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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-16
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
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BY MICHAEL GOLD

THE writers always among the first to feel when
l. old system is breaking down. serious writer must
have ethical and moral values to guide him. philosophy
of life he is merely entertainer. Capitalism no
longer furnish these values Those who support capitalism
have ape poisoned corpse They reubh theology
and medievalsm and Bonaparm all ideas mankind has
tried and found false and dangerous
If will read of the of the Fascist nteecuas
this country will find gIeng verbage and historic
ececc nothing the philosophy Wall
Street the Klux Khan the Steel
Allen instance brilliant styist but all the basic
tally be found mind of meane most degraded
hterate filled uperstous deputy guard watching Georgia
chain gang
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-16
A Dead or Living World?

YES choice becomes palmer
phosophies-o Fast-capaist dogma
this static world which slavery world fixed
determined by a capitalist
the other side ranged the armies who believe with science
that the world is fluid and changed and mastered Poverty
and ignorance and fear can be finally eliminated and new hui
mainly created, classics society super-race.
The fatal wound in the fascist philosophy that attempts to
restore the past 1t would return the working class to their status OF
medieval serdom the nteecuas the
dosmas of St. Thomas Aqunas Can this be don2 OF course not
no more than grown man can wish himself back to the empty ami
NAL peace of the womb.
Fascs has the strength of disease it gangrene and
will do its worst until finally eliminated And inenectuas with healthy
instincts beginning
fight intellectual who have the
pons Of this universal death The battle is on
Hitler Has Classified Things
NOWHERE this lineup clearly
= ~ fatsd than in Germany.
The Shirts began their symbolic that
startled the world They assembled every book that had traces of
only Lenin
Roman Roland the studies psychology of the Fudan
mnsm progressive child training biology
ether post Darwinian progress
they They put themselves
the culture
of this culture the professors physicians political leaders
tortured exid Germany intellectual
all very clear and plain and it should plain to the intel
against the Brown Beast is their fight
World Issue-Thaelmann
necessary
~ sm only be destroyed by helping its heroest
this Communist Party Germany
ground hunted like animals in constant danger these peaan
heroes preparing the great justice.
The intellectual world felt overhrowng
and there always world sympathy
CARELESS of party for the revouoni who performed that sanitary
job
Today must be apparent that when Communist leader like
Ernst Thaemann trial before the Nazs he
sentng
He representing the world that created the books
famous medieval bonfire.
to kill him The workers of the world have said
that shall be mighty
cities Of the world to this
It is time the nteecuals issue they
deeply
Wake writers scientists artists Leap
to the defense of Thaemann
too write to the German Embassies protest fill the
with burning words Of indignation
If the Ku Klux conquers Germany
will be the first victims and
Now the time to tight BY snatclng Thaelann
hands of the German lynce
fascsm threat culture
helped Tom Mooney the Scottboro
You Thaelmann,
of the major issues Throw into this battle help
win it! Act at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-16

when they come back armed with
a program of action
These women must get the strong
est support. Their work can be-
come one of the most powerful fac
tors in preventing the imperialists
from carrying through their plans
for war that can annihilate all
life from the face Of the earth.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-16
Women in Factories
Strategic in Fight
On Imperialist War

capitalists of their country"
But there was no such organized
resistance against the imperiahst
world War until 1917 when the Rus
sian workers and peasants voted
with their feet to end the slaughter
and marched from the battlef1elds
to overthrow their oppressors and
set up workers and farmers gov
eminent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-16

RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL
5oth ST. & eth ave. Show Place CT the
Naticn-opens 1880 A. M.
A N N II A EAO N G
10 EN B o L E S
in LOUIS BRoMFIELDS
"yyFE or vERG-E WTNTErS"
AND A GREAT STAGE SHOW
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-16
By SASHA SMALL


THROUGH the centuries women
1 have been assigned the task of
giving their sons and husbands for
the glory Of whatever it happened
to be called at the time, and then
they we're glorified in sloppy senti-
ment for being brave" and weep
ing quietly for the loved ones they
gave"
About so years ago when the
women's suffrage movement swept
over the whole world it carried
along in its wake a string of paci-
fist societies. Women came out
openly as opposed to war. War is
wrong. War is wicked. War should
not happen. But no program came
along with this movement-no con-
crete program of action that could
effectively mobilize wide masses of
women for a fight against war.
There were millions of reams of
paper covered with phrases and
resolutions. Thousands of miles
were covered by delegations to
legislatures asking them to enact
laws-vague indefinite laws like
Senator Nye's, which wants the
government to take the manufac-
ture of munitions out of the hands
of the private munition profiteers.
AS if you are killed any differently
by bullet manufactured in a gov
eminent factory.
Then, of course, there was the
stand taken by the Socialist Parties
before and after the World War
started. Before the war started
they gave lip service opposition to
the struggle against war. But when
the time came to do something
about it, the worthy leaders Of the
Socialist Party in France called up
on their members to defend the
fatherland against the ravages OF
German greed and their fellow
party members in Germany called
upon the workers to defend the
fatherland against the attacks Of
the French. And so on all around
the world-the Socialist Parties be-
trayed the workers into the trenches
of the imperialists.
DUT there were voices of revolt. In
ID 1915, in Switzerland, Clara zet-
kin defied the command of the ex-
ecutive committee Of the Social
Democratic Party to the contrary
and called an Interna t / n a
Women's Congress Against I'm
perialist War.
The leaders of the social denloc-
racy arrested Clara Zetkin, placed
her in a concentration camp and
did everything in their power to
prevent the Congress from taking
place. But the Congress did take
place and almost every European
country was represented. Leaflets
flooded into the factories and mills
where women worked.
working women of the world"
; tbs leaflet written by Clara Zet-
kin called, this iInperialist robber
war is wiping out millions of
healthy young human lives. This
war is war for profit. The capt.
talists are fighting this war with
the blood of the people for the
maintenance of capitalist slavery.
Down with this murder of the
people.
Girls and women of the toiling
! people. You must organize resis-
lance, you must unite in common
struggle. You are strong enough
to check the imperialists. Stop the
machines. Refuse to work at mu-
niticns productions. Take the
initiative Act! Fight, Tell your
fathers, husbands, and sweet
hearts to take their guns and turn
! them against their oppressors, to
aim them at their murderers, thu
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-16


world War until 1917 when the Rus
sian workers and peasants voted
with their feet to end the slaughter
and marched from the battlefields
to overthrow their oppressors and
set up workers and farmers gov
eminent.
AND now twenty years after the
"A last World War, battleships and
cruisers and armaments are being
piled up by the inperialists of the
world. The situation is 50 tense
that the slightest push-like the
disappearance Of member of the
japanese embassy from Marking
was enough for the exchange of the
sharpest diplomatic notes, prepara-
tons for landing troops, etc. Hitler
no longer hides his intentions He
is arning Germany to the teeth,
men, women and children, he re-
fuses to enter into a peace pact
proposed by Litvinoff, he obeys
openly and completely the dictates
of his masters voice CThyssen) in
preparing for war.
Only few months ago in April,
an international committee of Eu-
ropean women took the initiative in
calling an international women's
congress against war and fascism
for this summer, the goth ami
versary of the beginning of the
World War.
The response of American women
to this call is very encouraging. They
are realizing that they can be one
of the most powerful forces in avert
ing war. But more important than
this. They realize that pacifist
phrases accomplish nothing. They
realize that the appeal of the paci-
fists has been only to one section
of American wonen-to middle class
W ON n, housewives, intellectuals,
tetc. They realize that one Of the
most important factors in building
a powerful movement against war
and fascism is the winning Of the
| working women i'll the factories and
4 mills of this country for this work.
They realize that these women are
in the most strategic position to
prevent war and that they need the
support of women from every section
of the population to back them in
their struggle.
THE women already involved in
the work Of the American sec
ton of the International Congress,
from every part ofthe country, ex-
press this one central slogan; we
are the second line Of the trenches
in war. The war mongers expect
us to become the second inc of de-
Tense. They realize how strong we
are. Let us understand our own
strength, organize it, weld it into
the powerful weapon that it can be
not for another war--but to pre-
vent this war from which we have
nothing to gain.
In San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Cleveland, Boston, New York, Pitts
burgh, Detroit, Nebraska, women
are carrying on heroic pioneer work.
They are breaking through barriers
of caste and prejudice, religious and
political differences, reaching wo-
men from still comfortable homes
and women who slave in General
Motors auto plants, talking to wo-
men in church societies and women
whose husbands are battling scabs
and thugs on the West coast water
front. women in fine homes on the
Chicago lake drive and women in
Wretched mine company shacks-
mcbilizing all of them for the cleo
tion of a strong representative del
egation to Paris in July-a delega-
ton whose work will really begin
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-16
Woman Liberals
Detached VieaVof
heFaSciSt Menace
DO WE WANT FAsCIsM9" BY
Carmen Haider. John Day Co.,
n. Y. $500.
Reviewed by
GRACE HUTCHINS

WHEN the International Women's
" Congress Against War and
Fascism meets in Paris, July % to
30, delegates from Italy, Germany
and other fascist committees will
come at the risk of their lives, No
one under fascist rule is legally per-
mitteG to say even word against
war or against fascism; imprison-
ment, torture, execution, result if
worker speaks out against Hitler's
or Mussolini's regime
Women as we'll as men have been
tortured, even beaten to death in
the fascist jails and Brown Houses.
But very little about this sadistic
terror under the Black Shirts and
the Brown Shirts appears in the
writings of classroom liberals who
discuss pros and cons of fascisn, its
development in Europe, and its
chances for growth in the United
States.
DETER than most of these books,
u but still a typically liberal, cool
and detached discussion is Carmen
Haider's Do We Want Fascism?
She avoids drawing conclusions,
for the most part, but her facts
show that after eleven years of
Mussolini's dictatorship the volume
of italian national production has
not increased. Unemployment is
widespread. The level of Italian
real wages has fallen below the
1914 level. Strikes are regarded as
criminal" and declared illegal.
Communists are periodically sent to
prison or to the penal islands by
the hundreds.
The book touches lightly on the
betrayals by establishments in
Italy and Germany. 1t does show
that establishments played into
Mussolini's hands by favoring
peaceful evolution and parliament
tary methods, and by considering
it their duty Ito apply brakes to
the popular movement" In Ger
many the author describes the
Social-Democrats as gradually be-
coming a conservative party, NOV
ing step by step to the Right, hold
ing the workers back from struggle.
She does come to the conclusion
that only an active working class
movement can prevent the success
of fascism.
Her discussion of fascist trends
in the United States, however, is
weak. Nothing is said Of monopoly
under the N.R.A., nor of the true
significance of the Swope plan and
of other proposals as paving the
way for fascism. Nothing is said
of the increasing violence used
against the workers, particularly
the revolutionary workers and the
Negro masses.
IN describing the Communist Party
l in the United States, Miss Haider
in effect plays into the hands of
the ruling class by disnissing the
only revolutionary working class
party as limited" in its appeal to
the American working man. She
actually says that is partly because
there are great numbers of Negroes
in their ranks"l The American
Workers Party she regards as if ii
were fighting force opposing the
advent of fascism."
If it is still true, as the book
jacket states, that Miss Haider
commands the confidence Of the
italian government, then it is pro-
foundly to be hoped that she will
write another book some day in
which she shakes that confidence
and comes out clearly and strongly
for the fight against war and fas-
cism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-16
Can You Repeal Darwin?


evolution
the Revolution be
easily destroyed would Communism the in
the scientific tradition More and
beginning fight the side
the culture of Montaigne voa Shelley and
Blake; Darwin Freud Einn and Karl Marx in America the ira
Jefferson Whitman, Mark
social humantaanism of Adams Lindsey and
the ideals of the who fought public schools
in America, and against black slavery
1t is not Communists alone who presented this the funda
mental lineup will read repeat such of academic
by Collins you these
fascists defending black slavery white slavery frankly
begerently literally grandfahers
They repudiate everything democratic and humanitarian they
pudiate the Of and advocate the the
ology Ages they wipe pages history
all the made since the Revolution they their
enemy which the the world today
that fulfill all the promises the democratic revolution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-16
u. S. Women Back Paris
Congress; Impressions
OF Organizer on Tour

the talk Of making war in order to
get new foreign markets for Amer
lean products. She told how the
farmers we're starving because
their produce brings no income,
how the unemployed in the cities
axe starving and how easily the So
called over production could be fed
to them and then we wouldn't have
to make war to find foreign mar
kets. Mrs. Chase comes from ons
Of the oldest families in New Eng
land. For more than 300 years the
farm she lives on was titled and
worked by Chases and she has no
intention Of sending her two boys
to war to murder and be MUIR
dered to satisfy the greed Of the
war mongers.
MANY other interesting ques-
lA tons we're brought UP. And
they formed an impressive answer
to the Socialist delegate VINO was
afraid Of Illegal actions Was it le-
gal to murder II millions in the
last war? Is it legal to allow chill
dren to starve in the midst Of
plenty? Will it be legal in the next
war to murder women and chill
dren behind the lines with deadly
poison gases?
On my trip through Pittsburgh,
Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, Mil
waukee, I spoke with many women.
It is hard to remember all the
things they said. But some stand
out more clearly than others. A
young girl in Detroit who works in
a factory employing 5000 women
and girls spoke Of the fact that
the young girls were the first to be
fred and are paid the lowest wages,
and vet they would BE- the first to
be hired in time Of war to replace
the men. She pledged the forma-
ton Of an anti-war committee in
her factory
An 18-year-old metal worker in
Brooklyn told of the work in her
factory, where they make instru-
ments for measuring shells. AS we
work. she said, we can think Of
our boy friends being torn apart
by the shells we are helping to
make already have two other
girls in my factory ready to help
me to fight against war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-16

MABEL BYRD, the chairman Of
III the Chicago women's commit
tee, is one Of the leading figures in
our movement. At one meeting she
addressed in a church, where she
was the only Negro speaker, she
stated that it was important to or
gsnize women in the fight against
war so that we will be able to fight
against the national hatreds plant
ed in them by those who profit
from war. At this same meeting a
young ex-seryiceman, who had
both hands shot off in the last war,
spoke. He told us that when his
mother saw his wooden hands she
swcre that if she had to do it over
again she would step over his dead
hcdy before she let him go to war.
In Cleveland a woman spoke
about company unicns. They are
trying to do the same thing that
Hitler has done In Germany, she
said They are trying to take away
from us one of the strongest wea-
pens We have-our united strength
in unions. To fight against COM
pany unions is to flght against fas-
cism here, she said and to fight
against war, because the compa-
MES will try to use their power in
the company unions to send our
men to war and replace them with
/ women.
All over one thing is clear. These
women who are responding to our
call our not just sentimeutalists.
They are not Just against the hor-
ror Of war. They realize that they
must do something now to prevent
war. and they feel that the Inter
national Women's Congress in Paris
this summer is the first step in
! the right direction.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-07
DIME NOVELS
 VALUABLE NOW
Paper.Backed Books Get Place in Congress
 si0nal Library

Philadelphia (UP) Perhaps. iii rummaglng through tho nttlc, you will discover some paper backed dime novels
 Do not throw them away, shud- derIng at memories of the wood. shed. They muy De quite valuable. For tho dino novel has lcnpcd from It's obscurIty of 60 yenrs ago to a place of honor in the Com gr0sslonnl Library at Washington.
 Thousnnds of collectors are eager to pay high prices for genuine Diamond Dick" thrlllers of the sos and DOS. In Philadelphia C
 Happy Hours Brotherhood. com posed of GO members, has been or ganIzed tO promote interest in dine novel collecting.
 Robert II. Smeitzer, vlce-prcsi- dent of the BrOtberhood. believes dime novels not only arc harmless. but actually have done consider nble good.
 q was brought up on q farin, and in my teens I read my iirsi dime novels. My grandmother nnd aunts considered dime novels trash soN rend them In secret back in the haymow.
 "I can't for tho life Of mo see what was wrong with them. un. less lt was the fact that they wcr. s0 frequently concerned with doath and lighting, Tho good mon always trInmphed, however, 1nd Justice always prevailed, There nr" things more objectionable in moat
 modern magazines"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-07

careless, Don't worry about lunch money for mol always run Into somebody who's glad to buy me n luneh," had for weeks been n series of gallant Hos. That for weeks hc hadn't eaten lunches. Poor, brave Neville! His throat frightened as he thought of her, He'd wanted to do so much for her! And now she was working in smelly little restaurant in Wash- ington Heights, making. with tips, about S1 week. "This is no time for pride, darling" she'd said when he had protested. "You'll get something>soon. But in the mean. time we're going to eat."
 That was all It dld--paid for their food and tho little room where Neville cooked over a single gas burner and washed in the bathtub. Thero was never a penny over. But she didn't complain. Its just an interlude, honey" she said. And n prelude to something better for the whole world Let < see 1t through"
 But when Trent had seen her putting cardboard in her shoes and found that they were beyond re- pair he'd known that something had to be done. Somehow Neville had to have new shoes.
 He walked on. His feet were
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-07
YOUNG WOMEN
 BEST DRIVERS
Philadelphia Cop Says All Try to Abide By Motor
 Vehicle Laws

Philadelphia, (UP).-.in spite of "disconcort traits." women are good drivers in the opinion of Philadelphia traffic policemen.
 However, they should Dc taught young. Ono policeman reported that women who learn to drive when thoy arc 40 or GO "are sim ply awful". They become rattled, he said, and Ego haywire, staIlIng tho car, flooding tho carbureter, and then bursting Into tenrs.
 A policeman in q downtown section snid thath his troubles would be fewer if drivers were all women.
 "Thcy try to abide by the law, but they sometimes lack confi- dcnce," hc sald. "i wish 1 could take somc of the confidence away from young male drivers and give it to the women"
 A handsome six-fOoter found women "a littlo difficult Co deal with"
 "somctiemcs when l point out a fircpiug to n woman who is park Ing, shc looks ns if had just put it there. We have to follow orders, and 1 try to be polite but firm, Sometimes the firmcr get tho less they seem to cnrc. They just sit and look and 1t makes mo fccl kind of goofy".
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-07

John Morrissey, Michael aud John Gtlsom amd Ctty Clcrk Jack Ftsmauricc were amoag the toco people scho took in the Sun Oa Company dinner at Seuem Cables i,,n Miford Friday cvening aud belieUe yon me- h aOas something Go Writc home about. The ocdt quaret had the unique pleasure Of personally Gcquatnt- ing then,sevcs qoh LoWen Thomas, nationally known radio celebrty Goueror Wilbur L. Cross Mayor Jasper McLevv of Bridgeport aud Dan Edwards, forty times ,oounded aud hero of onc ot LoweH Thomass books, and many other popular figures. National adVertisng directors aud ofticals ot the Sunoco Company were among the t,co hundred present.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-07
World Survey Shows
 Slump Put To Flight
London Paper Cheerful After International UnempIoy.
 ment Census-ltay's Gain Noticeable

London. (uP)--The world grad l. ually Is emerging from tho depres. sion.
 That Is the claim Of the Daily Expres after an international survey which, it claims, shows that during the past i2 months 6,O00.600 idle workers have boon re-nbsOrbed into industry.
 The British Empire, says the newspaper, leads all countries in the measure of recovery achieved. Tho total reduction, in, the number of It's unemployed approaches the 100000 mark; Tn Britain alone there were 625,000 moro people at work at the end Of February than year ago.
 t# Latest Returns
 These. says the Daily Express, are the latest returns from other parts of the Empire, and from other countries.