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WORLD! By MICHAEL GOLD “4 BEAST of prey at another’s throat? “A fallen angel? “A labor insect? “What is man? “Man is imperfect. He suffers from original sin. He tends away from perfection towards disorder and chaos. “We believe in the immortality of the soul. The end of man does not lie in the state of economic organization, but in God. “Marxism allows the souls and bodies of man to be sacrificed in the interests of economic prosperity. Christianity allows no such thing. “Our fight with Communism concerns the souls and bodies of men. “The Christian concept of God is the only way out of the crisis.” * * * Catholicism de Luxe AM quoting from a Catholic periodical. But not an ordinary Catholic periodical. Not one of your cheap little Catholic papers for the laity, for the great masses of Catholic workers who slave in the fac- tories and shops. This is a Catholic periodical for the Intellectual. This is the stuff for the graduates from Oxford or Harvard, who spent some years studying in the Sorbormne, or in Munich. This is a period- ical in which the Intellectuals who have espoused the Church of Rome write for each other. In this magazine they inform each other of the growth of Catholic Action parties and Catholic Storm Troops throughout the world. They write treatises proving the inadequacy of Marxism, the narrow material interests of a Soviet State. They reveal to each other ways ‘and means of spreading the doctrines of the new Catholicism among the working class. They prepare organizational data calling for the beginning of Catholic Workers Schools and Catholic economic organi- zations which will build up a strong Catholic Party. In the quotation you will find the basic principles of their philosophy. It is very informative. The workers of the Soviet Union, for example, would be indeed startled to learn from these gentry of the Universities that their souls are being sacrificed by the Commu- nist Party for the welfare of their bodies. On the other hand, the starving unemployed all over the world should be very grateful to learn that it is Christianity that is starving them for the sake of their souls. Every night the workers can say to themselves: If we had a Soviet America I would have a job, but my soul would be killed as a sacrifice. Christianity allows no such thing. I have no job. I’m starving. My children are hungry. This must be Christianity! * . . A Treasury of Reaction periodical is printed in England. It is called “The Colosseum.” It sells for seventy-five cents. I didn’t buy it, I picked it up by accident. But after I had read several articles in it, I was grateful for having seen it. It’s a treasury of reaction, intellectual degeneration and Catholic dogmatism. It is a lexicon of the ideology of the Catholic Action Parties and the intellectuals who support these parties. The gentry who write for it know very well what they are about. They don’t speak overmuch of Faith for themselves. They speak of the necessity of Faith for the workers! Their time is spent preparing the ideological nets to catch the workers in. They believe in direct political action. They believe that the Church of Rome must restore its old feudal power over the State. They believe that the old demo- cratic illusions of the nineteenth century are dead. Humanitarianism, Liberalism, are corpses. These intellectuals are for the Catholic Fas- cism of Dollfuss and Schuschnigg in Austria, and of Gil Robles in Spain. To the Liberals, they say: “The age of compromise is past and done with. It is war between integral materialism, Marxism, and in- tegral Christianity. Catholicism—take your choice.” ‘They have made their choice. They are the soldiers of the Second Christian Revolution, that is, the soldiers of clerical fascism. * . * A Dangerous Enemy ‘HAT they are a dangerous political enemy of the working class is obvious to anyone who has seen the development of the crisis throughout Europe. The Catholic Fascists and the Protestant Fascists both seek to oppress and enslave the working class to the wheels of capitalism. The struggle that goes on between these two groups is often de- termined, not by religious principles, but by different imperialist in- terests, The struggle for the control of the Austrian State was the struggle between Italian and German groups of imperialists. In Spain, today, it is the Catholic Fascist, Gil Robles, who is the Hitler of the Spanish workers. These fascist. intellectuals differ with the Nazi writers only on minor points. Fundamentally, they both represent the struggle of the capitalist class to keep within its grasp control over the forces of the State and the forces of production in order to enslave the workers. No matter whether they speak of God with a Catholic ac- cent or with a Protestant twang, it’s the same deity: the God of Bx- ploitation and Reaction, the God of Big Business, the God the bourgeoisie has used for endless centuries, in that excellent phrase of Marx, as “the opium of the people.” : ANOTHER PRIZE OFFERED Just to show that Burck isn’t the only one who can dangle a prize before the eyes of prospective contributors, Mike Gold will offer to the highest bidder each day a copy of his own “Jews Without Money” —autographed, to be sure. He’s just managing to keep ahead of Burck, so take warning! (Quota $500). Maria Fossa . $2.00 Dr. G. 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Reviewed by LEON ALEXANDER ET us first acknowledge that Miss Le Gallienne has a fetching pair of legs, and be done at onc with the esthetic side of this review. We cannot compare them with Maude Adams’ which we have not seen. As for the Divine Sarah, she was an old and sick woman the tast time that she performed the role in Paris; one of her legs, I believe, had been amputated and replaced by @ wooden one; and the only liv- ing thing that I remember of the performance is that most of the audience began walking out before the end of the second scene. Having now paid a tribute to tradition, history and esthetics, let us return to Miss Le Gallienne. She is not a great actress, some- times not even a good one. She has obvious mannerisms, like that pathetic little movement of her arm and fluttering hand away from the body, which she carries around with her from play to play and has made to mean so many different earnestness about all she does; end a sort of wide-eyed wonderment as she walks among the theatre of the past, rescuing this or that dust- laden play for revival. So who is there among us to quarrel with her too intently if the great theatrical tradition which she is seeking to re- create is that quickly faded one of | bad taste, pompous rhetoric and| purple passions? As the Duke of Reichstadt, Nap- poleon’s unhappy son, Miss Le Gal- Henne is not a very convincing youth. One is not always aware of the masquerade. One is never’con- vinced of the young manhood of the | “eaglet.” But she manages to let drift across the footlights a slightly ambiguous and perverse charm, Of the rest of the cast, some of whom are familiar to the old Civic Rep- ertory audiences, of the sets and the direction, I can only say that they are always adequate, but rarely | exciting. And now, there remains only for | us to wonder why, in this day and | age, Miss Le Gallienne has chosen to trot out again this old, romantic plug. Is she indulging in a bit of pro-Frendh propaganda to repay the French government for he> red ribbon of the “Legion d’Honneur?” Is she jealous of the now almost forgotten fame of Sarah Bernhardt? “ @:2 6 Elmer Rice and the Critics RGETTING the “Eaglet” for a moment, I would like to take up | Mr. Rice’s recent petulant challenge | to critics which all of them have left so carefully alone. } There can be no quarrel, of | course, with Mr. Rice's estimate of the reviewing fraternity. Whether | they agreed or not with the author's theses; even if they are reactionary enough to feel that social questions | do not belong in the theatre, we might at least have expected from | them the acknowledgement that | Rice’s last two plays are adult fare | and exciting drama. Nevertheless, in the recent in-/| stance, logic is on the side of | Messrs. Garland, Brown et al. and) not of the offended author. Mr. Rice | totally misses the mark in his show | of temper when he attacks the! critics for coming between him and | his legitimate audiences. Between these audiences and Rice | plays there stand not the reviewers, but Mr. Rice himself as producer and theatre owner, if not as a play- wright. When seats in his play- house cost upward to three dollars, with what sort of an audience does he expect to fill his theatre? Cer- tainly neither the workers nor the intellectuals who are sufficiently politicalized to be interested in “‘so- cial plays” can afford these prices. As to the Broadway “carriage trade” who can pay them, they come to the theatre well fed and somnolent from good living. They demand of the theatre only that it excite or amuse them no more than is necessary to keep them gently awake, while their digestion proceeds undisturbed. | Are not the critics then logical and fair when they warn this type of audience away from Mr. Rice's plays? They would be taking an undsrhanded advantage of their position in the press if they used their columns to persuade the “car- tiage trade” into Mr. Rice's theatre. That other section for whom Mr. Rice might provide intelligent play- going, and who in turn would give him the appreciative audience he is looking for, they will not stay away if Mr. Rice makes it financially possible for them to attend. If it is for them, and not for the stuffed | shirts. of the orchestra that he is writing, he need only revise his ad- mission prices considerably down- ward (say by one-¢hird), and the} clarity of his social thinking con- siderably upward; and he can afford ‘Bureau of New Masses LLAN TAUB, I.L.D. attorney,; 5 until recently assistant secre- tary of the National Committee for | the Defense of Political Prisoners, left New York yesterday on a trail- blazing mission. He will establish and be the director of the New Masses mid-Western Bureau, with | headquarters in Chicago, and cover- ing an area from Cleveland to Mil- waukee. and down as far as St. Louis. | Taub's specialty is going to new places and doing new things. As the IL.D. lawyer in the Scottsboro | case, he was the first to interview the nine Negro boys after the light- | ning frame-up. Last month he was | up in New England, working with | three delegations of writers who entered the field to report the great textile strike. In interviews with Governors Ely of Massachusetts and Green of Rhode Island, Taub in- curred the fury of the two execu- tives to such an extent that Ely threatened to beat him up and cea Sieced the State Troopers on im. In the Kentucky miners’ strike of 1931 he was arrested, run out of town, kidnapped (together with Waldo Frank) and beaten up. Lynch mobs have looked for him and the National Guard has been mobilized to save him. Taub, in short, has led a busy, varied and sometimes dangerous| Defense of Political Prisoners. I life in the revolutionary movement. | know that the truth about their Nevertheless he fecls that the work | own position, clearly and effectively he is doing for the New Masses now | presented to the middle class, with | is the most important he has yet|the equally clear and effective ex- undertaken. position of the revolutionary, the ALLAN “TAUB j vast field of the middle class to | appeal to. It can explain to them | just what it is that has happened | to them—why their sons can’t go to college, why they are losing their homes to mortgage companies, why | the future under this system is hopeless. “I have been working almost en- the National Committee for tirely with middle class people on | the | [Allan Taub, ILD Lawyer, WORLD of the| To Establish Midwest MOVIES | New War Forecast THE FIRST WORLD WAR, a Fox Film, edited by Lawrence Stall- ings from photographic archives of the World War, now playing at Rialto Theatre. | Reviewed By | DAVID PLATT |THE First World War,” is un- doubtedly the best edited of all the recent newsreel documen- taries on the World War. Arranged jin chronological order beginning {with the first motion picture made jof Bismark, back in 1901, it carries jthe spectator forward through | thirty-three years of the most grue- | some and chaotic period known to | history. | It is almost unnecessary to report |that the film is dubbed with speech | prepared by Lawrence Stallings and | Spoken by the actor, Pedro de| | Cordoba. in the best rhetorical tra- | | dition of liberalism and “impartial- | jism.” This is accomplished to the point sometimes, where you com- pletely lose sight of the horrors of | | War and see nothing but its glories on the sea, in the air, on the battle- jfield. And the editors have been | careful—very careful—not to reveal | too much of the actual barbarity of | j War, in the event a Second War) }makes it imperative to draft new| | millions of men who must not be/ | | | store for them. | | That is why “The First World| War” concentrates a great deal of | time and attention on the Captains | of War, their plans, ambitions, hopes, both before and after 1914. During the course of the picture | Some several hundred Kings, Em- | perors, Queens, Princes, Ozars, | Kaisers, Presidents, most of them | dead or deposed, pass before our eyes, all | to hastily forewarned of what's in } \. | sary, Page 7~ PLOTTING the AMERICAN POGROMS This is the second instalment of the seventh article by John L. Spivak in the series “Plotting the American Pograms. appearing | weekly in the New Masses. In | these articles, Spivak exposes the widespread, organized anti-Sem- itic activities, closely linked with Nazi Germany, of organizations and individuals such as the Order of ‘76, Silver Shirts, Congressman L. T. McFadden, Ralph M. Easley, George Sylvester Viereick. In the first part of the present article Spivak interviews Viola Tima, of vague citizenship, organizer of the Youth Movement, whose attempt- ed congress of youth organizations last summer was defeated by the united efforts of radical and lib- eral groups. Miss Tima spent some time in Germany before the Con- gress was organized, and Spivak is attempting to make the young lady tell him who paid her ex- penses, oe a By JOHN L. SPIVAK i 'HE founder of the Youth Move- ment jumped to her feet “That's a God damned lie!” she shrieked. “Absolutely no! I don’t ody in the German gov I once had a few minutes interview with Hanfstaeng]—” “Yes, I know,” I said soothingly “Why, if you went to the German Consulate they wouldn’t even know my ve you gone there? have It wasn’t neces- Now, when you were in Ger you say you saw Hanfstaengl? also meet Goebbels, the many Let Taub tell why: ae if By kasd United States has the largest middle class of any capitalist | country. The ideas, the hopes and ambitions of many millions of Americans, derive, even today, from the old notion that the office boy can become the head of the firm, that every child is a potential President, and that the thing to do is to work hard, save, invest, profit, save more, invest more, and always get ahead, until you retire with a small yacht, a compact but well- trained staff of servants, a well- stocked cellar and endless leisure. ‘That was the big idea, the Amer- ican idea. “Conditions are vroving to the middle class that they can’t work because there are no jobs, they can't save because they haven't enough to live on, that monopoly capital is getting stronger under the New Deal, while the small business man is being squeazed out, and that the old ‘American idea’ of endless op- portunity (which never existed for any but the few) has disappeared doyn the same abyss with the in- | flated stocks of 1928. } “Well, the New Masses has this | and The question in this depart- ment, on Oct. 18, on what is the correct attitude for the working class on intermarriage between Negroes and whites has provoked a great deal of discussion. We have already published three let- ters from readers with corre- sponding answers. Today we are publishing a fourth which should add light on -till onethcr facet of this imporiant subject. ee ey le Comrade Editor: comrade I feel particularly glad that you have seen fit to discuss the question of racial intermarriage in your Questions and Answers col- umns. I wish to commend the ex- cellent manner in which you havs exposed the dangerous white chau- vinist tendencies of those comrades whose “logic” consists of little more than evasive rationalism. ~ Being already married to a Negro, naturally the mention made of so- cial ostracism, etc., in your reply on Nov. 5, sort of struck home. It seems to me that so many com- rades, many of them for many years active in revolutionary circles, need clarification as far as such mar- tiages are concerned. The number of rude stares, over- bearing attitude, over-“friendliness” of many such comrades makes me realize the magnitude of dealing with the subject of white chauvin- ism within the ranks of Party and Sepa mass organization cir- les, Only when we [the working class under the leadership of its Commv- nist Party—Editor] have completely gained control of the organs of propaganda, the newspapers, schools, movies, etc., through the proletarian revolution, will the matter of white chauvinism be completely and ruth- lessly dealt with, and eradicated. Only another word in regard to this question of mariying or not being willing to marry a Negro. The Editor hit the nail on the head when he said that the correspond- ent revealed his chauvinism in his to laugh at all the embattled re- viewers of the metropolis. Little Leftv "Peanurs” JoXNson| FIND HIS FOLKS AQE CEING EviCteo ly LeFYY RETURNS FROM StHooL-To LEARN A LESSON THAT iS NOT TAUSHT IN HIS CLASSROOM III HOwevER, UNCLE. JOHN ANO THE UNEMPLOYED COUNCIL ARE RidkT on THEJoB | Objection to all Negroes, ie. not stating that he objected to Negroes Being the white wife of a Negro, | to the recipient of |to do this; | part of the task is getting the mag- | azine known to its vast army of | potential readers. | Masses is being established. Sa | sentative on the spot for the New | Masses I will be able to maintain | close jartists there, arrange meetings, help jin a hundred ways. | | “Predictions? I can’t predict what | | the circulation of the New Masses | | from now. | low now, and we are going to push; Communist way out, can, must, and will win large sections of them to | our position. | “The task of the New Masses is and an indispe That's why the midwestern bureau of the New | “{T will be more than a circulation promotion office. As the repre- contact with writers and will be in the midwest six months | I know that it’s too! it up.” Taub has two meetings scheduled | ‘in inaugurating his work, one in Cleveland on November 13, at the | Greek Cultural Center, 2023 Pros- pect Avenue, the ether in Detroit, on November 16 at the John Reed Club, 108 West Hancock Street. Ad- mission is free at both meetings, there will be no collection. Questions and Answers over six feet two, One does not fall in love with a Negro. It is a man one loves, whose skin happens to be brown. Not only a man alone, but a particular man with certain endearing qualities such as possess- ing in common with the one who loves him, a bond of sympathy and understanding, or possessing admir- able traits of character and intelli- gence, and other qualities which one hardly stops to analyze when fall- ing in love. Strangely enough, the curly hair and brown skin, the broad nose and full lips ars an attraction is man’s love, in spite of the bourgeois propa- ganda. So why generalize? It is even possible to love a mem- ber of the Negro race such as has been described and still be a white chauvinist. I happen to know such an individual. The sun sets and rises around her husband, but the woman is decidedly a white chau- vinist as far as other Negroes are concerned. So, again, it is rather foolish to declare as a question of principle that one will or will not marry a Negro. Foolish and dan- gerous to those who consider them- selves Communists.—Nora Smith. reer The above letter is printed as part of the discussion on the Negro Question in this department. It calls for no answer, except to point out that while many Party mem- bers are still confused on the Na- tional Question, the questions which have been sent to the Daily Worker and answered in this department are not necessarily unhealthy ex- pressions of chauvinism. In most cases these questions indicate a sin- cere desire for clarification on the Negro Question. Some of the ques- tions clearly came from non-Party workers, which in itself is a sign that the Communist position on the Negro Question is exciting the in- terest of the non-Party masses. Their efforts to grasp the revolu- tionary significance of our position must be met with the greatest sym- pathy and patient explanation. This applies also to those confused Party members who are honestly seeking enlightenment. \life among the Russian soldiers dur- q | Didn’t you with weapons against the masses they casually to slaughter. ane minister of propaganda?” “I met Goebbels in Geneva.” Of the struggles of the masses “How did you get to him at home, of the intimate lives of the; “I didn’t get to him. I just went recruits, the film gives nothing. jin during a press conference like I Only toward the middle of the pic- |0 into press conferences in Wash- ture are we shown some signs of | ington.” “You said you met Hanfstaeng] once. Didn’t you meet him more than once?” “I met him twice,” she said “How did you get to Hanf-/ staengl?” | “I got to Putzy through a friend He gave me a letter of introduc- | ing the days of the February and October 1917 Revolutions. In this sequence there are two or | three remarkable flashes of Lenin | and Krupskaya at home, Lenin toy- | ing amiably with a kitten, Krups- - We tread @ book close by. | tion.” e film winds up with a thor- | % iq; i s oughly false and vicious montage of | earione aa aid events forecasting the Second World | “Why don’t you wink to give me | War, with Communists lumped to- ithis friend's pane?” ¥ i at gether with Fascists to suggest that | There's no w hy—people—there's } both must be fought unstintingly|no answer to it,” she floundered by all who have faith in Democracy again. i ie . and the rights of private property. : | Nazi Tricks | GOLD, a super-spectacle in Ger- man produced by Ufa and pre-| sented at the Eighty-Sixth St. | Casino Theatre, with Hans Albers and B: te Helm, Reviewed by ALLEN CHUMLEY “OLD,” the “amazing story” turned by Ufa into a “superfilm,” is still another type of hokus- Pocus, designed to be befuddie the} uyo1» fiercely. | People. Though it assumes in this | He ehh I caer asl rs at ei jcase the disguise of melodramatic! “But it does,” I assured her. | extravaganza, its feints are none|«Especially if he is a man who at| the less cunning. At a time when | one time went to prison when he | Germany stands on the brink of|was generally suspected of being a ped ee tiare pulls out the lesson German agent.” f i} idas! 3. _ Taking Frankenstein's lead, follow- | ee at piers ag ing the long cycle of clangent “I mean that the man who gave crapriagrian as Hollywood has it, you the letter of introduction was} it gives to that series its age-old Edward Aloysius Rumley who was} the letter of introduction con- nected with the German govern- ment? Is that why you don’t want) to mention his name?” “No! Absolutely no!” she claimed. She rose to her feet and| started pacing the small room. “He jhas no connection whatever with | ‘the German government.” “Has he ever had any connection | with the German government?” | rf ex- culmination, ‘The gleaming ma-|indicted with two of Arthur Gar-! chine it constructs is devised to|field Hays’ partners, during the | turn lead into gold... . And it is a| World War in connection with the | stunning creation. Five stories high, a fortress of steel and of glass, udded with controls and levers, now incandescent with torrents of New York Evening Mail scandal. | Certainly you must have heard the} talk of his being a German agent. You did, didn’t you? | propaganda minister Goebbels’ chief | associates. Those letters said that you should be shown every con- sideration and that interviews should be arranged for you with Hitler, Goering and Goebbels—that you were an important American jour- nalist who, upon your return would be of great help in acquainting the | United States with the true char- | acter of Germany. Now, why did you try to keep Rumley’s name out of this?” “T didn’t want to get him involved because he is connected with the Committee for the Nation.” “You know, of course, that Rum- ley ts secretary of the Committee for the Nation. Nevertheless his But the dream does not last. “Nemesis” interferes. Its owner has committed two crimes. First (for purpose of plot), he has murdered a man to procure the blue-prints. This is wrong and for this Divine Justice demands he must render a life for a life. But this is the least. More horrid far is his pas- sion for gold: it only leads to deflation, And for this the ma- chine must pay. ... Our hero (the murdered man’s assistant) takes | care of both crimes in one pro- cess. He cremates the man in the holocaust of the machine. And then he reaps the man’s daugh- ter.... One still wonders, however, what happens next, in “regenerate” Deutschland to this engineer—out of ajob. But this only conveys us back to the fiesh-an-biood Germans who witness the picture. The produc- ers' plot against them is palpable enough. For over an hour it be- guiles them in their destitution with vicarious visions of riches. Then it filches their vain hopes DANGER AHEAD N. Nichols and Steve Dropal, Chicago, place their $1.50 con- tribution under Lab. and Shop— “to Comrade Rams and may his pen grow stronger.” Stronger financial support is what is need- ed now, before the Worker Cor- respondence Department forces him to trail behind in his $250 away. “You don't really want quota! money,” it says, “—see what de-|! 'N. Nichols & S, Dropel.. $1.50 struction money calls down. Now Pen & Hammer—Science that you think about it, aren't you! fo ER od eae 4.00 fortunate quite as you are... .?” |) Class in Workers School. 2.50 It’s a great trick. But it won't Previously received . 30.24 work forever. It doesn’t take long in enforced labor camps to distin- guish between tricks—and wages. ... The Showdown! C'MON REDS OFFICER- WE'RE GoIN@ “To PUT THE FURNITURE RIGHTY BACK WHERE IT CRME erom| BRERK tr ARE “HE BLUE | | CORTS ANO BRASS BUTTONS WHEN WORKERS HOMES ARE. BEING BROKEN pers iui “WAS the person who gave youl; ON wack Sie | |p does not appear on the letiere the largest floating debt in the country? head [A shook hrough Rumiey. Put that , Arthur did not tell me that. as @ matter of fact, defend- Put I do want the whole “Well, ine Rumley said, Garfield Hays.’” when I started my maga- 8 zi ‘You ought to meet Arthur “Mr, Hays was in Berlin on the | Reichstag fire trial. You saw him jin Berlin at that time?” | I am a friend of his daughter. | We were all together. I spent most of my time with him.” ‘Did you ever talk t the Reichstag fire trial? “Why—what = difference |that make?” | “Let us assume—mind you, I am |not saying you have anything to do with it—but let us assume that Arthur Garfield Hays, as one of the attorneys for the defendants, nat- urally would know the plans of the defense. If a charming woman, @ friend of his daughters, let us say, whom he had no reason to distrust, asked questions, she could learn a lot, couldn’t she?” “Yes, but—’” “Did you discuss fire trial with him?” “Yes, but—” “I understand. He said no more | him about could the Reichstag |to you than he would, discussing it with anyone else. He explained all that to me. Now regarding Mr. |Rumley. How did you meet him?” ‘(yH——” she rose from her chair with a quick motion. “All right. Did Mr. Rumiey ever okay a printer's bill for you when you went into bankruptcy?” “He never did!” “Very well, you are broke. have no income. When Washington last week You you went to ou went di- to the Hays Adams House?” vos.” “That's ah expen did you go there?” “Because it’s a nice place.” ee a good reason,” I laughed. yed with some friends after that—Miss Margery Watson at the LaSalle Apartments, 1928 Connecti- cut Avenue—is that right?” “Yes.” “You had meetings at her aparte ment. Did you ever meet Kurt G, Sell there?” “Who is he?” she asked blankly. “I never heard the name.” (To be coniinued) ve place New Pamphlet By Bela Kun on United Action In the Labor Movement One of the vital issues confront- ing the working class today is the joining together of its forces for the aba ra against imperialist war m neon, now lifting the purr of its} “He gave you the letter, didn't | and ism. A pamphlet on this voice to the tumult of thunder, it| he?” | question has just been published sends the spectator reeling. How] “Yes,” she admitted slowly. entitled, “The Most Burning Ques- can it fail to do marvels! And it} “And he gave you another letter | tion—Unity of Action,” written by oon als It vomits bullion by|to Baron von Schmidt-Pauli, one of | Bela Kun, a member of the Prosi- dium of the Executive Committes of the Communist International. This pamphlet is an earnest ap- peal to Socialist workers to join hands on daily issues with their class brothers in the Communist Party. Bela Kun recounts the united front offers made by the Communist International to the Second International and by Com- munist Parties throughout the world to Social-Democratic Parties in their own countries. He examines each one of the “reaso. given by So- cial-Democratic leaders in their con- tinuous refusals, and exposes these “reasons” as obstacles deliberately put in the way of the united front \by the leaders against the wishes of the Social-Democratic workers. The pamphict shows that unity of action in day-to-day struggles can be achieved without organiza- tional unity of the Socialist and Communist Parties, citing instances of such actions in Germany, Austria, and France. And it is made clear that in now addressing pro- | posals for unity to Socialist leaders as well as to Socialist workers, we Communists have effected a turn in cur tactics by altering the ferm of cur struggle in order to meet a sit- | uation which has changed since the | beginning of this year. We Communists will fight with dauntiess persistence for unity of [the labor movement. Bela Kun’s “Unity of Action,” explains simply and clearly how we conduct this fight. “Unity of Action” has 64 pages and selis for 10 cents a copy. It is published by Workers Library Pub- lishers. LIKES COMIC STRIP Max Msngel, N.Y.C., in favor- ing “del” with part of his reeent contribution, did it “for his orig- inating and splendidly executing | a comic strip that is of interest to both old and young.” Per- Bhaps you'll be inclined to repeat your support, M. M., when “del” 4 comes out with his new idea for praising the $500 quota. 3 A Friend a Vie HB. .. 2 Previously received .... 114.38

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