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sufferings which they had endured.
and was expressed in tremendous
outburstS of feeling hostile to war
and to the capitalists, in the enor-
nous revolutionary actions of
the postwar period. Only the alb
sence of revolutionary parties and
the hangsman's services performed
by the Second International for
the bourgeoisie prevented the over
throw of capitalism in Russia from
being followed by its overthrow
also in all the other countries of
Europe. BY asserting their belief
in peace, the imperialists and their
Social-Democratic lackeys found
means Of escaping the wrath of the
people. In addition, there was the
fact that the powers, exhausted by
the World War, were in need of
considerable breathing space.
The Versailles Treaty, concluded
by the imperialists as the sequel to
an imperialist war, could not help
leading to an imperialist peace. The
treaties of capitalist society based
on exploitation and oppression
could only be treaties for the safe
guarding of the capitalist exploiting
rule over the toilers in their own
country and over the millions of the
colonial slaves. The victor in this
war was not the toiling people of
any country but only a section of
the world bourgeoisie. In the con-
quered countries, however, the
workers had to submit to the double
yoke Of exploitation of both internal
and external capitalists. Only in
one country did the working class
emerge as victor from the World
War. viz, in the land of Soviets,
where 16o,000,000 workers and
peasants put an end to the i'm
perialist war by the path of the
October Revolution.
With its victory over its own
bourgeoisie, the Russian proletariat
was victorious also against the
world bourgeoisie Liberated from
all letters in its own country, it
became at the same time free from
external letters. The Russian work
ing class was the only one which
did not have to pay tribute either
to its own capitalists or to foreign
capitalists. The tsarist treaties and
debt obligations we're torn up like
the dictates of the BreSt-Litovsk
Treaty. Soviet Russia was the only
one of the belligerents whose sig
nature was lacking from the Ver-
sailles Treaty. Only where the
working class was in power. did this
class emerge from the World War as
the victor.
The new relations of power in
the imperialist camp determined by
the outcome of the war found their
expression in the Versailles Treaty.
The world was divided up afresh,
and thereby at the same time the
germ was laid for efforts at re-
vision on the part of those who
had been deceived in the division
of the booty and for hankerings for
revenge on the nart of the plumber
ed. The Verse iii35 Treaty became
an inexhaussil7'e source of new
contradictions and materials for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-31
Van HoOgstraten Back At
The Stadium Tonight

Wiliem Van Hoogstraten returns
as conductor of the Philharmonic
Symphony Orchestra at the Stadium
this evening. His program includes
the Overture to "Rosamunde, y
Schubert; Symphony No. 8 in A
major ("Scotch" Symphony Men
delssohn; Overture to Romeo and
Juliet" Tchaikovsky; Til Eulen-
spiegl, Strauss and Prelude to
"Meistersinger," Wagner.
Symphony No. 8 in F major, by
Beethoven; Iberia" DebusSy; Ballet
Music from "Rosamunde," Schubert
and Three Excerpts from 1.-THE
Damnation of Faust" by Berlioz
aida" will be the opera on Friday
and Saturday.
The Goldman Band, under the
direction of Dr. Edwin Frankie
Goldman, will give a concert OF
original band music in Central Park
this evening, a Russian program on
Friday and a miscellaneous concert
on Sunday. On Thursday Goldman
will direct the band at the N. Y.
University and on Saturday evening
at Prospect Park. These concerts
are free.
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cattle raisers find themselves in
need Of help, which they will get.
The government is buying the cat
tie, offering as a maximum no more
than $40 per head for two-year- oIds.
The meat will be canned and fed
to the hungry in lieu of jobs. Those
farmers who have thousands Of cat
tie to sell will not find this much
of an imposition, for it means bet
ter prices later on. They can af-
ford to keep foundation herds.
But for the small farmers it
means ruin. Some Of them are SELL
ing their blooded cattle for as low
as 5000 for 16 head in order to
keep them from starvation. Others
are shooting their COWS and feed
ing them to the hogs. Still others
are attempting to get their stock
into New Mexico in the hope that
grazing might be found there. But
New Mexico lies under a blanket of
heat while the plains are dotted
with starving cattle. Farmers there
spent long, hard years converting
those bare, windswept prairies into
living places with irrigation, rail-
roads, and homes. Now they must
surrender them. Here, as in Texas.
water is being hauled and stored in
barrels. In some cases it is being
sold.
The general crop failure further
adds to the necessity of relief in the
cities by providing less employment
for that vast army of workers
which, in the summer and fall, mi
grated to the harvest and cotton
fields. Workers are told not to go
to. the fields unless they are sure
in advance that they will have Jobs.
This will result in further discrimi-
nation against the Negro workers,
the majority of whom have made
their living from the land, either as
tenants or share choppers, or as
hands" who worked by the day. AS
conditions become increasingly bad
in the agrarian situation, the lynch
spirit is whipped into action. Since
May, Texas has had two lynchings,
these occurring in East Texas, the
stronghold Of the landlords. The
white ruling class will try more
than ever to divide the working class
against itself by whipping up ra-
cial prejudice, hoping to divert the
minds Of the farmers and workers
from their starvation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-31
Political Prisoners Club Protests
Oppressive Acts By State Officials

At a recent meeting the Poll
tical Prisoners Club decided to
undertake campaign for the
modification of City and State
parole rules which restrict the
rights of released political prison.
ers. The rules threaten re-arrest
of paroled prisoners for such things
as unemployment; association with
other political prisoners, who may
be members of the same unions
or political organizations; par
taking of alcoholic drinks or being
on promises where such are sold
or served. although this is now
legal. Paroled prisoners are or
dered by officials to stay away
from demonstrations or picket lines
because a mere indiscriminate ar
rest by policeman even if it be
proven that the parolee violated no
law makes him delinquent, accord
ing to parole board rules.
The Political Prisoners Club de-
mands that the rules be modified
to allow parole prisoners to belong
to any labor and POLITICAL organi-
cation they desire; that union,
strike, or political activity be not
considered violation of parole;
that no political prisoner be de-
clared delinquent because of the il
legal fascist methods used by the
police, and without trial and due
process of the law; and that unem-
ployed PAROLES be included for the
purpose of work and relief in the
same category with other unem-
ployed without discrimination or
threat of arrest.
The Political Prisoners Club asks
all labor and sympathetic organi-
cations to protest against the fol-
lowing oppressive acts by State Of
ficials under the administration Of
the liberal Governor lehman.
1. Warden BropI1y of Auburn
Prison returned to the, s1nterna-
tional Publishers Co, o. BOOK mailed
to a prisoner there called Land
Without Unemployment, ''' because
"it contains passabes in foreign
language" Papers and books in for
eign languages are allowed in all
State prisons, and this is, there
fore, an arbitrary, discrininatory
act violating the constitutional
rights Of the publishers and the
prisoner. ->.s
2. Thomas Bunker, No. 1874,
member of Marine and Harbor
Workers Union of New York, is in
Attica Prison. Warden Hunt Of
prison took it upon himself to iso-
late Bunker, cut him of and de-
prive him of the right of commune
cation with anyone outside except
two personal correspondents. Tom
Bunker is not even allowed to re-
ceive from or send mail to his
union or any, members of it. Let
tiers accompanying money orders
from the International Labor De-
Tense are not delivered. The re-
strictions against Bunker are far
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-31
Anna Louise StrOng's
Pamphlet Describes
Rule by USSR Workers

Dictatorship and Democracy in
the Soviet Union" is the title Of a
new pamphlet. Just issued by Inter
national Publishers, on life under
workers rule. by the well-known
journalist. Anna Louise Strong. Al
ways lively and interesting in her
writing, she Is at her best in the
present study, described in the in
PRODUCTION as concrete reporting on
themes Of daily life in the Soviet
Union, which show how our life
here is governed"
Titles of sub-Sections in the PAM
phlet show its scope: the drive on
the kulaks; power in the hands of
workers; government begins at the
work bench; foreign workers par
ticipate; full-time work and social
work.; function of the Party; Gre
ating the collective will the Com
munistS Of Molvitino; power" and
authority; Stains method; Party
mobilization, and the active will Of
the workers.
From her own experience Of the
Soviet Government in action, Anna
Louise Strong gives us in this brief
discussion a convincing answer to
the criticism so commonly levelled
against the workers state, that it is
a dictatorship" where life is quite
thoroughly regimented by an all
powerful state" Here is a booklet
that you can give to American-born
workers and intellectuals. 1t may be
purchased from the nearest Work
ers Book Shop, or from Interna-
tional Pamphlets, 100 Broadway,
New York City. The price is 5 cents.
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t u n | n G. In

WJz-Alice Mock, Soprano; Edgar
Guest, Poet; Concert Orch.
WABC-George Givot, Comedian
30-WEAF-Dramatic Sketch
WOR-Michael Bartlett, Tenor
WJZ-Naumberg Memorial Concert
Jaffray Harris, Conductor, Central
Park Mall
WABC-Himber Orch.
9:45-WOR-Eddy Brown, Violin
0:00-WEAF-Opera, Madame Butterfly,
with Gladys Swarthout, Soprano;
Mario Chamlee, Tenor, and others
WABC-Fray and Braggiotti, Piano
l0:15-wOR-Current Events-H z. Read
WJZ-Siberian Singers
WABC-Troopers Band
10: S0-WOR-Brogale Orch.
Within Rysn's Rendezvous
WABC-Melodic Strings
HOO wEAF-wireless Amateurs-sketch
WOR-Whiteman Orch.
WJz-Berger Orch.
WABC-Party Issues-Talk
15-WEAF-Coleman Orch
WJz-Robert Royce, Tenor
WABC-Jones Orch.
3o-WEAF-Hof Orch.
WOR-Stuart Orch
WJz-Vallee Orch.
45-WABC-Reichman Orch
1900 WMCA--Dance Music ALSO wEAF
WABc, woR, WIZ, wEvDl
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From the First World War to the Second

conflict, of new antagonisms and
war dangers. While the Versailles
Treaty satisfied an old desire of
French heavy industry by the return
of Alsace-LorTaine to France, it
inflicted new wounds on German
finance capital by the separation of
Upper Silesia and Danzig. The Yer
sailles Treaty destroyed the rule of
German imperialism over the colo
MES, but it handed over these colo
MES to other powers and entrusted
the League Of Nations with the sub
lection Of the colo< al world in the
form Of mandates" The League
of Nations became an instrument of
force of the victors for the main
tenance of the relations of power
created by the Versailles Treaty,
and the focal point of all counter
revolutionary forces against the
Soviet Union. Numerous countries,
directly relying on the Covenant of
the League of Nations, increased
their ornaments and stressed the
anti-Soviet aim Of these ornaments.
Thus, for instance, 1t became
known from the secret naval
memorandum of Groener, the army
minister of the SociaI-Democratic
Herman Muller government, that
this government was actively speed
ing up the development of naval
ornaments in readiness for taking
part in the application of sanctions
by the League of Nations in the
North Sea.
Instead of the promised peace
without anneXations, there came
into being the plumber treaty of
Versailles, which was in no way
behind the plumber treaty of Ger
man imperialism concluded at Brest
in 1917. The Versailles Treaty re-
duced the area of Germany by one
eight and its population by 5000. 900.
Austria was divided into two and
lost three-fourths Of its territory.
Even as late as 1882, the Repara-
ton Bank fixed Germany's indebt-
edness at 10000, 5000 gold marks.
The whole postwar period confirm
ed Lenins prediction of 1920, ac-
cording to which the Versailles
Treaty put some 100000 of hui
man beings, partly belonging to the
most advanced countries, into such
conditions that they fell into colo
NAL dependence, misery, starva-
tion, ruin and deprivation Of
rights"
Four great monarchies were over
thrown by the first World War. IN
stead Of five republican states, Eu-
rope found itself at the end of the
war with a dozen, which proclaimed
themselves as representatives of
democratic freedom. The treaty Gre
ated 10000 kilometres of new from
tiers. and the number Of customs
areas was increased from rs to s.
The Versailles Treaty led to the ter
ritory of 5,4COo,ooO square kilo-
meters westward of the frontier OF
the Soviet Union being divided
among 80 European states with a
population of 100000, 600, while the
Soviet Union included 10000 900
within its frontiers.
Ito Be Continued
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STAGE and SCREEN
EUn lie GdILienne To Stage
L'AigLOn" In the Fall

Eva LIE Caffeine and the Civic
Repertory Company, who have been
touring the country the past
months, will appear in Rostand's
famous drama, ''L'Aiglon" under the
management of Arch Selwyn and
Harold B. Franklin. The company
will also stage other plays during
their season at the 46th Street
Theatre, which opens in Novem-
Der. Miss LIE Caffeine will stage
the production.
Max Gordon is now casting his
production of THE Great Waltz"
retitled from "Waltez From Vienna, !"
which has a score by the Johann
Strausses, father and son. The
show, which has been adapted by
Moss Hart, is scheduled to open at
the Center Theatre in September.
Another Gordon production,
Spring Song" story of the Ghetto
by Bella and Samuel Spewack, will
be tried out this week at the Rudge-
way Theatre, White Plains. Fran
cine Larrimore plays the leading
role.
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1900 P. .-wEAFCBaseban Resume
WOR-Sports Resume-Ford Prick
WJz-stamp Club-Capt. Tim Healy
WABC-Beale Street Boys, Songs
7;15-WEAF-Gene and Glenn-Sketch
WOR-Comedy; Music
WJz-Jack Parker, Tenor
WABC-House Beside the Road
Sketch
30-WEAF-Three x Sisters, Songs
WOR-Talk-Harry Hershfeld
WJz-The Tennessee Valley Expert
ment-John B. Blandford Jr., Co.
ordinator IVA
WABC-Biljo Orch.
T:45-WEAF-Sisters Of the Skillet
WOR-The O'Neills-Sketch
WJz-Frank Bucks Adventures
WABC-Boake Carter. Commentator
300 WEAF-Reisman Orch; Phil Duey,
Baritone
WOR-Variety Musicale
Bergliot-Dramatic Reading
WABC-Concert Orch: Frank Mum,
Tenor. Muriel Wilson, Soprano
s:30-WEAF-Wayne King Orch.
WOR-Dantzig Orch.
WJ1-Goldman Band Concert, Pros
pect Park, Brooklyn
WABC-Eyman Orch; vivienne Sc
sal. Soprano; Oliver Smith. Tenor
800 NEAF-Duluth Symphony Orch, Paul
lie May. Conductor
WoR-Variety Musicale
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Many New Courses
AN. Y. School

The New York Workers School is
planning new courses for the Fall
term, which will begin not later
than September a. Catalogues an
nouncing the courses viii be avail
able at the school office about the
end Of August Registration will be-
gin September 4, the day after La
Dor Day.
In addition to the regular curricu-
lum consisting Of courses in Prin-
ciples of Communism, Political
Economy, A, B. and C, Marxism-
Leninism, Problems. Of the Negro
Liberation Movement. Trade Union
Organization, courses in History of
American, Labor Movement, Social
and Political. Forces of American
History, History Of Class. Struggles
and language courses in English,
Russian, etc, the School is intro
ducing new courses in Social and
Political Geography which will deal
with the study of the manner in
which geographical facts and fac
tors have conditioned the develop
ment Of modern Imperialism. This
course will give the student a clearer
grasp in understanding the policies
Of the imperialist countries for
colonial expansion and exploitation.
Another new addition TO the cur
riculum is a course in "Speech-N Max
ing" or Speech Writing" This will
not be a course in Public Speaking.
The course in Public Speaking will
be given as heretofore. The course
in Speech Making" will consist Of
the methods of constructing speech
es in written form. The student will
be required to gather material, facts,
etc. The students, together with the
instructor, will correct and criticize
the speeches presented by the stu
dents. The requirement for this
course is the knowledge of English
The third new feature is "An In
troductory Course to Political Econ
omy." This course will serve as a
preliminary to the systematic and
more advanced study of political
economy. There are many students
who come to the school for only one
term. For various reasons they can
not continue their studies. The IN
troductory Course to Political Econ
omy" will give them the under
standing of the economic basis of
present-day capitalism. The course
will embrace the following topics:
Production of Surplus Value;;"
wages and Accumulation of Cap
ital;" Theory of Crises" "Impe-
rialism;" General crisis Of Capt.
talism and the Soviet Economy"
This course is recommended to
those who have not had any pre-
vious study in political economy.
Another special feature of the
term will be short-term courses,
consisting of a series Of lectures on
special topics relating to the pres
ent-day problems. These lectures
will be given by leading members
Of the Party. Comrades Hathaway,
Browder, Stachel, Bedacht and 9TH
ers are to be among the lecturers.
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" H At S O N

PHOTO EXHIBITION America Today,
at Brighton Beach Workers Center, 5000
Coney Island Ave, $3.50 pm. Inauguration
Of Camera Branch in Brighton. Prominent
speakers. Adm. free. Auspices W.I,R. and
Film g. Photo League.
LECTURE by DR.. Bernhard ]. Stern on
Race Doctrine and the Negro" at Ma
tional Student League, ia w. 14th st.,
4 to $50 pm. Adm. 15c.
Wednesday
MASS ANTI-WAR Open Air Meeting at
saith st. and Rockaway Beach Blvd, Ham
mel, L. l. Auspices: Rockaway C.P.U. All
workers of Rockaway are called to attend
the meeting.
A POPULAR DISCUSSION on Msrxist
Strategy and Tactics in Relation to Trade
Union Work in the United States will take
place Friday, August II, at so E. 18th st..
Second floor, pm. Jack Stachel will
review orally Lenins "Left-Wing Commu-
nism: An Infantile Disorder" Auspices
Workers Book Shop. Adm. &c or sl.00's
worth Of literature.
Philadelphia, Pa.
MOONLIGHT CAMP FIRE. Auspices of
ONCE Workers Union, Saturday evening
August 4th. Take car No. % on 18th ST.,
get off at Mermaid Lane. Or meet pm.
at 1870 S. 9th st. Program-food-adm zoe.
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more severe than against ordinary
criminals. There is no law, no rule
which permits the warden to with
hold mail from a prisoner, mail
that is legally and rightfully sent.
We must recognize this as an act
of brutality, fascist, sadistio
heaping Of. misery upon misery.
Protest loudly against these auto
Gratis who torture the most mill
tant and best fighters Of the work
ing classl Demand that a stop
be put to the abuse, brutality, and
torture of political prisoners.
Protests should be sent TO War
den Brophy; 1876 State St., Auburn,
N. Y. in the case of the book from
the International Publishers; to
Warden Hunt, Box 248, Attica,
NJ Y, against the treatment Of
Thomas Bunker. Protests should
also be sent to Commissioner of
Correction, Walter H. Thayer, Jr,
Executive Building, Albany, N. Y,
and to Governor Herbert H. Leh-
man, Albany, N. Y, whose APP
pointees all these officials are. Mail
copies to Political Prisoners Club,
156 Fifth Ave, Room 534.
The Political Prisoners club.
backed by the International Labor
Defense and the National Commit
tee for Defense of Political Pris-
oners, fights for the rights Of poll
teal prisoners. The club demands
unlimited opportunity for prisoners
to receive literature, mail and
visits Against third degree meth
DDS and police brutality. Abolition
Of corporal punishment in prisons.
Improvement of food and permits
sion to receive extra food packages
from the outside. Opportunity for
political prisoners to study and
maintain social relations inside the
prisons. For the removal of OPP
pressive parole rules. For the lib
Grafton of all political prisoners.
Ex-political prisoners. and others
desiring information, are asked TO
communicate with the Political
Prisoners Club. 1855 Fifth Avenue.
Room 534.
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Drought Rapidly Devastating
Crops of Farmers in Texas
By LOUISE PREECE

AUSTIN, Tex.-Two more weeks
are left to the anxious farmers of
Texas before the drought, which
is sweeping through the entire Mid
die West, completely devastates the
crops. Each morning they scan the
sky for a sign of rain, but they are
met only by sun glare and blister
ing heat which is shriveling the
crops and causing the cattle to per-
ish from lack of water and feed. In
despair, they return to the work
of trying to keep both crops and
livestock alive. Perhaps tomorrow
or the day after-there will be rain
to soak the parched fields. The
burden Of four years Of depression,
followed by forced crop destruction,
is on the shoulders of these farm
ers. Now, in the face of drought
and restitution, they see famine
creeping upon them while the gov
eminent makes bright promises of
relief.
Out Of 254 Texas counties, 1874 are
on the emergency relief roll. Al
though the federal government has
approved a grant of a one million
dollar loan for this area, there is
no let-up on the Bankhead law to
decrease the allotment of cotton
for this state. Secretary of Agricul-
ture Henry Wallace admitted that
he knew both Texas and Oklahoma
to be in a critical situation, but
that a later cotton crop might re-
suit in the states going over the
suit in the states going over the
fact that they might reach the
average yield allowed. Yet cotton
in South Texas has opened so rap
idly as a result of the heat that
the government tags permitting its
sale had to be rushed there so that
marketing Of it would not be de-
layed. Wallace also declared that
the drought should be of great
benefit because it would further re-
duce the surplus" and that re-
gions not touched by it should be
able to supplement short crops in
the drought area. His evident con-
tention Is that out and out starya-
ton in certain regions is all right
so long as there might be less starry
alton elsewhere.
The million dollar relief grant will
do nothing more than aid hard
pressed landlords. For the small
farmers, this so-called relief is as
much of fake" as the mortgage
moratorium law passed by the legis-
lature last spring. But newspapers
over the state flash the news that
the farmers will be saved. Texas
is to get a say in the new C.C.C.
camps which will go up in the
drought areas; Texas Is to get
tree camp" for 80 girls, which will
be constructed along the same lines
as Mrs. Roosevelt's Camp Terror"
Texas is to participate in the 4
point program Of the government
to relieve" the drought area -
program which will kill off more
cattle and recognize for relief only
those applicants who have signed
up under the A. A. A.
The farmers have not swallowed
this gag thrown out to them by
Wallace. They see, on every side,
government sponsored subsistence
villages and farms in the process