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The Washington times., 1932-09-19
{. O, P, To OPEN
. FLOODGATES
Of ORATORY.

A flood of Republican oratory
will be directed into every nook
and corner of the United States
in the next seven weeks in an
effort to convince the elecorate
that President Hoover must be
retained in the White House.
The President personally will
lead the invasion of the States.
He will go possibly to the Pacific
Coast.
Former President Calvin Cool
idge will deliver one address.
The -four horsemen" of the
Cabinet-Mills. Hurley, StimSon,
and Hyde-will go into high gear
until election day.
Hold Sunday Farley
This was decided last night at
a White House conference at
which the President assembled
National Chairman Everett San
derS, Secretary of the Treasury
Mills, Secretary of War Hurley,
Judson C. Welliver, who was
prominently identified with the
publicity of the Coolidge Admin
istration, and Wright Patterson,
of Chicago, editor of the Western
Newspaper Union.
Emerging from the White House
ct midnight, Sanders said:
1--WE intend to prosecute the
most vigorous possible speaking
campaign until election. There
has been q steady sweep favor
able to the Republican cause, be-
ginning with President HOOver'S
acceptance speech. A vigorous
campaign is now under way to
bring home fOrcibly to the
people the doctrines he enunci.
ated in that speech. When the
educational campaign is effec-
lively accomplished, there will
be no doubt as to Herbert
HOOver'S reelection"
The President already. it is
understood, has begun drafting a
reply to RooSevelt's farm speech
at Topeka. The Republicans are
not Understanding the force of
this address. Mr.. Hoover told a
caller he considered it very
adroit." The G. O. P. answer will
be delivered, probably, either at
Minneapolis or West Branch, Iowa,
the Presidents birthplace.
One Talk on Veterans
Another presidential speech will
deal with the problem of excessive
expenditures for veterans relief
Sanders still insisted the Presi-
dent would adhere to his original
plan of making only three
speeches, two in the West and
one in the East"
The Washington times., 1932-09-19
DISTRICT LEADS
IN DRY ARRESTS

More arrests were made in the
District during last month for
violation of the prohibition law
than in % States and possessions,
according to reports by the Pro
hibition Bureau.
Exactly 112 persons were ar
rested here as compared with 78
in the entire State of Virginia.
In West Virginia there were 205
arrests by State and Federal en-
forcement officers and 249 in
Maryland. In Washington 571
gallons of beer and 1858 gallons
of liquor were seized.
The chances of a beer or liquor
peddler being convicted here is
far greater than in New Jersey,
where more beer and liquor was
seized than in any other State.
During the month, 1888 gallons
of beer and 47,737 gallons of
liquor were seized in New Jersey
but there was only one conviction
by jury, eight pleas of guilty and
10 acquittals. In Wash n G O n
there were six verdicts of guilty,
81 pleas of guilty and nine &C
QuittalS.
The Washington times., 1932-09-19
AGED PAIR GAIN
AFTER INJURIES

William Lloyd, 81, and his wife,
who is II years old, are improving
at Casualty Hospital from injuries
received when they were struck at
Seventh Street and Pennsylvania
Avenue Southeast, yesterday, by
an automobile driven by Sylvan
w. Brunette, 18. of Clarendon, Va.
The aged couple had just STEP
ped to the street from the pave,
ment when they were hit. The
man is suffering from possible in
ternal injuries and severe cuts
and bruises, while his wife suf,
fered a fractured leg and cuts on
her face and body.
Brunette was taken to the
Fourth precinct station, but was
released in care of his attorney
pending the outcome of the in
juries to the man and woman.
The Washington times., 1932-09-19

Ministers of the Piedmont
Convocation of the Episcopal
Church will assemble Tuesday at
Falls Church, Va, for discussion
of a series of services in every
church in she diocese of Virginia
to be known as "A mission on
the gerat commission"
The conference will be follow.
ed by business sessions on
Wednesday. Bishops Tucker and
Goodwin, the Rev. w. D. Smith,
The Washington times., 1932-09-19

Opening the 108th session, DR..
Cloyd Heck Marvin, president Of
George Washington University,
and DR.. Earl Baldwin Mckinley,
dean of the medical school, will
address students of the medical
school Wednesday at IL a. m.
The school, located on H
Street between Thirteenth and
Fourteenth Streets Northwest, was
completely remodeled during the
The Washington times., 1932-09-19
Deed Worker Tells
OF G. o. p. Platform

Richard w. Tompkins, deputy
recorder of deeds of the District,
was the principal speaker at
mass meeting held yesterday at
the Whitelaw Hotel under the
auspices of the National Political
Study Club and the Hoover-Cur-
tbs Campaign League.
Tompkins reviewed the G. o. P.
platform for the coming cam
paign. Francis Wells, president
of the campaign league, also
spoke.
The Washington times., 1932-09-19
Child Zoo Visitor
Run DOIUn by Car

Walter D. Kidd, jr., 2, of Rich
mond, Va, is at Children's Hospi,
tai suffering from a broken right
leg received yesterday when
struck by an automobile driven
by Mrs. Elizabeth Bryant, of the
first block Bradley Lane, Chevy
Chase, Md. The accident oc.
CURED in the National Geological
Park.
The Washington times., 1932-09-19
TUO Hurt as Auto
Runs Off Highway

When the automobile in which
they were riding ran off the road
near Four Corners, Md, two
WashinRtonians were slightly in
jured last night and were brought
to Walter Reed Hospital and
given first aid. Those injured
were Edward F. West, "a, the
1000 block Evarts st. N. E. and
Miss Lillian Krohr, 25, the 1900
block EvartS st. N. E. -
The Washington times., 1932-09-19
Church Celebrating
28th Anniversary

DR.. w. A. c. Hughes, field Sec
retary of the home mission board
and church extension of the M.
E. Church, was the guest speaker
at the twenty-eighth anniversary
exercises of the Simpson Me
mortal M. E. Church yesterday.
The anniversary program will
continue tonight, with the Rev.
w. A. Alstork. pastor of Union
Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church, as
the speaker. The exercises will
continue through October 8. The
Rev. V. N. S. Hughes is pastor.
The Washington times., 1932-09-19
M.D.'S JOIN CIV. SCHOOL

summer and new equipment in
stalled.
Two new appointments were
made to the teaching staff. They
are DR.. Errett Cyril Albritten,
head of the department of physi-
ology, who has been in Siam
with the government medical
school for the past six years, and
DR.. Vincent du Vigneaud, head
of the department of biochemis-
try, formerly Of the University
of Illinois.
The Washington times., 1932-09-19
VIRGINIA CLERGY IN PARLEy

the Rev. C. ]. Gibson and George
Ross will be leaders Of the par
leys.
One leading member Of each
parochial organization in the
diocese will attend with the
various rectors. Ladies of the
Falls Church parish will serve
luncheon each day. The Rev.
C. S. Mcclellan, pastor, will be
official host to the delegates.
The Washington times., 1932-09-19
GIRL STUMPS FOR FATHER

COLUMBUS, Ohio QN.SJ.
Miss Mary White, comely daugh-
ter of Gov George White Cd,
is taking the stump for her father
in his campaign for reelection.
The Washington times., 1932-09-19
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The Washington times., 1932-09-19
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-14

II they do not understand those conditions
and think to change them occurs to their
fancy, then those people become Don Quixotes
So Marx never set persons over against condi-
tons. It is people who make history but only
in so far as they understand the conditions
which are set before them and thus understand
how to change them. Thus at least we Russian
Bolsheviks understand Marx. And we've studied
him more than decade.
LudWig-Thirty years ago when I studied at
the university, many German professors, who
considered themselves advocates of the material
ist theory of history, told lis that Marxism
denies the role of heroic persorages in history
Stalin-ThiS was MarxiSm of the boulevards
Marxism never denied the role of heroes. On
the contrary, it recognizes their role as irnpor-
tant, under the conditions which have stated
Ludwig-At the table where we sit there are
sixteen chairs. They say abroad. on the one
hand that the U. S. S. R. is a land ruled by
collegiurns, and, on the other, that everything
is decided by an individual Now which is it?
StaIin-No, it can't be decided by an individ-
ual. Individual decisions are always-or nearly
always-one- sided In every colegium in every
collective group, are people with whose views one
must reckon. and also people who may give
incorrect ideas From the experience of three
revolutions we know that of 100 decisions, not
tested and corrected collectively, go will be one
sided.
In our directing organ the Central Committee
of our Party, which leads all our government
and Party organizations, there are about seventy
members. Among them are our best industrial
lists, our best cooperators our best distributors,
our best military men, our best propagandists,
our best agitators, our best experts on state
farms. in collective farms on individual peasant
farming on the nationalties in the Soviet Union
and national policies. In this sAreopagus "a
collective deciding body is concentrated the
wisdom of our Party. Each has the opportunity
to correct his individal ideas and proposals.
each has the chance to bring forward his expert
ence. If this were not So if decisions were taken
by an individual we would make serious mistakes
in our work But since each one has the chance
to correct the mistakes of the separate inoivid-
ualS, and, since we take account of these cor
rections, our decisions come out more or less
correctly.
Tomorrow the interview continues with Ludwig's
question: "Why is your government SO severe
and merciIess in its fight with its foes?")
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-14
TOWARD Revolutionary Mass Work R HS a flEEn1 1
SURRENDERING TO PACIFISM

THE central task of our Young Communist
League is the struggle against imperialist war
which has already started and for the defense
OF the Chinese masses and the Soviet Union.
This task is categorcally laid down for us both
by the resolution of the Central Committee
plenum of the Party and that of the YCI; and
If we are to carry on this struggle correctly and
thereby mobilize masses of youth behind us,
our past mistakes must be brought sharply to
the fore and thoroughly and politically analysed
1.-THE Young Communist League has failed to
understand the significance Of the war in the
Far East the beginning of the imperialist
world war and the direct preparation for inter
vention against the U. S. S. r. On the con-
trary the League and the Young Worker" have
made serious errors in creating united front
from above in the struggle against war New
York; and the MEG has not sufficiently exposed
and fought against this" Thus the YCI char
acterizes the struggle against war in New York
a united front from above and not from below.
This united front from above is not an acct
dent, but flows from right opportunist con-
cepton held by our district leadership as a
whole on what the minimum program of the
united front in the struggle against war should
be.
Some of the Opportunist Errors
In the preparations for the New York united
1TOlU conference NJdtl 1891, III COuleIeuCC
call, and at the conference itself we failed to
raise sharply or at all the question of the de-
Tense of the SOVIET Union. This was not an
oversight, but policy. Our leading comrades
believed that we should not be able to rally the
youth around this slogan because the youth
were pacifist and because they did not under
stand the role of proletarian dictatorship in
relation to imperialist war We believed that the
young workers did not know the difference be-
tween the Proletarian Dictatorship in the Soviet
Unon and the Fascist Dictatorship in Italy; that
they looked upon both relationships from the
point of view of terror and sitting democracy
We thought that raising the question of defense
Of the Soviet Union should therefore be left out
of the united front program so as not to drive
away certain elements from the conference.
Isolated from the Young Worker
1t is necessary to point out here that our
leadership at this time was not connected with
any particular section of the working youth
Not one member of our district buro was res
ponsible for work down below at some particular
factory or with some group of young workers
We were completely isloated from the young
workers and we did not feel did not know at
all what they thought about the war. AS
result, we completely underestimate their radi-
calization; we did not see that the crisis was
seriously undermining their illusions about
democracy; we did not understand that cit.
(the crisis is also destroying the SPECIAL illusions
which have for long time been injected in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-14
BY WILLIAM ALBERTsToN

youth by means of literature schools, churches.
various bourgeois youth organizatins, regarding
the opportunities for every young worker in the
u S. A., the possibility for every young man to
become capitalist to rise from office boy to
president etc. LCI resolution.
Because of this undersestima5ion of the radi
caiZation of the working youth( due to our
complete isloation) and our inability to under
stand the smashing effects of the crisis on them,
we eliminated the defense of the Soviet Unon
from our united front program.
From this basic right opportunist conception
naturally flowed further opportunist mistakes
Instead of bringing the struggle against war to
the rank and file Of our opponents the YCL
membership began to approach the leadership
(Hudson Guild, Harlem YPSL's, Pilgrim Laun-
dry, Bronx "Y," etc.. Our biggest shortening
was the failure to obtain shop, union, and unem-
ployed delegations to the conference although
we had few shop and "Y' participants whom
we lost Immediately after the conference. The
whole conference and its results almost COM
plete hquidation) definitely shows that we had
no orientation to the shops, to the young work
ers employed and unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-14
We Repeat Our Suggestion

-. ftla -
The other day we asked the comrades to
send in questions asked by workers whom
they approached to sign the petitions to place
our Presidential candidates on the ballot. We.
hope that the comrades will flood the Daily
with such questions
What is of special Importance is that polit-
ical discussions should be developed in the
units on the b ass of the experiences Of the
comrades in connection with the election
campaign
The comrades in the units should take the
initiative III developing such discuc5iors. The
District end Section committees should ell
courage and organize such diacussions.
The unit must become The centre for d2ycl-
oping genuine mass work. Political discus
sons Oh the basis of concrete tasks in devel-
oping personal contacts with the masses, ON
the basis of leading mass struggles, will put
an end to the nfeless choking routine at our
unit meetings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-14
THE SITUATION IN THE FULLFASHIONED
HOSIERY INDUSTRY

admissions. Here spokesman of the machine
admits that some of my predictions at the last
convention, which at that time we're ridiculed by
the Socialist" President Rieve, as MARKHAM
theories conflicting with real nfe,p were correct
Edalman says:
IF you will recall the recent history of the
Hosiery Workers Union you will find the case
of a labor organization that not only brought
its wage scale down to the level of the non
union section of the industry, but was willing
to make the most drastic sort of adaptation
EVEN THOSE IT KNEW WERE FUTILE
emphasis mine-E.K to aid its employers to
compete successfully"
This is the most pertinent and brazen adver-
tlsement OF our union as a yellow company
union. After declaring that the agreement has
brought more uniformity, that means more and
general unemployment, Mr. Edelman goes on to
say There is also the further consideration
what would have happened had the union not
taken the cut. 1t is fairly certain that size.
able group of union employers would have dis
appeared from the industry altogether, and the
non-union employers would have been able to
have cornered just that much more of the trade
The union probably saved itself from extinction
by saving its employers Whether this feat of
life-saying can be accomplished without moral
exertion on the part of the union, 50 great as to
cause destruction of the morale of the organiza-
TONS is still to be determined. You must per-
ceivs the dilemma of the union which seeks
to promote solidarity of the working class find
ing itself forced to fight the non union workers
as well as the non-union manufacturers and the
non-union workman, always very prompt in
achieving what / suppose this group would call
naturalization was not at all backward in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-14
Conointern and Party Reso-
lut;ons Guides to Action
and Self Criticism

At the New York District Convention the
E. c. c. /, resolution on the lessons of strike
struggles in the United States was hardly re-
ferrcd to- Undoubtedly the discussion Of
some of the comrades on strike struggles
reflected the good influence of the above
mentioned strike resolution. Others could
have benefited great deal by reading and
studying the strike resolution.
The statement of the 18th Plenum on pop
ularizing the resolutions of the Plenum calls
for particularly popularizng the resolution
of the E. G. @. I. on the lessons Of strike
struggles in the u. S. A." So far the dis
cussion in the Daily carried hardly any ar
ticles relating strike experiences in tie light
of the Plenum strike resolution We repeat
our request to the comrades to send in arti-
cles on strike and shop experiences.
In connection with the discussion in prep
aration for the District Conventions, the
strike resolution must become an integral
part OF all our Plenum discussions. We hope
the other Districts will not rc,eat the above
mentioned shortconlng OF the Kew York
District Convention.
no .r,i're i~r.c cf Ahc rcs,.~,s't' Il a
a.-1 F7nc U-';r1 ,i-,- r. ~ '' III, =
z. G. G. T. r~ec''&e' "a 80 f@r' IS
(,r,ntcd IL full III tho r,cal.~ slvl'ct
Toward Revolutionary Mass TorSD TO
ccnrade CAN afford to miss reading the June
issue of the Communist, containing the ar
ticles of Comrade Kuusinen, Foster and
Stachel, dealing with strike struggles, shop
work and general trade union problems.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-14
The Crime of Abandoning the Struggle for
the Defense of the Soviet Union
BY BARD

We also found it quite difficult to carry on
an effective struggle against the pacifists. The
pacificists naturally had adopted a more left"
position than they had before. We did not see
that by eliminating the question Of the defense
of the Soviet Union from Off program that in
reality we had adopted pacifist position; that
we had been instrumental in pushing into the
background that one basic question which would
show to the young workers that we had re-
volutionary program of struggle against war
whereas the pacfists were anti-War" in words
only and not in action.
Opportunist mistakes unless checked, develop
into an opportunist line. Our next step was to
try to build an organization which would carry
on the struggle against war, the Ant-War Youth
League. This organization was to have both
groups affiliations and individual members
Qiberals pacifists, etc. Under the conditions
this Of course, meant the complete hiding Of
the face of the YCL the only youth organi-
cation with a revolutionary program of struggle
against war. The YCL, of course, would carry
through independent anti-war actions, but would
work in this A. w. Y. L. as fraction seeing to
it that this organization carried on struggle
against war.
The above right opportunist mistakes made in
New York and repeated to some extent by the
Chicago Y. c. L. show:
1. Lack of political education of the feminist
teachings or war and decisiveness in sections Of
cur leadership.
2. Complete isolation of our Leadership from
any basic sections of the proletarian youth.
8. An underestimation Of the immediate Of
war and of the rehabilitation of the working
youth,
A. No understanding as to what is meant by
the united front from below and how to apply
this in our practical work.
5. Failure to grasp that the main danger Of
war is an inperialis tattack on the sovet Union
Oppostunist underestimation of the influence OF
the Soviet Unon on the starving millions in the
capitalist countries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-14
By ERNEST KoRNFELp

BY ERNEST KORNFEbD
TIE famous National (wage-cutting) Agree
ment of 1892 between the American Fed
Grafton OF Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers and
the Full Fashioned Hosiery Manufacturers of
America, Inc, which brought the workers of that
industry a slash of 3o-45 per cent, has been in
operation nine months, and it is time now to
eyaluate and analyze the situation and make
out program Of activity.
The drastic reduction in wages of which the
3o-45 per cent cut was only one of several, has
brought the hosiery worker, who used to be the
best paid worker into state of insecurity, de-
privaton, yes even starvation. The main ex-
cuse for the cut of 35-4o per cent was that the
union must stabilize the industry, that the union
must drive the big open-shop concerns like the
Berkshire in Reading, the Apex in Philadelphia,
Julius Kayser CO and Golden Belt out of bust
ness, that manufacturers must be brought into
position where they could successfully COM
pete with the open-shop manufacturers.
The Socialist Party leadership of the American
Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers
heralded the signing of this agreement as ga
new era in industrial relationship in the U.S.A,"
and said that this agreement would inaugurate
an organized" economy in the full-fashioned
hosiery industry and would do away with I'M
employment competition and all the other evils
of sick industry"
Force Wage Cut Agreement.
Despite the heroic struggle of the rank and file
and six weeks strike in the New York, New
Jersey, New England and Middle West Districts,
the officials and their machine forced the work
ers to accept the National (wage-cut) Agreement
After a short revival and intensified cut
throat competition, the hosiery industry finds
itself now in the worst crisis in its history. In
the Hosiery Worker of May (Vol x, No. "a
the following is stated
ut is probable that within the next few days
the number of idle machines will reach the
highest figure in many years President Alex
ander McKeown of the Philadelphia Branch
states that preliminary survey of the unem-
ployment situation in his district would indicate
that not more than Is per cent OF the union
members are working a normal week at the
present moment"
Probably an additional 10 or is per cent of the
Philadelphia membership is working part-time,"
President McKeown says
All these developments were foretold by few
rank and file delegates, opposed to the machine