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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
Seventh World Congress Discussion
Starts in Communist International

Discussion for the Seventh World
Congress of the Communist Inter
national begins in No. 20 of The
Communist International magazine
which will appear next week. In
addition to the discussion articles,
there will be an announcement of
the postponement Of the Congress
to 1885 as we'll as articles on the
SEVENTEEN anniversary Of the found
ing of the First International the
entrance of the U. S. S. r. into the
League Of Nations, the rising wave
Of revolution in the United States,
and the strike movement in Canada.
There has been a steady increase
in interest in this important pub
location, which is the organ of the
Executive Commute of the Com
munist International, and is pub
hshed twice a month. Beginning
with No. 20, drive will be made to
double the circulation. Five thou
sand copies of this issue will be
printed.
The full contents of No. 20 are
as follows:
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get, For our fight is an interna-
tional fight, and our victory, too.
can only be international.
THEN came the year 1898. Hitler
1 became Reich Chancellor and
Hindenburg remained as President.
Thaelmann was seized. Cut off from
the world.
1t was 1884. And Thaelmann still
sits and waits. In the Third Reich
the electric chair" is the execu-
toners axe.
Again Ada Wright is in America
She speaks, speaks firmly. An old
black mother. On the 18th of
March in Philadelphia, 31st Of
March in Baltimore, 2nd Of April.
To the canvas hanging on the
walls OF the meeting halls has been
added an eighth name of those
condemned to death. He is not a
Negro, nor is he any longer a boy
Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the
German proletariat.
Free Thaelmann and the Scots
boro Boys cry out the words from
the white canvas.
She knows it, the old black
mother: there is no justice on cap
italist soil which the working class
of the whole world, be the skin
white, black, yellow or brown, can
win without fighting for it.
She knows. For the banner of the
Revolution, for Ernst Thaelmann,
for the Scottsboro Boys, the workers
of the world must stretch their last
ounce Of strength.
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his own brand of rowdy cynicism to
the point where it is almost satire,
Not soaring satire, naturally, nor
satire that might accidentally
scratch any member of his audience.
Just brisk, good-natured fun at the
expense, for instance, Of the gauche,
petty bourgeois Babbitt, m d e !
1922, whom Mencken had already
slain (and plundereO before 1928
was over.
your trick won't last" warns
Crale. You're going to go fast"
But so long as it keeps George
Kaufman in imported liquor, what
the hell! You're only alive once,
Merrily We 49,.
It's an ironic coincidence that
Broadway's biggest hit produced by
its most infallible playwright
should be work announcing
Broadway's death. But it's no
paradox. Nothing could be more
typical of Broadway than to write
gag upon a gravestone-and then
charge three eighty-five to see it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
WORKED FOR THE SOVIETS.
by Countess Alexandra Tolstoy,
Yale University Press, $500
Reviewed by
ARLINA MCMAHON

COUNTESS TOLSTOY's L Worked
v for the Soviets' is another Of
those books about the Soviet Union
which will gladden. the hearts Of the
New York Times Soviet batter J.
Donald Adams, and his white guard
cohorts.
In fact. none other than the i'm
partial" Alexander Nazaroff gave his
stamp Of approval to the Countess
masterpiece Of venom and falsifica-
ton. A notorious white guard,
Nazaroff is usually selected to re-
view books on the Soviet Union.
With vitriolic pen he launches a
Don Quixote attack on the wind
mills Of Soviet terror. Countess
Tolstoy's book is just his meat and
he fairly slobbers as he filings out
his false statements.
It Worked for the Soviets." trans
lated by the author in collaboration
with Roberta Yerkes, is a naive.
childish and badly written nara
tive. Among the agonies that the
Countess endured under the Soviet
regime were legal permission to
leave the country in 1929, appoint
ment as Curator Of the Tolstoy
Museum at Yasnaya Polyana, and
a three year sentence in a prison
camp reduced to four months. This
latter experience was the result OF
her having allowed an anti-Soviet
organization, The Tactical Center"
to meet in her rooms.
When taken to court for this
Krylenko, the prosecutor asked her:
Citizen Tolstoy what was your role
in the Tactical Center?" MY role"
she answered in loud voice, CON
sisted in heating the samovar for
the members Of the Tactical Center"
Isn't this clever? To Nazaroff's
mind this remark shows how I'M
just her prison sentence was.
May this reviewer call both his
and Countess Tolstoy's attention to
the fact that the Tactical Center
was counter-revolutionsry organi-
cation and providing them with
both meeting place and refresh
ments (which might have been
blind is definitely counter -revolu-
tionary activity?
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/. The Seventh World Congress Of
the Communist International
postponed to 1885.
Editorials
2. The U. S. S. R. and the League
Of Nations.
3. From the First to the Third
International.
4. The Revolutionary Upsrrge in
America.
Discussion for the 18th Congress
of the G. !.
5. Problems of the Standard Of
Living Of the Working Glass, by
Sinani.
6. The Question Of the Middle
Strata Of the Town Population,
by P. Reiman.
Canada
7. Strike Struggles in Canada and
Tasks of the Communist Party,
by P. Barnes.
Send your orders for a special
bundle of this issue of The Com
munist International to Workers
Library Publishers, P. o. Box 14S,
Station d, New York City.
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Ernst ThaeLmann and the
Nine SCOttSbOrO Bows

ADA WRIGHT is a simple black
n working class mother She loves
her children dearly. She had
brought them into the world when
she herself had been only half
mature. There had always been
very little to eat at home.
In Scottsboro they sentenced one
of her offspring to death. A white
prostitute had been attacked, SO
ran the charge. Ada Wright cir
cumscribed the globe, in order to
give her testimony of the unright-
eousness of American justice.
Ada Wright lowered over the
worlds workers. On all continents,
underneath the pigments Of all
races there beat hearts for her
boys, the Negro boys Of Scottsboro.
In the sumner of 1882, Ada Wright
came to Germany. The placards
announcing her appearance were
posted near the placards quoting
the presidential DEGREES. Thrice
that year Germany had gone to
the polls.
At the head of the Communist
lists stood Ernst Thselmann. He
went throughout the land. Ada
Wright, too, went throughout the
land, both speaking to the masses.
On a map of the world Thael-
mann pointed out to the workers
where lay revolution and where
counter-revolution, and what the
means and strategy of the struggle
were. But then, unrolling the map
further, he unfolded the earth to
the Atlantic, past the Atlantic,
until America appeared. Here, he
said, lies Scottsboro, which in this
hour of history you must not for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
SIanderOus Attack
On Soviet Union in
Book by Countess

DERHAPS the most vicious insinus-
4 ton in Nazaroff's review is that
small liberal-begotten statement;
She does not condemn or pass ver-
diets" Then swiftly follows such
impartial and kindly remarks as
During the collectivization CAM
paign Of 1923 and 1929 peasants
from Yasnaya Polyans and the
neighboring villages whom she had
known since her childhood literally
cried and groaned Sometimes we
think they told her. that our only
salvation is war. If we have war
the guns will be in our hands. You
don't really believe that we are go
ing to kill Japs or Germans. No,
thanks The Kremlin is our
worst enemy
There are too many reliable state
ments and figures now available
even in bourgeois circles which re-
flute conclusively the old charges Of
oppression. the damaging Of Rus
sian culture, etc. Besides, the comic
opera aspects of this statements
make serious consideration Of It a
little difficult. Was this recitatiye
on the part Of chorus of Kulsks
and liberals who lost their snug po-
sitions when the capitalist regime
was overthrow? However, there are
worse aspects to this statement. It
is war-provoking and in it Countess
Tolstoy allies herself with the war
provocations againt the Soviet
Union. Because Of this and the fame
of her father the book win have a
certain amount Of circulation among
intellectuals and enemies Of the
Soviet Union
Like that other conglomeration OF
lies and SANDER Escape from the
Soviets" by Nine. T. Tchernavins,
it will be warmly welcomed by GER
tain liberals who by saying This is
a personal narrative, it may be in
accurate, but it does tell the other
side of the story" will lull them
selves into an intellectual coma.
AS a matter Of fact, regardless of
what modern writers may think OF
the late Count Tolstoy, the Soviet
Government has established no less
than two museums in his honor in
Moscow alone. and though Countess
Alexandra Tolstoy may have found
the Soviet Union narrowing to her
bourgeois sensibilities, her brother
Sergius Tolstoy lives and works in
Moscow and is interested in the
! Pioneer organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
BY MICHAEL GOLD

THE latest profundty of Mr.. H. G. Wells and the ddngs
and sayings of the female disciple Of Mahatma Gandh
the Lady Madeleine Sade have been in the recently
Mr.. Wells has firm and grounded reputation in the
arts and sciences. The Lady Madeleine is renowned
vegetarian.
Two famous people whom could write the most charm
ing and devastating limited the Daily
that necessary yourself only
those outstanding traits idiocy phinsm and inverted egotsm
that distinguish
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-25
SharecrOpper
By ON ST


Old Kim Mulkey
Lean and stopped,
Heaves and sweats
On Georgia farm
Gripping a pick
A shovel a mattock
A hoe
He drove steel for bread
Where the railroads go
And mixed his sweat
With Georgia clay
Grabbing the bed
For g new highway {.
Old Kim walks with blistering toes
On the concrete road
Where the traffic lcars.
And his old stiff bones
Are warped and bent.
He starves himself
To pay the rent
On tenant farm in Georgia
Say Kim, wipe your eyes, old mani
Forget your skin is black or white.
Pull back the scum of prejudice
Religion, superstition
See your childrens future
You read your bible, Kim,
And you know the farmer lays Ak
To fruitless apple tree
Revolutions an ak, Kim,
In the callouSed hands
Of sharecroppers and workers.
1t chops down fruitless trees.
It's keen scythe, moving down greed
And exploitation It's sledge hammer
Battering at the shackles that bind men.
It's poetry and song, on the lips
Of those who have long been silent.
Wipe your eyes, Kim. Lookl
She waits to greet you. Shake her hand
Don't mind the dung on your own.
She likes them soil-smeared
Look up, Kim: Greet Revolution,
Give her your hand!
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A Letter to the Lady

TO Madeleine Sade, Mahatma Gandh and the Goat
Mann Welcome shores! understand from the
than
friendly Did get the
you literature
they you you pol
they your with servants?
young hair and the eyeglasses
the newsrees wasn't Inundated like Maxim
Gorky ago?
much interested to hear that like master
vegetables think this is fine
easy them You got tired Of
peach England
that
did it happen?
through reading Madame Eddy
or Blavatsky interesting you really
suffer thought million
Indian subjects his Majesty? Or Just admire the
spiritual upt the peaceful maochism of the Mahatma?
questions interested in. You for the
past living vegetables from the
garbage fruit markets They love milk
spiritual upft perhaps would
Nvana if they of garbage
can?
hoping Roosevelt also.
beginning to bore her to
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MIR. Wells in Defense of Freedom

IN LONDON H G. Wells was holding up Russia
ing" Government England before
piece legislation disafecon BILL"
bill designed to muze and outlaw the radical and silence left
wing literature which put
speor the Police mpson utterng opinions with
disagre criminal ohene
of the preparations Of
the mperial openly designed to crush an-wsr work
AS SUCH one pleased to hear that Mr. Wells his voice
opposition piece censorship trust
you freedom Wells
opportunity mouth his pieces potboler
philosophy canned observation
Russia" Wells complete
opposition. writer write without permission"
o English cousin of Max Eastmanl
Further: RUSSIA has lost its
thing greater
Pacifism When There's No War
MIR WELLS has an astonishing private logic attacking
IVA open war; part prepara-
impealis consideration Of
censorship abstract
startling the Soviet Union, which has
consistent policy has made the only
honest declaration complete equal
imperiast
miliarst!
for the grandchildren of
World Soviet to study With what aplomo Wells forgs
obseperous pacinst,
Socialist find myself enthusiastic for this
against German mirtarisml"
neglected outline History" that monument
confusion
lightning pachsm mitarm
Socialism Imperialism all depending the exgences of
moment instructive other liberals
stripe
hospitality forget welcome this
tartan and Niahatmas ht-hand woman to our shoresP
that impossible the majority Of
Americans meet her But the least could do would be to pen
Of welcome.
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MO ONE will deny, I think, that
~ MerriIy is first rate theatre"
Integrated and vivid acting, lush
decor, the proper working-up Of
each scene to its quick-shock cur
tain-Kaufman has got conven-
tional technique down more than
pat. And then the writing, Kauf-
man has FURNISHED and whetted
The Washington times., 1934-08-21
MISS URRY WEDS

GREENSBORO, Md. Aug. 81.
Anna Virginia Urry, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. Urry, of
Greensboro, and Nolan H. Hub
bard, also of Greensboro, were
married August II in Easton, Md,
The Washington times., 1934-08-21
WIFE ASKS DECREE

ELKTON, Md, August 21-MrS.
Geneva Barnes Aguirre, of Charles
ton, Cecil county. has filed suit
for divorce in the circuit court
here from Frank Aguirre, of New
York city.
The Washington times., 1934-08-21
HEADS COMMITTEE

Mrs. Dorothy Dunn, of the Ar.
lington County Business and Pro.
fesSional Woman's Club, today
was named chairman of the reSo.
lutions committee of that organi-
Zation.
The Washington times., 1934-08-21
FRANCONIANS ELECT

Walter Talbert has been elected
president of the Franconia (V&O
Community League, succeeding j.
B. Parnell, who resigned. David
Scott has been named vice presi-
dent.
The Washington times., 1934-08-21
FLU CASES IN HAGERSTOWN

HAGERSTOWN, Aug. 81 (Spe-
ciaD Influenza of the same type
as that recently In Hancock,
where several hundred persons
The Washington times., 1934-08-21
FIREMEN TO MEET

Plans for increasing the men,
bership Of the Cherrydale (Va.)
Volunteer Fire Department will be
discussed at a meeting Friday
night.
The Washington times., 1934-08-21
LIBRARY TO CLOSE

Due to case of scarlet fever
in the building where the Alex
andria public library is located,
the library will be closed until
future notice. Subscriptions will
be extended.
The Washington times., 1934-08-21

became ill ten days ago, has
made its appearance in Hagers-
town. Three hundred and fifty
cases have been reported
The daily worker., 1934-04-07
Young Reynolds Gets
$25, 200, 900 Legacy;
Girl Inherits Hunger

BALTIMORE, April A.
Richard j. Reynolds, Jr., re-
ceived $25,OOO,O0O from the
Safe Deposit and Trust Com
pany today as his share of his
fathers S10O,OO0,OOO estate.
According to the terms of
his fathers will Reynolds
came into possession of about
one-fourth of the tobacco mil
lionaire's fortune on becoming
% today.
NEW YORK. = Catherine
Sweet collapsed from hunger
yesterday for the third time
in six weeks. Her clothes shah
by, shoes torn, Catherine
staggered and fell on the
street yesterday. The ambu-
lance surgeon said it was "un-
dernourishment."
According to the words of
Catherine, she has no home
and no parents. She is 19
years old.
The daily worker., 1934-04-07
Roy Hudson in
Fiery Talk at
COnv on
Marine Workers Leader
Gets Thunderous
Ovation
BY HARRY CANNES
Especial to the Daily Worker1

CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 6.-A
true son of the American working
class, trained by his Party into a
forceful proletarian leader among
the American Seamen, Roy Hudson,
Secretary of the Marine Workers
Industrial Union, reused the conf
dence and enthusiasm of the entire
convention today by his Bolshevik
readiness and native ability to win
the masses for the cause of the
Party.
In testimony to his leadership OF
valiant struggles of the Marine
Workers, the entire convention gave
Comrade Hudson a rousing ovation,
both before he began his report and
at its fiery and gripping conclu-
sion.
Hudson centered his whole speech
on the concrete experiences and
problems of applying the Open Let
ter in the marine industry. He
showed how, through the policy of
concentration the revolutionary ma
rine union was built into a powerful
force, and an opposition built in
the reformist longshoremen's organ
ization that was winning great num-
berS of the rank and file.
Because of our activity" said
Continued on Page ~
The daily worker., 1934-04-07
NY. April 9th
Conference to
Demand Jobs
Demonstrate in Phila.
delphia Today

NEW YORK.-The Greater New
York Conference on G. w. A. and
Unemployment will reconvene Sun
day, April 8, at l p. M, at Stuy-
vesant Casino, 142 Second Ave. The
conference will formulate plan of
action in the struggle for continual
ton of the @. w. A. program, its
enlargement to provide jobs for all
unemployed workers, the abolition of
the means test (pauperS' OATH, i'm
mediate cash relief equal at least
to G. w. A. wages for all unem-
ployed and fired G. w. A. workers,
and the enactment OF. the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill.
The program of action as outlined
by the Committee of One Hundred,
elected at the last meeting of the
Conference calls for: y to demand
relief for the fired c. w. A. work
ers and to fight for their re-instate-
ment; D jobs at union wages for
all unemployed workers on a work
basis and not on the so-called basis
Of need; 81 to organize all the
workers into project locals so as to
carry on the fight on the job; A. to
fight the wage cut; 81 to engage
in day to day struggles in order to
unite all unemployed and G. w. A.
workers; s. to fight on the job every
case of discrimination.
Mass Picket Lines Today
Already an important victory has
been won. Today at 9:30 A. M, the
committee and job delegates will
meet with Commissioner of Welfare
William Hodson to demand rein
statement of all fired workers, re-
scinding of the LaGuardia wage cuts
Of G. w. A. workers; and relief equal
to G. w. A. wages for all fired c..
w. A. workers and unemployed.
While the workers delegates are
meeting with Hodson, the commit
tee urges all workers to form mass
picket lines at the Welfare Depart
ment offices at so Lafayette St.,
where fired G. w. A. workers have
been picketing for the past week.
Fight Wage Cuts
Under the city work relief" every
category of G. w. A. worker has re-
ceiyed wage cuts. Laborers, the vast
majority of G. w. A. workers, are to
be limited to $12 a week wage
level, direct cut of S1.44 a week
from the starvation wages estab-
Continued on Page p
The daily worker., 1934-04-07
1000 MORE IN COAL STRIKE; ;REPULSE TEAR GAS ATTACK
Peek Asks
TradeWar
On Britain
Roosevelt SpOkes s m a n
Sounds Alarm At
British Advance

WASHINGTON, April 6.-Presag-
ing a new fierce fight with British
Imperialism for world trade, George
N. Peek, special advisor to President
Roosevelt, today announced bluntly
that the Roosevelt government is
no longer TO be the Simple Simon
and continue to be pushed about
just because we have possessed no
co-ordinated policy of maintaining
our proper position"
Referring directly to the fierce
imperialist antagonism betwe n
British and American imperialism
which is leading to feverish war
preparations on both sides, Peek
stated:
"Our British cousins from whom
almost 20 years ago we wrested
the supremacy Of world trade in
exports, last year, for the first
time since the war, had greater
trade export than ours"
The British imperiahsts, thus,
have succeeded so far in beating
" Oil OGACCO al bllS 1lSIlb 1OI lLIS
South American markets and the
markets Of the Far East. This means
that not only will Roosevelt enter
more aggreSsively into the fight for
reciprocal trade agreements" for
which he is now armed by a re-
cent bill of Congress, but the in
flationary fight will also grow more
intense.
Demanding more aggression in
foreign policy, Peek, who is recog-
nized as Roosevelt's spokesman
stated:
''We cannot formulate our for
eign trade recovery upon the prin-
cipleS which we now see led us
inevitably into this disaster"
Peek recommended a three-point
program to aid the exports of the
Wall Street monopolies: Direct
money grants from government
banks to finance exports, trade
agreements, and the establishment
of agents in foreign countries to
seek for trade opportunities for Wall
Street monopolies.
Peek'S speech, signalizes that the
Roosevelt government is preparing
for more aggressive irnperialist ex-
pansion against its rivals.