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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-14
JAIL TERMS FOR LEADERS
OF BRITISH UNEMPLOYED

turtles. Obviously it is a new weap-
on that the bourgeoisie propose to
add to their armory-a new weap-
on forged from aid laws that had
been tacitly dropped as being bar
barous relics of long ago. Com.
bined with the very heavy sem
fences that are now the order of
the day they show the savage re-
preston that British capitalism is
going to resort to more and more
as the crisis deepens. These things
eloquently refute the "opti.listie''
press balderdash about the crisis
being past, confidence being re-
stored ETC., and are indicative Of
the panic in which the bourgeoisic
of Britain, in common with that OF
all other countries, finds itself
today.
Comrade Tom Mann is veteran
fighter He is rs years of age.
He was the first secretary of the
Independent Labor Party, which
body he soon left when he dis
cerned its reformist tendencies.
He was, just after the war, Gen.
eral Secretary of the Amalgamted
Engineering Union and has been
the National Chairman of the
Minority Movement since its for
nation. He has been a member Of
the Q. P. G. B. also since its for
nation. In 1906 during the big
dock strikes he was sent to prison
for a leaflet he issued to the troops,
calling on them to refuse to obey
orders to shoot down strikers and
recently he was expelled from Bel
fast by the Ulster authorities. Tom
Mann has long, fine and con-
sistent record of honorable struggle
in the class war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-14
BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS
BY AND ABOUT LENIN

ceding the proletarian revolution in
November, 1917, has just been is
sued; the Imperiaiist War; The
Iskra Period, covering the forma-
tive years of the Bolshevik Party
and Lenin's great pIlilosophic clas-
sic Materialism and Empirio- Criti-
cism. A special subscription edi-
ton Of these books sell at half the
regular price.
In addition there are q number
of books about Lenin and Lenin-
Ism. Leninism, by Joseph Stain,
is a complete explanation Of the
meaning and principles Of Lenin-
ism, and discussion Of its prob
lens.
A more concise summary is con-
tanned In Stains Foundations Of
LeninisIn.
FOR intimate biographies and re-
j miniscentes OF Lenin, read
Maxim Gorky's Days with Lenin,
which was published serially in the
Daily Worker and which has been
issued by International Publishers
in a very attractive and inexpen-
sive edition. Krupskaya, Lenin's
wife and co-worker, gives an in
innate picture of his life and ac-
tivities in Memories Of Lenin, ex-
cerpts of which are published to-
day on Page -Four. The second
volume Of Memories, which covers
the period up to the Revolution in
November. will be published shortly
by International Publishers. A
special picture book for children on
the life Of Lenin. called Our Lenin,
will also be gotten out soon.
All these books and pamphlets
may be obtained at Workers Book
Shop, or direct from International
Publishers, 38l Fourth Ave-, New
York City
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-14
LENIN AND NEGRO QUESTION IN THE

the basis Of a relentless struggle
against white chauvinism in the
ranks of the white working class
as the main danger, while at the
same time combating bourgeois
nationalist sentiments among the
Negro toilers.
This line is fully confirmed in
." successes Of the Communist
cty in the leadership Of the
struggles Of the Negro masses. and
in the development Of workingclass
solidarity between Negro and white
workers. Following this correct line,
our Party initiated immediate
struggles for Negro rights, as in
the Scottsboro case; Negro masses
have been drawn into struggles for
economic demands. as in the min
ers' strike, the movement of the
unemployed, and the shaTe-crop-
pers' struggles. The whole ques-
ton of the fight for Negro rights
has been raised to higher poll
tical plane, as in the election cam
paign, and in the struggle against
the Negro reformists. In this way.
the hegemony Of the workingclass
and the leadership Of the Com
munist Party in the Negro liberia
ton movement has been strength
ened.
IN the situation Of the end Of cap
italist sterilization transition
period TO wars and revolutions as
characterized in the 18th Plenum
Of the Executive Committee OF the
Communist International, the ma
tional liberation struggle of the
Negroes assumes tremendous i'm
portence in the sharpening Of the
crisis Of American Imperialism. The
Negro question has become a real
Achilles heeT' Of American i'm
perialiSn, a point where revolu-
tionary explosions are most i'm
minent. This was clearly shown
in the events of Dec. 10 in ITALIA
poosa County, where the attempted
seizure of the livestock of the Ne
gro farmer, Cliff James, led TO
armed resistance on the part OF
the Negro poor farmers.
From this situation flows the
urgent need OF an all-around
strengthening of our work among
the Negroes - improving the fight
against white chauvinism, cradle
ating the still existing unclarity In
the Party and among the revolu-
tionary workers In regard to the
MISUNDERSTANDING character OF
the Negro question, orientation OF
the Party and revolutione-y mass
organizations to the development
of the Negro liberation movement
in the South as the center OF
gravity in our work among the
Negroes.
q. even some relatively ifisigni-
ficant acts Of the Ku Kiux Khan
bandits in the Black Belt can be-
come the occasion Of important
political movements, provided the
Communists are able to organize
the resistance OF the indignant
Negro masses. In such cases,
mass movements of this kind can
easily develop into real rebellion.
This rests on the fact that--as
Lenin said - Every act Of ma
tional oppression calls forth re-
sistance on the part OF the mas
ses. Of the population, and the
tendency of every act Of resist
ance on the part Of oppressed
peoples Is the national uprising"
Resolution of the Communist
International, 193o.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-14
'Mobilizing Workers of US.
for Defense of Soviet Union
Building of F. S. u. Into Real Mass Organ
iZation Is Vital Task

of the workers with the Soviet
workers and peasants has been and
is an important factor in delaying
the actual invasion Of Soviet
borders.
THERE are hundreds Of thous~
ands, if not millions of workers,
farmers and others in the United
States who to a greater or less
extent synpathize with the Soviet
Union. Many Of these are losing
faith in the capitalist system and
are sympathctically looking to the
Soviet Union for an answer to their
vital question Of how to earn their
livelihood. The F.. s. U. must
reach these hundreds of thousands
of workers and others and organize
them in opposition to intervention
and in support of Socialist Con-
ssruction in the Soviet Union.
The F. S. U. is now launching
the most important campaign IN
its history, a campaign which will
center around the issue of recogni-
ton of the Soviet government. In
this Campaign it will popularize
the achievements Of the Russian
workers and peasants under the
Soviet government. 1t will bring to
the knowledge Of the workers
everywhere the contrast between
the steady improvement in the
material and cultural conditions OF
the workers of the Soviet Union
and the steady decline Of the
standard of living Of the American
workers. 1t viii show the genuine
peace policy of the Soviet govern
ment as opposed to the insincere
peace proposals of the capitalist
governments.
In this campaign, 1t will collect
hundreds of resolutions in favor Of
recognition from workers organiza-
lions and finally, at least one mil
lion signatures to recognition
petition.
In the course of the campaign
the most important task is the
building of the F. 8. U. itself so
that it becomes a real mass or
ganization as rapidly as possible.
When it has become such, it will
really be wall Of defense of the
Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-14
UNITED STATES
'Marxist- feminist Application of National
Question Is Line of c. |. and C. p"

difference in color Of skin, etc.,
but above all because Of consider
able social antagonisms (remnants
Of slavery"
On the basis Of this analysis, we
are confronted with national
revolutionary movement Of the Ne
gro peoples against national op-
preston, for equal rights and self
determination of the Black Belt, as
an important ally of the American
workingclass in It's struggle for the
overthrow of capitalism. From
this position flows the line Of the
Party, which is uncompromising
support for the struggles Of the
Negro people for national bera-
ton, the development of .ony
of the workingclass and leadership
of the Communist Party in this
movement, cementing the solidar-
ity of Negro and white workers on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-14
BY CYRIL LAMBKIN
National Secretary, Friends Of
the Soviet Union)


THE workers Of the Soviet Union
/ have successfully completed the
first Five Year Plan. Because the
workers of the Soviet Union were
successfully completing their plan,
all their enemies began new and
more extensive attacks on the
Soviet Union. They took advan-
tage OF the difficulties which nat
urally arose because Of the need
for strengthening the defense OF
the country to charge that the
Five Year Plan had collapsed.
In the United States, Isaac Den
Levine, Will Durant and others
of the same stripe are doing their
share in the campaign Of lies and
SANDERS. Durant went 50 far as to
state in one Of his articles in the
Saturday Evening Post that the
automobile plant at Cork (Nizhni
NovgoroO had been abandoned.
That is a pure fabrication. The
writer spent two days there only
about a month ago and found the
plant in complete operation. Ac-
cording to the statement of the
American workers and foremen
there, and there are more than 300
of them, the plant is now progress
ing very rapidly and will very soon
turn out 100 trucks ano cars Gay.
The situation in the Far East is
again dangerous. American i'm
perialism will not long remain in
active while its aims in the Far
East are thwarted by japanese i'm
perialism. A conflict between Am
erican and japanese imperialism
may rapidly result in a new world
war if it has not already begun
in the fighting in Manchuria and
China.
In this acute war situation and
with anti-Soviet propaganda in
creasing as part Of imperialist pre-
parations for war, the task of the
Friends of the Soviet Union to
mobilize the working masses for
support and defense Of the first
Workers Republic becomes more
urgent than ever The militant OPP
position of the working class to
war, the international solidarity
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-14

oped under the leadership of Lenin,
placed the Negro question as a
question of an oppressed nation.
In this thesis, the Communist Par
ties are committed ''to support the
revolutionary movement among the
subject nations (for example, Ire
land, American Negroes) and in
the colonies" Emphasis mine -
H. HI
THIS line was further developed
L and elaborated in the resolu-
lions of the c. I. of 1928 and 1890
on the Negro question. The reso-
luton of 1880 states that the Ne
gro question is "the question Of
an oppressed nation, which is in a
peculiar and extraordinarily dis
tressing situation of national OPP
preston, not only in view of pro-
minent racj- distinctions (nlarked
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-14
MOSCOW

TONDON.-The prosecution OF
II Comrades Thomas Mann and
EmyrS Llewellyn under an Act lis
years old based on Statutes going
back to the 14th century marks a
further dropping Of democratic
pretense on the part of the British
ruling clacs. Our comrades were
charged with being responsible for
q demonstration to Parliament
The magistrate admitted that
there was no criminal charge.
Comrade Tom Mann declared:
'If I am to be tied, if my mouth
is to be closed, if / am not TO
participate in ventilating the
grievances of those who are suf-
fering while the incompetency Of
those responsible cannot find
work for them and is knocking
down their miserable standard
lower--then whatever the con-
quences may be--if 1 am to be
shot In the next five minutes
would not consent to any
Undertaking.
$50, with ali respect, 1 must
say very emphatically that. re-
CARELESS of my age or anything
else, will not give an under
taking not to be identified with
the further organization of mass
demonstrations and the ventila-
ton of the troubles of the unem-
ploycd and of the workers
generally
Thus although guilty of no Of
fence both comrades are in prison
and will remain there or two
months.
PREVENTIVE arrest is a COM
monplace in India but has not
been operated in Britain for CEN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-14
BY HARRY HAYWOOD


AS on all other phases Of the class
n struggle, Leninism on the ma
tional question represents a con-
sistent development of revolution
airy Marxism in the epoch of i'm
perialism and proletarian revolu-
ton.
Leninism broadens out the ma
tional question, linking it up with
the colonial question, making it
general international question of
the liberation Of the oppressed and
subject nations from the yoke of
imperialism struggle for the
right of self determination. There
fore the Acknowledgement question
is "part of the Droletarian revolu-
ton, a part Of the question of the
Dictatorship of the proletariat."
Ueninism. by Stalin). The prole-
tartan revolution as well as the
liberation of the oppressed NATIONS
can only be accomplished through
the formation of a revolutionary
alliance of the proletariat of the
advanced nations and the peoples
of the subject nations and colonies.
This consistent revolutionary po-
sition on the national question was
develoned only on the basis of the
shortest struogle against the So
ciaI-chauvinist leaders Of the Sec
ond InternationaI. These leaders
denied the RIGHT Of self-determina-
ton to the oppressed peoples. thus
acting in supnort of the plunder
policy of the imnerislist robbers in
REGARD to the subject nations and
colonies.
The direct application OF this
Marxian-Lenirist conception of the
national Question is contained in
the line Of the Communist Party
and Communist International on
the Negro question in the United
States.
IENrN'S CONTRIBUTION TO
NEGRO QUESTION IN U. S.
Already in his brochure, "Capit-
alism and Agriculture in America"
written in 1913, Lenin. in Defend
ing the Marian position on the
agrarian question AGAINST the the
orists of the Narodniki and Sociel-
ist- Revolutionaries, laid bare the
Agrarian essence of the Negro
question and also indicated its
national revolutionary character.
In reply to the petty bourgeois
economist Himmer. who contended
that "the United States is a coun-
try which never knew feudalisn
and and is foreign to economic
survivals Of the latter" Lenin
stated: 'This statement is in
direct opposition to the truth, for
the survivals Of slavery do not diff
fer in any respect from those Of
feudalism, and the Survivals of
slavery are very strongly felt up to
the present time I'm the siave-Own-
ing south" In this same pamphlet,
Lenin compared the position OF the
Negroes to the position of the
former serfs in Russia, stating that
"the similarity in the economic po-
sition of the Negroes in America
with that of the former serfs in
the agrarian centers in Russia is
remarkable.
Lenin continued: "The South Is
. hemmed-in prison with absence
Of fresh air for the liberated Ne
groes."
Precisely ON the basis OF this
analysis, the thesis Of the Second
Congress of the Communist Inter
national on the National and Co.
lonial Question. which was devel-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-14

THE writings OF Lenin provide an
! indispensable arsenal for revo-
lutionary workers. A reading and
studying Of his writings will cast
an illuminating light upon the
problems facing the American
workers and equip them for the
many day-to-day tasks as well as
for the understanding Of the
broader aims of the movement.
Many of his writings have been
published by International Pub
fishers. Lenin's shorter writings as
wen as some Of his principal works
have been published in inexpensive
pamphlet form in the Little Lenin
Library. These are: /. The Teach
ings Of Karl Marx; 2. The War
and the Second International;
g. Socialism and War; 1. What is
to be Done? (taking up many Or
ganizational problems; 5. The
Paris Commune; 6. The Revolu-
ton of 1905; Z. Religion.
The following take up the prob
lens of the Russian Revolution
from March to November, 1917:
8. Letters From Afar; 8. The Tasks
of the Proletariat in Our Revo.u-
ton; 10. The April Conference;
IL. The Threatening Catastrophe
and How to Fight 1t; -. Will the
Bolsheviks Retain State Power?
10. On the Eve Of october; and
Estate and Revolution.
IN addition to these pamphlets
! International Publishers is also
issuing the Collected Works Of
Lenin, which when finished will
comprise 80 volumes. Thus far the
volumes published cover the 'Revo-
luton Of 1917, in two volumes and
four books, Of which Toward the
Seizure Of Power covering the pc
rod during the four months pre-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-14
"Main FdlSity
In Literature
on the War :"

EI REPEAT once more: in order
i to reach the uneducated mas
ses, in order to introduce this
question to the animated we need
intermediate links in the logical
development Of our idea. The main
fallacy and falsity of popular lit
erature on war lies in the fact
that this question is being evaded,
it is being passed over in silence,
that the matter is represented as
if there were no class struggles,
as If two countries had lived peace
fully, but one attacked the other,
and the attacked defended itself.
This is vulgar reasoning in which
there is not shadow of objective
truth, it is the way in which edu-
Gated people deliberately deceive
the masses. If approached prop
erly, any representative Of the
masses would be able to grasp the
essential point; Tor the interests
Of the ruling classes are one thing,
and the interests of the oppressed
are another"
From 1.-THE April Conference"
by Lenin. Little Lenin Library,
Volume 10.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-14
By IRVING HERMAN

JANUARY 18th, marks the ami
j versary Of the murder of Karl
Liebknecht and Rosa Luxembourg.
Their names will forever be cher
ished by the proletariat, particular
" the militant youth. They stood
out in the struggle against the
imperialist war of 1914, in the fight
to establish a Soviet Germany.
They met death at the hands OF
the treacherous leaders of the Ger
man Social Democratic Party, who
throttled the German Revolution
and paved the way for the counter
revolution.
Today the masses everywhere are
moving to the left. The masses
are more and more beginning to
follow the leadership OF the Com
munist Party. In Germany the
small Spartacm Bund Of Lieb-
knecf1t has grown into a mighty
Communist Party, with millions Of
followers. The German Social
Democracy today is one Of the
arch-supporters of crumbling Ger
man capitalism. The tide of revo-
luton in Germany is reaching
higher levels and is repulsing the
onslaughts of fascism and social
fascism. The last written state
ments Of Liebknecht and Luxem-
burg, a. day before their murder,
on the occasion of the defeat of
the Spartacus Uprising, are being
realized Def1antly, Liebknecht
wrote:
To-day, only the underground
mutterings of the volcano. To-
morrow 1t will burst and bury
them all in torrent Of glowing
ashes and streams Of lava"
Luxembourg wrote on that menu
orable occasion as follows:
"'Order is established in Ber-
lin! You fools Your order is
built on sand! Tomorrow the
revolution will arise again majcs-
tic and to your terror announce
with voice of thunder: I was,
am, am TO bel"
WAS LEADING FIGURE
Liebknecht was a leading figure
in the building of militant youth
movement. He saw in the youth
challenge to the corrupt Social
Democratic leadership. He clear
ly defined the role of capitalist
militarism in the system Of imper-
ialism and showed the need for
carrying on consistent anti-mili-
tarist work. With the outbreak of
the war, Liebknecht and Luxem-
burg carried on relentless strug-
gle against the war, exposing in
the sharpest terms the national
chauvinist position of the Social
Democratic leaders, who were call
ing on the masses to defend the
'fatherland."
THE spirit of Liebknecht prevailed
! in the calling of the Berne Con-
ference Of militant Socialist youth
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-14
"HISTORY WILL NOT
FORGIYE DELAY

GEUISTORY will not forgive de-
III lay by revolutionists who
could be victorious today (and will
surely be victorious today, while
they risk losing much tomorrow,
they risk losing ALL"
From On the Eve OF October,
by v. I. Lenin. Little Lenin
Library, Volume Is.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-05
ITO SPEAK ON
 NATIONAL DEFENSE
Robert H. Acorn Will Ad. dress the Rotary Club
 Thursday
AT HOTEL ELTON

Robert H. Alcorn, United States commissioner of New Haven. will address tho Lions Club at its week. ly luncheon meeting at the Hote' Elton. Thursday noon on "Nation. al Defense"
 missioner Alcorn has beer Identified with national defense af. fairs for many years. He was grad uated from Yalo with B.A. de- gree in 1921, received tho degree of doctor of laws in 1924 and the degree of master of laws in 1881 He was admitted to the bar at New Haven in 1924 and was appointed United States commissioner IT. 1926, a position he still retains. He Is a lieutenant, junior grade. in the United States Naval reserve. judge advocate department and was judge advocate of the state depart. ment, American Legion. from 1928 to 1892. "
 Commissioner Alcorn was ap. pointed chairman of the naval af' fairs committee of the American Legion, state department. this year. He is president of the Civi. tan Club of New Haven and pres. ident of the Service Club Council of New Haven comprising the Ro- tary, Kiwanis, Lions. Probus. Ex- change, Round Table and Civitan clubs. He has Teen prominent Tn Legion affairs for a number of years and is active in work In be- half of ex-service men.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-05
AUTO MISHAPS
 OVER WEEK END
William .Meehan and Chas Popeikas Taken to Wa.
 terbury Hospital
CAR HIT STONEWALL

William Meehan of Bank street and Charles Popikas of 843 Bank street sustained injuries Sunday when their automobile was involv- ed in an accident oa the Middle bury road. They were taken to the waterbury hospital for treatment. The two men were injured swhen their car left tho highway and crashed into a stonewall.
 Andrew Anderson, 26, of 145 Southmayd road, Vincent O'Brien. 23. of 27S Eastwood avenue and Walter Trusinshas, 25, of 165 Draher street were injured Mon day evening when the automobile in which they were riding crashed into tree on the Frost road.
 Three minor automobile &C., cidents were reported to the police Saturday.. A collision on West Main street resulted in damages to cars driven by Rose Merrane of Hotch- kiss street, Naugatuck, and, Earl Cooley of 154 Greenwood avenue.
 A car driven by Joseph A.. Wutsch of this city collided with a Northeastern Transportation bus on East Main street Saturday aft ernoon. The bus which was in charge of Patsy Laporte of 375 Grove street was slightly damaged.
 The third mishap occurred on East Main street near Orchard street. A truck driven by Domenic Gribo of 1177 Broad street, Meri- den, collided with machine driven by Thomas Mclaughlin of 204 Circular avenue. No one was injured.