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when 1t comes to a conflict with
reactionary and unintelligent vio-
lence, socialists can appeal to the
Law, and instead of regarding the
police as the enemy they should
support them in the fight against
the reactionaries. I think that it
is useless operating with the methods
of the old rigid insurrectionary So
cialism.
STAIN: The Communists base
themselves on rich historical ex-
perience which teaches that obsolete
classes do not voluntarily abandon
the stage of history. Recall the
history of England in the seven
tenth century. Did not many say
that the old social system had de-
cayed? But did it not, nevertheless,
require a Cromwell to crush it by
force?
WELLS: Cromwell operated on
the basis of the constitution and in
the name of constitutional order.
AnC NUltC vi IElStVti
STAIN: In the name of the con-
Stitution he resorted to violence, be-
headed the king, dispersed Parlia-
ment. arrested some and beheaded
othersI
Or take an example from our
history. Was it not clear for a long
time that the tsarist system was de-
caying, was breaking down? But
how much blood had to be shed in
order to overthrow it?
And what about the October Revo-
luton? Were there not plenty of
people who knew that we alone, the
Bolsheviks, were indicating the only
way out? Was it not clear that
Russian capitalism had decayed?
But you know how great was the
resistance, how much blood bad TO
be shed in order to defend the
October Revolution from all its
enemies, internal and external.
Or take France at the end of the
eighteenth century. Long before
1889 it was clear to many how rotten
the royal power, the feudal system
was. But popular instruction. a
clash of classes was not, could not
be avoided. Why? Because the
classes which must abandon the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04

the aid of the N. r. A. II is es-
timated by the reactionsry National
Industrial Conference Board that
about five million workers now are
forced to belong to the various COM
pany unions.
In every strike dispute the labor
boards have been used as govern
ment strike breaking agencies. This
was the case in textiles, steel and
auto. and in the innumerable small
er disputes that came before the
boards. BY delay and through So
called impartial decisions the N. r.
A. was used to smash the struggles
Of the workers.
1t Is true that the workers, de-
ceived by Foosevelt's false promises,
construed the N. R. A. to mean that
the government was behind them
in their fight with the employers.
But as the Communists predicted
many soon found that it was the
best weapon that the enemy class
had at its disposal.
Today many workers have learned
through experience that their strug-
giles can be won only through their
own organized strength. They can
not depend upon government boards
which break strikes and betray their
demands. To defeat the capitalist
attack against their living standards
and their organizations, the workers
must fight against company unions,
against the plan of the regime to
destroy genuine unions BY herding
all workers into government-super-
vised federal unions, that is, into
fascist unions under the control Of
the ernnlnvers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04

The Daily Worker is printing
serially the extremely valuable
and popular booklet by r. Paine
Dutt, life and Teachings Of V.
I. Lenin," published by Interna-
tiOnal Publishers.
January "a will be 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.
So powerful have become the
teachings of Lenin in this country
that the vilest yellow journals of
Hearst are forced to try to distort
Lenin's works in order to stem the
revolutionary development of the
American masses.
The Daily Worker considers ii a
great service to its readers to be
able to present this clear and ex-
celIent portrayal Of the life and
teachings Of the great leader of
the working class, V. /. Lenin.
CHAPTER
The Epoch of Lenin
DUT the decisive battles of capital
y ism and the proletarian revolution
was not to come until after the
death of Marx and Engels. Although
the revolutionary struggles of 1s4S,
and still more the Paris Commune
Of 1871, when the workers held
power for six weeks, showed the
way forward, capitalism had still
before it period of expansion of
its range throughout the world be-
fore it reached the era of decay,
and before the period Of the world
revolution could open.
The world expansion of capitalism
led to stage in which the great
er part of the world became direct
ly subjected to the handful of cap
italist powers of Europe and the
United States. The partition of the
world reached completion in its
main lines by the last quarter of the
nineteenth century. The monopoly
capitalism of the Western Powers
held the world in tribute. Enor-
nous profits flowed to the ruling
financial class; a portion of these
were used to buy off the rising labor
movements by the concession of
limited reforms and by the corrup-
ton of the leadership. Capitalism
entered into the stage of decline
and parasitism, leading to the World
War and the present general crisis
the stage of imperialism or, as
Lenin defined it, the last stage Of
capitalism.
The epoch of imperialism was the
epoch Of Lenin.
Marx and Engels did not live to
witness more than the barest open
ing Of the epoch of imperialism,
to the character of which their
writings had already given the clew.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04
CHANGE
THE
WORLD d!
By MICHAEL GOLD

THE liberals and the pseudo-liberas making great
ro-do the recent executions in Soviet Russia None
of Them have observed has yet expressed much
the cowardy assassination of great and devoted
comrade Kirov 1t is the death of hundred capitalist
sabotagers pcgromists punges
righteous despair.
who hengs Of redbaitng William Randolph Hearst
who have of anSoviet sabotage
written line in defense of the scotsboo
speech in California who lifted
poyed capitalism
of the world with they
hide behind the mask of liberalism?
They the of liberty should be treated
the contempt fascist with
buy hundreds of such neecua the market place The working
class not bride ntelectua them
ideal obvious
is attracted the other
a. the present.
These Hearst and New York Times and Saturday Evening
liberals Russian experts brand of
that the great criminal gangster named Capitalism finding
retain Nobody is fooled by their hysr pathos
anything
When hear of VIII Durant Lyons
the like making sacrifice liberty
of obscure
have just written these
they after ALL but the lowest kind of careets? debates
only with honest these
fescss
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04
First Complete Reproduction Of Famous
Interview Between III. C.. Wells and Stain

Below, for the first time in the
English language, the complete
official text of the interview be-
tween Joseph Stain and H. 6.
Wells is reproduced.
This conference is the clearest
and at the same time the most
effective portrayal Of two forces:
One, representative of an exuber-
ant and powerful revolutionary
system; the other, symbolic of
those who perpetually apologize
for capitalism and who desperately
make wstery parallelisms between
socialism in construction and a
reactionsry profit system. The
text of the interview was taken
by c. Oumansky and approved by
H. G. Wells.
".
STAIN: Yes, you are right
when you say that the old
social system is breaking down
of its own accord. Take fas-
cism for example. Fascism is a
reactionary force which is trying to
preserve the old world by means of
violence. What will you do with
the fascists? Argue with them? Try
to convince them? But this will
have no effect upon them at all.
Answer Violence with Violence
Communists do not in the least
idealize methods of violence. But
they, the Communists, do not want
to be taken by surprise, they cannot
count on the old world voluntarily
departing from the stage, they see
that the old system Is violently de-
Tending itself, and that is why the
Communists say to the working
class: answer violence with violence
Go all you can to prevent the old
dying order from crushing you; do
not permit it to put manacles on
your hands, on the hands with
which you will overthrow the old
system. AS you see, the Communists
regard the substitution of one So
cial system for another, not simply
as spontaneous and peaceful pro-
cess, but as a complicated, long and
violent process. Communists cam
net ignore facts.
WELLS: But look at what is going
on in the capitalist world. The COL
lapse is not a simple one, it is the
outbreak of reactionary violence
which is degenerating into gang
sterism. And 1t seems to me that
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Songs
WOR-Hillbilly Music
WJz-Beatrice Lille, Comedienne;
Perrin Orch; Cavaliers Quartet
WABC-March Of Time-Drama
:15-WJZ-5iber.an Singers
9:30WEAF-Bonime Orchestra; Pic and
Pat, Comedians
WOR-Lun and Abner-Sketch
WJ1-Phil Bakes. Comedian; Gabri-
ellie De Lys, Songs: Belasco Orch.
WABC-Hollywood Hotel-Sketch
With Dick Powell, Jane williams.
Ted Flo-Rita Orchestra, Others;
Kay Francis and George Brent,
Guests
9:15-WOR-Garber Orchestra
00-WEAF-Dramatic Sketch
WOR-Elaine Jordan, Songs
WJz-Gothic Choristers
Acknowledgement Events-H. E. Read
1885, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Orchestra; Frank
Black. Conductor; Mixed Chorus
WOR-variety Musicale
WJz-The Jew and Christian-Rabbi
Morris Lszaron
WABC-The O'Flynn-Mueical Drama
1:c0-WEAF-Talk-Geo Holmes, Chief
Washington Bureau, ms
wOR-News
WJ1-Duchin Orchestra
wABC-Nelson Orchestra
u:15-WEAF-Jesse Crawford. Organ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04
Questions and Answers

Question: Did Section Ia of the
National Industrial Recovery Act
promote the growth of trade
unions? Was it drawn up for that
purpose by the Roosevelt regime?-
Trade Unionist.
Answer: At the time that Section
Ia was drawn up there was already
the beginning of the great strike
wave of 1933-34. AS early as Jan
uary, 1888, the workers began to
fight for higher wages and better
conditions. Hoping TO divert the
strike movement into safe channels.
the administration with the aid Of
the A. F. of L. bureaucracy an
nounced that Ia gave labor "the
right to organize"
But the American working class
had won the right to organize, to
strike and to bargain for wages in
countless struggles during the past
century. In fact these rights have
meaning only when they are backed
up by the organized might of the
working class. Otherwise like de-
mocracy under capitalism they re-
main legal flctions. Consequently
Ia did not grant the workers a
right" On the contrary it dealt
them severe blow by making the
open shop and company unions
legal and by introducing compulsory
arbitration.
The events of the last 10 months
have shown how in every instance
Ia has been used against the in
terests of the workers. About three
and a half million workers were
driven into company unions with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04

The leadership of international
socialism passed from Marx and
EngelS to Lenin. 1t passed, in fact,
to Lenin throughout this epoch,
although it was not internationally
recognized and effective until the
victory of 1917 proved its claims.
In the first stages of Imperialism,
after the death of Marx and Engels,
a wave Of confusion and weaken
ing of the evolutionary aim passed
over the international working class
movement, The great mass organ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04
NEW YORK

NEW YORK
The membership of the New York
Club is increasing by leaps and
bounds. In fact, we have already
outgrown our present headquarters
and have standing room only at
meetings. Code practice was held
as usual. A committee was elected
for the purpose Of organizing for
NAL classes embracing theory as
well as code, the need for this be-
coming more apparent day by day.
Another committee was elected to
arrange for regular code practice
over the air and schedules with other
cities.
CLEVELAND
There is another Workers Radio
Club in Cleveland, with several in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04
BY R. PAINE DUTT

the real character of imperialism as
a period of violent crisis and ex
plosions, of Overwhelming mass
misery, and of the advance to the
proletarian revolution.
The greater part of Lenin's life,
two-thirds Of his active political
life, was spent in the pre-War i'm
perialist epoch, in the midst Of the
deepening slough Of opportunism
and denial Of revolution with in the
ranks Of international socialism. In
the battle for revolutionary Marx
ism against opportunism Lenin grew
up and grew strong. and steeled the
party that he led for the coming
conflicts.
The World War brought the crisis
and downfall of the old Socialist
International. The supreme crisis
and violent bursting of all the con-
tradictionS, to which Marx had long
before pointed. brought the supreme
test Of international socialism. The
old Socialist international, soaked
in opportunism, broke down at the
test. 1t broke asunder, and its lead
ing parties passed openly to the
service Of the various warning inn
perialisms.
THIS movement was the blacklist
1 moment in modern history. The
fate Of humanity, to escape from
the bog of destruction into which
imperialism was bringing it, was
bound up with international so
cialism. The moment which had
been long foreseen and prepared for
had come; the instrument, which
he'd been built up with the labor
and sacrifice Of genera tons to be
ready for the crisis was at hand;
and the instrument appeared to
have failed 1t looked as if the
whole labor would have to begin
again from the foundations at the
twelfth hour, in a now desperate
race against the forces of destruc-
ton.
Nevertheless, international social
ism had not failed. The forces that
were to carry forward the movement
to be equal to the demands of the
crisis, and to open the victorious
world revolution. we're there. The
center Of these forces was Lenin.
Marx died in 1888. Engels died
in 1895.
BY 1898 Lenin had entered on his
leading political activity, to be con-
,tinued without break until his
last illness in 1928.
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The Devils Brew BoiIs Up

pUT group liberals men of the school Of
Oswald Willard and John followers
events in the Soviet Union
Frankly do not want lose them the fight
fascm This fight in which we are fatally concerned one
in which all anfascists face the dangers the
canr
To misunderstood the Soviet Union at this late incure and in
this critical against
These liberals comparing the
the Naz puges as Mr. Willard and others have done are creating
atmosphere depart
united front and find it logical to drift into ascm.
Germany TACT
working class republic while the the reaconay
capitalism the liberals build
If a lynchng come, pulled gun
and defended himself these liberals would him equally with
the probably hung
Technically he may murder morally
socially all liberalism should be his side
side of the Soviet Union
liberals by Soviet Union
the first land where capitalism ended and better world of
socialist brotherhood they
the Soviet Union the land the factories belong
people emancipated
hatred is culture every
and the old warmaking naionasm has been destroyed
n Nazi Germany all the capitalism
mace aerfs of the working
barbarism finding official lost
Their hadwon rights and told become breeding machines
to produce soldiers for the mpa which the Naz
erdently desire. Race hatred
The two systems, Naz
Even liberal surely has made his choice between them And if he
has and has the fantest understanding of the brutal realities
capitalism he doubt socialist
u s. s. R. is in constant danger from such enemies?
How liberals still live in their tower? Have they
heard of the white guard military college
years o nave oeen trained 1or an invasion OF the Soviet UnonP
Or the Russian fascist this country with their
which they Or
Rcsenbergs Germany
at their Disposal for sabotage and the
Have the liberals heard of Her taking the
Even the American capitalist carried all
material for And at last the devils
list hatred hols into the
beloved veteran leaders Evidences
far Stain revealed al signal
invasion of the socialist land by their world Of enemies
The First Shot
THE Russian workers who had accomplished miracles of construction
and harvested such remarkable the collective
felt the war feeling lifted for while
Civil rights the liberals ought
kulaks few months The G. u dissolved special
branch of defense Then this sudden blow
struck back in the only Hitler would respect
is the reactionaries who
frankly they will drown Russia blood
socialism there is they killed year
rather than yield single profit lynch
here and torture Socialists Communists
Socialism Fascimhis
the Soviet border And the liberals
difference in the fighting
thing This why instead of rising desperate anguish against
these boldly Union
liberals stand by wrnging their hands
But the workers and the millions
lies They attack the Union precisely
when is in danger but leap to its defense
the liberals until the Naz concentration fight
against fascsm, but fight
bcasty head
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04
Reviewed by
MARTHA CAMPlON

Reviewed by
MARTHA CAMPION
MY AMERICAN childhood was
iI nodded in the revolutionary
movement. Joining the Pioneers in
1924, I have been stepped in the
class struggle from the age Of
eleven. In 1926 I helped in the
Passaic strike, and I have marched
on picket lines with cloakmakers
and furriers, cafeteria employees and
fruit clerks in New York. I took
part in nearly every workers DEM
onstration; I spoke often from the
platform in the name of the Young
Pioneers. was arrested seven
times in strikes and demonstrations
and suspended from school.
"On July 20, 1929, the Pioneers
organized send-off for Boy Scouts
who were leaving for their inter-
national janboree in England
The police attacked the demonstra-
ton, and four Of us were arrested.
Although the charge against me
was admittedly fiimsy, because of
my record in children's courts in
New York it was decided that
badly needed correction. I was
sent to the Hawthorne School, a
reformatory. for six months. =.
In sequel to the events of the
March 6, 1890, unemployed demon
stration when Foster, Minor, Ray
mond and Amter were arrested.
was returned to Hawthorne for
breach of parole and given a five
and one-hslf year term.
Harry didn't stay in the reform
school, He was freed to go to the
Soviet Union, on condition that he
did not return to this country for
at least two years. The police de-
partment must have heaved a sigh
Of relief when the boat pulled out.
although when it took away Harry
it did not take away the Pioneer
movement.
HARRY EISMAN exemplifies much
III that was good and much that
was bad in our childrens move
ment. He was spunky, class-con-
scious, working, fearless. These
qualities and his activities have
made his name a by-word among
Pioneers and adults. There is
troop in New York named for him.
But he was also cocksure, conceited,
individualistic. There was about
him a me and Lenin and Stain"
attitude that made him not a model
to other children but stiff pain in
the neck to them.
These characteristics do not fit
a child to be the organizer of other
working class children. Neither do
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04
CHAPTER ii.
The Life of I.enin

THE name Of Lenin is already the
L first indication as to the char
acter of his life and work. The
birth-name Of Lenin was Vladimir
Ilyitch Ulysnov. He was born at
Simbirsk NOV renamed Ulyanov5k
In Russia NOV the Union Of So
cialist Soviet Republics) on April %,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-04

AN AMERICAN BOY IN THE So
WET UNION, by Harry Eisman.
Youth Publishers: 81 pages; 10c.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-09-23
.11-Year Old Girl Sues
 Worth's For $3,5O0
LeOna E. McOratfl Alleges CareIessness, Negligence
 Cause of Scalp Disease-MOtIler Files Suit

S. H. Grcenberg, Inc. doing business as Worth's, is named de- fendant in a 93.600 civil action flied in the common pleas court to-day by Leona F. McGrath. aged II, who sues to recover for in- juries resulting from a visit to the defendants beauty parlor on Dec. 9th, 1884. The action is brought by the girls mother. Mrs. Leona McGrath.
 The complaint says the girl en- tered the defendants beauty parlor to receive hair trimming and thin ming. A servant of the defendant Is alleged to have operated the hair-cutting apparatus in Q care- less and negligent manner, in that he permitted the clippers to cut the girls scalp, by clipping too closely. This close clipping is said to have penetrated the skin and rear part of the plaintiffs scalp.
 The electric clipper and other apparatus used by the defendants servant in cutting the plaintiffs hair were not sterilized and as a result the girl contracted a dis ease known as 'seborrhea dermai- tis of the scalp," says the com. plaint. As result, the plaintiff
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-09-23

Courthouse, Worcester, Mass,
 Sept. 23. (UP)-With the life of
 one who was called model youth"
 hanging in the balance, the case
 of the commonwealth verESs Sher-
 man opens here today.
 Newell Paige Sherman-Plotter
 of Ian American Tragedy" or helpless witness of Ian everyday
 accid dent"-goes on trial before
 Superior Judge Thomas J. Ham,
 mond and jury on q charge of wife-murdcr.
 The state will ask death in the
 electric chair for the burly. 26- year-old defendant, six-footer
 weighing nearly 240. charging that on the night of July 20 last he lured an unsuspecting wife onto fog -sf1rouded Lake Singletary in his native Sutton. lulled her into complete trust through song, and
 suddenly pitched her to watery | grave.
 Sherman followed the method made famous in the Dreiser novels, says the state, in a canoe-slaying of 22-year-old Alice Dudley Sher- man. mother of his two children. | Tn a trial expected to last week or ten days it will adduce detail- ed "confession" ascribed to the de- fendant, and an "ironclad" web of
 circumcstantial evidence featured by testimony of "the other girl" T was singing to my wife in the canoe," Sherman was quoted in his "confession." My only religion
 is song. I put my whole heart and soul into it. was singing hymn
 When consider the work Of Thy
 hand.' When stopped singing, the
 thought to murder her came to my mind. I must have been crazy"
 "Crazy" Sherman was, said his
 parents, constable, and Mrs. Louis
 P. Sherman, at the time. telling how their son had acted queerly
 since suffering severe head in- juries in a powder explosion. But
 state alienists found sherman sane.
 with the mentality of a 16-year- old, and the defense is understood to have abandoned insanity claims. sherman, the defense will say through character witness, is still the model youth" who was scout
 master to Sutton's boydom and who sang each Sunday in the vil- lage church choir. The unwitnes- sed drowning of Alice Dudley
 sherman will be pictured as an accident likely to befall any who so canoeing on foggy waters.
 The confession" in which Sher- man told of pushing his struggling
 wife away as she tried to cling to his clothing in waters 200 yards from shore was obtained under
 duress when Sherman was wearied by hours of questioning. 1t will bs charged. T know the state police"
 the defandant's father has said,
 speaking from his experiences as A constable. "I've worked with them and when a man is tired out
 as my boy was hc'll tell anything Esther Magili. the motive" in the case, a buxom. bespectacled girl who worked with Sherman at a Whitinsville machine shop, is ex- pected to re-tell how, though she