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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
BY MEMO
VI.

ONCE the conclusion of the Locarno Treaty hardly
" ten years have passed The spirit of Locarno'
has, however, long since evaporated. German fas-
cism is pursuing intense policy Of rearmament in
order to replace the French Versailles by German
Versailles. French imperialism, for its part is
firmly resolved to defend its Versailles booty against
Germany by all the means Of armed force. The cry
for military sanctions against Germany is once
again resoundng in France, the eastern frontier. of
which has been transformed into unbroken fort
ress wall. The Saar territory has become a new
Alsace between Germany and France. The COM
pletion of Western Locarno by an Eastern Locarno
is no longer talked of. Britain, which signed the
Locarno Treaty in order to set bounds to Germany's
expansion towards the west, is the leading force in
preventing any Eastern Locarno British imperial
ism has no objection to alteration of frontiers
In the east at the expense of the Soviet Union The
dreams of Pan-Europe and of the United States of
Europe have long since come to an end. If in 1914
the Balkans represented hearth of war in 1884
the whole of Balkanized Europe represents hearth
of conhagration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
Actress Backs.
Leo Gallagher
For Judgeship

LOS ANGELES, Calf, Aug. a.
Madge Bellazny, star Of stage and
screen has added her endorsement
of Leo Gallaghers candidacy for
associate judge Of the State SUI
preme Court to that Of Theodore
Dresser and others. Gallagher, run
ming as q non-partisan, has the.
unqualified endorsement Of the
Communist Party.
Miss Bellamy, in her statement of
support says:
"Mr. Gallagher's friends and we'll
wishers are said to be workers. For
it is only workers that he defends
in courts all over Southern Califor-
MIA. Workers arrested for plcketing.
for strike activities and other such
charges placed against workers who
protest against unbearable condi-
tons. But If it is only workers who
are for Leo Gallagher, then there
are great many workers in Holly
wood.
First as worker and next as
movie and legitimate stage actress,
I take my stand with Leo Gall
lagher :. because he understands
the needs of the people, never hay-
ing been out of touch with the
people.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
THE aouTLAMRY. OF WAR

Let us not forget that the mperiasts have even
"outlawed" war. No less than Is powers solemny
signed the Kellogg Pact in 1923 and thereby de-
clared war to be outaWed. The remuneration of war
means Of national policy-that was the official
contents Of the Kellogg Pact According to Article
of the Pact, the sgnatories agreed that the set
Element solution Of all disputes conflicts, from
whatever cause, which might arise between them,
shall be solved by other than peaceful means"
The powers attached in advance many reserva-
tions to the Kellogg Pact, they reserved much
freedom of action" for themselves that the whole
worthlessness of the agreement becomes obvious
War is to be outlawed? Yes, but not war against
the colonial peoples War is to be outlawed? All
right, but not the against the proletariat War
is to be outlawed? But, of course, in
against Bolshevik Russia! We are ready to outlaw
war, but of course, wars Of defense will be permit
ted. BY 1892 the number of signatories to the KEEL
logg Pact had risen to 3d. 1t the year
in which the flames of war broke out in the Far
East and in Latin America.
Even today, when the postwar period has long
passed into new pre-war period the imperialsts
are concluding peace pacts" After the -Four Power
Pact, the fasco of which was obvious after only
year, came the organizational pact of the Little
Entente which represented its closer military union
This was followed by the Three-Power Agreement
Of Mussoln. which resulted in the creation of war
bloc between Italy Austria and Hungary, and which
is directed towards South East Europe Finally
Hitler himself concluded aggression pact wits
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
II PC. Increase in Production
Due to Speed>Up, L.R.A Finds

A VICIOUS Speed-up of workers in
n U. S. industry is reflected in the
rise in productivity of labor, which
has increased at least 27qo in the
last five years, according to the Au-
gust issue of Economic Notes, organ
of the Labor Research Association.
The steady advance in output per
man hour" is due to the faster pace
at which the workers are being
driven, says an article in this issue
on "CriSis Increases Speed-Up."
A gradual increase in the cost of
living is also noted in discussion
of real wages. The L. R. A. has
taken the so-called health and
decency budget" prepared in 1919
by the U. S. Bureau Of Labor Sta
tistics, and priced it as of June,
1884, for ten cities. 1t finds that
the highest cost of this very mini
mum family budget is in San Fran
cisco where it would take $2,101 to
reach even this admittedly meager
standard.
Retail food costs have risen 40
since Roosevelt came into Office, the
L. R. A. finds, while profits of food
and other corporations have adj
vanced sharply. Another article in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
Soviet Bulletin Describes Life and
Activities of Artists in u. S. S. R.

NEW YORK.-The national Office
of the John Reed Club has just re-
ceived bulletin dealing with the
activities OF Soviet artists The fol-
lowing excerpts describe some Of
their accomplishments.
The Moscow Regional Union of
Soviet Artists (MRUS.A.) was
formed as result Of the decision Of
the Central Committee of the Com
munist Party Of the Soviet Union
on April %, 1882, which dissolved
the barriers then separating the
Soviet artists into various societies
and organizations.
Exhibitions organized by the gov
eminent together with the MR.U.
SA. include: Fifteen Years of
Painting" Fifteen Years of GRAY
ure," Fifteen Years Of Journalistic
Sketching and Posters" etc. The
journal, "Art," is the organ Of the
MRUS.A. Creation" an illus
trated fortnightly magazine, is also
issued by the Union.
The Central Bureau Of the MR..
US.A. sends travelling exhibitions
through the region. A number Of
artists prepare frescoes for the walls
of clubs and factories. The textile
artists of the designing bureau Of the
MR.USA. have produced large
number of designs for textiles, Of
which many have been adopted in
industry. The artists in the theatre
carry on practical work in producing
the decorations for plays. They have
held a number Of discussions on the
subject, THE Path of Decorative
Art"
Poster artists held big COMPETE
ton together with the Art Publish
ing House on the 10th Anniversary
of the Death OF Lenin.
The Soviet artists are supplied
with living quarters, workshops,
studios and materials, and are given
places in rest homes and sanitori-
ums. In 1928 two houses were built
for artists and they formed the be-
ginning OF the Artists Colony"
In one of these houses there are
studios, library, kindergarten, din
ing room, laundry. The other house
is divided into apartments. Both
houses accommodate 100 artists.
More studios and apartments are
being built. In 1885 the construc-
ton of big exhibition hall will be
started.
Every year the government and
the social organizations issue large
sums of money for the purpose of
sending artists away to study. Over
$50 qualified artists and consid-
cradle part of the youth are thus
provided for.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03

Economic Notes contrasts the mil
lions Of profits of the big chain
stores with the $3.50 wages paid to
clerks.
Other articles cover the growing
taxation burdens on the workers, the
status of milk consumption with re-
lation to the plight of the farmer
under the A. A. A., latest facts
about the Second Five Year Plan of
the Soviet Union, and special
strike survey Of Wisconsin which
refers to the role Of the Socialists
in certain Milwaukee strikes. A
special survey Of the U. s. construc-
ton industry eXplodes the ballyhoo
that a building boom is in the off1ng.
Answering the Roosevelt question,
"Are you better off than you were
last year?" the L. r. A. analyses the
sale Of groceries and other commodi-
ties and declares: I'm terms of food
consumption the answer definitely is
No."
Economic Notes Is on sale at
workers bookshops. Those who wish
it regularly by mail may subscribe
at the rate Of IS cents a year from
Labor Research Association, 80 East
18th Street, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
Only United Fight Can
Win, Paine Quite Says
in New Book on Fascism

The fight against fascism cannot
be conducted on the basis Of trust
ing TO bourgeois democracy as the
defense against fascism," r. Paine
Quite, editor of the British Labor
Monthly. declares IN his forthcom-
ing book ''Fascism and Social Revo-
luton" which International Pub
fishers will release in August.
Trust in ruling class democracy"
means ito invite and to guarantee
the victory Of fascism," Dutt shows
The fight against fascism can only
be conducted on the basis Of the
united class fight Of the workers
beading all the exploited STRATA
against all the attacks Of finance
capital, whether these attacks are
conducted through nominal demo-
cratic forms or through open fas-
cist FORMS"
The great lesson the workers must
learn from the fascist record in
Europe, Dutt insists, is that bour-
geois democracy, far from constitu-
ting a defense against faScism, "ac-
tually breeds fascism. Fascism grows
organically out Of bourgeois democ-
racy."
Besides a Marxist analysis of the
fascist regimes Of Europe, Quits
book warns against fascist tenden-
cies in Western Europe and
America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
Reviewed by
PHILIP STERLING

II you want to combine political
l study with stirring drama, read
Pat Toohey's pamphlet. It is pos
Sible that there has been no strike
in recent years under such condi-
tons as those in New Mexico de-
scribed by Toohey.
Martial law, secret printing plants,
strike meetings held in the desert,
solidarity Of National Guard troops
with the strikers-theSe are the
dramatic and instructive elements Of
which the New Mexico strike was
composed.
The strike has current historic
significance. 1t was the first i'm
portant wedge between the NR.A.
and the masses of workers who we're
on the verge Of being misled.
The instructiveness and interest of
the pamphlet is enhanced by
Toohey's simple, lucid narrative
style and his intimate knowledge Of
the struggle, which only a leader in
it could have.
In proportion to its Importance,
little is known about this strike
from which more than 10000 miners
emerged victorious in the face of
armed troops, martial law and fas-
cist terror.
Toohey points to the strike as
prime refutation of Norman
Thomas reforfnist wall that strikes
cannot be won in time Of crisis"
The strike also offered concrete IL
lustration Of the correct role Of the
Communist Party in such stu
alton.
THE Communist functionaries,"
says Toohey, learned early in this
struggle to abolish a disease pre-
valent in the workers movement, of
waiting until after the struggle to
build the Communist Party"
Toohey's pamphlet abounds not
only in political lessons but in dram
attic incident. Not one Of the thou
sands of unemployed miners scabbed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03

Colorado farmers, who had sent re.
lief trucks to the strikers. took up
their guns and vowed to shoot any
one who attempted to interfere with
their passage. In this respect tns
strike was fine example Of Lenin-
ist action.
There was complete unity Of the
strikers, the unemployed, the poor
farmers Of New Mexico and neigh
boring states. Not only that; on
one occasion rank and file National
Guardsmen refused to fire on
strike demonstration when they were
ordered to do 50 by their officers.
Twenty Of them subsequently Joined
the Communist Party and the Young
Communist League.
Toohey also describes the re-
sourcefulness and the capacity for
self-leadership of the rank and file.
When all of the leaders were cast
into military concentration camp
to pave the way for an arbitration
maneuver, the military authorities
hoped that the arbitrator would
have an easy job because he would
have to deal merely with rank and
file miners.
The Communist leadership was
safely behind the bars. But on ar
irving in Gallup Moore Cthe arbi-
traitor was met by a barrage Of
leaflets. Why does Moore Come to
Gallup? Why Have Our Leaders
Been Arrested?' Who issued such
circulars and held ranks firm when
leaders were jailed2 1t was the rank
and file miners, following the steady
and firm leadership Of the Com
munist Party"
1t was at this time, Toohey re-
lates, that 13-year-old strikers
daughter imbued with the spirit of
her elders, took it on herself to go
to the telegraph station and wire
New York and Denver: Send some
one at once, Everybody in jail"
The need for fearless and per-
sistent self-criticism oftentimes pre-
vents Communists from devoting as
much discussion as they might to
their victories. Toohey's pamphlet
helps to remedy this condition and
to record glorious If little known
chapter in the growing revolutionary
will and ability OF the American
working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03

This cartoon reproduced from the arch-reactionary
Chicago Tribune, is example of the nationwide ant-
Red campaign being conducted in the newspapers.
Communists seek only to destroy"this is the keynote
of the press campaign This vicious stuff is being pedded
to millions of readers while Roosevelts AAA (Agrcul-
tura Adjustment Administration continues its policy of
destroying the nations Surplus" food supply Already
than onethird of the counrys wheat corn cotton
tobacco and dairy products have been destroyed
than million young porkers have been drowned in the
Mississippi.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
ALL HATE U.S.s.R.

THE German-Polish non aggression pact is typical
example of the possibility which exists at all
times for temporary agreement between the i'm
perialists in spite of the existing insouble anago
isn1s between them. The common hatred OF the
Soviet Union forms the central axis around which
the imperalist powers gathering. The conclu-
sion of the German-Poish n-aggresson pact
aimed not at safeguarding peace, but at the crea-
tion with British assistance, of an intervention
bloc for which it intended to win the fascist
military relationships of the Baltic countries as
immediate allies. German fascism has rejected the
guarantee pact for the independence of the Baltic
countries proposed by the Soviet Union in the same
way as Japan has refused the Soviet proposal of
non aggression pact. German fascism regards the
Baltic region not only its future colony but also
as bridge for its crusade towards the Soviet East.
The system of non-aggression pacts was intro
duced by the Soviet government and could only
be put through by against the sharpes resistance
of the imperialiSts Thus, the aggression pact
concluded between the Soviet Union and Poland in
1882 has behind ten years history of inceSsant
sabotage the part Of the inperiasts. Today, the
Soviet government is able to point to whole series
of aggression and peace pacts which have been
proposed and carried through by it. The inn
peralist blocs would have long ago come into
operation if it had not been for the peace maneu-
of the Soviet Union. which have put the great
est difficulties in their way.
When two people do the same thing, it is still
not the same thing. When the imperalists conclude
non aggression pacts they only making maneu-
vers in order by this means to deceive the masses
as to their real intentions and to gain time for
better preparation for war Imperialism is as little
able to renounce war as a beast of prey can re-
nounce its predatory activities In full agreement
with the world proletariat, the Soviet Government
is well aware that the roots of imperialist
not to be eradicated by paper treaties The i'm
periaists will tear up their most sacred treaties
without scruple If the moment seems to them
suitable for doing.
The conclusion of nom aggression pacts between
the Soviet Union and the imperiast states renders
it is true, the war plans Of the inperialsts more
difficult to realize, but does not decrease in the
slightest degree the seriousness of the danger of
intervention Only the most intense revolutionary
struggle Of the masses Of workers in all countries
will safeguard the real content of the system of
non aggression pscts of the Soviet Union as guar
antee of peace.
tTo Be Contin' a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
The RED Builders"

An INTERESTING recent development the Builders
a OF workers in hundreds cities who sell
streets have been thrilled tour of the West workers
selling the Daily the streets Spokane WASH company
controlled towns in Montana
ties New York placed
of readers with the Daily"
could be bought in New York
long time in getting around to the discovery that
found in other sections of the city
believe 1t has already Daily
circulation has developed the dropping
during the This only drop
but instead 5000 readers have been obtained
Last printed letter
OF suggestions making the Daily
tive Since that time
readers who ask features criticisms
the letters however make the
during the past Year.
Often sound suggestions for Improvements
remain abstract because of the difficulty putting
with limited example must have been at
several hundred
signatures of their friends and protesting
continuance CURTIS strip editorial
that
the dontnunce of the strip which obviously popular
with readers Incidentally
mentally improve the
announced shortly.
Naturally improvements
expenditure but this is subject for discussion other
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03

During 1928 the Revolutionary
Military Council of the USS.R.
spent a great deal of money on the
organization Of an exhibition deal
ing with the fifteen years of the
Red Army Similar commissions
we're received from the Ural organ
izations, where as a result of the
repeated journeys Of brigades Of
artists TO the industrial centers Of
the UraEs. big regional artistic
museum is being organized.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03

Bloody 30th of June in Germany;
Lessons of the Milwaukee Street
Garments Strike; THE feminist
Party as Leader of the Struggle
Against Imperialist War" by H. M.
Wicks; "Imperialist War and Poll
tics in the Far East" by R. Doom
ping; The United Farmers League
Convention" by John Barnett; THE
Veterans in the Struggle Against
Fascism and Imperialist War" by
Emanuel Levin: Book Review.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
CHANGE
The
WORLD!
By SENDER GARLIN

N EDITORIAL writer in the liberal New Republic Gym
icaly observes that workers in the United States will
not support their press Moreover that remains
to be seen whether he events the Pacific Coast have
taught the workers anything on this
course the pretty complete
sranglehod on the workers
suit monopoly the radio and other agencies Of
capitalist propaganda Yet influence of the
unary press growing rapid it
considering wongcass has experienced
five years Of crisis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
Anti-War Articles in August Communist

The August issue of "The Com
munist," organ of the Central Com
mittee of the Communist Party of
the U.S.A., has just appeared. 1t is
an anti-War issue and contains the
following important articles:
I'm the Midst of Great Historic
Battles" editorial; THE Tasks of
Revolutionary Social-Democracy in
the European War;" by v. I. Lenin;
For Bolshevik Anti-Wsr Strug-
GLE" by Alex Bittelman; THE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-03
One Thing They Can't Buy

THE wealthy publishers buy printing newfanged sereo-
equipment they buy editors writers and
artists but thing they cannot buy and that Is the devotion
of readers such the revolutionary press enjoys Right now Tor
example, subscribers (many readers
newspapers % Of which nine are daily
papers, including the Daily Worker.
maintain the Daily have time
the devotion the workers and farmers in various
country their Daily Worker The present circulation
of letters day from workers who are
battling against the terror against Spies many OF them
struggling nghanded in communities where revolutionary activity
has not yet made itself felt.
From the little town An MIMI example letter
enclosing of the August 1t AntWar
letter can tell where copies of the
Unemployment Bill be obtained for distrbu
wildly how the workers LOOK
upon ut another but real organizer
in the feminist Of the word
Up in Canada the British Empire the Com
iegaty. Yet worker writes
Toronto asking copies the Daily
Dangerous thoughts have Of seepng into
despite all the snarng statutes that terrified capitalist law
the law books
reader Of the Daily writes: My sub
scpon expired july much for sending
paper especially at the present time when
struggles fought the West Coast the events in Ger
many, Scottsboro boys, Angelo Herndon, ETC."
stirring of all letter from Mrs Ida Norris of the
mothers Moena Georgia. she writes II will
try all mother of Of the Scottsboro
prisoners bundles of the Daily Worker will
all the subscriptions OF chances for
prosperity indeed here in the South although am willing to
do my best Comradely, Mrs. Norris"
time the bosses the South Communist they think
they've eliminated the possibility of struggle against exploitation by
the workers he terror has not yet subsidized Daily Worker
Birmingham Present conditions favorable
alternative mainly personal
contact tales could be told how the Daily Worker and
other revolutionary publications spread the Black Belt of the
sharp South that
ingenious methods worked the bosses
thugs the lookout for those fighting
the liberation of the
propaganda strangely
followed in the darkest days of the car.