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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
BILL GEBERr


The whole life of v. 1. Lenin was
devoted to building an organization
of the workers for the purpose of
overthrowing capitalism, to establ' III
the rule Of the workers, and to build
a classless, a socialist society.
To achieve this aim Lenin, as
nobody before him, clearly understood
the teachings of Marx and Engels,
that the working class is the only
revolutionary class in the capitalist
society which is capeble o. achieving
the aims, provided it is led by its
conscious political Party, the van
guard of the proletariat.
In his very early years Lenin under
took the task to build such a Party in
Russia. In the years 1393-94 Lenin
undertook to organize groups Of in
dustrial workers in the shops, based
on factory organization. The workers
whom Lenin began to organize had
grievances, such as long hours, low
wages, brutality Of the foremen, fines;
and on the basis of these grievances
Lenin began to build movement He
understood that this represents the
entry of the workers upon the path of
struggle leading from elementary de-
mands to higher stages toward the
struggle for the abolition of capital
ism. 1t was his profound understand
ing of the historic role of the prolet-
ariat which COVE him unlimited faith
in the revolutionary energy Of the
working Gloss.
From the very beginning Lenin en-
phasized the point that once the
working class movement will enter the
revolutionary path it will unquestion-
ably be victorious. But Lenin, the
greatest organizer the proletariat,
more than anyone else understood
that organization alone is not suffi-
cient. without revolutionary theory
he proclaimed, 'there con be no
revolutionary movement He de-
voted much attention to theoretical
clarity, and further developed marx
ism in the epoch Of imperialism. In
his book. One Step Forward-Two
Steps Backward, Lenin declared:
1.-THE proletariat can and will be-
come an invincible power when the
theological unity of the principles of
Marxism uniting it, is sustained by
the material unity of organizations,
uniting millions of toilers into an
army Of the working class. Before
this army, neither the rotten power
of Russian Tsarism, nor decaying
world capitalism, will be able to
resist"
Understanding the Masses
Lenin waged relentless struggle
against any deviations from Marxism.
He saw in the slightest deviation from
Marxism an influence of non-prole-
tartan, enemy theology and therefore
he conferred his attack upon the alien
and enemy influences within the
working class as represented by the
Social Revolutionaries. Economists,
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Fight at U. M. W. A.
Conventions Shows
Need for Opposition
CONTINUED from Page a

in this fight for q new party, for a
Labor Party to fool the workers, they
revealed their whole cringing before
the A. F. of L. bureaucracy. They ap-
pealed to Lewis, as one who was a
pioneer for industrial unioniSm and
for unemployment insurance, to also
become the pioneer for the Labor
Party. They had nothing but praise
for the Lewis machine.
1t was only the genuine left wing
influenced by the Communist Party
that opposed the Lewis policies,
fought for the interests and rights OF
the membership. And If this opposi-
ton was still small it was neverthe-
less already recognized by the Lewis
machine as a real challenge
The left wing opposition took the
floor and fought on every important
question. This included the fight on
the resolutions for the right to strike,
against the power of the officials for
the Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill. for wage increases, raising the
demands of the Negro miners. for
womenis auxiliaries, for the rights of
Communists to belong to the organic
cation and other burning questions.
Lewis succeeded in carrying thru his
policies. But the miners problems are
not solved. The miners will say the
last word in the mines. in the local
unions, on the picket line, in the
struggles OF the unemployed. The left
wing now faces great opportunities
and great tasks. Steps are being taken
already to make the convention the
starting point for the building of a
powerful opposition, which will rally
the miners in the struggle for their
demands which will expose the strike
breaking activity of the Lewis ma
chine and mobilize the miners to de-
feat it. Soon there will be local cleo
tons, later on district conventions
and towards the end of the year cleo
lions of national officials. The miners
will be modified to fight in these cleo
tons, to elect those who stand for
their demands and fight for them.
But above all, the miners. will act and
decide In the field of struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
Lenin Taught How to
Observe the Life
of the Masses

Mensheviks, and Trotskyites. In his
criticism and struggle against all these
deviations, he was merciless to the
point that many, who did not under
stand hi maccused him of being "see-
tarian," Lenin answered this charge,
declaring:
ut is true, we are taking away
from the influence of the bourgoisie,
from the wavering elements, the
advanced workers. and just because
OF this we are uniting ourselves, our
Party, with the life of the broadcast
masses of workers, and only such
movement which bases itself upon
the toiling masses. led consciously
by the proletariat, which draws
hundreds, thousands and millions,
which from slogans goes to actions,
realizes the desires of the millions of
workers"
In this lies the secret of Lenin's
organizational ability and his under
standing Of the masses. Lenin
taught us how to observe the life of
the masses in changing situations
to raise new slogans, disregarding the
old which endanger the Party to the
point of separating it from the mas
ses. In everey situation Lenin's OBJ
iectiye was to rally the broadcast mas
ses in struggle.
While Lenin saw clearly the need
Of developing activity around the
smallest grievances of the masses, he
had constantly before him the main
objective and the tasks of the proIe-
tariat. This sersitiveness to the reia-
tons of immediate demands to the
main objective enabled him to raise
the proper slogans in the situation
that called for direct action, as was
the case in the 1905 revolution, and
finally in the revolution of 1917.
Lenin polemized against all those
who attempted to solve the social,
economic, and political problems
through any other means than the
organization of the masses. THE pro-
letariat," Lenin emphasized, has no
other way in the struggle for power
except organization. The power of
the working class lies in its organize :
ticn. Without organization the prole-
tariat is like nothing. Organized, it is
everything"
The Factory Our Fortress
AS to the role of the Party, Lenin
stated:
THE class consciousness Of its
vanguard nlanifests itself among
other things, in it's ability to organ
lie itself, BY organizing itself it
gains a single will and this single
will Of thousands, hundreds Of thou
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
NaziS Doom Three
Workers to Death
Admit Two Convicted
Though Innocent

HAMBURG, Jan. 10 (by maiD ~
Three young workers, Fischer, Dett-
mer. and Helbig have been sentenced
to death fer taking part in dem
onstration which was attacked by
Nazis, one of whom was killed.
The prosecution admitted that
Dettmer and Helbig had nothing to
do with the Nazi's death, but the
Judge who passed sentence said,
'CDettner and Helbig were prepared
to commit the crime. Therefore they
must be sentenced as accomplices. F."
Nineteen others arrested at the
same time were sentenced to penal
servitude totaling 1870 years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03

many OF you get together and say
that you are going to stay where yoI
belong and continue working because
this is the only source Of your liveh-
hood. Suppose you say you are going
to produce for the benefit of yourself
and others. This thought may be
strangs to you Yet consider what
would happen.
The owner, who has never worked
and who does not know how to work
would call the police. Most probably
the riot squad would appear. Perhaps
the militia would be called out. There
would be clubs and riot guns and tea,
gas bombs galore. You would be
dubbed and shot at and many of you
imprisoned, tried and convicted-for
the sole crime of wanting to continue
working at the machines and with the
materials you and the like of you
have produced.
Has it ever occurred to you that
such state of affairs is wrong? z
Take another example. You are a
tenant. For ten or fifteen or twenty
years you have been living in a house.
You have paid your rent regularly
You have paid off your flat several
times over. Your landlord smiled at
you as long as you were a good
tenant. But now you have lost your
job. You have not paid your rent
for several months. A sheriff comes
Your furniture is thrown out on the
sidewalk. You are "evicted." Yet you
know perfectly well that it isn't the
landlord who built the house. 1t is
you and others like you who have
produced all the building material
and who have actually constructed
the house. Besides, you made the
landlord rich by your payment OF
rents.
Suppose now, you refuse TO quit the
house. Suppose you band together
with your fellow tenants and declare
you are not going to permit anybody
to drive you out into the street. You
are q proud American; you will moi
allow anybody to turn you into a beg
gar. Again, you would be confronted
with police clubs, courts and Jail.
S.ranTc But True
Now there are some notions thai
have to be made clear before We pro-
coed. We said that the owner "has
never worked You may disagree
with this statement. Doesn't fac.
tory owner spend days and days il
his office? Doesn't a banker keep Of
flee hours? Doesn't he go to the eoun.
try club and golf links to rest after
his strenuous laborS? The papers sne
the preachers and the professors tel
you that the business man is "doins
his share" in production, They ever
say that he is an indispensable par
OF the industria' organism. This +
one of those incorrect notions thai
are being inculcated in the minds Of
our people from childhood on. II
'7ct, the small business man may sbll
do some work by himself: the grocer
works behind the counter, the cob.
bier works together with his few men
But the bigger the business, the les.
work remains for the actual owner
What does Morgan know about the
operation Of railroads and mines ane
restaurants he controls? What doe
Rockefeller know about work in a Goa
mine or an oil refining plant? Re-
move Ford from the top of his pyra-
mid and nobody will notice the loss
We Can Work Without Them
Big business, large scale production
OF the modern type is conducted by
all kinds Of specialists with the aic
lad cooperation Of workers. Engin-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03

III o uSe Military
Affairs Committees, not to be out
Gone, doubles the request Of the War
Department General staff and ccnes
out for 1000 Army airplanes. The
generals, no doubt are kicking them
selves for not requesting 1000 planes
for flying service between here and
the Far East
And so on, and so on. 1t viii soon
be too late to merely total the num-
Der of billions being shovelled into
war preparations or even the huge
percentage of them going into the
Unsuitable NAV of the capitalists who
own both the steel corporations that
will make the death weapons and the
foreign markets for whose defense
the various destroyers, cruisers, and
airplanes will be sent. The time is
past for the adding machine What
is necessary now is for workers to
know exactly why plans are being
rapidly prepared for slaughtering
them here and abroad and the nature
OF the arguments which are already
being trotted out to convince them
of the necessity for facing blister
ing gas or for using their bodies
10 stop furious bullet.
1nperialist demagogy is the science
Of diverting workers thoughts into
collaborationist channels. Imperial
lists do keap 10 with the trend of
workers thoughts. especially those
which are the result of even a slight
knowledge of conditions and the his
tory Of the Soviet Union. That is one
Of the most important reasons why
the imperialists and their uniformed
lieutenants are clever enough not to
depend on transparent fiction like
the "rape" of another little Belgium
or the cosrnic philanthropy of making
the word safe fors the threadbare
virtues of capitalist democracy.
No 1t won't be altruism next time.
For the fathers Of the Navy second
TO none" and the breast-beating ex-
ponents of national defense" have
adopted and adapted the "enlight-
ened self interest" theory of capital
ism heretofore associated with Har-
y9rd University's quite respectable
rnomist, Thon'es Nixon Carver
The chant, which will soon swell
Z Ito a roar, has begun. 1t is to be
our" markets in the Far East which
Sfssrst be proteotsi, "cur trade lanes"
(which must be kept open by few
hundred thousand tons of floating
and flying arnor the worker of
course, understanding that only by
fighting to protect "our trade lanes
and "our" markets (owned by the
same capitalists who sweat and starve
him at home) will he be able to pro-
teet and insure his share.
N the mimeographed announcement
of the Reserve Officers Association
~ the United States. which tells Of
WIS patriotic activities planned for
Is>lraational Defense Week" by such
organizations as the steel corpora
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rench Imperialism by the
paughtering and manning of a
kew hundred thousand Amer
ecan workers..
Again the imperialists and iingoes
are riding high, wide and handsome
on the wings Of the blue eagle, as
ever a predatory bird whatever color
IL may be painted. One day DEM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
''Daily" Editor Replies to -Four
Workers Asking Personal AdUice
Write They Are Ardent Supporters the Party and Enthusiastic Readers
of the Daily, and Tell of Their Reasons Not Joining

TOUR workers have written me {
4 letter expressing their support
for the Communist Party. At tn,
same time they hesitate to Join tbs
Party. They ask me to advise then
what to do through the columns o.
The Daily Worker. I viii first re-
produce their letter.
Deer ComTade Hathaway: q,
1--WE are f0ar American workers
whose eympatkies are entirely with
the ideals and policies of the Com
mUnist Party, who shamefaoedly
read your recent splendid appeals
to workers to join the ranks Of the
Party.
I'VE are holding on tooth and
nail to an insecure, execrable CAPT
talist meal ticket, chiefly in the
Interests of helpiesJ dependents.
"VYe are confident we speak for
thousands in New York City, when
we Soy that we are itching to align
ourselves with our fellow workers
in cur common struggle, were ii
not fer the fact that we work at
jobs which are not union!zed (ele-
vatOr men, d0ormen, etc.), and
would be immediately fred, were
Il TO leak out that we were inclined
toward Communism. AS it l., some
Of US are marked men, bscause, as
you know, Ccmrade Hathaway, a
Communist is a Communist every
hour Of the day.
'In the meantime, we go along
BUYING cur favcrite Daily every day
ard rendering financial help to the
limit Of our scant resources.
eve would greatly appreciate
your personal advice at yeur con
venience, through the columns of
the Daily and a statement of the
Perty'5 attitude toward our species.
Toward a vas'Iv increased cir
culatiOu for the Daily!
"COmradely yours!
"FOur Workers"
7 AM glad TO give these workers m
1 advice through the columns of tn
Daily Worker, as I know full wei
that their problem is one which face
many hundreds of workers, More
over, feel particularly competent t
answer their questions understand
ingly: years ago I had to face tn
same problem myself!
And my advice, comrades, based o.
my own experience, is simply this
Join the Communist Party!
But before presenting my reason
for this conclusion let me first sa
a. few words in reply to the las
question raised by these comrades
the attitude Of the Partv to tho
whose sympathies are entirely witt
the ideals and policies of the Com
munist Party" Today such worker
number many thousands.
The Communist Party, comrade.
values such workers very highly. The
support and aid us in carryin
through our class struggle POLICE
in hundreds Of workers organiza
tons. They circulate our press en-
literature. Their financial SUPPORT {
our press is no small factor in keen
| ing our press alive. In thousand
# ways their support is indispensable
| Moreover their number CONSTANT
crows, rejecting the growing Strengtl
and influence of the Party to whicl
they, by their support contribut.
They are the reservoir from wh'cl
the new members Of the Party ar
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
Why Communism?
Only When You Understand the MaIady Can You
Find the Proper Cure

The following is the first chapter
Of the pamphlet WHY COMMU-
NISM?" by COmrade NJ. y O'g.n.
The Daily" received letters from
workers who praised il highly. The
language Of the pamphlet is simple
and popular. The price is TO cents.
BY NJ J. OLGN
You are a worker. You nave had a
job for a number Of years. Your pay
was not high, but you managed to get
along, You were a faithful worker
You never shirked. Perhaps you
saved up a few dollars against a rainy
day. Perhaps you married and raised
a family. You were decent, law-sbid-
ing.
One nice morning you are told your
services are no longer needed. In
plain words you are fired, You are
thrown out. There Is a depression,
they say. The employer has no more
work for you. He cuts operations or
he shuts his plant altogether. While
you remain without a livelihood, he
goes to his country estate or abroad
to have q good time. He does not
care to think what will happen to you.
And yet, come to think of it, YOU
are not a stranger to this factory or
mill or shop. You and the like of you
have built it. You and the like OF
you have created all the machinery,
all the raw material and all the fuel
which is necessary to run an industry.
You and the like Of you are the live
power that puts motion into the dead
matter Of every industrial undertake
ing.
You have much at stake in this es-
tablishment-your whole life. 1t is
yours, more than the owners. 1t is
part Of your very self.
a Ne77 Thought
Suppose now, when you are told to
go, you refuse to bulge. Suppose
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03

5'~A q tai TIC php4lS-
ans and Farmer
Laborites Of the
HOUSE of Repre-
Sentatiyes unite
/ n enthusiastic
{ by authorizing
5 70,00O,0O0 worth
q d e S t rogers,
submarines, cruz
sers, plane car
riers, and Navy
war planes. The
n ext day, the
Chairman of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
WALL STREETS
CAPITOL
By SEYMOUR WALDMAN.

WASHINGTON Feb 2-The Capitol has never been so war
" minded it is now except in 1918, when the world
made safe for democracy and J. P Morgan Company
kept from going to the wall the fiscal agent of British and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-03
DiSlluSiiOned With
.SP. After Is Years;
Now Daily Reader
Former S. P. Candidate
Halls DAILY, - Worlds
Best Labor Paper


NEW YORK, Feb. 2.-Declaring
that he finally discovered, after Is
years of membership in the Social
ist Party, that ''there was something
decidedly wrong with the party"
H. S. Taylor, recently a candidate
on the Socialist ticket in Maine
writes to the Daily Worker, greet
ing it as the ''best labor paper in
the world"
Enclosing a contribution to the
Daily Worker, Taylor declares that
it was after a friend Of his had
given him few copies of the Daily
Worker that he was confirmed in
his decision to leave that Party.
His full letter follows:
Dear Srs:
You win find enclosed 50. Please
add to my account and send me three
papers each day instead of two, as
you have been doing in the past.
Your Daily Worker is the best la
Dor paper in the world.
I was a Socialist for the last Is
years, and at times read the New
York Call, the Guardian, and first
the Appeal to Reason that Yves moi
SO bad), especially for a beginner
Then the last of it I read was the
Milwaukee Leader for about a year
prior to the last election,
At the last election was running
for representative on the Socialist
ticket. I run ten votes ahead Of my
ticket, and when I learned the So
cialist vote, I was downhearted. ]
expected to see the Socialist Party
poll about 100000 votes; but to
learn that they did not poll more
than Debs did in his great campaign
20 years before, just about broke my
heart, and I began to think that
something must be wrong with the
Party.
A friend Of mine gave me a few
Daily Workers and 5000 began C
realize that something was decidedly
wrong with the Socialist Party. Since
then I have been q reader Of the
Daily Worker.
Yours truly,
II. s. TAYLOR,
Arson, Maine
Evening star., 1934-11-24

entire 81 1000 is completely paid OF,
without single monthly payment
exceeding $40 on the 81 900 loan. un-
less, of course, the borrower wishes to
make larger payments and thus repay
the loan sooner"
Concluding, Fahey asserted, 1.-THE
great advantage OF the direct reduc-
ton loan from the home owners view
point and the reason why 1t has
begun to replace other forms Of in
stallment loans in the operation Of
many home-ftiancing institutions, is
that the home owners payments are
applied immediately instead Of upon
the future maturity Of shares of huc-
tuating dividend rate. to retire part
of the principal every 80 days. It is
the surest, quickest and least expen-
sive method Of paying of q home
loan by installments over a conven-
lent period Of time. The interest
rates charged by Federal savings and
loan associations range. in different
parts of the country, from 51s per
cent to 7 per cent. No insurance
premium payment is added to the in
terest rate, which therefore repre-
sents the net carrying charge. for the
home owner borrower. The safety OF
every investors savings in any Fed
eral savings and loan association will,
however. be fully insured up to $4,000,
under the operation of the Federal
Savings and Loan Insurance Corp"
Evening star., 1934-11-24

age in number of chains but an in
crease in the number OF outlets is
also shown in shoe retailing. Here,
against 772 chains with 9,8l1 stores
in 1881, there are now listed 576
chains with 11,051 stores. Clothing
and mems furnishings chains showed
a different trend, shrinkage both in
total number of chains and in total
number of stores. The 1881 list named
e33 chains with 5,088 stores. The
1884 list reports 40s chains with 3,676
stores.
The new list Of retail grocery chains,
including all meat chains, which are
also grocery chains, shows 1.041
separate chains. with total OF 68,822
stores. The associations similar COM
piliation Of 1882, which listed sepa-
rately grocery chains and fish, market
and poultry chains, showed 684
grocery chains with 81 1863 stores and
424 fish, meat and poultry chains
having 1924 stores.
A new list Of drug chains includes
4s4 chains with 4,233 retail stores. A
new list of and 1G cent store chain
headquarters reports lit chains with
6.O8l retail outlets.
Evening star., 1934-11-24

Liberty Building Association: Horace
Russell, general counsel Of the Fec.
eral Home Loan Bank board, and J.
Howard Ardrey, deputy Federal hous-
ing administrator.
Russell talked on "The Advantages
of Operating Under Federal Charters
and Insuring Investment Shares"
Ardrey spoke on Rules and Regl la
tions fer the Administration of Titles
and 3 of the National Housing Act
Insurance of Mortgages and Ma
tional Mortgage Associations.
LeGrand w. Pellet, Newburg, N.
Y, first vice president of the United
States Building and Loan League.
discussed THE New Deal in Federal
Housing and Mortgage Finance Legis-
lation and Its Effect on the Building
and Loan Industry"
Gov. Albert c. Ritchie delivered an
address Of welcome and spoke about
the coming tax problems which Mary
land would have to solve. A silver
cup was presented to William s.
Dubel, former president Of the Mary
land League, from the United States
Building and Loan League in reward
for obtaining the largest number OF
individual memberships in the United
States Building and Loan League
during the past year.