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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
Dumne's Speech Shows Wagner Bill Is 4
Ne'O SHikebreaking Weapon ofN. R. A.
BY WILLIAM F. DUNE

general staff Of American monopoly
capital and its government.
1t is out Of these specific instances
that the Wagner bill arises. Since
the Wagner Bill is intended to
strengthen or replace Clause IA;
since Clause IA brought about the
greatest development of company
unionism ever seen in this country;
SINGS clause IA was intended to
substitute futile negotiations under
control of government agencies for
effective organization and struggle
by workers; and since the economic
and social status of the American
working class as a whole has been
reduced, by price rises, imitation,
and the actual operation of Clause
IA. as representatives of the
Trade Union Unity League and its
affiliated unions told workers would
be the case; and since in spite of
Clause IA many hundreds Of
thousands Of workers have seen the
necessity Of organized struggle for
better wages and conditions, thus
cutting into profits, it follows logic
ally that the Wagner Bill, If it is
not mere literary exercise, must
be intended as part Of the Recovery
Program, to protect profits; to make
it more difficult for workers to ex-
ercise effectively their bargaining
power, i. e., the strike weapon.
rTha fOIlnvtf.,1r
developments are some of the main
features OF the present situation
which gives rise to such measures
as the Wagner Bill:
Background of Wagner Bill
L The contradiction between
lowered income Of the working
population, increased production, a
huge increase in profits, rapid
growth Of monopoly capital, and
rising priees-tlle economic basis
for the present wage demands. or
ganization movements and wave Of
strike struggles.
2. The contradiction which has
forced Roosevelt administration TO
expose big bankers in order to allay
popular discomfort and win popular
support; the same contradiction /. e..
the necessity of winning support
from workers and working farmers
whose interests are opposed to
monopoly capital for program Of
monopoly capitalize contradic-
ton which in the Presidents an
niyerSary speech impels him to
praise the bankers and make con-
gratulatory telegram from them
the high point of his speech. This
results in loss of moral prestige for
TIL administration - especially
among ruined farmers, small bust
nessmen and the upper stratum of
more highly paid workers who lost
their savings in the bank crashes.
3. The contradiction which i'm
pels the administration TO more
open announcement of the besic
purpose of N. r. A.-tlaat is, to pre-
serve and strengthen the present
system. This has to be done for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31

Austria to erect Workers Dicta-
torship, He did the same in Lon
don and in Rome.
DR.. julius Deutsch had been
willing servant of the capitalists, of
the international bankers and spec
ulators, by declaring in 1919 that it
would be crime to destroy the
democracy in Austria and set UP
in its place a Workers Dictator
ship. The government of DR.. Rem
ner raided our headquarters several
times Communist Headquarters
and one time arrested the whole
executive committee, and put Sec
rotary Thoman in the penitentiary
(Willar LongeSgericht) with %
other men; the next morning Com
rade Kosak and myself of Vienna
City modified about rs 900 Commu-
nists, gathered in front of the Par
lament Building, marched on the
penitentiary Langesgericht) and
asked for the freedom of our lead
ers. DR.. Renner would not give us
our leaders, SO we broke the iron
main entrance with iron bars and
within half hour we had our
leaders freed from the claws of the
Socialist, Ponzen. Of course, we
lost Is good comrades on the street
in blood.
had been re-baptized several
times in the World War. but this
time received my baptism when I
fought the first time for the right
of my class. If every true working
man knows the intrigues of the So
cialist, Ponzen. a la DR.. Deutsch,
DR.. Renner and DR.. Adler, the Com
munists of New York would save
every rotten egg they could find and
throw ii on DR.. Deutsch when he
attempts to address the workers of
the U.S.A. 1 have positive proof Of
the Austrian Socialist Ponzen liked
it awful well to find protection in
the laws of the capitalists by ad-
dressing the workers with revolu-
tionary phrases without action. I
regret only the fact that 1 cannot
subscribe to the Daily Worker be-
cause have not the money to
pay for it. So I have to do with
out it. suppose the American So
cialistic Ponzen are from the same
calibre as the Austrian are.
If you like to use some or all
of my statements for the Daily
Worker, I am willing to back UP
every word of my expressions.
AUSTRIAN VET.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
BY MILTON HOWARD

NOT to recognize that the final
~ battle for the overthrow of
capitalism must inevitably take the
form of open class battles with mill
tary struggles, not to prepare the
proletariat in their day-to-day
struggles for these eliminating rev.
olutionary onslaughts against the
capitalist State power, is to prosti-
tute and betray the most funda-
mental teachings of Marx and
Engels.
Glass violence was, from the very
birth of modern Marxism, an in
tegral and indispensable part Of
revolutionary politics. The writings
Of Marx and Engels are rich in
dialectic analysis of the role of
-Jrce, violence, civil war, in the
( epoch-making struggle of the pro-
/ letariat against the yoke Of capital
ism.
From the first clarion blast of
the Communist Manifesto to the
last days Of Engels, the conception
of the ineyitability of armed mass
struggle against the bourgeoisie, and
the fundamental necessity for pre-
pairing the proletariat to lead the
masses in this armed struggle, is
sounded again and again
1t was this revolutionary marrow
of Marxism that was, at first, dis
torted, and then deliberately kept
from the masses by conscious for
gerry and deception at the hands of
the smaller leaders of the Second
International.
One is reminded Of these things
by the extraordinary statement lust
issued through the Second Socialist
international by Otto Bauer, leader
Of Austrian Social-Democracy, in
which Bauer sums up what he con-
siders to be THE Tactical Lessons
of the Austrian Catastrophe
WE cannot here go into an ex-
~ haustiye analysis of the full
political meaning of this document,
true classic of Social Fascist
treachery But 1t is impossible not
to notice that in this statement
Otto Bauer, who, It is absolutely
certain is in full possession of the
facts, justifies his argument by the
use of forged, faxed statement of
Engels on the use Of revolutionary
violence on street ~barricades as a
tactic in the struggle or the over
throw Of capitalism. Otto Bauer
deliberately uses this garbled state
ment Of Engels, statement which
the whole world knows was faxed
and censored by the leaders of the
German Socialist Party to justify
their rotten opportunism, almost 40
years after even Karl Kautsky had
publicly denounced 1t as a garbled
expurgated version!
1t is on the basis of this forged
document that Bauer still continues
to justify his criminal sabotage of
the struggles Of the Austrian pro-
letariat to prepare for the seizure of
power. He states:
"The Social Democrats were
perfectly familiar with Friedrich
Engels' classical exposition of the
subject. in his famous preface to
The Class-struggle in France
whore the great revolutionary
strstegist showed how even at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
Steel Trust Educators" Red
Fantasy Is Anti Labor Poison

/ that one of the Roosevelt brain
trust" told him that revolution
is being plotted here by Roosevelt
advisors, and that Roosevelt was
represented to him by these plotters
as the 'Kerensky Of this revolution,
while they we're looking for the
Stain; that it would require a
strong man to be the Stain" Last
night a George w. Christians, of
Chattanooga, Tenn, the founder of
the Fascist-tinted Crusaders for
economic liberty" announced that
he was the one who termed Roose-
welt "the Kerensky Of the American
Revolution" Part of Christians
human effort monetary system" is
to accelerate the speed of the gov
eminent printing presses. The local
Hearst paper reports Christians as
the head Of both fred" and 'Fas-
cist" organizations.
Indiana's Robinson also revealed
that Writ, who has ability" and
very great fame" as an educator,
Served as official advisor Of the
Board Of Education of New York
City" Warming up to his red scare
remarks, Robinson quoted from the
February issue of Fight" the mag
azine Of the American League
Against War and FaScism, which
published an article characterizing
the impending imperiahst war, as
the new blood bath for the workers
and farmers" Robinson also in
serted into the record some of Ralph
Easley's (head of the labor,
Fascist National Civic Federation)
red scare articles now being run
in the Hearst press,
Part of Wirt's fame, said Robin
son, comes from the formers $50
called platoon or duplicate system
on public education" which so en-
larges the capacity of the average
school building" that, among other
advantages to the steel trust, mo
extra teachers are employed"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
Otto Bauer Distorts Engels Justify His Betrayals


that time--in 1S95--the evolution
of military technique had dimin-
ished the prospects of a revolu-
tiOnary victory in street fighting.
They knew how vastly the devel-
opnent Of military technique since
1895 had strengthened the strik-
ing force Of any disciplined army
against working class rising.
Since the coup d'etat of March Z,
1888, therefOre-that is to say,
over period of eleven months
the SOcial-DemOcrats made every
imaginable effort to avert a vio-
lent issue"
Aside from the fact that in this
very article Bauer confesses that
a general strike would have been
successful had the Socialist leaders
called it a year earlier, and that it
became less and less q threat to
the bourgeoisie precisely because of
the criminal delay of the Socialist
leaders in calling it, Bauer is here
not only discussing the mistakes"
OF the Socialist leaders. He is in
actually, giving the classic Social
Fascist theory against the very con-
ception Of the proletarian reyolu-
ton, against the possibility of a
revolutionary way out of the pres
ent crisis.
And he bases this theory OF the
hopelessness Of the proletarian rev.
olution on forged document!
For what is this famous preface
OF Engels to the Glass Struggles in
France upon which he justifies his
failure to prepare for armed strug-
gle? What did Engels say in it
about the possibility of street fight
ing against the bourgeoisieP He
sent this preface to the Socialist
editors of the "Vorwarts'' in 1895.
The Social-Democratic editors then
printed 1t only after they had
taken out the most important, rev.
dictionary part Of It'll And this
forged document became text used
all over the world by Socialist lead
ers to Justify their denial of the
necessity Of possibility of reyolu-
tionary armed struggle for the final
overthrow Of capitalism. They
printed Engels as follows:
The newly built quarters of
the large cities erected since 184s
have been laid out in long.
straight, wide streets as If made
for the use of cannon and rifles.
The revolutionary would be mad
who would of himself select the
new working class districts of the
north and east of Berlin for bar
ricade struggle"
See, cried the Socialist leaders.
even Engels no longer believes in
the possibility of armed struggles
against the capitalists
But Engels, Immediately after
this sentence, had written some
thing else which the Social Dem
oeratie leaders struck out of the
text in order to keep il from the
eyes of the working class! I'm
mediately after this sentence,
completing his thought, Engels
had written:
But does this mean that in the
future street struggles have no
role to play? Not at all.
ut only means that the condi-
tons since ls4S are far more I'M
favorable for, the insurrectionariek
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decisive industries, divide its ranks
create suspicion and dissension
and make its struggles hesitant
weak and ineffective, more forciblt
measures become the order of the
day.
We see this strategy at work
in the railway and auto situa-
ton with President Roosevelt and
Green duplicating the role of
Wilson and GomPers in the steel
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must be replaced, not by the So
cial-Domocratic Peaceful Path to
Socialism" through democracy
but precisely by greater military
struggles?
From the fact that the IS4S tao
tics are obsolete, Engels argues for
the necessity Of developing NEW
street fighting tactics, merging
street fighting with a general up
rising of the whole people Gin di-
rect attack" What Ensels is in
sisting on in this article, and it
is precisely for this reason that he
wrote it, was to dispel any false
notions that because the bour-
geoisie was getting the benefit of
new military advances, that there
fore armed revolutionary struggle
was obsolete. On the contrary, he
insists, armed civil war, armed in
surrection, are DECISIVE, are the
sole way to defeat the bourge0isie
and win the revolution.
ENGELS himself was furious wher
Il he read the garbled version OF
his articles as the Social-Demo-
cratic editors printed it. He wrote
to Lafargue on April 3, 1895.
tx. who has played me dirty
trick. He has taken from my
preface to Marks articles on
France everything that he con-
sidered useful for the defense of
THE TACTICS OF PEACEFUL
NESS At ANY PRICE AND
AVOIDANCE OF VIOLENCE
whereas l recommend these tao
tics purely and SOLELY FOR
THE PRESENT DAY GERMANY,
and then ONLY WITH ESSEN
TIAL RESERV TIONS. In
France, Belgium, Italy and Aus
tria these tactics, taken as a whole
cannot be followed, and in Ger
many, they can become inappli-
cable tomorrow" (Engels' en-
phasiS).
Thus Engels was warming against
precisely the kind of fraud thai
Bauer is now attempting on tht
working class. Thus it is on Grim.
inally falsified document of Marxisn
that Bauer tries to prop his per-
sistent refusal to prepare the Aus.
trian workers for the violent seizure
of power. leaving them to the mercy
of ruling class fascist violence after
they had been systematically
stripped of all their hard-won con.
cessions and advantages,
1t is impossible that Bauer does
not know that he is using falsifiec
version of Engels' Preface" to boil.
ster up his argument. In 1924 the
full unexpurgated text was giver
to the world by the Marx Lenir
Institute after Riazanove had beer
granted access to the original manu-
script.
pAUER, like whole generations Of
II Social Democratic leaders, only
demonstrates, by his argumen
against the possibility of the work.
ing class triumphing over the "su.
perior" armed forces of the State
that he is blind to the revolution.
airy dialectics of Marxism. For botf
Marx and Engels showed again anc
again that the development of mod.
ern military science is obtectively
a revolutionary factor favoring tht
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4th and on October 31st in Paris.
prefer the method of open attack
instead Of the passive barricade
tactics"
This is what Engels actually wrote
in the passage Bauer is now quot
ing to Justify his rejection of the
path of armed revolutionary strug-
gle! Is it not clear as day that
Bauer is giving the exact opposite
of what Engels actually ssidP Is
it not clear that Engels, correctly
arguing that the street tactics of
1848 are obsolete, and that they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
BY F. RICHARDS
Article III


When does cropper or tenant
become "a nuisance or a menace"
to landlord? AS soon as ne dares
even to ask for his share e.. the
crop. Thousands of known ex-
amples could be quoted where land
lords have killed troopers and ten
ants just because they asked for
their share of the crop" Emanuel
Billings, a Negro tobacco cropper,
sits today on death row in the state
prison Of North Carolina awaiting
the electric chair, because he shot
his landlord in self-defense. Bit
tings had asked for his share of the
crop, after he had been refused all
furnishings coming to him. T. M.
Clayton, his landlord, began beat
ing up Billings small children and
called to Mrs Clayton, who was
close by. Come and hear the last
words of this damn Niger before
l blow his brains out" But 1t so
happened that Billings was quicker
on the trigger. It took only a few
hours for a lily-white court to sem
tence Billings to die in the electric
chair. /. Another example of when
a cropper becomes a nuisance" to
a landlord is the example of CROP
per w. He hunbly pleaded for a
settlement, upon which his landlord
attempted to drive him and his
small children to freeze in the win
ter's cold But this was stopped by
the timely action of the Share
Choppers Union, which prevented
the eviction, and forced the land
lord to make a settlement and per-
NIT w. to live there and crop the
plot.
In speaking of those troopers and
tenants who will be robbed of their
land by the acreage reduction, the
contract reads: q. during such
years 1884 and 1885, shall afford
such tenants or employees, without
cost. access for fuel to such woods
land belonging to this farm as he
may designate; shall permit such
tenants the use Of an adequate por-
ton Of the rented acres to grow
food and feed crops for home con-
sumption and for pasturage for
domestically used livestock; and for
such use of the rented acres shall
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31

and far more favorable for the
military.
But this means that a street
struggle can only be victorious If
this unfavorable nature of the sit
uation is compensated for by
other factors. Therefore 1t will
more seldom come in the begin
ming of great revolution than
in its latest developments, and
must be undertaken with greater
forces. These greater forces will,
however, probably, as in the
French Revolution, on September
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
Austrian Soldier Tells How
S.P. Heads Fought Revolution

The following is part of let
ter written by a worker now in
the U. S. who was formerly a
member of the Austrian army and
who lived through the historic
days of 1919 in Vienna, when the
Socialist leaders broke the back
Of the workers armed struggles.
Written to the editor OF the Daily
Worker, 1t Is remarkable his
toric light on the way the So
cialiSt leaders of Austria protected
the capitalist state from over
throw,
Atchison, Kansas,
March 5, 1884.
Dear Comrade Editor:
It will be of interest to you to
know the record of DR.. julius
Deutsch and his consorts of Austria.
OF course, the American Socialist
working men do not know DR..
Deutsch, and I suppose you don't
know him either. But I know him
very well. know some of his rec
ord. Right after the World War,
from 1918 until 1920, I lived with
my family in the 18th District of
Vienna, Austria, Brambellagasse No.
8. I enlisted in the Peoples Army
(Volkswehr) in 1918. Later I was
honorably discharged from the Aus
trian Army.
DR.. Renner, a Social Democrat.
was elected President, and DR.. julius
Deutsch served in his Cabinet as
War Minister (Secretary of War
Under his reign as War Minister,
he expelled every Communist from
the Peoples Army, and 1 was one
among his many victims. In his
letter to my Commander Lieutenant,
Colonel Hamjael, DR.. Julius Deutsch
declared he will clean the army
of the Communist pests, which in
vades the artillery in Kaiser Ebers-
dork. 1 was sergeant, second
class, and served in the light field
artillery station at Kaiser Ebersdorf
a suburb Of Vienna City. The Red
Battalion was a unit of the Peoples
Army (Volkswehr) and their mem
bers, about 1000 men on the list, all
Communists.
DR.. Renner went to Paris, France,
in order to obtain loan for Aus
tris, and there he promised highly
to the French government that it
is not the slightest intention of the
Social Democratic government of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
Roosevelt Farm Plan
Is Driving the Share
Choppers Off Land
Government Farm Contract Is Brutal Weapon in
the Hands of Southern Masters Against
the Negro Share Choppers

The following is the second
part Of Comrsde Richards article,
showing how the aeresge-re-
ductiOn plan of the Roosevelt ad-
ADMINISTRATION Is driving 2,5O0,OO0
share-croppers of their land and
strengthens the position of the
plantation landlords.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31

CONTINUED on Page Fivel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-12-07
ATTENTION

Owing to the large crowd which will attend our CLOSING OUT SALE which opens tomorrow morn ing at we feel that it is but fair to say that we will allow only certain number of people in the store at any one time, after which the store will be cleared and more admitted. We thank you for your full cooperation. THE L E A D E R DEPARTMENT STORE. adv
 Of Liberia's 2,5U0,O00 inhabitants about 60,000 are said to be civ ilized.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-12-07
CHAMP CLOWNS
 TO FIRST BOUT WIN SINCE JUNE
Both Baers Win Fights in 'Des Moines Ring
 Last Night

DIES MONIES. la, Dec. 7.-The King of the Heavyweights became Court Jester again last night.
 Making his first fistic appear ance since defeating Primo Car nera for the worlds heavyweight boxing title last June, Max Baer clowned his way to one-sided four-round exhibition bout victory over Johnny Miller here.
 Miller, light-heayyweight pride of southern Iowa's coal fields didn't force the grinning Baer to extend himself. The champion weighed PA, while his foe tipped the scales at but 180 pounds.
 About 2,500 persons here also saw Maxs ponderous 240-pound little" brother, Buddy, knock out Red Fields, Des Moines 200-pound- CT, in the first round. After fifty seconds of milling in their sched- uled six-round affair, Buddy Baer scored his eighth straight KO vic- tory.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-12-07
NELSON WRIGHT BOUT M AY TAKE CARD SPOTLIGHT
Fourth Meeting Betw cen
 Bitter Rival Draw
ing Interest

Although t----1iIly muse, popular local lad, and Kid Broz, Belling- ham, Wash, importation, are down for the six-round main event pat tie on the Elks' American Legion smoker scheduled for Monday night at Elks Hall, there may be another bout on the card which will steal the show.
 And that particular fight marks the fourth meeting of Sammy Nel- son. chunky miner, and Kid Wright, hard d-training Angoon Indian, in one of the two semifinals. Yes, sir, that little four-round engagement could just about ''steal the show"
 Past records show that three times the two battlers have fought bitter draws. Neither boxer has been able to claim any clear mar gin over the other when the judges and referees confer for a decision.
 Nelson is short and closely knit. His style of attack lends itself well to his stature, as he uses a bent oyer, weaving offense And Sammy can snap into as good a defensive shell as quickly as any Juneau fighter. His Indian foe has found that out in other battles with him.
 Nelson's opponent is taller, and has longer muscles. He packs a terrific wallop, and is beautifully built, possessing great pair of shoulders. Not only that but Wright takes his boxing seriously and is said to have rigged up his own gymnasium in Angoon where he trains vigorously.
 But whatever the outcome of the Nelson Wright renewal, M a c h. maker Pop Bayers was sure, today, that all his battlers would be phy- sically ready to go Monday night. Trainers Jimmy Thomas and Joe Gregoire have worked hard on the boxers for two months.
 In addition to the Hulse-Broz and Nelson Wright duels, the fol- lowing bouts have been signed
 Red Nixon, Tallapoosa,. vs George Bigley, four rounds; T o m a Gecrgie Stevens vs Filipino Joe, three rounds; Phillip Joseph, Doug las, vs 'Andsome 'Arry Jones, Tal- lapoosa, three rounds.
 Tickets may be purchased at Ju neau Ice Cream Parlors, New Arc tic, Alaskan Hotel, Capital Beer Parlors.