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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-23
MASSES ARE
DESPERATE

symptomatic Of the present
trend is the famous defeatist
speech of the hitherto silent Gov
ernor of the Bank of England,
Montagu Norman, on October 20 at
the bankers dinner at the Man
sion House:
'In spite Of every attempt that
has been made-mostIy IN isola-
ton to a large extent-the vast
forces of the world, the herd in
stinct, the desperation Of the PEG"
pie who have neither work nor
market, have brought about q
series of events and a general
tendency which appears to me at
the present time to be outside the
control of any man, of any gov
eminent Of any country. .. 1
will admit that for the moment
the way to me is not clear"
In the forefront of the rising cri-
sis, for this declaration Of the
principal spokesman of the ruling
finance oligarchy, is the rising
mass struggle, which defeats all
their airns-"tile desperation of
the people who have neither work
nor market"
IN its side, the Labour Party ech-
" oes the capitalist cries of alarm.
The Daily Herald, the millionaire
press organ of the Labotr Party.
whose normal role is to deny and
suppress every sign of working class
militsncy and deride the possibility
Of revolution In Britain, is COM
PEELED to adopt q very different
tone in its editorial OF October Z:
"The signs of social discomfort
continue to grow in number and
gravity and to take on ugIier
forms.
Demonstrations, m marches,
riots, and police charges have
become disnuietin~Iy familiar In
the great Industrial centers Of the
country.
"a situation is developing more
serious than anything known in
this generation, and so deplor-
able that it must cause the deep
est disquiet to all who care for a
decent Britain"
"Deplorable", "disquieting" to
capitalism and its Labor servants.
Full Of hope to the workers and to
the cause of the workers revoiu-
ton,
Needless to say, the DAILY Her
aid" blames the Communists for
a situation so "disquieting" to the
Labour Party and its hopes for the
peaceful gentlemanly starvation Of
the workers. "The Communists" it
finds. ARE busy fomenting disor-
der; and again disorder Is ex-
plotted by those who hope 10 profit
by ST. Thus tbs Iebow organ
places itself ON the level Of the low
est suttw rreus In dealing with the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-23
ATTENTION TO
INDIVIDUAL WORKERS

do you want to grow organiza-
tionally that way7 I am very sorry
to tell you, you will not. Even now
am agitating for and contributing
as much as I can to the move
ment. love the movement, but
cannot fit in organizationally."
"As to the press and literature,
would like to say that I fully
agree with your way Of fighting
for the working class, but you are
all absorbed with the working class
and the individual Is entirely for
gotten. Just consider the theological
spider-web the capitalist class has
woven around the worker, when he
Is out of his place of work; in his
home, In the press, in books, radio,
movies and other mediums where
man balances life when not work
ing. Balanced agitation and prop
uganda will bring the masses to
you in the millions."
want to state that the argu-
rnents cited here are not fictitious,
but actually how a worker ex-
pressed himself. Let us discuss
these little things. From petty
things VIC are building up big
things now" Cofnrade Stain has
said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-23

groeS into another bondage. Men
who had lived like slaves we're now
building mansions on the bent
backs of Negroes and those whites
with contempt for Cracker bhievery
had to live there, carry on their
businesses, raise their families.
Protests would mean business pres
sure, social pressure, commune
pressure, for many Ochlockones
whites dreamed of riding to riches
on the descendants of slaves. The
Cracker was riding high, with the
law in one hand and the whip in
the other. The proclamation to
free Negroes had really only re-
duced prices for Negroes. White
men who never had a thousand
dollars or fifteen hundred dollars
to pay for slave could get Ne
groes now for few dollars a head
by giving them an advance against
wages.
Times change and new ways Of
getting slaves are cunningly de-
Yised
A FORD coughed up to the court
n house. Through the open win
dow they saw Pearson, his face
shaded by his hat, walk quickly up
the steps.
Whats all this excitement
about?p he asked with a wry
smile.
"Jes, iii difficulty" the sheriff
said mildly.
Wen, I've heard that Deerin'
had trouble with his niggers, but it
certainly s'prised me that Mr..
Ramsey"-he smiled brightly to
him-'was talkin' bout murder"
Pearson looked at David with
puzzled air.
ct don't know what the hells
happened to this niger in the las
year. Seemed to be behavin' him
self alright befo'."
Maybe the desire to pick
ton cheaply," Ramsey suggest
Pearson smiled. Ramses
on a cigar. Pearson ST
Some steal with a pistol a.
with the law.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-23

The following article was
written especially for the Daily
Worker by Il. Paine Dutt, editor
of the 'Iabour Monthly and one
of the leaders of the Communist
Party of Great Britain. We hope
to publish regular correspondence
on this page from Comrade
Dutt.l
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-23
DEERING is MASTER

The sheriff spat leismely.
"Why, there's hardly white
man fit for duty on. any O. the
iuries who don't deal with or
work for someone who deals with
Mr.. Deerin'. A verdict against
Mr.. Deerin,--an mind you, sir,
I'm even asSumin' you git to the
trial Stage-would upset the
whole business life o, the county.
How many of EN- dealin' with the
southern cotton Bank do you
figger'n risk hayin their notes
called?"
Ramsey's face was expreSsionless,
why, sir, !. believe even you deal
with the Southern Cotton Bank"
Il have other sources of obtain
ing money If they call my. notes"
tsDUT all this trouble over a Mig
~ ger" Nichols said disapprov-
ingly.
'There are still some who re-
volt against the acts of swamp
scum!" Ramsey said angrily.
"All I'm tryin' to do is avoid a
lot O. trouble" the sheriff said
soothingly. "I'm jes' tryin' to point
out that it'd be almost impossible
to convict Mr.. Deerin' or even in
dict him. You ain he'pin' the boy.
Yo're hurtin' him, him an his
folks. The whites'll git the no
ton they're gittin' uppity an take
it out on 'em."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-23
The Rising Mass Struggle of
the Workers of Great Britain
r. Paine Dutt Analyses Situation in Relation Tasks
of Congress of British Communist Party
By BNrek

in october, and is replaced innedi-
ately after it by Lansbury as the
official Leader of the Labour Party.
The organ of the Left Labour ele-
inents, the Independent Labour
Party, the original party of Mac
Donald and Snowden, fakes a for
NAL break with the Labour Party
and processes adoption of "revo-
hItionary' "Marxist" programme.
ALL this process reflects the Sc
a. quel of the collapse of the La
bour Government year ago. The
collapse Of the Labour Government
In 1881 was the world demonstra-
ton of the collapse of Reformism
before the crisis. Those advocates
who were a short time back so ca
ger to transplant the model of
British Labourism in America will
do well to study the fate of their
model now-not merely the final
outcome of the boasted leaders,
Macdonald and Snowden, in the
camp OF Conservatism, but the out
come of the whole Labour Party in
universal discrediting and the be-
einnings OF disintegration. The for
mer Labour Ministers are engaged
in denying their own record, in
seeking to bury the memory of the
Labour Government, in attacking
refor11ism and gradualism, and
fun1bling helplessly for new pro
gram, which turns out in the
end to be only a re-hash of the old;
for the only alternative line to La
bourisl1f is the line of Communism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-23
JUSTICE WITH REASON"

Perhaps we can find means to
enforce the law"
The sheriff shrugged his shout
ders regretfully.
The law must temper justice
with reason. That's why niggers
don't vote. If We didn't temper the
law with reason we'd have niger
officers, niger judges, internar-
riage, race trouble. No man likes
tossee murder done, il 1t was done,
an you can't trust these niggers
anyway. They're ready to cook up
any charge to git the sympathy of
a man like you"
He paused and rubbed his chin
thoughtfully.
1--WE known Mr.. Deertn' since he
was a boy. He may show bad
temper when he's mad, but he amt
the man to go KILN his hep. 1t
don't stan to reason. This boy
jeS' didn't want to work TO him
an If you want to git him out O.
his contract, why, 1 figger Mr..
Deerin's a reasonable man"
81 GAVE my word to see this boy
safe from behring's farm and
I shall keep it," Ramsey said
firmly.
well, I'm pretty sure you kin
buy'm yo'se'f or maybe Mr.. Pear
son'll do it."
"And let Deering continue muir
dering his peons?"
IT wouldn't say that. There's no
evidence that he did except rum
away niggers word, niger with
chain gang record, too"
THE NEW SLAVERY
Ramsey did not answer. Georgia
Crackers were in the saddle, a ris-
ing class squeezing wealth from
blacks freed from slavery. Crack
ers had seized the power to vote,
SO they we're the law, and by legal
trickery had Unanswered the Me-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-23
THE VICTIM

Ramsey's glance travelled to tht
worried boy. A Negro in the hands
of the whites, the black South,
needed for the planting and the
reaping and these whites were driv-
ing him away. Those two black
hands planted the fields and gar
nered the harvest, built the roads
and the mills, raised Georgia from
q wilderness. Upon that back the
South had built its civilization.
There was strength in that Negro.
strength to destroy what he carried
on his back and these money
grlbbing, Negro trapping whites
were too short-sighted to see where
they were driving him.
'That nigra doesn't know his ,
own strength, he thought
Continued Tomorrowl
WHILE RAMSEY ALoN
COMES TO DAvID'S AID. WHAT
FATE AWAITS THE NEGRO
BOY WITH THE WHITE PLANT
Frs AND THE PLANTERS LAW
LINED UP AGAINST HIM? BE
SURE AND READ TOMORROW'S
INSTALLMENT!
EDITORS NOTE.-The Daily Worker
considers it necessary to reprint here the
note 1t published earlier in the course Of
this sterilization:
The planter, Ramsey, depicted here, IS
not typical. While Isolated instances Of
this kind may exist, the impression cree
ated here that the oppression OF the Me-
gro people is due to the fact that 'hard-
hearted" planters have gained the upper
hand over good hearted" planters is
false. Ramseys dislike Of the upstart
Crackers" represents actually q conflict
within the exploiting class--between the
old feudal slave-owners who lost heavily
in the Civil War (the author tells US that
the Ramsey family's $1,000 investment
In Negroes was ruined by the war; and
the new planter class that arose after
the war and instituted, with the aid OF
the law, the regime of leealized slavery
and terror against Negroes that nov rules
the Black Belt
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-23
RISING MASS
STRUGGLES

1t was already the rising wave OF
working class discomfort and strug-
gle-riSing after the heavy blows of
the General Strike of 1926-which
swept the Labour Government into
office on its surface in 1929. 1t was
the same rising wave which led to
its fall in 1881. When the Labour
Government in 1881 proved incap-
able any longer to hold in the mass
struggle, it was. ruthlessly thrust
aside by capitalism to make way
for a strong" government of CAPT.
talist concentration, the National
Government, with one or two La
bour leaders as figureheads and the
Baldwins and Chamberlains as the
real government. The Labour Party
leadership broke up into two Sec
lions. one to join the government
in carrying, through the attack
upon the workers, the other to
maintain contact with the workers
and take the lead of their Uoposi-
ton in order to disarm it.
This maneuver of 1881 has al
ready failed. In the face Of the
overwhelming attacks of the Ma
tlonal government, the mass-strug-
gle has risen higher, has taken on
new forms, has reached new strata
hitherto untouched, as shown in
the Invergordorlanaval revolt, and
has reached mass demonstrations
and conflicts on q scale unequalled
before; and this struggle has gone
forward, not under the Labour
leadership.
Today, TO meet this rising mass
struggle, British capitalism is
bringing two weapons into play.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-23
EGROGLAVERYT0DAY
John L. StiUak's Stirring Novel
GEORGIA Niger"

NssEs msshr sEpCu Of the hdsoa; ps1Ass ast
he
SSts YUBpest fer uss-Batpr
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-23

workers struggle for bread, and
WITH the only party of the workers
which leads that struggle.
What lies behind these express
Sions of alarm of capitalism and its
Lsabour servants?
RISE OF
STREET BATTLES
The immediate occasion, which
has drawn the attention of the
whole world on the rising struggle
in Britain, has been the gigantic
battles of the unemployed in all
parts of the country against the gov
eminent police forces. Masses Of
unemployed workers, driven by
need, and with them many en-
ployed workers, on a scale never
before equalled in Britain Clp0,-
900 participants in the London
demonstration OF October 30),
have shown q new intensity of
fight and power to resist police vio-
lence unbroken, and have extorted
concession after concession from
the authorities.
But let there be no mistake. 1t
is not question only OF the I'M
employed, three to four millions. 1t
is throughout the entire working
class, among the employed workers
no less, that the new spirit Of fight
lie rising
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-23

DAMSEY did not answer. The
~ sheriff shook his head again
Even if the charge is. preferred
an dead nigger's body is found
an even If you git witnesses you've
got to git a coroner's jury to de-
eide it was murder an not self
defense. An then you got to git
the grand jury to indict. An even
if the coroner's verdict is murder
an the grand jury indicts, which
is very doubtful, Mr.. Deerin'n have
to be tried in this county. How
many whites do you figger'll find
him guilty? I'm jes' lookin' at all
this from the STANDPOINT of arrest
an conviction. There's no use
goin' off half cooked"
THAT remains to be SEEM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-23
AMERICAN"
POLICE ATTACKS

The first is police violence on a
scale and Of type familiar enough
in America, but not previously ia
miliar in Britain, and imported
from the methods of British rule
in the colonial empire. Wholesale
baton charges and mounted police
charges against unarlned crowds,
beating up of working class dis
tricts, and in Belfast armed police
shootings to kill, are rapidly driv-
ing out the old pacific illusions In
the masses, and inaugurating a new
stage Of class struggle in Britain.
Most significant Of all is that these
brutal and violent charges are no
longer resulting in immediate scat
tering and dispersal, but are meet
ing with stubborn resistance and
rapid reformation Of the ranks.
S0CIAI-FASCIST
TRICKERY
The second weapon OF capitalism
Is the cleft" rnane,rvers ct the La
bour and trade union bureaucracy,
who begin to use rnintant phrases,
Evening star., 1932-09-20

been plunked down on DR.; Hide
brands or Ginsburg's desk with cry
Of "looka, looka."
Lizard fish, which haunt Florida
waters in large numbers; lump suckers,
which resemble nothing so much as a
shapeless mass Of dirty leather; the
cow-nosed ray, which makes some fish,
ermen believe there is pasture on the
bottom of the sea-an are common in
other territories. But If they appear
hereabouts, the excitement seems to be
unbounded.
In recent years. none Of these anna
teur scientific discoveries" have added
anything of value to piscatorial records.
Fifteen hundred species Of fish have
been caught and classified in American
coastal and inland waters, but it seems
probable only the commonest types
first saw dry land and the record book
because of fishermen. That. however,
! does not halt the annual anglers pa
rade to the Bureau OF Fisheries.
The explanation Is that FISH caught
today with ordinary gear probably have
been caught yesterday also with the
same sort Of equipment. The new
fsh-real discoveries-are brought In by
scientists, who believe trey exist in Ger
tain waters, go there equipped with spe-
| Cldl rigging OF Lle type liiey DCACsS wiz
catch the unknown" and use all their
knowledge of fish habits tostrap the dis
covery.
With 100000 species Of fish and ma
rine life extant in the world today, how
ever, it seems probable the fish experts
viii get their peace only as before-in
! the Winter. .-or when they can escape to
sea themselves, net in hand, trying to
catch subject matter for few yarns
of their own.
Evening star., 1932-09-20
END bURGLAR|ES,
ORDER TO POLICE
IS Cases of Housebreaking
Added to Number Overnight
in Residential Area.

Police in residential sections Of the
city where an unusual number OF
burglaries have occurred recently were
ordered today by Asst. Supt. Of Police
L. I. H. Edwards to exercise special dill
igence to put an end to the depreda-
tions.
For several weeks Northwest residen-
tial areas have undergone an epidemic
of thefts and last night IS cases of
HOUSEKEEPING were added to the rap
idly mounting total.
Jewelry valued at $1,S00 was stolen
last night from an apartment occupied
by two women In the 1000 block OF
Sixteenth street. They were Miss Jane
Enke, who reported the loss of dia-
mond ring worth 81 200, and Mrs. Ida
Roosevelt, who missed a diamond
studded wrist watch valued at 5000.
Thieves yesterday afternoon took three
fur coats, worth $525, from a shop In
the 1900 block of Connecticut avenue.
Loot of lesser value was obtained in the
other cases.
Included among the housebreakings
recently reported to police was the en-
try CT the home of Justice Hitz Of the
District Supreme Court. The residence,
located in the 31oO block of Woodley
road. was broken into during the alb
servant discovered the burglary Satur-
day. Only a small amount of jewelry
was taken.
Evening star., 1932-09-20
ANNOUNCES FIRST
PAYMENT BY BANK
Federal Receiver Tells G.P.0.
Depositors Dividend to Come
After November rs.

The North Capitol Savings Bank,
which has been in the hands of the
controller Of the currency since July,
will make its initial payment to de-
positors as soon as possible after No
vember 25, the legal date for filing
claims, it was announced yesterday aft
ernoon by John S. Bryan, the Fed
eral receiver.
Mr.. Bryan made this statement at
a meeting of employees of the Govern
ment Printing Office, 1900 of whom
were included among the $4,000 de-
positors of the bank.
Mr.. Bryan said he did not know
what the first payment would be. nor
what the eventual payments would
amount to. Succeeding dividends will
be paid as speedily as assets can be
converted into cash. he said.
The speaker told his auditors that
the Harvard Hall apartment, which was
among the banks assets, will be saved
and will be operated for a period of
years for the benefit of bank depositors.
He warned against giving heed to
any rumors, saying that the only cor
rect information on the affairs of the
bank would come from himself or the
Government Printing Office committee
representing the depositors there He
praised the efforts of this committee
which is headed by James M. McCauley,
and the latter, in turn, assured his as
sociates that the receiver is doing every
thing possible to aid their interests.
Mr.. Bryan's appearance before the
printing Office depositors was to in
form them of the progress being made
toward Strengthening up affairs. and to
explain matters on which they might
ha in doubt
Evening star., 1932-09-20
RITES FOR MRS. WEBB
CONDUCTED IN HOME
Member of D. A. R. Survived by
Husband and Five Brothers
and Sisters.

Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth
Yeatman Webb, who died Friday at
Sibley Hospital, were held yesterday at
the residence of her brother, DR.. Henry
L. Yeatman, 1929 F street Rev. Henry
Teller Cooke of All Saints Protestant
Episcopal Church. of which she was a
member, ofhciated.
Mrs. Webb, who was born here, was
the daughter of the late Robert Henry
Yeatman and Mary Olivia Simpson
Yeatman. She had resided at 40l
Shepherd street, Chevy Chase. Md, for
the past 26 years and had been an en-
ploye of the Federal Farm Loan Bu-
reau for the past Is years
She was descendant Of Capt. Rich
ard Dorsey of the Revolutionary Army
one Of the original members of the So
ciety of the Cincinnati of Maryland
She was a member of Maj. L'Enfant
Chapter, D. A. r.
Besides her husband, William Lansing
Webb. she is survived by three brothers.
DR.. Yeatman, Warren S. Yeatman and
D. Ammen Yeatman, and two sisters,
Mrs. Walter Rogers Beach and Miss
Nellie L. Yeatman, all Of this city.
Pallbearers at the services included
H. Prescott Beach, Robert Carter, Ferd
z. Carter. Richard D. Stimson, Alex
ander Clayton and Duke Evans.
Evening star., 1932-09-20

~ r. S. F. HILDEBRAND and
Isaac Ginsburg, who listen to
more fish stories in a week
IL than any one could believe,
are at last anticipating a little
peace now that the angling season
wanes in Chesapeake Bay and here
abouts.
What with the flying fish" under
water cows and "sea-going robins"
thinning out, even in the imaginations
Of Waltonians, they are beginning to
find some time for their customary
work as icthylogists in the Department
of Commerce. Occasionally, as late as
November. rodsman scurries in their
Offices. fish in hand and ready to be
acclaimed discoverer of a new and ter
rible species of sea monster but most
of the tall lying is done in the hot
months, when imagination wakes warm
In full season never week goes by
some one does not snow up with a
fish that has wings like a bird, hops
about like a robin, stands on birdlike
legs and makes noise like a chirp
would sound under water" That one
is a sea robin and even the scientists
are willing to admit to its "discov-
ererS" that the fish has superficial
birdlike characteristics
Usually, however, the Government
icthyologists have task of disillusion-
ment before them when an enthusias-
tic pioneer appears with his catch.
Nine times out of ten the strange
monster turns out to be of variety
common in other Atlantic Coast areas,
but seldom seen near here. When a
straggler wanders into Chesapeake Bay
and concludes his meanderings in a
Waltonian hook or in net, the tour
usually is not complete until he ha
Evening star., 1932-09-20
BENJAMIN LEAVES
FOR WELFARE POST
Former Chief of D. C. Job Commit
tee Paid Tribute on Departure
for Buffalo, N. Y.

Paul L. Benjamin. executive secre-
tary of the Social Hygiene Society and
former executive of the District En-
ployment Committee, left Washington
today to take over his new duties as
director of the Buffalo, N. Y, Council
of Social Agencies.
Resolutions of appreciation of serv-
ices rendered here and regret at his
departure, adopted by three social serv-
ice organizations, sped him on his way.
Mr.. BENJAMIN succeeds David C.
Adie who has been appointed commits
sioner of public welfare for New York
State. Previous to coming here, Mr..
Benjamin was executive secretary of
the Family Service organization in
Louisville. KY.
Local organizations expressing regret
at his departure in resolutions were the
Social Hygiene Society," the Health
Committee of the Council Of Social
Agencies and the Juvenile Protective
Mrs. r. Thomas West has been ap-
pointed acting secretary of the Social
Hygiene Society.
Evening star., 1932-09-20

With all OF the 1911 rooms in its
eight-acre building now occupied, the
Commerce Department today inaugu-
rated an electric truck system to carry
supplies to the more than 5000 en-
ployes in this massive structure.
Two bright red colored trucks, chauf-
feured by two members Of the depart
ment's supply division, now comprise
the rolling stock Of the delivery sys-
tenn. Officials said they will be kept
busy throughout each working day run
ming supplies to various sections of the
building.
Before the inauguration of the truck
delivery system. the supply division
pushed hand trucks around. taking two
men approximately three days to cover
the entire building.
The last vacant room in the building
was occupied today when new division