The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 28, 1935, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1935 Page 5 Change World! By MICHAEL GOLD NTI-SEMITISM was once named by the great Socialist, August Bebel, “the so- cialism of fools.” By this he meant, of course, that only an ignorant fool could be led to believe that capitalism was all- Jewish, and that the way to end capitalism was to eliminate the Jews. This is the demagogic theory spread by Madame Hitler. Now that “she” has been in power for over a year, and has massacred, tortured and jim- crowed the Jews of Germany, is capitalism ended there? Of course not. The rich are getting richer in Germany, and the poor have become incredibly poorer since Hitler was put in office. For this whole theory of anti-semitism is only another peculiarly mean and horrible method of saving capitalism. It is put forward by the rich capi- talists themselves, through their flunky Hitlers everywhere, to fool the people as to the real nature of capitalism. A clever thief, when caught with the goods, runs down the street, yelling, “Stop Thief!” The capitalists, when caught with the goods by the people, yell, “Kill the Jew!” It is an old trick, and it has sometimes worked. The Czar tried it for many years, and look what happened to him. The millions of Jews are free in the Soviet Union, and also, there is no more capitalism. How do you account for that, you Jew-baiters, who tell | us that wherever there are Jews, there is capi- talism? * “Intellectual” Fascists S THE crisis sharpens in America, and as the American people become more and more enraged with this cruel system of capitalism, we are hearing more and more of the anti-semitic talk. Who is it that spreads it so carefully? The Fascists, notably, who are out to save capitalism by any means. In their papers you read anti-semitic articles con- stantly. Ex-Congressman McFadden, a well-known cheap crook and professional bankrupt of Penn- sylvania, proved to have ha¢ Hitler connections, has just formed an anti-semitic party on whose plat- form he says he will run for President. An “intellectual” fascist like Seward Collins, the mild, scholarly New Englander who edits the fascist magazine, American Review, warned the Jews some time ago that unless they gave up radicalism, and liberalism, and bowed their heads to fascism, there would be pogroms In America. (Will this gentleman participate in the baby-killing and mother-raping pogroms, or will he hire thugs for the job?) . Words or Guns? -{\CCASIONALLY, I receive rabid anti-semitic let- ters from people who read the Daily Worker for their own strange reasons. One of them writes, and it is a good sample of the mind of such folk: “The Jew, his religion, and the consequent Christianity, are the curse of the working masses of the world. ... No one will deny that the Jews may be divided as follows: 60 per cent of Jews are bad, and this can be subdivided as follows: 2 per cent are monsters; 3 per cent are octopuses; 5 per cent are sharks; 10 per cent are vampires; 15 per cent are bedbugs; 20 per cent are lice; 3 per cent are fleas; and 2 per cent are mosquitoes. “Ten per cent of Jews are indifferent, like dogs, cats, rabbits, parrots, canaries and other pets. “Thirty per cent of the Jews are actually work- ers, and earn their bread by the sweat of their | brow; this category can be classified again—1 per cent of these are brave; 4 per cent would fight if properly led; 10 per cent are timid; 15 per cent are cowards, “As we take it for granted that those who are not with us are against us, we come to the con- clusion that 70 per cent of the Jews are pernicious, and therefore (for the good of the human race) ought to be exterminated. If one is anti-Jew, he is also anti-capitalist. “Here I say, and you know it as well, that the Jew is naturally a timid man—nay, a cOward; and as 70 per cent of leaders in the class struggle are Jews, and consequently, men of very, very little or no guts, what chances do the workers stand in winning the battle? ... “Who then is a good Jew, you may ask? ‘I would say, a good Jew is a Jewish worker, who forgetting that he is a Jew, would fight the Jew, like hell.” There is more to the same effect. At first this letter made me angry, as most of such letters do, | and I wanted nothing better than to be alone with this man in a locked room for an hour, to debate the Jewish question with him with anything from a club to a gun. Sometimes there are no words left with which to debate such people; you know that it is a battle to the death. * A Befuddled Nazi Worker 1 Siac ees this letter, and analyzing it, I found in a paragraph on the Soviet Union (which he says, of course, is run by Jews), “Is that Com- munismus?” This placed the letter-writer as a Nazi, and very likely, a worker Nazi. Here is a German worker of the type found occasionally in the Storm Troops—proletarians who want socialism and have swallowed Hitler's great lie that socialism can only come by exterminating the Jews. There were millions of Germans, mostly lower middle class, who followed Hitler because he prom- ised them socialism via the anti-semitic route. I wonder what they, and the writer of this letter, must be thinking of Hitler today, after all such deluded and muddled “socialists” have been mur- dered and “purged” out of the Nazi leadership. * . * On Guard LOT of this anti-semitic talk seems insane to rational people, and in ordinary times it could be ignored as a species of insanity. But in times like these, apocalyptic days when the capitalist system is crashing to the ground, and millions are desperate and starving, and the distracted people follow every false light and crazy messiah, it be- comes a serious danger. Nazi agents may be found today among the Ger- man, Hungarian, Austrian and other German- speaking workers in this country, of whom there are millions. I have heard this kind of talk in a mining town and a textile city. Never had I heard it before. It is something we must all watch these days. Anti-semitism is sure to be one of the ways capitalism will take in this country, too, to make the workers forget their real enemv. LITTLE LEFTY HEY Parsy II LISTEN “TO SEVEN New SBOYS JOINED OUR UNION ON ACCOUNT we HELPED 'EM GET A WAGE-RAISE 50 NOW WE HAVE NINE // Poor Patsy! ANDO NOW | GUESS You HAVE BIG PLANS FOR ALL NINE OF —-AND HOW // WE'RE GONNA ORGANISE A BASEBALL WORLD of the | THEATRE Soviet Play—Emigre Style STRANGE CHILD—a modern So- viet farce by V. Shkwarin; pre- sented by S. Hurok, staged by Vera Gretch. Reviewed by LEON ALEXANDER YOUNG actress is rehearsing a play. It fs a play of the old | regime, and the young Soviet actress | cannot understand it or her role: | it is the story of an unwed mother | and her unhappy lot .. . how stupid! | Her lover abandons her — well, | Sood riddance! Her parents drive her away—who needs the old fossils anyway? How can she act a tragedy she does not understand? How could people play such rubbish? A gossip hears the girl rehearsing, | and takes the playmaking for a fact; and the young actress, to see what | would happen in “real life” decides to accept the situation and to go through with the deception. Her | own parents are just two such old fogies; let’s see how they'll take it. The rest of the play develops jalong conventional farce lines, | broad, spicy, at times uproariously | funny, at times stilted, dull, dragg- | ing. Among the audience, the old fos- sils, the stupid people the old rub- | | | bish sit and listen. The farce leaps | |across the foot lights and kicks | them vigorously in the pants. The old “intelligentsia” takes the kicks with roars of laughter. The play is a masochistic triumph. era aaa yee the emigres were to have their great moment; these people were | to have their defense, their justifica- tion, and their triumph. In the midst of the ribald farce, suddenly appeared the apotheosis. With tone sonorous as an organ’s, tremulous as a bass viol’s, with pale, intense face and quivering underlip, papa, the “old intelligentzia” draws himself up in righteous wrath to defend the old culture which the | young ones have outraged—the Ler- | montovs, the Tolstoys, the Dostoyey- | skis. (Crocodile tears . .. Tolstoy was | pronounced by them anthema, Dos- | toyevsky was condemned to death and to madness. . . . The Soviet Union has published more editions of the classics in the last few years than the old regime printed for decades. ...) And the audience broke into tre- mendous applause and cheers. It was their great moment: two piti- ful emotionally distorted speeches in the midst of a riotous farce. sae LS | dees tenses Er the heavy footed burlesque acting of the company in their previous plays, the produc- tion was at first surprisingly springhtly. After the first act, how- ‘ever, it grows increasingly duller and slower paced. The acting honors, what there {s of them to distribute, go to the younger members of the cast; Eliza- beth Kedrova is charming and nat- ural as the young actress, A. Bog- danov amusingly wide-eyed and lithe in the role of a Caucasian student. Vera Gretch, as the mother, reminds one too painfully in her acting of third rate, provincial com- panies; P. Pavlov, as the father, often amusing, grows annoying with his fussy, realistic literalness, A ae ee A Chekhov Evening re these brief Chekhov sketches, dramatised by himself and by P. Pavlov, another actor of the company, Michel Chekhov appears by turns as a dissipated drunkard, an old and impotent deacon mar- tied to a young and lustful wife, and an elderly idiotic, mild mannered Suburbanite. His transformations are complete; with each character, he invents new gestures, a new walk, new tones in his voice, a new rhythm of speech. I use the word invent advisedly; for it is no ques- tion here of clever mimicry; each time, Michel Chekhoy rises beyond the limitations of the realistic por- trayal, transcends the limitations of Janguage, country, period to re- bg) the universal essence of the pe. Sharing acting honors with him is Mr, P. Pavlov as a drunken prison warden in the second sketch. Except for the ficst two numbers, the sketches lacked the sly, ironic humor that we have come to asso- ciate with the short stories of Anton Chekhov. ~ Phila. Theatre Group To Hold Conference The New Theatre of Philadelphia, whose first production, Too Late To Die, by Christopher Wood, Philadel- Phia playwright, is scheduled for the middle of March, is helding a conference on Friday evening, March first, at 8:30, at its theatre building, 311 North 16th Street. About 400 trade unions, labor or- ganizations, cultural, artistic and educational associations have been invited to send representatives to this conference. This conference has been called for the purpose of popularizing the New Theatre and organizing an audience on a mutual, co-operative basis in support of its production. All organizations interested are | menace of terrorism against all Arkansas Vigilantes Threaten Life of Commonwealth o— Widespread Terrorism) Follows Attack on Tenant Farmers The following account is an ex- | cerpt from the story of the recent Arkansas raids by vigilantes and landlords against the Tenant Farmers’ Union. Written by Lu- cien Koch, the account tells of the arrest of Bob Reed and Atley De- laney of Commonwealth College. The arrest of these three organ- izers of Commonwealth College emphasizes the current campaign of terrorism which the Arkansas landlords and their henchmen are organizing against the school. Situated in Mena, Arkansas, this school has been operating as “a non-factional workers’ co-opera- tive college” for the training of working class organizers. Re- cently a united front of Commu- | nists and Socialists on the school grounds was organized to combat the Arkansas terrorism and fight for the tenant farmers. The menace against the school is a forerunner of the growing working class schools in the coun- try. It is urged that telegrams and messages be sent at once to the Arkansas State Legislature at Little Rock, where a resolution has been introduced to outlaw the school. Educational groups and institutions are especially urged to send their immediate protests, CR Wea i penal 2 was assigned to watch | over Marked-Tree meeting; Rod- | gers was sent to Truman and Bob | and I went to a meeting in Gil- | more. The Gilmore meeting repre- sented the first attempt to break into Crittenden. The county offi- cials were noted for their brutality. The meeting was arranged in a church-house by Negro organizer (one of the outstanding, courage- ous Negro leaders. Names must be omitted. Two double-barrelled shot- guns and a revolver are in his room. He is ready to lay down his life if the Negroes and whites remain united). Bob and I and a share-cropper and his wife from Marked Tree ar- rived at the church house about 7:30. Over 200 people had crowded This is the family of a typical southern sharecropper cetton farmer. The woman's clothing is made up of patches from men’s ciothing. The farmer cannot even buy cotton shirts for his children, However, because there is no market for cotton, six acres of their crop was plowed under. It is conditions such as these that are being fought throughout the south with especial militancy by the Sharecroppers Unions in Ala- bama and the Tenant Farmers | Union in Arkansas, | but a few whites, planters, their agents, etc. High tension was in the air. After the Negro leader | opened the meeting, I started speak- ing. When the talk was two-thirds | through, a plantation riding-boss | (Jake Lewis, by name) clogged up| to the speaking platform, white as a sheet, drunk, swaggering, revolvers sticking out. of his belt. “What are you talking about?” he sneered. I answered, “The South- ern Tenant Farmers’ Union.” They invited him to take a seat, assuring him there would be a ques- | tion period later. He didn’t stay, | didn’t succeed in breaking up the) meeting, which was ls purpose, although a few whites and blacks into the building, mostly Negroes, walked out. Some of those present | where they were taking me. | Started beating him and forced him | latent possibilities of Miss Alf to| labor conditions, such an appalling waste of ma« College Beaten and Kicked b Planters’ Agents at Croppers’ Meeting Pf were his own sl his retaliation. . IVE men filed into the room, walked toward me, headed by the riding boss. They ordered me to “come along.” I refused. They brandished their revolvers, dragged me from the seat, and kicked me from the room. One Negro had a gun in a brief-case but couldn’t get to it... I was hustled to a car on the road. Bob was too loyal to see me go alone. He came out to inquire They es. They feared into the car wtih me, Moore and Lewis whirled their weapons, fin- gers on trigger. They poked guns into our faces and bellies, they kicked us, punched us—Bob's pres- ence dividing the blows. We were both bloody about the face and head. Bob had a barrel wound on the cheek, I on the scalp. The car was moved down the road about a quarter of a mile and stopped. Rougn treatment started again. Drunk deputies stood around and allowed it to go on. Two new deputies appeared on the scene and drove us to Marion, | the gangsters following. We crouched in our seats to keep the lights of following cars from strik- ing us. Once at Marion, we were taken to the sheriff's office. A group questioned us. We were taken to the basement where we were allowed to wash. We were taken to an attorney’s office. He questioned us all the time, stress- ing the matter of race equality. The | sheriff told us he was letting us go without preferring charges. We were escorted by two deputies to our car, parked by the church house and from there to the Poinsett County line. Before driving off, we entered the church to look for my overcoat anc Bob’s jumper. Both were gone. We noticed a pool of blood on the floor. We discovered later our anxiety over the blood was unfounded. One of the deputies pointed out a lynch rope bunched in the corner of the room, which he said was meant for us, * Distorters of Marxism Answered In Bittelman - Jerome Pamphlet LENINISM, THE ONLY MARXISM TODAY. A Discussion of the Characteristics of Declining Capi- talism, by Alex Bittelman and Vv. J. Jerome. Workers Library Publishers, New York; 64 pp., 15c. eerie Reviewed by R. DOONPING 'S pamphlet is the best Marx- ist-Leninist review of Lewis Corey's book, “The Decline of American Capitalism,” but it should not be regarded merely as a book- review. The mistakes pointed out are not merely Corey’s mistakes, but represent a variety of prevail- ing distortions of Marxism, and they are dealt with not in the casual manner of an ordinary book- review. Following the tradition of Engels, who gave a general sketch of Dialectical Materialism in a book-review which has itself at- tained the proportions of a book, (Engels on Feuerbach), our authors took the opportunity to write a thorough discussion of the most im- portant characteristics of declining capitalism, which touches upon most of the leading problems facing the American proletariat today, The result is a good-sized fundamental pamphlet on Leninism. ‘The pressing importance of the problems included, the clarity and thoroughness with which each problem is discussed, and the com- prehensive nature of the scope of the whole discussion, make this pamphlet an excellent reference text on Marxism-Leninism, and should be studied by every ad- vanced worker, farmer, and student, ‘The pamphlet starts with a very illuminating discussion of Corey's fundamental misunderstanding of imperialism. It shows how Corey has introduced confusion into the question, and weakened the proof for the decline of American cap- italism by “adding” the idea of the “exhaustion” of the long-time fac- tors of economic to the Leninist theory of imperialism. Ac- cording to Mr. Corey, “the decline of American capitalism is condi- tioned by the exhaustion of the inner long-time factors of expan- sion,” which, according to Corey, include “the mechanization of old industries, development of new in- dustries, industrialization of new regions.” Comrades Bittleman and Jerome very significantly point out the implied ‘premise of Corey's thesis in the following paragraph: “Mr. Corey’s conception of ‘ex- haustion’ implies of necessity invited to send one representative to this conference, i another, more fundamental, idea. It is, namely, that economic ex- pansion under capitalism (reali- zation of surplus value and, hence, accumulation of capital) is possible only through the pene- tration of the capitalist mode of production into non-capitalist or pre-capitalist modes of produc- tion. As long as there are still to be found capitalistically undevel- oped territories, capital accumula- tion grows and the development of capitalism proceeds upward. But as the capitalist mode of pro- duction expands, and the sphere of non-capitalist modes of pro- duction begins to disappear, there comes a halt to the accumulla- tion of capital and to further economic expansion. With it be- gins the era of the decline of cap- italism, This is the implied pre- mise from which Mr. Corey pro- ceeds to the formulation of his main thesis that it is the exhaus- tion of the long-time factors of expansion that causes the decline of capitalism, the era of im- perialism, It is only as it derives from this premise that Mr. Corey’s main thesis can make sense; for the implicit premise does offer a cause for the exhaustion of the long-time factors of expansion under capitalism: this is, the ex- haustion of the spheres of non- capitalist and pre-capitalist modes of production, rae eae ITH the implied premise of Corey thus exposed, the authors traced its kinship to Luxemburg’s theory of imperialism and the ac- cumulation of capital, which has repeatedly been shown to be faulty by Lenin, Stalin, and other leaders of the Communist International. Going a step further, the authors traced Corey's attempt to “add to Lenin admixtures of Luxemburg” to his basic error in methodology. Here is one of the most brilliant para- graphs in the pamphlet: Mr. makes a_ serious methodological error. He ignores two basic principles of dialectics in the discussion of the factors of economic expansion: (1) the con- erete historical nature of the subject, and (2) its dialectical contradictions. Had he applied principle (1), he would have dis- covered that the factors of eco- nomic expansion do not consti- tute some fixed and _predeter- mined quantity which capital- ism “exhausts” in the course of its development, but that they (the factors of economic expan- sion) are created by capitalism itself in the course of its devel- ciple (2), he would have found that, due to its contradictions, capitalism comes periodically into violent collision with the factors of economic expansion which it constitutes the fundamental con- tradiction of capitalism—the con- tradiction between the productive forces and the production rela- tions. Under imperialism, as de- fined by Lenin, the contradiction between capitalism and the fac- tors of economic expansion cre- ated by itself becomes especially acute. This discussion of Corey's con- ception of imperialism a la Luxem- burg is a fine example of the power and resourcefulness of Marxist- Leninist criticism. But this is merely one of the nine topics dis- cussed in the pamphlet. I specially want.to recommend to the readers the brilliant discussion of the relative and absolute increas- ing misery of the masses, “End and Means in Bolshevism and in Social- Democracy” on page 42, the whole discussion of the United Front, and the paragraph on the “fetishism of democracy” on page 60. Re fe, F PARTICULAR political import- ance at the present moment is the penetrating theoretical discus- sion of the United Front as well as @ comprehensive summary of the status and prospects of the United Front on an international scale. The fact that this pamphlet is the direct product of a polemic against a widely distributed current American book on capitalism is ex- tremely significant. It is not merely writing about the struggle, but is itself a spearhead in the ideological sector in the front line of the class struggle. This is the reason for the striking dialectical manner of its way of presentation, which is not the least valuable feature of the pamphlet. The most effective way of con- ducting the warfare on the ideo- logical front is to join issue with enemy-ideas, expose them and an- nihilate: them in direct combat. This is the only way to develop Marxism-Leninism on American soil, to make Marxism-Leninism a part of the life and struggle of the American masses. This is one of the most important tasks facing the American revolutionary movement. Let this pamphlet be a powerful stimulation to. productive revolu- opment; and had he applied prin- tionary criticism in America, itself creates, that this collision | | exhibition. HEY PAYSY WHATSAMATTER? HOLY GMOKE! LOOKS LIKE SHE'S ry | ae FRINTED! L BANCE | | Fe Alf’s Recital | | Reviewed by | NELL ANYON | | JHE first New York recital of Fe | Alf last Sunday night at the Little Theatre revealed an addition |to the dance world of great poten- | tial importance. Miss Alf is a dancer jof unusual ability, having an amaz- |ing aptitute for beautiful fluent movement, highly controlled dy- namic motor power and a histrionic gift which, if unchecked, however, may tend to take her work out of \the realm of concert dance. | As an exponent of the Ma: man School in Germany, Fe Alf |reflects very creditably excellent | though limited training. The most outstanding composition in the pro- gram was “Degradation” (from the Cycle “The City.”) This dance | |more than any other presented the | ry Wig- | think clearly, to feel and to reflect conditions of modern life—although |she as yet added nothing new to | themes previously presented by oth- |er young dancers (soloists of the | Workers Dance League) in perhaps clearer and less obvious a form. | | One felt in watching Miss Alf} |that here was certainly great force | of movement, intelligence and art- | istry, but something was lacking throughout the entire performance. | That something was conviction. It | 4s difficult to reconcile the appear- ance, on the same program, of the | dances from the Cycle “The City,” | with the showy theatrical “Prom- | enade,” the incense-befogged “Chor- \ale,” the mystical sentimentality of | “Reverie.” | Might not this be due to the fact | that Miss Alf had tried to please, jat the same time, the element of “unconscious” dance-lovers who} come to enjoy in oblivion, and those revolutionary, aggressive elements who seek significant dramatic ex- | Pression of the desires, aspirations, | and struggles of the masses? When | one shows such awareness of actual | social conditions as Miss Alf showed in her portrayal of the momentous drudgery of labor, the degradation | | and degeneration of life under cap- | italism, and in the suggestion of | Struggle as the solution to these ills, | it is reasonable to expect that such | an artist would not lapse into the | “pure” dance of the flowery type. | The second half of the Program | did not do her justice as a dancer. | It is to be hoped that Miss Alf will | choose the path that will lead to| her further ideological clarification | through her alignment with the | revolutionary Workers Dance League | as the only path which offers def- | inite possibilities for artistic devel- opment. ae | Cultural Department Of WIR Launches New |Program of Activity The Cultural Department of the | | W. I, R., which has moved to 5 East | 19th Street, announces the following | | Projects and activities: The Social Repertory Theatre, | which has decided to abandon the| proposed production of “Can You) Hear Their Voices?” is now consid- | ering Frederick Wolfe's “Cyankali.” | The Theatre of Advance, formerly a section of the Workers Laboratory | Theatre, is organizing classes on the | | technique of acting, under the di-| rection of Betty Frye of the Theatre | | of Action Shock Troupe. | The Workers Animated Film, which is already filming its first an- | imated film, “Rugged Racketeerial-| ism,” is organizing classes in sil-| houette animation, story writing | and camera work. | The Dance Studio for the train-| ing of a performing unit, which shall also be capable of directing neighborhood dance groups. The Art School, which is reorgan- | izing its classes in free-hand draw- ing, poster work and cartooning. The New Guild, the economic arm of the Cultural Department, which will undertake shortly the filming of | a cycle of dances of Tamaris and | her group—a highly experimental sound film. Sunday Nights at Nine. A series | |of lectures on Culture and Dia- lectical Materialism will shortly be ‘launched on consecutive Sundays, |ecovering the fields of Literature, | | Art, Theatre, Dance, Film and} | Music, Gala New Masses Ball In Chicago to Feature Graphic Arts Exhibit CHICAGO.—One of the largest | exhibits of contemporary graphic | arts will be held here when the) Friends of New Masses hold their Grand and Gala Ball at the Steu- ben Club, 188 W. Randolph Street, March 1 at 8 p. m. In addition to the 150 pieces of cartoons, etchings, lithographs, drawings and caricatures which have appeared in the New Masses for the past nine years, the original manuscripts of such internationally famous contributors to the magazine as Henri Bavbusse, Emst Toller, Il. | ya Ehrenbourg, John Strachey an | Michaef Gold will also appear on/| Both the manuscripts and the artistic works will be of- fered for sale, | 8:15-WJ%—Forces Which De- Questions and | Answers A oy le. Who Are the “Moscow Art Players” Question: Who are the Moscow Art P' performing in New York? Are they a company or a group of emigres?—J. B. Answer: The name “Moscow Art Players” is misleading. The group in question inc des a small minority of former members of tt of the famous Moscow A is no organiz this gri white guard chara Art Players.” emigre press other anti-So' New York they concerning their bh group includes only one former Soviet a of note, M. Chekhov. The rest are unknown actors and actresses of mediocre calibre. er of Laboratory and Shop By David Ramsey | Minerals and Monopolies The mineral industries are the basis upon which our industrial complex r They represent per- haps the most characteristic cross-section of capi- talist production. On the one hand, there have been impressive technological advances; on the other, no branch of production has such brutal terials, and so much “over-development” in relstion to the dwindling capitalist market. Oil, copper, lead, zinc, coal, to cite only the most important, are all chronically sick industries, with permanent and large unemployment. Conditions hecame so bad during the crisis years, that when Roosevelt launched the New Deal, he appointed a so-called planning committee to work out a mineral policy which would “conserve” our natural resources. The committee finally brought out its report a few weeks ago. It came out flatly for greater monopolistic control of production within the framework of N.R.A. codes. In other words, the administration, under the pretense of removing waste in the mining industries, will work to eliminate the small competitors of the big trusts. Its policies will strengthen the very monopolies which have been plundering the résources of the country in their greed for huge profits. The administration comes out with the pre- posterous argument that the way to conserve our natural resources is to allow the monopolies to fix prices and control production. Thus the time-wortt liberal cry for conservation is used to increase the profits of Big Business, to crush the small inde= pendent producer, and perpetuate the low wages and inhuman conditions that prevail throughout the various mining industries. This program, which turns over the resources of the country to even more ruthless exploitation than in the past, is linked to the war program of the Roosevelt regime. Not only are the industries to be reorganized and geared to the war machine, but “deficit” minerals are to be developed with gov- ernment funds and subsidies. Important war minerals like mercury, nickel, antimony, manganese, tungsten, tin, ete., which the United States lacks, are to be pushed by surveying sub-marginal deposits, testing and sampling questionable ores, and per- fecting processes for extracting these minerals from whatever sources are available. Thus the first organized surveys on a national seale are to be undertaken for war purposes, and incidentally, for the greater profits of the monop- olies who will exploit whatever the research workers turn up. It is interesting to note that the vice- chairman of the planning committee for mineral policy is Dr. Charles K. Leith, professor of geology at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Leith achieved quite a bit of notoriety three years ago. On the basis of some arm-chair speculation and a great deal of wish-fulfillment, he announced that the First Five Year Plan was a failure and that the efforts of the Soviet Union to become the foremost industrial nation in Europe was dodmed, because the U.S.S.R. had no mineral resources. He also pooh-poohed the planning of scientific research, especially, geological surveys. Since he made this “scientific” announcement, the Soviet Union has become the second leading industrial country in the world. The geological work in the Soviet Union is acclaimed by experts ag second to none in the world. More money is spent for geological surveys by the U.S.S.R. than in all the other European countries put together. As result of the fine achievements of the Soviet geok gists, new and vast mineral resources of all kin have been discovered, and are being utilized rapidly as possible. And now Dr. Leith hi urges the kind of organized research that the Sov! scientists have developed. But he wants this search to benefit the monopolies and the war mongers. It is not to be used, as in the Soviet Union, for the welfare of humanity and the build. ing of a new social order. _ TUNING IN 1:00-WEAF—The Woman's Ambush 15 College in a New Day— | WABC—Johnson Orch: Bd: Dr, Mary E. Woolley, ward Neil, Baritone; Bd President, Mount Hol- | win C. Hill yoke College, Introduced | 9:00-WEAF—Captain z by Dr. John'H. Finley, | Show Boat > ee Associate Editor, The New WOR—Hillbilly York Times. lly Music WdZ—Death Valley Dayse 4 WOR—Sports Resume—Jack | WABC—Gray’ Orchestra; Pilman Annette Hanshaw, Songs; WJZ—Amos ‘n’ Andy— Walter O'Keefe Sketch 9:30-WOR—Little ‘Theatre WABC—Myrt and Marge Tournament 7:15-WEAP—Jack Smith, WsZ—Oyril Pitts, Tenor Songs WOR—Lum and Abner ‘WJZ—Concert Orchestra WABO—Just Plain Bill 7:30-WEAF—Minstrel Show WOR—The Street Singer WABC—Nick Luk: Songs 1:45-WOR—Comedy; ‘usic ‘WJZ—Nicholas Orch.; Ruth | Etting, Songs WABC—Boake Carter, Com- mentator 8:00-WEAF—Vallee's Var- ietiss; Play, Feast of the Ruth Lyon, Soprano WABC—Waring Orchestra, 10:00-WEAF—Whiteman’s «>> Music Hall; Helen Jep- son, Poprano, and others WOR—Si¢ Gary, Baritone WJZ—String Ensemble 10:15-WOR—Current Events— Read H. EB. 10:30-WOR—Dance Orchestra ‘WJZ—International Eco- nomic Adjustments—Dr. Henry Grady, Chief Trad: Agreements Section, U. 5 Jest, with Basil Rathbone; State Department; Nor Tom Howard, Comedian; man Thomas, s Yale Glee “Club and Leader Others ‘WABC—Captain Dobbsie’s WOR—Little Symphony Or- Ship of Joy chestra, Philip James, | 11:00-WEAF—Talk — J. B, conductor; Cornelius Van Kennedy Viet, Violin WOR—News WABC_Al-Girl Orchestra WJZ—Siry Orchestra and Chorus Direction Phil WABC—Little Orchestra Spitalny 11:15-WEAF—Berger Orchest WOR—Moonbeams Trio termine American Foreign | 11:30-WEAF--Dance Music’ Policy--Professor A. A, (Also on WABCO, WI Berle, Jr., of Columbia WOR, WEVD) University WJZ—Address by Sen 8:30-WJZ—Red Trails: Night Huey P. Long of Louis