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Evening star., 1935-03-16
SERMONS ANNOUNCED
"Life's Second Chance" Is Topic
at Eldbrooke M. E


"Life's Second Chance will be the
subject Of Rev. Walter M. Michael
tomorrow morning in Eldbrooke M. e.
Church. At the evening service DR.. A.
j. jackson will deliver the address in
a continuation Of the Lenten services
on THE Christian Way of Life"
The Young Peoples Society will
meet at z pm John Gilmer and
Marion Michael will be in charge
Of devotions. They will discuss the
subject: What Is Worship?"
The fourth quarterly conference
will be held Wednesday at 8 pm.
with DR.. 3. w. Meeks, superintendent
of the Washington district, in charge
OF the devotions and the business
session.
Evening star., 1935-03-16

Senator and Mrs. Daniel O. Hast
ings, Senator and Mrs. Joseph
T. Robinson. Serator and Mrs.
William H. King, Senator and Mrs
Key Pittman, Senator and Mrs. Henry
Ashurst, Senator and Mrs. James
Hamilton Lewis, Senator and Mrs.
Marcus A. Coolidge, Senator and Mrs
Charles L. McNary, Senator and Mrs
William E. Borah, Representative and
Mrs. Sol Bloom, Miss Bloom, former
Representative and Mrs. Fred A. Brit
ten. the Right Rev. James H. Ryan,
Bishop Of Modra and rector of the
Catholic University; the Rev. w. Cole
man Nevils of Georgetown University.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy and
Mrs Henry L. Roosevelt, the chief of
Naval Operations and Mrs. William
Standley, Rear Admiral and Mrs. Mark
L. Bristol. Admiral and Mrs. Joseph
Strauss. Mr.. and Mrs. Richard South
gate, Mr.. Wallace Murray, the solicitor
general and Mrs. James Crawford
Biggs, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley F. Reed
Mrs Harry Baxter, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Nurham Mr.. and Mrs. Truxtun
Beale, Mr.. and Mrs. Louis OWsley, Mr..
and Mrs. Malcolm McConihe, Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter r. Tuckerman, Mr..
Clarence Hewes. Mr.. Robert Jackson
and his daughter. Miss Hope jackson;
Mrs Campbell Prichett, Mrs. Gibson
Fahnestock and her son, Mr.. Snowden
Fahnestock; Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene
Meyer, Mr.. and Mrs. Newbold Noyes,
Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Sullivan, Mr.. and
Mrs. William R. Castle, Mrs. John
Allan Dougherty, Col. and Mrs. George
C. Thorpe, Gen. William E. Horton,
Mrs. Horace G. Mcfarland and Mr.
Charles Mason Remey.
Nine Sokolowska, wife of the coun-
selor of the Polish embassy, has is
sued cards for tea Tuesday after
noon from S to o'clock in her
residence on Twenty-Fourth street.
The counselor of the Chilean en-
bassy, Senor Don Benjamin Cohen,
will return to the Capital from New
York today.
Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Amos Fries
we're honor guests at luncheon given
az oIOOh al 4Cd 11OuOC
by the Newcomb Club of Bethesda
After the luncheon Maj. Fries gave
a short talk on Communism" Ar
rangementS for the luncheon were in
charge of Mrs. A. Brookhouse Foster,
president of the club: Mrs. B. Peyton
Whalen, Mrs. M. c. Mcneil, Mrs. Nor
man Miller, Mrs. Percy Royster and
Miss Mildred Budd.
Col. Ernest D. Peek. U. S. A, and
Mrs. Peek have arrived in Wash
ington from Norfolk. Va, and will
spend the week end at the Martinique
Col. and Mrs. P. B. Peyton have
as their guest Mrs. Peyton's sister,
Mrs. Armstrong of Bristol, Tenn,
who is spending few weeks in
Washington.
Evening star., 1935-03-16

Ohio. is at the Willard while visit
ing in Washington.
Evening star., 1935-03-16

Mr.. and Mrs. J. Clinton Tribby will
entertain at a dinner party this eve
ming at the Army-Navy Country Club
in compliment to Lieut.. Comdr. and
Mrs. Benjamin Soule Gantz.
Evening star., 1935-03-16

Mrs. Walter Harrison and her
daughter. Miss Nancy Harrison have
~ their guest foT the wwek end Mia
Peggy MaiheseR, who cWeas from New
YoIk, whore she IA o s,uden Al th'
rIneh SCHOOL. -.
Evening star., 1935-03-16

Mrs. w. C. Pollock of Cleveland.
Evening star., 1935-03-16

The Minister of Switzerland and
Nine. Peter entertained at a small
dinner party last evening, accompany
ing their guests later to the reception
at the Persian Legation.
Evening star., 1935-03-16
NJ. and Nine. de LabOulaye
Hosts at Dinner Tonight.

The Ambassador of France and
Nine. de Laboulaye will entertain at
a dinner this evening when the British
Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay will
be the ranking guest.
The Ambassador and Nine de La
boulaye entertained at luncheon yes
terday in honor of the French Min
lister to Canada and Nine. Raymond
Brougere.
Evening star., 1935-03-16

The Ambassador of Germany, Herr
Hans Luther, will entertain at din
ner this evening in the embassy in
honor of the Speaker of the House
and Mrs. Joseph w, ByrnS
Evening star., 1935-03-16

Miss Helen Stout and Mrs. Winte-
mute William Sloan will give lunch
con to the Membership Committee of
the Political Study Club Monday at
The Smorgasbord. Their guests will
include Mrs. Frank M. Shortall, the
president of the Political Study Club,
and Mrs. Ernest Frederick Guide, Mrs.
j. Noble Hoover Mrs. M. A. Markley,
Mrs. Harry M. Packard, Mrs. Henry
Morton Phillips, Mrs. Lane Schofleld,
Mrs. j. Clinton Tribby and Mrs. M. A.
Winter.
Evening star., 1935-03-16

Mr.. and Mrs William Stork, jr.,
Of New York City, are at the Shore
ham for several weeks to visit Mrs
Stork's mother. Mrs. Elonzo Tyner,
and Miss Peggy Tyner.
Evening star., 1935-03-16

The Minister of Canada, Mr.. William
Duncan Herridge, was host at lunch
con today in honor of the French
Minister to Canada, M. Raymond
Brougere, and Nine. Brougere.
Evening star., 1935-03-16

The Ambassador of the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics and Nine.
Troyanovsky have issued invitations
for performance of Uncle Vanya, -
which will be given in the embassy to-
night BY the Columbia PLAYERS.
Evening star., 1935-03-16

The Chinese Minister, Mr.. Sao-Ke
Alfred SEE, entertained a company of
men at dinner last evening in honor
of the newly appointed American
charge daffaires to Ethiopia, Mr.
George c. Hanson.
Evening star., 1935-03-16

Mr.. and Mrs. Hugo w. HesSelback
entertained a small company at dinner
last evening in compliment to Mr.
Egon Petri, who is giving series of
talks on piano playing in Washington.
The last two talks will be given
Wednesdays, March 20 and 27 at
the Arts Club.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08
Short Wave Radio

THE S. W. R. C. of Manhattan meets Fridays: 80
code practice; 9, business meeting TO- lecture:
1890 discussion; II, official adjournment, rag chew
till midnight. All activities now take place at the
full-time headquarters 124 West 21st Street Last
weeks call to readers Of this column still stands:
if you have any radios, radio parts furniture or
partitions, kindly drop the club card
THE American Youth Club radio group of 1913
Ptkn Avenue, Brooklyn meets Tuesday nights
1t boasts of four assets; forty dollars grant from
the club for the building of phone xmitter.
twenty members, girl members, and an electrical
engineers commercial operator for an instructor
THE Williamsburg Club meets this week on Sunday
D. m. at the home of L Phillips, 1873 Floyd
Street, Brooklyn.
THE Bensonhurst- Bay Ridge Club meets Fridays,
p. m, Sundays II noon and Wednesdays
p. M at the home Of M. Starkopp, apt. D-3, 30
Bay 18th Street, Brooklyn. The lecture tonight is
on vacuum tubes and circuits.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08

with the army apparatus-con-
cretely, with the commanding
staff of that military unit which
was composed out of the popuIa-
ton of the given district"
In and out of the army the re-
cruits and the officers are guarded.
organized, propagandized for i'm
perialist aims. Yet despite the al
most holy awe of the army, despite
the inceSsant TRADES and terror
against dangerous ideas. numerous
instances of mutiny, of Communist
propaganda, of anti-war activity.
are cited. In the Shanghai war.
hundreds of Japanese soldiers re-
fused to fight against the Chinese
people. In Manchuria, japanese
soldiers are killed almost daily for
their refusal to carry out the COM
mands of the officers. 1.-THE Com
munists carried on propaganda in
the First Aviation School, Tokyo"
says one of the quotations from the
japanese magazine Nippon, quoted
in the book-"they issued a pub
LEGATION The Soldiers Friend, organ
lied special brigade which carried
on its work during last years
maneuvers in Kansai, organized
nuclei in certain units of the army,
while the navy section almost Sue
oeeded in setting up a unit in the
admiralty itself"
Extreme Demagogy
The open fascist proposals of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08
The BLack-COnnerH Bill

Question: Do the Communists objections to the
Black Connery bill, which provides for thirty
hour week to relieve unemployment. still hold for
the bill in its form as introduced in the present
session Of Congress?
M X Tacoma, Washington.
Answer: As result Of mass pressure led by the
Communist Party for thirty-hour week without
reduction in weekly earnings. the new Block-Con-
merry bin contains such provision. But it is hedged
around with many exceptions and notifications,
that the bill in its present form would harm work.
ers by increasing speed-up and cutting pay envelopes
through spreading work.
These points stand out clearly in reading the
bill. Employers can be granted exceptions to the
act by appealing to the president Past experience
has shown the workers that Roosevelt always COM
plies with any such demand. Secondly, if an en-
poyer should cut hours and wages at the same
time, there are no provisions for furnishing him
except vague references to the fact that such an
action will constitute a misdemeanor However,
the N. R. A. has shown, employers can violate
such agreements with impunity The government
agencies instead Of prosecuting them help in tying
down the workers to bad working conditions and
miserable pay. Thirdly, the act is to be effective
only during period Of national emergency" This
means that Roosevelt could terminate it, any time
he decides the emergency is over.
Hidden in the bill is joker which reveals the
real purpose behind the measure. There is clause
which allows Roosevelt to forbid the importation
Of any commodities which endsnger manufacturers
in this country. Of course, the phrase is not so
blunt. But the practical effect would be that he
could order higher tariffs, stop completely those
foreign products which endanger the profits Of
American manufacturers. Thus under the guise
of helping labor the monopolies would be given a
powerful weapon with which to increase their profits
and control
The bill would not help the workers If hours
were cut they would be speeded up and against
this there are no provisions. The bill would in
crease the profits of the manufacturers and would
not better the living standards of the masses It
is being offered to the unemployed masses as a
substitute for adequate relief and unemployment
insurance. But in practice it would increase speed
up, and consequently increase unemployment
What the workers need is thirty-hour week
with a guarantee against all reductions in pay or
increase in speed-up. They need a bill which has
no loophoes for the employers to increase their
profits through indirect wage-cuts. Such a work
ers bill would increase the incomes of the workers
at the expense of the bosses. All these measures
the Black-Connery bill does not provide for; that
is why the Communists urge the workers to fight
and strike for genuine reduction in hours and a
genuine increase in pay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08
AhOnHO
OAAOAASC
the
World!
By MICHAEL GOLD


THE liberals tell us there is no danger of
fascism in America But in how many
states of the union does one find criminal
syndicalist law operating? Isn't this law
a long step toward fascism?
The criminal syndicalist law makes
membership in any radical organization or the
reading and possession of radical literature major
crime punishable by twenty years in Jail
The law originated during the Red scare after
the war. It was used mostly against the foreign
born, members of the I. w. W. and the Socialist
and Communist Parties. Mass raids deportations
and trials spread across the nation. The atmos-
phere was that Of Berlin and Rome. 1t was worth
ones life to read pamphlet by Karl Marx, or be
a member of even a radical cooperative grocery.
Hundreds of workers were dragged out of their
beds at night, slugged, tortured fnger-printed,
Jailed or deported. The war minionaires cheered
it all. It was Americanism-a la Hearst. Then
the heavenly ecstasy of the great boom set in
Open terror of the postwar crisis unnecessary
during the boom. The millionaires could afford
their workers the little luxury Of free speech
Now in the depths of the great depression, the
monopoly capitalism is strong, it is liberal When
1t is desperate and sick now, it turns to fascsm
and fascist methods.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08

reactionary officers in the japanese
army, published in full in this book
Relentless War Plans
Keeping in mind the recent Jap
anese attacks on Chahar at Tishi-
kow, near the Great Wall, as vel
as the advance to the border of the
Monaghan Peoples Republic at Lake
Dor Nor the following quotation
from the book shows how persistent
definite and relentless are the Jap
anese war plans
Influential circles of the mill
tariSts regard the Soviet Union as
their immediate enemy. In their
view, Manchuria must serve first
and foremost as a drill ground for
the war on the Soviets. For this
reason, the higher army circles
disapprOved of he operations
which the navy began in Shang-
hal, and were slow to support it,
for they felt that the use of the
navy would automatically bring
Japan in conflict with the United
States and Great Britain, when
attention should be principally
centered upon war preparations
against the Soviet Union. For
these groups, Manchuria is but the
first link in chain, the other
links of which, in order, will be
Jehol and Chahar, then Outer
Mongolia, and finally PrimOrye,
the Amur district and the Chinese
Eastern Railway, then Outer Mon
golia and after that Siberia"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08
Where Hull Wants to Provoke War

This was written two years before
the incidents Of the last few weeks.
But remark with what clock-like
regularity and accuracy the march
Of events are now proceeding in the
Far East.
The authors begin their work with
short, but adequate history of the
development Of japanese capitalism.
They then trace in detail the rise
of the numerous reactionary So
cieties which sprang up particularly
after the World War, against the
great upsurge of worker and peas
ant struggles against feudal dom
nation overweighed and made a
thousand-fold more unbearable bv
the most brutal imperialist struc-
ture.
Role of the Army
The role of the army, its eco
nomic and political connections, its
links with the rich landowners and
the most powerful imperialists, are
dealt with fully.
In no country in the world"
write the authors, docs the mill
tary training of youth in the
whole network of education oc-
cupy such an important place as
in japan. Nowhere is respect
and love for the army so assidu-
ously and so thoroughly Guilt
waited. Nowhere is the local civil
administration in every village,
district, ETC., so closely connected
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08
The Rather Has Fangs

THE Illinois workers have had a recent example
of how this law operates. A group Of miners
demonstrating for unemployment relief at Hills
boro were arrested, and faced sentence of twenty
years under this fascist law
Widespread indignation spread among the people
against this obvious frame-up. Protests poured in,
there was mass publicity which makes fascists
scurry in fear like the things that crawl on the
bottom of an old boulder turned to the sun.
The Hillsboro defendants have been forced out
of the fascist hands. But the Criminal Syndicalist
law is still on the statute books of Illinois.
Let no liberal tell us that there is no fascist
danger in America. Let him wait until he has
helped wipe out all these criminal syndicalist laws
from the statute books. If they aren't of the real
essence of modern fascsm, how else would you
describe them? 1t is true they still used mainly
against Communists, but in Hlsboro, this law was
used against the unemployed of all political be-
lefs. Men like Hearst have already indicated they
would such laws against even the miIdest lib
erals
Must the liberals wait until UntarianS, Free
Masons birth controllers and readers of the Nation
are given twenty years in Jail for their opinions
as in italy or Germany? Why are they so indif-
ferent to the young rattesnake? 1t has fangs
my friends and shortly you may feel them, too
If this rattler is allowed to grow to full age.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08

this trip. I'll lose helI-of-a lot of
time hanging around till the boss
sends some one down to get me out.
All on my time, too"
The manifold glows white through
the hood. "A little gasoline over
that-wowl." The young man
thinks. A farm house is dimly yisi-
bic a short way off the road.
THE wife has to work her fingers
to the bone cleaning the rooning-
house; and still we amt got any
thing to show for rainy day."
"Jeez, I think I'm with the fell
lows" Miller's head mods. He Jerks
up with a start, slapping huge
yawn.
TIE road turns sharply. Miller
1 wheels the truck in wide curve
so that the last trailer keeps the
pavement. The road straightens
out again. The night is as quiet
as a vacuum, the steady grind of
the motor stirring through it. The
hum of the motor like the hum
ming of ether. No strength to break
AWAY. Gradually sleep overtakes
the tired body.
Hey yelled the young man.
making q grab for the wheel.
There was no more time than
to yell, Hey" A white stone wall
coming at the truck. A terrific re-
port in the night, the truck burst
into flames. Miller and the young
man pinned in the twisted cab.
There was a large crowd gath
cred when the firemen took the two
bodies, burnt to a crisp, from the
wreckage. A black smudge on the
stone wall would remain even after
the wreckage was dragged off.
When the Traffic Manager heard
about it the next morning. he went
to the main office of the company
to make his report.
The dumb bastardl" the COM
pany said, thinking about the COM
plant from their clients over the
delayed cargo.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08
Broader Scope
Object ofLOWT
Reorganization

THE League of Workers Theatres
1 has recently been reorganized as
the New Theatre League following
the decision made at the National
Festival last year. The reason for
this change is that the original pro-
gram of the League of Workers
Theatres was designed primarily for
theatres of action, and was not wide
enough to include and guide the
many elements from the small art
theatres and the professional stage
who were attracted to the new So
cial theatre. The present organi-
cation will embrace all the socially
progressive elements in the theatre
and weld them into united theatre
front for the support of the mini
mum program of the New Theatre
League.
The minimum program is
briefly: for mass development Of
the American theatre to its highest
artistic and social level. For a
theatre dedicated to the struggle
against war, fascism, and censor
ship.
The national Office will obtain and
publish a better repertory Plays of
the high level Of excellence of
'iStevedcre," waiting for Lefty"
"Newsboy," and Free Thaelmann."
will be supplied to the new theatres.
National tours are now being ar
ranged for outstanding companies
of the NIL.
The executive elected for the New
Theatre League includes Mark Mar
vim as national executive secretary,
Anne Howe as national organiza-
tional secretary, Phil Barber. form
erly assistant to the late Professor
Baker in the Yale Dramatic School,
as secretary Of the repertory divi-
sion; and Harry Elton, Ben Blake.
Vic Cutler, John Bonn, and Herbert
Kline.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08
FebrnaryPioneer
OfferSNumerons
LiVely Features

NEW PIONEER, February, 1895. A
magazine for workers and farm
ers' children. Twenty-four pages,
illustrated. Five cents. Published
at Box 2S, Station D, New York
City.
THE New Pioneer FOR February is
out this week with an unusual
cover by Mary Morrow, showing one
of the activities of the Pioneers,
that of selling the magazine to a
workers family.
The magazine this month is full
of splendid material. Stand Up
and Fight" is an outstanding story
having special meaning today. The
adventures of "a Boy on the Road"
as told to Pioneer Norma Getzoff,
narrates the wanderings over the
United States of a boy who is
typical of millions looking for
work
One Horse Town" is the first
part of continued story for older
readers, in which an N. S. L..
branch is formed around protest
against firing the school janitor.
Little Lefty, Dels marvellous
creation, who has come to typify
the entire children's movement, re-
ports to us in thrilling fashion on
the National Unemployment Con-
gress.
An important new feature is the
sports page, conducted by Phil
Wolfe, which offers competitions
between troops and which will con-
tinue in future issues and follow
the sports of the seasons.
The Pioneers themselves have a
large hand in the issue with pic
lures, a prize poem on the Scots
boro Boys, an illustrated feature
telling the truth about Washington
and Lincoln, and the story already
mentioned KAY GRAY
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-08
Fascism in Oregon

THE state of oregon is also dsgraced by this Nazi
law its statute books.
In Portland at present. militant workers are
feeling the bloody teeth of this law. Kyle Pugh
of Medford, Oregon, whose Crime" was selling
pamphlets and literature, among them a book by
Corhss Lamont, is now serving five years in the
penitentiary under the law. Edward Denny was also
on trial His crime That of organizing the
jobess single workers who live in 1ophouses and
souplines, and organizing them to picket during
the recent waterfront strike.
Don Cluster, 20 years old was convicted and
given a years paroled sentence. Earl Steward
former school teacher John Weber, manager of
workers bookshop Manley Mitchell leader of the
Marine Workers Union and the two Austin
brothers, marine workers, also face trial
Dirk De Jonge was sentenced to seven years on
one indictment. I met him at the congress for
unemployment insurance in Washington While
he his way there, another indictment had
been framed against him. The bus he was riding
in was searched by sherifs at Minneapolis, but
Dirk wanted to get to the congress, and didn't
help them to find him, naturally.
Here is letter have just received from him,
Got back in good shape from the congress. and
Immediately surrendered on the second Criminal
Syncicalism indictment and am now out on 81 900
bail. My voluntary surrender to the sheriffs office
created quite sensation as the bourgeois press
had ballyhooed the lie that 1 had run out on nv
seven year jolt when left Oregon for the Congress
ED Denny sentenced to three years. We
must arouse the people of America against these
fascist-lke prosecutions of the Oregon workers.
II know that the Daily Worker and yourself
can be Of great help"
DIRK DE JONGE.