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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-08
Relations Between u. S. S. r.
and the Capitalist State

I spoke earlier of the contradic-
tons of world capitalism. But apart
from these contradictions there ex-
lists yet one more. I mean the con-
tradiction between the capitalist
world and the US.SR. True, it is
not a contradiction of the internal
capitalist type. 1t is a contradiction
between capitalism as a whole and a
country building Socialism. But this
does not prevent it decomposing and
shaking to pieces the very founda-
lions of capitalism. Still more, it lays
bare to the very roots all the contra
dictions of capitalism and gathers
them up into one knot, making Of
them a question of life and death for
the capitalist order itself Therefore
every time that capitalist contradic-
tions begin to grow acute the bour-
geoisie turns its gaze towards the
U.S.S.R.: "Cannot we settle this or
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-08
The Roosevelt "Neav Deal" and Fascism

out an enormous shifting of even
the present limited burdens of taxa
ton on property and big Sacomes,
away from them and on to the
shoulders of the masses, the workers
and farmers. Almost all the in
creased taxation is in the form of
sales taxes of all kinds, indirect
taxation that falls upon the small
consumers. All the apparent meas
ures of increasing income taxes have
merely fallen upon the middle class,
while the big capitalists relieve
themselves of all income taxes, as
exemplified in the biggest capital
lists of all, Morgan, Otto Kahn, and
others, who have gone for years
without paying any income taxes.
Economy program: While new
taxes are piled up and new billions
of dollars given to the banks and
trusts, economy" is the rule for all
government expenditure that reaches
the masses or the little fellows. The
government set the example for the
capitalist class as whole with
wholesale wage cuts of its employees,
with naturalization, mass dis
charges, etc. The war veterans have
their disability allowances cut $780,
100000; unemployment relief is sub
stituted by the forced labor camps;
social services are heavily slashed
or discontinued altogether.
Farm program: While millions
starve for lack of food, the govern
ment turns its energies to cutting
down farm production. Growing
cotton is being plowed under by the
direction of the government. A 80
per cent tax is placed on bread in
order that the farmers shall get at
best the same proceeds for the small
amount of wheat. Those farmers, in
the most favorable case, will still
only maintain their former bankrupt
situation, while the masses will have
less bread at higher prices The
mortgage holders will absorb the
great bulk of the government sub
sidy. This years wheat crop already
in the hands of the spectators and
bought from the farmers at Is
cents, will sharply rise in prices with
enormous profits for the spectators,
but by the time the farmer will get
80c. to 81 for his new crop, initiation,
cheapening of the dollar, will wipe
out his gains and whatever he has
left will go to the mortgage holder
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-08

cry himself and also in sympathy
with them, but he very carefully
stressed the fact that it is the duty
of every man wearing the uniform
of the Marine Corps to enforce law
and order no matter how much he
dislikes the job.
Two or three times, in explaining
our duties to us, he mentioned the
next war, and from the manner in
which he spoke, all of us got the
impression that the next war is not
so far off.
Later IN, after the captain had
finished speaking and we were dis
missed, in talking with the men I
was agreeably surprised to find that,
with few exceptions, of course, the
great majority of the men were de-
cidedly against riot duty.
Would Help Workers, Say Some
Even the most backward workers
stated in emphatic terms that they
did not want to go out on this kind
of duty. Some said they would help
the workers, let alone fight against
them.
Three days before we left camp,
two workers who had managed to
slip thr -"4ll the guards posted all
around "cinp and we're distrib-
uting Daily workers among the men
were, unfortunately, caught. Later
they we're turned over to the civil
authorities of Sea Girt.
EXac = tlnoer what circumstance
these l-roic comrades distributed the
Daily Workers, and what action was
taken against them, 1 did not have
the opportunity of learning. The
American bourgeoisie and it's repre-
sentatives in the armed forces, the
officers, try with every means within
their power to keep the enlisted men
from becoming politically minded and
class conscious.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-08

that contradiction of capitalism, or
all the contradictions taken together,
at the expense of the U.S.S.R., the
land of the Soviets, the citadel of
the revolution, revolutionizing by its
very existence the working class and
the colonies, preventing us arranging
for a new war, preventing us dividing
the world anew, preventing us being
masters of our own extensive internal
market, so necessary for capitalists,
particularly today, in connection with
the economic crisis?"
Hence the tendency to adventurist
assaults on the U.S.S.R. and to in
PREVENTION, tendency which is bound
to be strengthened in connection with
the developing economic crisis.
From Comrade Stains report
to the 1890 Party Congress of the
Communist Party of the USSR.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-08
Socialists Ask Intelligent
Class Struggle to Aid Bosses
BY HARRY CANNES

tionary strategy and tactics to serve
the class interests of the workers
Their practice of intelligent action
is class collaboration between leach
group" with the practice of breaking
strikes. Our revolutionary practice is
one of irreconcilable class struggle in
the interest of the workers. Our con
ception of the class struggle is based
on the teachings of Marx and Engels
that the class struggle leads newt
ably TO the dictatorship of the pro
Ietariat, as realized in the Soviet
Union, laying the base Of the build
ing of classics society. Their con
ception Of an intelligently waged class
struggle is one of paving the way to
fascism.
AGAINST the socialist appeal for an
n intelligent class struggle by each
group" we have Marks explanation
Of the role Of the proletariat in the
class struggle. In letter to his
friend Weydemeyer, Marx wrote as
follows on March 5, 1852: LII,
Bourgeois historians long time
before me expounded the historical
development Of this class struggle,
and bourgeois economists, the econ
onlic anatomy Of classes. Js#
What was new on my part was
to prove the following:
sd That the existence of classes
is connected only with certain his
toricaI struggles which arise out of
the development Of production;
eco That class struggle necessarily
leads to the dictatorship of the pro
letariat;
"(3) That this dictatorship is itself
0nly transition to the abolition OF
all classes and to classics society
THE socialists approach both in
theory and practice to the class
struggle is in the interest Of the pres
ent policy of harrasSed capitalism
when the workers are more and more
entering the day to day struggles UNI
dermining capitalism. At every stage
of capitalism the socialists act as
bulwark for the defense of capital
ism. In the last world war, the lead
ers of the socialist Second Interna-
tional, on the basis of an '1ntelIi-
gently waged" class struggle by each
group" modified the workers in each
country to fight for their imperialist
Shareholders. After the world war, in
each country the socialists, in the in
terest of preserving capitalism, split
the fighting front of the workers, paw
ing the way for fascism. Y
Lenin pointed out that e revolu-
zionist, a Marxist struggling for the
overthrow of capitalism sis one who
extends the acceptance of the class
struggle to the acceptance of the die
tatorship Of the proletariat. Here......
lies the deepest difference between a
Marxist and an ordinary petty or big
bourgeois. On this touchstone it is
necessary to test real understanding
and acceptance of MarxisIn.'
The class struggle "intelligently
waged" for leach group" in the day
to day and ultimate policy Of the So
cialists is the program of imperialism
and fasciSm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-08

THIS novel, published in Germany
short time before the Nazis
came to power, is the story of a
young married couple, Johannes
Pinneberg and his wife Emma, a
working class girl and member of
a Communist family. Pinneberg is
a small-town bookkeeper. He is
uncertain, vacillating, cowardly.
bringing; whatever courage there is .
in him is supplied by his more
realistic and sensible wife.
The novel tells in simple, lively
prose the story of Pinneberg's mar
rage to Emma Morschel, the birth
of their baby, the firing of Pinne-
berg from several miserable Jobs
at which he earns barely enough to
live on. When the novel ends, Pin
neberg has been out of work for
over a year; he and Emma have
been living in shack owned by a.
friend, and Emma has been earn
ing a few marks here and there
by sewing. .sa
Pinneberg sinks lower and lower {
as the realization that his jobless--
ness is a permanent state grips his
mind. When. raggedly dressed, ON
one of his excursions to Berlin, the
police tell him to keep moving and
kick him off the sidewalk into the
gutter. he is crushed. Is
TT is such scenes as this which
make Little Man, What Now?H
ring falsely. There is no pattern Of
development followed by Fallada
in his book. While we expected the
browbeaten, weak willed Pinneberg
to feel crushed after the police ''in-
suit" Erlma's answer is surprise.
Whenever they had discussed un-
employment and the lot Of the
workers, Emma had always been
the one to state emphatically that
she would join and fight side by
side with the Communists. The
ending of the book is more than an
evasion by the author 1t is de-
lCdg AOI INN, q DCJIdydl Wy llIllIs OIL
indictment of his own integrity as
a writer
But this is to be expected of a
man who, by his own admission,
is tired of all "the long, drawn
faces" The worker has bis mo-
ments of JOY as we'll as of sorrow,
says Fallada. And so, while he re-
cords some of the sorrow, his main
purpose evidently is to prove that
there are higher things in life.
A publishers blurb recently stat
ed that little Man, What Now2"
had not been destroyed by the Ma
zis in their book bonfire, "at least
not yeti" This is understandable
A regime which murders women
and children, fortunes workers and
destroys the accumulated wisdom
of centuries, will welcome the ar
tistic dishonesty of a writer who,
after building up powerful case
for Communism, suddenly switches
his tale into an insipid, vacuous
channel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-08

riot duty, he said any large demon
stration of workers whom the police
could not handle, constituted a riot,
and as marines it is our job to break
up such riots. In order to effectively
help the police, he continued, each
one of us should know how to handle
automatic rifles and machine guns.
He said that by this time next year
hoped that each man would be
fully proficient in the use of these
weapons.
We could very easily see that he
tried to instill a feeling Of hatred
in us toward these workers. While
on riot duty here are the things he
told us to be on the lookout for;
women and little children sent out
by the demonstrating workers who
would spit in our faces and tear our
uniforms, and also that we should
try to pick out the leader of the mob
to try to capture him in order to
den1oralize the rest of the workers
and in this manner break up
"mobS.'
He then went on to bring out more
fine points Of riot duty.
How to Gas Workers.
In throwing tear gas bombs he ex-
planned, we should always be "up
wind" that is, in such position that
the wind would blow away from us
toward the workers. This would
have the effect of temporarily blind
ing the workers without harming us.
Also in breaking up mobs and chas-
ing workers, we should always be
careful that they would have some
way of escape open to them. In his
experiences with hungry mobs, he
said, he found that workers when
cornered fought desperately. He then
went on to say he knew we were in
sympathy with workers on demon
stration and that he had been hun
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-08

SOCIALISM in tabloid form easy and
y pleasant for worker and exploiter
to swallow is the object of ''The New
Leader" socialist periodical in an ar
ticle entitled THE Socialist Program
and Aim" which appeared in the
June "a issue.
After stating that the aim of the
Socialist Party is to abolish the cap
italist system" the appeal is immed-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-08

sent a rapid ue-
velopment Of bour-
geois policy under
the blows of the
crisis. the sharp
ening class strug-
gle st home and
the i,llminence of
a nav imperial
ist war. The New
Deal" is a policy
of slashing the
living standards
a t h 0 m e a n d
fighting Cor mar
kets abroad for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-08
BY EARL BRoWDER

THE system of policies developed by
l the Roosevelt administration,
which are collectively known under
the name of the New Deal" repre-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-08
A Novel ofGerman
Life Before Hitler
BY EDWIN RoLFE

Little Man, What Now?" by Hans
Fallada. Translated from the
German by Eric Sutton. Simon
and Schuster. $3.50.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-08

WHEN they speak of intelligent"
W action they have in mind an Elm
telligence" which is to the class in
terests of the bosses. When we speak
of intelligent action. we mean revolu-
The Washington times., 1933-03-16
DANCERS
FACE PROBE

A Department of Justice oper'
atiye today began investigating
the participation of six young
women in alleged risque stage
performance last night at Car
penters' Hall, Tenth and K
Streets Northwest.
The show, for men only, was
broken up when police raiders led
by Lieut.. c. j. P. Webber entered
the hall.
Three men, all said to be from
Baltimore, were arrested with the
six girls. The girls gave Wash
ington addresses and ages rang
ing from II to 25.
Investigation was under way to
determine whether the female
dancers came here or were
brought here from out of town.
Learning that the performance
was to be staged Lieutenant Web
ber ordered a policeman planted"
in the audience.
The policeman went into
bathroom and was locked in by
members of the audience who
recognized him as an officer.
This was while the show was at
it's height, Webber said. The
policeman signalled the raiders
outside by firing two shots through
the bathroom window.
This was not the pre-arranged
signal but nevertheless brought
in the raiders.
The Washington times., 1933-03-16
FREEDPR|SONER
JAILED ANEW

James R. Newheiser was to-
day sentenced to six months in
Jail on a charge of threatening
George Tehaan, two days after
Newheiser had been released
from Lorton Reformatory.
Newheiser testified he had
been drinking when on January
II upon his return from Lorton
he called on Tehaan. It was on
the complaint of Tehaan that
Newheiser had been sentenced
to a year on a housebreaking
charge.
Tehaan told the court New
heiser entered his place in the
1900 block Thirty-sixth st. N. w.
and threatened him with a gun.
The Washington times., 1933-03-16
SNATCHES
PURSE, $40

Miss Ethel Theis, employe OF
Gallinger Hospital, told police last
night a colored man snatched her
purse containing $40 while she
was walking on Massachusetts,
Avenue near Nineteenth Street
Southeast.
Jacob Bass, proprietor Of a store
in the 100 block Seventh St.
N. W., said a show window was
smashed and four pairs Of shoes
stolen.
A colored boy, about IA, took SIS
belonging to Helen Wiser, 400
block M st. N. W., after she left
it in an apartment house mail box
for an insurance agent to collect.
The boy went to the janitor's
quarters at the apartment after
seeing the money dropped in the
box and claimed he had dropped
it there by mistake, police were
told. The box was opened and
the money given to him.
The Washington times., 1933-03-16

of the Radio Ctv Theaters says very ntegently that
"any opinion artistic matter is the result OF an
Individual reaction and consequently the public ought
settle the question He is right in this the question:
"Do you want such and such statue? is per-
sona If most people want to see it the minority can
suffer in decent silence
Who Sees Them?
What both sides forget is the blindness of the public
On the first few days Of public appearance statue IS
noticed After it fades into the landscape gets orny
and is remembered by out-otown visitors who buy pic
ture postcards first and visit the points OF interest," III
accordance with the views they have bought Even CIVIC
Virtue quickly forgotten and all the sculpture Wnlcn
causes commoton in month forgotten IN anotner
If that were not so the progress of man walking
through the principal streets of large city, here or
abroad would be torture. Buildings, when they are
no longer profitable are down. and sometimes sheer
uglness will turn an office building store into
dead oss especially if nicer is built next door But
statues do not have to show profit and they clutter up
the Streets out of sentiment, and resting place Tor
pigeons long after their social value has goneand their
uglness apparent And if proposal is made to move
or demosh even so much as Dust the descenoant M oa
the honored hero people with nothing else to do raise
awful row.
Worse Abroad
We aren't as much given to statuary Germany,
which in the Segesallee has the most menacng collec-
ton of sculpture in the world AS walk along you
know what running the gauntlet means, Tor each
statue terrifying and ugly than the last seems
about to pounce to crush to ab The carved stones
of London too admirable and there are few
statues in Paris which aren't exactly points OF pride
When all else fails war memorials can be counted to
make cities unattractive to the eye of the visitor.
Happily the natives never see anything.
And the natives who flock to the theaters in Radio
City will usually be too eager to get to their seats to
the show when they enter to bother about statues
be aware of Eve but seriously question whether Eve
or any other modern statue will be able to shock the
movie patron who, by this time, is heavily insulated
Still am willing to leave the question to science. l
would like to know who has been offended, who
rupted In fact it might be good idea to pass slips
to the audience The first question ought to be- "Dd
you notice the statues? And, for purposes OF COM
parison the next should be, "Were you moral man
or woman when you entered?"
The Washington times., 1933-03-16
Springs Here--
-Four "tSure" "
SIGNS of IT
MRS. THOMPSON

Further, signs of spring in evf-
dence today are:
Discovery by park officials that
sap has started rising in the
Japanese cherry trees.
Park employees are moving
lawns in some park reservations
and in front of the Navy Build
ing.
Bids are advertised for so
Gibotium (ferns to you). 100
CyclamenS, and "a Wheelbarrows.
Workmen armed with Scythes
early today launched a vigorous
campaign against wild onions in
several of the larger parks.
The Washington times., 1933-03-16
LAWYER FREED
IN ASSAULT

Glenn E. Feeney, attorney, was
busy making out his income tax
and couldn't be "pestered" by a
magazine salesman.
So Feeney was charged with as
sault when he tried to throw
Bernard B. Coleman, of the HOO
block Sixteenth st. N. w., the
agent, from his office in the 1900
block G st. N. w., March 9.
This was the nature of testi-
mony today before Judge Isaac
R. Hit in Police Court. Feeney
said he was making out his in
come tax returns when Coleman
entered and insisted upon selling
the magazine. He said he told
the agent to leave, but the latter
insisted on making the sale. Words
followed and Mr.. Feeney resorted
to force, taking Coleman by the
neck.
Judge Hit dismissed the case.
The Washington times., 1933-03-16
D. {. FUND BILL
Up IN HOUSE
ON MONDAY
Speaker Rainey Says Supply
Measure Is Near Action;
Hearing Held Unlikely

Speaker Henry r. Rainey an
nounced today that the 1884 Dis
trict supply bill would be taken
up in the House next Monday.
The announcement indicates
that the deficiency subcommittee,
headed by Representative James
P. Buchanan CD of Texas, will
not hold hearings on new esti-
mates which have been requested.
The new District estimates are
expected to be on a parity with
those recommended at the last
session by the Budget Bureau.
These approximate $37 100000.
Lump Sum Snag
Under terms of the bill passed
by the House at the last session,
the budget estimates were cut
about 100000.
The bill met its death after
Representative Thomas L. Blan-
ton CD of Texas had objected
to a conference report which
would have given the District a
Federal lump sum contribution of
$7,60O,OO0 instead of $500, 900
as recommended by the House
Appropriations Subcommittee for
the District.
Office Bill Studied
The deficiency subcommittee Of
the appropriations committee is
handling the bill at this session,
and Buchanan has indicated that
there would be no group which
would deal exclusively with Dis
trict appropriations.
The deficiency subcommittee
also is considering the independ-
ent offices supply bill which was
pocket vetoed by President
Hoover. The bill carries approx
mately $1,00o,000,0O0 in appro-
priation, but delay is expected
because of the fact that the
House ant icipates President
Roosevelt will make drastic
changes.
The Washington times., 1933-03-16
Color Photography
To Be Demonstrated

HOW the camera, equipped with
natural color Photographic plates,
records nature in it's true colors,
-rill be demonstrated by Fred
payne Clatworthy, traveller and
snecialist in color photography,
at a meeting of the National
Geogrophic Society tomorrow
night at 8 o'clock in the Wash
ington Auditorium.
Mr.. Clatworthy's collection of
nictures will include many out
standing beauty spots in the
Rocky Mountains and the ma
fSonal parks and other sections
~ western United States.
The Washington times., 1933-03-16
US. employees
ACCEPT SLASH
THOMPSON

Confidence in President Roose-
velt, and readiness to accept
sacrifices to enable him to bal
ance the budget and bring about
a return of prosperity, are. ex-
pressed by John Arthur Shaw,
president of the American Fedora
ton of Government Employees,
in a statement regarding the
adoption by Congress of the new
economy act.
Although Mr.. Shaw brings out
the point that his organization
has taken the ground that wage
cuts are not conducive to the
economic welfare of the nation,
the emergency is such, he says,
that drastic action is necessary.
Remember that there are H.
100000 persons who aren't get
ting any salary at all and then
take the pay cut with a smile.
This was the counsel for teach
ers and others connected with
the school system given today by
DR.. Stephen E. Kramer, first as
sistant superintendent of schools.
The school head declared that
President Roosevelt is doing a
fine job" to relieve the depres-
sion, and that if Government en-
ployes would only realize that
they are receiving 100 per cent
more compensation than the A.
100000 jobless, they wouldn't
"kick" about the cut.