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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30


ganiHation take to be the Communist Party
Daily Worker.
large proportion of the nteectuas
ing capitalism than they usually credit
Even of the exclusively esthc" the
century the negative side at least ani-capst tendency
Their attitude not expicit still greatly
authority of the orienaton struggling deny
take the spreading political and economic accuracy merely
ultimate revision of these tendencies the
that matches the old push away from"
this continues wealthy
semblance of FEASIBILITY Many bright concevaby
still be found who would be willing to sell their
but the constant of dshng the aing platde
uay tell against them.
priesthood continue be effective only
timely believes in the things it is it moulding
beliefs for what they bring instead of having the conviction
first and finding afterwards that they happen
uphoder of the status gravey weakened
mentally demoraldan decentralization saps
intelligent could possibly tie himself with the
that Morgan prosperous for the love Glory
the Fathers the drainage of the ntelectuss
Communist camp is bound to continue
will be completely dry that must turn radical thinkers
speakers writer's if for nothing else than to avoid
And for those who hang to the old order (Which noted
who petend
welrounded ecaeconomc
could possibly the of human
they begin with soft spot and time the soft spot will spread
through the whole onion.
KENNETH BURKE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
Communists International, No. 20,
Vital Issue for All Party Members

Beginning with No. 20 of THE
Communist International discus
sion articles preparing for the
Seventh World Congress will APP
pear, and a greatly increased sale
of this magazine in our Party and
mass organizations is anticipated.
The two discussion articles in this
issue are Problems of the Stand
ard of Living of the Working Glass,
by Sinai, and THE Question of the
Middle Strata of the Town Pop
ulation." by P. Reimann. The first
shows how the living standards of
the working class have dropped ire
mendously and are continuing to
drop in the conditions of the end
Of capitalist sterilization. The sec
ond takes up the various strata of
the urban petty bourgeoisie, show
ing how certain of their immediate
demands make it possible for our
Party to win them as allies in the
struggle against capitalism, and the
Importance of winning them in
order to destroy the mass basis of
fascism.
The campaign to increase the
circulation of THE Communist In
ternational" is taking shape in diff
ferert ,>@ris ~ the country. The
last two iq-u9-, Nos IS and 10. have
been sold out completely ana many
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30

additional orders could not be filled.
In Los Angeles an theological drive
has been started to double the num-
Der of copies read there within the
next two months. The plan is to
convince every Communist Party
unit to buy one copy for its unit
library and sell at least l copy for
every members in Los Angeles.
Cleveland has plan to obtain 200
subscribers from among Party
functionaries, who are in turn to
obtain 200 additional subscribers.
Twenty subs have already been
sent in from Cleveland.
In line with the decision of the
Presidium of the E. c. C. l., that in
each Section the Party organiza-
lions must take up the discussion of
the questions on the agenda of the
Seventh Congress, every Party dis
trict, section and unit must inten-
sify and increase many-fold the
distribution of THE Communist In
ternational" and organize the sys-
tematic discussion of the problems
on the agenda of the Seventh Con-
gress.
Every district, section and unit of
the Party should send in their in
creased orders Immediately through
regular ch~Dnels for No. 20 Of THE
Communist International
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
the
POGROMS

This is the third instaIment of
the fifth article by John L. Spi-
yak, called plotting the American
PogrOms," appearing weekly in
the New Masses. In the first two
parts, spivak exposes the anti
Semitic activities of Congressman
Louis T. McFadden of Pennsyl-
vania, who delivered a vicious
attack on the Jews in a speech
in Congress, which was then dis
tributed in sack loads through
out the country at government
expense. This was done with the
help of the Order of rs, with
which organization, as we'll as the
Silver Shirts, McFadden main
tains close connections. In addi-
ton, Spivak shows the Congress-
man is also crooked, dealing in
worthless oil stock.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30

They received a secret gratuity of
$4,000 in cash (S25 900 each) and
7,O39 shares in addition to the num-
Der due them at the ratio of ex-
change made known to the others
Rottenberg and McFadden were
parties to a fraudulent conspiracy"
Don't ask me why, with this evil
dence of bribery. Louis T. McFad-
den did not go to prison 1 don't
know. American politics works in
strange ways.
I EFT us now go 70 another business
Il deal or two of the honorable
Congressman from Pennsylvania.
McFadden was and always is try
ing to get money. He doesn't give
it. That is why I wonder who paid
for the printing of the race-hatred
speeches. However,
In March, 1926, Louis T. McFad-
den, Congressman from Pennsyl-
vania, applied to the courts of New
York for permission to sell $780,
900 worth of stocks of new cor
poration known as the Federated
Radio Corporation A couple of
brokers working with him had lots
of nice certificates printed They
looked beautiful. The stock certi-
f1cates we're distributed to banks
and brokerage houses ready to be
sold to the suckers as soon as the
word was received that the corpora
ton could sell them.
New York, however, has an act
prohibiting the sale of stocks under
false and fraudulent representa-
ton. Albert Ottinger, Attorney Gen
eral then of the State of New York,
got a look at the sales prospectus.
made little investigation about
the company and Immediately went
into court to stop the people from
parting with 81 100000 for the hon
orable" Louis T. McFadden.
I won't bore the reader with great
details. 1t is sufficient to say that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
By MICHAEL GOLD

BISHOPS usually plump. If they lead spiritual lives
~ cannot be detected from their faces figures That
ean hungry, intense air of the martyr may be found
however the of thousands of unemployed workers
Moreover, the plump, we-fed, welhoused Bishops are
spiritual" all hell but the starving unemployed matea
and talk beeak explain this
tradcon? Bishop only regiment the
Of capitalist hypocrisy?
the Bishops really about the sheep under their
reported that at recent convention of the
Bishops Episcopal Church there much gloom
For the Bishops neglected their duck and sherry
and amened the They drew conclusion
inspiration message doing this Of them
happy another will
rhessy again But let that Comfort the
of Bishop
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
Norman Macleod
Volume of Poems
Fails of Purpose
HORIZONS OF DEATH, by NOramn
Macleod. Parnassus Press. Sl.75.
Reviewed by
WALDO TELL

THIS is a volume Of A poems by
one Of the most prolific writer's by
verse in America. Norman Macleod
is well known to readers of revolu-
tionary literary journals in this
country, although he has published
nothing that can be called revolu-
tionary for almost two years.
One could have hoped for some
thing better than Horizons of
Death" from Macleod The book is
a complete failure. This is said
/ primarily because, despite his
avowed sympathies for the revolu-
tionary movement, Macleod has
never succeed in writing authentic
revolutionary poetry. When he does
treat working class subjects, he
writes not with decision and power,
but with vague and generalized
nostalgia. He never concretizes; he
dilutes. His political beliefs seem
to be unwillingly and inorganically
appended to his writings.
Secondly, these writings by Mac
/ leod are not, in this reviewers opin-
ion, poems. They are prose bits
often good prose-but always as I
have said, too highly generalized,
too involved in nostalgia rehtoric to
bear the truth and living impact
which is inseparable from genuine
literature. Because Of this, not
single one Of his revolutionary ideas
or images energies clearly.
Finally, more than half of the
verses in Horizons of Death" are
not even intended to be revolu-
tionary. Macleod is too distantly
removed from the masses Of Amer
lea. When he describes physical
phenomena, he invokes esoteric
comparisons and images-colors of
jewels, etc.-things most workers
know merely by name, often not
even by name. When he speaks of
commonplace things, he compares
them with highly intellectualized
concepts, or with personally mean
ingful (but to others meaningless)
photographed items and events.
For writer of Macleod's talent
and potentialities, his silence of the
past two years has been strange.
But the publication of this curious
ly-dead volume is even stranger,
more regrettable.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
Meditating on God and Roast Duck

WHAT interesting final to discover that
w that America passing through
profound the past rarely
the lofty sphere where Bishops spend
their time medang and God But this time it seemed
penetrated called blind mouths"
amentation divorce evil the
picturesquey phrased it, all friends
aduterous generation though
the million unemployed find the to
adultery the money for Reno divorce
literature of America said the Bishops has
cenos With this bourgeois art exactly
ought the good Bishops that they mustn't bite
the that feeds them There great profits being made by
panderers this bourgeois and
profits anywhere you Bishops who
your supply duck? Take easy and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30

wABc-Boake Carter, Commentator
O0-WEAF-Reisman orch. Phil Duey,
Baritone
WOR-variety Musicale
WJz-Csn the wagon-Sketch
WABC-coIcert Orch; Frank Mum.
Tenor; Hazel Glenn, Soprano
S:3o-wEAF- Wayne King orch.
WOR-Csmpaign Tslk-JudEe wills
liam L. Dill, Candidate for Gov=
ernor Of New Jersey
WJz-Lawrence Tibbett. Baritone;
Concert Orch; John B. Kennedy,
Narrator 80.
wABc-Lyman Orch. vivienne Sc
gal, Soprano; Oliver Smith, Tenor
s00-WEAF-Ben Bernie Orch.
WoR-csmpaien Talk - Frank J.
Taylor. Democratic Candidate for
Controller
wABc--Bins Crosby. Songs; Boswell
Sisters Trio; stoll Orch
e:l5-WOR-Dsve Vine Comedian
WJz-story Behind the Claim
Sketch
a:so-wEAF-Ed wynn, Comedian; Daehin
Orch
WOR-Lum and Abner-Sketch
WJZ--Canadisn Concert
wABC-Jones Orch; Toscha seidel.
Violin
9:45-WOR-Eddy Brown, Violin
acknowledgements Bohemian Girl
With Anne Jsmison, Soprano,
Frank Parker. Tenor. and others
WJZ-Sea Sketch, Cameron King,
Narrator
WABC-Gray Orch; Annette Ham
shaw. Songs Walter OKeefe
10: 15-WOR-Current Events; H. E. Read
1886 -WOR-That's Life-Sketch
wJz-Tim and Irene, Comedy
WABC-George Givot, Comedian;
Rich Orch.
II :0o-wEAF- Coleman Orch.
WOR-News Reports
wJz-Campo Orch
WABC-Salter Orch
ti:l5-wEAF--Robert Royce, Tenor
WOR-Moonhesms Trio
IL 30 WEAF-Hof Orch
wOR-Dsncs Music
w5Z-Dorsey Orch
w37C-Nichols o->A
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
Writers Institute
Named for Cork To
Be Opened in Moscow

MOSCOW. Oct. 25.-As a physi-
cal memento of the great Congress
of Soviet Writers, recently held in
Moscow, the Council of Peoples
Commissars has just decreed the
construction Of an Institute Of Lit
erature, to bear the name of Maxim
Gorky
1t has been agreed that the site
of the academy will be one Of the
most beautiful parks along the
banks of the Moscow river, in the
vicinity Of the Palace of Labor"
Here the magnificent buildings of
the Gorky Institute will rise as a
symbolic expression Of the strength,
breadth and grandeur of the new
Socialist culture. The construction
plans foresee hundreds of rooms for
individual and group instruction
encircling several large auditoria, a
library of million volumes, a spe-
cially enclosed area for the preser-
walton Of literary manuscripts and
archives, homes for the students,
etc. Moreover there are to be gal
leries with sculptures of the great
masters of literature. For director
of the Institute, L. B. Kamenev,
has been named.
The Institute is not only to be
the center of scientific research in
the sphere of literary history, but at
the same time will serve as an adj
vanced academy where Soviet writ
ers may heighten their talents. The
work of scientific investigation Of
the Institute will embrace the en-
tire literature of the world through
all history, from primitive folk art
to the present day. This vast field
will be divided into five chief Sec
tons; The History of World Litera-
ture, the Theory of Literature and
the History of Aesthetics, the Sci
ence of Language, and the History
Of Artistic Book-making Cllumi-
n a tie d manuscripts, scriptology,
etc). The pedagogic activity of the
Institute will include a three year
course. Only those will be accepted
for further education in the Insti-
tute who have already shown ability
in some form of literary activity
and who require a more systematic
development.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30

McFadden, in the course of mis-
striving for wealth. no matter how it
was gotten, started number of
businesses. Starting businesses and
getting people to invest in them
was his speciality, besides posing as a
great friend Of the people.
We find, for instance, that he
borrowed $3.50 from the First Ma
tional Bank of Canton, Pa, (his own
bank-but the depositors' money!.
In return he gave as security 750
shares of stock of the Southern
States Oil Corporation-the same
stock he had been given as a bride
along with the s25, 000l We thus
come to the conclusion that 750
shares Of this stock is worth S8,750.
When he went bankrupt, however,
he listed among his personal prop
erty $500 shares of the same COM
pany's stock as being worth exactly
81. And another $50 shares of the
same stock held by his brokers as
being worth exactly 81.
In other words he had borrowed,
of the peoples money deposited in
his bank, sum far in excess Of the
value of the stock he gave as COL
lateral!
1t is in this application for bank
ruptcy that we find that he lists
$500 shares of Federated Radio
Corporation of which 5000 we're
issued, as valued at $4,000 slight
difference between that and the
s1,3000oO he tried to get from the
suckers, when he was stopped by
the Attorney General of the State
of New York.
To Be Continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
L u IN G. IN

700 P.M.-WEAF-The Republican View
point-Henry p. Fletcher. Chair
man, Republican National Comm.
WOR-Sports Resume-Ford Prick
wJz-Amos N Andy-sketch
WABC-Myrt and Msrge-Sketch
7;l5- WEAF-Gene and Glenn--Sketch
WOR-Ccmedy: Music
WJz-Hsrold Won Emburgh, Bari
tone, Hirsch Orch.
WABC-Just Plain Bill-sketch
50-WEAF-American Municipal Lee CUES
Harold d. Smith. President
American Municipal Association
WOR-McGcldrick Campaign Talk
wJz-Edgar Guest, Poet, Charles
Sears, Tenor; Concert orch
wABC-Jack Smith Songs
s5-wEAF-Frsnk Bucks Adventures
WOR-Dance Music
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
The Cart Before the Horse

pUT the Bishops srayd into the secular field economics and
politics at convention Believe
delighted with the Just unemployment means
bombs and bank failures
the wealth of the House of
evidently profit the capitalist crisis for the Church
fruitful periods the churchs history said
Bishops those where material values have suffered i'm
inadequate critical
situations"
And they blame depression the capitalist system
We immoral that's why the
nation the nations of the world
suffering reduced them the low plane
impotence" the Bishops
skly they the cart before the horse Instead of
blaming Generalization of the the breakdown of
iasm Bishops demoraed brief
the unemployed punished for their sins and must
to the Church
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30

such meanderingS may serve as a
way Of recruiting in outlying ter
ritories-but such ranging may
AXE place for the benefit of the
movement, and without danger tc
the movement, only 50 long as
there is central unifying organ
like the Daily Worker to maintain
the solid nucleus Of practical or
ganization.
In the last analysis, I suppose
that every intellectual would tend
to have q little cultural move
ment all his own. But such minute
preferences must wait for a better
day-and meanwhile, the intel
lectuals must strive to get be-
hind the one unifying organi-
cation that can form, as it we're,
the lowest common denomination
for mediating among all their in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
Even Bishops Must Make Living

routine stuff administering
holdings chselng contributions out of mil lonares
marrying debuanes who been sold to foreign
industry succumbed the
obligated their position
declaration bourgeois morality.
All little duties and this of theirs
They preach their congregations of aderous
prohteers munon and strkebakers
garbage chemist make poison
gas newspaper reporter lie about Communists Bishop
preach morality of capitalism, must make
living, somehow anyhow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
ITO Be Continued

Every day of the Roosevelt New
Deal shows the growing need of the
Daily Worker. But the Daily
Worker needs 100000 to be able
to deal more fully with the strug-
giles of the working class. Support
the Daily Worker! Send your con-
tribution today to the 100000 drive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
By JOHN L. SPIVAK
III.

IN decision rendered on this case
March "a, 1881, Justice Cardoza,
at present on the Supreme Court
Of the United States, said:
AT the outset Rottenberg and
McFadden, the agents conducting
the negotiations, gave notice to
Ferris, the representative Of South
ern States, that they would expect
to be taken care of for their ser
vices in recommending the ex-
change. To this there was assent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30

Contributions received to the
credit of Del in his Socialist
competition with Mike Gold,
Harry Cannes, the Medical
Advisory Board. Ann Barton,
Jacob Bprck and David Ramsey,
in the Daily Worker drive for
100000. Quota--S500.
Paul g. Rosa lunch s1.00
Total to date ......... $3.50
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30

/ the courts, after the Attorney Cen
/ eral got through showing how false
and fraudulent and misleading were
the representations for this COM
pany's stocks, refused 70 let them be
sold.
Now 49, on March 80. 1926 - less
than two weeks after he had tried
to sell this stock for s1,30O,0O0 Nc
Fadden fled a petition for bank
ruptcy in Canton, Pa, and in that
/ petition he placed the value Of the
stock at 100000!
This petition Of bankruptcy casts
sharp light on how Congressman
MeFadden got the money and left
the suckers with the paper. 1t is
interesting to examine it as a docu-
ment prepared by the man who was
called a crook by a United States
Supreme Court Justice.
| McFADDEN has spent the major
w part of this life borrowing"
money. If he could not get it as a
bride, he borrowed it from the
people in his home town. Let me
illustrate.
McFadden, way back when he was
a youngster and just starting out on
his crooked path, was taken out Of
a store where he worked by a man
who was attracted to his pleasant
personality, and made cashier IF
the First National Bank of Canton,
Pa. Before long, the cashier was
president and biggest stakeholder in
the bank and his benefactor had
advanced many thousands of dol
lars to him in return for-paper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
NEW MASSES

Evidence from McFadden petition
the National Photograph which
Southern States Oil acle worthless thought
thousands
Corporation public
for S13000O00, worth S30O00
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
ANOTHER SPECIAL
SHORT-TERM COURSE
To BEGIN NOV, 10th

The second of series of short
term courses will begin Saturday,
November 10th, from 8 to 5 p. m.
at the New York Workers School,
with Max Bedacht as instructor.
The topic will deal with THE
Growth of the International Pro-
letarian Glass Struggle as Expressed
in the First, Second and Third
Internationale." This course will
deal with the class struggle and the
historical role of the First, Second
and Third Internationals. New and
important material will be presented
for the first time by Comrade
Bedacht. The role of the Second
and Third Internationale in the
present situation will also be dealt
with.
The fee is 81 for five lectures.
Registration is now going on at the
Workers School, IS East 18th Street,
Room 301. Comrades are urged to
register early for this course.
In addition to the resolution
already sent to District Attorney
McAllister and Governor Frank F.
Merriam, Of California, protesting
the arrests of the teachers of the
Sacramento Workers School, the
students of the New York Workers
School, as further means of pro-
test are sending individual protest
cards distributed in every class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
What's Doing in the Workers
Schools of the u. S.

The Harlem Workers School re-
ports that resolutions have been
passef in all the classes, and in adj
dition, the students will mail pro-
test cards.
Let us hear from the other
Workers Schools as to what they
are doing in this respect.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
TRAINING SCHOOL DRIVE
GAINS TEMPO

The keeness of the Socialist COM
petition among the New York
Workers School students in the
DAILY WORKER IRRATIONAL -.
School Drive is producing results.
During the second week of the
drive 5000 were collected ($75 more
than the first week. making total
of $3.50 to date
With such determination and
enthusiasm it is safe to predict an
even greater return next week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
Kenneth Burke Adds
His Voice in Behalf
OfD.W. 500, OOODrive
Daily Worker,
so e. 18th Street,
New York City.
Dear Editors:

Thanks the opportunity add my general
behalf Of the Daily Workers drive Of tremendous Importance
that the Communist Interpretation Of the happenings
embodied in daily the
movement to end capitalism
With such firmly established the may
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
The Writing on the Wall

IN these liberal by definition who would
complete by reforming here and there
conventions this liberal been sounded
these Epscopaean Bishops Beshazzars writing
liberal"
International that between the
aist nations plunge world
unless by revolution.
pleaded for cooperation between capital labor
the right to collective bargaining and the right
unemployment insurance
in favor of birth control hy believe this to be
poverty child labor They miracuouy
A. liberal" indeed considering Bishops like
The convention all in good order Not
single truthful like
capitalist responsible
depression the class that the the
holy Church.
Contributions
competition with Ramsey Harry
Barton Advisory Board Daily
fol 100000. Quota-S5oO
Ann Morse so
Total to date .Sl96S2