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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-03
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-03
Personal Letter Of Spanish Soldier
Tells Reactions During Revolution

That within the regular Spanish
army itself are forces which
eagerly hoped for the triumph of
the workers, which here and
there deserted its fascist leader
ship, and which finally aided the
revolutionary cause by freeing
prisoners, sabotaging the execu-
ton of workers taking part in
mass demonstrations, etc, is terse-
Iy portrayed in the following let
ter written by a class conscious
soldier. His phrases are neither
literary nor speculative. But writ
ten as his army reluctantly
trudged toward the Soviets of
OviedO. his words bear two domi-
nant feelings: bitterness at his
part in putting down a workers
revolt and the grim certainty that
the second revolution will be here
almost tomorrow"
The letter is addressed to the
writer's brother. Naturally, his
name is omitted.
Oyiedo, Spain.
Dear Brother:
Greetings. This is to explain that
because I was sick, as you already
know, I did not move with the army,
at the same time this was the reason
that I was not ordered to Asturias
during the first days of the struggle
between the workers and the bour-
geoisie.
On Oct. 10 I was discharged from
the hospital. From that day I
passed from a semi-defender to a
complete defender Of the exploiters.
At first I was assigned to guard
bake-shops, then telephone and tel
egraph centers, etc. During the
night of the 18th we received orders
that at 4 o'clock we would march
for Oviedo.
What deep grief I experienced
upon learning the order!
Given Tobacco and Wine
At 4 o'clock in the morning of
the 10Th we arose and at 5 o'clock
we started in the direction of
Oviedo, not, however, before the
chief colonel gave us a patriotic
lecture, a package of tobacco, and,
in order to divert the attention Of
the soldiers from the real situation,
they gave us litre of wine, which
I refused when I realized it's pur-
pose.
All this was done to make us SOL
diers believe that the officers were
our good friends! At the same time
this was done in order that we
might better defend" ourselves.
When I think of the sinking sur
roundings in which we lived during
the period we were stationed in our
quarters, and all the humiliation
and brutal treatment we suffered
in drill =!
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were billeted with other troops in
the town. Shortly afterward we
departed for Oviedo and here we
are for the present.
Shooting Glass Brothers
I, as well as the group with me,
have not taken part in the struggle,
for the battalion preceding us took
Oviedo by assault, bonbarding and
shooting down our class brothers,
the workers.
AS you know, the army is COM
posed of rich and poor. Well, it did
not surprise me that the rich de-
Tended their privileged position as
well as their government. which de-
tends their interests and permits
them to live in ease at the cost Of
intense hunger and exploitation for
the working class.
I often think of field adioin-
ing our camp-they told me this
where about 100 workers who had
been killed are buried. They had
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-03

instead of throwing the masses into
the action without first organizing
them, would have prepared the
masses, with the fighting spirit that
they had, victory would have been
achieved. Where the Socialist lead
ers and no less the anarcho-syndi-
calists, held the hegemony over the
proletariat, the struggle lasted only
four or five days; on the other
hand, in the sectors where the Com
munists held control, the struggle
still continues, notwithstanding the
government agents who proclaim
that the fight is over.
AS you probably already have
been informed, the revolutionaries
confiscated all the war material in
the arms and munitions factories
in Trubia and Oviedo; as a conse-
quence they had plenty of modern
weapons. Also they had all kinds
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-03

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-03
Mass Protest Forces
Cancellation of Lecture
By Fascist Youth Head

COATESVILLE, Pa, Dec. o.
A militant campaign of mass pro-
test has forced the local Y.M.C.A.
to cancel a lecture scheduled for
today by Viola lima, exposed by
John L. Spivak, as working with
Nazi agents to organize an anti
Semitic and Fascist youth move
ment in this country.
A Scottsboro-Herndon meeting
organized by the International La
Dor Defense, and addressed by
Ruby Bates, who is devoting all
her time to exposing the vicious
frame-up of the Scottsboro boys,
adopted resolution earlier in the
month demanding the cancellation
of Ilma'S lecture.
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imprisoned workers and a little
later he returned alone. What hap
pened to them I do not know. I
was told that this happened at
different times.
The model" jail in Oviedo, other
soldiers told me, is full of revolu-
tionary prisoners who are cruelty
treated with a finesse reminiscent of
Czarist Russia. 1t is said that the
prisoners are first ordered down into
the courtyard and that presently,
when ascending to their cells, the
Civil Guard butchers wait on the
stairways to strike the prisoners
with clubs and rifle butts until they
are unconscious.
All this happens as a result Of the
eXploiters' desire to keep workers
under the dictum Of the Lord "You
shall earn your bread by the sweat
of your brow"
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of armOred cars. The workers fought
against all the forces Of
the state, and caused many losses
in the army, especially among the
officers
Several soldiers and officers Of
Regiment No. 3, stationed in Oviedo,
have been arrested, including a car
bineer. All these were accused Of
an instruction. n Gijon,
a soldier in the same regiment told
me, one soldier and a sergeant were
sentenced to be shot, and perhaps
by now they have been executed.
Cruelty of Czarist Russia
Also, in Gijon there is-or was
the cannoneer, "Churruca." They
say that he left one night with 300
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-03

IT is significant that Postgate is
very vague about every point ex-
cept the necessity Of lining up an
elite Of petty officials. He urges that
they operate on the cynical theory
that the customer is always right.
In other words, the revolution" is
to be sold to the people by catering
to every prejudice that can be cap
italized on. 1t is the usual fascist
stunt of promising everything in
order to deceive the masses and
make them swallow the pseudo-so-
cialist rhetoric Of the fascists.
PoStgate comes out openly on this
question The elite are to win over
the younger generation who wish
to do and to be told what to do, not
to contemplate" Not reason and
facts, but blind obedience to the
elite, this is the program that Post
gate wishes to substitute for the
revolutionary tactics of the Com
munist International. 1t is not only
embryonic fascism, but it plays into
the hands of the reactionary labor
oureaucrats whom Postgate is sup
posedly undermining.
He calls upon the minor officials
of the trade unions and the Labor
Party to lead the fight against fas-
cism. But these elements, with no
organization of their. own, vacillat-
ing, confused, and at present the
tools of their reactionary leadership,
cannot be the vanguard of the revo-
lutionary struggle for the over
throw of capitalism. AS Lenin
pointed out time after time, and as
the experience of the Russion Revo-
luton proves, it is only the Commu-
mist parties all over the world-the
organized and disciplined vanguard
of the working class that can lead
the broadest, united front struggles
against war and capitalism. For as
in the struggle against the last inn
perialist war, the present fight
against fascism must eventually
drive towards a revolutionary Civil
War under the leadership Of the
Communist Party that will destroy
capitalism.
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Revolutionary Prisoners Treated With Cruelty
Reminiscent of Czarist Russia

During the journey I explained
to a comrade how our exploiters
utilized US to suppress the exploited
and what purposes we serve through
our ignorance; and that we were
going to defend" the slavery and
misery and unemployment which
we had endured all our lives.
Before we arrived at Oviedo we
we're detained for three days at an
Asturian town called Grade - this
town was in the power of the revo-
lutionists for IA days-and later we
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-03

struggled for better life, and for
the same soldiers who shot them
down. Moreover, the soldiers re-
moved the clothes and shoes Of the
corpses and waving them in their
hands, they Knocked at the clothing
and belongings That was horrible!
The present struggle is SO bloody
that I believe never has any con-
hict been carried on so cruelty in
Spain as this one between the work
ers and the bourgeoisie.
If the chief Socialist misleaders,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-03
N cd ern Russia Through
BOurke- Whites Camera

THE RED REPUBLIC, Margaret
Bourke- Whites Film Record of
Soviet Baku and the Caucasus;
Life in the Congo" Ben Bur-
bridges Expedition to Belgian
Congo; Melody of the World"
an international medley directed
by Walter huffman; all playing
at the Acme Theatre.
Reviewed by
DAVID PLATT
MARGARET BOURKE WHITES
AVA agile camera takes us this time
along the Caspian Sea, where at
Baku, great oil center once domi-
mated by British, French and Amer
lean capital, We are given a glimpse
of the modern workers apartments
equipped with that 'phenom-
enon American call showerbaths,"
While here, We are shown the signi-
ficant part played by women and
women shock brigaders in the pro-
duction of oil and other necessities.
Freed Of household drudgery and
other thousand~year old forms of
physical and mental slavery. they
appear to be everywhere, in every
field of endeavor in Soviet Baku
and all along the way, working,
learning, playing, living like no
other women in the world.
From Baku we go on to Tif1iS,
birthplace of Stain, whose aged but
strangely youthful mother makes
her first appearance before the
camera in front Of her home. Pass
ing through the fine Georgian vine
yards we are initiated into the
custom of drinking wine in horns
which requires the last drop to drip
onto the thumb for the good of the
wine. The dedication ceremonies at
Dnieperstroy Git up at night by the
famous slogan of Lenin-"C ommu-
nism is Soviet power plus electrical
tion") and other remarkable evil
dences of socialist progress in So
Wet Georgia, wind up this interest
ing if brief travelogue of Miss
Bourke- Whites.
WHEN Andre Glide, noted French
W writer visited the Congo several
years ago he found famine, hunger,
disease, sickness, death as the re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-03
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-03
WORLD Of the MOVIES

suit of cruel economic exploitation
of native blacks by foreign imperi-
alists, AS the result of his expose
in Voyage all Congo" he lost many
friends and made many enemies.
But when Ben Burbridge returned
from his two year expedition to the
same region, he reported not hunger
and disease, but man-eating lions,
man-like gorrillas, man-eating and
elephant-eating cannibalS, strange
native dances and customs, and his
own special prowesS as a bare
handed ape wrestler.
AS the result of these not-un-
worthy achievements he won the
lasting friendship of British and
American rubber manufacturers for
opening up new avenues of exploit
tation; the undying enmity of the
gorrillas for disturbing their age
long peace; and plaudits and medals
from several scientific institutes in
Europe and America for his courage
and audacity as an explorer.
One subtitle in the film reveals
perhaps better than the film itself,
the nature of Burbridges expedition.
ITO avoid mutiny among the blacks,
the 1875 Safaris who carried provi-
sionS for two years were recruited
from many different tribes speaking
as many different dialects" So ex-
ploration under capitalism is only
the front view of the coin; flip it
around and you have the back view,
which is exploitation.
THERE is good photography but
1 nothing else much in this brief
effort of Walter Ruttman, which
sets out to prove that the rhythm
of life, the melody of the world is
classless, affecting rich and poor
alike. Whether India, China, Amer
lea, Europe, the melody of song,
dance, sport, battle, work, sleep, is
strong enough to break down any
possible barrier of race or class, runs
his baseless argument.
What he really succeeds in pre-
senting is a vague tumble of events
and places, whose content might
easily be adapted by FasciSm to
prove its position as "protectress
of the melody of the world. Signi-
dcantly enough Soviet Russia is the
only nation not represented in the
potpourri.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-03
Semi-Fascist Way Out
Offered by Renegade
In Book on Revolution

THE truth of the matter is that
i Communists point out to the
workers that fascism is not inev-
liable, that its development can be
crushed by the united actions of the
working class. Obviously, to urge
workers not to fight against fascism,
is to pursue tactics that would hand
the workers and their organizations
over to the murder gangs and con-
centration camps Of the fascists.
Postgate then is opposed to the
revolutionary activity of the Com
munists because they cannot sue
coed" To bolster this charge, he ac-
cuses the Comintern of being re-
sponsible for the failure Of the Hum
garian and Bayarian revolutions,
although later he admits that the
Comintern was not organized until
after these events took place. He is
for "a fundamentally democratic
and libertarian change" This would
obviate the necessity of having to
let loose the sadism of working
class toughs."
The solution that Postgate offers
would be amusing, if its embryonic
fascist content were not so danger
Gus. He proposes that the minor
officials of the trade unions and the
Labor Party in England organize
themselves into "the storm troops
of labor" BY some undisclosed
means this elite is to vote a labor
government into Office. And then
over the heads of the reactionary
bureaucrats this organization Of
storm troopers" IS to make social
ism by carrying out necessary re-
FORMS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-03
THANK YOU!

Ramsey's lofty position over
his competitors today is chiefly
due to Mrs. Newhouse, who
ratified off among her fellow
workers of Eta Gowns, Inc. her
sons newly published book.
You guess It'll Edward Newhouse's
"You Can't Sleep Here" eve
suggest that Ramsey now hold
Newhouse up for contribution
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-03
Two Old American Names

THE New England mobacks must have deeply alarmed in the
recent elections to find at least two old American heading
Communist Chase wife, was
candidate of Thomas
Boyd the novelist and historian the Communist candidate in
Vermont.
vomrade husband
Chase death of
loyal
Thomas Boyd a S veteran
fought through battles of world
reflected sensitive
just finishing biography
boat just stolen from him. from inventors
by the financing and money pirates of capitalism.
Boyd wants to do next history of American reoshays Re
beon the Whkey Rebellion ETC. He also completing the
volume OF gy OF which his novel was the first In this new
the postwar years
depression, and finally discovers Communism.
the Boyds protagonis rebel he
understand what fighting
the gates of where he and thousands others
looking for job he at last knows what he fighting for in the
class
In Boyd wants take typical American
into the stirring organization of the Communist
first rate talent creative productive
he has the familiar complaint of many of Revolutionary writer's
the Communist tends swamp with
organization
1t is high time many our comrades learned to value the work
of authors Such writing Boyds is integral OF the
movement Think of what it would to had Gorky
We must Gorkys sign
talent. That
not deliberately but thoughlessy and it is really crime
wish of people would read Lenin letters
what the attitude active revolutionary
be to his best ayhe active and loyal revolutionary author
HE'S GETTING THERE TOO!
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HOW TO MAKE A REVOLUTION.
by Raymond Postgate. Vanguard
Press. $50.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-03
Flashes of Real Life

HERE and New England life
IL Democracy the socialism
abotionsm Whitman has not died. but
found a
of the fine old Cod houses of death into
dngy shoe
textile these of foreign stock but
Ethan Allen the revolutionary farmers
Phillips Theodore those revolutionary agtators
Walt Whitman Whittier Thoreau Of that Of
bitter fighters would feel that they the comrades of these foreign
the decrep fas call themselves Daughters
Revolution.
should certainly the fascist gene
gss all royalty being the
grandson Henry
Dana England the American Revol
the principles of that revolution He active
every rights working valiant
fender o culture.
lady genealogists looking
family whispering that Harry probably
Negro blood IN his herediy
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-03
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
By MICHAEL GOLD

SOMEWHERE in Vermont: I am writing this in a train
~ moving through the pines and birches of rocky old
New England.
drab veil of and hail covers the hills Bleak
weather Puritan weather The native stock of this north
region enjoys have lived here since the
Revolution wngng of existence out of the
boarding their money and their emotions until
petty bourgeois England easily engraved
the head of a pin.
to describe the reaction such sections as California
Georgia pathology might describe the hystea
decisions persecution The
fairly regions crazy with fear
England middle reaction much Of the apathy
Of Senle melancholy
people glorious past, shabby uncertain present
hopeless future. they draw and into
their and cling what is dead They have
the their fading possessions
this only where genealogy
the family revered active science Boston
only city with daily newspaper that has
every problems genealog
political factor in these strange and forgotten parts
hills of and New Hampshire finds whole vii
populated inbred that often they resemble
the feeble minded much for geneaogy
leaving England textile
prosperity lured South before
depression industry have heretofore reported is
growing restless may these similar
cheap labor the Chamber
Commerce lovingly describes the South
The Washington times., 1934-03-05
NeU Mark for Year
Set bH Bank Shares

New York city bank stocks
reached a new 1894 high during
February, Halt, Rose d Troster
report. Opening February at
51.25, the weighted average Of
seventeen leading Issues declined
to the months low Of 1887 on
February 13.
However, on the recovery from
this low, the list broke through
to establish q new 1884 high Of
S5.76 on February 10. The close
February % waA At kl.2oo
The Washington times., 1934-03-05
Western Union Net
DOIUn for December
BY International News Service

By International News Service
Western Union Telegraph Com
pany in December last year
registered . $40S,313 decrease in
net income from the same 1882
month, despite an increase Of
1863 900 in gross revenues, it was
disclosed today.
Net income amounted to $780,
536, after taxes and charges, COM
pared with $467 ,849 in December,
1882, while gross totaled $7,343,-
S5oa against A6@44AA.
The Washington times., 1934-03-05

lack of interest on the buying
side as to such selling pressure
which did manifest itself during
the session.
United States Steel and the
other steel shares failed to derive
any stimulus from the fresh ad-
vance in the industry's opera.
tions and lost from fractions to
nearly points in listless trading.
The commodity markets alse
were dull. Wheat and cotton ran
into profit taking induced by
their rise Of the past few days
but the declines in the main
were small.
Silver, rubber, and other com.
modities were irregular. The
dollar was quiet, holding un.
changed more than half a cent
above par.
The bond market was steady
and featureless for the most part.
The Washington times., 1934-03-05
First Dividend Paid
On NeU Fisk Stock
BY International News Service

The Fisk Rubber Corporation
declared a dividend of $1.50 a
share on the preferred stock. the
first payment since the corpora
ton took over assets Of Fisk Rub
ber Company in 1888.
The disbursement is for the first
quarter Of 1884 and is payable
April 2 to stock Of record March
IL. The old, company had paid
no dividends since teaa.