The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-22
international Pamphlets"

Anna Louise Strong, Modern Farming
Soviet Style. 10 cents.
Henry Hall, War in the Far East. 10 cents.
Donald Cameron, Chemical Warfare. 10
cents.
Grace NJ. Burnham, Work or Wages. 10
cents.
N. Sparks, The Struggle of the Marine
Workers. 20 cents.
The first five of series of International
Pamphlets have recently been published Taken
as a group they can be considered an impor-
tant task excellently accomplished. What
strikes one particularly is their reliability.
An important factor in this respect is the
length of the pamphlets-three are thirty
pages long, one forty, and one sixty. Several
times this amount of space could have been
devoted with justice to each subject. The re-
striction to the smaller space allotted has
made for an incisive and cogent presentation.
There is no roundabout subtlety of argument.
The argument comes straight out from the
shoulder and follows through with certain and
consistent impacts.
In the pamphlets brevity and conciseness
have not meant vulgarization of the subject
matter or sloganizing. The authors know
their material and have presented it in its es-
sential features. Simplicity has resulted not
from translating the factual material into
empty congratulations but from the presenta-
ton of the significant facts of the basic
material
Live Subjects.
The pamphlets deal with vital forces and
struggles-the collectivization of agriculture
in the Soviet Union (which is swinging one
hundred million of the earth's most backward
peasants into farming more modern than
America; the seizure of the Chinese Eastern
Railroad which crystallized in Manchuria, "the
attack which the imperalist powers are direct
ing against the Soviet Union; the key part
played by the chemical industry in the prep
aration for the next imperialist war and for
the attack on the Soviet Union; the challenge
of unemployment, which means starvation,
misery and degradation for the worker thrown
on the streets and more severe oppression and
exploitation for those still fortunate enough
to have job; the struggle of the marine
workers under the leadership of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union for higher wages,
the blacklist, against racial discrimination,
against the war danger and for the organiza-
ton of the working class for the revolutionary
overthrow of capitalism.
The authors have presented these struggles
against their appropriate background. Anna
Louise Strong points out the need for collec-
Invitation to break down the primitive agricul-
tural methods previously in use and to enable
agriculture to fulfill its very important part
in the Five Year Program. The present strug-
gle in Manchura is shown by Henry Hall to
be Oh the one hand an accentuation of the i'm
perialist rivalry which has fought since the
turn of the century to partition China and on
the other, part of the general imperialist
attack on the Soviet Union which has created
an armed camp in the western border states
poland, Roumania, Finland, etc. to carry on
the attack from that front The feverish in
tensity with which the imperialist powers are
furthering the development of the chemical in
dustry is one of the most significant features
of the preparations for the coming war. Don
aid Cameron's description Of the physiological
effects Of the gasses to be used in the next
war is a most compelling sketch of the hor-
rors that capitalist society is preparing for the
working class in the next war. "The certainty
Of unemployment" and its concurrent misery