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class as agents Of the bourgeoisie.
In face of the offensive of fascist
reaction and the feverish prepare
lions of the bourgeoisie for a war
and an attack on the fatherland of
the toilers of the whole world, the
U.SS.R., We YCLerS call to you,
young workers and working girls,
with the appeal to consolidate the.
united front and get into the general
struggle Of the working class for its
emancipation.
The main weapons of the proleta-
riat in its struggle against the rob-
bling Of its wages and the worsening
of the working conditions, as in the
struggle against fsscism, is the
Strike.
BY means of the united front pre-
pare strikes, elect struggle commit
tees-STRIKE! Organize demonstra-
tons, meetings, mass protests
against the compulsory attempts to
fascisize and militarize the youth,
against the starvation offensive Of
the bourgeoisie.
COMRADESl
In few weeks the European Anti
Fascist Congress is gathering.
We appeal to all youth organiza-
tions and to you, YSLers, in spite OF
the sabotage of your leaders, to par
ticipate actively in the preparation
and carrying out of this Congress.
Your proletarian duty, young
workers and working girls, is to or
gsnize in the factories, in the Labour
Exchanges, in the forced labor camps,
in the trade unions, and in the work.
ers' quarters, anti-fascist struggle
committees and send your delegates
to the Anti-FasciSt Congress.
We are firmly convinced that tbs
young workers and working girls, ir-
respective Of their membership to
various youth organizations, will find
a common language at this Congress
and will unite for the struggle
against fascism.
Young Workers and Working Christ
Before you the question is put die
rectly Capitalism or Socialism.
Choose. With the Second Interna-
tional and the YSL,-to Fascism, or
with the Communist International
and the YCi--to Communism!
Strengthen the united front Of the
working class in the struggle against
the bourgeoisie. Join the ranks OF
the only revolutionary youth organ
ization--the YCL
The Executive Committee Of the
Young Communist International
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relleI speak OUT as
candidly and boldly as Mr.. W. H.
Matthews has recently spoken, there
is in that fact assurance that funds
will be decently used"
:" He should learn at once, if
he does not already know it, that the
most magnificent thing about the
crisis is the generosity of the poor to
the poor"
But of this I was not asked to
speak, but only of a Socialist opinion
of block-aid. And this / have given.
To our shame block-aid is necessary
if relief IS not to stop while more
adequate plans are made. To work
at hlock-aid for those not more use
fully employed at more fundamental
tasks is good provided the volunteer
workers remember what democracy
and brotherhood really mean"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-10

has seen with his own eyes, or heard
from others of the greatness of the
need, will hesitate to give the sum
asked for.
I'm collecting the funds the Block
Alder will not ask for large sums
which would be embarrassing to those
who earn moderate salaries. Most
people will be asked for 10 cents a
week for 20 weeks. Those who feel
they can afford it without undue
hardship may give Is cents, so cents
or 81. 1t is not a plan to raise a
great sum of money from compare
lively few people. But it is the only
plan that have seen or heard of by
which a great sum may be raised
over a period of months and with
out undue hardship on any giver;
and sum coming from far greater
number Of people that has ever be-
fore been brought into one common
effort for the good of the commu-
nitV"
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YCLers for the carrying out of strikes
against wage cuts, worsening of Ia
Dor conditions and dismissal from
the factories, against forced labor,
against the infringement of social
insurance, against the cutting and
the adjustment of relief for the I'M
employed youth?
If you are in reality for united
front and believe that the masses
themselves should rule and decide
their own fate" why then do you
throw out of your ranks anyone who
not in words, but in action, has start
ed TO create united front in the
struggle against the bourgeoisie and
fascism?
In your Congress in Prague you
declared that only the middle" path
between Bolshevism and reformism
can be the path to Socialism. To
what in reality has this middle"
path brought you if not to united
front with the bourgeoisie and mis-
cradle adaptation to the fascist die
tatorShip? Is it not on account of
this that you are so tolerant towards
all those who call themselves So
cialists and carry out united front
with the bourgeoisie?
You have betrayed the youth In
Germany and are betraying the
youth in Austria, Czechoslovakia,
and other countries. holding them
from the struggle against fascism.
In the name OF whose interests?
YCL Proved in Action
What is the concrete path Of
struggle you showed to the German
YSL and the youth members of the
reformist trade unions, the organi-
cations which are being destroyed by
the fascist bands?
Where and when have you ex-
posed the socialists" who are sit
ting in the parliaments, who are vot-
ing for reactionary bourgeois DEGREES,
for the increase of military budget,
for the curtailment of expenses for
social insurance and public educa-
ton?
You declare that only by means of
negotiations land not in common
class struggle against the bourgeoi-
sie) can the unity Of the working
youth be achieved.
We ask you on what basis do you,
who concluded a united front with
the bourgeoisie, want 10 have an
agreement with us, with the revo-
luti0nary youth?
The Young Communist Interna-
tional and its sections have not only
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-10
BY CHARLOTTE TODES.
ARTICLE II

The National Recovery Act repre-
sents the active, open entry of gov
eminent into the affairs of the mono
polists to enable them to fix higher
prices and to achieve lower produc-
ton costs and so maintain their su-
per-profits. It is a desperate attempt
to Stabilize" industry and bring
about the so-called recovery.
The voluntary trade agreements
made through the employers trade as
sociations will seek to bolster up
prices. But monopolies which seek
higher prices for themselves also seek
lower prices for the products they
purchase. The fierce ruinous COM
petitive struggle will therefore not be
lessened but will become intensified
and will sharpen foreign rivalries.
Bernard Baruch, Morgan favorite
and head of the War Labor Indus
tries Board in the world war has al
ready declared that higher tariff walls
are inevitable to prevent competition
with cheap foreign goods which will
enter American markets at prices
lower than those fixed. This accounts
for the proposed amendment to the
bill giving the President the power to
call for an embargo on foreign i'm
ports.
lowering Cost of Production BY
Attacks On Workers =
But principally the detectives of the
bill will be achieved through the
lowering of production costs by an
other ruthless attack on the present
low living standards of the masses.
For this purpose provisions have been
put in the Industrial Recovery Bill
which permit the industrialists to
establish new low standards through
imposing minimum wages, hours, and
working conditions which will be en-
bodied in the trade agreements and
enforced by government decree.
Mass DismissaIs
Obviously, if restricted production
is a goal Of the plan, and this has
been stressed by the administration
and the industrialists, fewer workers
will be required on the available Jobs.
The trade codes will therefore be the
instrument for mass disrnissals and
the legislation and widespread use of
the stagger plan.
The minimum wage provision, pre-
tending to raise slightly the level of
those receiving hunger dole wages,
will undoubtedly serve to bring the
higher wage scales down to COM
mon bottom level Instead of in
creasing the purchasing power of the
masses" as the government spokes-
men loudly proclaim, the codes will
help to stabilize and make permanent
the existing low level of wages for
the masses Of toilers. Increasing
prices, will further lower the pur-
chasing power of the workers wages.
already furnished an example of this.
Naturalization schemes and eff
cheney methods will be introduced in
the effort to lower production costs,
which will have the effect of further
firing Of workers. The r. r. Bill has
already furnished an example of this
Will recovery follow? Instead of
the unemployment of three million
men which Roosevelt promises, there
will be greater unemployment In
stead Of stimulating the wheels of
industry, the recovery plan will help
to lead to a sharper decline in in
dustry. Naturalization schemes will
defeat the effort to reduce output and
the goods produced can not be bought
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-10

Together with their German
brothers in class and struggle, the
working youth of the whole world
should see that fascism is becoming
aggressive and that this danger is
growing in their own countries.
Young workers-Boys and girls!
Have you understood through the
experiences Of the struggle of the
German working class, who clears
the road for fascism in your own
fcountry?
Have you understood that the
ltreacherous path of the German So
scial- Democracy was and is the path
of the whole of the Second Interna-
tional and the YSI?
Youth of Austria, Czechoslovakia
and other countries, is it not plain
to you why the Social-Democratic
Party and Socialist Youth organiza-
tons prohibit you from struggling
together with the Communists and
the YCLers against fascism?
Do you not remember that the
Social Democracy itself declared that
they are the physicians" of capt.
talism?
Is it not clear TO you yet, young
workers and working girls, that the
Social Democracy IN WORDS claims
to lead you to Socialism, IN REAL
ITY lead you to fascism?
Young workers and working girls,
through the example of Germany
and in your own country you see
that only the Communist Party and
it's closest helper--the Young Com
munist League--firmly and consis-
tently, in spite of terror and perse-
.cution, organizes the united front Of
she broad masses of the proletariat
and toilers for the struggle against
capital, for the dictatorship Of the
proletariat, for Socialism.
Social Fascism Disarming The
Working Youth
Comrades in class and struggle!
The Young Communist Interna-
tional in your name, in the name OF
thousands of our brothers anguish
ing in the fascist dungeons, brand
with shame the Young Socialist IN
ternational, which is disarming the
working youth in front Of the class
enemy. ~
We ask the leaders Of the Y.SI.!
In the name of whose interests do
rou prohibit the local organizations
and rank and file members from
trugsling against fascism hand in
land with Communist youth?
Whom do you serve, prohibiting
our members to unite with the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-10

proletariat solidarity, was an out
standing confirmation Of the unity of
the toilers in the struggle against
capital.
YOUNG WORKERS-BOYS AND
GIRLS!
Look at Germany and you will see
whose interests the Social Democracy
and the Socialist youth organizations
serve.
For many years, the German So
cial-D M ocr acy, participating in
bourgeois governments and heading
the police apparatus, tried to disrupt
the Communist Party and revolution
airy workers organizations, thus weak
ening the whole working class.
A yer ago the German Social Dem
ocratS, with the approval of the Sec
ond International, called upon the
masses to vote for Wilhelms Field
Marshal, Hindenburg, against the
worker of Hamburg, Ernst Thael-
mann, Their slogan was then, who
Votes for Hindenburg, hits Hitler
The Treachery of German Social
Democracy
Thousands of young and adult
workers, not believing the statements
of the Communists and YCLers, that
the Social-Democracy is disarming
the proletariat and through this is
clearing the road for fascist dicta-
torship. followed the Social Democ-
racy and its slogans.
They believed that the Amsterdam
International and the leadership of
the refornist trade unions, called to
defend the life interests of their
membership workers, would strug-
gle against fascisnl, which carries
with it hunger and want.
Nevertheless, on January 3oth,
when Hindenburg, submissively obey
ing the will Of the bourgeoisie, fright
ened by the revolutionary upsurge and
the growth of the influence of the
Communist Party, gave over the pow
er to Hitler and his fascist bands, the
Social-Democrats committed another
monstrous treachery. They rejected
the call Of the heroic Communist
Party of Germany, for general
strike and immediate, common action
against fascism.
Moreover, in the session OF the
Reichstag, on the 2Srd of March, the
Social-Democrats through Wells, Gym
ically stated that thanks only to its
policy was Hitler able 10 come to
power, They confirmed what the
Communists proved as far back as
July goth Of the past year, when the
Social Democracy was thrown out of
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Persons who make pretense of
being Socialists fear the unity of the
masses at the time when thousands
of Social workers and
many rank and file Socialist youth
organizations in Germany, Czecho-
slayakia, Austria, Belgium, France,
Spain, England, U.S.A. and other
countries are already, together with
the Communists, Y.CL.ers, and revo-
lutionary workers, fighting against
fascism and offensive of reaction.
May First, the international day of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-10
NORMAN THOMAS
ON BLOCK AID
g. The most magnificent thing
about the crisis is the generosity Of
the poor to the poor
NORMAN THOMAS.


We reprint excerpts of a speech on
Block Aid" by Norman Thomas,
leading figure in the Socialist Party.
This speech was made on Friday,
March 25, 1882, over radio station
WOR. 1t was reprinted in the New
Leader, official organ of the Social
ist Party, on April a, 1882.
Il have told the committee which
asked me to speak on block-aid to-
night that 1 would only speak if l
could speak the truth as see it, l
speak for block-aid only because it
promises some immediate help. in a
desperate emergency, only because
the right sort Of support may obviate
some dangers thoughtful men feel,
only with the confession that it IS
the shame of our city and our So
ciety that we have to resort to this
means at all"
II do not think block aid intended
to be, or indeed can be successful
conspiracy Of the rich to make the
poor pay for unemployment relief.
Still less do 1 believe it can be that
great spy system the Communists
profess to fear. It
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-10

TO fight in reality against fascism,
but are throwing out of their ranks
those who united with the youth Of
other organizations in the name of
revolutionary class struggle?
This is being done at the time when
the class consciousness and the neces-
sity of uniting their strength against
monstrous unemployment, starvation,
and the cultural degradation TO which
the bourgeoiSie has doomed the work
ing class, is growing in the youth
masses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-10
By ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG

The Rand School of the Socialist
Party is at present conducting a
drive to raise fund of $4,000. Not
only has the capitalist press opened
its pages for publicity to this drive,
but it has printed leading articles
endorsing the drive and joining the
campaign to secure the called for
sum.
Can it be that there is some mis-
take? Is it possible that the CAPT
talist press, usually wide-awake to
its class interests, was taken in when
it offered its columns to school
purporting to- teach Socialism TO
workers? No. The capitalist press
looked at the activity of the school,
liked it, and went out to make a
collection for it.
n. Y, Times Appeals for Rand School
Take the N. T. Times, for instance.
It is the leading organ of the capt
talist class in this country. 1t is at
present the leading organ of the
Roosevelt Administration. Under the
heading Rand School Menaced," it
prints a fervent editorial appeal on
April % in its "Topics of the Times"
column announcing that "A relief
drive Is now on" because "the Rand
School Is in financial difficulties"
and that the crisis involves the
Rand School, its library and its book
store as well as the Workers Thea
tire and the Debs Auditorium" The
Times is out to save even the Audi
forum named after Gene Debs
whom it maligned, villified and per-
secuted while he was alive and led
the militant struggles Of the Ameri-
san working class.
The Times naturally gives the rea-
son for its endorsement of the Rand
School from which workers, knowing
The function of this powerful organ
Of American imperialism, will draw
,he logical conclusions. Ss~s the
Times.
Union Square has become so
closely associated with Communist
activity that p2op:e arg likely 70
OFGTIDUN tut tAAStCHCB III al IIH-
poftsDt snti-Con7mUnist concIave
in the very heart OF ta9et region.
This IS the Rand Sc,loag of Social
Scionce. With affiliated orsaniza-
tlen5 Socialist PGrty and allied ell
ement5-A.T.J it is domiciled in
the Peoples House on 18th st. just
west oc Union So. Any center of
Socialist activity is anti Commu-
mist in tie very real sense that the
whole Socialist movement, and its
doctrine CT evolutionary social re-
construction are anathema TO the
Communist temper and piiloso-
ply
The Rand School is an anti Com
muniss center "in the very real sense"
and as such it deserves the blessings
of the Times. But since blessings are
not enough, The Times e,dls upon
those in whose name it speaks to
! help swell the sadly reduced in
come of the anti Communist con-
clave,' stratsgically located in the
very heart of Union So. so closely
associated with Communist activity"
Times Explains Socialist Activity"
What does the Times mean when
1t says that Socialist activity is an
ti-Communist activity in the very
real sense? In an editorial note on
the German situation C"The Weimar
Record'D published few days later
(May - i'll ths same column, penned
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-10
st. George Unions Win
Relief for Jobless

SAINT GEORGE, Ma. = Following
the refusal of the state to give relief
to the unemployed here, the local
trade unions joined together to make
this demand. The state officials then
changed their minds and admitted
the need of relief. A family Of two
is now given the inadequate sum of
$3.50 week. Even this was gained
only through organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-10

eTOuS, are INSULT
Gent to meet the
conditions which
have come upon
us. So we must
all do our bit. The
'block-aid is the
right idea. 1t in
wolves going to
every b o d y - to
those who have
little, and to those
who have much
and asking for
help for relic f
work in S u C h
S m a ii amounts
that no one who
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-10

is an attempt by
volunteers to en-
lis t sympathetic
support for the
work bureau and
other relief which
on the whole is
being as well and
humanity admin
istered as funds
permit, and which
may cease opera
ton without this
aid. When m e n
high in this ad-
ministrati on Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-10

Two days before Norman Thomas
made his radio speech in support of
the Block Aid campaign, j. P Nor
gan spoke on the radio from his
home, supporting Block Aid. We
print Morgans speech as reported the
following day In the New York Times
of March "a, 1882.
1--WE have reached point where
the aid of governments or the gifts
Of individuals, no matter how gen
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-10
N AND THOMAS FOUND COMMON CAUSE
J. ?. MORGAN
ON BLOCK AID

The block aid is the right idea.
1t involves going to everybody-to
those who have little and TO those
who have much. :"
J.P. MORGAN.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-16
RESIDENTS OF MANY
COUNTIES OPPOSE CUT
ON EXPENSIVE CARS

Citizens of 16 Minnesota counties
at recent meetings have adopted res
olutions protesting against proposals
to reduce license taxes on new and
expensive automobiles, says a recent
highway department bulletin.
These protests have come from the
nerthernmost to the southernmOst
counties of the state. In general,
they approve the drastic cuts in mini
mum license fees proposed by Cover
nor Olson, who has recommended
minimums of SO and 81 instead of
the present $40 and $3.50 figures.
The resolutions oppose reducing the
basic license rates, and hold it is
more important to ease real estate
tax burdens by such means as taking
men from public relief lists and put
ting them to work on the highways,
or by having the state assume the ex-
pense of maintaining important Sec
oadary roads.
A large meeting which adopted
such resolutions was held last week
at Tracy, attended by residents of
Rock, Mobiles, Jackson, Cottonwood,
Murray, PipestOne, Lincoln, Lyon.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-16
FinIaysOn Man
Master Farmer

Frank w. Hobbs of the Pine River
community northwest of Finlayson,
has recently been honored by having
the title of master farmer" conferred
upon him. Mr.. Hobbs is well deserv-
ing of this distinction as he is ener-
getic. progressive, public spirited and
a real dirt farmer. He is, secretary of
the Pine River Community club and
has been an officer i'm that organiza-
ton since it was organized five years
age. He is also an officer of the
Finlayson Shipping Association and
has been identified with other farm
ers' organizations at different times.
Mr.. Hobbs 16O-acre farm, Edge
wood is situated on Pine river seven
miles northwest of Finlayson and
there he maintains herd of purebred
and grade Holstein cattle and Chester
White hogs.
There are comparatively few who
receive the distinction that has so re-
Gently been Mr.. Hobbs and his large
circle of friends and acquaintance
join in extending their hearty con-
CALCULATIONS.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-16
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
BY GEORG sTRANDVOLD

In spite of the optimistic trend of
conditions in the United States during
the last few days, pretty general
feeling of pessimism seems prevalent
throughout many parts of Europe
indeed, not merely pessimism, but ac-
tual fear and nervousness.
There are reasons, such as, for in
stance, the immense personal power
with which Chancellor Adolf Hitler
of Germany has been endowed by a
reluctant majority of electors; new
dictatorship in Austria with prospects
of threatening German-Austrian
consolidation and of Prince Otto be-
coming emperor of a revived Au-
strian-Hungarian monarchy; the COM
plete failure of the League of Nations
in attempting to settle wars in Asia
and South America; the futility of the
international conference on reduction
and Limitation of ornaments; the in
creasing tension between Italy and
Jugo-Slavia, and reported Polish troop
mobilization Officially denied) near
the Free City of Danzig.
Power Complete.
Hitler's power is now as complete
as that of his colleague, Mussolini.
in Italy: He dominates the cabinet;
he has safe majority in the parlia-
ment; he has ample majorities in all
the legislative assemblies of the indi-
vidual German states; he has thrown
out of office all state-government Of
ficials and replaced them with men of
his own-the National Socialist
party, and as a result of municipal
and rural district elections last Sun
day he now controls even the small
lest political units of the country.
On March 81, the parliament,
elected on March 5, will hold its first
meeting. Informed opinion holds that
there will be but few meetings, for
it is thought that the chancellor will
give parliament two-year vacation"
SO that his own policies will not be
obstructed by any possible intrigues
on the part of the legislators.
BY decree Hitler has ordered that
the old imperial banner, red, black
and white, be recognized as the Of
fetal flag of the German republic,
and that the fascist swastika flag of
the National Socialists be given the
same recognition.
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