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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-17

In the heart of the Urals (Wllic
Is new Socialist industrial CENTER,
This plant will be able to serve the
heavy machine industry in the vari-
GUS centers of the Urals and the
Soviet Union with pig iron and
partly finished steel.
The total investment in this plant
Is 7oo,O00,000 rubles $3.50, 100000.
This will include not only this i'm
mense steel plant, but also a large
coking plant, chemical plant and So
cialist city. Schools, technical in
stitutes, laboratories, communal kit
chens and 1aundries are part Of this
tremendous program-much of which
has already been completed.
Many were the obstacles that they
were confronted with, but through
the correct leadership of the Com
munist Party all the obstacles were
overcome and the plan completed.
Consider, for example, the fact that
90 per cent Of all workers employed
In building the plant we're former
peasants, never employed in indus
try, and in spite Of this they accom-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-17

bourgeois economics of the past two
hundred years has been in vain. The
bourgeoisie cannot understand its own
system which has reached maturity
has already entered the period of de-
cay.
But Ayres does not want even the
bourgeois economics of 200 years ago.
The bourgeoisie has during the past
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-17

rlst International, on the basis Ct
the international development of i'm
perialism in the past decade under
stands this crisis, and more, was able
to preiict it.
At the fifteenth Congress of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
which was held in December, 1927,
two years prior to the present crisis,
Comrade Stain summed up the an
alysis of the Communist Interna-
tional Of the historical period in
which capitalism then found itself.
Comrade stain stated:
"On the contrary, from the very
fact of sterilization, from the fact
that industry develops, from the
fact that trade increases, from the
fact that technical progress and
industrial possibilities increase
while at the same time the world
market, the limits of that market
and the spheres of influence of
various imperialist groups remain
more or less stable, arises the most
profound and sharpest crisis Of
world capitalism, pregnant with
new wars and menacing the exist
ence Of any form of sterilization.
From partial sterilization devel-
ops an intensive crisis within the
capitalist system, the developing
crisis skaters stabilization-such is
the dialectic of capitalist develop
ment at the present historical mo-
ment."
This is the MARKHAM analysis of the
crisis that the capitalist class finds
only maze which their statistics
make no sense of. This is the an
alysis by the proletariat OF capital
ism in the present period. Through
Marx the proletariat took the genius
that YVES contained in the writings
Of the fathers Of political economy.
The utionary proletariat led by
the Communist Party has, out G: the
magnifit enG heritage left it by Marx
forged ole Of its mightiest weapons
for its ettack on the system OF i'm
perialist exploitation.
The bankruptcy Of the capitalist
system is reflected in the bankruptcy
of its "theoreticians." The bankruptcy
of its "theoreticians" of the bour-
geoisie is admitted and revealed in
the demand of one Of its chief pro-
phets, Ayres, that the capitalist class
Of the United States needs econo-
miss 200 years Old
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-17
The Blast Furnaces
Of Magnitogorsk
Begin to Roar

plished this Stupendous task. The
sabotagers also played their role OF
destruction in the construction of the
plant by distorting the plans so that
the plant would only have a produc-
i tive capacity of only 100000 tons
In the construction of the water
power dam, which is five-eighths of g
mile long over the Ural River and
will supply electric power for the
plants, socialist city and the sur
rounding territory, they constructed
it two months ahead Of the time
set by American engineers. Shock
brigades, socialist competition, COL
lective initiative. is the answer to the
bosses who blabber that under
Soviet State, under Socialism, there
can be no incentive or initiative.
FROM the Urals and from Kuznets
(75O miles away on new railroad
built under the leadership Of Bill
Shatoff) will come the coal that vii!
be fused with the iron ore of Man
etogorsk to turn out steel for the
production of machines. tractors and
other machinery necessary for the
Socialist industrialization of the u.
S. S. R. A total of 100000 tons of
coal will be needed yearly for the
steel production in Magnetogorsk.
To keep up with the production fig
ures a trainload of 10 cars 40 tons
capacity EACH will leave the Mag
netogorsk iron range for the blast
furnaces every 8 minutes.
The whole section of the Urals,
which until recently was uninhabi-
tated. will feel the effects of the in
disqualification of EIagnetogorSk
Street cars and buses will connect
the plant with the Socialist City and
the various other institutions being
constructed. An electrified railroad
with a radius of SO kilometers is be-
ing constructed that will tie up the
whole section with the developments
in Magnetogorsk.
In order to overcome the dust and
poison gases that en1anate from the
steel plant forest is being planted
between the plant and the Socialist
City, in order to make the homes
livable. Capitalism has no such
as the health of the work
ers in industry.
In spite of all obstacles the work
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What is Ayres' conclusion from his
analysis and from the analysis and
data that the bourgeois has so pa
tiently piled up. What the country
needs now is some well-trained econ
omists who are 200 years old" This
is the intellectual bankruptcy of
bourgeois economics. This is the open
admission that the development of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-17

century clawed its way, has Wriggled
and squirmed in frenzied endeavor
to escape just that economics whose
foundation was laid by the fathers
of political economy. They tried to
transform bourgeois economics from
an objective science into subjective
searching of the soul of the shop
keeper, of the soul of the higgler and
peddler. This was marginal utility,
But this theoretical way out left them
nowhere-the advent of imperialism,
Of the day in the sun of United States
finance capital had as much rela-
ton to marginal utility as TO palm
istry or Christian Science.
They have given up the ghost. They
have hidden farewell to theory. They
started out again with institutional
economics under the leadership of
Veblen and ended up collecting fig
ureS and drawing charts. This is
the end of bourgeois economics-us-
ing adding machines and calculating
machines, chart paper and India ink.
They don't want their economics
OF 200 years ago. And why not? Be-
cause Marx took up economics, drain
ed it of every bit of real insight these
fathers of bourgeois economics had
been able to gather am 81 the basis
OF the further develo. i.lent of the
capitalist system since their time laid
bare the very soul of capitalist ex-
ploitation and drew the historically
logical conclusions. TO hide this ex-
ploitation, to cover up the historical
role in the proletariat in cleaning out
this system of exploitation the econ
oD1ists of the bourgeoisie fled to mar
ginal utility, to institutional econ
omics and to statistics.
While the bourgeois has fled from
its heritage of theory of a century
and two centuries ago this heritage
fell to the class that is destined to
sweep out this bourgeoiSie-the pro-
letariat. 1t is only in the ranks of
the rroletariat that that heritage has
been evaluted for the analysis of the
imperialist era of capitalism. The
proletariat has had need OF the econ
omics of 200 years ago and through
Marx has used them. The bourgeoisie
calls for a return of this two CEN
fury old analysis of the foundations
OF capitalism, The proletariat has
gone forward from this foundation
dlssecting every stage in the further
development of capitalism-an alyzing
the growth of capitalism into imper-
ialism and clearly showing the path
OF the downfall of capitalism.
This bourgeoisie harks back two
centuries because 1t has not been
able to understand this greatest Of
all crises that capitalism has yet
known in its history. The proletariat
through its world party, the Con1mu-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-17
BY RICHARD B. MOORE
Head of the National Negro De-
partment, I.L.D.)

Head of the National Negro De-
partment, I.L.D.)
Praise be for the LID" With
this spontaneous cry of Joy, mil
lions of own-trodden Negroes on
The Black Belt of the South hailed
the united, militant, mass struggle
of the International Labor Defense
to save the lives of the nine Scots
boro boys. Smarting under the
bloody yoke of the white, slave
driving, lynch-oppressors, these Bit
terly exploited and prosecuted black
toilerS inStinctively knew this move
ment of white and Negro workers,
rising for united fight against this
ruling class lynch frame-up, to be
theirs.
Over the grapevine" telegraph,
through fields and shops and
streets and houses, the struggle of
the LID. was heralded with light
ming speed. Even in the churches
where the religious, slave-supersti-
tons of the hypocrital lynch-mast-
ers weight heavily upon them, the
Negroes burst forth with new
spirituals, singing not of the slave
drivers Jesus, but of the LID. as
their savior"
In such forms even among the
most backward, their spirit of ris-
ing revolt flared forth in ready res
ponse. In the I. l.. D. and other
militant working class organiza-
tons, the Negro masses recognized
at once their allies and their lead
ership for the fight against the I'M
bearable slavery, increasing starva-
ton, and savage terror of the land
lord-boss system of racial and ma
tional oppression.
Equally significant is the militant
mass response of the white workers
to the Scottsboro campaign. For
the first time do we see millions
OF white workers in the United
States and throughout the world
battling in the forefront OF the
struggle In defense of the Negroes,
demonstrating In the face of brutal
police terror, giving of their last
pennies, fighting side by side with
their Negro class brothers, taking
their stand squarely against the
capitalist Jim-Crow lynch system,
for equal rights and self-determin-
alton for the doubly oppressed Ne
gro toilers.
This effective solidarity and fight
of the white workers against the
Scottsboro rape" frame-up, despite
the vicious and lying white ruling
class howl for the protection of
white womanhood," is of the most
tremendous Importance. 1t shows
that under the pressure of the in
creasing exploitation, misery. and
terror Of the deepening capitalist
crisis, the white workers and poor
farmers are realizing in life and
deed that unity and common strug-
gle with their Negro fellow-toilers
is the only hope for the protection
and emancipation Of the entire
working class.
No less significant is the savage
offensive Of the white ruling class
terrorists and their fascist and re-
formist agents against the united
mass defense movement led by the
LID. The vicious attacks upon the
International Labor Defense, the
Communist Party, the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights and
other proletraian organizations;
their furious drive to split and
smash the united front; the violent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-17
Significance of Scottsboro

attempts Of the police thugs and
fascist gangs to break up protest
meetings and demonstrations thru
out the United States and in other
countries; the terror at Camp Hill,
Birmingham, Chicago, Barberton,
and elsewhere against the Negro
toilers-all prove that the imperial
list lynchers realize only too well
that this working class mass strug-
gle is the only force which can free
the Scottsboro boys and smash
their savage lynch system
The treachery of the Negro mis-
leaders of the N.A.A.C.P., Urban
League, UNA, etc, is of the great
est political significance. The mass
struggle Ct the lid forced these
reformist master class agents into
the open, to expose their true class
role as the best servants of the
white ruling-class lynchers and the
worst enemies Of the Negro masses.
The betrayal of the Scottsboro boys
by the NAACP top leaders through
the Khan lawyer Roddy who urged
the boys to plead guilty, aided the
lynch court, and was the first to
launch the attack of the blood
thirsty slave-masters upon the IL.
D. and the united front mass move
ment, has been followed by ever
more vile betrayals.
VIM. Pickens appeared at first TO
support the LID. only the better
to betray the Negro people. Speak
ing at Chattanooga, Pickens open
ly melted the southern lynch ter
rorists against 'the Communists
sapping through the densely ignor-
ant masses of the Negro popula-
ton" The very lynch press which
howled for the blood of the Scots
boro boys praised him for this
warning" The Camp Hill mas
sacre which followed when Ralph
Gray and four other share-crop-
pers were murdered by police
mob and scores arrested, and the
murderous terror let loose in Bir-
ningham, shows how effective was
this orninous warning"
The entire lineup of imperiahst
lynch terrorists and their white and
Negro lackeys must be met by reso-
lutte struggle and merciless expos
ure. The united front must be
built from below, winning still
broader masses of white and Negro
toilers and all who are ready to
join in the struggle. The Scots
boro campaign must be intensified
and broadened. 1t must be linked
up with the defense of the a Negro
and white miners of Harlan now
facing another capitalist death
frame-up, with the struggle to free
Mooney, with the local defense
struggles against the rising persec-
ution of the Negro masses, with the
fight to free Yokinen and against
deportation of foreign born work
ers, with the campaign for the lib
Grafton of all the victims of boss
terror.
The murder of the Scottsboro
boys has been halted thus far by
the mass pressure of the workers,
white and black. But still more
powerful fight is necessary to force
their release from the clutches of
the imperialist lynchers, and this
depends upon persistent organiza-
ton. The struggle to save the lives
of the nine Scottsboro boys is of
the greatest moment to the entire
working class. Workers of al races
and nationalitiesl Rally to the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-17
The Decisive Year.
Socialist Building
Speeds Ahead
Ely A. A. HELLER

Notes.-The following is an extrac'
from the pamphlet, 1.-THE Decisive
Year in the Soviet Union" pubIishe>
by the Friends of the Soviet Unio.
The author has spen many years il
the U. S. S. r., studying conditions
there. The pamphlet may be obtain
ed from the F.S.U., 80 E. 18th ST.,
Room 221, New York City. The great
socialist construction that Heller
describes will be studied at first
hand by the American Workers De-
legation that will leave this month
to attend the celebration of the 14th
anniversary of the Russian ReyoIu-
ton. This delegation is now being
organized by the Friends of the
Soviet Union.
The year 1881 is the third year OF
the Five-Y Year Plan, called the Deci-
siVe Year. This year is to prove whe-
ther the Five-Year Plan is going
through as anticipated or whether
through foreign or domestic COM
plications its fulfillment will be re-
tarded.
Ten years passed since my first
visit to Soviet Russia-but a brief
space Of time in human history. In
the capitalist world these ten years
have brought the masses greater
misery than they knew in 1921 -
more unemployment, severe wage
reductions, harder labor thru speed
ups and naturalization schemes,
general lowering of the standard of
living. Nor has the millennium ar
rived in the Soviet Union Commun-
ism is not yet established there; but
the amount of preparatory work
accomplished in these ten years to-
wards the establishment, of a So
cialist society, the depth and strength
Of the foundations already laid is
nothing less than heroic. If John
Reed we're alive, he would write an
other book: Ten Years T h at
Changed the Face of the Earth;
for that is exactly what the Bolshe-
viks achieved in these ten years
literally changed the face of Old
Russia, as eventually they will
change the face of the world.
AS I write this I see in my mind
the Russia of 1921 and compare it
with the Soviet Union of today. Then
idle factories, hosts of unemployed,
broken down transport, flooded
mines, silent oil wells, and what was
most painful-the wretched villages
with strip of land cultivated here
and there, but miles and miles of
waste land. unused, neglected, over
grown with brush and wild grass.
Now-what changel Let me take
you around with me, on my all too
brief journey through the Soviet
Union, and let us together examine
this change.
A glance at Moscow. First of May,
International Labor Day. The great
est demonstration of workers solid
arity the world has ever seen. A
genuine holiday spirit pervades Mos
COW, bright, warm sunshine, smiling
SKIES the sound of music everywhere.
The marching hosts pass through the
Red Square, in front of Lenin's
mausoleurn, at first regiment after
regiment of Red Army men, then the
workers of Moscow, young and old,
men and women, over million
strong. They are greeted by Soviet
leaders, by delegates from distant
lands. From early morning till late
in the day the paraders file by; all
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-17
INNOCENT, SERVED 20 YEARS:

CHESTER, ILL.,, Oct. 3.-Jesse Lucas
left prison a few days ago after serv-
ing 90 years Of life sentence for a
crime which another mans confess
sion now shows Lucas did not COM
NIT. He was convicted in the same
kind of a court they use on arrested
strikers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-17

ers in the Soviet Union forge forth
building their own Socialist State.
The achievements of the Soviet Union
must be popularized among the
American working class-in the coun-
try of plenty (starvation). The
achievements of Magnetogorsk must
become a real point of agitation
among the steel and metal workers
Of this country who bear a great
portion of the brunt Of the present
crisis and who are confronted with
one wage-cut after another.
J. L. p.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-09
The City
in Brief
SATURDAY EVENTS

SATURDAY EVENTS
Beta Theta Pi, luncheon, Board of
Sigma Alpha Epsilon. luncheon. Cham
Der of Commerce.
Harry E. Davis, Cleveland civil
service commissioner, will speak at
the Negro Masonic temple, 354 In
diana avenue, tonight on Some
Historical Aspects of Prince Hall
Masonry" The lecture is under the
auspices of the Negro Scottish Rite
Masons.
New officers of the University of
Wisconsin Alumni Club are: S. A.
Bishop, president; Miss Mary
Margaret Patrick, vice-president;
Miss Joyce Jackson, secretary, and
William w. Garstang, treasurer.
Annual fall outing of the Marion
County Bankers Association will be
at Clifty Falls State Park inn near
Madison, Saturday and Sunday.
Resolution supporting action of
the American Legion national con-
vention demanding a referendum
on prohibition was adopted by the
Robert E. Remington post, No. "a,
Of the legion here.
DIR. J. F. Spaunhurst, Indianapolis,
has been named Indiana chairman
of the department of education of
the American Electronic Research
Association.
Selection of indianapolis for the
annual convention Of the American
Society of Certified Public Account
ants, Oct. to 8, 1882, was an
nounced today by the Indianapolis
convention bureau. One thousand
delegates will attend the meeting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-09

10 shaEes IdnIs. F.vE. 5 81. psd. ssss a q
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-09
LIGHT DEMAND
SENDS PORKER
PRICES LOWER
Choice Light Steers Show
Strength; Other Cattle
Glasses Dull.

Heavy receipts, coupled with ordi-
nary demand, combined to send
hogs down 10 to 20 cents this morn
ing at the Union StockyardS. The
bulk, $50 to 300 pounds, sold for
s5.25 to $3.50; early top holding at
$3.50. Receipts were estimated at
5000; holdovers 615.
In the cattle market choice light
steers were strong, two loads SELL
ing at $1025. Other classes were
extremely dull. Receipts were 500.
Vealers held unchanged at SO down.
Calf receipts numbered 500.
Lambs were fully steady, the bulk
selling at $6 to 81. Receipts were
300.
Chicago hog receipts were 10000
including 400 direct. Holdovers were
5000. Scattered early sales were
steady to 10 cents lower than
Thursdays average; most of the de-
cline centering on lighter weights.
Weights of 200 to $50 pounds
brought $3.50 to $50; best heavies
to $3.50 and above. Cattle receipts
were 5000; calves TOO and steady.
Sheep receipts $4,000; market
steady.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-09
MARRIAGE Licenses

Roy James Taylor. "a. INDIANAPOLIS
railroad worker. and Garnet Johnson. 10,
of 2126 Prospect street.
Luther A. Gregory. 20. of r. r. z. Box
28e. butcher, and Jewel Griffin. 10. of 2053
South Pennsylvania street. housekeeper.
Virgil Lee Good. %. of Mars Hill. pine
litter, and Ada Marie Roach. l8. OF SITS
Broadway. housekeeper.
Charles Banciu. rs. of 523 West Market
street. laborer. and Pauline Parven, II. of
125 South California street. meat COM
pany employe.
Harold Ross. "a. of 2i7 west Forty
fourth street. editorial work and Louise
Moon. 10. of 2425 North Alabama street.
Stenographer.
Blanchard C. Harris. IS. of 1898 College
avenue. service station supervisor, and
Juanita NJ. Brown. 90. of 1884 West Thir-
Charles F. Lesser. ii. Of 1881 South Bel
mont avenue. city fire department employee
and Erma Fugate. 81. Indianapolis. beauty
shoD operator.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-09
RAIL
RATE INCREASE
ON LIMESTONE
Hoosiers Go Before Com
mission to Fight Proposed
Price Boost.
By United Press


WASHINGTON, oct. PRO
posal of the Chicago indianapolis
& Louisville Railroad to increase
rates on dressed lime stone from the
Bedford Bloomington district of In
diana was opposed today before the
interstate commerce commission.
R. B. CoapStick, traffic manager
of the Indiana chamber of COM
merce, argued that a spread in the
rates between rough and cut stone
was prejudicial, because it would
disturb a reasonable rate basis al
ready existing.
The Monon's attempt to institute
rate of 161s cents per 100 pounds
on rough limestone and 20l5 cents
per 100 pounds on dressed stone
was protested by Coapstick's or
ganization when the rate was pub
liShed last spring and the commits
sion suspended the new rate until
Nov. 10 pending an investigation
which brought today's arguments.
Commissioners Aitchison, Tate
and Porter heard the case, assisted
by Harry K. Cuthberton of the In
diana public srevice commission.