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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-14
The Lausanne "Gentle>
mems" Agreement

THE international exposure genemens
nt" the
OF the continued deepening the most devastating crisis
time The bloody upon Ger
virtually shipWrecked by the
is attempt to postpone for the
separations up United States
The question of postponng the collection of nteraied
This the United States anticipation
be the outcome at Lausanne that proposals.
much said to the rival particularly Japan
ebts owing to Wall Street its
70 combat the attempts of the other powers
Tcan mpeasts in the position of being responsible
an agreement the question reparations
American imperialism attempt to abandon it's
powerful position debtor although the
tenfies every way strengthen
he side OF its mperast policy
eb provided
In pursuit OF that policy Mellon holds the title of ambassador
Britain while Stmson makes frequent
Its great financial for similar political therefore
Military purposes.
speech parliament Tuesday that 1--WE are out
for combination
denial OF the existence Of agreement against the
certain
powers would certainly contain points with which
periahs would agreement plans further agrees
sve action toward war and intervention in the Soviet
With downward the
tagon of the capitalist world strg-
giles All of the powers seek
is regarded the remaining solution
jack Imperialism aratons war debts
debts nung diplomatic intrigue all look
geedy toward the Soviet Union under
Socialism could be brought capitalist pressing
problems for capitalism capitalists
Let one believe for moment that the
between the pe powers lessons the danger
against the Soviet contrary ntensifaon
nnermpeast enacng the at
the Soviet the East
1t Is imperative that intensity the drive
great Inter.
national fighting Day Against rmpeanst
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-14
Birds of a Feather

THE League Independent leadership
Professor and the publisher
Willard finally candidate president
the United States whom they know will reject their advances
The League hawked their organizations approval the Wash
politicians months repused Borah scorned
Booka treated them with silent after his defeat
perfectly good platform
the capitalist system the League for Independent Political
Action sought IN vain Tor someone with SUFFICIENT prestige TO head third
ticket they knew all along that when everything else
~ is+ c%os e endorsed The candtdo+o Of tho social
They bourgeois
they capitalist system
have hitherto operated within the two old parties Today they try
play independent political They crystal
lie the widespread discomfort of today around capitalist reform
In pursuit of their aim of building third party of capital
these liberals have endorsed the Socialist Party presidential
didate
The socialist platform can satisfy bourgeois reforer This
Willard said that the question the
fokng Dewey
Dougasvad and the Thomas qutEIoan combination The
working class that is fighting with increased determination against
capitalism anf bread
precisely Communist utilizing this
solutions revolutionary crisis that Professor
Dewey launched TRADE against US In introducing the main resolution
of the conference Dewey national chairman of the League launched
special
of the Socialist Party leadership that its purpose was to disrupt any
which could foothod This TRADE evoked be-
cause even in that assebage the question OF Communism and its pro-
passed Many middle
particularly numbers the ntectuals c2ooooo
universities
losing faith the vitality of the capitalist system In the growing
the class that
taking center the the working class which,
under the leadership of its revolutionary vanguard the Communist Par
solving the crisis interest the
wheng majority Of the is this fact that for the
this specially conducted conference (Which the
supporting candidates
the proposals the Norman Thomas
concentration industry following
liberal the fascsn
nounced while the platform itself favors greater concentration of state
capitalism policy that fascist will
that point all others the liberal conference Cleveland
bera1-sociast
combating
helping capitalism weather the its
Capitalism, addition
mtonary demagogy
building better sdetrack
the
especially capitalists
conspiracies
The rabd hatred of displayed by these retors
and their alliance with the srikebeng Socialist
them Illusions which they
working
The actions this conference
OF the social fascis to be welcomed
clearly that the only capitalism
tcr revolutionary Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-14
Capitalism Recognizes
It's Oqvn

Times of those dates and see how
your employer was forced to write
about these events because they we're
so "seriouS"-to the bosses and their
tools like you.
1t is in his hatred towards the So
Wet Union and all that it stands for,
however, that Shaplen becomes most
vitriolic and eloquent. In reply to
Fosters facts, statistics, and figures
as to the progress of the Soviet Union,
facts which even bourgeois econom-
lists, professors, journalists, and pub
liciSts are forced to admit, Shaplen
sneeringly has this to say: what
MIR. Foster says about Russia is in
tended for consumption in America.
:" And again, There is only the
usual propaganda of prosperous
and happy Soviet Russia contrasted
with a decaying doomed capitalist
world between which the reader is
asked to choose"
Against Comrade Fosters presen-
tation of the solidarity of the inter-
national proletariat led by the
Communist International, Shaplen
has this to remark, zone would
expect that in any program of
American Communism its author
would attempt to adapt Communist
theory to the specific social, polit-
lcal and psychologist conditions pre-
vailing in the U. s." (My emphasis)
Communism is an international
theory which fights for the success
of all the workers and with this in
mind considers the Soviet Union
the greatest stronghold of the
worlds workers. Lenin and others
have repeatedly asserted that ma
tional capitalisms can have their
peculiarities, but there can be no
special American" communism.
What Shaplen is suggesting is the
policy that the ocialists the world
OFOi Soiiy OuV, /. e., SuITtIlQeT 10
their respective national bourgeoisie.
AS in England, Germany, etc. AS
in the World War, when the SIPS
became patriots, they adapted"
themselves, all right, and are still
doing it.
The struggles and growth of the
Communist Parties all over the
world give the lie to Shaplen's part
ing sheer that 90. world revolu-
ton, in which the Russian Commu-
mist leaders no longer believe; and
which they dread because of the
effect it might have upon their own
economic tasks. World revolution
in Russia has long been an article
OF import + or the deception of the
Russian masses. :" This is a
baseless lie. The struggles of the
Russian workers and the workers
all over the world are not divorced,
but intimately tied up for the vic
tory of the world proletariat and
the establishment of a world Soviet.
Yes, Shaplep serves his employer,
the Times, '1ery faithfully. And
capitalism L4oognizes its own.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-14
Installment Five
Ever On Alert

So Vladimir Ilyitch Lenin stood
before me, more firm, more inflex-
ible than at the London Congress
even. But then he was agitated,
then there were times when the
Party split clearly made him live
through some painful moments.
Now he was in a calm, rather cold
and Satirical mood, putting sternly
aside all philosophical themes,
and continually on the alert. A.
A. Bogdanov, who was an ex-
tremely attractive person, of a
very mild character and very fond
of Lenin, though with a rather
high opinion of himself, had to
listen to these biting and painful
words: Schopenhauer said that
clear thinking means clear speak
ing" and think he never said a
truer word. You don't explain
yourself clearly, Comrade Bogda-
nov. Explain to me in few
words what your substitution"
will give to the working class, and
why Machism is more revolution
airy than Marxism?" Bogdanov
tried to explain but he really did
speak in a confused and wordy
fashion. Drop II" advised v.
Ilyitch. Somebody or other,
Juares, I think, said, 1T is better
to speak the truth than to be a
minister-or a Machist, I would
add" Then he plunged into a
game of chess with Bogdanov, and
when he lost grew angry and even
respondent like child. 1t is
worthy of remark that even this
childish dependency, like his as
tonishing laugh, did mob impair
the completeness and unity Of his
character.
There was in Capri another
Lenin-a splendid comrade,
lght-hearted person with lively,
inexhaustible interest in everything
in the world, and strikingly gentle.
Late one evening when everyone
had gone out for a walk, he said
to me and M. F. Andreyeva sadly
and with deep regret, HSuch clever
and talented people, who have done
great deal for the Party, and
could do ten times more-and
they will not go with us! They
cannot do so. And scores, hun
dreds Of such people are ruined
and mutilated by this criminal
regime"
Another time he said, Luna
charsky will return to the Party.
He Is less of an individualist than
the other two. He has highly
gifted nature such as is rarely met
with. I have a weakness for
him. What stupid words, to have
a weakness!' I am really very
fond of him, you know, he is a
splendid comrade! There is
something of the French bril-
liancy about him. His levity is
also French-his levity is the re-
suit of his aestheticism."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-14
Days with Lenin
BY MAXIM GORKY
BY MAXIM GORKY

He refused. He had a right to do
SO. He was i'll and had come for O
rest. But Oliger and Lorentz told
me that he had refused in very
offensive way. Oliger, who was Of
a highly strung temperament, in
sisted that Plekhanov had said
something about Being sick of the
crowd of people who all want to
speak but are incapable of doing
anything" When he was with me,
he really did not wish to see any.
one from the local colony. Ilyitch
saw them all. Plekhanov never
asked about anything. He knew
it all already and informed you
himself. Talented in the wide Rus
sian way and with a European ed
ucation, he loved to parade his wit,
and for the sake apparently Of Q
pungent jest would lay the most
cruel emphasis on the weak point
of foreign or Russian comrades.
To me his witicisms often appeared
pointless and only such have, re-
manned in my memory. "Innmoder-
ately moderate Mering; Erico Ferr1
is an impostor; there is neither
gold nor iron in him" This pun
was built up on the word Ferro,
meaning iron. All of them were
after this pattern. AS a general
rule he had condescending man.
ner towards people, rather as
though he had been god. I felt
deep respect for him as very tall
ented writer and the theoretical in
spirer of the Party, but no SYM
pathy. There was too much of the
"aristocrat" in him. 1 may be mis-
taken in my judgement. / am
not fond Of INDUCING in mistakes,
but like everybody else cannot al
ways avoid them. But the fact re-
mains that I have rarely met two
people with less in common than
G. V. Plekhanov and v. I. Lenin;
and this was natural The one was
finishing his work of destroying
the old world, the other was be-
ginning the construction of new.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-14
Seeks Details

He asked in detail about the life
of the Capri fishermen, what were
their earnings, what was the in
fluence of the priests, what were
their schools like? T could not but
be surprised at the range of his in
terests. When a priest was pointed
out to him, the son of poor peas
ant, he Immediately asked for in
formation as to how often the
peasants send their children to the
seminaries, and whether the chill
dren returned to their own village
as priests.
You understand? If this isn't
an isolated case, it means that it
is the policy of the Vatican-an
artful policy!'
cannot imagine another man
who, SO far SURPRISING other peo-
pie, could yet remain unaffected
by ambitious cravings, and retain
a lively interest in simple folk.
There was a certain magnetic
quality IN him which drew the
hearts and sympathies of the work
ing people to him. He didn't speak
Italian, but the Capri fishermen,
who had seen Chaliapin and many
other outstanding Russians, by
sort of instinct put Lenin in
special place. at once, His laugh
was enchanting-the hearty laugh
of man, who through being SO
well acquainted with the clumsy
stupidity of human beings and the
acrobatic trickery of the quick
witted, could find pleasure in the
childlike artlsssnsss of the Simple
in heart" One old fisherman,
Giovanni Spadaro, said of him,
only an honest man could laugh
like that"
We would 60 rowing sometimes,
on water blue and transparent as
the sky, and Lenin learned how to
catch fish with his finger"
the line alone, without the rod.
The fishermen explained to him
that the fish must be hooked When
the finger feels the vibration of
the line. Cost drin, drin. Ca
piSce?" ',,'t '.''t
A second later he hooked a fish,
drew it in and cried out with child
like Joy and hunters excitement,
'Drin, drin." The fishermen roared
with laughter, gay as children, and
nicknamed the fisherman "Signor
Drin-D rin." After he had gone
away, they continued to ask, How
is Drin-Drin getting on? The
Tsar hasn't caught him YETI"
do not remember if it was be-
fore Lenin's visit or after that
Plekhanoy came to Capri. Some of
the emigrants in the Capri colony,
the writer Oliger, Lorentz- Neither,
who was condemned to death for
organizing the rising in Sotchi,
Paul vigdorchik, and, think, two
others. wanted to speak to him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-14
BY HY KRAVH,

Inc most reaCtlOnary OF the lead
ing capitalist newspapers, the N.
Y. Times, cognizant of the temper
Of the times which is turning the
masses towards Communism, is con-
Stantly grooming the socialists to
act as a bugger in warding off this
development.
The latest of these efforts of the
Times in printing the socialists, is
the review by Joseph Shaplen of
Comrade Foster book, Toward
Soviet America"
First, who is Shaplen?
Shaplen is a member of the So
cialiSt Party associated with the
menshevik Bella Low whose resolu-
ton on Soviet Russia at the recent
Socialist Party convention was too
raw even for the socialists to stom-
ach.
1t is this same Shaplen who was
given columns in the Times for
description of the socialist conven-,
ton at Milwaukee.
OF all the reviewers at TIE dis
posal of the Times, it is no mere
accident that the Socialist Shaplen
was chosen.
For figures the Times, "who
can better discredit the revolution
airy movement than a socialist who
as such is supposedly a part of the
labor movement and will thus sound
authoritative"
Shaplen's utter cynicism in the
workers revolution and complete
faith in capitalism is displayed by
the following: 'Mr. Foster dis
cusses for nearly $50 pages about
the imminent collapse of capitalism
and the inevitable triumph of Boil
shevism from which the United
States, too, he would have us be-
lieve cannot escape" my emphasis)
Further on, Shaplen gives a hint
which is no less than an open in
vitation to the forces of reaction to
crush the militant workers by say
ing, Red baiters here will draw
encouragement for their trade
AS an answer to the thousand and
one struggles led by Communists
some of which Foster records,
Shaplen replies, that no one
can possibly take seriously the purely
fantastic picture Mr.. Foster paints
of the onward march Of Communism
in this country" Nevertheless, the
Harlan coal bosses, the textile bar.
ons, the Negro lynchers and theil
lackeys the NAACP, etc, etc., have
taken the growth of Communism here
very seriously
Foster tells of the great nationwide
unemployment demonstration on Mar
S, 1880; Of the National Hunger
the Penn Ohio strike, etc.
and Shaplen says, any intel
ligent observer of affair3 in the us
will recognize at once that there is
not particle of truth in the picture
painted by MIR. Foster" Oh, no, Mr.
Shaplen2 Well. turn back to the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-14
BY CARL PRICE.
Part Two

OF course, in the agitation among
the workers of the Pittsburgh dis
trict and nationally and in his Blue
Shirt News and other publications,
Father Cox keeps his demagogy to
the fore. His speeches and news
papers are generously sprinkled
with general statements regarding
the crisis. Typical examples are
such statements as - "a change
must come, is coming, in Americas
economic and industrial set-up and
the people themselves must say
how and when this change shall
come" America is glutted with
material aplenty while millions of
children, women and men are starv-
Ing, while all around them are the
ample means of subsistence" A
headline-'Mellon Rule SapS Life
of Nation"-'Political Industrial
Monarchy Strangles Once Free
Democracy" Father Cox's Blue
Shirt News is-'Pledged to Gov
eminent OF, For and By the Whole
People"-"A Job for Every Man
and Living Wage -"
Let us examine Father Cox's
program a little more closely. The
program is reminiscent of the pro-
gram of Roosevelt in 1912 in the
trust busting days. An official
statement of Cox's organization
says-"Monopoly has gained such
a hold in the United States and is
so powerful that there is no way
out of the present depression, as
far as the wisest minds can see be-
cause the loosening of the chains
of monopoly means the revamping
and remaking of business and
American politics. We hope this
can be accomplished without blood
she'd"
Father Cox's Jobless Party is
pledged to give the independent
merchant and the small business
man a chance to gain wealth. In
order to do this, the Jobless Lib
erty Party puts forward the an
Gent program of a change in the
money system. Money is conferred
in the hands of few" This state
ment then proceeds to attack-"the
process of elimination which has
put out of business more than half
million independent merchants in
the U. 81 1t then makes plea for
half million statesmen and salaried
employees. 1t attacks the chain
store system, thus embracing an
issue which is much discussed, espe-
cially in the West and put forward
by the independent business men
and small producers-'the process
of elimination has meant destruc-
ton of individualism, of independ-
ence. The independent merchants
slowly disappear from American
business and in his place has grown
up system of chains Of all kinds"
One basic plank in the platform Of
the Cox's movement is designed to
draw the support Of the petty-bour-
geoisie--the plea for the small mer-
chant, independent factory owner,
etc.
In the alliance of Cox with the
Liberty Party of "Coin" Harvey in
the West, the Cox movement de-
clares that all of the ills of the
present crisis can be cured as soon
as the Jobless Liberty Party is voted
into office, by changing the bank
ing laws so that the Federal gov
eminent directly controls the en-
tire banking system. Father Cox
issues pamphlet-"In independence
in America"-and says-"the bank
ing business and banking laws are
about the worst tyranny the world
has ever known. The federal gov
eminent ought to take over and
operate all the banking business Of
the country and make the banking
business purely . governmental
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-14
Father COx's Blue Shirts Modelled After Italian
and German Fascists

the bosses and their government see
of saving their financial structure
from complete bankruptcy in view
of the fact that the two billion
dollars given the bankers through
the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration, the additional billion now
proposed before Congress has fail
ed to check the wave of bankrupt
cieS and to stave off the threatened
financial crisis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-14

privilege"
This program which is program
for initiation, and the abandonment
of the gorld standard, is not only
in line with the program stated by
Norman Thomas of the Socialist
for freer hand to the big capital
Party but is in line with the pro-
gram which the Hoover government
and Wall Street are now preparing
to carry out. This is the only way
The Washington times., 1932-09-17
The Weather

District of Columbia-Fair tonight
and Sunday. Little change in tenn
perature. Gentle winds, mostly west
and northwest.
Maryland-Fair tonight and Sunday.
Little change in temperature.
Nirginia-Fair tonight and Sunday.
Slightly cooler in southwest portion
tonight.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
Ynatnrdar "
The Washington times., 1932-09-17
OWNER NJ D YES
!. LUNCH WAGON

The lunch wagon that was for
several weeks the subject of bit
ter fight between the mayor and
town council of Hyattsville and
the owner of the restaurant-on-
wheels, ]. Frank Lillard, has been
removed from the Baltimore
Boulevard and is now resting on
a lot behind LIZARDS law offices.
The wagon was built and placed
on the boulevard over the protests
of the town council. who sought
to enjoin its construction in the
Prince Georges County Circuit
Court. It was never used and was
hauled to the lot across from the
armory and kept there only long
enough for Lillard to obtain a
permit from the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission to
connect it with their water syS-
tenn and install plumbing.
The Washington times., 1932-09-17
By COLE E. MORGAN

The corn belt turned in 8,7O3
new ballots in this weeks returns
in the nationwide presidential
poll of The Washington Times
and other Hearst papers. These
ballots added 1873 to Governor
Roosevelt's majority, giving him
a lead of $4,000 for the entire
country with 226,794 ballots re-
corded.
Alone Of the eight grain belt
States, Kansas stuck to President
Hoover, showing SIS margin out
Of 1,107 new votes to bring his
Kansas majority to I'll out Of
5,181 ballots.
Minnesota Returns
Iowa turned in Roosevelt ma
jority of 487 out of 2,047 new
votes, giving him a total majority
of 908 out of 1894.
Minnesota, where Hoover last
week appeared to have checked
the rising Roosevelt tide, came
back this week with a 223 ma.
jority for Roosevelt out of 951
new votes. Minnesota now shows
a Roosevelt majority of 854 with
4,764 ballots recorded.
Missouri, from which 1883 new
ballots came, gave Roosevelt a
majority of 564. This brought his
total majority for the State to
1885, with 8.997 ballots counted,
Nebraska turned in 951 new bal
lots with a 301 Roosevelt major
ity, giving him a total 955 lead
out of 3,489.
North Dakota turned in 149
ballots for a Al majority, giving
Roosevelt 245 lead in that State
out of 1,407 ballots. South Da-
kota gave him a "a majority out
of $50 new votes to make his
The Washington times., 1932-09-17
Illinois Seems Definitely
In Roosevelt Column

total majority 261 out of 1,419
votes. WisconSinS 760 new votes
showed 218 majority for Roose-
welt to give him a 1881 lead for
the State of its 6,143 total votes.
Illinois Certain
A detailed analysis by counties
and congressional districts of H.
BOT post card ballots from Illi-
nois voters shows Governor Roose-
velt leading by 81 to 80 per cent
in the State as a whole; by "a to
So per cent in the 10 congress
sional districts embracing Cook
county, and by 81 to 43 per cent
in the IS districts outside of Cook.
With such a showing, Roosevelt
would carry the State by major.
ity of 640,706.
In the face of these figures
there appears a reasonable hasiS
for the assumption that the show.
ing Roosevelt at this time is max
ing, if maintained until Novem-
Der, would give him Illinois by a
half-million margin.
The Washington times., 1932-09-17


smallest
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of
than wordto somebody
There 900 accidents the United States remember
the that and that the realization of their and their
cost home
The Washington times., 1932-09-17
D, c. EDUCATION
PLAN APPROVED

Tentative plans to promote
adult education in the District
have been approved by the COM
mittee on universities and col
leges of the washington Chamber
Of Commerce.
The plans, written as a report
by a special group headed by
e. E. Naylor, recognize the spread
Of the adult education movement
throughout the country, ad-
vantageS offered in the National
Capital through the Libraries and
schools, the large per centage of
educated residents and the fact
that a large number of persons
have idle time.