The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 23, 1935, Page 7

ss DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, Page c — | By MICHAEL GOLD “(JERMANY must no longer be the world’s spittoon,” was the inelegant challenge recently broadcast by a grand- son of the Kaiser, Prince August William. The Prince is a Nazi. This means that he is a man who has helped Hitler make of Ger- many the filthiest and most ludicrous spittoon of history. The best way the Prince can now help Germany would be to cut his own throat. * * * Two Worlds THENS, fountain of our western civilization, feli despite its culture, because that culture was based on chattel slavery. Germany, despite its bour- geois culture, has degenerated because this culture contained the poison of capitalism. Capitalism does not need a mass culture. It makes its greatest profits out of an illiterate and slavish population. Communism, however, can thrive only if there are completely cultured and conscious masses. It can live only if the masses understand history, and are ready to fight for their new system. They must have a high technical skill in production; they must know how to govern themselves, admin- ister the state. In Nazi Germany the working class, and all Women and Jews, are permanently banned from culture. In the Soviet Union every man, woman and child is pushed into the cultural life. War {s the keynote word of Germany; education is the keynote of the Soviet Union, . . . Culture and Sedition ANS JOHST is president of the Nazi Poet's Academy. He is a very good Nazi and a very mediocre poet. He has written a play, in which there is a romantic young Nazi hero. A line in this play is often quoted. Says the stern hero, “When I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver!” It seems that the very word, “culture,” when spoken in Nazi Germany, has come to mean sedition. Perhaps they associate it with the Soviet Union, where the word “culture” has come to be a synonym for Communism. . . . Nazi Gems IOHN GUNTHER, a foreign correspondent, has printed in the “Nation” a collection of quota- tions from the lips of Nazi leaders and professors. What intellectual bankruptey and barbarism! ‘Was any great nation in history ever ruled by such dangerous freaks? These Nazis sink lower than Nero and Caligula, and the other insane emperors of Rome's degeneracy. It is something to marvel at, 5 Says Dr. Goebbels, the Nazi Minister of Propa- ganda, and Hitler's right bower: “Christ cannot possibly have been a Jew. I don’t have to prove it scientifically. It is a fact.” ‘The Nazis don’t need Christ, Says Alois Spaniol, leader of the Nazis in the Saar: “Hitler is a new, @ greater and a more powerful Jesus Christ.” An- other great Nazi mind-goes even beyond this. Dr, Kerrl, chairman of the Prussian Diet, announced recently that “Adolf Hitler is the real Holy Ghost.” | ‘This seems to leave only one position onz1 for Herr Hitler; that of God. . * . At Any Price “HE Pope is a Jew whose real name is Lippman,” was the startling headline in Hitler's personal newspaper, Volkische Beobachter. The Storm Troop Leader, Ammerlahn, thinks that “Roman Cath- olies' are the black vultures of German national- ism. We will not stop until we have scratched them out of the lives of the German people.” Is it because the Pope is a Jew, and the Nazis be- lieve with their leader Wilhelm Kube, that “the Jew means the same to the white races morally as plague, consumption and syphilis meant hygieni- eally?” Up to the present, whatever most people have believed about Jesus, there is one thing all agreed on; and that is, he was a Jew. Buf in a recent historic research by a Nazi professor, “Die Her- kunft Jesu,” the thesis is presented that “Jesus was Aryan on both sides.” Mary, mother of Jesus, was evidently a German immigrant to Palestine, and so was the parent ‘on the other side.” The Nazi scientists are doing their prostituted bit for Madame Hitler, Here is a resolution by a conference of Berlin mathematicians: “Mathematics is a heroic science which reduces chaos to order: National Socialism has the same task and demands the same qualities: thus the spiritual connection between them.” Yes, there is a spiritual connection between the cowardly Nazi murderers and the nonsense put forth by their intellectual defenders. The name of this spirit is—capitalism at any price. TUNING IN 1:00 P. M.-WEAF—Religion in the News WOR-Sports Resume—Stan Loi max ‘WJZ—John Herrick, Bari- tone ‘WABC—The Pace that Kills ~—-Sketeh a pian end Smith, n WOR ohnson Orchestra WJZ—From Honolulu: Gov- ernor J. B. Poindexter of Hawaii, Speaking at Open- ing of National Park Rd. to Top of Haleakala Mountain; Maul County Band :30-WEAF—Variety Musicale WOR—The Street Sing” WdZ—King Orchestra WABO—Arden Orchestra; Gladys Baxter, Soyrano; Walter Preston, Baritoi 1:43-WJZ—Grace Hayes, Songs WCR—Harmoniea Bend 8:00-WEAF-—Concert Orches~ tre, Sigmund Romberg, Conductor-Composer; Stuart Churchill, Tenor; President American Fed- eration of Labov, at Auto- mobile Workers’ Meeting, Detroit. -WEAF--Rose Bampton, Contralto; Scrappy Lam- ert and Billy Hillpot, } Shilkret Orch, WOR—Hillbilly Music WJZ—Radio City Party, with John B. Kennedy; Black Orchestra WABC—Richard Bonelli, Baritone; Kostelanetz Or- chestra; Mixed Chorus 9:30-WEAF—The Gibson Fam- ily—Musical Comedy, with Conrad Thibault, Bari- tone; L. Bennett, Soprano WOR—Reisman Orchestra WJZ-—National Barn Dance WABC—Himber Orchestra 10:00-WOR—Wintz Orchestra ‘WABC—Minneapolis Sym- phony Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, Conductor; Anne Campbell, Poet 10:15-WABC-Variety Musicale 10:30-WEAF—Cugat, Good- man and Murray Orches- tras (Until 1:30 A.M.) WOR—Bissle Orchestra WJZ—Lombardo Orchestra WABO—California Melodies 11:00-WOR—News WJZ—To Be Announced WABC—Gray Orchestra 11:15-WOR—Dance Orchestra WJZ—Human Relations in 11:30-WJZ—Dance Music Indusiry—William Green, (Also WABC, WOR, WMCA) SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24 12:45-WABC—From London: WABC—Alexander Woollcott, Pilgrimage to John Keats Story Teller; Armbuster Helen Marshal, Soprano; Helen Phelps, Narrator WOR-—-Organ Recital WJZ—Phil Cook Show Shop WABC—Roxy Revue; Con- cert Oreh.; Mixed Chorus, Soloist #:16- WOR Brotherhood Day "my ymposium 8:30-WOR—Berrens Orch. Home; Speakers, Bernard Orchestra $8. Townroe, Lord Mayor 17:30-WJZ—Joe Penner, Come- of Hampstead Heath, and dian; Music others WABC—Tours Orch.; Frank 2:30-WEAF—Mario Chamlee, Parker, Tenor; Reyvellers ‘Tenor Quartet; Pickens Sisters, WJZ—Play, with Frank Songs; Charles Winnin~ Morgan ger, Master cf Ceremonies 3:00-WABC—New York Phil- 8; harmonie-Symphony, Ar- turo Toscanini, Contiuc- tor; Jascha Heifetz, Violin %:00-WJZ—Jack Benny, Come- dian; Frank Parker, Tenor; Orchestra 00-WEAF—~Opera, with Richard Crooks, Tenor; Josephine Antoine, Soprano, and others WABC—Eddie Cantor, Comedian WJZ—Symphony Orchestra, Martha, LITTLE LEFTY STAR BROTHERHOOD aw Value of Hivaes ‘Cartoons Stressed By Corliss Lamont | ese BURK’S drawings deal- | | ing with the Soviet Union bring | jout graphically and convincingly the contrast between a planned So- Cialist order and the miserable chaos that goes by the name of capi- talism. And they also illustrate the very important point that, in order | to find a temporary way out of its crisis, world capitalism holds ever in mind the tempting thought of an attack on the Soviet Union with the object of overthrowing the first So- CORLISS LAMONT |cialist republic and dividing up its) richest territories into spheres of | influence and exploitation. But it is not merely the hope of new imperialist domains that leads capitalist nations to plot war against the U.S.S.R. Even more important | is the fear of capitalists everywhere | that the workers whom they exploit, | urged on by the example of Soviet | | Russia, will one day decide to set) up a similar form of society. In the Soviet Union depression, unemploy- | ment, and war-making imperialist | | ambitions have gone into the dump- | | heap of history. There, in a short seventeen years and in the face of the most tremendous obstacles, a whole new world has been built. The cultural revolution keeps pace with the economic and political, so that for the first time in the history iwhether it’s O. K. to strike or not and I'll give you my answer tomor- irow!”” | Patient explanation and discus- | sion with this worker also brought | him out and into the union. aS ee | of Russia the masses of the people— | | workers, peasants, women, oppressed | | nationals and all the rest—are hay- | | ing a chance to enjoy and creatively | participate in the things of culture. | | Science leaps ahead. And intelli- ‘gence in general, released through Socialist planning from the cramp- ing confines of capitalist contradic- tion, functions more freely and ef- fectively than has ever been known before, This is the picture of the Soviet | Union that is coming more and move to prevail in the rest of the world. This is the picture that the working class elsewhere is very soon going to reproduce. And it is the picture that Comrade Burck’s car- | toons so strongly impress on the! | imagination. CORLISS LAMONT. | (From “Hunger and Revolt:Car- | | toons by Burck.”) BOYS, | WELCOME YOU to mHIS FIRST MEETING OF “TC EVENING ALWAVS BEEN AND SHALL ALWAYS STAY JUST ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY {innocent answer of the elevator | |agree with you one hundred per |cent but if you don’t mind I'll give I WE'VE. The Killjoy! ME BROTHERHOOD WILL WORK “TOWARDS OUR MUTUAL HAPPINESS! “THIS SUMMER WE'LL ARRANGE BASEBALL GAME FOR YOU AND NEXT CHRISTMRS Pest! “Tue PRESSES ARE RUNNING WHAT PRT6Y Su6éSEStTeED! “Strike Is Only Lan-| guage the Bosses Understand” By A. SHOLACHMAN ied — you the scab?” “Yes, ~ am the scab,” was the | operator of one of the buildings on | strike. Two members of the Har- | Jem Council of the Building Service | Employees Union had been sent by the union to take him down. It was obvious that the worker who was scabbing did not know what the term implied, although he had heard the word mentioned before. The committee patiently explained to him why there was a strike going on, what a union was and what role a scab played. The worker im- mediately left the building, went to the union, signed up, got on the picket line and is now explaining to other workers why they ‘should join the union. The committee went to take down the eleyator operator in another building. After explaining to this worker about the union and the strike, they asked him to come out. “I can’t do it just now,” he said. “T'll give you my answer tomorrow.” “Why can’t you go out now?” asked one of the committee. “Is there any doubt in your mind about anything?” “No,” answered the worker, be: 4 you _my answer tomorrow.” “Why can’t you answer us right now?” asked the union man. “Oh, it’s a private matter,” was the reply. But the committee insisted on an immediate answer and finally the worker said, “Well, if you must | know, I'll tell you. You see I have jto ask Father Devine tonight a kaa strike struggles of the build- | ing service worke:s in the last | ; Week has seen thousands of workers coming in contact with organiza- tion and struggle for the. first time in their lives. Especially in Har- | jlem is this true. Thousands of them |have joined the union in the last} | few weeks and are rapidly becoming |the best fighters in the struggle against the realty bosses for better conditions. The building service workers are also rapidly learning that only | through strike struggle and the picket line will they be able to force | the bosses to grant higher wages | and lower hours. They are be- Service NEVER MINO Your! QUESTIONS, YoUN® Man! Boys, Throw ovy his {uur.snooey waa ABOUT RIGHT Now? Sidelights on Building coming disillusioned with the tactics | of the union leaders headed by James Bambrick who are trying at all costs to avoid the general strike and to sidetrack the strong strike nies of the membership of the union, An example of this growing senti- ment is shown by the action of the THE ELEVATOR STARTER workers of the London Terrace, | ; The London Terrace is a tremendous apartment house covering the entire | block from 23rd to 24th Street and| from 8th to 9th Ave. It has about | 2,000 apartments and houses about 6,000 tenants. At 2 p. m. last Mon- | day 275 workers, the entire staff, | walked out on strike at the call of | the Union. Immediately the gigan- tic apartment house was filled with | Police and scabs. At 3 p. m. the | strikers were suddenly ordered to return to work by the Union, But something the union officials had not expected happened. The work- ers refused to return to work, say- ing that they wanted definite con- ditions guaranteed before they went back, A meeting of the men was im-| mediately called in the grill room and two officials from the Union came hurrying down to get the men |bosses understand,” back to work. They pleaded with the workers “not to run wild,” to obey orders from their president, etc, The men were furious. They had taken the strike seriously and now their officials were telling them to be “good boys” and to go back to work without winning any imme- diate conditions. Finally, and only with the gzeat- by Burck EXPRESS To HIGHER PROFITS est difficulty, and because the op- position was not organized, the offi- cials succeeded in breaking the strike. At first only about half the men started, reluctantly, to put on their uniforms. But the police were there to do their dirty work. They went through the basement physic- | ally “persuading” the more militant | workers to put on their uniforms, |Communes, helping in the harvest | In the locker rooms, the men ex- pressed their anger at the tactics |of the Union officials and the police. |‘etnational Pamphlets No. 33, 5| One worker said, “What guarantee | have we got that the boss won't cut lindictments of capitalism’s crimes our wages a month from now instead of raising them?” “Strike is the only language the said another On the bulletin board near the lockers some one had tacked up a Burck cartoon. The strike had been | broken, but the workers will know better next time. By DAVID PLATT H based National Executive Committee | of the Film and. Photo League | through its organ, Film Front, has just released the following state- ment condemning Senator Francis | Culkin’s pro-film censorship _ bill | (ELR, 2999) : “A serious threat to independent | film production, distribution and ex- hibition is contained in Senator! Francis Culkin’s Bill H. R. 2999 to! ‘protect the motion picture industry | against unfair trade practices and monopoly,’ Besides providing for the ; Manufacture of wholesome motion pictures at: the source of produc- tion,’ H. R, 2999 also calls for the creation of a Federal Motion Pic- ture Commission that will supervise production and exercise unqeustion- ed authority as to whether or not a motion picture shall enter com- merce, If this bill is passed, and it ap- pears to be gaining support daily, there will ensue such a torrent of films feverishly eulogizing the es- tablished order and opposed to the minutest attempt at social change, that it Will make the campaign of the Legion of Decency, which in- spired the bill, seem like a nudist movement. It will be up to this Federal Commission to determine whether the selection and treatment of the subject matter of a film, is in accordance with public welfare, and if it isn’t, out it goes, Under the provisions of this bill stoppage of | Soviet films becomes a prime nec- essity of law and order, Revelation of conditions as they actually exist in America, unpatriotic and unlaw- ful. Thirteen major offenses are listed in Section 14 of the Bill, the pres- ence of any one of which in a film will be sufficient to stop its distribu- tion. These are briefly: (1) Films which emphasize and exaggerate sex appeal; (2) films based on white slavery; (3) films making prominent an illicit love affair; (4) films exhibiting naked- ness or persons scantily dressed; | (5) scenes which unnecessarily pro- Jong expressions or demonstrations of passionate love; (6) films pre- dominantly concerned with the underworld; (7) films which make drunkeryness and gambling attrac- FLASHES and CLOSEUPS tive; (8) films which may instruct the morally feeble in methods of committing crimes; (9) films which ridicule public officials, officers of the law, U. 8, Army, U. S. Navy, or other governmental authority, or which tend to weaken the authority of the law; (10) films which offend religious beliefs, ete; (11) films which unduly emphasize bloodshed and violence without justification in [the structure in the story; (12) scenes which reveal vulgar or im- | Eroper gestures; (13) films with) salacious titles and sub-titles. ae eee | (O film whether from abroad or \*" at home, will be permitted to en- ter commerce unless it has received @ license from the Federal Commis- sion certifying ‘that it has been | supervised at the source of produc- | tion and found to conform to the standards of production’ fixed by Section 14. And no license ‘shall be granted to any motion picture which is harmful to the public or to any part thereof in any respect or which. distorts representations of the na- tional life, literature, manners and customs of this country or disturbs public peace or impairs friendly relations with foreign nations. All pictures violating the forezoing standards are hereby declared un- lawful in commerce and their pro- (duction, sale, rental or exhibition within the jurisdiction of the U. S. is made a misdemeanor.” That immediate action is to be taken against this blast of Culkin’s against a free screen, needs no dis- cussion. Our Film and Photo Leagues, the League of Workers Theatres, and other anti-movie cen- sorship groups should start enter- ing protests to Senator Culkin, Washington, and to President Roose- velt, condemning the bill as a fraudulent attempt to stifle inde- pendent production and exhibition in the name of protecting “the motion picture industry against un- fair trade practices and monopoly” by Wall Street interests; and, sec- ondly, as flagrantly against the in- terests of the vast audiences of | moviegoers, who alone should re- serve the unquestioned right to pass on what films they decide is best for them to see, Ino outgtanding actor, THEATRE POVERTY IS NO CRIME—a play | by Alexander Ostrovsky; presented by S. Hurok and the Moscow Art Players; staged by Vera Gretch. Reviewed by LEON ALEXANDER | Rete programs and the posters an- | nounced a play. No one was prepared, therefore, for the oper- atic evening which followed — the/| grandiloquent tenor gestures, the basso profundo buffooneries, the arch cuteness of tripping, over- weight divas, In the hands of the Moscow Art Players, Ostrovsky's play turned out to be opera, with all the ancient trapnings. Age has not mellowed this senti- mental, tearful comedy; it is a lengthy, tedious, creaking museum piece. Its tale of an ambitious and tyrannical father who tries to force his meek daughter, in loye with a poor but poetic clerk, to marry a rich old roue has no longer the vitality to amuse or to draw tears. There is just enough plot in the play to make a longish one-acter; but the action has been interlarded with songs, sad and otherwise, dances, a party (the ballet of the opera) that drags for half an act. Thus the play is kept crawling from aria—spoken or sung—to choral, to duet... Speeded un and played for its satiric possibilities, acted and directed to emphasize the ironic contrast with the present, it might have vrovided an amusing theatri- cal commentary on the vast. Vera Gretch, as well as playing a secondary and unimportant role, directed the play. The lady is not hampered by a false sense of modesty; she took center stage everytime she appeared, moved the other actors around herself, sang, danced, was the life of the party and the “star” of the occasion. More than any other factor, her direction struck the keynote of opera. Acting without benefit of Mr. Michel Chekhov, a really extraor- dinary actor, the Moscow Art Players make one wonder what magic Mr. Hurok must have seen in their performances to risk the! outlay of bringing them over all| the way from Europe. They bring | with them no theatrical novelties, no newer mode of production, and with the exception of M. Chekhov, By CARL SANDS Workers Music School, a Divi- | sion of the Workers School and | affiliated with the Workers’ Music | League, opened its campaign for a sustaining fund last Sunday by giv- ing a concert that filled every available bit of floor space at the headquarters of the Friends of the Workers’ School with an apprecia- tive audience, The program with the addition of a Handel Sonata for violin and bass Played by F. H. Ichuk and R. Chesler, and two piano pieces by Popov and Mossoloy, respectively, played by Ashley Pettis, was se- lected from the works of contem- porary revolutionary composers who are members of the Composers Col- lective of New York City. Mordecai Baumann sang some of the Negro songs of protest, collected by Law- rence Gellert, with piano accom- paniments arranged by L. E. Swift. Swift played his “Theme and Vari- ations” for pianoforte. There can be no question, how- ever, that the outstanding num bers of the program were those con- tributed by the New Singers under the leadership of Lan Adomian. This remarkable reinforcement of the music front in New York made its debut on Jan, 27 at the John Reed Club in a concert of com- Positions by the Composers Collec- tive. The members of the ensemble, twenty or thirty in number, all have trained voices and read musical no- tation. Their performance is marked by a fine, clear tone-quality of great power, and a rhythmic pre- cision and general musicianship nearly equal to the best bourgeois organizations of the madrigal and a cappella type in New York today. cae eh y pbhoxeehd the acoustics of the room are inferior to those of the John Reed Club, the same im- pression given by the music of the Composers Collective was received by the audience at the Friends of the Workers’ School. We-hear a great deal of talk about proletarian and_ revolutionary music, People continually ask, what is the differ- ence between it and any other kind of music of a conventional sort. The question is not easy to answer in SCREAM, YA WISE GUY! SPOILING ALL OUR, Excellent Lis?! Of Pamphlets For Women’s Day) ~| INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY | need not fail from lack of ap-| propriate pamphlets. Grace Hut- chins’ “Women Who Work,”~Clara |Zetkin’s “Lenin on the Women Question,” F, Nurina’s “Women in the Soviet Union” make excellent reading for the millions of women | who must be reached with the mes- | |sage of March 8. | | In a brief 31 pages, Grace Hut- chins’ pamphlet (International Pamphlets No. 27, 10 cents) gives |a@ compelling account of the lot of | women under capitalism. She tells of the outcasts of rugged individual- | jism snatching a “living” from gar- | |bage dumps; forced into organized vice; used, when they are graciously | permitted to work, in munitions | |factories as cogs in imperialism’s war drive. The late Clara Zetkin, veteran German revolutionist, did well to} write down her conversations with | Lenin. They make a fine pamphlet | (Lenin on the Woman Question,” | International Publishers, 5 cents) | which can well be studied alike by the raw recruit and seasoned vet- jeran of the labor movement. Here is Lenin’s genius in spreading the | message of Communism to all sec- tions of the oppressed and disin- |herited. Yet Lenin insisted the | struggle for women’s freedom would decay if it were isolated into a simple question of “women’s rights.” | “The women must be made con- scious of the political connection | between our demands and their own suffering, needs and wishes. They must realize what the proletarian dictatorship means for them... .” F, Nurina’s “Women in the So-! | viet Union—the Role of Women in \Socialist Construction” (Interna- | tional Publishers, 15 cents) not only |sings the praises of the Soviet solu- jon of the woman question that must always be a question under capitalism. She contrasts the free- dom of the Soviet woman with the lot of her sister in capitalist coun- tries and indicts fascist and social- |democratic attitudes to women, | Boys and girls of the Soviet work- ing class enjoy to the full the fruits |of socialism, Vladimir Zaitsev shows jin “Youth in the Soviet Union”! | (international Publishers). Pictures | |show youngsters at school, in the |science laboratories, leading the local | fields. | “Children Under Capitalism” (In- | |cents) is another of Grace Hutchins’ against boys and girls of the work- |ing class. The same writer’s book |“Women Who Work” (International | Publishers) is the only Marxist sur- vey of the lot of ten million women who slave in factory and farm. This is a dollar book, but for those who }can scrape up the money it's the |hest dollar's worth on the subject ever bought. words. True, a list, of desirable qualities can be made. A fairly pre- | |Sentable general theory (still apt to | cause heated controversy) has been often presented in these columns, | And lists of works of both Euro- | }Pean and American revolutionary | |composers are beginning to grow to | considerable length. But all the | talking in the world will not con- | vince or illustrate. One has to hear | the music. Well, the music is heard. Watch | the audience. It sits at, absolute | attention, No rustling of programs, | shifting in seats, talking or writing | of notes back and forth. The ap- | Plause seems unusually spontane- | ous—but then, the audience is ac- | claiming its own and might, con- \ceivably, be partisan and deliber- | ately ignoring faults, But when | ; member after member of the audi- | ence says, without there being any suspicion of premeditation, and with a kind of delighted surprise, that |this music sounds unlike ordinary music, that it has an unaccountable freshness, a power,-a capacity, one | turns again to examine the scores | |to see what technical means there | |may be to bring about such a re- | sult. These young composers (Adomian, | Cazden, Fairbanks, Howe, Maynard, Swift and a half a dozen others whose works were not heard at this |concert) are all trained in the best traditions of bourgeois music—that very music that we so often accused of dying along with the decaying capitalist class for which it is pre- dominantly made. But their music does not sound like the music of bourgeois composers. Although they represent most varied temperaments and express varieties of stylistic and technical developments, their works hang together with a consistency that seems difficult to analyse. With Some exceptions, omitted from Sun- day's program, they show a common | Avoidance of melancholy and de- | featest moods, musical day-dreaming jand fanciful castle-building. But | }ene is not s#ruck so much by the absence of these qualities as by a/ | positive. purity and restraint which dominates alike the sobriety, the | With murder, imprisonment and exile. lyricism or the gayety of the vari- yous numbers, 7 Question An ers This department appears daily on the featury page. All questions should be addressed to “Ques- tions and Answers,” c/o Daily Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York City. . . . Readiness for Communist Party Questio’ If the workers can be rallied to the class strug Policies of the labor party, are they not ready to accept the program of the Commu E. H. are many workers who .aré ready to fight for adequate relief and unemploys ment insurance, for increased wages and better working conditions, and for many other of their immediate needs, They are even ready to take steps toward independent working class political action. But millions of these workers are still not ready to accept the revolutionary program of the Communist Party, By rallying these workers around the class struggle program of a labor party, they can be brought under more conscious working class lead- ership. Through their experiences in the labor party the workers will advance from the fight for immediate demands to the full revolutionary pro gram of the Communist Party. It is to accelerate the class consciousness of the workers, and to speed their movement into the ranks of the Communist Party that Communists propose the labor par! Answer: There Frightening Away Workers Question: If the Communist Party pushes the Labor Party too aggressivel: won't this frighten away many workers?—B. R., Richmond, Va Answer: The workers won't be frightened away merely because the Communist Party agitates and works for a labor party. It is the needs of the workers which primarily dictate their breakaway from the ole capitalist parties. The employers and their labor movement always raise e “Red scare” to frighten workers away from militant organizations. But this does not stop workers from fighting for those needs that are most vital to them. Al- though Communists participated in the fight for unemployment insurance, this did not make work- ers drop their fight. In fact in their struggle for their immediate demands the workers come to real- ize that only the participation of Communists: is a@ guarantee that genuine fighting leadership will be given to their fight. Laboratory and Shop By David Ramsey NAZI “SCIENCE” A Nazi savant has just published a book entitled “The Discovery of Paradise,” in which he shows that the “Paradise of the Bible was notsin Mesapo- tamia, as the Jews falsely declare.” Instead, he “proves” that Paradise was located in Germany. With wonderful precision he traces its exact loca- tion to a Berlin suburb. Not satisfied with this he also proves that Rome was founded by Germanic tribes, and accuses the Jews of inventing the offi- cial history of Rome. The book ends on the fervent plea that “It is most important to point out that the whole world has been deceived by the Jews and by Rome. + O, God! Deliver us from such in- ferior race: : This kind of balderdash is becoming more fre= quent in Fascist Germany. Julius Streicher, -the notorious anti-Semite and one of Hitler's pets, has just launched a violent attack against most of mod- ern German medicine. The New York Times ,re- ports that he singled out for the most virulent at- tack the achievements of Dr. Robert Koch, dis- coverer of the tuberculosis bacillus; Dr. Rudolf Virchow, the famous pathologist; Dr. Paul Erlich, discoverer of the treatment for syphilis; Dr. Emil von Behring, who discovered the antitoxin for diphtheria; Dr, Albert Neisser, who isolated the bacillus gonococeus, and Dr. August von Wasser- mann, who perfected important blood test. methods. Streicher attacked these men who contributed some of the most important discoveries to medical knowledge, and all Jewish physicians, for system- atically “poisoning” the German people. Writing in the medical review, characteristically called German Health from Blood and Soil, he said that “All their experiments on animals and humans were so much charlatanism. All of our struggles and our sacrifices will be in vain if we continue to permit Jewish doctors to continue their horrible assassinations.” These fascist gangsters with the blood of tens of thousands of victims on their hands call great scientists ““assassins,” and back up their epithets Such facts cry out to every honest scientist-that he must im- mediately cast his lot with the revolutionary move- ment, which is fighting so hard to rid Germany of the brown pestilence. The fascists strike, not only at the workers, but at everything that makes for culture and progress, To maintain the predatory rule of monopoly cap= ital, they are systematically destroying culture and science, and erecting a whole series of pseudo- sciences and magical practices. They are resusci- tating witchcraft and barbarism, The Nazi cry of “back to barbarism” is being realized far more quickly than most people imagine. 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