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The Washington times., 1933-11-21

shirtwaist frock-all the sports
clothes that later become the
love of a lifetime. And lots OF
shorts and Stacks outfits eS-
pecially planned for Palm
Beach wear. Cut and work.
manship that remind you Of
London, "dressmaker" details
that make you think of Paris,
and above all, an indefinable
swing and swagger that is
wholly American.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-28


GRAFT, into
swept power promises
shan hungry cold To the FORGOTTEN MAN Roosevelt and
On December citizen"
vet president carried on negoatons with foreign ambassadors with
II. "loI NsIs nu l9o IN le{aIo w. S
vae citizen"
Other members Rooeyets political family equally responsible
oce In New York Governor Lehman known to follow same
policy as Roosevelt In fact in supporting him Roosevelt stated that
administration New York better Lehman Well the commission
legislation has reported to his Lehman During the election
Ac me OH was before me state legislature OF new YORK beioIe
even being discussed by the state legislature this Dill was thrown into
hardening The employers with contributions until conditions improve
This indication what from Roosevelt him
unemployment insurance that platform
dep-su6eng workers. youthe
tSs ~ner desl?S S'' -0"- '- H'
M March population viii together
v in demand that Roosevelt Immediately call
unemployment outstanding
each dependent in addition to local relief.
Immediate enactment of system OF federal unemployment and
social insurance by the through taxes wealth and in
the diversion of all appropriations for to
cUar ndustry and territory but in no case to be less than $40 per week
The make contributions
THESE outstanding today
months after the elections in the fourth year Of the crisis
costing OF thousands dollars for the amusement OF horde
women and Children who appear again to be forgotten"
the 100000 American workers raising their voices with
O more prOmie call for the immediate enactment OF the de-
mand for immediate relief and unemployment insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-28
CRITICIZES OVERLOOKING OF WHITE
COLLAR WORKERS IN AUTO STRIKE

collar workers all over the United
States, of whom there are some
seven million. Office workers have
been subjected to wage cuts in
many cases as much as SO per cent,
are terribly speeded up, and the
unemployment among them is
greater, If anything, than among
factory workers. The same illusions
that skilled workers have suffered
from can properly be charged to
office workers in the past. But af-
ter three years of the crisis, they
are thoroughly diSslllusioned and
are therefore as organizable as any
other strata of the working class.
would, therefore, consider it a
wrong tendency in the strike to have
failed to either organize the office
workers within the ranks of the
Auto Union or into local of the Of
flee Workers Union. When Comrade
Schmies says that sit is the task of
the party and the union immedi-
ately to consolidate the organiza-
tional gains" he should have point
ed out that an important section
of the plant was completely ig-
nored in the organizing and calling
Of the strike.
1t is time that our leadership
recognized the correct position of
the white collar element Of the
working class, and that we speak
Of unity OF action by csfiea wnrkers
and factory woEksrsa ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-28
Hitler Carries on the German
Bosses Hunger Program
BY Bes4

bullets. 1t increases it's force, I'M
der the constitution, as long as
possible and to keep up appear
ances. When this is no longer pos
sible, capitalism makes force it,
self its constitution.
II NOW it keeps silent about its
promises of the past, Hitlerism
does not abandon demagogy. In
fact, it started its rule with gil
gantic political demagogy. 1t gave
an official state funeral to a storm
troop leader and a police officer
who were killed in Berlin during
the celebrations of Hitler'S Access
sion to government. The demagogy
Of this public show aimed at rails
ing the murderous intentions Of
his storm troopers to the height
Of Mysteries. The political content
of the funeral was the accusation:
the Communists did it! Get them!
RECORD OF HITLER'S
PRIZE THUGS
The buried victims" were Nazi
storm troop leader Maikowski and
police officer zauritz. Who were
these men and how did they come
to their deaths?
MaikoWski was the commander
of Nazi Storm Troop No. 80 in Ber-
lin. This storm troop during the
last two years has murdered five
workers: Otto Gutenberg, Max
Schirmer, Ferdinand Grothe,
George Brechlin and Walter Lange.
Walter Lange, young worker on
his way home from a meeting, was
shot down in cold blood by Mai
koWski himself. MaikoWSki con-
fessed it. But numbering worker
is no crime any more in Germany,
since Social Democrat Noske set his
Infamous example. So murderer
Maikowski remained free, remained
leader of Storm Troop No. SO.
On January 80, celebrating Hit
ler's accession to the chancellor
ship, Storm Troop No. SO marched
through Berlin's streets looking for
workers they could murder. When
a troop of workers met them ON
Wall Strasse, Maikowski ordered
fire. The first Nazi salvo killed Of
ficer Zauritz. Finally, Maikowski
himself found the end which pro-
fessional murderers usually find.
AS we see, Hitler's rule had a
truly worthy beginning-an Off
cial state funeral demonstration in
honor of a confessed murderer of
workers, and in honor OF police
officer murdered by a comrade of
the Chancellor, but buried under
the disguise Of victim of the
Communists.
After all this, can we expect Hit
Ter to solve the problems of the
hour? Certainly not. Hitlerisms
force and terror which are paraded
as signs of growing strength of
German capitalism, appears at clo-
ser scrutiny as signs of the grow
ing strength Of the forces of reac-
ton. The stronger the props must
be that are to uphold tottering
structure, the nearer that struc-
ture is to collapse.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-28
Nv Jay EA

AS a member of the Office Work
n ers Union, I would like the OPP
portunity Of further discussing
some of the experiences Of the Auto
strike in Detroit.
In his recent articles, John
Schmies said, 1.-THE strike involved
not only the unskilled and semi
skilled but also the skilled work
ers," and, further, 1.-THE strike
takes place in period of rising
militancy and determination for
struggle in the auto industry"
have carefully read both arti-
Giles and fail to find a single men
ton of any attempt to organize the
office workers in the Briggs plant,
although there must be several
hundred working there. If this
strike is OF tremendous political
significance, and 1t Is, the fact that
office workers had been organized
and gone out on strike together
with factory workers would GER
tainly have been great impetus
toward developing National Of
flee Workers Union. Especially so,
since every leading newspaper in
the country gave prominent space
to the strike.
IL is true, as the article states,
that this is a period of rising
nlilitancy and determination for
struggle. e Is equally true Of white
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-28
THE FARMERS MEET
STORY OF MILITANCY OF TOILERs ON THE LAND
BY MOE BRAGN

their coats for pillows and stretch
out to sleep.
In the middle of the car a chat.
tering congregation of statesmen
and business men. One with @
bald head nks a mushroom. An
other with a cigar which leaves q
thread of Spittle. Business is
rotten. 1 pay three thousand dot
lars rent while last year paiG
eight thousand, and 1 still MALI:
less. a customer comes in ant
wants the money back and who
knows what I charged when q
feller's got to be changing prices
all the time this year. -"
Near the ladies' room a half
dozen whites around a Negro play
ing blackjack. Three cards on %
paper spread over his knees. Black
jack? Which is the blackjack
The white men don't realize that0
his chances are two against oneJ
They bet even money, The Negrqs
is winning hundreds Of dollarsY
Every time the man with the dia-
mond stickpin is Stung, he filings
the blackjack on the floor. He
rushes off but comes back again.
Once the card is picked up by g.
fellow with a derby. Derby twists
the corner of the card quickly. He
wins every time now. He whispers
feveriShly to the others. Now the
Negro loses. The Negro seems to
be drunk. He says at last, BE
careful, gentlemen, and don't break
the cards" He substitutes an
other blackjack. Again Derby's
arm shoots out like a snake and
twists the ear of the card. The
Negro loses again. Suddenly the
whites crowd closer. There is snarl-
ing. The game breaks up. The
Derby comes up. "JuSt think Of
it. A white Teller tells the Mig
ger. Think of it a white Teller
taking the part of niger against
white men" He shakes his head
He can't get over it.
AND here again Americas rot ana
"A the atmosphere OF business men,
gamblers, takers; and railroad
hands snoring who should be wide
awake. At the Conference we had
forgotten all that, working with
two hundred fifty strong men as
if in great field and far beyond
the fences distant meaningless
echoes and the cold shadow Of the
Washington Memorial with it's
peepholes like the hood and gown
of giant Klansman. With q
flash the recollection that we had
been instructed to complete ar
rangements in New York for 8
meeting of workers at which the
New England farm delegates would
speak. The work with its warmth,
ComradeShip, and tense struggle
goes on unbroken.
Outside the flares burn brightly
beside the dark tracks. The train
pounds steadily through the storm
towards the still too distant city.
(THE END
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-28

THREE more American writer's
L and artists have issued state
ments pointing out the indispenS-
able role of the Daily Worker and
the need Of supporting it. They are
Robert CantwelI, novelist and crit
ic; Horace Gregory, poet and crit
ic; and Louis Lozowick, artist and
critic, who is international secre-
tary Of the John Reed Club. They
join Theodore Dresser, John Dos
Passos, Sherwood Anderson, Mich
ael Gold, Waldo Frank, Grace
Lumpkin and Malcolm Cowley,
whose appeals for the DailyWorker
have been published during the
last few weeks.
The Daily Worker must be
supported and strengthened"
writes Cantwell. more than any
other part of the revolutionary
press that is widely obtainabIe,
it makes clear the distortions and
evasions Of the capitalist papers,
and shows why these distortions
are so persistent and SO vicious.
BY emphasizing the very news of
Importance to the working class
that the capitalist papers mini
mize, IL exposes the class char
acter of the journals that pretend
to universally, that set them
selves up as detailing all the
news that's fit to print
THERE is another reason why
L the 'Daily's' role seems to me to
be SO extremely important. In
Washington, when the Hunger
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-28
Daily Worker indispensable
Say Three American Writers

Marchers were imprisoned in New
York Ave, some of the Washing
ton papers reached the camp and
were circulated among the march
erS. effectively, the marcherS
knew what they could expect from
the Washington papers, as from
the papers in all the other towns
they passed through. But at the
same time the Misrepresentation
were so revolving, the interpreta-
tons put on their motives so
crude, that the marchers wanted
their own story OF the march told
to the workers outside the camp.
Again and again I heard the
Daily mentioned, and heard ex-
pressed the wish that it could
reach the workers Of Washington
as widely as the capitalist papers
were circulated.
"These are only two small rea-
sons why the Daily should be sup
ported and strengthened. There
seem to me to be many ways in
which this can be done. BY buy
ing it, reading it, talking about it,
criticizing it, referring to it, help
ing it in whatever way possible to
reach the workers and their allies"
rREGORY'S statement follows:
" Surely it must be clear to ey-
eryone who is aware Of existing
conditions in America that the
Daily Worker has become power
full voice Of protest against class
injustice and is the only reliable
source of information concerning
the present class struggle. All other
organs Of the revolutionary press
In America are dependent upon the
services Of the Worker and now
more than ever before these SER
vices have become invaluable, for
without them the working class Of
America is inarticulate and unable
to sustain the day by day struggle
that is slowly building its move.
ment into q solid front.
Whenever / want to verify q
report of the Scottsboro case or
the recent Hunger March, must
turn to the files of the Worker
the only means of securing .
complete statement of the case.
know that my experience IA
shared by thousands of Others
who are not actively engaged in
the work of the movement"
ITO realize most strikingly nr
haps the full Importance OF tbs
Daily Worker to the American rev.
dictionary movement" writes 10.
zowick, zone need only imagine for
moment the latter without the
former.
Whether in the daily innumer~
able struggles for the program
minimum or in the wider class
war for the program maximum
the Daily Worker is an indispens-
able weapon.
Every one who has the revo-
luttOnary movement In the Unit
ed States at heart must spare ne
effort TO make the Daily Wcrke4 /
esnnesgn a ccarp4esn apcnhs
aaa
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-28
BIG PROMISES
TO TRICK MASSES

Before Hitler took over the gov
eminent be numbered against the
shameful treaty of Versailles and
promised TO tear 1t UP; he promised
to annul all the German debts to
foreign tribute robbers and fin
nancial kings; he pledged to pro-
vide work for the millions of I'M
employed at union wages; he pro-
missed to make it criminal Of
Tense for capitalist to close his
factory or discharge q worker; he
promised to force the capitalists
to restore the pre-wage-cut wage
scales; he promised at once to Ii
quidate the various and multiple
taxes which are choking the small
businessmen; he promised to re-
fund the losses which the masses
sustained in the 1924 initiation out
Of funds collected from the big
capitalists; he promised to close
The stock exchange and 10 eXprop-
Eiate the deyou1ng Capitsl Of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-28
NEGRO WORKERS CAN'T
ESCAPE FARM PEONAGE
ey a Worker Correspondent

NEW ORLEANS, La.-Sugar cane
grows in swampy ground, which
means that when 1t Is ready so cut,
you must work in mud to earn a dol
lar day. Why does the packass
that drags the sugar cane cart, eat
and sleep better then the southern
folks2 Fruit picking at eight cents
an hour. And rice fields, most of the
time flooded with ten to fifteen
inches of water. [ assure you it is
no pleasure to work in such fields.
As for the Negro workers It is SO
bad for them that even when they
wish to escape from this dreadful
situation, they are denounced when
they try to board freight train. In
some cases they are even thrown
off the moving train, and is there a
reason? Only that they are colored.
Throwing them off q moving train is
apt TO kill them, and what is the eX-
cuse OF the rsilroad--suicide Or try-
jn2 10 break INTO q sealed cara
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-28
Anti Fascist Meeting
in Minneapolis Mar. s

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.-A mass
meeting called by the Communist
Party to protest against the fascist
terror in Germany will be held here
on Wednesday, March 9th, at the
Humboldt Hall. Robert Minor, edi-
TOT. of the Daily Worker, will be the
main speaker on "The Workers
Struggle Sor Power n Germany
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-28

"Jews Of finance; he promised to
reduce the corruption salaries of
high officials in private industry
and government, to maximum Of
600 marks [$150) per month.
This is part of the program
which gave Hitler his mass fol-
lowing. Terrorism was not supposed
to be the aim but the method of
this program.
What did Hitler'S program speech
of January 81 say about these
things? Nothing. The gist Of his
speech was: give me four years
time. I promise nothing-I have
never promised anything-Beware,
or I'll get you"
PROGRAM OF THE
GERMAN BOSSES
That, meager as it u.s. is the
program of Hitler today; it is the
program of the German bourgeoi-
sic. The bourgeoisie says of itself:
What can we do? We can only
continue what we have always
done, make money as best we can
and as much as we can. Under the
conditions of the crisis and the
Versailles Treaty, money-making
on our part demands ever greater
sacrifices from the workers The
workers must make these sacrifices.
If they do not do so willingly, we
will force them; that always was
our program; it remains our pro-
gram now; it will ever be our pro-
gram as long as we rule"
The economic meaning of the
crisis program of German capital
ism may be judged by survey of
the statistical bureau of the city
administration of Berlin. 1t was
recently published by the "Allge-
meme Deutsche Lahrer zeitung.'
For physically hard working men,"
says this survey, "a diet Of vege-
tables, potatoes, bread and rice is
fully sufficient. The japanese and
Chinese coolies prove that by liv-
ing on diet of rice with some ac-
cessories."
The survey demands that the
workers get rid of the habit of
eating butter, eggs, fruit and meat
because these things are too ex-
pensive." Anyway, people who work
only with their muscles do not need
meat and vegetables; they should
eat more bread and potatoes"
Concerning needed living quar-
tiers, the survey finds that for
single persons a bed to sleep in is
all that is needed, no matter how
many beds in room, or how many
roomerS in bed. Married workers,
even with children, have enough
in one room. That, for workers, is
'standesgemass" Gin accord with
their Standards).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-28
A BARKING DOG
THAT NEVER BITES

Big capital knows that the petty
bourgeoisie likes to bark at it but
will never bite it. 1t does not fear
it. 1t takes over its political party,
liquidates its political program, and
subordinateS its terrorism to CAPT.
talism'S own purpose. This is not
much of a task because from the
very start the petty bourgeois ter
rorism is directly aimed at its most
hated and feared opponent, the
working class. Big capital will use
it against the same class.
We observe this course in the de-
Velopment Of Hitlerism. Its econo-
mic program started with thunder
ing phrases against capitalism. But
it arrived at exactly nothing. Hit
ler'S programmatical speech over the
radio, on January 81, was nothing
but "demagogic poesy' Gle Matin,
Paris, with not a single positive
content" Oondon Times). 1t said
absolutely nothing about the burn
ing questions of the hour, about
how the government intends to
meet its internal and external prob
lens, how, for instance, it intends
to either get work for the 100000
unemployed, or provide them
with a chance to live without work.
The only positive thing Hitler said
was that he will crush all opposi-
ton to him, and that the COM
munists will be exterminated. That
is the whole program of Hitlerism.
That is also the program of the
hnIIrpaniSiR
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-28
E SCATTER TO OUR
WORK

The Conference ends Saturday
evening with the singing of Sol
idarity. Immediately after the Of
fetal adjournment, the new work
begins. A, meeting of the farm
youth takes place. The Negro de-
legates get into a corner with their
organizer. The National Commit
tee meets.
Outside it is cold. Sleet seems
to be shaken as out of a huge
shaker all over the city. The farm
ers tramp through slush to their
supperS. Some are staying Sun
day for q rest. BY Monday all
will be heading homeward.
THE train pounds northward
Although the storm. The parlor
car is stuffy. The newspapers have
results Of the Notre Dame game.
Near the front door a bunch of
railroad hands talk about the de-
preston, how the railroads are ex-
tending tEseir ten per cent cut with
the help Of the union, how they
are firing men. They Toll up
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-28
Socialist Heads Back War in
Far East and South America

The New Leader: Enemies Of
the Socialist and Labor movement,
in their fight against the Socialist
International, have been using the
alleged Transformation of a "Soci-
alist" Party in Japan into a fas-
Cist organization. No Socialist Or
ganiZation in Japan has ever been
recognized by the Second Interna-
tional" This last argument and
their putting the word Socialist in
quotation marks when referring to
the Japanese organization, is a
deliberate lie.
AS was pointed out above, this
Socialist Party had a delegate to
the last Congress of the Second In
ternational. Mr.. Vandervelde him
self regretted that he could not get
them to affiliate officially. And no
tice how these Socialist" leaders
hasten to tell the traitors in Japan
that the Second International does
not consider them fascist, speaking
of their turning fascist as an
alleged transformation.
IL
IN South America the Socialist
/ leaders from the very beginning
tried to conceal the war danger.
They advanced the theory that the
danger Of war only applicable to
Europe and the old hemisphere:
that South America is out of the
danger zone Compare Wander
velde's theory that the war in
China is merely a localized colonial
conflict When under pressure Of
the masses, and in order to main
tain their influence over them,
these leaders were forced to assume
the position Of being ostensibly
opposed to war their opposition"
took the form Of indirect and direct
support Of the war.
THE SAME OLD
DEFENSE" SWINDLE
We have a typical example Of
this in the reformist leadership Of
the Railway Workers Union in
Argentina, who, when calling upon
the workers to oppose the ship
ment Of troops and munitions to
the war front Of Bolivia and Para
quay, specified that cit should be
understood by our comrades that
our measures (oR opposing ship
ment Of war materials-J. p do
not apply to the transport of men
and materials which the Argentine
government intends as q preCau-
tionary measure to despatch to our
frontiers in order to secure the
neutrality OF our country" lEru-
phssiS mine.--J, b.
These traitors want the workers
TO believe that The Argentine gov
eminent, the tool of British I'M
perialism, is making all these war
preparations only as a "precautlon
to secure neutrality" These social
patriots are deliberately conceal
ing from the workers that the bour-
geOis landlord government of Ar
genuine is today giving support and
actively assisting Paraguay against
Bolivia, that because Of the large
interests which the ruling classes
Of Argentine have in the Chaco
Canning. cattle, etc) they have
taken from the very beginning an
active part on the side of Paraguay.
Of course, as soon as the Argen-
time government is engaged in ac-
tual warfare, these leaders will de-
clare that it is q war Of self-de-
Tense, and call upon the workers
10 defend their fatherland.
.s, lConripdea Tcmc~rw-) =
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-28
The Fiftieth
Anniversary
of Karl Marx

In connection with the COM
memOratiOn of the 50th anniver-
sary of the death of Karl Marx,
which occurs on March IA, we will
publish material prepared by the
Central AgitprOp Dept. of the
Party on the teachings of Marx.
We ask our readers to send in
questions regarding the points
made in the material upon which
they desire further Qualification.
Editorial NOte.)
Continued from article in yester-
days iSSue.l