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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-17
BY A. MARRIOTT

however, cannot be blamed The District must
bear the responsibility. These things should not
be left to voluntary choice; the District should
handle this as one of the primary tasks of the
Party and the sections in assigning members for
the courses should consider this Party task
equal to any of the tasks in the Party The units
should ask for a report from the comrade at
tending the course
This however is not ALL We are living in
period when things change with lightning rap
idity. New problems arise daily; the Party must
and does react, but the members are bewildered,
they do not understand what is taking place.
why the Party issued such and such slogan, etc.
Our members are the agitators OF our Party in
the shops, factories, mills, etc. They must I'M
derstand the Party line, they must understand
the Party principles, they must understand the
elements of Leninism without at least the ele-
mentary knowledge they cannot and will not
succeed in the work
Systematic Training
In addition to the systematic training, which
should be made an integral part of activities,
conferences should be held from time to time,
perhaps on section scale, where leading mem
bers of the District and Central committees ex-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-17

talking with men in the trenches often more
hungry and ragged than Washington's soldiers
at Valley Forge, until village laborers miners
and machinists felt new strength flowing through
their exhausted, but logged ranks.
SO Kalinin came to have friends in villages
and workshops throughout the length and
breadth of the country. When something wasn't
going right in village, or help was needed
the peasants, remembering their friend would
decide, wen just 60 no to Moscow and tel
Michael Kanin about this. He'll help us to
SET matters straight"
They have travelled from far and near bring
ing their problems and demands Thus Gus
tom grew up which today is a regular feature
of Kalinin's work. Twice every ten days he de-
votes a morning to receiving those who want
his advice or aid, in solving their problems
prevents the consolidation Of the. Manchurian
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-17

IN an article in the fascist japanese newspaper
in Tokyo, "Nichon, Karnaiz who is described
by the editors as IAN expert on the Russian
question" urges the Japanese Government to
proceed with its plans for armed intervention
against the Soviet Union with the argument
that none of the other imperialst powers really
raises any objects to Japan's policy in Siberia"
Kamaizi brazenly voices the criminal aims of
japanese fascist-miitarist circles for the seizure
of Siberia. His article was captioned Japan
ese-American or Japanese Soviet War
The main idea of the article is as follows:
America which formerly was teacher of Japan
at the beginning of the Meidsi epoch, in the
second half of the 10th century, became the
rival of Japan in the Far East, and since the
Peace of Portsmouth has exerted all possible
pressure Japan, especially at the Washing
ton Conference and at the London Conference,
as well as by passing law restricting japanese
emigration. AS result of this there increased
in strength tendency in influential japanese
circles which is in favor of accelerating war
with America the more as after 1885 the po
sition of Japan in relation to America will be
much more Instantaneous.
Kanlaizi rejects this standpoint, as in his
opinion, in the event of a japanese American
war, there can come about collaboration be-
tween the U.SA and the Soviet Union in
writes the author-there can be no hope of VIC
tory Gas even the defeat of the United States
fleet would not be accompanied by an econo-
mic victory although "the USA owing to the
intervening Pacific Ocean, could not inflict a
final defeat on Japan
For Division of Loot in China
Kamaiz points out that the Chinese market
Is the chief, cause of the antagonsm between
the U.S.A and Japan. Therefore it is neces-
sary to strive for compromise "by dividing the
Chinese market between the U.S.A. and Japan"
This task" declares the author sis not an
easy one But it is to be solved if one takes
into account the existence of the antagonisrns
between the United States and England and also
the sentiments of the American cotton planters,
who do not want to lose the japanese market"
The situation is quite different as regards a
war between Japan and the Soviet Union, con-
tinues the author. There can exist no friend
ship between Japan and the Soviet Union, las
their ideals are Numerically opposed Japan
is monarchy which strives for the peaceful CO.
existence and respect of the mutual interests of
the peoples of the world The Soviet Union on
the other hand, is Republic, which is striving
for disorder, civil war and revolution and wishes
to subjugate the whole world"
Calls for Seizure of Siberia
Public opinion in Japan, says Kanaizi, is con-
centrated at present on Manchura and Mon
golia. But there can be no talk of establishing
a paradise in Manchuria before the Soviet
question is solved" According to Kamaizi, the
solution of the Manchurian monaghan problem
depends upon the solution of the Siberian pro-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-17
WHY DOES NOT THE PARTY TAKE LEAD
ERSHIP?. a.. IS LENIN ONLY A PICTURE
HERE AND HIS TEACHINGS WE'LL.
ONLY A BEAUTIFUL THEORY"
A Letter from q N0n-Payty Worker

weeks ago. / distributed the leaflets and the
booklets and had long talks with different in
dividuals. Within week l took the names
and addresses of five different persons, three
of them prospective members of the Com
muntSt Party who were ready to join and also
ready to subscribe to the Daily Worker. L
took all these names to the headquarters. AS
nobody in, I wrote a note and dropped r.
in through the hole in the door. / urged them
to go after these persons and finish the work
had started. Afterward 1 saw some of these
men and asked if anybody had come to see
them. Every time the answer was in the mega
tive. felt like salesman might feel who
was selling bad stock and had apprehended
them. 1 have tried several times to get into
the headquarters, before noon afternoon, early
and late, and nobody was ever in. Make your
own conclusions.
The unemployed here ready to be
ganized, ready to do anything. We only lack
the leader. As they themselves say is Lenih
only picture here and his teachings only
well-a beautiful theory? Why not strike when
the iron is hot? Capitalists fear nothing more
now than that the unemployed be organized.
Why does not the Communist Party take the
leadership. j. n.
We are of the opinion that the Journalism
and sectarianism and absolute disregard of the
possibilities of struggle disclosed in the above
letter are not the monopoly of the particular
Party organization referred to- 1t is our opinion
and the reports and discussion of the Four
tenth Plenum of the Central Committee con-
firm this, that an examination of practically
every district and section of Party districts will
disclose similar conditions of lost opportunities
and failure to utilize and develop the growing
initiative of non-Party workers.
We urge all leading comrades and committees
to study this letter, to apply its searching criti-
cisms to their own work-and to secure from
large numbers of nonParty workers in their re-
spective districts similar frank and detailed crti
cisms, to take these criticisms with the utmost
seriousness and make them available to the en-
tire Party organization An din this way in
crease the tempo in the carrying out of the
Fourteenth Plenum decisions.
r We welcome the letter of this worker and urge
workers everywhere to send in letters to the
Daily Worker telling what they think of our
Party on the basis of their own experiences and
to make without hesitation, suggestions for aid
ing our Party to put into life, without delay in
this period of war preparations and ever-sharp-
ening attacks upon the entire American working
class the decisions of the Fourteenth Plenum.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-17

in theory, and behind closed DOORS The Com
munist Party seems to follow, to great ex-
tent, the footsteps of the aforesaid party, as
far at least as this locality, the Wyoming
Valley which includes Wilkes Barre, Pa, is
concerned.
In this locality there are between 100000 and
and $4,000 people. And to the Communist
Party only 200 people belong! Why?
When a person goes to sleep he is still living
alright. But he is not doing anything-he is
just sleeping. That's what the Communist
Party local organization is doing here. 1t is
grave accusation, know, but 1 will herewith
prove the same, then yeu may your own
Judgment
have tried for long time to know where
the Communist Party headquarters are in this
region. Several weeks ago a Finnish cOmrade
took me there. Nobody was in, although it
was 10 am. 1 called there again the next day
at o'clock in the afternoon. This time there
was the secretary and organizer. had long
talk with the organizer. gave him my Opin-
ion as to what should be done here, and it was
and still is-TO ORGANIZE THE UNEM-
PLOYED, which the Communist Party here
has failed to do. This is a golden opportunity
for the Communist Party, if it only realizes
this fact
to my proposition. told him one organizer is
not enough here, we need hundreds of them
and I'm willing to be one, and told him I
would like to join the Communist Party. He
told me that there are some other comrades
in my city and that he is going to organize
nucleus here and he promised to come to see
me some day.
However, as am out of work, have been all
this year and almost all of last year and
goodly part of the year 1880, you don't blame
me if I'm bit impatient and even desperate?
can't spend my time idng any longer. /
have to do something! And the only some
thing there is to do is to talk to other unfor-
Inmates. And one can meet them anywhere
now. 1 have talked to a good many of them
and to different nationalitieS. Finnish
comrade gave me three copies of the Moon
Hour Talk" pamphlet. 1 distributed them with
the request to pass them to somebody else
after it was read =, ~,
/ called again at the headquarters. 1 told
the comrade what had done. He said ii was
alright. He gave me three additional Moon
Hour Talk" pamphlets, besides couple of
dozen leaflets of a coming mass meeting in
Luzerne, Pa, where delegates were to be elected
to go to the National Communist Party Con-
venton in Chicago. This was q couple of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-17

Look here, this
Kalinin. Say, this
kind of president is
sure a new one on
me. Did you notice
him last night, for all
his specks and grey
hairs bobbing around
and enjoying himself
like a kid mixing
with us foreign work.
ers. When he came
to our table I started
to get up, but he gave
me a good shove back,
quick like that, and
took a chair along
side. Then he began
asking me a bout
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-17
June Issue of
"The Communist"
CONTENTS

i. The Imperialist Offensive and the Fourteenth
Plenum of the Central Committee.
2. The Struggle for the Majority of the Working
Glass and Our Mass Work BY O. Kuusnen
8. Some Elementary Phases of the Work In the
Reformist Trade Unions. BY VIM e Foster.
4. Fascism, Social Democracy and Communism.
BY w. Knorn ELI
5. Lessons Of Two Recon; Strikes. In the Light
of the E.C.CI. Resolution On Lessons Of
Strike Struggles In U.SA." BY JacA
Stachel
6. The War Observation-Disclosures the Capital
ist Dictatorship In the United States. BY
Bill Dunno.
!. The Second Five-Year Plan BY Moissaye
III j. Olgin. .,se
8. Marxism and the National Problem. BY ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-17

things in Seattle He knew about our general
strike in 81. And he sure talked plain and
sensible about things over here. Nothing big
cheese or up-stage about HIM. He's regular
fellow-an ordinary worker, like you or me, and
president to boot. Just wait till tell the
boys back home!" Legs straddled, arms swing
ing, he heaved lusty breath. ITO be frank
with you, I was bit leery of these Bolshies
before 7 came over. You know all the tales
going about. Now find out it's guys like Ka-
linin and those others we've met that the papers
and labor skates are calling bureaucrats and die
tators! Just wait till tell the boys back home!"
But these traits of Kalinin which had struck
Walt SO much, over here in the Soviet Union
are simply taken for granted. Working class
simplicity, daily cornradely contact with the
masses, learning from Them as well marked
ability to analyze and direct-What other char
acteristics, Russian worker rather amazed,
would ask you, would you expect to find in
Soviet leader?
ONCE, while we we're sitting in the meeting of
" the Soviet All-Union Congress my Russian
companion pointed toward Kalinin, who was
presiding over the sessions. do you know the
last time saw himP" he chuckled Seeing him
now, so engrossed in his government work, you'd
never guess it, 1t was last summer, when ran
across him sitting on a Moscow curling having
an animated discussion with some peasant
men about the price of eggs, and how things
we're going in their village. Such things are
habit with him. 1t is one way he manages to
keep so close to the people and why they feel
toward him the way they do"
Kalinin-Both Worker and Peasant
When Michael Kalinn in 1919 was nominated
for the post of President of the Central Exec
utive Committee of the All-Union Congress, the
highest governmental Office in the Soviet Union
Lenin pointed out that in Kalinin the first
workers and peasants republic found its true
president. For in Kalinin were united the pea
SAINT of Tver with the metal worker of Lenin-
grad. In living form he expressed the lasting
unity, on which the Soviet power is based be-
tween the city workers and the toiling country
side.
Year after year the working masses, through
their elected representatives, have re-afirmed
their earlier choice, by keeping Michael Kalinin
at his post Hes the man for the job" they
say. They know and trust him, as one of their
For many decides he labored alongside them in
the fields and later in the shops. He helped
organize strikes, carried underground revo-
lutionary work end was one of those sentenced
to exile in Siberia
During the Civil War days, kalinin, like Lenin
and other Bolshevik leaders, who we're graphing
eighteen hours a day with economic political
and military problems Of consolidating the work
ers powers would make time to 90 to the fronts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-17
.Close>ubs on Kalinin
1.-The Soviet Workers
President
By MYRA PAGE

By NINA PAGE
Our Correspondent in the Soviet Union
MALT couldn't get over it. The day after the
banquet given in honor of the May First
delegations of foreign workers in the Kremlin
by the Society of Old Bolsheviks veterans of
the 1905 and 1917 revoutions), this Seattle sea-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-17

Machines are reported as loading less than
one per cent of the output in Washington, Ark
ansas Colorado Tennessee, Miesc",4., Maryland
New Mexico, Iowa, OIL ,-o.ia' North Dakota and
North Carolina Actual tonnage loaded by ma
chimes COR hand-loaded on conveyor) has risen
from sTs62,oOo tons Of btuminous in 1929 10
47ss4.ooo In 1851
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-17

Percentage Of coal loaded
by machine or hand
loaded on conveyor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-17

The tonnage of deep-nlined coal loaded by
machine Cor hand-loaded on a conveyor) in 1881
rose 1.3 per cent, while, at the same time, the
total bituminous output in 1881 fell 10 per cent
below the 1880 figure. ~
Illinois is far in the lead in tonnage mechan-
Wyoming in the percentage of total state out
put which is mechanically loaded In every inn
portant coal state except West Virginia and
Virginia, the percentage mechanically loaded
was higher in 1881 than ever before. Carrying
the comparison back TO- 1929 We find the follow
Ing figuresa ..., 49, - -
Evening star., 1932-11-15

American Theater Society
Plans Second Presentation.
THE American Theater Society,
which started off with a flourish
with '"The Good Earth" and subse-
Evening star., 1932-11-15
CHASED 10 MILES
IN RUNNING FIGHT
Two Sought In Car Theft and
kidnapping of Five Seized
by Officers.
By the Associated Press.

CHARLESTON, Ark, November l5.-
Spreading gunfre over 10-mile course
rs officers pursued them for the theft
Of an automobile and kidnapping of a
farmer and his four children, two men
were wounded and captured near here
yesterday.
The prisoners gave their names as
Leo Scarborough and Frank Townsley.
Scarborough, shot three times, is in a
critical condition. Townsley was
wounded slightly in the back Police
said Scarborough had served q one
year term in the Arkansas Penitentiary
for robbery.
The theft Of a car at Paris Ark,
started the chase. With officers in pur-
suit, the men stopped at the farm home
Of A. j. Gibson, ranSacked the house
and, brandiShing rifle and q pistol,
forced Gibson and his four children into
the Gibson automobile. Mrs. Gibson
was not taken, but was warned against
notifying officers.
The Gibsons later were put out on
the highway, and the men continued
their flight in the Gibson car.
Paris officers already were in close
pursuit, and Mrs. Gibson telephoned to
Branch, where a deputy sought to stop
the fleeing car, but was hurled from the
running board. He exchanged several
shots with the men. Other officers
Joined the chase here.
Bullets few as the car speeded
Evening star., 1932-11-15
FIVE CHILDREN SHARE
IN HARTMAN ESTATE
Will of 800 Words >Disposes Equal
ly Of Huge Legacy From Rail
e Financier's Widow.
By The Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GOSHEN. n. Y. November 15.-The
fortune of Mrs. Mary w. Hartman, who
died in New York City last Monday, will
be divided equally among her five chill
dren. according to the terms of the will
which was admitted to probate here
yesterday
The will was Of 800 words. The win
of her late husband, Edward II. HarrI-
man, railroad financier, bequeathing
his wife hts s100,090,000 estate was of
SO words.
Mrs Harriman's viii was dated Au-
gust 10, 1895. The estate Is divided
equally among her children. Mary
Hartman RumSey Of Port Washington,
Cornelia Hartman Gerry of Newport,
r. l.; Carol Hartman Stewart Of
Unionville, Pa, and william Averell
Hartman and E. Roland Hartman Of
New York City the latter two sons be-
ing named executors.
No appraisal Of the estate was
available.
Evening star., 1932-11-15
SOUTHERN YOUTH
ORATORY CHAMPION
South Carolina Boy Winner
of Future Farmers
Contest.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, November 15.-wil-
liam Bagot Searson, jr, Of Meggetts,
s. c., last night reafirmed the tradi-
tional oratorical brilliance of the old
South by winning first in the national
finals of public-spesking contest here
sponsored by the Future Farmers of
America
Searson. I6-year- son of truck
farmer, spoke on the subject Give
Them a Chance" He won q prize OF
$400.
Second place and $500 prize went
to Almond Stalnaker of Weston, w. Va.
William K. Snyder of Lowell, Wyo., was
third and won 5000, and David Pettus
of Stanford, KY, took the fourth prize
of S100.
The competitors won their way to
the contest in elimination contests OF
the Future Farmers organization, which
is one composed Of vocational agricul-
tur-e students.
The contest was held here in connec-
tion with the American Royal Live
Stock and Horse Show.
Champion Saddle Horse.
Crimson Rambler, a 4-year-old chest
nut mare owned by p. z. Bennett of
Dayton, Ohio, won the feature $500
Board of Governors stake for fve-
gated saddle horses.
Senator Crawford, q bay gelding.
owned by the Three Bar Stables Of
Omaha, Nebr., won the roadster contest.
Purdue University swept the big
prizes IN the sheep department. With
Southdowns, the Lafayette, Ind, School
won the grand champion lamb and
the champion pure-bred wether lamb
titles The same school also won rib
bons for the champion grade or cross
bred wether lamb and for the grand
champion pen Of three-wether lambs.
Best Shorthorn Bull.
The grand champion shorthorn bull
title went to Balmuchy Landlord,
owned by the Milky Way Farms of
Pulaski, Tenn. The junior champion
ship in the class went to Raveni Leader,
entered by T. Dorsey Jones Of Shelby
vile, Ind. The competition in the
shorthorn classes was for prizes total
ing S2,500.
Announcement was made yesterday
that Ohio State University'S live stock
judging team won first honors, with
4,364 points, four points ahead of the
second-place Oklahoma A. & M. Col
lege team. Iowa State College, which
had the winning team in Saturdays
intercollegiate grain judging contest,
placed third in livestock judging.
Individual livestock judging honors
went to Robert L. Morrison, Colorado
Agricultural College student.
Evening star., 1932-11-15

through Charleston, with officers close
behind them and others joining the
race
with escape virtually impossible.
Townsley, already wounded. left the car
Evening star., 1932-11-15
COMPANY
EARNINGS REVEALED
Light and Heat Return 6.5 to 9.86
Per Cent Between 1920 and 1880,
Trade Commission Told.
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Testimony that the Manufacturers
Light 81 Heat Co of Pittsburgh earned
a return on its invested capital ranging
from 6.5 to 986 per cent between 1920
and 1880 was given the Federal Trade
Commission yesterday by Robert J.
Ryder, an examiner.
Appearing in the commissions in
veStigation of public utility companies,
Ryder said the return was on invested
capital, as shown by the company's
books, before reduction of Federal in
come tax.
The highest return was in 1920 and
the lowest in 1921. For 1880 1t earned
6.23 per cent, Ryder said.
Net income before Federal tax reduc-
tiorS, the examiner said, ranged from
$2006,623 in 1921 to $3,432,547 in 1926.
The 1880 income was given at 81, ,231 ,938.
Ryder said the company was organ
lied on April 81, 1908, through con-
solidation Of seven existing concerns
Records Of the company as of June 80,
1903, ne said. showed assets of
$34, ,708,232, including s16,l45,000 of
fixed capital
Evening star., 1932-11-15
"Sh0w Boat"
As Good as Evt

"Sh0w Boat"
As Good aS Ever.
<<N HOW BOAT" which will 60
down in theater annals as
zieefeld's most distin-
~ guished contribution to the
stage, is notable on its re-
turn trip to the National for the re-
tanning Of some Of the original mem
bers OF the cast, for Jules Bledsoe's
immortal "OP Man River" for Helen
Evening star., 1932-11-15
ROBINS DROWNING
STORY IS DOUBTED
Police Get Secondhand In
formation on Supposed
Staying by GangsterS.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, November 15.-Police and
Federal agents are bit skeptical of
the story they got second handed that
Col Raymond Robins, prohibition leader
and friend of President Hoover, has
been killed by New Jersey gangsters.
Carlisle o. Byrd, oil and mining pro-
moter, passed the story on to Boston
police as coming from Ralph j. Code
of the Dorchester district. who is being
held in bond for $4,000 after plead
ing not guilty to larceny charges
According to Byrd, Code told him
that Col. Robins, who disappeared early
last September, was thrown into the
sea 40 miles off Montauk Point, Long
Island, after rum runners had kid
naped him and taken him to an un-
named New Jersey beer baron.
Code, who was arraigned on charges
of swindling two New York men, al
legedly told Byrd the story to Substanti-
ate his alleged knowledge of ship move
ments and of the underworld as an
"ex-Secret Service man" officials of
the Secret Service at Washington said,
however, that Code had never been
an agent of the service as far as they
knew
Police and Federal men here placed
little credence in the story of Robins
death and Code denied ever having
spun the yarn.
The case of the Dorchester man was
continued until November % on his ar
raignment yesterday. He was Specifi-
cally charged with the larceny Of $325
from Byrd and $500 from Edmund H.
Noyes, a guest at the Prince George
Hotel, New York. He allegedly OBJ
tanned the money through a scheme to
raise a treasure-laden ship from the
ocean bottom, police said