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was roughened with feeling. 4
thought" he began haltingly. that
you we're the rarest thing I had
seen IN many a noon. / thought
you looked like something Infinitely
desirable. infinitely 70 Be loved 7
thought all sorts or strange. old
fashioned. knightly thoughts. Like
wanting 20 own a glove you had
WORE or a rose you had thrown
away. I thought-but why 60 ont
The night wanes and an anxious
parent waits you above"
Those are the lovelieSt words
anyone has ever said TO me-" said
Lame. Forgotten now was her
promise. There was strange SWEEP
magic In this mans voice. In
touch. IN the way he looked INC hdf.
Some alchemy she did not under
stand worked In her brain.
Go now" the man said. almost
roughly. and bless you"
LIE a down the steps. Lane
N heard the sound or his motor
car purring outside the gate be-
fore she could bring herself 20
creep upstairs. A white figure stood
at the door Of Elsie's room.
Ssh! murmured Elsie. You're
In luck because I ala a little plain
and fancy lying for you. Said Mu.
riel had a headache and you'd had
10 take her home and would stay
the night with her. Cass went 10
bed and 10 sleep instantcr. Lucky
for you"
Thanks a lot" Lame whispered.
I'll tell you all about IL tomor.
row. What shall I do? I hate 20
ing in now and waking her up"
Bunk on the couch I'm my ROOM
Elsie suggested Hospitality. Then
You can give me the low-down now
before we 20 20 sleep"
And 10 the mighty Van brought
you home. Sir Galahad himself
nurmured Elsie when Lame had
finished. How touching for him 10
be out chasing Mrs. Ladd's little
girl"
why do you say that?" Lame a.
manded.
Why. he's that way about Ade s
Ladd. Everyone in town knows
said Elsie scornfully. That
boy knows his way about. I can
tell you"
Il don't believe IT," said Lame.
II simply don't believe IT,"
Elsie examined her face IN the
dim light cast by one small bulb.
We'll. kid. you don't need 10 take
Il from ms. You can read the tab
loids." she said. with a yawn.
She's old enough 20 be hts
mother" Lame pouted.
Not quite" returned Elsie. Mat
ter on 10 years or 50 between them.
That's nothing"
Don't 70 falling for that baby
Elsie advised. clambering into Mtd.
Hes the lawyers delight. BAen
correspondent three times in Eve
years. That's Handsome FOR you"
Lame feigned sleep. "A sickness
and misery tugged nc her heart. IN
Van Robard we're bGd then the
world vas bad. She couldn't en-
the thought.
Lame tossed and turned. The
moonlight was n torture.
She reviewed every word which
had passed between Adele Ladd
and the man who searched whole
hearted for Muriel. Her feEered
fancy admitted that Adele seemed
70 have the right to order Van
around. Why?
Anguished. Lame imaE Ined Adele
Ladd laughing at her. What was
Il she would say 10 Van when next
she saw himg Oh. something like.
Who's your shabby little frIendg
She's not much help I'm n crisis"
Clenching her hands. tears ON
her cheeks. al last Lane slept
(TO BE Continued) -
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Brownsville Has:

!. A population In 1881 Of over $4,000.
2. A mean average temperature Of 70.
!. Bank deposits. $1,000. 600.
L. -Four railroads. seven paved highways.
5. international airport. five air lines.
y "A $6.o00.0O0 deep water port financed.
T. The best climate. soil I'm the world.
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OF the city government had made
reductions In various ways. Inin-
cipally through salary cuts.
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Tax collections have been good.
according TO Leigh Stanley. city
tax collector. The second installment
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Is due now and II ii is delinquent,
2 penalty on both the first and Sec
ond inStallments will w assessed.
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GROCERY ROBBED
INV Staff COrresDonde.

IBy Stalf CONSEQUENTLY
HARLINGEN. June 80. - The
K.ean Spot Grocery here was rob-
bed during the weekend of $50 in
cash. The money was taken from a
register which had been forced
open.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-03

The new combination is designed to
lead the bourgeois front against the
rising tide of world revolution. That is
clear. 1t is the result of the pressure,
in conditions of deepening, catastrophe
crisis, Of the revolutionary upsurge of
the masses in the colonies, the threat of
revolution in Central Europe, and par
ticularly of the menace of victorious So
cialist construction in the Soviet Union.
1t aims to balance European budgets at
the cost of reduced unemployment re-
lief and social services; to recuperate
profits at the cost OF slashing wage
cuts to smash with military force from
outside, the Red Army and Soviet Dis
tricts in China, which Chang Kai-shek
proved himself incapable of accomplish
ing during six months with 100000 sol
diers and unlimited military supplies,
and to divide China among the Powers;
and, before all, to organize war of in
Prevention against the Soviet Union, to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-03

smash the socialist industry before the
completion of the magnificently sue
cessful Five Year Plan.
The attack upon the living standards
of the masses in Europe and America is
already well under way.
The division of China has already be-
gun with the seizure of Manchuria; the
agreement between Japan and the U. S.,
as well as the continuing contradictions
within this agreement, are already
shown within China proper by the coali-
ton between the Japanese-directed
Canton government and the American
directed Marking regime.
The attack upon the Soviet Union is
launched before the entire world with
the cynical warning" sent by Japan to
the Soviet Union against supposed mill
tary movements within the borders of
the Soviet Union. Tt is emphasized by
the eagerness with which Washington
grasped this issue and is developing it
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-03
THE NEW IMPERIALIsT CONSTELLATION

the face of Japan's further penetration
of Manchuria-an act which skaters
traditional American policy in the Far
East-and all its accompaniment of
bombing of cities and mass slaughter.
All these facts lead towards the conclu-
sion that an agreement has been
reached between the U. S. and Japan
for the division of China-at least on
the first steps of this division.
The entire bourgeois press of France,
which means, of course, also the $50
cialist" press, although in different de-
grees, has supported Japan openly from
the beginning of its Manchurian action.
And while, in the League Council,
BRAND still pretended to position dis
similar to Washington on the Manchur-
ian question, Laval comes to Washing
ton for cordial conversations with
Hoover, on "the most burning question
of world policy" without publicly men
tioning Manchuria. The result of the
hard work" in the White House, in the
language Of the New York Times"
was understandings of far-reaching
Importance" These agreements are
secret. In the words of the Times:
''There are obviously aspects and
results of M. LavaPs visit to Amer
lea which cannot be expressed in Of
ficial language. Things of the spirit
cannot be crystallized into formulas.
It may well prove to be true that, in
this case also, the intangibles, the i'm
ponderables, will be of more lasting
value than the specific undertakings"
In all the vague documents and POM
pous speeches, which will be and al
ready are interpreted differently by
each in accord with it's special interests,
there is one thing demonstratively en-
phasized by both sides-America and
France, they and they alone, can no
longer even pretend to have policy to
rescue capitalism from its crisis.
In addition to these "imponderables"
(Which means secret agreements cover
ing the big range of world problems
necessary for general understand'),
there was, above all, the Immediately
published agreement that Germany
must come to terms with France, that
France is given the support of the U. S.
in European affairs. Thus energies the
clear outlines of the new constellation
of world powers.
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80. <6astA-
" psr-4
Now. Do You Understand?
sy JoRGB

Sometimes we run across workers who don't
quite make out what we mean when we say
that the pacifists the best assistance to i'm
periast War-makers & Tc;@c
Just paste the following IN your hat and spring
it on any who doubt we quote from review
published in the N Y Times Nov l, written by
VIM. Macdonald, of Frederick Palmer's book,
Newton D, Baker-America at War"
Baker was at first reluctant to acquesce In
the idea of draft, but he, yielded to military
arguments and the lesson of Englands expert
ence with voluntary service, and the bill which
ne assisted in drafting was accepted by Wilson
without change
Colonel Palmer thinks that the acceptance OF
the plan by the country and>the passage of the
bill by Congress, were materially aided by
Bakers reputation as a paeifistA'
The pacifistS are always against war when
there isn't any war. But rlet one come along,
and they reluctantly" support it, and in fact
organize it. s, ~.
incidentally, when, many months ago, we
Communists said that one OF the reasons the
Farm Board was created was to gather store
Of supplies for the coming war on the Soviet
Union, some folks, in their superior" wisdom,
shifted at the idea as ridiculous Now we see
the Farm Board stocking up .rWestc,-4 Europe
with wheat beyond the need cSat,ny other pur-
pose than war, and alibinb Germany with the
funny yarn that it has -50,0Q9,00o. bushels that
have spoiled" E ;,.,.s-s
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The difficult situation of the British
Empire was expressed recently in
classical form by member of it's own
ruling class. Bertrand Russell, newly
Pledged member of the House of Lords
of the British Parliament, upon land
ing in New York for visit, commented
upon the future of the world. He de-
clared that Sin the next ten years." the
British Empire will separate into its
constituent parts and England will sink
into a country like Holland-if it has
luck" The 'luck" spoken of is, OBJ
viously, lucky escape from proletarian
revolution. Aside, even, of the danger
of revolution, it is becoming IAN axiom
Of imperialist policy that the British
Empire must be forced to position of
second-rate power before the greedy
appetites of her imperialist rivals. ~
When the British pound sterling col
lapsed, this historic event registered the
depth and intensity of the world crisis
of capitalism. At the same time, how
ever, it registered the fact that France
and the u. S. were in such a position
that they could, by acting together,
throw the first and heaviest blow of the
financial crisis upon Britain. The dol
lar and the franc preserved their own
precarious Stability" at the expense of
the pound sterling.
This was followed up by the Hoover
Laval agreement. What this means to
Britain was brutally and cynically ex-
pressed by j. P Morgan's New York
Evening Post" in the following words:
'The meaning is clear. There is no
word about continuing this study (of
the question of monetary stability
with the direct cooperation of London,
there is no mention of further talk
in which the British might also play
a role. There is no indication that
Lord Readings visit to Paris had any
thing to do with the weeks conversa-
tions. In short. New York and Paris
will do the stabilizing, not New York,
London and Paris"
And further, the general conclusion is
reached, that:
Yesterdays communique indicates
clearly that Mr.. Hoover has surren-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-03
The 'Majority' Stoolpigeons

Before us is letter signed by a couple Oh
workers who. under the idea that they might
hear something different, on the role of the
Communist Party of Great Britain in the recent
election. went to listen to the speech OF Love-
stone the renegade, on October 3d.
They heard something different, all right and
relate it as follows: y '----'-"
zone of the questions asked was Why did not
the Communist Party put UP more candidates
for elections? ava ~
aThe answer was: When afcahdidate runs for
office he must post $50 pounds (about $500 at
present rates. and if he does. not receive GER
tain number of votes he loses the money he post
ed Now as we all know it is hard for working
class organization to post poney, I am sure that
many $50 pounds we're lost, as they did not re-
ceive the necessary votes; sbutI am sure that the
money they lost was not English gold, but Mos
COW gold
"Lovestone also stated very impressively
don't want this statement to go out OF the hall
Which is NIGEL After springing lie like that
one made to order by the Fish Committee 10
observe caution" Don't let this get any FUR
Their than the Department Of Justice and Scot
land Yard"
The two workers naturally observe that:
This statement that Lovestone. made is ez-
actly the same that was made by Winston
Churchill, and by Lord Northciff- he was
alive. and also by Knickerbocker Tin the N. Y.
Evening FssN - ~ $500
And, we might add Father Walsh, Mr.. Diam"
garoff, Grover whalen, Matte VOL and Ham
ilton j. Fish.
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basically to the Versailles Treaty, as
providing the structure of Europe he
recognized the French right to the I'M
conditional separations; he pledged sup
port to cancellation of debts due to the
U. S.; he waived all demands for reduc-
ton of French aramaments on the con-
tinent-on all of which points he wa,
reversing the traditional position taken
by himself and those whom he repre-
sents, the rich agrarians, the Western
middle-class, the 'progressives" in Con-
gress. Borah was the sign of the united
front" of all sections of the bourgeoisie
behind the Hoover-Morgan program and
a guarantee against factious opposition.
At the same time Borah slyly intro
duced a "little" amendment into his de-
mand for recognition of the Soviet
Union. He motivated this demand upon
the necessity to "disarm" the Soviet
Union, which he pictured as a menace
to the peace of Europe and of the world
because of the existence Of the Red
Army. Only one more step, and not such
a big one, is now required to bring Be-
rah into alignment with the anti-So-
Wet front.
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even sharper than is Tokyo. 1t received
an open expression in the West, in the
canard published in Berlin, by the news
paper 'Germania," that the Soviet
Union was preparing to suspend pay
ments on its commercial contracts, lie
obviously connected with the provoca-
tive statements made in New York by
the owner of "Germania," Thiessen, and
by Cuno and Seimens, who spoke openly
of the inclusion of Germany in the anti
Soviet front to Save the system of in
dividualism from the menacing collec-
twist movement" This, in the face of
the fact, known to ALL the world, that
the Soviet Union is the only country in
the world without crisis, the only
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-03
The Growing Role of the United States in
the Regroubing of the ,Inberialist POWERS

the League Of Nations by the back
door," with the result of strengthen
ing that organization in such way as
to lead British observers to declare that
it has been wrecked. Laval visits
Hoover in Washington, for conversa-
tions that set rocking the chancellories
of the world, concluding secret agree
ments which every group and country
is figuring out for itself Japan, occu-
plying Manchuria, territory of foreign
nation, many times bigger than its own
area proper, issues an ultimatum to the
Soviet Union, demanding the cessation
of troop movements within Soviet ter
ritory beyond the borders of Manchuria.
Ramsay Macdonald heads a national
government, composed of Tories with
Labor and Liberal decorations, which
sweeps the general elections, reducing
the Labor Party to an insignificant min
GRITTY of about 10 per cent in Parlia-
ment. The daily press is filled with the
news and rumors of a thousand prep
arations for a new world war.
Less than two months time! And
we have mentioned only few of the
outstanding events of the period. The
whole range of inner policy within each
country shows the same feverish trans
formations!
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Many persons have been confused by
the intervention of Senator Borah in
the Hoover-Laval conversations, seeing
in this incident an expression of ire
concilable contradictions between France
and the u. S. which will prevent an
understanding" But this is to fail to
understand the division of labor" that
was agreed upon between Hoover and
Borah The latter's interview with the
French newspapermen fitted in quite
nicely with the whole scheme. 1t ex-
pressed, on the one hand, by it's demand
for revision of the Danzig Corridor,
the use of Germany (and Italy, by the
U. S. as a counter balance to France in
Europe, which places the limits upon the
hegemony of Europe, granted to France
by the, U. S. This at the same time
draws Germany and Italy away from
Great Britain, for the latter will find
it difficult to dangle before their eyes
much more tempting bait than that Of
fered by Borah. On the other hand,
Borah definitely revised his previous po-
sition in the direction of fitting himself
into the scheme of Franco-American
understanding. He pledged support
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-03

dered, reluctantly but fully, to the
idea that from now on the bargains
must be between America and France,
with our old beloved Anglo-Saxon
friend on the sideIines."
1t would be folly, of course, to think
that Great Britain is accepting the new
course of events without struggle. On
the contrary, she is fighting desperate
ly to maintain her position, her colonial
empire, and to expand her foreign mar
kets by the use of high tariffs and
dumping. Britain has been doing her
best to disrupt the new constellation, by
stimulating the appetites of various of
its members, Japan in the East, and
Germany and Italy in Europe, to make
such demands as will be incompatible
with agreement with the u S. and
France. When Britain was tricked by
the y. S. into developing the deadlock
between Japan and the League Council,
while the U. S. quietly made private
bargain with Japan behind the back of
Britain, the latter, with indecent haste
uSIlCu IilIO VI lIlG tIlIOuSu Tie SCIll-OllI-
cial spokesman, "Augur," to promise
Japan unlimited support for all demands
compatible with preserving the dignity
of the League" Especially was ex-
pressed the desperate determination of
the British imperialists to fight to the
death, in the panic-stricken national
coalition, headed by Ramsay MacDon-
aid, which wrecked the labor govern
ment and shattered overnight the par
liamentary illusions of the British work
ing class and exposed the bankruptcy
of reformism before the whole world.
The emergence of the fascist nation
ar' government from the general cleo
lions, with its overwhelming parliament
airy majority, expressed the grim deter
mination of the British "die-hard'' rul-
ing class, headed by MacD Church
i'll, to use ''force without stint or limit"
high tariffs, and "the biggest navy in
the world" against its own working
class, against the colonial masses who
are in revolt, against the Soviet Union,
and against it's imperialist rivals who
already in prospect are dividing among
themselves the rich booty of a dismem-
bered British Empire.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-03
By EARL BROWDER.

III ISTORY is being speeded up by the
- economic crisis and its results. In
the months Of September and October,
were crowded events equivalent of a
decade of normal development. The
rock of ages the Bank of England
and the pound sterling, went bankrupt,
slipped and fell from it's foundation of
gold, and plunged into the swamp of
initiation. japan, by sudden and de-
cisively-executed military coup, seized
Manchuria, that rich booty upon which
its eyes have been fixed steadfastlv for
two generations. The French Prime
Minister, Laval, with his Foreign Minis
ter BRAND, visit in Berlin to converse
with President Hindenburg and Chan
cellor Bruening of the Imperial German
Republic, announcing as a result that
the foundation of a far-reaching accord
has been reached. Seven hundred mil
lion dollars worth of gold is withdrawn
from the United States within 80 DAYS,
and Eurone witnesses run on the
dollar" President Hoover, after has
tily called conference with leaders of Re
publican and Democratic parties. and
the principal bankers and industrialists,
announce the establishment of an extra
ordinary apparatus to bolster up the
American banking system and "restore
confidence among the bankers in their
ability to perform their normal func-
TONS The Hearst newspapers, the
liberals, and the Socialists begin an
agitation for reasonable initiation" Of
the dollar. The United States enters
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-03
AL Smith, Payroll Robber

Under the command of Al rSmith l5OO6
door-to- door agents of the, Emergency Unem-
ployment Relief Committee" are going to knock
at every door in New York City. to get enough
dough from the workers to pretend that the un-
employed will be taken care OF while the rich
are allowed to contribute their sympathy"
Now then, you employed workers4w who are still
occupying "a flat, if you have amy cash you want
to give the unemployed, the. nearest Unemployed
Council is the place to give it, And when Al
Smiths agent knocks at-your door, just remem-
Der that . and tell em straight out.
Actually of course, Smith is taking no chances.
He means to get you, not only at, home, but at
your job, also. Get what he can from your wife
at home, and get the boss to rob your pay-check
where you work. 5,Gas,teji Dfts
Proof is plenty. Before lis is a letter sent
watch repair company by j. Ernest Stern, OF
the Brand hatllon Corporation, hut also chair
man of the Retail jewelers., Division OF Al
Smiths committee Mr. Stern isssstern. And
with some reason he Is also scared about what
the jobless will do. He says:ra =
UNLESS we all understand the urgency OF the
situation, we may be faced with serious condi-
lions, arising from thousands, who are on the
verge of desperation, and desperate souls do
desperate things in order to iive.Rreo
Therefore you little employers should be gen.
erouS and save us pig guys iroiil tt coSt. 1lo"-
ever, Mr. Stern and Al Smith suggest scheme
to load 1t all on the workers He says:
each firm and the employees connected
Herewith are asked to contribute. 1t Is sug-
gested I'd that the employees donate part OF
their salaries for period OF twentyweeks." Ano
woe be to those that don't! Further
I'm most instances the contributions WILL
BE DEDUCTED FROM PAYROLLS, and the
fulI amount sent with the firms check. Pro-
viding the bank isn't busted We might ado-)
If this isn't payroll robbery we don't know It,
And again we say-if you have anything to give
the UNEMPLOYED give it through the Unemployed
Councils and don't stand for being, high lacked.