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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13

villages dispose of nearly 100,-
100000 books.
Science, literature, the arts and
crafts flourish in the Soviet Union;
in Germany books are burned.
Treatment and care of the young
are a good gauge of a nations cul-
ture. In enlightened United States
Miss Grace Abbott, chief of Chill
dren's Bureau of the Department of
Labor, admitted that as far back as
1880 more than 100000 children
are undernourished-that in 1893
one-flfth of pre-scheel and school
children showed the effects of poor
nutrition, inadequate housing and
lack of medical care. More than
two and half million are alto
gether barred from education due to
retrenchment in school budgets. III
1888 educational facilities in the
Soviet Union were provided for over
50,000000 persons-fully third of
the p2pulationl
The Allies of the Proletariat
We must remember the American
intellectual is badly eonfused-as,
naturally, the entire middle-class is.
He has been reading the Hearsts
and the Wizards. He fears the die
tatorship of the proletariat means
a dictatorship levelled against him.
He is further befuddled by the
counter-revolutionary hodge podge
of such men as Sidney Hook which
the bourgeois colleges and publish
ing house, paddle as "Marxism."
The intellectuals must be convinced
they can participate in the prole-
tartan democracy inherent in the
dictatorship of the proletariat. They
must be made to realize that it is
the enemy of the pFoletariat that
feels its dictatorship. And this is
the gist of the problem.
Again, we must blast once and
for all the middle-class illusions of
the Technocrats and their diverse
variations, that the technieians can
put across a push the button" rev.
olution (via overnight palace revo-
lutions in which the centa-s of pro-
duction are captured by the engin-
eers). They must understand that
political power is required "as a
lever for change" 1t is that power
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13

the "gilded youth" as Marx termed
them, were often bought up by cap
italism-giVen favored posts in the
courts Of the Mergans-hfted up
high. Even today an infinitesimal
percentage of them are absorbed
into the apparatus of a New Deal
eager to pass Itself off as a "little
to the left of Center" But the great
majority of trained intellectuals are
cast out of economy-mere COM
pletely than ever before. And they
have no EZRA of prosperity" to look
forward to. The intellectual who
once considered himself on a plane
far beyond that of the working
man." who abhorred "collectivism"
and all its manifestations, such as
trade unions, strikes, militancy, is
reYaluating his ideals. When once
he considered himself as separate
estate "professional'-he is to-
day forced to consider himself as a
brain worker" white collar
worker" And he finds himself COM
bining in unions. He is talking
militantly. He is acting militantly
striking, picketing
The Newspaper Guild is a good
example. Newspapermen in the
past considered themselves as a
profession apart-in fact they
fondly Gale themselves "the fourth
estate" But 1929-35 has taught
them otherwise. They have broken
away from the publishers infiu-
ence: the militant actions in New
York, San Francisco, Newark and
elsewhere are evidence. The growth
in relatively short time of such or
CARNATIONS as the Associated Office
and Professional Emergency En-
ployes, the various teachers organ
izations, the Office Workers Union,
the Federation of Technicians and
Engineers, ETC., etc., proves that in
telleetuals are being driven, by the
crisis, to adopt the psychology" the
method and actions, the theology, of
the working class. They are break
ing away from the influence of the
bourgeoisie; they are becoming
force against the bou9geoisie.
The Way Out
But we must accelerate the proc
ess of establishment; further. we
must teach them the way out. Our
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
Life Goes On

THERE is one little argument against this theory
OF the corporate State that annoys the peace
ful sleep OF every capitalist. This argument is
called the Soviet Union. Over there only the labor
of fist and brow" rules, and has squeezed out the
third partner capital
And things go on Huge factories are built:
great bumper crops are sown and reaped children
are born and educated, the sun Shines life is in
full flower. 1T takes money to build factories and
buy material to start work We need men who
can furnish this money They give work to the
employees" What basphemy. How is it done9
Where do they get capital if they have no capital
1sts9 Some day every American worker of hand
and brain will learn the secret and will kick out
the unnecessary parasites and their employees"
the funkes who write such textbooks for citizens.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
A Capitalists Dream

WHEN read this little lesson, received great
thrill. felt like Columbus in the field of
historical research. Many historians have been
puzzled the origins Of the so-called corporate
state bsllyhooed by Madame Hitler and Pop-Eye
Mussolini Great tones have been written by
Turnkey professors of Italian and German fascism
on this phoney new state They have regarded
1t with reverence and awe, as if it were some mar
vellous new invention by the Duce Or the Fuehrer
But now we can tell them where it started
It started in America in the Department of
Labor's official primer for immigrant citizens Here
are your three estates labor of the fist, in Dame
Hitler's elegant phraseology: labor of the brow
and capital
Labor of the fist and brow are the equals of
capital which employs them, to be sure, and also
casts them out on the streets to starve from time
to time yet is no higher in the corporate State
scheme than they are. Yes, all are equal just as
a wolf and sheep are equal or an American
citizen on the hTeadline and an American in a
Palm Beach palace.
1t is very beautiful. If only it could be made
to work, forever, what utopia this planet could
be made inte-for the capitalists If only the labor
OF INST and brow" could be hypnotized into willing
and satisfied robots, what flow of endless profit
there would follow. The capitalists have murdered
thousands of people in Italy. Germany and Amer
lea to establish this beautiful utopia. but the way
is long, and the masses remain stiff -necked and
stubborn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13

the
World ;!
By MICHAEL GOLD

DE LOYAL to your employer" is a
- slogan given out to workers by the
united States government in one of its
official textbooks.
There are eight good rules for all
workers. contained in an instruction volume for
those wishing to become American citizens:
1. Do not waste time.
2. Do not waste material
8. Be honest
4. Keep your word.
5. Be good natured
6. Be loyal to your employer.
7. Don't be fooled by wrong talk this must
mean, don't listen to trade union organizers).
8. Practise the square deal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
Laboratory
and Shop
POLLUTION AND PROFITS
By David Ramsey

AND PROFITS
For years steel plants have been poluting
streams and the adjacent country side with their
waste products One of the major sources OF this
pollution the picking" solution used in steel
mills Now it seems that some of this waste will
no longer be discharged into streams where it wire
tually destroys all forms of life. AS is usual in
such cases the cause is not humanitarian one
it is now profitable to convert the steel mill waste
into useful products
The Titanium Pigment Company Of Saint Louis
has been treating waste ferrous sulphate with
cess-and profits. According to Chemical and
MetallWgical Engineering process has been de-
veloped which turns the ferrous sulphate into sui
phuric acid and residue cinder of iron oxide
The acid is the basic chemical used in industry,
and iron oxide is used for many purposes, inelud-
ing cheap red paints.
BY using the new process many plants will BE-
able to make part of their own sulphure acid,
which hitherto had been purchased in large guam
titles by thousands of manufacturers. Other forms
Of industrial pollution will have to wait for similar
profitable production of hyproduets before the
owners of factories will lift finger to do away
with the evil,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
Reviewed by
SAMUEL RRODY

SAMUEL RRODY
IF the Warmers and William Ran
dolph Hearst, the infamous, insist
on turning out more films in the
future with the cooperation of the
U. S. Government, I sincerely hope
they'll all be like Devil Dogs of
the Air" The word will soon be
passed around as to their malodor-
GUS character both as entertain
ment' and propaganda and the
long-spffering film public will stay
away en- masse.
During the particular showing
which attended the inside of the
Strand looked more like a public
dormitory than a theatre. Only the
conscientious realization of my
duties as a film reporter kept me
awake. I found in it none of the
pictorial dynamite aseribed to it
by one of New York's great critics.
That it is an advertisement for the
preparedness boys" (SennWald, N. Y.
Times no one will trouble to dis
pute, but even as a mere ad this
film falls by far short of its makers
intentions.
A time there was Wlen the roar
of whirling propellers and the
whining Of tail-spinning crates
could get a rise out of an audience.
I can still remember being awed by
the oeaseless and hair-rising plane
crashes in Wings The sound and
fury of "Hell's Angels" still rings in
my ears. But that was so long ago
and now Dirty Willie hands us a
"join-the-air- corps' cake wrapped
in the same old tail-spins, the same
old crashes, the same old double"
stunts.
True, Devil Dogs" tries to make
Two definite points: first, that serv-
ice in the air corps is as safe as a
ride on a merry go-round. Second,
that it's all adventure, a he'll of
good time, and the all-Ameriean
beauty in the end. THE main
thread of the comic relief in the
film is the fact that the ambulance
drivers enforced idleness nearly
drives him daffyD But Hearst
Warmers ought to know that this
brand of haloney requires either
subtlety or a public with no mem
cries of the last war and a three
yeaF-old mind to go over They
ought to confer with Mr.. Wanger
in the future, really.
But you needn't worry too much,
Dirty, The only thing that will
stand in your way between such
films and the box-office is sick,
tired, and angry filmgoing mass of
sixty million people.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
WASHINGTON
WORKERS SCHOOL

The Washington Workers School,
5lS F. Street, N. w, Washington,
D. c., completed a successful Fall
Term. Preparations are now being
made for the Winter Term. The
number of classes have been in
creased, making a total of nine. The
following courses are being offered:
Principles of Glass Struggle, Or
ganizational Problems, Negro Lib
Grafton, Trade Union, etc. Since
the Winter Term begins February
Is, all those wishing to register
should do so Immediately.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
Auto Industry and Prosperity


Question; Is it true that the auto industry is
leading the country back to prosperity
K R., Washington n j.
Answer: The auto industry is not leading the
country around the corner to prosperity. Present
production in the plants is based largely upon fear
Of strikes in the spring and anticipation Of sales.
Even so present production is only so per cent Of
what it was in 1929, and only 30 per cent Of the
industrys capacity.
And for the auto workers the present busy
season has brought the most ruthless exploitation
and inhuman sneed-up, and prospects Of dismissal
in the early spring when the season tapers of.
Even the Research Division of the NJ R. A. in study
ing conditions had to point out the following con-
ditions in Americas model" industry:
Depression competition has spuTed the speed
up beyond human eapabity TO produce day by
day" .. Automobile workers are considered old
at forty" Annual income is low" annual
wages run from $500 to s9OO) . "Irregularity
Of employment has increased in recent years"
While the workers have been subjected to the
most intolerable conditions the auto manufacturers
have been enjoying their best profits since 1880.
General Motors, for example, made profits of SEA-
100000 in 1884 at the expense of the living standards
and welfare of the workers in its plants
What has happened in the auto industry is
good example of what has happened throughout
American industries. The bosses have improved
their position and increased their profits through
increasing spesd-up and driving down the living
standards of the workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
NeVs of Workers
Schools from East
To West Coast
CROWN HEIGHTS
WORKERS SCHOOL

The Crown Heights Workers
School is offering for the rest of
the Winter Term free classes on
its regular schedule for all unem-
ployed. Glasses are filling rapidly.
Those desiring to enter should call
at the school, 25 Chauncey Street,
any afternoon between 2 and 6 pm.
for full information and admission
card for class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
MINNEAPOLIS
WORKERS SCHOOL

A Workers School with four
courses of study on Principles of
Communism, Political Economy,
Journalism and Revolutionary Par
liamentarism will be held from
February 10 to April %. The in
struction will be given in various
halls in Minneapolis. Registrations
are to be sent to Marion Kane,
secretary, 213 De Soto Building. A
charge of 81 is made for those en-
ployed, and rs cents for those I'M
employed for the entire series of
ten lectures on each of the sub
jects.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13

A LARGE dump-truck came up,
n paused, and then back up to
the base of one of the hills. The
wheels made deep, brown ruts in
the snow. Not thirty yards away, a
small group of shabbily clad people
came up and waited. Silently they
watched the truck maneuver on to
the walk and up to the dump.
The truck ratified. The dump
body lifted slowly. A load of gar
baged poured out. The waiting
men, women and children started
forward. The driver sat in the cab
OF his truck and watched. He said
nothing. When the garbage Slith-
cred out he lowered the dump body.
The truck climbed the walk again
and bumped its way into the street.
The fresh garbage had sicken-
ing odor 1t reeked of fish and stale
grease and simple sourness. Those
who had been waiting breathed it..
At first it almost made them reich.
Then it sharpened deep hungers.
They fell to the work eagerly.
A child found a half-eaten stalk
of celery. He nibbled at it mo-
ment, then stuck it inside his shirt.
Several minutes later he fished out
portion of Dreaded chop. He
held it up gingerly between his fin
gers. A culver of revulsion crossed
his face. He tossed it away. One
Of the women picked it up in the
course of her rummaging and stored
it in her basket.
Several men combed a portion of
the heap Systematically and threw
large, unopened tins into a bushel
basket they had brought with them.
There were no labels on the tins.
There were tins of all sizes up to
gallon capacity that probably con-
tanned fruit of some sort. Some had
been pierced and half-opened and
some of the juices had oozed down
the sides of the shiny containers.
The men inspected the contents
eursorily and added these tins to
the others.
A LARGE, wide-hipped woman
n who wore a mans jacket, an
ld-fashioned velvet hat, and a
patched, pleated dress, stopped on
her launches and searched in a
mess with her bare hands. Finally
she jumped up with a cry of
triumph.
Look at it~ she shrrilled. Just
look at it,"
She waved ham-bone with a
heel of burnt meat at one end. The
others glanced at it briefly and
continued their own foraging.
A man hurled a slat of wood at
two beady eyes peering out from
beneath a bunch of paper. He spat.
A sleek rat moved away insolently.
Two men came up, mounted one
of the heaps and looked down upon
the little group. They wore fur nit
tens and were clothed in suede
coats and corduroy trousers tucked
into high-top shoes. Both carried
cudgels. One was the factory watch
man, the other the city employee
who guarded the dump.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
One Big Happy Family

HERE is Lesson 38a in the textbook 1t gives the
II conception of state held by the Department. of
Labor:
WHO ARE THE WORKERS IN AMERICA?
America is a busy country America believes
in hard work. America honors all workers There
many ways to work.
Much work is done with the hands. We need
men and women with strong bodies strong arms,
and strong hands Many of Americas great men
have worked hard with their hands
Much work is done with the brain. We need
trained minds We need bright quick thinkers.
1t takes strong, skillful minds to plan and direct
work.
Money is also needed to carry on work 1t
takes money to build factories and buy material
to start work We need men who can furnish this
money. They give work to the employees. They
keep business running for the employee The en-
ployee makes business for them.
Together all workers make America a prosper
Gus country, All these People are needed All are
workers.
One group cannot do the work alone We de-
pend on each other. Each one should say I must
do my work well, If I do not I SPOIL the work
for others"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
Questions
and
Answers

This department appears daily on the feature
page All questions should be addressed to CUES
tons and Answers" 10 Daily Worker, 50 East
18th Street New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
For the First Time in English
LUDWIG FEUERBACH

The classic exposition {
for the first time in CON
translation. It in cludes
other material by Marx
end Engels on dialectieal
1naSerialism.
LIE in recommended
Feuerbaeh as "the hand
book of every elass-con-
scious worker" rating it
with the Communist Mani
feste.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
CHICAGO
WORKERS SCHOOL

February 10 to March %, for five
weeks, the Chicago Workers School,
sos S. State Street, will conduct
short term courses. In each of
these courses the most important
national and international prob
lens, on the political, economic and
tactical field will be thoroughly dis
cussed. The fees are extremely low
Is cents registration and so cents
for each course. Registration is
open now and will close at the first
lecture.
Plans are being made to open up
a branch of the Workers School in
Binghamton, N. Y. For further in
formation read this column,
We again appeal to students and
instructors of all Workers Schools
to send in suggestions and criticisms
concerning the subjects and in
structions at Workers Schools. Let
tiers should be send in care of this
column, IS East 18th Street, Room
301, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
RANDOM NOTES

NOTES
The Department of Commerce reports that 1885,
78ae0S books we're published in the United States
in 1888, a decrease of 81 per cent compared with
1881 The largest decrease was in the number Of
bibles which declined from 4,676OO0 in 1881 to $685.
900 in 1888. The Nazi Dentists Weekly of Berlin
has announced that: Every international scientific
work must be unequivocaly rejected. . It is
shameless that German professors still defend
methods which were not invented in Germany. All
reference to foreign scientific works and articles
should be strictly forbidden
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13

Question; Is it true that the auto industry is
leading the country back to prosperity
K r. WASHINGTON n j.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
"A WORKING CLASS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE"

"A WORKING CLASS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE"
The National Research League has just an
nouneed the names of two new honorary members.
One is Henri WALTON the famous French psyche
logist, and professor at the Sorbonne, Professor
WALTON has not only repeatedly lent his assistance
as an individual to the struggle of the workers
against fascism and for the defense of the Soviet
Union, but he has also helped the French workers
as scientist, by teaching in the Workers School
of Paris.
The other is Professor H Levy. noted mathena-
tioian and professor at the Imperial College Of
Science and Technology, London. In his letter Of
acceptance, Professor Levy writes: What we want,
as have kept on repeating in speech after speech
is Working Glass Academy of Science. I wish
your effort all success, as it must succeed and am
deeply grateful for your invitation to honorary
membership"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
WORLD ofbe
MOVIES
Propaganda for the Air
Corps

DEVIL DOGS OF THE AIR, fea-
turing James Cagney and Pat
o'BTien. Now Playing at Strand
Theatre.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13

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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-04

funds to invest in business. A ia
vorable aspect is the fact that this
huge volume of credit exists.
Where does this money come
from? A large part represents
money written up in the past
year by the United States govern
ment and by municipalities. Each
time the United States govern
ment floats a big bond issue 1t
checks out the funds thus re-
ceived, pays them to private md
viduals, who in turn bank them
again. This process and that OF
municipalities borrowing accounts
for some S7,O0O,00O,0OO IN the
past year or so. Dollar devalua-
ton as it applies to foreign Dusi-
ness done by Americans accounts
for another billion.
The situation just now is some
what similar to that prevailing
back in 1880 when everybody was
building up bank balances and
withdrawing from markets and
other ventures considered risky.
Then came the bank troubles of
1882 and the reverse occurred.
Now confidence is restored in
banks, thanks to- the temporary
deposit insurance and other gov
ernment measures,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-04
Coroner Holds z
In Milan S Death
Negroes Held In Staying
Of S. c. Officer

GREENVILLE, S. c., Jan. A
(UP)-A coroner's jury found
late yesterday that State Highway
Patrolman E. D. Milan was shot
to death by Harry Hill and Cor
nell LuSter, negroes.
The negroes allegedly were
drunken participants in a disturb
ance at a Christmas tree celebra-
ton at a rural church which MI
lam was called to quiet on Christ
mas day.
J. 3. Williams, negro eye VIII
ness, testified that Hill hit Milan
in the head with rock while the
officer grappled with Luster for
possession of the latter's pistol
Then Hill and Luster shot the
officer, first with LISTERS pistol
and then with his own, the VIII
ness said.
Deputy Sheriff G. r. Richard
son testified that Luster had con-
fessed but that Hill denied the
charges. The two negroes are
held in the state penitentiary at
Columbia for safekeeping
The coroner's jury also charg-
ed Thurston Hill, brother of Har-
nv. with being an accessory after
the fact. He is accused of pawn
ing pistols used in the battle for
money used by the alleged slayers
in fleeing. They were arrested in
A sheville, n. G.