The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 26, 1934, Page 8

Page 8 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1934 Worker OM OF COMMUNIST INTERMATIONAL) Daily .< GENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. Y Telephone: ALgonquin 4-79 l4th and FP st Midwest Burea Telephone: Dee Roosevelt--Servant of the Banks (ieee aos le is now going on in Washington at the Bankers’ Conven- tion! Here right before our eyes, Roosevelt, the smiling “friend of the forgotten man’ to the bosom of the most powerful, s. capitalist exploiters in the country, s, the Wall Street money lords. This kevt off the radio, of the “fireside” presses hi most ruth ‘the ca speech of Roosevelt was discretel so different from the hypocrisy speeches. what hypocritical slobber does a newspaper Wit like the New York Post cry in screaming head- ankers Bow to Roosevelt.” ry economic fact, every action of Roosevelt, single government report, every bank state- vealing growing profits, cries to high heaven that it is Roosevelt who has bowed to the bankers, that it is Roosevelt who has placed the entire gov~- ernment machinery at the full disposal of the Wall Street monopolies and the banks who control them. HAT did Roosevelt tell these assembled Wall Street financial plunderers? He told them that their blood-stained profits are the “reward of hard labor of mind and hand. That is the profit system.” But this “profit system” has brought starvation, unemployment, ruifi and the curse of perpetual in- security to the vast majority of the people of the country, What has the “labor of mind and hand” brought to the vast majority of the people of the country? It has brought unemployment to 16,000,000, starva- tion wages to many millions more, and evictions, foreclosures, and pauperism to the millions of small farmers whose labor of a life-time has been wiped out by the mortgage sharks and the banks. The “profit em” brings wealth only to those parasites who own and control the country’s eco- nomic life, to the employers, landlords, and bankers. To the rest it brings a life of misery. OOSEVELT told the bankers he would protect their foreign investments and their imperialist i He pledged that he would work for ation in international prices as quickly as ble.” This means that Roosevelt will continue uver against British imperialism in the in- terests of Wall Street. Pceseyelt soothed the bankers on the necessity eding the jobless, and promised fervently that vernment would cut down relief expenses as y and as ruthlessly as possible. . I think we should all proceed with the expectation the revival of business activity will steadily reduce this burden,” Roosevelt promised the bankers. « Roosevelt boasted that he had “restored the con- fidence of the people in the banks” during the March 1933 bank crisis, pretending that he acted in the people’s interest during the bank crisis. But he forgot to mention that this process robbed millions of workers, small farmers, and lower middle class elements of more than two and one half billion dollars in deposits, and helped the biggest Wall Street banks to gobble up more than 1,000 of the smaller banks, further concentrating their control! OOSEVELT’S speech should make it clear to every hungry worker, every evicted worker and farmer, every exploited worker in the factories, every mortgage-ridden, impoverished farmer, that Roosevelt and his government are a capitalist, bank- ers’ government, a government whose sole function is to protect the profits and investments of the cap- italist parasites. It is the Communist Party which boldly pro- claims that this capitalist “New Deal” must go, that the whole profit system must be abolished by the revolutionary action of the working class. In the elections the working class and impover- ished farmers should register their hatred and oppo- sition to the whole Roosevelt-Wall Street regime, and proclaim their determination to fight for the immediate welfare of the masses and the final over- throw of the whole hideous profit system. Vote for the revolutionary Party of the working class, the Communist Party! Ryan’s United Front | Cala Thursday, at a meeting of the New York Central Labor Council, when Jo- seph Ryan its president wanted to de- scribe the perfect harmony between the A. F. of L. officials and the LaGuardia political machine, he said, “The city is ours!” The “Sun,” very sensitive to even a suggestion that people who claim to speak for labor should speak of the city sarcastically, and nists had control waiters’ strike.” such as Rya who still to: But Ryan ieaves no letter to the “Sun” he says “I decidedly resent the inference that if the organized labor movement was in control of the city we would countenance the actions indulged in by Communists during the strike of waiters and taxi drivers. The record of myself and the Inter- national Longshoremen’s Association, whose des- tinies I have been privileged to guide for many years, is an epen book. We have not had a strike, or disorder on this waterfront in the past 19 years. and it is a matter of record that we have been able to frustrate the Communists in their attempts to tie up the transportation industry on many oc- casions.” He t assures the capitalist class, that they could not place their government in safer hands, than the likes of Ryan, who endorses and supports the Tammany slate. But the most disgraceful example to show how ly Ryan crawls before the bosses, is the se before Supreme Court Justice Furman, dur- ing the hearing on the application of the ship- owners for an injunction against the locals of the longshoremen’s and teamsters’ unions. The injuc- tion would mean that if a stevedore refused to load goods trucked by non-union drivers he would be arrested for contempt of court. The case for Mr. Ryan was placed before the court by his at- torney Mr. Edward C. McGuire in the following words: “I say to your honor, that if this injunction is granted it will tie the hands of the responsible labor leaders on the waterfront. It will give the Communists an opportunity to say that association in the A. F. of L. is‘no security for the workers, The Communists are very active now on the water- front. The injunction wifi give them a chance to arouse a general strike on the New York water- front. And a general strike in New York will be far greater and mean a far greater loss to industry than that which teok place in San Francisco.” Ryan’s trump card with the employers is that he ciaims to be the most reliable agent for them, in the fight against their real enemy—the Commu- nists and honest union workers. Ryan, and his lawyer admit that it is the Com- munists who are in the front ranks of the firing line, and whom the bosses fear. Workers who un- derstand their interests will therefore not follow the advice of the Tammany-controlled Central Labor Council. but will vote Communist on Novem- ber 6! as “ours,” ds Mr. editorializes on this Ryan that “Commu- during the tay Socialist Union in Action HE Socialist- controlled union, the Dressmakers Union, local 89, of the In- ternational Ladies Garment Workers Union, has just taken its stand on the elections in New York State. It has endorsed Norman Thomas— and Governor Lehman. One foot in the Socialist Party camp, and another foot in the Tammany Hall-Democratic capitalist camp! Lehman is nothing but a Wall Street banker, and an active agent of the employers. Lehman's Wali Street group has big investments in the very same department stores whose dress departments work hand in hand with the New York dress manu- facturers to exploit and plunder the dress workers. To support him means to support the wage slavery in the dress shops! No dress worker should be fooled by this double book-keeping of the LL.G.W. Socialist Party officials Who try to mix Socialism with Tammany connec- tions. In the elections, as in the every-day struggles, it is class against class. Vote for your class by vot- ing for the Communist Party! Against class col- laboration! Vote for the working-class candidate, Israel Amter! A New “Red Drive’ }OLICE Commissioner Valentine, in a speech yesterday before the richest merchants and real estate interests of the mid-town section in New York, declared that the police department was about to begin a drive to “rid the mid-town area of radical demonstrations.” This is aimed directly at the Communists, at unemployed demonstrations in Union Square, and against picketing before shops and the home relief bureaus. Valentine is La Guardia’s agent, just as O’Ryan was La Guardia’s agent. _O’Ryan’s brutality was too raw. But Valentine is already showing that he will be no less ruthless than the hated O’Ryan is smash- ing the demonstrations of New York workers. It was mass protest that forced La Guardia to get rid of O’Ryan. It is the organized mass protest of the workers in one united front that alone will force Valentine te grant the New York workers their elementary civil rights, the right to demonstrate and picket. Form the united front against the ap- proaching “Red Drive” of Valentine! Join the Communist Party 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. Please send me more information on the Com- munist Party, | Party Life | Must Stay C To Railroad Workers 108¢ HE article on in Tuesday's “Daily tration toward the puts a little heart e of us. I only hope it’s another paper resolution. The ticles carries two ideas: |derstanding of the rail |problems. 2. The strategic imy |tance of the railroads. | On the second point, I would like| y & the Friday issue of the} has not come up to stand- in carrying railroad news of| (Even this railroad _concen-| article should have been| Just | cor late. tration saved for the Friday issue). lately we had a trackman’s conven- | tion in Detroit. The oly two things | they did was: 1. Pass a resolution} to bar all Communists from the or- ganization. 2. Resolve to redouble | their efforts to secure better wages for the lowest paid rail workers. | & word was printed in the “Daily,”| and it should have been well pub-| licized in the Friday issue. It seems | that the strategic importance is not | recognized, although we _ should} know that the railroads are regard- ed as the arteries of the nation,| ete., and for good logical reasons. | They are also the basic arguing} point for the capitalists in banking | }and insurance, always stressing the | fact that we must maintsin the) road’s dividends because of the mil- | lions of dollars that are invested in the roads by the life insurance | company, and so on. aii | I THINK it will be the hardest part | of our work to get other workers to understasi the railroad workers’ | Problems, most important of which is that because the work is stragetic, | that the rail-worker is given a bet- tel “bowl of soup” and inclined to be cautious on that account. We must remember that they have sen- iority rights, pass rights, pensions, | etc. And principally, that if a rail) worker loses his job he cannot get or® on any other railroad. Due to the age limitations, if a rail “_—_FOR HE’S A Contributions received to the credit of Burck in JOLLY GOOD FELLOW!” PRES. ROOSEVELT By Burck Burck will give the original drawing of his cartoon to the highest contributor ea ch day towards his quota of $1,000. Ex-member of Section 1 . .$ 1.00 worker loses his job, he also loses his trade, and because of the gen- eral characteristics of railroad work they are not so well fitted for other work. In concentrating on rail workers, I mention the following points: 1, The Party leaders assigned to/| the various shop units must “come down to earth,” analyze each situa- tion fully, and be governed accord- ingly. I think that some of the Party leaders do not realize how far ahead they are of the workers they meet and so new contacts are scared away. 2. That when contact is started | in any local union, that a progres- sive program be instituted, and not to overload that particular union with calls for this and petitions for that. The average rail-union con- siders a two-hour meeting a long one, and are not developed to the extent of reading through much cir- cularization from _ various Party movements, no matter how much the necessity would seem to be for immediate action. Scag ie ALSO think concentration is in order when we see the wave of| strikes in other industries, we re- member that every great nationwide railroad strike has been practically @ spontaneous strike, and when we know that several individual roads have taken separate strike ballots in the last two years. So we know that eventually a general strike is inevitable. If concentration is carried out correctly in every railroad terminal possible, we should be in a good po-| sition in case of a general strike. Any one local union, in any terminal would then be the focal point, the particular group to call for a united front. So I certainly approve of railroad concentration. It should be done in every terminal where we have contacts and members. I even think that all railroad members should be assigned to this work, and should not be required to do any other work, even though no immediate re- sults could be seen. And this, I think, is the biggest obstacle right now, because street union work is interesting, and it seems hard to get rail-members to realize the im- portance of rail concentration. Once again I’d like to mention the Friday issue. I believe that in the majority of rail groups the work will be at the start, as opposition groups, unity groups, but that Fri- day issue should be such that we can introduce it to the most ad- vanced of the opposition groups and thus gradually draw them into the shop units, Comradely, FW. » Detroit. Every Communist Vote Is the Vote of a Worker Prepared to Fight For His Rights, Anti-Fascist Movie To Spur Mass Drive his Socialist competition with Mike Gold, Harry Gannes, “del,” the Medical Advisory Board, Helen Luke, David Ramsey, in the Daily Worker drive for $60,000. QUOTA—S1,000, | World Front || By HARRY GANNES | The Issue in the Navy Talks | Re-shifting Alliances | “Doubtful Russian Psychology” Fo all practical purposes, the naval arms conference between the three big navy powers, is on at this present moment. Though the formal date is set for some time in 1935, if the present “prelimi- nary” talks do not settle the major questions confronting the war-mad Powers, there will be no formal cone ference. Divested of all technical and dip- Icmatic language the question be- ing debated by the admira's and ; ambassadors in London today of ingland, Japan and the United States is: Which of the powers will have a navy best fitted to destroy the navy of the other power and sieze its colonies and markets? | Nor have any of them been wait- ing to meet in London in their gold braided uniforms medal-be- | spengited chests to decide this ques- | tion. The race for naval arms has | been going on for over three years. | The bitterest conflict, just now, is | between American and Japanese | imperialism. Viewing the Roosevelt | two billion dollar war program, the | Vincent bill and the 130 warships authorized by Congress, the Japa- nese war lords have decided to de- mand naval parity with Britain and the United States. There is another factor in the present armament rece that you will not find explained in the capi- talist. press, bitter as it is with its chauvinism against Japan. That is, the reshifting of war alliances in | the Far East. Japanese imperialism | undoubtedly has some secret agree- ment with British imperialism, not only with relation to the war pro- gram against the Soviet Union, but Madisot isc, on the matier of the Japanese arms Praia cod sim |tivalry with the United States, y " os Since Wall Street is Britain's main world competitor, the British ad- DOA V6" dates ssc scicss tae si avessee ce SORAT inifalty 4s alding Japanese -impe- rislism counterbalance the Wall By VERN SMITH MOSCOW, Oct. 25.—Boris Ivan-| ovich Kaizik, who has worked for 33 years in the high grade steel and wire manufacturing plant here that} is now called the “Hammer and Sickle Mill” gave a party last week in his three room apartment in one of the new houses built for work- ers of this factory. ae Kaizik is a udarnik, or worker pledged to regularly fulfill his tasks, do good work, and teach others to} do it. He invited about 20 other | workers, mostly udarniks also; he invited his friend, tne secretary of the Communist Party Committee in the mill; he invited some of the members of the management of the mill, and to amuse them he invited some of the singers and musicians of the Radio Committee, the center of program for Moscow radio sta- tions. He pointed out to them that they could bring a microphone and conduct their concert from the} party as well as from anywhere | else. And the Radio Committee artists and one of the directors of the committce came to the party—per- haps not just for the party, but be- cause, in the Soviet Union, a good udarnik is a person of note; work is, in a Socialist state, not drudgery but a matter of honor and glory, as Stalin said, and a group of good workers such as would attend Kaizik’s party are as much public figures as statesmen or millionaires in a capitalist country. So when the radio committee set up their micro- phone, they turned it on for the whole party, not just for their own program, Everybody else came too, and when they were all assembled there and found they had all Moscow and | I don’t know how much else of the Soviet Union for an audience, they did something that couldn’t have happened in a capitalist country, something that shows in this par- ticular sphere, as other things un- numbered do in other and perhaps more vital social matters, the deep- seated and all pervading nature of the workers’ and peasants’ deocracy, the social system created by the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. They turned the party into a pub- lic debate over the radio on the sort of radio programs they wanted. Brigadier Cherpanov, leader of the gang working the Fifth Open Hearth Furnace of the factory, a young man only 20 years old, but | panov, Proletarian Democracy Pervades All Sphere of Life in U.S. S. R. just Keep on going to see the ‘mon- | tage’ in Aida and Eugene Onegin,” she said across the room to Cher- “and the first thing you know Verdi and Chaikovski will get you, too!” Two Views These were two extreme views. Most spoke as follows: “We are mastering metallurgy, as a tribute to the stubborn fight our fathers and these old men among us waged | to give us the Soviet state, and free |us from capitalism, and we are in- creasing production for our own good and that of our children, Be- cause of the workers’ victory we now know Wagner and Beethoven, we can hear them in the concert hall, or we can hear them at home over the radio. Our fathers had neither theatre tickets nor radios, And we need Wagner and Chaikov- sky in the service of Socialism. But | we need more. We need to preserve | all of the plays these amateurs. put the old songs; we will ourselves play not only accordeons but pianos, or at least some of us will. And from the Radio Committee we expect new songs. We want stirring new marches for the celebration of the Seventeenth Anniversary of the Bol- shevik Revolution, We want songs of victory, songs of production.” Criticized Radio Group Others criticized this particular radio group for never having come to the fine big new “Sickle and Hammer” factory club house to play to the workers there, for never hav- ing come to visit their steel mill. The radio stars plunged into the discussion, reciting all the other club houses they had played in, pledging that “Sickle and Hammer” should not be neglected. They prom- ised to come and teach in music circles in the factory, those free Classes for. workers who wish to learn music. The Steel Worker's Poem Whereupon a young steel worker who. had been reciting his own poetry, to the applause of the gath- ering, got up and recited another poem, about the victory of socialist construction, about the fulfillment of the plan by his own department in the mill, and about the beautify- ing of the department (in a steel mill, remember!) with flowers. The poem was entitled: “Lilacs In Our Department.” He challenged the radio musicians present to set the words to music, and they accepted the challenge. vantages and gains both cultural and material that the revolution | brought to artists, but the anxious care of the freed working class of | the Soviet Union, with its magnifi- | cent rush forward, with its face to | the future, that, nevertheless, noth- | ing of the old that is worth any- | thing shall ever be allowed to perish. | Studies Dramatics To match him, there stood for- ward from among the udarniks, not ' only the young poet, Filatov, men- tioned above, but a girl of 20, Val- entina Romanova, daughter of a worker in the mill, graduate herself | of the Factory and Mill Appren- | tice School and of course a good worker, technically. She is a crane driver. But in her spare time, in the dramatic circle of the club of the mill workers, she had made such progress, shown such talent, that she is not only well known in on, but is being sent next year for a course in a school of drama, to be a professional actress. Such cases of the recognition and promotion of talent are common everyday experiences in the life of workers in the SovieS Union, and I do not mean to make them the | special theme of this article. What the reader should see here, though, in all this is a picture of the in- herent democracy of the social sys- tem. Where under capitalism will you find radio companies rushing to broadcast the social functions, the parties, of workers, find them rec- ognizing good workers as heroes of the community whom every one wan's to hear about? Where else but in the country where workers rule would such things be news? Where in capitalism would you find workers, among themselves, discussing and settling problems of the sort that were discussed here, or deciding what radio programs should be given? Where else are workers taking up as a serious prob- | lem of their lives the rela‘ion be- tween classical and folk music? Certainly not in America, where the problem is much more likely to be the question of resisting a wage cut, the question of how to make ends meet under currency inflation, the questions of layoff, discharge, high prices, low wages, unpaid rents, dispossess notices. The very nature of the problems discussed by Soviet workers in their leisure hours, in their parties, is an indication of the difference in the Street fleet and navy war plans in the Far East. - 8 . YN THE Far East, American im- perialism is confronted with the intricate web of present world an- tagonisms. It is confronted with its chief antagonism to the land of Socialism, and its growing conflict with Japanese imperialism over domination of the Chinese ma kets, But all around, there are ce! tain fundamental points of agres- ment among the imperialists. Tirst, that the Soviet districts in China must be destroyed. Second, that the Soviet Un‘o: victorious advance to Socialism is ultimately certain death to the whole colonial dom tion of all the imperialist povers. The main point at issue is which of the powers shall profit most in bat- tle for Far Eastern colonies and markets, Japanese imperialism is follow- ing a policy of involving all of the chief capitalist powers first in war against the Soviet Union. To achieve this end it has already siezed Manchuria, and established a gigantic war base there. It has made war alliances. with Fascist Germany and Great Britain. It has won the support of dominant capi- talist forces in the United States for this war against the Soviet Union. Outstanding among these forces are the House of Morgan and the du Ponts. The directors of the Far Eastern policy in the Roosevelt State Department favor Japan's plan for resolving the in- creasing imperialist antagonisms in the Far East into a war against the Soviet Union, and attempting to solve the future question of who shall get most of the spoils later on. tS nes IN Japan the primacy of war against the Soviet Union is very clearly expressed. The recent offi- cial War Department pamphlet makes it unmistakable that the Japanese guns are being trained on the workers’ fatherland. “In view of the doubtful psychol- ogy of the Russians in dealing with Japan and other Far Eastern coun- tries,” says the War Department, “it would be well for Japan to pre- pare for the worst.” The doubtful psychology refers to Stalin’s warn- ing: “Keep your swinish imperial- ist snouts out of our Soviet garden.” Arguing that Americans influen- tial in naval matters should see Ja= pan’s navy construction program and its desire for parity in its proper light, Gumpei Sekine, in the name of the Navy Department of Tokyo, addresses the readers of “Current History” (November, 1934), as follows: “It must not be overlooked that there are active in the Orient at present numerous baneful forces ra- | this Saturday at 2 o'clock at the Leibowitz and the Negro mislead- To Free Thaelmann | earning 800 rubles a month, twelve} In all the argument for and| social system. Here the bread and tarding the advancement of civi- Mothers of Four | Boys Will Speak Continued from Page 1) been decreed on Dec. 7 by the Ala- bama lynch lords. Open Air Rallies In Harlem Today The meeting tonight at Rockland Palace is organized by the National | Scottsboro Herndon Action Com- mittee, and is the first of a series of protest meetings and demonstra- tions planned in this city and throughout the whole country in the fight to prevent the legal mur- der of Norris and Patterson on Dec. 7. Many open-air meetings will be held throughout the Harlem section today in preparation for tonight's meeting. Meetings are also being | held in the Bronx, Brooklyn and | other sections of the city. Conference Saturday In Crown Heights, Brooklyn, an Emergency Scottsboro-Herndon de- fense conference has been called for ry Ralph Avenue Methodist-Episcopal Church, in response to the call of | the Emergency Scottsboro-Herndon Defense Conference held in Harlem last Sunday for similar conferences and protest actions throughout the whole country. Other conferences | are being arranged in South Brook- jlyn for Nov. 18, in Queens for Nov. 24. Conferences are also being or- | ganized in Birmingham and At- lanta, despite the vicious police ter- ror in those cities, in Chicago, | Philadelphia, etc. as the defense | movement swings into | throughout the country. | ranged for this Saturday in Queens and for Oct. 31 in Williamsburg. gro Rights yesterday joined in the appeal of the National Scottsboro- greatest mass outpouring at to- ; night's meeting at Rockland Palace, 155th Street and Eighth Avenue, in defense of the boys and against the lynchers and their allies, Samuel S. action | Protest parades have been ar-| The International Labor Det and the League of Struggle for Ne- | Herndon Action Committee for the | ers. ets Se. Bronx Meet Tonight Richard B. Moore, National Field Organizer of the International La- bor Defense; Ben Gold, needle trades leader; Tom Truesdale and David Kinkead will speak at a Scottsboro-Herndon defense rally tonight at Ambassador Hall, 3875 Third Avenue. Moore, who has just returned from an extensive tour with Angelo Herndon and Mrs. Norris, will expose the maneuvers of Samuel S. Leibowitz, renegade defense attorney, and a group of Harlem Negro misleaders, to wreck | the Scottsboro defense at this crit- ical moment when two of the boys are facing death on Dec. 7. Nat Bruce, assistant district sec- retary of the Internxtional Labor Defense, will act as chairman. Worker needs $60,000 to be able to deal more fully with the strug- gles of the working class. Support the Daily Worker! Send your con- tribution today to the $60,000 drive. CHICAGO, Oct. 25. — Chicago anti-fascists announce through the Chicago Committee for the Libera- tion of Thaelmann that they are spurring the campaign of protest and demonstration for the freedom of Thaelmann by turning the scheduled film showings of the new anti-fascist film “Ernst Thael- mann, fighter against fascism” into gigantic rallies for the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann, The Chicago local of the Ameri- can League Against War and Fas- cism released a statement calling upon all members and all affiliated organizations and all individuals who supported the recent Congress Against War and Fascism to do their utmost in bringing great numbers of Chicagoans to see the film, which will be presented on Oct. 26 (Peo- ple’s Auditorium), Oct. 28 (Temple Judea), Oct. 29 (Social Turner Hall). Capitalist Politicians Pass Laws to Destroy Food. Communist Public Officehoiders Will Fight times given bonuses for extra good work, and wearing the Red Banner of Labor as a further recognition of unusual feats on the labor front, got up and stated his case—the case of a certain section of the popula- tion. Cherpanov said he wanted less classical music and more of the old melodies. “I go very often to the opera,” he declared, “but I go to see the costumes, the stage settings, and to hear the beautiful words, It sems to me the musi¢ they play at Rigoletto or Carmen is only a nuisance. Why can’t they sing those songs with just a few accordions or balalaikas? Then when I come home after a shift in the mill, and I turn on my radio to amuse myself a lit- tle when I rest, what do I hear but the same old music right from Car- men, and I can’t even see the play or the costumes. . . .” But his was not the only opinion. Many opposed him, udarniks they were, too. But they liked the class- ical music. “Tt grows on you,” said Skobileva, against, or rather over the correct proportions of, classical music, there was one musician present whom everyone praised. He occu- pies a unique position, is very fa- mous all over the country. He is Syeverski, the gusli player. The gusli is an old instrument of the Russian troubadors or wandering minstrels, used by them since the middle ages or perhaps earlier, It looks like two zithers placed to- gether. Syeverski was one of the last of the minstrels, and before the revolution walked from town to town, from tavern to tavern, over all Russia, playing usually for a place to sleep and for food. He had no education, but on his way he made a collection of the folk songs that were fast dying out. After the revolution he placed this accumulated fund at the disposal of month to re-elect from his own the department of education, and secured not only a host of pupils who will never let gusli playing die out, but secured an education for himself—he is now a student in the Moscow University, taking all kinds of political and scientific subjects. a women udarnik from the mill— she also wore an order. “You will butter problem is settled, there is no danger of wage cuts or unem~- ployment. Here the worker is in- terested in production and becomes a hero in the community by raising production, not because it may save him from starvation but because it guarantees more and more of the good things of life. Here he has already time and inclination to seriously discuss music, to sing about lilacs in the mill. He knows that he gained this new position through the success of the revolution against capitalism, through the abolition of capitalism, and he is preparing to celebrate that victory with tremendous dem- onstrations next month. Here he knows that it is the workers’ state that preserves these fruits of vic- tory, and he is preparing next midst the Sovie‘s that are his in- struments of rule in that state. It is almost certain that among that group of udarniks arguing at Kaisik’s party there will be some lization and detrimental to the maintenance of order. It is easy enough to talk of peace, but the task of maintaining that peace is beset with tremendous difficulties.” Where have we heard that talk of “civilization” and “order” bee fore? Sounds a little bit like Hit- ler. Capitalist barbarism, the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Chinese in Manchuria and hai is the Japanese war lords idea of “civilization” and “order.” “Baneful forces” is Japanese diplo matic language for th Soviet Union and the Chinese Soviets. The sharper the conflicts become among the imperialists in the Far East the greater the question of war against the Soviet Union comes to the surface. Contributions received to the eredit of Harry Gannes in his So- cialist competition with Del, Mike Gold, the Medica] Advisory Board, In the Home, Jacob Burck and of the legislators of the Soviet State, for one of the slogans of the Syeverski is 52 years old, and rep- approaching elections is: “Send the resents in himself not only the ad- Best Udarniks to the Soviets!” David Ramsey, in the Daily Worker drive for $60,000, Quota—$500, Total to date ....++4+..-$100.47