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The daily worker., 1934-07-21
BY DAVID RAMSEY
A Science News Writer Confesses

A Science News Writer Confesses
There is an important "confes-
sion" by a science news writer in
the current number Of the Harvard
Alumni Bulletin. The author is
Austin H. Clark, a distinguished
biologist on the staff of the Smith
sonian Institution, and director OF
the press service of the American
Association for the Advancement OF
Science.
DR.. Clark makes the point that
"every scientific article written for
popular consumption must be tied
to some personality, and in addi-
tion must have keynote love, hate
gain, loss, mystery or some other
basic emotional concept" In other
words scientists must compete with
movie queens, gangsters and Groom
ers; atoms must be linked with
murders, guinea pigs with bathing
beauties, and Einstein with Mae
West.
But DR.. Clark is all wet when he
claims that this is all due to news
paper readers having an emotional
outlook" upon the world. Articles
about animals carry sex appeal
and articles on physics and math-
ematics are written more or less as
demonstrations in sort Of witch
craft, not because the great major
ity of newspaper readers have no
interest in science as such. or be-
cause they demand that science be
coated with sex and magic. The
bourgeois press does this with the
conscious intent of increasing its
sales and to give the impression
that there Is so much mystery in
volved in science that even a pro-
fessor cannot explain or understand
it. Science is made to compete with
charlatanry and religion, so that
workers will think that science is
only one of a dozen relatively valid
ways of looking at the world-and
anyhow you couldn't understand it,
no matter how much you tried.
From this has arisen the false
legend that scientific work cannot
be described in clear and straight
forward language. There are two
methods of reporting scientific
events. The New York Times goes
in for a maximum of technical
words and phrases plus an illiterate
treatment of the subject. This
makes it unintelligible to the gen.
eraI reader and worthless to scien-
tist working in related field The
other method is the ha-cha-hi-
de-ho hokum. A story about para
site birds starts off-to use an
example from DR.. Clark-in the
following manner:
Those unfeeling mothers who
leave their babies upon the door
steps of prosperous peoples houses
have their oounterparts among
the birds.
Such stories never deal with the
actual scientific facts Of the mat
ter. 1t is rather naive of DR.. Clark
to claim that "the idea conveyed is
the same, so why object to the hui
manistic method OF presentation?'
DUT the professor is probably de-
ID liberately naive" After citing
cases that illustrate how news
papers garble and jazz up scien-
tific stories, he contradicts himself
by declaring that 'The press is con-
scientiously doing its best to see
that science shall be presented to
the public as accurately, and in as
dignified manner as possible. y
Shades of Hearst, Scripps- Howard,
and Old Mother Times!
The main point that DR.. Clark is
trying to make finally comes out.
Science will enjoy the confidence
of the public only so long as it
The daily worker., 1934-07-21

Karl GrOiSs and the Zarebnky
sixth is unknown first Thomasroith,
sixth from Hauseithen All married and them
children to care OF.
One Of the six able to himself the
leg fell to the floor played
In countless speeches brOadcas governmental statements
interviews Dofu and Fey have consistently maintained that the
Himwehr the volunteers the
great humanenes They had the impudence
Of artillery drought the fighting
humane effect They tried to the they
mtted with cloak Christian phrases hypocrtical
continues artillery
children ordered the hanging severely
to
What the road to the mode Christian state"
this photo from Hauethen time photo
will part the evidence gigantic
Auas workers bring their oppressors today
these fascsts of the Christian persuasion
gaOwS machine guns artillery casock
rosary
The daily worker., 1934-07-21

This photo striking emotional taken
photographers photo reached together with
note which print unchanged
sending you photo Hausleithen Upper Austria
the military captured the Workers Home after bitter
put revolutionary
against them but they upright
firm they they would not die in vain And they will be
avenged. they
muzzles calmly"
What happened in Hausleihen?
February 1885, the the beseged
evacuate before the enemy three times
strong numerically staff of the few first
hoid the white flag Doluss troops then forced their
building. the they building
the factory fire department ThomaSrOh,
attended the wounded The building staff
fashion, the
letaran frtad in the big hall of the Workers Home and
stage stage
peey with blood it had buckets
Richter
The daily worker., 1934-07-21

wages they ran completely wild.
They went into the dormitories and
dirtied the floors, the beds, and the
tables. Naturally, the prisoners had
to clean all this up. One day Sieg-
mund, police lieutenant who acted
as warden until July 81, himself
said, These Nazis are a band Of
adventurers and brigands. The
Communists, at least, are convinced
in their beliefs"
This expression, 'brigands and
adventurers," could be best applied
to the guards of the spring Of 1888.
They stole all the prisoners money.
Many of the latter wondered why
the letters that they wrote during
that spring and summer never
reached their friends ano families
until they found heap OF these
letters in a bucket in the kitchen,
with the stamps removed.
COMMUNIST SHOT "IN AT
TEMPT TO ESCAPE"
I ATE one summer night, q group
l. Of Nazis entered the cell of a
young prisoner from the neighbor-
hood Of Sonnenburg. We heard him
screaming, mo, no, won't go with
you. You want to shoot me.
They dragged him out Of the cell
and disappeared with him into the
night. We were all at our windows
listening. At first we heard the
voices of the guards. Then nothing.
The daily worker., 1934-07-21
Thaelmann'S Life in Moabit
Described by Ex> Prisoner

Three weeks later, ThaeImann was
/ taken away from Moabit: 1 don't
know where to.
Later worked as trusty in the
kitchen of Police Headquarters and
was able to talk to prisoners from
various jails in Berlin. Hence, I
should have been able to discover
in what Jail Thaelmann now is, but
no one could tell me where he was.
1t is very likely, therefore, that
Thaelmann was not in Berlin but
spirited away to prison in another
city. During Thaelmann's incar-
ceration in Police Headquarters, he
was left unclaimed during his exer-
else hour, since Police Headquarters
courtyard, where Thaelmann took
his exercise, could be seen from
windows along the public corridors
in headquarters. But in Moabit,
where no one can see the courtyard
from the outside, Thaelmann was
handcuffed even during his hours
Of exercise in the yard.
Thaelmann was kept in his cell
while the other prisoners took exer-
else together. He was taken out
into the yard in the afternoon, in
chains and watched by two guards
armed with revolvers.
The Privileges Accorded Loebe,
the Socialist
While 1 worked in the kitchen of
Police Headquarters, from the end
of November, 1888 until the begin
ming of December, I often saw the
former Socialist Reichstag Presi-
dent, Loebe, and often talked to
him. Loebe had a library in his cell,
with his cell door open all day long,
so that he was able to move about
freely in the headquarters building.
often saw Loebe walking around
the yard with two or three friends,
remaining as much as two hours a
day out in the open. When one Of
his friends was put back in the cell
and the other let out to accompany
Loebe, the latter would stand
around in the corridor chatting
with the prison guards. AS far as
I could see, Loebe had every priv
ilege; every day he got packages,
beer and many other things which
other prisoners were not allowed to
receive.
The daily worker., 1934-07-21

The following description of hte
treatment of Ernst ThaeImann,
leader of the German Communist
Party, in Moabit Prison, and of the
treatment accorded Paul Loebe,
former Socialist Reichstag Presi-
dent, by the Nazis during his con-
finement in Berlin Police Head
quarters, is sent us by a former
prisoner of the Nazis, Gorelik, by
name, who has been deported from
Germany after his discharge.
Gorelik was arrested in Berlin on
June 8, 1898, during a raid in the
Ghetto quarter in Berlin and kept
in Jail until Dec. 20. Part Of this
time, he was confined in Berlin
Police Headquarters, after which
ke was transferred to Moabit jail.
Gorelik was trusty while pris-
oner in Moabit and thus was able
to see and observe a number of
prisoners.
THE day that Thaelmann arrived
L In Moabit Jail, we (the trustees
were locked in our cells, which had
never happened before. For twenty
minutes, we heard the clink OF
chains in the cell corridors; we
could hear that a man was walk
ing along in chains with two others,
unclaimed, following him.
The next day we heard that
Thaelmann had been brought tc
Moabit. I saw Thaelmann in his
cell the next day His hands were
handcuffed behind his back. I had
seen Thaelmann before his arrest
and noticed that he had become
very thin-his cheek bones stood
out and there were dark spots in
his face. I cannot say whether
these spots were due to beating or
not, but Thaelmann's movements
indicated that he must have had
injuries on parts of his body
Thaelmann remained about week
and a half in the cell block where
I was stationed, and then was put
in another block on the ground floor
of the prison. Van der Lubbe, Torg.
were later put in this cell block too
Ter, Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff
The daily worker., 1934-07-21

The spread of the Daily" to
the mass Of workers is a pre-
requisite to their successful strug-
giles.
The daily worker., 1934-07-21

A Red Builder on every busy
street corner in the country means
tremendous step toward the
dictatorship of the proletariat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-04
Mass Support for
Il. R. 1898 Grows
With New Support
City Councils, A. F. L
Locals and Districts
Back HR 1898

NEW YORK.-Three City Coun-
ellis, A. F. of L. unions. hosiery
workers district councils are among
the newest endorsements of the
Workers Insurance Bill.
The Central Labor Union of At
lantic City has endorsed the bill.
following similar action by more
than two score similar bodies. The
District Council of the American
Federation of Full Fashioned Ho-
siery Workers of New York and New
Jersey has backed the bill, and the
delegates to the National Conven-
ton, to be held in Reading, Pa, on
June 4, are prepared to bring it up
The City Councils of Occur
D'Alene, Idaho, of Conway, Pa, and
the newly elected Communist City
Council of Plstt Michigan, have
backed the bill.
Nine more A. F. of L. locals in
Butte, Montana, have signed the
bill: Miners Union No. /, U. M. M.
and S. w, No. IS of the I. B. E. w,
Plumbers No. Al, Hod Carriers No.
$50, Blacksnniths No. 303, D. F. No.
456, Butchers No. 1893 and the Clerks
and Brewery Workers.
U. M. w. A. Local 1857 of Shen-
ando2h, in which city eight other
U. M. W. A. locals have endorsed
The bill, Transfers 429 of Reading,
Pa, Moulders. 1873 of Spokane,
Wash, Artists $50 of Cleveland,
Ohio, Umbrella Makers Union of
New York, Upholsterers rs of Balti-
more, Painters sos of Spartanburg,
S. G. Typographical Union 81 of
San Diego, Calf, Boot and Shoe
Local 613 of Huntington, w. Va,
Carpenters 1889 of Phoenix. Arizona,
Steel Workers Local 2 Of Stockton,
Calf, are the latest A. F. of L,
locals to act on the Workers Bill
The Italian American Society of
Kenosha, Wis, with a membership
of 1000, and the Brighton Beach,
N. Y, ents-Teachers Student
Committee at meeting attended
by 500, have backed the Workers
Bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-04
On the
Strike Front
Distillery Strike in
Pekin, ILL.,, Broken

PEKIN, Ill.-The distillery strike
here, which had caused the bosses
to mobilize National Guardsmen.
was settled with the use Of Robert
Fox, Dent. of Labor conciliator, and
amenable union officials. The dis
tillery, which had closed at the be-
ginning Of the week. when pickets
blockaded its approaches. reopered
June l and $50 workers returned at
their tasks.
The agreement allows the COM
pany to remain an open shop:
although there is clause about
recognition of the union. It pro-
vides that future disagreements
shall be submitted to a board in
GLIDING representatives of the union
and the company and a dis
interested arbiter."
Some Of the clauses in the agree
ment are: In the event of decreased
production, employees shall be re-
tanned or laid off on the basis of ef-
f1ciency and seniority, without re-
gard to union affiiiation. When no
work is available through failure OF
the company, regular employees re-
porting for work are to receive one
quarter days vase. When the same
conditions are beyond the COM
pany's control, no wage shall be
paid. Acceptance Of this agreement
shall not be basis of employment
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-04
PoIiceSlug Jobless as.
Demonstrate for
Relief inLos Angeles

had appropriated money all right,
but it was he'd in Harrisburg, and
we never got any of it.
The local workers we're sore as
hell at us. We we're doing the work
that c. W. A. men had had before,
tu5 they laid them off. and put us
on, without paying US wages"
The youth stopped to roll a ciga-
rette with his last pack of camp
tobacco. Underneath his two days
beard, his face was sunken. I asked
him about the food at the camp.
Food, why man, every day they
gave us sour pota-oe for break
fast!
Finally, last Wednesday, fifty of
the workers decided to quit Some
of them had been there from four
to six weeks without getting any
pay. I told them that the thing to
90 was not to quit, but stay on the
job and refuse to work. I couldn't
hold them, though. I don't blame
them much The camp was GER
tainly terrible.
Il wanted to stay and organize
the workers remaining, so of them
But the bosses saw that I was bad
medicine, and they took me into
town in car and told me to get
going
The boy left, on his way to the
Unemployment Council, one more
homeless youth who had learned to
fight back against the people who
threw him onto the rcadl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-04
Jobless Strike, March,
Demonstrate For
Jobs, Relief

LOS ANGELES, Calf, June B.
At least 6 workers were injured, one
seriously, when police and detec-
tives charged a demonstration of
5000 unemployed workers led by the
Relief Workers Protective Unio,,
here Friday before the County Wei
fare Offices.
An elected committee from the
Relief Workers Protective Union
was about to enter the building
where they had an appointment
with the welfare officials when de-
tectiYes, some dressed as unem-
ployed, slugged the leaders in an
attempt to provoke a riot.
The committee sought to present
to jenkins, relief official, grievances
of the unemployed that grocery
boxes were being cut to sub-starva-
ton standards. Demands were
made for the abolition of the gro
Gerry boxes, for $40 minimum weekly
cash relief and SO additional fol
each dependent, endorsement of the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill (HR. 1899, and for free mills
to the children Of the unemployed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-04
1000 Demonstrate for
Jobs in Philadelphia
(SneciaI to the nailv

Especial to the Daily WORKER
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-One thou
sand fired L.W.D. relief workers and
unemployed masSed at Raeburn
Plaza Saturday to protest the termi-
nation of relief projects, and de-
man6ing continuation and extern
sion of relief work to provide jobs
for all unemployed.
The Federation Of Architects. En-
gineers, Chemists and Technicians,
under whose leadership the meet
ing was held, sent delegation to
Mayor Moore with the workers de-
mands. The delegation was turned
back by the police, and immediately
q larger committee, representing
every project in the city marched
across the street to the City Hall
This time ten we're permitted to 60
to the Mayors Office.
Immediately, TrotsKyites attend
ing the meeting, seized this oppor-
tunity to disrupt the meeting, sue
ceeding in bringing the police to the
scene to disperse the meeting.
Mayor Moore refused to meet with
the delegation, and on reporting
back to the workers, large numbers
joined relief and unemployed Or
CARNATIONS to fight for jobs and re-
lief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-04

/ cratic gestures, these leaders pre-
vailed upon the strikers to accept
while indicated a settlement which
runs counter to the interests of the
drivers, the whole labor movement
! and the entire working class-in Or
der that the special and separate
anti working class political interests
of the Trotskyite group might have
a working class base-5,000 organ
lied truck drivers-in which to find
sanctuary and from which to con-
duct forays against the Communist
Party and its leadership.
The pursuit of this objective Of
| course fitted perfectly into the gen.
eral crassly opportunistic policy fol-
! lowed throughout the strike in the
relations with Governor Olson and
his tools in the Central Labor Coun-
Gil. Not the least important aspect
of this policy has to do with the
question of inside" strategy, that
is, the description Of the Minnea-
polls tactics given to the member
ship of the Trotskyite group by its
official organ in New York City and
in signed articles by Cannon, con-
trasted with what was actually be-
ing done on the field Of action
In dispatch dated May %, pub
lished in their sheet for May Is,
Cannon is quoted as follows:
Trotskytes Delude Workers
I'm a move to head off the gen.
eral strike the Regional Labor
Board, on direct orders from Wash
ington, is attempting to bring about
a settlement. Dunno (V. r., Skog-
lund and other militant leaders Of
the union have consistently ex-
planned the strikebreaking role of
this agency and are warning the
strikers now to watch out for any
trap it may set for them"
In the same issue. under Min
neapolis date line of May %, we
find the following:
The swift developments of the
strike are putting the Governor on
the spot. Whether or not to call
out the militia-he can't decide. No
reliance can be placed upon the
Governor or the Labor Board to
settle anything favorably for the
workers" (My emphasis)
AS we say, this appeared in the
Trotskyite sheet for May Is. On
that very day, the Minneapolis
Journal carried the following head
line:
"Strike Settled, Thousands Back
At Work; Trucks Moving Mountains
of Goods
On this very day. while the Trot-
skyite sheet was still trying to de-
lude the workers, Governor Olson
had shown that he could decide"
He had modified three regiments
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-04

union, in their stage role of "prin-
cipled communists" expose the rot
ten terms Of the settlement?
Don't ask foolish questions, COM
rades! Listen to the joyous an
nouncement of the proceedings in
The Journal:
"The strike leaders favored ac-
ceptance and urged the men to
realize that it offered the union
some important concessions" CA
study of the agreement fails to dis
close these concessions. B. d.
The plea was made that the agree
ment is an important first step
in what direction was not stated
B. d. and it was pointed out
that rejection meant long and
perhaps uncertain battle. 1t was
the plea of the strike leaders that
finally brought ratification by the
big crowd" The phrase IAN i'm
portant first step is part Of the
counterfeit coin with which the
leaders shortchanged the strikers.
This is final and clinching proof
that Cannon and his local lieu
tenants are responsible for the de-
feat and surrender before the strug-
gle had even begun to reach its
peak.
Cannon was in Minneapolis at
the time. He was in a caucus with
v. R. Dunno and others while the
meeting was in progress. G. j.
Dunno was left at the meeting to
see that the shameful settlement
went over as smoothly as possible.
What happened was simply this
Governor Olson's Central Labor
Council henchmen, loval to their
master and deathly afraid of the
growing mass movement: knowing
that Olson was through politically
with the working class if he ever
sent in troops. knowing that if he
had to choose in the case of gen.
eral strike. or even the continuation
Of the strike of auto drivers and
building tradesmen, Olson would
send in troops for the propertied
class, that he would find his class
level, in other words, fatty told
Cannon and his lieutenants that
they would oppose any extension Of
the struggle by all means.
AS the zulus say, their bellies
turned to water" Thinking mainly
in terms of this "more conservative
leadership" Gas Cannon's sheet de-
scribes these hard-boiled bureau
crats), the Trotskyite leaders folded
up, forgot all their brave words and
pledged themselves to go along"
with this more conservative lead
ership." They felt more comfort
able, there can be little doubt.
They wrote another miserable
page in the history of class cola
boration in the labor movement
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-04
Milk Prices Rise
In Chicago While
MOnOpOIieS Profit
Drought Running Small
Farmers; Big Holders
See Profits
DAILY Worker Midwest Bureau)

DAILY Worker Midwest Bureaul
CHICAGO, June 3.-Chicago milk
companies increased their rate of
profit yesterday at the expense of
city workers and the drought
stricken farmers. The price of milk
here was raised one cent a quart
while farmers, whose cost of pro-
duction is jumping skyward due to
burned out-pastures and ruined hay
crops, received a measly half cent
raise.
The following table shows the
division Of the consumers price per
quart before and after yesterdays
price raise.
Price to Milk Trusts
Consumers Price Farmer Share
Up to June l, &c. 3.o2o 4.7sc.
After June /, &C. 376c. 524c.
At the same time, the small milk
producer, the small dairy farmer is
in danger Of being wiped out. 1t is
estimated that IS per cent of the
dairy farmers in the Chicago milk
shed are without any feed for their
stock. Throughout the region, farm
experts state that only a weeks feed
on the average remains. When we
take into account that in this aver
age" are included the considerable
supplies held by rich farmers, we
can get fair picture of the stu
alton.
The drought will, in the long run,
probably be an excellent thing for
the rich farmers sand the diaries.
The diaries are already increasing
their profits because Of it, while the
certain destruction of the herds Of
small farmers, and the running of
Thousands of them will leave those
who are rich enough to import feed
and water to carry their cows
through the bad period in very
strong position after the drought is
over.
In fact, as more than one observer
has said, the drought might just as
we'll have been arranged by the
A.A.A., it does what the AA.A. in
tended.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-04
Calls for Joint Action
In Preparation of
Coming Strike

BUFFALO. N. Y. June 3.-The
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union of this district. at a general
membership meeting. voted unani-
mously to issue a statement declar-
ing its readiness. on the basis of a
Joint meeting with the rank and file
Of the Amalgamated Association OF
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers "a. F
of L., to work out joint grievances
and joint demands. The statement
of the membership Of the union cor
reefs a former statement of the
union which was interpreted as
placing the SM.WI.U. of the dis
trict in the light Of opposing the
strike now being prepared.
The statement of the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union OF
Buffalo, declares:
THE statement of the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union.
which appeared in the Buffalo
Press to the effect that the S. M.
w. I. U. is opposed to the strike
action being prepared by the
Amalgamated Association, has