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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-20
GERMAN NOTES By An american Seaman

CITING in a cafe one night in
y Hamburg middle-class citizen
told me the following joke:
"Goering died and went to
heaven. At the pearly gates st.
Peter stopped him and said, 'Goe-
ring, you must make a complete
confession of all the evils you did
on earth before you can enterl'
Goering made confession. st. Pc
ter said, You haven't told ALL Nero
waddled up and inquired as to the
trouble. Leaning over ne whis-
pered in Goering's ear, Tell me
what you did Goering whispered,
I burnt the Reichstag.' Nero ran
of shaking with glee. Is that all?
I burnt Romel'"
A grim worker once told me in
Hamburg that if it was proved that
the Nazis burnt the Reichstag that
the German workers would tear
them to pieces overnight. The COM
Portable middle-class gentleman got
a cynical kick out Of the joke. When
the conviction grows among the
workers that the Nazis burnt the
Reichstag, much can be expected.
A FEW nights after the sailing
n from Baltimore there was very
hot argument in the stewards glory
hole. Several strong German nation
alists we're arguing as to whether
Hitler was or was not a friend
of the working man. Finally one of
the Hitler men got up angrily and
walked out Of the fo'c'sle. Thinm
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/. L. d. Benefit of
Play on ScOttsbOr0

NEW YORK.-A benefit performance Of
John wexley's play They Shall Not Die $
produced by the Theatre Guild, will be
given under the auspices of the New York
district Of the International Labor Defense
March a.
Tickets for this benefit, as well as for
the benefit under the auspices of the
National Committee for the Defense Of
Political Prisoners, March 26, may be OBJ
tained from the LID. district office. $40
Broadway, or from the Royale Theatre,
4Sth ST., west of Broadway.
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burg. the Nazis had march OF
10000 storm troopers through the
streets. A very thin crowd lined the
sidewalks. I distinctly heerd one
man say to a woman walking with
him. Let's walk slowly We won't
have to give the salute then"
Thirty thousand storm troopers and
not worker among them. Very
young boys in their teens marched,
showing their embarrassment with
sidelong glances and sheepish grins
at the people watching them.
Young men from the offices and
schools by the thousands. with
smooth, full faces and dangerous
glitters in their eyes, put on for
effect. No sure courage and definite
awareness Of why they marched. To
show their bright uniforms. to
show they believed in the New
Germany" Not sufficiently to risk
their skins, the old fighters of the
Nazis are now fighting the Nazis.
the new element OF Nazis, young
naive, hopeful The comrade with
me, an old soldier, commented on
their marching, loose. out of step,
disorganized, a poor fighting outfit.
Blohm and Yoss, one Of the
largest machine shops in the
world, in Hamburg, Is working
day and night shifts turning out
military airplanes. The Hitler
government urges and drives the
workers towards war.
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BY JOHN L. SPIvAK

NEW ORLEANS, La
With all the cash poured
into this city and state by
the federal government osten-
sibly to supply work for the
unemployed, only three out Of every
hundred registered as unemployed
have been placed on temporary Or
more-or-less permanent jobs.
Ninety-seven out Of every hun
dred who have been out of work
for years are still ont Of work.
These are not my figures. These
are the figures given me by John
7. Wentz. statistician for the United
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Leaders of the ProIetarian Red
Army of the U.S.S.R.
v

Ian GaInarnik was born in 1894.
He began his revolutionary work in
1914 in students circles. He Joined
the Bolshevik Party in 1916. Up
until 1917, he was secretary of the
Party commute in Kiev. In this
capacity he led the preparations for
the October Uprising in Kiev. Dur
ing the rule of Petlura in the
Ukraine he led the illegal work of
the Party organizations in Odessa,
Kharkov and the Crimea. During
the Civil War in 1919 he was mem
Der of the Revolutionary Military
Council of the southern group of the
Ukrainian Army and Comnissar of
the 58th Division. Up to 1923, he
was chairman of the Odessa and
Kiev District Committees of the
Party. From 1923 to 1928, he was
chairman of the Far Eastern Revo-
lutionary Committee which carried
through the liberation of the Far
East from occupation. From 1928 on
he was Secretary of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party
OF White Russia. He is a member of
the Supreme Revolutionary Military
Council and Peoples Vice Comnis-
sar for the Army and Navy, and
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A GERMAN sailor told me Of an
n experience in his neighborhood
in Hamburg. The focal point Of the
men was the barron. Sitting all
evening over a glass of beer and
talking. The proprietor is an old
Stslhelm man, a strong nationalist
up to now a shrewd fellow. Every
week the local Stalhelmers met at
TINS bar. To man they we're strong
Nationalist. But Of late, the last
few weeks, there has been a change
among them. Something is I'D. they
feel The gradual Worsening Of con-
ditions around them has been in
strong contrast to the tales in the
Nazi press, to the speeches Of Hit
Ter. The food prices going up has
caused them to ask questions. The
proprietor shows his feelings most
eHpressively. He is now entirely
against the Nazis. They try to get
the young fellows in their party
They know they can't fool us old
workers anymore" There was this
feeling among the German workers
that the Na3is were a workers
party Now they are beginning to
lind out, to wake up to what is up.
The sailor, incidentally. had men
toned the fact that narrow streets
in the working class districts were
being ripped up, the houses torn
down. For the workers could hold
of thousands Of police by barricad-
ing both ends Of these narrow
streets. The scene is being laid
for the revolutionary battles in
Germany.
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Stage and Screen
Dan TOtherOh's Bronte Play
Moor Born" Here In AprI

Moor Born a new play dealing with
life Of the Bronte sisters BY Dan 10th
eroh will be oered here by George Bushar
and John Tuerk. with Helen Gahagan.
Frances Starr and Edith Barrett as the
Bronte sisters Glenn Anders will have
an important role in the production
which is scheduled for April
Frederick Jackson's comedy wife In
suranoe." opened its out-of-town tour in
Philadelphia last night prior to it's pre-
miere here next week Basil Sydney, Ken
meth MacKenns, Walter Abel and Lillian
Emerson play the leading roles.
John Murray Anderson has been engaged
by the Shuberts to stage The Family
Album a new musical production with
music and lyrics by E. 7. Hsrburg, Harold
Arlen and Ira Gershwin. Ray Bolger and
Louella Gear head the cast
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Drive by Harlem
W orkers' School

The Harlem Workers School, 200
w. 135th ST., is also starting drive
to build up its library, and they
urge all who can to send them
books dealing with the theory Of
MarXisnl-Leninisrn; books on eco
Monies, history, the problems of the
Negro masses in the U.SA., etc.
They also want to acknowledge the
receipt of some books and PAM
phlets from an anonymous comrade
in Milwaukee.
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WHAT'S ON
Tuesdau

WORKERS SCHOOL SPRING TERM, IS
z. 18th st. New York. Second week Of
registration. Register now before it is too
late.
ALL WORKERS Book Shops are nov
conducting 40 to so per cent Discount
Sale, Also Circulating Library at New
York workers Book shop, 50 z. 18th st.
TALK ON Social Insurance by Ed
Smith, Of Workers School, at Sparts Youth
Br. vs. TWO, 1918 Boston Aoad, $50 pm.
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states Depart
ment of labor
Mr.. Wentz and
his office staff
handle fedora!
unemploy m 2 n t
statistics for the
Louisiana D e =
oartment Of the
N a I'll onsl Re-
2 m ploym ent
Service.
MS three per
cent which have
been given Jobs
pplies n 0 {
merely to this
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to their appeal to build their
library. A great many more books
and material are still needed,
however, and all friends and sym
pathizers are urged to bring their
donations to 1924 Prospect Ave.
The Spring Term in Cleveland be-
gins this week, and all students
who intend to register are urged
to do so Immediately.
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What's Doing in the Workers
Schools of the US.

THE LOS ANGELES Workers
1 School, had 100 students al
ready registered when we last
heard from them. The students
are industrial, agricultural, and
domestic workers, as well as cler-
ical and professional workers, jap
anese, Mexican and native, both
Negro and white. Such enthu-
siasm is being shown for the
school that plans for a larger
school are being made right now
All those who can help either by
giving money, secretarial work, or
teaching, are urged to communi-
cate with the director of the
school, Miriam Bonner, at 224 So.
Spring Street.
In the far northwest, In the
town of Eugene, Ore, we may
have a Workers School soon.
I'm this section Of the country"
the comrades write, "there Is
beginning the first faint glow of
class consciousness and we hope
that with the use of the Work
ers School we can blow it into
blaze . II there is any
information or advice on the
conduct Of a school, we would
appreciate ii very much" We
have written them at length and
hope to see some results soon.
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Wednesday

'INfPERIALIST DOMINATION and the
Bankruptcy Of the Chinese Village Eco
Monty" lecture by c. Komorowski at
Friends Of the Chinese People, 1853 W 2srd
St, Room II. $40 pm. Admission fso.
NORMAN H TALLENTIRE speaks on
Tom Mooney and the War Danger" at
the Open Forum of Irish Workers Club
Branch 2. ss4 st. AIMS Ave, Bronx, pm.
Admission frAe
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,ity alone with JOHN L. sPIYAK
its population Of 100000 but to the
entire state of Louisiana.
It is the function Of the sta
tistical department to find out the
number of unemployed (Which it
has not done) and the number
which has been put to work by
all government bureaus like the
C.W.A.. C.C.C.. P.W.A. and the rest
of the alphabet. This department
gathers reports from the SO offices
established by the government in
this state to find jobs for the IN
employed; and having received
these reports the records show that
not quite three per cent Of the I'M
employed registered with the gov
eminent have been found Jobs.
It must be remembered that those
registered with the government as
unemployed do not make the total
of unemployed in this state or city.
No one actually has any idea here
Of the actual figures Of unemploy-
ment. I am beginning to think
that the Department of Labor fig
ures on the total number Of IN
employed in this country are just
guesses. There are no figures for
this state, nor we're there any in
the other states I've been in. Of
ficials simply guess and they usually
guess very conservatively. Amer
lean Federation Of Labor figures on
unemployment are as inaccurate as
the governments.
Mr.. Wentz is very discouraged
man. He looks at figures all day
long and when I asked him whether
he concluded from all these figures
that things were better he almost
exploded.
Il don't see any improvement, "
he exclaimed testify. Looks to me
like things are getting worse"
I am inclined to think that the
governments realization that all
these millions are not really en-
ploying any sppreciable number Of
men and women. is behind, first.
the order to cut working hours on
CW.A. jobs 50 as to make room for
more jobs, and second, the decision
to liquidste the CWA. I am get
ting little suspicious about gov
eminent statements. The NR.A.
was supposed to have done wonders
and so far where I've been, it has
done exceedingly little and the pub
lie was never told about it, The
C.WA. also carried with 1t vast
blasts Of front page propaganda
but no one ever gave any actual
figures of how many people were
employed by this scheme.
If the assumption that the C.W.A.
is being liquidated because it has
not produced the employment eX-
pected is correct then the other
government projects will probably
be iquidated before long-if the
percentage Of employment through
out the country are anywhere near
what they are in Louisiana.
THE statistical department of the
i national unemployment office
has been functioning only since the
first of January, 1894, What hap
pened before, how many were abso-
lutely destitute, what they did or
how they ate occasionally. no one
knows But for the whole state
of Louisiana, with a population Of
little over two million, only 10000
persons have been found Jobs, since
this record started. About 1900
are placed in the permanent"
category; that is, jobs that last 30
days or longer.
This 10000 includes some $4,000
that were put to work within two
weeks after the new year stated
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Milwaukee,, Wise.

TWO SOVIET FILMS Men and Jobs
and Three Comrades and One Invention
shown at the Columbia Theatre 1929 w.
Walnut St, starting at pm. continuous,
Friday, March 90 Benefit Communist
Party.
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Boston, Mass.

LEO GALLAGHER and Mother Wright
will speak at the Mass Meeting arranged
by LID. on Wednesday March 81, 8 pm.
at Repertory Hall, Huntington Ave, near
Mass. Ave
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WJZ76O Kc.

700 P. M.-Amos m Andy
7:15-Ohio Forging Ahead-R. G. Akin
son, Director Ohio Institute; Legion
3. Carter, Director Cleveland Founda-
ton; w. M. Cotton, Assistant Director
Cincinnati Bureau OF Municipal Re-
search
7:45-Grace and Eddie Albert, Songs
S;0o-Tough Baby-Sketch
S:3o-Adventures in Health--Dr Herman
Bundesen
S.45-Bavarian Band
s:oo-Alice Mock, Soprano; Edgar Guest,
Poet
9,30-Duchin Orch,
lo:o0-Gale Page, Songs; stokes orch:
Ray Perkins: Edmund Lowe, Actor
l0:3G-Mario Cozzi, Baritone
1o:4o-Hillbiliy Heart Throbs
1t:00-Ramona, Songs
ll;15-News Reports
11:2o-Anthony Froms, Tenor
1f:s0-Harris Orch
12:00-Masters Orch
1880 A. M.-Kemp Orch.
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WABC--s6O Kc.

200 p. M.-Myrt and Marge
--i:15-Just Plain Bill-Sketch
7:S0-Serenaders Orch
7;45--News-Boake Carter
8:0o-Littls Orch.
S:30-Voice Of Experience
S:45-California Melodies
s:00-Philadelphia Studio Orch.
9:15-Ruth Citing, Songs
Minneapolis Symphony Orch;
Eugene Ormandy. Conductor
lo:oo-Gray Orch: Stoopnsgle and Budd
Comedians; Connie Boswell, Songs
l0:30-l0oth Anniversary Of Birth OF Oh.
William Eliot; Speakers Charles Evans
Hughes. Chief Justice q. 8. SUPREME
Court; Or. James B. Conant, President
Of Harvard, and Others
lf.00-Charles Csrlile, Tenor
l1:15-News: Nelson Orch.
il;45-Light Orch.
i7.oo-Sosnik Orch.
1890 A. M.-Pancho Orch.
1:0e-Robbins Orch.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-20
The Issue Re-Stated

The Issue Re-Stated
WHAT within placer
coming united
provoked by police searching stripping of banners carrying revolution
airy police acting Party
the that the neny sounded the the Social
list Party leaders calculated insult provocaon
Against this the workers reacted with sound petarian INSTINCT
the actions which the the letter"
agreeable the thousands Of assembled workers accomplished
nhcent result they showed that the workers New York will not
tolerate the
Matthew Vol and 1auada to defe meeting dedicated to the
heroic Austrian workers
the platform, trying
airy deeds in this country by the glory Of the Austrian workers
the Dubnys and schobergs Ladies gentlemen the
leterdo you with the instinct
Square easily
restrained within the polite limits Of academic radcaisn'
JUST what then the purpose of this open letter. to the u-
" mist Party? purpose crystal clear.
When the Socialist leaders their treachy
ing completely dscredted before the assedduas tied to the
kite Toskys little America, founding
American Workers Party to the Lovestone renegade ouat such
sponsors protest up the
waning influence the Socialist Party and halt the Of the
workers toward the Communist Party.
Party every country openly camp
Otto
for example it is wildly exemped by the the
Norman only day
calling support Wagner
bureaucracy.
approve leadership Austria the
United States these ners of the protest letter the commu
precisely
waning influence these cloak the political
Vol and LaGuaroia.
senmenaists like Louis Berg Henry
Vh Village revouonists whose guiding
the former associate publication
Journal who himself the letter
others demonsraivel resigned
Defense Political Prisoners the crucial the
the Scosbo boys because they disagreed with the policies
lowed by the organization conducting the
There is Felix Sidney Hooks
the literary radicals politically shifting
There is John Chamberlain whose interest
that the highly the
his social literary criticism Objectionable
to their reactionary class purpose
There is Rorty whose experience writing
advertising for perfumes Scott Tissue him admirably
the Communist International training taught Rory
how political passed
from writing advertising pnegyrcs patent
tves
There Clifton Fsdman book commentator
spicy of mddleclass sophicse
the life of the leisure exception
front tactics
There iusthe acceptance Trotskys
revolutionary
style elegant than Stains
There George D.
woodrow Wilson faithfully UNOFFICIAL agent
Europe during the
These people who continually making
cessons the bourgeoi
Because of their class nstnctey
revolutionary movement in their direction
There such nonentit
keeper and water-care for the
And who pray Gruen Rubin George
Novack Meyer Gshick they they
uionare?
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WOR Kc.

700 P. M.-Sports Resume
7:15-Comedy; Music
7:3o-Footlight Echoes
S:00-Grofe Orch; Frank Parker, Teno,
s:3o-Borrah Minevitch Harmonica BAND
9:oo-Morros Musicale
s;3o-Success-Harry Baldn
945-Eddy Brown, Violin
10:0o-Teddy Bergman, Comedian; Betty
Queen, Songs; Male Quartet
10:15-Current Events
10:30-Variety Musicale
11:00--Moonbeams Trio
11:3o-Dance Music
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-20
Strange Company for Some

IT is surprising to find the Meyer schapro signed
protest. For Schapro able critic
the activities Of the artists of the John Reed Club Quite recently
and an associate made valuable
York City and placed their findings the
Councils Of New York
1t much more surprising to find the
to this letter.
Theodore Dresser has affixed his
In its Open Letter to John eloquent
finds himself in.
AS Tor Understanding that is that
CURIOUS open etert not surprising He
out staunchy for the wagecung
declarations OF late have revealed
dividualisic intellectual habits a lifetime.
The Communist Party the defender everything that is vital
and honest neectua rigors of the crisis
separating erngly among American intel
ecua those whose loyalty to the revolutionary real
and courageous from those already beginning raonaze
their fear OF the realities OF class
preex for isolation from the clothing
in the tattered cloak of Trotskyism.
We Communists have been building the united workers
shall continue to build the united
ed in wgng revolutionary struggle workers.
and against fascist reaction
will be convinced of the policies and tactics OF the
Communists will turn with contempt groups
who today serve the advancement Of facm attempting
opposition to the only force that Of
in Amefcat
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TUNING In
ToNIGHT's PROGRAM

WEAF-660 Kc.
700 P. M.-Mary Small, Songs
T;15-Billy Batchelor-Sketch
7:So-Green Bros, Orch. Arlene jackson,
Songs
7;45-The Goldbergs-Sketch
s:00-Reismsn Orch; Phil Duey, Baritons
s:3o-weyne King Orch.
9:00-Bernie Orch
a;30-Ed Wynn, Comedian
lo:oo-Cruise Of the Seth Psrker-Drama-
tic Sketch
l0.30-Beauty-Mme. Sylvia
lo:45-Robert Simmons, Tenor; Sears Orch.
li:00-John B. Kennedy
1l:l5-News; Russo Orch.
ll:30-whitemsn Orch.
l2:o0-valiee Orch
1880 A. M.-Denny Orch
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CHANGE
THE
WOR RID!
I ri Z:
BY SENDER GARLR

IN ITS current issue the New Masses revolutionary weekly
continues to unask the pretenses and reveal the anti
Communist motives of group which about two weeks ago
addressed open letter. ocising the Communist Party
in connection with the Madison Square Garden meeting called
by the Socialists ostensby to protest against Austrian
fascism.
An assorted group of rs writers and college teachers
including individuals degrees Of obScuiy had signed this
letter protesting dsrpve Communist
which the meeting called by the Socialist
Party in Madison Square Garden"
diferentate between sincere request for
clarity poorly disguised seona document And
this so-caed letter clearly the latter category
Speakers hoWled fists few, chairs hurled
injured" description bodily from
sensatonazed reports which appeared in the
ita Immediately following the Garden meeting Whose fists
chairsP injured winom2
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BY J. sTAcHsL

Stain defines Leninism as Mary
ism in the epoch Of imperialism and
Of the proIetarian revolution" He
states further, "Ieninism is the the
ory and tactics Of the proletarian
revolution in general and the theory
and tactics of the dictatorship of the
proletariat in particular" On this
Stain bases his statement that Len
inism is the further development OF
Marxisrn."
This is true about every phase Of
the theory and tactics of the prole-
tartan revolution. It is true on the
question OF the trade unions. Marx
on the basis of the analysis Of the
laws OF the development and decline
Of capitalism, showed to the prole-
tariat that It was not sufficient to
fight for fair days wage for a
fair days work" but called upon the
proletariat TO inscribe on it's banner
"tile fight for the abolition of capital
ism" Marx and Engels, even in the
pre-inperialist epoch, carried on q
merciless struggle against ali vari-
cities of opportunism. They pointed
out the bourgeois theology of the
British labor movement, which had
resulted from the bribery by the Brit
ish ruling class Of large sections of
the working class through super
profits. Marx and Engels fully rec
ognized the necessity Of the workers
to organize themselves into trade
unions.
The letter Of Marx and Engels deal
ing with the early development Of
the revolutionary labor movement In
this country were great force to-
wards pushing the immigrant revolu-
tionists Of that day toward the masses
to work in the rising trade union
movement. They condemned the
barren sectarianisrn Of the "purists,
but at the same time, fought against
pure land simple trade unionism, and
called upon the revolutionists to work
in the trade unions for the purpose
Of nobilizing the masses for the
struggle for the abolition Of capital
ism.
Applying the Sesotaines Of Marx and
Engels On the trade uniocs 70 ane