The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 7, 1935, Page 5

| CHANGE | WORLD! By MICHAEL GOLD ——————_——"| OW they are giving us a new circus, in the form of this trial of Hauptmann for the Lindbergh kidnapping. Millions of words will be printed in the newspapers about this case before it is over. Hundreds of reporters are present at Flemington, New Jersey, where the shame- ful proceedings are being carried on The newspapers have actually gloated in their estimates of the amount of space they will give the trial. It will beat the record set up in the Hall-Mills murder case, they claim, and probably shatter every other world record for this sort of degradation. All the news that’s fit to print. This is the slogan of the New York Times, the painted old respectable prostitute. The other news- papers don’t pretend to as serious a front. Their alibi is that stale old chestnut of pimps and coke-peddlers, of “giving the public what they want.” The more learned of the newspaper-pimps sometimes address schools of journalism on ethics and the like. In defending the lengths to which they go in printing filth they are fond of quoting some pimp- ing ancestor of theirs (I forget the famous editor’s name) who solemnly said, “Whatever God has permitted to happen, I am not too proud to report.’’ Each newspaper tries to outstrip the other in printing particularly | gruesome or sordid details of such a case. Sob-sisters, novelists, psycho- | analysts, and doctors of philosophy of the type of Will Durant are hired to pander to the market. | ‘Think of it! Thousands of intellectuals, many of them with col- lege degrees, are employed by millionaires who are good patriots and churchgoers to pour into the ears of millions of other people all the foulest gossip they can gather. It is done with skill, finesse, and the sort of low cunning art American journalism has developed in this work, When we meet a person among our acquaintances who gloats upon murder stories and sex gossip, and continually babbles and raves of all the horrors that others do not care to dwell on, we put him down as a degenerate of some sort, and avoid him. But here in such a case as Hauntmann’s we find that millions of dollars have been invested to spread this kind of pathological talk, | and the millionaires who purvey it, and the reporters who supply it, are even proud of their skill. | . . * | Peddlers in Dope ANY newspapermen, sunk in the routine of their profession, will | read the foregoing and think it an extreme indictment. I have myself worked on capitalist papers, and reported dozens of these murder | trials in the ordinary course of my work, a little nauseated at times, | but believing it a normal procedure. But it is not humanly normal. Any psychologist can tell you that all this newspaper campaign will have a brutalizing and degenerating effect on the mass mind. In the Soviet Union newspapers do not devote any space to such stories; most of them are reported briefly in an inch or two. The Soviet Union is trying to lift the masses to a higher cultural level, and since there is no private profiteering in food, clothing, shelter or culture, nobody can pander to the darkest elements in human be- ings. Printing such news is really a form of exploitation of the vast ignorance that still remains in the masses. It is like teaching a high school boy to use cocaine, which is what some peddlers do all the time. * * * | Children of the Poor 'HERE are some twenty million on the relief rolls in America, and among them are undoubtedly millions of children. I have seen dozens of kids who are pale, anemic, pitiful things, undersized and starving for food and sunlight. There must be millions of such chil- | dren. The newspapers never, never report about them. Such news is suppressed. The regiments of sob-sisters and venal novelists and | cheap “philosophers” are not turned out to report this great tragedy. | So it is not any sorrow over children that forcés the newspaper | publishers to print millions of false, sentimental words about the | poor Lindbergh child. | money. The children of the poor are never kidnapped; they are murdered instead by hunger and capitalism, and it isn’t “news.” * * * It is only the lust for newspaper sales and HAT is news in a capitalist land? Whatever happens to the rich and “successful” is news; but the tragedies that visit the homes of the vast majority are not news. This is what the millionaires and their editors call “democracy.” * . * Degrading the Mass Mind IN THE Soviet Union, unless a murder has some great sociological significance that will influence the destiny of the people, it is tried quietly, and disposed of in a routine way. It is counted as one of the aberrations of human nature, needing a doctor, perhaps, more than a jailor or executioner. The Kirov assassination, because it may be the signal for a new invasion of the Soviet Union by canitalism’s mercenary soldiers, is given great space. But the drunkard who kills his wife is sentenced to ten years and re-educated in a jail that is more like a factory- school. The people are not subjected to the possible mental infec- tion of his example reported at suggestive length in the newspapers. Let us repeat again and again, this unoriginal, monotonous and horrible truth, that here in America the mass mind is constantly de- graded and corrupted with tHese stories for the sake of MONEY! The pimps are in full cry again, and they will enter every American home and poison men, women and children with their filth. * . * Who is the Real Criminal? Te Hauptmann case has some social significance. It is merely an- other incident of life under capitalism, where even babies are killed by the money-maniacs. In the textbooks of a Soviet America it will be used as another minor example of the moral breakdown of this system. Whether Hauptmann is guilty or innocent is not important. What- ever happens to him, the system will still remain, murdering tens of thousands of proletarian children. It is capitalism that is the great criminal in all these cases, and it is precisely this criminal who is never mentioned by either the prosecution or the defense. Colonel Lindbergh is a rank reactionary, yet we are genuinely sorry for anyone whose baby has been killed in this fiendish manner. Let the criminal be found, but why this enormous hullabaloo over one child in a world of war, hunger, and millions of starving children? Capitalism chooses the news. It must profit capitalism that a circus like this Lindbergh case goes on, this mass degradation, If I were a capitalist publisher I think I would not brag, but hide my head | romance. in shame when doing such deeds. Is not their crime almost as bad as that of a kidnapper’s? For the sake of money they are degrading the precious human mind. 7:00 P. M.-WEAF—Ohild Labor Amend- WJZ—Romance Bound—Sketch WABC—Gluskin Orch.; Sully, Comedy; Gertrude Miesen 9:45-WOR—Veesey Orchestra ment—William D. Guthrie, Attor- ney WOR-—Sports Talk—Stan Lomax WZ—Amos 'n’ Andy WABC—Myrt and Marge—Sketch ‘7:15-WEAF—Martin Orchestra WOR—Lum and Abner—sketch WJZ—Plantation Echoes WABC—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 1:30-WEAF—Trappers Orchestra WOR—Mystery Sketch WJZ-—Red Davis—Sictch WABC—The O'Neills—Sketch 1:45-WEAF—Uncle Ezra—Sketch WOR—Larry Taylor, Baritone W5Z—Dangerous Paradise—Sketch WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Himber Orchestra WOR—Lone Ranger—Sketch WJZ—Jan Garber Supper Club WABC—Diane—Musical Comedy 8:15-WABO—Edwin C. Hill, Commentator 0:00-WEAF—Gladys Swarthout, Soprano; WOR Dance Orchestra WJZ—Carefree Carnival WABC—Kate Smith's Revue 9:00-WEAF—Gypsies Orchestra WOR—The Witch's Tale WJZ—Minstrel Show WABC—Kostelanetz Orchestra 9:30-WEAF—House Party ‘WOR—Corinna Mura, Soprano Lady; Male Qi WOR—Ionians Quartet Wd%—America in Music; John Tasker Howard, Narrator WABC—Wayne King Orchestra 10:15-WOR—Current_Events—H. E, Read 10:30-WEAF—The New nessee, Speaker of the House WOR—Veronica Wiggins, Contralto and Others; Music County, N. J.; Homer Wickenden, Director United Hospital Fund 10:45-WABC—Emery Deutsch, Violin 11:00-WEAF—The Grummits—Sketch WOR —News WJZ—Dance Music (to 1:00 A. M.) 11:15-WEAP—Jesse Cravtord, Organ WOR—Moonbeams Trio Block and 10:00-WEAF—Eastman Orchestra; Lullaby juartet Congress—Repre- sentative Joseph W. Byrns of Ten- WJZ—WIOD, Miami, 5th Annual In- ternational Radio Party; Speakers, Cordell Hull, Secretary’ of State; Governor David Scholtz of Florida, WABC—Budgeting Hospital Bills — Frank Van Dyke, Executive Secre- tary Hospital Counctl of Essex WABC—Dance Music (to 1:30 A. M.) DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 7. WORLD of the THEATRE ACCENT ON YOUTH, a new com- edy by Samson Raphaelson; di- rected by Benn Levy; with Nich- olas Hannen, Constanee Cum- mings, Irene Purcell, Ernest Cos- sart and Ernest Lawford. pesouce the playwright within this play considered the love of an old man for a young woman 4 matter for tragedy, Samson Raphael- son, the author, being scenarist- in-chief to Herr Lubisch instead of Eugene O'Neill, has preferred to juggle the predicament rather than brood over it. Accent on Youth, the result, offers a quiet, tidy, gay little comedy. With echoes of Molnar and Ros- tand, it partakes in more ways than one of the theatre rather than life. When its hero, a debonair play- wright in his early fifties, is abrupt- ly confronted with the mature and | passionate love of his young secre- tary, his instinctive response is to flung her a pad and to try reproduc- ing her “marevellous” speech for the uses of his latest play. Or, recalling Cyrano in the next act, and once more victim of his own virtuosity, he halts a bare hour before his own marriage to invent a fool-proof ex- hortation by which his youthful, love-stricken rival may overwhelm his almost wife. This is pure relaxation and by appropriate standards of grading would rate around a B minus. It lacks the wit of a Coward, nor can it boast the firm dramatic fullness of the best Philip Barry. Yet with the pruning which it has received since the opening night, it ripples along at a sly steady tempo. Of its occasional sparkle no small portion is Steed by the portly and sen- tentlous Ernest Cossart, revitaliz- ing the dimmed institution of the comedy butler. Nor will Nicolas Han- nen, for his easy congenial skill as an actor and his enviable trick of preserving the shows of youth, be neglected by inquiring Sunday dramatic-page scribes. The versa- tile Levy family, Benn (by trade a playwright) for his directing; and his wife, Constance Cummings (of screen as well as stage), for her efforts as the unconventional sec- retary, may well flatter themselves on having done a good job. And for the unpretentious but attractive | study which he has designed Jo Mielziner deserves a final bow. This is in essence a Hollywood Tt never pretends to im- pinge on life; consequently distor- tion is absent. In its place is an evening of innocent amusement. A.C. The Daily Worker is printing serially the extremely valuable and popular booklet by R. Palme Dutt, “Life and Teachings of V. I. Lenin,” published by Interna- tional Publishers, January 21 will be the eleventh anniversary of the death of Lenin. During these ten years the teach- ings of Lenin have spread to ever wider sections of the globe, inspir- ing the workers and oppressed to greater assaults on capitalism. The Daily Worker considers it a great service to its readers to be able to present this clear and ex- cellent portrayal of the life and teachings of the great leader of the working class, V. I. Lenin. CHAPTER II. The Life of Lenin m Y THE issue (illegally) of his first important work in 1894. “Who Are the Friends of the People and How Do They Fight the So- cial-Democrats?” Lenin closed ac- counts with the Narodniki, and laid down the political line of social- democracy in Russia. He showed on the basis of facts the course of economic development; he showed the role of the working class as the future leader of the revolution for the overthrow of absolutism and the victory of socialism; and he showed the next steps that were necessary for the building of a Social-Democratic Party. Alongside this, on the other front, in 1894, he opened fire on legal Marxism by his “Economic Content of Narodnik Theory and its Criti- cism in Mr. Struve’s Book,” and showed that legal Marxism leads to the camp of the bourgeoisie. This fight on two fronts, the clear demarcation of the line of revolu- tionary social-democracy from op- posing tendencies, and at the same time concrete explanation of prac- tical tasks, was characteristic of Lenin’s leadership from the outset. At the same time Lenin and the group of revolutionary Marxists or- ganized groups of workers from the Petersburg factories, The distinc- tive character of their work was that they combined agitation and organization of the workers on the basis of their immediate conditions and the first elementary forms of class struggle with training the workers in political understanding, in the principles of Marxism, and In the consciousness of their politi- cal roles as the future leaders of THE VOICES By SAMUE | I have heard a voice out of the night air saying | “TI refuse to accept unemployment as a permanent BUT I am asking The voice of the President in one of his “intimate Fireside Talks” if you have no fire or one whose mockery of heat makes an empty stomach seem or the floor of a greasy fiop? There are thousands such No matter! | I have heard a voice out of the night air “T am asking Capital and Labor to declare a not on the air a voice out of the South the voice of starving and naked children the boss has said it no more 35 cents an hour or more than the bosses pay No, that will never do “I am asking Capital and Labor to declare a There comes another voice a “spirit of cooperation” fewer firesides and fewer fires | relief rolls must be cut! No matter! over our Scotch and soda. But there is that voice not on the air | the revolution. This union of poli- | tics and the masses, of the revolu- tionary political struggle and of the | daily class struggle, was from first | to last one of the secrets of Bol- shevism and of its strength. * IN 1895 Lenin and his group were |4 able to form the Union for the | Struggle and Emancipation of the Working Class, the precursor of the Social-Democratic Party, The Union was able to lead the rising strike movement in Petersburg. In the same year, 1895, Lenin, after a visit to Plekhanov in Switzerland (who recognized in Lenin the fu- ture leader of the Russian Revolu- tion), was preparing to issue an illegal worker’s newspaper, the Workers’ Cause, to hold together and guide the rising movement, But on the eve of its issue he was arrested, and after a year’s im- prisonment, exiled fer three years to Siberia till 1900. He continued his work under these conditions, assisting in the leader- ship of the strike movement from prison in Petersburg, and writing in Petersburg and in exile. among other things, “The Development of Capitalism in Russia,” which be- came and remains a classic work, He was joined in Siberia in ex- ile by Krupskaya, who had been one of the leading members of the revolutionary Marxist group in Petersburg; they continued their common life and work without a break until Lenin’s death. By 1898 the Russian Social- Democratic Labor Party was formed at a first congress in Minsk; but Lenin in exile was not able to take | Capital and Labor to declare a truce L PUTNAM condition | But what if you have no fireside, what emptier? What if YOUR fireside is a park bench Let’s be intimate and cozy tonight truce . . But now there comes another voice in Georgia For public works wages must be cut We don’t pay wages like that down here truce...” the voice of the Bankers grow friendlier a “new understanding with the Administration” Let's drop down in the study over our evening Scotch and soda tune in and listen to our President at his next little’ “Fireside Talk” There will be fewer firesides. then | more men on the benches in the parks... Let’s be intimate and cozy tonight of starving and naked children in Georgia. part. The “Manifesto” of the Con- \gress was in fact drafted by the | leader of legal Marxism, Struve. aia ames’) | § PERIOD of confusion and weak- 88 of direction in the young guard of the leaders of revolution- ary Marxism around Lenin of 1894-8 | were all in prison or exile. Those |who came now to the front fell under the influence of opportunist ideas, western social-democracy. ;_ It was at this time (1899) that began the campaign of revisionist |socialism against revolutionary | Marxism, and opened an interna- tional battle in the name of “free- |dom of criticism” (in reality, pass- | ing over to bourgeois ideas) against. “orthodoxy” (Marxism). At the | same time, opportunism took on a | distinctive character in Russia in Une theory and practice which be- jcame known as Economism, re- | flecting certain western models. The advocates of this tendency | argued that “politics” was above the heads of the workers; that |Social-Democrats should concen- trate on leading and organizing the workers on the basis of their im- |mediate practical interests in the daily economic struggle against the employers, as in British trade unionism; and that from this eco- nomic¢ struggle would later develop political consciousness and the Political struggle. This conception meant, in fact, leaving the political field to the bourgeoisie; it meant, as the example of British trade unionism showed, servitude to the bourgeoisie, Lenin at once opened merciless war on these opportunist tenden- cies which were endangering the whole future of the Russian work- ing-class movement, and would have produced only servile laborism in place of revolutionary social- democracy, AS soon as he was back in Russia, he began a series of articles, which finally reached com- pleted form in the book “What Is To Be Done?” published in 1902. (international Publishers.) In this book the distinctive con- tribution of Bolshevism to the working-class movement first ap- pears, fully armed; and its contents remain of vital importance to the international working-class move- ment to-day, s 8 8 i tees essence of “What Js To Be Don e?” is the demonstration of | the leading political role of revolu- social-democracy followed. The old | especially emanating from | | Bernstein issued his book which | Chidren Offered | Lively Features In New Pioneer NEW PIONEER, January 1935, vol | IV, No. 9, 22 pp., illus., 5¢. | Reviewed by | JOHN EDWARD GRAY 'HE current issue of the New Pioneer is set off with an un- usually attractive cover depicting the interior of a Young Pioneer meeting place. Young Pioneers. black and white, boys and girls, si |at a table reading the magazine children of workers and farmers. | the New Pioneer. Others are’ en- tering and a leader is showing a little newcomer a handsome p' of Lenin, who during his life the boon companion and playmate jof many children. The picture is |aptly surmounted by the slogan. “Organize the Children.” | | The text, illustrated throughout in black and white, is written with evident appreciation of child p: chology. The contents are varied }and nowhere lack in interest or timeliness. For example. we find |marrative material on the West Coast waterfront strike, the Spanish jtevolt, the Saar, a serial on Dimi- | troff, and biographical material on |the three L’s for January—Lenin, | Liebknecht, and Luxemburg. Regular department features | follow with a new sonz, some satiri- | cal verses, two pages of letters from | Young Pioneers, a page on and crafts, snatches of humor, stamp jelub, science and nature this | month involving elementary chem- jistry—queer animals, art column, | puzzle page, and cartoons. All to- | gether they make up an issue that will attract new readers and hold | the attention of old ones. |_ Every child should have the privi- lege of reading and treasuring this | splendid number of the New Pioneer. | The price, five cents, is far below | that set for most children’s maga- | zines and the contents are unique in their class-conscious anpeal. The | New Pioneer will inspire and fit our was {children for revolution and the | building of socialism in Soviet America. | The editorial board is open to | ; | criticism and welcomes new writers | and artists who are ready to pro- | duce new and better material for ioe pages of the New Pioneer. Bring up the question of greet- ing the Daily Worker on its Eleventh Anniversary at the next meeting of your organization, See | that your organization gets on the | Honor Roll by sending the greet- ing as quickly as possible! Life and Teachings of V.I. Lenin By R. PALME DUTT tionary social-democracy, and the | exposure of the false, supposedly | “Marxist theory” of the “spon- taneous” development of the class | struggle of the workers to socialist consciousness and revolution. The spontaneous class struggle of the workers against the capitalists does not yet lead to socialist conscious. ness, but only to trade union cons- ciousness, which remains subordin- | ate to capitalist ideas. Marxism, or | socialist consciousness, requires complete scientific knowledge of social laws and the conditions of social transformation; this does not | jarise naturally for the workers, who are cut off from knowledge; it must be taught. Socialist consciousness, the rev- | olutionary consciousness of the | | workers of their historic role, not | merely as a special section in so- ciety fighting for their limited immediate interests, but as the leaders of social transformation, a: the leaders of the struggle of all | the oppressed, the destroyers of the old society and the builders of a| new society; this consciousness must be awakened in the workers by the active leadership of social- | democracy, | This is the task of social-dem- ocracy. Social-democrats must not therefore be satisfied with confining | themselves to special, limited, nar-)| Tow, supposedly “working-class” in- | terests; their agitation and leader- | ship must range over every political | Party Literature to the ACTIVES MEET, JAN. 10 drive for an si tion of revolutionary li g 1935, the New Yor! Aterature Department has to r to the ar being carried r Ss and other enemie: class are invit e agents or rer s meeting. LITERATURE FOR LENIN MEMORIAL CAMPAIGN The Lenin Memorial Campaign is on by our Party with the ng the teachings ely during this month and convi! masses that only s egle, under the leadership of our Leninist Com- munist Party, will Lenin’s teachin be made a living reality in the United States. The major weapon in the cam- paign to bring Lenin’s teachings to the workers is literature, particu- larly the pamphlets and books writ-| ten by Lenin and Stalin. While there is a long list of materials which are appropriate for the cam- paign, it will perhaps be most fruit- ful for the literature agents to con- centrate on the following pam- phlets: 1—Foundation of Leninism— Joseph Stalin—Special Edi 2—A Letter to American Work- —V. I. Lenin 3—The Lenin Heritage—Joseph Stalin ‘ 4—Ready for Defense—K. F. Voroshilov ‘ 05 5—The U. S. S. R. and the League of Nations— 10 5 3 M. M. Litvinov 08 6—Lenin on the Jewsh Ques- tion seseees 05 Lenin on the Women’s Question—Clara Zetkin 05 Leninism—A. Bubnov 05 (And 20 other titles in the Little Lenin Library, outstanding of which are “State and Revolution,” “Imperialism: The Highest Stage | of Capitalism,” “Left - Wing’ Communism: An Infantile Dis- order,” “The Proletarian Revolu- tion and Renegade Kautsky.”) There are also the pamphiets “Lenin” and “Problems of Leninism” by Stalin in the Little Lenin Library, and R. Palme Dutt’s “Life and Teachings of V. I. Lenin.” And last but not least—the Lénin Sets. Without a widespread distribution of this literature, the Lenin Memo- rial Campaign cannot be successful. Organize without delay your litera- ture distribution for the campaign. ra oie EW COVER DESIGN FOR “THE COMMUNIST” The January, Lenin Memorial Issue of “The Communist’ is ready today. It has a new cover. attrac- a light grey paper. This new, mod- ern cover should help considerably to increase the sales of the theoret- ical organ of our Party. Special efforts must be made to the working |! Masses ve a great increase in the cir« jon through the sections, units mass organizations, and at ‘s’ meetings during 1935. The Memorial Campaign affords an opportunity for a splendid be ginning. PAMPHLETS IN THE SPANISH LANGUAGE FTER a great deal of clamor from many districts, we made avail- ble many pamphlets, both theo- ional, in the Span- langui Our districts and ctions are slow to take advantage Particularly from New lifornia, Colorado. where there are larg anish-speaking work- we should be getting constant for this valuable material We have already published “Why Communism” (10 cents). “The So< viet Union—Your Questions Are An< swered” (5 cents), and “What Every Should Khow About the (5 cents) in Spanish. We imported from Spain such “The to,” “Wage La- “State and Reyo- Foundations of Leninism,” ing Communism,” and sev- eral others. Most of these theoreti<- |cal materials are priced at 10, 20, and 30 cents. with a few at 80 cents, We recently received a complaint from the Los Angeles Section Lit- erature Director that these prices are too high Once our own comrades are con< have Marxist-Leninist classics as Communist Man’ bor and vineed of the importance of the study of this literature, there is no doubt but that, despite the price difficulties, a way will be found for its purchases and study, if not by individual workers, then collectively by groups The possibilities of more and larger editions of our revolutionary literature in Spanish, together with cheaper prices, must also depend lon the building up of a broader literature distribution among the Spanish-speaking workers. Already so much money has been invested, particularly in the three pamphlets already published in this country | and which are not being distributed \properly, that the possibility of fur- ther publication is definitely cur- tailed for the time being. Every district, section, unit and workers’ organization in which there are Spanish-speaking workers must help to change this situation. WRITE UP EXPERIENCES FOR THIS COLUMN Thus far, with one or two excep- | tions the literature directors in the Party units, sections, and districts | have failed to send in material for | this column. As stated when the column was started, its purpose is to provide |an exchange whereby the valuable | experiences of each locality can be- come the property of all the local- . thereby aiding literature ’dis< | tribution through the whole Party. The main bulk of the material | printed in this column must come | from that part of the literature ap- paratus closest to the masses — the district, section and unit literature departments. These must write up their experiences in distributing | tively printed in red and black on| literature and send them in to the Literature Commission, P. 0. Box 87, Sta. D, N. Y. C. | The articles should be brief and | to the point. And they should be sent in regularly. Questions and Answers Question: In the Daily Worker of | was in the house at the time but December 31 there was a news story| made no effort to intervene when that seems quastionable to me. It the police brutally beat the workers. stated that Congressman Dickstein; One member of the delegation was of the Committee to Investigate| severely injured. His wound was Un-American Activity had secreted | closed by a physician called by sym- police in his house to assault a/| pathetic social workers at the Henry workers’ delegation. How could he | Street Settlement. The police had have prepared for the event if he| refused to call an ambulance or was out of town?—J. B. | help the worker in any way. Latest | reports from the attending physi- Answer: The story that you refer) cian indicate that the worker's head to carried an incorrect headline | injuries may result in partial para- issue, must raise the fight against which implied that Mr. Dickstein the existing order at every point. | was in New York at the time of the To accomplish these tasks, the | attack on the workers’ delegation peak rtd een ee . | Otherwise it correctly reported what ‘ curred. A workers’ committee Work are useless; in the conflict | nich had been elected by a meet- with the modern state machine, | they are like primitive handicrafts pitted against large-scale machine industry. Social-democracy must | be organized as a disciplined. cen- | tralized party based on democratic | centralism, and led by professional | revolutionaries, trained and capable of conducting the fight against the | existing order at every point and. through every stage of the struggle. | These conceptions, expressed with | all the explosive power of original | and genuinely revolutionary | thought, carrying forward Marxism realistically to all the problems of the existing struggle, burst like a) bombshell through Russian social- | democracy.: On these conceptions | the Bolshevik Party led by Lenin was built up, and the revolution- ary working-class movement in Russia was trained, (To Be Continued) of the Downtown Unemploy- ment Councils went to Mr. Dick-| stein's home to protest aga’ h dangerous attacks upon the working | class carried on behind the pre- ing tivities. They also demanded that | he endorse the Workers Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance Bill. Two weeks before the delegation called at his home they had sent/ telegrams to him telling him why | they wanted to see him and an- nouncing the day and hour of their arrival, Mr. Dickstein ducked seeing | lysis. | Mr. Dickstein subsequently de- livered a bitter verbal attack against | the delegation. He called upon the | police commissioner to refuse to is- | sue permits in the future to any delegation which to Picket his home. He obviously knew that the dele- gation was coming to see him, and attempted | tense of investigating fascist ac-| Must have known beforehand that the police intended to break up the demonstration. They are not in the habit of beating up workers on the Spur of the moment. Their actions are deliberately carried out upon order from above with the purpose of terrorizing and intimidating mili- tant workers. The answer to Mr. Dickstein as | the workers. But it is hard to be-| to all capitalist terror is to increase lieve that the police attacked the | OUr demonstrations ten-fold and a i 7 jous| hundred-fold. Then our protests delegation without some previous enowiadae on his part. e and demands will strike home, and ‘As you will remember the police| Mr. Dickstein will be forced to see were lurking in the hallway, and| Workers’ delegations whether he assaulted the workers without any | likes it or not. Only mass pressure Little Lefty HERE COMES YOUR HE Sounds PLENTY MAC / \ MD BLIEVE ME JOHN SOMETIME: Get Wise! COMMUNISTS | WISH | WERE A COMMUNIST A ORGANIZE HR LIKE You So! COULO Put R BOMB UNDER —THAT—/ sil Sli ue BETTER =THeEY Oon'y Gomes ! AND (F YOU'D SxOP READING THESE POISON GuTrER SHEETS > Y warning. Mr. Dickstein’s brother | Will force the ruling class and its representatives to listen to, and grant workers’ demands. by del | |L.O. W.T. of Chicago To Hold First New Theatre Night Jan. 12 CHICAGO.—The League of Work< ers’ Theatres. after having under- gone a complete reorganization as a result of its annual Midwest Con- ference, is preparing for its first New Theatre Nite. The important subject “The Negro and the Thea- tre,” will be discussed. It is especi- ally appropriate at this time be- cause of the presence of “Stevedore” jin the city, and because of the in- creasing attacks on the Negro workers of Chicago. notably in the Newton case. The first L. O. W. T. New Theatre Nite will be held on dan. 12, at the John Reed Club, 505 South State Street, - AND REGO “THE WORKERS! PRESS Yov'0 NEVER MAKE SUCK SaPPy STATEMENTS,