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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20
SPEAKS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY TRADITIONS OF
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

point Of the proletariat, legal war
namely: the war against the capital
lists, the war for the liberation Of
mankind from wage slavery!
I am not at all surprised that VII
son, the head of the American bill
lionaireS and servant Of the capital
list sharks, has thrown Debs into
prison. Let the bourgeoisie be brutal
TO the true internationalistS, the true
representatives OF the revolutionary
proletar1atl The more obduracy and
bestiality it displays, the nearer
comes the day Of the victorious probe
tartan revolution.
We are blamed for the destruction
caused by our revolution. Who
are the accusers2 The hsngers-on of
the bourgeoisie, that very bourgeoi-
sic, which has destroyed almost the
whole Of European culture during
the four years Of the imperialist war
and has brought Europe to a state
Of barbarisIn, savagery and starvs-
ton. That bourgeoisie now demands
lof us that we do not carry on Our
revolution on the basis Of this de-
Struction, amidst tho remnants Of
culture, ruins created by the war
nor with men whom the war turned
into SaYages. o how humane and
righteous is that bocrgeotsieI
Its servants accuse us Of terror
|. The English bourgeois has for
gotten his 1910, the French his 1913"
Terror was Just and legal when used
by the bourgeoisie to its own advan-
tage against feudalism. Terror be-
came monStrous and criminal when
workers and the poorest peasants
dared to use it against the bourgeoi-
siel Terror was legal and Just when
used In the interests Of substitution
Of one exploiting minority for an
other. Terror became monstrous and
criminal when It began to be used in
the interests OF an overthrow OF
every exploiting minority. in the In
terests of a really vast majority, in
the interests Of the proletariat and
semi-proletariat, the working class
and the poorest peasantryl
The international imperialist bour-
seoisie has killed off 10,000,000 men,
MANNED 100000 men in 'itS" war,
the war to decide whether the Eng
liSh or the German robbers are to
rule the world.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20

When the October Revolution was
less than year old, Aug. 20, 1918,
Lenln submitted q written report to
the American workers on the prog
ress Of the Proletarian Revolution
in Russia and the obstacles which
were still in the way of the Yictori-
Gus accomplishments of this Reyolu-
iton. He chose to write his report in
the form Of letter which he asked
q visiting Russian-American COM
rade to deliver on his return to the
United States, which, thanks to the
blockade at that time, was preca-
rious undertaking.
Remembering the revolutionary
traditions Of the American working
class and believing that "the Ameri-
can revolutionary proletarians are de-
stined now to play an especially i'm
pOrtant role as irreconcilabIe foes Of
American Imperialism" Lenin pro-
ceeded to explain the imperiakst ma
ture OF the war which was still rag
ing, the rapacious imperialist designs
Of the ruling classes of the warning
nations, Including the American, and
the attempts OF the capitalist gov
eminent to destroy the young Soviet
Republic. In flaming words he
showed how the Allies, as well as the
Central Powers, were carrying on the
wholesale slaughter for the division
Of spoils, for profits from the mar
kets and colonies which would go to
the victorious imperialist group.
"Scum Of International Socialism
In words Of scorn, Lenin described
the betrayals OF those Socialist lead
ers who aided their capitalist gov
ernments by deluding the workers.
''Thriee they deserve the utmost con-
tempt, this scum of international So
cialism, these Iackeys OF bourgeois
morality" was Lenin's thrust at these
agents Of the bosses in the labor
movement.
But the October Revolution made
breach in the strongest imperial
list block. The Soviet Republic with
drew from the war and renowned
all the imperialist policies of tzariSm
and Of the Kerensky government
which continued them. The October
Revolution established workers rule
and was destroying every vestige Of
capitalism In Russia. World capital
ism would not allow that. Counter
revolution in Russia was given every
possible aid. Armies were fitted out
and dispatched to the various borders
from the Black Sea to the Pacific
Ocean.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20
OUR WAR is A WAR OF THE OPPRESSED AGAINST
THE OPPRESSORS

heritage 70 the workers by their
best teachers, the founders OF mod
ern Socialism. That truth is, that
there can be no successful revolt
ton without crushing the resistance
Of the exploiters. 1t was our duty TO
crush the resistance of exploiters
when we, the workers and toiling
peasants, seized state power. We are
proud that we have been doing it
and are continuing to do it. We only
regret that we are not doing it in
sufficiently firm and determined
manner.
We know that the fierce resistance
Of the bourgeoisie to the Socialist
revolution Is inevitable In all coun-
tries and that 1t will grow with the
growth Of this revolution. The pro-
letariat will crush this resistance;
1t will definitely mature to victory
and power In the course Of struggle
against the resisting bourgeoisie.
Let the kept bourgeois press howl
to the whole world about each mis-
take made by our revolution. We are
not afraid of our mistakes. Men have
not become saints because the revo-
luton has begun. The toiling classes,
oppressed and downtrodden for CEN
turtles and forced into the clutches OF
poverty, savagery and ignorance can
not be expected to bring about
revolution flawleSsly. And the ca
daver Of bourgeois society, as I had
occasion to point out once before.
cannot be nailed In q casket and
buried. Defeated capitalism Is dy-
ing and rotting around us, pollutine
the air with germs and poisoning our
lives, grasping the new, the fresh, the
young and the live with thousands
Of threads and bonds Of the old. the
rotten, the dead.
For every hundred mistakes OF
ours heralded to the world by the
bourgeoisie and its lackeys (includ-
ing our own Mensheviks and Right
Socialist Revolutionaries) there are
10000 great and heroic deeds, the
greater and the more heroic for their
simplicity, for their being unseen and
hidden In the everyday life Of an in
dustrial quarter or provincial village,
performed by men who are not used
to (and who do not have the oppor-
tunity to- herald their achievements
to the world.
But even If the contrary were true
although know this supposition
to be incorrect--even II there were
10000 mistakes for every 100 correct
actions Of ours, even in that case our
revolution would be great and invip-
chile, and SO 1t will be in the eyes OF
world history, because, for the first
time not the minority. not only the
rich, not only the educated, but the
real masses, the vast majority Of
toilers are themselves building a new
life, are deciding by their own expe-
rience the most difficult problems OF
Socialist organization.
Each mistake In such q work. In
this most honest and sincere work Of
tens Of millions OF simple workers
and peasants for the reorganization
Of their whole life, each such mis-
take is worth thousands and millious
Of "faultless" successes of the ex-
plotting minority--suecesses in swim
ding and dipping the toilers, For
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20

II our war, the war OF oppressed
and exploited against orpressors and
exploiters results in half . million or
a million victims in ali countries, the
bourgeoisie will say that the sacrifice
Of the former is justified, while the
latter is criminal.
The proIetariat viii say something
altogether different.
Now, amid the ravages Of the i'm
perialist war, the proletariat is thor
oughly mastering that great truth
taught by all revolutions and left as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20
Err TO AMERICAN WORKING CLASS

milton, even when they do "recog-
nize" the class struggle, but in deeds
they revert again and again to the
philistine Utopia Of Cancellation"
and collaboration" Of classes. For
the class struggle in revolutionary
times has always inevitably and in
every country taken on the form Of
a civil war, and civil war is unthink-
able without the worst kind Of de-
struction, without terror and linita-
tons Of formal democracy in the In
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20

terests Of the war. Only suaye priests,
be they Christian or secular" parlis-
mentary or parlor Socialists, are I'M
able to see, understand and feel this
necessity. Only lifeless "men in the
case" can shun the revolution for
this reason, instead Of throwing
themselves into the fight with the
utmost passion and decisiveneSS at a
moment when history demands that
the greatest problems Of humanity
be solved by struggle and war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20

The complete version Of Lenin's
LETTER TO AMERICAN WORK
ERs, written In 1913; is being pub
Iished for the first time in pamph-
let form by International Publish
crs, 3S1 Fourth Ave, New York. The
widest possible circuls lion Of this
pamphlet must be secured among
the American workers.-ED. NOTE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20
By V. T. LENTN

Comrades: A Russian BolShevik
who participated in the Revolution
q 1905. and for many years after
wards lived in your country, has Of
eered to transmit my letter 20 you.
I accepted his proposal all the more
ioyfully, because the American revo-
lutionary proletarians are destined
precisely now to play an especially
important role as irreconciliable foes
Of American imperialism, which is
the newest, strongest and latest to
participate in the worldwide slaugh-
ter of nations. for the division of
capitalist profits. Precisely now the
American billionsires, these COntem-
pOrary sIave-Owners, have opened a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20

The following text Of Leni1rs let
Ter, written in 1918, Is published in
fUll for the first time. Earlier
printings were published with seri-
Gus omissions. The parts which
were omitted are published in bold
face.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20

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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-10-19
Chest Aids Many Projects
BAND GIVEN suPPoRT
Group Lists Three Units

More than half Of the funds OBJ
tanned each year in the annual Bis
marck Community Chest drive are de-
voted to welfare programs for chill
dren, H. P. Goddard, secretary, point
ed out Friday.
Supported BY the fund are the local
Boy and Girl Scout organizations, the
Bismarck Juvenile band, st. Johns
Orphanage, Fargo and the North Da-
kota Chtldren's Home, Fargo.
The Juvenile band. organized less
than 10 years ago by l.. G. sorlien,
has grown from a very small group
to one Of l26 members at the present
time.
Hundreds Of children have been
given the opportunity to acquire a
musical education at q nominal cost.
Open air concerts and participation in
civic events adequately repay the
community for the money invested
In this betterment project.
Clarion Larson, present director Of
the band, has divided its membership
into three groups, namely the Juvenile
Concert band. the Junior High School
band and the Beginners bands.
The concert band has the bulk OF its
membership from among the high
school students but also includes re-
cent graduates who desire to continue
their training. Students Of win
school make up the membership Of
the Junior High band while BEGINNERS
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-10-19

organisations are found in the high
school, Will. Roosevelt, william Moore
and Richholt schools.
This system Of three distinct units
affords regular progression for band
players. Starting with the beginners
bands many Of the pupils have ad-
vanced until today they are fine mu-
sicians. Former juvenile band men,
bers may be found In many large uni
versity and college bands. Several
have chosen music for profession.
Active interest Of local people has
been largely responsible for the sue
cessful work done by the band each
year. A committee appointed by the
Association Of Commerce has direct
charge Of the band program. Mem
bers Of this committee are Spencer
Boise. chairman; H. O. Saxvik and
Supreme Court Justice w. L. Nuessle.
instruments and music owned by
the organization and the individual
members Is worth In the neighborhood
Of $500 with about $400 additional
being spent for uniforms through the
aid Of the local Kiwanis club and the
Association Of Commerce.
The concert band, which is made up
Of So members, rehearses four times
week. Ruth Coghlan is drum ma
joress and James Hyland is assisting
Larson In parade formations.
The junior high band holds prac-
tices every school day and the begin
ners meet for instruction once q week.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-10-19
Brother of Alfalfa Bill Murray
10 Stump for Noodles Election

Fargo, N. D.. Oct. l9.-(PD-
George T. Murray Of Bertnold,
N. D., brother Of Gov. William H.
alfalfa Bib Murray of Okla
homa, will actively stump for the
North Dakota Democratic tic..set
from Friday to the end Of the
campaign. ]. G. Eaton. Demo-
cratic chairman, announced Fri
day.
Murray, supporter Of Former
Gov. William LANCER until this
last spring, will open his tour
Friday afternoon at Baker in
Benson county. He will speak at
8 p. m. Friday night at York.
Saturday afternoon he will APP
pear at Churchs Ferry and Sat-
urday night at Egeland.
Monday and Tuesday he will
speak at Rock Lake, Hansboro.
and st. John. Murray's tour will
take him through the north CEN
trail and northwest parts Of the
state.
A southerner by birth but a
North Dakota homc5teader who
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-10-19
HOPKINS PICTURES
INDUSTRIAL
HOUSING PROJECTS
Relief Administrator Says 12
Communities Are Being
Planned

Washington, Oct. 19.-(R)-Harry L
Hopkins, relief administrator, said 81
his press conference Friday that
twelve rural-industrial communities
housing from $50 to 700 families each
would be built Immediately with relief
funds in different sections Of the
country,
The administrator disclosed that de.
tailed plans for about so such projects
have been made at relief headquart.
ers but that money to build all Of
them was not yet available.
I'm convinced that everyone of the
II communities which we're going t.
build at this time will be self-liqui-
dating Hopkins said.
He asserted it had not yet been de-
cided whether the relief built homes
would be sold to the occupants OF
leased to them, but said that in any
event the cost Of occupying these
houses would be very, very cheap"
Cost Only $1,000
Displaying pictures Of one Of the
$50 small houses now being built al
the rnral industrial community Of
Red House, West Virginia. he said
that the house and the ten acre tract
on which it stood cost only $1,000. He
said 200 more homes were planned at
Red House.
Pointing to another project in pro-
gress in Arkansas he said that zoe
houses already had been built there
at cost Of between $3.50 and 5000
This project is to include 700 homes
ultimately, scattered over $4,000 OF
$4,000 acres. Hopkins said the
amount actually being laid out" for
each unit, including farming tracts OF
20 to 80 acres, was between 81 200 and
$1,000.
All of the rural communities built
with relief labor and relief funds are
to be occupied by families taken from
relief rolls.
Hopkins said five or six industries
two or three Of them nationally
known, were trying to 80 into the Red
House community. He said some Of
them would be permitted to establish
plants there, and that relief officials
in charge Of the project would make
no effort to regulate the industries
established.
Some day we've got to have hous-
Ing where people can pay Is per cent
CT their income for a decent place to
live" Hopkins declared.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-10-19
Red Cross Workers
Assemble in japan

Tokyo. Oct. 10. -R- Delegates
from 81 nations gathered in Tokyo
Friday for the commencement of the
fifteenth quadrennial international
Red Cross congress which opens Sat-
urday.
One delegation represented the So
Wet Union.
The delegation from the United
States, under the leadership Of John
Barton Payne. chairman of the Amer
lean Red Cross since 1921, included
Arthur Charles Stokes. former chair
man of the Omaha, Neb.. chapter Of
the Red Cross. and Mrs. Stokes.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-10-19
Rev. Packer Named
Church Moderator

Hettinger, N. D., Oct. 19-(P-The
Rev. p. G. Packer Of Mott was named
moderator Of the southwestern asso-
citation Of Congregational and Christ
ian churches at the fourth annual con-
ference here. He succeeds Rev. George
B. Galley. Hettinger.
Other officers elected are Rev. E.
E. Lindsay, Reeder, assistant mcder-
ator, and Ira r. Hall. Hettinger. re-
elected registrar and treasurer.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-10-19

Southern California
Fears More Weather

Los Angeles. Oct. 10. = P = Storm
clouds hung threateningly over South
ern California Friday as officials
blamed torrential rains of the last two
days for seven deaths and property
less estimated E. c1--e than Sl5c, 900.
Only one Of the deaths was directly
attributable to the storm. Seven
year-old Donald Butterworth Of Los
Angeles was swept into flooded
storm drain and buried in mud at the
outlet. The other six deaths were in
automobile accidents on slippery
streets.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-10-19

cussed will be the proposal to modify
the fourth section Of the Interstate
Commerce act. This Is the section
which prohibits railroads from
charging more for shorter haul
than for a longer haul over the same
lines and in the same general direc-
ton.
Another topic will be the effect of
Crouth relief rates.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-10-19
N. w. Shippers Board
Will Meet at Fargo

Fargo. N. D.. Oct. 19.-(P)-Fargo
will be host to representatives Of the
railroad world Get. 30 when the
Northwest Shippers Advisory Board
will hold its 10th formal session here.
Outstanding speaker Of the day
will be Carl r. Gray, vice president
o; the Omaha railway.
Cne Of the subjects to be dis
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-10-19

lives on the land he broke to the
pow in Ward county more than
30 years ago. Murray declared,
Il cannot support political par
ty that is interested in self and
not in the people Two years ago,
like many another North Dakota
citizen, I believed that william
LANCER would make q real gov
ernor. But he fooled me like he
has fooled others who put their
faith in him.
THE election of the ticket he
supports this fall can mean only
one thing-the continuation of .
regime that Is backed secretly BY
the capitalists but which pre-
tends to be the friend Of the COM
mon herd. I am going to open
the peoples eyes to just what
Langerism E-a selfish political
machine that will enslava the
people Of our state unless 1t is
smashed now"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-10-19

dent Of Greeoe TOR . five.year ter
Friday at q joint session Of the sef
ate and the chamber Of deputies.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-10-19

Shanghai's birth rate is IS per 1000
Of population. while that Of Toxic
is a..
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-10-19

A slot machine sells oiled paper
umbrellas in Berlin.
The Washington times., 1934-05-26
PRESBYTER|ANS
PLAN FIGHT

CLEVELAND, May 26 GN.SD.
Smarting under an overwhelming
vote of censure. the minority fun
damentalist faction of the Presby.
terian Church today drew plans
to carry its fight for a return
to orthodox doctrine and policies
to church congregations through.
out the country.
BY a vote of approximately 6
to !, the modernist majority of
delegates to the church's 146th
general assembly here late yester'
day rebuked the fundamentals
leaders for their activities, which
were termed "disorderly."
In reply. Rev. H. McAllister
GriffithS, editor of Christianity
Today, shouted:
"ThiS vote shows that the
majority Of the assembly is will
ing to fOrsake the great cardi-
nal principles of freedom
brought out in the Protestant
reformation. We will continue
the struggle. Assemblies of fu-
ture years may tell a different
story"
The Washington times., 1934-05-26
MILK AND HONEY
WORLD SEEN

CHICAGO, May 26 GN.S).
A world full of milk and honey.
without depressions, even with"
out NRA's, awaits mankind.
Five-hundred outstanding lead
ers in science and industry to-
day offered pictures of an amaz-
ing twenty-first century in which
motors will run by sunlight, air.
planes fly by power sent from
the ground and man himself
seldom fail to realize the biblical
promise of a life of three-score
years and ten.
These leaders, either in per.
son or by statement, gave their
views last night at a dinner
rendered by Alfred P. Sloan, jr..
president of General Motors Cor
poration. 1t was called a "pre-
view of industrial progress in
the next century, and was
staged at a Century of Progress
Expositions grounds.
Basing confidence in the future
on their own knowledge as special.
lists in their chosen fields, they
promised imminent and startling
developments in radio, televislon,
transportation, medicine, educa-
ton, housing, food and communi'
cations.
The Washington times., 1934-05-26

CHICAGO, May 26 Q.N.S).--
A Century of Progress, 1884 edi-
ton, threw open its gates this
morning in every way a more
glittering, beautiful and spec
tacular exposition than last year.
Little of the ceremony to come
was evident as the turnstiles
clicked to admit the first of mil
lions expected to view the multi
colored wonders of the mammoth
show on the lake front. Official
opening ceremonies, featured by a
parade, were to be held this after
noon.
To Martin Svendson, 10, a de-
partment store clerk, went the
honor of being the first visitor to
enter the grounds. He had been
waiting at the Twelfth Street
gate since $50 o'clock last night.
A crowd of 500 was on nand
when the gates were thrown
open, but Fair officials estimated
that 10000 visitors had passed
through the turnStiles during
the first hour, from 9 a. m. to
10 o'clock. 1t was expected that
the first day visitors would turn
out in heavier numbers as the
The Washington times., 1934-05-26
TAYLOR ENTERS
DAMAGE SUIT

Charging assault and battery.
Aubrey E. Taylor, official of the
PWA publicity bureau and former
local newspaper man, entered suit
for $4,000 damages today in Dis
trict Supreme Court against
Charles P. Williamson, local news
paper man.
The suit charges that Mr.. Will
hanson. accompanied by four
male companions, forced their
way into Mr.. Taylor's home, $500
block Oakridge Ave-, Chevy Chase,
Md. a week ago and, after max
ing grossly false" accusations
against him, severely beat him
about the head. face and body.
Mr.. Taylor also charged that
while he was being beaten. his
wife and daughter were forcibly
detained from summoning aid for
him. Tha S''it was filed through
Attorneys Robert E. May, Charles
M Irelan, jr, and Ralph A.
Ricketts,.