The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 10, 1934, Page 5

Meee — DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1934 Page 5 — —— CHANGE | THE WORLD! ——— By MICHAEL GOLD ERE are three glasses containing a white liquid. Is it safe to drink from all of them? On examination, the first glass is found to contain water; the second contains gin; and the third a poisonous acid. It would be wrong therefore, to group these three glasses in one category, and to say that since they are alike in form, their content is the same, If the waiter in the restaurant did this, he would be a murderer. But that is exactly the stupid thing done by liberal enemies of Communism when they lump a fascist dictatorship in the same poli- tical category with a proletarian dictatorship. This is loose thinking, done perhaps with a purpose. It surely seems a wilful idiocy of in- tellectuals who wish to confuse the masses of people attracted today by the great liberating hope of the Soviet Revolution. These bourgeois thinkers have often accused the Marxists of over- simplification of the world problem; of ignoring the nuances of poli- ties; and seeing the world in melodramatic black and white. But it is the liberals, in their anxiety to save capitalism, who have lost the ability to see clearly. How can a fascist dictatorship be the same as the rule of the’ working class? Even the form by which the two states rule is different, if carefully examined. Certainly, the goal desired by the two forms of dictatorship are more than worlds apart. Life and Death Struggle NN THE fascist form of dictatorship one finds the poison of war, of race oppression, of rabid nationalism and medieval darkness, the horror that comes with an intensified and desperate capitalism. Within the form of the proletarian dictatorship one finds inter- nationalism; equality of men and women; equality of races; a desire for peaceful construction instead of war, all the signs of a renaissance of our tortured humanity that attends a growing socialism. It is as accurate to say these dictatorships are the same as to say @ malarial mosquito and a honey-bee are the same, since both belong to the insect world. William Z. Foster is an organizer of American labor. Henry Ford is also such an American organizer. Does this make them the same? Are they pursuing the seme ends? Of course not; even a policeman could instruct the intellectuals in the difference. And more; it happens to be the most glaring and monumental fact of our time that Fascism and Communism are mortal enemies, and that each regards the other as its chief adversary in an inevitable life-and-death struggle for the world. Surely all history since the war has demonstrated this; to deny it, would be like setting out to prove that there were no skyscrapers in New York City. Yet this is precisely what the liberals set out to do. They have not yet decided whether a glass of water is preferable to a glass of Nazi poison. It is the glass of Utopian gin they choose, with all its vague, impossible dreams of a “planned capitalism’ confused “demo- cratic” rhetoric, muddy thought, and delusions of grandeur. They fear reality and the decisions it involves. Capitalism, the great crim- inal, promises to murder off half the human race in another war. The liberals know this, but like Hamlet, haven’t the courage to use the revolutionary steel that will end this monster; they can only unpack their hearts in foolish words. * * . The World Is in Motion MARXIST who sets out to analyze capitalism doesn’t permit him- self these easy verbal victories of the liberals. He has been taught by Marx, Lenin and Stalin in the school of materialist dialectics. He always searches for the concrete; he ignores not a single factor in any situation. Besides knowing that truth is always concrete, he knows also that the world is a dynamic one and that nothing in it can be studied in a state of rest. Everything moves; and everything contains contradictions. It is the battle of these contradictions that must be analyzed, since out of them, as from negative and positive poles, the electricity of life is born. But the anti-Marxist liberals are given to the abstract generalities that come from a static philosophy of life. When they say dictatorship it means one eternal fact to them, and when they say democracy, it means another such fixed and eternal verity. For them nothing changes or moves. They can never be made to understand, for example, that the proletarian dictatorship is not @ political system drawn according to some divine blue print left by Marx, never to be altered by blasphemous hands, but that it is a transitional form between the two historic epochs of capitalism and Communism, . . . Is a Starving Man Free? 'HE Marxists study all the fine shades of capitalism, for this is their enemy, and to conquer it, they must know it better than j the capitalists themselves, Thus a Marxist, in reply to the false alternative offered by the liberals, that one must choose between dictatorship or democracy, does not merely point out that there can be no real democracy under | capitalism. He acknowledges that France, England and North America are the last strongholds of the political system. established with blood and violence by the revolutionists Cromwell, Washington and Robes- pierre. This system, named Democracy, brought liberty of trade to the middle class, and a free market. Beginning as a revolution against feudalism, the attempt of a rising merchant class to shake off its aristocratic exploiters, this capitalist democracy did free a section of the population and usher in a remarkable century of expansion in science, in art, and in the production of economic goods. But the great majority of the population, the workers, farmers, and lower middle class, never really benefitted by the capitalist revo- lution. It is they who have borne the brunt of all the cycles of war! and depression that go with capitalism. They have never been free. A starving man cannot be said to be free. The struggling doctor in a slum district knows that his people may vote equally with Mr. J. P. Morgan, but that to tell them to cruise in a yacht for their health would be cruel mockery. (To be continued tomorrow) . * . 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'VERY article is important to working class women — how to make a warm gilet to wear under worn coats, the speech of Helene Stassova at the World Congress of Women against War and Fascism, the story of how the women of Hillsboro rallied to the defense of the 15 Hillsboro prisoners, the call from the Scottsboro mothers to de- fend their innocent sons, a speedy review of news of the month—all these touch on many phases of our movement: showing how the prob- lems involved can best be brought home to women entering our move- ment. Xmas with its irtensified business ballyhoo about getting your shop- ping done early is admirably used by Sasha Small for a description of how the bourgeois women’s publi- cations hide the year-round poverty of the workers by heart-throbbing stories. She calls for contributions to the Prisoners’ Relief Fund of the International Labor Defense. The children too are not forgotten. The story “Guards of the Harvest” is for children and their parents who want them to grow up to defend the workers and their fatherland, the U. S. 5S. R. The message of the magazine from the story “Over the Back Fence” by Janet Freeling: “We've got to make protests, if we ever want to improve things. It’s up to you to demand these things. You've got a right to them. Let them know you mean business,” makes every reader and subscriber feel that the Work- ing Woman is the means of intro- ducing the work of the Communist Party and its mass organizations to thousands of new women readers, women who will be organized to take their place to make a new world with their husbands, sons and brothers. Canyass social clubs in the neigh- borhood for funds for the Daily Worker. Only one week is left in which to complete the full quota of $60,000. CONFIDENTIALLY SPEAKING Don't tell anybody, but Unit 6 happens to be Del's own, and this is what they think of him. 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If I write now in answer to the scandalous, untrue and li- belous review of Gold Eagle Guy, which appeared in the Daily Worker for December 4, it is in justice to myself, to the Group Theatre and to the many comrades who have When Leon Alexander says that the character of Guy Button is “not woven into the texture of the play” he is making an esthetic criticism which is his right. When he says were creating even vaster empires” he is talking sheer nonsense. It is patently impossible, in one evening in the theatre to show every capi- talist who created a fortune, or to pick a protagonist by carefully weighing the size of his swag. Guy Button is enough to symbolize the lot, even though Mellon, Rockefeller and Morgan were more successful. And when your reviewer adds to the sentence I have quoted above, the words “There is nothing of (the others) in the story Melvin Levy has written,” he is simply stating a palpable untruth. In the second scene of the play we see him get his gamblers and vultures,” who helps him for plainly economic reasons and whom he later betrays with a similar high purpose, “And what,” asks the reviewer, “about Guy Button’s relationships to the workers?” Now it is possible that Leon Alexander did not actu- ally see Gold Eagle Guy. For it seems incredible that if he had he would have not noticed that: (1) Guy Button’s fortune is based on the importation to the United States of coolies, a form of enterprise clearly related in the play to the slave trade; and carried on for the avowed purpose of wage-cutting; (2) Guy Button kills off a whole shipload of workers out of hand to end of the play Guy Button is pre- pared to plunge the country into war with Japan to save the fortune he has built not—as Alexander would have it—as “an honorable “by murder, by destruction.” Indeed, Leon Alexander's whole statement of the play’s treatment of the Japanese is untrue and stupid. “We are left to imply,” he writes, “that the U. S. Government adopted a hands off policy... . Guy Button stands staunchly alone against the Japanese Government —and to save his own skin he is compelled to rob his own govern- 7:00 P. M.-WEAF—Ray Perkins, Songs WOR—Sports Talk—Ford Frick WJZ—Amos 'n’ Andy WABC—Myrt and Marge—Sketeh 1:15-WEAF—Denny Orchestra WOR—Comedy and Music WJ2—Plantation Echoes; Mildred Bailey, Songs; Robison Orchestra WABC—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 7:30-WEAF—Minstrel_Show WOR—Mystery Sketch WJZ—Red Davis—Sketch WABC—The O'Neills—Sketch 1:45-WEAF—Uncle Ezra—Sketeh WOR—Dance Music WJZ—Dangerous Paradise—Sketch WABO—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Himber Orchestra WOR—Lone_Ranger—Sketch WJZ—Jan Garber, Supper Club WABC—Robinson Buckaroos 8:15-WABC—Edwin ©. Hill, Commentator 8:30-WEAF—S8ymphony Orchestra; Gladys Swarthout, Soprano; Mixed Chorus WOR—Variety Musicale ‘WJZ — Attorney General Homer S. Cummings, Opening Netional Con- ference on Crime, Washington, D.C. WABC—Concert Orchestra; Reinald Werrenrath, Baritone 9:00-WEAF—Gypsies Orchestra; Frank Parker, Tenor “THIS (1S MISS GOODHART WHOM WE KIDS ALL LOVE= ANO SHE'LL “ELL You ALL ABOUT HOW SHE WAS FIRED- FROM OUR SCHOOL FOR FEEDING Us/ It is a big push to eat, And a bigger push to live at all. seen and criticized Gold Eagle Guy. | “there were other men .. . who! start with the aid of one of “these | build his fortune; and (3) At the} business man” but as the play says, | The chevrons and insignia You wear were well earnéd ... Gaunt ribs, hard hands, Why eyen the sky is fenced! Halt for it and they'll hem you in. starve, And your children will starve, Playing they have a job. and the one that’s not. There'll be no trouble telling the one you're in; And all the abstractions that lie between a baffling ground. It isn’t a question of fight or not fight; It’s a question of live or die, And revolution is life... Death you can get in any bread line. Author of Gold Eagle Guy Objects to ‘Daily’ Review ment . .. and to sink that ship to hide the theft.” | Does Alexander or any one else | imagine that the author or produc- | ers of this play considered the sink- |ing of a ship and the killing of its jcrew a beneficent act and that is remained for him to discover its scoundrelly aspects? Or does Alexander believe that | when Guy Button threatens a Jap- | anese war he intends to go out and fight it with his bare hands? | As for the portrayal of a Japanese | capitalist as “a stock, oily oriental!” | Every line of the play and every |inch of the acting indicates two | powerful and about equal imperial- ist scoundrels jockeying for position. | Fraternally, MELVIN LEVY. * . ELVIN LEVY'S letter, by pulling sentences and phrases out of | the context of my review completely misconstructs my criticism of his play. Firstly, I have no quarrel with not ask to. be shown every capital- ist who created a fortune, I did not state that the character of Guy Button was not woven ito the tex- ture of the play. What I did say is that his play fails to include dramatically—as an intrinsic part of the action “those social circum- stances that made Guy Button pos- sible—and that therefore he lives and eats in a historical vacuum, As Gold Eagle goes up the ladder of fortune, he lives in a more and more rarified atmosphere which at the height of his triumph includes | only himself and a faithful clerk. The same applies to the inclusion of the working class in the play. True, and I said as much, they are mentioned once or twice, but at no time do we see them on the stage. The designer provided scenes two and four with a street level. That was the proper place for any action of the workers. But here again no use is made of the oppor- tunities provided by the sets. In other words, every social con- flict in merely talked about, while the action of the play revolves around “far-fetched and violent episodes.” As to the Japanese episode: On Monday last, a bourgeois group saw the play at a benefit for Bellevue Hospital. This is what a member of the group reported to me of their reaction: That they came away full of hatred and contempt for the Japanese and admiration |for Guy Button. Surely, a scene unclear enough to be interpreted in such fashion cannot boast of a “revolutionary” attitude. —LEON ALEXANDER. WOR—The Witch's Tale 1s) WIZ—Mii how WABC—I Ponselle, Soprano; Kostela: Orchestra 9:30-WEAF—House Party; Frances Lang- ford, Contralto; Conrad Thibault, Baritone WOR—Lum and Abner—Sketch WJZ—President Roosevelt, Speaking at National Conference on Crime, Washington, D.C. WABC—Same as WJZ 9:45-WOR—Burnett Orchestra 10:00-WEAF—Eastman Orchestra; Lady; Male Quartet WOR-Sid Gary, Baritone WJZ—America in Music, John Tasker Howard, Narrator ‘WABC—Wayne King Orchestra 10:15-WOR—Ourrent Events—H, E. Read 10:30-WEAF—Roosevelt Administration's New Power Policy—Frank R. Mc- Ninch, Chairman, Federal Power Commission ‘WOR—Variety Musicale WJZ—America in Music, John Tasker Howard, Narrator ‘WABC—Wayne King Orchestra 10:45-WJZ—Murder in the Orchestra— Sketch WABC—Emery Deutsch, Violin + 11:00-WEAF—The Grummits—Sketch Lullaby his choice of a protagonist, I did | By DAVID PLATT | | Thaelmann Film in Danger | | AN ATTEMPT is being made in Cleveland, Ohio, to stop per- formances of that sterling anti-fas cist film Ernst Thaelmann, being released throughout the country by the Thaelmann Liberation Commit- tee ...as a result of pressure from | both the German and the Italian | Consulates of Cleveland, an attor- | ney from the Attorney General's | office and two representatives of the Censors Board came up to the the- | atre where the film was scheduled to be shown and questioned the |right to show the picture uncen- sored ... the reply was that the film was a news-reel and therefore not subject to censorship . . .but the officials maintained the stub- born attitude that a news-reel meant something like Hearst’s and other Hollywood news-reels and could not possibly be meant to in- clude a thoroughly un-American film like Ernst Thaelmann—Fighter Against Fascism ... the case is now pending with the Censors Board . in the meantime the film is being held up and will probably be rejected unless a protest cam- | paign is started against the actions of the Cleveland authorities. Censorship in Pennsylvania T Film and Photo League of Philadelphia recently dug up the following important data on | censorship in Pennsylvania . . | Potemkin — banned in Pittsburgh |for the past nine years because it | “incites to riot” ... Torch Tango— “Elininate close-up view of tear-gas bomb in box” ... Eliminate dia- logue: “ ‘It’s a tear gas bomb. When that explodes there won't be a dry | eye in the house’” . . . Cheaters— | “Eliminate capitalized words where | they appear . . ‘Suppose you did | Prefer the straight and narrow .. .| | YOU'VE FOUND THAT THERE) | AREN’T ENOUGH JOBS IN THE) | WORLD FOR HONEST PEOPLE| |... MUCH LESS FOR JAIL BIRDS, | HAVEN’T YOU?’” ... The Expec- | tant Father—“Eliminate all speech- | | es describing longings of pregnancy . +. also the word ‘liverwurst’ wher- | ever it appears.” ... From Variety, | Sept. 18th, 1934... “And in Penn- sylvania where taxpayers are es- | timated to contribute $100,000 per | annum for censor maintenance, no | feature picture can contain a se- quence dealing with rioting, despite | | the fact that news-reels can tell | their story in the same state un- touched” . . . “In Pennsylvania it | | is estimated there are from 200 to | 300 per cent more deletions and | rejections. than in any other state” |: : : “The present Penna. Board | of Censors, long considered one of | the toughest in the country will! cease to exist officially January Ist | ... While few in the industry regret the present board’s disbandment question is what kind of crowd is | | coming in”... Yes, what kind?... | Federal Censorship of Films 'HE fascist Hearst press has fired the first gun in the campaign for federal censorship of films | which is expected to consume many | sessions of the coming Congress .. . | | the Chicago Herald and Examiner | | in its issue of December Ist, devotes | | a leading editorial to what it con- siders to be the “communist” trend | in Hollywood production .. . States | Mr. Hearst: “If motion pictures are to be used for Communistic prop- | | aganda, it will not be long before | the American government will have to step in to censor and suppress | such propaganda and directly to; supervise the film companies re- sponsible for it and see that they | are conducted on a patriotic Amer- | | ican basis "Perhaps the fol- | lowing letter dated Nov. 30th, just received from our Hollywood corre- | spondent will throw some light on) exactly what Mr. Hearst means by “communistic propaganda”... | “There seems to be quite a lot | of organized opposition toward “The President Vanishes,” Walter Wan- | ger’s newest film. Hearst is par-| ticularly bitter, for the film shows | an ex-publisher and several mag- | nates plotting to force the U. S.| into a European war...this morn- | ing the local Hearst rag printed a bilgey article directed toward the industry, particularly condemning it for its prevalent use of propa- ganda films in typical fascist manner he threatened the industry, stating that if they continued spreading Communist (sic) propa- ganda, it would be necessary for the government to regulate the | business and dictate the type of | picture to be produced .. . appar- | ently this opposition coming from Hearst and other sources is having | its effect. Paramount is nervous and is delaying the release date of “The President Vanishes.” Wanger, worried about it all, has just flown to New York with the object of straightening out a dangerous situ- | ation . . . I know this... that Hearst sent for the film and wanted tt run at his San Simson home, when he had as his guests, DuPont, Raskob, Hutton and others of the Liberty League, organizing at the time in Los Angeles . . . whether | NEGRO AMERICANS, WHAT NOW? By James Weldon Johnson Vanguard Press, publishers. Price $1.25, Reviewed by | CYRIL BRIGGS R, JOHNSON’S book is a pro- grammatic document of the Negro petty bourgeoisie pen of one of its most bri rensentatives. It is one of the ironies of history that a representative of that group which, by its reformist policies and shameless truckling to the hite ruling class, has led the Negro peo- ple up a blind alley, now essays the role of a Moses to chart the “way out.” The irony is further height- ened by Mr. Johnson’s admission of the political and intellectual bankruptcy of his class: “We are not so sanguine about our course and our goal as we were a decade ago. We are floundering.’ Despite this admission, Mr. John- son’s goal, cleverly camouflaged be- hind a pretense of unprejudiced ap- proach, impartial examination and “scientific” elimination (of oppos- ing views), is to maintain the hege- mony of this bankrupt class over the Negro liberation movement, particularly against the growing challenge of the young Negro pro- letariat and the increasing convic- tion of the Negro masses that only .|the Communist program offers the way out of their intolerable condi- tions. In his foreword, Mr. Johnson an- nounces his intention of outlining “the racial situation as it exists today” and of pointing “the ways which, I believe, lead out.” But only a quack doctor would neglect to diagnose a given malady. To find a proper cure one must under- stand the malady. And Mr. John- son completely ignores the funda- mental causes of Negro oppression, which are deeply imbedded in the capitalist system of robbery and repression of the vast majority of the population, black and white, by an insignificant minority of capi-| talists and big landowners. AYING claim to a realistic ap- proach to his subject, Mr. John- son ignores the most realistic fea- ture of capitalist society and its significance to the Negro liberation movement: the class struggle, with its growing solidarity of Negro and white toilers in the developing class and national struggles. The half-slave conditions in the} Southern Black Belt continue to set the pattern for the economic and social oppression of the Negroes in the North, but Mr. Johnson of- fers no program for the Negro toil- ers denied possession of the land} they till, plundered of their labor and crops by the white landowners and bankers, and subjected to all! forms of violent repression, accept the thread-bare reformist illusions {in the “fairness and impartiality” | of the lynch courts of the land- owners. He brushes aside this ba- sic question of the Negro libera- tion struggle, the fight for the pos- session of the land by the land- less Negro farmers, with the shame- ful lie that the actual enslavement (which he admits) of the Negro Wanger showed it I don't know, but the chances are he did, for the blast appearing in the Examiner this morning seemed directed at this picture . . likely, too that Luther, the Nazi, was at his home while the picture was shown, for he also was a house guest of Hearst last week-end. (The next day there appeared the editorial “Fascism and Communism” and the editorial at- tacking France on the situation in the Saar)...” Watch this column for further news on “The President Vanishes,” Hearst's campaign for federal censorship of films, and “Call to Arms.” Ree Reorganization of N.Y. Film and Photo League HE Film and Photo League of N. Y. has undergone complete revision to facilitate planned film and photo production .. . workers, writers, cameramen, typists, cutters, technicians, directors, organizers badly needed . . . assistance of John Reed Club writers in scenario and editing departments especially wel- comed ... the field of the film is certainly broad enough to include other cultural workers besides ca- meramen ... high time the revolu- tionary cultural movement began) actively supporting the one revolu- tionary cultural medium of our time whose potentialities are without limit .. . because the film is bigger than any single art or individual it can thrive only when nourished by other arts and individuals en- gaged in them .. . there is no reason why the cinema since it is the one medium of our time capable of reaching millions of workers in a single day, cannot soon “become the central focal point of the cul- tural movement . . . new address of the N. Y. League is 31 East’ 21st Street... + An Earful and an Eyeful! QUIETLY, BUT FORCE - FULLY, MIS$ GOODHAR TELLS HER STORY AND LIEYG ONE OF HER PuPiL S ON-f0 “HE “TABLE / \ HERE 1S EXHIBIT by del FF HE SILL, UNDE RNOURISHED, AND WITH - OUY DECENT CLOTHES OR SHOES = | FED HIM WITHOLT | FOOD “TicKETS BECRUSE HE! BoRRO OF EOUCRTION FLASHES and Blind Alley ‘Way Out’ CLOSEUFS |(ffered Negro Masses By Reformist Misleader croppers however, unique in that it is subject to amelioration rough legal processes.” Mr. Johnson devotes a relatively large portion of his 103-page book to Communism, which he does not attempt to lightly dismiss for, on his own admission, “Communism is coming to be regarded as the ine fallible solution by an increasing number of us.” Mr. Johnson, how- attempts to conceal the fear hatred he he lynch against Communism, behind nplied sympathy with the Soe system and the aims of Come munism Declaring that he “holds no brief against Communism as a system of government,” Mr. Johnson never- theless sets out to set up all sorts of barriers between Communism and the Negro people. His subtle method of “discrediting” Commu- nism, does not prevent him, how- ever from digging his own traps and falling headlong into them, or of making himself utterly ridiculous as when he denies that the wiping out of race hatreds in the Soviet Union is a Communist achievement, and attempts thereby to negate the world-significance of the October Revolution to the oppressed Negro and colonial masses. ever shares a HIS attempt to undermine the faith of the Negro masses in the Soviet Union, Mr. Johnson finds it necessary to ignore completely its successful solution of the Na- tional Question: the emancipation of the more than 148 nationalities formerly oppressed by ‘Tsarism, Here he finds himself up against an embarrassing fact in the changed situation of the Jews. Not every one knows that the old Russia was a prison for over 148 nationalities, but everybody knows of the bloody pogroms and persecutions instigated by the former Tsarist regime against the Jews. And Mr. John- son finds himself forced to admit that “oppression and repression of the Jews have been greatly abated or entirely wiped out by Commu- nism.” However, to offset the sig- nificance of this fact to the op- pressed Negro people, he attempts to differentiate between “Commu- nism in Russia,” and its “possible variations” in the U. &., at the same time implying that the psychology of the American people, and not the economic system, is responsible for Negro oppression. In his labored pretense to “a plain and reasoned statement of facts,” Mr. Johnson also admits that with the overthrow of capital- ism and the establishment of a proletarian dictatorship in this country, “race discrimination would | be officially banned and the reasons and feelings back of them would finally disappear.” But he immedi- ately falls back on the discredited Lovestone theory of “American ex- ceptionalism” and declares against | the likelihood of the social revolu- | tion in this country. : 'HERE is nothing in Mr. Johnson's book to disturb the lynch rulers or offend the white répresentatives of the ruling class who dominate the decisions of the Board of Di- | rectors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored | People, with whose top leadership Mr. Johnson was long connected, Mr. Johnson's contribution to the | Negro Question boils down to a grotesque program of outworn piati- tudes and insipid improvisation of the old, discredited reformist poli- cies, | To the Negro masses faced with | the stark realities of mass unem= | ployment, jim-crow denial of relief, |inereasing oppression and fascist lynch terror, Mr. Johnson has nothing better to offer than faith in the lynch courts and the pious | hope that the lynch rulers may be ‘induced by “education” to abandon the evil of their ways. | His closing declaration that so long as he is not spiritually jim- | crowed, he is not jim-crowed, will | hardly conyince the Negro masses subjected in their daily lives to the | degrading and harassing effects of | jim-crowism and segregation, with | resultant high rents, exacted by both Negro and white landlords, un- | sanitary conditions and jim-crow | denials of jobs and equal pay for | equal work. 8. 0. S.! | No contributions were received today to the credit of Lab and Shop. Total to date.. + $204.14 |Australian Government ‘Bars Book by Ralph Fox |On British Imperialism | | | Ralph Fox's book, “The Colonial Policy of British Imperialism,” has been barred by the Australian gov- ‘ernment, because, in the lucid words jof the Customs authorities of the \Port of Sydney: “Such publication is a prohibited import in terms of Section 52(g) of the Act mentioned pursuant to Customs Proclamation No. 221 of | 28-7-1932." Hence the book has [been “seized as forfeited to His | Majesty on account of a contraven- tion of the Customs Act, 1901-1934.” His Majesty's zeal in suppressing |Fox's book, which is published here by International Publishers, can be understood in the light of Fox’s penetrating expose of the founda- ~ tions of British imperialist policy, — The author says in his preface: : “The whole development of Brit- ~ ish capitalism today, in its efforts — to break through the meshes of the crisis net, is towards a more ruth- \less repression of the working class {at home. The way to open dic- tatorship, to war, is being clearly prepared. In all this development | the colonial question occupies a cen- tral place, and becomes more clearly a life and death one for the worker in his fight for freedom.” ‘ Pea SERGE SPSTIE asieise a