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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-09
BY L. ANITER

The working class must neglect
NO front of the class struggle. The
bosses don't. They are active in a
thousand ways, working to win the
workers and the working youth over
to their side, to divide and democrat
iZe the workers.
They are using today the 10th Oily
pad. Games, the biggest part OF
which are to be held in Los Angeles
this summer, as just such an inStru-
ment. The bosses are using these
games to distract the attention Of
the workers from their misery,
hunger, wage cuts-the attacks on
workers rights, and the preparations
for war on the Soviet Union Look"
the sport pages scream, American
supremacy is threatened in the mile
rum" Or 1t Is the half mile, or some
thing else. But the entire TODD
about the Olympic games is neces-
sary to distract the attention Of the
masses Of sport following workers in
the United States from their own
immediate job Of fighting the robber
war now going on in China, fighting
for unemployment insurance and
fighting against wage cuts. This
entire fuss about the Olympic games
is necessary in order to tie the
American workers closer to the
bosses sport organizations, led In
most cases by army officers.
Not only are the Olympic games
being used to distract the attention
of the workers from their own imme-
date problems, but the games are
also being used to whip up a 1917
patriotism. The sport pages of the
capitalist press fairly reek with the
vilest chauvinisna. 1--WE Americans
must conquer the aliens!" the papers
shout.
The Soviet Union is being boy
cotted by the Olympics Committee.
Negroes are Disseminated against
A handful of corrupt "stars" take
part in the games. The state gov
eminent of California has appro-
priated million dollars for the
games-but gives no unemployment
relief.
relief. Chief Of War Staff, General
Douglas Macarthur (who only recent
ly returned from an inspection trip
Of the Notifications and armed
Of the Baltic states ringing the Soviet
Union) devotets much of his time
and attention to the American Olym-
pics Committee, in which he is a
leading figure. On top of all this,
the Olympic games are being held in
he state Of California, the state
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-09
BY MAX WEISS

The recent trip of the student dele
cation to Kentucky and the one day
protest strike of the Columbia stu
dents, both under the leadership Of
the National Student League, are in
dicative of the extreme sharpening
Of the crisis.
Under it's shattering impact, re-
sulting in the impoverishment and
increasing insecurity Of large sections
Of the petit bourgeoisie, and as di-
rect reflection of the mass upheavals
Of the working class, the petit-bour-
geoisie is beginning to move from out
its former orbit of SNUG conplacen-
cy. A large sector of the petit-bour-
geois intellectuals is trying to break
away from the undisputed control of
the big finance capitalists.
This movement finds its reflection
IN the colleges and universities, par
ticularly in view of the considerable
number Of working class students who
act as a leayening force.
The two mass actions Of the stu
dents, under militant leadership, rep
resent what will undoubtedly become
Increasingly frequent as the crisis
sharpens and directs its blows at the
whole petit-bourgeois liberal intel
legentzia. The first large scale crack
has been made in the shell of "neu-
trail, non-class" idiocy within which
the student body has been kept for
decades.
The expulsion of Reed Harris and
the answering strike is not only i'm
portant as an indication Of the radi-
calization Of the students but also as
forecast of the sweeping academic
reaction that will increase in the
same proportion as the militaacy Of
the students rises.
It is additional evidence that ''aca-
den1ic freedom" has always been a
sham wherever the sacred interests
Of capitalist society are involved and
that the capitalists in the schools,
as elsewhere, are proceeding more
ruthlessly than ever against any as
sertion Of even the feeblest protest
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-09
By B. ROOT

Practical work has enabled us to
more clearly understand socialist con-
struction and the relations of the
Party and the Soviet organs to the
masses of workers IN the Soviet
Union. We are now better armed
to effectively smash to atoms the
ISLANDERS of the bourgeoisie and their
social fascist lackeys.
Among these ISLANDERS is the oft
repeated cry that the Soviet Union
is going back to Capitalism" or that
the Soviet system of economy is
state Capitalism" How shall we
annihilate these assertions? First
the question of Estate Capitalism.
Let us analyze in brief what it
means.
state monopoly is never any,
thing else than a means Of guaran-
teeing the income of millionaires
who are on the point of going
bankrupt in one branch of indus
try or another" Nenin in I'm
perialsm," page 49,
Such cases occur mostly during
periods Of economic crisis. Numerous
examples could be found to illus
trate this. But the best example Of
state capitalism yet could be seen
during the last world war when in
a number of countries the most i'm
portant branches of industry were
managed by the government for
eficiency'S sake.
With the concentration OF capital
into trusts and monopolies, the rela-
tons of the state to industry become
ever more close. The United States,
with its tax refunds to the big cor
porations, its Secretary of the Treas
ury, Andrew Mellon, offers an excel
lent illustration of this. But the
more the state becomes identical
with capitalism, the greater becomes
the concentration Of wealth in the
hands Of few share or bond-holders,
and the deeper becomes the misery
and impoveriShment of the toiling
masses. Anarchy in production,
crises continue to reign in full force.
What do we find in the Soviet
Union? The means of production
owned and controlled by the work.
ing masses, managed for their benefit
by their soviet organs. These organs
as well as the party which leads them
are part and parcel of the workers
themselves, reaching into every nook
and corner of factories, mines and
kolkhozes, with its millions of rep
resentaitves and members. Produc-
ton is planned to satisfy the needs
Of the masses and insure constant
improvement in their living and
working conditions. This planning
Of production and consumption,
based on the estimates OF the experts
in the economic organs of the Soviet
Union, Is worked out in detail and
often improved upon by the workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-09

Training Corps.
All the energy OF the radicalized
students of America must be turned
into the fight against the fascination
Of the capitalist system, against the
reflection Of that process In the
schools by the ever more complete
suppression of all militant student
movements, and above all against the
growing danger of a new imperialist
war on the Soviet Union, the actual
beginnings Of which have already
been made by robber Japanese impe-
rialisrn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-09

wages increase Of Al per cent over
1880. 100000 rubles for new hous-
ing for the workers. 73,672,oOO rubles
for new buildings and machinery
Socialist accumulation). Besides this
a whole list of items, including mill
lions of rubles for childlrens' creches,
dining rooms, etc. The carrying out
Of this plan is controlled by the
workers committees, such as business
accounting brigades, housing COM
mittees, production conferences, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-09
nr A Mnrker Correspondent


PEORIA, Ill.-The official takers
and betrayers Of the American work
ing class are getting nervous when
they contemplate the advent Of Com
munism in the United States.
SAYS 1.-THE Peoria Labor Gazette, +"
edited by Walter S. Bush, head Of
the local Typographical Union here,
IN a full back page spread, issue of
March IS, 1882:
AMERICAN UNION LABOR
AGAINST COMMUNISM. Com
munists Take Advantage of Despair
of Labor on Account of No Work
to Gain Recruits. EVEN THE
MOST MODEST AND TINIID of
apoIogists for SOVIET RUSSIA
cannot and will not deny the fact
that they aim at Control of The
American Labor Movement"
The fat boys who graft on the
trade union movement in this coun-
try, however, bite off too big a chunk
when they say that American Union
Labor is against Communism. They
consider themselves and their off,
ciaI wrecking machines as the Amer
lean labor movement, forgetting the
millions Of honest rank and file
members Of the unions in this coun-
try who are building ever closer soil
darity with the workers of Soviet
Russia. The rank and file have
learned from the many workers dele
cations which they have sent to the
U. S. S. r. that the best thing they
can do here is emulate the Soviet
Russian workers in the building Of a
Workers and Farmers Government
in America and plaster it with the
label:
made In The U. 5. A."
But when these miserable mislead-
ers Of the labor movement say the
Communists "aim at control of the
American labor movement" for once
they are right. But they conveniently
forget to add "by the rank and file.''
And it is the growing revolutionary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-09

at the point of production. The
unions are the means of controlling
the carrying out as well as the shap-
ing of the plan itself.
Take the Amo for an example.
Every worker was involved in out
lining its 1882 plan of 256,oOO0OO
rubles Of gross production. A glance
at the details of the plan will give
an idea what sort of estate Capital
ism" this is. 100000 rubles for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-09

On May LIST the Japanese workers
demonstrate against the Japanese
imperialist war-makers! On May list
out into the streets against the
American imperialist war-makers!
Support the heroic struggle Of the
Japanese workers! %A9
Montana labor news., 1932-10-06
A. F. OF L. REPORT
EASY ON HOOVER

.P.)-Over the
signatures of William Green, Frank
Morrison, Thomas A. Rickert, Mat
thew Woll and Martin Ryan, COM
prising the A. F. of L. national nom
partisan political campaign commit
tee, there was issued from American
Federation Of Labor headquarters,
Sept. 81, a pamphlet dealing with the
presidential and congressional tickets,
which leans toward Franklin Roose-
welt but is distinctly easy on the
anti-labor record of Herbert Hoover.
It ignores, as usual, all mention of
the existence of the two parties-the
Socialist and Communist-which seek
the abolition Of the competitive pow
erty system.
First is printed the series of pro-
posals made to the Republican and
Democratic platform committees by
the Federation spokesman. Then
follow, in parallel column, the vague
Continued on page three)
Montana labor news., 1932-10-06
DEMOCRATIC
NOMINEE GETS
ENDORSEMENT
Socialist for Governor Is
Endorsed Over Com
pany Candidates.

AT the last meeting of the Council
the Democratic nominee, Franklin d.
Roosevelt, was endorsed for the office
of president of the United States.
The recommendation was made in
the second report Of the Legislative
committee of the Council. There
was much discussion on this en-
dorsement as some delegates thought
that the Council should endorse Nor
man Thomas as well. After this
discussion regarding the presidential
nominee and other recommended
candidates, the report Of the Legis-
lative committee was adopted with
an overwhelming majority.
The Council also endorsed Chris
Yegen, Socialist candidate for gov
ernor. No objection was raised to
this recommendation.
The following is the report Of the
Legislative committee given at the
last meeting of the Council:
Franklin ID. Roosevelt, Democrat,
for president.
Chris Yegen, Socialist, for gov
ernor.
CONTINUED on page FOUR
Montana labor news., 1932-10-06
"REPEAL UNEMPLOYMENT" SAYS THOMAS
SPECIAL FEATURE
FOR OCTOBER

All readers of the Montana
Labor News should read with
special interest the editorial fea-
ture to be run through October,
beginning with this issue. These
features bring you a complete
analysis of the history, programs,
platforms and candidates of the
Republican Democratic, Socialist
and Communist parties. These
analyses are strictly non-partisan
and are published for the educa-
ton of the voters who read our
paper. Don't throw away these
issues until after election. Keep
them for your own benefit and
show them to your friends.
Montana labor news., 1932-10-06
PLANNED PRODUCTION PROGRAM
ADVOCATED BY THE SOCIALISTS
CAN BRING RELIEF TO THE NATION
CAPITALIST PLANNING BRINGS LOW
WAGES, INCREASED UNEMPLOYMENT

(Note; The following is a special interview granted the Montana
Labor News by Norman Thomas OH the question of the Socialist
slogan, Repeal Unemployment" The program was touched upon,
briefly, by Mr.. Thomas in his Butte address, but il is or purpose to
bring you the plan in more detan-Edtor)
There is more to Socialism than the repeal of unem-
ployment. There is in it the only hope of such manage
ment of our natural resources and great machinery that
there can be abundance for all, an end of exploitation of
one class by another, and the final victory over war.
when Is million men and women are out
OF work in this richest country in the world the repeal
OF unemployment becomes our most urgent necessity and
the manner of its accomplishment one of the greatest
challenge to Socialism. Hence the phrase, Repeal Unem-
as our slogan in this campaign.
Montana labor news., 1932-10-06
THE COUNCIL ENDORSES

For President-Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democrat.
Congressman-Joe Monaghan, Democrat.
For Governor-Chris Yegen, Socialist.
Lieut. Governor-Frank Cooney, Democrat.
Secretary of State-Sam Mitchell, Democrat.
State Auditor-George Porter, Republican.
State Treasurer-James J. Brett, Democrat.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
VIM. r. Wyatt, Democrat.
Attorney General. A. Foote, Republican.
Railroad ommissioner-Thoma Carey, Democrat.
Associate Justices. C.. Ford, Republican.
Associate Justice-Anderson, Democrat.
For District Judge-T. E. Downey, Democrat.
For Sheriff-Larry Weir, Democrat.
County Attorney-H. j. Freebourn, Democrat.
Clerk and Recorder-John Holland, Democrat.
Clerk of Court-Francis P. Kelly, Democrat.
Public Notwithstanding Cavigan, Democrat.
County Treasurer-Mervin Dempsey, Democrat.
County Com's'er-Emmet P. O'Brien, Democrat.
Arthur Dubie, Republican.
County Surveyor-Hugh Quinn, Democrat.
County Coroner-Con Murphy, Democrat.
County Assessor-Thoma P. Kelly, Democrat.
Legislature-M. Kerr Beadle, Democrat.
Mike Mulholland, Democrat.
Jerry O'Connell, Democrat.
Lou Freudenstein, Democrat.
Phil Goodwin, Democrat.
Jerry Harrington, Democrat.
Peter McDermott, Democrat.
H.. A. Crabenstein, Republican.
Geo. Wade, Republican.
Sam Spiegel, Socialist.
Montana labor news., 1932-10-06
HUGE CROWD HEARS
NORMAN THOMAS
LARGEST POLITICAL MEETING EVER
HELD IN HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
Hundreds Unable to Find Standing Room; Crowd
Gives Thomas the Biggest Hand Given a Candi-
date in Butte This Year; No Evasion in Speech.

One of the most enthusiastic audiences ever to greet
a national political speaker in Butte this year packed
the auditorium of the Butte high school to hear Norman
Thomas, Socialist candidate for president Fifteen min
nutes before speaking time there wasn't a vacant seat in
the building. AT o'clock the hall was filled to capacity
as was the stage and wings. Duncan, son of Butte's So
cialist mayor, and member of the Socialist party and the
Silver Bow Trades and Labor Council, acted as chairman
of the meeting. He opened the meeting by announcing
the following national and state ticket of the Socialist
party:
Montana labor news., 1932-10-06

sible with less work and shorter
hours. Maybe so. But children eat
in the short run and in the short run
men walk the streets or commit
suicide.
None Of this need be. All of it
will be until, collectively, workers
with hand and brain own great ag-
gregations of machinery and control
the rate of Introduction of new ma
chinery deliberately by our capacity
to produce more things-and so pro
vide jobs-or to shorten for all work
ers the hours of the working week.
Conceivably we may make a mistake
in our plan, but mistakes under
planning can be rectified. To have
no plan is fatal. To have a purely
capitalist plan in the matter of ma
chine control is equally fatal.
The second type of unemployment
is cyclical. 1t comes because in our
chaotic, profit-mad capitalism the
workers never receive in social in
come parks, schools, roads, etc.,, or
personal income (pay envelopes and
salary checks), the equivalent of
what they produce. Landlords and
profit-takers take their pile. In
deed they try to make it even big
ger. For instance, from 1922 to
1928 wages increased IA per cent
yearly, but profits rs per cent.
Wholesome consuming power arises
from the purchases of the masses,
not from luxury trade. The profit
takers, to be sure, do r%einvest much
of their profits, thus giving work,
but they do it wastefully without
plan, and often give us too many Of
some kinds of factories while the
workers have too little food and
clothing. Under these circumstances
a surplus piles up and men starve
in sight of plenty that they cannot
buy. Our present crisis started as a
cyclical depression. 1t had fore
runners in 1921, 1914, 1907, and so
on back. 1t is worse because Of
wars aftermath and the insanity
of the gambling mania in the years
we called prosperous, but its origins
were in the system.
The only capitalist answer to this
is a rigid sterilization of classes
and their purchasing power by Fas-
cism. But in Italy Fascism has
kept wages frightfully low, destroyed
liberty and still left unemployment.
The true answer is plan production
for use, not profit, which is So
cialism.
But, you will say, even if we
grant your argument, what about
next winter? What can Socialism do
in this emergency as well as to pre-
vent another? Here is our answer:
We would declare val on unem-
ployment and mobilize all our forces
for it. First, we would grant every
family in the United States a main
tenance allowance, as a matter of
right, not charity. We would suhsi-
die consumption and that would
start more business than the Repub-
lican party has by substituting pro-
ducers, or the R. F. c., which has
started by substituting Charlie Dawes
bank and others. Such maintenance
might be distributed under local
authorities, but it would have to be
provided by the Federal government
which alone can tax incomes and
inheritances equitably and control
banking, currency and credit. This
Continued on page FOUR
Montana labor news., 1932-10-06

On the facts Of unemployment and
the misery it creates l need not
dwell. 1t is very beautiful in Amer
lea in the fall of the year. Every
where | have gone in the country
are signs of abundance. Farmers,
it seems, can scarcely give away
their crops. But enter our cities
and everywhere is poverty and want.
Men live in shacks and dugouts and
compete with cats and rats for the
food of garbage cans. We live under
the shadow Of a palpable dread that
can almost be seen and touched; the
fear of tomorrow, for tomorrow's
bread or tomorrow's job. Next win
ter, even if there is a little business
recovery, our conditions will be
worse, for our resources are ex-
hausted. The extraordinary kindness
of the poor to the poorer which has
kept us going nears the end, not of
its willingness but its capacity to
help. We face a winter of starva-
ton punctuated by riots.
For this problem neither the cap
italist economic order nor the old
parties which it owns, offer any
cure. The capitalist word of cheer
is "Sit tight. We've lived through
other depressions; Wen live through
this" It's spokesman ignore the fact
that in 1928 they promised US ever
lasting prosperity and that this is
the worst and most shameful de-
preston because we have all the
means at hand to conquer poverty,
and besides, what a sorry hope it is
to tell us we shall get out of this
depression only in time to go into
another-for this is what their theory
of business cycles means. The old
parties try to ignore the issues. Mr..
Hoover and the Republicans believe
in doles 20 banks and business in
the hope that some will slop over to
the workers. What the Democrats
believe-except that they want Of
fice-is still far from clear.
Socialists offer a program. We
begin by examining the causes of
unemployment; these we find inher-
ent in capitalism. Hence we say
that Socialism is the only cure for
unemployment. Consider the situa-
ton. The great types of unemploy-
ment, as we all admit, are techno-
logical, that is unemployment is due
to new machines and new mechanical
processes, and cyclical unemployment,
that is, plain hard times, recur I'M
der capitalism with appalling regu-
larity. Neither of these can our
American capitalism cur and re-
main itself.
/ spoke of unemployment due to
the machine. Of cours machines
don't make unemployment. We need
machinery. If we had none experts
tell us it would take the labor of the
adult American population simply
to raise the present food supply. 1t
it the purpose for which machinery
is used that makes the trouble. Now,
a new machine or a patent for a
new machine is kept on ice until it
is profitable for absolute owners to
have it installed. How do their
profits increase? Usually by cutting
pay rolls. In goes the machine;
out 20 some men, others are speed
ed up, and up go profits. The his
tory of mechanical progress is writ
ten in the blood and tears of ex-
plotted workers. To be sure, econo-
mists tell us that "in the long run
things improve; more things are POS
Montana labor news., 1932-10-06

long to private owners who also own
the courts, most government off
cials and both old parties 2"
Socialist Program.
Thomas then proceeded to outline
the Socialist program. His frank
analysis Of the situation that con
trolls us and his reasonable solution
of the problems was greeted with
rounds of applause. Said Thomas:
an this situation, however, it is
less important to tell how bad the
old parties are than to tell what
Socialists would do. That is set
forth in our platform. We mean to
use the power to condemn, at a
reasonable price, and to tax wealth
to get funds to acquire all natural
resources for the community of work
ers with hand and brain. In gem
eral we would use the same means
to acquire public utilities and monop-
olies. Oversocialized industries would
be ~directotates representing workers
in the industry and of its
products, all guided by a national
economic council.
"While we work to that goal we
will be mobilizing our forces for
war on unemployment. We will see
that every family has a maintenance
wage until we can provide every
family with work. We will try sub
sidizing workers as consumers and
that will start more wholesale bust
ness than the R. F. c. We will go
to work to provide roads, tunnels,
bridges, and above all, houses for
the people, thus adding to social
wealth and giving work.
"We shall, if necessary, take over
idle factories and put the unem-
ployed to producing for their own
needs. We shall establish the five
day week and set up unemployment
insurance. To do all this we shall
use the power of the federal govern
ment to issue bonds, to control cur
rency and to tax incomes and inheri-
tances."
Relief Through Workers.
In securing relief from our pres
ent economic distress it was stated
that we can hope for no aid through
any system of capitalist planning.
Capitalism is interested in profits,
not the welfare of Labor. The work
ers must wake up to the power they
possess if they are to secure relief.
Norman Thomas in concluding his
address, stated that none of this
can we do unless the workers wake
up. We car get power through our
own party and our own unions-not
otherwise. We can win when you
awake. Every vote for Socialism
makes stronger n club TO force the
old parties to act even before we at
tain office. But we shall not rest I'M
til victory is ours"
Has Crowd With Him.
At no time during the course of
the speech did the crowd get away
from the speaker. People sat for
ward in their seats as if drinking in
his words. AS he hit home with
point after point he was greeted
with applause. Although he spoke
for almost an hour, there was none
of the spirit of restlessness among
the audience that is seen in usual
gatherings of that kind. AS we
Continued on page four)