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The Washington times., 1935-08-21

trict Committees with other In
vited guests present for q NINA
ture recital. It will serve to show
how unfair the strict legal ban Is
on juvenile artists and may help
to revive interest in the bill pend.
ing in Congress which would open
the stage to young professional
entertainers.
Write Me Soon
I have a perfectly good five dol
lar bill and some passes for
"Smilin' Through'-if and when
played-waiting for the best let
tiers on why this Norma shearer
picture should play Q repeat en-
gagement on F. Street.
Mrs. Doris Abbott Of the Elk
tensible Building, Agricultural De
partment, goes lyrical In her ap-
peal and presents q very good
argument in rounded words.
Others who have written are
Grayce M. Butler, Of 1851 MaSsa.
chusetts Ave. N. W.: Mrs. r. w.
Bauman, Of ITS v st. N. E.: A.
Pearl Macpherson, Of 104 w.
Thornapple St., Chevy Chase;
Louise George, 1929 G St.; Mrs.
B. Conner, Of 1106 D st. s. E.;
Mrs. Mae Gilbert, Of 3644 Thir-
tenth ST.; Edward Everett Hoar,
Of 2700 Connecticut Ave. N. W.;
Willis c. Connover, jr., Of $500
Wisconsin Ave. N. w.; Mrs. Fred
N. Turner, of 2116 o st. N. w.:
Mrs. James E. Dabney, Of TIA Ken
needy st. N. W.: Parker Jay HUI
bert Of the Interstate Commerce
Commission; Mary L. ireland Of
TIC Third st. N: E.; Mrs. James A.
Severn, 1919 Maple View Pl. s. E.;
Mrs. j. c. Fogle, 210 Tenth st.
S. E., and Mabel Beall, 1917
Maple View Place.
This is the last call for that IS
and tickets. Answers in by mid.
night tonight will be considered.
The Washington times., 1935-08-21

Of courSe) deserves a raise in his
pay check, or am I talking out Of
turn?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01

machine guns and ne-smoke screens Of the New
Deal as well as against their own treacherous Of
hcialdom. the Daily Worker sends its greetings
To Tom Mooney Warren Billings, j. B. McNa-
mara, the nine Scottsboro Boys to all class war
prisoners who languish in the prison cells Of
America because they fought for their class-the
Daily Worker sends its greetings.
To the leader of the German Communist Party.
Ernst Thaelmann, and to all the others in the
clutches Of the beast Of fascsm in Germany.
Austria, Spain, Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria,
Greece and Latyia-the Daily Worker sends its
greetings
To our heroic Chinese comrades who have I'M
furled the red banner of revolution high among the
colonial peoples-the Daily Worker sends its greet
ingS.
To the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union,
led by the Communist Party and the brilliant leader
of the working class of the world Joseph Stalin to
YOU, our comrades who are constructing Socialist
society, the inspiration Of the toilers of the world
the Daily Worker sends its greetings
To all who work by hand and brain to all who
struggle that there shall be no exploitation of man
by man-to you the Daily Worker sends its greet
ings.
The new year will bring new and mightier
class battles The Daily Worker, central organ of
the Communist Party, pledges itself to work
towards becoming stronger, clearer voice of toll
ing America in all these struggles Firm in the
- the toilers of the whole world, we go forward to
greater struggles against capitalism and its mon
strous progeny, hunger, war and fascism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01
Nothing Too Vile

yIE COMMUNISTS have said time and
" time again that nothing is too vile for
the capitalist class if it means the swelling
or protection of their profits. Deputy Com
missioner of Public Welfare @ Stanley
Howe seems anxious to prove that.
The statement Of Mr. Howe Commissioner Hod-
sons assistant that single unemployed would be
compelled to accept forced labor or get off the home
relief rolls is a precise example Of what mean.
Coming on the heels of the declaration on 'unem-
pIoyables" made by President Roosevelt it indicates
clearly the main line of reasoning all the way down
the line from the White House to City Hal-to slash
relief, be it at the expense of the lame and the
halt the unattached youth or the dependent old
Mr. Howe pays unconscious tribute to the Com
munist Party when he says that they (the Com
munists) have organized regular educational CAM
paign to teach them (the single mem how to chsel"
Mr.. Howe is referring, in his own delicate way, to
the struggle which the Communists and the mil
liant Unemployed Councils have led in defense of
this bitterly oppressed section of the unemployed
These single men, who can obviously fulfill no resi-
dence requirements and any of the other relief tech
ncalities, are bufTcted from pillar to post. Hard
labor at Greyccurt IN. W, c. c. c. camps vernin-
ridden nophouses-ths is the lot of these workers
whose only misfortune is that pitalism cannot use
them in its factories
Despite the edcts of this puny martinez who
obeys the Great White Father in Washington with
such alacrity the Communist Party will go forward
in its struggle to defend the rights of the single
attached and the "unemployables'-t greatest
sufferers Of the scourge of unemployment.
The best answer to both Howe and Roosevelt is
to unite every possible force in the drive to elect
mass delegations to the National Congress for Un-
employment and Social Insurance il Washington
Jan. 5, and 7,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01
7Severing on the Saar

HITLER trots out one Of his outstanding
ate effort to influence the Saar population
to vote for annexation to Fascist Germany
in the January Is plebscite.
And who should this gentleman be?
None other than that foremost German Socialist
leader Karl severing. who was so vehemently de-
Tended by the American Socialist New Leader"
against the charges made by the Daily Worker.
Karl seyering according to Havas cables from
Cologne, has openly adopted the Nazi slogan
the Saar urging the Saar population to vote for
annexation by Fascist Germany.
Certainly this is enough to disgust every honest
Socialist worker. Severing is a close friend of Abe
Cahan Of the Waldmans and Oneals They so
warmly defended him when the Daily Worker
pointed out that Severing some time ago had de-
clared his support for Fascism and writing
book showing why he favored Hitler. His American
friends came out in his defense when the Daily
Worker nearly year ago pointed out that Sever
ing was getting handsome pension from Adolph
Hitler's government
VARL SEVERING, Socialist leader, represents
those in the ruling clique of the Socialist Party
or Germany. who fought tooth and nail against
the anti-Fascist united front proposed by the Com
munist Party OF Germany before Hitler came to
power
The Socialist New Leader" and the Trotzkyite
militant" now the New Militant" always took
the side of the Severings in defending the Socialist
leaders in Germany from the historically proven
accusation of the Communists that it wasa the So
ciast leaders policies in Germany up to the advent
to power of Hitler that paved the way for German
fascism.
From source which hates Communism we get
the admission that it the Socialist leaders in
Germany who helped pave the way for Fascism
by fighting against Communism and not capital
ism. Hamilton Fish Armstrong, editor of Foreign
Affairs, writing in the New York Sunday Times de-
clared People never have realized that just after
the war the Socialists Europes bulwark against
Communism" eyes, against the proletarian revou-
tion!-D. W.
We call on every honest Socialist when his lead
ers try to hide the crimes of their prototypes in
Germany with the cry that it was the action of the
Communists that brought on fascism to ask them:
Is it the program of Karl Severing pensioned
lackey of Hitler former outstanding leader of the
Socialist Party of Germany who helped Hitler
come to power, the policy of the party of Ernst
Thaemann, imprisoned leader of the Communist
Party, who is now being tortured and threatened
with death by the Nazis that paved the way To-
Hitler?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01
TeVo Congresses!

THE Federal Reserve reports that for
/ the first nine months of the year, the
biggest capitalist corporations resped
harvest of profits 70 per cent higher than
last year.
This cold percentage, startling as it
is conceals the hundreds of millions Of dollars OF
new fat profits which the Wall Street monopohes
wrung from the labor of the American working
class through the intensified wage slavery OF the
Roosevelt n R. A.
Seventy per cent more profit dividends
more golden gravy for the handful Of parasites who
control the counrys industry thanks to the activi-
ties Of the smiling hypocrite Roosevelt
Is there worker in the country who does not
know from his own daily position how much misery
starvation and slavery have gone to make up this
seventy per cent leap in capitalist profit during
the last nine months?
Mountainous profits for the parasites-nisery
and insecurity for the millions whose toll created
these profits! Such is the situation today as two
Congresses make ready for their opening sessions,
the Congress of the capitalist legislative agents. and
the National Congress for Social and Unemployment
Insurance which opens in Washington on January 5.
The vast ma ority of American people, the toll
ers, will get nothing from the first Congress but
new taxes, new oppression, and new robbery if
Roosevelts program goes through.
The immediate needs of the millions of workers
and ruined farmers will find their voice only at the
second Congress, the working class Congress Here
the demand for immediate cash relief and above all
for Federal program Of unemployment and social
insurance to be paid for by the government and the
capitalist class will be raised the most crying
need of the vast ma jority of the population
Roosevelt's program gives the rich more mill
lions in profits! The working class, the jobless and
the employed must unite its strength to wrest
from Roosevelt and his Wall Street masters i'm
mediate program of unemployment insurance which
will guarantee every single worker Of the country
against the ravages OF the capitalist crisis! These
millions in profits must go to unemployment in
surance!
On to the National Congress for Social and IN
employment Insurance on January ST!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01
Nazi Organizations
Built by F a $ c is is
In South America

BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 31.-Nazls
in South America are making great
efforts to win over the South Amer
lean countries, it is reliably reported
here. They are attempting to stir
up public opinion against France on
the one hand and against the
United States on the other.
A strong Nszi organization exists
in the Argentine; it is concerned
chiefly with military preparations.
The organization is in close touch
with Berlin, whence it receives
money, instructions, and instructors.
The same sort of activity is being
carried on by the Nazis in Brazil,
though here they stress the i'm
portance of winning over public
opinion more than in the Argen-
tine. -Four newspapers exist in
Paraguay which are directly con-
nected with Minister for Propa-
ganda Goebbels Of Germany. The
fascist and anti-semitic movement
in Chile is supported by Germany.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01
BY Andrea Marabini

With the end of the twelfth year
of fascist dictatorship the toiling
italian peasantry is now literally
plundered and seized with mex
presSible misery. Thousands upon
thousands of small property owners,
who had painfully built up their
small plots, have been forced to sur
render their land and become agri-
cultural laborers.
According to the avowals of the
fascists themselves, in the one
province of Asti almost 30 per cent
of the peasantry sorrowfully gave
up their hard-earned home and
plot in the postwar period and
another third, who have not yet
been deprived of their land, are in
such straits that sooner or later
their few acres will fall to the
large landowners or the mortga-
geers.
In the province of Monferrato
some 40 per cent of the peasantry
have recently sold some portion of
their property in order to remedy
their conditions. A fourth of the
existing households in the province
of Tortana find themselves in such
crushing circumstances that their
owners are on the eve of inevitable
foreclosures. Also in the province
of Cuneo many have been forced
to dispose of their households either
in part or altogether.
Deserted Farm Communities
The conditions which are to be
observed in Piedmont are more or
less true for all Italy and signify
for the hilly regions, and for the
peasantry which vainly attempts to
scratch a living from their poor
soil, an even less favorable charac-
ter, In dwelling on conditions in
Piedmont, where half of the land
lies in mountainous zones, and
where the peasantry is exclusively
predominant, we find that, as a
result of the robber policy of fas-
cism, thousands of peasants are be-
ing forced to leave their lands with
their entire families, offering them
selves as laborers or hoping to travel
away to better livelihood.
Thus in hilly districts one Stun
bles upon many communities whose
fields have been deserted, and
where acres and pasture-lands have
become waste areas; one finds more
rarely peasant houses that are kept
in good repair and abandoned huts
dot the country everywhere. Even
in the larger towns one often finds
deserted huts, which are inhabited
in the summer until they fall apart.
In a little section of the Apprentices
there stand more than 200 COM
pletely deserted peasant homes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01
BY Linbach

agricultural economy is conducted
after the Mezzadria system, incomes
sink so frightfully low that the peas
ants, in spite of their century old
ties with the soil, are leaving their
lands to become agricultural la
borers"
Oppressive Debts
The circumference of debts of
these peasants is incredibly oppres-
sive. In one zone of the province
Of Tuscany the burden of taxes in
Al districts rose from $1,000 Ira in
the year 1926-27 to PSI 1000 Ira in
the year 1872. An inquiry into
the circumstances of 81 Mezzardri-
families in another district revealed
that in the time from 1851 cred
its had shrunk from $4,000 to 5000
Ira, while the burden of taxes had
climbed from $4,000 to $4,000 Ira.
In the community of Marradi (Ro-
magma the Mezzadri peasants in
1882 received no income at all. while
their taxes amounted to 100000
Ira. In Pallazuola (Tuscany) the
Indebtedness of the Mezzadri- peas
ants reached 100000 Ira.
The great accumulation of debts
of the Mezzadri- peasants is a gen.
eral phenomenon.
The smaller lease holders share in
the same fate, and they are almost
completely drowned by constant adj
ditional taxes, lease holders ground
rents and interest charges on usur-
ers' money, to which they must have
recourse, if they are to obtain at
least the most pressing necessities
of life.
While the sharp agricultural crisis
reacts with cruel swiftness upon the
continually declining prices of farm
products, taxes in the period of fas-
cisrn, according to Mussolini him.
self, have risen five-fold; among the
hill-peasants a seven and eight-fold
rise in taxes has taken place.
Even more tragic are the circum-
stances of the numerous peasants
OF the province of Venice-Giulia.
Their miserable economic situation,
which is like that of peasants of
other provinces of Italy, is consider
ably intensified by their terrible ma
tional oppression since the time of
fascism. Despotism and persecu-
ton against the Slovenian peasants
have assumed the most hateful
forms of national subjugation any
where.
"Mezzsdri are known in Italy as peas
ants who have no property of their own
and who have obtained a land-settlement
from a large landowner against the fu-
ture payment of half of their harvest 5
crops; in addition they must pay certain
stipulated taxes. similar form of pay
nent. inherited from feudal days. still ex-
lists in East Prussia Such peasants are
known there as deputies or, in German,
deputanten
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01
Twelve Years of Italian Fascism
Have Driven Peasantry from Land

In Casetta di Tiara, small vii
lage, where the bailiff of Palzzuola
Tuscany had not found it neces-
sary for thirty years to make a
single foreclosure because of failure
to pay taxes, the bailiff this year
seized upon the property of sixteen
out of the forty peasant families in
the place. AS a revelation of the
impoverishment of the peasantry
the following information is suffi-
GENTLY impressive; foreclosures I'M
der the fascist regime increased from
5000 to $4,000 annually, and seiz-
ures for failure to pay swelled from
100000 to 100000; fascist figures
themselves announce that the num-
Der of peasant property holders has
decreased by about 100000.
These statistics are eloquent
enough, but it is not even the be-
ginning of the whole truth, since
it is generally known that the fas-
cist economists falsify statistics in
order to conceal and ameliorate the
heavineSs and extent of the impov-
erishment of the peaSantry, as well
as the subsequent proletarianiza-
ton of the poor and middle strata
of the towns.
Feudalism Among Tenant Peasants
The situation of the Mezzadri
(tenant farmers)* is no less favor
able than among the peasants. Fas-
icsm has forced new terms upon the
tenant farmers, by which all those
considerable gains of the stubborn
agricultural struggles fought direct
ly after the war are annulled Since
the seizure of power by the fascists
the income of the tenant farmers
has decreased by more than half as
compared with the period of 1919
20. All those taxes on the products
of labor, which the large property
owner previously carried, are now
saddled upon the tenant farmers. In
addition the new tenant laws, die
tated by fascism, provide for all sorts
of compulsory services and unpaid
labor and condemn the tenant farm
er not only to whole series of tasks,
formerly the concern of the land
lord, but to the delivery of gifts, +"
in the form of a great portion of
the PEASANTS production, which once
was exclusively the property of the
peasant eggs, milk, cheese, chick
ems, pork, etc.. Certain tenant laws
contain even such points as forbid
ding the peasant to have friendly re-
lations with the neighboring popula-
ton. Apparently those times are
returning with mile-long steps when
the peasant could not be married
without the permission of his lord.
Perdisa, fascist economist, writes
in the "Lavoro fascista" of Aug. 20,
1884:
TT is a sad fact that wherever
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01
Neav Years Greetings

THE Daily Worker sends New Year
l Greetings to the workers of mill, mine
and field today-to those whose sweat and
toll produce the wealth of mankind, the
sIxyscrapers and streets, the needs and
luxluies of civilization.
To all those who live relief Or starve with
out even that miserable dole, the Daily Worker
sends its greetings
To the coal miners now on STRIKE in the anthra-
Ute regions in Pennsylvania, ths Daily Worker
e7ds its greetings.
10 the heroic textile workers who battled the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01
Gu b a n Woman Lawyer
For |. L. d. Imprisoned
After Scottsboro r ally

HAVANA, Cuba. Dec. 31.-Cfelia
Dominquez, lawyer of the CT ban
International Labor Defense, and
secretary of the Union of Radical
Women, was arrested here last week
and imprisoned in the women's Jail
at Guanabacca. She had been fol-
lowed by the police since Nov. 27,
when she addressed a Scottsboro
protest meeting at which one worker
was murdered and many wounded
by the Mendieta police.
Ofelia Don1inquez has taken an
active and leading part in the
Cuban workers movement, both in
organizing and providing defense
FOR working class victims of the Wall
Street puppet government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01
Nazis to Patrol Roads
Leading to Swiss Line

ZURICH, Switzerland, Dec. 81
The roads in German territory near
Basic will henceforth. in accord
ance with a new regulation, be
patrolled and guarded by detach-
ments of the Storm Troops and the
Special Guards. Moreover, the con-
troll system for boats passing be-
tween the Swiss and German banks
of the Rhine is to be frightened up.
1t is expected that there will be
military occupation of the frontier
after the beginning of next January
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01
German Youth Denied
Relief for Fl G h ting
Against Forced Labor

MANNHEIM, Germany, Dec. 81.
One hundred and sixty-seyan
young unemployed workers have
been deprived of relief as a result
OF their refusal to be enrolled as
agricultural helpers (without pay
They are reported to have declared.
Rather prison than agricultural
help!s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01
Organizer Unit liza.

Do the Reds intend to kid
nap President Roosevelt? The
Daily Worker tells you all about
the kidnapping plans. Read
the Daily Worker if you want to
know what lies behind the Dick
stein committees revelations!
Subscribe to the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01
DISTRICT FINANCE COM.
Guidance Needed for New
Shop Unit

would like to have nv letter
printed in the Party Life Column,
as I think it would be beneficial to
my unit
Nine months ago, during the
longshoremen's strike, the raiding of
the Communist headquarters. the
arrest of our comrades, made me
want to be in the fight against
capitalism, so I joined the Com
munist Party.
l was placed in my shop unit ia.
Our meeting went along fine until
our unit organizer became sick. I
was elected organizer in his place.
The Communist Party made a drive
and we recruited eight members into
the Party from our shop. The meet
ings were dead. I went to a shop
conference meeting and explained it
all. A leading functionary of Sec
ton l was to conduct our meetings
l told Comrade B. to come. or take
care of it, he promised week after
NSS'N' 0oO VIZ AlCN DGRdIl
to lose interest. They complained
nothing was taken UP. AS we are
all new members we could not help
it. I went to the District Office and
told my story. They said they would
take care Of it and nothing was
done. I don't know what to do.
We started from a unit of day and
night workers, seven in all. Today
we have grown to o. We were to
get our section letter at the Freiheit
Office, but they could not find it,
and we had to have meetings with
out letter. This matter must be
stopped now, or it will be too late
Comradely yours,
B. j.
Organizer Unit ia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-01

Have you heard Mr.. Oswald
Garrison Wizards weeping over
the execution Of self confessed
terrorists in the Soviet Union?
The Daily Worker gives you the
authentic news of the murders
they planned,
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1935-11-01
Bulbs as Food

Certain types of buds, modified
as food storage organs, are items in
our own diet. A cabbage head is
but an overgrown bud, and the good
part Of caulifower is a cluster of
flower buds. Jerusalem artichOkes
and head lettuce are other exam
pies. Cloves are buds used as sea-
soning. There are underground
buds, called bulbs, whose scales
thicken with stored up food for
propagation and for continuing the
life Of the plant through the dor
mant period. Tulips and onions are
such bulbs.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1935-11-01
Wild and Domsstieatsd Dog

OF the 200-odd species Of wild and
domesticated dogs In the world to
day, one-the dingo Of Australia
is found in both wild and tame
states. An outstanding Characters
tic Of the wild dlngo, a ruthless
killer of sheep for sport as wen az
for food, Is his ability to feign
death when caught. He VIII lie life
less, allowing his captor to maui
him numerically, until his chance
for escape arises. Then away he
goes.-Collier's Weekly.