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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09
Labor Party Question
Discussed in February
Issue of The Communists

The February issue of The Com
muniSt, which is now on sale, con-
tains the Resolution adopted by the
January meeting of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party.
The Resolution outlines briefly the
situation facing us at the present
time in three branches of activity,
ID trade union work, ~ the strUg-
gle for the united front, and (3) the
question of a Labor Party. Our
tasks which flow out of this situa-
ton are sharply set forth.
AS additional guiding material,
and for use in discussions of the
Resolution, there is the article by
Earl Browder, New Developments
and New Tasks in the U. s. A."
Also printed in this issue is Com
rade providers brilliant speech at
the National Congress for Social
and Unemployment Insurance at
the beginning of the year.
The February issue Of The Com
munist is distinguished by chap
ter from forthcoming book by
Alex Bittelman. This chapter, en-
titled THE Socialist Revolution in
the United States" deals with the
arguments" of ocial-reformists
against the validity of the Marxist-
feminist theory of the proletarian
revolution, and takes up the con-
crete application of this theory in
our country.
Other articles in the issue are
'Henin on Unemployment Insur-
ance";; THE United Front in the
Field of Negro Work by James W.
Ford; Unity Of the Farming
Masses-A Paramount Issue" by
:ohn Barnett; Aspects Of the De-
preston of the Special Type in the
U. S. A by Labor Research Asso-
citation; and a frontispiece drawing
of Valerian Kuibyshev, deceased
member of the Political Bureau Of
the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union. The drawing, made by Linn
bach, is accompanied by the short
cable sent by Comrade Browder to
Comrade Stain.
Extra copies of the February issue
of The Communist have been print
ed, in anticipation of great de-
mand for the Central Committee
Resolution and accompanying ma
terials. All workers organizations
are urged tn get bundles at their To-
cal Workers Bookshops, or from
Workers Library Publishers, P. o.
Box 148 Station D, New York City.
Individual copies sell for 20 cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09

the expense Of Negro freedom. Bit
terly he condemned Lincolns early
refusal to recruit the Negro slaves
and the free Negroes into the armed
forces of the Federal Government.
During his lifetime, Douglas saw
the crushing of the slave power, the
development of armed struggles by
the Negro eX-slaves for possession
of the land and fo- political free
dom, and the rise of the ex-slaves
to political power in the BLACK
Belt" as the active allies Of the
northern Industrial bourgeoisie. He
also saw their subsequent shame
full betrayal at the hands Of that
same bourgeoisie, and the triumph
Of the action.
Like other abolitionists Douglas at
first harbored illusions in the an
selfish and humanitarian motives OF
the northern industrialists. He
failed to realize that the chief aim
of the northern industrialists in the
Civil War was to crush a rival sys-
tenn and establish their hegemony
over the whole country. He, how
ever, had no illusion that Lincoln's
belated Emancipation Proclama-
ton and call Of the Negroes to arms
was dictated by humanitarian
motives:
Liberty came to the freedmen of
the United States, not in mercy,
bat in wrath, not by moral choice,
bat by military necessity" Douglas
declared in speech on August /,
1880 at Elmira, N. Y.
Nor had he any illusions that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09
Born in Slavery in
Lynch District
of Maryland
BY Cyril BRIGGS

FEBRUARY IL, anniversary of the
1 births of both Frederick Douglas
and Abraham Lincoln, is custon-
arily devoted by the ruling class
and It's agents in the ranks of the
Negro people to an annual ballynoo
around the myth that emancipation
was handed the Negro people on a
silver platter, without any struggle
on their part.
In their Lincoln Day" o-ations.
The bourgeois politicians consistently
ignore the leading role played by
Douglas in the Civil War and pre-
Civil War days. The Negro reform
list leaders, on their part, pay only
an incidental tribute to the fearless
Negro abolitionist and agitator, by
way Of hypocritical lip service to
the cause of Negro freedom to which
he devoted his life. This is not
accidental. Douglas whole life is a
flaming reputation of the servils
program of Negro reformism against
militant struggle and for abiect
submission to the white ruling class
oppressors.
Frederick Douglas was born in
Slavery on Feb. IL, 1871, in Tucka-
hoe on the Eastern Shore of Mary
land, district notorious even today
for its bestial oppression and
hideous lynch murders of Negroes.
Douglas escaped to the North. after
several unsuccessful attempts. His
| experience with the slave system
taught him that men are whipped
oftenest who are whipped easiest. .
In his autobiography, he relates how
those slaves who defended them
selves would be brutally beaten Tor
the time, but would never again be
whipped: Experience proves that
those are most abused who can be
abused with the greatest impunity
Men are whipped oftenest who arc
whipped easiest"
Fiercely Non Compromising
Douglas Waged relentless battle
against the hell-bIack crime of
slavery" F'iercely he denounced
Lincoln's attempt to effect a com
promise with the shareholders ct
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09

the
World!
BY MICHAEL GOLD

EFT us recall what happened in Portland,
II Oregon, during the recent marine
strike The longshoremen had gone out,
and the bosses feared that all the water
front unions would join them, in support
of the general strike in San Francisco.
So one day, on the waterfront, there took place
one of those little nassacres that are becoming
more frequent in America. Each seems like an ac-
cident and the bourgeois papers call them riots"
and forget all about them day after they have
happened But when one casts total Of all OF
these nassacres, they assume the proportions of
a national movement. Over sixty strikers were
killed last year. there must have been hundreds
of assaults on labor; it was like war, war for
fascism in America.
In Portland that day the cops, led in person
by the Chief, drew up in flat car alongside
picket line on the waterfront Guns barked; the
brave cops had fired into the ranks Of the defense
less pickets Four of them fell; and there followed
wave of protest from all the labor unions.
It looked like a general strike in Portland as
the result of this little massacre. But the New
Dealers were ready; General Johnson gave the
signal and then raids and terror began. Union
headquarters we're raided by gang Of hoodlums
masqueradng as patriotic" longshoremen. They
were followed by the cops, who arrested the
wounded victims of the raid. At the Workers
raids on unemployed centres through the city and
on the homes Of workers. The Chamber of Com
merce was having a grand time at their lynching
party.
The men of commerce and profteering had or
ganized their own fascist army of course 1t was
called by the euphonious title of the Citizens
Emergency League" as if longshoremen, sailors and
workers are not citizens faced with an emergency,
and as if the American flag belonged to the profit
eeTe aud not IN thp Y1eO1,1e WIN work
This gang of phoney citizens, many of them
petty gangsterS and racketeers of course he dregs
Of the slums always is recruited first in these fas
cist Storm Troops the world over was led by a
Colonel" William Arid, reserve army officer and
payroll patriot. The Chamber of Commerce gave
him directves and cash for his dirty work. Every
day his voice doomed over the radio calling for
violence against the strikers.
A call for violence an open conspiracy to or
game violence against the workers. And the city
and state government, the bourgeois democracy
under which we live, lifted not finger to arrest
these criminals Indeed, it encouraged them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09

off her feet, giving them to the
prostitute, Sonetka, with whom he
has become intimate; she pushes
the latter into the river and in des-
peration throws herself in after
ward.
A master of Instrumentation and
symphonic coloring Saskatchewan
was able to depict the avid cruelty,
lust and despotic dominance Of her
husbands father, as well as the
stupidity Of her husband. greediness
Of Sergei, farcical efficiency of the
village police, and the degrading
atmosphere of the community in
general.
The tragedy, dependency and
utter hopelessne5s Of the mss OF
chained prisoners driven Oh to
Siberia, is depicted in the last act.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09
Under the Wings of the Blue Eagle

This is the background Of the trials of Dirk De
Jonge, Edward Denny and the other workers in
Portland. But it is not only Communists and or
ganizers Of the unemployed who are being per-
secuted and framed up.
Twenty eight members of the longshoremans
union which is affiliated to the A. F. of L., were
also arrested and charged with murder. A company
union scab had been killed during a fight between
these rats and the members Of the real union In
vestigation showed that Karl Gramrner a scab
had actually fired the shot Public opinion forced
the District Attorney to arrest him, and he con-
fessed to the crime. But he was released and the
charge against the union men was changed to
rioting!
So it goes, the march of fascisn in this country.
Capitalist violence grows, under the warm wings
OF the Blue Eagle. Unless we fight criminal syn
dicalist laws, and form united front to defend
workers like Dirk De Jonge and the other Port
land cases; the Sacramento cases. every other case
where fascism is working in a legal mask This is
where our battle lies today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09
Needle Trade Strike
by ARTHUR PENsE-

------By ARTHUR PENSE----
Who will speak word, who snilep
Eyes and mouths trail the seams;
Scissors ring, hands pantomime,
Sun escapes, day devours its CLEANS.
feel the boss look His squint
Meets chaHenge-we strike at nine
whitening lives within dusty walls
VIII emerge on the picket line.
Years of dust and days Of feari
Jailed tongue stripped mouth Of speech.
Machine clicked: 'buttonhole, buttonhole!"
Machine shrieked: stitch, sti-i-i-i-tch!"
We cuddled the wheels and gathered grief
Our common pain cried to unfold
Now wheels are mute and tongues unlocked:
On the Picket Line, united and boldl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09
Who Commits Violence?

IT IS IN events such as this one that we can see
illustrated the process by which bourgeois democ-
racy evolves into fascism. How often have the
liberals and capitalist minded among Socialist lead
ers advanced the Hearsttan theory that it is Com
munism and the threat Of working class violence
thet brings on fascisnn -
T5ut study such typical situation as that in
Portland, repeated in San Francisco, Hillsboro
Illinois, and dozens of other places. It is the
capitalists who commit all the violence who openly
their thugs for naked war who use the radio
and newspapers to preach violence, who establish
the complete atmosphere of fascsn, under the pro-
lection Of the democratic capitalist state
Does anyone believe the Communist Party ac-
tually ran the Portland or San Francisco strikes?
1t would be fine thing if this had been true
showing that the American workers were at last
learning to be true to their own class interests
But unfortunately, it was not true. These hap
pened to be strikes led by the orthodox unions
The cry of Communism was only red herring
across the trail put there by the fascist-like
Chamber of Commerce
In Portland their armed Storm Troops raided
Communist meeting. Eight uniformed and armed
cops accompanied them Some two hundred men,
women and children had gathered peacefully to
protest against the raids and shooting Of striking
workers The thugs broke in and INDUCED in the
usual bloody orgy. Then they arrested group OF
workers and had them tried for criminal syn
dicalism," charged them with advocating the over
throw "of the government by force and violence"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09
TUNING IN

7:00 PM. -wEAF-ReIigion in
the News
wOR-Sports Resume-stan
Jomax
WIZ - John Herrick, Bari
tone
WABC-Ths Heir Apparent
7:i5-WEAF-Jack Smith,
Songs
woR-1onians quartet
WJZ-King Orch.
7:3o-WEAF-Dedication,
WHO, Dayton, Ohio
WOR-The Street Singer
WJz-From London; Do
England and the United
States Speak the Same
Language2 S. P. B. Mais,
Writer; From New York,
Dr.. Cabel Greet, Editor,
American Speech
WABc-Arden Orch; Gladys
Baxter, Soprano: Walter
Preston, Baritone
7:45-WJZ-Grace Hayes,
Songs
WOR-yecsey Orch.
300 WEAF-Concert orch,
sigmund Romberg, Con-
ductor-Composer; Bryon
Warnre, Tenor; Helen
Marshall. Soprano; VIII
liam Lyon Phelps, Mar
rator
woR-orgsn Recital
WJz-Phil Cook Show Shop
WABC-Roxy Revue. Con-
cert Orch; Mixed Chorus,
Soloist
acknowledgements Orch.
6;3o-WOR-Denny Orch.
WJz-University OF Wiscon-
sin Players; University
Band
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09

The young clerk, Sergei, infected
with the evils and greed Of the
community, forces his love upon her
and finally captures her affections,
bringing forth a situation by which
Katerina is prompted to kill her
father-in-lsw her husband, and,
when the crime is discovered, both
are sent to Siberia with many other
prisoners. sergei fortunes and de-
grades her by pulling the stockings
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09
Burck Exhibition

The John Reed Club an
ncunces the opening of a fare
wen exhibition Of Burcks paint
ings and drawings Sunday, Feb.
10, at its gallery at $50 Sixth
Avenue, at 2:3o pm. This will
be the last Burck exhibition an
til the artists return from the
Soviet Union where he has been
invited to draw for the Konnso-
noisSSya Pravda. The exhibition
will include many original draw
ings from Burck's cartoon book,
Hunger and Revolt Hugo Gel
lert and Louis Lozowick will
speak.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09

s.45-wABC-Msry courtIand,
Songs; Armbrustsr orch;
Male Quartet
300 WEAF-Rose hampton.
Contrslto; Scrappy LAM
bert and Billy Hillpot,
Songs: shilkret Orch.
WOR Hiubiliy Music
wJz-Radio City Party with
John B. Kennedy; Black
Orch; Boswell Sisters,
Songs; Viola Warren. Soprano;
Ray Hendricks, Tenor
WABC-Richard Bonelli,
Baritone; Kostelanetz
Orch; Mixed Chorus
e:3o-wEAF-The Gibson
Family-Musieal Comedy,
with Conrad Thibaurt.
Baritone; Lois Bennett,
Soprano
WOR-Reisman Orch.
WJz-Nationsl Barn Dance
WABC-Himber Orch.
l0;oo-WOR-Wintz Orch.
WABC-Reminiscences- VIM.
A, Brady, Theatrical Pro-
Queer
1O:15-WABC-vsriety Musicals
Io:30-WEAF-Cugat, Goodman
and Murray Orch. Cuntil
$50 AM
WOR-Richardson Orch.
Coleman Orch.
WABC-California Melodies
Il;0O-WOR-Nevs
WJz-Denny Orch.
WABC-Gray Orch.
ll;I5-WOR-Correa Orch.
ii:se-wJz-Dance Music also
WOR, wMCA)
WABC-Fortlsnd Junior
Symphony Orch; Jacques
Gershkoyitch, Conductor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-09
Sunday, Feb. 10

AFTERNOON
l:5o-wEAF-Mario chamIee,
Tenor
WJz-Play. The First Year,
with Gene Raymond aM
Lila Lee
3:oo-wABC-New York Phil
harmonic Symphony,
Werner Jansen, Con-
ductor
500 WEAF-Concert Orch:
Nine. schumann-Eei
Contralto; others
EVENING
T00-WJZ-Jack Benny, Come
dian; F. Parker, Tenor;
Bestor Orchestra
WABC-Alexander woollcott,
Story Teller; Armbruster
Orchestra
7:30-WJz-7Joe Penner, Come
dian; Music
WABC-Tours Orch; Frank
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Parker, Tenor; Jewellers
Quartet: Piekens SISTERS,
Songs; Charles winningsr,
Master Of Ceremonies
800 wEAF-opers tTo Be
Announced; Deems Tay-
Tor, Narrator
WABC-Eddie Cantor.
Comedian
wJZ-Symphony Orchestra.
Alexander Smallens, Com
ductor; Feodor Chshapin,
Bass
5:30-wABC-Voorhees Orches-
ira: Conrad Thibault,
Baritone; Lois Bennett,
Soprano, and oth.-5
800 wABC Symphony Orch,
Victor Kolsr. Conductor;
Lotto Lehman, Soprano
1880 wEAF-An American
Fireside; Speaker. Ray
mend P. Moley, Editor OF
Today
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Questions
and
Answers

This department appears daily the feature
page All questions should be addressed to "QUes-
tions and Answers" 20 Daily Worker, 50 East
18th Street. New York City.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-26
Wethersfeld Easy
 Golf VictOrs

Torrington, Aug. 26-The Weth- ersfield Country Club team defeat- ed Torrington in a team match here yesterday, 8 to IS.
 Summary:
 Wethersfeld: Schorer and Mand- ly. 3; Ellis and Parker, 2 1-2; Kierstead and Harmon. i 1-2; Bowers and McCambridge, l 1-2; Dr. Wallace and Sinclaire 9; Peard and Dike, g. Brazel and Uncles, 1-2; Dr. Cassidy and Jones, g. Cannon and Tyler, 3; Abbe and Jackson, 1-2; '7ardew and Rice, ?; Joyce and Sexton, O.; Walsh and Torrant, 3; Warner and Deeg- an, 8; Pomeroy and Snow, 1; Me- Donough and Dr. Findon, 2 1-2; Auger and Cusick, 3; total 33.
 Torrington: Merritt and Heyer, 0: Berglund and Graham, 1-2; Re- billiard and Woodbury, 1 1-2: Abell and Prolich, 2 1-2 Fitch and Brimble, i: Tompkins and Wal dron, o: Schroeder and Mcdonald, 2 1-2: Cady and Didier, 1; Green and Olsen, 0; Whittlesey ard Hub bard, 2 1-2; Thayer and Dwan, 1: Post and Weigold, g.; Miner and Howard, o: c. Holbrook and H. Holbrook, O; Andrew and Hubert, 2; Baldwin and Brimble, 1-2: Donaldson and Ryan, 0; total IS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-26
BUDCE AND MAKO MEET VETS FOR
 DOUBLES TITLE
Allison and Van Ryn Out to Prove Their Top Rat
 ing in Tennis World
BY HENRY McLEMORE United Press Stan Correspopdent)

Chestnut Hill, Aug. 26.-(UP)- Davis cup teammates, the veterans Winner Allison and Johnny Van Ryn, and the youngsters, Don Budge and Gene Mako, battle it out at Longwood Cricket club to- day for the national mems dou- bles tennis championship.
 Allison and Van Ryn, for years the peers of the domestic and foreign fields in the doubles game, will be out to prove that they re still the kingpins of tennis in America, and as such must be con- sidered for the Davis cup doubles assignment again next year.
 Budge and Mako will be carry ing the colors of those who con- tend that Allison and Van Ryn have burnt themselves out in vali- ant attempts to wrest international supremacy from France and Eng land, and that the time has come for a clean sweep of the veterans and development of a young, fight ing squad.
 On Their Game
 Allison and Van Ryn showed plenty of fight as they came from behind to defeat the Californian Henry Culley, and the Carolinian Wilmer Hines, in a five-set battle on Saturday; but Budge and Mako showed menacing craft and power as they drubbed Frank x, Shields and Frankie Parker in straight sets. Allison and Van Ryn held the doubles championship back in '31 and were runners-up to George Lott and Lester Stoefen year ago.
 The finals of the national mixed doubles championship to-day will have plenty of international flavor with Kay Stammers |f England and Roderich Menzel of Czecho. slovakia battling Mrs. Sarah Pal frey Fabyan of Boston and En- rique G. Maier of Spain. The Stammers-M -Menzel team busted Mrs Dorothy Mudford King of Britain and Gene Mako yesterday, S-6, 6-4 and the Fabyan- -Maier combine put out MT. and Mrs. John Var Ryn, 2-6, 6-3, 6-3.
 In finals played over the week end Helen Jacobs and Mrs. Fabyar retained their women's doubles title, beating Carolin Babcock o' Los Angeles and Mrs. Dorothy An drus of Stamford, Conn.,, GA, 6-2 Richard Bishop and Raymond B Bidwell of Boston defeated Free c. Baggs and Dr. William Rosen baum of New York, 6-2. 6-1, tt win the national veterans title William J. Clothier and son O Philadelphia defeated Samue Hayes and son of South Hadley Mass, 6-3, 6-4, to win the nationa father and son laurels.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-26
Pine Needles for
 Snow in Ski Meet

Newport, N. H., Aug. 26-(UP) Over a course covered with Pine needles in lieu of snow, the New port Ski club held a tournament yesterday.
 What the well-dressed skier should wear in August was a prob- lem for the 40 competitors. Some wore heavy ski pants, and others shorts and polo shirts, but the winners--even the girls wore plain blue dungarees.
 About 1000 watched the three events.
 Jack Holden of Putney. former Bowdoin college champion, won the ski jump with a leap of 31 feet from the four-foot take off.
 Bill Hinton won the 100-yard down-the-mountain race in 9.9 seconds.
 Jean Hinton, 17, a sister of Bill, took the women's race over the same course in 15 seconds.
 Experts said the times were com parable with those made on snow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-26
BAER M AN ACER
 ONCE PLAYED BALL AS BLOOMER GIRL

Speculator, N. Y., Aug. 26.- (UP).-Ancil Hoffman, manager of MaXie Baer, once was a member of the Boomer Girls intield.
 Max, training here for his fight next month with Joe Louis, re- vealed that fact today-much to Hoffman's regret.
 During the Oklahoma land boom In 1905 Hoffman, who was doing we'll as an amateur boxer and semi-pro baseball player, was call ed upon to substitute for an i'll Bloomer girl lnfelder during tour of Oklahoma.
 Ancil donned big brown wig, put some padding in his clothes and played in seven Oklahoma towns. He got into q battle with an opposing player one day and his wig was pulled off. Ancil fled the field with irate fans in pur- suit.
 Hoffman admitted 1t Is the truth.
 Max flattened one sparring part ned end staggered another yes- terday in brisk work, his second day of boxing since arriving here.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-26
Bantam Champion Crowned Tonight

New York, Aug 26-UP)-A successor to Panama" Al Brown as bantamweight champion will be determined tonight when Sixto Escabar, Puerto Rican, and Lou Salica, flashy New Yorker, clash in a 15-round fight at Dyckman ovel.
 Escobar, who has whipped the champions of three countries, is expected to eb slight favorite. The Puerto Rican is recognized as champion by the Montreal boxing commission and the National box ing association. Salica is champion in New York state, so the winner wll be accepted at titleholder na- tionally.