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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-24
BY JOSEPH PASS.

When eleven years ago this month,
John Reed, young American reVolu-
ZIONIST and writer died in Moscow 1t
was the sharp turning point in the
life of al cultural workers. Bone
u1ianisrn was still the predominant
mode for writer's and artists who "re-
bclied" against capitalist society de-
manding and paying for that art
istic commodity which expressed only
the theology of the ruling class The
culturist il he had any CUTS in him
CAPITALISM called it idiosyncracy-
would starve, live in garnet and get
drunk. AS a defense mechanism 1t
vas excellent A good escape from
reality. The writer ard artist with
drew from the world and climbed up
the rickaty stairs to his ivory tower,
Two things usually happened to him
after that Either he climbed down
those steps and became part and
parcel OF capitalism or if remaining
up there his work became peices OF
literary tid-bits.
This was the period which John
Reed, Just out Of Harvard, found
when he arrived in 1910 in New York.
He lies buried in the Kremlin. a
revolutionary hero! To millions OF
workers he is Bolshevik fighter who
rave to the first socialist republic his
great courage, performing heroic
deeds. He came from across the seas
during the Kerensky regime and
threw himself into the battle for the
Soyiets. From the moment when
Lenin at the head of the Presidium,
made his first public appearance on
November Q, 1917, lending tone to
the All-Russian Congress Of Soviets
With his opening statement, we shall
now proceed to construct the social
ist order John Reed never Wavered
IA his revolutionary discipline. In
sussia he fought with the Red Army
syittfg his memorable revolutionary
iaflets and articles which created
ich havoc In the Allied ranks. He
avelled UP and down the land with
Red Army. He organized day
ID night Whatever capacity the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-24

which was called to take place on
Southsea Common, on the outskirts
of Portsmouth. The men we're to
proceed to the meeting place secretly
and in groups in order to take the
naval authorities by surprise. Un-
fortunately, the movement was be-
trayed by one, Yexley, who, although
an ex-service man, had posed as a
friend of the sailors and who had
edited monthly journal for the sail
ors called 1.-THE Fleet"
Yexley rushed from Portsmouth to
London, where he sent secret re-
port on the situation to every mem
Der Of the War Cabinet and copy
to the king himself. In his report,
Yexley wrote: e. at the present
moment. the lower deck is one great
combrstib,e mass. Should an explo-
sive point be touched. the whole navy
will burst into flames
The government, thus forewarned,
succeeded In preventing open soli-
darity sction with the police by
carrying out dual policy OF repres-
sions and granting Of minor conces-
sions
Mass Movement Spreads.
When later, however, with the
coming of the armistice, the govern
ment still showed no signs of carry
ing out its promises to increase the
pay, tremendous mass movement
swept throughout the fleet. Meet
ings were held on board all ships,
ship committees elected, port dele
gate conferences called for, and
finally, on January 10, 1919, ma
tional interpret conference was held
in Ic'd.n, attended by cvc~ q rr,-
dred delegates from the fleet TO
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-24
Struggle of British Sailors
Recalls Long Suffering

IL would be great mistake tc
view the recent sensational outbreak
OF the English sailors as a purely
spontaneous movement.
Although this is the first time
since the famous mutiny at the More
and Spithead in 1897 that the sail
ors have gone to the length of taking
strike" action ON mass scale the
English sailors have a number OF
revolutionary traditions and have
openly fought the Admiralty on a
number OF occasions.
The entry into the navy during the
period of the great war, of many
thousands of workers, had the effect
OF introducing revolutionary Socialist
ideas amongst the regular sailors who
were serving for l2-year, and in
many cases 22-year service periods.
The workers in the armed forces dur
ing the war were the only section of
the working class who did not re-
ceive increased wages, despite the
fact that the cost of living had
scared tremendously.
Time and time again, despite the
fact that the trade union leaders had
gone over completely to the side of
the government and strove to pre-
vent the workers from taking action,
they took strike action to secure
wage increases. The armed forces,
however, were, persuaded to continue
at their existing rates of pay by the
definite promises made to them that
the government would reward them
generously for their patriotic sacri-
fices by granting big increases in pay,
ETC., when once the war was finished.
Growing Unrest.
Towards the end of the war, how
ever, the loyal cooperation of the
sailors reached the straining point.
The weary feeling and discomfort re-
sulting from the war, had accumul-
4otCo w q lASi QC6LCSs 11lG IIlcll
had been influenced in a revolution
airy direction by the news of the Rus
sian Revolution, and later by the
mutiny of the German navy in Kiel
harbor, news Of which had leaked
through to the ships despite the
heavy press censorship. The sailors.
having the examples before them of
the victorious strike movements
which iii all cases brought wage in
creases, were beginning to realize
thst only by the adoption of similar
action could they secure improved
conditions themselves.
Thus when, few months before
the armistice was signed in Novem-
Der, 1918, the police force went on
strike, demanding increased pay, the
eight-hour day and recognition of
their trade union, it had a tremen-
dous effect upon the sailors, who
passed resolutions calling upon the
leaders of their Lower Deck Benefit
Societies to organize joint strike &C
tions with the police. Secret prep
arations were made for doing this
and the signal for the commence
ment of the strike was to be given
at monster mass demonstration
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class movement, the Passaic strike
the Colorado miners battles, in Mex
leo with revolutionary army, in the
trenches in Europe, he learned and
discarded the so-called artists attit-
ude towards everyday life. And John
Reed said to himself. 81 am a revo-
lutionary writer. l am a revolution
list. The workers life is my life. I
am noY part of the struggle. On the
picket line. In Jail. On the barri-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-24
Style in the Work

to tradition and to the beliefs of
our forefathers. Revolutionary zeal is
a nfe-saving force which stimulates
thought, spurs on to action, throws
the outworn into the limbo of for
gotten things, and opens the portals
of the future. Without such zeal,
there can be no advance. But it has
drawback, seeing that in practice
it tends to vent itself in revolution
airy talk unless. it is intimately COM
bined with level-headness and bust
ness-like action irnbued with the
American spirit. There is no lack of
example of the kind Of degeneration
referred to above. Who has not had
experience OF the fatal disease of
revolutionary" planning, of "revolu-
tionary'' projects which are concocted
in the blind belief that a decree can
change everything, can bring order
out Of chaos? Erenburg, in his tale
U5komchel (The Fully-Fledged Com
munist), gives us an admirable por-
trait of bolshevik overtaken by this
kind of sickness. The hero has set
himself to produce the ideal man. He
is absorbed in his work. Unfor-
tunately, the creature is complete
failure. The story is, of course, an
extravaganza; nevertheless it is a
very shrewd take off. But no one has
ridiculed this unwholeSome faith in
paper DEGREES and pla-,s more effec-
lively than Lenin. He stimatizes it
as communist vanity" At the Sec
ond All-Russian Congress of the sec
tons for political education, held in
1921, Lenin said:
The man who is still member
of the Communist Party because
he has not yet been expelled from
the Party!) and who imagines he
can succeed in any task he puts
his hand to simply by drawing up
communist DEGREES is suffering
from communist vanity. Works,
Russian ed. vol. XVIII, part I,
PIP. 3S4-3S5).
Lenin was in the habit of coun-
tering revolutionary phrase-monger-
ing by imposing common, everyday
tasks, thereby emphasizing the fact
thE revolutionary fantasy is OPP
posed to the whole spirit and prac-
tice Of Leninism We read in The
Great Initiative:
Fewer high-falutin phrases. and
more simple, everyday deeds
Less political chatter, and more
attention to the plain but living
facts of communist construction.
Works, Russian ed. vol XVI,
PIP. 256 and 247).
The best antidote to revolutionary
fantasy is practical work imbued with
the American spirit Such business
like, practical endeavor is an I'M
quenchable force, one which recogn-
ICES no obstacles, one which, by sheer
comon sense, thrusts aside every
thing which might impede progress,
one which invariably carries thing
once embarked upon to completion
(even though the affair may seem a
puny one), one without which any
genuine work of construction is i'm
possible. But the practical, business
like American spirit is liable to de-
generate into narrow minded, I'M
principled commercialism. II it be not
allied with revolutionary zeal. Who
does not know of cases where mar
minded and unprincipled COM
mercialism has led so-called boil
shevik into devious ways ininlical to
the revolutionary cause? Pllnysk
describes such types in his story.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-24
The 5Oth Birthday of
Comrade O.W. K,tusinen

Z Comrade Kuusinen, who in his
brochure 1.-THE Revolution in Fin
land" laid the theoretical foundation
of the Finnish Communist movement,
now converted theory into fact. In
spite Of the danger he ran of being
shot, Comrade Kuusinen took up
illegal work in Finland, where nc
worked under the conditions of fear
full terror from May, 1919, to May,
1920, and it was only thanks to his
brave attitude that he twice sue
ceeded in escaping from the clutches
Of the Finnish executioners. During
his illegal stay in Finland Comrade
Kuusinen laid the foundation of
legal revolutiona.y mass party which
works under the leadership of the
illegal Communist Party. Practical
experience in organizational work in
Finland in connecting legal with
illegal work and the study of Len
inism rendered it possible for Com
rade kuusiuen to draw up the theses
on organizational structure and the
tasks of the Communist Parties for
the 3rd Congress of the Comintern.
With regard to these theses Comrade
Lenin wrote to Comrade Kuusinen
on June 10, 1921:
81 have read your article three
chapt2-s) and the theses with great
pleasure"
At the same time Comrade Lenin,
in another letter, insisted that Com
rsde Kuusinen should deliver the re-
port on the organization question at
the III Congress, and declared in this
connection:
he that is Kuusinen) knows
something and thinks (which is
something rare among revolution
aries)."
At the " Congress Comrade Lenin
declared in regard to these theses:
1.-THE resolution is excellent, but
it is practically Russian through
and through; everything is adapted
to Russian conditions"
Cornrade Kuusinen paid good heed
to this remark Of Comrade Lenin
and in his further work in the Com
intern took great pains to translate
Rclshevist tactics "cut of the Rus
sian language" into the language of
the Section of the Comintern in
question and to pay due regard to all
the peculairities Of local nature.
Comrade Kuusinen, 10 whom Len
inism has become part of his very
being, has fought as q real BolSheyik
in the Comintern against all devia-
tons from the general line of tbs
Comintern. He fought against Left"
Trotskyism and Ruth Fischerism; he
fought at the VI World Congress
against the Right opportunist theory
of determination. At the 10th Plenum
Of the E.C.C.I. he fought against the
half and half criticism of capitalist
naturalization. But at the same time
he strove in the everyday work of the
Comintern and in these fields which
he specially loves national and
colonial problems), to remain true
to Lenin's testament, to put ques-
tons concretely and always to apply
an elastic, exceedingly Well-thought
out tactic to these questions.
We would only express the wish
that this professional revolutionary.
who at his responsible post in the
Comintern has always held aloft the
banner of Leninisn, may still be able
for many years to fight for this ban
ner until the victor. Of the world
revolution.
Wilhelm PiecE. J. BrstkovsA, o.
Piatnitzky, Manner, p. Furubotin,
Bella Kun, J. Sirola, ID. Manuilsky'
Sen Katayama. c. A. Hathaway,
Eolarov. Furini, Knorin, Okano,
Chemodanoy.
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Communist International Comrade
Kuusiren fought against those who
we're OF the opinion that it was still
too early to declare the present
Communist Conference Congress.
He said:
II believe that the strength of
this new International will be equal
TO the power of the revolutionary
p~olctariat and not Of this little
gathering"
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REAKING UP A DEMONSTRATION or WORKERS. IN LONDON

4 tremendous wave of protest
demonstrations is sweeping over
Great Britain as a result of the
recent wage cuts and reduction
in unemployment benefit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-24

The Needy Year Here we make
acqus rnce with bolsheviks who are
full of good will and practical en-
deavor, who function energetically,
but who have no vision, who have no
notion of what is seemly to the &C.
casion, who cannot foresee whittier
their actions will lead, ED who,
consequently, stray from the revolu-
tionary path. No one has ridiculed
this disease of commercialism more
bitingly than has Lenin. He stig-
matizes 1t as marrow practicalism,"
as "brainless commercialism." He
was wont to contrast it with living,
revolutionary work; he would en-
phasize the need for revolutionary
vision In all the domains of our
everyday work; and would lay ~es-
pecial stress upon the point that
commercialism is as opposed to the
true spirit of Leninism as is revolu-
tionary fantasy.
A combination OF revolutionary zeal
with the practical spirit constitutes
the essence of Leninsm as mani
tested In Party and in public work.
Such union of qualities is the
only one capable Of giving us the
perfect type of Lenininst worker,
and capable Of setting the standard
for the feminist style in our work.
------
Reprinted from Stains hook
on Leninism, published by the In
ternationaI Publishers. We are re-
printing this section Of his book
In connection with the point raised
by our recent plenum calling for a
decisive change in our methods of
work.
Evening star., 1931-12-08

The song is produced by passing the
file of one wing over projecting
vein of the hind wing We do know
that the counting swain walks round
and round the young dansel and
SerenadeS her with a soulful ditty which
she understands.
The mourning cloaks are so named
because of their purplish black wings
The outer margins are cream colored.
They must be in second mourning.
These butterflies are the first to be
seen In the early Spring They fly
leisurely about near the woods or fields.
The mother seeks the leaves of the
willow or poplar just before they are
fully opened. She places her eggs in
clusters of 20 or more, encirCling the
tWigS. In order to keep her body up
her wings are OutSpread and moving
just enough to support her as she moves
around the tWig
Two weeks later small black cater
pillars creep from a wee hole they
have made in the end of the shell
What family of Colored children
They get along nicely and arrange
themselves side by side in row around
the edge OF the leaf heads pointing
outward They nibble daintily at the
surface Of the leaf and later, when the
youngsters move on, nothing is left
Of the leaf but a network of veins.
Marching like little orphans, they
go from leaf to leaf AS they march
they weave silk carpet on which
to walk At one week old they are
mighty plump and their infant clothes
becoming too snug these wise little
children fast for a day. AS they stand
quite still on their rugs their garments
split open down the back and the
youngsters crawl out They are now
clothed in loosely fitting garments
They eat greedily and have to cast
off several suits, which they leave hang
ing about on twigs Such untidy
children
The caterpillars leave a carpet web
bing over the trees. They creep down
the trunk Of a tree and weave a loose
hammock Of silk, into which they hook
then claw feet, hanging with the body
downward and the head up Several
hours later the skin splits behind the
head along the back and opens. The
loose skin hangs in folds and forms
a cover over the body. Here in this
mummy case he remains
tCopyright, 1917
Evening star., 1931-12-08
Outdoor Costumes for Children
BY MARY MARSHALL.

cuffs, collar and the brim of the poke
bonnet
To make this trimming you will need
white angora wool, which you can buy
in a ball at any art needleWork depart
ment. Also a bone crochet hook. The
edges of the collar, cuffs and bonnet
brim should be marked at intervals of
about one-half inch apart and one-third
of an inch from the edge. Pierce these
points with Stiletto or the point of
your scissors and then proceed to cro-
chet scalloped edge with the angora
yarn. To do this you draw a crochet
stitch through one of the punctureS.
Then crochet three double crochet
stitches in the same hole In another
hole make one single crochet; then Gro
chet three double stitches into the next
hole, until you have gone round the
cuff or collar or bonnet brim.
If you are a good practical home
dreSsmaker you can make the set your
self with the aid of paper pattern, or
you might buy plain coat, bonnet and
Logging suit and add the angora edge.
Evening star., 1931-12-08

reports and dictation attended to after
ward. All Of these things require q
generous, self-Sacriflcing type of stenog-
rapher, and since, naturally, she wants
her leisure, her late afternoon work is
done in the shortest possible time for
good work
Her shorthand has made her quick
and alert, and while she does not hurry
all day her work comes in fits and
buncheS,' and these vicissitudes have
made her nervouS and always on the
Jump, habtt acquired by shorthand
doing In the shortest possible time that
which ordinarily requires longer time to
perform.
We all laugh at the gum-cheWing,
nan-hllng stnographer and of the for
mer no explanation can be made Prob
ably other lines Of work include Just
as many. But whenever I see a girl
filing her nails in an office I always
think, Probably she hadn't time to do
that last night Our dormant hours
In office ara Just as nerve-racking as
the hurried hours, because we then
think OF all the things we could do
II the time were our own. Perhaps
this girl read a good book last night in
her precious leisure, and reads too long.
For we become nervous at home as well
as at thf Office, and by habit. play by
the CLOCK as well as work by it, and
we must watch our sleep. Too little
sleep tells on a stenographer's work.
We believe the good women greatly
outnumbet the bad, because for obvious
reasons the philandering Stenographer
seldom remains long in an Office, and
a man, te be successful, must attend
strictly to the building up Of his busi-
ness and The handling of it thereafter
acquires tle habit of looking upon her
boss as inperSonally as she does upon
his Office 1xtures, his cash drawer, pay
roll; they are objects to her vision and
she has ben in contact with them so
long with the knowledge they do not
belong to her that this impersonality
becomes second nature to her"
Evening star., 1931-12-08

hand means. Shorthand-writing in
the shortest possible time that which
requires a longer time to write. A good
stenographer must have a good educa-
tion, so it may be assumed that she
has a good head and is fairly intel
leCtual.
Also to succeed, she must make her
self valuable in other ways than by
merely taking diCtation and TRANSCRIPT
ing her notes. She must be willing and
ready to do any number Of small things
which will save busy man time.
His desk must be in order; his more
important papers arranged on top. His
fountain pen must be clean and filled
for hurriedly signing checks and pen
ellis must be sharpened. The Office boy
has gone, so 1t is the stenographer who
sees to these little things. Also, occa-
sionally, small shopping must be at
tended to.
The stenographer's hours are un-
usual, for as busy man rises, his in
terests often include enterprises outside
OF his own business, which mean board
and committee meetings to attend, and
Evening star., 1931-12-08
BEDTIME STORIES By
"
By Thornton
". Burgess.

you. All reckon we-uns better be mov-
ing away from here"
Still Unc' Billy fingered, looking
longngly toward that hen house. He
couldn't see it, for it was hidden by
the Black Shadows; but he knew just
where it was. The longer he fingered
and the more he looked the greater be-
came the temptation. He wished that
he had not brought Runty along this
night. Had he been alone he would
not have heSitated. He would have
given no heed to common sense at all
He thought of the inside of that hen
house, as he had seen it more than
once: the percheS with the rows of
sleeping hens and the nesting boxes,
one row above another. Very likely
there would be no eggs in them until
morning yet there might be some that
Farmer Browns Boy had overlooked or
that had been laid since he had col
lected the eggs that day.
Common sense still warned him to
go away and forget all about eggs, but
temptation urged him to visit that hen
house After all, there was little dan
ger. If Bowser the Hound and Flip the
Terrier were not roaming about there
would be none. BY daylight he would
be safely back in the Green Forest.
Suddenly ne made up his MIND.
AS All done tell yo' befo' that is no
place fo a Ill PoSsum like you" said
he. "Yo stay right here until All come
back. All am gwine to run over there
and just look around. Yo' wait 70 me
here and don yo' go away. Now yo'
mind what All say"
Runty said nothing, but he looked
disappointed and detected. Once more
Unc' Billy warned him to remain right
there. Then he made his way to the
old stone wall along one side Of the
Old Orchard BY followingf that he
would get very near the hen house
without going out where he would be
likely to be seen by a prowling enemy
Also, he would have the old wall in
which to hide in case Of safety Runty
watched him start. Then what do you
think he did? He started after him
Yes, sir he did. But he took care that
UnC' Billy shouldn't suspect it.
Evening star., 1931-12-08
2. After n Gold Starts

product "a Cough Drop actually
medicated with ingredients of Vicks
VapoRub.)
This gives you full 24-hour treatment
and without the risks of too much inter-
nal dosing" which so often upsets the
digestion especially of children-and
lowers body strength at time when
Nature most needs it to resist disease.
Don't "dose" colds except on your
doctors advice.
Evening star., 1931-12-08
"BONERS''
Humorous Tid-Bits From
School Papers.

RAMESES LEFT MUMMIES OF
| HIMSELF ALL OVER EGYPT.
The finest animals on earth are
ground mice.
Three birds that have black feathers
are the crow, raven and jailbird.
Watered stock is COWS put out to pas
ture beside running stream.
Space between the bones is filled with
muctlage.
1t is the duty Of the Governor to beg
all pardonS and fill all the seats in the
House.
A spinal column is a collection of
bones running up and down your back
ana keeps you from being legs clean up
to your neck.
An Oxonian is man who drives
pair Of oXes.
(CopyriEht, 1879
woman recently sued at Wark-
worth, England. for a debt of Sl2O was
said to have incurred betting debts of
SIS, 900.
Evening star., 1931-12-08

At night, massage the throat and chest
well with Vicks VapoRub (now available
in white stainless" form, if you prefer.
Spread on thick and cover with warm
flannel. Leave the clothing loose
around the neck so that the medicated
vapors arising can be inhaled all night
long. During the day any time, any
place-use Vicks Nose Drops as needed
for ease and comfort.sG there is
cough, you will like another new Wick