The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 1, 1935, Page 5

D AILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JA JARY 1, 1935 Page § CHANGE —THE — WORLD! —— By MICHAEL GOLD REMEMBER how anxiously we used to wait to hear the bells ringing in the church roofs and the whistles blowing at twelve o’clock sharp midnight announcing that the calendar of time had completed one more infinitely small unit of its progression. We used to crowd to the window and lean out and watch the clock. And sure enough, just as.the hand moved up to the looming twelve all the bells began to peel and all the whistles began to blow. Then somebody would turn and say, “Happy New Year!” a little bit sheenishly and then some little philosopher would murmur “Well, another year gone.” Then you'd try to think where it had gone to and of ail the things that had happened that year and how little had been done of all the things you could do and then you'd gay, “It went fast, didn’t it?” | ! A Lawyer | eo these sombre reflections are aroused in me as I wait once more for the bells and the whistles to start blowing to announce that 1934 is gone the way of the rest of the calendar. I haven't sent out any New Year’s cards because there are few people to whom I can really wish a happy new year without making myself a liar. I know in advance that to the majority of the people I know the coming year isn’t going to be a very happy one. On the other hand there are some to whom I should send New Year’s cards. For example, there's that lawyer friend. His business has been going excellently. Today, he is handling some big corpo- ration cases. He is a very successful man. He became successful by dunning poor people for debts they owed furniture store owners and real estate corporations. He became successful by ruining a couple of people, by bribing a few jurymen, sending boxes of cigars to the court magistrates, and taking on cases for a lower fee than y other self-respecting lawyer would. Today, he has increased the number of suits in his wardrobe to an even dozen. He has six pairs of shoes, including a pair of dancing pumps; and lately, he has Started io read drugstore novels by Edna Ferber and Joseph Herge- sheimer in order to cultivate a taste for literature and have something to speak about at bridge parties. He is now reading Ernest Heming- way's “Farewell to Arms.” As a corporation lawyer, protecting the interests of big business, he will undoubtedly be a success. I ought to send him a New Year's card. Perhaps with a little bit of poetry on it iike this: May New Year's bring you bigger fees Protecting private properties. ® * And a Writer IN THE world of the arts and sciences, I could, of course, find a worthy recipient or two for a happy New Year's greeting card. Another gentleman I know, or once had the honor. of knowing, has | Since become an outstanding writér of sex-stories for the Hollywood Studios. His last production was a piece of war-mongering presented as a film drama, A really very simpe play, and one, which, no doubt, he reeled off in the space of a few weeks. In Hollywood, a writer has to work fast and with the least obstructions. The film proved to the world at Jarge what a great thing patriotism was, and how noble it was to die for the country of J. P. Morgan. It had a little note of tragedy thrown in, but not enough to mar the action and message of the film. unconscious. You seé, in the film, the hero is part of a platoon that Boes over the top. The whole platoon is wed out by machine gun fire, but the hero, of course, survives for the Medal of Honor and the climax. A long time ago, this writer dreamed of writing a play which dealt with the life of workers living in the grey barracks of city tenements. But there was no money. in it. Well, Hollywood’s given him the money and, I understand, a long-term contract. At present he makes, I should say, five to six hundred dollars a week writing the kind of war-mongering play I have spoken about. He has built himself a Spanish villa in Beverly Hills, he has a butler, two maids, and his wife has her hair marcelled, and her fingers manicured in bed. I think such enterprise also deserves a New Year's card. Some- thing more literary than the piece of doggerel to the lawyer. but in the same vein. Also, we could put it in his own medium. A piece of dialogue for example. A: A Happy New Year! B: I'll sell the rights to it for fifty grand! * * * And A Liberal RECALL, just now, that another friend of mine, the well-known -* educator and statistician of unemployment in America, the Honor- able Doctor Nicholas Murray Butler, the president of Columbia Col- lege, the Sage of Morningside Heights, to give him his full title, has also been sending out New Year's cards. It seems as though the Doctor has decided that whet his friends neéd for the coming year is a definition of their political standing. Not just a little note, with a Piece of traditional blarney on it, but something more serious, more in the mood of the times, more in harmony with the demands of the day. Doctor Butler has sent far and wide the following little greeting for the new year to start his friends upon Time's new journey. It is entitled with appropriate gravity, The True Liberal. It contains the following heartening message: “The effective protection of liberty against compulsion must rest not on force, but on moral principles. That moral principle must be openly deciared and strictly adhered to if liberty is to continue to exist. Under any other circumstance liberty is doomed. It is pre- cisely this fact which makes the oft-auoted (and oft-forgotten, Doctor) Magna Carta, the Petition of Right, the Bill of Rights, The Consti- tution of the United States, particularly its Ninth and Tenth Amend- ments, the Reform Bill and the subsequent liberal legislation in the history of Great Britain of such vital importance and significance at the moment. These great historical documents are the charter of libe: He who supports and defends their principles in any land is a liberal. “WITH usar tes ee AND NEW YEAR'S GRERTINGS.” * * A New Year’s Card From Nick MUST admit that that’s a real New Year's card. It’s enough to destroy whatever little cheer. Oswald Garrison Villard and his new United Liberal Party may get out of a Christmas bottle of sherry or port. With such a definition arriving in your mailbox, I can see the editors of a dozen magazines spending a completely miserable day doping it out. The whole point could have been much simplified and a happier New Year svent by the Nation and others if the Doctor had simply inscribed the following: The tragedy, in fact, was purely | New Year's greetings to you all From a true-blue liberal. The Constitution is our strength And its Amendments, Ninth and Tenth. Believe, my worthy friends, in these And in trust-funds and subsidies. NICK. New Masses Editor Hails Formation Of John Reed Club Writers’ School The Writers’ School of the John Reed Club has attracted wide at- tention from workers and intellec- tuals in New York. This is the first time that a revolutionary writers’ | school will be conducted in the United Stater Orrick Johns, one of the editors of the New Masses, hails the Writ- ers’ School. He says: “Certainly the John Reed Writ- ers’ School is pérforming an im- Portaait function in the revolu- tionary movement. Throughout the country there is a tremendous urge among the youth toward the creation of revolutionary stories, _ Royels and poems. It is the only By stream in literature today. young writers have many | Sixth face. In the John 10th Reed schools, the older writers and the beginning writers have an opportunity to work collective- ly on the solution of the prob- Jems. Out of them will come a greater clarity, at least on the more immediate and pressing questions. Young writers should take advantage of this opportun- ity. The schools will serve as the | supply depots for the revolution- ary press. “ORRICK JOHNS.” Registration has been extended to Jan, 7, to accommodate those who have not yet been able to register. ee will eens ae from ) p.m. from 7 to 9 pm., at the John Reed Club, 430 In previously reporting the now famous interview between Joseph Stalm and H. G. Wells it was in- correctly announced that the full conversation was being published, whereas actuaily only a third was printed in the Daily Worker. Below, for the first time in the English language, the complete official text of the interview is re- produced. This conference is the clearest and at the same time the most effective portrayal of two forces: One, representative of an exuber- ant and powerful revolutionary system; the other, symbolic of those who perpetually apoiogize for capitalism and who desperately make watery parallelisms between socialism in construction and a reactionary profit system. The text of the interview was taken by C. Oumansky and approved by iH. G. Wells. Cee eae ‘WELLS: I am very much obliged to you, Mr. Stalin, for agreeing to see me. I was in the United States recently. I had a long conversation with President Roosevelt and tried to ascertain what his leading ideas were. Now I have come to you to ask you what you are doing to change the world. . STALIN: Not so very much... . WELLS: I wander around the |world as a common man and as |@ common man observe what is going on around me. | STALIN: Important public men like yourself are not “common men.” Of course, history alone can show how important this or that public man has been; at all events you do not look at the world as a “com- mon man.” WELLS: I am not pretending humility. What I mean is that I try to see the world through the eyes of the common man and not as a party politician or a respon- sible administrator. My visit to the | United States excited my mind. The |old financial world is collapsing; the economic life of the country is being lreorganized on new lines. Lenin |said: “We must learn to do busi- ness,” learn this from the capital- ists. Today the capitalists have to }learn from you, to grasp the spirit of socialism. \ It seems to me that what is taking Place in the United States is a profound reorganization, the crea- |tion of planned, that is, socialist economy. You and Roosevelt begin from two different starting points. | But is there not a relation in ideas |a kinship of ideas, between Wash- ington and Moscow? In Washing- ton I was struck by the same thing I see going on here; they are build- | ing offices, they are creating a num- |ber of new state regulation bodies, they are organizing a long-needed Civil Service. Their need, like yours, is directive ability. A Different Aim STALIN: The United States is pursuing a different aim from that which we aze pursuing in the U.S.S.R. The aim which the Amer- icans are pursuing arose out of the economic troubles, out of the eco- nomic crisis. The Americans want to rid themselves of the crisis on the basis of private capitalist ac- tivity without changing the eco- nomic basis, They are trying to reduce to a minimum the ruin, the losses caused by the existing eco- nomic system. Here, however, as | you know, in place of the old de- | stroyed economic basis an entirely different, a new economic basis has been created, Even if the Americans you men- tion partly achieve their aim, Le., reduce these losses to a minimum. they will not destroy the roots of the anarchy which is inherent in the existing capitalist system. They are preserving the economic system which must inevitably lead, and cannot but lead to anarchy in pro- duction. Thus, at best, it will be a matter, not of reorganization of society, not of abolishing the old social system which gives rise to anarchy and crises, but of restrict- ing certain of its bad features, re- stricting certain of its excesses. Subjectively, perhaps, these Amer: icans think they are reorganizing society; objectively, however, they are preserving the present basis of society. That is why, objectively, there will be no reorganization of society. Planned Economy Nov will there be planned econ- omy. What is planned economy? What are some of its attributes? Planned economy tries to abolish unemployment. Let us suppose it is possible, while preserving the capi- talist system, to reduce unemploy- ment to a certain minimum. But surely, no capitalist would ever agree to the complete abolition of unemployment, to the abolition of the reserve army of unemployed, the purpose of which is to bring pressure on the labor market, to insure a supply of cheap labor. Here you have one of the rents in the “planned economy” of bourgeois society. Furthermore, planned economy presupposes increased output in those branches of industry which produce goods that the masses of Capitalism Will Never Abolish Unemployment Because It Must Insure Itself Plenty of Cheap Labor, Says Stalin the people need particularly. But|and in my opinion they are social- | you know that the expansion of ist ideas. It seems to me that production under capitalism takes | instead of stressing the antagonism place for entirely different motives, | between the two worlds, we should that capital flows into those!in the present circumstances, strive branches of economy in which the to establish a common tongue for rate of profit is highest. You will| all the constructive forces. never compel a capitalist to incur : | loss to himself and agree to a lower Moogevelt: the Individual | rate of profit for the sake of satis-| STALIN: In speaking of the im- possibility of realizing the principles of planned economy while preserv- ing the economic basis of capital- ism I do not in the least desire to | |belittle the outstanding personal qualities of Roosevelt, his initiative courage and determination. Un-| |doubtedly Roosevelt stands out as| one of the strongest figures among all the captains of the contempor- are unfavorable, the most talented captain cannot reach the goal you | refer to. Theoretically, of course, the pos- | sibility of marching gradually, step fying the needs of the people. With- | py step, under the conditions of out getting rid of the capitalists, | capitalism, towards the goal which without abolishing the principle of | you call socialism in the Anglo- private property in the means of | Saxon meaning of the word, is not production, it is impossible to create | precluded. But what will this “so- planned economy. cialism” be? At best, bridling to WELLS: I agree with much of | Some extent the most unbridled of | what you have said. But I would | individual representatives of capi- like to stress the point that if a|talist profit, some increase in the| country as a whole adopts the prin- | application of the principle of regu- | ciple of planned economy, if the |lation in national economy. That government, gradually, step by step, | is all very well. | begins consistently to apply this But as soon as Roosevelt, or any | principle, the financial oligarchy | other captain in the contemporary will at last be abolished and social- | bourgeois world, proceeds to under- ism, in the Anglo-Saxon meaning |take something serious against the of the word, will be brought about. | foundation of capitalism, he will] The effect of the ideas of Roose- | inevitably suffer defeat. The banks, | velt’s “new deal” is most powerful, | the industries, the large enterprises, JOSEPH STALIN \News of the Workers’ Schools From Coast to Coast |NEW YORK WORKERS SCHOOL to write leaflets, how to make ef- Registration at the New York | fective make-ups. Workers School, 35 East 12th Street, | A special feature of the School | is well on its way. Over 1400 stu-| and its Winter Term will be its spe- dents have already registered. cial attention to the youth. Mr. Cla: \: are closing up daily. The|Hearst in his attack against the } term begins Monday, January 7th | School has discovered that the and we earnestly urge all comrades School attracts the youth, The Chi- |who wish to register to do so at cago Workers School is proud of once. Don't wait for the last min-| this fact and its Winter Term is! ute rush. If you register now you jlaying plans for special courses Still have a choice at classes. which will bring greater numbers A General Student Assembly has jof young workers to the School. been arranged, before the opening | Enrollment begins January Ist, of the Winter Term, which will be with the Big New Year's Eve affair held Friday, January 4th at the held on the School premises, 505 School auditorium, 2nd floor. Com- |S. State Street. Give your answer | tade Markoff, Director of the Work- to the Hearst fascist incitements. ers School and a Jeading member Support and build a bigger work- | of District 2 of the Communist | Jers’ school in Chicago. For other Workers School will speak a “Cul- sCHOOL i ture In Two Worlds” at the Workers The Workers School in Gary, In- School Forum, 35 East 12th Street,/diana, 1545 Washington _ Street, | 2nd floor, this Sunday evening, Jan- | opens its doors for the winter term. uary 6th. | Wednesday. January 9th. The com- |rades are confident of a record reg- eo Ne NEW YORK FRIENDS OF THE istration. WORKERS SCHOOL Some of the courses offered this | The Friends of the New York. term are: Principles of Communism, Workers School invites a mutual| History of the American Labor, exchange of views and suggestions | Movement, Trade Unionism and with all other Friends of the Work- | Strike Strategy, Marxism-Leninism, ers Schools throughout the country. | Problems of Negro Liberation. Where there are Workers ‘Schools The School is in great need of ; without an organized Friends of the | books, pamphlets, periodicals, etc. | Workers School, those interested in | We appeal to all Friends of the organizing such a group should| Workers School and sympathizers communicate with the F. W. S., 116! to make a special effort to obtain; University Place, New York City. such Marxist-Leninist literature as, beth te os |meeded by the school. ay acese CHICAGO WORKERS SCHOOL On Monday, January 7. the Chi- | cago Workers School opens its winter term. The attack of the The San Francisco Workers , | School, 463 Hayes Street, has set itself a quota of 550 registrations for | organizes the defense of the co | forces ciples of organization. | class? Hearst press, the American Legion the winter term and are confident officials, etc., has cemented greated working class support to the only working class educational institu- tion in Chicago, The expectation for the winter term will exceed all pre- vious years in enrollment. The Chi- cago Workers School is receiving numerous letters and visits from workers, pledging support and en- rollment. ¥oremost among the new courses offered is a course in Fas- cism and Social Revolution. Other courses taught are Principles of Communism, Political Economy, Marxism-Leninism, Historical Ma- terialism, Trade Union Strategy and | that the quota will go over the top. In addition to the courses offered in Principles of Communism, Polit- ical Economy, Marxism-Leninism, ete., the school is offering a series: of lecture courses in The American ; Trade Union Movement Since the N. R. A. The Crisis in Modern Science, Americanism and the Rev- | World War, Fascism and the World Trade Union Movement, and other timely topics. . . | BROWNSVILLE WORKERS SCHOOL olutionary Tradition, The Coming; Tactics, Negro Problems, etc. The growing attack against the | working class makes it necessary to | counteract more efficiently and rapidly the role of the capitalist | press, The Chicago Workers School, in response to demand, is organ- izing a course in Mimeograph Tech- nique, on Wednesday nights. This course will teach workers how to use the mimeograph effectively, how This is the last week of registra- tion at the Brownsyille Workers School, 1855 Pitkin Avenue. Classes will begin Monday, January 7th. Students are urged to register im- mediately to avoid the last minute rush. Special efforts are being made to attract workers to the classes in Negro Problems, Trade Union Stra- tegy, Organization Principles and the large farms are not in Roose- velt’s hands. A these are private property. The r cantile fleet, all belong to private owners. A finally, the army of skilled wor! the engi- neers, the technicians, se too are not at Roosevelt's command are at the command of the owners; they all work for tt vate owners The We must not forget functi of the State in the bourgeois wo: The State is an insti nm id that try, organizes the maintenance of ‘order’; it is an appara lecting taxes. The canitalist does not deal much with economy ‘or col- State in the strict sense of the word the Jatter is not in the 1 the State. On the contrar State is in the hands of car economy. That is why I fear that, in spite of all his energy and abil- ities, Presiden oosevelt wi ary capitalist world. That is why | .-niey, Lie se ap mba ' achieve the goal you mention, if |I would like once again to empha- indeed that is his goal. Perhaps, in size the point that my conviction | the coy of several generations it | ot planned cettione ce umbossible | will be possible to approach this| aoe ag re Lipet ras . capitalism | 20a] somewhat; but I personally ‘oes not mean that have any | think that even this is not very doubts about thé personal abilities, | ,, lit probable. |talent and courage of Presider | Roosevelt. But if the circumstances| WELLS: Perhaps I believe more strongly in the economic interpre- tation of politics than you do. Huge driving towards better or- zanization, for the better function- ng of the community, that is, for ccielism, have been brought into action by invention and modern science. Organization, and the reg- ulation of individual act have become mechanical necessities, ir- respective of social theories. If we begin with the State control of the banks and then follow with the control of transport, of the heavy industries, of indust in general, of commerce, etc., such an all-em- bracing control will be equivalent to the state ownership of all| branches of national economy. This | will be the process of socialization. Socialism and individualism are not opposites like black and white There are many intermediate stages between them. There is individual- ism that borders on brigandage, | and there is discipline and organi- zation that are the equivalent of socialism. The introduction of | planned economy depends, to a large degree, upon the organizers of economy, upon the skilled technical intelligentsia who, step by step, can be converted to the socialist prin- And _this is the most important thing. Becausc organization comes before socialism It is the more important fact. With- out organization the socialist idea is a mere idea. Socialism and the Individual STALIN: There is not, nor should there be, an irreconciliable contrest | between the individual and the cél- | lective, between the interests of the individual person and the interests of the collective. There should be| no such contrast because collectiv- ism, socialism, does not deny, but combines individual interests with the interests of the collective. So- cialism cannot abstract itself from individual interests. Socialist so- ciety alone can most full satisfy |Party will address the students, The | information write te the School, 505 | these personal interests. More than preblems and tasks of the school §, State Street. | that, socialist society alone can will be discussed. | . . . | firmly safeguard the interests of | Oakley Johnson, Instructor, | GARY, INDIANA WORKERS the individual. In this sense there is no irreconciliable contrast be- tween “individualism” and socialism. But can we deny the contrast between classes, between the prop- ertied class, the capitalist class, and | the toiling class, the proletarian | On the one hand we have the propertied class which owns the banks, the factories, the mines, | transport, the plantations in colo- nies. These people see nothing but. their own interests, their striving after profits. They do not submit | to the will off the collective; they strive to subordinate every collec- tive to their will, On the other hand we have the class of the poor, | the exploited class, which owns neither factories nor works, nor banks, ich is compelled to .live| by selling its labor power to the capitalists and which lacks the op- portunity to satisfy its most ele- mentary requireme: How can such opposite interests and strivings be reconciled? “Presidents Come, Presidents Go” As far as I know, Roosevelt has not succeeded in finding the path of conciliation between these interests. ‘And it is impossible, as experience has shown. Incidentally, you know the situation in the United States | better than I do as I have never been there and I watch American affairs mainly from literature. But | I have some experience in fighting | for socialism, and this experience | j tells me that if Roosevelt makes 2 real attempt to satisfy the interests of the proletarian class at the ex- ipense of the capitalist class, the j latter will put another President | in his place. The capitalists will | say: Presidents come and Presidents go, but we go on forever; if this or that President does not protect our interests, we shall find another. What can the President cppose to | the will of the capitalist class? | mimeographing and stenciling. (To Be Continued) the mer- THE TIN BOX PARADE, by Milton Wall Mackaye. Robert M. McBride and Company, New York. $3.00, Reviewed by SIMON W. GERSON RITTEN by a The Tin Box be made supplemen high school boys a: taught what is known as the mechanics of modern government, Beginning wit Charley Murphy y reading for who are c h the 1924, Mr. Mac- the looted the city New merrily in “the ten years before the great attrition.” Etched by a craftsman of high quality, they are all there—Jimn Walker, John Curry, John McCooe Aaron Steuer, Tim Farley the whole crew of Tammany pirates. Mr. Mackaye owes a great debt of course, to the newspaper es, from which he received no little aid. But even at the story loses none of The almost unbelieva every that went on in City Hall in those hal- cyon days is brought ho. the crisp reportage of a paperman. Catchy Music About All But having said this, the qualities of the book are about exhausted Catchy music and snappy forma- tions The Tin Box Parade undoubt- edly has, but the occasion for the march is never offered us. We are left, fundamentally, in the dark about the reason for the beginning and ending on the march. In other words, Tammany has not only a politics, it has a sociology. It born and thrived under certain so- cial conditions, precisely as every other political organization. The exact conditions which dete mined the specific form of Tam- many are yet to be described. It remains the task of a serious stu- dent of municipal politics, one who will understand and go into the relation of local political mechanics with economics, Mr. Mackaye is only partly right when he discusses the golden era of Tammany piracy, the pre-1929 days He says, for instance: “It is no coincidence that the years of undisciplined plunder were the years of the boom. The town and the nation were money- mad, Everyone was in the stock market; nursemaids talked in Central Park about Goldman Sachs and General Foods, busboys eavesdropped on prosperous diners and bought Auburn for a five- point rise, novelists and lady poets at literary teas cut art dead and talked about their investments... In such an opulent era it was not surprising that New York was in- different to the theft and pol- troonery of its public servants. Amiable cynicism had hecome the fashion even among the thin re- treating line of intellectuals. In- dignation was a gauche and juve- nile emotion; as a civilized realist one took things as one found them.” While it was true that a by no means small part of the middle class was debauched by the specula- tive mania consciously devéloped by Questions and Answers Question: At imperia‘'st war, wat should be the role of the young work¢r or student who is class conscious and knows the capitalistic causes of war, but who is not a member of the Com- munist Party?—Young Worker. Answer: Any worker who is class conscious has it as his duty to his class to start fighting against war right now. By participating in the united front struggles against war and fascism, he would help to ie outbreak of an First Complete Reproduction of Famous ‘Tammany Hall Thievery Interview Between H. G. Wells and Stalin!» Hey-Day Skillfully ._—_——_—_¥ Described by Reporter Street, the story of nurses maids and busboys playing the mar- ket is pure fiction. The workers of New York City and especially the class-conscious workers did not feel that “in on was a gauche and juvenile emotion.” On the contrary, he itst cracks in the Tammany lines became perceptible during the great strike: 1926 and 1927 in the city. Indignation against the graft- ng and brutal police arm of a hieving and callous City Hall ran 1 and was far from being juve- nile. What clear is Mr. e does not make the onrush of the jevastating ef- workers and the the growing dis- large sections of local ith the “expensive” character of Tammany city govern- ment—that these were the basic factors underlying the Tiger's loss of the 1933 election and the victory of Fusion. economic crisis, its among fect the ers Forgets Labor's Role Mackaye makes a fundamen- 1 erro: n ignoring the part the militant labor movement ef the city played in these days. The history of the strike struggles and demon- strations of the unemployed would have provided him with some fur- ther clues in the search for the reasons for the defeat of Tammany in November, 1933. While the author has dipped his pen in acid for most of the Tam- many gentlemen, he is altogether, too easy with Al Smith. That worthy was, on the whole, as res- ponsible as any of the Tammany sachems for the policy of the Hall. To forgive Al his past sins is to fall for the legend of a reformed ‘ammany. Mr. Mackaye shows the touching regard for th politically and physically—in dis- cu ing LaGuardia. The Little Flower comes off altogether too well at Mackaye’s hands. While the ter indicates thet Fusion dug into all sorts of cesspools to g#t votes, he avoids a real analysis of the demagogy by which Fusion came to power. He makes mention, for instance, that factors in La- Guardia’s election were the hundred thousand votes delivered Fusion by the gangster lawyer, Jerome G. Ambro, who defended “Legs” Dia- mond at the trial of the latter at Troy, N. Y. But having ignored a careful examination of the specific factors that made it possible for the | windy Fiorello to get to City Hall, we can get no true picture of the dynamics of the development of Fusion: “Tammany foes out, and Tam- many comes back in, and you've got to be realistic abou it,” Mac- | kaye quotes formed District Att | ney William Travers Jerome persimistic conclusion, “and ypu have got to be realistic about it!” | This is a “realism” that is being lchallenged more and more by a growing Communist and labor movement in New York City, a movement which fought the graft- ing Tammany crew and fights as sharply against the Fusion dema- gogues. Mr. Mackaye might have felt that groundswell, too. It woult, have added a genuine note of on ism, | hate war and fascism, and who have | taken the one road that will défeat jthese dangers—that of militant | struggle. < | In the event of the outbreak of |war, all workers who are not in Jcontact with such united front |bodies should immediately partici- |pate in the struggles they will wage jagainst our own imperialists. There | will be strikes and demonstrations and other methods of struggles, and junder the guidance of the yan- |guard of the working class — the awaken the masses to the immin- | Communist Party, the masses must ence of the war danger. With suf- | strive to turn these anti-war strug= ficient mass support we could beat | gles into a revolutionary civil war the advance of fascism and | for the overthrow of capitalism and prevent the outbreak of another | the setting up of the dictatorship imperialist war. On the other hand, to sit back and await the beginning of the im- perialist war, is to aid the capitalists who are driving with all their might towards another imperialist offen- sive. There is nothing that plays more into the hands of the impe- ridlists than a passive attitude now. Your place aS a class con- scious worker is in the American League Against War and Fascism. This is a broad united front com- prised of all groups who sincerely 7:00-WOR—Sports Resume—Stan Lomax WJZ—Amos 'n' Andy—Sketch WABC—Myrt and Marge—Sketeh 7:13-WOR—Lum and Abnér—Sketeh | WJZ—Morton Downey. Tenor; Sina-| tra Oreh.; Guy Bates Post, Nar- rator WABC—Just Plein Bill—Sketeh 1:30-WOR—To Be Announced Little Lefty LEFTY S PoP Jusy DREADS~10 Go HOME “10 HIS. FAMILY Wet THE AWFUL NEWS OF HIS DISMISSAL ‘FROM HIS JoB | OUTSIDE He. SWANK HOTEL HE HERRS THE SOUND OF FR FAMILIAR VOICE. ABOVE. EnnoveIne ! Wi “bp STONE WHO Drowning His Sorrows! WELL IF IT ISN'T MY OL9 BOSS, MR. 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