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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-07
MASS TO SMASH
COURT ORDER OF
FOLTIS-FISCHER
Hearing Starts at US.
District Court on
Wednesday

NEW YORK.-The application for
3 Contempt of Court order made by
the creditors of the Foltis Fischer
Company against the Food Workers
Industrial Union leaders, the leaders
OF the strike, and some of the Foltis-
Fischer strikers will come up tomor-
row at 40 p. m. in United States
District Court, Southern District.
before Judge Bondy for hearing. The
hearing will take place on the 18th
floor of the Woolworth Building in
Judge w. Bondy's court room.
A committee to work out ways and
means Of fighting this Contempt of
Court order has been established q
few days ago. This committee is
composed of Roger Baldwin of the
Civil Liberties Union. A. Overgard of
the Trade Union Unity Council of
Greater New York, 1. Potash of the
Needles Trades Workers Industrial
Union, /. Rosenberg of the Shoe
Workers Industrial Union, S. Kram-
berg and J. Rubin of the Food Work
erS Industrial Union J. BALKAN of the
New York District International La
Dor Defense, and a representative of
the Committee for the Defense of
Political Prisoners. This committee
is already on the job involving a
group of well known lawyers to fight
the case. One OF the attorneys who
was active in the fight for the pas
sage Of the recent federal anti
injunction bill is expected to be part
of this group OF lawyers.
Meanwhile, a demonstration is
being organized in the heart of the
needle trades market at the Foltis-
Fischer cafeteria on 34th street be-
tween It'll and 9th Avenues for Thurs
day $50 p. m. Masses of workers are
expected to gather at this point in
demonstration and voice their senti-
ments for the withdrawal OF the
Contempt Of Court order and for the
winning OF the Foltis- Fischer strike.
A Soviet movie. Fragments OF an
Empire" together with a newsreel
showing the bonus march of last sum-
mer will be shown in the union rooms
at 4 w. 18th Street on Wednesday
evening at 8 p. m. at an affair for
the Foltis- Fischer strikers,
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Student Worker
Demonstration
at Noon Today
F o 0 d w ork e T s
and CAMPUS Groups
Rally to Fight

NEW YORK.--A committee COM
posed Of the Food Workers Industrial
Union, the Social Problems Club,
members Of the Socialist Club. and a
worker who has been fired because he
was a member of the Union will ap-
pear today before Miss Elizabeth
Reed at the Teachers College Dining
Room at I20C'o Street between Broad
way and Amsts rdam Avenue, at 1918
noon sharp, with the following de-
nlands: Reinstatement Of the fred
worker, the right to organize and no
discrimination against union men,
beTs, no further firing to take place,
an immediate stoppage to the stool.
pigeon methods employed by the
management. These demands have
been worked out BY the Campus
Workers Group Of the Food Workers
Industrial Union.
A demonstration Of students and
workers will take place at the same
time in support of these demands,
which will be presented to Miss Reed
for immediate action. Dean Russell
Of Teachers College, which has been
the center of the recent wage cutting,
firing and intimidation, has also
been asked to be present at Miss
Reeds Office to meet with this dele
cation appearing in the name of the
workers.
All workers are asked to come to
the demonstration today at II noon
sharp.
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N. Y. Exploited Filibinos
Join With Anti>Imberidlists

tation practiced on them by u. S.
and Filipino businessmen and land
lords here.
Slavery In New York
Filipino business men set up board
ing houses or their own people, take
in workers, run their own employ
ment agencies, and practically rent
out the worker to get his wages and
pay rent to themselves. A variation
of this is where the Filipino boss
takes the Filipino worker into his
own home, and segregates him there,
to be handed over to the Filipino
employment agency when wanted. To
keep the worker penniless and in
control, they sometimes run gam
bling games in the private apart
ments.
The Filipino workers chiefly sub
jected to this "crimp" system are
those who work on merchant ships.
The American dance hall owners
around saith Street and Third Ave
nue., and 28th Street and Sixth Ave
nue., keep in touch with the Filipino
petty BOURGEOIS, and the lonely and
helpless Filipino worker is steered
down there to be shorn of his money
whenever he has any left. Lack of
social equality for the Filipino work
er and racial barriers of all sorts help
to keep him in control and make
him an easier victim. Even places of
recreation for American sailors often
har out the Filipino seamen and drive
him into the traps set by American
and Filipino resort owners.
Must Have Club House
One of the first things to be done
is, that the Filipino Anti Imperialist
League should establish a club house
where the Filipino workers can meet,
out of the grip Of those who prey on
them.
The Filipino Anti Imperialist
League, of New York, appeals to all
loyal supporters as well as sympa-
thizers to the movement to Coop
crate with us in our coming affair
to be held at Lenruth Hall, 1877 WAY
erly Avenue, Brooklyn, Saturday,
March II, at pm, to raise funds to
help establish our own clubhouse.
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ALL OUT FOR DAILY WORKER
TAG DAYS FOR SATURDAY
SUNDAY, MARCH II AND 10
Up to now, New York has been
the mainstay of the Daily Worker
Drive for $4,000 to save it from
suspension. In the last week, there
has been a terrible Iet-up of the
money coming in from New York.
There is still a chance of raising
the necessary amount in the New
York District to fulfill its quota,
and that can only be done by the
workers coming cut in full force
on March II and IL and flooding
the streets with Tag Day boxes.
The combined efforts OF all the
revolutionary workers of New York
City can save the Daily Worker!
REPORT TO THE NEAREST TAG
DAY STATION!
COLLECT SATURDAY AND
SUNDAY.
SAVE THE DAILY WORKER!
For the City Committee of the
Daily Worker
ROBERT FRANKLIN
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antee. told them that I would con-
slider what they had said"
The exposure on the part OF former
Attorney General Brundage throws
more light on the connection be-
tween the underworld gangsters and
so-called leaders of organized labor
that, despite all proclamations of
Green and others of fight against
gangsters who are attempting to con-
troll locals of the ALL. in many
cities and particularly in Chicago,
these very leaders are in alliance
with the gangsters.
oscar Nelson, denying that he is
Capone man, confirms, however,
the fact that he was present with
the Capone men in Brundage's Of
flee, declaring:
II suppose that Seritella called for
Sullivan, Koran and myself to create
an impression on Mr. Brundage~ that
he and Capone had friends in the A.
F. of L.
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utility boss in the lower Mississippi
valley. AS a result Couch tells
Robinson what to do in Washing
ton, where Couch now also &C.
cupies an important post as direc-
tor of the Reconstruction Finance
Corp.
A similar story could be told for
almost every one of the lawyers
in the House and Senate AL
though not listing themselves in
the Congressional Directory as
capitalists or directors of corpora
lions, most of these attorneys are
the direct agents IF big business
and handle its legal as well as po-
litical work of all kinds.
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NEEDLE WORKERS
CALL MASS MEET
FOR WOMEN'S DAY
Hathaway, Wortis, and
Banfield to Speak

NEW YORK.-In the midst of mi
iitant and effective struggles for bet
ter conditions, with numerous shops
reporting strike victories, the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
has issued q call for an international
Womens Day mass meeting sched-
uled for Wednesday, March 9Th
I $50 p. m. at Bryant Hail, on 9Th
Avenue. between 41st and And SITS
Clarence Hathaway, District or
ganizer of the Communist Party
Rose Wortis, Of the N. T, w. I, u,
and Grace Banfield are scheduled to
speak, The International Womans
Day has been designated as a day of
mobilization to win the working wo-
men for struggle to win better con-
ditionS and against the capitalist sys-
tenn of exploitation.
Win Conditions
That the Industrial Union is Waging
effective struggles for improved con-
ditions for women and men workers
has been again demonstrated by the
workers of the Industrial Fur Dye
ing CuILpd1ly, G1t WeSG oUVn SIT6St,
who, smashed through to victory less
than hours after the strike call was
issued by the union.
This marks the gath successful
strike led by the union. Demands
won by these workers included 20
per cent increase in wages, reduc-
ton OF hours from 48 to Al, equal di-
vision of WORK, no discrimination and
unemployment insurance.
In the meantime, nine workers of
the japanese Silk Underwear Co.,
declared q strike and now expect
support from other workers in the
SHOP.
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T h e r Connections,
Interests Described in
This Article

the new Congress has been pub
lished with biographical data on
all new congressman.
Material on the business con-
nections of lawyers is, in many
cases. entirely inaccessible, but the
following few examples will suffice
to show the intricate relationships
between big business and the law
yers who as class are merely
the footmen and Office boys of
capital.
John N. Garner, of Texas, who
is relinquishing his position as
Speaker of the House to become
Roosevelt's vice-president, is law
yer and has controlling interests
in two banks.
McADOO ON PETROLEUM
COMPANY BOARD
The leading Democratic politi-
clan, VIM. Gibbs McAdoo, recently
elected to the Senate from Cali
fornia, practices law in Los An
geles and Washington and is SEN
ior partner of the law firm of Nc
Adoo Neblett & Clagett. He holds
a dictatorship in the Jameson Pc
troleun Co., and represents big
corporations in his law practice.
Alva b. Adams, Senator from
Colorado, is partner in Adams
& Cast. Pueblo, Colo. He is also
president and director of the
Pueblo Savings 81 Trust Co., vice
president and director of the West
ern National Bank, vice. president
Of King Fruit Co., and director in
several other firms.
One of the Senators from Louisi-
ana is John Holmes Overton, part
ner in Overton & Hunter, Alexan-
dria, La. Oyerton is president and
director of the Rapides Building
81 Loan Assn. He holds director
ships in the Commercial Bank 81
Trust Co.. Security Mortgage Co.
OF Louisiana, Inc, and Insurance
Securities, Inc
ALABAMA SENATOR
A TOOL OF BIG BOSSES
Here, also, is J. II. Bankhead,
Senator from Alabama, member
OF the firm of Bankhead 81 Bank
head, attorneys for the Frisco"
and Southern railroads, the First
National Bank, the Alabama BY
Products Corp, S'oss-Shetfield
Steel 81 IRON Co., Indian Head
Mills, Manchester Saw Mills, Gal
loway Coal Co., Brilliant Coal Co.,
re Bardeleben Coal Co., Pratt Fuel
Co., some Of these among the big
gest corporations in the South.
Then there is James r. Byrnes
49, Of Spartanburg, S. c., of the
firm Of Nichols, Wyche 81 Byrnes,
attorneys for the Merchants and
Farmers Bank, Charleston and
Western Carolina Railroad. and Of
the Piedmont g. Northern Railroad.
Another typical representative of
capital is M. III. Nicely, Senator
from Fairnont, West Virginia.
whose firm, Nicely and Lively, is
counsel for the Baltimore g. Ohio
Railroad, Bethlehem Mines Co.
Subsidiary Of Bethlehem Steel
Corp) Fairmont State Bank, and
other banks and industrial COM
panies
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FACTION WITHOUT THEORY IS BLIND

KARL MARX--1sSS-1 1888 Published
by Workers Library Publishers.
Price cents.
Reviewed by w PHELPS.
FIFTY years after the death OF
Il Karl Marx, in the midst Of the
seVerest crisis capitalism has yet
produced. the revolutionary prole-
tariat of the world commentaries
the life and work of the founder
Of Socialism. Unlike the blind and
formal tributes which the bour-
geoisie pays to its heroes Qike
Washington and Lincoln), our Cpl-
ebration is chapter in the history
OF Marxism. The Soviet Union and
the Communist Parties are In part
the work of Karl Marx.
On this occasion the Communist
Party Of the United States is is
suing a pamphlet entitled Karl
Marx--18S:-19S containing short
articles by Max Bedacht, Sam Don,
and Earl Browder. The pamphlet
is not only an exposition of the ba-
sic principles of Marxism-Leninism,
but it is also an illustration of one
OF the most important of these
principles, the unity of theory and
practice.
TRACES HISTORY
OF MARXTSM.
The pamphlet begins with a
sketch by Max Bedacht of the life
and work of Karl Marx.
Bedacht traces the development
of Marks ideas from his early
struggles against Hegelian idealism
and petty bourgeois, utopian social
ism to his GROWING theoretical
achievement, Capital" the first
volume Of which was published in
1867. In 1S47 Marx and Engels
wrote The Communist Manifesto"
which remains the fundamental
historic document of the Commu-
mist philosophy.
Bedacht then traces the distor-
ton of Marks ideas, principally on
the question OF the Paris Com
mune and the revolutionary dic,-
tatorship of the proletariat by
Kautsky, one Of the leaders of Ger
man social democracy.
In state and Revolution" Len
in lashed Kautsky for his falsifi-
cation, and focused the attention
of the working class once more on
Marks definition of the state as
the tool of the bourgeoisie for the
suppression of the working class.
Lenin also restored Marks analy-
sis Of the method Of transition to
socialism: through the seizure of
political power and the setting up
of dictatorship by the proletariat.
ANALYZE CAPITALIST
CURES.
There follows two short articles
entitled Communists only ad-
herents of teachings of Marx and
all in the name of Marxism, by
Sam Don, in which he analyses
some of the cures which have been
offered for capitalist ills He shows
how Technocrasy tries to blind the
questioning workers and petty
bourgeoisie by divoreing distribu-
ton from the mode of production,
that is, from capitalism, ignoring
the Marxist analysis of crises, put
very compactly by Engels as 1.-THE
mode of production rises in rebel
lion against the form of exchange"
Don then describes the many forms
of revisionism which have been Of
feYpd &c "trqIeD MarYigD1
A systematic revision of Marx
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Class Composition of New Congress

Then take the Democratic floor
leader Of the Senate, Joseph T,
Robinson, Of Arkansas, of the law
firm of Robinson, House and Moses
of Little Rock. Robinson's part
ner, House, is director of the Louis
lana & Arkansas Railway Co. -
subsidiary Of the Morgan-run Elec-
trio Bond g. Share Co., OF New
York-and director of the Bankers
Trust Co. of Little Rock. Robin
sons law firm handles the legal
business Of four power companies
operated by Morgan's Electric Bond
& Share Co. These companies are
all headed by Harvey C. Couch,
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ers, owners of large farms, build
ing contractors. etc. They were
themselves exploiters of every
shade, a fair cross section of Amer
lean capitalists, some big and some
petty.
The largest group-the 270 law
yers-waS made up in the main of
those whose work was in connec-
ton with the legal machinery of
the country, private attorneys, pro-
scouting attorneys, judges in the
various state and federal courts,
corporation lawyers of all grades
and sizes-aIl of them serving the
business class and protecting its
interests at all times.
20 ARMY AND NAVY
OFFICIALS
Then there were % who had
been connected at one time or an
other with the army and navy, as
high officers, commanders, regi-
mental adjutants, majors and the
like. They are the trainers of the
big army and navy appropriation
bills. The remaining SO Congress-
men who we're in the T2nd Con-
gress, could be classified in the
miscellaneous group - professional
politicians, small town newspaper
men, educators" and perennial Of
flee holders
WE come now to the present
W members of Congress, a partial
list Of whom follows. A complete
list viii be obtaiuable only after
the Congressional directory for
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A SUBSTANTIAL majority OF
n democrats will make up the 73d
Congress of the United States.
There are now SO democratic SEN
ators and 312 representatives, as
against SO republican senators and
1853 representatives. Does that
materially change the class COM
position of the Senate and the
House Of Representatives? Not in
the least.
First, a brief review Of the COM
position of the 72nd Congress just
ended. Of the SO senators and ABS
representatives then in Washing
ton, approximately 140 were in the
class of business men, coal mine
operators, bankers, industrialists
and manufacturers, live stock rails
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tella Gllinois State Senator, repub-
lican, member of the Al Capone' ma
chine), Oscar Nelson, (Alderman 46th
Ward. yice-chairman of the Chica-
go Federation Of Labor, Pat Sulli-
van of the Chicago Building Trades
Council, and Jerry Koran of the Flat
Janitors Union.
"They said they had heard that
Judge wilkinson intended inflicting a
heavy sentence upon Capone"
The purpose of the meeting, &C.
cording to the statement of Brun-
dage, was to obtain a light sentence
for Capone, and if such could have
been agreed upon, then, according to
Brundage's statement, the A. F. L.
would not object to Wilkinson being
judge in the Circuit Court of APP
peals. Brundage declared:
81 asked this group in my Office if
they were guaranteeing that william
Green, president of the ALL, would
not oppose confirna ton. They told
me that they could make that guar
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The Haight Emergency Com
mittee, violent enemy of the
workers, especially the foreign
born, now threatens to cut off every
bit of the meagre relief they have
been forced to hand out
On Wednesday, March 20, iobless
seamen are called upon to demon
strate at the Office of the Haight
gang and let them know in no IN
certain terms that searnen cannot live
on salt water
The Marine Workers Industrial
Union and the Unemployed Council
today issued joint statement with
specific reference to the Finnish
mariners. The release reads in part:
To Seamen in New York: Fellow
workers. the Finnish Seamen in this
port are supposed to receive cash
relief from the consulate Of their ma
tionality. The Consul has SYSTEM
atically cut their relief and now even
threatens them with deportation to
fascist Finland He tries to evade
the responsibility for relief by main
tanning that men on the beach for q
period of two months are not real
seamen.' d. O.. The Finnish seamen
are determined to force the Consul
to come across.
The Finnish workers will demand a
showdown with the Consul at the
Iatter's Office, 5 State Street, this
Saturday, at II am. Back them up
by joining the demonstration at thag
time.
NEW YORK-The crew Of the
steamship Christensen, that sailed
from New York for the West Coast
last week, took militant action to
prevent the unjusUifed dismissal Of
a fellow seaman
When the able seaman reported
five minutes late, the mate told him
to pack up and get of. The Marine
Workers Industrial Union delegate
came on board and on his instruc-
tons the crew elected d committee
of eight to demand the reinstatement
OF the worker or they would strike.
The skipper gave. in Immediately, and
the seaman was put back on the job.
NEW YORK.-The workers of the
Morgan docks can expect the COM
pany to post another wage-cut short
ly The 1ongshoremen of this COM
pany went out on strike in 1882
against a wage cut, but were fooled
by Joseph Ryan, president Of the In
ternational Lonoshoremen's Associa-
ton, into accepting his leadership.
The wage-cut was then put over. A
group of Morgan workers are calling
upon the rest of their fellow workers
10 establish rank and file committees
and prepare struggle against the
wage cut and for full lockers gangs
and unemployment relief and tnsur-
ance at the expense Of the Morgan
bosses
NEW YORk.-A committee of the
West 18th Street block committee,
composed mainly of longshoremen,
took two cases to the Home Relief
Bureau at 44th Street between 10th
and 18th Avenue After q four hour
argument the superintendent prom
ised to give the men relief in "a
hours. The committee specified that
the relief must be in regular currency
and will check up on the bureau
today.
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TuesdQu

VOLUNTEER help wanted urgently at
District Office, l. L. D.. Room $40, 30 E.
18th st. on -Scottsboro work.
LECTURE by Felix Morrow on Social
Forces in American History" at 3 p. nj. at
American Youth Federation, i22 Second
Ave. Admission Is cents
FOURTH LECTURE given by League of
Professional Groups tonight at 8:l5 p. m.
at Cheffard's. 232 Seventh Ave. Subject
Movies Speaker; Harry Alan Potansin
with Norman Warren simplifying Discus
sion and questions
TO ALL BROWNSVILLE ORGANIzA-
TIONs. All affairs should have supply Of
literature which can be gotten at dis
count for cash or on consignment from the
Brownsville workers Bookshop, 50 Herzl St.,
cor. Pitkin Ave
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ism has been made by the socialist
parties united in the Second Inter
national. In their hands Marxism
is deformed into a pale program of
refornism and peaceful" transi-
ton To socialism, which in practice
becomes a program Of peaceful ac-
ceptance of capitalist wage-Slash-
ing, hunger and police brutality.
In times of crisis the socialist par
ty takes on a more radical, more
Marxist Though never revolution
ary) complexion to exploit the rad
ical demands of the workers.
Finally the pamphlet contains
two brief studies of theory and
practice; one by Earl Browder, en-
titled Theory is Our Guide TO
Action" and the other by Sam Don
under the tile, Relation Of Theory
to Practice Browder shows that
theory is our guide to action, since
Marxist theory is that understand
ing of the world which implies
systematic change of the world.
The very theory itself arises from
wa ptbANC u nLlDlOlltAGLb1Cll "a Vic
world. 1t does not drop las the gen.
tie rain from heaven"
NOT DOGMATIsM
Browder points out that the I'm
yielding adherence of the Commu-
mist movement to MarXisln- Lenin-
ism is not dogmatisrn and sectar-
lanlsn. 1t is a necessary c0ndi-
ton for elimination of reactionary
theories from working class actiYi-
ty. The struggle to achieve this may
be seen in the development of the
Workers SchcGol, in the work of
freeing it from Trotskyite and
LoVestone influence. The school is
the embodiment of Marks slogan,
AN idea becomes power when it is
seized upon by the masses"
In Relation of Theory to Prac-
tice," Sam Don further amplifies
the interrelation OF the two. He
quotes and explains Marks way OF
stating this relationship, THAT as
philosophy finds in the working
class its material weapon, the
working class finds in philosophy
its theological weapon"
HOW RELATIONSHIP
WORKS OUT "
Don goes on to show that the
practical meaning of this relation
ship lies in the work of the Com
munist International today. The
analyses and the line of the Com
munist International are theoreti-
cal guides to contemporary (even
day to day. problems to the ac5iv-
ity of party workers. Stain stated
this very aptly when he said that
theory without action Is empty.
and action without theory is blind.
Not only was Marks system
based on the interrelation Of theory
and practice, but his very life was
an exemplification of this interre-
lation. He helped found the First
International, and he was con-
stantly working with workmen's
groups. The bourgeois govern
ments rewarded him for this by
driving him from country to coun-
try. Social democrats are rewarded
for their activity by police escorts.
AS Engels said at the grave of
his lifelong friend and co-worker,
Marx was above all revolution
ist."