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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-12
KHAKI SHIRTS
APE FASCISTS

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-The Khaki
Shirts of America are trying to build
an organization here. Every Monday
night recruits are drilled at the ma
tional headquarters, 1920 N. Broad st.
Drills are outdoors.
One private, when questioned,
boasts there are five million men,
bers. A major general member ri
diculously claimed seven million. He
very frankly says the Khaki Shirts
are an American fascist movement
One newspaper, when printing their
photograph, describes them as "a
"semi- military anti-Communist or
ganization."
Captain Art Smith, bonus march
betrayer, is the Communicated chief
and lives here. There are three meet
ings weekly in different sections of
the city, few of them well attended
Evidently the boys hero is Hitler, for
their salute is the arm stretched out
in perpendicular fashion. Little blue
caps reminding one strongly of mes
senger boys are worn with khaki
shirts" in yellow. The self appointed
officers have an oval insignia. In the
middle of the oval is the phrase
"Khak Shirts, Awake" which GER
tainly swells Of Hitler.
Their program includes:
/. Minimum of zoe an hour for la
Dor.
q Compulsory arbitration dabol
to be denied the right to Striks)
8. Universal compulsory military
training.
4 No one allowed to make over
500, 900 a year.
This fascist movement, due tc
strong anti-fascist feeling throughout
the country, is being soft-pedalled
but it must be dragged out into the
light to show this danger, spreading
! like fire, to all workers. r. c.
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JAPANESE PUSH
TO kALGAN AND
SOVIET BORDER
K EN- e g a de Chinese
Generals Aid in the
japanese Drive

SHANGHAI, June 1.-THE Japan
ese are using the armies of the Chi
nese renegade generals, Tang Yu-Lin,
former Governor of Jehol. and Liu-
Kwei-Tang, in their campaign to
occupy Kalgan, extending Japan's
rule over the Province of Chahar,
Inner Mongolia.
Chahar Province borders on Soviet
Outer Mongolia, and the new Japan
ese drive is a spearthrust aimed di-
rectly at the Soviet frontier. With
the seizure of Chahar, the Japanese
armies will be within striking dis
lance of Urga, capital of Outer Mon
golia, besides cutting off all direct
communication between Urga and
China proper.
The Southwest Political Council at
Canton has cabled the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corporation at Wash
ington, protesting strongly against
the cotton and wheat loan to China
arranged by T. V. Soong, Chang
Kai-Shek's brother-in-law and Nan
king Finance Minister Canton
charges that the proceeds of the loan
will be used solely for new civil
war, instead of strengthening Chi
nese resistance to the Japanese in
vasion, which they charge Chang
with having Sabotaged, Soong, the
Council adds, had added over one
billion dollars to Chinas public debt
to consolidate the rule of the Marking
dynasty
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-12

MarXiSm- Leninism U n d er h e
guidance of Hillquit, the School re-
moved the left elements from it's
governing body, although they consti-
tuted majority, and proceeded to
improve its standing. No one could
teach or work at the School who
advocated or believed in proletarian
dictatorship" under the threat of
Hillquit's refusal to defend the School
in court proceedings which it still had
pending against it. Failure to APP
prove or support the platform and
program Of the Socialist Farty dis
qualified one from connection with
the teaching stan o. sdBrinistfs ton
OF the School, although the School
officially reported to the Garland
Fund that mo teacher or lecturer in
the Rand School has ever been dis
clplined or subjected to any pressure
whatever by the Society american
Socialist Society which governs the
Scholarly or the Board on &C
count of his opinions"
The cleansing begcn in 1921 under
Hillquit's tutelage soon left the
School free Of any militant elements
and in complete control of the re-
dictionary element1
A Story OF Betrayal
The postwar history of the Rand
School is story of the betrayal of
the workers who helped to build the
School as a proletarian educational
center. The masses of workers who
made the School throb with life and
hum with activity during the war
years, have deserted it. Petty-bour-
geois elements, trade union burea-
Gratis and S. P. functionaries tend to
! the affairs of the School now.
There was time when the Rano
School was considered a menace by
the capitalist press. Nov the Time
prints an editorial under the title
Rand School Mcnsced" There is g
world OF difference in this attitude
Has the Times changed? No 1t IL
still the reliable servant of the CAPT
talist class IT Is the Rand Schoo
that has changed. SO that the Times
4 psr SOUND az slegm y iss bshaaR,
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mes, NORTHUMBERLAND, New Republic Cons

purveying liberal opinions to a chain
OF newspapers. He has taught social
sciences for many years in American
colleges maintained by capitalists
and is familiar with the teachings at
the Rand School. He tells the capt.
talists that the Rand School would
be better investment now, believ-
ing that its teachings will be bet
ter bulwark against revolution than
the out-and-out capitalist schools.
The last have been exposed and,
anyway, workers seldom manage to
enter those schools. The Rand School
and similar Socialist Party educa-
tional endesyors are attended by
workers and "the doctrines that are
taught" there will be more effective
in staying off revolution than the
teachings in thousand Of convention
al institutions"
The conservative Times and the
liberal World Telegram agree upon
the reasons Of their espousal of the
Rand School. The first, because 1t
Is anti Communist in the very real
sense" and second, because the So
cialism that is taught there "is the
next line of defense againse extreme
radicalism." The writer's of the Times
and the World Telegram like the So
cialism of the Rand School and of
the Socialist Party, and use their
papers to support both.
When Norman Thomas receives an
honorary degree from reactionary
Princeton, when his candidacy is
boosted by the Liberal World-Tele-
gram or when he is declared to be
harmless by Americas premier jim
goist, General Pershing, it is because
they like the Socialism of the leader
of the Socialist Party and it is be-
cause they see in him an able mis-
leader of the working class.
Honest workers who 60 10 the
Rand School or follow the Socialist
Party, upon reading the opinions Of
the capitalist press quoted above and
examining the activities Of these or
CARNATIONS in the labor movement
will understands the reason why
Aeesx and n,eeie seAasA themselves
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atoms continuous battle gainSt the
Communists, stating that 1000 OPP
position local sports organizations
with 100000 members were expelled
in 1928, and requests that the Nazi
measures taken against the Asso-
citation be revoked. Gellert says in
his letter:
Never Hostile TO Government"
Training of the young was con-
sciously in support of the State and
never hostile to it, which explains
our conflicts with the Communist
Bolshevist tendencies The As
ISOLATION and its local organizations
never combatted the government,
neither before the War nor in the
postwar period. Our energetic at
tack against Communist tendencies
is sufficient proof of the same"
In another letter the Associations
Exclusive demands Of its subordi-
nate organizations that they not &C
cept sport sections of the Reichs-
banner, of the Young Socialist
League or other forbidden organiza-
lions as members. 1t also forbidS
the wearing of buttons and the car
rying of flags or pennants during
hikes.
"Sincere Desire for Cooperation"
In a circular letter to all district
and county sport leaders the Exec
utivs says: 1.-THE national upsurge in
Germany has caused a complete
overturn in all fields of public life.
No one can ignore this fact Our
Association also acknowledges the
new state of affairs e. Our at
titude to the new State is one of
sincere desire for cooperation with
it."
In conclusion, the leaders OF the
Workers Sport Association in Ger
many were all leading members of
the German Social Democratic par
ty. Their cowardly belly-crawlling
before the Nazi overlords is of q
piece with the total failure of the
German Socialist leaders to carry on
any fight against the Fascist terror
regime.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-12
FRANCE LAYS IN
STOCKS FOR WAR
Zinc, Lead, Copper,
Crude Oil Imports
Rise Sharply

PARIS. June 11.-French official
import figures for the first four
months OF this year show that France
has been following policy, since the
new year especially, of laying in
heavy stocks of raw materials for
war Purposes, and materials that
would be difficult or impossible to
obtain in time of war.
Although industry as a whole has
retrogreSsed in the last year, imports
of war materials have sharply risen.
At the same time, food imports have
fallen. French capitalism is thus &C
lively preparing for war at the ex-
pense of cutting down the food sup
plies available for the workers.
Metals for munitions production
showed the steepest increases. I'm
ports Of lead bars for the first four
months of 1888 were a, 188, as com
pared with $4,000 for ths same period
IN 1882. Imports Of nickel similarly
rose to $50 tons, as compared with
557 in the previous year. Imports of
raw copper jumped 5000 tons, and
imports Of copper alloys rose from
l743 tons to 5,942 tons. Zinc i'm
ports increased from 1907 to 14545
tons, the figures again being for the
first four months of 1882 and 1898
respectively. Crude oil imports rose
from 10000 hectoitres to $500 hec-
tolitres. Imports of raw cotton and
wool both nearly doubled in the last
year, although French wool exports
fell by so per cent.
In French business circles it is not
denied that these purchases are for
war purposes, and a well-informed
business source is quoted as saying
that France is not the only nation
with fever for building up stocks
other countries are doing it as we'll
l think we caught the fever from
Germany"
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Ruegg was flung into the noisome
dungeon with his wife as a result of
his militant activities as secretary
of the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Sec
retariat
So terrible has existence in the Jail
become for them and others confined
there that they have begun hunger
strike. Struggled information from
the prison indicates that despite their
own sufferings, they are heartened
by the news occasionally reaching
them that workers on the outside are
fighting for them and are achieving
victories in the struggle against OPP
preston and terrorism.
What the Rueggs are enduring is
illustrated by an article recently ap-
pearing in TIA Kung Pao", in Tient-
sin.
AS soon as the prison gates have
closed behind you" it said, you
have ceased to be a human being.
You no longer enjoy any human
rights Stubborn prisoners are
brought into the prison office, bound
hand and foot, and belabored with
bamboo rods until they bleed from
innumerable wounds.
Filthy Prison Conditions.
Undertaking is not changed for
many months, SO that many prisoners
have skin sores all over their bodies
Sanitary buckets are kept in the
prisoners rooms. The prisoners can
hardly breathe and have frequent
attacks of giddiness in this damp
and sinking atmosphere.
IF prison inspection is an
nounced, the floor is Immediately
covered with lime and sprinkled with
carbolic acid in order that the in
spector shall not be overcome by the
bad fumes, giving the prison bad
name"
From this cesS-pool Of jail, the
Rueggs must be freed by the clamol
and protest OF the working masses
OF the world Such action saved
them once from Chang -Kai- Shek'
gallows, but an even stronger pro-
test must free them from this living
hell.
The International Defense Com.
mittee for the release of Paul anc
Gertrude Ruegg with such members
at its head as Henri BarbusSe, Ro.
main Roland, Prof. Albert Einstein
Maxim Cork and Theodore Dresser
is still active.
Under the Craftsmanship of Nine
Sun Yat-Sen, widow of the founde,
of the Chinese Republic, Shangha
Defense Committee was organized.
In other parts of the world too tn,
demand for their freedom is beinG
raised. On behalf of the Defenst
Committee DR.. Jean Vincent, Genev;
lawyer who defended the Rueggs
protested to Wellington Koo, Chimes,
government representative at thu
League of Nations Council, agains
their continued Imprisonment ant
the treatment accorded the Rueggs
Workers! Protest against the Ku
omintang terror against the workers
Demand the unconditional release o
the RueggsI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-12
lFrom the Bic soviet Encyclopedial

From the Big Soviet encyclopedia
GUSEV, Sergei Ivanoyitch (Drab-
kin, Jacob Davidovich), born 1874,
prominent political figure, Commu-
mist, Gusev began his activities in the
social-political movement while still
pupil in the technicum in Rostov-on-
the-Don. In 1896 he entered the
Petersburg archaeological Institute.
That year also, he entered the Union
of Struggle for the Emancipation of
the Working Glass, participated in
the organization of an illegal print
ing shop, printed proclamations dis
tributed illegal literature, etc.
On March 4, 1897, Gusev partici-
pated in the demonstration at the
Kazan Cathedral in Petersburg (this
demonstration was in protest against
the suicide of woman reyolutionist,
Vetrova, in the Peter and Paul for
tress). On March 81, 1897, Gusev
was arrested and at the end of Sep
TENDER exiled TO Orenburg. At the
beginning Of 1899 Gusev was trans
ferred to Rostov- on-Don on parole.
From 1900 to 1903 Gusev partici-
pated very actively in the Don COM
mittee of the Russian Social Demo-
cratic Workers Party, and was with
those who fought on the side of the
"Iskra" He participated in the
leadership of the famous 1902 Rastov
strike, and in the 1908 March dem
onstration, after which he was COM
PEELED to emigrate to Geneva.
At the second congress of the Rus
sian Social Democratic Party (R. S.
D. w. P0, in 1908, Gusev attended
as delegate from the Don Commit
tee and was among the followers Of
Lenin. After that congress he car
ried on a sharp struggle against the
mensheviks. At the end OF 1904
Gusev began to work as secretary Of
the Petersburg Committee of the r.
S. D. w. P. and in the Majority
Committees Buro," participating also
O905) in the publication of For
ward" In May, 1905, after escaping
arrest, Gusev came to Revel and from
there to Odessa, where he became
secretary of the Odessa committee Of
the R.S.DL.P. (C)-Solshevik group.
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GnSeV>>the Life
History of a
Veteran BOlshevik

In 1906, having come to Moscow.
he was a member of the Moscow
Committee of the R.S~DLP. (b), at
first working in charge of propa-
ganda, and later as organizer in the
railway district. In the spring Of
1906 he was delegated from the Mos
COW organization to attend the "
session congress of the R.SDL.P. (b)
in Stockholm That year he was ar
rested and sent to prison, after which
he was exiled to the Ferezov TobolsH
Gubernia for three years. After stay
ing in Berezov one year, Gusev was
transferred to Tobolsk, from where
he escaped to Moscow in 1909.
On Military Front.
During all of 1909 Gusev travelled
throughout all the cities of Russia
on the instructions of the Central
Committee, to carry on the struggle
against the ''recallists" and 'liquida-
tionists." At the end of 1909 he
worked together with Sverdlov in
Petersburg, but shortly afterwards, in
order to avoid arrest, came to Terioki
In Terioki Gusev became i'll and it
was this sickness which made it i'm
possible for him to participate in any
party work whatsoever straight
through to 1917. During the Novem-
Der revolution, Gusev was secretary
of The Military Reyolutionary Com
mittee of Petrograd. After the No
vember revolution he held a num-
Der of responsible party and military
posts.
In 1922 he was alternate to the
Central Committee of the V.KPB.
(All Russian Communist Party, and
in 1923 secretary of the Central
Control Committee of the V.KPB.
and a member of the colligium of
the Peoples Commissars, Workers and
Peasants Inspection of the US.S.R.,
in 1926 head of the Party History
Division of the Central Committee.
From 1923 Gusev was head of the
Press Department of the Central
Committee of the V.K.PB. At the
present time 1890 he is a member
of the Presidum of the Executive
Committee of the Communist Inter-
national.
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The Workers School Now Center for
PrOletarian Education

The Workers School Now Center for
Proletarian Education
The Workers School of the Com
n1Naist Party has become the rally
ing center of the young workers seek
ing revolutionary education and
training for the class struggle. With
the teaching at the Workers School
based upon Marxism-Leninism, the
workers combine their studies with
revolutionary activity, aiming to
equip themselves to be better fight
ers and leaders of the working mass
es 1t is the task of the Workers
School also to attract those working
class elements who still may go to
the Rand School in the belief that
it is conducted in the interest of
workers education The true char
acter of the Rand School must be
made known to these workers and
they must be helped to find their
way to our Workers School. Nearly
5000 registrations were recorded in
the Workers School during 1932-1933
school year and the educational needs
of the movement are growing.
Must Expose Rand School
The present support accorded SC
lavishly to the Rand School by the
capitalist press must be made widely
known among the workers. Honest
workers will understand that the
Rand School was bounded before be-
cause it was true to the class inter-
ests of the workers. 1t is praised
now by the same elements and every
assistance is offered to it by them
because it is no longer true to the
class interests of the workers. In
stead of a revolutionary beacon light
it has become a bulwark against
revolution Instead of being source
Of enlightenment and for the develop
mart of cla-s-cons c.ouS1cs5 anon
workers, it aims to rctagd their peg.
ress on the path of struggle. Work
ers must shun such an institution anc
Join the cduce floral activities Of tn
Communist Party The Worker!
Schools--of couses conducted by TIL
militant trade unions and othel
revolutionary fraternal or culturs
ossapleeHons-
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Communists and belonged to the
Communist League for which they
wrote the famous Communist Mani
festo. 1t was for the same reason
that Lenin, witnessing the debacle
of the End International and the be-
trayal of the cause of Socialism by
the leaders Of the Socialist Parties
during the war, proposed to revo-
lutionary socialists to call themselves
Communists and their parties Com
munist Parties.
il.
The Rand School During the War
The Rand School, organized some
II years ago as Socialist School
needed funds on other occasions. But
the capitalist press did not come to
its aid then. On the contrary, it was
attacked and represented as an en-
envy institution. The publicity which
the capitalist press accorded the
school during the years when il
serves best the interests of workers
education, brought to its doors bands
of hooligans, who tried to organize
pogroms MAY 1, 1910, and secret
service agents.
When the Rand School conducted
drive in 1877 to purchase the build
ing it now occupies, it raised $780,
900 under the banner of support OF
the Russian Revolution and of mil
liant anti-war position. The writer
of these lines, then member Of the
teaching and administrative staff oil
the Rand School, travelled in behalf
of that campaign, lecturing on thu
Russian Revolution and pledging the
Schools support to the Bolshevik
program.
During the years le17-1919 tbs
Rand School became the haven fol
teachers expelled from colleges ane
schoo' for their socialist end anti
war views and activities, When Scott
Nearing was expelled from Pennsyl-
vania University, he was invited te
become member Of Ehe staff. wher
Harry Dana was thrown out of Co
lunnbss be cage bp teach Ut thi
Rand sebesk The ssMe M IN /
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the case OF Calhoun and several 9TH
ers. The Rand School was known
then as the Red School, although it
fell short of being a really reyolu-
tionary school in the Bolshevik sense
1t attracted thousands of workers to
it's classes. Over 5000 annual regis
trationS we're recorded during those
years-the best the School ever had
The Persecution of the School
The School was tried and con-
Yicted during the war under the es-
pionage law for publishing an anti
war pamphlet. 1t published under the
editorship of the writer the first
Lenin pamphlet in English issued in
this country which went through
many editions. The school was raid
ed by the notorious Lusk Commit
tee.
Legislative body investigating revolu-
tionary activities with the aim of
voiding the corporate charter Of the
School and prosecuting its officers
and staff. When High School teach
er was dismissed "for supporting Boil
shevism," his dismissal was approved
by the Lusk Committee which de-
clared that the accusation was ac'-
curate was shown by his subsequent
open connection with the Rand
School as teacher of revolutionary
Socialist doctrines" Association with
the Rand School denoted, according
to the N. Y. State Attorney General,
connection with "a preparatory school
for extremely revolutionary organiza-
tions."
The Break With the Past
The heads of the Rand School like
to dwell on this period of the School
when it suits their purposes. But q
previous record of service in the cause
Of working class emancipation is only
pertinent if it has been consistently
maintained throughout. Tho activities
Of the School since that period showf
q definite Ueak with the previous
record Of az honest workingclass in
stitution. although II was not con-
Quoted entirely in the spirit and &C
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