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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
BY SPRADLING

9T WOULD like to see some COM
l rade right away. With prole-
tartan grip and Rot Front,
remain, Otto Richter"
This message, received by the In
ternational Labor Defense from a
youth travelling East on deporta-
ton train, sent me hurrying to Ellis
Island.
When the workers of Berlin
threw up barbados, Otto Richter,
a boy of II, a member of the
Young Communist League of Ger
many, did his part in the struggle.
Then Hitler came to power-but
Otto Richter can best tell the story
himself.
Ellis Island, in the shadow Of the
Statue Of Liberty, was cold and
foggy. In the office of the head of
the legal department I argued for
my right to see Otto Richter. Five
minutes with my comrade was all
was allowed.
wandered down long corridors
until came into an enormous
white tiled room. 1t looked like an
empty swimming tank, with rows
of green park benches. I saw ad-
vancing toward me a very small
figure. His slightness startled me.
This was nothing more than boy!
A little more than five feet, blond
hair, blue eyes, hands small and
restless. He looks even younger
than his twenty years. But when
he talks, it is with the seriousness
of one who is fully mature, who has
played his part in the most des-
perate struggles, who has never
really known any childhood.
I told him we had only five min
utes, and he began to talk, very
fast. During the course of our
conversation, he signed a retainer
authorizing the International Labor
Defense to fight his deportation.
Are there other comrades here?"
he wanted to know
YES" 1 told him, but they are
segregated. Ray Carlson is here,
and John Ujich, Oscar Mannisto,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
Monograph
by GEORGE SALVATORE

BY GEORGE SALVATORE
From me come leaflets
Sending out calls to meetings,
To parades and demonstrations,
To picket lines and barricades.
I am the machine
The man in oyeralls
With a work-worn hand
Turns.
Roll, strike;
Roll, strike;
Roll, strike;
Roll, strike;
Roll,
Another leafiet for the eyes of
a worker;
Roll,
Another for the boss to see;
Roll,
Another for the cop;
Roll,
Would you rather fight or-starve!
And in the hands of Angelo
Herndon-
A mountainous, thunderous roll,
Uniting the Negro and white.
I am more powerful
Than cannons,
Bullets and gas.
am the generator Of revolution.
In a corner of this hall
A single roll
Will shake the world,
Turn it upside down:
The few will be none,
The many will be more,
And the more will be ALL
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
Let Them Try to Laugh
That Off, Says Hughes
OF Burck's Cartoons
LITTLE LEFTY

TODAY, as the Fourth of July,
1884, approached, the United
Press sends out a release from Ko-
komo, Indiana, saying that, THE
fiery cross blazed again today on the
hill around which 100000 Knights
of the Ku Klux Khan met in 1923,
summoning remnants of the hooded
order for a new campaign to re-
juvenate the Klan for protection of
the constitution of the United
States"
Laugh that off
And if you can laugh it off hap
PLY, then you can laugh happily
too, at the grim and ironic humor
Of Jacob Burck's cartoons.
Burck's powerful drawings, with
their crooked judges peering out
from behind the pillars of justice
and their fat sheriffs carrying the
ropes of the lynchers they white
wash, portray the America of today
with laughter that chokes the pro-
letarian throat and makes the blood
run to fists that must be ncreas-
ingly, militantly clenched to fight
the brazen terror that spreads and
grows from Alabama to the Pacific,
from New York to Texas.
This week in San Francisco, four
men are arrested for their activi-
ties in connection with the steve
dores' strike. Four visitors who go
to see them in Jail are also imme-
diately placed under arrest as they
leave the prison. Those who send
kilograms Of protest to the judge are
ordered detained at once for con-
tempt of court. The local secretary
of the International Labor Defense,
for merely sending a wire, is being
held under ten thousand dollars
bail.
Laugh that off
ALL over America police clubs
"A swing on the heads of workers
who organize and strike for decent
living and little rest and a little
pursuit of happiness. All over
America the Silver Shirts and the
White Legion and the vigilantes and
similar groups march and maneu-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
Workers Bill and Var Funds

~ W Go AfHt NftL " VI Nffuo
Question: Does the present version of the Work
ers' Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill con-
tain clause approprtatng the funds that have
already been allocated BY Congress for war pur-
poses?-H D, Lancaster, Pa.
Answer: Earlier drafts Of the workers Bill con-
tanned the clause which provided for the use Of
war funds for the unemployed. The clause was
deleted in the present bill. H. R 2s27 not because
Of any change in policy, but because the broad
committee which sponsored the bill decided to over
come certain technical-egal obstacles which placed
unnecessary barriers before the passage Of the bill
in Congress.
The sponsors of the bill were told by constitu-
tional lawyers, that those funds that Congress had
already allocated for war purposes could not be
reallocated for unemployment insurance, because
Of Constitutional" reasons Now since the primary
aim of the many large groups that are sponsoring
the bill is the welfare of the masses it was de-
cided to eliminate this constitutional barrier in
order not to hinder the passage Of the only bill
which protects the interests of the working people
of the country.
1t should be noted that the bill provides that
AL moneys necessary to pay the compensation
guaranteed by this Act and the cost of establish
ing and maintaining this act shall be paid by the
Government of the United States. All such moneys
are hereby appropriated out of all funds in the
Treasury Of the United States not otherwise ap-
propriated Further taxation if necessary to pro-
vide funds for the purpose Of this Act shall be
levied on inheritances, gifts and individual and
corporation incomes OF $1,000 a year and over
Thus the government as before would be en-
tirey responsible for all costs that the bill would
entail The funds would be raised at the expense
Of the big incomes and fortunes for the benefit
of the working masses.
The Communist Party supports the Workers
Bill although it contains a few imperfectons in
its present FORM because it is the one bill which
will aid the unemployed At the same time it has
not stopped the continual fight for the use of all
war funds for the unemployed. For example it
opposes the billion dollar war budget now being
pushed through Congress, and it opposes the use
of the s4,8OO0Oo,OOO Of the work relief bill for
war purposes Its position at all times is that not
penny shall be spent for war, but that the en-
ployers and the government should be forced to
bear all the burdens of the crisis.
The passage of the Workers Bill would be
step towards forcing the government to stop APP
propriating billions for preparations since its
first duty under the bill would be to care for the
unemployed
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tend against daily difficulties in
battle.
She had been born of poor peas
ants and had never attended q
school even for one day. Neverthe-
less, she started to learn the al
phabet when I was still with her.
Bending her back, with eyeglasses
on, and warming herself before the
fireplace with a coverlet upon her
knees, she would contrive to make
desk of a board before her. She
practiced writing the alphabet on
the reverse side Of paper I had
strapped.
What are you trying to do2"
would laugh at her.
However, I recalled how chagrined
she had been not to be able to write
even one letter to me during my
imprisonment of the year before
last.
However, she said to Suyama on
the occasion of his visit, And now
I know I am not even allowed to
write to him" The economy of her
words made a deep impression upon
me when I heard them from Suy-
anna. I could imagine how disap-
pointed she must have been.
WHEN Suyama was preparing to
w leave her, she handed to him
my kimona, socks and other be-
longings, and asked him to wait for
a few moments. She disappeared
into the kitchen and seemed to
start cooking. Suyama wondered
what she was going to do. To his
surprise, she reappeared with five
hard-boiled eggs.
well, Ito" Suyama said, Let us
each eat enc and give the rest to
him indicating mel. His mother
may dislike our finishing up all of
them" And he laughed. Ito was
secretly wiping away her tears.
I determined to tell my mother
through Suyama of my belonging to
the underground Communist Party
Also, of the impossibility of my re-
turning home to see her again. She
would have understood better if she
knew the facts Of the situation I
was in. l knew of other cases where
wives and mothers had dealt shame
lessly with arrested husbands and
sons, asserting that the terrible
crime" of Communism had not in
volved them. felt that my mother,
however, though sixty years of age,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22

(Takigi K0bayashi, one of the
better revolutionary writer's of
japan and a member of the Com
munist Party of Japan, was muir
dered by torture by the political
department at a police station in
Tokyo on February 20, 1888. Party
Life, Kobayashi's last novel, was
written two or three months be-
fore his death and was only pub
lished, in censored form, some
time afterward.-TRANSLATOR'S
NOTE.)
GUYANA often drops in to see my
y mother to carry news of me to
her On his way back and forth at
work, he often stops to see my
mother, and he. brings me news of
her.
I left home without ever having
an opportunity of informing my
mother. Compelled to hide from
the menace of police search, I
went out of the house without ever
speaking to her. On that day, at
six in the evening, I was on the
corner of a street, as usual, in order
to get in touch With a comrade. I
had been carrying on legal activity
in a social fascist union as a mem
Der Of the revolutionary opposition,
and had not as yet exposed myself
as q Party member.
However, the comrade whom
met on that evening informed me
that Comrade F. had been suddenly
arrested. Comrade F. had worked
with me in the same union, and it
was suspected that his arrest had
been due to the activity of the
secret police. They must have sus-
pected him of being a member of
the underground Communist Party.
The situation was indeed tense.
I would have to conceal myself at
once, but planned on returning
home to dispose of Party literature
there and my effects. I spoke to
the comrade about this intention.
There would be little time before the
police would be on my trail.
This is no time for humor," he
said to me.
He laughed at first, but instructed
me to avoid returning home by all
means if intended to continue my
work in the Party and save my neck.
Somebody else could dispose of the
literature at home and 1 should hide
at once.
Well" he laughed. "You are not
going to the school excursion, are
you?" he said.
With comradely courtesy, he gave
me strict orders as to what was to
be done. He had survived many
ordeals in our struggle and remem-
bered many situations which were
parallel to the circumstances Of my
case.
So I borrowed five yen from him
and sought shelter with a friend.
EARLY next morning, as was ex-
IL pected, the police raided my
home, searching for me even above
the dark rafters of the ceiling and
beneath the floor. They attempted
to locate evidence of my activities
when they failed to find me. Not
knowing anything of what had &C.
CURED, my mother was astonished.
She told them her son had not re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
Short Wave Radio

THE following items from the January issue of
the Soviet Union hanagazine 10000 copies this
issue) may be of interest to American hams:
The Academy of Communications and the ex-
perimental division of the Peoples Commissariat Of
Communications organized radio expedition for
the study of ultra short wave communicate in
mountainous regions. The operating apparatus of
the expedition consisted of ST. meter transceiver
with three identical directly heated cathode triodes
plain -directional doublet was used for an
aerial Power in the aeral-1O NV zone one
hundredth of watD Dry cells were used for
power
The operating distance of the xmitter in the city
moscow did not reach above 2 KIN On the
mountain-top of Ahy-Petree q,1S0 m) communca-
ton was held up to hundred kiometers. 1t is
interesting that the phenomena of standing waves
and fading were observed. The fading showed
itself only when there were crsycss in the glaciers
spanned The interference from the mountain
slope created standing waves which manifested
themselves in rise and fall of output level as the
equipment was moved every three meters Capproxi-
mately one-half wave length.
The Short Wave Radio Club of Manhattan: Full
time hq. at l24 West 21st Street. Membership
meetings Fridays, 7:3o pm. till midnight. Execu-
tive meetings Wednesdays. pm
The American Youth Club radio group of 1918
Pitkin Avenue, Brooklyn, meets Tuesday nights
The Bensonhurst-Bay Ridge Club meets Friday
at pm. Sundays at 10, noon, and Wednesdays at
pm. at the home of M. Starkopp, Apt D-3, 80 Bay
Street, Brooklyn
The American Craftsmens Guild radio division
is meeting with the other divisions Sundays at pm
at the home of the organizer L Phillips 1873 Floyd
Street, Brooklyn. Code practice every night. The
Guild is anxious TO obtain additional shop ma-
chinery, such as press, lathe grinder etc. Anyone
willing to donate such will please drop card 70 the
above name and address,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
Prosperity Notes
BY HARRY KERMIT

MINEOLA, L. 1.-The neighbors said it was
terrible crime when Armando Fernandez, a Por-
tuguese laborer murdered his wife with butchers
cleaver and then committed suicide by leaping
thirty-hve feet from the roof of his home to the
street It was terrible enough happening but the
indictment carried a different significance
Fernandez and his wife had seven children and
feeding them was a problem even In prosperous
times. The laborers jobs grew fewer and the kids
bawled mere insistently and the husband and wife
began to irrtate each other The family was soon
reduced to the grudging pittances handed out by
the local relief bureau Fernandez began to abuse
his wife and children, his wife lodged a disorderly
conduct charge against him and finally he broke
under the strain of his involuntary idleness and
poverty. The murder and suicide followed
County detectives investigating the case said
they could find no motive for the crime" The
seven children, who range in age from six months
to ten years have been brought to the Nassau
County Childrens Shelter and will become public
charges
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-22
Young Otto Richter
Fights Deportation
To Hitler Germany
BY del

Paul Kettunen and Christ Popoff.
The Federal government is trying to
deport them also. Now tell me
about yourself"
We'll, I was a member of the
Young Communist League in Ger
many up to a year and a half ago,
when 1 had to get out of the coun-
try quick The comrades helped
me get a boat for Seattle. I have
been in San Francisco for about a
year and half.
Yes, of course, I was active in
Frisco. I worked for the Commu-
mist Party, and in the restaurant
at the Workers School. During the
strike I assisted in the office Of the
international Labor Defense, but
most of my time went helping the
Workers International Relief to or
ganize soup kitchens for the strik-
ers.
Il was in the office of the LID.
when the Yigilantes came in to
smash it up. They seized me and
had me placed under arrest. was
sent to Angel Island, the West
Coast deportation headquarters. 1
was out on bail for ten days during
December, but the judge sent me
back when I said I was member
of the Young Communist League.
But the work 1 did during the
strike was worth to me any price I
may have to pay"
took The occasion to warn him
about Inspector Dwyer, a White
Guard provocateur, who had threat
ened to shoot one of our comrades.
and Mrs. Schneider, a Nazi, whom
the Lutheran Church maintains at
Ellis Island as a welfare worker"
but whose real function is to spy
on the workers and try to get re-
cruits for the German Army.
The guard came in. Our five min
utes were up.
The International Labor Defense
and the Committee for the Protec-
ton of the Foreign Born are fight
ing the deportation of Richter. A
stay of 80 days has ben obtained.
Deportation to fascist Germany
means certain torment and death.
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turned home since the previous eve
ming.
have never returned to my home
since then. When Suyama visited
my mother the first time, bringing
word of me to her, she treated him
as if her own son had come back.
She invited him inside, served tea,
and looked him full in the face. SUI
yama told me later, as he scratched
his head, that he didn't know
what to do beneath the full strength
OF her gaze. He told her of the
occasion necessitating my escape,
and when he happened to pause
she urged him, asking, What hap
pened? And then?" She, had not
slept for many nights, thinking of
me. Livid circles or dark pain were
around her eyes, which were swol-
len. Her cheeks followed and her
neck withered so much that it
seemed she could hardly support her
head.
Finally, she asked, And when will
he be back?"
When? Suyama was dumbfound-
ed. What to reply in answer to
such a question? Looking at her
thin neck shivering like reed in
the wind, he had no courage to tell
her what must be.
1T won't be so long, I think" he
said.
I HAD been arrested frequently,
kept in close custody for 20 days
at several police stations, and i'm
prisoned for eight months the year
before last. So she was used to the
idea. During those days she often
visited the Jail, bringing things for
me. She had been something of
leader among mothers of working
class prisoners. But this time, she
had wondered why she hadn't re-
ceived a notice of my arrest from
the police. And she was afraid it
might go bad with me if I hid my
self from them.
Sometimes I think I may have
been too severe with her. But
always tried to convince her of the
Importance of my daily work in the
class struggle. can see her trying
to understand my approach to the
work l was doing. Her struggle to
straighten out the conflicts in her
mind must have been so much more
arduous than our struggle to con-
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/ ly on the other side of a table
apart from its edge. She looked sad
ana gloomy. She wore her best
dress and it somehow impressed me.
We did not talk much. She gave
me a few bananas, Japanese neld-
ers and several hardboiled eggs. Su-
yama left before long. When he
was leaving she forced him to take
a few of the bananas and eggs. She
put them into his hands.
Finally, she started to talk. 81 am
glad to find you looking better than
When you were at home" she said.
She mad dreamed of me as being thin
as skeleton from lac2 OF proper
food, and had worried. She had
walked at night from nightmares of
my being arrested and tortured in
the prison camps.
She asked me to do my work
without thinking Of her. Her SON
ln-law, who lived in Ibaragi, had
offered TO take care of her. And
She intimated once more that she
would like to see me when death
entered TO take possession of her
life. But I told her once more what
such action would mean. Il know"
she said.
IN the course of our conversation.
noticed her extreme restless
ness. She seemed so uneasy that it
was impossible to attempt a real
heart to heart talk Finally, she
confessed 1t had been almost I'M
bearable to wait for the moment
when we would meet, but that now
she was nervous, thinking of the
police. 1t would be better to part
at once, she thought, and leave
danger to look out for itself. When
ever a new face came into the
radius Of her sight, she would turn
and say to me, DO you think he is
all right?' or she muttered, His
eyes are too sharp" and SO on.
When I happened to speak aloud as
had been used to speaking at
home, she would warn me to speak
in lower tone. 1t would be better
to know me we'll than to see me in
conditions of aggravated danger,
she felt, and that is was better that
l leave at once.
When she was going, she said
that she hoped to live twenty years
longer. But she was old enough to
die at any moment. And yet, she
said she was determined to die in
silence and alone, not even inform
ing me of the news of her approach
ing death. 1t would be an easy
trap for the police. Her strength
and determination sank deep into
my heart. With such courage to
remember, I could continue with
my work better than before. But
remained silent. There were no
words equal to what l felt.
When we came out of the res
taurant, she insisted on my leaving
her there. And then walking be-
hind me, she whispered anxiously,
you have habit of swinging your
shoulders-anyone who knows you
can recognize the Tilt of your back.
Change your habits Of walking.
Walk straight"
have never seen my mother
since then.
Translated from the Japanese by
Norman Macleod and Haru Mattu.)
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1000 WEAF-Dramatic Sketch
WOR-Kemp Orchestra
WJZ-County Farmers Asso-
citation Meeting, Hot
Springs, Ark.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Events
H. E. Read
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Or
chestra, Frank Black,
Conductor; Mixed Chorus;
Helen Oelheim, Contralto
WORLDLY Brown. Violin
WJz-Jewish Program;
Rabbi Israel Goldstein
WABC-The O'Flynn-Mus-
ical Drama
11:00-WEAF-Talk-George
Holmes, Chief Washington
Bureaus, ms
WOR-News
WJz-Dance Orchestra
wABC-Nelson Orchestra
ii:l5-WEAF- Ferdinando Or
chestra
WOR-Moonbeams Trio
1880 WMCA-Dsnce Music
ALSO WEAF, WIZ, wABC,
WEVDl
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would not abuse the Party in order
to save my life. For more than
fifty years she had experienced
poverty. 1t gave me confidence that
she would understand.
|
CHE listened to Suyama in silence.
y At the end, the asked only one
question. She said that she was
now sixty years old, that she ex-
pected death at any moment be-
cause Of illness. She hoped that
when she was dying she might see
her son. Not expecting such re-
quest, Suyama didn't know what to
answer. I told him when he re-
turned once more to see my mother
to tell her that even that could not
be done.
I thought perhaps it was too cruel,
and yet I knew that it couldn't be
helped.
However, on the day that Su-
yama brought me her message,
was still nervous.
What did she say?' I said.
well, she asked me " he
answered.
She was getting more thin and
pale, according to Suyama. She
had asked If she could see me, if
only once,
I remembered the case of Wata-
Masa [of the central committee of
the Communist Party of Japan,
who was killed by Japanese police
at the Kelung harbor in Formosa on
his way back from Moscow in 1927.
TIL When he had hidden himself
for the purpose Of carrying on un-
foreground work, his mother had
asked to see him. Wata- Masa had
said, mo. And not ever" I men
toned Wata -Masa to Suyama.
"I understand. But you don't
have to let her know your address.
Couldn't you arrange to see her
once?" he said. Suyama was deeply
sympathetic.
"I think it is better not to. No one
can tell what serious result there
might be- said.
HOWEVER, I was finally con-
III WINGED. We decided to arrange
very carefully how and where We
might meet each other. Suyama
offered to bring her by taxi. On that
day I arrived on time at the small
restaurant. I found her sitting lone