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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-10

MOSCOW-The rapid development
w of the Soviet economic system,
the unparalleled advance of the
heavy industries, the increasing de-
mand for coal and iron, etc. have
placed enormous demands on the
Soviet railway system and whilst
the railways have not been able to
do complete justice to these de-
mands, nevertheless great progress
has been made. The final year of
the Five Year Plan provided for
the transport of 1927 milliard tons
Of goods. This figure has been ex-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-10

eighteenth century philosophers by
placing Hook in their company.
Even though they all were bour-
geois, they represented rising
revolutionary class, while Hook de-
tends that same class in its period
of decay. 1t is not always possible
to see this distinction in philo-
sophy. But it becomes quite clear
and absurd if we substitute political
personages and say that to COM
pare the eighteenth century ma
terialists to Hook is like conpar-
ing Danton, Marat, Robespierre to
Mayor OBrien, Bill Thompson on
Huey Long.
SO much tor Hook, The critic.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-10

ism of his twaddle is a valuable
contribution and is especially vel.
come inasmuch as it has been TO
long delayed. 1t is to be hoped
from now on every time any min.
compoop of the Hook or Calverton
or Eastman Or Boudin calibre rises
to pervert Marx, he be met with
unmerciful blasts from our Marx
ist-Leninist arsenal.
Two book reviews by Milton
Howard and w. Phelps, dealing
with other aspects of Marxism
complete the January number Of
The Communist, also in the Light
OF the Twelfth Pleuurn deciNcgsg,
ard resolutions I
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-10
BY H. NJ. MICKS.

IT is not possible to read the Janu-
airy issue OF The Communist
without being impressed with its
serious attempt to apply concrete
ly to the situation in the United
States the decisions and lessons of
the Twelfth Plenum of the Execu-
tive Committee of the Communist
International.
In this connection the reprinting
OF Comrade Gusev's speech at the
Twelfth Plenum on 'The End Of
Capitalist Sterilization and the
Basic Tasks of the American and
British Sections of the Communist
International, was correct and
necessary. 1t is essential that every
Party member be thoroughly IA
miliar with this contribution to
our revolutionary theory and prac-
tice and with all its implications.
This means that, in studying all
the decisions of the Twelfth Plen-
UNI, this contribution by Comrade
Gusev must become for us the
guide to applying these decisions
to our concrete problems, while the
basic document is, of course, the
thesis and resolutions of the
plenum, published in pamphlet
form under the title Capitalist
Sterilization Has Ended.
EVIL OF SECTARIANISM.
To apply the lessons of the
Twelfth Plenum there must be
decisive break with the past, especi-
ally in the work of the Party units.
But this change must be initiated
by the Central Committee and the
District Committees organizing
fundamental political discussion
for the study of the decisions of
the E. G. G. I. plenum and of our
own Party G. G. plenums, This is
an imperative task that has been
delayed much too long From this
defect arises a whole series of mis-
takes and shortcomings in our
work, especially the most paralyz-
ing blight that afflictS our Party
sectarianism. 1t isathis sectarian-
ism which most of all hinders us
in striving to obtain leadership of
the masses who are, more and more,
showing an increased determine
ton to struggle against the hunger
and war program of the capitalist
class, Sectarianism the real ma
ture of which consists, to use the
words of Comrade Gusev Sin
right opportunist tagging behind
the mass movement"
This central defect IS further
emphasized and elaborated in the
editorial, Forward in the Line of
the Twelfth Plenum Of the E. c. G.
]" which appears as the opening
article in the January Communist.
Therein is brought out the funda-
mental task of deciSively combat
ting right opportunism in theory
and practice-all along the line.
At the same time this fight against
right opportunism, which is the
main danger, is carried on, there
must be a struggle against left"
deviations which lead to serious
consequences of their own and, by
distorting the line, effectively aid
right opportunisin-
The editorial brings out a whole
series of concrete shortcomings,
such as lack OF decisive struggle
against the mane,lvers of the social
fascists in strikes Lawrence. Pater-
son southern Illinois). unclarity on
work among the unemnloved. neg
lect of work among the unem-
ployed vouth and women. the fact
that although the Party has car
ried on effective campaigns and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-10
REALITY
LEFT ME DAZED."

I visited the homes OF some Negro
comrades here while meeting was
being held, at the risk of my own
neck, and the sight of real, intense
misery Like this made me more of
a rebel than ever. In New York
had started to read a book en-
titled Georgia Niger" but laid it
aside as impossible and preposter-
GUS. But it isn't impossible-it is
the truth. I can believe now be-
cause I've seen with my own eyes.
Why, the Negroes down here live III
shacks that even a pig would blush
to look at. I suppose you know all
this, but you must excuse me. /
never saw these things. l read
about the conditions in the South,
but it was superficial. Reality left
me dazed. / could never, never
write on paper my feelings when I
saw the Jim -Crowism, the terror
and the intense misery that exists
in the South.
And we must fight for these COM
rades who are in prison. They are
brave. They have the courage of
their convictions. They have given
up everything for the class struggle,
and now they are subjected to the
worst treatment that human beings
can receive. In the Tampa county
jail are Comrades Macdonald and
Bonilla, in the Raiford State Peni-
raatiarv are Comrades Cruz Ca
brera, Mario, Lopez and Jim Nine.
Let me tell you of little incident
that occurred here, so that you may
understand the treatment they
receive here.
WORKING CLASS
HEROISM!
Tsrnael Cruz is =. very SICK corn
rsfie, and several rnehs aT- " pay
s9'' - N-e.1.. ~ y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-10
A VISIT TO THE SOUTH
AND AN URGENT PLEA
Editor of Daily Worker,

Editor of Daily Worker,
Dear Conrade: am writing you
this letter from Jacksonville, Fla.
right in the heart of the Black
South. I have travelled all the
way down from New York in order
to see the prisoners in the State
Penitentiary at Raiford-the COM
rades who are the victims Of the
Tampa frame-up and who are serv-
ing sentences of from one to ten
years. In particular, as you may
have guessed, I am specially inter-
ested in the case of Jim Nine. This
young organizer sent down from
the North was given a ten-year
sentence for speaking from the
same platform as Negro comrade
and for leading the militant strug-
gle Of the Tampa tobacco workers
for the improvement of their mis-
cradle conditions. The workers
down here are fighting necessarily
for their release and will be able
to obtain it with little co-opera-
zion from the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-10
Revolutionary Theory Applied
to Present>Day Problems
A Review of the January Issue of "The Communist

People holding Hooks views try TO
make it appear that their differ
ences with the party of Marxism-
Leninism are trivial. They only
differ from our Party inasmuch as
they hold that dialectic material
ism does not apply to nature,
although they are willing TO con-
cede that it does apply to social
movements. In other words (ac-.
cording to Hook dialectic material
ism can explain the ideas and the
social organizations under which
mankind moves, but cannot ex-
plain the movement of natural
forces. Such theory is nothing
other than idealism and to put
forth such illusions in the name of
materialism is an affront to all
materialisn,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-10
FROM THE BLACK BELT
BY MYRA PAGE.

These sketches of the life white workers
South
published by International PubIishers.-EDITOKS NOTE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-10
HOW HOOK SERVES
CAPITALISTS.


HOW HOOK SERVES
CAPITALISTS.
Comrade Jerome, in his criticism
of Hook, not only shows how Hook
tries to emasculate Marxism and
turn dialectics into the most shame
less sophistry, thus depriving the
working class of its powerful
weapon of Marxism- Leninism, but
also how such distortion and cor
ruption serve the ruling class in
this period of the general crisis of
capitalism.
1t is tIlYs philosophic hack, this
insolent distorter of Marxism, who,
bloated with his originality his
uniqueness. privately tells those
who will listen that no one in the
Communist Party of the U. S. A.
or in the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union knows the first thing
about philosophy ONLY Hook
knows. His great originality is ex-
posed by Comrade Jerome who
traces it to Duehring, Bernstein,
Bogdanov, James and Dewey. With
great erudition Hook says:
"Dialectic materialism must take
its cues from the scientific prag
matism of Dewey"
From that profound observation
the present reviewer exercises his
right to take cue, and to add still
another name to these who con-
tributed to Hooks originality -
William English Walling. the no.
torious renegade. lackey of imper-
ialism and former left" leader of
the Socialist Party. Walling was
the Sidney Hook of his day. He
was associated with Max Eastman,
Frank Bohn, Harry w. Ladder,
Louis c. Fraina (of odoriferous
memory, Floyd Dell, Ludwig Lore,
Louis B. Boudin-renegades all
in the publication of a magazine
called ''The New Review. In
that sheet Walling wrote a series
OF articles entitled, THE Prag-
matism OF Marx and Engels," in
which he said the same things III
1918 that Hook is saying today.
But not even William James
claims for pragmatism the orig
inality claimed by the novice, Hook.
James calls it "a new name for
some old ways of thinking" Prag-
matism is an alleged philosophy
that claims no one can know any
thing regarding the future that
only after thing has worked out
in practice can we know whether
it was correct or not. Thus, while
past history can be explained, it
can teach us nothing about what
history holds in store for us.
In denying dialectics in nature
Sidney Hook goes back to Bacon
and Locke, back to the century
preceding the eighteenth century
materialists of France. But we do
not, to be. sure, place such philis,-
tines as Hook, in the same cate
CORY with these British philosoph-
ers who were ths precursors of
eighteenth century French mater
ialism Diderot, Helvetius, Hol-
bach.) These were all bourgeois
philosophers, the most advanced of
their time, but at that time the
bourgeoisie was the revolutionary
class. The material basis for the
rise of dialectiC nnaterialisn did
not then exist for the simple
reason that it was only in the So
cial movements that brought the
bourgeoisie to power and the tenn
pestuous emergence of the prole-
tariat upon the stage of history
that it was possible to perceive
the key to all history.
Hook also aspires to member
ship in the ranks of bourgeois
philosophers But certainly we will
not tradncs the seventeenth erft
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-10
WORKING CLASS
~

rsnael Cruz IS very sack corn
rsfie, and several r@eHs as- " vaS
50 - '--t.. .sss
Evening star., 1933-12-27
Fooler Says Fear
For Sanity Drore
Hin, From Movies
Holds Payment of Large
Sums to Writers Bad
for Them.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 27.-Gene
Fowler, the writer. returned from a So
journ in Hollywood yesterday and said
the reason he left was that "I feared
for my mind"
Now I don't want to be a common
scold" h, said. and / don't want to
possible in the public prints. I want to
be dignified. Just before I left. they
docked $l.85 from my pay, I never
knew why, but I think they thought I
was talking against them. My state
ment is, I left because feared for my
mind"
Fowler, who spent part Of his time in
Hollywood on a perturbation Of his
book, Timber Line" decried the pay
ment of large lump sums to writer's.
ITO stay on and on in Hollywood at
fabulous salary is corrupting." he
said. 1T is bad for every one. I've been
there three months and my next book
is going to be about 18 pets that I've
had from time to time. 1t won't make
dime. but I'll like doing 1t. One Of
the pets is frog named Cooker, but
that is a long story"
Still on the subject of money, FowIer
said the new screen trend of making
good pictures out of the nice old
books" If continued, will result ad-
verSely for the modern writer
IF they go on with the nice old
books, doing good jobs Of putting them
on the screen-as they did with Little
Women'-we boys are going to stay in
the poor house"
Evening star., 1933-12-27
STUDENT LEADERS.
OPEN CONVENTION
Public Affairs Theme of An
nuaI Meeting of National
Federation.
Attended by students from colleges in

Attended by students from colleges in
all sections of the country, the ninth
annual convention of the National Stu
dent Federation of America opened to-
day at the Mayflower Hotel Sessions
will continue through Sunday, and
presidents of student bodies Of $50 COL
leges and universities are expected to
come here.
The part the college student plays in
public affairs will be specially empha-
sized, although subjects ranging from
the honor system to athletics will be
discussed.
At luncheon today the students
were addressed by Chester H. Mccall,
assistant to Secretary of Commerce
Roper. Among other speakers sched-
uled for the convention are Senators
Thomas Oemocrat) Of Oklahoma and
Fess Republican) of Ohio, Speaker
Rainey, Representative West Demo
craft Of Ohio and DR.. Ricardo Alfaro,
Minister from Panama.
DR.. George B. Woods, dean of the
College Of Liberal Arts of American
University, is to welcome the delegates
this afternoon, then the convention will
break up into regional meetings. Amer
lean University is host to the conven-
ton.
DR.. George F. Zook, United States
commissioner Of education, will be the
principal speaker at a banquet this
evening. The subject of his address is
Problems in Education"
After his speech two discussion
groups will be formed. Dr.. John B.
McCracken Of the American Council of
Education will lead consideration of
the crisis in education and DR.. H. w.
Tyler Of the Association Of American
University Professors will consider
meeting the financial emergency and
applying education to present condi-
tions.
The federation, formed in 1925, is
an outgrowth of conference at
Princeton University to discuss from
the students standpoint United States
entrance into the World Court.
The organizations purpose is to
achieve a spirit Of cooperation among
students of the country, to consider
questions affecting their interests, to
develop intelligent student opinions on
national and international questions
and to foster world understanding
among students in furthering endur-
ing peace.
Evening star., 1933-12-27
81 OVERCOME BY GAS
IN NEW YORK BUILDING
Workers in Dress Manufacturing
Firm Collapse After Windows
Are Closed During Storm.

NEW YORK, December 27 (R.-
Seven persons were rushed to hospitals
yesterday and fifty others were affected
by carbon monoxide gas on the nine
teenth floor Of a building in the gar
ment district where the windows had
been closed, due to the snowstorm out
side
A number of gas-operated machines
were in operation in the dress manu-
featuring department of Rhinelander &
Schwartz on West Thirty-ninth street.
Gas flames consumed a large amount of
oxygen before the Office closed.
Absut 430 pm. the first employe COL
lapSed and before police emergency
crews and ambulances arrived more
than so men and women had collapsed
on the floor. Police used II tanks of
oxygen on the gas victims for two
hours
None of the seven taken to hospitals
was in a serious condition today, but
physicians feared pneumonia threatened
them as result Of the carbon mon
oxide they inhaled.
Evening star., 1933-12-27
Ipset to their financial scheme

upset to their financial scheme Il
things. 3
The Kentucky department Of public
welfare depends on the revenue from
prison made goods to help defrsy the
expenses Of maintaining the penal IN
stitutions.
II Kentucky loses that revenue. sorne
authorities say, 1t viii be necessary for
the legislature to make additional ap-
preparations for the prisons.
Many States already have Let It be
known they will stop the shipment of
prison-made goods across their borders,
once the court settles the validity of
the act.
Organized Labor Opposed.
Like Kentucky, Alabama derives con-
siderable revenue from the products
OF its prison factories. There, too, au-
thorities say they must revise their
financial plans If the court upholds the
Hawes-Cooper act.
Among those upholding the act is
organized labor. The workers unions
contend prison-made goods place labor
az an unfair disadvantage In that prod
ucts made by skilled craftsmen cannot
compete in price with materials manu-
factured on the low-cost basis the pri-
sons are able to maintain.
Evening star., 1933-12-27

methods, It does nothing. It seems to
have no conception Of its duty to
remedy the situation. It makes no new
aIocations that are possible as result
Of new development In directional
broadcasting and other advanced meth
DDS Of broadcaSting."
Dill said the Supreme Court had held
the commission had full power to de-
termine the character Of advertising
that should be broadcast and It ought
to use this power to determine what
makes program in the public interest" I"
Asks Abuses Be Cut.
"It should restrict the abuses of the
right to advertise" he added. Censor
ship is one thing, but the kind Of ad-
vertising Is another. II the advertising
is not the kind the public wants to
hear, 1t Is not in the public interest.
II seems to me there could be some
limitations and the commission could
make some suggestions to advertisers
for improvements"
Dill said another phase requiring more
regulation was the thigh rates" charged
by the telephone companies for lines
connecting chain radio stations.
Evening star., 1933-12-27
ELECTION METHOD
CHANGE PRESSED
Constitutional Amendment
Will Be Pushed in Congress
Despite Objections.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
constitutional amendment to change
the method of electing a President is
to be pressed at the coming session of
Congress against the wishes of friends
of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who hope for
his reelection in 1886.
AS the Constitution now stands, voters
choose electors. If presidential can
didate receives majority Of the elec-
toral votes in any State, all the electoral
votes of that State are cast for him.
Under the projected change, a candi-
date who received less than a majority
would be credited with those he won
when the final tally was made.
Had the latter method been in effect
many elections of Presidents in the past
would have resulted differently.
Norris Backs Resolution.
Senator Norris. Republican, of Ne
braska is backer of the resolution. 1t
has been on the House calendar since
the Committee on Elections of the Pres
ident and Vice President approved the
measure drafted by Representative Lea,
session last Spring.
The coming session is considered by
Norris as providing an opportune time
to get the resolution through Congress
and up to the States for ratification. 1t
Is the first assembly since Norris
amendment abolishing the lame duck
session was ratified by the States.
This amendmer' broug't a confused
situation over the meeting time of the
electoral college and the polling of the
votes by Congress. 1t will require cor
rective legislation before 1886.
The amendment abolishing the lame
duck session moved from the first
Monday in December to January 3 the
annual assembly date for Congress.
Present law provides that Congress
at Joint meeting Of the Senate and
House poll the 6ectroral ballots on
the second Wednesday in February.
Result Would Be Late.
But the lame duck amendment moved
I'D from March to January 20 the
date for Inauguration of the PreSi-
dent and Vice President each four
years. This would let the President
take Office nearly a month before the
electoral ballots we're counted and the
result was formally announced by Con-
gress.
The electoral college consists of 531
representatives, as many in each State
as there are Senators and Representa-
tives in Congress. In the past each
party In each State has had a slate
of electors. The successful ones met
at the capitals of the respective COM
monwealths to cast their ballots and
dispatch them to Congress and the
Secretary Of State for official tabula-
ton.
Evening star., 1933-12-27
KEY SCORES OPERATION
OF C.. w. A. IN ATLANTA
Leaves Raked Back and Forth So
Much They Are Nearly Worn
Out, He Declares.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, December 27.-Mayor
James L. Key of Atlanta told a con-
ference Of local and Federal govern
ment. labor and civic leaders yesterday
that the Civil Works Administration is
operating very largely, and I might say
very foolishly, in this county"
Urging projects Of permanent value,
the mayor said the C. w. A. workers
have "raked leaves back and forth in
our parks until the leaves are almost
worn out.
Let us get this energy and money
behind something that will count for
the community" he said, urging in
creased sewerage construction for his
.rea
Evening star., 1933-12-27
LANDLORD GETS "MAD"
AND SHOOTS 2 WOMEN
Pair "Got Fresh" When He Went
to Collect $22.5O Rent, Says
Accused, Jailed.

By the Associated Press.
OAKLAND, Calf, December 27.-
Two women who owed S22.50 rent we're
shot, one perhaps fatally, here yester-
day and police named Jack Kutesh, so,
their landlord, as the assailant.
The victims were Mrs. John Maceto,
p, and her mother, Mrs. Adelia
Willmot, 40. Mrs. Willmot was shot in
the neck and was pronounced in critical
condition. A bullet struck Mrs. Maceto
in the chest, but physicians said her
wound appeared not to be serious.
They owed me $3.50 and when I
went to collect it they got too fresh,
so got mad" the police quoted Kutesh
saying after arrest.
Officers said Kutesh had ordered the
family Monday to pay or get out and
that the MacetoS were moving when
he confronted them yesterday.
Evening star., 1933-12-27
Gets Wire Monopoly

The governor Of Cyprus has been
given the exclusive privilege Of estab-
fishing and operating telegraph and
telephone lines In the colony.
Evening star., 1933-12-27
j. s. RADIO BOARD
CHANGES STUDIED
Dill, Rapping Laxity in Adver-
tising Curb, May Urge
Sweeping Revision.
By the Associated Press.


Chairman Dill of the Senate Inter-
state Commerce Committee yesterday
proposed a sweeping reorganization of
the Federal Radio Commission unless
that body shows more Initiative" in
regulating advertising and keeps alert
to new developments in the broadcast
ing field.
Dill also said there would be no
legislation proposed for unifying all
communication services, such as SuDp
gested by President Roosevelt's In
departmental Committee, until
ferenceS were had with Chairman Ray
burn OF the House Interstate Commerce
Committee and full hearings held.
May Propose Reduction.
Dill said unless the Radio Commits
sion became more effective body and
took hold to do something" he would
propose reducing 1t to one director with
board to hear appeals from his de-
cisions
1T ought to do something to improve
radio instead Of sitting back like a
machine" he asserted with all the
growing protests against advertising