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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-23
Laboratory
and Shop
BY David Ramsey
HE BENEFITS" OF IMPERIALISM

THE BENEFITS" OF IMPERIALISM
A correspondent has sent in significant ex-
ample of the calous disregard that the British
imperialists in India have toward the masses whom
they exploit The item reveals the brutal con-
tempt of the master class for their subjects and
the benefits" that the Indian masses receive from
their foreign lords 1t is taken from the Indian
Journal of Agriculture and describes "A Dry Smut
Method of Treating Oat Seed Against Covered
Smut" The authors Of the method-B. B. Mundkur
and NJ. Azmutallah Khan, use mixture of one
pound Of formaldehyde to equal part of water.
This is applied with dry spray.
Excerpts from the article follow: ." One laborer
applies the mixture to the grain holding the sprayer
close to the seed and walking in the grain mean
while. Two other lsborers follow this man turn
ing the grain upside down with their legs. The
place where the seed is spread should be protected
from drafts The laborers have to be provided
with handkerchiefs to cover their mouths and
nostrils and they should throw back their faces
so as to minimize the chances Of their being in
jured by the fumes. Emphasis minel The cost
Of labor is negligible. hand pressure sprayer
of six pint capacity costs about IS rupees which
is the only costly item. But one should last several
years"
Anyone who has worked with even mild solu-
tons of formaldehyde knows what it will do to the
skin and breathing passages. With the concen-
tration recommended above and in a closed room
the results must be disastrous. The handkerchief
protection is not even a good gesture. The
scientists desire to minimize the chances their
1.-THE workers. being injured" is truly touching DIT
Of concern 1t must out of the knowledge that
a fourth man to drag out the bodies would cost
few more pennies. The method not only destroys
the wheat smut but also the excess" population
which might want some of the wheat that is saved
1t is on par with our munitions statesmen in South
America who political prisoners in their DEM
onstratons Of the effectiveness Of their poison
gases
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-23
BY DOUGLAS MCDONALD

At the headquarters of the Tom
n kins Square Unemployment
Council there is now being shown
Young Pioneer art exhibit which
already has attracted the attention
of parents and teachers and maya
zine editors. 1t is the result Of Sc
lection from five weeks of drawing
and painting by children who at
tend a Young Pioneer class. The
Tompkins Square Unemployment
Council, situated at 1862 East Tenth
Street, Manhattan, sponsors many
activities, including classes in Eng
lish and dramatics owe make our
own plays" the sign says, and
plenty of neighborhood activities,
but particularly noteworthy is the
art class.
The visitor who calls at the Coun-
Gil headquarters on Tuesday after
noon from five to seven will And the
place hive of activity. Some twen-
ty-f1ve children from four to four
teen are ranged round the walls.
working intently with brush and
paint. All kinds of colors and designs
are appearing on brown paper
"canvases" tackled on the walls.
Other children are at the windows
outside, faces pressed against the
glass, watching. or knocking at the
door to ask, Can 1 paint too"
These latter are told that the Young
Pioneer art class is meeting, and If
their parents are willing they may
come back the following week and
join the class.
They are so eager and direct,
these poorly dressed children of
working class parentsI They fill so
full every minute of the three hours!
They draw so fast, and so sur
prisingly well! They draw houses,
airplanes, trees, flowers, steamboats,,
in red, black, green, blue and other
colors. They dip their brushes in the
paint which each has mixed and
keeps in little tin plate. There is
no hesitancy on the part of the
children, no copying no imitation.
Each child appears to know exactly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-23

to end this system; such incidents
as the Kronstadt revolt and the
Tambov revolt in the beginning Of
1921 showed the urgency.
Accordingly, in March, 1921, the
New Economic Policy was intro
duced. This replaced the requi-
sitioning by the agricultural tax,
and restored limited freedom of
small-scale private trading, while
the workers state retained the
economic heights" the monopoly
of foreign trade, banking, transport,
and large-scale industry. In this
way the controlled advance to an
increasing proportion of socialist
organization Of production could be
Systematically carried forward.
At the time, and for some years
thereafter, all ignorant capitalist
and reformist comment universally
hailed the New Economic Policy or
"Nep" as the return to capitalism
and abandonment Of socialism. 1t
was, Of course, nothing of the kind,
as Lenin made fully clear at the
time, but on the contrary, the
method Of the conscious and sys-
tematic advance to socialism.
Today this is clear to all, and the
old prophecies of the victory of
private capitalism through Nep have
already passed into the dustbin Of
history, now that the process Of
systematic development has reached
the stage of large-scale socialist
construction through the Five-Year
Plan. In the time of Lenin it was
still possible for the capitalist
propagandists to point to the ruin
and destruction caused by tSarism
and the civil wars NOTABLY the
famine Of 1921, which took place
in the regions that had been devas-
tated by the White brigands) as
evidence Of the bankruptcy of So
cialism' in contrast to capitalist
prosperity" in America and west
ern Europe.
Today when four years of the
world economic crisis of capitalism
have demonstrated universal declin-
ing production, unemployment and
chaos in every country of the capt.
talist world, while the Soviet Union
alone has doubled and trebled its
production at a rate unequalled in
history, this propaganda is no longer
possible. Yet all this development
was already implicit in the lines OF
policy laid down by Lenin, although
he could not live to see it.
Ito be continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-23
Change
the
World!
By MICHAEL GOLD

! riERfCAN writers of the left-wing have
n begun to organize the preparations for
a national writer's congress to be held in
New York around May First
1t will be the first congress of writer's
ever held in this country, and should have much
Of the historic importance of the congress of So
Wet writer's held recently in Moscow.
Since the depression, we have seen great drift
of the lower middle class professionals toward the
left Great sections Of the writer's especially among
the younger and women, have reflected this
tendency in their creative thinking We are at the
Threshold of broad and mature revolutionary
literature in America.
In the first stages of such movement there
always many confusions and misunderstanding.
Clarity and bread, general line necessary. The
writer's congress will serve political task, in that
it will formulate the political terms on which writ
ers can best give their support to the working
class. 1t will also to clear up the technical
and esthetc problems that beset the writer's at
such time of changing landmarks, and help to
reorientate them to a new world of esthetics.
In preparation for this congress- wide discus
sion of literary problems is being planned in the
revolutionary and liberal press
The letter by Edward Dahberg the novelist
which follows will open such discussion in this
column hope Writers and workers are invited to
make their comment on it. I disagree with some
of Dahfbsrg's Foundations and shall reply to them
tomorrow:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-23
Art Exhibit of Young Pioneers
Vivid, Dynamic and Realistic

what he wants to paint, and can
scarcely wait to start.
THE teacher of this unusual art
1 class is Mary o. Johnson of the
John Reed Club, cooperating with
the leader of the Young Pioneers.
Her assistants are Nancy and Naomi,
two fourteen year-old schoolgirls
from New York high school. Mary
johnson and her assistants are
everywhere at once Here Mary is
advising twelve-year-o boy
about the color of the hull of a
steamboat; there, telling a seven-
year old girl that her drawing of a
garden with children running is
coming along swell" Nancy is
cutting off more squares of brown
paper for children starting on their
second drawing; Naomi is helping a
kid tack up his paper, or getting
more paint for one who has used
up his supply.
In the last half hour of each
class period, Mary Johnson tells me,
they all sit down and have period
Of discussion and criticism. Each
tells what he likes about various
pictures, Or doesn't like. The teacher
asks questions, makes suggestions,
relates the pictures to the reality of
their lives, to the reality Of the
contrasts or rich and poor of New
York. The week before she tells me,
a little girl made hammer and
sickle as part of picture of q
scene containing trees and grass!
Maybe it had no relation to the
picture" the teacher laughs, but
the little girl felt it ought to be-
long somewhere! And she'll learn
how to put it where it belongs!"
Another thing the teacher pointed
out: Expression of direct working
class feeling in the drawing is not
always Immediately apparent to the
casual visitor. For instance the
traffic cop has just held up his hand
to stop a tin lizzie containing work.
ers' childrenl And woman walk
ing in the park is explicitly a poor
womanl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-23

WOR-Litersry Justice
Sketch
WIZ - Hollywood Jimmy
Fiddler
WABC-Broadcast To and
From Byrd Expedition
10:15-WOR-Current Events
H. z. Read
WJZ-Beauty-Mme. Sylvia
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ily-Sketch
wOR-variety Musicale
WJz-Denny Orch; Harry
Richman, Songs
WABC-Mary Eastman. So
prano; Evan Evans, Bari
tone
1900 wEAF-Fairehild Orch.
WOR-News
WJz-Kemp Orch.
WABC-Belasco Orch.
ll:l5-WEAF - Robert Royce,
Tenor
WoR-Mocnbsams Trio
1880 WEAF-Dance Music
IAlso wOR, WIZ. WABc,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-23
Mussolini Gets an EarfuI

BY Radcliffe opera, Nero" was having its
world premiere in Rome on Jan. IT, Mascagni
its composer, conducting and many state
notabes were present, including the fascist dc
tator Mussolini
The script calls for one of the Romans to say
the following lines: I'VE are starving; there is
no bread in Rome" As soon the singer finished
the last word in this sentence one of the listeners
in the gallery shouted That's nothing, we have
the same condition now"
This is another indication of the fact that in
spite of the reports of Italian fascists and their
American fascist friends thousands Of Italian work.
ers are starving result of the anti-working
class Fascist regime.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-23

700 PM WEAF-King Orch.
wOR-Sports Resume-Stan
Lomax
WJz-Amos m Andy
WABC-Myrt and Marge
7:15-WEAF - Stories of the
Black Chamber - Secret
Ink
WOR-Lum and Abner
WIZ Plantation Echoes;
Robson orch; Southern
aires Quartet
WABC@Just Plain Bill
7:30-WEAF-Gould and Shelf
ter. Piano
WOR Harry Stockwell,
Baritone
WJZ-Red Davis-Sketch
WABC-The O'Neills
Observation-Disclosures Ezra
WOR - Motor Boat Show
Talks
WJz-Dangerous Paradise
WABC--Boake Carter, Com
mentator
800 wEAF-Play, Within the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-23
Furmanov's 'Chapayev'
Epic ofW Communism
Reviewed by
ALLEN CHUMLEY

All the heroism of the Red Army
soldiers, horrors and privations OF
the desperate campaigns they waged
against the white armies of Kol-
chalk, are packed into D. FurmanoVs
novel, Chapayev. The novel, on
which the current Soviet film of
the came name is based, will be
released in the near future by In
ternational Publishers.
Chapsyev is more than valuable
document of an eye witness: it is
an epic of the heroic days of war
| communism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-23
By R. PAINE DUTT

perialiSm on the Soviet Republic.
On the other hand, the interna-
tional working class had not been
able to overthrow imperialism out
side the Soviet Republic. In con-
sequence, temporary equilibrium
or balance of forces" resulted,
which might last for a shorter or
longer period, during which it was
necessary to prepare and organize
the working class forces so long as
the respite" lasted, until a new at
tack of imperialism developed or a
new world revolutionary wave.
How was this new situation to
be met? 1t was to the problems of
this new period, opening in 1921
and still continuing, though now
visibly approaching its close, that
Lenin gave his final leadership to
the world working class.
IN the first place, a completely new
turn was necessary in the Soviet
Republic. With the ending Of
the civil wars, the original plans
of economic construction, through
workers state control Of production
to the organization of socialism, al
ready set out with complete clear
ness both before and Immediately
after the Bolshevik Revolution, hac
now to be resumed. The blockade
and the civil wars had interrupted
all these plans and compelled the
system of War Communism" lie.
universal requisitioning and ration
ing, but no organization Of socialist
production. 1t was now necessary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-23
New Masses Available
In Chicago Libraries

CHICAGC.-Heretofore the New
Masses has not been available for
readers in the various branch IL
braries in this city, but recently a
three-month trial subscription was
given them from the bulk subscrip-
lions obtained at a Spivak meeting,
and it has been placed in circula-
ton in eighteen branches in this
city, re-subscription to be on the
basis of adequate demand for the
magazine by readers.
In order that Chicago workers
may know that this is available at
the libraries, we are printing below
the names and addresses of the
branch libraries where the maya
zine is NV available.
Albany Park Branch, 3536-38
Lawrence Ave; Austin Branch,
$50 Race Ave; Broadway Branch,
3319-21 Broadway Ave; Chatham
Branch, 10th st. and Maryland
Ave; Chicago Lawn Branch, 62nd
Pl. and Kedzie Ave; Dougla
Branch. 18th st. and Homan Ave. /;
Humboldt Branch, 1853 w. North
Ave; Independence Branch, 1880
Irving Park Blvd; Kelly Branch,
Sind st. and Normal Blvd; Lewis
Branch, 194547 w. Madison ST.;
Northwestern Branch, 1615-17 NJ
Crawford Ave; Pullman Branch,
10th st. and Indiana Ave; Rogers
Branch 1871 Greenleaf Ave; South
Shore Branch, 73rd st. and Elk
change Ave; Toman Branch, 9th
st. and Crawford Ave; Woodlawn
Branch, 6247-49 Kimbark Ave;
Hid Regional Branch, 4536-44
Lincoln Ave; Legler egional
Branch, Crawford Ave. and Mon
roe st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-23
IN Nc IN

nox, Contralto; Mixed
Chorus; Arden Orch.
9:00-WEAF-Fred Allen. Com
edian; Hayton Orchestra;
Amateur Review
WOR-Hillbilly Music
WJz-2o,000 Years in Sing
Siing-Sketch, with War
den LaweS
WABC-Lily Pons. Soprano;
Kcs.clanetz Orch; Mixed
Chorus
9:30-WOR-To Be Announced
WIZ - John Mccormack,
Tenor; Concert Orch.
WABC-George Burns and
Oracle Allen, Comedians
s:45-WOR-Sandra Swensks,
Soprano
1000 WEAF-Lombardo Orch.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-23
Is ON TRIAL
IN SACRAMENTO

When 18 workers (several of them
instructors Of the Sacramento Work
ers SCHOOL, we're arrested in Sacra-
mento charged with Criminal Syn
dicalism, the right of the entire
working class to free speech, free
press and assemblage was chal-
lenged. The trial is taking place
now against a background of mon
strous terror against the working
class, melted by the police Nation
wide pressure must be brought to
bear at once for the immediate re-
lease Of the 10 workers.
Two thousand, eight hundred and
fifty students and fifty instructors
Of the New York Workers School
vigorously protested the arrest OF
the 18 workers. They unanimously
passed a resolution demanding their
immediate release.
Similar resolutions should be
passed at once by all working class
organizations and sent to District
Attorney Otis D. Babcock, Judge
Lennon and Governor Merriam.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-23
PITTSBURGH WORKERS
SCHOOL

In the campaign launched to raise
$1,000 by March l to establish a
Workers School in Pittsburgh. the
Workers School Committee insti-
tuted Socialist competition among
the Sections, Units, Locals, Ian
guage and mass organizations in
the District, for the fulfillment Of
quotas.
In this campaign. the Hill Sec
ton Is Carrying on a series of forums
on the Negro Question. with the
object of strengthening the L.SN.R.
and to arouse the Negro comrades
to the need of and purpose of work
ers' education, black and white
united.
School Committees are being or
ganized in all the Sections, Units,
Locals, Mass and Language organi-
cations. These will organize affairs
to raise funds, and will arrange for
their own classes at once.
All reports and contributions
should be sent in to the Workers
School Committee. 1898 Fifth Ave-
nue., Pittsburgh, Pa. Funds are re-
quired Immediately to secure head
quarters for the school and to begin
the printing and mimeographing OF
material to be used in the classes.
The Milwaukee Workers School
announces a series of Sunday after
noon forums to be given at 1887
w. Juneau Avenue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-23

Law, with Mary Pickford
WOR-Lone Ranger-Sketch
WJz-P n t rouse Party;
Mark Hellinger, Gladys
Glad; Peggy Flynn, Com
edienne; Travellers Quar-
tet, Coleman Orch; Rosa
Tentoni, Soprano
WABC = Diane = Musical
Comedy
3;15-WABC-Edwin C. hi,
Commentator
8:30-WEAF - Wayne King
Orch.
WOR-Variety Musicale
WIZ = Lanny Ross, Tenor;
Salter Orch; Dorothy
Baker. Soprano
WABC - Everett Marshall,
Baritone, Elizabeth Len
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-23
CHAPTER II.
Life of Lenin
XIV.

THE Polish offensive was over
whelmingly defeated, and gave
place to revolutionary offensive
which reached to within few miles
of Warsaw. The offensive to War
saw was from a military strategic
point of view open to criticism and
had to be followed by retreat; but
Lenin took the direct responsibility
in advocating this offensive, which
nearly turned the fortunes of the
European revolution, for political
reasons.
Just as the Brest-Litovsk Treaty
and subsequent new economic policy
showed the ability Of Lenin's lead
ership to retreat (for which reason
these two have been taken by all
bourgeois and reformist writers as
the height of his craftsmanship, as
if they were more important than
the Bolshevik Revolution), so the
advance on Warsaw showed his
equal readiness to take the most
daring offensive when the situation
offered even a chance against odds
to gain by it.
Despite its subsequent defeat,
Lenin judged the offensive a gain
Report to the All-Russian Commu-
mist Party Conference, September
1920, first, because it demonstrated
the strength Of the Soviet regime to
western imperialism and put check
on the policy of constant attacks
and second, because Of the enormous
stimulus it gave to the European
working class movement, as shown
in the British Council of Action.
A completely new world situation
developed from the beginning Of
1921. On the one hand the inter
national working class had been
able to defeat the attack of i'm
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-23
NeaVS of Workers
Schools from East
To West Coast
Little Lefty

THIS column invites suggestions
and criticisms ccncerning the
subjects and instruction at all
Workers Schools. All students, in
structOrs and those interested in
working class education are urged
to write. Students especially, are
urged to write in concerning their
life and activities in the Workers
Schools.
Letters should be sent care Of
this column, S5 East 18th Street,
N. Y. G.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-23
NEW YORK
WORKERS SCHOOL

The New York Workers School
Is happy to announce that its Ii
brary (the Ruthenberg Library
has at last succeeded in acquiring
enough books to open a circulat-
ing branch. The most important
books by Marx, Engels, Lenin,
Stain, and the more recent books
dealing with the class struggle can
be borrowed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-23
Life and Teachings of Lenin

The Daily Worker is printing
serially the extremely valuable
and popular booklet by R. Paine
Dutt, Life and Teachings of
v. 1. Lenin," published by Inter
national Publishers.
January Fl was the eleventh
anniversary of the death Of Lenin.
During these ten years the teach
ings Of Lenin have spread to ever
wider sections of the globe, inspir-
ing the workers and oppressed to
greater assaults on capitalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-23

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Questions
and
Answers

This department appears daily on 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, 1935-01-23
WORLD Of the
THEATRE
by del

An accomplished Juliet
ROMEO AND JULIET, by william
Shakespeare; presented by Kath-
crime Cornell at the Martin Beck
Theatre for five and one-half
weeks only.
Smyrna times., 1935-12-05
BRIEF SMYRNA
LANDING NEWS
Budget of News and Person
ais Cleaned About Smyr-
ma River Wharves
CITIZENS MAKE VISITS

Smyrna Landing, Dec. 5. Mr.
and Mrs John Bailey and sons
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Reed and chill
dren, of Marcus Hook, Pa, Mr.
and Mrs. Milton Slaughter and
children, of Middletown, Capt
Isaac Burris and wife, of Little
Creek, were recent visitors Of Mrs
Louis Gaulke.
Mrs. Emma Davis spent visit
with her niece, Mrs. Oscar Collins
at Odessa last week.
Mrs. Harry Kinsey, Mrs. Harry
Cole, Mrs. Franklin Cole, of Bay
View; Mr.. and Mrs. Wilmer Ford
of Dover; Mrs. Walker Warner and
daughter Miss Estelle Warner OF
Deakyneville, were recent visitors
of Mrs. Thomas Wrench.
Louis Gaulke, Jr., who has been
spending a vacation with his par
ents, was called to his ship Sunday
His father, Mr.. Lou Gaulke, and
son CORTLAND, accompanied him as
far as Philadelphia.
Smyrna times., 1935-12-05
BLACKBIRD
Items of Personal anu Social In.
terest Cleaned About Neighborbood

Blackbird, Dec. s. Mr.. ]. A
Heinold has returned from a weeks
visit with Mr.. and Mrs. William
Hutchison near Newark.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. A. McGinnis. Mr.
and Mrs. Marvin McGinnis and son
Donald, and Mr.. Fred McGinnis
have been on a ten-day trip to Vir-
ginia. Fred remained at his home
there after a three months visit in
Delaware.
Mr.. and Mrs Elmer Emerson OF
Mt. Pleasant, are spending a few
days with Mrs. Mary Tharp. Mrs
Tharp also entertained last week
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Graham anc
children of near Kenton and Mrs
Mary Lohman of Cheswold.
Mrs. R. M. Sammons and chill.
Smyrna times., 1935-12-05

Miss Edna Conner was a visitor
last week of Mr.. and Mrs. Harold
Dayton, of Red Lion. She attend
ed a dinner party held at their
home in her honor. A large num-
ber of guests were present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Howell,
Sr., had as visitors last week Mrs.
Richard Howell, Jr., and son, and
Norman Klaumenzer, Jr., of Point
Breeze; Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Klaumenzer, of Philadelphia, Pa.
and Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Lange
and children, of Wilmington.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Carton
spent a recent visit to his parents
in Millington, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. w. VanHorn en-
tertained last week Mr.. M. G.
Lurty, of Chester, Pa, and Mr. John
Lurty of Bear Station.
Smyrna times., 1935-12-05

daughter, Mrs. Arthur Price and
Mr.. Price.
Mr.. Arnold Stewart and son, OF
Washington, D. c., have been Wis
iting Mr.. and Mrs. ]. r. Thornley,
and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Johnston
and family have been visiting Mr.
and Mrs. Alvin Atwell, of Town
send, Del.
Mrs. Irving Atwell, Miss Anna
Carton, Miss Agnes Brice and Mr.
Bill Carton were recent Whining
ton, Del, visitors.
Mr.. B. F. Caulk, of Charlestown
has been spending several days
with his sister and daughter, Mrs
Laura Townsend and Miss Helen
Caulk.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Tarbutton,
of Bridgeport, Conn, have been
visiting his brother and sister, Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Tarbutton and
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Gill.