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they are able to fight it.
During the past few weeks, I have
been reading the Leader, Guardian,
and your circular letter with the
growing conviction that the Social
ist Party Of the US. is a traitor to
the working class. Norman Thomas
has shown the cheapest kind of OPP
portunism. He has revealed that he
has what I call theological mind,
lie, one which cannot recognize
cause and effect.
have watched closely the Social
iSt attitude toward European affairs,
especially the latest trouble in Aus
tria, and now I register my protest
against the traitorous character of
the Socialist leadership in the US.
as well as the leadership in Ger
many, Austria, and England. Your
organs have criticized Ramsay Mac
Donald and other Socialist leaders
for their betrayals, but fail to an
alyze and criticize your own policies
so as to discover how and why such
betrayals are possible.
The record of Socialism in the
world has been one of sentimental
ity, compromise, opportunism and
betrayal, so that in countries and
localities where Socialists have been
in power, the workers have eventu-
ally been crushed by (not the dis
honesty, etc. of others, but the
compromising leadership of the
party.
A Socialism that cannot learn
from its mistakes, that cannot an
alyze and criticize itself, and alter
it's policies and methods according
ly, has the same characteristics of
the worlds religions which have be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-16

point out statement made by a
president Of a bank in a talk with
me. He said that he would like to
see everyone a millionaire. I said,
why, that is impossible" He said
the only reason people were not
millionatres was that they were
lazy.
When I tried to point out how
the struggle for existence, losing of
savings and homes crushed the in
itiative and ambition of workers, he
boosted about his own rise in the
world-self made man and all that
nonsense.
AS for these capitalists and in
dustrialists relinquishing their hold
on the means of production and
distribution once the people have
expressed their will for Socialism
it is just an illusion based upon re-
ligious sentimentality, and other
idealistic conceptions.
The error of the belief is revealed
in the conduct and attitude of cap
italistic elements in trying to sabo-
tage Russian industry, lies about re-
ligious persecution, misrepresenta-
ton OF the facts of the Five-Year
Plan, boycott of Russian goods, six
teen years of non-recognition of
Russia, whereas Cuban govern
ment which suits the capitalistic
purpose can be recognized in a few
days, the sending of us. and other
capitalistic troops into Russia in an
effort to crush the beginning of So
cialism, and many other practices
which prove conclusively and ir-
revocably that the capitalistic class
will never peacefully submit to So
cialisn that Is Socialism as long as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-16

other, resisting one another. If it is
not the boasts of one church sect
about its superiority over another,
or the OARS, or Ku Klux Khan,
or employment Of such names as
Micks, Pollacks, Guinies, Dagoes
Wops, Huns, Frogs, Limies, Crack
ers, Chinks, ETC., it is something
else.
Now the Leader, because (like
most groups it cannot answer Ger
tain things satisfactorily with facts
and reasons begins employing the
use of Swine, Scum, Lepers, ETC.. In
speaking of another group which
really has revolutionary policy
which is winning the workers.
I can see nothing in US. Social
ism but beastly betrayal of the
workers. Henceforth, I shall have
nothing to do with it except to try
to reveal to the present Socialists
and other workers the traitorous
character of its leadership. 1 am
convinced that the workers who be-
long to the Socialist Party are
largely revolutionary and have en-
braced Socialism because they had
been lead to believe through am
biguous writings, and proletarian
phrases, that it was a true workers
party.
The Socialist leadership in this
country is greedy, opportunistic,
compromising and traitorous to the
workers.
From now on shall fight it for
the menace it is to the workers of
the world
Earnestly and sincerely for the
overthrow of capitalism.
! CLAYTON VAN B. WH6sfN.
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thing about helping people secure
the abundant life. In the time that
has passed since my entrance into
the ministry I have devoted long
and serious study to causes and
effects. l have sought to compre-
bend the forces which play into
life. One purpose has guided me in
my Search-t0 know the truth.
When I discovered that some re-
Ggious doctrine was baseless or err
roneous, I discarded it. When I rec
ognized prejudice, I abolished it..
so that after several years of con-
centrated study and thought on
history, philosophy, theology, SCI
ence, logic, dialectics, ETC., gradu-
ally and irresistably came to a re-
alization that Socialism was the
only way out Of the rottenness of
the capitalistic system.
About a year ago I had abolished
enough of my bourgeois prejudices
to openly profess my stand for So
clalism. Being an American of Eng
lish ancestry which dates back to
the colonial days of this country, I
had plenty of conceits and pre-
JUDGES. But following truth, those
prejudices had to fall. Last fall I
was candidate fpr Mayor of this city
on the Socialist ticket. Since then
I have read the New Leader and
the American Guardian and several
books on Socialism with an eye for
methods and policies as well as
theories. I have been impressed with
the large amount of bourgeois pre-
JUDGES possessed by the Socialists
I have met.
I conceived Socialism as being
International in scope and yet I
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-16

SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, March is.
This island has wonderful pos
sibilities for pleasure, I'm so sorry
I can't stay longer" said Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt as she got
ready to leave this island of starva-
ton, disease, and misery.
ooh no, I'll have no recommended
lions to make, that's not my prov
ince," she declared after a weeks
stay in this island whose inhabitants
are rotting away, choked by Ameri-
can imperialism, which drains the
island of all its resources and al
lows its toilers not even an acre
on which to grow food.
She said she found the children
in less serious condition than she
had expected, and declared herself
very much pleased and surprised
that the Porto Rican workers kept
themselves clean. The vast ajority
of the Porto Rican toilers live in
one room "Hooverville" shacks; the
children are chemically undernour-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-16
Rome ParIeys Plan
Danubian Bloc To
Isolate Germany

ROME, March 15.-The failure of
Hitler's foreign policy, and the isola-
ton of Germany by the other con-
tinental imperialists is being under
lined here today as Premier Musso-
lini discusses with Chancellor Doll
fuss of Austria and Premier Com
boes of Hungary a Danubian block
against Nazi expansion IN this
region.
Although official announcements
say that the discussions now go
ing on are entirely around economic
measures, all observers agree that
the real aim of this parley is to es-
tablish political bloc in opposition
to the ambitions of German impe-
rialism. Some commentators even
suggest that Italy will invite France
and its Danubian vassal states,
Czechoslovakia, Rumania, and Jugo-
slavia to join in this agreement.
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trayed, enslaved, cheated, and de-
secrated human life 1t is like re-
ligions which have instilled belief
in the human mind that man was
depraved, and have used every
method to increase fear, ignorance
and superstition and caused untold
misery in the world and then boast
ed of its contributions to civilization.
Every worthwhile advance in hui
man knowledge, social justice, etc.,
has been through the work of here
tics. New beliefs have been erected
on the teachings of these heretics,
and then the sect thus created be-
gins to boast that it produced the
advancement instead of realizing
and admitting that it was product
of advancement which took place in
spite of the most vicious, cruel, and
often bloody opposition by the then
organized and accepted brand of
belief.
Several times lately I have been
tempted to register my protest
against the massacred reasoning,
Misrepresentation, prejudice, etc.,
which has been revealed in the
Leader and in your letter. However,
I did not wish to be premature. I
waited to see if the Socialist Lead
ers had merely gone off on tan
gent temporarily or whether they
were expressing basic attitudes and
opinions. am quite satisfied that
they have meant what they said
and that my impression of them is
not false.
The Socialist leadership Of this
country is betraying the workers
cause. I detect in the Socialist
leaders the same kind of misrepre-
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find many Socialists terribly nation
alistic. Furthermore, I found them
to be lacking in enthusiasm for
their cause. They seemed to take
their Socialism like Rotarian
takes his club.
When I spoke in the park and
criticized John D. Rockefeller, Nor
gan, Mellon, Schwab and other in
dustrialists and bankers, an old
party member and local leader
came to me and told me I should
not talk that way. He said that
these men were good but forced to
be bad by the system.
I conceived Socialism to be the
workers party in a struggle against
the oppression, coercion, exploita-
ton, corruption and graft of a GER
tain class of men. In other words, I
recognized class struggle, but this
old time Socialist tried to tell me
that these potentially good men,
who were made bad by the system
would be good to cooperate for So
clal1sm as soon as the majority ex-
pressed their will for Socialism. I
had an idea that men had some
thing to do with creating and main
tanning the system.
I recognized a certain amount of
truth in the statement that the sys-
tenn made potentially good men bad,
but | realize from conversations
with bankers and industrialists that
they have incurable conceits about
their rights, abilities, positions, etc.
They look upon the average worker
as a lazy bum who has never tried
to get anywhere.
AS an example of the brainless-
ness Of some of this class would
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-16
N. Y. District Gains 3,2OI Nep
Readers in ''Daiy" Sub Drive

Daily sales by Section Is from
March 1st to March 9th show a
rise of 925, but Saturday sales went
down by S13, giving it net gain of
612. In the same week, Section IA,
formed recently by dividing Sec
ton Is, boosted its daily sales by
514.
In Section 9, Brownsville, Louis
Bunkin, member of Unit 4, is doing
fine work in gaining new readers
for the Daily" on Crown Heights,
a Negro neighborhood. But other
members in the Unit are reported
doing poorly.
From Feb. LIST to March 9th, Sec
ton shows gain of only 1863 new
daily and 229 new Saturday readers,
or 1872 in total
Daily" Affair
Al members of Units are invited
to attend a Neighborhood Get
Together which Unit Ais, Section 4,
will hold Friday, March 10th, 8 p. M,
at the Harlem Palace, 81 w. 115th
ST., with James w. Ford as the
main speaker, to see how workers
in the neighborhood are gathered on
the basis Of the Daily Worker.
Premium
The District Daily Worker Office
has secured several hundred Lenin
medallions for premiums in the cir
culation drive. A medallion will be
given for each new subscriber OBJ
tanned for from three months to a
year. Call for these premiums at
the Daily Worker District Office,
IS East 18th st.
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sentation, tricky rhetoric, demagogic
phrases employed by capitalists and
religionists who are seeking to
maintain their particular cause re-
CARELESS of their effect upon hu-
mainly. Some workers have en-
braced Socialism because they be-
lieved that it had a revolutionary
policy. and it seems to me that
whilethe Ladr spaks Officially for
the party, the American Guardian
is used to hold the more revolution
airy element in line, with more
radical (altho not officiaD character.
I would make note of the idiocy
of some Socialists, in the instance
of a local leader seeking to get
groups of Socialists together to lis
ten to that Radio Priest Coughlin
speW his poison propaganda over
the radio to the millions of revolt
ing, hungry, unemployed workers.
This leader has set Coughlin up as
a good Socialist. But a superficial
consideration of the Radio Priests
purpose can be noted in such in
stances as his recent appearance
before the House Judiciary Com
mittee relative to birth control. AL
though representing a church which
has done considerable mouthing
about universally, democracy, and
brotherly love, he seeks to stir up
racial animosity to keep the workers
unorganized and easy victims of ex-
ploitation, by appealing to fear and
prejudice, with talk about this
country being overrun with aliens
and Negroes.
Nearly every exploiter employs
appeal to prejudice to keep workers
hating eache other, opposing each
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-16
NaziS Appoint "A
Capitalists To Run
German Industry
Order Reve ais Close
Tie-up of Nazis
With Trusts

BERLIN, March is. "A further
step toward placing the most power
full cliques Of monopoly finance
capital in open control of the Nazi
Hitler government was taken today
when Hitler's Minister Of Economics,
DR.. Kurt Schmitt, announced that
all of Germany's industry will be
placed under the control OF IA ap-
pointed industrialiSts.
These IA industrial capitalists will
have full power to regulate" COM
petition, fix prices, establish quotas
of production, ETC., in a manner re-
markedly similar to the present eco
nomic program of the Roosevelt N.
R. A. codes. In actually, these
powers have been granted by the
Hitler government to fortify the po-
sition of German monopoly capital
ism (big trusts against the COM
petition of non-monopoly capital in
the domestic markets.
1t is noteworthy that the Hitler
government, which has become a
byword for the savage persecution
of the Jews, has omitted Jewish
industrialists from the ban on gov
eminent bodies. This latest order
specifically omits Jewish capitalists
from the ban.
Protect Capitalist Property
The concentration of economic
power into the hands of so small
clique of monopoly capitalists is
also an indication of the steady
narrowing of the social basis of the
Hitler government which has failed
to redeem one of It's promises to the
starving. ruined masses in the cities
and in the countryside. The Hitler
government is preparing to meet the
steadily rising disillusionment of the
masses by concentrating the econo-
mic and state power into a small
clique of ruling monopoly capital.
In contradiction TO the Hitler
promises of Socialism" and fight
against capitalism, the Schmitt or
ders re-affirm that Eitler's govern
ment is based upon the principle of
the protection of private capitalist
property.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-16
Series of n. Y.
Mass Meetings
OnCubaCalIed
Webster Hall, Brooklyn,
Park Palace Meets Next
Wednesday Night

NEW YORK-A series of mass
meetings, to protest the savage at
tack Of the Mendieta government
on the Cuban strike movement and
the interventionist tactics of JEFF
ferson Caffery, Wall Street ennis
sary, have been set for next We'd
nesday evening, March 81, by the
Anti-Imperialist League of the US.
and the Trade Union Unity Council.
One meeting has been scheduled
at Park Palace, Harlem, which will
be held under the joint auspices of
the Anti Imperialist League, the
Trade Union Unity Council, the
League of Struggle for Negro
Rights, the Julio Mella Club, the
Centre Obrero and other colonial
organizations.
The downtown meeting, to be
held at Webster Hall, has been ar
ranged by the Anti-Imperialist
League, the T. U. U. c., and Sec
tons l and 2 of the Communist
Party.
Arrangements are now under way
for a similar mass meeting in
Brooklyn, in which the Filipino and
P o r o Rican Anti-Imperialist
Leagues will play a large part.
On the date of the meetings the
Anti-Imperialist League will init
ate wide distribution of protests
printed on a postcard and addressed
to President Roosevelt. All organ
izations, including those affiliated
with the League, are urged to place
their orders at once. The initial
rate is 70 cents a hundred, to be
sold at one cent apiece.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-16
.Nazis Refuse
To Tell Where
ThaeIn1ann Is
Philadelphia M e citing
Saturday to Demand
His Release

PARIS, March CBy Mail. -
Ernst Thaelmann is guilty Of high
treason; it is no foreigners business
what we do with him."
This was the answer of Diefls,
head of the Nazi Secret Police, and
detective councillor Heller, a former
Social Democrat, to DR.. Cord, we'll
known Paris physician sent to Ger
many by the International Juridical
Association to make medical ex-
animation of the German Commu-
mist leader.
DR.. Cord has returned to Paris,
not having been allowed to see
Thaelmann. Diehls and Heller,
whom DR.. Cord visited several times,
refused even to say where Thael-
mann is being kept.
The refusal to let Thaemann be
seen, even to let his whereabouts be
known, and the statements Of the
Nazi butcher Diehls about him to
DR.. Cord sharply emphasize again
the imminent peril in which Thael-
mann stands so long as the mass
demands of the world proletariat
have not forced the Nazis to let HIM
go, as they were forced to release
Dimitroff and his two comrades.
Philadelphia Protest Meeting
PHILADELPHIA, March IA
mass meeting to demand the release
of Ernst Thaelmann, leader Of the
German Communist Party, and TO
protest the arrest of six workers ar-
rested in a demonstration at the
German Consulate here last Satur-
day will be held this Saturday,
March II, at 8 pm, at Columbus
FALL, 3ol5 Fox st.
The meeting Is called by the
Young Communist League. A. ".
Mills, district organizer of the Com
munist Party, and Joe CarVin, dis
trict organizer Of the Young Conn
munist League, Will speak.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-16

NEW YORK. A gain of 3,201
new readers is recorded by the
New York district in the Daily
Worker circulation drive from Feb.
LIST to March 9th, with 2,266 of these
for the Saturday edition.
This district also shows a gain Of
1866 new subscribers by mail for the
daily edition and "a for the Satur-
day issue.
Fifteen of these subs were secured
by Comrade Newton, a Daily Worker
volunteer. The office Workers
Union secured 4; Section 1, 10;
Unit 10, Section IL obtained S; Sec
ton 10 secured 4.
Section 4 Leads
Section 4, which includes Harlem,
boosted its daily sales by 761 and
its Saturday sales by 579, or 1910
in all. In this section, Unit Ais,
which used to sell only IS copies
weekly, now sells AGO. This Unit
has been challenged b. Unit 400
to revolutionary competition in the
circulation drive. Unit 400 pledges
to boost its sales to 500 by May LIST.
Unit AS states it will increase it's
sales to 500 oy April list.
Section 2 is next to Section 4,
with a gain of 900 new readers, 1913
of these for the daily edition. Sec
ton l gained 6S3 new daily and 1879
new Saturday readers, or 872 in all.
Section carriers are doing
splendid work showing gain of
6S5 new readers. OF the total
gain of 1,S4O made by Section 4,
gains on carrier routes account
for 165.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-16
Swiss Voters Reject
Fascist Amendment

BERNE, Switzerland, March IS
Two former presidents of Switzer-
land, members of the Federal Coun-
Gil, have resigned following the
sweeping refusal of the Swiss masses
to endorse at last Sundays plebis-
cite constitutional amendment
giving the federal executive special
powers against political agitators
and threatened coups d'etat."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-16
Japan Buys 1000 Tons
Scrap Iron in Trinidad

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,
March 10. = japanese agents are
buying up immense quantities of
scrap iron here and in the Wind
ward Islands and Venezuela. Al
ready 1000 tons of old sugar milling
and oil refining machinery has
been bought and will be shipped on
the S. S. San Francisco Maru.
Scrap iron is essential to Japan's
war plans, and the governments
agents are securing every corner of
the world for scrap iron and ship
ping it to Japan by hundreds of
thousands of tons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-16
Sandino's Children
Reported Murdered

SAN SALVADOR, March is.
Gregorio SANDING, father of Angus
toS SANDING, anti-imperialist leader
murdered by the Nicaraguan Ma
tional Guard, has learned that
his niece, his year-old grand
daughter, and the children of Au-
gusto Sandino's deceased wife have
been murdered by the National
Guard.
No attempt whatever has been
made to arrest the murderers of
SANDING, who are well-knoWn,
proving that the murder of San
dino was on the order of President
Juan B. Sacasa, whose guest San
dino was just before he was kid
mapped and shot down with his
brother and two aides.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-16
Sweden to Make
$26,28O,OOO Loan
to Soviet Union
To Promise Trade by
Building Soviet
State Bonds
Especial to the Daily Worker)

Especial to the Daily WOrker)
MOSCOW, March Is (By Radio
Authoritative sources in Stock
holm announce that the Swedish
government has decided to place
at the disposal of the Soviet gov
eminent loan of 100,000,0 900 Swed-
ish kronen ($26, $50, 00O.
The loan is to be employed by
the Soviet government for the pur-
chase of Swedish manufactured
goods. The loan is to be made in
exchange of Soviet state bonds
maturing between August IS, 1899,
and May Is, 1941.
A complete agreement is expected
to be drawn up within the next
few days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-16
Soviet Air Here
Missing On Trip
TOICe-FbOeGrOup
Especial to the Daily WORKER

IbpeCAaI 70 VIC Uaify W0FAefJ
MOSCOW, March is (By RADIO.
-Liapidevsky, the Soviet airman
who recently rescued the ten wo-
men and two children from the ice
foe camp of the polar expedition
whose ship, the Chelyuskin, sank In
the Behring Sea, is believed to have
made a forced landing on a second
trip to the Chelyuskin camp.
He left Cape WeNen yesterday by
plane for Cape Van Karen, but did
not arrive. Sleighs have been sent
to the region where he is thought
to have landed, to look for him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-16
0dHd Member DenOunces
g
FORMER SOCIALIST PARTY MAYoRAITY CANDIDATE REPLIES

NEW YORK-The following
letter from an old member of the
Socialist Party, who was active
enough in the Party to receive the
nomination for Mayor in one of
the election campaigns, is signi-
ficant of the gulf that is develop
ing between the rank and file and
lower official ranks of the Party
and the upper leadership. The
opportunism and complete be-
trayai of the class struggle which
characterizes the policies of the
Socialist Party leadership is arous-
ing, particularly since the Aus
trian situation. a rising resent
ment of the S.P. rank and file
against the Norman Thomases,
etc. The following letter was writ
ten in reply to the recent circular
letter, filled with distortions and
SANDER, sent by Clarence Senior,
National Secretary of the Socialist
Party, to all the locals and the
press. The letter follows:
IS Genesee st.
Horne1l, N. Y.
March 3. 1884
Clarence Senior
SAG Randolph St.
Chicago, Ill.
Mister Senior:
After ten years experience in in
iustry- working at all sorts of jobs,
such as production clerk, stock
ilerk, machinist, expert typewriter
timekeeper, Office man
sger-and seeing the rottenness of
ur capitalistic system, studied for
md entered the Universalist min
stry with the hope of doing some
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-16
Hunger Island Is "Wondertul
Place." Mrs. Roosevelt Finds

ished, and almost all of them suffer
permanently from hook-worm, which
cannot be eradicated because they
cannot afford shoes to protect them
from being infected with these para
sites from the ground.