else, I am not a citizen of Tennessee. I like to be in on this —new-culture. See? It’s as big as that to me. The news these two “Workers” report are the unbearable mis- eries, the inciting wrongs, the mothering emotions, the regimenting thinkings and the gradually organizing acts of an awakening, rising, powerful young world, rising slowly but surely to take the place of an old world which the other, the capitalist class papers, tell us day by day, month by month, year by year, is sinking out from under us in confusion, despair and violence, Lincoln Steffens. Whait’s Doing in the Workers Schools of the U. S. | 3000 STUDENTS OF NEW YORK | State Street, Monday. Registrations WORKERS SCHOOL PROTEST are pouring in hourly and over a SACRAMENTO TERROR hundred students attended Mon- ‘The more than three thousand | 81'S classes. students of the New York ‘Workers! New classes attracted large num- School, 35 E. 12 St., passed a reso- bers of enthusiastic students. A lution vigorously protesting against | Course in Wars and Revolutions the arrest of the teachers of the | Will be conducted Friday evenings. Sacramento Workers School and the | Another new course deals with reign of terror against militant | Fascism and Social-Fascism. workers and working class organi-| The School seethed with activity zations in the state of California.) on its opening night. Worker stu- The resolution says in part—“We| dents from dozens of shops and consider this (the arrest of the | neighborhoods crowded the halls on teachers) as part of the drive of | their way to classes, to the regis- the California authorities against | tration desk, to the newly opened the working class and declare that | book store on the premises. A good this is a fascist attack against indication of the determination of academic freedom, free speech, and| these students to prepare them- \dissemination of working class| selves for the class struggle was knowledge. We declare further, | the large sale of literature and pub- that the fascist actions of the Cal-/| lications at the store. ifornia authorities are a challenge to the fundamental rights of the | Northwest Side Railroad School has working class, the right of free| begun sessions at 3911 W. Chicago speech and assemblage, the right to | Avenue, 150 workers having already organize, the right to strike and the | registered at this branch. right to picket. We demand the A second branch opens October immediate and unconditional re-|15 at 4307 South Parkway, in the lease of the teachers of the Sacra- | Negro district near the Stock Yards. mento Workers School.” | A class in the Problems of the This resolution wil! be sent to | Negro Liberation Movement will be Neil McAllister, District Attorney, | given Monday nights and a class in Sacramento, California and to Gov-| the History of the Negro nation ernor Frank F. Merriam also of, will be given Wednesday. Sacramento: | In the heart of the South Chi- All Workers Schools and work- | cago Steel mill region the Work- ing class organizations are urzed ore School will begin its second to send similar resolutions. We | year of instruction on October must force the release of all work- 15. problems of the steel workers ing class prisoners in California. | wiyj he the subject of instruction We can only do this through mili- jy Joe Weber, Section organizer tant. miass action. | of the South Chicago Section of ‘ the Communist Party. Other | the pi Besides the central loop School, a | 4s Oct. ‘Working Woman’ Full of Zest and Spirit THE WORKING WOMAN, pub-| lished by The Working Woman Publishing Oo., 50 E. 13th St., New York City. October issue. 5 cents. Reviewed by MARGUERITE YOUNG 1O WONDER. this exciting little journal gained more than one hundred subscribers last month! Is- sue by issue, it presents more strik- ing evidence that a sad day of reck- oning is coming to the capitalist publishers whose ladies’ magazines offer an insult to the intelligence of everyone who reads them. | I say insult advisedly. Look into | McCall's, The Ladies’ Home Journal or The Woman's Home Companion | you will find only reams of proof | that their editors still expect women | readers by the millions to be content | witih Cinderella fiction, moronic | morality lectures and a few fash- |ions. The fact that this insulting editors’ concept is thoroughly un- | growth of The Working Woman, a | magazine addressed frankly to work- | ers who happen to be women. | The October issue is full of ex- | hilaration. From its first excellent | article, Merle Colby’s masculine | tribute to the 60 per cent of the tex- tile strikers who happened to be women and often “took matters into their own hands to its final “Household Corner” beginning, “We | all want to look our best,” this num- ber is zestful, human, warm. Which is not meant to minimize its polit- icel sharpness and significance. In fact I suspect that there are men and women Communist candi- dates for public office, who could well take a tip from Elba Chase’s | contribution, “Why I am a Com- munist.” It is a fine example of the application of political theory in a concrete appeal full of regard for ychology, the language, and the issues uppermost in the minds ef the audience. Candidate Chase, Communist choice for Governor of | New Hampshire, writes thus simply, thus pointedly: | “For the past twenty years we have lived and farmed in_ this small town of Washington, N. H. . +. I knew nothing about farm- | ing before we came here... It was a terrible struggle while the children were small, in fact, it has been a struggle most of the time. | That is why I am a Communist.” | * . . | (RACE HUTCHINS’ discussion of | “Fundamentals of Leninism” the textile strike is as excellent) jas Colby’'s article. But it seems to| }me that the combination, plus two} brief editorials on the same strug- | gle, is unwarranted repetitiousness, | especially when there are only fit-| | teen pages in all. I say this despite | the importance of the textile strike and the editors’ managing to cover a great variety of topics. I was} especially pleased at the inclusion} of professional writers’ stories, such as Myra Page's fine “Water!” along with story-telling letters from work- ers. Sasha Small’s acute notes on the thrill magazines and Judith Bloch’s report of events customarily neglected by capitalist newspapers’ | women’s columns make good use of | that important weapon, satire. There is one article to which I take exception—an article proclaim- ing somewhat loftily that the Sen-| ate munitions investigation shows a “sameness” with all capitalist congressional inquiries which “dis- | close nothing that could really harm those who were being investigated and very rarely anything that any- body didn’t know all along.” This is simply incorrect. True, the Sen- ate Committee is set to recommend | {no real cure for the stench it has) raised, and it may propose reaction- ary measures whch will, objectively, | further the imperialists’ war plans. But if radical anti-war spokesmen | Page 5 Spivak’s Sensational Articles Cause Boom Sale of ‘New Masses’ NEW YORK (FP).—A 55 per cent increase in newstand sales in New York City within one week and a sellout of its magazine the following week with new orders unfilled were the amazing gains registered by The New Masses for Oct. 2 and Oct. 9 containing the first two sensational chapters of John Spivak’s startling story on Nazi propaganda and ac- tivity in this country. People high up in governmental circles are cooperating with paid Nazi agents in this country in spreading anti-Jewish propaganda. Instructions, uniforms, agents, prop- aganda have been smuggled into this country from Germany. Men like Royal Scott Gulden, head of the Order of 76, Ralph Easley of the National Civic Federation, Mat- thew Woll, acting head of the | justified is demonstrated by the/ federation and a vice-president of the A. F. of L., which is on record favoring the boycott of Nazi Ger- many, have been working hand in hand with paid Nazi agents. These and other sensational facts are proved in rapid-fire, high-powered articles. Spivak, in his second arti scribed how Guenther Orgell, of the German secr country, reports. When Federated Press called Or- gell’s private phone, the number of de- head service in this sent and received secret An Important Correction E DESIRE to correct a serious political error that found its way into an answer in the Questions and Answers Department of our October 11th issue. Through an unfortunate accident, an answer that had been rejected by us as being politically incorrect, was taken from the “Re- jections” file and sent down to the printers. The question posed was: How shall we reconcile the fundamental task of the Second Five-Year Plan, which is to “build a complete, class- less, Socialist society” with Com- rade Stalin’s statement in the that “establishing the power of the pro- letariat in a single country doe! not yet guarantee the complete vic- tory of socialism,” that therefore, “the revolution in a victorious coun- | try ought not to be considered as a self-contained unit, but as an auxiliary and a means of hastening the victory of the proletariat in other countries”? The answer was rejected by us for the following reasons: 1. It assumed, without troubling to check up with the sources, that / the questioner’s quotation was a misquotation, so that the answer | was formulated in phrases such as “you have probably made one of two possible mis‘akes.” Obviously, such indolent methods of “clarification” are irresponsible, unreliable, and utterly unfair! towards the question. 2, The answer itself betrayed fundamental incorrectness in regard to the question at issue when it endeavored to “enlighten” the ques- tioner by offering one of two al- ternatives in explanation of the fundamental task of Five-Year Plan: (a) That the task is to “build towards a complete, | classless, Socialist society”; or (b) “‘build a Socialist society’ but not a classless one..” HE answer need not have in- dulged in suppositions and spec- the Second | DAILY WORKER AND NATIONAL | TRAINING SCHOOL DRIVE | The $1,500 drive for the Daily | Worker and the National Training School has started. Not only is there socialist competition to raise the most money among the classes | but also among the individual stu- | dents. The students are keenly) aware of the tremendous impor- tance of supporting the Daily Worker and the National Training | courses taught are: Elementary | Economics, Principles of Commu- nist Organization, History of American Labor Movement and | Principles of Communism. In its new quarters at 421 Lenox Avenue, the Harlem Workers School has already received 421 registrations for courses in its Fall term. Of this number, 125 regis- | | find in the record already made by | will follow Karl Marx’ practice of| ulations if it had but quoted from | explaining and interpreting—instead | Comrade Molotoy’s report to the of pooh-poohing — the facts that | Seventeenth Congress of the C.P. such investigators turn up, they will | in Labor jthe Senate committee a very great deal that “could really harm” the/ 46 Deaths war-makers. | ; Publications like The Working | Struggles This Year Woman need to present the rev- olutionary interpretation of the in-| | NEW YORK —At least 46 work- ers—10 of them Negroes—have died i 5 tered for the course in Principles | eras op iy airy eres | of Communism. Most of the regis- 4:8 oe trants are Negro workers and in- tellectuals. The New York Workers School | “ire school has the entire top vestigation, pointing out the inade- quacies and the pitfalls in the Sen- ate Committee’s proposals. But they | cannot do this by omitting to make | use of the facts. They should show} in labor struggles since January 1, 1934, according to Labor Research | ociation. A total of 41 workers were killed in strikes since the first |has sold over 800 copies of the; October Communist in classes dur- | ing a three day period. This clear- ly indicates the growing political development of the New York) workers, | “ore The first of a series of Sunday | night Forums at the New Workers School began last week. An in- teresting and timely lecture.will be given this Sunday, October 21, by Donald Henderson, National Or- ganizer, Agricultural and Cannery Workers Industrial Union, on the “Agricultural Workers and The Re- cent Struggles in Rural America.” Admission is 25 cents. Students who present their Workers School 20 cents. piety eae RECORD REGISTRATION AT CHICAGO WORKERS SCHOOL With a record breaking enroll- ment of students, the Chicago Workers School opened its fall term mediately to the “Daily.” at its new loop building, 505 8S. admission cards are admitted for floor of the new Harlem Workers | Center, which is centrally located ‘at the corner of Lenox Avenue and 131st Street. eRe aor) Three classes have started in Newark in public speaking and Fundamentals of Communism. The | classes in Public Speaking are held each Monday afternoon at 53 | Broome Street and Monday eve- |nings at 8 pm., at 7 Charlton St. The classes on Fundamentals of Communism are held every Satur- students interested in taking this course may make application at | the class on Saturday afternoon. rete ara | With a symposium on Workers’ education, a supper and dance, the | Los Angeles Workers School will hold a Fall term celebration Octo- jber 20 at the Cultural Center, 230 S. Spring Street. A 25 cent admis- sion ticket will include everything on the program but the supper. day, 3 pm., at 52 West Street. All| 7 i of the year; three lost their lives why the measures beyond which the | in relief demonstrations; and two | Committee cannot go even in recom~| 4. 4 ‘result of vigilantes’ activities. mendations—measures such as €M-' The general textile strike took @ bargoing, aoe nae toll of 13 workers’ lives in four [ewe Sar ben erecnonery venice | St2te8i nine workers were killed in | mockery of the very evidence which | the general marine strike, and eight jthe Committee itself produced. | workers in miners’ strikes, mostly | " in Alabama. Two workers each | Note: The criticism of the ar- | were killed in Toledo, Ohio; Kohler, | ticle in question is correct. The | wis; and Minneapolis, Minn. | effective way in which The Daily | strikes, | Worker treated this Senate inves- | The number of workers killed in tigation should be a guide to all | various states follows: Alabama and other peridicals. The exposure of | South Carolina, 7 each; California concrete facts showing the con- | and Ohio, 5 each; Wisconsin, Rhode | nection between preparations for | [sland and Georgia, 3 each; Minne- | war and the attempt to suppress | sota, Texas and Louisiana, 2 each; | the workers’ fight for better con- | Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Washing- | ditions, gave added stimulus to | ton, Florida, Arizona and North the strike of textile workers, then | Carolina, 1 each. | in progress, and proved to more | National Guardsmen, called out workers, the correctness of the | by 15 Democratic, 3 Republican and | many statements of The Daily |1 Farmer-Labor Party governor, Worker: that workers must carry | were responsible for the deaths of | on a struggle against imperialist | at least nine strikers. Police, deputy | war, \ sheriffs and gun thugs hired by | Editor, “The Working Woman.” employers killed the other workers. Little Lefty Oaoer ine SOURT ROOM / Q “HIS “TRU “he Sraav 006 WHICH LEFTY HAS: PICKED UP 15 ON Rial — O LerWS PoP HIS Mock TRIRL 19 A HUGE JOKE — “0 His MoTHER, IT (SA BIS NUISANCE — “MO His wae Ver UNCLE IY MEANS ACHANCE “10 AI HIE PoLITiCAL VIEWS — =6 LEFTY On the Spot ! which Spivak had kindly supplied in his article, Orgell’s butler in his Staten Island home said it would take just “two minutes to get Mr. Or- gell in the bungallow nearby.” Four minutes later, the butler answered the phone with choking voice to say that Mr. Orgell was “not around and I don’t know where you can get him.” A call was made for Orgeli at the Raymond Roth Co., 25 W. 45th St. where Spivak had revealed, Orgel was ostensibly employed as an electrical engineer. Mr. Orgell, the secretary answered, has not been around for some time. “He drops around occasionally to do some special work.” Urged for information as to his whereabouts, she supplied a tele- phone number which Orgell had left. This number—Stuyvesant 9-0063— “would either find Mr. Opgell, or there woud be a secretary to see that he got the message,” the secretary explained. Stuyvesant 9-0063 is the telephone number of The Deutsche Zeitung, German - language Nazi paper, published at 314 E. 23rd St! “Mr. Orgell is not here yet,” 3 secretary answered. “He drops in Is there any |S.U. “The program of the Second Five-Year Plan sets the aim of establishing a classless Socialist society.” This programmatic state- ment declares unequivocally, on the basis of the analysis of the Bol- shevik rate of Socialist construction in the U.S.S.K., that the Second Five-Year Plan sets itself as its basic political task the final liquida- tion of classes. This declaration, which was formulated in the Reso- lution of the Seventeenth Congress of the C.P.S.U., has nothing in com- mon with such quibblings as “towards” or “not” a classless s0- ciety. It is understood that, in speak- ing of the classless Socialist so- | ciety which is the objective of the Second Five-Year Plan, Marxism- Leninism recognizes in that attaine ment the first stage of Commu- nism, from which the development will proceed toward the higher stage, the Communist society, in | which the State will have com- pletely withered away. The answer presumes to base itself on Comrade Stalin’s report to the Seventeenth Congress of the CP.S.U. Tt cites from the report: “The Seventeenth Party Conference declared that we are marching towards classless Socialist socie y.” From this quotation, the answer seeks to gain support for its theory of building towards, and not build- ing a classless, Socialist society. But anyone can see that in the words “we are marching towards class- less, Socialist society,” Comrade Stalin declared that we are now building a classless Socialist society, that we are marching towards an objective, the objective of the Sec- ond Five-Year Plan. OR the other alternative, that the Second Five-Year Plan sets out to “ ‘build a Socialist society’ but not a classless one,” the answer brings as an argument, “We say that we have Socialism in the Soviet Union, but not classless Socialism.” Again Stalin is dragged in to “support” an argument of political illiteracy. The answer quotes from Comrade Stalin’s report to the Sev- | enteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.; | “It will be seen that we have put an end to the capitalist elements in industry and that the Socialist system is now the sole and monopo- list system in our industry.” According to this, reasons the answer, since Stalin speaks of the | “Socialist” system and not of the classless, Socialist system, it would seem that Stalin agrees that the political task of the Second Five- | Year Plan is to build Socialism, but not a classless, Socialist society. To say the least, the answer lost all sense of time and tenses, No one in his senses claims that there is a classless society in the Soviet Union now. It is obvious that if we had now a Classless Socialist system in the Soviet Union, we would need no Second Five-Year Plan to make |such a system its objective. * ee Ht anwer is based not on the | 4 principles of Lenin and Stalin, but on “theories” opposing those | principles. It represents, in essence, a capitulation to the Trotskyist | denial of the possibility of Socialist construction in the Soviet Union and of developing that construction | through the Second Five-Year Plan | to the classless, Socialist stage. It was for this reason that the | answer, as stated above, was re- | jected by us; and its accidental puo- lication in this column is highly | to be regretted. In taking this oc- | casion to correct the political error, | we criticize ourselves for not hay- ing exercised greater care to avoid by del such a mishap. —ANO “Oe | ” DEFENDANT “1S aL —\ LIKE ANIMALS JUST AS MUCH AS ANYONE — = ff BUT THIS HOUSE 19 NOT § HE PLACE FoR ONE THE PROSECUTION € Bam, FOOD FoR US— HAS MADE Some. — FURTHERMORE WE ‘) CANTY PAY “the RENT AND THERE \S HARDLY ENOUGH fe HE DOG woud BE POWERFUL. JUST ONE MORE ARGUMENTS ANO “HE Coury 19 ViSiBLY impcessen/ ROUND ONE HAS LEFT HE DEFENCE Pretty GGY-— ANoD LEFTY'S HEART IS POUNDING ! FURIOUSLY ¢ We have presented on this oc- | casion our criticism of the answer | exclusively. There still remains the | necessary reply to the original ques- | tion. Due to lack of space, we deem | it advisable, in order to answer the ques‘ion thoroughly, to postpone the ~ discussion for another issue in the very near future.—Ed. 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