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AIR CORPS SET-UP
ORDERS SENT OUT
Three New Squadrons at
Boiling Field Under Great
est Reorganization.

Orders for the greatest reorganiza-
ton in the history of the Army Air
Corps, effective March !, when the
new General Headquarters Air Force
will be created, have been issued by
the War Department to every Army
aviation detachment in the country,
It was announced today.
Under the Air Force Set-up three
new squadrons are to be created at
Boiling Field, which will reach the
greatest peak Of activity in its his
tory. In the transfer to Langley Field
of the G. H. @. Air Force headquar-
ters and Headquarters Squadron, now
in process Of creation at Boiling Field,
the local field will lose seven enlisted
men Of its present personnel, but will
gain in strength greatly through crea-
ton Of the three squadrons.
Boiling Fields new squadrons are
to be the 14th Bombardment Squad
ron, the 21st Observation Squadron
and the Tooth Service Squadron. The
local field never has had an active
tactical squadron, and the reorganiza-
ton will give washington its first ex-
sperience with a permanently based
aerial combat organization.
14th Bomb Squadron.
The 14th Bombardment Squadron,
which will be part of the new 9th
Bombardment Group. with headquar-
tiers at Mitchell Field, N. Y, is to be
composed of personnel of the present
Air Corps detachment at Boiling Field.
The 21st Observation Squadron,
which will be equipped with long
range amphibian airplanes capable of
operations far at sea. in case Of ne
scessity, is to be created with new per-
ssonnel and equipment, as will the new
Tooth Service Squadron.
Under the new local reorganization
the present headquarters unit at Boil
ling Field will be abolished and ad-
.ministration of the field turned over
Ito station complement, as Is the case
at other fields which are the homes of
-, tactical organizations. The Boiling
Field station complement will be
created by the assignment of eight
Regular Army Air Corps officers. Any
officers of other branches, such as
iquartermaster, surgeon and signal Of
flcer, will be part of the complement,
in addition to the Air Corps person.
mel.
The three squadrons will include a
total of 242 enlisted men and 81 spe-
.cialists, bringing the enlisted personnel
at the local field to total Of 467, Of
whom SO will hold specialists ratings.
Officer strength of the squadrons has
mot been announced. but probably will
eventually triple the commissioned
personnel strength at the local post.
Change for Foulois.
! Under the new set-up, the chief Of
F.. the Army Air Corps, Maj. Gen. Ben
jamin D. Foulois, will be divested of
control of actual combat units and
will assume the status of the chiefs
f: of Infantry, Cavalry and other COM
bat services, who have no direct COM
, mand over the combat organizations
: of their services.
Gen. Foulois will continue as head
Of the Office of the Chief of Air Corps;
the great Materiel Division at Wright
Field, Ohio; all Air Corps depots. and
the stations, installations and units,
assigned or attached, of Air Corps
Special Service Schools.
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ARMY ORDERS.

Smith, Brig. Gen. Alfred T., from
Boston, Mass, to the Philippine De-
partment, about May IA.
Kirkland, Col. Roy c., Air Corps,
from Governors Island. N. Y, to the
Presidio Of San Francisco, about
April 26.
Oliver, Col. Llewellyn w.. Cavalry.
from the office Of chief Of Cavalry
here, to Fort Oglethorpe. Ca. about
June IA.
clark, Col. Francis w., Field Artil-
lery, assigned to duty as chief Of
staff of the 3rd Division at Fort Lewis.
Wash. September 80.
Graham, Col. william B., General
Staff Corps, assigned to duty as chief
Of the Hawaiian Division, May 8.
Gunner, Col. Edwin, Infantry, as
signed to duty as chief of the Hawai-
ian Division. July /.
Endicott, Col. Francis c., Infantry,
assigned to duty as chief Of the Phil
ippine Department, May 10.
Brown, Col. Thomas w., Infantry,
assigned to duty at Governors Island,
N. Y, upon completion Of present tour
of foreign service.
Pratt, Col. Raymond s., Field Ar
tillery, assigned to duty at Boston,
Mass, upon completion of present tour
Of foreign service.
Palmer. Col. Bruce. Cavalry, ordered
to Walter Reed Hospital here, for
observation and treatment.
Krogstad, Lieut.. Col. Arnold N, Air
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SERVICE ORDERS

Corps, ordered to the Army and Navy
General Hospital, Hot Springs Hos
pital, Ark, for observation and treat
ment.
Hodges, Lieut.. Col. Courtney H.,
Infantry. assigned to the 5th Brigade.
with station at Vancouver Barracks,
Wash.
Elser, Lieut.. Col. Max A., Quarter
master Corps, from Fort Riley. Kans.,
TO Boston. Mass. about March Is.
Albright, Lieut.. Col. Owen s., Signal
Corps, from Fort Monmouth, N. j.,
to Atlanta, Ga. about April 1.
Deckard, Maj. Howard Clinton,
Specialist Reserve, from Columbus.
Ohio, to eDtroit, Mich, about March
10.
Inglis, Maj. Fred B., Field Artillery.
from Fort Francis E. Warren, Wyo.,
to Hutchinson, Kans., about May Is.
Kahle, Maj. John F., Coast Artil-
lery Corps, assigned to duty as in
structor at Fort Monroe, Va, about
July 1.
Dalton, Maj. Joseph N, Adjutant
Generals Department, from the office
of the adjutant general, here. to
Governors Island, N. Y, April ~.
Kimball, Maj. Ralph, Adjutant Gen.
erals Department, assigned to duty
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racks, Navy Yard. Mare Island. not
later than April 10.
Afleck, Chief Quartermaster Clerk
William r.. orders dated February 6,
detaching this oficer Marine Barracks,
Quantico, Va, to Marine Barracks,
Naval Station, Cavite, p. l., via U. s.
s. Henderson, sailing Norfolk. March
/, revoked.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-16
The Red Scare

Question; Might not certain
members of the labor party refuse
to associate with the Communist
Party on the grounds that it would
smear them with red?
Answer; In the course of the
developments toward a mass labor
party 1t is possible that attempts
will be made by reactionary lead
ers to expel the Communists. The
Communists would fight against
this, but there is no assurance that
they would be successful against
the red baiters. Those who would
lead the fight for the expulsion of
the Communists would have to lean
so heavily upon the LaFollettes and
their type that their party would end
up as a third capitalist party. Those
who would try to exclude the Com
munists from the labor party would
be betraying the interests of the
workers and negating the very pur-
pose for which the party was
founded.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-16
John Sfrachey Halls
BVarCk'S Cartoon Book

pURCKs cartoons perform an International SER
vice. They stamp the fascist movement with
the mark Of the beast. And this is what must
be done by every man woman who cares for
the salvation Of human civilization
Surely it needs no argument today to prove
that fascism is what the organized working class
movement has always said it was namely a force
which is leading humanity back to barbarism and
the dark ages. Already with the June nassacres.
Germany is reproducing in almost all its revolt
ing details the conditions of the Roman Empire
in its extreme decadence. Blood-drenched orgies
and internecine massacres are the daily life Of its
leaders. In Italy the process is less dramatic but
there too, Fascism is slowly, but equally surely,
strangling every possibility of civilization.
But Burcks pencil also shows us that fascism
is not confined to Italy and Germany Capitalist
crisis is breeding it in every corner of the world
Indeed, fascsm in one form or another is today
the only resort of the ruling class. Ever more un-
mistaksbly mankind is faced by the alternative
Fascism Communism? Let those who still
hesitate look carefully at these cartoons let them
think over whether they are exaggeratons whether
they do do not exactly and realistically depict
the reality Of fascism. John Strachey
From Hunger and Revod; Cartoons by BurckD
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-16
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-16
No Substitute for Soviet
America

Question: In bringing forward
the slogan of labor party, will
the Communist Party abandon its
slogan for Soviet America?
Answer: The Communist Party
will continue more than ever to
agitate and propaganda about the
necessity of fighting for a Soviet
America Far from dropping the
slogan, the Communist Party will
talke even more about Soviet Amer
lea. 1t will carry the slogan into the
ranks of the workers until they
recognize it as their own slogan and
under the leadership of the Com
munist Party overthrow capitalism
and actually set up a Soviet Amer
lea.
The proposal for the labor party
is not a substitute for the slogan:
For a Soviet America" On the
contrary the fight for labor party
is struggle to draw millions more
workers under the influence of the
Communist Party, and in this way
set them on the road to the seizure
of power and the establishment of
Soviet America Through develop
ing the struggles around the class
struggle issues of the labor party,
the Communist Party is taking an
important step toward rallying the
working masses around the funda-
mental revolutionary slogan of the
Communist Party and the American
working class-For Soviet America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-16
Change
the
World!
BY MICHAEL GOLD

IN BOSTON, Governor James NJ. Curley
has just warned justices of the peace
that they must cease performing marriage
ceremonies, or expect no reappointment
from him. The State law of Massachusetts,
as of other states has always allowed these justices
the legal right to perform civil marriage.
But the pious ward politician Curley believes
only in the divine church ceremonies. He is OPP
posed to the separation of church and state, one
of the rights for which the fathers of the Amer
lean Republic shed their blood.
The next step this Governor is likely to take
is to abolish the public schools, and force all the
children to attend religious schools. At this late
date the capitalists are beginning to think that
the whole American Revolution was a mistake.
It is too bad King George is not alive, so that
there might be monarchist party calling for his
restoration Governor Curley is eligible for leader
ship in such a party, even though he happens to
be professional Irish patriot who uses the sorrows
of Kathleen nj Houlihan as another cheap way Of
catching votes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-16
Mass Labor Party

Question; Will the labor party be
only a front for the Communist
Party and it's sympathizers and
supporters?
Answer; No! The Communist
Party does not propose such a labor
party. 1t does not want a labor
party unless it involves masses of
workers who are not now in con-
tact with the Communist move
ment. From the very beginning the
labor party should be based on
many, many more workers than the
number which at present are
grouped around Communist organi-
cations.
The Communist Party wants a
labor party only if it will bring
millions of workers into independ-
ent political struggle for their i'm
mediate demands and needs, IN
less the labor party can lead a
political struggle for a class strug-
gle program on a far wider scale
than the Communist Party can or
ganize under its leadership, it will
not be the kind of labor party
that the Communists are striving
to build up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-16
The Presence of Communists
by del

Question: VIII the participation
of Communists prevent the labor
party from developing into a broad
mass movement?
Answer: Communists created the
broad united front fight for the
Workers Unemployment and Social
Insurance Bill and the wide strug-
gle against war and fascism. They
will bring a more generalized po-
litical struggle to the workers in
the form of labor party, and it
will be the Communists who will
keep the reforrnists and misleaders
from having a free field to them
selves.
Far from limiting the mass move
ment the participation of the Com
munists will be a guarantee that
genuine fight will be made to build
the broadcast labor party which will
be a genuine working class party,
and which will Lead the workers
forward to the realization of their
class interests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-16
The Labor Party and the
Socialist Party

Question: If the Communist
Party is against having a labor
party controlled by the present
leadership of the Socialist Party,
then why does it propose united
front with the Socialists?
Answer: The Communist Party
is constantly striving to establish
unity of action with the Socialist
Party. But there is no contradic-
ton between its proposals for a
class struggle labor party. In fact
the Communist Party proposes to
establish the same kind of program
for the labor party as 1t urges for
the united front.
1t must be emphasized that the
Communist Party has repeatedly
made united front proposals to the
Socialist Party around specific
issues that would benefit the work
res. The reason that the united
front has not been achieved so far
is that the leaders of the Socialist
Party refuse to accept such a class
struggle policy. They make united
front with the reactionaries in the
A. F, Of L. They reject the Com
munists' offer to build the united
front of struggle. but unite with
the white guards in their campaign
Of Islander against the Soviet Union
When the communist fight
against the conception of the Iabor
party put forth by Waldman and
Oneal, it is because the party that
they would lead would be strike
breaking outfit. 1t would be used
against the interests of the work
ers; it would be used against the
Soviet Union, it would be a third
capitalist party.
The Communists invite the So
cialist Party to come into a genuine
labor party with a class struggle
program. Such party would really
fight for the best interests of the
workers. 1t would further the
uiiICu dCblFtI9 VI Tile NOTkeIS III Glle
elections and in every other field.
On both the issues Of the labor
party and the united front the
Communist Party is fighting for
policies that are beneficial to the
workers as against the policies of
the bureaucrats and labor takers
whose policies have proven harmful
to the working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-16
Candidates

Question: If the Communist
Party supports the candidates of
the labor party, does this mean that
it will not put forward its own
candidates?
Answer: In those places where
the labor party puts forward candi-
dates the Communist Party will not
put forward candidates in opposi-
ton. 1t will support these labor
party candidates, putting them on
it's own ticket. But it will protect
its position on the ballot by putting
forward its own candidates in those
places where the labor party has
none, and will appear on the bal
lot in one form or other.
The Communist Party would con-
tinue to conduct independent politi-
cal campaigns. While throwing it's
support to the candidates of the
labor party in which it was partici-
pating, 1t would not disappear from
the ballot nor discontinue political
activity.
The Communist Party would al
ways be on the alert against any
labor party leader or candidate who
gave signs of betraying the work
ers. 1t would not support any
candidate who came out with anti
working class slogans or fought
against the true interests of the
workers. That is why it is so inn
portant for the labor party TO be
organized on mass trade union
base. Communists and other mill
tants cannot permit such labor
party to be dominated by self
appointed leaders who vii be luke
warm about fighting for the inter-
ests of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-16
Party Democracy

Question; Why was the question
of the labor party raised by Com
rade Browder before there was any
discussion in the Party? Was this
violation Of inner Party demo-
crazy?
Answer: The Political Bureau Of
the Party thought that the Unem-
ployment and Social Insurance Con-
gress presented golden opportu-
nifty of presenting the question to
$500 delegates from all over the
country. 1t was a springboard from
which to launch the idea to work
ers, who would carry back to their
organizations the idea of class
struggle labor party as opposed to
a third capitalist progressive party
or a reformist party differing from
the progressive one only in dena-
gogy.
The enthusiasm with which the
Party membership and the non
Party masses have received the an
nouncement Of the labor party is
proof of the correctness of the deci-
sion of the Political Bureau. 1t
demonstrated once again that the
Communists exercise political initia-
tive in all fields.
There was no violation of Party
democracy. The widest discussion
is being carried on within the Party
on all phases of the question. Ac-
ton and discussion is being car
ried on simultaneously. The Central
Committee at its last plenum made
decisions concerning the policies of
the Party with respect to the labor
party movement. This decision is
being carried out throughout the
country. At the same time Party
discussions are going on which can
modify or elaborate this decision
as can be done with all other deci-
sions of the Central Committee.
The Political Bureau could act be-
cause it was putting forward basic
principle of the Party. This deci-
sion like all other decisions is based
on the mutual confidence of the
membership and the leadership, and
its correctness is established by the
collective experiences of the entire
Party. 1t should be emphasized that
the Communist Party, at those
times when immediate decisions are
necessary, acts and discusses at the
same time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-16
RefOrmist or Revolutionary

Question: viii the labor party
be reformistic? If not, why do we
need two revolutionary parties2
Answer: There is only one revo-
lutionary party-and that is the
Communist Party, which fights for
the emancipation of the working
class from the exploitation and OPP
preston of capitalism. This does
not mean that the labor party that
the Communists propose would be
reformiSt. 1t would be a labor
party based on class struggle prin-
ciples that would fight for the i'm
mediate needs and demands of the
workers. Such labor party. while
not accepting the full program of
the Communist Party, would be
advancing the revolutionary under
standing of the workers, and con-
sequently would lead them to the
Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-16

the masses in their struggles for i'm
mediate demands. This is in line
with the Communist policy of fight
ing for all the immediate needs of
the workers.
Communists will point out to the
workers that their revolutionary
program is the further development
of the minimum policy of the labor
party, They will always advocate
the full revolutionary program of
the Communist Party, and will at
tempt to win support for this ulti-
mate aim of the workers move
ment. Through the experiences of
the workers in the struggles for the
minimum program of the labor
party, the Communists will teach
them to realize that the revolution
airy way out is the only solution for
the crisis of capitalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-16
Relation to Other Parties

Question: What will be the rela-
ton of the Communist Party to the
Farmer Labor Party, the Progress
sive Party and other such groupsp
Answer: The Communist Party,
in those States where movements
such as are mentioned above have
been organized, will adopt policies
which will further the class differ
entiation in these groups and par
ties. 1t will develop the struggle of
the workers and the poor farmers
against the class collaboration poll
cies of the leadership.
In Minnesota, for example, the
Central Committee has given di-
receives to the members of the
Communist Party there, to do their
best TO develop the united front
based on class struggle issues. On
the basis of this united struggle
the Communists will attempt to
build a united labor party ticket
which will fight the present mayor
Of Minneapolis, who is a tool of the
reactionary Citizens Alliance. BY
building the united front of the
workers on the basis of class strug-
gle policies, it will be possible to
effectively expose Floyd B. Olson
and the other leaders of the Farm
err Labor Party who aided in break
ing the tesmsters' strikes of last
year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-16
On the Side of MammOn

HUDSON. N. Y. is small Industrial city. But
II it has one of the loudest cergymen the east
ern slope Protestant by the name Of Rev. Murphy.
The Rev. Murphy has entered the against
the bewhiskered bad Bolsheviks. He has no radio
station yet but, like the Rev. Coughin, he is out
to save Americas womanhood from the Red fate
worse than death"
The success and wealth of Step-Father Cough
lin has turned the head of many small town
hungry reverend like Murphy. The old hell-fre
evangelism of the Billy Sunday type has failed as
racket; now the big cash is in pretending to
fight the Bolshies.
Rev. Murphy preached a long and ilDterate
sermon recently, which Hudson, ~ Y. Commu-
mist sent us for the funny column The reverend's
mind IS as muddled a plate of Bowery hash.
His sermon was based on text from Hosea, and
a book by Joe Ortega, a Spanish semi-fascist in
telectual and quotations from Charles Evans
Hughes and Ambassador Herrick.
Murphy says that Communism is wrong i'm
moral and unchristian because as everyone knows,
Lenin died of syphilis"
Murphy believes in capitalism. He believes in
child labor in scabbing in unemployment, war
and chauvinism.
1.-THE minority must direct, while the masses
are meant to be directed" he says. He believes
in fascism though he does not call it by that
name as yet.
He wants "hrst-class army and navy for
hrSt-caSS country, ne says. He also wants amer
lea for the Americans" docs this include the
Murphy clan of Ireand2J. He wants the "re-
institution of Christian principles in national
life" He breaches the capitalist gospel, straight
and undiluted, and some banker ought to put him
on the payroll
These the kind of preachers that the Rus
sian Spanish, Mexican masses have learned to
fear and hate. Whenever the people have been
murdered and oppressed by their exploters, such
preachers have always been present, not to help
the afflicted, but to bless and strengthen the af-
hictors
In the conflict between wealth and humanity
where does the Church standP The Coughlins
and Murphys certainly the side of Mammon
The ''POOr" Russian Peasant
IN CHICAGO, recently, five-month baby died
in its mothers arms while the woman, too poor
to ride street car was walking from hos
pita to hospital seeking to save its life.
She was Mrs Ella Martindale, wife of taxi
driver and the mother of four hungry children
The hospitals would not treat the sick child. And
patriotic" Americans like Hearst or the Rev
Murphy ignored this murder. The suffering of
the American people is not their concern. They
are too busy worrying about the suffering" of
the poor" Russian peasant who must live under
Communism.