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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-08

Democracy, both in Austria, Germany and other
countries, proves that it assists the bourgeoisie
to establishing the Fascist form of dictatorship
and capitulateS to it step by STEP 1t carries on,
with its own hands when in power or by sup
porting other fractions of the bourgeoSie as in
Germany, the fascisaton of the state while
pretending that it is saving so-called dem
ocracy" from Fascism. In this way it lulls the
vigilance of the masses and STILES their spon-
famous struggle against fascism In Great
Britain the bourgeoisie keeps the Labor govern
ment in office at the most critical moment and
allows it to carry out their program, under the
label Labor Government" the indignation OF
the masses against this government is stifled
the so-called Left" independents who protect
it with their Left phraseology. If the Labor
Government we're not in power in England the
struggle of the working-cl would develop
much more strongly and the process of the
masses adopting violent methods would go on
faster BY means of class struggle the practical
minded British worker would be better able to save
himself from the attack of capital than by the
capitulation of the agents of capital-Mac-
Donald, Thomas, etc. In Germany the Brueping
Government. as correctly described by the Ger
man Central Committee is government for
the establishment of the Fascist dictatorship
And the Social Democrats who are supporting it,
and the Hitler Government which might come
to replace it.
Manoeuvring and More Active Exposure of
Social Democracy
Filthy, the tactics of class against class does
not mean the rejection OF manoeuvring. If the
enemy still has strong position in the working
class, manoeuvring by Communists is necessary
so that by capable exposures this position can
be undermined However, since the tenth Plen-
of he of MAJ,
been of very modest dimension. 1t is not we
who have maneuvred but the Social Democrats
have manoeuvred against us. Because many
of the Communists started out from the premise
that the Social Democrats had completed their
Fascist development. they did not expect from
euWes, as is particularly evident from the
French example on the question of the unity
of the trade union movement, caught them
unawares. In reality Social Democracy has once
again taken to manoeuvring, at the very moment
when the process of its fascisation is being &C.
celebrated The fact that the radcalisation of
the masses is increasing under the influence of
the crisis, and then the workers are beginning to
desert Social Democracy, demands from Com
munists a still more active and merciless ex-
posture of Social Democracy while it also calls
for greater activity in regard to manoeuvring.
(x) From his report at the eleventh on Plenum
OF the Communist International. The report was
published in pamphlet form and is obtainabe
from the Workers Library Publishers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-08
R&~.~
Chicago. LETS Co.!
d JORaR

1t seems to lis that situation is arising in
Chicago to which some attention might be given.
One letter we have says. This is the flop dis
trict and there is a soap-boxer speaker here
every evening speaking to many readers of the
Daily Worker, advocating Steal IT., instead of
organizing"
Well, maybe the Party can't do anything about
1t, II the police puts up such people to talk But
you workers who read the Daily should make
such soap-boxer feel mighty uncomfortable
ana let him know what you think about him.
Another letter says, in part "Tve been watch
ing the meeting at Washington So. in Chicago
Tor the past five months. The radicals hold
meetings. there each night. Seven out of ten OF
neSe speakers just talk to take up collection to
get bottle of moonshine. know what I'm talk
ing about. see things for myself, Just a lot of
drunken buns
Il and others were going to ioin the Reds
but what we saw at Wash So would turn any,
one away. Don't think I'm not in favor of Rus
Sla. sure hope Russia has good luck. These
speakers should be exposed, they don't care
about the working class.-WCH"
Wen, comrade, we are doing our part in the
exposing. Only please don't get all the hole
and corner radicals" mixed up with the Com
munists We don't believe that anyone who is
speaking for the Communist Party is taking uu
collections for moonShine 1t must be some gang
of radical takers" who pretend they are Reds
but are not
And maybe the Party cannot do much about it
for that reason. But if it can do anything, it
certainly should start right in. little organized
attention to such fake Reds" would soon put a
stop to this sort of thing. You workers who read
the Daily and attend such meetings should do
your part in making sure that the Party OK.'s
the speaker
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-08
Just An Ordinary Liar

comrade in Brooklyn writes in saying that:
ut was at Unity House, Forest Park that
V. F. Calverton, in the course Of talk he gave
on literature, mentioned that Mike Gold is out
OF the Party because the novel he wrote Jews
Without Money was not up to the Communist
standard of proletarian literature Should like
to know whether that was a mis-statement or
not"
Now it seems to us that some comrades should
by-em-bye get hep to the fact that Calverton
is a sort of theological racketeer. Very few
ever heard of him, it is true, but once every six
months some naive comrade who mistakenly
spends his time reading learned nonsense writes
us enthusiastically calling our attention to the
fact that Calverton is Communist"
Which is seven thousand miles off the course
But you folks who have yen for philosophy,
and will not be convinced by our simply ex-
pressed judgment, should read the devastating
analysis of Calyerton and his School" by our
own ragged trousered philosopher" Comrade
Landy of the Daily Worker staff, who takes Mr..
Calverton to pieces in theoretical treatise in
the october number of 1.-THE Communist"
We take this opportunity to smite myth
that has grown up, that anybody who actually
works right in the Communist Party, and helps
edit its journals, cannot possibly break lances
with some goofy guy who sits in ivory towers"
ana WnlCtleS away at WORDS, because L1e laCUef
is professor, or has string of degrees after
his name. Our ragged trousered philosopher"
(and believe us, his trousers ARE ragged proves
quite the contrary.
Take this article of Comrade Landy and read
it. For us it was an enjoyable and as rare
treat of polenical writing many of Marx and
Lenin Above all, it spears this school OF fish
who are playing around with Marxism in the
so-called intellectual" world, on the lance of
rrefutable MARKHAM analysis.
This Calverton chap furnishes the theological
humbuggery which feeds the whole social-fascist
movement, and Landy has done brilliant job
of exposing it.
About Mike: we never read Jews Without
Money though we have seen lot of them.
We've heard that some like the book and some
don't Also we've heard the same about Mike.
But we never heard of any bell, book and candle
being brought into play to exclude Mike, so II
he's outside the Party, 1t seems to be Mixes
fault and not the Partys.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-08

nize as do the steel workers, that the National
Miners Union and the Metal Workers Industrial
League are the only unions representing the in
terests Of the miners and the steel workers in tho
struggles which. are now approaching. The
masses are looking towards the Communist
Party more and more as their leader
In addition to linking up the Party election
campaign with the struggle against the wage-cut
and the steel campaign with the building of the
National Miners Union and the unemployed
committees, and the struggle for the demands
of the revolutionary unions Of the Trads Union
Unity League and the Unemployed Councils
in addition to linking up the campaign in de-
tense of the Soviet Union, the campaign for the
demands of the children Negro, foreign-born,
youth and women, the struggle against the war
danger the main task Of the Party In the cleo
ton campaign is the consolidation of the Party
and the building of the organizational strength
Of the Party during the course of the campaign.
This is especially true in the city Of Pittsburgh,
where the Party is weakest in the District 1t is
necessary in the course of this campaign to add
hundreds and hundreds Of workers to our Party,
to build functioning steel and coal nuclei-to
build the Party in the city of Pittsburgh to put
the Party throughout the District on function
ing basis.
Due to the newness of the Party in the Pitts
burgh District, number of misconceptions have
arisen amongst some new Party members as to
the role played by the Party in the election
campaign The good man" theory the lesser
evil theory and in some cases, the influence OF
the Socialist" party has made some slight in
roads in the course Of the campaign 1t is neces-
sary in the remainder Of the campaign to con-
duct vigorous struggle against all opportunst
and synGcalist tendencies and through the agit-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-08
They Love the
Workers, Yeah?

The worlds finest subway the Eighth Avenue
line in New York, will be running New Years
Day. if things go right. It's new one % all
Tammany officials, and the World-Telegram
which supports Tamnnany whenever it isn't sup
porting the "socialists"-and sometimes at one
and the same time--are proud of 1t.
The world-Telegram is so proud OF it that it
ran special article about 1t on Oct. l, calmly
inserting the following:
Municipal operation is deemed not feasible
because the city would be compelled to pay
prevailing wages to the 1,50o employees. With
private operator, the wages could be lower
and an eight-hour day would not be man
datory."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-08
Young Reds at
Ballard
(By PAUE MUNTER.)

1t is early morning and figure sinks along
toward the Seattle Cedar Mill in Ballard.
young boy playing in the street notices him.
The boy is strikers son. He thinks: "T11at is
scab." He follows the man for several blocks
The man turns toward the wide street of the
mill.
RAT" calls out the young boy He means it,
He is living on what little food the relief station
can afford to give his family He Is behind his
daddy to win. He knows that the fight is 10
make better life for him. This flashes
through his mind while he calls "rat."
The man turns "You God damn brat" He
strides toward the boy The lad shouts. Around
the corner other boys, strikers kids, are play
ing. They hear their pal.
"Thats joe" says one.
"He's in trouble" says another. Lets CO."
The gang" of about six kids comes running
toward the outcry. They arrive just as the scab
strikes th2 boy
Hes a rat" shouts the youngster. All the
kids feel as this youngster Their dads have
been out since August. They want to help them
win. This scab must have figured on getting
down earlier than the pickets. If he was to
come about 20 minutes later, the police, armed
with sub-machine guns would be there to pro-
tect him. Their dads would be powerless
He hit one of the gang. piling of little
bodies on this man mountain. One scab went
to work under difficulties that day.
Good work, fellas," says one.
NUNS the word" says another, "the cops
might pinch U.s."
Later one of the boys about IL years old was
arrested and searched. He stayed in the police
station about three hours. He told them nothing.
1--WE got our Daily Worker Club now and we're
going to raise money for our paper and the
strike" one tells the writer. Two kids have
started out to build a Daily Worker route and
get the rest of the gang in with them
They are Reds these Kids, Reds of two months.
They are helping to win the fight. They need
your help, too Around their dads strike the
lumber barons of the Northwest have centered
a heavy attack They expect to prevent strikes
in the lumber industry by terrorizing the Ballard
strikers The strike is important to all North
western lumber workers. Help them win.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-08
By CARL PRICE.

-' By CARL PRICE.
THIS week, for the first time in the history of
the Party, the Communist Party will be on
the ballot in the coal and steel counties, West
moreland, Washington Cambria, Somerset and
Fayette, as well as Allegheny county, providing
the bosses governments do not arbitrarily rule
the Party off the ballot. The necessary number
of signatures have been gathered, and the hun
dreds of dollars necessary to pre-empt the Party
in each locality and in the counties. has been
raised. One hundred thousand of the election
platform of the Party for the counties of western
Pennsylvania have been printed and over $4,000
already distributed. Dozens of mass meetings
have already been held in the coal sections and
steel towns. Dozens of mimeographed leaflets
have been issued, amounting up into the thou
sands Printed county programs have been pre-
pared for Allegheny county and Westmoreland
county and will be distributed this week
The program of the Communist Party for the
counties of western Pennsylvania, is a fighting
program. large section of the program ex-
tracts of which hope will be printed in the
Daily Worker, is based on the struggle against
the wage-cuts in the coal mines and the steel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-08
Mislaid Strike Located

Regarding the strike at Clear Lake. Washing
ton, Comrade Archie Young says 1t began as
a single mill strike, became saw mill strike,
and then just naturally died Of old age or
something when the company shut down for
a long, long time, or until prosperity" comes
back.
The strikers became apple pickers and spud-
glommers and are holing UP for Hard Winter
But the National Lumber Workers Union =
lying in wait for the boss to start up again;
unemployed councils are being organized and
the United Farmers League is growing in many
places. Well, that strike is now accounted for.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-08

prop work in the units, at mass meetings etc.
to make clear to all workers, the role of tiie
Party in the election campaign.
The fact that local programs have been pre-
pared and will serve in the remaining weeks to
concentrate the campaign more upon local is
sues and bring the issues Of the campaign home
to every worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-08
BY B. D. MANUILSKY

When deciding on the approach to the sou-
ton of this task, we must take into considera-
ton number of auxiliary circumstances: the
strength of our Party, the extent OF it's influences
the strength of the reformist trade unions and
the degree to which the masses have moved to
the Left" the role of element of spontanety
in the movement. etc. From weak Communist
Parties e. G. the British which are confronted
by great trade unions, etc. If such preliminary
work is carried on, the strike committees and
the committees of action will be able to rely on
broad mass base. A successful struggle against
the Social Democrats amidst conditions of
growing revolutionary upsurge requires that the
Communists in weak Parties shall carry on the
most active work among the Social Democrats,
forming opposition groups among them so that
the group will split from the Social Democrats
and come over to the ranks of the Communist
Party. The Communists under present condi-
tons must become active factors in the process
OF the incipient disntegration of Social Demo-
cracy; they must not hope for the spontaneous
development of these processes They must fight
by strong and active policy against the ten,
denotes to form a cleft wing" inside Social
Democracy which would simply be barrier
separating the revolutionary workers from the
path to the Communist Party.
Against Over Simplification
Thirdly the class against class tactics cannot
be based on the assumption that all other classes
form one conrlete reactionary mass without
any difference or shades. Some Communists
completely identify Social Fascsm with Fascism.
Other identif" the Social Democratic workers
with their leaders in the apparatus the Social
| The uneven development of the crisis and OF
| the revolutionary upsurge demands from each
Communist Party, in preparing for mass ac-
! tons, the concrete application of such forms OF
the United Front from below as will create OPP
portunties for drawing into the struggles. the
broad masses of working men and working
women, the unemployed the working class
youth office employees and other semi-prole-
tarie strata This. simultaneously with the
careful eYalution OF the general situation calls
- an c-act estimation OF tie situation and
r rc'cstca Of fo-c23 in the various branches
o. i-dvctty in c@cl enterprise, the estimation
II al The rcculic- features and conditions OF
he various ssrcsa CT the methods OF struggle
Economic strikes short protest strikes, rcvolu- /
tionary demonstrations, mass political strikes,
etc This calls for determined struggle against
The Right Danger against every manifestation
OF opportunsm, Of dragging at the TAIL pass
iy4ty and standardization the 18th Plenum
RESOLUTION of the Communist International
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-06
KIRKLAND JURY
NEAR COMPLETION

VALPARAISO, Ind, May 6.-Se-
lection of jury to try Virgil Kirk
land, 2o-year-old athlete, on muir
der charges, appeared near COM
pletion today for the first time since
his second trial began a week ago
Monday.
The state weeded out the panel
by dismiSsing three veniremen with
fixed opinions and one for prejudice
against the death penalty, and then
turned it over to the defense.
Kirkland's attorneys questioned
the panel up to noon recess without
finding one unsatisfactory.
The questions went into the pos
sibility that Arlene braves, Kirk
lands 1S-year-old sweetheart. died
of a blow not struck in futherence
of a criminal attack, as two Of the
counts against him charge.
IF the evidence shows Miss
braves was killed by blow not
delivered in commission of Grim
inal assault, would you find the de-
PENDANT not guilty according to
law?" the defense attorneys asked.
The invariable reply was, Yes. +"
This questioning was in antici-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-06
STATE AID REFUSED
IN MINE ZONE WAR

spouse from Governor Elem D.
Sampson that Harlan courty must
carry on as long as its powder holds
dry Sheriff John Henry Blair told
the United Press today.
THE Governor was asked by my
self and County Judge H. H. How
ard to send troops here, but replied
he required petition signed By
the good citizens of the county be-
fore he could do So" the sheriff
said. That's impossible under the
: We're 5iaiT s''t trying s save human
lives here" the sheriff continued
discussing the coal strike lawlessnesI
which in two weeks has claimed the
lives Of five men, three of them
deputy sheriffs. -Four were killed
in an ambush at Evarts, KY, Tues
day.
7 don't feel SO good about the
Governors response" he said. I'VE
simply can not, under present con-
ditions. go out and circulate any
petition. 1t isn't healthy. So vel
Just carry on as long as our powder
holds out"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-06
Hourly Temperatures
BISHOPS RECONvENE
District Assignments to Be
Made at Sessions.

Bishops Of the Methodist Epis-
copal church continued their semi
annual sessions here today and
we're preparing to assign bishops to
the various districts of the church's
international area.
Although the board of bishops
meets with nonmenbers excluded,
pastors of the indianapolis dis
trict were to hear two reports, that
on a proposed union between the
M. E. church and the M. E. church,
South, in Korea, into the Korean
Methodist Episcopal church, and
that of Bishop F. j. Mcconnell of
New York, on India.
Tuesday afternoon the bishops
dedicated the altar of the~new North
Side M. E. church and Tuesday
night we're honored with dinner
in the church. Almost all the
bishops will remain in the city Sun
day to address various congrega-
tons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-06
VISIT TOLESLIE
DENIED IN QUIZ
insult Aid Questioned on
Bus Bill Charge.

Denial that he was in Governor
Harry G. Leslie's office when a re-
quest was made for return of House
Bill 6 to the 1881 legislature was re-
ported as made today by Charles w.
Chase Of Gary, head of the insult
utility unit there.
He was in conference with Oscar
Hagemier, grand jury prosecutor.
Chase's reported presence in the
office had been repeated since the
jury opened its probe into alleged
conspiracy and fraud. said to have
surrounded passage Of the bill that
authorizes control of bus and truck
traffic by the public service COM
mission.
1t is alleged the section giving
municipalities power over motor
transportation was stricken out of
the bill at the close of the assembly
session.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-06

Young blood will be in the sad
die Saturday afternoon at the
Arlington riding stables, Arlington
avenue, near Forty-sixth street,
when these youngsters and others
parade before the judges in the
city's first junior horse show.
Left, in the top left photo, is
Cynthia Test, ~ West Forty
third street. on Mia, and Linda
Hamilton, POLL North Alabama,
on her favorite mount, Topsy.
Upper right, Harley Rhode
haInel, 5102 Washington boule-
ward, has refined in Fiji right
at the cameras tense.
Trotting abreast in the lower
photo and practicing the form"
expected to bring "Ahs!" from
crowds and ribbons from judges, are
Cleft to right Barbara Stafford,
1922 Central avenue. on Imnize;
Josephine Mayer, 1920 Washing
ton boulevard, on Pluto; Alfred
n. Plel, 44lO North pennsylvania
street, on Little Lady; Donald N.
Test Jr., a West Forty third
street, on Coquette; Marjorie
Bunch, 1852 Washington boule-
ward, on Vagabond; William Piel,
4410 North Pennsylvania street,
on Billet Doux, and Mary Stewart
Kurtz, % East Thirty-second
street, on JinX.
Seventeen classes for the COM
petition have been provided by
Mrs. A. H. Fiske, in charge of
entries and events. The show
will be climaxed by awarding a
cup and ribbon to the champion
rider and a ribbon for second
place winner.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-06
WOMAN MANIAC
MURDERS CHILD
Drags Girl, 5, to Basement,
Stays With HatChet.

By United Press
AKRON, O., May 6.-Louise Burl-
eson, 5 years old, was lured into
the basement of a house here to-
day by maniacal woman, who
chopped her to death with a
Ratchet.
The woman, Mrs Hattie Ray, so,
surrendered without resistance to
police. She gave no reason for her
deed.
Covered with blood, the woman
emerged from the basement shout
ing, I've killed a weasel"
Police found her standing with
apparent calm in front of her house.
Neighbors said Louise and several
playmates we're playing in front Of
the woman's house when she called
to them. She singled out the pref
ty. red-haired girl.
That's the one want" she said.
She led the child toward the base
ment, and when Louise shrank back,
she dragged her down the steps.
With single blow, she split the
skull of the small victim with the
Ratchet she gripped in her hand.