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With Some
Scientists

Once proposed that we should
go together to the Chief Artillery
Department to see an apparatus
which had been invented by a Boil
shevik, an old artillery man, to
adjust artillery fire directed against
airplanes What do understand
about that?' he said, but he went
with me.
In a dark room round a table on
which stood the apparatus wero
gathered seven generals with scovl-
ing faces, gray, bewhiskered oA
men, all scientists. Among them
the modest civilian figure OF Lenin
was lost, dropped into insignia.
canoe. The inventor began to ex-
plain the construction of the appa.
ratus. Lenin listened to him for
two or three minutes, then said
approvingly, Hin, him." and began
to question the man with as much
ease as II he were examining him
on some political question. sAnd
how do you manage to got the ma
chine to do two things sinauitaue !.
.ously. when ii u lsying the aexseet
sesA Go De QQaLngH
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"Neav Leader" and
ScOttsborO

I'VE
capitalist
making the criminal nounded that the Scots
the world the ynng the
al
telling
a
in stay
poes
socialist"
filthy the
makes another clean united front with the working
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LENTN,
Attitude toward
Comrades

have already described his quite
exceptional attitude to tho comrades,
his attention to them, which pene-
trated down even to the smallest
details of their lives. But in this
feature of his I never caught the
note of that self interested care
which a clever master sometimes
exhibits towards an honest and ex-
pert workman. This was not the
case with L,enin. His was exactly
the heartfelt interest of a sincere
comrade, the love which exists be-
tween equals. I know that it is
impossible to consider as Lenin's
equals even the greatest people in
his party, but he himself didn't
seem to realize this, or more prob
ably, did not want to realize it. He
was sometimes sharp with people,
when arguing with them, pitilessly
ridiculed them, even laughed at
them in a venomous fashion. All
this he did. But how many times,
when Judging the people whom yes
terday he was criticizing and re-
buking, there was clearly evident the
note Of genuine wonder at their
talents and moral steadfastness; at
their unflagging labor in the
abominable conditions OF 1918-1s2I,
work amid spies Of all countries
and parties, amid the plots which
swelled like fostering sores on the
body of the war-exhausted country.
They worked without rest, they ate
little and badly, they lived amid
ceaseless alarms. But Lenin him-
self did not seem to feel the hard-
ness of these conditions, of the un-
foreseen dangers of a society which
had been shaken to the very foun-
dations by the murderous storms Of
civil strife. Only once did anything
like a complaint escape him, and
that was when he was talking with
M F. Andreyeva, in his room.
What else can we do, dear M. F.?
We have no alternative but to fight.
Do we find it hard? OF course we
do!
"You think it is not hard for
me? 1t is, and very hard too. But
look at Dzerzhinsky. He is Begin
ming to look like nothing on earth.
There is nothing to be done about
it. 1t is better to suffer than to
fail" The only regret he ever ex-
pressed in my presence was, IT am
sorry, deeply sorry, that Martov is
not with us. What splendid COM
rade he was, what an absolutely
sincere man. I remember how
long and heartily he laughed at read
ing Martov's remark somewhere,
There are only two Communists
in Russia, Lenin and Kollontay."
He laughed and then sighed, What
clever woman she isl" 1t is with
genuine respect end wonder that he
remarked, after conducting one
comrade, an administrator, out Of
his study, Have you known him for
long? He would be at the head Of
the cabinet in any country in
Europe Rubbing his hands to-
gether and smiling, he added,
Europe is poorer than we are in
TALENT
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ASHAMED to be
Weak"

An old acquaintance of mine, P.
A. Skorokhodov, another Sormovo
worker, tender-hearted man, COM
planned of the painfulness of work
in the Tcheka. I said to him, IT
think that is not thc right work for
you 1t isn't congenial to you" He
agreed sadly, Absolutely uncon-
genial" But after thinking a little,
he said, "But you know Ilyitch too
has to stiffe his emotions, and I am
ashamed to be SO weak"
knew and still know many work.
ers who had to, and have to, grit
their teeth hard, and stiffle their
emotions, to overcome their organic
social ideaism" for the sake of the
triumph of the cause they are
serving. Did Lenin too have to
Stifie his emotions? He paid too
little attention to himself to talk
about himself to others; he, more
than anyone, could keep silent about
oAAC oCCACV dSAtdtiOll VI Ills SOul.
Once, however, in Gorky, when he
was caressing some children, he
said, These will have happier lives
than we had. They will not expert
ence much that we lived by. There
will not be so much cruelty in their
lives" Then, looking into the dis
lance, to the hills where the village
nestled, he added pensively, "And
yet don't envy them. Our gener-
alton achieved something of amaz-
ing significance for history. The
cruelty, which the conditions of our
life made necessary, will be under
stood and indicated. Everything
will be understood, everything" He
caressed the children with great
care, with an especially gentle and
tender touch.
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Letters from Our Readers

sold less than $50 worth of literature
in three months.
Our unit of only 8 active members
has sold more than SIS worth of lit
erature during the last three months,
and we consider that we are not doing
one-f1fth of what we can do. We
expect to double sales in the next
three months.
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T6CeIlIly III COIlIleCplOL WIFI the SCr1KG
of the coal miners, which started at
Borinage.
Wages Cut
Since the beginning of the world
crisis the. owners of the Belgian coal
mines have reduced the wages of the
workers from 35 to As per cent. Re-
Gently a ne wfive per cent cut was
announced In the mines of Bor-
image. The coal miners resisted and
went out on strike. In this move
ment the workers have displayed such
unity thatthe reformist leaders have
set all their forces upon the breaking
Of the strike, feyerishly modifying
strikebreakers.
Help Owners
In their appeal to the striking min
ers the reformist leaders we're shame
lessly urging them to accept the re-
duction and to persuade them that
they were violating their sacred
agreements with the mine owners and
that the strike was illegal They ar
ranged numerous meetings In which
they were striving to convince the
miners to return to work. One OF
these meetings took place on June
oath in Vazem. Eight thousand coal
miners gathered. To counterfeit the
yellow reformist leaders, the repre-
sentatives Of the revolutionary wing
spoke.
The general attention centered
around Lacho, who Is very popular
with the workers. While the heroes
Of reformism, Delattre and Master,
were preparing the meeting in q
closed hall Lacho started his speech
before the assembled miners on the
square. Soon he was approached by
members of the young Socialist
Guard" They invited him to attend
the socialist meeting. Lacho agreed
Here is how "Drapeau Rogue" the
communist organ OF Belgium, OF June
10Th described what followed:
1T was trap. After Lacho went
with the young Socialist Guard" he
was attacked by them with fists and
clubs. He was surrounded, seized and
carried into the hall on the st. Pierre
square with such speed that the sur
rounding mass Of the miners did not
grasp what was happening. Once in
side the hall, Lscho was knocked
down, and the beating continued.
His satchel, purse, cane and hat
were confiscated. He was dragged by
his hair. After that he was dragged
upon the platform in state OF Ut
ter exhaustion.
In beating up Lacho the socialists
calculated to silence this revolution
= 81 LA & L. s.s.e - =
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airy worker. They thought that aft
er they dragged him upon the plat
form he would not be in condition
to speak and that the sight of the
beaten-up rival would serve to the
glory of the socialist democracy and
in breaking the strike.
POWERFUL Speech
In the first minute after the saw
age beating, Lach was unable to
speak. The socialists were rejoicing,
but Lacho recovered speedily and
made powerful speech exposing the
reformists ruthlessly. He did not COM
plain. He did not weep. He made no
protest against the beating. He di-
rected his entire fire upon the social
democratic treachery which is direct
ed against the entire working class.
AS result the meeting took quite
an unexpected turn.
Many Of the workers who were
favorable toward the reformers were
in the hall. These masses who we're
deceived by and obedient to the tricky
leaders offered no resistance to the
attack ON Lacho. But from the first
words of Lacho's speech there oc-
CURED remarkable change of senti-
ment.
Vainly one Of them, Delatre, at
tempted by means of oratorical tricks
and demagogy to regain the sympathy
Of the workers. He failed. Alarmed
at this, Delattre and his henchmen
kindly proposed" that Lacho leave
the meeting through a small back
door. Lacho, Of course, refused. The
murmurs Of the miners increased to
a shout. Then without losing any
/ time Delettro and his henchmen
sneaked out through the back door
where an auto awaited them. And
so they escaped the anger of the
workers.
Cheer Lacho
The miners rose to greet Lacho
with much gusto. They carried him
on their shoulders. Women and girls
showered him with flowers. Some OF
the youths from the young Social
list Guard" came to ask forgiveness
A procession was formed and march
ed jubilantly through the city. After
the parade Lacho made another
speech, concluding with the following
words. Il know the men who took
part in their attack upon me, but !
do not intend to utilize this knowl-
edge. But I appeal to the workers
who were nisled to recognize their
class duty and to take part in the
struggle against the bosses and tbe;r
helpers, the reforwist leaders, ~ w
y EtA s&rlA .. .rss.rI ~ ---s1-.
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Who Are the Bonus Marchers?

Well, let's illustrate. In Anacostia
a contingent from Ambridge, Pa.
(steel workers., have laid out a
neat row of figurative graves. In one
of them lies Hoover. In another lies
Garner. In others lie this or that
Congressman or Senator, both Demo-
Gratis and Republicans.
Hate Boss Parties.
Every vet here hates Hoover and
the Republican Party. Does that
mean they have any use for the
Democratic Party? 1t does not.
Foulkrod, who urged the veterans
to go home and campaign for
Franklin D. Roosevelt, was only a
day ago Kissed and booed off the
Capitol grounds by the vets en-
camped there.
What do they think politically?
These men, you must remember,
are unemployed workers, who have
been starving. A vet from Texas
has seen the democratic governor
Of his state, and the democratic
mayor of his city deny him relief.
The vets from, say, some town in
Pennsylvania, has seen the repub-
ncan governor of his state and the
republican mayor of his city do the
same.
Talk to almost any of the men,
bers of the Bonus. Expeditionary
Force and he'll tell you both these
parties are the same, and for the
rich.
Talk to almost any of the vets
here, and you find out he talks the
program of the Communist Party
and that's the last thing in the
world he thinks he's talking.
Most Of the vets have been re-
ceiving tall tales about the Reds"
from the capitalist press and from
the little Mussolinis like Waters,
Doak Carter, Robertson and Foulk-
rod. They've been told a red or
a Communist Is a man who carries
a good sized stock Of bombs around
on his person, that the Reds are
in with the Hoover government and
against the bonus, etc.
But when a veteran opens his
mouth to kick about the tyranny
of Waters in Anacostia, or about
the uselessness of lying in the mud
flats and doing nothing real to get
the bonus, he's called red" by
the racketeers in command and
kicked out OF camp. Then he be-
gins to wonder.
One man from Oklahoma said to
me: II hate the Reds. But, you
know, I'd like to see Bolshevik
government in this country" He
thought the Reds were something
terrible, but the Bolsheviks were
o. K.
A vet from Kentucky was dis
tributing some Rank and File lit
erature. Some M.P's caught him
and tore the leaflets up. He came
back and said: Some Of them
damn Reds tore my leaflets up"
Here was Red who didn't know
what a Red is.
Don't Realize They're Reds.
That's the average bonus marcher
for you. A Red through starva-
ton who doesn't realize he's Red
and has been told the Reds are
awful people.
Rank and File" You see these
magic words painted all over the
shacks which the vets call their
billets.
Rank and file"-the phrase
caught on like wildfire.
And rank and file action, be-
hind rank and file program is
what they're going to rally behind
despite the Waters terror, de-
ror, despite the denagogy Of Rob-
ertson and Mr.. Zero, despite the
sickness Of Glassford aud despite
the mailed fist which Les behind
the otnness Of dlasssor6
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What Is Their Attitude Towards the Capitalist
Political Parties: Towards the Rank and File
Program: Towards Waters, Etc.

be as near Congress as the cops
would let them. A few of them af-
filiated with the Rank and File
Committee.
They Hate the Bosses Government.
What do the veterans camped
here think of the US government?
Ninety per cent of them hate it,
and they say so, if you ask them,
right in the midst of the Anacostia
terror, right on the Capitol
grounds.
What do the veterans think of
the capitalist political parties2
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sacrifice to get the bonus.

Sacrlflce TO get the bonus.
AS matter of fact, the big ma
jority of the bonus marchers in
their arguments among each other
talk for the Rank and File pro-
gram without realizing it.
Take the Oregon bunch. They
were the ones that came across the
continent with General Waters.
And now they've quit him flat be-
cause, as they say, Lying around
in Anacostia, like Waters wants us
to, won't get us nowhere" So they
came up to the Capitol grounds to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-19
BY N. HONG

"THE situation on the Capitol
grounds has been fraught with
dangers during the past three
days"
These are the words of General
Glassford, the slick Washington po-
lice chief, in defending himself for
using soft-soap tactics towards the
bonus marchers camped on the
Capitol grounds.
Vice President Curtis, Speaker
Garner and the whole damn outfit
up in them two houses" as the
bonus marchers call the members
of Congress, have been scared stiff
by the 10000 veterans assembled
here.
They were scared so stiff that
they wanted to use the ordinary
crude tactics of force against the
veterans. One day last week they
called out the marines.
But Glassford, very clever bird,
for the present uses the soft pedal.
He's much smarter servant of
the capitalists than those who at
tackled him for using the oily
method against the veterans in
stead of the lead method in the
present stage.
Who are these men who have Gre
ated a situation "fraught with
danger" for the capitalist class?
The purpose of this article is to
give the workers 9, picture of the
men who make up the army of de-
terinined ex-seryicemen who have
endured every conceivable hard
ship to come to Washington from
every nook and corner of the coun-
try, even from as far away as
Alaska, in order to fight for some
thing that they are determined to
get from a bosses government?
An Army of Workers.
First of all, this is an army Of
workers and poor farmers. In
the ranks of the twenty thousand
men encamped in the flats of Ana
costa, in scores of rudely con-
structed billets in every part of
Washington, on the very grounds
of the Capitol, you get cross
section Of the American working
class.
There are some workers under
direct fascist control. They are in
the minority, by far. They are ex-
emplified by the type like the hand
full from Macon, Ga, or those from
Beaumont, Tex, who threw the Ne
groes out Of their billets, and who
swear they'll stick by Waters.
Open Minded Men.
Then there are the open minded
vets, who make up the huge major
ity. The kind who say they'll fol-
low any man or group who have q
program. The kind who hang out
on the Capitol grounds all day and
all night, arguing among each
other, in little punches, about this
and that member Of Congress,
about this or that bill in Congress,
about this or that commander"
These are the men who read
carefully every bit Of literature
handed out by the members Of the
Rank and File Committee, or of the
Workers Ex-Servicemeri's League.
They don't join the rank and file
group by the hundreds at one time.
They come over to the militant pro-
gram one at time, or two or
three at a time.
They've been fooled by Waters.
They've been fooled by Foulkrod,
the ex-dick. Right now a lot of
them are in the process of being
fooled by Robertson of California.
They don't want to be fooled any
more, and they think hard before
they come over to the Rank and
File program. Every single man Of
them is a scrapper. Every single
man OF them is ready To make any
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with Lenin
BY MAXIM GORKY

stroke anyone's head-you might
get your hand bitten of. You have
to hit them on the head, without
any mercy, although our ideal Is
not to use force against anyone.
HIM, HIM, our duty is Internally
hardp
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Reformist Tactics in Belgium
Strike Defeated in Lieges
LIEGES, Belgium.

LIEGES, Belgium Communists terrible
monsters They
of the Socialists o
They talk gb about democracy
the following example Of place
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-19
fBy a Worker Correspondent

HAMMOND. Ind, July 17-At a
Socialist Party a meeting held re-
Gently in little country schoolhouse
here, one of the farmers himself in
yited Communist Party member and
even obtained permission for him to
speak. After three Socialist speakers
had gotten through, our Party speaker
was introduced by the chairman. I'M
mediately one of the Socialists got
and yelled. You're Communist. Get
but Of here" A small riot started, but
we did not insist and things quoted
down for while.
When the Socialists adjourned, one
Of the men in the audience called out,
'Now's your chance. Tell us what
you've got to say" So our Communist
candidate for lieutenant governor
answered questions and explained
things they wished to know. passed
but literature right and left, the leaf
Yet about the Indianapolis Hunger
March, the Producers News" the
DAILY Worker and other literature.
I believe the party should arrange
more rural meetings because we find
the farmers are even more radicalized
than many town workers.
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A Letter

When he himself was nearly a
sick man, quite worn out, he wrote
to me on the 9th of August, 1921.
A. M!
sent on your letter to L. 3.
Kamenev. I am so tired that I
am incapable of the slightest work.
And you are splitting blood and yet
don't go away? That really is dis
graceful imprudent. In Europe, in
a good sanatorium, you will get wen
and be able to do something else
worth while. Really, really. But
here you can neither get well, nor
do anything. There is nothing for
you here but bother, useless bother.
Go away and get well. Don't be OBJ
stinate, I implore you!
Yours,
LENTN.
For more than year, he insisted
with astonishing persistence that I
should leave Russia. I was amazed
that, entirely absorbed in work as
he was, he should remember that
there was a sick person somewhere
in need of rest. He wrote letters
like this to different people-scores,
probably.
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Interest in Art

v. A. DyesnitSky -Stroyev told me
that he was once travelling through
Sweden with Lenin in train, and
looking at a German monograph
on Durer. Some Germans, sitting
in the same carriage. asked him
what the book was. Later it APP
peared that they had never heard
of their great artist. This almost
reused enthusiasm in Lenin, and
twice he said to Dyesnitsky proud
ly, "They don't know their own
artists, but we do" One evening
in Moscow, in E. p. Pyeskovskaja's
fiat, Lenin was listening to a sonata
OF Beethoven, which was being
played by Isaiah Dobrowein, and
said, II know nothing which is
greater than the Appasionata; I
would like to listen to it every day.
1t is marvellous superhuman music.
1 always think with pride-perhaps
1t is naive OF me-what marvellous
things human beings can dol" Then
screwing up his eyes and smiling,
he added, rather sadly, But I can't
listen to music too often. 1t affects
your nerves, makes you want to say
stupid, nice things, and stroke the
peoples heads who could create such
beauty when they were living IN.
this vile bell; and now YOU mustn't
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PHILA. LITERATURE SALE

PHILADELPHIA, July 1s--I read
ne article. Literature Sales Anal
red," by James Watson of Philadel-
tina in the Daily Worker. He reports
hat the best section in Philadelphia
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Regarding TOlstoy

Once I came to him and saw
"War and Peace" lying on the table
eyes. Tolstoy. wanted to read
over the scene of the hunt, then
remembered that had to write to
a comrade. Absolutely no time for
reading. Only last night man
aged to read your book on Tolstoy."
Smiling and screwing up his eyes,
he stretched himself deliciously in
his armchair and, lowering his
voice, added quickly, what CO.
lossus, eh? What marvellously
developed brain! Here's an artist
for you, sir. And do you know
something still more amazing? You
won't find a genuine moujik in lit
erature until this count came on
the scene?" Then screwing up his
eyes and looking at me, he asked,
Can you put anyone in Europe be-
side him?" and replied himself, mo
one" And he rubbed him hands
together, laughing contentedly.
Imore than once noticed in him
this trait, this pride in Russian
literature. Sometimes this feature
appeared to me strangely foreign to
Lenin's nature, appeared even
naive, but learned to hear in it
the echo of his deep-seated, joyful
love for his fatherland In Capri,
while watching how the fishermen
carefully disentangle the nets, torn
and entangled by the sharks, he
observed, Our men work more
quickly" When I cast some doubt
on this remark, he said with
touch of vexation, HIN, him. Don't
you think you are forgetting Russia,
living on this bump?"
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probabIY.
The Washington times., 1932-05-11
>vHIAr,c R~MIc Where and
W7NI > D\/uNO - When

Street, between Twelfth and
Thirteenth Street Northwest,
7:3O D. M, Sholls Restaurant.
Meeting west Washington
Mems Glee Club, evening. West
Washington Center, Twenty
fourth and N Streets Northwest.
Meeting - Community Club,
evening, west washington Cen
ter, Twenty-fourth and N Streets
Northwest.
Nomination and Election OF
Officers-Columbia Park Citizens
Association, 8 p. m, George
Truesdell School, Ninth and
Ingraham Streets Northwest.
DinnerAAmerican Institute OF
Banking, $50 p. m, Raleigh Ho
tel.
Meeting - American University
Park Citizens Association, 8 p. m.
Hurst Hall, American University.
Meeting-ChriSt Child Society
8 D. M, Shoreham Hotel.
Meeting-Washington PhilateliC
Society, 8 p. M, 1918 K st. N. W.
Card Party - Chesapeake Citt
zenS Association, 8 p. M, Burling'
ton Hotel.