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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27

against capitalism rises, the capital
list government drops all pretense of
equal rights for the workers. Democ-
racy is abandoned. The capitalist
dictatorship appears undisguised in
its brutal nakedness and in its naked
brutality. Fas1ism rules.
The whole process OF transforma-
ton is a very natural and simple one.
However, it is not inevitable in its
final consunlmation.
Democracy is not the antithesis OF
fascism. 1t is rather a benevolent
mask Of that same capitalist dicta-
torShip Of which fascism is the
brutal physiognomy. The struggle
against fascism, therefore, cannot be
q struggle for capitalist democracy.
1t must struggle against capital
ist rule in all of its forms and
phases.
Because the Socialist Party's de-
Tense Of capitalist democracy is clear
ly defense OF capitalist rule, there
fore the Socialist Party is the pace
maker of fascisrn, it is a Social Fascist
party. 1t is denying the ineVitability
Of class rule in q class-ridden society.
Instead Of raising the issue OF work.
ingclass rule against capitalist class
rule, it defend capitalist class rule by
defending capitalist democracy.
Thus the Socialist Party tries to
prevent the application of the only
effective remedy against growing
fascism the struggle for working
class rule.
IF we succeed in defeating the o.
Jective Of the Socialist Party, If we
succeed in mobilizing the workers for
struggle against capitalist rule even
In its democratic disguise, we will
be able to prevent the final consum-
nation of the transformation Of
capitalist democracy into fascism.
We win, instead, transform capitalist
democracy into proletarian democ-
cracy, capitalist class rule into
working class rule, by means OF the
proletarian revolution and prole-
tartan dictstorsbi-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27

frame-ups against Mooney and
Billings, against Sacco ana Vsnzetti
and the bloodthirsty attempt to con-
Wet and execute the nine ScottSboro
boys, can be used as examples OF
legal capitalist murder of workers by
fascism.
Capitalist class rule in America is
wrapped in a democratic toga: but
beneath this toga it was always fully
armed against the working class.
Whenever necessary, it tapped away
the toga and let its clubs hit, its guns
shoot, its laws convict and its eXecu-
TONERS murder workers who pro-
tested, vino organized and fought
against any mistakes, TO forestau any
social democratic argument that such
clubbings, shootings, trials and execu-
tons were only unfortunate accidents
and not natural functions Of the gov
eminent; never in its history did it
club, shoot, try or execute capital
lists for u1derpaying, mistreating
and cheating workers.
The Fascist Phase Of Capitalist
Rule.
So what is the difference between
democracy and fascism?
The difference, before all else, is
one of quantity. While capitalism
developed upward its mailed fist
was not needed as an everyday
method of rule. When and where it
was needed, the democratic toga did
not stand in the way of its use; but
when and where it was not needed,
the democratic toga covered it up
and conveniently fed the illusions Of
the workers.
At the present moment capitalism
has entered new stage OF develop
ment. The expansion of its indus
tries has caught up with and has out
distanced the expansion of its mar
ketS. 1t can no longer feed the
masses. Its social system has turned
into an anti-social scourge of the
masses. AS a result the masses turn
against capitalism; they become
cured Of their illusions; they learn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
indianapolis Workers
Fight for C. WA. Jobs
py a Worker Correspondent

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIA worker
here, with fire in the family, went
10 work on the C.W.A. on Dec. 10,
and, ON the same date, he received
an eviction notice. With his family
of five, and with no relief forthcom-
ing, this worker found it impossible
10 pay the rent, buy coal and food.
The fourth eviction notice was
served on him, the constable stating
lie had to yacate on the following
Saturday, which was the day for him
o work, thus seeking to take advan-
tage Of the worker in his absence.
He came to vacate the house at about
noon, but TO his surprise, the work
ers had modified, and the constable
was defeated, and the worker had
ample time to locate elsewhere.
Another worker on q C.WA. job
was Informed by his foreman that he
was fired. The worker, however,
could not see it that way, and told
The foreman that he would be on the
lob next morning, The tinekeeper
soon appeared to check the worker
off the book. Several picks were
taken off their handles, and soon the
ooss said he was just joking, so the
worker is still on the job.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
Fight on to Drive Out
Both Zausner
and Collins
By LEO MARTINS

Since the last general elections in
the Painters District Council 9 CJune.
1889 when the notorious Zausner's
gang, through fraud and wholesale
vote repeating, placed itself in office.
there has developed an open, wide
spread revolt of the broad member
ship Of the painters for the complete
ousting Of zausner and his gang from
the office of District Council 9.
Before going into details as to the
present status Of the fight conducted
by the membership, it Is important
to expose before the painters of New
York the role played by the president
Of Local Union 848, John j. Collins
This individual was a candidate for
the secretaryship of District Council
8 in the last elections. Big sums of
money were spent from the Local
treasury for his campaign. He was
defeated, as well as all the other can
didates, although, as he claimed, he
received a majority vote. Feeling the
indignation Of he membership
against the election frauds, and
knowing how keen the hatred is
against zausner, John Collins grasped
that he could utilize all this for his
own personal gains. He declared him
self a foe Of Zausner and brought
court action against the officers Of
District Council on the ground OF
fraud and illegality in the elections.
Gets Treasury
The membership Of S4S, desperate
in its hatred against zausner, gave
John Collins full support The trea-
sury Of the Local was put at his dis
posal. So far as is known now, $4,000
was already spent from the Locals
treasury in this case. The member
ship Of a48 was fully behind the fight
against Zausner. The fighting spirit
Of the membership especially gained
weight and crystallized itself, after
zausner put over the now famous
racket Of registering the unemployed
and the forceful daily tax Of soc. fol-
every day they were employed. This
racket brought to the Council a sun
of 160,000-which was used for the
establishment of strong-aun gane
around the present administration
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27

tant members Of the rest of the
Locals, there has now developed, on
a city-wide scale a broad rank-and-
file movement, which, through its
centralized body-Jhe Painters Rank
and File Protective Association - is
conducting and crystallizing a really
effective opposition, that will finally
clean out the zausner gang from Dis
tric5 Council 8 and put in its place
rank-and-file control.
The Rank and File forces must
concentrate their activities within
every local union. The new forces,
brought into the opposition move
menJ must come to the forefront in
their locals, and rot allow them
selves to be bulldozed by their chair
men and Local officials
The fight OF the members must be
developed on all fronts: against the
Local officials who are a part Of zaus-
ner's machine, against the renew u
the work tax, which is threatened TO
come up again within three months,
fer job and relief program Tor IN
employed painters, for a real or
ganizing campaign involving the
membership instead Of the gangsters,
FOR practical trade program and
trade agreement to benefit the mem
bers, and finally for the complete
oust.pg Of zausnar and his racketeers
from District Council g.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
Chicago Painters Local
Demands Continuance
of C.. W. A.

CHICAGO, Ill, Feb. 2e.-Local
Union 637 Of the Brotherhood Of
Painters, Decorators and Paper
hangers, at its regular meeting on
Wednesday, Feb Z, unanimously voted
for the continuance and enlargement
Of the G. ". A.
Copies Of the resolution were sent
10 the national C.W.A. offices, to
Congressman and Senators from uli-
nois, to the national A. 2. Of L. Of
. fees, to the Chicago and Illinois Fed
Grafton Of Labor, to the Building
Trades Council, to the Painters Dis
trict Council, and to the labor press.
In the face Of the i1cres sed wage
cuts and lay-offs on G. w. A., the
local union. 637, with a membership
of over 1000, demands:
That the C.WA. provide work for
all the unemployed workers Of Chi
cago on the basis of a five-day week
and six-hour day at union wages;
that the federal and state govern
mems grant Immediately additional
funds sufficient to continue all the
~ W. "a ptOJGCJo utlSl1leti4y pld11llOu,
chat additional projects be under
taken to build more schools erase
the Chicago slums, and erect in their
place modern, sanitary workers
homes, with view of promoting the
health, education and welfare of the
working people Of Chicago; that the
funds for the aforementioned
be raised not through additional tax
ing for the workers, small home own
ers and small business people, but
through taxing individuals and cor
porations with large incomes and by
ytItting the expenses for the police,
state militia and National Guard
hat are used primarily for defeating
he efforts Of labor to raise the stand
ards of living of the workers"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
Aberdeen, Wash,
City Officials
Are on CWA Paw
Relief Inadequate; Pull
Necessary for Jobs
BY a Worker Corresnondent

ABERDEEN, Wasll-The G. w. A..
here is rotten with graft; LEADING city
and town officials get all the juicy
Jobs: and relief to the jobless work
ers dooms them to slow starvation.
The local power trust has loaned"
man, a Mr.. Rosenblum, who is
field man, and in order to get a lob,
one must first be a Democrat, then
Mason. for the higher categories
Of pay. Next in order Of Importance
comes the A. F. of L., and to get a
Job at even so cents an hour a worker
must belong to a Moose Lodge. The
Grays Harbor County Federal Re-
employment dictator is an officer in
the Moose named Clyde Ellis,
The Mayor Of the adjoining city
of Hoquiam has G. w. A. job pay
ing $1.20 an hour; some Of the coun-
cilmen and the local head of the Boy
Scouts have similarly paying jobs
on C.WA. At the same time $500
jobless registered for C.W.A. and only
$500 got jobs, according to the fig
ures Of the c w. A.
Inc CITY mas a population OF 1S,OOO.
Three hundred and fifty are in the
Salvation Army soup line and over
5000 are on family welfare. The re-
lief is terrible. The larger the fam
lily, the less proportionally the fam
lily gets. Single workers get s150
weekly food vouchers; two get 1925;
three only $2.75 and If five are in
the family only 10 cents a week is
given for relief.
the hall that the workers Unem-
ployment and Social Insurance Bill
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27

Daily Worker is the life blood which
the workers need"
Conrade Nelson's fine work in
helping to root the Daily among the
workers is challenge to every YCL.
member and to every clsss-conscious
worker. Follow his splendid example.
Get new subs and help put the circu-
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27

ana DrODu6T OF Us
car Nelson. whose
picture was al
ready published in
the Daily
Fifteen new subs
have come In from
Corning, and more
will come in writes
Theodore. do we
really realize what
the Daily Worker
means to uS?" asks
Theodore. IF we
do" he answers.
I'VE would sell the
Daily Worker the
W h o / e y e a I
through TIL e
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
PhiIa. AL Painters
Want Workers Bill
OnJObIeSSInSuranCe
Boston AFL Carpenters
Send Delegates to
Jobless Meet
BY An A. F. Of L. Rank and Filler

BY An A. +. OF L, Rank and Filler
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb. 26.-The
Painters Local 99T Of the A. F. Of L.
here at its last regular meeting en-
dorsed the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill CHR 1899, now in
the House Committee of Congress.
Resolutions were sent to President
Lindlow Of the International Brother
hood, and to William Green. presi-
dent Of the A. z. of L., to demand
from Congress the enactment Of this
bill.
Similar resolutions were sent Con-
gresham Lundeen Of Minnesota, who
introduced the bill into Congress, and
to the Philadelphia Congressman.
Every local union of the A. F. of
L. is urged to follow the example of
Local e97 Of the Painters Union, and
to demand the enactment Of the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill (HR. 1899.
Elect Delegates 10 Boston Meet
BOSTON, Mass, Feb. 26.-Many
trade unions are electing delegates to
the Unemployment Conference of
Greater Boston the latest notifica-
ton being that the A. F. of L. Car
pen.ers' Local Sc has elected two
delegates.
The conference will convene Sun
day, March 4, at 2:30 pm, at Ire
mont Temple Colbert HalD, where
Herbert Benjamin, national organ
izer Of the Unemployment Councils
will speak.
The conference will lay plans for
an intense struggle for the continu-
ance and enlargement of C. w. A.
and for the enactment Of the Work
ers' Unemployment Insurance Bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
So. Carolina Negroes
Denied C.W.A. Work
b q Morker COrrespondenl

" % W.T. MI UVsAUsFVl4Uo1a7
COLUMBIA, S. C.-We Negroes
are in q very bad condition in South
Carolina-plenty of white terror, no
work, and the C.WA. is turning Ne
groes away by the thousands. Ne
gro children cannot go to school al
all because of the lack of books,
shoes, and clothing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
AFLW OrkersDemand
Continuance OF CWA,
WorkerInsuranceBill
Y.C.L. Member Helps to
Root the daily Among
Workers in Corning, NY.

Corning, N. T., boasts Of two cham
pion sub getters for the Daily Worker.
The second Is Theodore Nelson, mem
Der Of the Young Communist League,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
Admit BIZ Can Be Used Against
Strikers

THE bill is 50 broad" admitted
Sobeloff, that it might be utilized
in some other situations as well as
lynchings. For example, its defini-
ton of lynch mob is three or more
persons acting without authority Of
law. It is possible that three or
more strikers might be guilty of as
sault without being in fact q lynch
mob, would suggest that you mar
row your definition"
Yet Arthur Garfield Hays, the
Civil Liberties Union liberal lawyer;
Elizabeth Gilman, Baltimore Social
list Party leader once candidate for
Governor; Professor Broadus Nit
chell, Johns Hopkins liberal; Marc
Connally, the Green Pastures" play
wright who represented the Writers
League Against Lynching; these and
many other Liberals babbled for the
bill without reservation.
This despite the fact that some OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
Hearing, Like Bill, Aimed
to Stem Resentment of
Negro, White Toilers
By MARGUERITE YOUNG
Daily Worker Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, Feb. %. They
trotted out radio gag man who be-
rated lynching because one Of his
friends complained, They always
picked the wrong members Of my
family to lynch I could have chosen
some I'd much prefer TO have had
lynched."
They listened to a Catholic priest
who hated Iynching because it re-
presented "the mass mind and its
snti-social tendencies"
They had plenty Of time for social
workers, newspaper men, government
Officials, professors, writer's, lawyers
professional women" and others to
expound their social, legal, philos-
ophic and economic political reasons
for wanting the Costigan- Wagner
anti-lynching bill enacted.
But when two militant spokesman
OF the Negro and white workers ap-
peared, the Senate Judiciary sub
committee, who had heard all the
above. ordered the witnesses from
the chair for daring to express the
viewpoint from which they spoke for
federal station against lynching
These witnesses, in doing what the
other witnesses had done, were
making a propaganda forum" out
of the procseding-Or so said a very
angry Senator DIETRICH Of Illinois
And Senator VsnNuys Of Indiana
the little Chairman, roared, "Sus-
tainedl" and cast James W. Ford
and Bernard ADJ from the chair
"Incked Analysis Of Roots Of
LynchIng
Ford, the Alabama Negro worker
who was the Communist candidate
for Vice President In the 1889 cleo
ton, was asserting that the bill
would NOT stop lynching unless Il
reached and cut its roots, Jim Crow.
ism and all determinations against
Negroes. AIDES, the deadly calm
white, Baltimore-born lawyer who
had been through the thick of the
fight against Maryland lynching;
both in and out Of courtrooms, as
counsel for Fuel Lee and others fol
whom the International Labor De.
tense fought, was declaring that
lynching springs from the efforts Of
the ruling class, particularly during
the misery-making economic crisis
to turn the anger of the working
class inward upon itself, instead o.
against those who deprive it of it
rights"
One Of the chief objections Fore
raised against the Costigan-Wagnel
bill had been raised but a few mo.
ments earlier by the eminently re.
spectacle United States Attorney fol
the District Of Maryland. Simon e
Sobeloff.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27

Send TO the Daily Worker, 50 L.
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illusions prevented the masses from
recognizing their exploitation as a
class problem. They saw it as an
individual problem; they usually sub
nlitted to it in the hope that soon
instead of being ridden upon, they
themselves would ride upon others.
OF course, also in this period did
the never absent class antagonismS
become acute. Workers organized
and struck; poor farmers rebelled.
But in this period Of upward devel-
opment Of capitalism these class
struggles became acute only now and
then, and here and there. When
such acute struggles did happen, then
the government Of democracy cid
not feel itself hindered in its action
by It's benevolent face: unhesitatingly
it used its mailed fist against the
workers, the clubs and guns of the
police, the rifles of the militia and
army, the capitalist laws, courts and
prisons.
The Murder Terror of CAPITALIST
Democracy.
Murderer Dollfuss' slaughter OF the
Austrian workers in these days did
not improve upon the methods of
arson and assassination used by the
Rockefeller democracy against the
striking miners, their wives and chill
dren in Ludlow, Colorado in 1913, or
used by the Carnegie rick demo-
crazy against the workers in Home
stead, Pa, in 1892 The methods of
terror and murder by American
capitalist democracy used thousand
times and in thousand places since
Homestead, can be taken over I'M
changed by fascisn.
Fascist justice also can learn from
capitalist justice of American democ-
racy. The trial that led to the Judi
cial murder Of the Haymarket mar
tyrS in 1887 did not differ in any of
its essential features, except in the
outcome, from the trial of Dmitroff
and his comrades by Hitler. The
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the hall that the workers Unem-
ployment and Social Insurance Bill
must be adopted.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1934-06-08
WEATHER PREDICTIONS

The United States Weather Bureau
will put into effect July LIST. a new
plan by which government aviators
will ascend about $1,000 feet to
make observations at regular inter-
walls. Such study of conditions in
the upper air should throw much
light on weather changes to come.
People who watch the weather
often notice that while the weather.
vanes near the surface of the earth
show the wind blowing in a certain
way, it often happens that the clouds
high in the sky are blowing in the
opposite direction. That seems to
indicate that conditions high over
head vary from those close to the
earth. and hence must be studied
if weather prediction is to acquire
a higher percentage of accuracy.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1934-06-08
LENDING MONEY TO FARMERS

/ There have been such rapid and
momentous changes in the affairs OF
men and organizations and coun-
tries during the past few years of
unrest and uncertainty that only the
startling or sensational seems to
register in the public mind. We too
easily fail to recognize and to value
some of those instrumentalities and
agencies which quietly. but steadily
and effectively, play important parts
in our community and business life.
Little is to be gained. and there is
much potential danger. in lending
money to a farmer. or to any one
else, if such a loan does not give
reasonable promise Of improving the
borrowers condition. 1t is not the
which leave the borrower with an
insurmountable burden of debt.
Stated somewhat differently, com
bination Land Banks and Commits
sioners' loans (made by the Federal
Land Banks) are not closed unless,
at their completion, the farmer has
an unincumbered equity of at least
25 per cent of the normal value of
his property.
Permanent credit system: inter-
est rates must be low. on loans ade-
quately secured and so amortized
that they can be paid. Some one o:
the organization can and will take
care of the reasonable and safe re-
quirements of agriculture. These
facilities are not intended to sup
plant banks and other credit insti-
buttons. but to supplement them in
making available proper and con-
structive credit to a substantial por-
ton of our people. engaged in an
essential industry.
1t should be emphasized that the
Farm Credit Administration is not
a charitable organization nor is it
lending Government money, except
to very limited extent and in con-
nection with temporary and emery
ency measures.