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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-11-02
Education forNonnad Youth

Seven little red tents recently
pitched on the bleak tundra near
Arkhangelsk, northern Russia, mark
the first coming of "schoolhouses" to
the Samoyeds. These tents, and an
other. housing a radio station and
printing press, will accompany the
primitive, nomad tribes on their
wanderings. Although most numer-
Gus in the vicinity Of Arkhangelsk.
about 10000 Samoyeds live in a prim-
tive state of culture from the east
ern shores OF the White sea along
Arctic shores east to the Gulf of
Khatanga, Siberia, and extend south
ward between the basins of the OBJ
and the Yenisei.
problems of American school
teachers seem small when compared
with problems faced by the instruc-
tors selected to teach these nomads. !"
says bulletin from the Washington
headquarters of the National Geo
graphic society.
Not only are Samoyeds illiterate,
preserving their traditions solely in
songs; but their sonorous language,
resembling Finnish, has three dia-
lects and twelve sub-diaIects. AL
though said TO possess a reasonable
intelligence, they have little time to
devote TO schooling since most of
them lead a hand-to-mouth existence
by reindeer herding, hunting, and
fishing.
'These stocky people, of Mongoli-
an origin, have straight black hair.
oblique eyes, and yellow-brown skin,
which often appears darker. as they
are reputed never TO wash. Men
and women are hard to distinguish,
both wearing reindeer skin tunics
and trousers.
I'm the past some Samoyeds be-
came nominal Christians; but their
veneer of Christianity wears very
thin. Russian icons compete with
stone and wooden idols propitiated
with blood sacrifices, and the rum
bling drums Of Shamans, or 'medi-
cine men, who are asserted to heal
the sick and prophesy the future.
Many Samoyeds worship the bear as
divine being in disguise, and wear
his teeth as amulets.
'Samoyed children, given more
freedom than the traditional only
child may lead truant officers a
lively chase before submitting to the
dull routine of schoolroom.
sDon'ts' will sound harsh to these
fur-clad youngsters, who are accus-
toned to see their parents smile ap-
prevail upon their playing with for
midable hunting knives and blazing
torches. Despite occasional cuts from
antlers, they play freely among the
family's reindeer herd, and by obser.
walton, early learn to be useful in
the hard life of their elders. A boy
of six is competent to harness a rein.
deer team.
"Wives are bought not for their
beauty but for their usefulness and
for their freedom from nerves. The
latter seems a strange requisite il
primitive tent life undisturbed by
stock markets and bridge, until one
remembers that inhabitants of north
ern and part of southern Siberia
probably on account of the severe
climate and hard life, suffer more
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-11-02
NOw-Pay Less and Get Real BAYER Aspirin!

So as to put the reliability and quick
action of Genuine Bayer Aspirin
within the reach of everyone, the
price you pay has now been reduced.
Reduced so low that nobody need
ever again accept another brand in
place of real BAYER ASPIRIN to
save few cents.
15c now for tins of II tablets.
25c now for bottles of "a tablets.
And the big, family size, 100
tablet bottles again reducedl
These new low prices are now In
effect throughout the United States.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-11-02
So-Alsoays Say HBoyer''
When You Buy

These new low prices make it un-
necessary now to accept unknown
aspirin tablets to save money.
So-see that you get the real
Bayer article now by never asking
for it by the name aspirin" alone,
when you buy; but always say
B-A-Y-E-R Aspirin, and see that
you get it.
Remember, scientists rate it
among the fastest known reliefs for
headaches, and the pains of rheu-
matisn, neuritis and neuralgia.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-11-02
BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON

THE eleventh hour of the
eleventh day of the eleventh month
in the year 1918 the guns, which
for more than four years had been
roaring in western Europe all along
the line from Switzerland to Hol-
land, were silenced and to a wait
ing world was flashed the welcome
message 1.-The Armistice has been
Sionad ~ That tS the eyant which
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-11-02

ALWAYS say "sAYER ASPIRIN" NOW WHEN YOU
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05

States. 1t is this fact that has in
spired what, for the present, takes
the all-time record for counter
revolutionary venom, the pamphlet
Hear the Other Side, a Symposium
of Democratic Socialist Opinion, -
edited by that sterling democrat,
Abraham Cahan.
Cshan lays down his basic thesis
in the editorial foreword. We quote
THE slums of the Russian
cities and their voiceless ter
rorized inhabitants, on the one
hand. and the glorious municipal
Socialism of Vienna with the free
speech and free voting it guar
anteed, on the other, is the diff
ference between despotic Bolshe-
vism and democratic Socialism"
One might imagine that after
Vienna, which had been held up to
workers everywhere as the model
of municipal socialism," as the
example par excellence of the pos
sibility of building socialism within
the framework of capitalist democ-
racy, was captured by Dollfuss and
the Heimwehr, Mr.. Cahan would
maintain a discreet silence. One
would think that the editor of that
paragon of Socialist publications
would find it less embarrassing to
make comparisons other than be-
tween the Soviet Union and the
municipal Socialism" of Vienna at
this time.
But mol Mr.. Cahan must rush to
the defense of capitalist democracy,
Why7
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
Mr. Cohan Comes the Defense Of Capitalist Democracy

revolutionary organizations. B u t
we permitted, in the name of
democracy" these fascist bandits
to flourish. Nay, more, our leaders
even made alliances with one group
of these notwithstanding us to be-
lieve that they were the lesser
evir-against the other gang of
bandits, the Nazis. And we followed
our treacherous leaders. But no
longer. The next time we fight
it will be for power and to main
tain power. And we won't be so
democratic this time. We won't
follow the advice of MeSsers. Otto
Bauer, Karl Renner, Karl Seitz,
Julius Deutsch and the rest. We
will follow the Bolshevik example"
Under the pressure of the Aus
TRAN events and the crumbling OF
the democratic" conceptions among
the socialist workers left" phrases
are being mouthed by some of the
Socialist leaders. Cahans pamphlet
is warning to them not to mouth
these phrases too loosely. But bash
cally the pamphlet, purporting to be
call to the Socialist Party men,
bers to "hear the other SIDE" the
side of democratic socialism, is
an attempt to bolster the shattered
faith of the advanced American
workers in capitalist democracy.
R.xk 10 nrrocffnya
1t is an old question but must be
answered again and again. Can the
American workers = or workers in
any other capitalist country-gain
power through the way of capital
list democracy, by the peaceful
method Of the ballot supplied for
them by the capitalist class? On
is the revolutionary way, the Boil
shevik way, the road followed by the
Russian workers and peasants, the
only way out?
Here we must spend a moment
in an examination of some of the
more obvious limitations of Ameri-
can capitalist democracy, Let us
take the franchise, the right to vote,
about which Mr.. Cahan goes into
ecstasies.
Have the Negro masses the right
to vote? Let the figures speak for
themselves. Let us see how Ameri-
can capitalist democracy permits"
the masses to exercise this right
supposedly guaranteed by the con-
Stitution.
Since practically every state has
literacy qualifications, at least 20
per cent of the potential Negro vot-
ing population is disfranchised
(partly due to the fact that funds
for education of Negroes is always
much lower than that for whites
and partly due to the fact that
these literscy tests are judged by
white politicians or their bench
mem; 1,306,650 Negroes are consid-
cred illiterate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
Foscism Rears Its Ugly Head More
Boldly EUery Day in the United States
FASCIST GANGS ARE NOW BEING PREPARED AGAINST WORKERS

logically tried to destroy the strug-
giles Of the unemployed for relief.
More recently the Khaki Shirts have
spread out from Philadelphia into
the coal fields and textile centers
Of Eastern Pennsylvania, and other
sections.
All of these and other similar
openly fascist organizations, have
not been bothered by the govern
ment in their Shiny and degenerate
anti-working class activities. Fur
thermore, if the leaders of these
fascist organizations are followed
up, the trail most often leads to
high places in the government.
Witness the friendship between the
fascist Father Coughlin with Presi-
dent Roosevelt (Coughlin receives
support from Morgan connections,
notably General Motors. Or the
Committee for the Nation" which
launched Dr. Writ on his campaign
to prepare for fascism. On this
fascist committee sits David Stern,
publisher of the N. Y. Post and
Philadelphia Record, a close per-
sonal friend and supporter Of
Roosevelt. Liberation" in its last
issue before going bankrupt this
does not end the publication of
Silver Shirt papers, eXtravagantly
praised the crusade of DR.. Writ.
The protection afforded by the
government to these fascist gang
sters was revealed in the trial of
Terzani, framed up and charged
with killing a member of the audi
ence in a Long Island Khaki Shirt
meeting on July IA, 1888. Terzani
was freed by jury after hard
for his release. After the real MUIR
derer, Frank Moffer, member Of the
Khaki Shirts, confessed, the Khaki
Shirt leader Smith, was tried for
perjury. The same prosecuting at
torney, Chas. Golden, who turned
every stone to send the innocent
Terzani to prison, had to try Smith
Khaki shirt leader, for perjury. Dis
trict attorney Golden treated Smith
with the utmost kindness, sabotaged
the prosecution, ruled out evidence
concerning the fascist character of
the Khaki Shirts, and was mild
and lenient with the fascist leader,
The Hearst newspapers are q
potent force for fascism, with an
openly fascist policy. Such Hearst
writer's as Easley, of the Civic Fed
Grafton (Which has as its co-leader
Mathew WolD. Hayes, head of the
American Legion, and Richard
Washburn Child, are given unlimit-
ed space by Hearst to spill their
Icing venom.
Attacks on Foreign Born
The Hearst papers call for more
stringent laws against the foreign
born workers. When magistrate
Casey, of New York City, makes a
vicious attack on the foreignborn
Hearsts American" of April 18th
features Casey's statements as fol-
lows: Unworthy aliens who have
been receiving home relief should
be deported even if they have been
here fifty years, Magistrate Casey
declared yesterday in Gates Ave
Court, Brooklyn" This government
activity against the foreign-born in
creases throughout the country. In
Ohio, the government is deporting
ten thousand foreign-born rather
than give them relief, Thousands
of Mexicans, Negroes and others
have already been deported from
the southwest.
The military arm of the govern
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
By c. A. HATHAWAY
Excerpts from Report on Win
ming the Working Youth" at
the Eighth Convention of
the c. p. U.S.A.)

I want to take up some questions
l Of our struggle for the youth. In
the draft resolution that has been
submitted to the Convention, the
G. G. Celebrates and stresses most
sharply the part that the Party
must play in the efforts to win the
young workers. Here we have to
state that in the first place this is
the task of the Party, of the lead
ing fractions in the trade unions, in
the unemployed organizations, in all
of the mass organizations Of the
Party. In the past the problem of
winning the youth was considered
the problem merely of the young
workers. We criticized them if the
movement did not go forward. We
never examined our own role. the
role of the Party in the struggle to
win the working class youth. We
did not consider sufficiently the
role of the youth in the general
working class movement and the
part we must play in drawing the
young workers in all of the struggles
of the workers and to draw up spe-
cial demands of the youth.
The Party in its resolution opens
up with the following, and indeed
the whole resolution should be
studied most carefully by every
comrade in the Party and especially
the comrades who are responsible
for the leadership of the Party in
the districts. The resolution states:
without a decisive turn of the
Party to work among the masses
Of workers, a successful struggle
against the attacks of the capt.
talists, against fascism, the inten-
sive preparations for war and for
the establishment Of revolution
airy workers government - Soviet
Power, Is impossible. Any talk of
winning the majority of the work
ing class for the revolution with
out the most serious work among
the broad masses of young work
ers, is an empty phrase. The
present underestimation and ne
elect of daily systematic work
among the young workers is
refornist remnant especially dan
gerOus to the Party, against
which the Eighth Convention de-
clares the sharpest struggle. The
Eighth Convention instructs all
leading bodies and especially the
Central Committee, to exercise
the sharpest control in the carry
ing out Of the tasks laid down in
this resolution. The Eighth Con-
ventiOn declares that underesti-
nation or neglect of this work is
incompatible with the capacity to
fill leading positions in the Com
munist Party"
That, comrades, is q very sharp
statement in the draft resolution,
but this is a statement absolutely
necessary as can be seen by an ex-
animation of the position of the
Y. G. L. If one takes the position of
Y.C.L. today as compared with our
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
Socialist Leadership Seeks To Snare the Workers
in the Trap of Capitalist Democracy and
Democratic Road to Socialism

Primarily because the Austrian
events blasted the keystone of the
theoretical arch of social-democ-
racy, the conception of gradual
ISM" the belief that it is possible
for the workers to take the power of
the state and the means and ma
chinery of production through
peaceful democratic" means, that
is, through the legal forms existent
in the modern capitalist democ-
racies France, England, United
States, etc..
Discomfort Among S. P. Members
Within the rank-and file of the
Socialist Party there is a deep
seated discomfort with the funda-
mental theory and the practical
policies c> reformism, the rotteness
of which was glaringly exposed by
the Austrian events. Thousands of
workers who support the Socialist
Party in the United States-as well
as thousands of Socialist workers
throughout the world-are ques-
tioning the whole conception of the
democratic" capture of power and
the tactic that flows from it, the
lesser evil'' tactic that of sup
porting the so-called liberal wing of
the capitalist class against the fas-
cist wing Gin Austria the support of
Dollfuss against the Heimwehr and
the Nazis; in Germany the support
of Hindenburg against Hitler; in
the U. S. the united front with
Vol, LaGuardia and Roosevelt
against" fascism).
Many have begun to realize that
only the Bolshevik way, the road
taken by the Russian workers and
peasants in November, 1917, the way
of Lenin and Stain, the way
pointed by the Communist Inter
national, is the way out of the
misery of the capitalist abyss. Par
ticularly are the Austrian workers
beginning to ponder this question
and say:
"Had we established the dictator
ship of the proletariat in 1918, had
we crushed the capitalist class re-
lentlessly then, had we relied on
the armed might of the working
class, We would have been living
under Socialist Soviea govern
ment today and not under fascist
dictatorship. The Russian workers
crushed the Denikins, Kolchaks,
Wrangels and Yudeniches. They did
not give these White Guard bandits
a chance to develop. to grow pow
erful, to cement their international
connections-all in the name of
democracy" of equality" between
exploiter and exploited. They
crushed their White Guard enemies
and kept on in a vigilant fashion,
relentlessly suppressing counter
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05

Property qualifications-which hit
the toiling masses primarily-exist
in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Mis-
sissippi, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia,
Georgia, Delaware, S. Carolina,
Louisiana, w. Virginia and Okla
homa, These qualifications are in
the form of direct property quail
fication, poll taxes, disfranchisement
of paupers or persons obtaining re-
lief from state, county, etc.
How this worked out can be seen
by the 1882 elections-the total vote
cast in the South Atlantic States
(from Delaware to Florida) was
2,9S5 ,00O-out of 100000 who we're
eligible. (Of the eligible voters,
that is, those over 81, 100000 are
whites, 100000 Negroes. In the
states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Ala
bama and Mississippi out of an eli
gible electorate of 100000 whites
and 1,401 900 Negroes, only 1,750, 400
votes were cast.
In West, South, Central states
(Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma,
Texas there are 4,955,000 whites
over 81, and 1,234,OO0 Negroes over
81. The total vote cast in the 1882
election was 2,049, ITO,
Soldiers and sailors 135,052 ac-
tive) may vote in their home states
if they happen to be there at the
time of registering and voting But
this rarely happens.
Seamen, who number about 89,l95,
generally do not meet the residen-
tial qualifications and are thus ex-
cluded from the blessings of Mr..
Cahans democracy.
Besides the aforementioned linn
itations there are dozens of others.
In Alabama. Oregon and South
Carolina there is a property quail
f1cation. Each voter must have at
least $500 worth of property, Poll
taxes exist in Alabama, Arkansas,
Florida. Massachusetts,, Mississippi,
Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and
Virginia.
In the state of Alabama, home
of the Scottsboro case, you must
be employed to cast your ballot.
Alabama workers who want to
change the social structure along
the lines Of Mr.. Cahan should first
get themselves a job and acquire
$500 worth of property!
In Georgia and Mississippi delin-
quent taxpayers cannot vote. Pau
pers and inmates of charitable in
situations cannot cast ballot in
Is states.
Migratory workers, who number
over 100000, generally cannot vote
because of failure to meet residual
requirements.
In California, Nevada and Ore
gon American born Chinese cannot
vote These number 10000.
There are approximately 4,00N,-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
600 foreign born workers who can

not vote.
There are 1876 ,s58 Mexicans of
voting age. OF these approximately
25 per cent are illiterate and are
thus disfranchised.
These few facts make it crystal
clear that even the right to vote
the alpha and omega of the bour-
geois democratic philosophy--is de-
MED huge sections of the toiling
masses.
However, let us grant for mo-
ment that many workers have the
right to vote. Who reaches them
with election propaganda? Who
owns the vast network of news
papers, radio stations, news-reel
agencies, and the thousand and
one other means of propaganda?
Do the workers own these? Do
they have access to these, the free,
complete, democratic use of them?
To ask these questions is to an
swer them. Thousands of American
workers are beginning to see this,
are beginning to understand that
capitalist democracy is, in the words
of Lenin, "a snare and a delusion
that the full power of the govern
ment is in the hands of the capt.
talist class, that the agencies for
disseminating information are in
the hands of the capitalist class,
that the very institutions Of demo-
cracy are in the hands Of the capt.
tslist class, that present-day demo-
cracy is capitalist democracy,
disguised form of capitalist dicta-
torship.
Communists Fight for Democratic
Rights
This does not mean that we Com
munists pooh-pooh the struggle for
democratic rights. On the contrary,
the Communists have placed and
will continue to place in the fore
front of our program the struggle
to maintain and extend the ele-
mentary democratic rights of the
toiling populations-the right to Or
ganize, the right to strike, the right
to the streets, etc. 1t is the Com
munists-and only the Communists
whose fighting leadership actually
organizes the masses to resist fas-
ciSt attacks on democratic rights.
1t is only the Communist Party,
which, through program of mill
tant struggle against, rather than
reliance upon, bourgeois democracy.
actually wins concessions from the
capitalist class.
The Socialist leadership, with it's
policy of collaboration with state
authorities, has actually yielded up
the democratic rights of workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
Only the Communists Fight To Maintain and
Extend Democratic Rights Won
By the Masses

BY creating Illusions about the
MIRA. and the very state apparatus
from which fascism blossoms, the
S.P. leaders not only pave the way
for fascism with its annihilstion of
any sen1blance Of rights for the toll
ing masses but today, in daily life,
surrender these rights. In Austria,
Otto Bauer was willing to accept a
dictatorship of three rather than or
ganize q genuine revolutionary
struggle against fascism. In the
United States, the S.P. leaders in
dozens Of cases have surrendered the
streets, in tender compliance to the
wishes Of police chiefs, rather than
put up a real struggle for the work
ing class right to march the streets
built by the hands of labor.
The taxi strikers of New York,
the auto workers Of Detroit, the
steel workers of Anlbridge, the
coal miners of Pennsylvania and
Illinois, have seen Mr.. Cahan's
vaunted democracy in action.
They have felt the democratic
militia bullets blowing through
their flesh and the democratic
policeman's club crack their skull.
They have whitfield the democratic
tear gas Of state deputies. They
have seen the shrieking headlines
of the capitalist press with their
jackal cries for the blood Of strik
ers. They have Heard the Other
Side,r and they are beginning to
take the road toward a true
democracy. democracy of toilers,
such a democracy as was set up
by the workers and peasants of
the Soviet Union in 1917 under
the leadership of Lenin's and
Stains Communist Party.
Such democracy, Mr.. Cahan
which workers know throughout the
world as the dictatorship Of the
proletariat,
"is a million times more demo-
cratic than any bourgeois demo-
cracy, and the Soviet regime is
million times more democratic
than the most democratic regime
in a bourgeois republic CLenin).
Under the dictatorship of the
proletariat, Mr.. Cahan, all who tot
may vote. Those who do not work
do not vote. But more important
the meeting halls, the printing
presses, the movies, the radio anc
all other agencies Of information
are in the hands, not of q few bill
lionaires, but in those Of the work
ers and peasants, And this makes
all the difference in the world Mr.
Cahan. Ask the Weirton and Budc
workers. They know