The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 22, 1934, Page 5

CHANGE Pere pew | WORLD! ——— By MICHAEL GOLD thea Honorable President Frederick B. Robinson of City College is notoriously choleric. The incident on the campus last year during which he tried to annihilate the student movement with a black umbrella all by himself establishes the high state of his blood pressure. When, thererore, his preliminary greetings to sixteen young Fas- cist students in the Great Hall at City College were echoed by a chorus of boos, hisses, and catcalls from some three thousand undergraduates who had different notions of the meaning of academic freedom, the honorable President was attacked by such a convulsion of the liver that he forgot the dignity of his profession long enough to shout veno- mously, “Guttersnipes!”” The President Calls Names “(UTTERSNIPES,” shouted the President, and he meant it. For in this brief and cryptic phrase Robinson was summing up his secret estimation of the student body of City College. Three thousand anti-fascist students were briefly and emphati- cally designated as guttersnipes. In the history of the class struggle, revolutionists have been called things much worse than guttersnipes. Kerensky, also a schoolmaster and a notorious defender of “freedom,” was fond of describing Lenin as a moral barbarian, as a monster of hate. Liberals have at times exhausted the reservoirs of their rhetoric to find expression for their hatred for the firm, unyielding revolutionary policies of the Commu- nists. And not only the Bolsheviks of today, but throughout history the revolting masses have known from the lips of the most p®lite patrons of the private schools and salons, a flow of venom and slob- bering hatred that could be matched only in the third-degree rooms of the police. . The students of City College will recall from their history that the aristocratic reactionary Edmund Burke drained the sewers of the English language to find fitting epithets of abuse for the revolutionary masses of France in 1789. They will also recall how the heroic defend- ers of the Paris Commune were villified, calumniated, spat upon by the distinguished lords and ladies of the boulevards as the Commu- nards were led to the barracks to be mown down with a brutality and fiendishness unequalled in modern times save perhaps by the White Terror of Chiang Kai-Shek. “Freedom”—for Blackshirts E choleric Robinson hates with a fury as deep-seated as Kerensky’s or Burke’s, the anti-fascist stand the undergraduates have taken. He hates all struggle for social and academic freedom. It was in the name of academic freedom that he invited the students of Fascist Italy to the Great Hall at City College. But where was the freedom Robinson championed when the universities of Milan and Rome were being stifled by the clutch of Fascist terror? Where was the voice of protest when the Nazis took the mind of Germany and burned it in the public squares? Where is the practice of the virtues of the books in his own college? Where is the freedom for the students who have fought against the R. O. T. C., against reductions in educa- tional budgets, against War and Fascism? ‘They were expelled from the City College. This is a curious academic freedom! Freedom for the Blackshirts fighting on the side of reaction—expulsion and suspension for the students on the side of academic and social justice! . * . The American Student UT Robinson's actions are not strange to one who understands how this flunkey of big business, this tool of the municipal government of LaGuardia, serves his master’s voice. A deep and abiding change has taken place in the psychology of the American college student. The trustees, the donors, the city ad- ministration, and Wall Street, are aware of the changed attitude in the undergraduates. The American student has begun to take the road that the Rus- sian students took in the days of the Czar, the road the fine and courageous Chinese and Japanese students have taken. It is the road of direct political participation in the struggle to wipe out the system of exploitation and war. What fine groups of intellectuals came from the universities of Petrograd and Moscow to the ranks of the Bolshevik Party! What heroism the young men from the institutes of Shanghai and Tokyo displayed in the face of the terror and torture of Chiang Kai-Shek! The American student has ceased to hold the success-dream of the American boom period. Today he finds himself facing a world of unemployment and imminent war, in which degrees are only pass- ports to the employment agencies. The road of social revolt calls. . . * The Student and the Revolution UT the process to a revolutionary attitude is not a clear and simple one. In Germany, large portions of the student body succumbed to the drum-philosophy of the Nazis. The professors, also, help to inculcate a mood of futility, of what- the-hell-difference-does-it-make. For example, a Professor of English Literature, recently began his class with the following: “I don’t know why you gentlemen should be here studying the History of English Literature. In a few years, most of you will be pushing up the daisies, if there are any daisies left after the War. However, I’m getting paid to teach you. We'll The withered up irony, the dead futility, which the liberal aca- demic professor suffers from must not pervade the student also. A paralysis of judgment, the death of action. haunts them. Books are weapons in the class struggle; knowledge is urgently needed by the working class in its fight against the machines of falsehood of the capitalists. The student has this weapon; let him train and test it in the war against the exploiters. Let him bring the brain and the knowledge of the school to the side of the workers; this is also turning the guns on the enemy class! . * . 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—s500, H, Lerner M. W. Panos : L., L. H, F. F., J. W. and L, L. Leon Shamus .. Previously received Total to date ... For the First Time in English LETTERS TO Dr. KUGELMANN by Karl Marx V. I. Lenin’s introduction enriches the theoretical treas ures of this brilliant correspondence. Here is Marxism in {ts widest ap- plication: Discussions on the labor theory of value, Lasalle and other I |ATIONAL PUBL! i writers of the day, the defense of I | 1 INTERN. , 381 Fourth Ave., New York. I am interested in your publica- tions and would like to receive your the Paris Commune, polemics catalogue and news of new titles. against Duhring, etc, NAME NTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS 381 FOURTH AVENUE NEW YORK DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1934 Page 5 Dr. Kugelmann Letters Rich in Marxist Theory JACKED in Karl Marx’ “Letters to Dr. Kugelmann’”—put into Eng- lish for the first time in the In- ternational Publishers’ edition—are perhaps the most concise and bril- Mant applications of Marxism avail- able in any single volume. substitute for Capital, The Critique of Political Economy, The Gotha Program and other great revolution- ary writings which remain as a monument to Marx's genius. By its very nature, the correspondence does not contain the same sustained, systematic presentation of Marxist theory as these other texts. But for brief, pointed essays on funda- mentals of Marxism, for biting characterizations of reactionaries and reformists, for championship of revolutionary theory and practise, “Letters to Dr. Kugelmann” has no equal. 'AKE the national question. Marx's letter of March 28, 1870, gives a Picture of Marxism in action as a champion of the nationally- oppressed, not out of vague human- itarian yearnings to “help” a sub- ject people, but as a means to social revolution on a wider front. The English workers, Marx quotes from a resolution of the General Coun- cil of the International, must be active fighters for the freedom of Ireland if they are to free them- selves from capitalism in England. “The people which oppresses another people forges its own chains,” N Women and Social Progress: “Joking aside, great progress was evident in the last Congress of the American ‘Labor Union’ in that, among other things, it treated work- ing women with complete equality. While in this respect the English, and still more the gallant French, are burdened with a spirit of nar- row-mindedness. Anybody who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are im- possible without the feminine fer- ment. Social progress can be meas- ured exactly by the social position of the fair sex (ugly ones included).” —Dec. 12, 1868. N the Capitalist Press: “Up till now it has been thought that the growth of Christian myths dur- ing the Roman Empire was possible only becaiise printing was not yet invented. Precisely the contrary. The daily press and the telegraph, which in a moment spreads inventions over the whole earth, fabricate more myths (and the bourgeois cattle be- lieve and enlarge upon them) in one day than could have formerly been done in a century.”—July 27, 1871. “Letters to Dr. Kugelmann” is no| | | | On Faith Alone, | in American life. minent future. On the one hand, the seeds of a revolutionary movement have been planted. And on the other hand, the signs of incipient Fascism are clearly to be distinguished. In such circumstances, the role cast for revolutionary journalism is an essential one. It must stand as the implacable defense of a revolutionary movement, as its spokesman, as the instrument by which it extends its appeal, wins new adherents, develops, crystal- lizes, and re-energizes revolution- ary ardor and resoluteness, Today, the Daily Worker is the most important and influential revolutionary journal we have. for continuation and expansion. the tactics of the commercial press. tabloid sensationalisms, of the Daily Worker. of the commercial press. in pinched paragraphs. ‘Daily’ Cannot Exist | Farrell on D.W. Drive T IS quite apparent that the present is a crucial historical period The nation seethes with bitter and unch unrest, and the necessity for a change of o1 and continues to impress itself upon many minds. phatically important shifts in mass attitudes await us in the im- It cannot exist on faith and hope alone. TO THE MINERS OF PECS Workers on any job, Mired tn a boss's pit— Eyes filled with hopelessness And stomach filled with grit— The grave is for the dead... Says nneled social system has been Sudden and em- JAMES T. FARRELL | (Author of ‘Young Lonigan,”’ “Calico literary trades industries to join Shoes,” and other novels.) wih ox” There is no more eloquent indication of the needs of revolutionary journalism than a simple contrast between its resources and those While the latter can freely devote extended columns and even whole pages to assaults on strikers, to over stressed and transient violences, to prearranged interviews with publicity-seek- ing stuffed shirts and vacuities, while it can slaughter whole forests to Print drivel, the Daily Worker must often treat eVents of importance To repeat, eloquently, and sets the needs of the Daily Worker lucidly before us this contrast tells the story JAMES T. FARRELL. Fight—for the right to live! Fight—for the right of bread! Bring your fight above ground! By LEE | By a Filipino Worker of the Filipino Anti-Imperialist League, Brooklyn AM a Filipino worker. I was born in a small town of Tanjay in the province of Oriental Negroes, P. I. Oriental Negroes is an agri- cultural province, and the majority of its population consists of workers of big sugar plantations owned by spanish lendlords. In Bais, for in- stance, a small town with a popula- tion of fifteen thousand, about 99 jper cent work in the sugar cane plantation owned by three big Spanish landlords. ‘These workers get 25 centavos a day (12% cents) with lodging and food, and work from 6 am. to 6 p. m, They are watched by a work continuously. In the afternoon, I have seen these workers going home tired and sleepy after the hardest work imaginable. The workers with their slavery wages become so indebted that they cannot get away from their land- lord. The workers on this plantation are terrorized and robbed of their rights to organize and protest for higher wages. I know these facts, because I once lived with my uncle in Bais, who was a practical sugar chemist on that plantation, (Jesus Dias sugar plantation). WILL give another example, sim- ilar to the one I have just de- scribed. In the Barrio of Polo, in the town of Tanjay where I was born, there is a big “cocoanut plan- tation” owned by an American Cor- poration. During the very first year of its establishment, the company forced every small Filipino peasant whose land is situated close to this plantation, to sell, and if the Fili- pino peasants would not sell them, they took them by force. Most of the peasants lost their cases during the trial because the plantation owner handed large sums of money to the judge and other officials in that town. The peasants and workers in that small town have learned from their own experience of the alliance be- foreman, who sees to it that they | A Filipino Worker i Why He Joined the Communist Party n the U. S. Tells Working Conditions on Plantations in Philippine Islands Owned by American Corporations Keep Native Workers in State of Abject Slavery | tween the politicians and the owner of that plantation. The peasants class and their agents are not in- terested at all in alleviating the condition of the laboring classes but instead they are only interested in | exploiting for their own interest. Their small pieces of land were grabbed up because the plantation | owner wanted them to become land- less and forced to work for him. | This company was established in 1915. I was then a small boy. But I never forgot these facts, es ene Gar workers were paid according | to their age and the sort of work | they were doing. A 15 to 18 year old | boy, working at hoeing received from 15 to 25 centavos a day (12% cents), with lousy food. The laborers who till the flelds received from 25 to 30 centavos a day (15 cents). They became so involved in debt that they were unable to run away to look for better wages. In general the majority of the provinces in the P. I. are populated by small peasants, who owned small parcels of land where they could cultivate and produce crops for their existence. Money is very scarce throughout the island. In Manila, Ceba, Toilo and Zam- boanga are more or less industrial- ized cities where the majority of the Filipino masses are workers in the factories and other concerns. The P. I. since 1907 has been the source of labor for Hawaiian plan- tations. In the year 1929, 11,628 Filipino workers went to Hawaii un- der contract to work on the plan- tations. Up to 1915 the sygar grow- ers hired Filipinos from the P. I. and paid their transportation. Since then the Hawaiian sugar planters have forced the Filipino workers to pay their own way. With capitalist advertisements and propaganda to the effect that Hawaii is an island of paradise and prosperity, the small peasants, specially in the island of Luzon, would sell their belongings so that they could de- Part for Hawaii. have learned that the capitalist | f majority of the Filipinos who come to America are ambitious study in schools. But only 10 per cent out of a hundred are suc- cessful in their studies, There are Several reasons for this. First, most of the Filipino students who come here are self-supporting. Second, we Filipinos in America are discrimin- ated against, so that we are unable to get decent work where we could earn and study at the same time Third, some of the Filipino students are influenced and poisoned by their surrounding and go in for women and gambling, There are many Filipino organiza- tions in America. The main func- tions of these organizations are to improve the social relationship be- tween American and Filipino people. These organizations have purely bourgeois programs. There is a Philippinean in Sands Street, Brook- lyn, This organization denounced the Filipino Anti-Imperialist League as being led by the Communist Party, claiming that their policies are similar and that such policies are not proper for the P. I. The Filipino masses in America, how- ever, have entirely lost faith in this organization because they learned that it is not interested in bettering the condition of Filipino workers in America, nor in fighting for the! real freedom of the Filipino masses in P. 1, but instead is interested in strengthening the power of the cap- italist government in the P. I. For more than a year I have been a member of the Filipino Anti-Im-) perialist League. The League since its establishment has been rallying Filipino workers in Brooklyn, N, Y., and Philadelphia to support the) fight of the Filipino masses in the’ P. I. in their fight for land, rice and real independence, has been rallying Filipinos as well as white and Ne-| gro workers in America to protest for the freedom of comrade Evan- gelista, the national secretary of the) Cc, P. in P. I, and other prisoners | who lead the Filipino workers and peasants in their struggles for free- | dom, \ It requires the means || * yf . These cannot be procured through |! , through the revenues derived trom || fat advertising contracts, or as a result of fake circulation stunts and They must come from one sole source—from those whose interests and whose cause are the interests and the cause } | | | matters. | New Publishing Recruits Join Office Workers NEW ORK Litera Section Gf'the Modern Library Magazine Story members whict plauded at ing of October 17th the me “We in STORY stand solid and have the Office Workers Union because we are convinced joined that only through such action can we make secure whatever work- ing advantages we now hold, and only through such action and sim ilar action of all workers in the industry. ed on an indus- can we go ahead to winning beiter conditions for all, “The employees of Modern Li- brary and of Story have elected a | joint shop committee which shall represent us all. “We urge all employees in the “In joining the Office Workers Union, the workers of the MOD- ERN LIBRARY take this oppor- | tunity to affirm their belief in the principle of unionism and to make clear their unanimous position. In view of the fact that conditions prevailing in the Modern Library more than meet the maximum de- mands of the union, we feel ours is a gesture of solidarity should stimulate other workers in the literary trades to similar ac- tion. We approve, particularly, of the principle of autonomy to which the Office Workers Union is committed. We reserve the right of withdrawal from the Union | when this principle is abandoned. “Our shop committee is em- powered to act for us on all ques- tions pertaining to united action, dues and all other organizational “We cannot emphasize too strongly our hope that the step taken by workers in the Modern | Library will set a precendent for | all unorganized workers in the | literary trad Build Up a Daily Worker Carrier | Route! | boycott against Build Up a Daily Worker Carrier Route! | | ner of commerce with Germany The F. A. L. has taken up the fight in connection with the Mc-| nierva Cigar workers in Manila where during the cigar workers’ Strikes the Murphy government | turned loose their fascist gangs to murder the Filipino cigar strikers. The majority of the Filipino work- ers in Brooklyn and New York un-| derstand that the fight which is be-| ing led by the F. A. L. is the fight | for real freedom of the Filipino! workers and peasants as well as the | fight for the white and Negro work- | ers in America. The League has| exposed the betrayers of the Filipino masses, such as Quezon, Osmena Rozas and Co. athe Uae | r South Brooklyn, the majority ot the Filipinos are seamen. They] are housed by three Filipino land-| lords who own a boarding house. They are charged a dollar a day,| board and room. The situation of} these seamen is bad, some times | they are forced to sleep three in| one bed. They stay in this board-| ing house because they think it is| their only way to secure a job| through the owner of the boarding} house himself who acts as shipping | agent. During my first week's stay in Brooklyn, in September, 1932, I hap- pen to listen at an open air meeting at Court and Carroll Streets. The| subject appealed to me very much I bought a pamphlet phich was called “The platform of the Com munist Party.” That pamphlet | which I bought gave me an idea that I had never thought of before—the idea of studying the workers’ move- ment with the great hopes of edu-| cating myself through this moye- ment so that I might be able to help} the Filipino masses in their strug- gle for real freedom, I joined the Communist Party be- cause it is the only Party carrying on revolutionary work for the real freedom of the colonial people. 1 urge all Filipino workers, especially colonial seamen, to join the rev- olutionary Party of the working } class, Little Lefty Sey Pop Y'know WHY? “They SwuY OFF hee WATER IN“THE House AROUND We BLocK — WHERE He LIL NEGRO Goy LIVES” — WIS FamaLy CAN'Y ORINK, NOR SaTHE, NOR NOTHIN’ i Straight from the Shoulder © Dl axel de RY, Your BY Is PoNTiN' OUT Fr CASE OF BRUTAL DISCRIMINATION — AGRINGY NEGRO WORKERS WHO ARE YouR NEIGHBORS — BUT YoU wouLr RATHER READ REoUT SociETY SCANDAL / | Federation, an organi and anti-Semitic | tributing heavily to this organ’ that | ¢ PLOTTING the AMERICAN POGROMS This is the third instalment of | ace to the whole world and the fourth article John L should be rushed to Palestine or Spivak on “Plotting the American Jerusalem. Pogroms” appearing in the New Masses this week. In the first two parts, Spivak describes the actiy- ities of the Vigilant 1 doles out vicious anti-Communist propaganda. He Jews are con- aq proves that rich tion. JOHN L. SPIVAK DO NOT REPUBLICAN WARD COMMITTEEMAN! ELECT A JEW FOR Il EDWIN B. FEDERMAN IS A JEW! IDNEY BROO: done a good de: ing the spread of an’ With money collec’ Jung is able to order vast quan of anti-Semitic propagand: S| William Di he sells to other anti-Semitic or- spa pbreag Brooks a ganizations. Jung kes a profit |Mmuavis: one, signed by even in spreading the “hate io x Esa Rep pen Jew” creed. Let me gi shen Legace praie ipics tbe Tosunet arch 5—March 4 was not men= oned. The one name, testified been at work at his desk in his other, sti before he got a sizeable sum from the King of Chewing G facturers, William until about 3:30 r |Jung wrote to Ha peek nel seed heattaat 23 treasurer of the Iver Legion of |” ¥ x a : March 4 was a § Assum- America ‘ ing that Brook office force In response to yours addressed | worked on Sunday fast train to R. I. Peterson on November 28, |could have brought him to New we can give you a price of sixty | york me for his conference, and cente per copy in quantity lots of |a late sleeper, leaving the Penn- the “Protocols.” sylvania station at 2:30 a. m,, March As for “Halt Gentile! and |5, could have brought him back to Salute the Jew,” same can be had | his desk in good time that morning. at ten cents per copy, In quan- | Brooks, Pelley and Royal Scott tity lots or fifteen cents a piece. | Gulden, head of the now notorious Besides distributing the protocols, | Order of '76, met in New York on Jung secured from Hitler's anti-|the evening of March 4. Semitic agents both in Chicago and| Brooks said in his letter: in New York throwaways smuggled| I have never heard the name of in off German ships as well as ma-| William D. Goedales and to my terial imported or printed in this| knowledge have never met or cor- country, particularly those urging a| Tesponded in any way whatever Jewish stores in| with Wiliam Dudley Pelley. Tetailation for the boycott of Ger-| Besides meeting Pelley (Goodales) man goods. In this way Jung was|at the Hotel Edison and taking him making a financial appeal for |to Gulden on the evening of March backing from German-American |4, 1934, Brooks telephoned Gulden’s business men. One of those circu-| Office on February 16, 1934, from the lars he broadeast in Chicago reads: | Hotel Edison. He left a message |with Gulden to the effect that he was with “the chief” (Pelley) (Pel- ley, alias Goodales) and for Gulden to get in touch with him at the Americans of German Descent To the Front The Jewish race has declared | Hotel Edison. I have the message, war and boyeott against all | aReS Americans of German descent, | A Pennsylvania Congressman who has gained a lot of notoriety by his open attack on the Jews in Congress will be the subject of Mr. Spivak's next article to ap= pear in The New Masses and in this page on Friday. The Con- greesmen’s political future is doubtful 2t the moment, but he = has a past, and next week's ar- Americans | ticle throws light on that.— Now Keep Your Eyes Open | THE EDITORS. and against the German nation, which means that the Jews everywhere in America cannot deal with Germany in any way; buy or seil, or maintain any man- or the Germans anywhere, nor travel on German ships, Four million Jews would like to dictate and control the trade | of one hundred and twenty-five (Reprinted through the courtesy of the million Americans, take away their freedom and independence New Masses) in the field of commerce and dictatorship. | At present almost every trade | and business is in the hands of | 7 P. 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He endured the cramped upright coffin-box for two months and yielded to prison work regulations only when he felt his reason giving way. Copies may be had from David Grosser, 311 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Mass. and is the | Orchestra; “Prank @ Witch's Tale ‘Minstrel Show; Speaker, MEL esworth President NBC. Soprano; Comedian; Donald , ‘Tenor; Frances Langford, ralto; Voorhees Orchestra um end Abner—Sketen natic Sketch—Understudy Orch.: Block” and Comedians; Gertrude Niesen, Chiquito, ‘Songs 9:45-WOR—Studio Orchestra 10:00-WEAF—Eastman Orchestra; Lady; Male Quartet WOR—Frank and Flo, Songs WJZ—Symphony Orchestra Luilaby ABC—Wayne King Orchestra 10:15-WOR—Current Events—H. E. Read 10:30-WRA: Roosevelt Prom Ww on, and Newton D. Baker, From Cleveland, Inaue 1934 Mobilization for jeeds Campaign; Chicege phony Orch., direction Fred= eriek Stock (Also WABC, WJZ) WOR. ety Musicale 11:00-WEAF—The Grummitts—oketch, With “Senator” Ford WOR—Moonteams Trio WJZ—Kemp Orchestra WABC—Jerry Cooper, Baritone 11:15-WEAF—Jesse Crawford, Organ WABC—Darce Orchestra 11:30-WEAF—Dance Music (Also WABQ WMCA, WOR, WJZ) by del) —| ASK YOU, You BIS Contributions received to the credit of Del in his Socialist competition with Mike Gold, Harry Gannes, the Medical Adviscry Board, Helen Luke, Jacob Burck and David Ramsey, Worker drive for in the Daily $60,000. Quota—s500,