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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-02
''Patriotic" Ralph NJ. Easley, of Notorious
Whalen FOrgeries Fame, Reports to Nazis

son, chairman of the Department
of Subyersive Movements. Mr..
Stevenson achieved a lot of promi-
.nence years ago by his activities in
whipping UP a Red" hysteria for
the notorious Lusk Committee. He
succeeded in developing a Red"
scare which resulted in Socialist
Assemblymen being kicked out of
the legislature just because they
were Socialists.
Then there is James w. Gerard,
former Ambassador to Germany,
who is in charge Of the Commits
sion on Industrial Inquiry 1t was
former Ambassador Gerard who,
after this series Of articles began,
Ihysterically warned the Jews that
Iif they did not abhor Communism
they would have in the United
State pogroms "the like of which
the world has never SEEN"
Jews and gentiles, scared by the
J Communist bugaboo raised by
these men, contribute heavily to
the National Civic Federation's
we'll filled Golfers. So far as the
world at large knows. Easley's life
has been devoted to fighting Com
munism or any other form Of
lradicalism which appeared in this
country. When the Communists
we're not around, he grew apoplec-
tic about the I.W.W.'s. When that
scare passed and the ountry
somehow still survived, he go5
choleric over the Socialists-whom
he now views with mild tolerance.
Easley always manages to get
cause to scare the propertied class.
There is a great deal that I could
say of this professional patriots"
past, but space forbids all but the
mention that he was closely con-
nected with Boris Brasol, who was
largely responsible for the wide
spread dissemination of the noto-
rious Protocols of Zion" This
fact of his past is little known
especially to the wealthy Jews who
give money to his organizations.
This, though, was in his past.
Let me now tell of his present
activities, when while offering to
help and work with wealthy and
prominent Jews interested in coun-
teracting anti-semitism, he was
actually distributing anti-semitic
propaganda, working to stop the
boycott and all the while secretly
reporting to George Sylvester Vie
reck, shrewd high pressure Nazi
propaganda.
IN my first article in The New
l Masses, I announced that I
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would present evidence to this eff
3 Ct in the course of this series and
e parently Mr.. Easleys patriotic"
conscience is not altogether at ease,
judging by the fear he had of
seeing me. I telephoned him for
an appointment.
Who's calling?" his secretary
asked.
''Mr Spivak-of The New Masses.
Is Mr.. Eeasley in?"
yes, just a minute and I'll get
him for you"
The minute stretched out to four
by the watch-just long enough,
judged, to trace the call and get
several people listening in on ex-
tension wires. Then
Hello" said a sharp voice.
mfr. Easley?'
mo, this is Mr.. Stevenson"
Not Archie Stevenson Of the old
'red-baiting fame?"
This is Mr.. Archibald Steven
son." the voice said with dignity.
What is it you wish to see Mr..
Easley about?"
Il should like to see him about
his anti-Semitic activities. know,
Of course, that he does not like Com
munistS, but what I want to know
is why he is carrying on anti-Sem-
itic work-what that has to with
his hatred Of Communism.
"Mr Easley is not carrying on
anti-Semitic work"
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/ Her husband reached out his hand
and took the paper without a
word and got to his feet. He went
indoors and she saw him bending
over the table as he signed his
name. Then she went in and
signed also.
rs your man a stonecutter?"
she asked the girl.
eyes, he cuts stone over in
Barre" the girl answered.
AS the two went out of the yard
and started toward the next house,
the girl looked back and smiling
called, Good night"
They're about our age" she
said to her husband.
yes" he said. lighting another
cigarette.
1t was very quiet. All day long it
had been noisy with the sheds so
close, but at night there was no
noise.
They want a revolution, don't
they?" she asked. Her husband
was always slow in answering. At
last he said:
81 guess they'll get It,"
How soon?"
How should I know? Someday,
guess. It'll come to that yet"
IN the stoneshed they were speed
ing up all the time. Men were
pushed until they could go no
faster, and then they were fired. If
they found new jobs, they went
faster and faster. Dust clouds rose
about them densely as they worked.
And they breathed in the dust,
while all about were the cool, green
smelling hills, and heady Vermont
air. Ten years, it was said and
stonecutter would die. Modern ma
ohinery without safeguards claimed
such sacrifice to greed.
She edged closer to him, and put
her arm about his shoulders. They
were broad shoulders attached to
arms as big as her thighs, and he
sat very straight, and his face was
clear-cut. How could such a man
get to be like the one inside? He
could. There were widows all UP
and down the street whose men
had been cut as great as hers.
Pretty soon the couple who were
| u. L. L. 4.
didate came back down the street,
and they were laughing 1t seemed
odd at first that they should be so
jolly, if he cut stone and his wife
knew what it meant. Suddenly, she
could not say why, she called after
them and they stopped.
Did you get many names?"
ooh yes, nearly everyone on this
street" the girl said.
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Granite Dust
By JACK WILGUS

THERE were three. The woman
L hadn't achieved twenty, the mar
surpassed her by two brief years
AS far as that goes, the "old man
wos hardly old, being scarcely forty
He looked old, he looked dead
bones covered with drawn skin, and
his eyes were glazed. He would die
soon of silicosis, and dying was slow
when lungs were turning to stone.
1t was great night. The valley
was so green and light becam~
discernible in the watchman's hut
at the quarry. The woman watched
q couple coming up the hill. There
was a young woman like herself,
and also a man about her hus-
bands age. They were going into
every house, and the man carried
some papers. The air was cool and
smelled of green stuff.
She looked at her husband who
sat on the porch steps. He smoked
cigarette and was very quiet, as
was his won't. She could never
look at him without comparing him
with the old man. For her husband
was straight and his face strong
and lean. He was a great man. So
had her father been a great man.
In ten years 1t brought burrows to
her brow to think of it. But they
all went that way Ten years and
their lungs turned into stones. She
knew he worried about it too, for g
man who is very strong doesn't like
to go fast.
There were so many widows. And
the widows were young, not so
young as she, but not old women.
Sometimes she would sit close to
him, and run her hand into his
open shirt front, just to feel how
strong he was. And then he would
turn about and put his own big,
calloused hand on hers. But to-
night she felt unusually sad. The
old man was in bad way. She
got to her feet and went inside to
light the lamp and see how he was.
He sat there motionless and pitt
fully childlike. But he had been a
big man.
SWHEN she came out after light
w ing the lamp, the couple were
coming across the dirt yard. The
young man was smiling, and Sc
was the girl.
would you sign our petition list
to put us on the ballot?" the man
asked her husband. He was smok-
ing and all he asked after the man
had said few words was:
What party are you collecting
signatures for?"
THE Communist Party" the girl
said brightly, smiling Their faces
were barely discernible in the dusk.
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This is the sixth article by
John L. Spivak on Plotting the
American Pogroms," appearing
weekly in the New Masses,
through whose courtesy the Daily
Worker has been given permits
sion to reprint them simuItane-
ously. In his first five article.
John L. Spivak has produced
overwhelming proof OF widespread
and organized anti-Semitie ac-
tivities in this country, closely
linked with Nazi Germany. Under
various DISCUSSES, the Order of
'76, the Silver Shirts, Congress
man Louis 7. McFadden, are all
agents Of anti-Semitic prop
uganda. In the present article,
Spivak turns his guns on Ralph
Nj. Easley, chairman of the Exec
utive Council of the National
Civic Federation, and George
Sylvester Viereck, active Nazi
propaganda.
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.WorkingW Woman
Offers Prizes in
Letter Contest
ITO be continued

NEW YORK.-A letter received
recently from a working class
woman in a small industrial town
by the Working Woman magazine
has formed the basis of contest
which is featured in the November
issue of the Working Woman, which
has just come of the press. The
letter asks the Working Woman
magazine to solve the vital prob
lem of what she should do in order
to attend working-cl meetings,
and become active in the working
class movement.
The letter, which has been repro
duced in the current issue of the
magazine, says she has worked ten
years in the two mills of our town"
She would like to join working
class organization, but, she says,
my husband won't let me-" She
says her husband has many inter
ests outside his job. But when it
comes to me, that's different"
Realizing that this question is
deeply involved in the basic problem
of drawing more working class
women into activity, the Working
Woman throws the pages of its
magazine open to letters from all
over the country, answering this
question preferably on the basis Of
personal experience. The sixteen
best letters received will be awarded
handsome prizes.
All replies must be addressed to
the Working Woman, so East 18th
Street, New York City, and must be
at the Office of the Working Woman
before midnight, January Is, 1885.
Mother Bloor, Clarence Hathaway,
Margaret Cowl, Williana Burroughs
and Rose Wortis will judge the
letters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-02

Soviet Union, so E. 18th St.. New
York City. November issue. Ten
cents.
Reviewed by
ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG
ANNA LOUISE STRONG, associate
"A editor of the Moscow Daily
News"; Moissaye J. Olgin, editor Of
the "Freiheit;" Harvey O'Connor,
author of "Melloi.'s Millions and
at one time news editor Of the
Moscow Daily News" Dr.. Hansu
Chan, editor Of China Today"
Robert w. Dunn, director Of the La
Dor Research Association; Corliss
Lamont, A. A. Heller, Liston M. Oak
and Edwin Seaver are among the
contributors to the November issue
of Soviet Russia Today" which is
devoted to the 18th anniversary of
the Russian Revolution.
How great the demand is for this
handsomely illustrated monthly
magazine may be judged from the
fact that the circulation of Soviet
Russia Today" which in October
reached an all-time high of $1,000,
has within the last month climbed
to 39,50c, with new distribution
facilities in all the leading cities
throughout the country.
Anna Louise Strong, whose books,
lectures and articles on the Soviet
Union are well known in the United
States, begins a series of monthly
letters exclusive to Soviet Russia
Today" in the current issue. Writ
ing on "a New World in the eau
casus," she tells in a fascinating ar
ticle of a number Of new develop
ments in the mountain region, Oh
servations noted during her recent
months vacation in that section.
Her trip included three weeks in
the health resort of Kislovodsk, a
brief trip to Mt Elbrus and a tour
through the famous collective farms
Of Kabardino- Balkaria.
Il saw a poultry farm" writes
Strong, collectively owned, whose
incubators produced 100000 chicks
this season and distributed them to
other surrounding farms. 1 saw
also farms which have hired archi-
tects from the capital Nalchik to
replan their whole village as
'farm-city' This is the new slogan
in Kabardino-B karia-'farm-
cities, with avenues of trees, and
fine central buildings, with a hotel
for guests and rest-home for their
members in some selected grove or
on some stream. The inhabitants
OF these new farm-cities are really
becoming new people Their ideal
is now that of the organized city
worker, instead Of the accumulating
peasant
In his article After Seventeen
Years." Moissaye j. Olgin reviews
the achievements. of the Russian
Revolution since 1917, and A. A.
Hitler gives chronological account
of the history OF this period, year
by year. Together, the two contrib
uticns afford considerable value as
reference.
THE present year not only marks
the seventeenth anniversary of
Soviet Russia. 1t also is the third
year of Soviet China. DR.. Hansu
CHAINS article reviews what has hap
pened in China during these. three
years, the triumph of the Chinese
Red Army against the combined
forces of Marking and the imperial
list powers, and how the Chinese So
VETS have organized the 100000
free people in the land wrested from
the Marking bandits and their over
lords.
"The imperialist' attempt to crush
Soviet China and to suppress the
anti-Japanese move ment." he
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. writes, SIS the first step in their
war against the Soviet Union. A
! powerful mass movement in the
United States against imperialst in
/ Prevention in China is thus not only
a substantial help to the liberation
| movement in China, but it also con-
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Of the Soviet Union"
Writing Of his experiences on the
Moscow Daily News" when he was
( news-editor Of that paper, Harvey
/ O'Connor. author Of MELONS Mil
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/ What American reporter would not
swap his routine Of covering police
and politicians for a chance to get
in on the recording of a decent
society in the making? What Amer
lean reporter, fighting now for the
1 recognition Of his Guild, can help
envy his Soviet brother? A mem
Der of the Photographic Industrial
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tected by union agreements provid-
ing the seven-hour day, five-day
week, wage rates in keeping with
his responsible position as public
educator and social interpreter. His
union insurance system guards him
in sickness and old age, provides a
rest home after sickness and a club
In the country for recreation. And
IN his press club, the bar is not
the focus of social, life 4"
Robert w. Dunn, director Of the
Labor Research Association, writes
a comprehensive account of the RE
organization Of Soviet Trade
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trasts the working conditions,
unionization and wage rates Of So
Wet steel workers with steel workers
in the United States. In the United
States, in 1882, steel wages we're
only 628 per cent of those in 1929.
Since then, two further wage cuts
have occurred, with still another
one due for the coming month. &C
oording to the Wall Street Journal
In the U. s. S. r., wages for steel
work have increased approximately
ia per cent since 1928"
ACCOMPANYING a full page
II photo-montage by John Gilmore
on the subject of national minori-
ties in the Soviet Union, is a beau
tiful piece by the woman president
Of the village Soviet Stain" in Da-
ghestan, entitled I'VE Did Not De-
pend on Allah" Myra Page con-
tributes her regular feature page on
questions to some Of the prevalent
questions asked by readers Of the
magazine about the Soviet Union,
and Corliss Lamont reviews the
Second American Congress of the
League Against War and Fascism,
with special reference to the work
OF the Friends of the Soviet Union.
hston M. Oaks monthly feature,
Soviet News" is also accompanied
by full page of latest pictures
from the U. S. S. r.
From the unusually attractive
cover to the last page, the Novem-
Der issue Of "Sovie. Russia Today
marks a milestone in cur revolu-
tionary publications. No one will
want to miss seeing a copy-and
reading it from cover to cover.
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Plotting the American PogromS

Il should like to know why Mr.
Easley, representing the ultra-pa-
triotic National Civic Federation
has been reporting secretly tt
George Sylvester Viereck, Naz.
agent"
MI. Easley has not been report.
ing to Mr. Viereck," Archie Steven
son exclaimed Indignantly.
Il am sorry. have Mr.. Easley'i
letters to Mr.. Viereck," I assured
him.
we'll there was silence for &
moment. "Mr. Easley is not in al
the moment. Perhaps you had bet.
te- see him"
That's why called. Could
mako an appointment"
please cali tomorrow at ten"
At ten the next morning 1 tele-
phoned. A girls voice answered
when I gave my name.
ooh, Mr.. Spivak, it said. Il have
a message for you. Mr.. Easley saic
that on advice Of counsel he would
rather not see you, He thinks il
would be better if you submitted
the questions you wish to ask him
and he will give them due consider
alton"
You mean Mr.. Easley is afraid
to answer personally propounded
questions. That he wants time to
think over the answers?"
We'll, it's on advice of counsel, y
his secretary replied.
an send him the questions this
afternoon by registered mail. hope
he and his counsel will enjoy an
swering them"
THE list of questions are appended
1 to this article. expect that on
advice of counsel Mr.. Easley will
not answer them I am appending
them only so that the reader will
know what questions Mr.. Easley has
been advised not to answer.
We thus have an idea of the sort
of person this professional patriot"
is. Let us now, since they worked
so closely together, see what sort
of person George Sylvester Viereck
is. Mr.. Viereck is an author, jour
nalist and editor. I will not go into
his literary history which has moth
ing to do with this article. 1 will
merely say that he is one of the
snrewdest propagandists I know. He
himself does not commit himself to
writing. However, Mr.. Easley did
enough writing for both of them.
Viereck's past has shown him
prominently as German propa-
gandist. Since Hitler got into pow
er, he has been an active Nazi prop
agandist. His receiving $1,75o a
month-S1 900 Of which was his
"cut" for getting a fat contract for
Carl Byoir Ca jew to handle pub
licity for German railroads, and $750
month for Service he was to
render Byoir-has already come out.
I do not think it is necessary to
devote more space to proving him
a Nazi propaganda. 1t is much
more important to examine his
financial condition before Hitler got
into power and after Viereck took
trip to Nazi Germany in 1888.
VIERECK lost almost his whole
fortune IN the 1000 orosI, &c a
result of large and unwise specula-
tons. In March and April, 1888,
after Hitler got into power, his bank
accounts show that he suddenly had
large sums Of money. Early in
october he returned from another
trip to Germany and he had still
larger sums available.
Ito be continued
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whereas the one neurosis carries
with it no handicap in the execu-
ton Of ones Communist duty, the
other land it merely so happens)
implies grave political faux pas,
and puts the Party, so to speak, in
an embarrassing position. You have
a dislike for red heads? What does
it matter! There are legions who
like such very people.
The only honest answer to the
comrade who asked the ticklish
question is to keep. his opinion
and his mouth-shut.
BENJAMIN MILLER.
Answer: Serious people are not
interested in ones personal dislikes
for red heads" or BLACK heads"
This is not political question. Op-
position, however, to intermarTiage
between Negro and white persons
or between Jews and "Aryans" (as
in Hitler Germany is a political
question. because it denies the in
dividuaPs freedom of action in the
matter and gives expression to the
false race theories of the ruling
class: "Nordic" superiority, and in
feriority of Negroes, Jews, etc. It
is no accident that this poisonous
theology finds its sharpest express
sion in Fascist Germany, or that
precisely in the South where white
chauyinism is strongest the condi-
tons of both the white and Negro
toilers are far worse than even in
other parts of this country. This
theology is the typical degrading ex-
preston of tottering system, de-
veloped by capitalism in its decay
ing stage in proportion as the class
and national struggles grow acute.
The raising of the question of in
termarriage by readers of the Daily
Worker certainly has not "enbar-
raised" the Party, which has time
and again boldly declared its posi-
ton on this question. Only a white
chauvinist could define the ques-
ton as q "ticklish" one.
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Hauptmann and O'Neill

DUT afraid wouldn't much attention to those
young gallery giving him the critical
should he? He's going to be the recipient OF the
literature this and that makes him great man.
who sat with him in the audience
during showing of his Mourning Becomes Electra"
wrote magnificent play called 1.-THE
passionate against the life OF oppression
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the Gerart Hauptmann He was
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try a steady income.
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Oel Oel Of the Provinceown Players who
Hairy dead the Hauptmann OF The
himself the Inelgentzia The Thea
big of him for the fat ladies and the
brokers the subscribers to the Guild The
realism the plays
No Apes Oe Without End" pale mys-
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leader sounding on the boards
for the oppressed and the
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