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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-30

program which is being fulfilled
under The public works" fiction.
When completed, it will bring the
steel manufacturers, their uniformed
jingoes and other inperialists, to full
treaty Gondon) strength" by 1889,
according to Navy Department
figures.
Mar preparations are prominent
everywhere in Washington. Bullets,
arlnor and gas, rather than federal
unemployment insurance at the ex-
pense of the employers and the gov
eminent, comprise the menu for the
unemployed workers. Inperiaism's
only solution for the unemployed
laborer is either to starVe or
slaughter him.
Starving workers viii also be in
terestad to hear that the Budget
Bureau is supporting the Navy De-
parsment's request for more cannon
fodder. Provision has been made in
the Navy budget for the next fiscal
year for a naval personnel Of g.
$50 men, & gain of 1000 over the
present personnel In addition, the
list Of the Marine Corps viii be in
creased after July I, from 1920 to
1000. 1t is understood that the
6rs~eatefs wanted a Navy Of $4,000
fgr the next fiscal year and q Marine
Corps of 1900. The Navy estimates
that By 1899. G persolnel of 100000
men will be necessary for an IS per
cent 'pesce-tin.a" complement for
the E'aa'sllips.
EJIILIAAI GREEN. president OF the
" american Federation Of Labor,
has Just shoHn the hollowness and
hypocrisy OF his ilnpassioned Fedora
ton convention speech in which he
Numbered. gestured. and half-cried
for "a boycott against German-m made
goods and German services"
Last Thursday. Green officially
called upon all officers and members
of organizations chartered by the a..
F. OF L. to make the boycott "ef-
feetiys." In fact, ne even suggested
the formation of committees: Il
suggest that committees be appointed
to deal with the problem in accord
ance with economic, social and bust
ness requirements OF each commit
nifty. Let these committees mite
with other committees created for
the same purpose representing other
groups OF peorle whose opinions are
in harmony with the action Of the
convention of the American Fedora
ton of Labor"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-30
Big Gain i'm Soviet
Gold Production

MOSCOW, Dec. GA tremendous
rise in Soviet gold production is re-
ported during the past few months,
with a production of $10,000,000 for
September, a total 80 per cent higher
than for the same month last year.
Gold production will be further
speeded up as q result Of the discovery
of extremely rich deposits along the
Laba River in the North Caucacus,
and in Tadjikistan, near the Afghan
border. Two gold veins in these dis
tricts are said to surpass in richness
any similar deposit in the world.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-30
Lenin, the N. R. A. and the Historical
Fraud of Liberal Journalists

sary. In one case the complaint is
made in an industry such as the
electrical, which is already highly
monopolized, that the code win drive
out the few remaining independent
producers and "perpetuate the mo-
nopoly." In the other case it is ad-
mitted that the purpose Of the blan-
ket code Is to drive many of the
store Keepers and shop keepers out
Of budness" and increase unemploy-
nlent ..s.
N.R.A. and Imperialism
We have purpossly quoted and dis
cussed the earlier statements on the
MIRA. and its codes to prove our
contention that If the NR.A. operates
to create profits for monopoly capt.
tahsm, it does so precisely because
it was conceived and called into
being as the organ of the most
greedy, murderous monopoly capital
ism in the world-U. S. FINANCE
CAPITALISM. The present occupant
in the White House, the creator of
the MIRA. and its slave codes, Is
the most loyal, faithful servant of
the money bags and the tories"
The N.R.A. is the highest ex-
preston of the Economics of
American imperialism" It is the
capitalist way out Of the crisis par
exeeilence-more profits for the A.
nancsers, hunger ard imperialist
war fer the telling masses.
Certainly the results Of the N.RA.
confirm to a minUtsst detail the
analysis made by the Communist
Party because the G. P. is the only
party which is capable of under
standing and applying the teachings
of Marx and Lenin) the only party
which from the very outset opposed
and fought the MIRA. and its slave
codes.
Wall Street Reaps Huge Profits
The first issue of the changed"
New York Evening "Post" told Wall
Street editorially that considering the
profits it has made, it had no Just
complaint against Roosevelt. Indeed
Wall Street hasn't any complaints
nor does it really make any. Why
should it? just consider these sta
tistics and what they mean in terms
Of the lives ard conditions Of the
workers. This year, 425 Of the Iarg-
est Wall Street rnonopolies report
profits of 1878 ,802 600, an increase Of
over $50 per cent. Railroad compa-
MES and large industrial monopolieS
are declaring the latest dividends
since 1929, the beginning Of the pres
ent crisis.
What made IL possible for Wall
Street to reap such huge profits in
the midst Of such devastating crisis?
First of all, 1t is due to the low wage
rates established by the codes. The
| codes provide an average minimum
wage (Which is really becoming the
maximum of S13.87 week. But even
this, however, is merely ON the basis
Of a maximum work week. The cot
ton and silk textile codes are lower
than the avera Te-512 a week in the
South and $13 In the North.
The National Industrial Conference
Beard admits that the cost Of living
he's risen at least 10 per cent since
March. Imitation, an integral part
of Roosevelt'S recovery plan, still
further raises prices and drives down
real wages. Keeping the wages Of
the workers at the barest minimum
through the code, raising the prices
of commodities consumed by the
workers to the maximum, this is the
source of the huge profits reaped by
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The following article by Comrade
Sam Don is the second of a series
of articles. The first one appeared
in the Dec. % issue of the Daily and
dealt with the article by l.. Fisher
of the Nation who in his article
entitled "Lenin to Roosevelt gkori-
fed the N.R.A. and Roosevelt on the
basis Of Lenin's pamphlet "The
Threatening Catastrophe and How
to Fight It."-Editorial Note.
III.
How extraordinary is the capacity
of liberals for untenable historical
analogiesl
For example the New Republic, a
leading liberal organ, wrote in its
issue Of May Z, 1888, as follows:
-. rather striking general like
ness between Lenin's prescription
and that now BEING suggested
(N.R.A.-S.D.) in Washington"
What was the occasion of this very
LIBERAL analogy? It was the review
by Prof. Beard of Lenin's two vol
urnes which contained the pamphlet
THE Threatening Catastrophe and
How to Fight It."
Wherein did the editors of the New
Republic see the Striking general
likeness" between the revolutionary
proposals of Lenin and Roosevelt
slave codes? They saw this striking
likeness" in the fact that Lenins pro-
posals speak of the need OF "regu-
lating economic life and that the
MIRA. also set out to regulate eco
nomic life" -.
But what did our impartial" lib
eral friends fail to notice" when
they read Lenin's pamphlet? They
completely overlooked and fefled to
understand the striking difference
between regulating the economic
life" Of the country with power in
the hands of the proIetariat and
regulating economic life" with power
in the hands of the capitalist class
in the hands of finance capitalism,
A Paradise for Bankers
Ienin in his pamphlet (Which our
liberal friends have completely failed
to understand, refutes any possible
analogy which would concoct a
Striking likeness" between his revo-
lutionary proposals and that of the
MIRA. Lenin prophetically warned
against any such analogy. He wrote
''Both America and Germany
regulate economic life in such
manner as to create a MILITARY
PRISON for the workers partly
for the peasants) and PARADISE
for the bankers and the capitalists.
Their regulation consists in tight
ening the screw of the worker to
the extent Of near famine and Sc
curing for the capitalists (secretiy
In a reactionary bureaucratic way
LARGER profits than those they
had before the war" (Lenin's en-
phasis.)
The Striking Difference
Not striking general likeness
but a striking difference, gentlemen
of the Nation and New Republic
When Lenin speaks Of regulating
economic Nfe" he has in mind regu-
lation under the rule of the workers
which will do away with the capt.
talist profit system. When yot
gentlemen speak of regulating the
econonomic life" of the country, re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-30
BY JOHN sTRACHEY

Today the Whelning impression
which the United States makes upon
an outside o11e1yee is--ferInent.
There is fernent in every class Of
society; there is uneasiness, doubt,
seIf-questioning to an unparalleled
degree among the capitalist class;
there is despair. mingled with wild
and almost hystericGl hope in the
New Deal, amongst sections of the
lower middle class; there is snoul-
dering revolt amongst the farmers;
there is a deep, slow-moving and as
yet confused tide of anti-capitalist
sentiment amongst the working mass.
What, in such situation, Is the
function and role of the American
Communist Party 1t is not, of
course, for me to attempt to answer
this question. But certain very broad
questions are surely beyoni dispute.
First, of course, the question of the
Party is to disseminate the broad
principles of MarXism. For MarXism
and Leninism are the only keys to
an understanding of the situation,
and are, therefore, the only guides to
he construction of a new life for the
masses out of the ruins of capitalism
But the dissemination of Marxism is
not merely question of propaganda
of writing and talking. It is also
a question of action-of the leading
and guiding of the ever-growing
class struggles which the workers and
farmers are forced into undertaking
not because they are Communists, but
because capitalism leaves them no al
Tentative. For If these struggles are
not infused with MARKHAM conscious
ness, they will remain blind, confused
and foredoomed to failure.
British Experiences
All this represents a gigantic task
before American Communists, and it
is certainly not for anyone from an
other country to tell them how to
accomplish it, But it is evident that
they are already making heroic, and
in some cases significantly successful,
efforts to get on with the job.
1t is difficult, however, to avoid
speculating on some of the problems
which, as 1t seems to me, will face
the Party in America in the near
future. Whether we like it or not,
it seems clear that events are moving
so quickly that all sorts of new and
ostensibly left-wing movements of re-.
volt against capitalism will arise in
America. The Party will be faced
With many exceedingly difficult deci-
sions. And T, OF course, have neither
o sufficient knowledge of American
conditions nor the theoretical equip
lhcnt to offer any advice.
But ii may be that some considera-
ton of the experiences of British
Marxists during the period of the
birth Of independent working class
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on exactly these lines-who promised
to nationalize all the big banks and
trusts" while leaving the property Of
the small man untouched?
It was Hitler.
It Is true that Mr.. Amlie's speech
is incomparably more rational, more
'Marxist" than anything which, so
far as know, was ever said by the
German ascists. Moreover, am
sure that Mr.. Amlie and his friends
today sincerely believe not only that
they are not fascists but they AZ,
the one true bulwark against the ris
Of fascism in American. Alas whs
We believe about ourselves howeve
sincerely, is of very little Importance.
What we do is everytning-wtat v
think we are doing, nothing. And
the ominous fact remains that the
present leaders OF the Farner-Labof
Political Federation have chosen A
line of policy and propaganda wiliE1
have the typical characteristics of an
Fascist parties.
II, as seems to ME probable, parties
OF this type arise in the United
States, important and difficult deci-
sions will face the Communist Party.
For it will not be sufficient to point
out the errors, and in some cases,
crimes of such parties. 1t will be nee
essary 10 observe that they will al
most certainly contain large masses
CT sincere and potentially revolution.
AIRY workers and also farmers and i,t
the first class large sections Of the
petty-bourgeoisie. The winning %
these masses to clear-sighted rev
olutionary policy, and away from
leadership which will range all tn
way from the cynical and vile be
trcya'r Of the Fascists, to the vel n
inSeRt-cled confusions Of farne
labor groups, will be the vital task I
the Party.
The immediate future of the Con
mun.st Party Of America seems
me to present great difficulties /
also enormous opportunities.
political situation seems to be ON
point OF becoming extremely II
And a correct application Of Mar
feminist tactics, such as Engels TT
to employ in Britain, may lead II
enormous growth in the P1
power and influence.
IN. B. Certain portions Of this
ticle have appeared in the Am
lean Mercury. to which journal We
are indebted for permission to
rnu~fuf ft,es
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This group founded the Social
Democratic Federation. "a sub-group
Immediately split off from the Fed
Grafton under the leadership of the
poet, William Morris, and called it
self the Socialist League.) But, II
these two groups had a much clearer
conception than had the Independent
Labor Party or the Labor Party Of
the need for rejecting capitalist
economics and philosophy, they had
opposite and just as serious defects.
From the first they began to exhibit
the most ruinous forms OF sectarian-
ism. With disastrous folly, they cut
themselves off from the real and
powerful, If extremely confused and
politically unconscious, strug lie S
which the British workers were &C
tually engaging in at the time. They
committed acts of folly, such as re-
fusing to assist in great London
dock strike because the workers
would not use the red flag on their
platforms.
n-sectnrian Markets
Again, they boycottSd the MAIN
working-class party, the Independent
Labor Party, which was founded, as
have said, in 1892, and which might
conceivably have been prevented from
becoming Liberal and opportunist II
the Marxists of the Social Demo-
cratic Federation had worked inside
it. Hyndman and his followers hug
ged their own theoretical superiority,
misunderstood the practical appli-
cation of Marxism as seriously as
they misunderstood much of its
theoretical basis, and remained D
barren and unimportant sect
There did exist, however, q still
smaller group Of non-sectarian
Marxists. This group was led by
Frederick Engels, who, Of course,
lived in London. II opposed both the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-30

Liberalism Of the Fabians, the Trade
Union leaders, and the Independent
Labor Party, and the barren sect
arianism of Hyndman and the Social
Democratic Federation. This is how
Engels, interviewed by Liberal
newspaper, the Daily Chronicle, de-
lined his position In 1898. l quote
rom valuable book which has just
come out in England entitled, 'lhe
Class Struggle in Britain in the
Epoch of Imperialism" by Ralph Fox:
The Fabian Society take to be
nothing bat a branch of the LIBERAL
Party. 1t locks for no social sal
Walton only through the means
which that party supplies. We are
opposed TO all the existing political
parties. and we are going to fight
them all. The English Social Dem
ocrat;c Federation is, and acts, only
Ike a small sect. II is an inclusive
body. IL has not understood how to
take the lead of the working -class
movement generally, and to direct
IL toward socialism. 1t has turned
into an orthodoxy. Thus it insisted
upon John Burns unfuriing the red
flag at the dock strike. where such
an act would have ruined the whole
movement, and, instead Of gaining
over the dockers, would have driven
them back into the arms Of the
capitalists. We don't do this. Yet
our program is a purely socialist
one. Our first rlcnk is the So
cialization Of all the means and
instruments Of production.
What Enges wanted was, on the
one hand, to create group Of men
and women who had really under
stood Marxisrn and freed themselves
from the whole capitalist point of
view, yet did not on that account
think themselves superior In any way
to the workers, but, on the contrary,
would devote their whole energy to
furthering the practical, If half blind,
political struggles Of the British
working masses.
EngeIs on British Labor
This is, Of course, the policy which
all Communist Parties today seek to
pursue. That it is the correct policy
has now been proved over and over
again, and, although Engels forty
years ago in England was only able
to persuade a tiny group to follow his
lead, he was able to achieve some
notable successes. True to his prin-
ciples Of basing his work on prac-
tical limited demands, which the
workers really felt, he led an ag.ta-
ton for the eight hour day. A United
Front Committee was established, and
powerful demonstrations, which shook
nliddle-class opinion badly, marched
from the East End, the workers part
OF London, through the whole Of the
West End to Hyde Park. Later the
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approval Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt? ?"
I asked the Navy
Department.
"weN, it would
hardly be pro-
posed without his
approval"
The new war
proposal calls for
the building Of
102 warships to
supplement the
s1rnsent. 40 shin
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TO congress.
The Admirals will ask Con-
gress for a blanket authorize
Jon for a five-year construc-
lion program to cost about $51s,-
100000.
''This program, of course. has the
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WALL STREETS
] CAPITOL
BY SEYMOUR WALDMAN-

WASHINGTON Dec 29-The $23s 100000 allotted by Presi-
dent Roosevelt for naval construction under the guse
Of public works" is just appetizer in comparison with
what the United States naval command plans to recommend
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Rush your orders for the Jan. &
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IN. B. Certain portions Of this
ticle have appeared in the Am.
lean Mercury, to which journal we
are indebted for permission to
reprint this.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-22
What's On The Ar; And Where
Writers Of Old Kit Songs
 Gather for Radh Program

Nellie RevelI, famous radio ra- contour, will celebrate her second anniversary on the air with a spe- cial gala program over National Broadcasting company networks tonight.
 The genial NEG story teller has dubbed her broadcast "The Fittest of the Survivals." She will bring before an NBC-wEAF microphone at 11:00 p. m., EST, many of the old time song writers, whose works have lasted through the decades. These composers of the preTTin- Pan-Alley age, will sing and play their own favorite compositions. These will include Harry won Til- ger, who wrote, ''Wait til the Sun Shines Nellie; Gus Edwards; "School Days''; Theodore Metz, '"There'1l Be Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight; James Thornton, When We Were Sweet Sixteen; w. c. Handy, "St Louis Blues"; Rosamond Johnson, Under the Bamboo Tree"; Joe Howard, "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now" and Harry Armstrong, Sweet Ade- line."
 The program will run for thirty minutes instead of the usual fifteen minute period.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-22
New HadIsy Opera io Have
 World Premier Over M.B-c.

"A Night in old Paris" a new one-act opera by Henry Hadley, noted American composer and con- ductor, will have its world pre- miere tonight, over a National Broadcasting company network un- der the baton of the composer.
 Dr Hadley has based his new opera on a libretto by Frederick Truesdale, who in turn adapted 1t from a one-act play by Glen Mac Donough, author, of the books of some of Victor Herbert's musical comedies.
 It will be sung by seven well known concert soloists, including Viola Philo, soprano; George Rasely and George Trabert, tenors; Theodore Webb and Phil Dewey, baritones; and Frank Cuthbert and Jay Alden Edkins, bassos. The narrator will be Milton Cross,
 Another compositoin by Dr Had ley, a tone poem for orchestra, "The Ocean, also will have its radio premiere in this concert con- ducted by the distinguished com poser at 9:0O D., m., E. s. T., over an NBC-WEAF network.
 "The Ocean" was Inspired by a poem of the same title by Dr Louis Anspacher and paints a tonal pie :ure of the sea in many of its moods of calm and storm.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-22
Rotary Clubs Anniversary
 to Be Observed By Radio

The twenty-eigh anniversary of the founding of Rotary Interna- tional will be observed on Thurs day, February 23, with a special program over National Broadcast ing company networks which will be heard by members of Rotary clubs all over the world. c
 Paul P. Harris of Chicago, pres- ident emeritus and founder of Ro- tary, will be among the speakers on the program, which will be broadcast over an NBC-WEAF net work at 1880 p. m., EST, and shortwaved to foreign countries. The entire program will come from the NEG studios in Chicago. Speakers during the broadcast in addition to former President Harris, will be Clinton P. Ander- son, president of Rotary Interna- tional and Chesley R. Perry, sec- retary of the organization since 1910.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-22
NOTICE
THE SECOND NATIONAL BANK
 OF NEW HAVEN, Trustee,

THE SECOND NATIONAL BANK OF NEW HAVEN, Trustee,
 THE MILL PLAIN DEVELOP PLANTE, sometimes known as
 Claudia E. LaPlante, formerly of
 the Town of Waterbury, County
 of New Haven, and State of Con-
 necticut, now of parts unknown
 to the plaintiff, If living, and if
 dead, her widower heirs repre-
 sentatives and creditors ct als.
 ORDER OF NOTICE.
 Upon the foregoing complaint in said action praying for a judgment of foreclosure of a certain mort gage made by Claudia LaPlante to The Parker-Smith Company. as Trustee, on real estate situated in the Town of Waterbury, Connecti.. cut, known as Lot No. 98 on Map of the Mill Plain Development Com pany, said lot being situated on Capitol Avenue, more particularly described in paragraph No. 2 of the complaint in the above entitled ac- tion, said mortgage deed being re- corded in Volume AIS on Page 150 of the Waterbury Land Records, to particular description, and for other relief, -returnable to the Su- perior Court at New Haven, on the first Tuesday of January, 1883, it appearing and being found by the subscribing authority that the de- fendants above named are properly named defendants, and that their names and residences are unknown to the plaintiff, except as set forth in the complaint and amendment thereto, the above named defend ant, Claudia LaPlante, also known as Claudia E. LaPlante, if living and if dead her Widower, Heirs Representatives and Creditors, are hereby summoned to appear before said Court on the first Tuesday of March, 1888, to answer unto said complaint and the amendment thereto, it is therefore
 ORDERED, that notice of the pendency of this action be given by publishing this order in the Waterbury Democrat, daily news paper published in Waterbury, three times commencing on or be- fore the 23rd day of February 1883.
 Dated at New Haven, Connecti- cut, this 17th day of February 1883.
 By the Court,
 HENRY W. STOwELL, 2-20 St Assistant Clerk