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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-31
First Pay Your Debts!

WHEN a foreign-born worker meets this question,
W be it from deluded fellow-worker, or a fascist
capitalist, let him draw himself up proudly, and
answer:
Look at my hands. They are hard with the years
of work have done. I have given America the best
that is in me- have given 1t my life and my faith
full work.
who can say that have not given this land of
my adoption than have received? For every
dollar have been paid, I have given five dollars
worth of labor in return. If the accounts were to
be reckoned, this country owes me great debt
have built its skyscrapers, dug It's COAL rolled its
steel, and farmed its land. Now am on the bread
line, damn it. If you wish to deport me,
first pay your debts.
"I helped create all this wealth that your mil
lionaires have monopolized. Now that you have
broken me in body and SOUL you would like to get
rid of It is your way of getting rid of your
debtors. But will not allow you to cheat me in
this I will fight your deportation laws,
I will fight your wealthy fascists will speak out,
for am man, and am true American.
1.-THE real patriot is the man who gives something
to country, not the who exploits it. I am
loyal to the patriotism Of Jefferson and Lincoln, but
I reject and abhor the patriotism of j. Perpont
Morgan and William Randolph Hearst.
Il have better right to be here than all of you
parasites for I a worker. I came here because
I starved in Europe, and thought would find bread
and freedom here. Now you tell me have no right
to expect bread and freedom in America But see
millions of native-born Americans who are fighting
your tyranny. You treat them as badly as you have
treated me-we are no different in your eyes, de-
spite your hypocritical Americanism
They recognize me fellow-worker and cit-
zen shall join with them In the fight for work
receive the fate you deserve. You cannot insult me
by calling me foreigner, despise you too much
for that. SO long the American workers have
granted me my citizenship, that is enough for me.
America is my country, because have worked here
long. Shoulder to shoulder with the other work
ing class Americans, will defend my country
against you capitalist traitors for love my country
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-31
Patriotism and Profits

IF a worker has been born in Europe, does this
1 mean that he is slaveP Must he keep his
mouth shut, take gratefully whatever scabby wages
the bosses pay him?
America is supposed to be free country. Almost
half of the population here is foreign-born, the
children of foregn-born parents Yet a minority
of greedy capitalists have the audacty to tell us
that this great portion of America is not entitled to
any voice It must not take part in politics. vote
or strike to protect its own interests 1t must be
content to be cannon-fodder and factory fodder,
nation of robots.
This is the capitalist idea of a free America. We
can well them, it is not the idea of Thomas
jefferson or Abraham Lincoln or any of the mil
lions of rank and file patriots who shed their blood
for American freedom
The capitalists have tried to stake out a claim
all the patriotism in America. But let us hurl in
their teeth the answer to their lie. They are not
patriots but TRAITORS. They have betrayed and
continue to betray every day Of their greedy lives
all that is good and creative in America They
nothing for the fate of the American people. They
would see all of us dead in coal mine explosions if
1t would pay them profit. They would cheerfuly
watch millions of children die of hunger if it helped
their bank accounts. They plunged us into one
world war, and leading into another slaughter
because 1t means dividends.
So these are the patriots These are the people
who tell the foreign-born worker he must love
America and be satisfied with low wages. What
do they know of love- these pigs these vultures
what do they know of America, outside of their
stocks and bonds?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-31
CHAPTER III.
Teachings of Lenin
VII.

| ENIN first brought out the revolu-
IA tionary significance of this
question in the era of imperialism.
Already before the war he gave close
attention to the rising forces of
struggle in Asia; in 1913 he wrote on
Backward Europe and Progressive
Asia" During the War he worked
out completely the analysis of every
aspect of this question and showed
the revolutionary significance of
the slogan of national self-deter-
mination." Against those who spoke
of the Irish rebellion of 1916 as a
"pusch," he wrote:
To believe that social revOlu-
ton is possible without the re-
volt of the small nationaIities and
colonies in Europe, without the
revolutionary outburst of the
petty bourgeoisie with all its pref
udices, without movement of the
non-class conscious proletarian
and semi proletarian masses
against landlord, clerical mon
archist, national, ETC., oppression
to believe this is tantamount to
denying the social revolution al
together. -.
Those who wait for pure"
social revolution will never live to
see it. Such a one is merely a
revolutionary in words, without
understanding the reality Of rev.
oIution. ('The Results of the
Discussion on Self Determine
tion," 1861
After the victory of the Soviet
Revolution this question took on a
still sharper significance. Lenin
wrote:
While formerly prior to the
epoch of world revolution move
ments for national liberation were
a part of the general democratic
movements, now, however. after
the victory of the Soviet Rev0lu-
ton in Russia and the opening of
the period of world revolution, the
movement for national liberation
is part of the world proletarian
revolution.
AT the Second Congress of the
n Communist International in 1920
he brought to the forefront the issue
of the naional and colonial struggle
for liberation, and the necessity for
the proletariat in the imperialist
countries to give active support to
it. The theses drafted by him de-
clare:
The policy of the Communist
International on national and
colonial questions must be chiefly
to bring about union of the pro-
letsrian and working masses of all
nations and countries for a joint
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-31
How They Tried I'D Poison
RakOSi In Vienna I'm 1920
Poisoned Food Sent
by Fake Workers
Delegation

This startling account of an at
tempt to poison Matthias Rakosi,
Bella Kun and other leaders of the
Hungarian revolution during 1920,
was sent to the Daily Worker by
one of the intended victims, now
living In Budapest. For obvious
reasons his name Is not attached
to the article.
THE Austrian Social-Democratic
Minister for the Interior, Ma
thias Eldersch, ordered us the
Peoples Commissars Committee and
the Soviet employees of the Hun
garian Soviet Republic, headed by
Comrade Bella Kun-and also our
families, to be imprisoned in the old
fortress of Karlstein, in which for
merly the Serbian war prisoners
were held.
This fortress was infested with
bugs and vermin. Only by means
of seven-day hunger strike was it
possible to force this brave" minis
ter to promise, at least, an improve
ment in the intolerable prison re-
gime.
Soon after, some of our relatives
were set free. Many of the prison
ers, including Bella Kun, were trans
ferred at Vienna at the beginning
Of 1920 We were then brought to
the madhouse of Steinhof Ca little
town surrounded by a walD, and
isolated in a strongly barred build
ing standing in the middle of the
yard.
Here, the following incident took
place: we were informed by the
Criminal Police on guard that a
Hungarian Workers Delegation"
had brought us parcel of food
products. OF course we were not
allowed to see this delegation, and
the letter brought by it was handed
over for censorship to police head
quarters.
Among the food there were fruit,
biscuits, cakes, cigarettes, etc. The
biscuits and fruit we handed over
for our relatives, but we kept cake
for our supper. Every one of us ate
a piece of this cake with relish. I,
however, took only a. small piece,
for my stomach was not in order.
why don't you eat?" asked Bella
Kun.
Because it Is poisoned" I an
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-31

1900 P. M.-WEAF-Kemp Orchestra
wOR-Sports Resume-Stan Lomax
WJz-Amos m Andy-sketch
WABC-Myrt and Marge-Sketch
7:i5-wEAF-Jack Smith, Songs
WOR-Lum and Abner-Sketch
WJz-Concert Orchestra
WABC-Just Plain Bill-s&etch
1870 wEAF--Minstrel Show
WOR-The Street Singer
WABC-Nick Lucas, Songs
:45-WOR-Comedy; Music
WJZ-Nichols Orchestral Ruth Et-
ting. Songs
WABC-Boake Carter Commentator
800 EAF-ValleeS Varieties
WOR-Little Symphony Orchestra;
Philip James. Conductor; Milban
String Trio
WABC-All-Girl Orchestra and
Chorus, Direction Phil Spitalny
Observation-Disclosures Male Trio
s:5o-WoR-Progress Of the Republican
Party-Henry p. Fletcher, Chair
man, Republican National Commit
tee, at Meeting at Cooper Union
WJZ-Chicago a Cappella Choir
WABC-Johnson Orchestra: Edward
Nell. Baritone; Edwin c. Hill. Mar
rator, Speaker; Lewis H. Brown,
President, Johns-Manville. Inc.
0-wEAF-Captain Henrys Show Boat
WOR-Hillbilly Music
WJz-Death Valley Days-Sketch
WABC-Grays Orchestra; Annette
Hanshaw, Songs; Walter O'Keefe
e:30-WOR-Little Theatre Tournament
WJz-Charles Sears, Tenor; Ruth
Lyon, Soprano
WABC-Waring Orchestra
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Music Hall:
Helen Jepson, Soprano, and Others
WOR-Channing Choir
WJZ-Strnig Ensemble
:15-WOR--Current Eyents-H E. Read
l0:30W WORLDLY Brown, Violin
WJz-Self- Government in Business
Leyerett S. Lyon, Vice President,
Brookings Institution; Professor
Paul T. Homan. Cornell University
WABC-Stevens Orchestra
5-WABC-Voice Of the Crusaders
0o-WFAF-Talk-J. B. Kennedy
wOR-News
WHISKY Orchestra
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-31
New Pamphlets

ABOLITION OF THE BREAD
CARD SYSTEM, BY V. M.
Molotov, 10 cents.
LIFE IN REVIEW and other
Soviet Sketches, by Semyon
Narinyani, 10 cents.
THE TWO WORLDs-No. of
the series Political Education"
Is cents.
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of the series Political Educa-
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No. 3 of the series Political Edu-
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All of the above pamphlets are
published by international Pub
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ers, P. o. Box 148, Sta. D, New
York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-31
Change
the
World!
By MICHAEL GOLD

IF YOU don't like this country; why don't
you go back to the one you came from
Sooner or later, every American radical
is accosted by these fool questions.
It doesn't matter if you are arguing for
unemployment insurance or honest labor leadership
or abolition of child labor, or any obvious reform.
The conservatives and fascists hate any change that
threatens capitalist profit, and sure to say, with
the song writer Irving Berlin Cborn in Russia, by
the way:
IF you don't like your old Uncle Sammy
Go back to your home across the sea
If you don't like the way we run our country
And won't cheer for the red, white and blue
Don't be like the cur in the story
Don't bite the hand that is feeding you"
1t is not only the naive and ignorant who use this
stupid ciche as political argument. College profess
sors and congressman employ it, and the whole drive
for fingerprintng and deportation of the foreign
born is based on this vicious idea. 1t is one of Dirty
Hearst's favorite slogans in his fascist campaign
All the intellectual rabble of capitalism will tell
you in the Saturday Evening Post and the Chicago
Tribune that everything is swell in America except
for a little group of foreign agitators with whskers
and bombs who stir up trouble If they could deport
the foreigners, wages would automatically go up,
there would be no unemployment, strikes would dis
appear and every man would be king.
1t is stupid on the face of it. You could deport
every foreigner and every Communist, and erect
high electric fence around America to keep out every
European or Russian idea. You could seal the
American people in an air-tight casket, where moth
ing foreign could attack them. The Steel Trust
would still insist on low wages and high profits, and
the steel workers would still mutter their discon-
tent and painfully and secretly organize in trade
unions.
You cannot deport the economic laws of capital
ism. They must continue grinding out poverty war,
unemployment until the workers finally can stand
it no longer and demand the great change.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-31

all oppressed natiOnalities, that is,
their freedom of separation. ("The
Socialist Revolution and the Right
of Nations to Self Determination"
1861
Tactics and Organization of the
Revolution
IN no sphere of Marxism did Lenin
L make a more distinctive or far
reaching contribution than in the
very wide field of revolutionary
strategy, tactics and organization.
All these questions could still only
receive incomplete treatment in the
time of Marx, owing to the still
early stage of development of the
working class movement.
On the basis of the nineteenth
century revolutions and Of the first
stages of development Of the work
ing class movement to a mass basis.
Marx was able to present in bold
outline the essentials of revolution
airy proletarian strategy and tactics,
and the writings and correspondence
Of Marx and Engels in addition
reveal a host of pregnant indications
on a very great variety of specific
questions. These indications, how
ever, were in great part neglected,
ignored or even opposed by their
immediate successors, who took
parts that suited them and often
even suppressed the rest.
Lenin, on the contrary, worked
over anew these indications with
the closest attention in the light of
further experience, and at the same
time faced with complete fresh
ness the new problems of the more
advanced stage of capitalism and
the working class movement. 1t was
Lenin who first elaborated Marxist
strategy and tactics into a fully
worked out science.
This practical revolutionary
science elaborated by Lenin, in
close association with revolutionary
theory, covers the whole range
from the most elementary questions
of agitation and organization to the
ultimate questions of the conquest of
power and of post-revolutionary
construction.
The mastery of dialectical method
is here most powerfully exhibited,
with the greatest elasticity in re-
spending to each concrete situation,
while maintaining the revolutionary
line and aims unbroken. In con-
sequence just this essence of Lenin's
leadership least admits of any for
NAL summarizing, and requires to
be studied in the life.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-31
Soviet Film Workers
Greeted by Stain
On 18th Anniversary

GREETINGS and best wishes to
the workers of the Soviet
cinema industry on the day Of its
glorious 18th anniversary.
"The cinema in the hands of the
Soviet power represents great,
priceless force.
Having exceptional opportunities
to influence the spirit of the masses,
the cinema helps the working class
and its Party to educate the toilers
in the spirit of Socialism, organiz-
ing the masses for the struggle OF
Socialism, raising their cultural and
political fighting abilities.
Soviet power expects from you
new successes, new films clarifying
as did the 'Chapayev' film, the great
ness of the historical struggles for
power by the workers and peasants
Of the Soviet Union, modifying for
the carrying out of new tasks, and
calling to mind the achievements
as we'll as the difficulties of Socialist
construction.
1.-THE Soviet power expects from
you keen penetration by your mas
tiers into new spheres Of the most
important Genin and the most
widely spread Of the arts among the
masses-the cinema"
j. STAIN.
Sculptor Manner of Leningrad
has just finished work on project
for a statue of Chapayev, to be
erected in Chapayevsk, in honor Of
the hero of the film now on view at
the Cameo, where it is thrilling en-
thusiastic audiences in its third
capacity week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-31
Agnes SmedLey'S
Life Threatened
By KMOmintang
by del

A GNES SMEDLEY has been warn
"a ed that her life is in danger if
she remains in China. She is now in
Shanghai. Agnes Smedley has writ
ten two books on China-Chinese
Destiaies and China's Red Army
Marches. The latter, according to
the Vanguard Press, has been pro-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-31

revolutionary struggle leading to
the overthrow of capitalism, with
out which national inequality and
oppression cannot be abolished.
But the fight for the full right
of separation of subject nations is
no fight for separation as such, for
augmentation and petty bourgeois
nationalist conceptions of isolation.
On the contrary, the right of full
separation is only necessary in order
to end all national oppression, and
thus clear the way to the free union
of all peoples. The goal remains
world union, the ultimate fusion of
nations"
This demand is not at all equiv
alent to the demand for separa-
ton, augmentation and estab-
lishment of petty states. 1t sig
nifies only logical expression of
the struggle against every kind of
national oppression. -.
The goal of socialism is not only
the destruction of the division of
humanity into petty states and all
kinds Of individual nations, not
merely the coming together of
nations, but also their actual
fusion. -.
Just as humanity can only ar
rive at the destruction of classes
through transitional period of
the dictatorship of the oppressed
class, so also humanity can only
arrive at the inevitable fusion of
nations through a transitional
period of the complete freedom of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-31
Reviewed by
ALLEN CHUNILEY


AS A detective thriller Dostoievsky's
n great novel, Crime and Punish
ment, is naive today; as a parable
Of sin and retribution it appears
maudlin. But as the psychological
tragedy of a misguided 'idealist,"
amid 18th century Neitzcheans who
divided the world into ordinary"
and extraordinary" people, and
who held that these extraordinary"
people could-and should-fulfill
their destiny through individual
murder if necessary, Crime and
Punishment still has significance.
1t is therefore, regrettable that
the present adapters included all
three of these themes instead of
building a play on the one theme
that mattered. For in the resultant
shuttle the real tragedy is forgotten;
what comes out is bare, pointless
synopsis.
The production itself does not
buttress this weakness. Here, too,
the gigantic and fearful story has
been watered down to the consist
ency Of Little Theatre. The settings
by Irene Scharaff are impression
istic, and as such are tasteful and
striking. But it is the taste of the
Smart" decorator; they render
squalor bit too aesthetic.
Morgan Farlay essays the difficult
role of the tormented youth. He is
sincere and fervent. But the precious
tricks of the Portmanteau Players
are still clinging to him and to make
matters worse, he over-acts grossly.
Compared with his frenzied grimac-
ing, the quiet poise of the willy In
spector Gas effectively played by
Thomas Coffin Cooke becomes al
most glaring.
AS for the remaining roles they
are either cut down to virtual walk
ons' (as in the case Of Juliana
Taberna playing the mystic prosti-
tute) which is the adapters' fault, or
are clearly immature.
One cannot deny that the produc-
ers have undertaken a formidable
and mildly important-task, and
one must admire their courage. 1t
is to be deplored, however, that they
have been lacking in vision.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-31

swered jokingly. Nobody for a mo-
ment had entertained the idea that
the cake could have been poisoned.
We'll, then, I'll take another piece
of it" asked Rakosi, and cut another
slice off for himself.
AFTER supper, which we had eaten
"A in the small common cell, I sud-
denly noticed how terribly pale Bella
Kun, Matthias Rakosi and Ernoe
Por had become-the pupils in their
widely staring eyes, were dilated,
and they had become so weak that
they could hardly move.
At that moment one of the detec-
tives rushed in and asked whether
anything had happened to us after
eating the cake, for the remains
which were taken out of the cell
smelt very badly of a putrefying
poison. The workers delegation"
was obviously delegation of MUIR
derers sent by Horthy.
The doctors, urgently summoned,
Immediately gave us an emetic, and
carefully watched the symptoms of
the poison working in us. The cake
had been poisoned with Belladonna
"a strong poison affecting the
brain, so that the victim of it first
goes mad, and then dies. We were
saved by the emetic so quickly given
to us. Bella Kun's healthy organ
ism strongly resisted the poison, but
Matthias Rakosi showed more and
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By r. PAINE DUTT

The Daily Worker is printing
serialIy the extremely valuable
and popular booklet by r. Paine
Dutt, Life and Teachings of
v. /. Lenin," published by Inter
national Publishers.
January 81 was the eleventh
anniversary of the death of Lenin.
During these ten years the teach
ings Of Lenin have spread TO ever
wider sections Of the globe, inspir-
ing the workers and oppressed to
greater assaults on capitalism.
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WORLD Of the
THEATRE

Watered-d DOStOieUSky
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, by
Fyodor Dostoievsky, a play in three
acts adapted from the dramatiza-
ton by Victor Trivas and Georg
Schdanoff, staged by Victor Wolf
son, featuring Morgan Farlay, at
the Biltmore Theatre.
Evening star., 1935-01-05
Winter Season Held Good Time
For AU Construction activities

The Federal Housing Administra-
ton is cooperating with the Amer
ican Federation of Labor and other
national trade groups in a determined
drive to check the seasonal downward
trend of construction activity during
Winter, pointing out that modern
methods of construction and property
repairing overcome the difficulties of
work during cold weather.
President William Green of the A.
F. Of L., reporting success in this di-
rection for the month of November,
declared. IF we can only break down
the unreasonable and out-dated preju-
dice against construction in Winter,
the showing Gin construction activity
will be vastly better"
Normally the months between the
Fall and Spring are slack ones in most
of the building industries and trades,
and for this reason labor and ma
terials can be had at moderate cost
and property owners undertaking re-
pairs or construction during this pc
riod have the cream" of skilled
craftsmen to pick from.