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Evening star., 1934-10-15
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New York Child Thrown Into
Furnace Il, Apartment
House.
~ the Associated rrsss.

~ the Associated rress.
MOUNT VERNON, N. Y. October
l5.-Police said today that Lawrence
Stone. husky young laborer. had con-
fessed throwing 5-year-old Nancy Jean
Costigan into . huge apartment house
furnace.
A tiny gold ring, . child's wrist
watch and few blackened bones were
removed from the furnace yesterday
after the e-foot. oil-fed flames had
been turned on. They were AL that
remained.
A trail Of blood through . basement
maze was interpreted by police as
mute testimony Of . brutal assault.
but Stones confession, as announced
by Chief inspector Michael !. Silver
stein. said the girl was hurt in . fall.
Stone, discharged handyman at the
apartment house, was quoted as con-
Tossing he had been playing with the
child in the basement and had hit
her with her rubber ball. She fell, he
said, striking her head on the con-
crete floor.
Then she turned blue"
Thrown Int Flames.
Stone started to carry Nancy Jean
upstairs, the confession continued. but
became panic-stricken. He threw her
| into the flames.
Blood smeared on his clothes led to
the arrest Of Stone, who is "A. He
insisted during hours of questioning
that he knew nothing Of the staying.
Police said he explained he got the
blood on his clothes while helping to
turn upright . police patrol, which
had been In collision on its way to
the apartment house. But, Inspector
Silverstein said. . hall man had
noticed Stones blood-fiecked necktie
before the staying was discovered.
A tenant Of the building said she
had seen Stone and the child together
half an hour before the horror-stricken
hall man, following the drying
splotches, saw the little skull through
the leaping flames.
Nancy Jean, daughter Of o well-to-
do Long Island couple. had been visit
ing her aunt, Mrs. c. Russell New
house, at the Pel-Hutchinson Apart
ment House, the largest and one Of the
most exclusive apartment structures
In Mount Vernon.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard ]. Costigan Of
Forest Hills, her parents, were upstairs
with Mrs. Newhouse when the staying
was discovered. They had come to
Evening star., 1934-10-15
SPECIAL FETE PLANNED
German Evening to Be Observed
at Church Carnival.

German evening win be observed
tonight at the two-day indoor car
nival at the immaculate Conception
parish hall, Eighth and N streets,
under auspices Of Rev. q. z. Czyz, as
sistant pastor the Church Of the I'm.
maculate Conception. The Neuland
Song Birds will be featured enter.
tanners.
Tomorrow night win be Q night
in Dublin, with Irish fiddlers and
dancers providing entertainment.
Evening star., 1934-10-15
$50 BILL IDENTIFIED
Gold Certificate Passed Here Not
Part Of Ransom.

onciais Of Colufnbia National Dank
said today check-up OF the $40 gold
certincats deposited Saturday BY the
Standard Oh Co. Of New Jersey. was
not part Of the LAndbersh baby ransom
and ti,AA % fsr ~ they knew. no
action would be tsken In the case.
The bin was rendered the Standard
on co. by motorist, whose tag
numbers had been noted by an at
tendant Of the dlling station.
Evening star., 1934-10-15

WHERE TO DINE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
Must Utilize Strategic
Issues in Shop or
Neighborhood

been obtained in other sections of
the city; there is no reason why.
with struggle, we cannot do the
same here. Our club comrades can
raise these issues in their clubs.
3. The formation of a baseball
league. This is an urgent necessity.
The L. S. u, I. w. O., Y. c. L. of
Brownsville should take the initia-
tive in this and reach the Negro
clubs with our plans for league.
There is no doubt as to the response.
d. The assignment of capable
Pioneer leaders and older children
to the Crown Heights section to
build children's movement. Today
there are practically no Grown
Heights children in the Pioneers.
Any concentration of youth that
neglects the children is only half
concentration.
These suggestions are but the first
steps of whole perspective of work
that can be drawn up.
But these, or similar plans, should
be our immediate points of concen-
tration. Unless we really activize
our white Y G. L. members in day
to day, real concentration with the
Negro youth, we will never isolate
the remnants of white chauvinism
which today are in our ranks; and
only then will we be able to forge
that unity of Negro and white youth
which alone can point the way to
the overthrow of this system of dis
elimination, exploitation, war and
fascism which now envelopes us all.
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YCL in us. viii Aid
Berlin YCL in Fight
against German NGsis

NEW YORK. - The Young
Communist League Of America
will undertake to finance the
revolutionary struggles Of the
Young Communist League of
Berlin, Germany, 1t was an
nounced yesterday.
At a meeting in Yorkville
where Gil Green, national secre-
tary, spoke recently, $5293 was
collected and sent to Germany.
The money was raised by auc-
tioning off illegal German litera-
ture including the Rote Fahne.
Junge Garde, Gegen-Angriff
and others. A member of the
Young Peoples Socialist League
received, tremendous applause
when he brought greetings from
members in his organization and
pledged solidarity in the struggle
for a workers and farmers gov
eminent. The Y. P. s. L. member
was presented with copy of the
Junge Garde, illegal central or
gan of the German Y. G. L.
The national office of the Y.
G. L. has urged units through
out the country to come to the
support of their German COM
rades by raising money through
sale Of literature, dances, outings
or in any other way.
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bership to the needs of the Cuban
revolutionary movement.
Present Relations Must Be Changed
Such q situation can not continue
any longer. The Y. G. L. and the
whole youth revolutionary move
ment of Cuba needs the most deci-
sive help of the Y. G. L. and Of the
toiling youth Of the U. S. A.
The working class and the OPP
pressed Cuban masses, are vahantly
fighting under the leadership of the
Party and the Y. G. L. against the
exploiters. They direct their
struggles towards the only way out
Of oppression and misery, Soviet
Power, the Workers and Peasants
Government. The present Cuban
government known as the govern
ment of resctionary concentration"
personifies the extreme bloody re-
action of the Cuban bosses and
landlords. Gallery, in Roosevelt's
name is leading the massacre of the
Cuban workers and peasants. Hos
pitfalls are filled with dying workers.
more than 1000 fill the jails. Yankee
Imperialism is trying to carry out in
Cuba a massacre like it did in
Colombia, in Honduras and in Santo
Domingo. The Cuban toiling
masses have replied to this, intensi-
flying their struggles, redoubling
their efforts to drive towards the
final struggle for the taking of
power.
This increases the responsibility
and the obligations of the Y. C. L.
in respect to the Cuban revolution
airy youth movement. This demands
the immediate liquidation of the
passivity existing till now.
Recently the National Bureau and
the New York District Committee in
conjunction with the c. c. of the
Y. c. L. of Cuba have made a series
of decisions to change the present
situation. Now what is most i'm
portant is to carry these decisions
out. The Y. G. L. of Cuba, together
with the National Committee ano
the New York District Committee
Of the Y. G. L., calls upon all mem
bers of the Y. c. L. to carry these
decisions into practice, rapidly anc
completely.
Forward to Real Assistance to
Cuban Masses
AS to the New York District. here
we hope that in the nearest future
it will conquer a position of honol
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has no objection, on principle. to
parades. No objection, that is, when
the parade comes as the elimination
OF intensive work among Negro
clubs, shops, ETC., around issues that
these youth feel sharply and keenIy.
Or when the parade is a reflection
OF a spontaneous mass protest. as
the Scottsboro parade of last De-
cember in Harlem. A parade or
gained on such basis has a poll
tical significance that the parade we
are arranging at present will lack
completely. I think the Y. c. L..
should think more than once when
an idea pops into its head to or
ganize a parade.
Granted that we have a parade
on May 28-what then? Nothing!
We will have gained no contact with
Negro youth. We may succeed in
raising sharply the issues of Hern-
don and Scottsboro, but without
linking these up with local issues we
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about working within these clubs.
When a leading comrade misses a
meeting of club where he is as
signed to work, he may perhaps ex-
cuse himself on the ground of other
work elsewhere, but the fact re-
mains that the club is being ne
elected by our leading comrades.
The writer thinks that the ten
dency of our Section Committee of
the Y. G. L. to indulge in spectacular
actions which do not involve the
Negro youth, which bears no rela-
tionship to their everyday needs,
which is something that is thrust
upon them from the outside, so to
speak, is injurious to the Y. C. L.
and its great tasks. The writer
would not. of course, call these &C
tions white chauvinist; but they
certainly are a sort of in-law
relative to this filthy stranger in
our house.
The following, in my opinion, are
our next steps in Crown Heights.
Unless we succeed in reaching the
Negro youth on some such basis, we
will find the Negro youth inevitably
falling into the hands of the Negro
reformist leaders, of whom there are
plenty, far too many, in our section.
l. The assignment of a corps of
comrades who will work within the
large Negro clubs. Our comrades
must see that without foothold in
these clubs, we will have no contact
with any appreciate number of
Negro youth.
2. The concentration of the UNI
employed section of the Brownsville
Y.C.L. on Grown Heights, to mobil-
l7e unemployed Negro youth to de-
mand relief from the Home Relief
Buros. Relief for a single youth has
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will get nowheres. Consider how
essentially unrealistic our approach
to the young Negro workers is when
we are stalking weeks of work on an
action that, if it should happen to
rain on that day, will Immediately
nullify all our work.
The writer is opposed to this sort
of concentration. 1t amounts to re-
tanning our Sectarian attitude to-
wards the masses of young workers.
Our section committee must wake
up to the fact that they will not
succeed in permanently rousing the
Negro youth with such an approach
to them.
There are dozens of issues in
which the Negro youth are vitality
interested; there are dozens of
youth clubs where we can reach the
great majority of Negro youth in
the section. But we do not place
our emphasis on finding out these
issues; we do not care very much
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06

demands, issuing of shop papers,
formation of youth committees.
This problem unquestionably exists
However, the attempts of some of
the leading comrades to solve it by
dividing up these shop units on a
trade basis, must be resisted as a
technical approach to the problem.
Fight Against Fascism
Further, our section committees
in line with the speech of comrade
Chemodanov, must learn not only
how to work cspably in the econo-
mic field, but how to strengthen
this by determined struggle against
fascism in their territory.
When we ask a section commit
tee at the present time rs there
a growth Of Fascism in your ter
ritory? Are there any fascist or
semi-fascist organizations in your
territory? And what are you doing
to combat this?" we get very loose
and uncertain answers. The strug-
gle against war and fascism has,
with few exceptions, not left the
paper stage.
As an example of good work in
this field, we can point out Browns
/ vile, where our comrades have
brought the line of the Y.CL. into
such an organization as the Blue
Shirts, and through correct work
/ with the rank and file is deepening
the gap between the fascist lead
ers and the anti-Nazi workers,
steadily working to liquidate this
organization, which is potential
enemy of the workers.
An example of paper struggle
against fascism, is the extremely
poor attention given to our student
comrades. Perhaps in one case out
of a hundred, will the section com
mittee call student fraction to
report on its activities.
This reflects and emphasizes the
fact that we have not made our
section committees leaders in their
territory, developing their initiative
and their ability to cope with their
numerous local problems that arise
in each territory. 1t is necessary
to emphasize that the worst form
of bureaucracy lies in not being
connected vitality with the prob
lens of the membership.
The development of direct per-
sonal guidance to comrades involved
in mass work must be carried out
We have to put an end to the mass
of general material and directives
that go out, which are meaningless
to the bulk of our membership in
the form in which we write.
1t is further necessary that we
give directiYes so as to make these
directives the property of all COM
rades and make them feel that thew
have helped concretize them and
therefore they must carry them out
Serious steps to orientate our work
along these lines will result in a
stronger Y. C. L., with infinitely
greater daily contact with the
masses of working class youth.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
What Is This Thing Called Concentration?

number of actions" in the Negro
territory. Some of these actions
a Scottsboro march, an open hunger
hearing, an election symposium.
etc.-have been successful; others
have not.
In my opinion our concentration
and these evidences of our concen-
tration, have not been based upon
an intimate contact with the masses
OF young Negro workers in our sec
ton. 1t has not been based on a.
knowledge of the real and vital de-
mands and needs of the young
Negroes. They have been, for the
most part, actions foisted upon the
Negro population of Crown Heights
practically without their knowledge
or consent. In view of this, it is not
at all surprising that the influence
OF the Y. G. L. over the Negro youth
OF Crown Heights is scarcely more
than it was when we started our
work there two years ago.
Concentration, to be really effec-
tive, should seize upon the most
strategic issue which affects the
most decisive section of the youth
IN any given shop or neighborhood.
The concentrators should organize
struggles around these issues to-
gether with the young workers. This
is the only known method of win
nlng any large number of youth into
our ranks. The writer must say
that the Y. G. L. of section is to-
day following a line Numerically
opposed to this method of concen-
tration.
How Not to Prepare a Parade
We organized parade through
the streets of Crown Heights. on
May %, as preparatory action for
National Youth Day. The writer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
Children's Work Is Wide
Avenue of Approach
to the Masses
BY VERA SAUNDERS

IN VIEW of the fact that it
L is so important to concen-
trate the activities of the Y.
c. L. on shop work and trade
union work, is it necessary at
this time to make any efforts
in the direction Of children
work? Is it necessary to assign
valuable forces for this work?
Judging from the attitude of the
Y. G. L. in general, very obviously
the answer is No! But this is not
a correct answer.
The general task of the Y. C. l..
is to root itself among the youth
of America, and, to do this, every
avenue leading toward the youth
must be utilized. And the path of
children's work is by no means a
backyard alley, but rather a wide
avenue of approach. 1t is true that
trade union work and shop work
must be the major activities of the
Y. C. L., but this by no means i'm
plies that it is to be the only ac-
tivity. This is a narrow, and one
track approach, and therefore we
have such inpermissible sentiments
as the following: In one Of the
sections, Harlem, to be precise,
where it is Of the utmost Importance
that a broad children's movement
be developed, an organizer of a
college unit wrote in protesting
most vigorously against assigning
one of the members of his unit to
such secondary and extraneous
tasks as Pioneer work"
Children's work is not an isolated
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
Enthusiastic CroaVd Cheers
Schmidt on Moscow arrival

with the signs of his endurance
still upon his face, surrounded by
flowers, passes by the honorary
guard. He is accompanied by Com
rades Kuibishev and Unschlicht.
Together they come into the square.
A storm of greetings comes from
the masses. Throughout the square
quivers with shouts and manifesto
ton of enthusiasm.
STOPPING somewhat and greatly
moved by the proceedings, Professor
Schmidt smilingly ascends tn e
tribune, holding a bunch of roses
in his hands. Comrade Unschlicht
delivered the greeting speech. He
pointed out that thanks to the
courageous heroism and f1rmness of
the head of the expedition,
Schmidt. and the whole collective
body of all persons, all the valuable
scientific equipment was saved. He
declares Schmidt will once more,
together with the whole working
masses of the Soviet Union, enter
the first ranks for the conquest of
socialism.
Long Live the Hero of the
Arctic, the Bolshevik Scientist,
Schmidt"
Schmidt, weskned by his illness
is moved by the amazingly warm
and enthusiastic reception shown
him by workers of Red Moscow,
and is unable to reply, He merely
looks upon the crowd and smiles his
inimitable smile. He then leaves
for home.
Long after, the Moscow prole-
tarians refuse to dispense. Their
cries of jow still resound around the
square facing the station.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
By VERN SMITH
Special to the Daily worke

Speclat 10 tpe U2lly worker
MOSCOW, June 5 Cby RADIO -
Professor Otto Schmidt, head OF
the rescued Chelyuskin arctic ex-
petition, arrived here today. Long
before the arrival of the train, the
whole square facing the station and
also adjoining streets we're filled
with delegations of workers from
Moscow factories, works and scien-
tific institutions.
Banners and placardS waved
while upon them, Pickering in the
bright sunshine were inscriptions OF
welcome - Three cheers for our
heroes of the arctic!" Greetings to
the interchangeable fighter, friend
teacher!"
The drone Of innumerable air
planes sound overhead as the
planes symbolizing the rescue of the
Chelyuskinites mix with the joyful
shouts of the hundreds of thou
sands of people assembled to meet
Professor Schmidt, a member of the
single family of Soviet workers.
Members Of the government are
present on the platform. A CIR,
pioneer stands with a bunch of rec
roses in her hand, her face blush
ing. They disappear almost COM
pletely behind a huge baskets Of
fresh flowers brought by delegate,
Of Moscow factories.
The train slows into the station
and Professor Schmidt is seer
standing on the platform of thu
last car with the door open. A
storm of applause and cries of
"Hurrah! Long live Schmidt, here
of the Arctic!" resounds from The
crowd. They all rush to him, greet.
ing and embracing him. The sounc
of the orchestra mingles with tn,
cries of joy.
Professor Schmidt, slightly pale
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
By ALEXANDRA
Gen. Sec, 7. G. L. of Cuba

ZIP TO the present the rela-
y lions between the Y. G. L.
Of the U. S. A. and the Y. c..
L. Of Cuba have been very
poor. This was especially so
because the Y. C. L. of the
U S. A. has given very little
help to the revolutionary youth
movement of Cuba.
Many comrades are well &C
quainted with the responsibility
which comrade Lenin and the Com
munist International have placed
upon the shoulders of Communists
Of the imperialist countries in rela-
ton with the liberation movements
of the oppressed colonies. Many
comrades have made, still make and
probably will make, very excellent
speeches about this, but when we
get down to business, things are
quite different.
Our two Leagues have been talk
ing over the question of relations
for long time. But we did not get
much ahead of that; there were
some letters now and then, a weak
exchange Of materials and that's
about all Lately there was an i'm
provement in this situation but 1t
is still far from wha it should be.
N. Y. District Has Failed in its Task
We ought to give the New York
District chance to say something
about these relations, for it has
patronage over Cuba.
Tell us, comrades Of the D. E. c.
of New York, how many times have
you discussed the Cuban events and
how have you popularized our move
ment and modified the youth in its
support? Tell us, do you really I'M
derstand what patronage is? Does
the rank and file of the New York
District know of this patronage?
Finally, are you really satisfied with
your own work in this respect?
Unfortunately the answers can be
foretold. 1t would be wrong of us
however, to say that nothing has
been done. We have seen your ex-
cellent work in connection with the
WoolWorth strike in Cuba and other
examples, we have received some
financial help from you; you have
helped sell our paper. All this was
well received by the toiling youth
of Cuba. But this is still far toe
little.
Part of the responsibility for such
a situation is to be charged to the
National Committee. which, il
seems, did not really place this
question seriously, had it done so, il
would have demanded much more
work from the New York District
With more attention on the part OF
the N. E. c., there could not have
occurred the situation when while
the Times" and the Party daily
press gave entire columns to the
Cuban General Strike, the YOUNG
Worker did not have a word on it
If the N. E. G. would give more
attention, patronage would have
been really established long ago.
We might add, that from our con.
tact with the leading comrades OF
the Y. c. L. of the U. S. A. we have
gathered that most of them do MOI
know very much about the Cubar
events. This really explains The
cold response of the Y. G. L. mem.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
Decision Check-up
OF New York YCL
Is Still Very Loose
YCL Must Rally Youth
To Fight ChduUinist
Propaganda of Bosses

The Y. C. L. must mobilize
all its forces, energy and init
alive for the struggle against
the chauviniSt and nationalist
propaganda of the capitalist
class. This requires from the
Y. c. L. that it should increas-
ingly propagate the feminist
revolutionary teachings among
the broadest strata of the youth
as well as intensity the strug-
gle for the smallest economic
demands Of the youth and
against their compulsory fss-
citation and militarization. -
From the resolution of the Janu-
airy 1884 Plenum Of the Young
Communist International.
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Soviet Power Is Impossible
Without Winning the Youth"

Without decisive turn among the masses
OF young workers successful struggle against attacks of the
capitalist class intensive preparations for war
ana Tor the establishment revolutionary
SOVIET power is impossible talk
working
he broad masses of workers
resolution of the 9Th Party Convention
Working
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SOUTH AFRICAN ALLIANCE

PRETORIA, South Africa, June
Sd, B. M. Hertzog, Nationalist
Party Leader, today concluded an
alliance with Jan SHUTS of the
South African Party, thus ending
a long feud between the Dutch
and English in the interest of a
neutrality-suspicious. class alliance
against the growing threat of mass
revolt.