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DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1935. Page 5 Change HE is investigating “un-American activi- Dickstein -MacCormick Committee ties.” The Hearst gutter-press is making a campaign to drive out of the U. S. agi- tators who are “un-American.” The YMCA's are conducting anti- “un-American” cam- paigns. Professors whose forefathers came West in a covered wagon; students whose family history dates back to the celebration of the first Thanks- giving dinner; farm organizers who can remember tales their people told them of Indian fighting; strike leaders whose ancestors put up the first homestead when there was nothing but prairie and buffalo on the Western plains; all these are being labelled by the mouthpieces of the bosses as “un-American.” And not only those who can trace their family records back to good Jeffersonian Democrats, or privateers in the fleet of the Revolution, are being told that they are “un-American,” but Mexicans who pick the beets which have helped make some Colorado growers rich, Italians who have dug American sewers, Irishmen who have smelted American ore, Poles who have dug American iron, Jews who made American clothing, in fact, pretty nearly every possible kind of representative of nine- tenths of the American ponulation have become transformed suddenly into “un-Americans.” . . . American—Like Hearst. |O BE American, it appears from the wisdom of the Dicksteins, from the Sacramento law-courts, from the Hearst filth-press, one must be one of two things: either a multi-millionaire, or a contented and docile wage-slave. A Mexican beet-picker is American until he goes on strike; thereafter, he becomes an alien. A Polish steel-puddler is Ameri- can until he begins organizing the men on the black gangs; thereafter, he is a menace to American institutions. American purity is limited apparently to bankers, brokers, Congressmen, and publishers. Somebody once said, “The last Christian died on the cross.” According to Hearst, the last Ameri- can opened an office in Wall Street, and took a movie actress for his mistress. The hypocrisy of the “Americanism” of such dollar-patriots as Hearst, and the judges and grow- ers of California, is clearly brought out in an incident which occurred only a short time ago in Jackson, California. ‘The eighteen defendants in Sacramento are charged with preaching violence, with trying to overthrow the laws and institutions of America. In Jackson, a gang of “vespectable” citizens formed themselves into one of those pious mobs known as the Citizens’ Alliance. There was a strike on at two big gold mines near Jackson. The Citizens’ Alliance, defending the Constitution and private property, armed with guns, clubs and tear gas, descended upon the strikers, burned up the tent colony, wrecked the union headquarters, destroyed union property and then drove the pickets out of town at the point of a gun. Were they charged with Criminal Syndicalism? They were violating the Bill of Rights, the Declara- tion of Independence and perhaps a dozen other minor laws. They were destroying what is said to be an American institution, the rights of free speech, assembly, and press. There wasn’t a whimper out of a judge, nobody called in the State Militia to suppress the mob, Hearst didn’t even miss breakfast because of their lawlessness. All this, repeating in miniature what went on in the terror after the Frisco general strike, what occurs in every strike, aroused not the slightest concern upon the part of the patriots for the preservation of fundamental democratic rights. Only the strikers, only workers are a menace to American institutions. The Citizens’ Alliance was loyal, respectable and one-hundred and nine per cent, pre-war American. Bill Haywood’s Leaflet GREAT many years ago, Bill Haywood, during A one of the big strikes that conyulsed the West in the early days of the century, drew up a unique leaflet. He sketched out the design of an American flag and on each stripe of the flag he inscribed the following brief, but illuminating motto: Martial law declared in Colorado Habeas Corpus suspended in Colorado Free Speech throttled in Colorado Wholesale Arrests in Coiorado Corporations Corrupt and Control Admin- instrations in Colorado Union Men Expelled from homes and fami- lies in Colorado Militia hired by Corporations toe break strikes in Colorado After the leafiet with the flag was pasted up on the telegraph poles and the public walls, the soldier boys were busy the next morning trying to scrape down Old Glory. It appears that the General in command of the militia didn’t appreciate the lesson in American democracy that Bill Haywood was giving him. A And since Bill Haywood’s time the militia offi- cers haven't changed their spots, nor the corpora- tions become the apsotles of liberty. Like the Gen- eral, the ruling class still says: “The Constitution? To hell with the Constitution!” * * Under the Flag HAT the ruling class doesn’t obey or follow the letter of its laws is no novelty. The only guar- antee that the fundamentals of democracy will be exercised in America, rests not with the Daughters of the American Revolution, but with the em- battled workers and farmers. More and more, with the continued breakdown of capitalism, the ruling class tends to drop its legalism for the rule by direct, naked force. The Bill of Rights needs the strength of the masses to make it function. To guarantee free speech, free assembly and press, it will take more than a revolution three hundred years old. It will take a great organized united front of all sections of the toiling population to resist the clamping-down of fascist fetters upon Americans. Who are the Americans? There was a picket in a strike once who carried a banner like this: We live under the flag ‘We die under the flag ‘We work under the flag But dammed if we'll starve under the fiag! Soviet’s Greatest Film ““CHAPAYEV’’ “,,. A figure of truly heroic proportions.”— DAILY WORKER. Opens Today Opens Tomorrow BELASCO THEATRE MAJESTIC THEATRE Washington, D. C. Boston, Mass. | World !! LITTLE LEFTY , c'mon We GOTHA Get PATSY'S aovice RIGHT Away? You Sv: Gee wuiz // RE CAN R O16 UP EXCUSES “0 Go See Hat GAL! HERE'LL DERTH OF Vivid Realistic Stories in Anvil Cover Wide Range | THE ANVIL, March-April, 1935. Ed> ited by Jack Conroy and Walter Snow. Address: c-o Will Wharton, 5431 Nottingham Ave., St. Louiis, Mo., 15 cents a single copy. $1) for eight issues. Reviewed by PHILIP RAHV HE ANVIL, a magazine special- } izing in proletarian fiction, has |now published its tenth number. | This is an event in the life of our young literature, and is the occa- sion for congratulating its energetic editors as well as the group of young writers who have not only written |for it, but also sold it copy by copy wherever they happened to be work- ing or bumming at the moment. It is in such homespun journals, got- ten out with great labor and with almost no finances, that the young revolutionary writers are given their firs; chance to try their wings. While the fiction in The Anvil has not always reached the highest level possible, most of it succeeded in catching the feel of workaday America and in imparting a sense of the rebel moods stirring the minds and hearts of simple, inar- ticulate people. The current issue contains eight stories and sketches, and three poems, quite a fare for a “little mag- azine.” The themes of the stories cover a wide range and are extreme- ly realistic both in temper and de- velopment. Particularly interesting and exciting are the stories by Saul Levitt, Jack Conroy, Erskine Cald- well, H. H. Lewis and Lewis Zara. Conroy’s “Down in Happy Hol- low,” a part of his new novel, sug- gests that this working class writer is digging deep into his experience to create the imagery and render clear the sources of his invaluable material. Saul Levitt has written little as yet, but those who follow the work of young writers closely have al- ready sensed in him an emerging talent of a high order. To my mind, his story “My Kid Brother,” pub- lished some time ago in another magazine was one of the clearest signs of our literature’s coming of age. H. H. Lewis is another writer whose prose has not been suffi- ciently noticed by our criticism. His | “Frez for Fresno” in this issue is | slight but characteristic of his style, | which is the best possible vehicle | for sharp, almost ferocious, satire. His idiom combines the ribald slang | of the brazen underdog with a high- | ly imaginative lyricism of phrase | and feeling; it’s charged with hatred | of the genteel, the pompous, the un- | real. Unfortunately, in his poetry, Lewis misuses somewhat this indi- | vidual idiom, for in most of his poems he turns it into a substitute for design and discipline. | Teo eye “IVE WALKS ALONE,” by Jo- sephine W. Johnson, author of the well-known novel “Now in No- vember,” marks her first appearance in a proletarian magazine. It shows | well enough where her sympathies lie, but as yet she fumbles with her theme, not quickening to its social elements but rather to its subjective, conventional side. The most explicitly political story in the issue—dealing with Party life —is written by Joseph D. Marr, a newcomer to literature. Few of our writers have ever attempted to use this rich subject matter, either be- cause of unfamiliarity with this life or @ certain self-consciousness. Marr describes a militant Italian comrade who is severely beaten up by the police and then loses his nerve. While this happens at times, it is neither typical of Communists nor is it inherent in this particular case as presented by the author. But the story is important for its incidental descriptions and because it is a pioneer effort. Proletarian magazines in this country haye gradually increased to the extent where each one is find- ing its own special field. The spe- cific point of view that The Anvil is expressing in our literature has already produced some very fine fiction and deserves the attention of every radical reader. New Pamphlets WOMEN AND EQUALITY, by Margaret Cowl, 2 cents. WHAT EVERY WORKING WOMAN WANTS, by Grace Hut- chins, 2 cents. WOMEN IN ACTION, by Sa- sha Small, 2 cents, THE POSITION OF NEGRO WOMEN, by Eugene Gordon and Cyril Briggs, 2 cents. se These pamphlets have just been issued by Workers Library Publishers for use in the cam- paign for International Women’s Day. Order them now for distri- bution in shops, ons, and in the neighborhoods, CHAPAYEY IN WASHINGTON “Chapayev,” the Russian film now in its seventh smash week at the Cameo Theatre, in New York, will open at the Belasco Theatre, in Washington, today and at the Majestic Theatre, in Boston, on Fri- day, Feb. 22, These two theatres are part of a chain established by the International Art Cinema, Inc., in all the large Eastern and Middle- Western cities, WHADYE MEAN BY Excuses ? his THE LIFE OF, The Marathon! The NEWS MEAN amnion | Page From an Organizer’s OLD SNOOPY 1S PROMISING UNDER ~THE SuN “To BUST US UP/ ES EVERYTHING Note Book TRUDGED up the silent street between rows of weather-beaten houses, The street was little more than two ruts. It crawled around over the hill like a snake bellying its way. Even the streets seem somber and sad on a Southern mill hill. Mud and cinders cling to your shoes. Sober-eyed kids peer through cracked window panes as you pass. They seldom laugh. Their eyes hold no laughter. There’s nothing to laugh about. I was going to visit Ella Riley, young secretary of our union. Dampness of a drab February day cut keenly through my thread-bare overcoat. No sun even seeped through the smoke-laden clouds that day. Ella had not been toour last union meeting. The door was closed. A faded curtain stretched across the win- dow. It hung on the corner of a newspaper stuffed in where a pane was broken. I knocked at the door. A lean, tall boy opened it. A small boy rested his elbows on the foot of an old bed. A cold stove stood in the center of the room. The saggind doors of an empty cup- board yawned wide as if it would like food on its inside. 97 ee 'LLA was crying. She lay on the bed with a patchwork quilt pulled over her thin shoulders. She cried softly, but the sobs shook her down deep like I've imagined one cried over a great lonely emptiness. Ella was not excited. She was not the emotional kind. “Sit down,” she said. “I’m crying. I don't know nothing else to do. The doc- tor just left. It's cancer. Eating my innards out. They say there's no hope. I’m just 26. That's mighty young to have cancer like this—to die. The children—that’s By DON WEST what worries me. way to live. When George was alive he—but they ain't no use talk- |ing about him. He went at 24 and jhe worried about us. The kids. They ain't hardly had nothing to eat today. Ain’t been no coal, no food here today. The relief woman \told me to take BC pills, dope up and go on to work. I tried, but. I kept bleeding. The blood won't stop. Maybe an they say it ain’t no use.” ing. Such an experience is not ex- actly unusual. But they © always make it hard for me to talk. I’ve seen preachers talking at a bedside about god, about love. I remember when I was a little boy a preacher came to our uncle's bedside when he was dying. I knew what had killed him. I knew the dust, long hours, stretch-out in the cotton mill. He died because there was no money for the right kind of treatment. The preacher never said anything about that. eae eae} 'HE room was cold. It seemed cruel. The dingy ceiling pressed down close. My head would almost touch it if I tiptoed. children huddled around like I've seen sheep scrouging together for warmth. She dried her eyes. “What about the union? When does it meet again?” union. Tell them I'm sick. But it on, What else is there? We're in a fight. My kids. They couldn't get work if they were old enough. like me. The union. Maybe the future will be brighter for the kids. I've worked all my life. I doped up and worked when something operation—but | I sat there by the bedside listen- | Ella's five | “Tell them I can't be at the | must go on. Tell them it must go | I don’t want them to be a slave | Tf they had a) gnawed inside till it made me plum | ; Weak. I can’t do nothing but lie | here now. Sometimes I cry. Some- times I talk with the kids. I want | them to learn. They must know jhow to fight back. Twenty-six, | that’s mighty young to die.” | I sat listening to this girl. Her | body was old and wrecked. Her spirit was young and clean like a June morning. She was tempered in fire like the blue steel of a keen ax blade. OW and then I tried to say some- | thing. But you know how clumsy you feel in such things. I looked at the children. They were sober little fellows. A little curly- | haired girl of ten showed traces of her mother’s early beauty in spite of pinched cheeks. A little boy named Jimmy still rested his chin on the bed post. His eyes were keen and he never took them off his mother. I wanted to tell Jimmy some- “Jimmy, we saw your mother die. We saw her murdered in cold blood by the Mill Company. From a | beautiful young girl they made an old, broken woman. Your mother made the mills rich, Jimmy. And when she was no more use they cast her off like we throw garbage out of a kitchen. But there's vengeance, boy! Tighten that belt | around your little stomach. Feed on hatred, yes, on bitter hatred. Let your muscles and brain grow big, grow strong. Prepare to strike, Blend your muscles, your brain with millions of other Jimmies. Make one big, mighty arm of the working | class, Prepare to strike, to strike | your mother’s murderers, the mur- | \derers of Ella Riley!” The exhibition of Burck’s drawings, referred to by Art Young, is being held at the John Reed Club, 430 Sixth Avenue, where it will be ended on Sunday afternoon with a cocktail party. International Student Congress Cheers Storm Tr peers the single most inspiring moment of this great gathering of the International Student Con- gress Against War and Fascism on Dec. 29 in the great concert hall in Brussels, Belgium, was marked by the appearance of a member of the Nazi storm troops who delivered the German report. He was well dis- guised—as he planned to return at once to continue anti-fascist work in Germany—in a grey raincoat, dark glasses and a cap pulled well over his eyes. He spoke intensely, as follows: “Hitler's program is the destruc- tion of the peoples and not national and social emancipation. Our uni- versities have become arsenals of war. Students form a great part of the 8. S. Anti-Fascist Groups “The student seeks a solution of his problems and the economic needs which press upon him today. “Hitler has done nothing for the student youth. Fees have been in- creased. Out of 40,000 matriculated students, only 9,000 are admitted to the higher schools. In everything, absolutely everything, which they promised up they have deceived us. “In the ranks of the student body itself there is a strong movement which demands the Sra oa of all That we already have the thind leadership (in the Nazi student organization), that our op- position is forced to change its tac- tics every few months is mainly due to the fact that students are open- ly expressing dissatisfaction. Every- where there are anti-fascist student groups which regularly issue papers and pamphlets and continually work among the students. “Your fight against Fascism must turn against the Hitler emissaries who come into your countries. We are sure of your moral support. , release of our anti-fascist leader Thaelmann proves your practical solidarity. “In this sense: Death to Fascism —Down with War—Long live the common struggle of students of all countries!” dress, the conference was on its feet, cheering, applauding this heroic German anti-fascist, the whole of the courageous German people who struggled for liberation. The cry went up—first in German, then French, and English—‘“Free Thael- man!” Seated before the speaker were 375 student leaders delegated to. repre- sent the student movement of 31 nations, 70 professors, and 200 in- vited visitors. Approximately 20 per cent of the delegates were Socialists, an equal number of Communists, and the remaining 60 per cent non- political members of anti-war and anti-fascist organizations. American Delegation The delegation of students from the Soviet Union was detained on technicalities at various countries while enroute to the Congress. A telegram from the Soviet delegation was received with the greatest of enthusiasm and applause from the entire Congress. The American delegation num- States and three from Canada, as follows: Phil Russell, North Caro- lina, Students Anti-war Conference; George Edson, New Hampshire, New England Anti-war Conference; Ly- onel Florant, Howard University, Liberal clio; James Morganthad, Columbia University, Anti-war Con- ference; Sanford Solander, New York University, Anti-war Council; Serril Gerber, Los Angeles, National Student League; Morris Milgrim, ooper Delegat Your action in all countries for the | With the conclusion of the ad-: bered 10, seven from the United jin Student League for Industrial Dem- ocracy; Mendel Laxer, McGill Uni- | versity; Margaret Drummond and Kenneth Woodsworth, Toronto Uni- versity. sors was Professor Rivet, chairman of the powerful French Intellectuals | Vigilance Committee Against Fas- cism in which 5,000 professors and intellectuals are enrolled. Action Not Mere Discussion Opening the afternoon session of the first day, Professor Rivet de- manded “action not mere discussion” of his fellow intellectuals through- out the world. Then followed the detailed re- port of the initiative committee for the Congress analyzing the present situation of the students the world over and his relation to the whole of society. The second section of the world report analyzed the role of fascism, its appearance at the crucial point lof social crisis, its demagogic ap- peal to accept the “new solution,” and finally the complete betrayal of its followers. Fascism And War The direct relation between the growth of Fascism and the increas- ing danger of war as well as the general intensified militarization of youth was the next subject created the report. Several outstanding examples of student resistance to war prepara- tions and fascization were then cited: the one-hour anti-war strike last April 13 of 25,000 U. S. stu- dents; the wide student support to the anti-fascist general strike in Paris last February, etc. The remaining two days of the Congress were spent largely in hearing the major national reports and the resolutions of the various thing. I wanted to burn it into; his soul. I'm writing it here for; | him now. | Outstanding among the 70 profes- | “TiS 1S TH! “THiRD “Time ToDRY “THAT WE HAO ~10 RUN “10 Patsy. 'M FOR GETTIN HER BACK INTO Th! UNION | A ‘Revolutionary’ Hero To Thrill The Debutantes LEAN MEN, by Ralph Bates, New York: Macmillan Co. $2.50 Reviewed by | JAY GERLANDO { |] SUSPECT that the reason why| |* the bourgeois reading public has {not taken yet to revolutionary | novels is because of the rather un-| | polished character of its heroes. | What hero in what revolutionary novel, for instance, can balance a| tea-cup, or a cookie for that matter, | and talk blithely of beautiful | | nothings; or take part in a dem- jonstration without ruffling his hair | jor his sense of humor; or speak to} |you about the revolution and his | Soul in almost one breath? Not one, I'm afraid. And that has been the) trouble. Our heroes have not been} | Leslie Howards for one thing. For | another, they haven’t worn the cor- | | rect kind of cravats, or had a suf- | | ficient amount of social standing, or | Worried enough about their golf |game. Their accent has smacked of | |the factory rather than of the| ‘boudoir. And, horror of horrors, I} | don’t believe that a single one of | them would ever think of dressing | |for dinner | |__Mr. Bates’ hero is no such slob. | He is what is called a perfect gen- | | tleman, accustomed to the drawing- | |room atmosphere, the club-room | atmosphere, and etpecially to at- |atmosphere, and especially to at-| |a revolutionist, yes—but what can | jyou expect of these clever young }men. Youth must have its fling, | | you know, whether the fling be rev- |olution or a Follies Girl. Francis | | Charing (almost as neat a nomen-| | clature as Leslie Howard, eh what?) | is Mr. Bates’ idea of a “revolution- | ary” hero, Park Avenue will adore | him, especially the younger set, for | uestion and Answers 4 This department appears daily on the feature page. All questions should be addressed to “Ques- tions and Answers,” c/o Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York City. A LaFollette Labor Party Question: In the event that politicians like the LaFollettes set un some kind of progressive party, what will the Communists do about it? ‘ould not @ labor party his case divide the working class? IRISH WORKERS would fight the ef- ettes and other capitalist polie Answer: The Communists forts of the LaF ticlans to swing the present breakaway from the Old capitalist parties into the channel of a third capitalist party. Such a party would be extremely dangerous to the working class movement It of class collaboration new demagogic cloak, ‘ould lead the work- s for their needs would mean that the policy would be continued under a It would not be a party that ers and poor farmers in str and demands. A fight against such demagogues divide the working class, and for the creation of genuine class struggle a labor party based upon the trade unions, would be an effort to further the unity of the workers. Only a true labor party would actually benefit the workers, and help to actually unify them in their s against their class enemies. The Com ist Party will strive to create the broadest possible labor party, a true mass party, as against the third capitalist party of the La- Follettes. The fight against such people will not divide the working class. The broader the Com- munist Party makes the split away of the workers from these demagogues, the more the Party will be helping the workers to move forward in their own class interests, and against the interests of the capital would not To fight against them, The Lincoln Quotation Question: What is the source of the Lincoln quotation thet the Daily Worker runs as required reading for Mr. Hearst?—STUDENT. Answer: The quotation, as the Daily has stated for the past ten or twelve days, is from Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, delivered on March 4, 1861. At that time a number of southern states had seceded, and Lincoln had to say where he stood with respect to the secession. The en- tire speech can be found in the “Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln,” edited by John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Worker Laboratory and Shop By David Ramsey Charing is really “quite a revolu-| A Cotton-Picking Machine | tionist” and isn’t Revolution a really | progressive (if you know what I| mean) idea? Charing is gentle-| manly and charming, but Mr, Bates | | definitely makes you understand! | that he is a member of the Third} | Internationale, which is not the! | hame of a new baseball league but | }a much more dignified term for “Communist Party.” When Francis Charing felt that life in England was simply becoming | too much with two women pulling | him this way and that, telling him | to make up his mind as to which | jone he wanted, Charing did the | | Sporting thing and got Away From It All by going down into Romantic | Spain—just as his fellow-country- | man, Lord Byron, had gone down} into Romantic Greece some years | ago when his woman question be- | came too acute. Most everybody | tells us that Byron went for the} | sake of an ideal; well, so did Char- ing. The blurb says he went to Spain “to lead and direct the rey- olutionary movement there.” In Spain Charing did a great deal| | of thinking, particularly of England | and the two women he left behind. | Occasionally he did mix in with some of the dock workers and be- | come quite friendly with some of them. He even smuggled arms across the Pyrenees for workers and, | on one occasion, helped sneak a| liberal, wanted by the authorities, |across into France. And he also almost had an affair with a Com-| munist girl (or rather, with a girl who belonged to the Third Interna- | tionale). But most of the time he | Was thinking of his soul, of the | two women home. and of his hobby, | music. No revolution or strike could |Teally interfere with any of these, for Charing was a cultivated gentle- man first, a revolutionist afterwards, and a hero always, of course. Mr. Bates, according to the bio- graphical data he himself furnishes, is not really a drawing-room man. He has worked in factories, asso-| ciated with all sorts of common folk, and taken an active part in Spain “in revolutionary strikes” of \recent years. But it is hard to de- duce such frightful facts about him either from his manner of writing —a manner that resembles a long, rambling, well-polished monologue | spoken with smoke-rings—nor from | the behavior of his Prince Charming. | commissions which had met within the Congress. Barbusse Sends Appeal | Henri Barbusse, noted author and anti-fascist leader, invited to address the Congress, was prevented from appearing by illness, but sent a stirring appeal to the gathering. Numerous telegrams of greetings | Teceived added much to the spirit, | particularly one from George Dimi- jtroff, freed from Nazi terror in the Reichstag trial by world mass pressure. The Congress adjourned on the evening of Dec. 31 after adopting a World Student Manifesto, a De- claration of the Rights of Student Youth, and electing a broad World Student continuation committee with headquarters in Paris. As a focal point for activity in @ll countries, the Congress voted to sponsor an international student Strike against war and fascism as near April 5 as possible, the pre- cedent for this date having been set. by the U. S. students last spring. At present the American commit- tee can be reached at 947 St, Nich- olas Avenue, New York City, The Associated Press reports that a mechanical cotton-picker is on the verge of being perfected, A machine is now being tested at the Delta Ex- perimental Station at Stoneville, Mississippi, which, it is claimed, does the work of fifty to a hundred cotton pickers. The machine is described as a fairly simple af- fair. It consists of an endless belt design carry- ing several hundred smooth wire spindles which rotate as the belt passes over the rows of cotton plants. The spindles are automatically moistened. As they penetrate the plants, the moistness causes the cotton to stick to the spindles. The spindles are then stripped of the cotton, which is delivered by suction fans to containers. This discovery which may revolutionize the cot- ton growing industry comes at a critical period for the tenant farmers and farm laborers. The restric- tion program of the A.A.A. drove two hundred thousand tenant farmers off the land and left thousands of agricultural workers without any means of livelihood. The rich cotton planters have used the grants the government gives them to utilize better fertilizers, and other methods that make for more intensive cultivation. There is a strong likelihood that they will turn to the mechanical cotton-picking device to cut their labor costs, as a way of recapturing markets that they have lost to foreign rivals. Until recently | the peonage system was an obstacle in the way of the general use of such a device. Labor costs were so cheap that it would have been unprofitable to spend money for machinery. Today the planters have money given them by the government. To sell their cotton in foreign markets they must cut their costs even below their Present low levels, This the mechanical cotton-picker will enable them to do. At the same time it will force down the wages of those agricultural workers who will still be able to obtain work. Thus a device which in the Soviet Union society would be used to lighten the burden of agricultural workers, and to provide cheaper garments for the whole ponulation, in the United States will be used to pauperize the vast majority of the ten million persons who are dependent upon cotton growing for a livelihood. It is Significant to note that the New York Times was not concerned with the fact that under capitalist an advance in tech- nology will be used to convert the poor and tenant farmers into a landiess peasantry. Its one regret (2) was that “melody” would pass from the cotton flelds, since the Negro pickers would no longer sing their “giory rows” and “hallejuahs” while toil< ing for landlords who robbed them of all they earned. 7:09 P.M.-WEAP— Kemp Oreh. | WOR—-Sports Resume—Stan | Lomax WJZ—Amos ‘n’ Andy WABC—Myrt and Marge 7:18-WEAF--Jack Smith, WOR—Lum and Abner WJZ—Ooneert Orch. 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