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MICHAEL GOLD T SEEMS that an injustice was done to Scott Nearing in this column recently. A comrade in Vancouver, British Colum- | bia, had sent me a clipping from the “Com- monwealth,” a quasi-Socialist newspaper in that city. Scott Nearing was reported as hav- ing told its interviewer that the Communist Party of America was too sectarian to have any future. The Workers’ (Trotzkyite-American Flag) Party was the only real party with a future. I commented on this surprising statement, but now it seems that Vancouver has its own variety of treacherous Socialist-liberal leader. They evi- dently know how to slander as well as any Hearst, Noske or Abe Cahan. Another Vancouver comrade has sent me the following clipping, which is a letter from Scott Nearing to the same paper repudiating the false interview. An apology is in order, and I hereby tender it, vowing solemnly never again to believe a damn thing printed in the Socialist-liberal press. Or should one? * . * Just the Opposite “EDITOR, The Commonwealth: “Dear Sir: Will you please print the fol- lowing correction re an interview in your issue of Jan. 4. ‘Your reporter quoted me as stating that the Communist Party of the United States ‘will have to give way to the Workers’ Party.’ “Such a statement is very far removed from my opinion in this matter. I believe that the Communist Party holds the revolutionary field to- day in the U.S. A. The American Workers’ Party has only a tiny fraction of the support and the influence exercised by the Communist Party. “As far as the immediate future is concerned it seems to me quite evident that the gains will be made by the Communist Party and not by the American Workers’ Party. The statement attributed to me is thus quite the opposite of my conviction in the matter. “Yours truly, “SCOTT NEARING.” * * * Lenin or Mme. Blavatsky 'HERE have been a half dozen other letters about this column on Scott Nearing, in which the writers earnestly testify to the fine work done by Scott Nearing on the platform, in defending the Soviet Union and the cause of Communism. But I believe I was sound in my criticism of Scott Nearing. I would like the comrades who wrote these letters to know that for some of us it is impossible not to discuss Scott Nearing. Dur- ing a recent lecture tour, covering some 25 cities, I was asked questions about Nearing at least 15 times by workers in the audiences. They wanted to know why Nearing is out of the Communist Party. They wanted to know why he had made certain statements at variance with the Commu- nist position. What is a speaker to do when workers ask such questions? Only one course is honorably open to him; he must tell the truth as he sees it. My column on Scott Nearing was a repetition, mainly, of the answers I gave to such questions. I can assure you it was not all made up out of my head. I first learned that Scott Nearing had been a theosophist for years from a biographical sketch of Nearing by Roger Baldwin, published in the Christian Socialist magazine, “The World To- morrow.” Baldwin’s article was quizzical and friendly, but our civil liberties “spetz” also mar- velled at the contradictions in Nearing’s mind. How can anyone reconcile Madame Blavatsky and Lenin? Perhaps, in the hurry and worry in which one often has to formulate these daily columns, with- out time for revision or copy reading, I might have given a wrong impression. But I can honestly say that I was marvelling, as much as Roger Bald- win, at the contradiction, and I was trying to point out the connection between this sort of mystic con- fusion in a man’s mind, and the political mistakes that are sure to follow. Some of Scott Nearing’s public utterances have deviated from the Communist Party line. This was not because the party line was false, or sec- tarian, or unrealistic, but because Scott Nearing had lapsed into a moment of mystic individualism. Madame Blavatsky had temporarily won over Lenin. Ought one analyze such weaknesses in a prominent and influential speaker’s mind, or ought one ignore them? But the workers demand an explanation, and it is one's duty to give it to them. | * * “s Symposium in Chicago Apes Pes ? On Rice’s ‘Judgment Day CHICAGO.—Afraid to face the implications of fascism, the Jewish People’s Institute of Chicago has refused to allow a symposium on Judgement Day by Elmer Rice to be held in its auditorium. This refusal is made in spite of the fact that the Jewish People’s Institute Players, foremost little theatre group in Chicago, is producing Judgement Day, and their director, Lawrence Paquin, will speak at the symposium. This anti-fascist discussion, banned by the wealthy trustees of the Jewish People’s Institute, will be held under the sponsorship of the New Theatre League of Chicago, at 505 South State Street, on Sunday evening, Feb. 24, at 8:30. Pro- fessor Robert Morss Lovett of the University of Chicago, and Lawrence Martin of Northwestern University will speak at the symposium. Charles Freeman, producer of Sixteen, Allen Taub, of the New Masses, and Charles DeSheim of the Drama Union, will add their viewpoints to the discussion. With this symposium, the New Theatre League of Chicago celebrates International Theatre ‘Week, and introduces its new policy of uniting all drama- tic groups in a common struggle against fascism, war, and censorship. A speaker from the New Thea- tre League will explain the far-reaching scope of its work, and its affiliation with the International Union of Revolutionary Theatres. Soviet’s Greatest Film “*‘CHAPAYEV”’ “... A figure of truly heroic proportions,” DAILY WORKER, Now Playing Opens Today | with a laughter that chokes the pro- | | met on that evening informed me Paréy You Gor1a ep us! we! UNION RE IN A JAM ANO N MR. SNOOPY 1S ORGANISIN' A COMP'NY WANTS, To i JOIN OURS DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1935 X Marks the Spot! AND ALL “HE ON US, iO ONE HE'S CRLLIN' & MEETIN' “TOMORROW Y NEWSIES WILL yy Be odes | way co as the Fourth of July,} 1934, approached, the United | komo, Indiana, saying that, “The | fiery cross blazed again today on the hill around which 100,000 Knights of the Ku Klux Klan met in 1923,| summoning remnants of the hooded | order for a new campaign .. . to re-| juvenate the Klan ‘for protection of |the constitution of the United| | States’,” Laugh that off! And if you can laugh it off hap- Ppily, then you can laugh happily, too, at the grim and ironic humor of Jacob Burck’s cartoons. Burck’s powerful drawings, with | their crooked judges peering out) from behind the pillars of justice and their fat sheriffs carrying the ropes of the lynchers they white-j| wash, portray the America of today | letarian throat and makes the blood Tun to fists that must be increas- ingly, militantly clenched to fight the brazen terror that spreads and grows from Alabama to the Pacific, from New York to Texas. This week in San Francisco, four men are arrested for their activi- ties in connection with the steve- dores’ strike, Four visitors who go to see them in jail are also imme- diately placed under arrest as they leave the prison. Those who send telegrams of protest to the judge are | ordered detained at once for con- tempt of court. The local secretary | of the International Labor Defense, | for merely sefiding a wire, is being held under ten thousand dollars bail. Laugh that off A LL over America police clubs swing on the heads of workers who organize and strike for a decent living and a little rest and a little pursuit of happiness. All over America the Silver Shirts and the White Legion and the vigilantes and similar groups march and maneu- (Takigi Kobayashi, one of the better revolutionary writers of Japan and a member of the Com- munist Party of Japan, was mur- dered by torture by the political department at a police station in Tokyo on February 20, 1933, Party Life, Kobayashi’s last novel, was written two or three months be- fore his death and was only pub- lished, in censored form, some time afterward—TRANSLATOR’S NOTE.) nah ee 'UYAMA often drops in to see my mother to carry news of me to her. On his way back and forth at work, he often stops to see my mother, and hej brings me news of her. I left home without ever having an opportunity of informing my mother, Compelled to hide from the menace of a police search, I went out of the house without ever speaking to her. On that day, at six in the evening, I was on the corner of a street, as usual, in order to get in touch with a comrade. I had been carrying on legal activity in a social fascist union as a mem- ber of the revolutionary opposition, and had not as yet exposed myself as a Party member. However, the comrade whom I that Comrade F. had been suddenly arrested, Comrade F. had worked with me in the same union, and it was suspected that his arrest had been due to the activity of the secret police. They must have sus- pected him of being a member of the underground Communist Party. The situation was inaeed tense. I would have to conceal myself at once, but planned on returning home to dispose of Party literature there and my effects. I spoke to the comrade about this intention. There would be little time before the Police would be on my trail. “This is no time for humor,” he said to me. He laughed at first, but instructed me to avoid returning home by all means if I intended to continue my work in the Party and save my neck. Somebody else could dispose of the literature at home and I should hide at once. “Well,” he laughed. “You are not going to the school excursion, are you?” he said. With comradely courtesy, he gave me strict orders as to what was to be done. He had survived many ordeals in our struggle and remem- bered many situations which were parallel to the circumstances of my case, ‘ So I borrowed five yen from him and sought shelter with a friend. $i ess“e | saoios next morning, as was ex- pected, the police raided my home, searching for me even above the dark rafters of the ceiling and beneath the floor. They attempted to locate evidence of my activities BELASCO THEATRE MAJESTIC THEATRE Washington, D. C. Boston, Mass. when they failed to find me. . Not knowing anything of what had oc- curred, my mother was astonished. She told them her son had not re- That Off,” Says Hughes © Of Burck’s Cartoons | ver. All over America Negroes are facing new jim-crow bars in the other government sponsored proj- ects. Almost weekly a new lynching is reported. Legally and illegally LANGSTON HUGHES beaten, starved, intimidated and jim-crowed, nevertheless, the Negro masses of America are stirring. (Ralph Graves did not die in vain.) | The poor whites, beaten and starved as well, are stirring. (Mooney does not lie in jail in vain.) And the black and white masses slowly but surely will put their two strengths together, realizing they face a com- mon foe. Some of Jacob Burck's cartoons picture the harsh realities of today, the wall of struggle; others fore- shadow the marching power of the proletarian future. Let the capi- talists, who pay for our oppression, laugh that future off, if they can. LANGSTON HUGHES. (From “Hunger and Revolt: Cartoons by Burck.”) turned home since the previous eve- ning. T have never returned to my home since then. When Suyama visited my mother the first time, bringing word of me to her, she treated him as if her own son had come back. She invited him inside, served tea, and looked him full in the face. Su- yama told me later, as he scratched his head, that he didn't know what to do beneath the full strength of her gaze. He told her of the occasion necessitating my escape, and when he happened to pause she urged him, asking, “What hap- pened? And then?” She. had not slept for many nights, thinking of me. Livid circles or dark pain were around her eyes, which were swol- len. Her cheeks hollowed and her neck withered so much that it Loan ya she could hardly support her ead, Finally, she asked, “And when will he be back?” When? Suyama was dumbfound- ed. What to reply in answer to such a question? Looking at her thin neck shivering like a reed in the wind, he had no courage to tell her what must be. “It won't be so long, I think,” he said. ey we I HAD been arrested frequently, kept in close custody for 29 days at several police stations, and im- prisoned for eight months the year before last. So she was used to the idea. During those days she often visited the jail, bringing things for me. She had been something of a leader among mothers of working class prisoners. But this time, she had wondered why she hadn't re- ceived a notice of my arrest from the police. And she was afraid it might go bad with me if I hid my- Self from them. Sometimes I think I may have been too severe with her. But I always tried to convince her of the importance of my daily work in the class struggle. I can see her trying to understand my approach to the work I was doing. Her struggle to straighten out the conflicts in her mind must have been so much more arduous than our struggle to con- lynched, Mimeograph By GEORGE SALVATORE. From me come leafiets | Sending out calls to meetings, | To parades and demonstrations, | To picket lines and barricades, |I am the machine The man in oyeralls | With a work-worn hand Press sends out a release from Ko-|N. R. A, C. 0. C,, 8. E.R. A, and| TUS. Roll, | Roll, Roll, Roll, strike; strike; strike; | strike; Roll, Another leaflet for-the eyes of | a worker; Roll, | Another for the boss to see; Roll, | Another for the cop; | Roll, “Would you rather fight or—starve!” And in the hands of Angelo Herndon— A mountainous, thunderous roll, Uniting the Negro and white. I am more powerful Than cannons, Bullets and gas. I am the generator of revolution. In a corner of this hall A single roll Will shake the world, Turn it upside down: The few will be none, The many will be more, And the more will be all! Labour Monthly on Sale |} The February issue of Labour || Monthly now on sale at the || Workers Book Shop, 50 E. 13th || St. N. Y. C., carries a complete || analysis by its editor, R. Palme Dutt on the present political sit- || uation in Great Britain. In “The Communist Party Congzess,” he discusses the crisis in Social De- mocracy, the inner contradicions in the English Labor Party and |] the advance of the United Front || in England, |tend against daily difficulties in battle. She had been born of poor peas- ants and had never attended a school even for one day. Neverthe- less, she started to learn the al- phabet when I was still with her. Bending her back, with eyeglasses on, and warming herself before the fireplace with a coverlet upon her knees, she would contrive to make a desk of a board before her. She practiced writing the alphabet on the reverse side of paper I had Scrapped. “What are you trying to do?” I would laugh at her. However, I recalled how chagrined she had been not to be able to write even one letter to me during my imprisonment of the year before last. However, she said to Suyama on the occasion of his visit, “And now I know I am not even allowed to write to him.” The economy of her words made a deep impression upon me when I heard them from Suy- ama. I could imagine how disap- pointed she must have been. ve eu Wee Suyama was preparing to leave her, she handed to him my kimona, socks and other be- longings, and asked him to wait for a few moments. She disappeared into the kitchen and seemed to start cooking. Suyama wondered what she was going to do. To his surprise, she reappeared with five hard-boiled eggs. “Well, Ito” Suyama said, “Let us each eat cne and give the rest to him [indicating me]. His mother may dislike our finishing up all of them.” And he laughed. Ito was secretly wiping away her tears. I determined to tell my mother through Suyama of my belonging to the underground Communist Party. Also, of the impossibility of my re- turning home to see her again. She would have understood better if she knew the facts of the situation I was in. I knew of other cases where wives and mothers had dealt shame- lessly with arrested husbands and sons, asserting that the terrible “crime” of Communism had not in- volved them. I felt that my mother, however, though sixty years of age, ‘Young Otto _ Fights De | To Hitler Germany 46] WOULD like to see some com- rade right away. With prole- |tarian grip and a ‘Rot Front,’ I remain, Otto Richter.” This message, received by the In- | ternational Labor Defense from a |youth traveling East on a deporta- tion train, sent me hurrying to Ellis Island. When the workers of Berlin |threw up barricades, Otto Richter, }a boy of 17, a member of the | Young Communist League of Ger- |many, did his part in the struggle. |Then Hitler came to power—but tto Richter can best tell the story imself. Ellis Island, in the shadow of the {Statue of Liberty, was cold and foggy. In the office of the head of |the legal department I argued for |my right to see Otto Richter. Five |minutes with my comrade was all I | was allowed. I wandered down long corridors until I came into an enormous white tiled room. It looked like an empty swimming tank, with rows of green park benches, I saw ad- vancing toward me a very small |figure. His slightness startled me. This was nothing more than a boy! |A little more than five feet, blond |hair, blue eyes, hands small and |restless. He looks even younger |than his twenty years. But when he talks, it is with the seriousness | of one who is fully mature, who has |played his part in the most des- |perate struggles, who has never |Teally known any childhood. | I told him we had only five min- |utes, and he began to talk, very | fast. conversation, he signed a retainer authorizing the International Labor Defense to fight his deportation. “Are there other comrades here?” he wanted to know. “Yes,” I told him, “but they are segregated. Ray Carlson is here, and John Ujich, Oscar Mannisto, | By SPRADLING [A Chapter From Party Life - - - 8) Takigi Kobayashi | would not abuse the Party in order to save my life. For more than fifty years she had experienced poverty. It gave me confidence that she would understand. a ae 'HE listened to Suyama in silence. At the end, the asked only one question. She said that she was now sixty years old, that she ex- |pected death at any moment be- cause of illness. She hoped that when she was dying she might see her son. Not expecting such a re- quest, Suyama didn’t know what to answer. I told him when he re- turned once more to see my mother to tell her that even that could not be done. I thought perhaps it was too cruel, and yet I knew that it couldn’t be helped. However, on the day that Su- yama brought me her message, I was still nervous, “What did she say?” I said. “Well, she asked me...” he answered. She was getting more thin and pale, according to Suyama, She had asked if she could see me, if only once. I remembered the case of Wata- Masa [of the central committee of the Communist Party of Japan, who was killed by Japanese police at the Kelung harbor in Formosa on his way back from Moscow in 1927. —Tr.] When he had hidden himself for the purpose of carrying on un- derground work, his mother had asked to see him. Wata-Masa had said, “No. And not ever.” I men- tioned Wata-Masa to Suyama. “I understand. But you don’t have to let her know your address. Couldn’t you arrange to see her once?” he said. Suyama was deeply sympathetic. “I think it is better not to. No one can tell what serious result there might be,” I said. ee IOWEVER, I was finally con- vinced. We decided to arrange very carefully how and where we might meet each other. Suyama offered to bring her by taxi. On that day I arrived on time at the small restaurant. I found her sitting lone- 1:00 P. M.-WEAF—George Washington—Rupert Hughes, Author WOR—Sports Resume—Stan ax ‘WJZ—Amos 'n’ Andy— Sketch © WABC—Myrt and Marge— :15-WEAF—Stories of the Black Chamber WOR—Lum and Abner— Sketch WABC—Just Plain Bill— W5Z—Plantation Echoes 7:30-WEAF—Hirsch Orchestra WOR—Mystery Sketch WJZ—Red Davis—Sketch Mary Male Soprano; Male Quartet WOR—Lone Ranger—Sketch WJZ—Dramatic. Sketch, with Irene Rich, Actress Q WABC—Edwin ©. Hill, Com- TUNING IN nging Position of Women—Mrs, Franklin dienne D. Roosevelt WABC—March of 8:15-WJZ—Armbruster Orch. Drama Courtlandt, juartet Son, 9:30-WEAF—Bonime dians WABC—The O'Neills—Sketch mentator WOR—Al and Lee :45-WEAF—Unel a 8:30-\WOR—Katzman Orches- Piano aa Seok Ree tra; Lucille Peterson, WJZ—Phil Baker, WOR—Front-Page Drama Songs; Choristers Quartet dian; Gabrielle WJZ—Dangerous Paradise— Sketch Jane eri Songs; Bob fg agareyee ‘ABC—Boak: rs Hope, Comedian etch, wit ic) SRERStee en een |: Wawel dour of dedenian Fio-Rita Orchest: 8:00-WEAF—Bourdon Orches- Relations Others; tra; Jessica Dragonette, | 9:00-WEAF—Lyman Orehes- | 9:48-WOR—Singin’ Sam WJZ—Goodman Orchestra; tra; Frank Munn, Tenor; Vivienne Segal, Songs WOR—Hillbilly Music WJZ—Beatrice Lillie, Come- tra; Pic and Pat, Come- Songs; Belasco Orch. Frederick March 10:00-WEAF—Dramatic Sketch ‘WOR—Kemp Orchestra ‘WJZ—County Farmers Asso- ciation Meeting, Hot Springs, Ark. 10:15-WOR—Current Events— ‘HH. E. Read 10:30-WEAF—Symphony Or- chestra, Frank Black, Conductor; Mixed Chorus; Helen Oelheim, Contralto WOR—Eddy Brown, Violin WJZ—Jewish Program; Gay Rabbi Israel Goldstein WABC—The O’Flynn—Mus- Orchte: ical Drama 11:00-WEAF—Talk—George fei Holmes, Chief Washington Bureaus, INS WOR—News Come- es Delos, WJZ—Dance Orchestra WABC—Nelson Orchestra 11:15-WEAP—Ferdinando Or- chestra WOR—Moonbeams Trio 11:30-WMCA—Dance Music (Also WEAF, WJZ, WABC, 7) { Hotel k Powell, ra, and HELL PROBRELY PROMISE "THE GUYS EVERYTHING FROM SovP To Nuts - ANO Ts PuT USN During the course of our) by del NOT 1F You BERT HIM sto “tH' PUNCH! BOTH OF YoU Go-To HIS MEETING AND PUT | SNOOPY ON “THE. — spot! Richter portation | Paul Kettunen and Christ Popoff. | The Federal government is trying to | deport them also. Now tell me about yourself.” | “Well, I was a member of the Young Communist League in Ger- many up to a year and a half ago, when I had to get out of the coun- | try quick. The comrades heiped | me get a boat for Seattle. I have been in San Francisco for about a | year and a half. | “Yes, of course, I was active in | Frisco. I worked for the Commu- | nist Party, and in the restaurant | at the Workers’ School. During the | strike I assisted in the office of the International Labor Defense, but most of my time went helping the Workers’ International Relief to or- ganize soup kitchens for the strik- ers. “I was in the office of the LL.D. | when the vigilantes came in to jsmash it up. They seized me and | |had me placed under arrest. I was sent to Angel Island, the West | Coast deportation headquarters. I} | Was out on bail for ten days during | December, but the judge sent me back when I said I was a member of the Young Communist League. | But the work I did during the strike was worth to me any price I | may have to pay.” | I took jhe occasion to warn him | about Inspector Dwyer, a White | Guard provocateur, who had threat- | ened to shoot one of our comrades, | and Mrs. Schneider, a Nazi, whom the Lutheran Church maintains at Ellis Island as a “welfare worker,” | but whose real function is to spy | on the workers and try to get re- cruits for the German Army. | The guard came in. Our five min- | | utes were up. | The International Labor Defense | |and the Committee for the Protec- | tion of the Foreign Born are fight- | ing the deportation of Richter. A | Stay of 30 days has ben obtained. | Deportation to fascist Germany imeans certain torment and death. jly on |apart from its edge. She looked sad the other. side of a table, and gloomy. She wore her best jdress and it somehow impressed mé. | |__We did not talk much. She gave | me a few bananas, Japanese meld- ers and several hardboiled eggs. Su- yama left before long. When he was leaving she forced him to take a few of the bananas and eggs. She Put them into his hands. | Finally, she started to talk. “I am | glad to find you looking better than | when you were at home,” she said. | | | She had dreamed of me as being thin as a skeleton from lacx of proper food, and had worried. She had waked at night from nightmares of |my being arrested and tortured in | the prison camps. | She asked me to do my work without thinking of her. Her son- | in-law, who lived in Ibaragi, had | offered to take care of her. And | she intimated once more that she would like to see me when death | | entered to take possession of her life. But I told her once more what | such action would mean. “I know,” | she said. ig * * | iy the course of our conversation, | I noticed her extreme restless- | ness. She seemed so uneasy that it | was impossible to attempt a real | heart to heart talk. Finally, she confessed it had been almost un- bearable to wait for the moment | when we would meet, but that now | she was nervous, thinking of the Police. It would be better to part at once, she thought, and leave danger to look out for itself. When- ever a new face came into the radius of her sight, she would turn and say to me, “Do you think he is all right?” or she muttered, “His eyes are too sharp,” and so on. | When I happened to speak aloud as | I had been used to speaking at | home, she would warn me to speak | in a lower tone. It would be better | to know me well than to see me in conditions of aggravated danger, she felt, and that is was better that I leave at once. | When she was going, she said | that she hoped to live twenty years | longer, But she was old enough to die at any moment. And yet, she said she was determined to die in silence and alone, not even inform- ing me of the news of her approach- ing death. It would be an easy trap for the police. Her strength and determination sank deep into my heart. With such courage to remember, I could continue with my work better than before. But I remained silent. There were no words equal to what I felt. When we came out of the res- taurant, she insisted on my leaving her there. And then walking be- hind me, she whispered anxiously, “you have a habit of swinging your shoulders—anyone who knows you can recognize the lilt of your back. Change your habits of walking. Walk straight!” I have never seen my mother since then. (Translated from the Japanese by Norman NacLeod and Haru Mathi.) Page 5 Questions and Answers 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. Workers’ Bill and War Funds Question: Does the present version of the Work- ers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill con- tain a have already pure clause appropriating the funds that been allocated by poses?—H. D Congress for war Lancaster, Pa Answrr: Earlier drafts of the Workers’ Bill cone tained the clause which provided for the use of war funds for the unemployed. The clause was deleted in the present bill, H. R. 2827, not because of a change in policy, but becau broad committee which sponsored the bill, d led to over= n technical-legal obstacles which placed barriers before the passage of the bill the in Congress. The sponsors of the bill were told by constitue tional law . that those funds that Congress had already allocated for war purposes, could not be reallocated for unemployment insurance, because of “constitutional” teasons. Now since the primary aim of the many large groups that are sponsoring the bill is the welfare of the masses, it was de- cided to eliminate this constitutional barrier in order not to hinder the passage of the only bill which protects the interests of the working people of the country. It should be noted that the bill provides that “All moneys necessary to pay the compensation guaranteed by this Act and the cost of establish- ing and maintaining this act shall be paid by the Government of the United States. All such moneys are hereby appropriated out of all funds in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise ap- propriated. Further taxation if necessary to pro- vide funds for the purpose of this Act shall be levied on inheritances, gifts and individual and corporation incomes of $5,000 a year and over.” Thus the government as before would be en- tirely responsible for all costs that the bill would entail. -The funds would be raised at the expense of the big incomes and fortunes for the benefit of the working masses. The Communist Party supports the Workers’ Bill, although it contains a few imperfections in its present form, because it is the one bill which will aid the unemployed. At the same time it has not stopped the continual fight for the use of all war funds for the unemployed. For example, it opposes the billion dollar war budget now being pushed through Congress, and it opposes the use of the $4,800,000,000 of the work relief bill for war purposes. Its position at all times is that not @ penny shall be spent for war, but that the em- Ployers and the government should be forced to bear all the burdens of the crisis. The passage of the Workers’ Bill would be a step towards forcing the government to stop ap- propriating biilions for war preparations, since its first duty under the bill would be to care for the unemployed. Prosperity Notes By HARRY KERMIT MINEOLA, L. I—The neighbors said it was a terrible crime when Armando Fernandez, a Por- tuguese laborer, murdered his wife with a butcher's cleaver and then committed suicide by leaping thirty-five feet from the roof of his home to the street. It was a terrible enough happening but the indictment carried a different significance. Fernandez and his wife had seven children and feeding them was a problem even in prosperous times. The laborer’s jobs grew fewer and the kids bawled mcre insistently and the husband and wife began to irritate each other. The family was soon reduced to the grudging pittances handed out by the local relief bureau. Fernandez began to abuse his wife and children, his wife lodged a disorderly conduct charge against him and finally he broke under the strain of his involuntary idleness and poverty. The murder and suicide followed. County detectives investigating the case said they could find no motive for the “crime.” The seven children, who range in age from six months to ten years, have been brought to the Nassau County Children’s Shelter and will become public charges. Short Wave Radio 'HE following items from the January issue of the Soviet Union hamagazine (50,000 copies this issue) may be of interest to American hams: The Academy of Communications and the ex- perimental division of the Peoples’ Commissariat of Communications organized a radio expedition for the study of ultra short wave communications in mountainous regions. The operating apparatus of the expedition consisted of a 5-7 meter transceiver with three identical, directly heated cathode triodes. A plain, non-directional doublet was used for an aerial. Power in the aerial—10 mw. (one one- hundredth of one watt). Dry cells were used for power. The operating distance of the xmitter in the city (Moscow) did not reach above 2 km. On the mountain-top of Ahy-Petree (1,180 m.) communica- tion was held up to one hundred kilometers. It is interesting that the phenomena of standing waves and fading were observed. The fading showed itself only when there were crevices in the glaciers spanned. The interference from the mountain slope created standing waves which manifested themselves in a rise and fall of output level as the equipment was moved every three meters (approxi- mately one-half wave length). The Short Wave Radio Club of Manhattan: Full time hq. at 124 West 2ist Street. Membership meetings Fridays, 7:30 p.m. till midnight. Execu- tive meetings Wednesdays, 8 p.m. The American Youth Club radio group of 1813 Pitkin Avenue, Brooklyn, meets Tuesday nights. The Bensonhurst-Bay Ridge Club meets Friday at 9 p.m., Sundays at 12, noon, and Wednesdays at 8 p.m. at the home of M. Starkopp, Apt. D-3, 30 Bay Street, Brooklyn. The American Craftsmen’s Guild radio division is meeting with the other divisions Sundays at 2 p.m. at the home of the organizer, I. Phillips, 138 Floyd Street, Brooklyn. Code practice every night. The Guild is anxious to obtain additional shop ma-= chinery, stich as press, lathe, grinder, etc. Anyone willing to donate such will please drop a card to the above name and address, ‘

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