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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-14
Comrades :

Our Eighth Convention meets at a
time when the capitalist world is APP
preaching a new explosion. Any day,
any month, we may receive the first
news of Japanese imperialism begin
ming its long-prepared invasion of the
Soviet Union. At any time the mad
man who holds power in Germany may launch
the wild adventure of anti-Soviet intervention
which is the keystone of his policy, or may
set fire to the fuses of the whole system of ex-
plosiye European relations. Who can say on
what day the powers now engaged in a gigantic
naval race may have their present naves
thrown into action by one powers fear of being
left behind in the race? Who can foretell when
the tightening lines of class struggle in any
one of a dozen countries may not by some
small" incident like the expose of the Stavisky
corruption, be ignited with the flames of a
evolutionary civil war?
The world stands on the brink of revolutions
and wars. This is the fruits of more than four
years of unprecedented capitalist crisis. This
crisis period is approximately the period between
our Seventh and Eighth National Conventions.
Through this period capitalist society has con-
tinuously disintegrated. The crisis has pene-
GIdGSu INTO anu undermined Gne industry ana
agriculture of every capitalist and colonial coun-
try it has upset the currency and credit re-
lationships of the entire world. Even the
United States. still the strongest fortress of
world capitalism, has been stripped of its last
shred of "exceptionalism," stands fully exposed
to the fury of the storms of crisis and, rela-
lively speaking is registering its deepest effects
The economic losses due to the crisis in the
United States alone begin to approach the
figures Of the total losses of the World War
A great upsurge of class struggles is sweeping
the capitalist world. A wave of liberation strug-
giles sweeps the colonies and oppressed nations
In Spain the Fascist dictatorship has been over
thrown and the forces of a Soviet revolution
are gathering. In Cuba a revolutionary up
hcaval drove out the bloody tyrant, Machado
A general strike sweeps France, embracing the
main body of the working class. In Germany
the rising wave of proletarian revolution is
checked but only temporarily, by loosening the
Fascist mad-dogs, the foul refuse of the insane
ssylums and criminal underworld against the
German masses In Austria, the lightning flash
OF the heroic barricade fighting of the betrayed
Austrian workers. revealed for an instant the
doom that is being prepared for capitalism be-
meath the blanket Of fascism with which the
bourgeoisie seeks to smother the flames of revo-
luton. Also in the United States the upslrge
of mass resistance to the capitalist policy OF
driving the masses into starvation, policy in
tensified behind the demagogic cloak of Roose-
velt's %New Deal" has already been answered
by the capitalists with nachine-guns at Am
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-14

industrial activity in the U. s. There are also
changes in the movement of the economic
crisis. 1t is apparent that the crisis has passed
its lowest point and entered the stage of de-
preston, This has been accomplished by mea-
sues which deepen the general crisis (war prep
arations, imitation, ruinaton Of farmers and
small business, impoverishment of the masses,
etc. That means the depression is not the
prelude to new boom and prosperity, as the
MINISTRIES of the New Deal" are singing 1t will
be prolonged. It will be period of increased
misery for the toilers.
Against this background of the perspective
Of continued and prolonged depression, given us
so clearly in the analysis of Comrade Stain it
is more than ever clear that the policies being
followed by the capitalists in their frantic eff
forts to find way out of the crisis "in the
near future cannot but lead" as the 18th E c.
C. I. Plenum pointed out TO the still greater
disturbance of state finances and to a still fur
Their intensifcation of the general crisis of cap
italism." Thus the economic and political fac
tors at work determine that the capitalist
world is now passing from the end of capt.
talist sterilization to revolutionary crisis"
This it is that determines the "perspectives of
tionary movement of the toilers" CThirteenth
Plenum)
Fascism and Social ascism
What is Fascism? 1t is 'the open, terrorist
dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chau-
whist and most irnperialist elements of finance
capital"
What is its purpose? 1t is to enforce the
policy of finance capital, which is to bolster up
its profits at the cost of degrading the living
standards of the toiling population, to violently
smash the resistance of the working class to
behead the working class by the physical ex-
termination of its leading cadres, the Com
munists.
Where does it find its mass basis? Among
the petty bourgeoisie, by denagogic promises to
the desperate, impoverished farmers, shopkeep-
ers, artisans, Office workers and civil servants
and particularly the DECEASED and criminal ee-
ments in the big cities. 1t also tries to pene-
trate the more backward strata of the workers
How is it possible for Fascism to develop suf-
flcient power to defeat the workers. This is
only possible by obtaining help within the work
ing class, thus disrupting its unity and disarm-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-14

Many facts lead to the conclusion that the
economic crisis in the U. S. has already passed
it's lowest point. Furthermore, the various mea-
sures undertaken by the capitalist class itself,
and the operation Of the internal economic
forces of capitalism, facilitated the passing of
the economic crisis into the stage of depression
In the course of the crisis, American CAPT.
talism lowered production costs and increased
its profits mainly through more intensive ex-
ploitation of the employed workers In this
process the productivity of labor was increased
mainly through more intensive exploitation and
speed-up. American capitalism has utilized the
great standing army of the unemployed for this
purpose where it could select the best, most
physically-fit, workers whom starvation forced
to work under the worst conditions at lowest
wages.
The improved situation for capitalist industry
came result of the sharp reduction of the
living standards of the workers and the further
ruination of the poor and middle farmers. But
this is not all.
1t is a fact that through the long duration
of the crisis the index of overproduced commo-
dities reserves declined. This decline in great
degree proceeded through actual physical de-
struction Of commodities. It is very likely, also
that especially in the light industries where pro-
duction sharply declined, there consumption at
the existing low prices served to greatly dimin-
ish the overproduction. Increasing profits also
serve, even in small degree, to encourage new
capital investments in production and building
Further, a large part of debts were wiped out
through bankruptcy, further mergers; while
conf1scation Of a huge portion of middle-class
savings through the closing of banks made a
serious contribution to capitalist profits.
This is the road travelled by American capt.
talism in the crisis 1t is not the road to new
prosperity. At the same time, however, it would
be absolutely stupid to refuse to see these i'm
provements in its economic situation that Amer
lean capitalism did make. But whatever i'm
provements took place, as a result of war
spending and imitation, and also from the fur
Their impoverishment of workers and farmers
and the operation of the internal economic
forces OF capitalism they all facilitated the
passing of the crisis into the stage of depression
The economic crisis in the United States as
In the rest OF the capitalist word is interviewer
with the general crisis Of capitalism. The depth
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-14

The economic crisis is in its fifth year. II
has lasted far longer than any previous crisis
1t has been more far-reaching and destructive
That is because it occurs in the midst of the
general crisis OF the whole capitalist system
Characteristic of this fact are:
(a) The crisis affected every capitalist and
colonial country
Co It penetrated every phase of economy,
industry agriculture, trade credit, currency,
state finances
(c) The crisis itself resulted in intensifying
the concentration and Capitalization of capital,
with consequent intenSihcation of labor, which
was a basic cause for the unexampled depth
of the crisis
cd 1t has at the same time sharply degraded
the technical level of agriculture, causing it
to abandon machine labor for hand labor,
mechanical power for horse and man power,
further sharpening the contradiction between
city and country.
(e) The chief feature of overproduction is,
that it is sharpest in the field of means of
production, far exceeding the capacity of CAPT.
talistically-limited society to use to the full,
thus closing the doors to a revival by vast
new capital investments
f. Existence Of giant monopolieS, further
strengthened during the crisis Gas by the
MIRA. Codes etc. results in sustaining mo-
nopoly profits at the cost of the rest of
economy, reducing mass purchasing power
and hindering the absorption of accumulated
stocks.
g The crisis comes in a period when the
imperialist powers have already divided the
world among themselves when there are no
further fields of expansion, except at the ex-
pense Of one another Cor of the Soviet Union),
and when the uneven development of the i'm
perialst powers makes imperative a redivi-
sion OF the world which is only possible
through the arbitrament of war
h) Finally this crisis comes after world cap
italisln, has already suffered the fatal shat
tering blows of the last World War, as
result of which its world-system was broken
at its weakest link, out of which emerged q
new, rival world economic system the sys-
TEN of Socialism in the Soviet Union.
The influence of the general crisis of CAPT.
5alism upon the course of the economic crisi
can be seen in volume of industrial produc
ton during the past five years in the principa
industrial countries. quote the figures given b,
Comrade Stain in his report to the 18th Con
gress of the Communist Party of the Sovie
Union:
vOT VrHrE OE INDTrSTpTAr pponrr~,rr0~,
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was happening to them. They answered with
wave of strikes. More than million work
ers struck in 1888 in resistance to the New Deal
policies Over 10000 joined the trade unions
During this period the unemployed movement
also deepened and consolidated itself. in spite
Of serious lag. Especially important, it re-
acted to the new forms of governmental relief
the c. W. A. and forced labor camps, and began
a movement on those jobs to protect living
standards. The movement for the Workers In
employment Insurance Bill began to take on a
broad mass character
Rehabilitation among the masses of impover-
ished farmers, veterans, students. professionals.
stimulated by the strike wave, gathered about
the rising working class movement, and to a
greater degree than ever before in political con-
tact with the workers.
This first wave of struggle against the Roose-
welt new deal" was stimulated and clarified BY
the fact that the Communist Party, from the
beginning gave bold and correct analysis of
the new deal" and clear directive for strug-
gle against it. Events since last July confirmed
entirely the analysis then given Every serious
effort to apply that program of struggle has
brought gains for the workers. There is no
need to revise our analysis Now we can sum
up the results of nine months experience
Results of the New Deal
What has happened with the new deal"q
Has it failed? Many workers in the first stages
of establishment, come to that conclusion.
They are disillusioned with the result but still
believe in the intention The S. P. and A. F.
of L. leaders try to keep them in this stage.
But this conclusion is entirely too simple. The
new deal" has not improved conditions for the
workers and exploited masses. But that was
never its real aim; that was one ballyhoo; that
was only bait with which to catch suckers In
its first and chief aim. the new deal" succeeded;
that aim was to bridge over the most difficult
situation for the capitalists and to launch new
attack upon the workers with the help of their
leaders, to keep the workers from general resist
ance, to begin to restore the profits of finance
capital
At the recent code hearings in Washington,
this purpose was stated frankly by General
Hugh johnson, in an effort to overcome the
resistance Of the more backward capitalists 10
roukfr,ued Eos,~A
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These figures clearly reveal the division of
the world into two systems which are travelling
in opposite directions. While in the capitalist
countries production declined between 1929 and
1893 by from IS to IS per cent, the socialist
industry of the Soviet Union increased by more
than 100 per cent
These figures also show that from 1889 TO
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21
LEGALITY OF
VOTE RECOUNT
IS QUESTIONED
Judge Cox May Be Asked
for Ruling If Check Is
Demanded.

Should recOun1s in the primary
election be asked today, the matter
will be placed before Judge Earl R.
Cox Of the Marion circuit court to
determine if the demand can be
made legally, Glen B. Ralston,
county clerk. said last night.
Time limit for a recount demand
ended at midnight last night, but
since the final Gay was Sunday.
Judge Cox will be asked for a de-
cision on whether the recount pc
rod can be extended to include
today. If a demand should be made,
MIR Ralston said. NO business can
be transacted legally ON Sunday.
Recount requests have been ex-
pected in the contest for Twelfth
district Republican congressional
nomination between Harry O.
Chamberlin and Delbert o. Viii
meth. and in the Republican race
for county clerk between Edgar Hart
and George o. Hutseu. The present
figures how Wilmeth and Hutsell
victors in their respective races.
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81, 1934
oils. secretary

w. Daacke. In 1olis. secretary
of state; Erne Malott. Marion.
state treasurer; Mrs. Ruth Robson,
Indianapolis, state auditor. Mrs.
Efhe Mueller. indianapolis. supreme
court clerk; A L. Binford, West
field, public instruction superin-
tendeut; w. F. sanhsteben, Column
bus supreme court justice. Second
district. Charles Rogers and w. H.
Richards. appellate court judge.
First district, and w II Hedrick.
KokomO. and D L. Orlowsk South
Bend, appellate court judges. Sec
Ond district
Public ownership and collective
control of all natural resources Is
advocated in the party platform,
which also urges a moratorium on
mortgage loans and interest on ali
farms owned by resident farmers
for immediate relief. Elimination
OF the sales tax was advocated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21
WASH OUT
IS MILES OF
KIDNEY TUBES
Win Back Pep =. .VisOr Vitality

Glt.- -1thoTlt,eS sercc that YOUR sid
lllss con am IS MILES OF -inv tubes or
filters which nelp 70 purify the blood and
keep You nca.hY Ilev should pour out
thru the bladder 3 nlntS Of hmd a dav
which Contains 4 pounds OF waste matter.
u YOU have trouble with bladder ir-eEu-
larltV. CAUSING irritation. and c-SSoU Tort.
the is MILES Of kidney tuheS need wash
lnc out This danger signal may BE- he
bceinnsng OF rseEing naCksche. leg pans.
loss OF pep nd vitality getting I'D nights.
lumhago. swollen feet and snkIes. rheIrla-
nc pains ano dizziness.
II kidnevs dont empty 3 pin-S every osv
and set ric Of pounds a waste matter.
yolr hodov VIII tsAe up these poisonS
causing serious trouble II may Sncck
vou out and Law YOU I'D Tor many
months Dor wait. ASK 70 cruCc 81
fog DOAE'S Pills q doctors pre-
scription which has teen USED success
fully BY millions Of sicnev sufferers for
over 40 wears They give QulCS relief and
VIII halp 10 wash out the IS NILES Of
kidney tubes
But don't rake chances with strong
drugs o. so-eailed sidney cures that
claim - nx YOU - n IS minutes Your
common sense VII tsl YOU that this IS
impossible. TTestutents OF TIRE nature
may asriousy inluTe suo irrr9Je delicate
tissues. Insist on DOANS PILLS The
old reliable relief thst contain no "oope
or habit -formlng drugs Ee sure YOU get
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rlgnt. 1884. Foster-Mlburn Co. - Adyer-
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21
AGED RESIDENT
Is DEAD AFTER
LONG ILLNESS
John Clark, 81, Came to
u. S. From England at
Aqe Of 5.

Funeral services we're TO BE- held
at 2:30 this afternoon for John
Clark, 80. Of 1903 West Thirty-fourth
street, who died Saturday. following
an illness Of several years.
He was born in England. ana
came TO the United States when ne
was 6. He was a member OF inc
Thirty First Street Baptist church
and the North Park Masonic lodge
Surviving him are seven children.
1Irs. Fiornce Ford and MyrOn. Ivan
and George Clark. indianapolis;
Mrs. Nina Terrell, Evansville. and
Mrs. Helen Friedly and Office Clark.
ST. Louis and a brother Thomas
Clark. Florence. Kas.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21
= allS Burial Set

uneraI services for John W
Walls, "a. of 1902 North Warman
avenue. Will be held in the Me-
mortal Baptist church at 2.30 to-
morrow with burial in Floral Park
cemetery
Mr.. Walls died Saturday in his
home. where he had been III s'vc~al
weeks. He was a member Of the
Memorial Baptist church and the
Wichita tribe of the Improved Or
der Of Red Men. Surviving him
are the widow. Mrs. BCrnice Walls;
two sons. Leroy Walls and Clarence
Walls. Indianapolis: a sister. Mrs
Alice Fries. Indianapolis and two
brothers. William Walls and Ben
Shelburn. both living near Dan
r.f1~ I'll
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21
Aged Resident Dies

Followng an illness of three
weeks. Willard n. Smith. 70, died
Yesterday at his home on the South
Michigan road Funeral services
Will be held IN the home at l 80
tomorrow. with burial IN Memorial
Park cemetery.
Surviving him are the widow. Mrs
Martha E. Smith; two daughters,
Mrs. Harry B. Greene and Mrs
Carney (. Kemper. both of Indian
apolis, and 4 sister. Miss Louise
with. Lon eville.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21
.,pahr Burial Tomorrow

The funeral Of Lewis F. Spain,
70, of 142 West Twenty seventh
street, who died Saturday. viii be
held at 2 tomorrow IN the residence.
Burial will be IN Crown Hill.
Mr.. Spain died Saturday al his
home. He is survived by two sisters.
Mrs. Oscar Wolfensburger LemOyne
Pa. and Mrs. Charles Durham, San
Mateo, Cal. and two brothers, John
". Spahr, indianapolis, and George
] SrahT Baltimore
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21

The body Of Mrs. Minnie Harms
81. who died Friday al the home OF
a daughter Mrs Z. H. Randle, Eas-
ton, Pa, has been brought to In
dianapOls Funeral services were
to be held at 4 this afternoon in the
Shirley Brothers central chapel, GAG
North Illinois street. with burial IN
Crown Hill
Mrs. Harms is survived by Mrs
Randle, another daughter Mrs
Belle Hill. Farmland and two sons.
Harry L. Harms and Louis Karns,
India 0~~oliS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21
arvev Rites Are Set

LAT il ~ Harvey. "a. died Satur-
day at mis- home. 969 West Thirty
first street. Funeral services were TO
be held at , this afternoon in the
home, with burial in Crown Hill
Mr. Harvey is survived by the
widow. Mrs Jane c Harvey, two
sons, the Rev. A. w Harvey Bloom
ington, and Everett Harvey. New
York; and a daughter, Miss Maude
Harvey. indianapolis.
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on Rites Arranged

Funeral services for Mrs. Rebecca
Jane Johnson. 81, will be held at
1.30 tomorrow in the Flanner &
Buchanan funeral home. The body
will be cremated.
Mrs. Johnson died in Methodist
hospital yesterday. She had been Ill
five week Surviving her are a son,
Charles o. Johnson, and a number
al grandchildren
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21

Word has been received Of the
death of Mrs w B. Nash. former
resident of indianapolis. at her
home in San Gabriel Cal.
Mrs. Nash is survived by the
widower. three daughters Mrs. Wal
ter Scott. Boston; Mrs. William D.
Lalley, Indianapolis. and Mrs. Emily
Zeigler. San Gabriel, a sister, Mrs.
Mary Bergman. Los Angeles. and
three brothers. Charles BOnnell and
Edward Bonnen. Les Angeles, and
George BOnnell. Seattle.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21
scrgman Services Tomorrow

Following a long illness, William
Bergman, "a died Saturday in his
home, 1905 English avenue Mr.
Bergman was a native of Germany
Funeral services will be held in the
residence at , tomorrow, with burial
in Concordia cemetery.
Surviving him are two daughters,
Miss Sophia Bergman. Waukegan,
Ill, and Miss Lillian Bergman, In
dian~DOiiS
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21
: The Romantic and Beautiful
BY Fl. II. HARPER

Those who know me and my
nature need no assurance under
my hand that such calumnies are
irreconcilable with me, as they are
in their frantic indifference with
one another. But there is a great
multitude who know me through
my writings. and VINO do not
known me otherwise; and I can
not bear that one of them should
be left in doubt, or hazard OF
doubt through my poorly shrink
ing from taking the usual means
to which I now resort, the cir
culating of the Truth.
I most solemnly declare. then
and this I do both in my own and
in my Wife's name-that all the
lately whispered rumorS touching
the trouble at which have
glanced. are abominably false
And Whosoever repeats one of
them after this denial Will lie as
willfully and as foully as it is
possible for any false witness TO
lie, before heaven and earth.
MARIA by keeping a discreet
WI silence as she did repaid
Dickens many times over for
whatever misery she had caused
him in his early years.
Her husband, failing to find an
other footing in business entered
the ministry. became a curate at
Little Eversham and finally Vicar
of AlnmOuth. Northumberland,
where she lived country clergy
mans wife, measuring these let
ters and these memories. As
Maria Winter she was soon for
gotten, but she will be remem-
bered for all time as David Cop
perfield'S Dora.
Would she have made Dickens
happy if she had married him in
1888? Probably not. She had
not sufficient depth to discover or
encourage his genius
Had he married her, his state
of COntentment. for the time be-
ing at least would have robbed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21
PROMINENT EDITOR DIES
Willis J. Abbot, World Famed Jour-
nalist, Dead at Il.


BROOKLINE. Mass, May 21.-
Willis J. Abbot II, contributing
editor of the Christian Science
Mo1litor and internationally known
Journalist, died at his home here.
Sta rting in New Orleans in 1884,
he had devoted half century to
newspa per work. AS a cub reporter,
he interviewed Jefferson Davis, and
in late wears, as an editor, he inter
viewed M 1lSSClini
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21
SOCIALISTS PICK
FULL SLATE AT
FARLEY IN CITY
VeederSburg Man Selected
as Party'S Candidate
in Senate Race.

Forrest Wallace. Veedersburg. was
nominated for United States sem
atOr by the Socialist party at the
state convention in the Columbia
Securities building yesterday.
Other candidates chosen are H.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21

Dropping in to see The Times
Roller Skate Derby editor Sat-
urday, Jack Huntsman, 43, of
557 North Belmont avenue, chal-
Ienged all corners in the fancy
and figure skating event in the
first annual William H. Block
Company Indianapolis Times
Roller Skate Derby next Satur-
day at Tomlinson hall.
Mr.. Huntsman. a regular skater
at the Riverside skating rink more
than eighteen years, is shown
holding his skates, which are six
teen years old.