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states, it being estimated that
5000 are cotton growers. There
are also many tobacco growers
and wheat growers are next in
size.
President Roosevelt, it is con.
Sidered here. accomplished a great
stroke of politics in his address. A
careful perusal of his speech will
give an indication Of what the
Democratic campaign speeches in
the farm sections will be next
year. It is also quite likely that
a strong counter-attack from some
agricultural section or group will
be organized to offset the effect
of the whole affair here.
Headed by w. H. Robertson. q
cotton farmer of Loachapeka, Ala,
the farmers composing the special
committee represented each Of the
agricultural producing States Of
the union.
The decision to discuss for.
nation of q national organization
followed a round table discussion
in which farmer after farmer
pleaded for unity among all the
agricultural groups and asserted
they were not being properly rep
resented in Washington.
He proposed this cabinet be
composed of a representative of
each. commodity and that they
unite In supporting one another.
The Washington times., 1935-05-15
WELFARE HEADS
| CONVENE HERE
COMPANY H

Several hundred social welfare
workers from Virginia, Maryland
and the District are expected here
Saturday at a tri-State conference
which will discuss Negro social
problems at Miner Teachers Col
lege.
Eugene Kinckle Jones, adviser
on Negro affairs in the Depart
ment of Commerce, will speak at
a noon luncheon on The .Chal'
lenge of the Social Welfare Proc:
lens of Negroes" Major Campbell
C. johnson, president of the Wash
ington Council of Social Workers,
under whose supervision the. con-
ference is being held, will preside.
In the afternoon, four round
table discussions will be held.
Among the speakers will be DR..
Alonzo de Smith, of the Howard
Medical School; Ross Garrett,
health secretary, Council of So
cial Agencies; DR.. Roscoe Brown,
Of the Public Health Department;
DR.. Walter Ufford, former secre.
tary, Associated Charities, and
DR.. Edwin Henderson, physical
director of the public schools.
In the evening. at a special pub
lie meeting, DR.. Charles H. Wesley.
head Of the history department at
Howard University, will be the
speaker. William Opey, child vel
fare division of the Board of PUB
lie Welfare, will preside.
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VIII Rogers
Says:

ARCADIA, Calf, May 15.-In
these days Of everybody hOller-
ing about the Government but
ting into their business, or the
labor unions trying to run 1t,
there Is just plenty Of cases in
America like this one that hap
pened yesterday.
An old gentleman, Mr.. Van
Brunt, that for IS years has
run his factory in Horizon, Wis,
and never had one Gpeck Of
labor trouble, just gave 80 old
time workers and five WidowS
eS.O0O apiece.
IF everything was Van Brunt'S
there would be no need for any
thing but there are men in buSt'
ness that don't belong In buSi-
ness any more than the Govern.
ment does and that's why the
Government has 70 80 In.
Copyright, 1885, by MeNaWgAe
l. Syndicate. lnc.B n
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AIDES
DESERT HIM

Secretary Of the Navy Claude
A. Swanson has been deserted in
Washington by his Subordinates.
Every member of his official
staff has departed for the West
coast and other far West points
to witness or take part in the
mimic war being staged by the
fleet in Pacific waters.
Asked today if he would join
Assistant Secretary Henry l..
Roosevelt and Admiral William H.
Standby, chief of naval opera
tions, for the maneuvers, the Sec
rotary declared:
ono, everybOdy's gone but me
and somebody has to stay here
to run the business"
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CAPT. JOS. HANLEY

was made by Cadet Major Will
liam Jensen. Of Mckinley.
Other members of the rifle
team, who will receive individual
medals, are Calet Col. Don L.
Andrus, Western; Capt. Julian
GriggS, Central: Second Lieut..
Thomas Riley. Central, and Sergt.
Jack Dove, Mckinley.
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o STREET N. W.:
Washington people are slight
ly befuddled as to places to
live and if they are, what must
be the predicament Of a stranger
who SUDDENLY finds himself in a
lonely and strange city. For
that purpose alone, I have dedi.
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NEAR DUPONT CIRCLE:
Dupont Circle section Of our
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or perhaps because there are so
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There is also a basement room
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a day.
UPPER 18TH ST.,
NEAR PARK ROAD:
With the city so very over
crowded as far as apartments
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Uith
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are concerned, there will be q
great many people who will have
to take rooms where they can
get their breakfast and dinner.
This house on 18th Street had
just been opened when I visited
it this afternoon, but from what
I saw, I can cheerfully recon-
mend it as a very high type
place to live. The decorators
had just left and a very nice
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interior of the house has been
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and it was exceedingly airy and
bright and I was told by the
congenial lady who showed me
through that it could be rented
for $3.50 per week, which in.
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This house is located close to
transportation, upper 14th
Street shopping and theatrical
districts and I can safely say it
Is within walking distance of
churches of every denomination.
For further details call my Of
flee,
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1900 BLOCK OF
CONNECTICUT AVENUE:

On Connecticut Avenue near
California Street in a most his
toric house I discovered one of
the most charming places to
live. Distinctly furnished, with
an atmosphere of culture and
refinement, this house offers an
opportunity for living in a first
class manner. A delightful ar
rangement of windows in all the
rooms along with fireplaces
gives the house an individuality
all its own. In accordance with
the dignity rf the house there Is
butler service and a well man
aged staff of servants. For fur.
ther information, get in touch
with my office.
II interested IN any OF the
above places. till out the coupon
beloD and / tDill be glad to dd-
vise you the desired information.
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by Nikolal LeSkov. It takes place in
the 1340's, is in four acts and nine
scenes, and contains a cast of
twenty three, besides choruses con-
sisting of workers, police, guests,
and prisoners. 1t reveals Shosta-
kovich, according to the Russian
musicologist Vladimir Lakond, "as
a composer possessed of great
dramatic power and intense tragic
pathos."
Explaining his choice of Lady
Macbeth of Mzensk" as subject
for his opera, Shostakovich writes in
an article in Modern Music:
why did I select just this novel
by Lsskov for its subject? First, be-
cause very little of our heritage in
Russian classic literature has been
utilized in the development Of Soviet
opera. Second, and this was most i'm
portant-because Leskoy'S narrative
is irnbued with rich dramatic and So
cial content. There is, perhaps, no
other creation in all Russian lit
erature which so wildly portrays
the position of women in old, pre-
revolutionary Russia.
But I have given Lady Macbeth
of Mzensk' a different treatment
from that of Leskov AS will be
seen from the title itself the novel
ist approached his subject ironi-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-21

Of long process. The Bolshevik
Revolution was, in fact, the most
democratic revolution in history.
The myth Of its anti democratic"
character is based on the dissolu-
ton of the Constituent Assembly
in January, 1918: but the April
program had long before made
clear that the Constituent Assem-
bly, could not be more than a means
Of agitation within the bourgeois
regime. and that as a democratic
instrument it was far below the
level Of the Soviets. In addition
the lists on which the election took
place, which treated the Socialist
Revolutionary Party as a single
party under right leadership, when
in fact the Overwhelming majority
had broken with this leadership and
entered into alliance with the Boil
sheviks in a coalition, were out Of
date and no longer representative.
The Second Soviet Congress cleo
tons pro-ided the clearest demon
stration of the majority basis of
the BolShevikS before the seizure
of power. The subsequent civil
war, when the counter-revolution-
airy generals could only organize
resistance with foreign arms, sub
sides and troops, and the complete
defeat of these, in the face of all
the odds, and in the face of the
combined efforts Of the strongest
military powers in the world, af-
forded the final demonstration in
practice Of the mass basis Of the
Bolshevik Revolution.
The eight months from March
to November reveal the highest
level and most intense tempo OF
Lenin's revolutionary leadership.
His writings during this period con-
stitute the permanent classic for
Marxists of leadership in the midst
of a revolution and of the art of
instruction At the same time, in
the midst of the conflict, he COM
pleted one of his most important
theoretical works, estate and Revo-
luton" clearing the line of revo-
lutionary MarXism on the urgent
questions of the form and content
of the state and the meaning Of the
social revolution, and destroying
the opportunist distortions which
had grown up in the Social-Demo-
cratic movement.
The tasks which we're now to
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page. All questions should be addressed to CUES
tions and Answers" % Daily Worker, 50 East
18th Street, New York City
Question: How does the Daily Worker manage
to come out considering that it seems to be in
tnusI financial difficulties. Has it ever missed
issues on this account?-G. S.
Answer: On many occasions the size Of the
Daily Worker had to be drasticaly cut because OF
lack Of funds and in one instance back in 1890 it
came off the press twelve hours late. There were
even periods when it seemed that the paper would
have to suspend publication. But in each crisis the
loyal support Of the workers saved the day a sup
port that grew cut Of their loyalty to the one paper
that fought for their interests and organized them
for more effective struggles against the capitalists
It is this unfailins support that kept the paper
going although it had little Advertising Only
short while ago the workers contributed 100000 to
save the paper and make possible an even greater
expansion Of its activities. Such financial drives
would not be necessary if the paper were able to
reach all the readers that have heard about it,
and ali the workers who need it as an sgtator and
organizer. A mass circulation would solve the
financial problems of the paper.
Especially now is it important to put the Daily
Worker into the hands of hundreds Of thousands
of workers, that the workers fight for improved
conditions and higher wages can be directed into
the struggle against the capitalists drive for war
and fascism. The workers must be shown that the
present ant-Conmunist campaign is the first step
in general capitalist offensive against all labor
and liberal organizations.
The Daily workers influence and prestige has
grown steadily in its eleven years of existence 1t
is the paper that fought for and organized the
masses in their struggles. At present big circua-
ton campaign has begun to have the Daily Worker
reach a circulation of 100000 by July 1st Such
circulation would solve the financial difficulties Of
the paper enable 1t to expand its activities, and
become the agitator and organizer of the American
toers This can be ACCOMPLISHED if the questioner
and all readers and friends Of the Daily Worker
put the paper in the hands of their shopmates,
friends and acquaintance, and get them to become
loyal readers of the one English revolutionary daily
newspaper in the United States.
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confront him in the succeeding
years were even bigger tasks-but
to be cut short by death.
The Leadership of the World
Revolution
IN THE beginning of the twen-
1 tieth century Lenin had written:
History has now confronted us
with an immediate task which is
MORE REVOLUTIONARY THAN
THAN ALL THE IMMEDIATE
TASKS that confront the prole-
tariat of any other country. The
fulfillment of this task, the de-
struction Of the most powerful
bulwark, not only If European, but
also Ut may be said) of Asiatic
reaction, places the Russian pro-
letariat in the vanguard of the in
ternational revolutionary prole-
tariat. ("What Is To Be Done?"
p. 81
The realization of this prediction
decade and a half after these
words we're written took place in
far more complicated and difficult
world situation than any prediction
could have foreseen. The Russian
proletariat did, in fact, become by
the Revolution Of 1917, and deci-
sively by the October Revolution,
the vanguard of the international
proletariat. But it had to assume
leadership in the midst Of the con-
dition of the World War; it had
to assume leadership with its own
base in Russia ruined and disor-
ganized to complete breakdown by
tsarism and the war; and it had to
assume leadership in advance and
in danger of isolation, while the
other tattalions were not yet ready
and the revolution hung fire in
western and central Europe.
Nevertheless, this gigantic task
and world historic responsibility was
faced without f1inching, realistically,
and in its fullest magnitude. The
comprehension of the character Of
this task, and the discovery of the
methods of its fulhllment in the
completely new unforeseeable con-
ditions, sprang above all from
Lenin.
To lead the world revolution, to
fight the ring of imperialist enc
mics. and to build the new order
in Russia-these were the sinful
taneous aspects of the hundred
fold task which now fell upon the
Russian proletariat under the lead
ership of he Bolshevik Party and
Of Lenin. To every aspect of this
task Lenin now set all the powers
of his mind and will, as leader Of
the Soviet Government, as leader
of the Communist Party, and as
leader of the Communist Interna-
tional, during the momentous years
1917-l923, until the burden broke
and smashed him, body and brain,
and consigned him to early death,
with his work unfinished, but with
the main lines laid down for his
successors to complete.
Ito be continued)
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of definite personality, deserving
Of sympathy, omitted the third
murder, undertaken solely to make
herself the heir of her slain hus-
band.
Now to arouse sympathy for
Katerina was no simple matter. She
has committed a number of crimes
against accepted moral or ethical
laws. Leskov presents he'd simply
as a cruel woman who wallows in
fat and murders innocent people.
But I have conceived Katerina as a
woman clever, gifted and interest
ing. Set by fate in gloomy, miser-
able surroundings, belonging TO a
merchant class which is hard
greedy, and small her life is sor-
roWful and pitiable. She does not
love her husband, she has no hap
piness, no recreation. There now
appears Sergei a clerk hired by her
husband, zinovi Borisovich. She
falls in love with this young man,
an unworthy and negative creature,
and in her love she finds joy and
the purpose Of her existence.
I'm order to marry Sergei she
commits her series of crimes. When
Boris Timofevich, her father-in- law,
catches Sergei after a meeting with
her and orders him to be dashed,
she is inspired by desire for re-
venge. She poisons her father-in-
law for the sufferings inflicted upon
her lover Sergei now urges her to
marry him and, together with Kat
erina, he strangles her husband.
Thus in her love for Sergei Ktaerina
sacrifices all of herself. On the
discovery Of the crimes they are
sentenced together to Siberia at
hard labor When she finds that
he no longer loves her and has
turned to the prostitute, Sonetka,
she browns her rival and herself.
Without Sergeis love, life has lost
its only interest.
at is unnecessary for me to re-
late the action further. For I have
justified it chiefly by the musical
material. 1t is my belief that in
opera music should play the prin-
cipal and the deciding role"
This opera will be performed
by the League of Composers un-
der Rodzinski, on February S, at
the Metropolitan Opera House,
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cally. The name indicates an in
significant territory, a small dis
tric5; and the characters are little
people, with passions and interests
not comparable to those in Shake
speare's play. Moreover, Leskov.
an outstanding representative Of
pre-reVolutionary literature, gives
us no illuminating Interpretation
Of the incidents which are de-
veloped in his story. AS a Soviet
composer, I determined to preserve
the strength of Les'soy's novel,
and yet, approaching it critically,
to interpret its events from our
modern point of view
" A CCORDINGLY, the subject it.
"A self has been somewhat altered.
In Leskov's novel Katerina Lvovna
Izmailova the heroine, commits
three murders before she is SEN
fenced to hard labor in Siberia. She
kills her father-.n-law, her husband
and her nephew. AS I proposed to
justify the action Of Katerina
L7ovna and create an impression
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-21
Series of Political
Education Pamphlets

1.-TWO Worlds" The Ultimate
AIM" and 1.-THE Communist
Party" are the titles of the first
three numbers of series of Is
cent pamphlets on Political Educa-
ton just released by international
Publishers.
Two Worlds" explains the decay
of capitalist civilization and the
rise of socialism in the U. S. S. r.;
The Ultimate Aim" sets forth the
program and detectives of the work.
ing class movement; The Commu-
mist Party" explains the structure
and working methods of the politi-
cal organization which guides the
building of socialism in the Soviet
Union.