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The Washington times., 1932-10-12
RADIO RAMBLES
Here and There
In the Realm Of
Broadcastins
BY STANLEY BIGELOW
Jottings From a Reporters
Notebook:

Those two exponents Of black
face comedy, Al Jolson and Eddie
Cantor, will be on the air lanes
again this fall. After a nine
month vacation, Eddie Cantor re,
turns to his old coffee-sponsored
spot on N. B. c., Sunday, October
80, while AL Jolson will mann
meh" all over the National net.
works November 18. as star OF
a new series of elaborate broad
casts. .Rachmaninoff, the Russ
pianist, will tour America this
year under the auspices of N. B.
c. Artists Service. Have you
noticed an echo when tuned in
either to WBZ or KDKA? Well,
the technical sharks inform me
1t is caused by the fraction Of a
second loss in transmitting the
broadcast.
The Washington times., 1932-10-12
PROGRAMS
Don't Miss These

1920 p. m.-The Washing.
ton Herald and Hearst Metro
tone News Globe TrOtter.
(WOL)
S:45 p. m.-Freddie and
Joe. (WOL)
800 p. m.-ViIginia Rea,
and the Reyelers Quartet.
(WRC)
1880 p. m.-LeS COlvins
Dance Music. (WMAL)
11:OO D. m.-Pickens Sis
ters. (WBAL)
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TODAY'S PROGRAMS
SsO kiIOcyeIe' WRC s'S Meters

S"O A""cSe'eS WRC "io Meters
3:OO-Concert Orchestra.
3:15-Republican National Com
mittee Address.
3:3O-Woman'S Review.
4:OO-Two Seats in the Balcony.
4:3O-International Broa d C a t
from Madrid, Spain.
5:0O-"Book Reviews"
5:15-Aunt Sue and Polly.
5:3O-The Flying Family.
5:45-Daily Circle.
6:OO-Donald Heywood'S Choir.
6:30-Weather Forecast.
6:31-Drifting and Dreaming.
6:45-Marguerite Cromwell.
7:OO-AmoS n Andy.
7:15-Wheatenavllle.
7:3O-Billy Jones and Ernie
Hare.
7:45-The GoldbergS.
S:OO-"The Shadow"
8:SO-Republican National Com
mittee Address.
S:45-The Songbirds..
9:OO-Virginia Rea.
9:SO-American Bar Association
1O:OO-Corn Cob Pipe Club
The Washington times., 1932-10-12

If you think yellow, stained, insight
Unlocking teeth are natural, start
using Kolynos-a half-inch on a dry
brush twice daily. In 3 days you'll
see your mistake. Your teeth will look
3 shades winter!
Kolynos-unlike any preparation
you've ever used-contains two i'm
portant ingredients that clean and
whiten teeth remarkably. One-the
finest cleansing agent known-erases
stain and tartar, foams into every
tiny fissure and washes away decay.
causing debris. While the other ingre.
The Washington times., 1932-10-12

6:15-The Sunshine Girl.
6:29-Weather Forecast.
6:3O-Question and Answer Man.
6:45-Katherine Del Vale and
George Ross.
7:OO-Dinner Concert.
7:2O-The Washington Herald
and Hearst MetrOtOne
News Globe TrOtter.
7:3O-Today in Sports.
7:45-Rodney Hart's Vikings.
S:15-Piano Improvisations.
S:3O-Royal Hawaiians.
S;45-Freddie and Joe.
$50 KlIoeyele' WBAL s94 Meters
4:OO-Mid-week Musicale.
4:3O-Studio Program.
4:45-Pickard Family.
5:OO-Floyd Schaffer's Orchestra.
5:l5-Dromedary Caravan, dra-
matte sketch.
5:3O-The Singing Lady.
5:45-Little Orphan Annie.
6:OO-B. A. Rolfe and his Modern
Rhythm Makers.
6:3O-Dandies of Yesterday.
6:45-Lowell Thomas, tod a Us
news.
7:OO-Amos m Andy.
7:15-Impersonations by w ar d
Wilson.
7:3O-The Stebbins Boys.
7:45-Jchnny Hart in Hollywood.
8:00-Dramatic Sketch.
8:3O-Jack Fulton, tenor.
8:45-Pat Barnes in Person.
9:OO-Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes.
9:3O-Jack Benny; George Olsen
and his music, with Ethel
Shutta. soloist.
1O:OO-Phillips Lord in the
Country Doctor.
1O:15-Fifteen Minutes with Andy
Sannella.
Batter Up" dramat t c
sketch.
1O:45-Jane Froman an d her
band.
Sisters.
11:15-Cesare Sodero and NBC
Concert Orchestra.
12:OO-Cah Galloway and his Or
chestra.
12:3O-William Scotti's Orchestra.
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11:OO-Nellie Revell.
11:15-LaSt-Minute News.
11:17-Dance Orchestra.
12:OO-The Dream Singer.
12:O5-Vincent Lopez Orchestra.
12:3O-Lew Diamonds Orchestra.
$50 K'IOcyeIe' WMAL 47s Meters
s:15-Madame Belle Forbes Cut
ter.
3:45-Piano "Wiz."
4:OO-Madrid Exchange
5:OO-"The Layman and the
Law"
5:15-"P Primer for Town Farm
erS." -
5:25-FIre Prevention Week Talk.
5:3O-Skippy.
5:45-NeWS Flashes.
6:OO-Columbus and the Knights
Resume.
6:OO-Columbus and the Knights
of Columbus.
6:15-George Halls Orchestra.
6:3O-Ina Holtzscheiter and Cath.
crime Gross.
6:45-To Keep America Ameri-
can.
7:OO-Myrt and Marge.
7:15-World Famous Trombonist.
7:3O-Three x Sisters.
7:45-Angelo Patri.
8:OO-Edwin C. Hill.
8:l5-Singin' Sam,
8:3O-Kate Smith.
S:45-Musical Fast Freight.
9:OO-Guy Lombardo
9:3O-Crime Club.
1O:OO-Ruth Etting.
1O:15-Easy Aces.
1O:3O-Les Colvin's Orchestra.
11:OO-Arabian Nights Orchestra.
1:3O-ISham Jones Orchestra.
1s" Ki'ooye'e' VOL "a' Meters
3:OO-Good-Afternoon-Variety
3:55-World Book Man.
4:OO-Character Builders.
4:O5-Popular Vocal Bits.
4:15-Louis Rothschild.
4:3O-Salon Musicale.
5:OO-Something for Everyone.
5:3O-Crazy Crystals Quartet.
5:45-Lelia Endicott
6:OO-"Hate and Twenty Cents"
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RAPS ROOSEVELT

Governor Roosevelt's reciprocal
tariff program was criticised yes.
terday by Senator Hatfield, OF
West Virginia, chairman of the
Republican senatorial committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-01
Defeat the Ryan Wage
Cut Agreement

IOSEPH RYAN President of the International Longshore-
mems Association has signed agreement with the ship
which the of the Ongshoremen straight
time from IS cents to IS cents hour and the overtime
from S2O to S1O hour CAS- matter of fact they put
in very little overtime and dockworkers seldom have
than 23 days work week. There other items in the
agreement that have not yet been brought to light which
will ayoffs and greater speedup. Throughout
the negotiations it was Ryan was acting in the
of the ship From the very beginning he
made the overtime rates the main yielding, at the
very straight time which
agreement employers Ryan
to question
which companies first $1o hour which
appearance a them.
RYAN did not trust the workers and throughout the negotiations the
workers not consulted
AFTER
official sanction the by the workers But he
met a wal o5 aeesa oDpu d 'n 4r t IN tht
dea the rank file revolt tgain Ryan and his
lieutenant Baker the labor takers faced with unexpected majority
meeting without the
poruniy to express their opposition In New York City the gang
uaiuu ieels ga I ne " JIG loS f
the onghoemen in the Eastern ports have been consulted the
horemer AL evidence shows that they are against the new ou agree
goes
taken of all the longhoremen the
leadership refuses such the rank and file committees must them
selves such referendum and make this mobilization for the
fight against the agreement
er to decide what actions be taken stop the from
dephia New York and Boston must be united,
THIS fight must also take in the unemployed The rank and file move
formulate demands for immediate relief for the
sa They m put "a9 demands ao AGAINST the dis
Negro
support the
this the last weeks carried extensive
ngshoremen making support
ongshore
against their the
support this battle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-01
Stop the Deportation OF
Nels Kjdr!

NELS KJAR the militant leader of the Chicago unem-
~ ployed has been in Cook County Jail for nearly
months. He re-arrested by Doas henchmen June
10 when his original bail set when he arrested two
years ago. cancelled by the immigration Department
livery effort of the international Labor Defense to compel
hail has been without success far
The events preceding Kjar arrest point clearly to the
the offcadom the
drive against the workers
standing Of the
fighter the reacherous ALL
the hatred their Chicago
Federation Labor ofcdom Shortly before
delegation the Chicago placing
hearing Chicago Federation
the
Consequences
This
the Republican convention needed the
his bondnen ordering
surrender for deportation
KJARS clearly the
II in the bounding of the
poraon drive is directed by Doaka bonade
whose whole political persones bureaucracy
immigration hounds from Doak working
their and militant worker is jailed deportation
o. Circuit Appeals Office
calls the
to this for Krs immediate release registering
vigorous protest against denial of bail for Kjar.
EVERY will be
the force that will compel
Fight for The
all the clutches OF the
deportation drve
Demonstrate Oct Mooney Day
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-01

ganization. The working class
and revolutionary character Of
the Socialist Party are of first
importance. All the votes of The
people would do us no coed is we
cease to be revolutionary party"
Under the cloak Of pacifisn,
y Thomas and the party he rep
resents, cover up their active sup
port of the imperialist policies and
war preparations against the Soviet
Union. The revolutionary Debs
said: II am opposed to every war
but one, I am for that war with
heart and soul, and that is the
world wide war Of social revolu-
ton; In that war I am prepared
to fight in any way the ruling class
my make II necessary, even to
barr.cades."
1t is true that Debs' limitations
as a Marxist-Leninist made it i'm
possible for him to be consistent to
the end in his revolutionary senti-
ments, but what world of differ
ence between Thomas, the social
fascist, and Debs, the militant
working class leader!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-01
NsTALMENT ~

INSIALmENI w.
Il AM no damn traitor" was the
young Communists brief answer.
Captain Siege of the police came
In, to add pathoS to the capitalist
side Of the argument.
Young man." he said, CT want
you to promise me sometime, to
visit the fields of Gettysburg. There
look at the tomb of my grandfather
who died that colored people like
you might be his equal"
YES" answered young Light
foot, eff you will visit Boston Com
mon, to look at the statue of Girls
pus Attucks, a man Of my race. He
was the first to fall in the revolu-
ton. He died that your ancestors
might be free from England, while
Negroes like us remained in slav-
cry"
The Negroes, like workers every
where, have to break through many
crooked paths of illusion before
they reach the broad highway of
revolutionary thought.
LEoNIDAs MAC DONALD.
Leonidas Macdonald, candidate
for Governor Of Illinois on the
Communist ticket, was a Moham-
medan only q few years ago. He
Joined that sect, which finds a fer
tile field for prose1yteS among the
Chicago Negroes, after he had be-
come diSil1usioned with the Garvey
movement and the Christian re-
ligion. There are several Arabian
and American gentlemen In Chi
cago who have made quite racket
out of this Mohanmed. But Mac
Donald took it seriously; once he
tasted 40 days.
ut appealed to me on rare
grounds, he said, 81 had seen so
much of the brutality and hypo-
crisy Of white Christians. Moham-
med was colored, and 1 thought
maybe it was more fitting for lis
to follow him. Anyway, can't tell
what expected, but one day [
started to read the Koran. It was
the same old bible bunk-Adam
and Eve and the rest of it. I quit
about month after had finished
studying the Koran"
He was ever searching for way
out for his suffering Negro race.
Tall, lean, humorous, always neat
but out at the elbows and knees,
Macdonald is one of those born
intellectuals who come out of the
working class. Some betray it, sell
out to the capitalists, others are
loyal to their class and lead the
fight for freedom.
Dorm in jackson, Tenn, in 1897,
II MacDonald's father was q rail-
road brakemen earning $35
month, swell money, big money,
and there were eight children. The
parents we're ambitious to give all
their brood a first class education
on $35 a month. But Leonidas went
to school only two years; then the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-01
Current Issue
of Rebel Poet
Fights Boss War

MANIFESTING a more cleancut
1n class struggle attitude than in
past issues, the new September
Rebel Poet, just off the press, is
billed as an Against Imperialist
War" number. The keynote of
the magazine Is set by grim No
Mans Land photograph on the
cover and linoleum cut by John
G. Rogers, showing a bayonet-
armed worker opposing the CAPT
talists' next imperialist war.
In the future The Rebel Poet
promises to be far more power
full proletarian magazine, as it will
be supervised by an editorial board
OF six, including three New York
John Reed Club members. Many
significant writer's are being re-
cruited now TO contribute To "Sov-
let Rmssia's 18th Anniversary Num-
Der" for November,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-01
BY SAM DON

THE bourgeoisie Is taxing Mr.
Norman Thomas, Socialist cam
didate for President, to its bosom.
His "Alma Mater" Princeton Uni
versity-Subsidized by the leading
plutocrats of the cotntry--has con-
ferred an honorary degree upon
him. Society considers him one of
its very own. The Scribblers of the
capitalist press are discovering in
Mr.. Thomas the noble features of
a real aristocrat, one who is logic
ally fit to represent the interests
of the bourgeoisie.
But certainly 1t is not a question
Of Mr.. Thomas physical features.
The praise extended to him by our
open class enemies, the conscious
building up of Thomas as ina
tional figure has for its purpose
the building up of Thomas and the
Party he represents-as the bosses
agent within the ranks of the
workers.
Tear off the heavy layers Of alb
stract and mystical discussions
about the personality of Mr..
Thomas, as INDUCED in by the
bourgeois writer's and what do you
find? An undisguised joy in his
pro-capitalist services in the ranks
Of the workers.
A REPUBLICAN ON THOMAS
Current History, magazine pub
lished by the New York Times, car
ried, in its September issue,
study Gas they call it, of Frank
lin D. Roosevelt. The autho- Of
this article, Claude M. Fuess, con-
tinues his studies" with an article
on Norman Thomas in the October
issue.
Who is this Mr.. Fuess? An edi-
torial note says that mfr. FueSS is
known primarily as one OF our
leading biographerS, is q Repub-
lican In politics, and was delegate
at this years national convention
OF his party"
LIEU I'D CAdiiilIlc WIldU d i6dQlIlB
Republican has to say of Mr..
Thomas and the Socialist Party.
The key to the entire article is
found in the very first paragraph:
"For many years the word So
cialist has held for the majority
Of Americans a sinister conota-
ton associated with bombs, riots
and assassinations, but Mr..
Thomas has somewhat changed
all that. Even hard-boiIed re-
dictionaries mention him almost
with affection"
low is it that suddenly" Re-
ii publican writer is willing to
abandon the lying, vicious SANDER
cultivated for years by the bour-
geoisie against revolutionary or
CARNATIONS as being associated
with bombs and assassins?
The Socialist Party has long ago
ceased to be a Party serving the
interest of the workers. Therefore
the bourgeoisie does not find it
necessary to SANDER it; on the con-
trary, IL deserves and gets the
praise OF our ruling class. In fact,
Thomas is considered so dangerous
to the interests Of the capitalists
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-01
S. P. ISLANDERS SOVIET UNION

S. T. ISLANDERS SOVIET UNION
Thomas attacks the dictatorship
of the proletariat in the Soviet
Union while singing the praises Of
bourgeois democracy in the United
States, which is only fig leaf for
fascist terror. Debs at the out
break of the october revolution de-
clered: 81 am a Bolsheyils from the
crown Of my head to the tips Of
my toes" And to the jury at his
Canton trial he said defiantly: 81
have been accused of expressing
sympathy with the Bolsheviks Of
Russia. I plead guilty to the
charge"
PROPHETIC WORDS
Debs once said that when the
boTgeoisie begins to praise work.
ing-class leader there is surely
something the matter with him.
Prophetic words. indeed!
The praise for Mr.. Thomas on
the part of the bourgeoisie is we'll
deserved. They know their Lack
eys.
The bourgeoisie speak of Thomas
with affection---the working c1asg
with contempt and hatredl :
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-01

inevitable proletarian tragedy. The
father was killed; the child was
left with a large family.
He was six feet tall at the age
of fifteen, and tried to join the ar
my, but was rejected because he
was a Negro.
He drifted north, working
i'll all the southern states, then
came to Chicago in 1916 and held
swell foreman's job in Thompson's
commissary for some years. The
war came and he volunteered.
"One bright and shiny Tuesday
afternoon on Jackson Boulevard,
when the bands were out, and the
pretty society girls talked of Huns,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-01

that, in the words Of Mr.. F'uess,
"eyen hard-boiled reactionaries
mention him almost with affec-
ton" The affection PM jsy indeed well
SOCIALISM RESPECTABLE
The writer takes special pains to
point out that: Indeed under Mr..
Thomas magic, Socialism has
grown respectable"
What does it signify when Re-
publican writer speaks of Socialism
becoming respectable? 1t simply
describes Socialism which has
respect for private property and
the profits of the ruling class; So
cialists who use words to pacify
workers, to prevent them from
fighting for relief, to break strikes
of workers. Mr. Fuess explains in
his article with joy what he means
by the Socialism made respectable
by Thomas. He says:
g.. When a resolution was
submitted at Milwaukee advo-
eating confiscation of private
property, MIR. Thomas took the
floor and acclaimed so forcibIy
that it was rejected"
Here is a picture of respectable
Socialism. Thomas declares that
he Is against capitalism, that he is
for Socialism, but heaven forbid
don't touch the private property
of Morgan, Ford, Rockefeller, etc.!
1t is sacred, and it is contrary to
the laws of human nature!
CONFISCATION? OH, NO!
Thomas is against confiscating
t,c private property of the rich,
but he is in favor of controlled
initiation which taxes the poor,
raises the cost of living to create
billions of dollars for the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation, to
pump billions of dollars into the
bankrupt American industries,
banks and railroads. Thomas, the
Socialist, is Mortified at the idea
OF confiscating the property of the
ruling class, but Marx and Engels
long ago answered the apologies
for the bourgeoisie when, in the
Communist Manifesto, they wrote:
you are Mortified at our in
tention to do away with private
property. but in your existing So
ciety private property is already
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-01
How the Socialists Supported
Imberialist War of 1014>18

IN previous issues of the published
speeches and articles
tiona of the mperialt
printed statement by Abraham Cahan Socialist
and editor Of the Jewish Daily Forwar
The following shows Philip
Democrat and execuion of the colleague
the Second International
boasd the German
in the impeiaIist slaughter
@1n that ds1 preparations Peace Con-
Stockholm
ing forces in Germany and acted in complete
I'VE left behind which
delegation praised Minister for
Foreign Affairs first
compelled 10 declare during meeting
y IN ctcckhchn."
sohetdensnn Al pubic no October 1875
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-01

burst-the new world, the new
world was being born again in
another proletarian mind.
Scottsboro, the funeral of the
three Negroes murdered at the evic-
ton
Quoted Mac: "'If the white
man suffers, the Negro always is
made to suffer twice as hard That
is proving true in this depres-
sion. But where did Oscar De
Priest tto Negro landlord fit in?
He wasn't suffering, he was causing
Negro workers TO suffer. Glass in
terests were stronger than race"
TO BE CONTINUED
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-01

IlOu ruldlCe corporation are pre-
sented to the workers as samples
Of the government going into bust
ness-laying the basis for building
Socialism.
SOCIALISM, A LA HOOVER
Thomas in his recent speeches,
speaks Of Hoover putting the gov
ernment into business" as sign of
Socialism. Is it not quite evident
that this Hoover program of put
ting the government into business
is nothing else but saving the bank
rupt industries from collapse?
Thomas, however, does not mention
the role of the government as the
executive of the capitalists when
it makes increasing use of the Ma
tional Guard, of the army, and the
whole state apparatus to crush the
growing struggles of the workers
against HooverS program of hun
ger and war.
Thomas has the gall to say that
Hoover put as much government
into business as Stain did. Here
Mr.. Thomas attempts to picture
the Soviet Union, where the work.
ers and farmers rule, as performing
the same function as the capitalist
government in the United States.
Here Thomas consciously ISLANDERS
the toilers of the Soviet Union.
More than that, the dictatorship of
the proletariat in the Soviet Union
which has done away with the
private property of the rich, which
laid the basis for the building of
Socialism, which through its state
power in the form of the Soviets,i
is building classics Socialist So
ciety-is pictured by Mr.. Thomas
las another government in bust
ness" la Hooyer's administra-
ton.
DEBS VS.. THOMAS
The Current History writer,
speaking of the affection of the
American ruling class for Mr..
Thomas, rightly remarks: "Such
sympathy was seldom shown by
capitalists toward the late Eugene
v. Debs." Debs, the leader of the
great railroad strike, the militant
fighter against imperialist war;
Debs, the supporter of the Bolshe-
vik revolution, could not possibly
receive the praise showered upon
the head of Mr. Thomas. Debs, by
remaining with the Socialist Party,
and, due to his lack of revolution
airy theory despite his great revo-
lutionary zeaD, could not bring
himself to break completely and
decisively with the social patriots.
But Debs the revolutionist belongs
to the working class, and Norman
Thomas, the social-fascist, belongs
completely to the class from which
he comes, the bourgeoisie.
The revolutionary instinct OF
Debs, already as early as 1911, pre-
dicted Though in a confused man
ner) the fate of the Socialist Party.
At that time he said:
at tthe Socialist Party may
become permeated and corrupted
with a spirit of bourgeois reform
to an extent that II will prac-
tically destroy its ycrility and
efficiency as revolutionary or
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-01
PARTY LIFE
Literature
Sales In
Dist. 3
BY JAMES WATSON

ONE is greatly elated when he
" hears the excellent reports our
section and unit organizers make
on the sale and distribution of lit
erature at their open-air meetings
and house toulouse canVases. Ac-
cording to their reports, our district
has achieved in the literature field
the objective OF the i4th Plenum Of
mass sale and mass distribution of
our literature among the toiling
masses,