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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-29
Change
the
World!
By MICHAEL GOLD

low about the great Russian famine OF
IL 1888, in which millions died? This was
the question fired at me often in a recent
lecture tour. 1t is lie that has gone the
rounds of all the capitalist countries and
now the Father of Lies, Willie Hearst is spreading
1t far and wide in America.
1t is sign Of the success Of the workers
public the Soviet Union, that the capitalists
fight it only with lies. Truth today, Is revolution
airy. Truth about capitalist conditions leads to
revolt. Truth about Soviet conditions leads the
American workers to discomfort with their own lot.
The truth about the famine is that there was
no famine AS a special broadside issue OF that
interesting magazine, Soviet Russia Today" pointed
out recently far from being any shortage, the So
Wet Union has been enjoying bumper harvests.
The Story of a Lie
ONE of Dirty Willie Hearsts authorities in his
lying campaign against Russia is Austrian
Nazi by the name Of DR.. Ewald Ammende Che is
a doctor Of philosophy and lying.
This ratty doctor is secretary of an organiza-
ton known as the COMMITTEE for National Minori-
ties" which is IN turn connected with the Nazi-
inspired League Of Germanism in Foreign Coun-
tries" This is a sort Of black Nazi International
receiving funds from Berlin to spread German i'm
perialism by Nazi movements in countries Ike Hol-
land Belgium Austria. Denmark and others The
Nezis dream Of snnexing all these small nations
in a Pan-cSermanic empire. Dr. Ammende is one
Of their chief tools.
The Soviet Ukraine is one Of the great wheat
raising sections Of the world and Germany's Nazis
want the Ukraine, too. So 1t is only natural that
Hearst's Dr. Alnmende is likewise known to be in
intimate relations with the Skoropadski group Of
Ukranisn White Guards, who receive funds from
the Nazis, and expect to invade the Ukraine with
Nazi armies.
So DR.. Ammende, in his unholy business of blood
and empire, needs to lie about the Soviet Union,
in order to destroy its prestige among the west
ern workers. 1t was he who invented this remark
able story of famine, and organized the vienna
Aid Committee" to help the famine victims :"
Bishops and armament makers, fascist politicians
and philanthropic milonaires joined his hypocrit-
ca committee.
William H. Chamberlain, our own American
authority" on the Soviet Union and loyal husband
of white-guard lady must have received some
Of DR.. Ammendes publicity releases, for is we'll
known, the honest and neutral" Mr. Chamber
lain repeated this famine lie at solemn length in
his recent book
Many Of the liberals have taken up the Nazi
lie, and repeated it as so1emnly. debated Mr.
Oswald Willard of the Nation month ago in st.
Louis and Mr.. Willard has been also taken in by
the yarn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-29

IN the same vein Lenin wrote.
The transition from capitalism
to socialism occupies an entire
historical epoch. ("The Prole-
tartan Revolution" Oh. ILL.,
More explicitly Lenin wrote:
The socialist revolution cannot
take place in any other form than
that Of an epoch, uniting the civil
war Of the proIetariat against the
bourgeoisie In the leading coun-
tries with a whole series Of dem
ocratic, revolutionary and ma
tional emancipatory movements
in the undeveloped, backward and
oppressed countries. Why is this?
1t Is because capitalism develops
unequalIy. ("On a Caricature of
Marxism and Imperialist Econo-
mism," 1861
Here Lenin brings out his key
thought for the character and de-
velopment of the world revolution
What Marx had described in genera
terms of Fifteen, twenty, fifty year:
of civil wars and international
wars" Lenin is able to describe in
concrete terms, on the basis of his
analysis of imperialism.
The process of the world revolu-
ton is directly connected with the
law of the unequal development oi
capitalism. In place of the old con-
ception, common among the Second
International distorters of Marx
ism, of a separate mechanical evolu-
ton of each country, as if in isola-
ton, through the stages of capital
ism and large-scale capitalism tx
socialism Qeading to constant
bowling to capitalism in the name
of "MarxismO, the world frame
work of capitalism is seen as {
whole, with the bursting points d
contradiction "the weakest links ii
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-29
Questions
and
Answers

This department appears daily the feature
page. All questions should be addressed TO "Ques-
tiOns and Answers" 70 Daily Worker, 50 East
18th Street, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-29
A Secret" Famine

I asst August in open letter in the New York
" Times, the poisonous Nazi Dr. Ammende claimed
that thousands of people were dying of famine in
the streets of Kiev, which is the capital of the
Ukraine.
The New York Times had its correspondent,
Harold Denny, investigate the story. He cabled
back to his paper on Aug. %:
This statement certainly has no foundation.
Your correspondent was in Kiev for several days
last July about the time people we're supposed to
be dying there, and neither in the city in the
surrounding countryside was there hunger"
Later, Oct. 49, Denny reported Nowhere
was famine found Nowhere even the fear of it.
There is food including bread in the local open
markets The peasants smiling too, and
generous with their food stuffs. In Short there
is no air of trouble or impending trouble"
So much for 1884. What about the previous
year, 1888?
On Aug. %, 1888 Walter Duranty cabled the
Times: 1.-THE excellent harvest about to be gathered
shows that any report of famine in Russia today
is an exaggeration malignant propaganda"
Previously, on Aug. IT, Duranty had cabled: 1.-THE
extraordinary rich harvest is already permitting
tens of thousands of collective farms that fulfilled
their yearly quotas of grain deliveries to start dis
tribution of their supplies among their members at
the rate of more than 176 pounds per working day"
But the Hearsts and Chamberlans go on re-
peating their Nazi-inspired lies
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-29
Some Powerful Facts

THE Soviet Union has weathered many former
campaigns of this sort, and so grounded on fact
and truth its achievements, that It will weather
s thousand more Hearsts, Chamberlains and Dr.
Anmendes.
For instance, how many coal miners in America
ever get vacation? 1t sounds like bad Joke
vacations for miners. The only vacation they ever
get is unemployment and starvation.
But million miners in the Soviet Union last
year each enjoyed full months vacation. They
drew full pay for this month"; besides having their
fare paid to the Florida of Soviet Union where
on the beautiful Crimea seashore they and their
families summed themselves and enjoyed life, liv-
ing in hotels and rest homes provided for them free
ct the expense of their trade unions.
This is only one truth out of thousand others
like It, And all the fake famines and lies about
the proletarian dictatorship and forth cannot
destroy the effect Of such fact when It reaches
the ears Of an American worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-29

The Daily Worker is printing
seriaIly the extremely valuable
and popular booklet by r. Palme
Dutt, Life and Teachings OF
V. /. Lenin," published by Inter
national Publishers.
CHAPTER III.
Teachings of Lenin
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-01-04
"Last Surplus
a Problem Play
A ONE ACT PLAY
THE PROBLEM Is SOLVED. or
BRAINS WIN OUT AGAIN. or.
LAST GREAT AMERICAN SURPLUS vANIsHEs or.
NrJTSi
EN- Is SOLVED. or

Reader will please place check In the opposite
the title he prefersl
A ONE
AS Shakespeare remarked The the
that time witnessed the rise Of school of
Mr. Noel Coward and Mr. Eugene ONe have
given us plays problems
example how with husbands going
problem civilized how with three
going his problem
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-01-04
Their Big Chance

The international capitalist press OF all
shades from state fascist to liberal" has been
waiting long time for some specific peg on
which to hang its sinking cloak OF frenzied
lies against the steadily marching progress OF
the USSR.
Their chance came with the murder OF Ser
gel Krov one of the most beloved leaders OF
the Russian workers. With the execution OF
Sc of II White Guards responsible for kirovs
death and who were plotting the assassination
of other Communist leaders and sabotage OF the
workers government, the press of every capital
list nation howled with delighted indignation.
"Here is your socialism, they shouted
Here are your Communists who preach liberty,
equality. Legal murderers, Red terroristsT
These are the same capitalist governments
that spent Millions after the successful Russian
revolution attempting to re-enslave the Rus
sian workers and defeat socialism by marching
trained and well equipped troops against the
new peasants and workers republic.
Capitalist sabotage, murder and terror fail
ed then as it fails now.
"Our humaneness and our love of mankind
consists in our preferring to have scores OF
White Guard scoundrels shot if necessary
rather than to have millions of workers and
peasants suffer-" writes Karl Radek from Mos
COW.
This is the Soviet Republics smashing an
swer to the capitalist forces that are now in
tensifying Their frenzied, moribund drive against
Communism.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-01-04
ROsIyn Miners
Back Newspaper

ROSLYN, WASH, Jan. 3-ROs-
lyh and Ellensburg workers and
farmers are rallying strongly be-
hind the Voice of Action, reports
from statesmen here indicate.
The 1,l50 copies of the Voice"
that were mailed here two weeks
ago were all sold, despite the
fact that statesmen had to wade
through heavy SHOWS to contact
readers.
$3.50 for 26 Copies
One salesman, concentrating
on United Mine Workers Union
members, received $500 for 26
copies of the Voice of Action.
The wide circulation of the
Voice" is awakening militant
working class sentiment in Ros-
Ign and Ellensburg. The Unem-
ployed Citizens and Taxpayers
League called off their regular
meeting Wednesday night to hear
Angelo Herndon, heroic Negro
leader now touring the North
west. speak.
The Voice of Action was also
used to contact the local farm
Grange for support OF Initiative
No. A.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-01-04
East and Vest

stands for world peace, whereas
West Europe is arming for war
at an astounding rate, spending
many times more on army and
navy than on all government ex-
penses.
How fascism develops and how
the Christian corporate state is
rapidly forcing the living stand
ards of the masses to unbeliev-
ably low levels in Italy and Ger
many, he describes forcefully.
Increasing unemployment is us
ed by the masters to further en-
slave employed workers.
Nearing outlines the October
uprising in Spain, gives its back
ground its strength and it's weak
nesses. He says that against the
working class the Spanish ruling
class used an army of profess
sional fighters, not daring to
send the regular army.
Nearing, with a background
of many trips to Europe in the
last two decades is able to re-
port his observations of this
summers trip in terse, graphic
fashion. He gives us news, and
straightens out in our minds
the distortions put there by the
reports that have been given
us by the capitalist press during
the last year.
His faith in the working class
leads him to the conclusion that
the social order of East Europe
will prevail over that OF West
Europe and that all the lies,
trickery, war propaganda and
demagogy that the nationalistic
ruling classes of Western Europe
may employ, will not stop the
advance Of the workers for long.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-01-04
War Funds to JobleSs
(Reprinted from the Daily worker)
"All war funds for the unemployed"

"Al war funds for the unemployed"
The cry has sounded from millions of Threats
in thousands of demonstrations of the hunger
driven unemployed in their fight for adequate
relief The cry will resound as the organized
voice of the employed and unemployed at the
mighty National Congress for Unemployment
Insurance which will meet in Washington, d. c..
on January 56-7
The Roosevelt Wall Street government is
pouring billions into war funds. New arplane
contracts recently announced put new millions
of PWA funds into war preparations. Battle
ships, tanks and poison gas are manufactured
in the name of recovery" by the Roosevelt re-
gime.
Secretary of War Dern has caught the spirit
of the New Deal-he asks for so, 900 more soldiers
in the standing army, 1900 more officers, an
air force of 1920 planes, $6O,0O00O0 for army
housing construction
The Vinson BILL enacted at the last session
of Congress is captialisms long range planning
vessels of war for long range plundering of
colonial peoples. CCC is about to be enlarged
to provide for married and older workers who
have passed the present 25-year age limit for
recruitment.
Each day brings new war measures and new
war maneuvers under the Roosevelt Wall Street
government Washington dispatches yesterday
announced the concentration of the entire
for new slaughter
Every bullet that ripped into the CUTS of
a worker in the last worldwide carnage was
smeared with profits and the greasy graft of
the war makers. Every drop of blood that flow
ed was accompanied by a golden flow into the
Golfers of the Fords, the MELONS, the Morgans
the Rockefellers.
The recent Nye committee Investigations
in Washington barely scraped the surface and
revealed 800 and 800 per cent profits of the
munitions makers. Another slaughter is being
prepared to win new markets for the Wall
Street monopolies, to redivide the world mar
kets and to plumber the colonial peoples, so
that the whole capitalist class can make more
profits at the expense of workers blood.
While Roosevelt pares the miserable hun
ger dole to the mounting millions of workers
on the relief lists, denies the veterans their boz
nus and pauperizes the destitute farmers this
war burden is strapped on the backs
of the masses. Meanwhile every past promise
of Roosevelt to grant federal unemployment
insurance is evaded and broken.
The National Congress for Unemployment
Insurance will bring forward the demand for
all war funds to go to the unemployed. The
voice of the employed and unemployed workers,
the veterans, farmers, women and youth and
the Negro people win speak at the National
Congress for Unemployment Insurance, and de-
nand bread for the unemployed, not bullets.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-01-04
A REVIEW
BY Henrietta Dicks

Two Europes-two social sys-
tems-two cultural levels are
competing against each other"
That is Europe today as Scott
Nearing sees it in his new PAM
phlet, Europe, East and West, "
few copies of which have come
to the Northwest but little in
advance of their author.
How this competition-the So
Wet Union against the rest of
the continent-has developed
and its probable outcome, are
described in "a clear, easy-to-
read pages. Nearing, a student
of economy, found in Europe
this summer that West Europe
is being forced to q subsistence
economy, living from day to
day with no promise from the
ruling class except, no one
shall starve.' In telling contrast
to the wheelbarrow and OK farm
ing of Italy and Czechoslovakia
is the virtually complete collect
ivization of the USSR.
In West Europe education is
for the ruling class-in the So
Wet Union 1t is for the workers.
Enrolment in German Universe
ties in 1933-34 was q, 427, of whom
only 800 were children of work
ers.
In the Soviet Union 100000
young workers are in schools Of
higher education, and in Ger
many there are 10000 In 1928
the Soviet Union had but few
more than Germany, 166,SA to
106,204.
The Soviet Union consistently
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-01-04
PRIsoNERs RELIEF

NEW YORK, Jan. 3EDresses,
suits, shoes, warm scarfs, sweat
ers and a big box of candy were
sent off to every long-term po-
litical prisoners family by the
Prisoners Relief Department Of
the International Labor Defense,
in time to reach the farthest sec
ton Of the country for Christmas.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-01-04
Russian Fascist Paper
Boasts of Death Plot

SEATTLE. Jan. 3-That the
murder of Sergei Kirov, able So
Wet leader and second only to
Stain in his position in the Com
munist Party, was not an isolat-
ed instance of terrorism, but was
part of a vast plot to assassin
ate Communist leaders and sabo-
tage the Soviet Union, has been
definitely proved.
A Russian paper, the "Fas-
cist," has come to light, in which
White Guards and counter revo-
lutionists join in Boosting of the
extent of these cOnspiracies.
Stain, among other leaders,
has been marked for death by
the organization.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-01-04
SAN FRANCISCO.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3
Speeding delivery to Hitler's
hangmen of Fritz Richter, 20
year-old German Young Commun-
list League member, the United
States Departent of Labor put
him aboard a deportation train
last week bound for New York or
for Galveston, Tex, Immediately
after Federal Judge st. Sure had
denied a writ to reopen the case
on the basis that Richter is a po-
litical refugee.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-01-04


Plans are rapidly being laid
for fascist measures. Hearstis
daily ISLANDERS OF the Commun-
lists, the red-baiting of McCor-
mack's investigating committee,
the plans Of the war board, Mat
thew VOLTS letter to the COM
mittee asking that American
colleges be investigated for sub
versive" propaganda, are just a
few of the signs.
In our own state we see the
fascist plans advance daily. May
or Smith is going to appoint a
chief OF police who will be
member of the American Legion
and with close utilization to the
vigilantes.
Our state police already have
organized plans by which the
vigilantes can be deputized for
action within an hours notice.
Only a workers united front
against war and fascism can put
a stop to these plans.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-01-04

civilized manner. Not wishing,
to muscle in on these gentlemen
and their problems, our play
wright has written a problem
play on another great Ameri-
can problem showing how it too
can be solved according to the
newest developments in civiliza-
tion. Now, on with the play.)
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-01-04
Around = the
world inC minutes

SOUTH AMERICA-The Gu
ban revolutionary confederation
of labor has entered into a pact
with the General Confederation
of Labor of Argentina for COM
mon action of all trade unions in
Latin America to attempt to stop
the bloody imperialist war that
is now raging in the Chaco region
between the U. s. and Great
Britain through their puppet
governments, Bolivia and Para
quay.
FRANCE-The largest auto
mobile company of France has
goffe broke. But the government
has kindly stepped in and with
money obtained through taxa
ton of French masses is keep
ing the concern going. As ever,
it is the masses that pay, but re-
ceive little.
JAPAN-Convicted of partici-
patton in the anti-war program,
several leaders in the Commun-
list Party of Japan have been sem
fenced to prison terms of five,
ten and twelve years.
SAAR-Plans are laid for a
huge anti-Hitler demonstration
in this region on January 6, just
prior to the time for the vote
which will decide whether the
land will be returned to fascist
Germany, to France or remain
under direction of the League of
Nations. All serious anti-fascist
fighters are struggling for the
maintenance of the status quo.
ENGLAND-The British gov
eminent has devised plan for
destruction of Outworn ships and
to produce newer and more eff
fective merchantmen and battle
ships. In furthering this plan the
government has granted a $780,
600, 900 subsidy to the ship owners
for the purchase of ships to be
strapped.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-01-04
GERMANY-Under pretext of

GERMANY-Under pretext of
honoring ex-soldiers, the Nazis
have taken a census of the vet
Grams of the World War. The
Daily Worker reports that War
equipment is being overhauled
and hordes of clerks and census
takers are constantly busy tabu-
lating all reserves of individuals,
men and women, capable of parti-
cipatiOn in war activities"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-12-20

A woman scientist is receiving a
great deal Of homage at present,
She is DR.. Lucy Porter Sutton, a
members Of the faculties of New
York University and Bellevue
Medical College, who through medi-
cal research discovered that St.
Vitus' dance might be shortened by
artifically induced fever.
Twenty years ago women as rail-
road employees might have been
in a circus. Today Am
erican railroads are employing
women as passenger representatives
craftsmen, crossing watchmen,
blacksmiths and presidents. Ac-
cording to Margaret Talbot Stevens,
in a recent issue of the Independent
Woman, an eastern railroad and
two on the Pacific Coast have taken
the lead in this.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-12-20

SANTA BARBARA, Calf.
Mrs. Dorothea Livermore (above>
divorced wife Of Jessie Livermor
ST., War-Street operator, was phott
graphed in the county Jail her.
after the Thanksgiving DAY shootin
Of her Is year old o in a quar-
yer his drinking.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-12-20
Maybe His Idea Don't Fit Into
Today's Economic Scheme-But
Small Gifts Can Last, Too.

He wasn't very old-not a day
over 90-but he seemed to have
some definite opinions. He started
in on pipes, and after quite a SER
mon on the superiority of corn
cobs owe briars, he switched to
Christmas.
why, gosh-a-mighty man., he
said, "they amt a Christmas goes
by l don't git some doo-dads r
other. 'Tweren't only last Christ
mas my daughter, Elviry-the
young un, she'll be so afore long
gimme a trick ash-tray.
"Now them things re alright
for distant relations. But when it
comes to close kin we'll, in my
day, folk only give presents to
tn family. And they war for
keeps, too. A desk, a ring, a
pianny, somthin' y'could hold onto
with a warn feelin' in yer heart.
Someth'n' y could remember m
by.
"Nosir, I think tn modern gen.
eration's all wrong. Oh 1 amt
agin' m givin' knicknacks t
strangers n distant relatives .
but they'd oughta cut down a bit
and put what they'd save into
somethin'-well, what l mean,
young Teller, is what's the next
generator gin to do for heirlooms?
Answer me that!"
We couldn't answer him, but we
were glad to see SO many people
doing just what our young friend
advocated buying finer, more
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-12-20

Jan. 9 is an anniversary which all
who worked for suffrage or who
are working for world peace should
remember, for hat is the birthday
of that fine feminist Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait. On that day she
will be II years young.
The Town Hall Club of New
York which has 5000 men and
women members, recently announc-
ed that Miss Va lie Gallienne,
founder and director of the Civic
Repertory Theatre, has been given
its Award of Honor Medal for "the
most CONSPICUOUS contribution to
the enlargement and enrichment of
life"
The Metal bears the inscription
1.-THE strength of the city is in the
virtue of its citizens"
Newspaper women will find
their careers dramatized next spring
when "Lades of the Press" a book
about newspaper women by a news
paper woman, Ishbel Ross, formerly
of the staff of the New York Her.
aid Tribune, will make its appear
ance
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-12-20

The tobacco plant is a native of
the New World and hence was not
known in Europe or Asia until
America was discovered.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-12-20
Ask Grandad > He knows

lasting gifts with the money they
were saving on duty gifts
through the ads in the News and
Press.
Not that to be lasting a gift must
be big; it's quality, not size he
really had in mind. Many a silver
plated mug given a baby has been
kept for generations grown
ups have a way of treasuring little
things, too. Keep quality in mind
when you do your Christmas
shopping and you can't go wrong!