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The daily worker., 1932-09-22
THEORY
AND PRACTICE"

Meanwhile, one frequently notices
an inadmisSable disdain for theory
on the part of some Party activ-
lists. "Over-burdened with prac-
tical work., such is frequently their
excuse for not giving more time to
reading Marxist-Leninist literature,
of which in most cases there isn't
very much in the various Parties.
Neglect or theory is demonstrated
by the, in some cases, inadmissibly
small editions of Marxist- t-Leninist
literature, and of periodical pub
locations of the Parties.
With the exception of a few Com
munist Paries (the G. P.'s of Ger
many and Poland) which have al
ready a definite, though far from
adequate, network of Party educa-
ton, there is hardly any serious
attempt to raise the theoretical
level of the Party activists. The
network of schools and circles is
restricted and not permanent. The
school sylabuses are too ambitious
and dissociated from the immediate
tasks ana activities of the Party.
1t frequently happens that sensible
and well written literature is con-
spicuous by its absence. Problems
of Party construction do not re-
ceive SUFFICIENT attention in the
periodical press Of the Parties, in
Party journals, in the newspapers,
etc.
Hardly any of the Parties Except
some beginnings in the G. P.'s of
Czechoslovakia and France have
as yet been able to produce man
ual on the history of their Party.
Without bold promotion on a large
scale of new forces of the prole-
tariat, armed with revolutionary
Marxist-Leninist theory, 1t is i'm
possible to do justice to the over
growing tasks of the Communist
Parties = winning of the majority
of the working class and leader
ship in the class struggles of the
proletariat. More attention to
Party cadres!
The End
The daily worker., 1932-09-22
TheMeaningof
Wall Street.
Wall Street, By Anna Rochester.
International Pamphlets, soc.
Reviewed BY ROBERT J. KENTON

International Pamphlets, soc.
Reviewed BY ROBERT J. KENTON
MALL STREET, says Anna Roch-
" ester in her excellent pamphlet,
commonly means "the world of
trading in stocks and bonds" This,
it is pointed out, while important,
is of lesser Importance than the
wealth drawn directly from in
dustry and banking and the result
ing power which centers in the
Wall Street area" Wall Street
grew up with the country--the de-
velopment Of large scale industry
and the consequent need of huge
sums of money for industrial pur-
poses gave control into the hands
of those able to supply this need.
Today, there is no real line of de-
macration between industry and
banking. Wall Street has resulted
in the fusion of the two.
Wall Street, the pamphlet shows,
is itself dominated by a small num-
Der of financierS. The oldest and
still the most powerful is the bank
ing firm of j. P. Morgan and Co.
Morgan is believed to have control
led in 1929 over one-sixth of the
total corporate wealth of American
capitalism. The Rockefellers, Kuhn,
Loeb, and other Titans, and also
the richest bankers and industrial
lists outside of Wall Street proper
but within its orbit, reach out over
the country as gigantic octopus,
involving in its grip every industry,
every large corporation and prac-
tically every important bank.
Wall Street makes certain of it's
control of the economic life of the
country by its control of the vari-
GUS political parties, the pamphlet
points out. 1t is we'll known that
the Republican and Democratic
Parties are the landmarks of the
banking and industrial fraternity.
But the Socialist Party also holsters
up the rule of Wall Street, while
seeming to oppose it.
This little volume should be distrib-
uted by the thousands all over the
country, and its price--only five
cents. three cents If ordered by the
hundred-makes this wide distrib-
ution possible. Order from Work
ers Library Publishers, Box 148,
Station D, New York City, or from
the Workers, Boo ookshop. In your city
The daily worker., 1932-09-22
Correction

In review Of "The Farmers Way
OUT published in the Sept. 81 issue
OF the Daily Worker, the price was
enormously given as 10 cents. The
correct price is / cent each, TO be
ordered from Workers Library Pub
fishers, Station d, New York.
The daily worker., 1932-09-22
Problem of
C0dTeS in
the Party
BY TZIRUL
(InstaIIment V.l

THE PROBLEM of strengthening
the cadres can only be solved
by making number Of changes in
the methods of Party work. This
applies particularly to the methods
of work in the Party committees.
The Party organs must guarantee
of the actiVization of all their mem-
bers: more workers must be drawn
into active Party work than here
tofore. We must no longer have
state of affairs where the work
is done not by the whole commit
tee but only by a few members or
the secretary. This does not mean
that we must have larger staff Of
paid Party workers. On the con-
trary, in some cases (for instance
in the G. P. of America) this staff
must. be reduced. A redundant
Party apparatus leads to the bu-
reaucratization of Party work, to
work by circulars, to isolation from
the masses.
WORK IN
PARTY COMMITTEES.
Comrades must be made to un-
derstand that it is their Party duty
to work in the Party committee.
This applies above all to the men,
bers of the given committee, and
after them also to other activistS.
Members of the Party committee
from the factories must above all
establish a connection between the
committee and the factory; they
must keep the Party committee in
formed about the mood of the work
ers in their factory, about their
own activity and that of their nue.
leus, they must secure influence for
the Party, first in the factory, and
then also in their own district.
Collective work in the leading
organs must be accompanied by the
development of self criticism. This
will be conducive to bringing to
light new forces and giving them
an opportunity to show what they
can do. On the other hand, this
guarantees the possibility of find
ing out incapable workers and re-
placing them by others.
In order to help the new Party
workers one must organize confer
ences Of instruction on various
questions, courses, etc. Great help
can be given them through in
structors, who certainly must not
only familiarize themselves with
the situation in the various nuclei
and organizations, but must also
help the local workers to bring a
change and an improvement into
their work.
To equip the Party cadres with
the revolutionary theory of Marx
iSm-LeniniSm is one of the most
important parts of cadre training,
all the more SO as there are Party
members still in the grip of social
democratic traditions, and as many
Party workers have not had a ser
ious Marxist-Leninist preliminary
training.
The daily worker., 1932-09-22
BY FRED GILLETTE.

WEST FRANKFORT, Ill.-Despite
W the peaceable calm of the early
September afternoon you get the
impression of dozens of unseen eyes
watching your movements: the
husky with the gray slouch hat who
eyed you when you got off the
train, the policeman on the beat,
everybody knows a stranger in
town. And a stranger in town
nowadays when goods are rotting
on the shelves is hardly likely to
be travelling salesman, these fell
lows figure. Therefore, every
stranger is probable Red.
After few hours in this town
you understand more clearly what
it's all about; Yeritable Chinese
wall of terror has been thrown up
about Franklin County
Edmondsons gangsters rule like
bevy of drunken czars.
(Edmondson is a Lewis agent
at one time self-appointed leader of
a rank and file" movement.-Ed.
Note).
MINERS are forced to work at the
IW muzzle of guns. One miner, an
old grizzled resident of the fields
for the last fifteen years said:
''The whole county of miners is
wanting to come out. But they
can't come out while Edmondsons
gun thugs run riot over the fields.
He revealed that number of min
ers have been shot for speaking
their minds That if miner does
not appear at work in the morning
he is visited during the day by a
committee of gunmen who want to
know the reason why" Every for
eign born miner is considered "a
god damned Red hunky son-of-a-
bitch"
The daily worker., 1932-09-22
Digging Coal at Mnzzle of
Guns IN Southern Illinois
By BURCK.

Fellows Ansbury said, 4 don't
know what the hell to advise. Go
back to your locals and decide for
your selves" The miners opinion
was that at that time AnSbury did
not guage the mass solidarity thru
out the fields; that he was ready
to capitulate to the terror in
Franklin County; that he fled the
keystone County of the field in
the face of the terror. "Only when
the masses of miners insisted on
marching on Franklin County. did
Ansbury fall behind the movement"
And then he led the march five
miles In the air-in an airplane,
instead of being on the firing line,
the miner said.
COME of the mines in this county
" are dumping the coal on the
ground; storing up what they can't
sell at the moment, foreseeing the
possibility of an irresistible revolt
within the county one of these
days. The attempts of the mine
owners to fan into flames prejudice
against the foreign born miners
will not succeed. For conditions
are growing unbearable even for the
miner. The county oil
garchy, of Edmondson, a republican,
the democratic sheriff and district
attorney, the Shelton gangsters
from East st. Louis can only last
so long and no longer. 1.-THE straw
is coming soon that will break the
caneIs back" this miner said.
1t was enlightening to learn that
Buddy Moore, state policeman
who was discharged" from the
force for beating up too many min
ers, and whose life was in conse-
quent danger, has been appointed
night watchman of Orient Mine
No. to replace the killer Sutton,
who shot Joe Colbert, the militant
secretary of Local 1903 of Orient
No. /, August II. Sutton is said
to have murdered nine men to date.
BIGGEST IN THE WORLD
The 1000 miners of Franklin
County are employed chiefly at
Orient No. l, at Orient; and New
Orient No. 2, at West Frankfort:
the G. w. and F., lid Ben Coal
Co. mines, the Brewrton mines and
the Bell zoller No. 2. To give you
a picture of the capacity of these
mines: Franklin County in 1881
produced more than nine million
tons. First in production came the
New Orient with 1000 tons; next
the Old Ben Coal Co. No. Is, with
$4,000 tons, and third the Bell
zoller No. 2 with $4,000 tons. The
New Orient No. 2 at West Frank
fort is said to be the biggest mine
in the world; it holds all worlds
records for hoisting.
THESE are the reasons the UMWA
and the coal operators are de-
termined not to allow Franklin
County to exercise the democratic
rights guaranteed us by our Con-
stitution" as the leaders of the
PIMA put it, very, very mildly. Then
the pendulum swings to talk of
fighting fire with fire on the next
march to Franklin County, Right
now, the heat of strike still per-
vades the coal fields.
Homeward, at a mass meeting in
OFarrell yesterday, Barney O'Fla-
herty, a leader of the PIMA appeal
ed to all the miners who can pray
to get down on, their knees and
pray for the success OF the new
union; but as a miner said to me
afterward, prayer won't get you
into Franklin County, The rank
and file of the new union must
press their leadership forward for
action on this keystone point, be-
fore it is too late.
The daily worker., 1932-09-22

Stop the billion dollar subsidies
to the trusts and banks. Immediate
unemployment insurance at the ex-
pense Of the government and en-
7paezs1 Agsin TFw a1>s
The daily worker., 1932-09-22
SENDS DONATION

Los Angeles, Cal.
Editor. Daily Worker,
Dear Comrade:
Enclosed $100 donation, and I want
to say the Daily has improved the
past few months. The articles and
stories are great the international
news, in more detail form, is a vast
improvement over the news flashes,
and such articles as Fosters Speech"
in Ohio was very good. Altogether I
have noticed a very much improved
workers paper. Good work, COM
rades. It's needed more than ever
now.
Comradely yours,
ALBERT COOK.
fighterl Here's to more readers and
fighters
The daily worker., 1932-09-22

fighter Here's to more readers and
fighters
Comradely.
,;i, ~ RQSEsRIGA W. :,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-27
LET'S GET STARTED

One easy road to give some men the jobs they
need is through the completion at once of necessary
public projects whicH will pay for themselves in the
future
The money can be borrowed by cities from the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation if an organized
demand is made by the public and by public off,
Gals
There NUMEROUS projects in this city which
should be built now while idle labor demands work
and private enterprise is unable to furnish it,
The sanitary plant should be completed. The
elevation of railroad tracks be done better
than it can in the future when go back to
work The reconstruction of sum areas, and sur
vey shows that there are a number in this city,
would employ labor and furnish comfortable homes
for many who live in shacks
Nothing else should matter until men put
back to work Here is the available chance 1t
is time to start
public drive in this direction might put two
three thousand men to work at wages, not poor
baskets, within the next month
This should interest the taxpayer, who must even
tually pay all the bills for poor relief. 1t will be
found cheaper in the end to put to useful work
than keep them a thinly disguised dole.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-27
SAVE THE FORESTS

The economy ak swinging in Washington this
winter is as menacing to public forests in the west
as the woodsmans ak is in danger of determination
from insect disease Experts in the bureau of ento-
mology say there is even chance of saving it il
program Of control is undertaken at once
If not, 30 per cent of the parks forests will be
destroyed, and with them the fertility of an entire
region, as well as a great playground
Pine beetles have attacked the sugar pines in
Yosemite and Sequoia national parks, two of the
loveliest spots in the United States which serve as
forest reservoirs in an arid land. Farther north
in Mt Rainier national park, the white pine blister
rust has made its appearance.
The alarm with which Horace NJ. Albright di-
rector of parks, views this situation in his annual
report to congress is thoroughly justified and should
be shared by every public official Money is needed
to fight forest diseases.
There are economies which are curative to an
ailing community, but others suicidal and fail
ure to save the forests is one of these Forestry
work is relatively inexpensive and ideal unempoy-
ment relief
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-27
THE PRICE OF COAL

Among the ffty-four coal miners entombed at
Moweaqua ILL.,, Tom Jackson who to have
played Santa Claus to the mine villages children.
Coal is cheap in dollars. 1t is costly in lives.
Normally, coal mine accidents claim $500 lives
year. Last year, the result of low employment
and increased mechanizaton, this figure was re-
duced to 1900 fatalities With proper precautions,
the United States bureau of mines reports at least
rs per cent of these lives could have been saved.
Coal mining is Americas most chaotic industry.
Wages are as low as 40 cents day. Child labor is
common, with $500 boys under 10 at work in Penn
syvania mines alone. Not only do mine owners
fight among themselves in jungle competition, but
unions are at war with each other.
Exploitation poverty, malnutriton, slow starva-
ton are the common lot of coal miners families
Civil liberties have been violated times without
number
These conditions are known to the President and
to congress. The Kelly bill provides for fed
eral regulation of this essential industry But moth
ing is done about it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-27
Every Day Religion
BY DIR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

let the soul in him die. Society
speaks in a stern voice: NO non
sense now. Play golf. Keep on
making money. Live with your
wife, even if it is bore. Bust
ness as usual"
Most men surrender; few kick
over the traces and have a wild
fling or two, then come back and
trot in the harness the rest of
the way. 1t is a trying time, the
most dangerous period of life, and
we need to watch it.
What is a man to do with him
self at that age? How is he to
find an outlet for his energies in
a direction Of fulhllment, not
Illustration? He can re-educate
himself, for one thing, and he will
find it a fascinating adventure.
He can take his place and do his
part in public life, where we need
men who Go not seek Office for
money, but for service. In a world
of aching need there are great
causes calling for all our surplus
energy.
IT, like Sherwood Anderson, a
man is stunned by the white
wonder of life" he will not I'M
raVel and interpret its mystery
by brooding over it, however
brilliantly; he must do something
with it-something worthy of the
vision he has seen.
Copyright, 1882, United Feature Syndicate]
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-27
TUESDAY. DEC. n. 1892.
REDEEMING PLEDGES

Most encouraging to the citizen who wants
nothing from government out protection and escape
from ubearable burdens Of taxation is the fact
that Governor Elect McNutt taking steps to pro-
vide for prompt redemption of the pledges he and
his party made in his campaign
Those pledges we're very definite and most Of
them very important.
The old-age pension law, for years sponsored by
the Eagles lodge and organized labor, vetoed two
years ago by Governor Leslie. is more necessary
today than ever before. 1t is one OF the nstru-
ments of the new deal. It means hope for the
1t recognizes the obligation of society to
for its veterans of industry well its veterans
of wars.
The cities long Insulized through it's public
service commission are demanding a sincere redemp-
ton of the pledge to furnish an easy road to public
ownership of the utility service The citizen has
been overtaxed by the private corporations for
electricity gas water. These are essential to life
and essential to business.
Every extortionate dollar taken for electricity
comes from the pay envelope of some worker
Every overtaxed dollar for water gas comes
from the scant tables of the workers of cities.
Mere lip service to a pledge will not serve the
present situation, which is desperate.
No one expects that the influences of the utih-
ties will be absent from the coming legislature. No
political party has been immunized against the
germs of this social poison There will be sly mem
bers who will try to eopsrdze and render futile any
legislation There will be secret agents Of greed in
this legislature under the Democratic party just as
there are secret or brazen agents under Republican
rule.
Paul McNutt deserves protection against betrayal
In his own party and apparently is well able to fur
nish his own protection If necessary. 1t is ques-
ton of leadership and responsible leadership, and
the steps he is taking well calculated to pre-
vent embarrassment in the closing days of the ses-
sion when shrewd parliamentary tactics rather than
dispassioned reason often guide legislation.
Relief from the exactions of regulated utilities
is quite as important relief from public taxation
which may be spent in extravaganza.
In making a fight for a redemption of pledges
this year. confidence in present form OF govern
ment is involved If the Democrats fail in the spots
where their political rivals invited their own defeat,
the people must inevitably lose confidence in the
party system sYtJ
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-27

can not get rid Of what we produce fast enough
to keep from being engulfed
Yet we pick this time TO dam up the foreign
outlets Tor our factory and farm surpluses. Unre-
Vised debts and high tariff walls make 1t harder
Tor others to sell to us, and they can not buy be-
cause they can not sell. Meanwhile, we and the
others go on paying for dangerous arms race out
of deficits.
Still, with world trade blocked, We wonder why
factories are closed and farms are liability With
vast sums flowing away on and preparations
Tor war. we wonder why the highest taxes can not
balance government budgets
Here is sef-sufficiency. The depression is the
lsolationists dream come true-onIy it happens to
be nightmare.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-27
Just Plain Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

TT is hard to see how are going to sustain wars
Il most glamorous legend-that armed conflict is
courageous and the soldier hero.
Once this may have been true When knights
went forth to engage in a hand-to-hand combat
with the enemy; when generals rode at the head
of their Troops when kings and princes fought be-
side their subjects; when the fate of battles de-
pended upon the valor of every individual then 1t
was easy to tell the boys that war was glorious.
But what shall we say to them now, when not
one move is made openly or nobly, when we dig
in the earth like rats and ride miles high in planes
over the enemy country, and when monster ma
chimes and not men are our chief aggressors?
In the truest sense, can such mass destruction
rebound to the glory credit of any individual?
TINE man who stands up and defes cannon is
l. not hero-he is a plain fool, because all the
odds are against him. bomb and boy never are
matched fairly. There is sporting thrill in
fight between even score of men and one machine
gun that suks in sheltered retreat splitting death
Future generations will not be inspired by dex-
terity in throwing hand grenades. And however
we'll general may plan his campaigns, or how
ever skilfully he his little map pegs, he
not, by any strength of the imagination bs called
an Alexander so long he sits snugly ensconced
in retreat far behind the lines.
st. George Staying his dragon, Theseus battling
the minotaur, are heroic and legendary figures.
Segfried, Sir Launcelot Richard the Lion Hearted,
Napoleon. these names have long been synonymous
with courage to boys.
But their glory was acquired with their good
right arms. and by their personal bravery their
superior VIII, and face to face contact with the
enemy.
There is nothing truly heroic about dropping
bombs that deyastate cultivated regions and kill in
nocent babies as we'll as fighters.
Indeed. if we open our minds to truth and close
our ears to the professional soldiers this is cow
ardly and despicable deed. If we continue our
wholesale slaughter, We shall have to abandon our
legends of glory
The boys are too intelligent not to notice the
wide differences between the two.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-27
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
BY. DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

THERE also was announced
l. the discovery of product
to be given in the condition called
agranulocytic angina and also
malignant neutropenia.
In this condition there is sud-
den deficiency of the white cells
in the blood that are responsible
for the body's protection against
infectious disease.
Sometimes through a malignant
infection of some kind or perhaps
for other reasons there is a sud-
den shortage of these cells.
Investigators in Pennsylvania
and Ohio developed a product
which is injected directly into the
veins in such cases, and which, in
a considerable number, seemed to
have merit.
California Investigators an
nounced development of a new
drug, carbarsone, used particular
" against infeStation of the body
by parasites called amebae, re-
sponsible for amebic dysentery.
The drug is derivative of ar
senic and contains 28.8 per cent
Of that substance. which also is