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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
vi.
Karl August Wittfogel

THERE was a time, not so long
ago, when historical work
from the pen of DR., Karl August
Wittfogel was hailed as "monu-
mental" as mastery" as "fas-
cinating' by the entire press, re-
CARELESS of political direction. Uni
versity professors who today have
long since made their private peace
with the fascist regime, Wed with
each other in recognition of the SCI
entiflc achievement Of Wittfogel.
Today this man is ircarcerated in
a prison in Frankfurt on the Main.
Appreciation of the forces which
have shaped world history in the
past, means at the same time rec
ognizing and supporting the ten
denotes which will form the future.
But the sort of task now assigned
to the German historian-namely
sublimation Of Prussian militarism
as the meaning and substance of
world events, of the diZzying in
toxcation Of the national myth, of
the childish eocentricty of the Nazis
all signifies complete destruction
of sound methods of scientific
thought.
Slowly, very slowly, outside of the
state universities system, historic
point of view began to win through
in Germany, which took over the
latest results of the thought of all
other branches of science, and tried
to bring the knowledge of the past
into a meaningful relation with the
vital forces of the present. To the
historical works of this time belong
the writings of young Wittfogel--
Primal Communism and Feudal-
ism" (Urkommunismus und Feud-
alismus); History of Bourgeois
Society" ode wissenschaft der
buergerlichen Gesellschaft).
This man. descendant of an old
family of teachers and preachers,
seemed called to personify dying
epoch's ideal of the student. His
road through doubts, recognitions,
and scientific achievements, into the
concentration camp, is, symptomatic
of the development followed by the
best portion of the bourgeois youth
of Germany in the last two decades.
An awakening and despairing gen.
Grafton, filled with a romantic and
rather musty youthful instinct for
revolt, made for itself an outlet in
the Youth Movement. The name of
Karl August Wittfogel has good
ring in the history of the German
Youth Movement. 1t was he who
brougJ to close the most impor-
tant epoch of this movement. His
flaming speech on the @Hohen
Meissner," introduced the decay Of
the old forms and the activizing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
The Forging of Literature
And Steel in Asiatic Siberia

and work in land where man is
master Of his own destiny.
Chenishov is an udarnik. (shock
brigader) at Kuznetsk. Worked on
construction. He was leaving in a
few days to join the Red Fleet. The
sea still calls to him, and the zen
who work or ships.
He reads one of his poems:
"Udarniks Of the Sea"
Then "A Flower in 4 Workers
Room"
Evidently the audience knows this
well. AS he reads can see the lips
Of the audience repeating It after
him. Visual tribute to a poet who
speaks their language.
The audience shouts MOP when
he asks If they are tired.
So he reads one more piece, from
an unfinished work called Metal
Worker" Then he sits down in
cloud OF applause. How proud these
workers are Of one of their ownl
Chernishov's first volume Of verse
is being published now in Novosi-
brisk. Soviet literature grows!
HOMRADE Shupletsov gets the
" floor. He works on construction.
A vigorous, hardy worker who comes
in his working clothes. He is
covered with cement, a decoration
OF labor.
After this, whenever anyone tells
me that workers don't love ntera.-
ture, can't appreciate it, I'm going
to answer them with ShupletSov.
He speaks on literature as some
thing OF his own. A something he
treasures, and something he holds
as weapon in the struggle for
socialism. He talks Of literature
and the civil war. And Of Gorky.
And then he c1iticizes the COM
rades who have arranged the meet
ing. It's true, there are many peo-
pie here. Workers, teachers, party
functionaries. But there are no
members of his brigade. Ordinary
black workers" common la.borers.
He flays the comrades because no
one invited them. He himself only
heard of the meeting by chance.
There is a lot Of applause in sup
port.
Comrade Smirnov, on the staff of
"Bolshevik Steel is in the chair.
He calls on g brigade of visiting
foreign writer's.
Here we are: from Australia,
America, Denmark and Spain--in
Stalinsk, on the border Of Asia. We
find common problems with the
workers and writers Of Siberia.
Working class problems We talk
about the workers and writer's Of
our countries, - and the class
struggle
From the outside we hear the
rumble Of the blast furnaces. An
other 80 thousand tons of pig iron
has been tapped from the furnace
to enter into the service of human
ity
When we leave, Bolshevik steel
CLOVIS in the darkness. Tons and
tons more of it, day and night, to
take the load Of human shoulders,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
THE RANK AND FILE COAL
DIGGER, Published at Room 20z,
90 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, Pa.
cents = copy; 50 cents a year.
Reviewed nv
TOM MYERs COUGH

WITH both content and makeup
W reverbersting struggle and
stamping it as the outstanding pub
ncation Of the day for miners, the
Rank and File Coal Digger. official
organ Of the opposition in the va
rious miners unions, makes its sec
ond appearance.
Filled with timely material on the
situation in most Of the mining sec
tions. 1t is none the less mindful Of
the struggles of other strata Of the
working class. Particularly is this
true Of the steel industry. whose
oppressed workers are again tast-
ing the bitter pill Of A F. Of L.
betrayal However, the rank and
f1lers Of these giant twin industries,
steel and COAL have had many
things in common and because
these interests and relationships
still exist, a good account Of either
can be looked forward to in the
struggles that are just ahead for
both miners and steel workers.
Here, Of course, it must be said
that Mike Tighe, Of the Amalga-
mated. and Bill Green have not
stopped the steel strike; they have
merely delayed IT'D
The Coal Digger expresses well
and in readable way the desires
Of those who toll within the esrths
recesses for real One Union in
the industry to replace the many
and varied ones now existing. It
needs waste little time or space on
Lewis and his UNIV. forces. In
fact, the caricature of John L. on
the front page does this job we'll,
but to the rank and file Of the
UMWA. and especially to those
who are entirely new to unionism,
the Coal Digger becomes a real
voice
With regard to the many other
unions, different problem is con-
fronted, for these all exist as re-
suit Of the expressed determination
TO have no more Of Lewis
and his forty thieves" CThe for
ty" should read three or four hun
dred) Among these other miners
unions is the NM.U. National
Miners Union whose record OF
struggle is we'll known and which
was the first to see the need for
that kind OF action which will fill
the miners needs. Then comes the
Progressive Miners Association,
which has its base in Illinois. but
which, despite the oft shown desire
for rank and file action, finds it
self held back by the Pearcy's,
Kecks, Goetzs. and Picks.
With the PIMA, the Coal Digger
must accept the task OF exposing
the true role Of its leadership. My
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
BY WALT CARMON

HE HAD to pick our way carefully
" to get to the meeting hall. To
our right the blast furnaces of the
Kuznetsk Steel plant rose against
the sky like black sentinels. Here
and there pouring metal threw a red
glow against the dark sky.
Four years ago this was a distant
valley hidden in the mountains
of ASiatic Siberia. Today a city of
10000 people lies around a modern
steel plant like a proletarian guard
of honor. And it is not finished.
New roads are being built in
Stalinsk now. New factories. New
homes. New schools. Trenches
line the streets. The earth is up
turned. A new socialist city is in
birth. And a new socialist itera-
ture.
THE meeting is arranged jointly by
1 "Bolshevik Steel" the daily of
Kuznetsk; by the Writers Of Kuz-
netsk; and the readers of Siberian
Lights" whose editor Comrade Tin
has come from Novosibirsk.
Comrade Tin speaks of Soviet
literature, its history, it's service in
socialist construction. He speaks Of
the more than so active literary
groups In Siberia. The latest dis
cussions of the Organization Com
mittee of Soviet Writer'S come to
the audience now like ripples on the
water into which decision has
been cast in distant Moscow.
Yampolsky, an editor of "Bolshe-
vik Steel" speaks warmly on the
work Of two young poets Of Kuz-
netsk. One of them tells his story.
NHENNISHOV is the son of a
v peasant. Born near Moscow. In
his village he wrote songs for the
peasants as long as he can remem-
Der.
When his mother died he came to
Moscow with q piece of bread in
his pocket" All his worldly posses
sions. These were bitter days of
adjustment.
For Is months he was a bezpri-
zhorni (waif). He disliked work. He
could not fit himself into the new
order driving ahead steadily like a
motor toward classics society.
Then he entered a factory school.
In this period his first verse APP
peared in "KomsomolSkaya Pravda. ="
He wrote verse and hated work.
Within year the wanderlust in his
blood again drove him out Of the
factory, For a year and half he
roamed to all corners Of the U,S,S.R.
In 1880 he arrived in Vladivostok,
He made friends, got a, job as sea-
man. This was his post graduate
course, completing his education.
He saw foreign ports. He speaks
about this with bitterness for the
exploiters, and 8 deep sympathy for
his foreign comrades whom he saw
under the lash.
From then on, Cllernishov tells
his audience, he did not want to
see more. He wanted to come back
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
Memories of Harvard Yard

IT WAS in 1910 that Walter
Tribune perhaps visiting dgnitary abroad
the address his
notions of Prof Graham Was Lppmsnn
determined apparently to help wrest the world
will OF men, short time later
schenectady the Socialist ticket Lppmann
secsay Greater things called however and he
came editor of The New Republic founded
tbuted by the Willard Straight family
Messiah arrived the and Lppmann
kept out Of and too proud
months later the Manifest
direction liberal
Princeton More Who's provides rather OBJ
but significant facts
For example that the liberal the
pacihst" Secretary of Baker October
1917 captain in the u Military Intelligence
ton of the War Department.
Capitol Hill in Washington Lppmann editorial
sancm of the New Republic continue writing ponderous high
sounding editorials and liberal until
the Morning World died Lppmann his
swivel chair in the glded dome in Park
life for Mr. pp
Successful When certified merged Morning World with
the New York Telegram
unceremonously et Ippman than
the readers ewri
Tribune negotiated for article
morrow The Lippmann
which the other
terranean cruise with friendThoma
J. P. Morgan.
However whole column: where
will the boys and of the University Michigan class of 1884
obs7
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
". |. r. Protests Arrest
Of Cameraman Lester
Balog in California

NEW YORK-The Workers IN
ternationsl Relief has sent the fol-
lowing letter Of protest to the
Mayor Of Tulare, California, follow
ing the arrest Of Lester Balog,
cameraman of the Film and Photo
League:
Sir
The Workers International Re-
lief, in the name of thousands of
the members, vigorously protest the
arrest Of Lester Balog. a member
Of the Film and Photo League, sec
ton Of the Workers International
Relief.
We demand his immediate and
safe release. We further declare
that the arrest Of Lester Balog is a
vicious attempt to suppress and to
stop him from photographing
brutal police attack on strikers, who
are fighting to better their condi-
lions and the right to organize.
We demand the right to show the
films OF the real conditions in
America today.
Hands of our workers camera
men! Hands off workers movie
shows We hold you responsible
for this suppression Of the workers
news, and the arrest Of Lester
Balog, We demand his immediate
liberation.
Workers international Relief.
New York District.
Pauline Rogers. Secretary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
Remember Woodrow Wilson?

JUST how would MIR Lppmann explain the fact that his
saint who took leading part the Versailles seou
other than the distinguished professor
the crusade to make the world safe for democracy The rhetoric
the famous Fourteen Points than heavily
upholstered style of Mr. Lppmann Yet when putting
the Versailles treaty Wilson representing
tests Mr. Roosevelt does today abandoned his peten Joined
the odd practical politicians business and bankers
The fact is that speeches pretty
make unless want to lift stuff last papers
from the Encyclopedia Britannica therefore shouldn't
hard Mr., Lppmann.
In any event the graduates of the University Of Michigan after
four Of study athletics and advertisements
job Mr. Lppmann suggests getting the wisdom
our society stable and must be
sisent work. 1t be wrested by
must be refined by experience It be clarified by debate
be animated by mpertrbabe faith"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
NeaV Issue ''The Coal
Digger" Reveals Spirit
Of Struggle in Mines

personal observation has been to
see and hear Pesrcy desperately
trying 10 emulate John L. Lewis,
not only IN manner Of speech and
gesticUlation, but also In ssrtoria1
splendor. The fact is that the only
real quarrel between the leader
ships of the UMWA. and the
PIMA. is on the question-who
shall collect the dues and assess
ments?
The membership Of the new Ans
thracite Miners Union must also be
reached through the medium Of the
Coal Digger. for the AM.W.U. cam
not meet the needs Of the miners
Of that poverty-ridden territory
with such leadership as is given
to II by the pyromanisc Capped.
hni and Justice Of the Peace Ma
Ioney.
IT IS agreeably noticeable that
some Of the independent miners
unions are in accord with the Coal
Digger, and 1t is to be hoped that
they will not be frightened away
by the charge that can soon be exc
pected-that the Rank and File
Coal Digger is a Moscow inspired
sheet. But after all, the red her
ring" has been dragged out so long
that it has now lost its smell and
workers are demanding bread and
butter" and other actions that will
bring material and social improve
ments to them.
In general, there is 9 noticeable
over the first issue and
1 am sure that with the further
penetration Of the mine fields by
the Coal Digger there will come an
avalanche of miners correspond
ence which must and will come TO
serve as its outstanding feature in
subsequent issues and thereby re-
fleet the real moods Of the miners
In all coal fields.
The work of the Labor Research
Association is given much space in
the current issue and il can be TAX
en- for granted that the Ira will
continue to serve, but, despite this
valuable service and the fact that
the Coal Digger is published in
Pittsburgh, its greater volume Of
articles and letters rejecting the
workers struggles must come from
the many battle fronts. Only In this
way can it do its Job well. And only
in this way can it gain what must
be its objective-thst Of becoming
a weekly, instead Of monthly 81
IL is now.
Minersl Order q bundle for sale
and distribution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
Jersey Mill Owner Is
Impartial Head of
NRA Labor Board

4 MR.. WISHNIAK mo relation to
n the business manager of the
Daily Worker is now the chair
man Of the impartial arbitration
board Of the silk mill section of
NR.A. Regional Labor Board in
Paterson, N. j. He is taking the
place of Haynes, member of the
editorial staff Of the Paterson Eve
ming News, one Of two dailies
against which the members Of the
Typographical Union are on strike,
and which are being boycotted by
the labor movement.
Wishniaks qualifications for
chairman Of the impartial labor
board are: Cd He Is the head of
the Wishniak Silk Company, which,
when working to capacity, operates
140 looms and employs IS weavers,
az He runs an open shop, refus-
ing even to allow the Associated
Silk Workers, whose local member
ship, headed by Eli Keller, Love-
stonite. recently put over q 3 per
cent cut on its own membership,
to organize his employees. Mr..
Wishniak is a sterling friend of la
Dor as long as labor allows the
question of unionizing his shop to
lie in allegiance.
The rugged individualism of Mr..
Wishniak is not considered by his
fellow employers as handicap TO
his administration of the New
Deal in the Paterson silk industry.
THE Baltimore lady of that liberal
type, personified perfectly by
Miss Frances Perkins. the best Sec
rotary of Labor since william
Nuckles Doak, who runs the unem-
ployment relief bureau in that prin-
cipality Of the Bethlehem Steel, has
Just announced some rather sweep
ing changes in its practice. It is
believed that some $4,000 people.
workers and their dependents, will
be affected directly by these
changes. They are designed to re-
duce the unbearable burden placed
on the Taxpayers by the recent ex-
travsgance Of raising the relief al
lotment per family from 81 to 81
per week.
The lady relief chief has ruled
First, that all single men shall be
dropped from the relief lists. This
ruling conceded with the advent of
the threat Of the strike in the steel
industry.
Second, that all families who
have one or more persons with rec
ords as domestic servants shall be
dropped from the relief lists. The
reason for this, it is stated. is that
the enormous number Of 1870 calls
for domestic help have been re-
ceived by the employment bureaus
recently.
Third, all families who have one
or more members with records of
casual employlnent--sHch as berry
picking-are to be dropped from
the relief lists.
Baltimore is one hours ride from
the White House. It's occupant
promised that no one should stsrve.
Baltimore is good example of
how that pledge is being kept,
Diding through fields where Negro
n workers are hoeing corn for 10
cents an hour-and pay the water
boy out of their wages-s glance at
an article entitled "Out of the Red"
in Golfers Weekly proves that per-
manent unemployment and hun
ger relief are merely illusions. The
introduction says:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
What We Call Social Composition"

WHAT fine words Mr. Lppmann
graduates listened your speech part
the and daughters of Michigan small people
prnng of working children
der domestic
courses They studied Soc % SOCIOLOGY
society," chemistry
jobs manufacturers laboratories; they
could qualify journal
ism that they participate ancient though not 80
honorable profession
The point is Lppmann majority youngsters
will get jobs will
heard about
while lecture the
through college by waiting table
graduation considered herself fortunate
the jobl
1T must be wrested from chaos by the will
refined by experience It be clarified By
must be animated by imperturbable
What hollow bunk Faith whom7
rnent the nperist
don't few chill words Idpp-
mann? But that wouldn't be
going to make their through peace
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
He Means to Say

PPAANN less profound in his commencement address
Ann Arbo The necessity resorng to intellectual
rather than being able depend familiar habit and practical
knowledge of the greatest changes human behavior which
modern compelled adjust themselves 1t important
part of the explanation Of the difficulties of the
tempting make peace after the attempting
strct the economic which broken by the
old practical knowledge of politicians
not enough make good peace and safe reconstruction
intellectual knowledge not reliable trusted
guide My generation therefore struggling with the problem
making practical enlightened making
knowledge practical"
Translated into simple English Mr. Lppmann say
the pitfalls of the resulted from the collaboration
tween politicians and professors which distinguishes the
welt its
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
Stage and Screen
"Dr. Monica" OPENS At
Strand: "Murder On The

DIuChOOUFu .AG hLuILO
Doctor Monica" new Warner
Bros. picture starring Kay Francis,
opened last night at the Strand
Theatre. Veree Teasdale, Jean Muir
and Warren William are in the sup
porting cast. The film is based on
the play in which Nine. Nazimova
appeared here some months back.
The new film at the Rialto Thea
tire is Murder on the Blackboard, {"
in which Edna May Oliver, James
Gleason and Bruce Cabot play the
leading roles.
John Wexley author Of They
Shall Not Die" the Scottsboro play
seen here this season, and The Last
Mile has Joined Columbia Pictures
as one Of their staff OF witers.
White Heat" film story of the
South Seas, is the new film now
showing at the Gaiety Theatre
Mona Maris heads the cast.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
Swiss Workers Demand
Release of ThaeImann

BASLE. Switzerland, June a
Tessin Section of Socialist workers
of this city adopted q resolution
demanding the immediate release
Of Ernst Thaelmarn, Of all anti
fascist fighters and Of the victims
of Nazi class justice" The resolu-
ton was transmitted to the Ger
man Consulate in Basic.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
Golfers NJ agazin e
Conducts a Weird
Investigation

tain Of debt burden weighing down
the working class, to Americs-the
peerless George Creel, who put Gold
Stars on the breasts Of $4,000 Amer
lean mothers whose sons went forth
to war to end war" and TO make
the world safe for democracy"
One item catches the eye-a bold
face subhead: Where Jobs Go Beg
ging." It turns out that this work
ers' paradise is Detroit. The he
roine Of the little sketch is Sally:
Sally is a Pole. She is young
and neat and smiling. For several
years-to be exact, since ls29-she
worked as a domestic Her en-
ployer. the wife OF an executive in
one of the big automobile factories,
approved highly Of her diligence
and was so proud Of her appear
aDce when decked out in a maids
apron and cap that she liked to
have friends come around 10 the
hOuse-Sslly, she thought, was a
real credit to her establishment.
"Sally's wages we're So per week.
During the depression she and hun
dreds of other girls, both foreigners
and native-born daughters Of Mich
igan and other states, were glad to
work for that and Sally's employer
was so pleased with her that, with
out any urging, she raised her pay
to 81" pardon our emphasis. We
don't want you to overlook this
startling proof Of the psmpering Of
labor by well meaning but mis-
guided employers)
But . few months ago smiling
Sally suddenly informed her en-
ployer:
Tn going to leave YOU
Aren't you happy here7'
Very happy, but I'm going to
leave
Then why are YOU goingp'
Because I have got my old Job
back at the automobile factory
How much will you get7'
Fourteen a week.
And Sally went back to the work
which thousands OF other girls
are now resuming in steadily
increasing Misunderstanding, pack
ing, upholstering Jobs in body
plants. Operating small machines"
Men used to get $50 per week for
these same jobs.
Do not sorrow over this fact. Save
your sympathy for the wives Of Eek
ecutives' in the big automobile
factories" who are left fat by the
ungrateful girls they unselfshly
assisted through the depression"
that now has passed into history,
according to Golfers collection OF
New Deal boosters
Business SMELLS better" says
Golfers.
Let us be of good cheer. There
are only 100000 still unemployed,
only about so per cent Of the farm
ers are ruined and New Deal crop
restriction followed by drought and
burning winds has created a dan
gerous decrease in cattle. hogs, hay,
wheat, corn, rye. barley and milk
that should raise prices and bring
back prosperity,
Were 1t not for the outrageous
demands Of workers and the de-
structive strikes fomented by Red
agitators, the boom would be back
now.
We are ION Otn Way says
President Roosevelt and Golfers
band Of ballyhooers. But there
seems to be a great difference Of
opinion between New Dealers and
workers as to the direction in which
the wav out leads.
The survey which the Daily
worker conducts constantly
through its army of worker CORE
spondents does not tally with the
results of Golfers investigation"
as published. In fact, they differ
so widely that it is clear that some
one is lying. 1t is not the Daily
Worker