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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
Modern 'OLiUer TuUists'
In Charity Institution
Go on Strike for More

When the youths struck last Mon
day they put forward the follow
ing demands:
/. More and better food.
2. Free clothing (the boys report
that they have received no clothing
in several months)
8. Money for minor necessities.
4. Against rules forcing boys to
miss meals and barring them from
sleeping quarters
5. Recognition Of the boys House
Committee.
6. Against discrimination of boys
on strike.
Mr.. Tutak agreed to sign new
list of rules on the basis of the
demands put forward by the boys.
In fact, Goldenberg was told that
the subsidy would be raised from
$3.85 a week to $485.
But the new rules were never put
into effect and yesterday Mr.. Tutak
refused to talk to Goldenberg.
THE officials of the Children's Aid
Society have been trying to get
rid Of young Goldenberg from the
Newsboy's House almost as soon as
he came there.
On September "a, Mr.. Max Gold
enberg, Mikes father received the
following communication from Miss
Helen Baxter, supervisor Of case
work:
"Your son, Mike. has been liv-
ing with us for the past several
DAYS. Will you be kind enough to
write us why he left home and
whether you desire to have him
return?
"Will you also state his birth date.
and name Of any relief agency that
is aiding ycuP"
Failing to GUST Mike from the
Newsboys' House. the officials tried
to starve him and the other boys
out. Charity folks are trying to
drive him out by using fascist nea-
sures.
On Thursday night the bows met
and voted to strike. On Friday
there was picket line around the
Newsboys' House. Eleven of the
boys we're arrested for disorderly
conduct. Seven received suspended
sentences and four were discharged.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
Homeless Men Crowd Unoccubied
Cells in L. |. JdilS for Shelter

mere, the report discloses that
twenty-six dodgers were housed
there between Jan. 1 and July %.
1884 most Of them having been sent
to the jail by a local welfare So
ciety.
"As there were no funds to feed
them, however. they were taken
care of through funds donated by
officers Of the precinct" the re-
port found Thus the State shifts
the job of supporting the unem-
ployed from the shoulders of the
wealthy who are responsible for the
restitution onto low-paid police Of
f1cers.
Behind the bare figures cited in
Commissioner Schoenfeld's there is
an Illuminating story of how the
property owning and employing
classes keep the working section of
the population in straitened cir
cumstancss. Nassau is known as the
rich mans" county and abounds
in sumptuous estates. Despite the
natural seaports which range along
the Nassau coast, industrial develop
ment is discouraged to provide re-
treats for bankers and business men
worn out by Office cares. This de-
liberate scuttling of industry serves
a double purpose for it keeps the
native working population depend
ent upon Summer gardening and
household jobs on the landed es-
tates. The paucity of available
means Of livelihood keeps wages on
the Sumner jobs at the starvation
levels the bankers prefer to pay.
In the Winter, as stated in the
Schoenfeld report, these workers
must seek lodgings in the county
jails.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
New Pamphlets Ont on
Second Five-Year Plan

NEW YORK Soviet workers and
peasants will become "active build
ers of a classics socialist society"
through the second Five-Year Plan,
declares w. NJ. Molotov, Chairman
Of the Council of Peoples Commits
sars of the UeS.SR., in his pam
phlet THE Tasks Of the Second
Five-Year Plan" a work based on
his report to the 18th Congress of
the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union. A more technical analysis
of the plan is given by V. ".
Kuibyshev in ''The Second Five
Year Plan"
Resolutions on these and other
reports delivered at the 17th Con-
gress are contained in Resolutions
and Decisions, Including Party
Rules All these cost ten cents
each and are being distributed by
International Publishers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15

that building, not including the Of
fee Of the German Consul Gen
eral. My visits were never mys-
FERROUS. I never met John E. Kelly
at II Battery Place.
Fellows the statement that I'm
a letter to Kelly dated as far back
as December n, 1888, he Sidney
Brooks wrote: I will be in New
York Friday to Monday and can
be reached in the usual manner
Gramercy 5-9193 (care Emer-
SOn)'."
wrote such a letter TO Mr.. Kelly
addressed to his Office at II Bat
terry Place on that date. I append
full copy of the letter. For your
information, Mr.. Kelly is a personal
friend with whom I have naturally
discussed matters of general interest,
at his home.
Quoting: I'VE now find that this
man close to high officials of the
United States government is meet
ing people to merge anti Semitic
organizations, calling on persons
in the German Consulate building,
and having a telephone number
care one Emerson"
AS you point out, I am Director
of the Bureau of Economic Research
of the Republican Senatorial and
Congressional Committee and I am
attempting to do a job political
in its nature and directed to what
I believe the necessary accumula-
ton of knowledge of the policies
and measures of the present Ad-
ministration and the interests OF
the American people. My personal
relations with Administration Off
Gals are nil.
Following is the statement
Sidney Brooks also is a member
Of the secret Order of rs. Be
fore anyone can join he must, in
his own handwriting. and scaled
with his own fingerprints, give
certain details of his life. Brooks
application to this espionage So
oiety appears with this article and
shows that he is masquerading
under his mothers maiden name.
His father is Col. Edwin Emerson,
Hitler agent.
The facsimile of my application
to the Order of rs, reproduced in
your magazine, is correct. May
repeat that my job is collecting in
formation, whether it bear upon ma
tional economic, financial, industrial
or social conditions? Why I joined
the Order of rs is no else's af-
fair but my own, and I am not
obligated to give reasons to anyone
But I can tell you if you are in
terested that my purpose was pri-
marily international and second
arily because that society was rep
resented to me as standing for prin-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
Questions and answers

nearly $4,000 square miles and is
practically not settled. The Soviet
government has set aside this ter
ritory as an autonomous region for
Jewish settlement. That does not
exclude workers and peasants of
other nationalities from participant
ing in the local government. In
fact, there are already in existence
four Jewish national districts
three in the Ukraine and one in
the Crimea) where the Ukrainians,
German colonists and others con-
stitute minority nationalities and
are participating in the local Jew
ish Soviets and other institutions,
Just as the Jews who are ma
tional minority in the Russian,
Ukrainian and other republics of
the U. S. S. r. are accorded full
citizenship rights, rights to hold
office. etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15

This department appears on
this page twice a week. All cues
items should be addressed to
Questions and Answers" Daily
Worker, IS East 18th St., New
York City.
Question: In Biro-Bidjan there
are about $4,000 Jews out of a
population of $4,000 Since Jews
are in a minority, why is it their
autonomous staAe" and what will
happen to the political rights of
the non-Jewish workers and pea
SAINTS there?
Answer: Although there are only
$4,000 Jews in Bro Bidjan the
Jewish people are the largest single
nationality in the area, Russians,
Ukrainians, Koreans, Chinese, ETC.,
comprise the remaining $4,000.
Bro Bidjan covers territory Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
BY MICHAEL GOLD

NORLISS LAMONT made interesting talk at banquet
of the Friends of the Soviet Union the other night.
He is real friend of the Soviet Union has been proved
now for some years
This particular Lamont is the son of Wall Street and
j. Morgans which
isn't strange to those who have studied history.
More than sixty the Russian novelist Trgenev
titled in which
two worlds capitalist and communist fought their battle everywhere
the families per-
sonaly.
The father fated play certain role but history had laid
another honoaby escape
And thus the despite the natural tie of blood
opposite camps.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
YOUTH ELECTION PAMPHLET
OUT

Whom Shall the Youth Support
in the 1884 Elections?" is the title
of the 16-page youth election plat
form recently off the press, 1t has
been issued by the New York Dis
trict of the Young Communist
League to sell for the price Of one
cent. Prices to organizations: 80c
per 100, s2.75 for 500, 81 per 1000.
Order through Y. G. l.. Room sos,
IS East 18th Street, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
In Both Camps

THERE degraded capitalism -proaa
call them betray their brothers the vgante
Naz that destroy There the
capitalists desert their because they that
longer administer world but forced to
chicanery substitute and usefulness
forced into revolutionary
time instructor philosophy
Marxism him painfully
out thinking been irresponsible
emotonaism with him the romantic rebellion of
against its elders Cors Lamont though rich mans
have strate mind examining his
books writings
And let nnumerable
history chief financial contributor the
Boshevk Party Russian millionaire named Moozov the
Soviet Union today there hundreds of
nobility high positions in the Communist
remember meeting the poet Lugovsko in Moscow. He is
powerful handsome giant fought the through
the Civil the poets
member of the This Lugovsko is the last heir
the before the Romanov
And nobody Moscow finds strange,
thought
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
Madrid Dispatch
By JOHN PAULIN

Hundreds have died in Spain today, red front
sealed in these new cadres echoing
October-steps, repeat the hammer blunt
rhythm the workers made winnowing
the Tsarist years of death (their way to life
Wet wind Soviet, blow again across
Iberia and pile the communist stiff
flags over Town Halls, fields and streets let loose
the new storm of a second workers march.
These dead Asturias, are songs that call
loud fists through Spain Ia thousand rise for each
here PROSTATE at the fascist silD, Dark wall
o hfeward masses, here is barricade-
the Internationale their blood has made.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15

Reprinted through the courtesy Of the
New Masses
III.
Follows the statement referring
TO my mysterious visits to New
York" where / always went TO
IL Battery Place" and at that
address he visited one John E.
Kelly"
I generally went to II Battery
Place to the Office Of my father, as
well as to other business Offices in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
BY Harry Raymond

A MODERN Oliver Twist story,
n similar in many respects to
Dickens classic tale, has unfolded
itself in connection with the Strug-
gle Of the inmates of the Brace
Memorial Newsboy's House, 244 Will
liam Street for enough food and
decent living conditions.
Youths from the House came to
the Daily Worker and told Of fascist
methods that had been used against
Mike Goldenberg, one Of them, who
had organized 100 of the boys into
the Unattached Youth Of America
and led strike for better condi-
tons.
Unknown persons, believed to be
officials of the institution. entered
the room Of young Goldenberg and
severely beat him, the boys reported,
The beating, it was said, was adj
ministered to Goldenberg Tuesday
night and on Wednesday a note
was left in his room, which said:
This Is only the beginning of
what is in store for you and your
committee"
The note was signed, 1.-THE Vigil
lantes."
THE strike had been called on Sun
day and on Tuesday ]. Tutak,
director Of the House agreed to con-
cede to the demands of the youths,
but the buck was later passed to
Arthur Huck, executive secretary,
who was away at the time, and
later to Henry T. Spring. assistant
director. who said he had no new
rules and would stand by the old
rules.
The boys met Thursday night and
decided to regain the establishment
of new rules or strike again.
Inmates Of the House report that
the government provides more than
IS cents a day to help take care
of the transients But despite this
government subsidy the youths are
forced to work hard for ID hours
day. The meals. according to the
boys, are very poor and much more
sickness has been reported which
the boys lay to the bad food.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15

the leading part in Pudovkin's first
talking picture "Deserter," now at
the Cameo Theatre.
this picture. They will see in the
heroic battles of the Hamburg
strikers against hunger and police
brutality a true reflection of their
own struggle against these enc
mics They will come out of the
theatre tremendously stirred and
ready to jump head first into their
picket line at the waterfront.
"1EsERTER" is film you have
" to see over and over again to
appreciate to the full. One view
ing merely whets the appetite to
see again and again powerful cpl
sodes such as the Hamburg dele
cation to the Soviet Union, where
the confused but honest young
worker begins to understand the
nature of the class battle he de-
serted when his comrades needed
him most, and returns to their
ranks. In fact all the elements
that enter into a strike situation
are evident in "Deser, err more
clearly than in any film in recent
months.
We see the difficult struggle be-
tween the Communist leadership IN
the strike and the old Social
Democrats who can see only starva-
ton and death at the end, and
their ultimate desertion to the sloe
of the bosses. We see the murderous
brutality of the Hamburg police
assassins whose machine guns
against Communists and Socialists
alike. convince the workers, although
late. that they must stand together
in the strike or perish.
We see the familiar day to day
activity of the strikers-on the
picket line, on the streets with
workers papers telling the truth
about the strike, at home with their
wives and children whose SYM
pathetic understanding keeps their
spirit ever from failing, on parade,
One word about the actors Of
"Deserter." In Hollywood films, once
q star always star, until the
heavens crash. But in Soviet films
new faces are continually in the
forefront. In "Deserter' nearly all
the former leading players Of Mel
rabpomfilm are cast in minor roles.
Barsskanaja, the heroic mother in
Mother" appears in small part
for one or two moments only; the
giant peasant of End Of st. Peters
burg" appears once only in the
role of scab and then disappears
from the screen. Most of the lead
ing roles in Pudovkin's last film
are taken by unknown actors.
THE weaknesses of "Deserter" are
4 many. but they are insignificant
compared to the virtues The con-
tinuity is occasionally interrupted
by an irrelevant incident, but that
is typical of Pudovkin's work; and
the section of the film dealing with
the Hamburg Soviet Union delega-
ton, although admirable in itself,
is not sufficiently knit together with
the preceding strike scenes. There
are also too many bad blank SPACES
where the film appears to have
been ineXpertly edited.
But don't let any Of these criti-
cisms keep you away from DE
serter'-the best film you have seen
in months.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
WORLD Of the
MOVIES
DESERTER, Soviet film epic with
English dialogue titles, directed
by Pudovkin, at Cameo Theatre.

DESEkIEH, SOVIET MIN epic with
English dialogue titles, directed
by Pudovkin, at Cameo Theatre.
Reviewed by
DAVID PLATT
EVERY Soviet film is breath of
Il life to most of us, but Soviet
film as rare as v. I. Pudovkin's
"Deserter," now playing at the
Cameo Theatre, is something to
talk heatedly about. Let me begin
by saying that I consider 'Deserter"
to be the best Russian film since
the early days of Eisenstein, Pudov-
kin and Dovjenko, the great trium-
verate of the screen. 1t is far
stronger than Pudovkin's own END
of st. Petersburg" and Mother"
being less epic in scope, and more
human and down to earth, and
comes close to being one of the
most powerful films of our time.
Technically it represents an enor-
nous advance over the earlier films
and definitely establishes the So
viet's right to leadership over all
bourgeois studios in the use OF
sound.
And how timely "Deserter" is,
dealing as it does with the strike
of the Hamburg dock workers,
which took place few years ago.
I recommend Pudovkins splendid
film unreservedly to every striking
marine worker and to everyone in
terested in their struggle for human
living conditions. They will find
themselves on familiar ground in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15

Contributions received to the
credit of Del in his Socialist
competition with Mike Gold,
Harry Cannes, the Medical
Advisory Board, Helen Luke
Jacob Burck and David Ramsey.
in the Daily Worker drive for
$4,000. Quota-S500.
Total to date ... S1.00
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
Another "Deserter"

the banquet the other night there spoke also former
n General Yakhontof This
and development Formerly attached
Embassy in Japan he has written two authoritative and scholarly
works the schemes of the impeasts
the steps they taking their strategy
the whole of Asia their
against the Soviet Union, and in that
General Yakhontof will be valiant
side of the Soviets.
This be doubted The
ascm Chicago all his writings
defence his world philosophy general
deserted his class forever the working
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
Communist Movement Needs Such Allies

COMMUNIST movement Needs Sucn AlleS
IN the old Socialist
such recruits too They of
fusion however in working class movement
The old Socialism than faint funkeyism
Led by who mostly caets and nothing
better than cabinet capitalist
Socialist its allies
the bourgeoisie
gladly every
like Dudley Field LaGuardia
time Party They
nothing nothing expected of them they
mdate offered posts of leadership these confused liberals
them nothing but political
light spoke
Today, the Communist has
wokngclass This this
on absorb these splendid allies
like Coss Lamont because the lines of Communism
clear and firm understands better his relation
ment He content to be loyal ally of the
eventually profeer
shall of allies
competition with Jacob Brck David Ramsey Harry
and the Medical Advisory
for 100000 Quota-S50o
Sonia Caster LOO
wafer Uehef LOO
Total to date .S994S
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-15
Cannot Share the Guilt of Capitalism

II happening repeat land under the sun Of our day
About there general police roundup OF
Communists of the variety recently California
The Japanese to find that those
caught in the dragnet members of the Oldest arstocratc
families of Japan including the grandson of former Premier
There quite few aroats in the Communist Party OF
Germany Ludwig Communist author
serving three Hers deatcamps of
cien Teuonc stock and is worker
IN France recently have the recent conversion TO Com
munsn large arocatc nteecualS including such
famous those of Andre eide and Ramon Fernandez
In land the best left the old bourgeois world
reaches this point where share the guilt of capitalism
Not rass mind has remained with Hitler Art
and science flourish fascist lands they
withered like a tree struck by lightning.
In America process there
time when writers beginning
to understand that fascsm the destruction of
working the civilization,
tradition
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-28
MEET HIM HEARTY!

Harry has come back, now ttw'
he has gotten more than S25 If. .
day. With today's contributions he
reaches 81 per cent Of his $500
quota-only 2 per cent less than
Mike Gold. But he threatens to
disappear. again if the S25 day or
more level is not continued!
Mr. " No;,:r.~ co M
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-28

the duty of every honest person willing to struggle
against the hideous lynch frame-up.
It is in this spirit that the International Labor
Defense, the mighty arm which has shielded the
nine Scotsboro boys for three years through bitter
struggle, has sent offer of joint action to the
American Scottsboro Committee organized by Leib-
owitz.
THERE is now one main question to hTl fun
forces against the Scottsboro lynch verdicts
through new and mghtier waves Of protest.
There is slogan under which every
supporter of the boys can unite willingly and gladly
unconditional release for all of the scottsboro
boys!
1t is this slogan which today must be carried
to every corner of the country to every Negro group
to every group Of white workers and sympathetic
elements
February has been set as the day of bloody
execution of the innocent Negro boys Clarence Nor
ris and Haywood Patterson.
Let us answer with protest. Let the mass
and legal fight for the boys go forward under the
cry of unconditional freedom for the innocent
Scottsboro boys! This must be the demand now
of one great united front of all supporters of the
scottsboro fight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-28
Scottsboro Week

TODAY is the second day of Scottsboro
week.
This week, ending December 2, has
been set aside for nationwide mobilization
Of all persons, Negro and white, sincerely
concerned with winning the unconditional release
of the Scottsboro boys from the hands of the lynch
executioners.
The assaults which the Leibowitz group have
led upon the personally authorized defense of the
boys, the LID, have undoubtedly weakened the
fight for their liberation
Confusion, even among many elements sincerely
interested in fighting for the boys has been one of
the fruits of the Lebowitz attacks at this crucial
stage of the fight.
But the date of the executions has been post
poned only few weeks. February has been set
for the legal lynching.
This is the CHASTITY fact which every supporter
of the boys must face in it's full meaning A united
front of all supporters of the Scottsboro boys re-
gardless of differences on other questions is now
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-28

them. Injunctions issued in days
like these will serve to prove them
that the government is against
them
Ryan Stresses Anti Communist Role
Throughout his speech Wheeler
insisted that the employers should
appeal to the U. S. Shipping Board,
which, he stated, has full authority
to act in their case.
Joseph P. Ryan, President of
the International Longshoremen's
Union, announcing that Senator
Wheeler is being enlisted in the
fight for the union, again showed
that the main strategy in the de-
Tense is to convince the employers
that the A. F. of L. will play bail
with them and that the issuance
of the injunction would aid Com
munist activity on the waterfront.
The American Federation of
Labor is cognizant of the part that
the organized labor movement PLAYS
in averting Communism and other
radicalisms from running rampant
and destroying our democratic form
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-28

of government" Ryan said. '"The
radicals have been making a re-
peated but unsuccessful attempt to
gain the upper hand on the water
front, and decision against the
defendants in this case will open
the door for them to increase their
activities
Monday evening more than LOO
workers, chiefly longsho-emen, had
been modified by the officials of
the Union at the Pennsylvania Sta
ton to greet Senator Wheeler on his
arrival from Washington. In or
ganizing the demonstration, the
main slogan of the officials was to
place confidence in Wheeler as a
big man. and in his ability to
prove by arguments that the ap-
piication for an injunction Is illegal.
Not even the slightest hint was
given to the workers for mass pro-
test Only the Rank and File Com
mittee of the A. F. of L. has called
for protests from all locals and all
workers organizations againSS this
union smashing Injunction Gnus far.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-28
AFL Aid to Bosses
Praised by Wheeler

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