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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22

"a STORY BY EDWARD NeWHOuSF

Meyers.
The man said, Hes murderer.
He wounded a policeman. Hope
they get him"
"Why2"
The man looked queer.
why do you hope they get
him2" Hansen said.
Five years ago he would have
wanted the guy to get away just
for the adventure of 1t. Three
years ago he would have wanted
the cops to get him. Now 1t made
no difference one way or the other.
you mean to say you want
Meyers to escape7" the man asked.
He don't mean thing in my
young life" Hansen said.
TED was on the bench with a
L couple of conductors. They had
the papers. More cops than they
had for Two-gun Crowley" Ted
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22

in two very interesting pamphlets.
"Bolsheviks on Trial. and Book
Publishing Under Tzarism."
Revolutionary workers who fell in
to the hands of the cars agents
were very skillful in their use of
an open trial when an open trial
could be forced out of the cars
government. The preparations for
defense, the use Of lawyers, sam
that was later widely distributed in
illegal literature, form part Of Boil
sheviks on Trial. and show how the
Bolsheviks used the capitalist court
to "act openly toward our class"
A speech Of the same nature was
published in several issues Of the
Daily Worker during the past week
1t is the speech Of one Of the defend
ants at the trial in Japan Of the 1874
Communists.
Heroism Under Torture.
The heroism OF Bolsheyiks in
guarding party secrets under the
most extreme torture, described in
"Bolsheviks on Trial" shows how q
Communist Party worked "conspir-
atively towards the enemy"
Conspirative work that could make
use of every legal and illegal de-
vice in the distribution of Illegal
literature was another part Of rev.
dictionary work in which the Boil
sheviks eycelled. How one Of them
did it he describes in the pamphlet
Book Publishing Under Tzarism."
Both books are not only hand
books for revolutionaries. They are
also full of the sort of action ap-
pealing to the imagination Of the
most unframed member of the work
ing class They are therefore good
for wide popular circulation. Their
agitational value, in showing that
Communist Party has the courage
and the skill to guide the working
class in the most difficult circum-
stances, is high, particularly at the
present time when the bourgeois and
social-fascist press land the rene
gades) unite in paiting the condi-
tons of the German working class
under the present fascist terror as
hopeless"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22
What Has the Crisis Done
to the Youth Of America?
The Story of George Casey

up your throat. He came home last
week and slept for two days and a
night.
I saw him again when he started
working in the A. 81 P. He does a
regular clerks work for eight dollars.
He's there sixty hours week and
it's not only the broken teeth that
keep him from smiling.
George is sullen and bitter. In
his toothless lips there is hatred
and rage which can no longer be
swept aside by ward captains or
railroad dicks or chain store pro-
prietors. George is the raw material
of the American Revolution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22

said, "and they're not even posi-
tive he's down there. Wherever he
Is, you gotta hand it to the guy"
Hansen said, why all the
bother? Whole police force isn't
worth that fuss"
IF that patrolman'd been your
brother you'd kick up q fuss all
right" one of the conductors said.
IF you think so," Hansen said,
"you don't know my brother" He
sat back Lets have the sports
section, Ted"
Ted handed him the whole sheet.
Red Trapped In Subway i.
Would-Be Killer of Officer Carthy
Eludes. !. - So that was it. Han
sen read the story.
When he finished he walked off
a little ways so Ted wouldn't notice
his face. So that was it. They
evicted a family down Amsterdam
Ave. and this guy Meyers got to-
gether some of the tenants and
people around the block and tried
to take the furniture back and the
two cops came and got Meyers in
the apartment, but he resisted, so
one Of them drew gun to scare
him, but Meyers, the guy must have
been plenty powerful, he knocked
him kicking and threw the gun to
the floor, where. 1t went off and
wounded the other flatfoot. Mey-
ers picked up the gun and got
away through the fire escape, but
now they thought they had him.
COPS RIDE INTO CROWD
Hansen came back to the bench
and watched the cops ride into the
crowd. They got tougher and
tougher. Finally the crowd broke
and ran for the next station under
blockade, that's 145th. He showed
his pass to the sergeant, so they
let him through and he reported to
Reilly.
Reilly said, Not yet. He'll shoot
you on sight"
I'd better go through" Hansen
said, II wouldn't take the respon-
sibility for that switchrod under
14oth. Ted knows what he's talk
ing about
How'll you come out at the
other station? It's dangerous bust
ness, you're crazy If you DO it. We
let a special car through, you
know, with detectives in it. They
didn't see thing, still, he might
be there. The lieutenant thinks
one Of the trains ran over him and
dragged him away. They're ex-
amining all the cars up at Van
Cortlandt. We're having all the
conductors call up and report, but
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22
MAXIM GoRKI, the father Of

MAXIM GORKI, the father of
III proletarian literature, takes, up
the eudgels for the defense of the
Soviet Union and all that it stands
for in his new book, ION Guard
for the Soviet Union" Qnterna-
tional Publishers.
In his introduction to this book,
Roman ROLAND calls Gorgi the
first udarnik (shock- worker Of
the Universal Republic of Labor"
"On Guard" contains a selection
of Gor.d's articles which have ap-
psared in Soviet papers and jour-
nails since his return to the Soviet
Union. The articles are of two
kinds. The first are written in
reply to large numbers Of snarling
letters, which Cork received from
the enemies of the Soviet Union
and Of proletarian culture. In the
second Cork acts as mentor Of the
Soviet workers. encouraging and
enlightening them, explaining the
tremendous significance of the
building of Socialism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22
BY BENNETT STEVENS

At recent joint meeting Of five
n engineering societies in Chicago,
A. P. M. Fleming, representative
of the Metropolitan-Vickers Elec-
trical Company whose men we're
recently found guilty Of spying
and wrechng in the Soviet Union.
was given the floor to call scien-
fists to battle for the preserva-
ton of capitalism. The speaker
brushed aside the much-heralded
pretense that science is impair
tial under capitalism and frankly
declared that the intellectual front
is one Of the most important lines
of battle in the fight between
Communism and capitalism.
Fleming was impressed with and
outSpokenly fearful Of the adj
vances in science in the U.S.SR.
within its borders" he declared,
cit contains most of the natural
resources required by man, and
its government aims at developing
these for the benefit Of its own
people, with view to making the
standard of living as high as. if
not higher than, that of other
countries. Here are a great num-
Der of nationalities already inter
nationalized in the most complete
way with the absence of tariff
barriers, international currency re-
strictions and any diversity of in
ternal political aspirations.
Research, including that of
fundamental character comes I'M
der the control of one department
Of the State, so that all scientific
work can be co-ordinated. Great
expenditure has been incurred in
setting up the most up-ao-date lab
oratories and in the selection and
training Of research workers. . =.
There is in the US.S.R. a larg-
er body of organized research
workers under unified control than
exists in any other individual
country Of the world"
His conclusion was that scientists
in capitalist countries must heed
the challenge of Russia and pool
their scientific resources and ex-
perience to save capitalism AGAINST
the advance of communism. There
was not one word in lis lengthy
address about scientific co-opera-
ton with the Soviet Union. He
urged instead that the combined
intellectual energies of capitalist
scientists be arrayed in a duel
against the scientists of Russia. If
capitalist scientists Of the world do
not plan and work together, he
warned, Soviet Russia will advance
so far ahead in scientific and tech
nical progress as to make the civil
ization Of the rest of the western
world resemble by comparison that
Of the Dark Ages.
ELEMING'S pleas can bear little
1 fruit even though many of his
listeners may have been sy1fipa-
thetic. For planned scientific re-
search on an extensive scale and
the international pooling of sci
s~entific resources which he advo-
Gated is not realizable under CAPT.
talism. Science is linked with pri-
vate industry and is. as such, secret
and competitive. Modern scientific
research requires vast financial ex-
penditures which in capitalist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22
The Triumph of Collective
Science in the Soviet Union
Feared by Hostile Powers

countries can only be undertaken
by large monopoists. When funds
we're put aside for research as was
done before the crisis, notably In
the electric and oil industries, they
were spent only as long as they
yielded profitable results.
Individual companies each had
laboratories working on the same
problems with vast overlapping Of
energies; each sought to get solu-
tons 'lrst and guarded them ieal-
ously. The discoveries and inverl-
lions, instead of being used for the
benefit Of the masses and even for
the entire industry, yielded efor-
NOUS profits to a few. They ihten-
sified the anarchy of capitalist pro-
duction by making possible great
increases in output. Many inveTl-
tions have been shelved because Of
the fact that they would destroy
the value of existing products. Cap
italiSt industry could not absorb
all the inventions made even in the
days Of so-called prosperity because
markets were already flooded with
goods which workers could not buy
due to low wages. Thus factories.
already not working at their full
capacity, could not install new pro-
ceSses with profit. And when the
inevitable capitalist crisis came, one
of the first economies practised in
most plants was the elimination OF
the highly touted research labora-
tories.
GOVERNMENT and university SCI
u entific research workers in cap
italist countries are in similar
predicament. Unless government
research directly serves the inter
ests Of the large capitalists it is
killed in embryo and ignored The
governments and the universities
have spent millions on agricultural
research only later to plead with
the farmers not to avail themselves
of the knowledge they have ac-
quir5d, but instead to curtaif pro-
duction by allowing large section
Of their fields to go implanted.
Other research activities have had
a similar fate.
There can be no planned, direct
ed research in a competitive, cha
otto economic society. 1t is only
possible when the proletariat con-
ouers power through revolution and
by means of It's dictatorship estab-
fishes, in the place of capitalism,
a socialist society as in the Soviet
Union. For planned research de-
mands a planned economic system
in which the results are utilized
for the benefit OF the masses. In
the Soviet Union there is a flower
ing of inventive power such as rs
never been equalled in previous his
tory. The masses have identified
themselves with the achievements
OF their industries: their personal
initiative and enterprise has been
stimulated and they are contribut-
ing valuable suggestions for the
improvement o. their trades. They
are no longer fhands" forced to
carry out mechanically the orders
of exploiting masters. They are the
builders of a new society along with
the experts who are being trained
and employed by the thousands 70
extend the control Of science over
nature so that the standards Of
living and working Of the masses
may be improved.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22

rade Potamkin wrote about the film
with deep insight and with biting
irony.
Reviewing John Drinkwater's life
Of Carl Laernmle in the New Masses
Of July, 1881, Comrade Potamkin
observed: "Racketeeering and movie
are inseparable In the present pat
tern; and the first whisper in the
movie business was racket. Its ac-
cents are thunderous now"
His review Of current films in the
New Masses Of May. 1881, was stud
ded with pointed epigrams: RE
demption Is the keynote Of every
American film The thesis Of
the levelling and collaboration Of
the classes Is recurrent In the movie.
=. The movie Is ritual that
purges everything it touches
purges everything Of veracity and
sense. 1t Is, after all, the re-
Spouse and agent Of the class that
produces it.
U'A46 uoC VI WAC AAAAA W tAAS N1Rh-
! talist for fascist propaganda is
exposed In the last review which
Comrade Potamkin wrote for the
New Masses. Discussing Gabriel
Over the White House" In the May
issue Of this year, he pointed out
that the film sanctifies the fascist
dictator while providing the loop
hole Of fiction.
1.-THE American audience" the re-
view continues, already duped by
the glibbest Of campaigns, now has
an active image of the benevolent
dictator and the new deal
which takes on daily the physio-
gnomy Of F. d. Roosevelt. Mean
while the movie campaign is en-
larged with pictures clarifying Mus
solini. At the showing Of one Of
these, the supporting RKO news
reel started with display Of avia-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22
Workers Lullaby
BY CARLITOS

BY CARLITOS
Hush, my little one!
Born in the storm.
Sleep if you can,
Sleep soft, sleep warm,
While hunger snarls
And the sabre rattles
And we gather our strength
For the grilling battles.
Ours is the path
OF pain and struggle,
But you in your crib
Must peacefully snuggle.
Well fashion for you
A much richer life
Than could ever be ours
In this maze of strife.
You will not know
The masters whip,
His merciless eye
And his sneering lip.
The world will be new,
The years will be sweet,
The road will be clear
For your lightsome feet.
Love and Labor
And a crimson song,
And Joy for neighbor
Your whole life long
So sleep, my little one!
Close your eyes
And dream Of red star
Alight in the skies!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22

UANSEN'S job was to walk along
III the subway tracks with a Ian
tern and poke at nuts and bolts
with a rod. When he found loose
nut he frightened it. When he saw
piece of paper he tossed it aside.
When he saw train approaching
he ducked between the steel posts
and waited till it passed. 1t was
cinch, the easiest thing he ever
handled by long shot. At times
when he failed to find anything
wrong for hours he even felt a
little foolish about it.
No matter. He was due for a
break like that. You don't go bat
Ting around the country for two
years without some kind of a-break.
Two years of cumming were
plenty, Two years of that and a
year of this, that's three since he
saw Hilda and three and a half
since he lost the B. and o. job.
Hilda lasted half a year after he
lost his job. The day they fore
closed the mortgage the hell
with all that.
Hansen stepped aside for the
Van Cortlandt express. ByAnow he
didn't even have to turn his back.
The train roared by like a series
of explosions and he stood there,
eyes half closed, counting the cars
by the number of dark spots be-
tween platforms. Nine. BY now
he didn't have to hold his breath
or anything. The tunnel became
very quiet.
-
THAT was one of the things he
1 liked about the Job. You did
your work, nobody bothered you.
Your body was tied down, but you
weren't. After a while it got so
he could tell If there was anything
loose by just letting the rod strike
against the rail. Sometimes he
clanked his way through a lighted
station without looking up or know
ing wnere ne was.
Now he came into the station at
116th st. There the subway cuts
through Morningside Heights. You
see the boys and girls from Colum-
bia. They hurry even more than
the others. There was also an Ar
row collar ad of man in full dress
suit escorting a vision in ermine.
Alter ll6th there's dip IN the
ground and the subway becomes
an elevated. Gradually, SO you get
used to the daylight. The Hudson
Is gray and dirty, the shores are
gray and black and dirty, but the
Pallsades are green and fine to
look at. When the buildings are
low, or you come to streets, you
look across to the Jersey shore.
Windy days the river is rlffled with
little waves.
Then there's rise in the ground
and the line goes under again.
Something went wrong with Han
sens lantern, but he didn't bother
to putter with it because it was
just a block or two to 137th. An
other college station. When he was
on the night shift this was where
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22

They'll wait awhile before they
hold up traffic and let the gas in.
wouldn't go through If I was
you"
He won't shoot me-" Hansen
said. Call them up at 145th and
tell them I'm coming through"
Reilly called the lieutenant. He
was big guy, big as Hansen. al
most. You're taking your life in
your hands" he said.
That's a pretty good place for
it," Hansen said. II won't take the
blame for no loose switchrod. Only
don't forget to call them up Han
sens the name, Charles. Pass No.
0662"
The lieutenant looked worried,
said alright, it's your lookout.
THE detectives looked at him
i funny, the cops joked and
Reilly brought the lantern. Han
sen took it and walked into the
tunnel, clanking his iron bar along
the rail. He thought, Fifteen to
CO., sNy -'- ''e-1 ~' OIL
trv to do something Tad baa eaid
vo,, gotta hand If IN him first
nlnaping the con then holding
them off this long For all Won,
know he would have done the same
thing wbsn tbav forecloeed tIe
mortgaes on the trenton place
Hilda no, no. the hell, the he'll
with all that.
He smacked his bar AGAINST the
sudtcbrod at 14oth the BROAD
vay cypress whistIed and Hansen
stood aside The Conductor Was
the old italian who could do anv-
+hiro nitI, a dact ~ - 800.
MAKE EN- tandance He had taken
TED over for $28 once Hansen sauy
the faca for noon,ant 49, AZ
sssush and the wind of the train
hit him and he began counting the.
cars. Ten. Meyers would be on
the cementing if he had any
brains. The cementing started
around the slight curve ahead.
.voYr rorr. rp,,sr ..r,
hansen tightened nut. AS he
pent, a crayon fell out OF his over
ais. He PICKED 1t up and stuck it
III MS pocket. a voice from the
cementing said, Get your hands
OUT OF There or III shoot" Meyers
was pointing the gun at him.
Hansen placed the bar against a
steel post and put his hands up.
II come down to try and get you
out. You gotta trust me-"
Meyers said, Keep those hands
up and turn back Give you three
counts to do it. One two 4.
three"
Hansen said, See, if I was a COP
you'da scared me. I might help
you out of here"
~ didn't shoot" Movers said
but Won better keen these hands
I'D and stay where Won are
"I'm not gonna stand here this
curve isn't sharn enough T1,ev
might be seeing me now Iet me
against the wall ANYWAY and lis
ten.
"You can tell me ANYTHING VOL,
got to saw from right there ="
I'm not gonna keen hollerinu
Hansen said 81 know voure in a
lam and YOU gotta be careful h,,t
it's too dangerous for me IN kaen
hollerinp here Can Won hear me
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22

figure merged with a group of de-
tectiyes. Then Meyers placed the
lantern on the platform and walked
up the steps after it. The dicks
remained stationary.
Hansen rubbed his forehead
roughly against the concrete, rub
bed it until the blood came and
then he spread out Meyers trousers
and lay on them comfortably.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22

THE Vanguard Press during the
i past two years has published
several books dealing with prole-
tartan life in all parts of the globe.
Young Lonigan" by James T. Far
rell described boyhood in Chi
cago; Hunger and Love" by Lionel
Britton treated of a London boy
hood; "And No Birds Sing" by
Pauline Leader dealt with a girl
hood in a small Vermont city,
In the fall Vanguard will issue
another novel by James T. Farrell
that will be called THE Young
Manhood of Studs Lonigan," and
next spring Vanguard plans to
bring out novel Of proletarian
life in New Zealand
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22
TO those who knew Harry Alan

TO those who knew Harry Alan
l Potamkin, his death comes as
profound shock. There was In him
q rare gift for friendship which in
spired affection as his talents in
spired respect. NO one who talked
with him or worked with him could
fail to be captured by his gaiety,
his wit, his deep conviction and his
energy, all Of which he devoted
without reserve to the cause Of the
proletarian revolution.
These personal qualities graced a
capacity for creative work that was
equally rare. It is impossible in a
brief memoir, hastily written for
the daily press, to survey work
which was as prolific as 1t was YER
satile. Such survey ought to be
made, and soon; for Harry Alan
Potamkin's work, particularly in
cinema criticism, was an important
contribution to revolutionary litera-
ture. Here One can only state
few facts, In the hope that those
who are in position to do so may
be stimulated to collect and publish
the best Of Comrade Potamkin's es-
says.
AMONG Comrade Potamkin's tai
a ents was a marked gift for verse.
His poetry grew steadily in preci-
sion Of form and in revolutionary
content. A poem in the New Mass
es Of May, 1882, on the Haymarket
martyrs ends:
Masters Of provocation, Pinker-
tons Of prey,
o Boards of Trade men, mer-
chant princes.
Railroad kings and factory lords,
Balance your budgets and take
your rewards,
These are the days of liquida-
toni"
The sense Of the continuity Of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22

"Work conspiratively towards the
enemy, act openly towards our
class"
This advice is given the German
Communist Party in the latest is
sue Of the Communist Interna-
tional."
How the old Bolsheviks carried
this formula into practice is told
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-22
Henoism OF Old B0lsheuiks
Described in Two Pamphlets

Reviewed by GEORGE LEWIS
BOOK PUBLISHING UNDER
TZARISM, by NJ. S. Kedrov;
THE BOLSHEYIKS ONTRIAL;
by S. Tchernomordik, Both pub
lished by Workers Library Pub
fishers. Ten cents each.
Nogales international., 1933-07-29

s25-s55-w Constable No
VT No. 356-WI Farrell, Constable Prect No 2 500
VT No. 357-Fred Pyeatt Constable Prect No. 500
r. Eusenperry Deputy
359-Chas. L. Hardy, Superior 3125
motion carried the Treasurer
dad transfer the Of % from the general fund to salary
general fund the
fund.
RESOLUTION
County Nogales
Airport
WHEREAS, County by
dntre the 1880 did enter into
agreement with Thomas Griffin OF Nogaes Arizona whereby said
demise
OF period
Thomas Griffin Gid construct aiplane hanger
hanger being 100 feet o3 feet dimension and said hanger
constructed the leased the terms of said
said F. Griffin
WHEREAS,
repair gasoline and
field flood lights said premises, and
and the said Thomas F.
Griffin and each Of them desus of entering into an agreement
whereby County
years from the m day OF June 1888 being the intention the parties
shall the Of said former agreement
under substantially the terms and
conditions and
bringing Santa Cruz County
facilities transportation by air. and Of keeping the
said the public at all times, it is hereby
of Arizona enter
for period from the 5th
1884 yearly rental of
year acerta
Arizona being nstru
recorded the office OF the County
Arizona Book 8 A. and other
be forth in said lease and the
hereby directed and
the lease forthwith
There the at this
time they July 18th 1888.
Attest
VIM C. s1MoNToN w II. HATHAWAY,
Chairman