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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-16
(By A. Bittleman, Workers Library Publisher
4s pages, price 1oc)
Rv EVA SHAERAN
BY EVA SHAFRAN

1.-THE Communist Party in Action" fulfills the
need Of providing the new Party member with
reading material on the Party, what it stands
for, its problems and its activities.
The demand for such a pamphlet was evident
at the time when we organized our Six Weeks
New Members Course on the basis of an out
line prepared by the Agitprop Department of
the Central Committee
The resolution of the 14th Plenum of the &C.
points out that we have hundred per cent
fluctuation in membership" The problem OF
retaining the new members in our Party is of
the greatest Importance.
In this 40 page pamphlet, THE Communist
Party in Action" Comrade Bittleman has made
conscious effort towards helping to solve this
problem, and did it with much success The
main line of the pamphlet is directed to max
ing the new Party members Party conscious,
strengthening the ties that have brought the
worker into our ranks.
The pamphlet is divided into eight chapters
and subdivisions. It starts with the discussion
OF the reasons why the new member Joined the
Parity. The vzStc,r experiences Of the worker in
tf1eseUwye pf4srF9FttrtpStspu snsffaeseeuG <axuss
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Negro masses from national oppression of this

Negro masses from national oppression Of this
same ruling class. :" pages -5).
These pages also point out the special tasks
of the white workers belonging to the domi-
mating nationality" in the fight for the rights
of the Negro. masses and for the final liber-
ation... the rights of the Negroes in the Black
Belt to self determination, including the right
of separation from the United States" How
ever, in view of the fact that there is a great
deal of unclarity on the Negro question, special
section dealing with the Negro problem is abb
solutely necessary
Likewise the problem of Party organization
and structure. While the pamphlet takes up
the most important basic principles it does not
deal sufficiently with the actual workings Cor
ganizaton) of the Party. Even the basic srin-
ciples, democratic centrasm' for instance, are
not elaborated on. This is essential precisely
because it is pamphlet for new recruits
1.-THE Communist Party in Action is a real
contribution TO the training of new Party mem
bers. The pamphlet should be read by the Par
ty membership. AS q text book for the New
Members Courses ID has the greatest value.
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but they must also point out to the masses that,
as framed by these pacifists, these slogans are
wrong and childish. They must explain to the
masses the real circumstances under which war
breaks out, the impossibility of limiting the
struggle to certain fixed methods and the need
for bringing into action all forms of the class
struggle.
theoretically to combat and openly criticize
all frivolouSness in the ranks of the Commun-
ist Parties concerning the question of combat
ting war. This is particularly necessary at the
present time, in view Of the mistakes contained
in press articles and parliamentary speeches.
Under no circumstances should such mistakes
be allowed to pass without criticism.
From the Sixth World Congress Revolution
on the Struggle Against ImperiaIist War and
the Tasks of the Communists
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-16
COMMUNISM AND THE NEGRO

"The barbarities and desperate outrageS of
the so-called Christian race, throughout every
region of the world, and upon every people
they have been able to Subdue, are not to be
paralleled by those of any other race, however
fierce however untaught, and however reckless
of mercy and of shame in any age of the
EARTH"
And Marx summarizes his conclusions in two
short but brilliant sentences:
Force is the midwife of every old society
pregnant with a new one. 1t is itself
economic power"
Obviously we have here no Mortified moralizing
and foolish preaching about the evil Of violence
Marx does not merely judge and condemn but
supplies us scientific understanding of the his
torical and revolutionary role of force. How
ever, Mr.. Richardson, apparently never having
peered between the covers of book by Marx
could hardly be expected to know anything about
the immensely fruitful and historically illuln-
mating conceptions of scientific communism
In fact, 1 believe 1 am going to astonish Mr..
Richardson by telling him of a German Mr..
Richardson who lived many years before the
present Mr.. Richardson. Being a German, his
real name of course was not Mr. Richardson,
but Duehring. But his ideas on force and vio-
lence were just crude and timid and shallow
as the ideas of our own Mr.. Richardson in
America.
Mr.. Duehring- Richardson insisted that force
is the highest evil and that its use demoralizes
the user Since Dehring was causing lot of
confusion among the German workers of that
time, Frederick Engels, co-founder with Karl
Marx, of scientific communism found it necessary
To show the hitter hollovnesS of Duehring'S posi-
ton. I am sure Mr.. Richardson will not object
if I quote what Engels said about Mr.. Duehring
especially since Mr.. Richardson has been SO
busy defending his imperialist masters and the
Jim Grow interests of the Negro bourgeoisie that
he has had no time to read what the Communists
themselves have to say.
According to Mr.. Duehring," Engels wrote,
force is the absolute evil The first act of force
is to him the first call into sin. His whole con-
ception is preachment over the infection of all
history up to the present time with the original
sin. He talks about the disgraceful classifying
of all natural and social laws by the invention of
the devil That force plays another role in his
tory, revolutionary role that it is in the words
of Marx, the midwife of the old society which
is pregnant with the new, that it is the tool by
the means of which social progress is forwarded
and foolish dead political forms destroyed-of
of that Mr. Duering has no word to say, only
with signs and groans does he admit the pos
sibility that force may be necessary for the
overthrow of a thievish economic system. He
simply declares that every application of force
demoralizes him who uses it, And this in spite
of the moral and intellectual uplift which fol-
lowed every victorious revolution. He says this
in Germany, too, where a powerful and necessary
uprising would at least have the advantage of
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abolshing the slayish snobbery of the national
mind which has prevailed since the humiliation
of the Thirty Years War. And this foolish and
senseess sort of preaching is set up in opposition
to the most revolutionary party known to his
tory
The question of force was raised in one of its
many concrete phi asses following the Revolution
of 1905 in Russia. The discussion then revolved
around the question of partisan war as a form
Of struggle during the period of revolution. With
somewhat of the moral approach of Messers.
Duehring- Richardson, the argument was made
that partisan warfare tends to demoralize the
revolutionary proletariat by bringing it close to
the drunkards and vagabonds And Lenin re-
piled, Illuminating in one short paragraph the
wretched poverty of point of view which seizes
only on one side of every question and is incap-
able of viewing it in its totalty. 1t is true, Lenln
said, partisan war does bring the conscious pro-
letariat close to the drunkards and vagabonds-
But from this only one conclusion may be
drawn, that the Party of the proletariat cannot
consider partisan war as the only, not even as
the main form Of struggle; that this form must
be subordinated to other forms, must correspond
to the main forms of struggle, must be en-.
nobled by the enlightening and organizing i'm
fluence of Socialism. But in the absence of the
of struggle in bourgeois society bring the pro-
letarian nearer to various non-proletarian strata
above and below it, and, if left to themselves, to
the spontaneous course of events, they are bound
to get worn out, perverted, prosttuted"
Lenn here shows the true meaning of reyou-
tionary force and struggle. He shows that it is
not question of force in the abstract but of
many-sided struggle animated and inspired by
the fundamental aim of building new socialist
society. 1t is the existence and leadership Of
disciplined Communist Party which stimulates
and organizes the revolutionary energy ard in
itative of the workers and oppressed masses and
prevents them from degenerating and fritterng
away into fruitless struggle.
Behind all the task of the Richardson's is the
philfstine fear that Communism means uncon-
trolled force and Vioence-as if capitalism itself
is not the greatest example of untramelled force
and violence and dismal chaos But what these
gentlemen fail to understand is that it is only
the existence and revolutionary activity of the
Communist Party which raises the inevitable
struggle of the oppressed Negro masses and
white toiers to the highest level and guarantees
that the justified anger and rage of the masses
will be organized and inspired with deep his
torical purpose.
The bourgeois mind cannot understand the
tremendously progressive and ennobling role OF
revolution in the lives of millions of people who
have been degraded, warped and shrivelled up
with superstitution and race prejudice. The re-
voluntarily activity of the masses inspired by
Communist goal will not only change their con-
ditions but will also change their own natures,
as the gigantic achievements Of the Soviet Union
abundantly prove.
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The 18th Plenum of the Executive Com
mittee of the Communist International CALL
ed upon all the parties to popularize the
teachings of Lenin on war, and the decisions
of the Sixth World Congress of the G. I. on
the methods Of struggle against the war dan
ger and the danger Of military Intervention
against the U.SSR.
We are reprinting below some excerpts
from the Sixth World Congress resolution
Recently the Sixth World Congress resolution
was republished. In spite of the great need
that exists for this resolution, only one thou
sand copies were sold. This is an indication
OF the insufficient understanding Of the i'm
portance Of absorbing feminist teachings in
the struggle against war
The two pamphlets by Lenin CThe War and
the Second International and Socialism and
War; which wereS gotten out by the Little
Lenin Library have the smallest circulation
of the various pamphlets of the Little Lenin
Library. We urge the comrades to study
these pamphlets 1t is particularly essential
to increase the sale of our agitational liter
allure against war.
In the mobilization of the masses against
imperialist war, the sharpest struggle against
pacifism must be carried on. In this con-
nection we mention the pamphlet Of Com
rade Bittelrnan. Revolutionary Struggle
Against War Versus Pacifism"
We request the comrades to send in for
this column brief articles dealing with their
experiences in the mobilization of the mas
ses IN the struggle against imperialst war.
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By ]. w. FORD
Article 8

IN my last article, ap-
L pearing in the Daily
Worker of May 6, I dealt
with some of the questions
raised in the article by Mr..
G. E. Richardson, bour-
geoisie Negro editor of the
Houston Defender (Texas)
in the so-called Symposium
on Communism in the April
Crisis.
L return today TO that
statement in which he
represents Communism as
opposed to revolutionary
methods. That statement
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shall never permit another war;" mo more war"
ETC. The Communists must not be content mere
ly to correct" these slogans theoretically. but
must wage an active fight against this kind Of
propaganda by unmasdng those who conduct it,
and denounce this phrase mongering as screen
to conceal the preparations being made for war.
The same thing applies in many cases today
OF the slogan; war against war" that is adj
vanced by the Social Democrats as hypocrit-
ical means of raising unfounded expectations
among the masses
To combat the proposals advanced by the
radical" pacifistS for preventing war. Com
munists cannot content themselves merely with
exposing these people as pt1rasemongers, who
would do nothing TO carry their sadiead pro-
posais into effect general strfle snNAxxy strihss
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Proposed Candidate
for Vice-President on
the Communist ticket
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-11-21
Livestock
SOUTH ST. PAUL

South st. Paul. Nov. 21.-(P}-U. s.
D. A)-Cattle $500: liberal share OF
tail-end westerns included in run;
these mostly in stocker flash; early
trade carrying weak to lower UNDER
tone on all slaughter classes: some
bids Is lower; better stockers and
feeders getting moderate inquiry;
palmer grades dull in sympathy with
slaughter classes: choice long yeari-
ings held up to 700; bulk fed offer
ings 4.O0-5.50; no action on she stock
other than cutters; these Its down;
bulls 2.75 down; numerous loads pet
ter stockers over weekend 5.OO-5O;
choice calves 600: bulk all stockers
3Oo-4.50; calves 1900: bidding weak to
so lower on vealers or around ESQ on
bulk better grades.
Hogs 1880; fairly active mostly
strong to 10 higher than Friday; good
to choice 16O-260 ID. 3.0o-10; top $40
paid for sorted 16O-240 lbs, and bet
ter; underweights and pigs largely
3.OO-10; packing sows 2.25-60; average
cost Saturday 29l: weight 220 lbs.
Sheep $4,000: run includes % dou-
bles westerns; 46 doubles Dakotas;
early undertone mostly steady; sellers
asking higher: or above $50 on choice
lambs; early sales feeding lambs
steady at 425-75; for good to choice; ;
around g. h.. whitefaced rangers;
Saturdays sales include better grade
lambs mostly SIS to packers; one deck
Ut h., range ewes It's.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-11-21
CORNERED SLAYER
COMMITS SUICIDE
AFTER GUN BATTLE
Machine Gun, Rifles and Tear
Gas Bombs Employed in
Spectacular Fight

Cincinnati, O., Nov. 21.-(P)-Cli-
making desperate gun battle with
more than 20 officers, James Burris,
IS, who officers said had committed
three murders. Sunday ended his ca
reer with suicide.
Trapped in a house in the center
of the small town of Mount Grab, 80
miles east of here, Burris shot him.
self through q temple while deputy
sheriffs from three Ohio counties and
detectives from indianapolis stormed
the dwelling with machine gun,
rifles and tear gas bombs.
One of the attackers, Capt. Lynn
Black, SO. head of the Hamilton
county police, was shot in the abdo-
men as he stepped in front OF win
dow after tossing a. tear bomb into a
door, and was in serious condition
Monday.
Burris, alias Webster and Walker,
was found in the house of Mount
Grab friend after a man-hunt in In
diana, Ohio and Kentucky which be-
gan Oct. 3 when he shot and killed
Sheriff Roy Compaton of Rush coun-
ty, Indiana, who had sought to arrest
him on liquor charge. The killer
escaped other officers that time by
jumping out Of second-story win
dow.
A scene like war was enacted at
Mount Grab as the more than 20
officers sought to dislodge the cor
nered slayer, while half Of this
towns $50 population looked on from
behind shelter.
While searchlights played upon the
building from every side, the officers
poured lead into the windows. A
machine gun kept up a whitening
stream OF fire from one location and
deputies, crouched behind trees and
corners of nearby buildings, sniped
with pistol and rifle. Now and then
an officer would dash into the open
to throw a tear bomb and then dash
back to shelter with head ducked.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-11-21
INVESTMENT TRUSTS
by the Associated Press)
lOYer counter at New York;
= o N. TT N u E ID
from page ono
Law Is Expected
To Delay Control
BY New Officials

term as commissioner will expire Jan.
81, next. The new administration will
not have a majority on this board,
however, until the term of Howard
Lampman, Williston, expires Jan. 81,
1894. The term of A. D. McKinnon as
chief highway commissioner and ex-
ecutive officer will expire Jan. 81,
1895.
Full control of the state mill and
elevator will fall to the new admins
tration through exercise of the ap-
pointive power on July l, 1894. The
term Of A. I. Hunter, present member,
will expire July 81, 1888 and that of
Alfred A. Storstad on July 81, 1894.
Replacement of Storstad would give
the new administration majority.
The state department of immigra-
ton falls in line with the expiration
of the term of j. M. Devine as COM
missioner OH June 80, 1888, as does
the state department Of criminal
Identification, the term of Gunder
Osjord expiring on July I. 1888.
July Is Big Day
In fact. July 1. 1888, will be a big
appointive day. the terms Of Henry
l.. Reade as state fire marshal; of
Laura Sanderson as a member Of the
state board of administration: and
Adjutant General q. A. Fraser ex-
piring at that time.
The term Of Ed Rupp. state coal
mine inspector. expires March 5. 1888,
and OF w. H. Stutsman as member
of the Workmen's Compensation Blu
reau on the second Monday Of next
January.
AS is the case with the milr and ele-
vator commission. however, control Of
the latter department will await the
appointment Of second man on the
three man board. In the case of this
department this will come with ex-
piration of the term Of Commissioner
Walter c. Preckel on the second Mon
day in January 1885.
The I. v. A. majority on the board
Of administration, which rules all
state institutions, will control until
July /, 1888. although two Nonparti-
sans will take office as ex-officio
members in January. They are John
Husb.k commissioner of agriculture
and labor, and Arthur Z. Thompson.
superintendent Of public instruction.
The term Of Nelson Sauvair1. present
board chairman, will expire July /,
1885 and that Of r. M. Rishworth on
July 1, 1887.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-11-21
GIANT RADIO TRUST
DEALTDEATHb BLOW
IN FEDERAL Court
Other Persons Had Been Ex-
cIuded From Business BY
Pooling Of Patents

Wilmington, DEL, Nov. 2l.-(F-A
settlement was effected in federal
district court Monday of the govern
ment antitrust suit against the Ra-
do Corporation OF America and other
defendants.
The case against the General Mo-
tors corporation, General Motors Ra-
do corporation, American Telephone
g. Telegraph company. and Western
Electric company, Inc, was dismissed
at the request Of the government and
an injunction decree was issued
against the remaining defendants.
The General Electric company and
the Westinghouse company, which
own a controlling stock interest in
the Radio Corporation, are to divest
themselves of the stockholdings of
themselves and their respective SUBJ
salaries in the Radio Corporation OF
America. the decree ordered.
The enforcement will be accom-
plished by General Electric distribut-
ing ratably its shares Of common
stock Of radio to common stockhold-
ers Of its own company. General
Electric and Westinghouse must d.
vest themselves of their stockholders
in radio by immediate distribution Of
one-half their total holdings and the
remainder within three years.
In the meantime. they are forbid
den to exercise the voting rights.
The two Electric companies are
enjoined from acquiring stock in the
Radio Corporation in the future. and
from being represented on its board
Of directors.
The decree also enjoins these de-
PENDANTS and their subsidiaries from
further recognizing or enforcing the
exclusive provision Of their parent
cross licensing agreements.
1.-THE government had complained
that these cross licensing agreements
were made to eliminate competition
among the defendants in violation Of
the antitrust law.
1T asserted also that the pooling Of
more than 1000 patents applicable in
the radio field. and the granting to
the Radio Corporation of the exclu-
sive rights to license the use of the
pools patents in that field hampered
the right of other persons to engage
In the radio business.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-11-21
e. o N T I N u E ID
~ from page ono
A. F. L. Committee
Urges Compulsory
JObless Insurance

state employment services under fed
eral coordination.
Explaining how the insurance plan
would operate, with Ohio as an ex-
ample the committee said benefits
would be paid unemployed not more
than 16 weeks in one year. The pay
ments would be based on 50 per cent
Of the normal wage, but not to ex-
coed SIS q week.
The executive council declined to
recommend unemployment insurance
at last years convention, but last July,
changed its mind, said william Green,
federation president. because "our
warning that the nation must pro-
vide work for the unemployed or un-
employment relief instead of supply
ing temporary jobs for idle people
!. has not been Needed"
The councils plan for more equit-
able distribution Of income follows:
Graduated Income Taxes
I'D Steeply graduated income and
inheritance taxes: (O constructive
control Of credit to finance produc-
ton: % protection Of workers inter-
ests equal to that Of those who In
vest financially in industry; a. SET
ting up Of . federal agency to collect
Information Of labor and provide
staudards for determining economic
balance: 90 federal licenses for cor.
pc-ations operating on IN interstate
scope with specific requirements or
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-11-21
Tribune's Grain, Livestock and
Market Report for Satur., N0v. 10
WHEAT PRICES SINK
DESPITE DECREASE
IN VISIBLE SUPPLY
Steadying Influence, However
Is Continued Drought in
Winter Areas

Chicago. Nov. 81. -R-D Despite
1,768,000 bushels decrease of the U. s
wheat visible supply total, wheat
prices Monday weakened under per-
sistent December liquidation.
A steadying influence, however
was continued drought in big sec.
tons of domestic winter crop terri.
tory. Traders looked for a heavier
reduction of acreage than estimated
At the inside, December wheat Mon
day was less than / cent above the
an-time record low.
Wheat closed unsettled, 3-8 to 81
cent under Saturdays finish; Dec.
AZ 3-4 to AZ 7-8; May, AZ 1-8 ia
AZ IA: Corn unchanged to 3-8 cent
lower; Dec, "a SD to "a 3-4: Nav
20 3-4 to 20 7-8; oats unchanged to
IA cent off, and provisions 2 cents
down to shade advance.
A cent bushel cut in Buenos Aires
wheat quotations Monday tended to
weaken values everywhere as stress
ing sharper competition with North
America. Meanwhile, continued SELL
Ing on the part Of December wheat
holders here was associated with the
fact the Chicago open interest in De-
cember totaled about 100000 BUSH
els, the largest amount known at this
time Of year so close to delivery date
Bears contended that elevators would
make big deliveries on December /
unless the price differences were Wild
ened between December contracts ana
May or July.
Lack of aggressive buying support
was conspicuous in the wheat pit. Re-
ports about showers and light frosts
In some sections of Argentina were
ignored. A small reduc-
ton Of the amount Of wheat on ocean
was also without apparent
market influence. Favorable weather
for field work tended to ease corn and
oats prices.
Provisions we're steadied by upturns
of hog values.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-11-21
N. ID. Auto Fatalities
This Year Reach 81

Fargo, N. D., Nov. 21.-(P-Auto
fatalities for the year climbed to 81
Monday with the belated report Of
the death of Louis Mann, farmer,
killed near Trotters, 40 miles north
Of Beach, when his car upset round
ing a slippery turn.
Details of the Trotters death are
unknown. Mann leaves his widow
and several children.
Auto deaths in North Dakota for
the same period a year ago totaled
lol. During November, 1881, the
greatest number Of auto deaths in
the three-year history Of the Fargo
Forum tabulation was run up. Nine
teen persons lost their lives In No.
vember auto nishaps last year.