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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22

cred her with red flowers and
the greetings Of the workers and
peasants. On the reception COM
mittee one would show the hOr-
rible scars of red hot needles
driven through the fingers under
the nails, the Bulgarian third de-
gree method of forcing the con-
feSsiOn the Bulgarian fascist state
desired. Unsuccessful, it had
hurled this victim into prison for
three years; not a worker or pea
Sant-but writer. Another could
show the wound of the gendarme's
bullet that had pierced his Shout
der. Hatred for the Bulgarian
murder reginHs! Burning hatred
for the judicial lynch murder sys-
tenn that seeks to burn alive in
the electric chair the Scottsboro
Negro children in Alabama, almost
on the other side of the world"
Thrown into Prison
Into the teeth of the fascist MUIR
derers of other countries, defiant
and fearless, Engdahl organized the
mighty inYincible bonds of inter
national working -class solidarity
For this he was thrown into urison
repeatedly during the European tour
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Die d in Battle for
ScOttsbOrO Boys
Freedom
By HARRIET sILYERMAN

By HARRIET SILVERMAN
TWO years have passed since the
Communist Party Of the U. s. A.
and the Communist International
lost splendid fighter and leader
in the class struggle, ]. Louis Eng
dahl. His loyalty withstood the test
OF all situations. In the face of
the enemy he was fearless.
November 2lst marks the day
Engdahl the Bolshevik died in the
shadow of the Kremlin Wall in Mos
COW, the heart of World Revolution.
If there had been any choice as to
time and place, Engdahl would
have chosen to spend his last hours
in the Workers Fatherland where
all that the enslaved workers of
the world are struggling for, has
already been achieved, where there
lis no hunger, no idle millions starv-
ling in the midst of plenty, no cap
italiSt misery and oppression and
above all no brutal exploitation and
torture of workers whose skin is
black.
EngdahrS death in the prime of
life tore deep wound in the rev.
olutionary ranks. His devotion to
the historic struggle of the working
class for the overthrow of capitalism
came from his revolutionary hatred
Iof capitalism and all its institutions.
Thirty years of such intense devo-
ton to the struggle on all fronts,
can hardly be called common even
lin the revolutionary movement.
OF Engdahl, his comrades have
written: HE kept the longest hours.
He was almost never late. On the
DAILY Worker Of which he was the
first editor, we know of weeks at a
Istretch when because of the small
and inadequate staff he worked
fully Is to 20 hours a day. Comrades
fifteen years younger than he walled
at the pace and relaxed, but Eng
dahl would be in at nine in the
morning and at two the next morn
ling he would be reading the news
to prepare his editorials"
Unceasing Work for ScottsbOro
| Boys
Engdahl died exhausted by his
unceasing labors in the momentous
class battle of ScottSboro. AS the
national secretary of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense he proved him
elf magnificent fighter in the
defense of all class war prisoners.
In the Scottsboro case he was the
Communist fighter applying the
Communist Party line in the great
struggle for Negro liberation, for
complete social and political equal
ity, for the right to self-determins-
tfon in the black belt
The nine innocent Negro working
class youth, caught in the most
monstrous frame-up in history, be-
came the international symbol of the
Communist Party's program, uniting
Negro and white workers for COM
mon revolutionary struggle against
the capitalist class. Every step in
the case became the means of max
ing the Negro masses conscious of
their tasks, conscious of their role
as the allies and revolutionary
brothers of the white workers, who
can only win lasting freedom
together through revolutionary
struggle and under proletarian
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
PERIODICALS
LEFTwARD, John Reed Club, Bos-

LEFTWARD, John Reed Club, Bos-
ton, November, 10 cents.
Rebecca Farnham fires the big
guns in this issue. which is twice as
large and at least twice as good as
the former ones. She exposes the
Patriotic Page of the Boston Trans
script, which has no further use
for her. Alongside is an article
by Merle Colby on the textile
strike and the bosses tactics in it,
and an editorial which opens hys-
terically, but natures into report
of the falling Of seven demonstra-
tors against the presence of Hanf-
staengel at Harvard. The poems
and stories and an article on the
Sharecroppers Union lift the level
Of the magazine, which has made
rapid improvements, and with this
issue reaches at once good standards
Of formal, material, and reporting.
M. r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Warned A G ainst Amy
Relaxing of the
Struggle

] ~ NAAenf viz - AAAAAlA9 aAAA bAAEAA
henchmen, the National Association
for the Advancement Of Colored
People, have today once more
turned their energy, not into the
life and death struggle to free the
Scottsboro boys but into a new at
tack against the International La
Dor Defense and the Communist
Party.
These misleaders of the Negro
| people, and their allies, know full
well that the Communist Party will
never relax in it's drive to wrest
unconditional freedom for the
Scottsboro boys, and, on the basis OF
the class issues Of this crucial battle
to win over the toiling masses for
the revolutionary movement.
Scottsboro is the turning point
and rallying call to action in the
struggle for Negro liberation. The
lynchers and their lickspittles see
the handwriting on the wall. The
| lynchers cannot be fought without
fighting the very roots of the
economic and social system capital
ism out Of which lynching springs
out Of which spring the misery and
degradation of the masses. Fascism
looms ahead. The working-class
girdS it1slf for new and tremendous
class battles. Through and in the
Scottsboro case, we can and must
forge the united front of all toilers,
who must be made to see that only
through united struggle can their
class interests be defended. Scots
boro is one link in the defensive
struggle against Fascist terror.
Reservoir of Strength
Engdahl, during the two years
which began the momentous
struggle for the lives of nine
unknown Negro boys demonstrated
what a tremendous reservoir of
strength lies hidden in the ranks Of
the toiling masses, waiting to be or
ganized. Among the last letters he
wrote one finds the sharp warning
to meet the challenge of Scottsboro
with relentless struggle.
To-day, whatever the decision,
starts new battles for us in the
Scottsboro campaign. The Inter
national Red Aid supported by the
many tens of millions in all coun-
tries, demands the 0verturn of the
electric chair verdicts Of the
Scottsboro and the Alabama
lynch courts"
We have lost a resourceful and
valiant Communist fighter who
combined to an inspiring degree the
characteristics of the revolutionary
vanguard of the international
working class" He died fighting in
a campaign which has convinced
great masses of workers of the
sincerity of the Communist Party
and its program as the only real
champion of Negro liberation. Eng
dahl gave his life to mobilize, to
train, to lead the workers towards
the final conflict that will sweep
capitalism and its fascist tools off
the face of the earth. The greatest
tribute We can pay to Engdahl, the
beloved revolutionary leader, is to
win over fresh forces of Negro and
white workers, young workers, men
and women, out of which to cement
the Red Battalions that will one
day establish a Soviet America
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22

trateo IN Bulgaua
and of F as c is I
bru t ALT Y, ano
where our heroic
comrade Dimitroh
was born. Engdahl
wrote of this Bull
garian hell hole
as follows:
"But it was in
this land where
t h e ScottsboTO
N gro mother
found one of the
best functioning
Soottsboro Com
mittees, rea dy
and eager to give
her every possible
assistance. They
came-men, wo-
men and children
to the railroad
station upon her
arrival and show
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22

The Young Defenders of the Hay
wood Patterson Branch Of the I.
L. D. in Corona, L. l., held a party
recently and contributed 81 to the
100000 curd las well as 81 to the
Scotts5oro defense). BY charging a
low clmission for children and a
high price for adults, every Young
Defender group could arrange an
affai.. and help the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Reviewed by
HARRY RAYMOND

THE great San Francisco general
strike was unquestionably the
most outstanding episode in recent
labor history in the United States.
Events of this tremendous struggle,
which involved $4,000 workers and
brought industry in San Francisco
and the Bay Counties to a stand
still for four days, continue TO stand
out like powerful beacons, piercing
the N.R.A. fog and showing Amer
Iican working men and women the
, way to fight against the New Deal
capitalist offensive on working con-
ditions.
I Day-to-day accounts of the strike
in the press were innumerable.
Hundreds Of thousands of words
were written at the scene Of the
action and telegraphed to every city
in America and to every country in
the world. All of these accounts
/ however, except a few, had one
purpose in view-to defeat the
strike. The capitalists were in
frenzy. Workers had halted in
dustry and commerce in a principal
seaport. So the poison pen artists
of the capitalist press were put to
work painting distorted word pic
lures of the big event.
But just as the rank and file of
the San Francisco unions smashed
down the barriers set up by the
New Dealers and the top official
family Of the A. F. of L. and
brought about the strike so the
workers press hurdled the smoke
screen of capitalist journalism and
brought the truth Of the strike to
the workers.
THE best accounts of the San
Francisco general strike which
appeared in the workers press were
written by william F. Dunno, vet
eran labor leader who worked on
the West Coast throughout the
period Of the strike as a special
correspondent for the Daily Worker.
DUNES reports on the strike CIV
ing day-to-day analysis of events
have now been published by the
Workers Library Publishers in an
eighty-page pamphlet entitled, THE
Great San Francisco General
Strike" Included in the pamphlet
is the resolution of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party
on Lessons of Recent Strike
Struggles" which gives a thorough
analysis of events on the West Coast,
mistakes made in the strike and
presents concrete directives to the
working class for present and future
struggles,
This little pamphlet, well-printed
and carefully edited, can be read
during one sitting and is extremely
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22

mendous masses
of workers with
out whose pres
sure and splendid
fighting power
t h e Scottshoro
b Us would long
ago have b e e n
lynched.
He died on the
field of b a t tie
while on tour with
the s C o S b orc
mother, Mrs. Ada
Wrig h t wit
whom he covered
16 European coun-
tries and m or e
than 200 meetings,
in the fight to
snatch the b US
from the hands Of
judicial lynchers.
OF the world ap-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22

The N. Y. Film and Photo
League is arranging large
housewarming party at Its new
headquarters, 81 z. Fl st. Thanks
giving Eve for the benefit of the
Daily Worker and will do their
utmost to raise their $500 quota.
What are the other Film and
Photo Leagues of other cities
doing?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
y. Louis EngdaFh: 4 BOIsheUik Leader,
Fearless Fighter for Negro Liberation

dictatorship such as the workers
have established in the U. S. S. R.
Engdahl sought and found the
means to drive home these ideas in
the day to day practical tasks in
volved in the case, Engdahl had no
illusions about capitalist courts, or
capitalist justice. While organizing,
in the early stages of the Scots
boro struggles, the forces for a bril-
liant legal defense he, at the same
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22

ahead despite the victory won. His
warning to all of us was: DON'T
RELAX FOR AN INSTANT IN THE
STRUGGLE. NO ILLUSIONS. EX-
PECT NOTHING FROM THE CAP
ITALIST COURTS. FORWARD
WITH THE STRUGGLE ON NEW
FRONTS, UNTIL THE SCOTS
BoRo NINE ARE FREE"
The class character of the Scots
boro case was perhaps best illus
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22

Il portant because it not only de-
scribes he highlights Of the daily
activities on the strike front, but all
of ths events are carefully dissected
by DUNES keen PolsheWk pen.
Tn treackerous role Of Michael
Casey, head Of the San Francisco
Teamsters' Union, Vandeleur, Joseph
: P. Ryan, Kidwell and other top
leaders Of tie A. F. Of L. is r.
Yealed by Dunno in such a manner
as &c leave no doubt in the mind Of
any honest reader about which side
of the fence these gentlemen are
working. How the rank and file
gained control Of the situation in
face Of the greatest odds and how
the reactionary leaders, who were
later defeated by the rank and file
in the Frisco longshoremen's Local,
regained the upper hand long
enough to head the movement and
steer 1t into the dangerous NR.A.
channel-all this is told in an Inc
structive and interesting manner.
The San Francisco strike bears
out the Communist thesis that 'in
the present period Of capitalist de-
cline, a stubborn struggle for even
the smallest immediate demands for
the workers inevitably develops into
general class battles"
DUNNEs pamphlet shows the
" Communists in action in the
strike, At no time, even, during the
period of the utmost terror against
the Party and militant unionistS,
was the Communist Party absent
from the strike front. It was the
Communists who lead the work Of
building that militant opposition in
the San Francisco longshoremen,s
local, which was the leading force
in the struggle and which now leads
the union. @
Bolsheyik work, work like that
done by the California Communists
before, during and after the great
general strike-sueh work developed
even TO a higher level is urgently
needed in every industrial section, of
the United States today as the whip
of the New Deal falls heavier on
the backs of the toiling masses.
There will be more San Fran
ciscos. We are advancing into a
period Of greater class battles. But
as we move forward we must learn
the lessons that the battles of the
past have to offer us. DUNES
pamphlet brings these lessons out
sharply and clearly. Every worker
should read it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22

contribution Kapeon of Detroit was recntlv
sent through this column to
sincere comrade Joe Faunlao who died
Democrat his contact with study inpeled HIN to
to the side of the workers Soon thereafter
siderable clothes to the unemployed Daily
SO tribute comrades one of whom is on well
fare
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Attention Rodio Hams and Commercials

Beginning Friday will
appear this CO ORA? CRU? $50
ANBDY? QSW? QTUP QUA ANY WRKR QSI,
DE UssR? WHAT SAY YE EFT CNdMRCLs RE wRKRs
BPL? PsE QsL. eoM 49, Dab dit dah
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Frisco General Strike
Brilliantly Analysed
in Pamphlet by Dunno

The Great San Francisco General
Strike, by William ?. Dunno, SO
pages. Workers Library Publish
erS. Ten cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
The Real America

Cleveland for the great news
they have just sent about the
They are Ray and Ida Awhile The Club published
pamphlet Of their ballads, with
the best things have the
be Immediately taken to the heart the
to
Ray and Ida Awhile descendants
who broke the mountain trails Aeghanies
base for the westward migration
Virginia and Ida is the daughter Kentucky
further boasts of more
Both were born musicians and toured the country singing
songs And both loved their pioneers
fallen into the hands of the Wall Street thieves.
They Joined the Socialist Party
meant what said and would lead the workers
in the course of active participation the Socialist
discovered the conservatism of the Socialist
Communist Party They have not regretted their dion
1t Communism that has cisn the
revolutionary courage and hope in their ballads
Only eight published in their little pamphlet
is small edition If buys up
all the copies larger edition of all songs made
Certainly this be proearan art
here is the real America And Comrades
toured around the country the
men be made with the John Prospect
Cleveland, Ohio, who planning such
And here songs: aren't the best
we've had since Joe Hill then I'm the Grand Duchess
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
The Miners Son

Just boy without work, I decided
Along with some pals of mine,
To the call of our country
And with the home guards to sign
We thrilled to the tot a uniform
And the army makes men" we were told
So went to my father to tell him
Before made ready to 60
He stood with his face to the window
And listened to every word
Then after moment of silence
These were the words that heard:
II have worked all my life a miner
My hands are all gnared and worm
If give your young strength to the bosses
I'd rather you'd been born.
The miners must strike from starvation
I'll be on the old picket line
The Home Guards will be called to break lis
If you're with them you're no son of mine
I returned to my buddes and told them
What father had told to me-
We went straight to him with our promise
That strike breakers we'd be;
How grateful were that first found out
Before our names we had signed;
The meaning of true patriotism
THE cause of the Workers mine"
How many young in the Home Guard
Would the boss defend
If only their fathers had spoken
And given this message to them:
II have worked all my life miner
My hands all gnarled worn
If you give your young strength to the bosses
Ito be continued tomorrow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
TOTAL

To the highest contributor each Mike Gold
h. olumn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
By MICHAEL GOLD

BEFORE the war; favorte argument against Socialism
~ was that it German invention, and not adapted
to other lands The liberal inteectuals of Russia used
this argument against Lenn for example, in their view
point the Carbon truly national but socialism was
foreign.
We hearing the stale rubbish repeated
words are the though the different The capitalist liberals
who hate the working
Germany in Japan and China; Communism
purely Russian thing they say
1t is foreign to the soul of
In one form another this false is heard in
take the poetry
Enge incarnatc itself in political the
e Party is often
Ralph Easley and Matthew Vol and John Dewey
However this embelshed with spiritual
the imburger smell of decayng capitalism
wrappings Patriotism the last refuge of scoundre
Johnson and this kind of talk the
ultimately fight in regiments against
Of the desperate American workers.
j. Morgan is true American according to these people,
Earl Bowder and Bill Foster not Starvation
tradition they accept plenty ma2ury
be against the American tradition.
They do not such simple
but their Communist fight really
lively anybody who Communism American
listed under the banners of embatled Wall Street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
LITTLE LEFTy'S ON COLDS
HEELS 80

Today, Little Lefty almost
equals Mike Gold in popularity,
and puts it all over such giants :
as Burck, the Medical Board and /.
Cannes, who couldn't even mus .
ter a copper penny to his COL
.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
Dollar Patriots

ONE OF the these patriots loyal
the American dollar than to the
IN the revolutionary that written
baladry being actually
only authentic folk music Of this period
Joe Hill pioneer of this baadry
this folk of the working songs
Haeujah I'm Bum have been by
geokie, robbed of their militant I. w. W. content
Anyone who heard Motley
sing her Hungry Miners Blues
1can This fine militant with
laughter and the deep roetarian that
eyes, ought be sent around the country Ballads
living demonstration to the dollar of
Communism be- in fact how other Americansm
fascist lie of the uppcas
The Washington times., 1934-01-17
TEN IN COUNTY
NATURAL|ZED

Ten Prince Georges county
residents, six of whom were Ger
mans, were given naturalization
papers following examination at
Upper Marlboro yesterday before
Joseph c. Mattingly, judge of the
Circuit Court, and Mrs. Clare T.
Wilson, United States natural
iZation examiner.
The 10 are Carl w. Schneider,
Collington; Peter E. Mann, Hyatts-
Vile; Gustov Fronck, Glendale:
Otto Korber, Riverdale; Adolph
w. Schneider, Beltsville; Mary
Bottner, Mitchellville; Karl H.
Hille, Seat Pleasant: Oscar w. E.
Benkert, Hyattsville: Charles r.
Hudson, Capitol Heights, and
Mrs. Lura Mistretta, Oxon Hill.
The Washington times., 1934-01-17
WOMEN CALLED
To BUY DRIVE

(Continued From Local PaSe)
the women of the American
Legion Auxiliary in the form Of
some human suffering. We all
remember the meals without
meat and sugar in the days Of
~ and '18 and only too well
we remember the daily news
papers with their long casualty
lists.
TALKED TO WARS VICTIMS
During the World War 1
lived across the street from
Walter Reed Hospital and many
evenings 1 walked through the
grounds and talked to the boys
and saw their broken bodies.
Every night, long after 1 had
retired, the ambulances would
roll up to unload their pitiful
cargo. I could hear the shut
fling of feet and the shutting
Of doors and knew that some
mothers boy had come back
how and to what / wondered.
"America answered the cry Of
her sister nations in their dark
days and now she asks in re-
turn not praise or glory but that
which is due her. These de-
faulting nations cannot give
back to us strong, well bodies
for the sick and broken ones re.
turned to us after the war, but
they can pay the money loaned
to them in good faith. Maybe,
then, our boys could have the
beds in the hospitals which are
rightfully theirs.
"The American women proved
their patriotism and sacrificed
much in those days, and / feel
that they can now help by sup
porting he Buy American, Don't
Buy From Defaulters' cam
paign."
The Washington times., 1934-01-17
MRS. M'CLUER
(Continued from Page I4)

CONTINUED from Rage ~
tickets is proposed and this would
yield $150,00O, the chief executive
said.
While recommending additional
taxes on others, Governor Peery
followed his campaign promises
and urged the General Assembly
to reduce automobile license taxes,
Cars weighing up to 5000 pounds
would be taxed $40; up to 1000
the tax would be SIS; cars weigh
ing up to 5000 pounds would cost
their owners $25, and the tax on
private automobiles weighing over
5000 pounds would be $35.
The additional million dollars
he desires for schools should in
sure a minimum term of eight
months and higher minimum
teachers salary, he said.
Utility Firms to Help
The Governor said public util-
tiles should share in some meas
ure the results of the depression
and he recommended the enact
ment Of a law which would give
to the State Corporation CommiS-
The Washington times., 1934-01-17
PEERY ASKS MORE MONEY FOR SCHOOLS

sion authority to alter or amend
any existing rates or schedules of
any public utility in the State in
case of any emergency to be
Judged of by the commission.
He recommends changes in the
law by which the highway COM
missioner would be selected at
large, and the eight construction
districts be grouped in pairs, and
the four associate members of the
commission be selected respec-
lively from the four districts re-
sulting from such grouping.
This would concentrate author
ity, and would definitely deter
mine the representative of the
respective districts, Mr.. Peery said.
Governor Peery hopes the gen.
eral assembly soon will get passed
an equitable redistricting bill to