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Evening star., 1933-11-12
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Propaganda Less Intense.

That there has been diminution of
foreign propa ganda also is true, al
though the theory remains in full force
that it is the duty of the Third Inter-
national to bring about Communist
revolutions in all capitalist countries.
Propaganda is less intense, partly
through lack of funds. partly through
the fact that the Russian government
now understands that for many reasons
it needs an outside capitaliStic world for
internal propaganda purposes.
1t is true that in trade matters the
Soviet so far has fulfilled its obligations.
Default would mean instant cessation
of credit. 1t also is true that the state
mentS that the Bolshevist government
feels under no moral obligation to keep
its pledged word to Communist
countries remains uncontradicted.
Philosophy and reality exist side by
side, but for the moment philosophy is
in eclipse except for home consumption.
Any government would be technically
justified in refusing to recognize the
Soviet until that government agrees
scrupulously to fulfill its international
obligations
In the case of Russia. however, there
are two questions to consider The
American Government has had them
both in mind Continued non-recog-
milton is juStifiable both from the gen.
eral standpoint of international law and
because it is in accord with American
traditions. There are certain lawyers
who claim that the stand does not ac-
cord with American traditions, but they
are wrong because their premise is
wrong, that recognition has been with
held because of the form of govern
ment. This is not true and never has
been true.)
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practice the care of orchards and new
paper. His sons he looked upon as
maintainers of the Byrd tradition.
While the young Admiral Byrd was
building in his child mind dreams of far
places and readying himself for the
cruise to the Philippines, his older
brother. Harry, was already facing real
adventure-the adventure of a quick
decision that looked into the future.
Son TsOk Over Paper.
He was Is years old The Byrd for
tunes were at low ebb. His fathers
newspaper business had gone badly.
One morning his father left the news
paper office, called the family together
and told them there could be but two
more issues of the paper. The paper
mills. he said, had refused him further
credit When the present stock was
gone. so, too, would be the Byrd news
paper.
"Will you let me run the paper?"
young Harry asked.
You may have the damn thingl"
said the elder Byrd.
Harry was a man of action. There
was no school for him that day nor
any day to follow the rest of his life.
He went to a lawyer; got a deed Of gift
drawn. With 80 cents in his pocket he
went to call on the firm which supplied
the paper.
I'll pay all the paper owes" de
clared the adolescent publisher, ''if you'll
ship me each days supply of paper
C. o. D."
The creditor company agreed at once,
and Harry scrambled back home to
begin a career of hard work. He can
vassed the town for subscriptions and
advertising, procured enough money to
pay for the daily supply of materials.
Sometimes the paper was II to 36 hours
late, because the presses couldn't run
until the money was at the express Of
fee. Once he mortvaged the entire ap-
pie crop Of the Byrd orchard to keep
going He pulled through. finally paid
off the debt, and made this newspaper
the nucleus of chain which he now
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Headed Telephone Company.

That should have satisfied a young
entrepreneur of Is. But the Byrds
don't work that way. AS he admiral
took look at the North Pole only to
decide that he would like to see the
South Pole. so his brother Harry looked
upon the re-establishment of the news
paper as an interesting item, but by no
means an end. A year later he was ad-
vertising the phrase, "A telephone for
every farmer" And at 16 he was pres
ident of the Rural Telephone Co.
Automobiles were appearing in Vir-
ginia. frightening horses along the
States remote dilapidated highways
Automobiles looked like a coming thing
to young Byrd. If they were to be,
they'd need roads. he argued He got
control of turnpike, built one of the
first paved roads in Virginia by spread
ing strip of tar down the center. 1t
wasn't wide strip. but one car at a
time could stay ON it if properly guided
Evening star., 1933-11-12
Expediency is Only Issue.

The other issue is that of eXpediency.
On that ground there are many excel
lent arguments in favor of recognition.
American citizens travel in Russia.
They should be able to turn to Amer
lean diplomatic representatives to assist
them in case of trouble American cit
liens trade with Russia and should
have the support of their Government
in trade disputes The world is small
place in these days. All nations have
TO live in close proximity to all others,
and it is better to carry on the usual
intercourse with them all. What we
know of Russia we know from outside
sources or through the accounts of un-
official American observers. These ac-
counts differ as night from day. All
matters of trade and of credit would be
simplified if we had stream of au-
thentic information. All these argu-
ments are valid in themselves. But the
man who makes such arguments will
listen to no others, and the man who
opposes recognition seldom admits their
validity.
But for the average man general con-
siderations such as these pale into in
significance before the trade argument.
We need export trade; we need to get
rid of our surpluses: IL we recognize
the Russian government we can imme-
diately sell billion" dollars worth of
goods-the figure varies with the en-
thusiasm of the speaker. If this were
true. it would probably be decisive. 1t
does not happen to be true unless the
American Government or private sources
will advance credit for these stupendous
purchases Trade with Russia is not a
question of recognition but of credit
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Matter of Credit Now.

The enthusiasts forget that three or
four years ago our trade with Russia,
as unrecognized then as now, was
larger tnan that of any other country.
The pendulum has swung not because
we still withhold recognition, but solely
because. since Russia can no longer pay
in cash or even a Goodly proportion in
Evening star., 1933-11-12

Sergt. Jasper Unit No. l3 met at the
Thomas Circle Club November 2. the
president. Mrs. Ruth Orlosky, presiding
The unit colors were present on Navy
day at the John Paul Jones Memorial
and on Armlstice day at the Tomb of
the Unknown Soldier. and at the Wash
lngton Cathedral. Mrs. Ola D. Lee and
Mrs. Alma Goodacre acted as color
bearers at the Navy day exercises.
Evening star., 1933-11-12
Italy Is Land of Madonna.

Italy Is The land Of Mater Matllta,
that remote Etruscan divinity carrying
a child Madonna like in its arms Italy
is the land of the Madonna and of the
Child Jesus where the head of the poor
est and humblest little child receives
by reflex an aureola of glory from the
Supreme Divinity. The joyful myS-
teries and the sorrowful mysteries of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30
Young Ford Worker
Chosen for Youth
Anti-War Congress
Detroit Vel. to Hold
Rally to Finance
Trip to Paris

DETROIT, Michigan. - The De-
troit organized young workers are
going to send delegate to the
World Congress of Youth Against
Fascism and War which will be held
in Paris, September %.
1t is significant that the delegate
who has been selected to go is a
young Ford worker The Ford Motor
Company made 100000 profits in
the last imperialist war Of 1914-1918.
Today the conveyors of the Ford
Company are once more prepared to
turn out shells, tanks, cannons and
airplanes, on two days notice.
The Delray unit of the Young
Communist League Ford Section) is
arranging an anti-war rally in con-
nection with International Youth
Day, with dance, concert and other
features.
This rally, which will help to raise
funds to send the delegate TO Paris
will be held on Saturday, September
2, pm, at 8419 Vanderbilt Ave.
Admission is only ten cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30
700 Prisoners Go
On Hunger Strike
In Latvia Jail
Protest New Criminal
Code Legalizing
Torture

RIGA, Latyia. -Seven hundred po-
litical prisoners in Latvia have gone
on hunger strike in mass protest
against the introduction Of new
criminal code surprising in strin-
gency the Tzarist criminal law OF
1908, in force until now. Mass sup
port to the strike is being organized
by the Latvian I. L. D.
The new code provides increase by
half of all maximum sentences; that
after a prisoner has served his term
the court may decide he has not yet
been reformed" and imprison him
for another ten years on that basis,
without trial or new accusation; irons
and handouts, and their use on pris-
oners In jails is legalized; new and
special punishments for the offenses
Of "rioting" and breach of the
peace; lowering of the age of chill
dren to be tried in ordinary GRIM
inal courts to IL years; and a new
statute imposing more severe legal
disciplinary punishments in the
prisons"
At present, the essence of these
measures is more than surpassed in
the Latvian prisons, where politicals
are denied medical assistance, and
frequently tortured. A woman poitt-
ical prisoner, Lena Paulina, was re-
Gently tortured to death. The legal
ization of these tortures means in
classification Of the illegal tortures
and measures against politicals In
proportion.
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halt. The priest accompanying the
soldiers warned the 300 people back
ing the committee to turn back. The
soldiers officer, with his rifle at the
trail, said:
THE first man crossing the ditch
to the land will be shot"
If you take your hand off the
point Of balance of that rifle" Grail
ton warned him, you'll be with St,
Patrick forthwith" The crowd
swarred past the soldiers over the
ditch. The land was reclaimed.
A cattle ranch was broken up, the
land made public property. Mr..
Waugh" the Direct Action Commit
tee said to the owner, we're after
taking over this land you've held for
these many years. You took the land
away from the original owners by
force. The force is on our side now"
There was a fierce pulpit campaign
against the workers courts. Priests
denounced the courts, Pearse- Con-
molly Hall, and the leaders from the
altar. Grafton was arrested, held
for ten days. The courts still car
ried on, but the Free State Army
was getting stronger and stronger.
Military broke through the barbed
wire surrounding the hall, seized the
building and mounted Lewis guns
to hold it. Many workers and small
farmers were arrested.
I'VE had few arms then. Local
Ira. leaders had gone over to the
Free Skaters. They had had charge
of the dumps where we hid our arms
during the truce. Before they sold
out they collected any guns not yet
in the dumps. held on to a Thomp-
son machine gun as long as I could.
In the end had to surrender 1t.
Many of us we're on the run now.
We had cleaned up most of the land
grabbing affairs and could see our
usefulness was coming to an end. We
escaped from the encircled area =
there had been orders to shoot us
at sight.
We reported to Rory O'Connor, then
in charge Of the four courts In Dub
lin where the 1.RA.--the steadfast
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30

from pulpit. factory, and govern
ment, cannot be done by any human
means.
God alone will do it, SAYS the
Judge. All that we little men can
do is stand by, sell pamphlets. talk
on street corners and be "Jehoya's
witnesses" There will be a great
change, a revolution, and then the
establishment of a kind of religo-
communism on earth. Jehova will
let us survive. Nine-tenths of the
human race will be wiped out, but
we, the chosen tenth, will live, and
live in the flesh forever.
So there's sample of sectarian-
ism. 1t would all be a joke if there
weren't some two million people in
America, mostly workers, who are
followers of this particular sect. They
have several radio stations, they pub
lish a magazine in some seven Ian
guages, including Esperanto. They
are against Fascism, they have thou
sands of propagandists in the field
constantly at work, and they are in
deadly earnest.
Why don't we get in and bore
from within? Certainly these wildly
anti-capitalist religious plebians are
closer to the real thing than a COM
Portable Morris Hillquit or Norman
Thomas.
All one would have TO prove to
the two million bible students is
that the Devil, as incarnated in
preacher and capitalist, is immune
to hard words, and needs a pitch
fork in the rear, physical pitchfork.
This is all the Devil understands.
And a new Jerusalem In America will
come only If it is built by human
hands. Maybe the bible students
could also be persuaded even to
admit their own mortality. Or am
/ deviating agai-"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30

of appointing men and women OF
his own class to administer and to
organize the state, as in the Sow
let Union? -.
1.-THE workers instinctiyely -.
sympathize with the Soviet Union,
because they see in it proletarian
democracy, a democracy for the
poor, and not a democracy for the
rich, as is the case with the every
bourgeois democracy, even with the
best"
1--WE are ruled by, and our stats
government is run by, capitalist Of
ficials, by capitalist legislatures, by
capitalist judges, such is the simple,
undisputable, and obvious truth
which is known and felt, through
their daily experience, by tens and
hundreds of millions of the exploited
workers and farmers in all capital
list countries, no matter how demo-
cratic
I'm the Soviet Union :. the work.
ers and peasants have set UP their
Soviets which replaced the capital
list government apparatus, and set up
much more popular representation
:. The Soviet form of the dicta-
torship of the proletariat is million
times more democratic than the most
democratic capitalist republic.
These words of Lenin give q true
picture of the real difference between
the Soviet form of government and
our capitalist democracy" which is
only fraud to conceal the fact the
real power in this country lie in the
hands of the capitalist class which
owns the press, the radio, the banks.
the factories, ETC., the capitalist class
which controls the government.
So long as the workers in this
country are exploited in the factories
by their capitalist employers, the
legal forms of capitalist democracy"
are only mask to hide their wage
slavery.
Only when the workers themselves,
through their own state power-the
Soviets-control their own govern
ment and the means Of production,
the factories, ETC., will they have true,
proletarian democracy.
But the Boston Herald is very
anxious for the workers not to know
that. Hence its hypocrisies about
"our democracy"
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e = s z rs
republicans - were quartered. Civil
war hadn't begun, but it was easy tc
see it coming. We asked O'Connor
if he could arrange for the Third
Western Division, which had remain
ed republican. to support our group
in Leitrim. We wanted to organize
flying column to fight the treaty
and, take over the land. 1--WE want
to carry out James Connolly's pro-
gram" I said TO O'Connor.
I'VE know O'Connor was brave
man. Free State thugs knew him
as their incorporating enemy when
they took him from q prison cell and
murdered. him with Joe McKelvey,
Dick Barrett and Liam MelloweS in
the civil war But O'Connor didn't
understand the class issues of the
republican war. He told us: you're
just mob" ta,
I'VE offered to stay in the -Four
Courts to take part in the fighting
we expected. O'Connor said no. This
would be bread Of the truce, he said,
they were just after sending home
the South Tipperary Brigade who had
also volunteered to stay in the -Four
Courts. So I came to America. Soon
after the Four Courts were fired on.
The civil war began"
TWO years ago Gralton's brother
died. Jim had to go home to
take care of the small farm
The crisis had paralyzed Ireland,
as it had paralyzed the whole cap
italist world. Emigration was clogged
up. There were no more remittances
from exiles In America. And now,
in Leitrim, as In every county in Ire
land, there were the Irish Revolu-
tionary Workers Groups, pointing
the way to the Irish Workers Repub-
lie, building the Communist Party
OF course. Grafton joined the Groups
Pearse- Connolly Hall was re-opened
To the ranchers and priests, resisting
evictions was criminal in 1922. But
the same program, strengthened now
by an open Communist Party-this
aroused the most savage hatred Of
the cattle-men and their clerical
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30

agents.
THE old lies about the Soviet Union
tripped off the priests tongues
"But though many people were fooled
into believing those lies, many fol-
lowed u.s." Grafton says. The poor
people said this: The same priests
told lies about the Irish Republican
Army boys. Why, they could tell lies
about Russia as well And what's
wrong for the workers to have dances
and classes in Pearse- Connolly Hall?
What's the sin in advocating higher
standard Of living for the Irish work.
ers and poor farmers?
THE priests campaign was car
ried into the schools. Children OF
parents who attended the hall were
boycotted by teachers. My niece, who
went to the convent school, was told
by the nuns that If she went to the
hall she'd have to leave the class
She left the class"
There was no intimidation of Com
munists and sympathizers by armed
DULLES melted by the ranchers and
the priests. Refused license for a
rifle, Grafton armed himself with a
shotgun and home made bombs. He
was forced to hide at night.
Pearse- Connolly Hall was shot up
by thugs. On Christmas eve it was
bombed and burned to the ground
Grafton was served with deporta-
ton order. No trial. No charge. He
was, the government considered, "a
menace to public welfare"
Il thought 1 had right to live
in the country I was raised in. ]
escaped and took to the hills. The
priests said the people we're opposed
to Communists. But poor people
devout Catholics - looked after me
The roads were painted with signs
like Down with imperialist coer-
cionl justice demands trial for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-30
Deported Red Leader Fought Betrayal of Free
State to England By Organizing Farmers
To Resist Evictions, Seize Land

fight for something for themselves"
THE workers and small farmers
must fight for something for them
selves" To the cattle ranchers, the
big land-grabbers and the priests who
supported them, this program was
"the demon Of Communism, the anti
God campaign"
There were evictions, laborers were
hungry. In Gralton's neighborhood-
the Gowel area-there were repub-
lican arbitration courts. These were
rebel" courts which ignored British
laws during the trouble. Eviction
cases were tried by these courts. But
the decisions they handed down on
eviction cases were more like deci-
sions handed down in line with the
old British property laws.
1--WE brought 400 people to pub
lie meeting, fired the Judge and Sec
rotary and set up a workers court.
Our program was for breaking up the
big estates and giving the land to the
poor farmers; no rents; no rates; no
evictions; Reinstatement of evicted
families.
1--WE had a Direct Action Commit
tee to enforce that program. We
built hall with volunteer labor,
Pearse- Connolly Hall, to replace a
hall burned down by the 'tans. The
priests bitterly opposed us. They
warned their congregation to keep
away from the hall. But we had
mass movement. The poor people
supporting us were devout Catholics,
but they refused to listen to the
priest when he preached ranchers'
politics from the altar
THE Committee swept into action.
l An evicted family was re-instated
on the land of notorious grabber.
Soldiers-they we're later the local
nucleus Of the Free State Army -
commanded the eviction-resisters to
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The WatchtOwer Sect

Sects, very often are possessed OF
little fragment of truth, which they
mistake for the whole, and defend
as bitterly as a police dog defend
ing moldy old bone
America has always been land
of the most variegated religious, So
cial and sexual sects.
1t is fascinating to study them
Beyond a doubt, every troubled era
is reflected by its sects, and study
of Americas sects would be a social
and economic study of the nation
Today the sects are stronger than
ever. One that has interested me
and that deserves a more careful
essay, is that of the Watch Tower
This is the sect that was founded
by Pastor Russell, and was formerly
known as the International Bible
Students. Many of the young STU
dents went to jail for opposing the
late war, and today many of them
are being arrested for anti-govern-
ment talk.
Really, if I were ever tempted to
become a religious sectarian, would
Join this one. 1t is the most Won
derful and logical lunacy I have
heard of to date. Based upon exact
quotation from the Scriptures, the
students prove to you that in 1914
with the outbreak Of the World War,
the Devil in Person came down on
earth, and took charge Of things.
The Devil now rules in all the
churches and governments of the
earth. Judge Rutherford, the bible
students leader, puts it this way:
These reverend gentlemen pose be-
fore the people as the representa-
tives of God and Christ Jesus and
His kingdom. I charge that they in
fact represent Satan, the Devil" And
in pamphlet on the crisis by the
good Judge, you see page cartoon
Of capitalist with a high plug hat,
a priest in full black robes smoking
cigar, and a gunman with a royal
crown, his holster having on it, I'm
God We Trust"
These three worthless are boozing
it merrily away, but above them a
very indignant angel in red Is about
to smite them down with great
glittering sword. 1t is very thrilling
and satisfying as picture, even If
there are no real angels in this
world.
Can the American government en-
dure? Judge Rutherford asks in an
other essay. No, he answers, it will
fall, the Devil will be booted out
If Washington, with all his cruel and
oppressive Commercial power But
IN this, the casting out Of the Devil