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(b) The antagonisms between the conquer
ing and the conquered states are being re-
vealed. and will increase in acuteness. Here
l refer especially to Germany. The crisis, and
the sharper struggle for the markets, will in
dubtably increase the pressure on Germany,
which is not only a debtor, but one of the
largest export countries. The remarkable re-
lations which have come TO pass between the
victorious states and Germany might be rep
resented as a pyramid upon whose apex there
stand America, France, England etc, with
the Yrung Plan in their hands, with the in
scription: "Payl" whilst underneath lies Ger
many, exhausting its powers, forced to exert
its last forces to pay the milliards demanded
as tribute Do you want to know what this IS?
It is the spirit of Locrano" To believe that
such situation will entail no consequences
for international capitalism is to understand
1t is the spirit of Locarno" To believe that
the German bourgeoise will be in a position
to pay 20 milliard marks within the next ten
wears, and that the German proletariat living
under the double yoke of its Town" and for
eign" bourgeoisie will permit these 20 milliards
to be squeezed from its veins without serious
struggles and commissions, is to take leave of
reason altogether French and German poll
tcians may keep up the appearance of believ-
ing in this miracle. We Bolsheviks do not be-
iieve in miracles.
(c) The antagonisms between the imperialist
states and the colonial and dependent countries
are being revealed and intensified The grow
ing economic crisis is bound to increase the
pressure of the imperialists on the colonies
and dependent countries forming the most i'm
portant selling and raw material markets.
1t is a fact that the European bourgeoisie
is at the present time at war with "its" colonies
in India, Indo-China, East India and North
Africa 1t is fact that independent" China
is in reality divided up into spheres of influ-
ence, and that the clique of the generals, and
the counter-revolutionar Kuomntang mutual
ly at conflict with one another and running
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-18

the Chinese people, are fulfilling the will of
their lords in the imperialist camp.
The lying ale that employees of the Rus
sian embassies in China are responsible for
the disturbances of peace and order" in China
has at last been exploded. For a long time
there have been no Russian embassies in either
South or Central China. But there are Eng
lish Japanese, German, American and other
embassies. Neither in South or Central China
are there Russian embassies But there are
German, English and Japanese military adj
visors for the warning Chinese generals For
long enough there have been no Russian EN-
bassies here. But there are English, American
German, Czechoslovakian and other guns,
rifles, airplanes tanks and poison gases And
what do we see? Instead of "peace and order"
we see in South and Central China an I'M
bridled and disastrous generals war in full
swing financed by the Civilized" states of
Europe and America, and aided by their in
structions. \ truly striking picture of the
"civilizing" activities of the capitalist states.
Only nobody knows what the Russian Boil
sheviks have to do with it.
1t would be ridiculous to believe that these
brutalities on the part of the imperialists will
be borne in silence. The Chinese workers and
peasants have already replied by forming So
vets and Red Armies. 1t is reported that
Soviet Governments are being formed. If this
is true, I do not find any cause for wonder
There can be no doubt that nothing but the
Sovets can save China from final ruin and
impoverishment.
With respect to India, Indo-China, the East
Indies, Africa, ETC., it is an undoubted fact
that the revolutionary movement in these coun-
tries, which sometimes takes the form of war
for national liberation is growing The gen.
tlemen of the bourgeosie are anxious to drown
these countries in blood; they depend on the
support of the police bayonets, and look to
people like Gandh for aid There is no doubt
that police bayonets are but weak supports
Czarism too, in its time sought to support
itself on police bayonets, and we all know what
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and drive the workers into renewed class
struggles.
The consequence is that among the working
masses the social democratic illusions are
crumbling and coapsing. After the expert
ence gained during the participation of social
democrats in the governments, which have
done scab service, organized lockouts and shot
down workers, the lying promises of "produc-
ton democracy" of industrial peace" and
peaceful methods in the struggle, sound in
the ears of the workers like utter derision
Are there still many workers to be found who
believe the lying sermons of the social demo-
Gratis? The workers demonstrations of August
l, 1929 against war danger), and of March
6, 1880 against UNEMPLOYMENT, show that the
best elements of the working class are already
turning their backs to the social democrats.
The economic crisis will deal fresh blow
at the social democratic illusions among the
workers. After the bankruptcy and impov-
erishment following the crisis there will be
but few workers willing to believe in the pos
sibility that "every worker" may enrich him
self by taking part in democratic" joint stock
companies Whatever may be said--the crisis
deals an annihilating blow at such and similar
illusions.
But when the workers turn their backs on
social democracy, this means that they turn to
Communism. The growth of the trade union
movement working on the side of the Commu-
mist Parties; the election successes of the Com
munist Parties, the strike wave going on under
the leading participation of the Communists,
the merging of the economic struggles in poll
teal protests organized by the Communists;
the mass demonstrations of the workers SYM
pathizing with Communism, awakening wide
echoes in the working class-all this bears
witness to the fact that the working masses
recognize in the Communist Parties the sole
Party capable of fighting against capitalism,
the sole Party worthy of the faith of the work
ing people, the sole Party which it is worth
while to join in the struggle for liberation from
capitalism. This is the turn taken by the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-18
The Political Report the Central Committee the XVI Party Congress
Of the Communist ary Of the Soviet Union
Comrade J. Stains Address on 9th June

working masses in the direction of Commu-
nism. This is the guarantee that our brother
Parties of tt Comintern will become great
mass Parties of the working class. All that
is necessary is that the Communists estimate
the situation properly, and make full use of it.
The Communist Parties, which carry on an ir-
reconcilable struggle against social democracy,
this agent Of capital among the working class,
and which utterly exterminate those devia-
lions from Leninism which bring grist to the
mill of soc Il democracy, have shown that they
are on the right path. They must continue
firmly on this path. For it is only by doing
so that they can reckon on winning over the
majority OF the working class, and of success
fully preparing the proletariat for the coming
class struggles For it is only by doing so
that we can -eckon upon further increase
of the influence and the authority of the Com
munist International.
This is the status of the fundamental con-
tradctons of world capitalism, now inten-
sified to the utmost by the world economic
crisis.
What do these facts show?
They show that the sterilization of capital
ism is approaching its end.
They show that the upsurge of the revolu-
tionary mass movement will rush forward with
fresh impetus
They show that the. world economic crisis
will merge into a political crisis in many
countries.
This means that in the first place the bour-
geoisie will seek a means of escape from the
situation in the further fascsation of home
politics, and will utilize for this purpose every
reactionary force, including Social Democracy
1t means further that the bourgeoisie, in
the sphere of foreign policy, will seek a means
of escape in fresh imperialist wars and in in
tervention.
And it means, finally, that the proletariat
in the struggle against capitalist exploitation
and war danger, will seek the remedy in re
voution.
ITO Be Continued)
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liant after thought: "The farmers have re-
ceived more than they ever expected under
the sterilization program in the purchase of
wheat"
The farmers certainly did receive more
than they expected! But not in prices. And
it is clearly the deliberate intention of the
Farm Board to unload now. whether for ex-
port or not, as much as they can of what
they hold. This will knock prices down still
further
The farmer who pays interest on debt and
rent for land, pays out according to the 1926
estimate) % per cent of all he gets to the
people who rob him. His taxes are twice and
a half as high as in 1913. The monopolies
who skin the hide off the workers in the fac
tories do some more skinning when they sell
him farm machinery which he must have.
The sheriff who lives from his taxes is always
ready to take away his property at the behest
of the local banker who is an agent of Wall
Street. His poverty drives him into debt. and
into becoming a wage worker for the richer
farmers and corporation farm companies who
give him an idea of how it feels to be wage
worker
The Farm Bloc has swindled the farmers
into regarding it and the Farm Board, fake
cocperatives and "stabilization," as the prom
Use of paradise to come They are finding out
that it is not paradise but hell.
The remedy is action by the farmers them
selves. They should form, among themselves
and by townships, Committees of Action and
write to the United Farmers League of Bis
marck, North Dakota. It has the only pro-
gram of struggle which will gain the farmer
anything. 1t means struggle tenants strikes,
taxpayers strikes, and big fight over wide
scale. But only by struggle, their own strug-
gle, aided by the revolutionary workers, can
the farmers advance their interest.
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of completing the Five-Year Plan in four
years. The collectivization has already regis
tered successes beyond expectation. The cor
rection of "leftist' errors, which developed in
the great swing of millions into the collectives,
is being carried through and guarantees the
further healthy growth of collectivization;
there has been no pause" no retreat" of the
C.P.S.U., as our enemies would like to believe,
but on the contrary. The correction of errors
was in itself part an essential part, of the
forward movement, one of the stages in the
advance of the main line of the Party, of
the actual collectivization of agriculture on
the basis of the Five-Year Plan.
Those who wish to obtain some idea of the
speed of growth of socialism in the Soviet
Union, should compare of the yearly rate of
growth of Soviet industry with that Of CAPT.
talist industry. Leaving aside for the moment
the present crisis, and the fact that capitalist
production is declining almost as much per
year Soviet production is increasing; and
taking for comparison the rate of growth of
U. S. capitalist production for fifty years
when it growing from insignificant
factor to the greatest capitalist power, we
find that Soviet industry grows seven times
fast as the capitalist industry in the U. S.
This contrast in the tempo of production
growth has the most profound revolutionary
At the same time we witness the appearance
of Soviet coal, matches, oil, lumber, etc.,
the markets of the world in successful com
petition with capitalist commodities. The con-
sequences of this historic fact do not lie in
the point of their purely economic effects
upon the markets in competition. What is of
tremendous significance is the demonstration.
by means of this appearance of Soviet pro-
duction in the world markets, of the deep econ
omic vitality Of Soviet economy. 1t is an ex-
preston, the speed of growth of production
is another expression, Of the tremendous SUI
periority of Soviet economy over capitalist
economy, of planned economy over anarchistic
competition.
These tremendous achievements are the
fruit of October, the fruit of the seize of
power by the working class in armed struggle
against the bourgeoise, the fruit of the ma
tionalization of banks, railroads, mines, fac
tories, land in the hands of the working class
power the Soviet Union, the fruit of the die
tatorshp of the proletariat, the fruit of the
policy of Lenn, of the Boshevik leadership of
the working class.
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By BILL dunno.
(Continued)

The disclosure before and during the con-
vention of gross opportunist errors in our work
among the Negro masses, errors brought into
daylight by mass work in this period of sharp
ening class struggle, was one of the most i'm
portant achievements of the convention.
These errors were of two kinds: One, open
reputation in practice, with strong social
fascist characteristics, of the demand for full
social, economic and political equality for
Negroes. Two, the reformist tendency ex-
pressed at the Party fraction meeting preced-
ing the convention, in two speeches-both of
which received considerable applause-to the
effect that the best way to combat white
chauvinism was to drop all reference to Neg
roes and consider the Negro masses simply
as part of the working class.
The open reputation of the line of the Party
and the class struggle unions of the T. U. U. L.
occurred among the Lithuanian comrades on
the South Side of Chicago. Leading Lithu-
anian comrades gave Negro delegates quar-
tered with them money to buy food elsewhere
to prevent them from eating in the Lithuanian
cooperative restaurant on the grounds that
their presence was bad for business"
One immediately thinks of the attitude of
the Southern capitalists who lynch Negroes
and at the same time give money for the sup
port of Negro colleges and schoOls--providing
of course that they are properly controlled.
This matter was taken up in the open con-
vention by Comrades Dunno and Hathaway,
was handled in the sharpest manner and the
promise made to the delegates that these ele-
ments would be dealt with to the utmost limits
of the disciplinary powers of the Party and
the T. U. u. L.
This open acknowledgement of errors in
the struggle against white chauvinism and the
speedy and public correction of these gross
errors brought a splendid response from the
convention, self criticism was placed before the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-18
By HARRISON GEORGE.

THE Farm Board was supposed to celebrate
its first birthday on July 16, but more
brickbats than bouquets are arriving from the
wheat belt as the collapse of the famous
Sterilization Corporation" becomes clear to
everyone even to Hoover.
Hoover's cabinet met and adjourned after
listening to Secretary of Agriculture Hyde,
who told Hoover how he and Chairman Legge
of the Farm Board were nearly lynched in
Kansas for advocating reduction of acreage.
1t was reported that the cabinet is worried
by the wheat crisis.
Hoover, considering this, changed his plans
for vacation. He will "avoid the farm belt'
the capitalist press says quite openly, and his
train will go through without stopping, taking
him to refuge in Glacier National Park, where
the glaciers will give him warmer welcome
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coming acuter. The crisis has already increased
the pressure put by the capitalists on the work
ing class. The crisis has already called forth
a fresh wave of capitalist naturalization,
fresh worsening of the situation of the work
ing class, increase of unemployment, a
growth of the army of permanent unemployed,
and a reduction of wages. 1t is not to be
wondered at that these circumstances revolu-
tionize the situation, strengthen the class war,
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sort of support that turned out to be. With
regard to helpers of the Gandhi type, Czarism
possessed whole flocks of them in the form of
liberal compromise-rhongers of every kind, but
these succeeded in nothing more than in add
ing to the confusion.
I'D The antagonisms between the bourg
eoisie and the proletariat of the capitalist coun-
tries too have been brought to light and are be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-18
The 18th Congress.

The Sixteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U,
which opens in few days will, we know quite
well. register no change in the line which has
been so successfully followed, but continue.
ton Of that line Our comrades in the Soviet
Union are going to carry through the slogan
Evening star., 1930-12-17
OUTGOING STEAMERS.
sATYHG TO1Av

OUTGOING STEAMERS.
SAILING TODAY.
Giivia-Halifax and st. Johns
Jean Jadrt-Antwerp.
Lillian Observation-Disclosures Coast
New York-Cherbourg, Southampton and
Hamburg
Zacspa-KingSton, Cristobal, Cartasena,
Puerto Colombia and Santa Marta.
OTiente-Havana.
Yoro-KingSton.
caracas-La Guayra, Puerto Cabello and
Maracaibo.
Evening star., 1930-12-17
BY DAVID A. REED.

There can be no justification for any
increase in taxes unless it is to be as
sumed that the current business depres-
sion will last indefinitely.
AS one who has faith in the future of
his country, do not believe that it will
Therefore I can see no reason why
taxes should be increased, and there are
substantial reasons why they should not.
For several years, or since we began
to get back to peacetime basis, our
Treasury statement has shown a surplus
of revenues over expenditures. In con-
sequence we have been able to reduce
taxes repeatedly in this interval.
1t is reasonable to believe that as we
recover our economic equilibrium Fed
eral revenues will again exceed or at
least equal all ordinary requirements.
Instead of increasing taxes, it is prob
able that before many years we shall
be able to reduce them further.
In the interim there can be no sound
reason for increasing the income tax
Evening star., 1930-12-17
BANDITS IDENTIFIED
IN HOLD-UP OF BANK
Two Dead and Three Cap.
tured Declared Members
of Long-Hunted Gang.
By the Associs ted Press.

By the Associated Press.
SLDELL, Ill, December 17.-The trans
border line battls which five daring bank
bandits lost yesterday to a posse of
unrelenting officers resulted in the cap
ture of bigger criminal game than was
at first indicated, authorities said as
they surveyed the results.
The gang, two of whose members
were killed. one of them apparently by
his own hands, was wanted for a series
OF bank hold-ups in Western Indiana,
including one at Frankfort, in addition
to the robbery of the Citizens State
Bank at Clinton, which led to their
downfall
Revealed by Officer.
This was revealed by Chauncey A.
Manning of the Indiana STATE Bureau
Of Criminal Identification, who identified
the dead bandits as Thomas Bell, AZ, of
PITTSBURGH, Pa, and G. w. Landley, 65,
OF Frankfort, Ind.
Landley is believed to have killed him
self rather than be taken alive. Two
members Of the posse were wounded in
the running fight which ended in an
Illinois codnfield near here after chase
OF nearly 20 miles, Bell was killed by
Ernest Boetto, volunteer posseman.
One Of his companions, E. H Hunter,
thought to be from Terre Haute. was
Kansas City and William Martin, who
refused to give his residence, were
captured
Loot of $4,000 Found.
Practically all the estimated loot
$l5,OO0-was recovered
The two Officer wounded were Joe
Walker, a deputy She1E@e who tried to
halt the bandit car as it slS3eA through
Dana, Ind, and Walter Burnsities, a
CLINTON policeman. Walker was taken
20 q Terre Haute hospital where he
died today. BurnsideS, hit by a bullet
trom one Of three machine guns car
rieo BY the robbers, refused to abandon
the chase until it ended.
The robbers took to their heels after
one OF three automobiles Communicated
by them along the route of their fight
became overheated. Their own car
broke down about IL miles out of
Clinton.
Everett Helm, chisf of police of Clin-
ton, organizer of the posse, reported
that his automobile was hit nearly a
dozen times by machine gun bullets.
Evening star., 1930-12-17
FAMOUS WAR NURSE
MARRIES THIRD TIME
Mrs. Kathleen Burke Mclean Weds
Girard Van Barkaloo Hale
in Los Angeles.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, December 17.-Mrs.
Kathleen Burke Mclean, 43, wartime
angel of France" and Girard Van
Barkaloo Hale, "A, noted mural painter,
we're en- route today to Morocco on a
wedding trip.
They were married here yesterday by
Superior Judge william Collier, and an
nounced they would be remarked in u
Catholic church ceremony in either
Paris or Rome en- route to Morocco.
The friendship between the British
war nurse and Hale, then an ambulance
driver, began at the scissors front dur
ing a bombardment. Both were deco
rated for bravery in action by allied
governments. A decade passed, and
they met again on an archaeological
expedition in Peru. Mrs. Hale twice
was widowed.
Hale is a descendant Of Stephen
Girard, early American financier, and
also a member of the old New York
Van Barkaloo family He is best known
Evening star., 1930-12-17

Canton, China, will use American
trucks on its projected bus lines.
Evening star., 1930-12-17

CaTtaEena,
Puerto Colombia and Santa Marta.
Oriente-Hayana.
csrscas-Is Guayra, Puerto cabello and
veendam-Bermuds.
SAILING TOMORROW.
Bird City-Copenhagen
Dresden-Cobh, Cherbourg and Bremerhaven
Coamo-San Juan and Santo Domingo City.
ol.s orizaoa.Hayana, :. Progreso and vera Cruz.
Magallanes-CadIz and Barcelona.
AAmerisSan1 AT.SH1 TradeE-Lodndon .I, I1dide ,,..
SAILING FRIDAY. DECEMBER 10.
western Prince-Rio de Janeiro, Santos
Montevideo and Buenos Aires.
Munargo-Nassau. Miami and Havana.
F1ora-Curacao and Maracaibo.
united ststes-Oslo and Copenhagen.
Pan America-Bermuda.
Dresden-Cobh
River Hudson-Gibraltar.
SAILING SATURDAY. DECEMBER 40.
Franconia-west Indies cruise
Aurania-Plymouth. Havre and London.
Santa Barbara-cristobai. caiiso and VAL
Pennsylvania--Havana. Cristobal and san
cuatemaia = Puerto Colombia, cristobal,
Corinto and San Francisco.
Ponce-San Juan.
Toloa-Havana, Cristobal and Port Lmon.
Tiyives-Kirgston. Puerto Castillo, Tela and
Puerto BafrioS
Moro Castle-Havans.
waska-cherbourE and London.
Baitic--Cobh and Liverpool.
Baracoa-Puerto Colombia.
Reliance-West Indies cruise.
Lafayette-west Indies cruise.
Bermuda-Bermuda.
etatendam--West Indies cruise.
SAILING SUNDAY. DECEMBER II.
1Eusa-Puerto Cortez
SAILING MONDAY. DECEMBER a..
Hanailton-Norfolk
Pulaski-Copenhasen and Gdynia.
SAILING TUESDAY. DECEMBER 23.
Albert Bsllin-Cherbourg Southampton and
Hamburg.
Ancon-Port au Prince and Cristobal.
Evening star., 1930-12-17
VETS IN HOUSE CHANGE
NAME AND ORDER WHIPS
Group "for Modification of Vol
stead Act" Becomes Body sop
posed to National Prohibition,

The House wet group has changed
its name from "the Committee for Modi-
fication Of the Volstead Act" to the
Committee Opposed to National Pro-
hibition."
Reinforced by 10 additional members.
the bloc also authorized Chairman Lin
whips for the Republican and Demo-
cratic sides of the House and agreed
to oppose the increased APPROPRIATION of
So. 100000 asked by the Prohibition
Bureau for enforcement purposes.
The new members include Aldrich.
Burd!ck, Condor, all of Rhode Island:
Fish and Cooke of New York, Fem and
Goss of Connecticut Andrew, Massachu-
sets; Pittenger, Minnesota, and REILLY,
Wisconsin.
Evening star., 1930-12-17

or imposing burdensome taxes Of other
sorts simply because we face deficit
this one year.
As an alternative, I think the sound
course is to rely on Treasury financing
to carry us through the present period
The Federal Government today is bor-
rowing money at ~ per cent. While its
credit is so good and money so plenti-
ful, the simplest solution of cur problem
is to issue such short-term certificates
as are necessary to make up the tenn
porary deficit When business picks up