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The daily worker., 1933-07-04
BY HARRY CANNES

and intensifies its anarchy.
We will sum up here, without go
ing into an extended discussion, the
main reasons why capitalism cannot
plan:
"a The driving force of capital
ism is the production for profit.
This is inconsistent with the main
object Of planned economy, produc-
ton for use.
(2) Under the Roosevelt scheme,
no matter how far the trusts and
cartelS centralize the means of pro-
duction, no matter how far the So
cialization Of the means Of produc-
ton go, appropriation remains pri-
yate." CMr. Swope's stock and bond
holders will get their dividends)
The social means Of production re-
main the private property Of the few.
The framework of nominally free
competition remains, and the yoke Of
few monopolists on the rest of the
population becomes a hundred times
heavier, burdensome and intoler-
able" Uenin)
Der of propertyless workers remains,
stressing the fact that capitalism can
never overcome the basic contradic-
ton Of the poverty Of the masses
and their inability to buy back the
greater bulk Of what they produce
and at the same time permit the
capitalists to make profits.
fh Ovo pf f|n evv.no% %aet nkcta nj
to planning under capitalism is the
division between agriculture and in
dustry, the private ownership Of
land, the existence Of millions Of
farmers, Of varying class divisions
(rich, middle, poor, tenant and share
croppers) whose production can
never be co-ordinated under capital
ism. The backwardness Of agricul-
ture in relation to industry is a con-
tradiction no plan Of capitalism can
solve.
(5) Since profit is the guiding
force Of the distribution of capital
1t will conflict with any attempt by
the capitalists to plan the movement
Of capital. Not one of the plan
ners' Of Secretary Ropers commit
tee would agree to forcing his COM
pany to buy one cents worth Of ma
chinery that couldn't be used to
make a profit. Hence, the guiding
principle Of plant expansion or con-
traction would not be guaged by the
plan" but by the practical capital
list question, will 1t make a profit?"
90 The planners" representing
the leading monopolies, would use
their position to advance the inter-
ests of these trusts, intensifying the
conflicts between the bigger and
smaller industries. Since the various
trusts themselves compete, each
would try to gain an advantage over
the other in the "plan,' laying the
basis for wrecking it at the start.
% Graft and corruption a no
insignificant trait of capitalism, and
particularly American capitalism,
would undermine any attempt at
planning.
(S) American capitalism, like the
other leading big capitalist powers, is
The daily worker., 1933-07-04
Workers Meet on
Relief Ordinance

NEW YORK. the way in
bringing before the unemployed the
Workers Relief Ordinance for New
York City, adopted at united front
conference on June 8, workers Of the
Bronx have arranged three meetings
for this week to discuss, amend and
endorse the Ordinance. The Work
ers' Ordinance calls for the adoption
Of immediate relief laws by the city
until federal unemployment insur-
ance is enacted.
The first of these meetings will be
held tomorrow, Wednesday, night at
the Charles Street Neighborhood
Center, 1447 Charlotte Street, Bronx,
with Lawrence Barron as speaker.
The second meeting will be held
Thursday night at the Franklin Ave
nue. Workers Center, 1400 Boston
Road, with Morris Sussman speak
ing. Another meet will be held Fri
day night by the Claremont Park
way Block Committee, at 459 West
171st Street in the Neighborhood
Center.
The daily worker., 1933-07-04
Stage and Screen
BeethOUen's Ninth Symphony
At Stadium Thursday
and Friday

Besthovens Ninth symphony will
be performed at the Stadium on
Thursday and Friday nights. The
soloists will be: Nina Morgana, so
prano; Sophie Braslau, contralto;
Paul Althouse, tenor, and Frederic
Baer, baritone. The chorus, number
ing over 200 voices, will be that of
the Schola Cantorum Of New York.
In case Of rain this program will be
postponed until the following day.
Programs for the balance of the
week follow:
Monday: "Carnaval Roman" Over
ture, Berlioz; Symphony No. l3 in G
major Haydn: Entrance Of the Gods
into Valhalla, Wagner; Academic
Festival" Overture, Brahms; Don
Juan. Strauss; Waltz. Blue Dan
ube," J. Strauss; Spanish Caprice,
Rimsky- Korsakoff.
Tuesday: Grand Festival March,
Wagner: Negro Rhapsody, Rubin
Goldmark; From the Indian Suite" !"
Mcdowell; "The Stars and Stripes
Forever" Sousa: symphony, From
the New World" (No. in e minor)
Dvorak.
Wednesday: Overture TO Rosa
munde,"' Schubert; Dutch Rhapsody
"Piet Hein." Van Anrooy; Nocturne
and Scherzo from Midsummer
Nights Dream" Mendelssohn; Till
Eulenspiegel, Strauss; Symphony No.
2 in D major, Brahms.
Saturday: Symphony No. a in E
minor, Brahms; Overture to "The
Bartered Bride" Smetana; Largo,
Handel; THE Sorcerer's Apprentice" F"
Kukas; Excerpts from "The Dam1a-
ton of Faust" Berlioz.
Sunday: Overture to "Euryanthe. =
Weber; Symphony No. in B minor
("Pathetic"), Tchaikovsky; Dream
Pantomime from "Hansel and Gre
tel," Humperdinck; F'etes, Debussy;
Emperor" Waltz, J. Strauss; Death
and TRANSPORTATION, STRAUSS.
The daily worker., 1933-07-04

Immediately on the recent Scots
boro March to Washington.
Speaks for N. A. A. C. P.
The Courier has long been known
as the unofficial organ of the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People leadership,
and the official organ of the demo-
cratic lynch party of the South
among Negroes.
A striking similarity between the
demands put forward by the Courier
in the Scottsboro case, and those OF
the Southern lynch-press, was noted
throughout the campaign. Recently,
it launched a vicious attack upon
Ruby Bates, the white Southern girl
who was chief witness for the Scots
boro defense when she came forward
to repudiate her former charge of
rape" against the Scottsboro boys.
The daily worker., 1933-07-04

CHICAGO, July 3.-The vast sup
eriority OF the Soviet method Of the
collective organization Of scientific
work, opening up the possibilities OF
such rapid advance in the U.S.SR.
as to make the capitalist world
appear as in Dark Age, was
described by A. P. M. Fleming, Off
cial of the Metropolitan-Vickers
Electric Co., to q group of scientists
here Friday night.
The Metropolitan Vickers was the
organization used by the British to
plant their spies and wreckers and
to collect information on industrial
advances Of the Soviet Union. Flem-
ings information which startled many
of his hearers told not only of the
scientific superiority of the Soviet
Union but held out the broadest
vistas for the rapid economic ad
vanceS, while the capitalist world
floundered in its crisis.
The Advantage Of the U.S.S.R.
A gigantic struggle Of brains was
going on in the world, Fleming de-
ClhIeO, III HkllCll Vic COiACSbAfC VI oAAA
power of the Soviet Union was pitted
against the individual, scattered in
tellects of the capitalist world. The
Soviet Union, he asserted, has one
great advantage over the other coun-
tries. In that country the individual
brain, like the rest of individualism,
has become merged into one colossal
entity, a giant intellect functioning
as a single organism.
What Fleming failed to point out
was that this was not done at the
expense Of the individual develop
ment, but along with it and based
on the higher development Of the
individual, and on the basis Of col
lective organization, reaching what
he calls the Colossal entity"
The Metro-Vickers representative,
however, did not concern himself
alone with pointing out this fact. He
said the capitalist countries would
have to organize their scientists to
meet the challenge. He said gigantic
intellectual battle would result. But
as every worker knows this battle
will not be relegated to the columns
of scientific journals, but will be con-
nected with the struggles OF the i'm
perialist powers to attempt to over
throw the US.SR.-using their men
of science for more potent destructive
work than spilling ink.
Mr.. Fleming brought out two facts
which are troubling the capitalist
world:
81. The social-econonlic problem
OF unemployment, which is world
wide in all countries except the Union
Of Socialist Soviet Republics.
"2. The irnminence of the challenge
of industry as planned under the
communal system Of the U.S.S.R. to
that planned on the tndividualistic
and competitive system Of other
countries"
He pointed out that the Soviet
Union contained every resource nee
essary for the complete building up
of socialism, saying:
within its borders 1t contains most
of the natural resources required by
man, and it's government aims at
developing these for the benefit of
its own people with view to making
the standard of living as high as,
if not higher than that Of other
countries"
BESIDES, added Fleming, "The So
The daily worker., 1933-07-04
By PASCUAL.

When the rich get sick they've
got plenty of money and they don't
have to worry about their Jobs" :"
said Mrs. Madeline johnson, a Negro
mother to a Daily Worker reporter
when questioned as to her opinion
OF Social Insurance.
She then referred to her own
life to express more clearly how
Social Insurance would have been
of great help to her. In 1929 she
was about to give birth to her firth
child when her husband lost his
job with the Department of Sani-
tation. And they had a lot of
trouble with this baby's ailments.
Nov if we had something like that
Mrs. johnson conclu-
ded, we would never had so much
worries over the baby"
This was one Of the many state
ments favoring Social Insurance
made by workers to this reporter
canvassing Negro Harlem and Span
ish Harlem on this subject.
Mrs. Johnsons family of five (the
oldest boy left home) living at 1903
W. Hath Street, receives a $40 food
check every two weeks from the
Relief Bureau. "The children say
to me, mama I'm hungry, mama,
I'm hungry But I say to them,
I haven't anything to give you
Then they tell me go to the store,
The manll give it to you Then 1
show them I haven't any money,
But children don't know; they ask
me, why haven't you any money,
mama? Who has money! What
am 1 going to say to them?"
Diego villar's eyes lit up with
pleasure when he learned the re-
porter was from the Daily Worker.
"Oh, they had parade last time
inlay 80. National Youth Day.
Communists he said grinning,
they good people" He lives at
1345 Fifth Ave, in Spanish Harlem,
with his five children and wife,
The daily worker., 1933-07-04
Labor Defender, LID.
Organ, Increases Size,
Cuts It's Price in Half

NEW YORK.-The Labor De-
fender, working class pictorial maga
zine and organ of the International
Labor Defense, will cut the price per
copy from 10 to cents, beginning
with the July issue, and at the same
time increase in size by four pages,
it was announced today. Yearly
subscriptions are cut from 81 to so
cents and present subscriptions ex-
tended
The July issue includes call from
Angelo Herndon, Negro leader of the
unemployed, in Fulton Tower Jail, to
all American workers, Negro and
white, to fight the Nazi terror by
fighting against capitalist terror here
at home,
Another article describes the Reich
stag fire and the frame-up of the
Communist leaders of Germany. The
last message of Clara zetkin.
cism, is printed in full
The National Recovery Bill is dis
cussed in an article by Margaret
Cowl
The daily worker., 1933-07-04

host Of liberal professors have con-
cerned themselves with nothing else
for the past two or three years. But
Roosevelt goes at it in a different
way. He knows that decrepit capi-
talism will never look the same. He
proceeds to give it face-lifting OPP
Grafton. He wants the worn out
Wall Street-controlled monopoly cap
italism to have the countenance of a
youthful, buoyant, planned economy
but to retain the vitals of the old
capitalism.
The industrial slavery act mentions
not word of planning capitalism
AS we have shown, 1t gives more
power to the big trusts. 1t increases
the domination of the big banks. 1t
centrallzeS the attack against the
workers, prepares for more ferocious
struggle for world markets, stresses
above all preparations for war.
Yet to further the impression that
planning is one of the detectives OF
the Roosevelt scheme, Secretary of
Commerce Roper has been empow-
cred to set up Understanding group
to be called the long range planning
council to draw up plans" for the
coordination of the big trusts. A
glance over the list of this council
itself will give an idea Of how much
planning" for the workers good
can be expected. The council con-
sists of:
Gerald Swope, president Of Mr..
Morgan's General Electric Co.,
chairman; Henry i. Hartman,
public utilities magnate, president
Of the United States Chamber of
Commerce 1--WE stand for the real
open shop" said Hartman when
the industrial recovery act was
passed.; Austin Finch, Of the
Thomasville, n. c., Chair Co., who
has experience in breaking strikes;
r. E. Wood, head Of Sears Roe
buck & Co.; o. MAX Gardner, for
mer anti-strike governor Of North
Carolina; John H. Fahey, publisher
Of Worcester, Mass; Henry H.
Heimann, executive manager Of the
National Credit Men, and E. c.
Van Diest, president Of the General
Service Corporation, Colorado
Springs.
THE question is again raised: Is
1 planning possible under capital
ism?
Comrade Earl Browder has effec-
lively answered this question in his
pamphlet, rs Planning Possible Un-
der Capitalism" It is not possible
here to go fully into the facts which
show 1t is impossible for capitalism
to plan. In fact, every effort Of cap
italism to attempt planning leads to
greater contradictions. conflicts and
sharper crisis. AS Frederick Engels,
co-worker Of Marx, pointed out more
than half century ago: Capitalism
has its peculiar and inherent laws
ipseparable from II. And these laws
work despite anarchy, in and through
anarchy" An attempt to change the
basic laws of capitalist production
throws it completely out Of balance
The daily worker., 1933-07-04
Concluding Article J
CUPPORTERS of Roosevelt's inc

cUPPORTERS of Roosevelt's indus
y trial slavery act have lost no pains
to lead the American workers to
think that a new era Of organized,
planned capitalism will spring up out
OF the ruins of the crisis. No longer
able to hide the fact that capitalism
leads perpetually to crisis and suffer-
ing, the prophets of the new deaP'
seek to keep the workers from seek
ing a revolutionary way out Of the
crisis by leading them to believe that
Roosevelt can hatch new. planned
system within the old shell of cap
italism. They would have the work.
ers believe that nothing less than a
revolution has taken place. Roose-
velt's beaming face could be seen
through almost every word of his
glowing statements heralding the
passage of the act.
Norman Thomas, when the indus
trial recovery" bill was passed, not
only proclaimed it "a genuine revolu-
ton in American economic and polit-
ical life" but virtually cried: 'The
old laissez-fair (do as you wild cap
italiSm is dead! Long live the new,
'well-planned and vigorously con-
trolled capitalism" He character
lied the industrial slavery bill as
"Roosevelts revolutionary achieve
ment," and said that the technique
of capitalism arising out of it may
be similar to what socialism would
use under such circumstances"
Why so much talk about planning
capitalism, and why the straining to
impress the workers that nothing
short of a revolution" has been
achieved? Out of the world crisis
of capitalism has come the knowl-
edge, which, despite every effort of
the capitalist to belittle 1t and to
keep its full significance from the
workers. has reached the workers and
peasants Of even the most oppressed
colonial countries, that in the Soviet
Union a new type of planned econ
omy has been achieved that has
eliminated all the contradictions Of
capitalism. The Five-Year Plan gave
a concrete example Of planned pro-
duction. While the capitalist coun-
tries were contracting their produc-
tion, the Soviet Union was expand
ing it. While the capitalist countries
were firing millions of workers, the
Soviet Union was hiring new mil
lions But the toiling masses of the
world also know the fact that the
planned economic order of the Soviet
Union was the fruit Of the revolu-
tionary seizure of power by the work
ing class with the support OF the poor
and middle peasants. They know
that planned economy was put into
practice only in the country where
the political power Of the capital
lists and exploiters was destroyed by
revolution.
DOOSEVELT is not original in
~ striving to lead the workers TO
believe that capitalism can plan its
economy HOnpnr triad IN do IL
The daily worker., 1933-07-04

On Roosevelt Honor Role"
In making the announcement, it
was said that Roosevelt credited
Vann's selling out of the Courier to
the Democratic Party, with much
responsibility for the tremendous
switch of Negro voters in Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio, West Virginia and
Maryland last November"
Vann has consistently fought
against every aspect of the national
Liberation struggles of the Negro peo-
pie He has carried on an especially
vicious fight against the Interna-
tional Labor Defense and the Scots
boro defense. He came to the rescue
Of the Southern lynchers following
the second conviction of Haywood
Patterson last April, with praise for
Judge Horton, presiding legal
lyncher, and an attack upon the I.
l.. D. His main guns were turned
The daily worker., 1933-07-04
The Soviet Union and
the Capitalist World

Wet government looks to science to
play most important part in its
industrial and economic activities"
Should the standard Of living be
raised to the same, or to higher
level than htose Of other countries,
and as may in time reasonably hap
pen, hours Of labor shortened, there
would be a considerable degree of
labor unrest in other countries"
The daily worker., 1933-07-04
EDITOR OF PITTSBURGH COURIER
MADE ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL
Roosevelt Rewards Vann for Activity in
Attacking Scottsboro Defense
THE SERVICES vANN RENDERED

Everybody feels something Scots
boro chapter satisfactorily definitely
reached the stage exaggeraon There much pub
too much sectional recrimnation too
much personal feeling
The
ion that would be the triumph
disposed of his state his court satisfactory the
fair minded people of America
to Alabama
The
the traditions of Alabama prosecute
Racial prejud injected diment trial
PITTSBURGH COURIER, April 1888.
The daily worker., 1933-07-04
Pope Solves Farm Problem!

VATICAN CITY, July "a solu-
ton of the problems of American
agriculture "by the application OF
Roman Catholic principles was pro-
posed in statement presented to
Pope Plus XII today by Archbishop
McNicholas of Cincinnati and by 8
other American bishops. "Cultiva-
ton" not of crops but "of spirit
of neighborliness and better social life
among farmers" was proposed
The daily worker., 1933-07-04
NEWS BRIEFS
Japanese Die in Drill

TOXIC, July 3.--5even soldiers died
and more than a hundred others
we're injured over the weekend
victims of the Japanese arny's cruel
training methods. They we're felled
during lnaneuvers of the First Divi-
sion on the plains at the foot of
Mount Fiji, in temperature OF 80 de-
grees Fahrenheit, accompanied by
high humidity.
The daily worker., 1933-07-04
FACES a YEARS IN JAIL

DETROIT Last December Mrs.
Grace Welling, AZ years old. was
ined Sl0o for the theft of scent
pool of thread Last week she was
,r-estcd on a charge twice as scri-
'.s--tie theft OF two spools OF thread.
lis now charged with larceny and
four years in prison
The daily worker., 1933-07-04
No Depression Here.

WASHINGTON, d. C., July s.
Colt Patent Fire Arms Manufac-
turing Company has received con-
tract from the War Department for
machine guns, the order amount
ing to SS00,000, it was announced
yesterday.
The daily worker., 1933-07-04
CAN'T GET JURY FOR STRIKERS

JAMES TOWN, IeIn1. : bVCdUSe
public opinion is so firmly on the
side of the strikers, selection of a
jury proved difficult when the trial
of seven strikers charged with shoot
ing two scabs May 90 in Wilder, Tenn.
began. The court adjourned after q
day in vain search Of juryman un-
convinced of the miners innocence.
The daily worker., 1933-07-04
Nazi Troops on Border.

BERLIN, July 3.-Picked Nazi
sroops, the elite Of Hitlers black uni
formed guards have been transferred
% border service allegedly "for the
assistance and protection of the Gus
ems officials
The daily worker., 1933-07-04
What About Forced Labor"
Now?

\ WASHINGTON, D. c., July S.-An
war and peace time mobilization
records were smashed by the War
Department in placing 250,ooo young
unemployed in the Conservation
Corps" camps by July 1, according
to Robert F'echnerA Adirector Of emerg-
ency work, who said: Workers were
taken from every township in the
nation and are located in 1900 camps
throughout the country"
The daily worker., 1933-07-04
5 Die at Kentucky Polls.

pRESTONBURG, KY, July "a
gun fight at the head of Prater
Greek was ranked as Kentucky's worst
shooting In recent years today as the
death toll mounted to five, with three
wounded, one critically. The shoot
ing took place across table in vot-
ing booth crowded for the school
trustee election,
The daily worker., 1933-07-04
TONE, BETRAYER, AIDS PERKINS

NEW HAVEN, Conn, July s.
Joseph M. Tone, commissioner of la
Dor for Connecticut, will in all prob
ability be appointed as assistant sec
retary Of labor to Miss Frances Per-
kins. Miss Perkins has gone over
Tones record from the time he was
machinist organizer to date and
is very enthusiastic over the work he
has done.
The daily worker., 1933-07-04

WASHINGTON, 3FOr to
Presidency Franklin Roosevelt constitution
imposed reign by United States the black republic Robert
editor the Pittsburgh weekly
justice
The daily worker., 1933-07-04
Will the Recovery" Act Lead to Planned Economy?

struggling for a dominant slice OF
the world market as well as for a
bigger share of the colonies. There
is no possible basis for planning for
export in view Of the terrific conl-
petition and clash of all the i'm
perialist groups.
(9) The composition Of the big
trusts could never be reconciled:
THE competition between Ford and
General Motors Is very bitter. The
competition between General Electric
and the gas companies over refriger-
ators is by no means gentle (and Mr..
Swope would try to plan" so that
General Motors won out).", Brow
der.) There will be conflicts among
different trades, steel wanting higher
prices, the railroads wanting lower
steel rail prices. There will be con-
flicts between capital and labor"
(Benjamin M. Anderson, Jr., Phi. D.,
Wall Street economist).
OO The future development of
American capitalism must proceed. If
at all, on the basis of expanding for
Cl6ll lidl hCeo. I1OW ID ~ pOoSluAC w
plan for something you expect to
get, and whose quantity is absolutely
unknown and unknowable?
The Roosevelt measures of wiping
out the antitrust laws, drawing the
capitalist state closer to helping the
trusts raise prices and lower living
standards, leads not to planning but
to the fascination Of the capitalist
state.
THIS by no means exhausts the
reasons why capitalism cannot
plan, cannot even begin to attempt
to plan.
The leading capitalists, those who
run the big trusts, know this, but
want the workers to get the impress
sion that it is possible to plan in
order to keep them from taking the
revolutionary steps necessary to
achieve a planned society. AS far
back as June II. 1881, Wall Street
answered those who react to Rus
sian phenomena with the fear-dic-
tated conviction that America must
fall in line with the submission of
It's further development Of some
master blueprint that this was
doomed to failure.
More recently, the Wall Street
economist, Benjamin Baker, declared,
with specific reference to Roosevelt's
proposed planning:
ITO this writer, personally, the
ides Of planned economy under
central political authority docs not
appear likely 10 be successful" He
further stressed "the human i'm
possibility Of wisely regulating
through a small central body the
infinitely intricate movement q m
economic system as complicated as
that Of the United States"
Capitalism may draw up plans
but the plan it will carry into action
is the one Roosevelt is now carrying
through of attempting to rise out Of
the crisis by smashing down the
standard OF living Of the American
working class.