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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-09
We Shed Tears
Crocodile Tears

Ordinarily discussion articles are signed
when submitted and this years crop runs heav-
lily to "shocks," but we're going to evade the
censor and run something neither signed nor
Shocking" except in one way.
Someone signing a letter as "a League
Member" objects to recent criticisms of D. O's
in this column and, assuring us that it's no
personal matter, passes on to the following:
Il am one comrade of many who really
knows what our D. O's have to go through,
as have brother and comrade who are
both acting d. O's. My brother know, has
given up good trade and many other neces-
sites to be active in our movement. My
comrade has given up $45 week job,
home, old motheer, ETC., to be active as a
d. O."
Now, We are compelled to interject here
that we have better opinion of D. O's than
does the League member who wrote such rot
as this. The "Internationale'' tells us: "We
want no condescending saviors," though it's
doubtful if "A League Member" ever learned
more than the first verse.
One grave disease in the revolutionary move
ment is precisely this social worker" view
point of coming to the movement as from
above, to "help and guide the poor downtrod-
den workers" Such petty-bourgeois theology
is enough to turn the stomach of any worker,
81
We sort of get the Feeling that this sort
of Tin Jesus idea is part of the reason why
the League hasn't made the turn" due to
it's student non-proetarian composition.
We feel sad about the D. o. who gave up "a
good trade and many other necessities"
though what trade is guaranteed good" for
worker these days is something we missed.
And as for the D. O. who actually laid down
"a $45 week job, home and old mother" on
the altar of the revolution, we can only burst
into tears in sympathy and assure him that
we will never deprive him of the pleasure of
further sacrifice, and would he do some more
by kindly renting sums due the Daily
Worker as we have some people working for
it who have been fed up on the joy of sacri-
flee.
what I suggest" the anonymous League
Member goes on, sis that you give these COM
rades little more cooperation instead Of
criticism"
This is what might be called rich: We send
the districts thousands of dollars worth Of
Daily Workers. They dispose of them for cash,
but never dream Of paying for them (prob-
ably this is part of their sacrifice for the
working class), and then "A League Member"
suggests that we should "give them co-opera-
toni"
And when the Party decides that such van
dalism must be stopped, she GA League
Member" is undoubtedly she) says that her
letter should be printed in the Daily Worker
"as criticism to Comrade Jorge for his I'M
communistic tactics"
Probably it never occurs to some Of our
readers that Jorge may be expressing the pol
icy of the Seventh Convention of the c. p U.
s. A. and the Central Committee elected by it.
Will someone please step forward and mon-
key with the crocodilA1 sNs-sD
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-09
OF GERMANY

cratic workers and young workers
to the Communist Party and to the
Young Communist League.
What makes the vote of the Com
munist Party so important is the
fac THAT it is almost entirely de-
rived from the proletarian class
whilst the growth in the Hitler par
ty on the other hand mainly repre-
sents only regrouping in the bour-
geois camp. The German national
ist party lost half of its electors to
Hitler, whilst the German Peoples
Party lost 40 per cent and the State
party lost 20 per cent of their sup
porters to the national socialists.
The increased participation of bour-
geois elements in the election ac-
cried wholly to the benefit of the
national socialists. The national
socialists became the rallying cen
ter of all discontinued elements of
the bourgeoisie and a portion of,the
workers and employees who have
been betrayed by the social fascists
and are now misled and confused
by the fascists. 1t thus represents
a socially heterogeneous crowd.
If one compares the bourgeois
votes with the votes cast for the
social democrats and Communists,
one does not observe any great
change in the total result. AS the
bourgeois parties and in particular
the national socialists conducted
their election campaign under the
slogan: "Shatter the Marxist
camp" (under which term they
mean the social democrats and the
Communists) it can be said that
this attack has been completely re-
pulsed and has ended only with the
bankruptcy of the bourgeois par
ties. Of ell the bourgeois parties
only the Centre is able to record
any gain. But this gain is only an
absolute increase in the vote polled,
while relatively considered the Cen
tire has to record a loss. Only in
the Rhenish Westphalian industrial
district have the Communists sue
ceeded in winning over part of
the workers who have hitherto sup
ported the Centre Party.
The Communist Party gained it's
election victory under a clear and
straightforward slogan: Overthrow
of capitalism and fight for Soviet
Germany. This slogan dominated
the whole Of the election agitation.
At no time was there the slightest
deviation from the revolutionary
line. Our opponents, the bourgeois
parties and also the social demo-
Gratis thought that this emphasis
upon our revolutionary principles
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-09
THE GERMAN REICHsTAG ELECTIONS AND
THE TASKS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY
OF GERMANY

under the hard blows of the en-
ployers' offensive. In order to full
fill these tasks better than hitherto,
the Party must build up real or
ganizational apparatus for its trade
union work, must create in every
factory a firmly organized group of
the revolutionary trade union op-
position and convert the shop stew
ards and the red factory council
into fighting organs of the prole-
tartan class.
The election struggle has further
| taught us that the arm of the Party
is still too short in order to en-
brace all the revolutionary masses
and in order to transform the revo-
lutionary energy into powerful
striking force against capitalism.
The Party must therefore carry out
large-scale recruiting work in
order to double its membership. 1t
must devote particular attention to
winning young workers and the
| working women who are acquiring
ever increasing Importance in the
class struggle of the proletariat. 1t
will teach the proletariat which is
now threatened by the offensive of
the employers and the fascists to
set up a broad anti-fascist fighting
front on the basis of the united
front of all class conscious workers.
For this purpose it must especially
conduct extensive work among the
social democratic and christian
workers. More than hitherto it
must work in the proletarian mass
organizations in order to convert
these into powerful weapons in the
offensive front of the Communist
Party. ss2a
The program of the national and
social emancipation of Germany
which was enthusiastically sup
ported by all our brother parties
abroad played great role in mob
ilizing the masses in the election
campaign. The workers of Ger
many have recognized that the Com
munist Party is the only party
which knows a way out of the mis-
cry Of the capitalist crisis and
Young Plan slavery, which if fol-
lowed without hesitation and vacil-
lation will bring to the German
proletariat the support of the prole-
tariat of other countries. The
workers of all countries can draw
from the election campaign in Ger
many the lesson that the fight for
the Soviet Power arouses the en-
thusiasm Of the working masses
and tremendously accelerates the
Communist advance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-09

would brighten away the electors.
The result of the elections has
proved the exact contrary and
thereby demonstrated before the
whole world that the Communists
make the greatest progress when
they unflinchingly put forward rev.
dictionary demands and aims.
The fact that the Communist
Party has become the leading party
in Berlin, Halle, Dusseldorf West,
and Lower Rhine is of decisive i'm
portance. In a number of other
electoral areas such as Dusseldorf
East, Upper Silesia, Cologne
Aachen we have outstripped the So
cial democratic party. In the big
towns on the Rhine and on the Ruhr
we have with few exceptions beaten
the social democrats. In many of
these huge industrial towns the
Communist gain amounted to 70 to
100 per cent.
Also in many other big towns we
have topped the poll, as for instance
in Berlin, where the Communist
vote increased from 611,317 at the
last Reichstag elections to 738, 1886,
whilst the social democratic vote
fell from 816,196 to 737,S21. The
Communist Party topped the poll in
all working class districts in Ber-
lin, before all in Wedding, Fried
richshain, Neukolln and Centrum.
1t was only in the fashionable West
End districts that the social demo-
Gratis were able to poll larger vote
than the Communists. The more
bourgeois the district is, the greater
the advantage of the social demo-
Gratis. Nothing can show more
plainly. than the election result in
Berlin, that the social democracy
has ceased to be the party of the
workers, and that it is rapidly be-
coming a bourgeois party. It's So
cial-fascist theology is the express
sion of the change in its class basis.
A detailed examination of the
election result shows that our party
has made the greatest progress in
those places in which it prepared
and organized the fight of the
workers in spite of all resistance
and difficulties. This is the case
without exception. This fact proves
that unhesitating advocacy of our
revolutionary principles and our
revolutionary tactics guarantees the
greatest advance to the Party.
The Party must more than ever
become the leader of the proletariat
and of the oppressed strata Of the
population. 1t must organize the
economic struggles of the proletar-
lat in the big economic crisis and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-09
By FRITZ HECKERT (Berlin).

oy tAA - 1A|SAAAAhA NDNAAts/s
When at the end of July last the
Bruening Government dissolved the
Reichstag because it did not pos
sess a majority for carrying
through its dictatorial taxation
measures, neither it nor anybody in
Germany believed that the elections
on September Ia would have such
result. The fact that the old
bourgeois parties have been almost
completely shattered by the election
and new party, the National So
cialist Party has far outstripped all
other bourgeois parties, is almost
unexampled in the history of Par
lament.
The result of the elections denotes
more than mere discomfort with the
policy hitherto pursued in Germany:
| it indicates the rapid approach of a
great revolutionary crisis arising
on the basis of the economic crisis
and the Young Plan.
The Communist Party has in
creased its vote from 3,260,000 to
nearly 100000. That is a gain of
more than 100000 votes. At the
same time the social democratic
party has lost over 100000 votes
while the participation in the cleo
ton was 10 per cent higher than at
the previous Reichstag election.
Reckoning according to seats, the
social democracy, in view of the
greatly increased participation in
the election and the growth in the
numbers of electors, ought to have
increased it's seats from 1853 to 1871.
Instead, however, it has obtained
only 143 seats. The loss of 38 seats
cannot be designated as trifling
loss or even as a social democratic
victory" as "Le Peuple" and other
social democratic organs do.
Reckoned according to the in
creased participation in the election
the Communist Party would have
increased the number of its seats
from Sd to SO. but it has actually
obtained rs, which means that it
has really been able to gather fresh
broad masses of the workers round
it's flag. The votes lost by the So
cial democracy were almost entirely
absorbed by the Communists. 1t is
only in few places that our gains
in votes were less than the losses
of the social democracy. There can
be no doubt whatever that the Com
munist Party has succeeded in deep
ly penetrating the ranks Of the So
cial democratic electors. This is
also shown by the continual and in
creasing going over of social demo-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-09
PRE-PLENUM DISCUSSION
Young Communist League, U.S.A.
The Cleveland District Before and After
the Plan of Action

What are some of the things that are i'm
portant in reviewing the plan of action?
1. 1t has proven to the satisfaction of the
League, in my opinion, the superiority of
planned activity over given period of time
to the old method used by US, of sporadic out
bursts of activity few days before culnlina-
ton OF certain campaign or demonstration
This sporadic activity resulted in a general
impression of the League membership that a
certain demonstration or campaign is an end
in itself instead of means towards an end.
This always led to an underestin,ation of
the campaign and the necessity to link up
certain campaign with all the campaigns of
the Party and League.
This attitude must and can be broken by the
new method of work adopted by the League.
2. The Plan of Action has gone long
way towards ORIGINATING our Y. G. l.. to the
necessity of changing our League from mar
row and sectarian organization to mass or
ganization Of young Communists ready at all
times to take advantage of the objective situa-
ton and local issues prevailing, to lead the
young workers into struggle.
This, however, can only be done by consis-
tent and sacrificing effort in activity by our
League membership.
3. The system of planned activity will also
result in a coordination of the activities of
DOCh the rarity ana Une I. ~. IL. resulting IN
more and better organizational results than
till now.
Our Party will take the responsibility of
building the Y. c. L. in the districts, and the
League as school of Communists, will send
more ard better comrades into the Party ready
for the leading cadres of our Party because
of their previous training.
Can these results be accomplished? Yes,
and in as short time as possible because the
immediate future speaks of tremendous mass
struggles Of the workers against capitalism.
Our Party and League must be the leading
core in these struggles in order not only to
bring them to satisfactory conclusion but
also to increase their membership and their
mass following in the working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-09

In one great room Of electrical machinery,
high-powered automatic switch boxes, one
young boy alone tends the entire equipment.
"But what's up-to-date today is obsolete to-
morrow" continues the engineer and quotes the
example Of Inland Steel and Dupont Co. Of In
diana Harbor, Ind, where blast furnaces which
produced maximum Of 600 tons day in 1927
now produce 1000 and more tons day.
At the Westinghouse foupdxias tbs boat es
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-09

paid back to the Westinghouse company nearly
100000 federal tax refund in 1929.
New machines, have displaced many workers
in Westinghouse plants. One such machine in
six parts, called the Aut-au-Mat, recently in
stalled in the Westinghouse Air Brake Co. at
Wimerdng, Pa. does the work Of 30 men.
"very costly, it's true" explains the young
engineer, "but the initial cost, you understand,
As made up many times over in wages"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-09

furnaces and hot sand mixed together is enough
to exhaust the workers in a short time. The
atmosphere is tight and sitting. In the rub
Der departments girl workers, dressed in over
alIs, must stand the smell Of heated rubber,
enough to knock you over" Negro workers
are used on the worst jobs where the heat is
fiercest and the danger Of accidents is great
c-t
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-12
LIMIT ON AIR
WAR is CHIEF
ARMS PROBLEM
Experts Are Awakening to
Fact That SIaShes in
Navy Means Little.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIAINIS
Scripps- Howard Foreign Editor

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass, Aug. 70.
With a growing sense of the l1or-
rors to come from the air in the
next war, it is beginning to dawn on
those attending the Institute of Poll
tics here that armament limitation
efforts, to date, hardly have
scratched the surface of the real
problem.
Both armies and navieS, observers
are beginning to see, may be strictly
limited or even draStically reduced.
Yet until the air forces OF the
world are brought strictly under
control, all the work done at the
various arms conferences is worth
next to nil.
Navies even might be altogether
abolished, it now is realized, and
still the most terrible sea battles
the world ever has seen remain
quite possible, and even probable,
through the combined use OF mer-
chant ships and aircraft.
Uncle Sans great defensive out
post at Hawaii might be taken, and
Panama Canal destroyed without
the use of a single warship by a ma
ton with a superior merchant
marine and air force.
New York, San Francisco and
other coast cities, even Washington
itself, might be. converted into
shambles by aircraft brought across
the Atlantic or the Pacific in ships
which now are carrying tourists.
Whole populations might be
wiped out by engines Of war upon
which the nations have not yet even
begun to place limit.
For the price of a single white
head torpedo now in use in the
navy, an aerial bomb in the shape
of an airplane fuselage, could be
constructed with wings which, with
radio control and perfected propul-
sion, could be fired" across the At
lantic or the Pacific to smash the
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-12
DEADLOCK APPEARS
IN BRIDGE PROJECT
Wording of Bond Sale Contract in
Variance With Opinion.

A new deadlock over the Evans
vile bridge project appeared today
when Director John j. Brown of the
state highway department an
nounced he had discovered the bond
sale contract of Kentucky is worded
exactly opposite to the opinion
handed down by the United States
supreme court.
According to Brown, the contract
calls for making the bond money
available after the bridge contract
is signed and the court order says
the Kentucky money must be avail
able before signing the bridge con-
tract.
It is estimated the bridge will cost
$4,OOO,OO0, expenses being sharedGb by
Kentucky and Indiana. The new
difficulty will be ironed out at a joint
conference of the highway commits
sions to be held soon, Brown said.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-12
MAYOR WALKER
To FACE JURY
IN CRAFT QUIZ
Prepares to Make Public
Denial Higher Officials
Are Involved.
Bv United Press

BV United Press
NEW YORK, Aug 12-Wide in
vestigation into charges of graft
and corruption in the nations
largest city reached the point today
where Mayor James J. Walker and
a former boss Of Tammany hall
prepared to make public denial that
the higher city officials and the
Democratic organization are impliS
Gated.
Mayor Walker is under subpoena
to appear before the county grand
jury Wednesday.
The mayor is expected to explain
circumstances that prompted him
to appoint George F. Ewald to the
post of city magistrate.
Ewald is charged with having
paid $4,000 for his appointment,
and Mayor Walker has been forced
to suspend his lifelong friend, Mar
tin j. Healy. from his post as first
deputy commissioner of plant and
structures, pending investigation of
the charge.
George w. Olvany, mead OF lam
many at the time of Ewald's ap-
pointment, was to be questioned to-
day by Thomas G. T. Grain, dis
trict attorney, on the same subject,
and is expected to be subpenaed
also.
Of particular interest in the in
terrogation of Healy and the
Ewalds is a transaction by which
Healy received $4,000 about the
time Ewald assumed Office. This
has been explained as loan from
Mrs. EWald and her father to
Healy, who is Democratic leader OF
the nineteenth assembly district.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-12
CHALLENGE OF
DRYS EXPECTED
TO UNITE VETS
Compact Group, Urging a
Single, Definite Liquor
Plan Predicted.

BIZ scripps- -Ho,cord Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.-Profes-
sional drys' challenge to the vets to
bring forth a better substitute for
national sobriety than prohibition is
expected to hasten the movement
for consolidation Of anti-prohibition
forces into compact group, united
on single, definite solution of the
liquor problem.
Wet leaders today expressed salts
faction that their opponents have
been driven to the defensive, as the
pronouncement of the executive
committee of the Anti-Saloon
League, meeting in Michigan, has
been interpreted.
Instead of maintaining that the
social millennium had been reached
in the enactment of prohibition, the
drys, in the opinion of the ants,
now concede that conditions are not
so good.
United On One Plan
Though the vets are divided on
the kind of reform they want, as the
half dozen contrasting bills intro
duced at the last session proved, it
is expected they eventually will get
behind plan for repeal Of the
Eighteenth amendment SO that con-
gress can deal with the liquor ques-
ton.
The next step would be legislation
permitting each state to handle the
problem according to its own needs
and local desires.
This is the substitute that has
been offered by the Association
Against the Eighteenth Amendment,
and it is gaining ground rapidly
among Democrats and Republicans.
It has been put forth by ex-Sena-
tor Wadsworth, director of the asso-
citation, in the first utterance made
since the Anti-Saloon chieftainS
called upon the vets for a concrete
suggestion.
It also is the prohibition plank of
the platform on which Dwight Nor
row will seek election to the senate
in New Jersey this fall.
Plan Specific Proposal
A specific measure to bring about
such a solution was introduced at
the close of the last session by Rep
resentative Robert L. Bacon Rep.,
N. ", after consultation with sew
eral noted lawyers of New York
City.
Bacon did not press the matter, as
he brought it forward principally to
furnish a. basis of discussion in an
ticipation of resumption of the wet
dry battle at the next session.
Al Smith proposed the same thing
as Democratic presidential candi-
date in 1928, and it is expected to
form the central point of Governor
Franklin D. Roosevelt's campaign
for reelection in New York.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-12
MISS METZGER WILL
WED DAVID GIBSON

Miss Louise Metzger, Anderson.
will marry David Gibson, Benton
Hsrbor, at a ceremony to be per-
formed Aug. "a at the First PreSby-
terian church, in Anderson.
Miss Cynthia Morrow, Anderson,
will be maid of honor and Haywood
Gibson. South Bend, will be his
brothers best man. The couple will
live in benton Harbor.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-12
SUMMER ITCHES VANISH
when antiseptic Zemo is used!

when antiseptic Zemo is used!
Soothing liquid Zemo brings won
derful relief to bites, rashes and
prickly heat. Its cooling touch also
soothes the pain of sunburn. Thou
sands are discovering comfort in
zemo when they have itching, peel
ing toes. For 20 years it has been
used to clear away pi1nples and
itching scalp. Fine for mosquito
bites. Get greaSeless, invisible zemo
today and keep it handy. All drug
gists. S5c, 60c, $t.00.-Advertise-
mept.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-12

There are about 46O oil reflneries
in the United States, the annual
production of which has wholesale
value of more than $500. 100000.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-12

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