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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
Chi. Professionals
Adopt Manifesto
Against FasciSm
Pass Resolution at Meet
for the Release of All
Class War Prisoners

CHICAGO, April 15.-A manifesto
for outright struggle against world
fascisn, and specifically fascist ten
denotes in the u. S. and Chicago.
was adopted by 100 professionals at
a meeting Wednesday in the Medical
Arts Building. The Professional
Groups Against Fascism called the
meeting.
An executive committee Of 18 was
elected and instructed to work out
definite plan of immediate action
against fascism. A resolution was
passed demanding the release of
Thaelmann, Torgler and all class
war prisoners in Germany and Aus
tria.
Anna Schultz greeted the meeting
in the name of the American League
Against War and Fascism.
The organization is composed of
doctors, dentists, lawyers, nurses,
engineers and journalists.
Edward Ohrenstein, a member Of
the Socialist Party, was elected
chairman. The groups headquartera
are at the Lincoln Center, TOO Oak
wood Boulevard.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16

have made since the adoption OF
the Open Letter.
To cur enemies who laughed
too soon we can say in the words
Of Lerin written in 1904, Our adj
ver3aries, the enemies CT the
Marxists, are overjoyed at our dis
ransions. They will naturally make
the most of certain passages in
my pamphlet where / referred to
the mistakes and shortcomings of
our Party. and will try to exnloit
these admissions for their own
purposes. The Russian Marxists
have been in the firing line so
Iony that thy Will disregard such
min pr.ck~. They will in spite of
them, go on with the work of
sclf-criticism. They viii con-
tinue unsparingly to expose their
own weaknesses, which will inevi-
tably disappear as the working
class movement gathers strength"
And in spite of the Joy of our
enemies, our Party went on with
the work of self criticism" as it
has done at the 9th Convention and
will continue to do so.
But the progress that we have
made must not lull us into q sense
of dissatisfaction. This would be
disastrous. The progress we have
made, which justly makes us feel
enthusiastic about the future of our
Party, must only serve to en-
phasize the tremendous possibilities
in store for our Party, and the great
neglected opportunities.
Can we already say that we have
realized the goal set by the open
Letter? Can we say that our c. P
is one which is already closely
bound up with the decisive strata
of the workers.? Of course not
What we can say is that we have
found the key to the decisive sec
tions of the American working class
tn a is. through concentration
through the policy of the united
front, through shop work, through
relentless struggle against social fas.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
OF THE COMM UNIsT PARTY OF THE U. S. A.

cism to mass Communist Party.
IN listening to the reports of the
1 delegates, one thought was upper
most in ones mind, that above all
what is really necessary in making
Roadway in carrying out the line Of
the 18th Plenum of the E.C.CI., is
concrete leadership. A leadership
that will unity the work OF the
Party, give it daily concrete guild
ance. and feel responsible for every
phase of the mass work of the
Party.
Can we say that our Party, which
was particularly guilty of adopting
good resolutions but failing to carry
them out, has already overcome this
disease? BY no means can we say
that.
The problem of decisively making
the turn demanded of us by the CT,
is the problem of carrying out the
resolutions and decisions that we
have pledged ourselves to realize.
Comrade Stain in his report to the
18th Party Congress warned the
Bolshevik Party of the Soviet Union
which has achieved victories of
world historic significance against
abandoning the weapon Of self
criticism, against lulling itself in
self satisfaction. How much more
must our Party heed this warning,
a Party which is just now only be-
ginning to develop Bolsffevik mass
work!
Upon what depends the success of
our work following the convention?
1t is in acquiring the art of Boil
shevik methods of work as very
clearly outlined by Comrade Stain
in his historic report to the 18th
Party Congress when he said:
after the correct line has been
given, after correct solution of
the problem has been found, sue
cess depends on the manner in
which the work is organized, on
the organization of the struggle
for the application Of the line of
the Party, on the proper selection
! of workers, on supervising the full
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16

fillment of the decisions of the
leading organs. Without this, the
correct line of the Party and the
correct solutions are in danger of
being severely damaged. More
than that, after the correct poIit-
ical line has been given, the or
ganizatiOnal work decides every
thing, including the fate of the
political line itself, i.e., its success
or failure"
1t is particularly for our Party
which is so weak in checking up or
decisions, that is SO weak in its or
ganizational work that we must alb.
serb all that is meant in the re.
marks OF Comrade Stain, that "ths
oTganizational work decides every
thing"
And not until we will learn "fear-
lessiy to reveal shortcomings" as
Stain teaches us, will we "raise the
quality of our work to great
height"
Self criticism, responsibility for
tlC tdiA JiuS CAb Oh uSClSiOnS, t1lS
is what our Party must learn in
order to carry out the decisions Of
cur 9Th Convention, the decisions 70
the 18th Pienum of the E.C.C.I.
A new Central Committee was
elected. 1t is composed of those who
have in the past period been en-
gagged in the mass work Of the Party.
who are connected with the native,
decisive sections of the American
proletariat, who have shown in prac-
tice that they understand and work
for the carrying out of the line of
the CT. Such a Central Committee
will guarantee that the successful
beginnings made by the Party in
basic mass work will lead towards
the realization of the main purpose
of all the work of the Party, lie. the
winning of the majority of the
American working class.
The unanimity with which our
new Central Committee was elected
reflects the confidence of the entire
Party behind its new Central Com,
! mittee a.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
20 Hunger
Strikers Near
DeathinCuba
Cuban Troops Fire on
Protest Demonstration
in Havana

HAVANA, April 15.-TroOps firel
into a demonstration of workers
and students today protesting the
treatment of political prisoners by
the Mendieta- Wall Street regime.
Central Victoria workers and
peasants yesterday refused to stop
production of sugar after the
grinding quota had been filed, re-
sisting the Iay-off plans of the
sugar bosses. The workers threaten
to seize the plant IL their wagesl
are net Forthcoming.
NEW YORK. - Twenty political
prisoners in Castillo Principe, Ha-
vana, Cuba, on hunger strike for 1870
hours, are dying, according to a
cable received here by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense from the De-
fensa Obrera International, sister
organization in Cuba, Saturday.
One hundred and fifty prisoners
are on hunger strike in various Gu
ban prisons, the cable states.
Seventy of them in Castillo Principe
had been on strike 1870 hours at 5
p. m. Saturday.
A cable Of protest, demanding the
release of these and the 5000 more
political prisoners held in Cuban
jails without trial, was sent to
President Mendieta by William l..
Patterson, National Secretary of the
I. L. D., who simultaneously sent
out a call to all sympathetic to the
struggles of the Cuban toilers. to
support this strike with cabled pro-
tests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16

ZatiOn of foreign workers not much
connected with the political life of
the country" CThc c. 1. Open Let
ter Of 1929 1t is these delegates
who live in closest contact with the
native sections of the American pro-
letariat in the decisive industries
that show the tremendous influence
that the Open Letter of the Extra
ordinary Party Conference exerted
upon the life and work Of the Party.
What the Party failed to real
iZe-what already was demanded
Of us in the Open Letter OF tho
c. I. in 1929, that is, breaking our
isolation frcm the native sections
Of the American proletariat, the
Sth Convention of our Party, as
a result Of the Open Letter adopt-
ed at the Extraordinary Confer
ence, was able to record the fact
that our Party is beginning to
travel the road leading towards a
revolutionary mass Party of the
. American pro,etariat. HEREIN
1tE 1NElal NgU&BEE-
CANOE OF OUR LAST CON-
VENTION.
VHEN our Party at its last ex-
w traordinaIy conference adopted
the Open Letter, the capitalist press
and the social fascist press clapped
their hands in glee. They wrote
editorials that Communists admit
failure" These editorial scribblers
who laughed too soon, considered
our Open Letter as a confession of
failure" Of course, they who repre-
sent a dying class, based on hiding
the truth, based on the greatest dis
crepency between words and deeds.
could not but fail to understand
that the Open Letter, full of Boil
shevik criticism, was not a con-
fession of sins, but the greatest
weapon in the hands of our Party
1t is because our Party made the
first baby steps in mastering the art
of feminist Bolshevik elf-criticisn
that We we're able at the 9th Con-
vention to speak of the progress we
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
718 Delegates at United Front May Day Meet
Demand Mayor Keep Promise on Union Sq

John Reed Club, League of Struggle
for Negro Rights branches, Inter
national Labor Defense branches,
etc.
A delegate from the National
Students League pledged the thou
sands of New York students who
took part in last Fridays one-hour
strike against War and Fascism to
carry the fight into the May Day
demonstration, marching with the
revolutionary workers.
Needle Trades Workers to
Down Tools"
Koretz Of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union declared
that the entire newly organized
bath robe section of 1900 workers
will declare a s3oppage of work on
May Day, as will the custom tail
orS, 1000 strong, and other sections
of the union. The Needle Trades
Union will have six brass bands in
the line OF march, as well as two
brass bands for the Opposition
Groups in the re1ormist unions.
Geizen of the C. w. A. workers
deo.arad 10000 white-collar workers
will march behind the banner Of
the United Front Against War and
Fascism.
Communist Party Calls All Work
ers Out On May Day
George Siskind, of the Commu-
H.. - ana a menlner Of the
United Front May Day Arrange
ments Committee, gave short
resume of the conditions confront
ing the working class this May Day,
streSsing the necessity Of united
struggle for Negro and white work
ers, native and foreign born, against
unemployment, wage cuts for the
employed, mass firing of G. w. A.
workers, firetrap tenement condi-
tions menacing the lives of workers
and their children, increasing fas-
cist attacks on the toiling popula-
ton and preparations for a new
World War,
The Communist Party, he de-
cared, called upon the United Font
Conference to bring out all the
workers for all their demands this
May First. Only through one
united demonstration, cutting
through everything that has kept
the wo-..,ng class divided, can the
workers build their unity and beat
hack the growing fascist attacks
md war plans, he declared.
Tells CT Socialist Party Rejection
OF Fighting United Front
Pom. ing to The various invitations
ssrt the Socialist Party leaders to
join the united front demonstration
he pointed out that the Socialist
misleaders refused to recognize one
united May Day demonstration.
They formed a united front with the
renegsdcs and expelled elements
from the Communist Party, and,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
Berlin Worker
Protest at NaziS
Victims Funeral
Workers HeroicalIy
Defy Nazi Ban On
Demonstration

BERLIN, April 15-In heroic de-
fiance of Nazi ban, over 5000
workers last Monday attended the
funeral of Marum, Socialist deputy.
who was murdered by the Nazis in
the concentration camp at Kielau.
The police had forbidden the pub
LEGATION Of the hour of the funeral
of Marum, whose murder they de-
scribed as suicide"
The police, afraid to attack the
immense demonstration, photo
graphed the funeral procession with
the aim of identifying fhe workers
who participated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
BY SAM DON
A rAszTz TT

Article II.
THERE have been two open
L letters. These letters are
two milestones in the history
Of our Party.
In 1928-29 our Party was
torn by a raging, unprincipled fac
tional struggle. The Lovestone-
Trotskyites were singing hosannas
to the almighty power of American
capitalism The Party leadership
was dominated by the opportunist,
now renegade, Lovestone group
This opportunist leadership chimed
in with the Hoover prosperity
chorus. 1t denied the then ap-
preaching world economic crisis so
clearly outlined by the 9Th World
Congress of the Communist Inter
national and by Comrade Stain. 1t
developed the theory of exceptional
ism, which conceded with the bour-
geois social-fascist theories that
American capitalism was exempt
from the growing world crisis of
capitalism 1t denied the growing
revolutionary perspectives in the
United States.
With its theory of exceptionalism
it also exempted the U. S. from the
danger of social-fascism. With its
opportunist theory of exceptional
ism it denied the social-fascist role
of the A. F. of L. leadership and
opposed the need of developing in
dependent leadership of the Com
munist Party in the economic strug-
giles. 1t opposed the development Of
revolutionary opposition work within
the A. F. of L., the building Of in
dependent militant unions, all uni
fed into one revolutionary trade
union movement.
What was the source of the fac
sional fight which sapped the
strength of our Party for many
years? 1t was its isolation from
he decisive sections of the Amer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
Civil Employees in
Many French Cities
Protest Wage Cuts

PARIS. April Is. - Protesting
against the governments drastic
economy measures, simultaneous
demonstrations we're staged today
in Paris and 100 provincial towns
by many thousand civil service
workers.
The demonstrations are against
the five to ten per cent wage cuts
among the 10000 civil service work
ers and the firing of 10000 men
under the adopted measure by the
Doumergue cabinet.
Tomorrow short strikes, In milf
tant protest against this measure,
will be called in Paris and other
cities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
Spartacus Youth Club
Calls Meet Against War

NEW YORK. - The Spartacus
Greek Youth Club has issued q call
to all young workers ana students
of the West side downtown clubs
and organizations to meet in con-
ference against war and fascism,
Tuesday, April IT, 8 p. m, at the
Spartacus Club, 269 w, 25th st.
A United Front Anti-War COM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16

NEW YORK.-A ringing defiance
of his continued attacks upon the
United Front May Day demonstra-
ton against War and Fascism was
hurled at Mayor LaGuardia by 713
delegates representing over 600
unions, organizations and branches
with membership of more than
100000 workers at the final United
Front May Day Conference held in
Webster Hall Saturday.
After agreeing, through COM
mittee which the Mayor himself ap-
pointed to represent him on the
question of the arrangements for
Union Square on May First, that
the United Front demonstration
would enter the Square at 2:30,
LaGuardia is again trying to change
the hours, in an attempt to as
sign the early morning hours to the
revolutionary workers. Under this
plan the workers would have to be
out of the Square by noon. The
May Day parade would be disrupted.
With many delegates pledging
the workers in their industries to
Down Tools" on May Day, and the
conference calling on all New York
workers to pour into the streets this
May Day in mighty united front
demonstration, the conference
adopted BY reclamation the follow
ing resolution:
I'VE will not stand for any fur
Their attempts at bull-dozing and
-dalIying. We sneak now. We
will march into Union Square as
agreed upon at 2.30 on May the
First. We go on record and serve
notice to La Guardia and his
favorite sons, the Socialist Party
leadership, that the United Front
demonstration will march into
Union Square at $50 sharp and
not later"
Conference Votes for Preliminary
Rallies April %
Louis Wainstock Of the A. F. of l.
Painters Union was elected chair
man of the conference, which heard
the report Of Carl Brodsky, chair
man of the United Front May Day
ARRANGEMENTS Committee on the
May Day parade and demonstra-
tons plans of the committee, and
voted for a series of preliminary
demonstrations throughout the city
on Saturday, April %.
The conference received pledges
of militant support from delegates
from hundreds OF organizations, in
GLIDING Workmen Circle branches,
c. w. A. workers, Amalgamated
Food Workers, Taxi Cab Union
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with the aid of LaGuardia, are now
trying to keep the revolutionary
workers out of Union Square.
Included among the 71S delegates
were So from independent unions,
five from A. F. of L. unions, 112
from shops, 46 from opposition
groups of the A. F. Of L., three from
Workmen Circle branches, seven
from the Workers Committee Of
Unemployed, two from the Ameri-
can Workers Party, three from the
Jewish Workers Party, and "a from
II industrial unions.
Delegation to Take Demands to
LaGuardia
The conference adopted resolu-
lions denouncing LaGuardia's econ
omy program and agreement with
the bankers, demanding special ap-
preparations for immediate relief,
for rehiring of G. w. A. workers,
for slum clearance and erection of
fireproof dwellings for workers, for
the passage of the Unemployment
and Social Insurance Bill Oh. r.
1899, and for the election of dele
cation to take these demands to
City Hall.
Resolutions were adopted de-
nouncing the torture of Ernst
Thaelmann, German Communist
leader, and of the ScOttsboro boys,
demanding the release of Thael-
mann ard the tens OF thousands
of revolutionary workers in the
Mani prisons and concentration
camps, the release of the Scots
borO boys, Tom Mooney and other
claSs-war prisoners in the United
States.
Another resolution expressed the
solidarity of the workers of New
York with the heroic struggles of
the Cuban workers and peasants,
and called for a demonstration be-
fore the Cuban Consulate in this
city at II o'clock noon on Friday,
April 20.
The conference instructed the
May Day Committee to issue a
special manifesto, directed especially
to the A. F. of L. and Socialist
workers, calling for the forging OF
mighty united. front against war
and fagciSm and for defense of the
Soviet Union, the land of Socialism
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16

Among the masses of the
people, we Communists are but
drors in the ocean, and we can
not rule unless we give accurate
expression to the folk conscious
ness. Otherwise the Communist
Party viii not be able to lead the
proletariat, the proletsriat will
not be able to lead the masses,
ard the whole machine will fall
to pieces.-Lenin at the Eleventh
Party Congress.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16

mittee will be formed at this time
in addition to preparing for future
activities Tor the mobilization of all
young w: gers and stuiclt7 in the
struggle against wa AMI fascisn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-10
PARIS STYLES
BY MARY KNIGHT

Paris (UP) -- We do a lot of talking about fashions for morn- ing, noon and night, parties of all sorts and sizes, but only at rare in- tervals do we remember another occasion for smartness though we have no audience for it, or at least if an audience a very, very limited one! We refer specifically to bed- time costumes-nightgowns and pajamas.
 It's far cry from flannel wrap pers of "other days" to fimsey finery of "our times" Instead of being shaped like a gunnysack, sleepin goutflts of the "now" are molded as smoothel to the body as the skin itself. No copious folds of flannel to wrap the feet in, no woolen bedsocks or mittens, or nightcaps. All is chiffon and silk, satin or velvet these days, re- gardless of the rise or fall of the mercury. Houses are heated now and bedcovers, warm as toast, weight only a few ounces instead of pounds.
 Like top clothes, nightgowns and pajamas favor slender princess line. A two-piece nightie is even populad and is made like the new evening gowns, backless and high in the front, with a little lace bod ice to accompany. It is in blue crepe de Chine trimmed with lace ruffles of the same shade.
 Russia creeps in to influence the sleeper with Q pajama of orange velvet, and a black velvet mermaid gown trimmed with pink ostrich feathers is the Molyneux concep-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-10
FAVOUR CHILDREN
 By Dive Roberts Bartoa 2
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CONVENTIONAL REMARKS LEAVE IMPRESS ON


 CONVENTIONAL REMARKS
 LEAVE IMPRESS ON
 CHILD'S MEMORY
 "The whole trouble with Sam's mother" said Mrs Smith, "is that she couldn't trust her boy. He'd be a far better son to her if he felt she trusted him nore."
 "Do you trust mel" asked Bert suddenly.
 "of course I do and you know it.f Don't be silly, Bert. I'd trust you anywhere in the world. Why do you ask such a question ["
 "Because sonce-" Bert marked his book with a finger and gazed out at the snow. "Oh, just be- cause"
 Don't go imagining things now. You've always told me the truth and you always will. 1t never occurs to me to doubt what you tell me-"
 guess."
 A Misunderstanding
 "What's gotten into you? You make me feel as though-why honey dear, there isn't a thing I've ever done or said, is there, that made you feel I wasn't sure about you? If there. was. you must have misunderstood, I'm sure."
 "That time I went out with Timmy on his bob-sled and we all went over to Miggs' Hill after you'd told me not to do either do you remember that timer"
 Why-no. When was that? Last winter? Funny, I don't re- member 8 thing about it." [ Bert looked at his mother with astonished disbelief. "It was when I was in GA at school. Now don't you remember? went anyway and you nearly had a fit. You said onething was certain, you'd never trust me again a single day as long as lived"
 "Oh, Bert, it isn't true. never said that. You're getting 1t all mixed, surely. don't remember any Timmy orNhis bob-sled, or any Miggs' Hill when you were in GA. And I certainly don't remember saying I'd never trust my son again. don't think I did. I never did. Let's see-that was three or four years ago."
 Children Remember
 ''It's just like I said. I felt bad. Ever since that time, nom, I've kinda felt maybe you couldn't be just sure when I promised any, thing. I always felt you were thinking of that day. Tell me, nom, did you really forget?"
 Forget! Why, silly, I probably forgot it next day. don't believe it happened at all."
 Bert's face was @ study. So that was all it had meant to his mother, those words that scared and smarted and would leave a scar to his last day. Were all par ents like that? Getting a fellow to feel as mean as heck and saying things they didn't mean and then forgetting all about it?
 It isn't so good for parents to leave records or photostatic copies or words that they do not mean and should never say. Children don't forget.