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The daily worker., 1931-08-28

pose the working out of ways and means to keep
us from fighting for better conditions. This is
the whole truth in a nutshell. The growing
strikes against wage-cuts, the mass demonstra-
tions against hunger, have thrown fear into the
hearts of the boss class. They want to crush
the rising militancy Of the young workers. That
is why the Congress attacked the Communists
so vehemently. The "Y" realizes that the Com
munists are the only ones organizing the work
ers to fight against their miserable conditions.
Thousands of young workers also realize this.
The "Y" attacks the Communists because the
Communists defend the interests Of the work
ers the "Y' the interests Of the bosses.
The Young Communist League calls upon all
young workers to organize and strike against
wage-cuts We call upon all young workers to
fight for unemployment insurance, against the
growing war preparations and for the defense
of the Soviet Union. Young workers. Fight
for the following demands:
l. No evictions from "Y's" of unemployed who
cannot pay rent!
2. All "Y' sports and recreational facilities
to be turned over for free use of unemployed
youth, under their own supervision!
3. Immediate substantial reduction in rent
for young workers in "Y's"
T. No discrimination or segregation of Negro
youth
s. Full freedom of discussion on all political
questions in the "Y"
g. Nomination and election of all managers
and officials by the membership.
7. Fight for unemployment insurance and
against Wage-cuts.
g. Demand that all funds for armaments be
used to feed, clothe and house the unemployed.
Not one cent for mllitarism, all funds for the
unemployed.
Demonstrate on International Youth Day.
On September 9th the militant youth OF the
entire world will demonstrate against bosses
wars and against their miserable conditions. All
young workers, all members of the "Y" are
called upon to demonstrate with other young
workers for their daily demands. Make Inter
national Youth Day militant answer to the
attack of the bosses. Fight for the above de-
mands on international Youth Day. Join the
only working class youth organization that
represents your interests the Young Comnlu-
mist Leaguel
YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE.
NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,
The daily worker., 1931-08-28
The Maturing OF the Revolutionary
Crisis in Poland

the revolutionary trade union organizations are
the only force which is fighting against shift
ing of the burden of the crisis on to the should
ers OF the workers, the recent strikes in Poland
furnished proof that a victorious fight is pos
sible under the leadership of the Communists.
The leading role Of the Communist Party has
acquired considerably more Importance
The unemployed movement is more and more
breaking through the barriers Of fascist terror,
The fight of the peasant masses, who have been
driven to desperation against the taxes is as
suming ever sharper forms. The bloody "paci-
fication" Of Western Ukraine. the same "paci-
fication' of Western White Russia-all this has
still further increased the fight of the oppressed
nationalities against the Polish occupation. Fin
ally, further factor has made its appearance
the profound ferment among the civil servants
who are suffering misery and starvation, which
will facilitate the disintegration of the State ap-
paratus Sympathy for the proletarian revolu-
tion is beginning to grow among those sections
of the town petty bourgeoise who have been
affected by the crisis. This was shown in the
strike of the Warsaw tramwaymen. The War
saw News" wrote at the time expressing its
alarm and annoyance at "the attitude of the
public, which did not even attempt to Illustrate
the strike as it did in previous years"
particularly characteristic sign Of the change
which is taking place N the feeling and con-
sciousness of the masses is the rapid abandon
ment of illusions regarding a peaceful demo
cratic" way out of the crisis which is spread by
the fascsts and social fascists The way of re-
volutionary solution of the crisis indicated by
the Communists is beginning to be understood
by the broad masses. A striking example of
this was given by the strike of the tramway
workers in Warsaw, which brought about a
cleavage between the leaders and the rank and
file of the social fascist and fascist trade un-
ions. But this process is not taking place SO
rapidly on all fronts In addition to the rem
nants of the fascist workers party, there still
exists the mass basis of the P.P.S., which party
still often places itself at the head of the mas
ses in order to divert them from the revolu-
tionary path The tactic of replacing strike
struggles Ty one day demonstration strikes is
still carried out by the social fascists with
certain amount of success
In the course of the fight for work, bread
and freedom the Communist Party of Poland
must do its best to build up and strengthen its
organizations, and before all obtain firm foot
ing in the big factories and in the key indus
tries Above all it is necessary to carry out in
the shortest possible time the instructions to
double the membership. Further, it is neces-
sary to build up as speedily as possible the re-
voutionary trade unions the opposition in the
social fascist and fascist trade unions, in short
the revolutionary trade union movement.
The daily worker., 1931-08-28
The Hunger Delegation to Albany

to actually go in and ask for the floor and pre-
sent the demands. The rest of the delegation
were to go and join the demonstration that
was outside of the State Capitol.
At IL o'clock, noon, we held open-ar meet
ing, at which 1000 workers were present At
1880 we adjourned the meeting, and, together
with all the workers, we marched up to the
capitol On arriving there, the delegation
elected to go into the legislature promptly went
up the steps Of the State Capitol. Comrade
Tomash who was elected spokesman. was at
the head. AS we went up, squad of police Is
in number, with drawn clubs, went down in a
body and stopped us. Tomash asked the lieu
tenant why he did not let us pass explaining
who we were and what we wanted to do. The
lieutenant told us that the only place lie would
send us would be to the hospital. Then he
shouted to his policemen: "At them, men," and
they came at us. Not caring for the women
and children in this delegation, they trampled
us down and murderously clubbed us.
At the same time, out Of the side doors OF the
Capitol about 500 city and state police, who
were hiding in the Capitol, came out and at
tackled the demonstration Of the workers. Many
went to the hospitals and seven workers were
arrested. Comrade Tomash secretary Of the
Unemployed Councils Richard Sullivan, can
didate on the Communist ticket for assembly,
man, oscar bucnanan negro Worker, raul
Spivak, and Jennie Katz, an unemployed woman
worker, together with others, were among the
arrested. All we're held on $500 bail and held
for trial Friday
When we tried to hire some lawyer from Al
bany to represent them, we had to visit about
ten OF them, but they refused to take the case
pointing out that, II they represented the work.
ers, they would be blacklsted by the judges Of
Albany.
This was G,e reception accorded the delegates
from the various cities In Albany.
The daily worker., 1931-08-28
The Spartakiad at
Berlin and the
Next One
By FRANK HENDERSON.

NTHY was the Berlin Spartakiad OF the Red
w Sport International prohibited? Why did
international bankers; the Social-Democraud
Party; and even the President of the United
States fear and join hands in common action
to prevent this mass international gathering Of
worker sportsmen? They prohibited the Sparta
kiad because they feared its revolutionary char
acter. Proletarian internationalsm was too dam
gerous for the bourgeoise at time Of an acutN
German financial and economic crisis. And theix
fears were justified The workers Spartakiad
stands for International Red sport unity And
more. 1t stands for revolutionary international
ism against capitalism. And just as the interS
national bankers and world imperalist powers
rushed to save their fellow German robbers from
a revolutionary sentence so also, and with more
determination did the worker sportsmen gather
the world over for the Spartakad and for this
support of the German workers
Noteworthy was the position of the social.
democrats against the Berlin Spartakiad Thev
became the willing executioners of the suppres.
sive measures against Red sports. 1t was the
Berlin social-denocratc police chief who or
dered the wholesale arrest of all supporters of
the Spartakiad. The Neukollen stadium permit
for the meet was revoked Worker sportsmen
were driven away from sport fields by mounted
police and armoured cars. Not even Red sport
practices were allowed. To carry a Spartakiad
button meant three months in prison. Only "of~
fcial sports and the sports of the socialists were
permitted. 1t was in Berlin, during these excit.
ing days OF terror and mass arrests, that the Lu.
cerne sport leaders exposed themselves when
they shrank from the appeal for unity and de-
clared no allegiance to the revolutionary RED
sport movement.
But the Red sportsmen stood their ground La
Berlin so many sportsmen wore the prohibited
Spartakiad button that arrests we're impossible
Sport meets were held in several districts of
Berlin. The Spartakiad program was carried out
in other cities And July 10 the Spartahad
officially took place in Berlin despite the con-
tinued prohibition against Red sports Tens o6
thousands Of sportsrnen took part. Additional
thousands of workers turned out to protect and
defend the Spartakiad. Red Berlin showed Ito
colors
The Berlin Spartakiad will long be reniems
bered as fight of Red Sportsmen for prole~
tartan internationalism. And this International
ism will again find its expression in 1888 at ths
Moscow Spartakiad in the Soviet Union. Worker
sportsnen! Strengthen your organizationi Pre-
pare for the Moscow Spartakiadl Down with the
splitting Lucerne (socialist) Sport InternationaU
Against the bosses Los Angeles Olympicsl For
Re- Sport UnityI
The daily worker., 1931-08-28
BY A. B. MAGH

IT'S really embarrassing. When one of the great
fixed stars of the bourgeois heavens suddenly
forsakes its accustomed course and goes off on
tangent, what are the high-priests of bourgeois
society to do2 They do what the world Of ex-
ploiters and sycophants has always done they
declare that the star was never anything but
minor satellite of Insignificant magnitude, that
its efforts to attract attention are indeed pa
thetic, ETC., etc In other words they do what
The high-priests of the bourgeois literary world
are now doing in the case OF Theodore Dresser
Led by the socialist buffoon lob racketeer
white chauvinist and dean of the Hotel Algon-
quin poker players Haywood Broun the literary
medicine-men are desperately trying to exor-
else the evil apparition of the new Theodore
Dreiser-the Dresser who denounces lynchers
and coal operators and A. F. of L. betrayers-
by the simple process of declaring that Dresser.
the great American novelist, does not and never
did exist Thus in his latest diatribe against
Dresser, Broun writes: Theodore Dresser is an
excellent novelist of the second class" IN Y.
World-Telegram, August Z, 1931). Bron is
charitable-he comedies Dresser Second-cla
rating. It's too bad that Dresser isn't content
with this second-class rating that Broun has
given him, but has INDUCED in lot of "pcstur-
ing and passion for publicity" This about
man who through most of his life worked in
ohscurity, suffering poverty and official persecu-
ton, who has Stunned the bright lights of the
fashionable literary and art world, who has
almost a pathological aversion to appearing in
public. That's putting it on lt.lo thick-espe-
cially when it comes from one of the cheapest
publicity hounds that ever got his name into
print.
That Bill Green, president OF the A. F. of L.,
attacks Dresser is only to be expected. Green
is defending his class interests (the interests of
the bourgeoisie) and his functional role as
strikebreaker and betrayer of the workers But
what Of the literary gentry those lofty souls who
The daily worker., 1931-08-28
YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE.
NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,
BY HARRY BERG
IAN UNEMPLOYED Worker)

IN Tuesday Aug IS, the city and state police
" of Albany, New York, brutally and murder
ously attacked delegation who were sent from
the various cities delegates to the legislature
and Governor Roosevelt.
Governor Roosevelt, who was forced to call
a meeting of the legislature on account Of the
burning unemployed question prevailing all over
New York state, and because the jobless and
evicted families were becoming so numerous
that something had to be DONE gave direct Or
ders to the police to brutally assault the dele
cation.
Previous to this the unemployed workers Of
Albany, New York, had been viciousy stopped
by the city police from holding open-air meet
ings.
When the delegation from New York City ar
rived in Albany, Comrade Tomash, together with
myself, went to the chief of police, Smurlto to
protest against this Outrage perpetrated by the
police against the workers. We told him that
II he did not let the unemployed workers hold
their open-air meetings, that in spite Of him
and his police, we would, and that the result
would be his responsibility.
So, in spite of the police the unemployed dele
CATION Of the various cities Of New York state
held open-ar meetings, and although some Of
the workers we're sent To the hospitals, the work.
ers we're acquainted with the facts all over the
state
The newspapers of Albany, which we're given
the reports of what we we're doing broke out
into headlines, quoting from the last years dele
cation, that the unemployed were going to storm
the State Capitol that we were going to cause
riots, and because Of these lying statements Of
the press, the delegates altered their plans of
action Instead Of two or three hundred coming
in on the floor Of the legislature, they elected
twelve delegates from the various organizations
The daily worker., 1931-08-28

A SHORT time ago the International and Ma
n tiona1 Congresses of the Y.M.C.A. we're held.
In calling these congresses the "Y' stated that
they would take up and solve the daily burning
problems of the youth, Let us see how this
done
The "Y" Evicts Jobless.
The big problem confronting the youth is un-
employment Ten million are jobless. Millions
are hungry. Senator Caraway said that "a
thousand people die from hunger daily in the
United States" What did the ''Y" do to solve
this problem? Did it take determined stand
against the U. S. Government which gives mil
lions for militarism but not one cent for un-
employed relief No! Here is what the "Y'
does for unemployed workers. In "Y" on the
South Side of Chicago, there are $50 empty
rooms. Are these rooms open for the jobless?
No! High prices are charged for these rooms
and those that cannot pay are EVICTED. In
Chicago Negro youth was kicked out of the
"Y" because he joined an unemployed council
and fought for relief This is how the "Y"
helps the unemployed!
Breaks Strikes.
Another problem confronting the youth, is the
increasing wage-cuts and speed-up in the fac
tories How does the 'Y' fight these? The Con-
gress endorsed the "stagger" plan What is the
purpose of this plan2 This plan places the bur-
den of unemployment not on the bosses and
the government, but upon the backs of those
working. 1t distributes starvation over the en-
tire working class. The "Y" acts against the
young workers. In the strike Of the Colorado
coal miners in 1928, the "Y" was used to house
scabs During the recent strike of dock work
ers in Duluth against a Is per cent wage-cut,
the local "Y" furnished scabs to break the strike.
These incidents show the official policy Of the
Y. M c. A. What will the "Y' do when you
go on strike for better conditions?
Discriminates Against Negroes.
The Congress talked about brotherhood Of
races" Let us look at the facts. Are Negro
youth permitted to join ALL branches Of the
"Y"? Why are they segregated in separate
branches? Why does the "Y" not fight for the
release of the Scotsboro boys who face legal
The daily worker., 1931-08-28
BY J. LENSKI

rHE class struggles developing in Poland IN
/ dicate a revolutionary turn not only among
the broad masses of the proletar1at and the
reasantrv. but also partly among the town petty
bourgeoisie The disastrous accentuation OF the
industrial and agrarian crisis as a result OF
serious financial crisis, drives the broad masses
of workers and peasants into poverty and misery
such as was never seen in Poland before. All
atternDts of the fascist government to alleviate
the crisis have completely failed The summer
season did not bring any apprectable improve
ment Half of the industrial workers are sJlll
unemployed The million army OF unemployed
is now Joined by the thousands OF civil servants
who have been thrown onto the streets. The
heavy taxation robs the peasants OF the last
piece of bread.
With the approaching autumn there Will be
further sharp restriction of industrial production
and a further drop in the price of agricultural
products
'eVait hold out"-that is the slogan OF the
theoretician of Polish tascism, the former fin
ance Minister Maczevski, which is repeated by
all the fascists and social fascists.
But the working masses cannot and will not
patiently wait The furious attack Of capital
is answered with the revolutionary counter-at-
tack of the proletariat, which gathers together
The forces rooted in the revolutionary peasantry
and in the national emancipation movement,
and at the same time draws the vaccilatng ele-
rnents of the city petty bourgeoisie into the fight
It is this general revolutionary upsurge that
characterises the change which is taking place
within the masses The unusual fighting de-
rnonstrations on the / OF May the active parti-
cipation of the peasantry in these demonstra-
tons the bloody barricade fights in Javorzno
the strikes in the Donlbroya district the strike
of the tramway workers in Warsaw, the strike
of the seamen in Gdynia, the general strike in
Grozny, these are expressions of this change.
The front Of the strike struggles has been ex-
tended considerably, and is now based mainly
on the big factories; efforts to extend the strike
struggle to whole branches of production are to
be clearly seen. The development Of the de-
fensive strike into the aggressive strike, the high
level of the fighting solidarity of the strikers,
the growing participation Of the unemployed,
the linking up of the strike weapon with the
higher forms of the fight TO- the street, the in
terlockng of the economic and political fight,
all this compels the bourgeoisie and the govern
ment to make concessions. This is also the
reason why the overwhelming majority of the
strikes have been successful, a circumstance
which is filling the working class with confid-
ence in its own strength, Therein lies the in
ternationI Importance of these strikes. If the
strikes Of the miners in the Ruhr and of the
metal workers in Berlin showed the masses that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-03
'PAC|F| &c HOP PLANE
! MADE READY TO co
Start Tomorrow to Depend
!, on Arrival of Fuel Ship
r. Due in Alaska Today.
ny the Associated Press.

ny the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, Wash, July 3.-Reg L..
Robbins and H. s. Jones, Fort Worth,
Tex, aviators. checked the motor of
their White monoplane here today in
preparation for taking off tomorrow
on a nonstop refueling flight to Toxic
and a $4,000 prize.
They said they hoped to start about
B o'clock tomorrow morning on the
attempt to win the cash award of the
Japanese newspaper Asahi for the first
nonstop flight from the United States
to Toxic.
The hop-off here hinges on the safe
arrival in Fairbanks of their tri-motored
refueling ship, scheduled to fly from
Edmonton to the Alaska City today. 1t
is piloted by J. j. Matterns of San
Antonio, Tex.
Under present plans, the Robbins
plane will refuel over Fairbanks an6
Solomon. Alaska. and on the Siberian
coast The tri-motored ship is to &C
company it across the Eering Strait.
The flyers said if their venture was
successful they had 'sneaking bunch"
they might try to fly back again in
an en6eavor to win a $4,000 prize
offered by Seattle business men for a
flight to this city from Japan.
IF we do not attempt this venture"
Jones said, I'VE intend to fly across
Europe to Paris and ship the plane
to New York"
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to good instruments, we never went
into a spin while flying blind in fog.
as some transatlantic flyers are believed
to have done. We owe lot to our in
strumentS Good instruments enable
you to cope with lots of situations that
otherwise might beat you.
Such flights will be made again. but
at present they are not easy. They
have to be we'll planned. think that
our route was the best one, and would
take it again II I were to try to fly
around the world. A large part of it
will be flown by commercial planes in
the future.
Spikes Pacific Hop Rumor.
AS for future flights by Wiley and
myself, We have no plans whatever.
There Is nothing to the rumor that we
will fly the Pacific. We haven't talked
of it.
I have tried to write on the practical
aspects Of the flight, but 1 cannot re-
frain from saying word or two about
the reception Wiley and I received in
New York. We didn't know it would
be anything like this. 1t Is tremendous
and nothing l can say would express
my feelings about 1t. 1t is a great
honor and We appreciate it very deeply
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Times Co. Reproduction In whole or il
part forbidden.)
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Continued From First Page.)
would introduce q resolution to award
them congressional medals.
II am certain Congress will approve
my proposal" he said.
The flyers were guests Of the Detroit
Aircraft Corporation at the dinner given
by the makers of the Winnie Mae and
its motor in the New York Athletic
Club last night. Among the guests were
three other round-the- world travellers
Lieut.. Leslie Arnold, U. S. A.; John
Henry Mears and Col. E. S. Evans. Also
atlantic flyer; DR.. James S. Kimball,
weather forecaSter for flyers; Elinor
Smith, aviator; F. Trubee Dawson, As
sistant Secretary of War in charge OF
aviation, and Clarence Young, Assist
ant Secretary Of Commerce in charge
of aeronautics.
Hoover Lauds Flight.
President Hoover telegrapfed TO the
flyers at the dinner, telling them AmeS-
lea is proud of them and praiSing their
striking contribution to aeronautical
progress. The message said:
Your successful world-girdling flight
Is striking contribution to aeronautical
progress. It is dramatic testimony to
the efficiency and reliability of Ameri-
can aircraft. 1t demonstrates wildly
how modern science is making, neigh
bors OF all the nations Of the world.
america is proud Of you in the hour
Of your extraordinary success. You
have enhanced faith in the art OF flying
and the science of air navigation. !
congratulate you most heartily on your
achievement. I look forward with
pleasure to seeing you at the White
House Monday"
Namesake to Get Plane.
The flyers and their wives are de-
lighted at the welcome given them by
New York City, which involved a parade
up Broadway to City Hall for f0rmali-
ties. Ticker tape and torn books and
paper showered upon them totaied three
tons, 10 tons less than were heaved in
the direction of Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh when he returned from Paris,
but there has been q steady effort by