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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-12
Murder in the Southern
Prison Camps

ONCE partly capital
justice the in the South.
Camp
old Arthur Maiefert who has been tortured to death
"sweat-box9
institution
"sveat-boz described small whitewashed building
the sockade enclosure six feet high about
seats inside by twisting
body it possible for a small person to sit down
victim this to sit
kept erect by of chain put around his neck and
tied to put
beating
ang to the prisoner through hole in the roof makes this confinement
abe medieval torture The prisoner stripped of all clothing except
shirt his raons of bread and water
the "sweatbox First he into barrel stripped
clothing protruding
the He caught and
beaten with heavy until he knocked down. heess
shacke and spurs Then he the box"
The died Because he of bourgeois family in New
Jersey impossible to hush the murder Captain Couson and
Hggnboham the guard indicted by jury released
$4,000 bail each The prisoners testimony brought
the daily routine OF Sunbeam camp and Tor that matter OF all the prison
the South The testified that fifteen
were whipped
prison camps
South The trial the two murderers not to take place till late
cruelty
Cceoa County so as not to have them appear at the trial The
already busy vhtewahng murderers
Whether Hggnbotham will tried
they will slightly punished henains that
punishment
are the order of the day and that booded murder only incident
in the routine of the tortres inflicted the victims
The chain only ougowth the
South the Negro enslaved
in subsection to q their rebellion break their rsance that the
introduced the
white the chain extended also to white workers
its aspects towards the Negroes
The Scosboro boys pning Jail for
accusations the ines of which
Jacksonville sunbeam derers are free spite of the fact that the
murder beyond doubt The Scoboo
with death The Jacksonville murde will be permitted continue
the their
This class justice This capitalist justice in its
And those gentlemen about slave labor in Russia!
black white
of the of all nations
States against their will
of the chain both white
chains that hold them prisoners in the
the capitalist system.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-12
Defeat the Hoover Move
Against the Vets

THE the Washington eighth
week Notwithstanding all the hardshps suffered by these veterans
the Washington
holding continuing
fight their demands.
unemployed agricultural
complete
front has been set up by the Republican Democratic and Socialist Parties
and all eactonary capitalist
he bonus They have understood that Notwithstanding the reaccna
peudices
effectively revolutionary
fight Of the workers ong immediate
government
giving powerful stimulus toing country
political activity
sppng struggle
dividing and dispensing the of the
expressed the attitude
present the Hoover government which has refused to
give the veterans relief which will donate
alleviate their which
insurance through for the appropriation of $500
not feed them starvation their midst but them
The fighting
eminent They should tell them in uncertain terms that they did
note
them decide they
of the last eight they should demand than
fore that Congress must adjourn before the
is made
The leadership working bonus
against 1t has working with
service against the bonus Its hand policy its opposition
batting and similar parang stunts directed against fight
for the bonus
The exservicemen Washington firmly
fish their rank and file leadership
in better organized demonstrations
men to pay the obligation which they promised to the veterans
the
be isolated the
support
in the ranks of the revolutionary workers there
throughout the
their fight with the
imperiat and in that against
capitalist offensive higher country
resoutey
the fight for the demands of the meetings
monraion must organized all leading
backing their demands
task workers the revolutionary organizations
all the task the district local
Party this question the order
and immediately the organization solidarity support to
W. AshM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-12
Clara Zetkin = IS Years Old
Veteran Fighter For The Workingclass

roN1RADE CLARA zETKIN was
rs years old on July S. More
than two-thirds of her life have
been spent in active fight for the
aims of the international Labor
Movement.
The daughter Of an elementary
school teacher In Saxony, Clara,
when she was about 20 years old,
came to Leipzig and there at
tended the Teachers Training
College which was conducted by a
leader of the bourgeois wouen's
movement, Auguste Schmidt. Here
Clara showed and developed ex-
traordinary gifts, even though her
warm temperament and irrepres-
sible energy caused her to rebel
against the highbrow atmosphere,
remote from actual reality. which
prevailed at the school. Here Clara
also became acquainted with the
half-hearted and confused attitude
of the bourgeois women's movement
towards economic and class condi-
tions.
A Glass Fighter.
In Leipzig, Clara came into the
circles of Russian political refugees.
In intercourse with them her keen
intellect acquired its Marxist train
ing and she developed into con-
scious class fighter and revolution
airy. In this circle of emigrants she
got to know Ossip Zetlsin. When
later he was expelled from Ger
many as an undesirable alien,
she went with him first to Switzer-
land and afterwards to Paris. Soon
after the death of Ossip Zetkin,
which took place in 1889, Clara re-
turned to Germany and found work
in the Dietzgen Publishing House
in Stuttgart. In 1892 she took over
the editorship of "Gleichheit" the
social democratic women's paper,
WHICH mao Deen 1OunQeQ year
previously by Emma Ihrer.
Both as editor of the "Gleich-
heit" and also as speaker at nu-
merous meetings Clara Zetkin re-
garded it as her main task to edu-
cate the proletarian women to
class consciousness and prevent
them from being drawn into the
bourgeois Women's movement.
In Germany women's work had
developed to great extent already.
in the eighties of last century. But
the women who we're engaged in
trades or professions we're for the
greater part still dominated by
petty bourgeois ideas. In addition,
it was difficult to reach the women
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-12
The Democratic Party at Work

snow, gentlemen, make up your
minds to this: If we have few
more parades in Chicago and
nothing is done to relieve our fl
nancial difficulties, I simply can
not tell what will happen. No
one knows. 1t will be much
cheaper for the Federal govern
nlent to loan us money than to
provide troops to police the city
when the police and fire depart
ments quit from sheer lack OF
wages" :
Mayor Cermak's main concern,
as Hoover's concern, Is to protect
the capitalist system for misery,
hunger and war. He pleads for
money for the police to keep the
workers In submission. The prob
lens of the workers who are re-
ceiving miserable shelter in the
are ordered to forced Ia
Dor. They have declared a strike
against this and the police are at
lacking mass picketing and arrest
Ing workers.
Go to He'll" Ex-Servicemen Are
Told
Mayor Cerirlak is not an excep-
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ton to the rule as far as the De-
mocrats are concerned. Hamilton
Lewis was elected on the Demo-
cratic ticket from Illinois to the
u. S. Senate around the slogan of
money spent for battleships shall
be turned over for unemployment
relief" But when the delegation
of the Chicago ex-servicemen de-
manded from Senator Lewis that
he vote for the bonus in Sem
ate, his answer was Gentlemen,
you can go TO hell-I am going to
Senate" And when the vote was
taken in Senate on the Bonus Bill,
he voted against it.
Detroit also has a Democratic
Mayor, Frank Murphy, and his at
tack on the workers is well known.
His police we're sent to help the
Dearborn and Ford police to shoot
down the workers, and four work
ers were killed in front of the Ford
plant, demanding work or relief.
Governor Roosevelt of New York
speaks about full unemployment
insurance" But the policy of the
New York state and New York city
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as the majority of them were scat
tered in home industries or in small
undertakings. Moreover, the COM
plicated and reactionary laws re-
garding the right of organization
and assembly rendered almost i'm
possible the political and trade
union enlightenment and organiza-
ton of women.
Rallies Working Women.
Then it was Clara Zetkin, who
equipped with Marxist train
ing and an equally thorough and
many sided education, and as an
eloquent and rousing speaker and
writer--rallied the proletarian wo-
men under the flag of the class
conscious international labor move
nlent. With great clearness and
sharpness she elaborated in the
"Gleicfheit" and in various speech
es the difference between the pro-
letarian and the bourgeois women's
movement. For the proletarian wo-
men it was necessary to fight with
the men of her class against CAPT.
talist exploitation; and whilst striv-
ing for political equality, this was
only means to an end. Not
fight between the sexes, but class
struggle was her slogan.
1t was chiefly due to Clara zet-
kin's activity on the Gleichheit"
that the proletarian women's move
ment, right from the beginning,
kept itself free from the bourgeois
feminist movement and came for
ward at the same time as part OF
the general labor movement. AS ed
itor of the "Gleichheit" she con-
sidered 1t her task to train and ed
ucate body of capable women agi-
tators who then, armed with good
material and clear as to their aims,
should work among the proletarian
women.
Opposes Social-Patriots.
Clara edited "Gleichheit" until
1916, when the party Central Com
mittee, which was violently pro-
war, deprived her of it.
But Comrade Zetkin was not only
a leader of the proletarian woman's
movement; she was also in the
front line in the general fight of
Party. She took up an attitude on
all political questions and right
from the beginning adopted the
revolutionary Marxist standgoint.
Already in the nineties of last CEN
fury there commenced in the social
democratic party, at first almost
imperceptibly, but later more OPEN
~. that change which found its
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-12
Calm Inflexible

A nlaleyolent, burning wave of
irTitability, irony and hatred swept
over the hall. The eyes which re-
Elected Lenin showed hundred
different expressions. These hostile
thruSts had no noticeable effeco on
him. He spoke on warmly but
deliberately and calmly. learned
what this external calm had cost
him few days later. 1t was strange
and sad to see that such hostility
could be reused against him by
such natural thought as that
only by the help of a fully de-
veloped theory would be the Party
be able to sc the causes of the dis
sension in its midst" The i'm
preston formed itself in my mind
that each day Of the Congress added
ever greater power to v. Ilyitch,
and made him holder and more
confident. With each day his
speech sounded firmer and the Boil
stlevist element in the Congress
grew more and more uncompromis-
ing and inflexible. Apart from his,
I was moved most of all by the
eloquent, vigorous speech Of Rosa
Luxembourg against the Mensheviks
and the crushing, sledge -hammer
blows Of M. P. Tomsky's speech
against the idea of "Lubour Con-
gYesS."
His free minutes or hours Lenin
spent among the workers, asking
them about the most petty details
Of their lives.
what about their wives? Up to
the neck in housework2 But do they
manage to learn anything, to read
anything?"
Once in Hyde Park group OF
workers who had seen Lenin for the
first time ut the Congress were dis
cussing his conduct there. One of
them made striking remark.
4 For all I know there may be
other fellows as clsver as he In
Europe ON the side Of the workers.
But ! don't believe you'll find an
other one who could get you on the
spot like that fellow!"
Another one added with smile.
"He's one of us all right"
"Plekhanoy's just as much one
of u.s." someone replied. The an
swer heard just hit the mark
you feel that Pl.khanov's always
teaching you, lording it over you,
but Lenins a real leader and COM
rade.' One young fellow said
jokingly: "Plekhanov's frock-coat
is too tight for him."
On one occasion we were on our
way to Q restaurant, when q
worker, . Msnshsvik. stopped him
70 ask HIM = question: nyitch
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-12
Days with Lenin
BY MAXIM GORKY

dropped behind while the party
went on. He entered the restau-
rant frowhing, five minutes later,
and said: Curious that such O
simpleton should have got into the
Party Congress. He asked me.
what was after all the real reason
for the discussion? THAT is what
it is" said to him. "Your friends
want to get into Parliament, while
we believe that the working class
has got to prepare for struggle"
I think he understood. Several of
us always had our meals together
in the same cheap little restaurant.
I noticed that V. Ilyitch ate very
littls-two or three fried eggs, q
small piece of ham, and a mug OF
thick, dark-colored beer. He OBJ
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conclusion in the world war. From
a party of revolutionary class
struggle it became a petty bourgeois
reform party. This process began
with small group of party COM
rades seeking to change the atti-
tude Of the party to the bourgeois
state; voting for the budget was
justified; colonial policy was ap-
proved; criticism OF German mill
tarism was moderated. Clara zet-
kin opposed all such tendencies
with passion and determination.
This attitude brought her into close
alliance with Rosa Luxembourg,
with whom she was united by the
closest friendship until the murder
of Rosa in 1919.
When the world war broke out
Clara Zetkin at first .endeavored
to restore the severed connections
with the women comrades in other
countries. In March, 1915, she con-
vened the Women's Conference at
Berne. She was placed under pre-
ventive arrest for several months
for having spread the Berne Mani
festo Together with Rosa Iluxeln-
burg and Franz Mehring she pub
lished in June, 1915, the first num-
Der of the "Internatiopale", the
only number which was published
during the war. She then consis-
tently pursued her path via the
Spartakus Bund to the Communist
Party and the III International.
Struggles, Though Ill.
And even If today age and Ill
health prevent her from standing
in the front ranks of the prole-
tartan fight for emancipation, she
nevertheless follows with passionate
interest all phases Of this fight, and
as far as possible takes part in
events by word and pen.
AS an outstanding international
personality her name stands in
history alongside that Of Lenin,
Rosa Luxembourg, Karl Liebknecht
and Frank Mehring, Of all OF whom
she was a close friend.
We trust that our veteran COM
rade may live to see the barbayism
of fascislm vanquished and the red
flags flying over Soviet Germany.
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His HumOr

V. Ilyitch laughed gayly and in
fectiously at the clowns and Gomez
dams and looked indifferently at
the rest. He paid especial atten-
ton to the Undertaking by the
workers of British Columbia. The
little scene at the back showed a
forest camp and on the ground in
front two young fellows hewed
through the trunk of tree about
a meter in thickness in the course
Of minute, That's for the public,
of course" said Ilyitch. They
couldn't work as quickly, as that
in reality. But apparently they use
hatchets there also, and cut up
lot of wood into useless chips.
There's British civilization for youis
He began to speak about the am
archy in production under capitals
ism, the great percentage Of raw
material which is wasted, and
ended by regretting that no one
had as yet thought of writing a
book on the subject. The idea
wasn't quite clear to me, but I
didn't manage to question v.
Ilyitch. He was already making
some interesting remarks about the
pantomime as a special form of tho
art of the theatre. at is the exI
preston of a certain satirical atti-
tude towards generally accepted
ideas, an attempt to turn them in
side out, to distort them, to show
the arbitrariness of the usual. It
is a little complicated, but inter-
esting!" Two years after in Capri,
when he was discussing the Utopian
novel with A. A. Bogdanov- Malin-
ovsky, he said, If you would write
novel for the workers on the sub
ject of how the sharks of capital
ism robbed the earth and wasted
the oil, iron, timber and coal
that would be useful book, Signog
Machistl'
-, gro BE. CoSInsUEDI, -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-12
Lenin Speaks

Rosa LuXempurg spoke eloquently,
passionately and trenchantly, using
irony with great, effect. But now
Vladimir Ilyitch hurries to the pull
pit, and cries "Comrades!" in his
cultural way. He seemed to me to
speak badly, but after minute I
and everybody else was absorbed in
his speech. 1t was the first time
had heard complicated political
questions treated SO Simply. There
was no striving after eloquent
phrases with him, but every word
was uttered distinctly, and its
) meaning was marveuously plain.
1t is very difficult to pass on to the
reader the unusual impression
which he made.
His arm was extended with the
hand slightly raised, and he seemed
to weigh every word with it, and
to sift out the remarks of his OPP
ponents, substituting them by mo-
mentouS arguments for the right
and duty of the working class to go
its own way, and not along with
the liberal bourgeoisie or trailing
behind it. All this was unusual,
and Lenin semed to say it not of
his own will, but by the will of
history. The unity, completeness,
directness and strength of his
speech, his whole appearance in the
pulpit was very work of classic
art: everything was there, and yet
there was nothing superflous, and
If there we're any embellishments,
they were not noticed as such, but
were as natural and inevitable as
two eyes in face or five fingers
ON a hand. He gave a shorter
speech than the orators who spoke
before him, but he made much
greater impression. 1 was not alone
in feeling this. Behind me was an
enthusiastic whispering, Now he
has got something to say" 1t really
was so. His conclusions we're not
reached artificially, but developed
by themselves, inevitably. The Men
sheviks made no attempt to hide
their displeasure at the speech and
more than displeasure at Lenin
himself. The more convincingly he
showed the necessity to the party of
the utmost development of revolu-
tionary theory SO that the practice
might be Thoroughly surveyed in the
light OF it, the more exasperatedly
did they interrupt him.
"A Congress isn't the place for
philosophy" Don't act the teacher
with us, we're not school boys!'
One tall, bearded individual who
looked like a shopkeeper was es-
pecially aggressive. He jumped up
from his seat and suffered Little
p-plots-p-playing at little p-plots!
"Blanquistsp Rosa Luxembourg
nodded her head approvingly. She
made a neat remark to the Men
sheviks at one of the later meetings.
"You don't stand on Marxism, you
sit on it, rather lie down on it."
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Yesterdays instalIment dealt with
Gorky's impressions while attending
the Russian social democratic con-
gress held In London in 1903. 1t
was at this congress that the now
historic split between the menshev-
ks and Bolshcviks took place.
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~ suRcx

is to starve the masses of unem-
ployed and they carry this policy
as far as they only can. The De-
mocratic administrations in New
York and Chicago are known for
their graft and corruption, wage
cuts and starvation for the masses.
Lynching In The South
In the south, wherever the De-
mocrats rule states, lynchings of
Negroes are taking place. In Ala
bama, 9 Negro boys are facing the
electric hair on frame-up charge
of rape. The Democratic Cover
nor Miller keeps them in Jail and
hopes to execute these innocent Ne
gro boys, children, in fact.
In Maryland, Governor Richie
refuses to release Willie Brown, a
Negro young worker, condemned to
die in the electric hair on frame
up charges.
These are some of the records Of
the Democratic Party in power in
the cities and states. But at the
National Convention there will be
(and there was-Ed) plenty OF DEM
agogy about the misery and starva-
ton Of the masses for the purpose
of fooling the masses, to parade
before them as a party of the
opposition.
But the Democratic Party is part
and parcel Of terror. persecution,
murder, death from starvation and
throwing out on the streets 10000
900 workers, and poverty for the
millions of farming population, be-
cause the Democratic Party is the
same as the Republican Party, a
party of big business in Wall st.
1t will support and is supporting
the Hoover policy of war against
the Soviet Union, which carries
daily war against the masses.
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viously took very little care of him.
self and his amazing care for the
workers struck one all the more.
M F. Andreyeva was looking
after the canteen, and he would
ask her, What do you think, are
the workers getting enough to eat?
No? HIM, HIM. Perhaps we can
get more sandwiches" Once when
he came to the inn where I was
staging, I noticed him feeling the
bedding with preoccupied air.
What are you doing?" asked.
'I'm just looking to see If the
sheets are we'll AIRED At first L
didn't understand. Why should he
want to know what the sheets were
like in London? Then, noticing my
perplexi =, he explained, "You
must ts;e care of yourself"
His Simplicity
In the autumn OF 1918 / asked
worker from Sormova, Dmitry
Pavlov, what he thought was Lem
ms most striking feature? He an
swered, Simplicity. He is as
simple as truth itself" He said
this as though it had been thought
out and decidede long ago. 1t is
well known that ones severest
critics are those who work under
one. Lenin's chauffeur, Gill, man
of great experience, said: "Lenin is
quite unique. There are no others
like him. Once 1 was driving him
along Myasnitsky Street when the
traffic was very heavy. I hardly
moved forward. I was afraid Of
the car getting smashed and was
sounding the horn, feeling very
worried. He opened the door,
reached me by standing on the
footboard, meanwhile running the
risk of being knocked down, and
urged me to go forward. Don't get
worried, Gill, go "a like everyone
else.' I am an cid chauffeur. I
know that nobody else would do
that"
1t would be difficult to make the
reader realize how easily and nat
urally all his impressions flowed in
the same channel With the in
variability of a compass-needle his
thoughts turned in the direction Of
the class interests of the workers.
One of our free evenings in London
small company Of us went to the
Music Hall'-a democratic the
atre.
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PAGE

for eight years and for a number
of years was employed in the law
offices Of Samuel Ashby.
Born in Sullivan, she worked in
the law Office Of her father, John
T. Hays, and continued in this en-
ployment after his death, when the
firm was continued by her two half
brothers, Will H. and Hinkle Hays.
Miss Hays was a member Of the
First Presbyterian church in Sulh-
van, and was active in club life
there.
The body will arrive in Sullivan
Saturday night. Funeral services
will be held in the Presbyterian
church at 2:30 Sunday. The Rev.
Jack Masters will officiate.
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MARTHA HAYS DIES
Half Sister of Film Chief
Lived Here Eiqht Years.

Miss Martha Hays, SO, half sis
ter of Will H. Hays, former post
MASTER general and now president
Of the Motion Picture Producers
and Distributors of America, died
Tuesday afternoon in Los Angeles
(Cal) hospital, following an opera
ton. according 10 a telegram re-
ceived here by Mrs. r. Harry Mil
Ter, 1901 North Alabama street.
Miss Hays lived in Indianapolis