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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17

OIL Lne ldDOrlng masses. For only
through these mistakes can the
workers and peasants learn to or
ganize their new existence, to get
along without the capitalist class.
Only thus will they be able to blaze
their way through thousands of him
ORANGES to victorious socialism.
Mistakes are being made by our
peasants who, at one stroke, in the
night from October 25 to October
&c Russian calendar, 1917, did
away with all private ownership of
land. and are now struggling, from
month to month, under the great
est difficulties, to correct their own
mistakes, trying to solve in practice
the most difficult problems of Or
ganizing a. new social state, fighting
against prof1teers to secure the pos
session of the land for the worker
instead of for the speculator, to
carry on agricultural production un-
der a system of communist farming
ON a large scale.
Mistakes are being made by our
workmen in their revolutionary ac-
tivity, who, in few short months,
have placed practically all of the
larger factories and works under
state ownership, and are now learn
ing, from day to day, under the
greatest difficulties, to conduct the
management of entire industries, to
reorganize industries already organ
lied, to overcome the deadly resist
ance of laziness and middle-class
reaction and egotisrn. Stone upon
stone they are building the founda-
ton for a new social community,
the self-discipline of labor, the new
rule of the labor organizations of
the working, class over their mem
berS.
Mistakes are being made in their
revolutionary activity by the Sow
lets which were first created in 1905
by the gigantic upheaval of the
masses. The Workmen's and Peas
ants Soviets are. a new type of
state, a new highest form of dem
ocracy, a particular form of the
dictatorship of the proletariat, a
mode of conducting the business of
the state without the bourgeoisie
and against the bourgeoisie. For
the first time democracy is placed
at the service of the masses, of the
workers, and ceases to be democracy
for the rich, as it is, in the last
analysis. in all capitalist, yes, in all
democratic republics. For the first
time the masses of the people, in a
nation of many hundred millions,
are fulfilling the task of realiz-
ing the dictatorship of the proletar-
lat and the semi proletariat, with
out which socialism is not to be
thought of.
Let incurable pedants, crammed
full Of bourgeois democratic and
parliamentary prejudices, shake
their heads gravely over our Sow
lets, let them deplore the fact that
We have no direct elections. These
people have forgotten nothing, have
learned nothing in the great up
heaval of 1914-191s. The combina-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17

state, it became our duty to quell
the resistance of the exploiting
class. We are proud that we have
done it, and we are doing it. We
only regret that we did not do it
at the beginning, with sufficient
irmness and decision.
We realize that the mad resist
ance of the bourgeoisie against the
socialist revolution in all countries
is unavoidable. We know too, that
with the development of this rev.
olution, this resistance viii grow.
But the proletariat will break down
this resistance and in the course
of its struggle against the bour-
geoisie the proletariat will finally
become ripe for victory and power
Let the corrupt bourgeois press
trumpet every mistake that is made
by our revolution out into the world
We are not afraid of our mistakes.
The beginning Of the revolution has
not sanctified humanity. 1t is not
to be expected that the working
class which has been exploited and
forcibly held down by the clutches
of want, of ignorance and degrada-
ton for centuries should conduct
its revolution without mistakes. The
dead body of bourgeois society can
not simply be put into-a coffin and
buried. 1t rots in our midst, poisons
the air we breath, pollutes our lives,
clings to the new, the fresh, the
living with a thousand threads and
tendrils of old customs, of death
and decay.
But for every hundred of our
mistakes that are heralded into the
world by the bourgeoisie and its
sycophants, there are ten thousand
great deeds of heroism, greater and
more heroic because they seem SO
simple and unpretentious, because
they take place in the everyday life
of the factory districts or IN seclud-
ed villages, because they are the
deeds of people who are not in the
habit of proclairning their every
success to the world. who have no
opportunity to dos
But even if the contrary were
true-I know, of course. that this
is not so-but even if we had COM
mitted 10000 mistakes to every 100
wise and righteous deeds, yes. even
then our revolution would be great
and invincible. And it will go down
in the history of the world as
triumphant. For the first time in
the history Of the world not the
minority, not alone the rich and
the educated, but the real masses,
the huge majority of the working
class itself, are building up a new
world, are deciding the most diff
ficuit question Of social organiza-
tion out Of their own experience.
Every mistake that Is made in this
work. In this honestly conscientious
cooperation Of ten million plain
workfngmen ana peasants In the
recreation of their entire lives
every such mistake is worth thou-
sands and millions of 'faultless'
successes Of the exploiting minority
In outwitting and taking advantage
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17

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civil war in Russia. though it is
facing a far greater task, the work
of abolishing capitalist wage-slayety
and overthrowing the rule of the
bouwgeoisie.
The American working class will
not follow the lead Of its bour-
geoisie It will &c with us against
the hourgeoisie. The whole history
of the American people gives me
this confidence, this conviction.
We are accused Of having brought
devastation upon Russia. Who is
it that makes these accusations?
The train bearers of the borr-
geoisie, of that same boTgeoisie
that almost completely destroyed
the culture of Europe. that has
dragged the whole continent back
to barbarism, that has brought
hunger and destruction to the
world. The bourgeoisie now de-
mands that we find a different bass
for our revolution than that of de-
struction, that we shall not build
it up upon the ruins of war, with
human beings degraded and brutal
lied by years of warfare. o, how
human, how just is this bollr-
geoisie!
Its servants charge us with the
use of terroristic methods. >. Have
the English forgotten their 1919,
the French their 1898? Terror was
Just and justified when it was en-
ployed by the borrgeoisie for its
own purposes against feudal do
nlination But terror becomes GRIM
inal when workingmen and poverty
stricken peasants dare to use it
against the bourgeoisie. Terror
was Just and justified when it was
used to put one exploiting minority
in the place of another. But ter
ror becomes horrible and criminal
when it is used to abolish an ex-
plotting ninorities, when it is en-
ployed in the cause of the actual
majority, in the cause of the pro-
letariat and the semi-proletariat, of
the working class and the poor
peasantry.
The bourgeoisie of International
Imperialism has succeeded in
slaughtering 10 millions, in Grip
ping 20 millions in its war. Should
our war, the war of the oppressed
and the exploited, against oppres-
sors and exploiters cost a half or
q whole million victims in all coun-
tries, the bourgeoisie would stin
maintain that the victims of the
world war died a righteous death,
that those of the civil war were
sacrificed for criminal cause.
But the proletariat, even now, In
the midst of the horrors of war, is
lee ming the great truth that all
re buttons teach, the truth that
has been handed down to us by our
best teachers, the founders 70 mod
ern Socialism. From them we have
learned that a successful revolution
b inconceivable unless ii breaks the
resistance of the exploiting class
when the workers and the laborine
peasants took hold Of the powers Of
The Washington times., 1931-10-24
The Six-HOur Day
It Is On Its Way and Can't Be Stopped

The sxhOur day coming this country and power
earth can stop It,
When laborerS worked from fourteen to twenty hours
day. they criminals when they begged and
demanded shorter hours of work.
shortsighted employers did not know did not want to
know that the who works happily for reasonable length
Of efficient and useful than his brother
who tolls in dudgery and goes from work bed and from
bed to his work again. They did not want to know.
They did not know what the intelligent employers Of
hours and high and increased profits and general pros
pe But the tenhour day and the eighour day at
last and convicted them of obstinate stupidity.
Even this country there capitalists who will fight the
further shortening of the hours of labor They will ask
when is this thing going to end? the workers get six
hour day. they will be asking for fourhour day and
at last shall be paying them full days wage for doing
nothing"
Ths thing will end when the able capitalist divides the
profits of modern efficiency made possible by organization
and machines fairly among the men whom he en-
ploys.
Many employers under pressure Of the depression have
already done this The Manufacturing Chemists Association OF
leading corporations in the chemical industry have recently
established hour day order to give work to the largest
possible number of menand has worked WELL has worked
very well emergency relief that the Of one OF the
big corporations says 1T may well be that it will become
permanent policy.
have done before and find their accomplishment easy 80
will be with the xhour day, and when it is accepted every
where in the big industries Of America it will show its many
benefits.
It will help to pull us out of the depression.
will give jobs useful workers who have been displaced
by machines
It will increase their productivity It did from three to
four per cent cereal plant where it has been tried
It will give workers time for recreation for develop
It will make both labor and capital in these
United States.
And it will prove that any who opposes does not
really understand his own business.
The Washington times., 1931-10-24
D. C. Budget Should Not Be
Cut IndiScriminately

The District Commissioners making their annual
appearance before the Bureau of the Budget trying to induce
that Federal agency the District generously in regard
to appropriations for the 1888 fiscal year.
these times of depression with governments running huge
deficits it well that estimates be studied carefully and all
possible of waste in government funds be stopped
On the other hand the budget bureau should not curta the
estimates by the Commissioners below the point con-
stent with the growing needs Of rapidly expanding and de-
velOpng National Capital.
placing the estimates in the hands of the Budget
Bureau the Commissioners went them with pruning knife
and Topped millions off the figures originally set the mini
by department heads These heads had asked for more
than $60000 upon which to their departments The
Commissioners after due consideration cut the figure to
$4SSO9OO0
this smaller figure that the Commissioners asking
the approve and recommend Congress Apparently
the Commissioners went low they felt they reasonably
could in preparing their estimate: For the budget bureau to
cut figure still further will reduce below what the Com
mSsioner actively heading the local government feel
to be the point Of safety.
Residents of the District do such large appropra
ton will necestate increase in taxes at this time but
they willing the taxes necessary to proper upkeep OF
their city
The Washington times., 1931-10-24
Help Tubercular Children

For many years indOmabe group of citizens
fought persently for the establishment of chdtens
tuberculosis sanatOrium Recently when the their
efforts seemed about be realized pickering developed and
caused delay
Now however District authorities report that warning
factions have settled their differences and have agreed upon
plans for the buildings in the sanatOrum group.
is well that agreement has been reached but it is to
be hoped that it merely compromise which may re-
suit curtaing Of the original hopes Oy the action
Of Congress in appropratng funds to start construction
At best this institution planned care for only
slightly more than 100 of the 600 children the city who
these children deserve proper hOpazaon and care Only
through these things they be given chance effectively to
battle the disease which grips them
These i'll children have many friends in Congress Those
friends will allow the differences of groups or the per
sOnal wishes of individuals to interfere with full and free
provision Of the best facilities for the youngsters
If few thousand dollars needed to make the pro-
posed sanatOrium complete and adequate District officials
should not hesitate to ask Congress for the funds.
The Washington times., 1931-10-24
The Navy Can't Talk
Tuesday is Navy Day.
You Can

IueS0ay Is navy Lay.
feature of celebration this year drastic order to
all naval officers who make speeches that day confne
their oratoy the history Of the Navy and to nothing
about the reduction in ships and that misplaced economy
program is putting through
The Navy course will obey. It knows that it being
showed down third position compared with the British and
Japanese navies, but orders orders.
However, many private citizens and public officials are
uneasy about the Administrators pacifistc attacks
first line Of defense And fortunately the Administration
not apply the gag to their mouths to the Nays
It seems therefore, that the most fitting way to observe
Navy Day this year would be to protest vigorously against
the foolish and fatuous policy Of laying up ships and guns
and until the national safety is not only threatened but
is actually endangered.
Labor ought be especially interested in protesting against
the Navy cuts Labor patriotic and labor is also vitality
concerned in getting jobs The Administration breaches
lot about private businesand practices the
its business It asks private business keep at
work. and orders its departments to throw out
of work.
As citizen and worker you express your opinion
on this policy. '-shNA
You take it up with your labor union, you belong
to
Or you take it up with your Congressman if you
have any.
He will listen to you and pass your views on to the
White House.
The Washington times., 1931-10-24
Efficiency In U. S. Service

Most Commendable the conclusion reached by President
Hoover that there need Of change in the handling Of
problems in the executive departments and that
department should not be dchargng experienced workers
while another is taking employees certified after Civil
Service examinations.
The President believer in the creation of factfindng
boards commissions created personnel pools Of which
Rear Admiral T. Craven u. s. n, retired, will be the
head The retired admiral functonng the chief Of
the Government Coordination Bureau.
President Hoover understood to have decided that there
a. no logic in policy which results in the firing Of
experienced worker in bureau such the
Census organization and the hiring Of INEXPERIENCED
man or in other branch Of the Government
service
The President wants to know why tried-out employees in
public service should not be transferred when possible to
another Governmental activity instead of appointment
going to some recruit
President has issued formal order covering this
situation his clear hint to bureaucrats that there must
be change and this unquestionaby will be for the better
ent of the service and the maintenance OF the
morale of the existing personnel
The Washington times., 1931-10-24
Bent Tenders and Profanity

Thomas Circle particularly at such hours when automobile
traffic its peak has become the open area for craped
Tenders and profanity Lights appear only to impede the
free movement Of vehicles and add to the congestion
The sum of irrated outbus from drivers who are
inconvenenced feel that their road rights have been
ignored daily Here the rule Of highway
courtesy has become dead letter in busy hours being
placed by policy which amounts to grab the right Of way
If you can"
Since automobile poteness and consideration for the rights
Of the other fellow appears to have disappeared at Thomas
Circle efficient and practical method Of regulating
the flow of traffic at this important focal point i'm
perave It Of the acute problems for the Traffic
Director.
The present system Of traffic lights is hopelessy inef
fecve It has been tried long enough that its only
advantage is to provide greater Of safety for
pedestrian travel It has increased the danger Of minor ac
dents has created where wordy arguments flourish
where black looks and strong language daily threaten the
peace parade
Proposed removal of the statue from the center of the
Circle may provide the eventual solution But until that
Improvement is under way the traffic lights could we'll be
abandoned They impedment rather than help to
the orderly Of vehicles at this point where eight
arteries meet
The Washington times., 1931-10-24
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson.

Those proud parents who
protect and program every
move their youngsters make
Those pesty parents who nag
and meddle, hinder or hurt
And all those other parents,
pesty, proud, or otherwise, who
won't let the kid call his soul
his own, but try to run the
show for him
Looking them over, I often
think Of that incident in the life
of young Jesus. Remembers
Gentle Mary, kindly Joseph had
come UP from Nazareth to pay
their yearly dues. to Rome,
bringing the 12-year-old boy
with them. No need to worry
over him as they went about
their various errands. he was
a steady, serious little lad, wise
beyond his years.
Their Great Surprise
Imagine their surprise, then,
when they discovered that he
was not with the travellers
when they turned home. Dis
tracted, Mary and Joseph re-
traced their steps to the city,
asking for him as they went.
At last they found him. Sit
ting in the court of the te n.
pie, talking with the rabbiS-
asking questions, arguing, as
has been the way Of little boys
since time immemorial.
Being properly respectful, the
Scriptures do not say exactly
what happened. But I suspect
that, despite her gentleneSs
and his kindness, Mary and
Joseph acted as anxious par.
ents usually do, act and gave
the runaway a piece Of their
minds.
Then came those words. with
which Youth has answered Age
since Youth first went adven-
turing and Age first started
worrying.
Calm eyed, certain, the boy
faced them.
His Fathers Business
twist ye not that I was about
my Fathers busineSs?" he said
His Fatl1er-that mysterious
source that is the father Of
all young things.
His Fathers busineSS-Not
merely this particular business
of debating religion with the
rabbis in the temple court, but
that vast and equally sacred
business Of Learning to Live.
The Washington times., 1931-10-24

That business OF learning 10
live by wondering and queS-
tioning, marvelling and doubt
ing. by asking questions and
making experiments and stag
ing rebellions and sticking his
nose in where it didn't belong,
His Fathers business OF
LEARNING TO LIVE
His Fathers business OF
FINDING THE TRUTH FOR
HIMSELF
Little Christ Jesus had been
about thnt business. Every it
tie child is about that business,
That is the most important
business on earth for him to
be about7-and every parent
should help him on his way.
' Parents Won't Do It
BUT HOW MANY WILL?
How many parents will let a
youngster be HIMSELF. his
own, unique, Individual Self?.
How many will let, him come
to his own conclusions about
life. even if his own conclu-
sions lead him onto disaster.
But I don't want my boy
to be hurt" says an adoring
mother. ~ don't want him to
make unnecessary miStaA--. I
want him to know everything
that is beautiful and happy and
wise"
And so that's your excuse for
meddling and interfering with
"his Fathers business" is 1t?
And you call it love? Yes, we
mother always call that love.
I know. I meddled too.
But how are we to know
what's best for our children?
Life's Children
They're not our children, af.
ter all. They're Life's children.
And perhaps Life knows that
your boy needs to be hurt.
And maybe no mistake is "un'
necessary perhaps mistakes
are the most necessary and
valuable things that happen to
us. And as for the things
that are beautiful and happy
and wise"-how shall we find
our way to pity and under
standing and strength if we
have no contact with ugliness
or sadness or weakness?
Their Fathers busineSS-their
Fathers noble and mysterious
business Of learning to live
they are on that, our little
runaway children. Help theml
(Copyright, 1881. King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1931-10-24
TIMES TEST

Mark each statement as "True"
or False"
l. A platitude is a witty re-
mark. ~
.. A linguist' is an exhibition
dancer.
3. "Ie jests' at scars that
never felt a wound" is q quota
ton from Romeo and Juliet"
4. Columbus discovered Lab
rador.
5. Aspirin is made from coal
tar.
8. Dinard is, in France.
z. Ductile is said especially ON
liquids.
8. A cortege is a bouquet.
g. Endymion was beloved by
the moon.
10. An obelisk is a round pillar.
Match correctly:
II. Magellan m a de the first
large English
dictionary
IL. Napoleon proved the earth
is round.
13. Penelope the little corporal
IA. johnson Petrarch wrote
poems in honor
Of her.
IS. Laura wife of Ulysses.
(Answers ON Magazine PageI
The Washington times., 1931-10-24
Graveyards for Autos
The Institute Of Scrap Iron and Steel Has Plan That
Will Help to Preserve Rural Beauty

Automobiles have done much to rural beauty
The countryside is Uttered with the remains Of defunct
cars
One scarcely drive anywhere without ensountering
every few miles the bones of abandoned machine These
unsghy piles Of junk to be found in forest gade in
meadows the banks of streams in the streams them
selves .t-.
The automobile sCapping committee Of the Institute. Of
Scrap and Steel has praiseworthy plan that will help
stop this defacng attractive landscapes It proposes
establish chain Of scrap yards which will accommodate
100000 autos year.
It to be hoped the plan will succeed that autoists will
deliver old these gaveyards for machines and that the
scrap men will dispose Of them profitably.
The Washington times., 1931-10-24
Preparing to Discharge
Thousands from Navy

Preparing to Discharge
Thousands from Navy
In his " rktown speech PreSi.
dent Hoover offered nothing on
the problems Of human misery
and unemployment as far as the
Government is concerned. He
called on individual to con-
tribute TO charit- funds to keep
women and children from starv-
ing; and individuals require no
presidential inyitction in that
Ct Fuse.
But he raised the point that
in our revolutionary days we
had a Yorktown a victory,
after the depression Of Valley
Forge, and drew some consola'
ton from the comparison. How.
ever, there would have be no
yorktown had Washington
merely hoped to get or Of Val
ley Forge. And Washington
stayed in Valley Forge mercy
because it was impossible for
him to do anything about it at
t-.s time.
The Valley Forge IN which
we find ourselves can be put
behind us by Government
today. It may not advance
US Immediately to Yorktown,
but it will spare us. the neceS-
sity Of leaving barefoot prints
in the SHOWS Of 1882.
The Washington times., 1931-10-24
ROthSchild'S Recipe
Still Good

In these melancholy depression days. Americans with few
dollars and few brains may be interested in this
During the War; when the mob ruled Paris
cutters red with blood Baron Rothschd asked
by frightened friend:
my Cod Baron what you doing to protect your in
terests?"
Rothschild answered:
"Well if you can keep secret I'll tell you. am buying
real estate for half what il is worth"
The Washington times., 1931-10-24
WISE WORDS


The winds and waves are al
ways on the side Of the ablest
navigators. -Gibbon
II you are idle, be not soli-
tary; II you are solitary, be not
idle. johnson
Far too much rest itself be-
comes q pain. Homer.
The wooden wall alone should
remain unconquered.
-HerodotuS
Every art Is in imitation Of
nature. Seneca.