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The Washington times., 1934-09-08

Many others have felt that
way before you. There was
one-Walt Whitman-who set
that longing down in passionate
poetry. Whitman is dead, but
his words still hold the fire Of
that same longing which you
are feeling today.
Whitman also did not know
what he meant by "life" or what
he wanted out of life" But I
suspect he had about the same
notions as the rest of us-a shin
ing dream of gallant adventures
and golden rewards. And he,
too, was rebelliouS because his
chance was long in coming.
Day after day he trudged
through that dark, dirty tangle
of streets which lie beneath
Brooklyn Bridge, listening to
the poor carpenters who worked
with him, or the derelicts who
made their dens in those dread
full runwayS, sharing their bit
terness and disbursement,
their loneliness and fear. And
always that cry was going on
and on inside hint want to
live! Give me my chance to
live!"
It was a long time before the
truth struck him-that he was
already having his chance!
While he was doing the jobs he
detested, living in ugly lodgings,
wearing shabby clothes, eating
coarse food, his adventure was
going on-and already, in his
own life and spirit, he was gath
ering the rich rewards which life
reserves for the daring.
He had thought nothing was
happening. He had felt the
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

was never known to have made
any money out of his decades
of political manipulation. Like
many others-most of them,
one might Say-he showed
ahead and gained his place at
a moment when his party was
weak and discouraged. He main
tanned iron discipline. A subtle
Strategist, he kept his amateur
standing. That is, there was a
sort of artistic detachment in
his deft fingers, weaving deli
cate strands of power, rather
than reaching out for loot.
It was under the tutelage of
the skilled Roscoe Conkling
that he became a practitioner of
the art of roping and hog
tying opponents with silken
threads.
There you have the smooth
urbanite, and here you have
me big, red-faced, curly-haired,
blonde, blue-eyed and good ma
tured Tom Taggart, of Indiana,
the Irish immigrant boy who be-
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
LISTEN, WORLD
By Elsie Robinson

callouses thickening on his
hands, seen the gray hair dim
ming his youth, and thought
bitterly that this was all life
held for him. Yet all the time
because he had dared to go
with life even though she Of
fered him only a narrow trail
rewards had been coming to
him.
He had not recognized them,
because he had quite a differ
ent picture of rewards in his
mind-a glittering, childish pic
ture. That foolish picture had
blinded his eyes to the truth.
Now, suddenly, he saw the
truth. The real rewards OF
wide and brave living were not
shining toys. they were Ille
things of the spirit.
Courage, curiosity. tolerance.
tender IS, understanding.
These were the real rewards OF
life-and often they made exist
ence harder, sadder, more dan
gerous. But the chance to live
wider and deeper was worth it
all.
Rough prizes-that was what
life gave the brave. Rough
prizes that glorified the mean
est or most painful experience.
And out of the wonder Of that
discovery, Walt Whitman wrote
a great, triumphant song in
which Life speaks to a man
"The Song of the Open Road
Here is one verse from ia
verse that will arm and tran
spire you in the darkest hour
if you will make it your own:
Listen! 1 will be honest with
you;
I do not offer the old, smooth
prizes, but offer rough, new
prizes.
These are the days that must
happen to you:
You shall not heap up what is
call'd riches;
You shall scatter with lavish
hand all that you earn or
achieve;
You but arrive at the city to
which you were destin'd, you
hardly settled yourself to
satisfaction before you are
called by an irresistible call
to depart;
You shall be treated to the
ironical smiles and mockings
of those who remain behind
you;
What beckonings of love you
receive, you shall only an
Swer with passionate kisses Of
parting;
You shall not allow the hold
of those who spread their
reach'd hands toward you"
Copyright, 1884. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

lines and radio broadcastS. He
is not getting down to the busi-
ness of individual cases.
His coWorEerS, meaning prom
ine1t Democrats, contend that
the brunt of the election bur-
den is falling on them and
that the chairman 1OiL pay
little or no attention to any
situation that he can't discuss
oUer q nationwide hook-up.
The condemnation comes from
those that say Mr.. Farley should
put his experienced shoulder to
the political wheel and push
the small boys through the mire.
They want the country circu-
larized with messages that will
be beneficial to particular COM
munities. They are anxious to
have the committee get down to
serious work.
They want Mr.. Farley to "get
down and dign
Certain diplomats didn't like
the sound of Secretary of War
Dern's recent statement in which
he advocated an additional 49,
900 men for the Army.
For some gears the powerS
that govern the strength of
our military forces haze agree
ably listened to propaganda to
cut instead of increase the
standing Army.
Composed of 125,000 men, in
cluding the Philippine Scouts,
the American Army has been
skeleton compared to other
forces of the world.
But the repeated protests
against "militarism" have given
pacifistic persons basis for pro-
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

teStationS against increasing its
strength.
Now Secretary Dern advocates
an increase of 10000 men.
Diplomatic channels have been
filled of late with messages to
foreign governments expressing
concern over Dern's proposal.
Their emisSaries are expected
to flood the country with more
propaganda against "militar-
ISM"
A survey probably will show,
however, that the voices that
will cry out against any increase
Of our standing Army emanate
from countries with military
forces much larger than our
own.
Around this town there floats
a document which purports to
be comprised of actual excerpts
from letters received at a Gov
ernment emergency agency.
Some of the most touching
follow:
"I cannot get sick pay. 1 have
six children can you tell me
why this is?"
"Mrs. Brown has no clothing
for a year and has been regu-
larly visited by the clergy"
II am forwarding my mar
riage certificate and my two
children, one of which is mis-
take you see."
81 am writing to say that my
baby was born two years old.
When do 1 get my money!"
II am sending my marriage
certificate and six children. I've
had seven, one died which was
baptized on half a sheet of
paper by Rev. Thomas"
Officials of the Federal HouS-
ing Administration are hiding
their heads these days.
A recent plan provided for
the invitation of 500 newspaper
men to the auditorium of the
National Press Club.
The scribes were to witness a
preview of a film which will be
shipped all over the country to
boost the housing program. Re-
freShments were to be served.
Someone forgot to mail the
invitations and the only guests
were about IS men who had re-
ceived the invitation orally.
They saw the film, made
huge inroads into the refresh
ments that were intended for
500 guests.
But the Housing Administra-
ton will be forced to arrange
the entire show all over again.
lCnnXrigh ht. 1874 The Mashington Times.N
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
Wise Words

Make yourself an honest man,
and then you may be sure that
there is one less rascal in the
world.
Who boards up his ,,old and
hides it in corners, lives with
out friends and dies without
mournerS.
He who Stabs my name, would
stab my person If he burst.
If the eye do not admire, the
heart will not desire.
A fool may chance to put
something in a wise mans head.
Adversity is the true scale for
the weighing Of friendship.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

have no def
mite plan as
to what life
S h o u d be.
B u t 70 u'r e
sure it should
be something
splendid and
exciting, and
you're bitter
and rebellious
because t h e
y e a r S a r e
passing and
YOUR chance
to live-really
live-has not
vet cOn0e
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

ground.
Postmaster
James A. Far
ley, chairman
Of the Demo
cratic Nation
al Committee,
Is being given
the Sub-roSa
razZberry by
his colleagues.
With elections
approaching,
Jim, they say,
Is paying too
much atten-
ton to ma
tional head.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
Rough Prizes"

Rough Prizes"
Sometimes you drop the tire
some, commonplace things you
are doing, and a fierce, long
ing sweeps through you like a
great cry.
YOU WANT TO LIVE!
You don't know exactly what
Vol mean by those words. You
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
A Dogs Life
Well Take It

When the Italian steamship Conte di savoia, arrived
the other day Dede Moore granddaughter of the late
Adolf Gobel shot dog king, was travelling in third
class Her half fare ticket cost $50.
Her mother and her mothers maid also were in third
class quarters their tickets costing $118 each but Pansy
the family Scotte in kennel the top deck with
a steward feeding him fancy biscuits and creamed
chicken to the tune of $201 for the passage
Who said anything about "dog's lfe"?
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
The Greatest Shoe
On Earth
By John Snure, Jr.

Internal rumblings among the
Democrats may be heard II one
puts his ear to the political
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

PERILS that beset the business and the tax
payer what with all these queer fish in government
that have nowadays, are shown by Mr.. Powers
above. He has put the two in bathysphere, that
newly invented device for exploring the oceans Depths
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
NARRY-GO-ROUND
By Helen Rowland

Understanding Husbands
It's so hard for an outsider
to know whether the husband
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

and sent them down to what it is all about. They
look if they would like to get back to the surface
as soon as possible if not sooner One hundred and
twenty million other Americans feel much the same
way. They fear that if they go any deeper, they'll
never get their heads above water again.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

WASHINGTON
d. c. - ~
j. j. Fitzpatrick managing editor ~
The daily worker., 1934-01-06
By Ellis

came. The steel plants began to
reduce production. The workers
were thrown out of the plants. In
1880 the production of steel was
reduced so per cent, the banks began
to close one after the other. Homes
which the workers considered as
their own were taken away from
them, despite the fact that they
worked on them 20 years. and so
the steel workers were robbed on
all fronts. And those workers who
only yesterday believed in the borr-
geois nonsense that they will be able
to live a happy life, began to wake
lp, because their savings which they
spared from the long years of hard
labor passed into the same hands
where it came from.
Steel plants where tens of thou
sands of workers not long ago were
working, stand now with smokeless
furnaces, as If they would call the
workers: Come and take us into
your hands and master U.S." But
some workers are still waiting for
something to happen. They are
walking the streets of Gary hungry
and In torn clothes. A few weeks
ago Doctor Roosevelt began to cure
decaying capitalism with the prom
Use OF providing state work and city
work, but very little do the workers
gain from it. because an insignifi-
cant number Of workers benefit by
this work.
Unemployment is growing more
and more each day. Thousands of
workers are discharged daily, are
thrown out from the plants. For
the proletarian masses Of America
there Is only one way QUITO in
tensify the struggle for Unemploy-
ment Insurance and adequate relief
for the unemployed, for increased
wages for the employed and for a
shorter working day, without cut in
pay, for q stronger united front of
the workers in the struggle with the
exploiters, against fascism, against
imperiatst wars and against the
yellow nisleaders of the workers
L
The daily worker., 1934-01-06
In Gary, Ind,
Domain of Steel

by q Worker Correspondent
GARY, Ind.-The city Of Gary, m
the western part OF the state Of In
diana, is situated on high ground
near Lake Michigan. Thirty years
ago nobody could even think that
here could grow up such a big in
dustrial city Of 40 thousand resi-
dents, where the biggest steel plants
Of the Illinois Steel Co. are concen-
trated.
Remember the years 1916 to 1917
and 1913, when these steel plants
were busy manufacturing materials
for the World War. The plants
operated In two shifts II hours each
for the lowest wages. Capitalist
agents gathered the workers from
the streets and forced them to work
in the steel plants; and then the
year of 1919 came, and they began
to cut the wages of the workers.
The workers began to organize
themselves in the American FEEDER
alton Of Labor and In September Of
that year they went out on strike
which in the beginning looked as
though 1t would be successful but
thanks" to the treachery Of the
A. +. Of L. leaders the strike was
broken and the workers were forced
10 return to work with the gain that
in some departments they will work
s hours a day at reduced wages.
The workers began to forget their
offense. The steel companies be-
gan to persuade the workers to buy
parcels Of land and build their own
houses, because in that city every
thing belongs to the steel trust and
as long as the workers will have
their own homes, they will be COM
PEELED to work for low wages. Things
went smoothly for a while.
WORKERS FIRED
Some obtained their own houses,
others began to save their earnings
for rainy day in the so-called
guaranteed banks" of which there
were 13 in the city. The year 1928
The daily worker., 1934-01-06

the Socialist Party already had
erased all references to the class
struggle in its platform, since it
seemed to these gentlemen that
Hoover prosperity" and Henry
Ford had dissolved the class
struggle in new solvent of @or-
ganized capitalism;" so spoke the
Daily Worker when the spokesmen
OF the Wall Street ruling class were
writing tons of books about the
failure Of Marxism to apply to the
new miracle Of Hoover prosperity:
so spoke the Daily Worker when
the various renegade groups, the
Trotzkyites, the Lovestonites, in par
ticular, were grovelling in awe be-
fore the apparently flawIess power
of Wall Street imperialism. This
was in the Summer of 1929.
AND then the hurricane struck.
"A The Daily Worker, basing it
The daily worker., 1934-01-06
HOLD THE FORT

We meet today in freedoms cause
And raise our voices hight
Join our hands in Union strong
To battle or to die!
Chorus:
Hold the fort for we are coming
Union men be strongl
Side by side we battle onward
Victory will corneI
Look my comrades, soc tsae union
Banners waving high,
Reenforcements nov appearing,
Victory m night
r,A... a tas.oss vsi a6T
Fierce end long the battle RACES
But We win not fear,
Help VII come whenever needed,
Cheer iAy comrades, cheeri
c"WNl -sasa=ss2sre
The daily worker., 1934-01-06
They Said the U. S.
" as an Exception

self on the teachings Of Marxisnz
Leninism, was proven the only coEs
rect voice in the entire range oe
American political analysis.
1t was able to do this because
the Daily Worker basis itself upon
the theory Of Marxism-Leninisrn.
It followed the line laid down
with knife like sharpness by Stain.
far back in 1927, two years before
the crisis smashed down:
''Out of capitalist stabiIiEation
itself, there is growing up the pro-
foundeSt and severest crisis Of
world capitalism, a crisis which
viii completely upset this stabiTis
xation."
Compared to such penetrating An.
alysis, which the Daily Worker pre-
sented to the American working
class as the guide to its actions and
struggles, the most pretentious uts
terances Of the capitalists can now
be seen as the ignorant mutterings
OF people who are stone blind
blinded by their ruling class inteEs
estS.
The daily worker., 1934-01-06
Daily AS A Fighter
For the Unemployed
Sion Of the workers movements.
WON RELIEF FOR JOBIESS

sion Of the workers movements.
WON RELIEF FOR JOBLESS
Millions Of dollars in relief have
been won by the jobleSs workers
In many cities Of the country, only
for the reason that a mass struggle
was put up. that this struggle was
led and organized by the Unem-
plyods Councils and the Communist
Party. Thousands Of evictions have
been stopped, single men have won
relief, strikes have stopped forced
labor, relief has been increased in
hundreds Of localities because the
unemployed workers fought and
demonstrated and organized in mass
struggle. In this daily fight for the
local and immediate needs Of the
unemployed, the Daily Worker has
played an important role.
The Daily Worker has given the
news Of the fight Of the umem-
ployed, which in itself is important.
Where the capitalist pres has he'd
or suppressed news, the Daily Worker
has exposed the true relief situa-
ton, the starvation of the workers.
the refusal to give relief, the dis
elimination and terror. But the
Daily Worker has done more than
this: It has given daily guidance
to the unemployed movement con-
cretizing the line of the Communist
Party and Unemployed Councils in
the daily struggle, giving the next
step in the fight for the demands
of the unemployed.
The misleaders Of the A. F. OF L.
and the Socialist party, in the face
Of the mass movement of the work
ers for unemployment insurance, led
by the Communist Party, were
forced to abandon their opposition
to any form of social insurance,
Instead, they came out for a form
of limited" social insurance. The
The daily worker., 1934-01-06

lIp in ranks In
'front.' of the
8ucks, and march
an through the
streets of the steel
and soft coal CEN
ser Of the coun-
ary. 1t is the
western column Of
the First National
Hunger March. At
the front Of the
Solunln and along
aile sides delegates
are sellin s g the
Daily w orker.
ANauu ~ flaoSa da
The daily worker., 1934-01-06
japanese Communist
Party Creets DAILY

o the revolutionary Japan where thou-
SoS lie IN prison for dangerous thoughts" and our leaders
are murdered by police the monarchy of
e Mkaoo the most cruel and autocracy that darkns
the world with oppression In nie of s o,;ttor 80
egV japanese imperialism staggering (but to It's DOOM
as us starving tong masses rapidly rally around the banner of
the peoples revolution for rice land ard freedom
Although Japanese Imperialism and American imperialism are
deadly enemies rivals for the China the toers of America
anu Japan nave no interest in fighting battles of their
poee put on the contrary help other by each over
throwing their imperialism "
ece we nan uie Tenth Anniversary Daily Worker
as evidence that the American proetariat is doing its part to
put an end to Imperialism America as we are doing tn es
tabish Soviet Japan
-Secretarist, Cepnmunist Party Of japan
The daily worker., 1934-01-06

btle OWl1SLllY wise
Harvard profess
sors.
ThrOug hout
the crisis, the
Daily Worker
has been the
only solid, firm
platform upon
W h j C h t h e
American work
ing class could
rest.
The d lily
Worker a ! o n e
foreSaw the in
pyitahla descent
The daily worker., 1934-01-06
CAME THE
"NEW DEAL"

In March, the smiling. smooth,
Roosevelt rode in, the knight who
would rout the forces of "capitaI-
ist rugged individualism, who would
bring in New Deal" who would
end the crisis.
From the very first, the Daily
Worker alone has been telling the
truth about the Roosevelt program.
exposing it as the program of Wall
Street, as the program of the big
Wall Street trusts. The Daily
Worker alone has been ripping ali
the trappings out of Roosevelt'z
publicity of revival" revealing its
rotten basis.
Throughout the summer, for ex-
ample, when the index OF steel pro-
duction was rising upward like the
mercury in thermometer under
which some one had lit a match.
and when the capitalist press was
screaming headlines about the long-
awaited "upturn," the Daily Worker
turned the knife of its Marxist-
feminist analysis upon these de~
Ivelopments and revealed the grove
ing cancer Of the crisis within the
dying body Of American capitalism,
In June, for example, the Daily
Worker said:
THE current steel boom is based
ON rotten foundation. The main
consumers of steel, auto, rail-
roads and construction are nOS
buying, because there are ne
markets. Steel will collapse. The
Roosevelt boom is headed for n
sleeper fan than its rise"
Today, who can doubt that ths
Daily Worker was right and every
single capitalist paper from the New
York Times TO the gutter sheets
were dead wrong2
In April, when Roosevelt was
talking so confidently about the end
of the financial crisis, only the Daily
Worker declared that:
Current budget crisis, the es4
fort to raise prices, the drive for
foreign markets, leads inevitably
to further initiation, to further
financial crisis -
Who was right, the Daily Worker
or Roosevelt? Who was right, the
Daily Worker or the liberal pro-
feSsorS, the capitalist economists, the
high and mighty papers of Wall
Street2
The Daily Worker is the only
paper In America which thus gives
its readers the realities Of modern
American development. That h
what has enabled it to be organizer
OF the workers against the wage
slavery of Wall Street, against the
assault Of the capitalist dogs oe
hunger and exploitation.
The daily worker., 1934-01-06
BY MILTON HOWARD

IN 1929, like in some smashing
hurricane, the crisis struck the
proud vessel Of American capital
ism, and struck panic into the
hearts of the capitalists, into the
confident minds Of the liberals, and
The daily worker., 1934-01-06

elsewhere - in
the present sit
nation in the
United States.
4" The very
rapidity of the
growth of the
productive forces
in the United
States becomes
in itself a power
fuI factor for the
In { e f1Sif1cati0n
and acceleration
Of the general
crisis Of capi-
talisln the
coming of an
economic crisis
viii Immediately
sharpen { h e
contradict o n s
inherent in Am
erican capital
ism !"
SO the Daily
Worker spoke at
sho k;v..o 49,.
The daily worker., 1934-01-06

A LONG line OF battered trucks
a and touring cars halts at the
Eity limits Of Pittsburgh, on a bitter
cold, snowy day in December, 1881.
Hlndreds Of workers diSnount, line
The daily worker., 1934-01-06

of the present crisis 1t was in the
sunny days Of May 1929 when every
the eager capitalist servants in the
White House were basking SO COM
placently in the sun of an appar-
emily limitlesS road of ever-mount-
ing Wall Street stock prices, that
the Daily Worker, small, in COM
parison to the million-fold circula-
tion of the capitalist press, ignored
by the vast prosperous" middle
class and unknown even to the
majority of the American masses,
proclaimed with unerring truth:
"AH of the main features OF
the third period of the postwar
crisis Of capitalism as revealed in
the analysis of the Sixth World
Congress Of the Communist In
ternational, are nlanifesting them
seiyes-sOme more sharply than
The daily worker., 1934-01-06

HIS lying promises during his
campaign, to grant social insurance.
and his refusal to consider granting
unemployment insurance VIII n
eiected-hiS refusal to increase relief.
and his institution of mass layoffs as
a part of the N. r. A., all of these
acts. are exposed in the Daily
Worker.
This daily newspaper of the work
ing class Is Indispensable to the I'M
employed workers of the United
States. Now, in the fight for Jobs
or relief from the Roosevelt govern
ment, in the fight for the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill, In the
preparations for the national con-
vention of the unemployed In Wash
ington, D. c., Feb. 8, 4, 5, the Daily
Worker is acting as an agitator and
organizer.
The unemployed, in the fight
against hunger, are playing an i'm
portant part in the STRENGTHENING
and the building of the Daily
Worker into a more powerful mass
weapon of the working class.
The daily worker., 1934-01-06

" ~
a powerful wea-
pom in exposing
these fake "unem-
ployment insur-
q n C e" schemes.
T he D a lily"
showed that these
schemes take the
funds fr ON the
po k e is of the
workers instead of
from the employ
ers, that they dis
bar most unem-
ployed from re-
sewing relief and
that they protect
the employers by
sxempting the m
tr m supplying
;he funds.
The New Deal"
Of Roosevelt came
and the Daily
Worker constant
" exposed Roose-
gelt'S den1aQoey.