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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-03
Card Parties

Liederkranz Ladies Society will
entertain with a card party at BIS
tomorrow night in the hall, 1921
East Washington street. with Mrs.
Anna Mahon, chairman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-24

This is the sixth Of the series of
articles on the theories and prac-
tees of Austrian Social Democracy
delivered as a speech by one Of the
leading theoreticians Of the Com
munist International before a ses-
sicn of the Communist Youth In
ternat,onaI more than a year ago.
In the preceding articles, Man
uiIsIzy showed how Austrian So
cial-Democracy with Otto Bauer at
its head betrayed the Austrian
workinr-cIass into surrendering its
power step by step into the hands
of reaction. He showed how Otto
Bauer taught the Austrian working
class that the creation of a Soviet
Government was impossible in Aus
tria, thus leading with this theory
inevitably to the reviving of all the
forces Of defeated Austrian capital
ist reaction.
In tcdzy's article, Manuilskv dis
cus-es Bauers Fascist theory
that Central Europe could not take
the. same path as the victorious
Russian Revolution Of 1917.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-24
~ D>ocEot~
.,.AIGEzZGan OGl
QdL,(4PA:
: By PAUL LUTTINGER, MID.

heartedly agree with the Communist,
when they criticize the wa1lton ster
ilization that occurs in reformatorie
and penitentiaries, and when theT in.
sist that all such work be don y
competent specialists.
"There is still a more general MiHl
cism, that Communists might max
regarding eugenics and It's potential
tiles. In capitalist society great mas.
Of people live under very unhygienit
conditions They suffer from malnut.
rition, over-fatigue, impure air, and
host of other factors that condition
their health. The persistent appear
ance Of some diseases in certain peo-
pie might be due less to the inevitable
genes in their germ plasn. and NOR
to a persistent environment TIL
makes the appearance Of the gen,
manifestation possible. So it REM 4ir J,
that eugenics will continue to an
idle dream or a cruel bungling ntil
a society is formed where an unfavor-
able environment can be ruled out as
non-existent. Until then the eugenic-
lists must corlf1ne themselves, in prac-
tice, to a field that is narrow, indeed,
"Comradely yours.
EUGENE BUSET16AN."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-24
(By a Miner Correspondent

WILKES BARRE, Pa.-The SELL
out by Maloney and Father Curran
is now completed. The result can
not be determined yet as to what
the miners will do, once the full raa-
lization of the betrayal becomes APP
parent. One miner told me that
there was talk that the coal COM
panies were going to register all OF
the miners as they return to work
II have not been able to verify this
yet.
1t is interesting to read the local
papers this A. NJ. that while the
strike was on they said that there
was about 10000 miners involved but
this morning the papers state that
35 600 miners have returned to work
OF course, they are wrong in both
instances. There were 10000 miners
striking and not 10000, and they on'y
used the figures of $4,000 returning to
work as means of fooling the work
ers that prosperity had returned to
these workers.
The agreement under which Ma
ioney and Father Curran has sent the
miners back to work under is the
same agreement that The q. M. w. OF
A.and the Anthracite Coal Operators
have at the present time. The refer
ring of the grievances of the miners
to MIR. German, the umpire, that was
selected by John L. Lewis and the
coal operators, can mean but one
thing. that Maloney and Father w.
ran have betrayed the miners into
the hands of the Lewis machine ano
the coal operators, and that the UNI
pire, who Is now in Florida basking
in the sunshine, will take up the
grievances Of the miners at his lei
sure, which may mean next spring,
when the public will want ice and
not anthracite. In the meantime the
operators continue to exploit the
miners even worse than before.
Doh in the Shamokin section in
District a few bankers and ex-
officials Of the Reading Coal Co.
along with some takers have raised
the issue of Saving the Mines" But
they do not say word about saw
ing the miners and their wives and
children. The miners there should
understand, that this is scheme
to obtain money for the coal opera
tors, to pay dividends to the stock
holders of the Reading Coal CO. The
threat to drown out the colleries is
but a subterfuge to cover up the real
issue. The colleries belong to the
Reading Coal Co. and they will not
drown them out If they can secure
some few millions from the govern
nent to pay dividends.
The anthracite miners in the
Shamokin section seem to be much
harder hit than the miners in other
sections. In a family of 10 the girl
who is working must keep the 10,
as her father cannot obtain relief if
there Is a member of the family
working. The girls in the mills there
are organized in the Analgamated,
and many of them are laid off. In
one mill that employed some 1000,
there are only about 200 working.
II these girls along with their parents
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-24
UMWA Officers Spy
On Miners in Utah
By Mime worker Correspondent

By Mine Worker Correspondent
KENILWORTH, Utah.-There have
been various letters by different local
unions of U. M. w. of A. in regard
to the condition Of the miners.
We have the U. M. w. Of A. here
in Kenilworth, and we have an op-
position group working in the local
meetings. Last week, Feb. z, the
local officers of the U. M. w. of A.
took a voluntary cut in their wages
Of so per cent after party members
showed dissatisfaction in their wages,
and also cut the wages of the check
weighman IS per cent which brought
it down to IS cents an hour where he
formerly was getting 81 an hour.
Also, when members in the local
meeting showed that they were not
satisfied with their working condi-
tion, their time was waiting at the
company Office the next night. This
proved to most of us that it is no.
thing but company union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-24
Newark, O., Faction
Seeks to Tie UD
Unemployed Work
BY a worker Correspondent

NEWARK, Oflio.-The Farmer and
Laborer Organization of the unem-
ployed which was organized about a
year ago has had stormy weather at
times. Few of the members had ever
taken active part in organization, and
the conduct of affairs seemed to drift
into the hands of the Drumm fac
ton. Several weeks ago, the rank
and file assumed charge and elected
committee to go to Columbus and
have the G. w. A. workers pay ad-
justed. Some were getting 40 cents
per hour and others SO cents. This
all applied to pick-and- shovel and
wheel-barrow men. The committee
made the demand on a Friday and
the adjustment took effect the next
monday.
Soon after, the organization was
evicted from the convention room of
the Court House. However, the trus-
tees had already rented new home
in the business district, and the F..
and L. never missed session. Two
County Commissioners out of the
three voted to bar the F. and L.
The Drumm faction seems to be
afraid that the bosses will not like
lis. The inner circle held an execu-
tive meeting and framed charges
against the recently elected secretary
ard tried to have the of1ce declared
vacant. It was soon learned that it
was an attempt to retain the good
will of the local political set-up. Mr..
Drurnm served term in the City
Council during the Stevens rule or
ruin" era. He voted with the Gas Co.
group and 10-year franchise was
given to the Gas Co. permitting ex-
cessive rates. The alleged trial Of
the secretary soon turned into a
farce comedy but the wrinkles are
not yet smooth.
It is hoped the rank and file will
not be frightened and permit one
man power to continue
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-24
Struggles in Europe Are Like Electric
Shock to Miners in Gillespie Section
See Local Parallel in Contrast of MiIitancy of
Workers and Treachery of S. P. Leaders

against the miners of Illinois, inc1ud-
ing the Socialist Party leaders, who,
like their brothers in Austria, refused
Communist Party proposal of united
action against war and fascism, and
sabotage every militant move of the
miners. The miners here, particularly
some of the rank and file SIP. men,
bers, are openly talking that they will
demand that the Socialist Party
change its tactics and adopt a united
front for a forceful and a revolution
airy way out of this crisis, or they will
discard it among other relics"
The timely pointing out Of the con-
crete course Of developments by the
EC.C.I. and the Central Committee,
on the world situation, which is now
being confirmed with such potent
force in France and Austria, is raising
the prestige of the Communist Party
very much among the miners. They
are realizing in greater numbers the
correctness of the Communist esti-
mate of the situation and what is
more, the method that this situation
can be met by the working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-24
PARTY LIFE
Worker Asks That ". z. Foste
lake Good Care Of His Heat
Reflects the Sentiments of Many Thousands
Of American Workers

Dear Comrsde Foster: There was
load lifted off my heart as big as
load Of wheat when reading of your
return to the United States and of an
improvement In your health. have
been following your activities and
leadership in behalf of the workers
ever since the great steel strike. 1t is
a crime that there are not more such
loyal leaders Of the workers struggle
such as you and your comrades Of
the Central Committee of the Com
munist Party. have read everything
I could get Of your writings, and I
have the first time yet to see any
evidence Of betrayal of the workers
struggles from your leadership. If we
but had a Foster at the head of the
American Federation of Labor instead
of that betrayer of the workers, Bill
Green! We workers in Coshocton are
beginning to hate the word Green,
with his record Of betrayals of the
workers struggles.
am not Communist Party men,
Der but am in sympathy and support
their program. Am convinced that
only through the united front under
the leadership of the Communists
with their struggle and mass action
program can the workers win Com
rade Foster the class conscious wotll-
ers in America love you and are con-
cerned about your health. We want
you to be careful and fully recover so
you can take your place where you
rightfuly belong at the top leadership.
When the crucial moment arrives we
are depending on you, with the work.
ers backing you and your comrades
by the millions. feel that the work
ers will show how they value your
leadership by joining the Communist
Party and supporting and circulating
the revolutionary press.
Again, Comrade Foster, safeguard
your health, for as you do, the work
ers are also being safeguarded.
Words are inadequate to express
myself fully to you, Comrade Foster,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-24
Campbell Workers Urge
Unity Against N. r. A.
By . Worker CORRESPONDENT

CAMDEN, N. J.-Campbell soup
workers who are now organizing into
the Cannery Workers Industrial
Union have experienced all the fake
maneuvers allotted labor by the N. r.
A. and the new deal.
The Campbell Soup Co. has
answered our demands by using all
efforts to organize a company union
to split the ranks of the workers.
The N. R. A., the new rotten deal,
must stand exposed to every rank
and file member and to all workers
as a united front Of the bosses TO
drain the American workers to lowest
possible starvation wages. The @. w,
I. u. must answer the bosses with
a united front of workers and lead
them in united mass denonstra-
ton of all labor organizations in
Camden, elect delegates to visit all
labor organizations, invite and mobil-
ize them for set date to answer the
bosses new deal and all rotten deals
by the N. r. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-24
Otto Bauer Trapped AUSTRIAN
Workers With False Theories
Protected the austrian BourgeOisie With the
Fraud of Capitalist Democracy

ploded Just as effectively as was the
Brest-Litovsk peace, which was
forced on the pro,etariat of the US
SR. by German imperialism. 1t was
precisely the capitulation of social
democracy to imperialism and its be-
trayal of the prolstarian revolution
in Central Europe into small parts
which led to the terrible situation
into which the Allies thrust the work
ing masses Of Austria, converting the
country into a kind Of Monaco fol
themselves.
otto Bauer and the Austrian So
ciaI-democrats are never tired OF
harping on the example of the Hun
garian soviet power - which was
crushed.
But the Hungarian Soviet Republic
fell for the very reason that it was
betrayed by the Social-Democrats of
the Central Empires-and above all
by Austrian social-denocracy.
Do the Austrian workers remem-
Der how Otto Bauer, who was For
eign Minister in in 1919, made the
excuse Of neutrality ard refused the
request to issue part Of the weapons
from the arsenaIs Of the late Aus
Hungarian army for the Hum
~arian Republic, watch was being
bed to death?
Another reason why the Hungarian
Soviet Republic fell was because the
Communist Party made the mistake
Of believing the Hungarian Social
Democrats, and making an alliance
with hem. And it is known that no
sooner had the first difficulties ap-
peared than Hungarian social-deno-
crazy. stabbed the Hungarian p~ole-
tartan dictatorship in the back, Fin
ally. The tra~ic end -. the HUNGARIAN
Soviet Rapublie was connected wi h
the fact Otto Bauer and the whole
4 OF the Second International, either
by heir neutrality or By direct sup
port, helped the intervention of the
bourgeoisie against the p-o' riar
revolution in the U. S. S. R. The
/ RUsgian workers and peasants had to
defend themselves against the inter
vention organized by ENGLAND and
France. .arains1 the armies Of Denikin
and Ko,chak, against the Szecho-
Slovaks. etc; they were cut of from
the FunTarian prolatariat, And now
Otto Bauer cites the tre2chery Of
the Austrian and German social
/ democrats as an objective" law dem
/ ons rating the inevitabi1ity of the
defeat OF revolution in Central Eu-
rope!
But why was the proletarian rev.
luton bound to be defeated in the
revolu ionary conditions of 1918
while Austria alone, divided and par
titioned. must, in the opinion of Otto
Bauer, now stand firm as an island
OF democracy in the midst of ring
Of European fascism (Germany, Italy
Jugo-Slavia, Hungary, etc.?
Is there a shade Of logic, Of po-
| Iitical sense in all this?
TO be continued.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-24

but may you live long in the int,
Of the toilers.
A COMMON LAHORE
L. H, Coshocton, Ohio.
Note BY Editor
We are publishing the above Il
written by a worker to Comrade
ter not only because we believe it
presses the feeling Of the wort
throughout the country regal II
Comrade Foster, but particular NS
cause this worker points the " !
all workers who love and value Al
rade Foster. Conrade Foster ii
recuperating from his long illness.
the class-conscious workers of Anne
can show their appreciation of
leadership and their joy at his
turning health in no better way t
joining the Party of which he
leader, the Communist Party of u
Comrade Foster has asked us
publishing this letter to add his {
personal appeal to the Amer
workers to join the only party WI
leads the struggles Of the workers
better conditions, against wage C
for unemployment insurance, agai
war and fascism, and for the fl
overthrow of the capitalist syster
the Communist Party.
Give your answer to Comrade F
ter in the recruiting drive. Join
Communist Party!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-24
By D. z. MANuILsKY

There is no doubt, of course, that
the p~cletariat Of the U.S.SR. was
helped by the extent of its territory.
But the prole5arian revolution in
Central Europe would have ENLARGED
this territory and strengthened the
de1ences Of the proletariat Of the US.
SR. and Of Central Europe. And this
territory would have increased not
only in military, strategic and
geographical sense, but in a political
sense too. Can you so diStcrt facts
as to pretend that the revolution in
Central Europe Yves a revolution in
an Austrian province isolated from
all the outside world, and therefore
doomed to defeat? In 1918 the point
at issue was a proletarian revolution
IN Central Europe. in the very coun-
tries where productive forces, to a far
greater extent than the productive
forces of tzarist Russia, were ripe for
socialism. Could not the proletarian
revolution in Central Europe, finding
its support in the proIetarian revo-
luton Of Russia. have evoked a
mighty response in other capitalist
countries. have led the proletariat of
other countries to follow suit? A
revolution in Central Europe would
have reversed the whole balance of
international forces. L would net only
have met with response in the Bal
kans, but would have brought the
French and British proietariat into
such a revolutionary state that, even
if we suppose that the proletarian
revolution had not conquered there,
the British and French proletariat
would have upset the intervention Of
the capitalist world, just as they
helped to upset the intervention of
the capitalist world in Russia. The
burden Of Versailles would not have
been forced on the proletariat of
G entral Europe. The Versailles
peace" treaty would have been ex-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-24
TazeWeII, Tenn,
Miners Jailed
By a Mine Worker Correspondent

By Mine Worker Correspondent
TIzEWELL, Tenn-we are still in
Tazeweu Jail. We have been in here
ever since Dec. 18th for lack of a $500
bond. Sheriff Riley won't aHcept
anybody that would make our bond
because he is a tool Of the coal COM
panies.
Sheriff Riley thinks that he is
getting the Reds out of here but he
is Just making me redder every day
that I stay here. We get just about
half enough to eat. He gives us just
enough to keep from having to bury
us. They have framed up six Of us
for grand larceny. Our trial comes
up March It'll.
I have wrote to the I. L. D. when
we got in here, but haven't heard
from them. I guess they didn't get
my letter because the dirty dick here
at TazewelI will do anything against
the poor farmers and workers. 17
I would like to have the Daily
Worker in here to read or some books
but there is no chance for us to get
them as we are all without money.
l would write more but I haven't got
the paper and can't get stamps,
There are lots Of our people that
come here to see us and the jailer
won't let them come in to see us.
Editors Note:-The 1. L. D. has
been notified of this case. We are
Withholding the name of the writer.
We are also taking steps to try to
get the literature to these workers.
Is some reader of the "Daily Work
or" willing to subscribe for one
month for these Jailed southern
miners?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-24
Negroes Hit Most
BY CWA D SIN SsalS
In South Carolina
by a Negro Worker Correspondent

(By a Negro Worker Correspondent
COLUMBIA. S. CT am writing
you, informing you on conditions in
South Carolina. On the 18th the
bosses cut off a very LARGE number of
Negroes to one white man all over
South Cardinals Project No SO Camp
Jackson cut of 1E9 Negroes, IS whites.
Project No. 17n71 cut of all the Ne
groes. This is the New Deal in S. G.
The governor of South Carolina
says the workers can go to the rivers
and catch some fish. He soys b'or'--
berries will soon be ripe and the
workers can live on such food, mean
ing the NEGROES. Maybe next winter,
he saws, he will start another New
Teal for the workers in South Car
DINA.
Also. the Chain Gang is run over
with Negroes all over South Carolina.
They don't put white men on the
gang any more in South Carolina.
Plenty of our young Negro girls are
in the jails in South Carolina. We
pray the day may soon come when
we Negroes will be free in the South
land.
Also am informing you that on
Feb. 4, on SUNDAY night. IL rolice
nd deputy-sheriff came to Com
rade John Casters house and tried
to take his little boy, IL years cd, to
jail just because the boy and a white
boy had some words. After they could
not get the boy, they wanted to take
Comrade Castor to Jail without q
warrant This is part of the New Deal
that we Negroes get in South Carolina
Also in the year 1882 the Deputy
Sheriff, Author Price, and the sheriff
of Richland County jumped on Cas-
tor in the Court House and beat him
up very badly. One year from this
they wanted to kill Castor because he
is a member of the LID. The same
night they came to my house looking
for him. The sheriff hates me and
Castor and all the Negroes around
here.
There is plenty Of white terrorism
in South Carolina. We LID. COM
TdQ6S here DISK you W uclldl4u 4AOIli
the governor of South Carolina to
keep his hands off John Castor, and
all other Negroes in our LID. Branch
in Columbia, S. G.
The comrades here long to see the
day come when the Daily Worker
will be read in every workers home in
South Carolina because this is the
only paper that fights for Negro
rights in the U.S.A. They say that
what the LID. needs here in South
Carolina is some white comrade to
work with the Negroes like they do in
New York and other large cities.
Comrades, it is plenty to be down here
in the South.
Please ask the C.P. to write all the
Negroes and white-in
South Carolina demanding stop to
chain gangs for Negroes in South
Carolina because only Negroes are put
on the gang now. Please ask the party
to take this matter up with the state
of South Carolina at once.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-24

Pros and Cons Of Sterilization
CDR. Paul Luttinger
New York City
Dear Sir,
81 have read articles in the Daily
Worker and Young Worker about
sterilization, that, to me, seem quite
absurd. In the February 18th issue OF
the Young Worker on page two, ]
read this headline: 'Fiendish Drive
Against Detroit Youth Revealed as
Secret Sterilization of Sixty One
Young Workers Is Exposed
THAT sterilization is practiced in
Germany, with only the fiendish pur-
pose of intimidating the workers, is
not surprising, for there the rulers
are f1ends; but in the United States,
thank God, we have gangsters to rule
us, and they would hardly try such
thing.
"a number of diseases (haemo-
philia, idiocy, etc. and perhaps
some criminal tendencies have been
proved heritable. Such diseases and
tendencies are expensive to society,
and sometimes cause the afflicted
persons no small amount of misery
and pain; therefore, if there is a
means of preventing these people
from having children, without de-
priving them of the pleasures Of
life, no one should attack such
means as f1endish or undesirable.
Such humane measure, I think, is
sterilization. CThe Young Worker
article, mentioned above, describes
sterilization as deserving. This is mis-
leading).
'It win never do for Communists
to belittle important discoveries in
medicine; such attitudes, I like to
think, are found only among half
witted fascists. However, I whole
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-24

tBy Mine Worker Correspondent
GILLESPIE, Ill.-The development
Of revolutionary action in France and
Austria and the heroic struggle of the
German working class against fas-
cism is acting like an electric shock
to the miners of this section. There
are numberless little groups on the
corners, in the bar-roons and pool
rooms, discussing the heroic fight of
the Austrians, and the admiration of
the way the French workers showed
their united fist against the French
imperialists
Last evening at the local union
meeting, a resolution was passed
which in part reads: Resolved that
we give moral and material support
to these militant workers in their
fight against fascism."
The revolutionary action of the
Austrian workers, the Socialists and
Communists, over the heads of the
Social-Democratic leaders inspires the
miners here. The miners feel the need
Of unity as weapon against the mani
fold types of misleadership practiced