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CHAPTER III.
The Life of Lenin
VII.

THESE we're adopted by the Boil
sheviks abroad and in Russia,
and we're developed into the Mani
festo of the Central of Committee
of the Russian Social-Democrat
Labor Party, written by Lenin in
october, and published on Novem-
Der /, 1914
The September theses were dis
cussed and partly adopted by the
Italo-Swiss Socialist Conference at
Lugano in September. 1914, which
was the forerunner of the thinner
valid International Socialist Confer
ence in September, 1915. At Zim-
merwsld the revolutionary left-wing
was led by Lenin, and gained in
creasingly in influence at the KEN
thai Conference in April, 1916 From
the Zimmerwald Left, which was
maintained as permanent inter-
national grouping, the path runs
straight to the new Third or Com
munist International, finally con-
stituted in 1919, into which the
revolutionary left-wing of thinner
valid was merged.
Thus, from 1914 EDWARDS Lenin
was the direct leader of interna-
tional socialism, at first with only
a nucleus of supporters, but after
few years with millions following
his leadership throughout the world
I ENNIS line on the war followed
Il and applied the line Of revolu-
tionary Marxism to the concrete
situation of the war of 1914-1918.
through a host of articles, speeches,
resolutions and brochures, especial
~, Socialism and War" in 1915;
THE Collapse of the Second Inter-
national" in 1915; the special study
of the general character of the
epoch, Imperialism" in 1915; and
the series of articles, collected under
the title Against the Stream of
1914-1916), as well as through direct
contact with the representatives of
the movements of the leading coun-
tries, Lenin fought continuously for
three main propositions:
First, that the war was not a war
for national defense as the lingo
ex-Socialist leaders falsely claimed
and on the strength of which claim
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
Chicago Critics Object
Violently to Stevedore

The Chicago showing of "Stevedore" acknow-
lodged as an important event in the American Thea
tire by every New York critic has been damned
by Chicago critics in violently abusive language.
The Theatre Union is struggling to keep it on so
that Chicago workers may have an opportunity to
play that thrilled total audience of 100000
people in New York. and many organizations there
rallying to it's support, according to Liston NJ
Oak. Of the Theatre Union Executive Board, who
heads the campaign there.
The Chicago Tribune. reactionary and labor
hating paper describes "Stevedore" as an attempt
to "iritate and exacerbate American racial prob
lem-to shout rhetorically about the grievances Of
the colored and TO start argument about equal
ity'"
The stirring climax of the play that has brought
hundred audiences to their feet cheering the
militant action of the stevedores he calls warped
emotional frenzy"
The Chicago Americans critic, who takes care
to let his readers know that he comes of Southern
arstocracy, ends grudging review with this bit
Of poison. " 'Stevedore' may be good theatre but
I'll leave it to Upton Sinclair if it isn't lousy Com
munisn."
In sharp contrast is the unanimous opinion of
the working class press as to the dramatic power
we'll as to the political significance of the play.
1t was summed UP by Clarence Hathaway the edito1
Of the Daily Worker in the following words g
Stevedore as the first American play to tell the
truth about Negro workers, and the of lynch-
ing to prevent unity of black and white in strug-
gle has great political significance 1t is triumph
on the cultural front Every New York worker
should see it before it goes on tour and every
worker in Philadelphia. Chicago Detroit, and other
cities should see 1t when they are given the op-
portunity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
Why Are the Portland Bosses
Framing Up Pugh and Denny?
Charged With Criminal
Syndicalism in Round
Up After Coast Strike

organize the strike of a few years
ago in Jersey City, N. j., which won
for the company's employees a 50
a week wage increase.
Similar gains were won in two
other strikes in which Denny was
q participant-the Curtiss-W Wright
Airplane strike at Long Island and
the walkout of Clinton Asphalt
Company employees.
Employment became scarcer and
scarcer, however, until finally-with
no prospect of work in sight-Denny
drifted westward. Thus. by 1893.
unemployed and homeless he was
registered in the Single Mems Re-
lief Department of the Commons"
at Portland, Oregon. Here, imme-
diately, after the Inauguration of
depression. a system of forced
labor had been initiated for the
benefit" of the single men.
Shortly after Denny's arrival,
however, a local Of the Unemploy-
ment Council was formed among
the single men and he was promptly
elected organizer OF the local. With
his help campaign was launched
against the forced labor" policy of
the Multnomah County Relief Board
and this campaign eliminated in
the woodward Strike of March, 1898.
Several demands we're won in this
strike, although Denny and 81 of
his comrades were arrested as a
result of their activities. SO great,
however, was public protest over the
arrests that all defendants we're re-
leased.
Don't Scab"
When the longshore strike was
called last summer, Denny became
active in organizing the single men
against the possibility of any of the
unemployed scabbing on the long
shoremen. The Single Mems local
Of the Unemployment Council be-
came a significant factor in the
Portland strike-so significant that
its policy called forth a denuncia-
ton from the capitalist press. Down
on the picket line, in front of en-
ployment agencies, before unem-
ployed locals throughout the city,
Don't scab on your fellow workers"
became the watchword of the Single
Workers local.
Thus a long series of events had
by July 81, 1884, made Edward
Denny, now "a years of age, de-
sirable target for the wrath of Port
lands red squad. Arrested and
charged with criminal syndicalism.
his release from the Multnomah
County Jail was finally effected by
the international Labor Defense.
And now, as the third c. S. defend
ant to stand trial in the oregon
courts, he faces ten years in the
Oregon State Penitentiary for act
ing as chairman of a meeting that
had been called to protest the shoot
ing down Of four Portland strikers.
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L U N l n G. | N

man. Songs Bob Hope, Comedian;
James Melton, Tenor
WABC-Court OF Human Relations
:00-wEAF-Lyman Orch; Frank Mum,
Tenor; vivienne Segal, Songs
WOR-Hillbilly Music
WJZ-Beatrice Lille, Coincidence,
Perrin Orch. Cavaliers Quartet
wABC-Msrch Of Time-Drama
9;30-WEAF-zBonime Orchestra Pic and
Pat, Comedians
WOR-Dsnce Orchestra
WJZ-Phil Baker, Com edian Gabri-
ellie de Lys. Songs: Belasco orch.
WABC-Hollywood Hotel--Sketch.
with Dick Powell, Jane williams,
Ted Flo-Rita Orchestra, Others:
Beoe Daniels g. Ben Lyons, Guests
9:45-WOR-Singin Sam
10: 00-WEAF-Dramatic Sketch
WOR-Elaine Jordan. Songs
WJZ-Relation OF Unified Industry
to Recovery = Charles r. Hook.
President, American Rolling Mills
Company
o.lS-WoR--current Events H. Z. Read
WJz-To Be Announced
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TOO WEAF-Phil Cook Show Shop
wOR-Sports Resume-stan Lomax
WJZ-Amos N Andy-Sketch
WABC-Myrt and Marge-Sketch
-WOR-Lum and Abner-Sketch
WJZ-Plantation Echoes
WABC--Just Plain Bill-Sketch
0-WEAF-Hirsch Orch
WOR-Mystery Sketch
WJz-Red Davis-Sketch
WABC-The 'Neills-Sketch
7:45-WEAF-Uncle Ezra-Sketoh
WOR-Front-Pag Drama
WJz-Danserous Paradiss-Sketch
WABC-Boske Carter. Commentator
:00-WEAF-Bourdon Orch; Jessica
Dragonette, Soprano; Male Quartet
WOR-Lone Ranger-Sketch
WJz-Jewels of Enchantment--Sketch
WABC-Variety Musicale
15-WJz-Dick Leibert, Organ; Arm
bruster and Kraus, Piano: Mary
Coutrlandt, Songs: Male Quartet
WABC-Edwin G. Hill. Commentator
30-WOR-Katzmsn Orch; Lucille Pc
terson. Songs, Choristers Quartet
WJz-Goodrnan Orch: Jane Fro
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
Kyle Pugh-Miner

KYLE PUGH is 48 years old. He
n was born in Virginia. where he
worked for many years as a miner.
Later he worked in the mines at
Butte, Montana. and as lumber
worker in the Northwest He is a
world-war veteran, with record Of
fifteen months service. Three years
ago, Pugh went to Southern Oregon
to prospect for gold. He didn't find
any.
Early in 1884, he began to sell
working class literature over the
whole tremendous territory of
Southern Oregon. His regular route
was between Medford and Grants
Pass. His mode of conveyance was
a wooden cart, which he built him
self. pulled by donkey.
The workers and the impover-
ished farmers of this region looked
forward eagerly to his visits. They
were anxious for news of the work
ing-class struggle in this country
and bought the Daily Worker anc
the Western Worker as fast as he
could bring new issues around.
Criminal Syndicalism"
Suddenly, in the series of arrests
and raids which swept up and down
the West Coast following the great
strike, Kyle Pugh, the literature
agent of Southern Oregon, was ar
rested, on September 9.
The police seized his stock of
pamphlets and papers. In the in
dictment they listed the literature
which they charged contained
matters advocating criminal syndi-
calism, sabotage, crime, physical
violence and unlawful acts as a
means of accomplishing and effect
ing industrial and political change
and revolution, contrary to the
statutes in such cases made and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
Life and Teachings Of Lenin
BY R. PAINE DUTT

The Daily Worker is printing
serially the extremely valuable
and popular booklet by R. Paine
Dutt, Life and Teachings of v.
]. Lenin," published by Interna-
tional Publishers.
January Fl 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.
The Daily Worker considers it a
great service to its readers to be
able to present this clear and ex-
ceIlent portrayal of the life and
teachings of the great leader Of
the working class, V. I. Lenin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
Homeless Sin gle Men
Organized by Denny
Against Forced Labor
BY James Gilbert

nm January IA, Edward Denny, the
" fourth of the eleven Oregon
workers charged with criminal syn
dicalism as a result of raids organ
lied by police in an effort to break
the West Coast strike, goes on trial
in Portland.
Three workers have already been
convicted. Don Cluster, Y. c. L. or
gani7er, was sentenced to a year.
Dirk DeJonge. whose militant
speech in court has stirred enthus-
iasm all over the country, was SEN
fenced to seven years. In Medford,
Ore, Kyle Pugh was sentenced 10
five years.
All these cases are being appealed
by the International Labor Defense.
The stories of two of these de-
PENDANTS, Pugh and Denny, are pre-
sented here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
A New Job for Dick

AND now this ex-Ambassador and fascist has been
"a hired by Dirty Willie to take up the threads of
yesteryear The time, evidently, has come for Amer
lean fascism. Who could Dirty Willie have chosen
better qualified to naugurate such campaign than
Blackshirt Dickie?
Does he scorn to write for Hearst in the style
Dirty Willie prefers that shabby, vulgar, mawkish
simplicity, that writing-down and yellow friend
of-the-people style perfected by Brisbane? No Mr.
Child doesn't scorn it,
But here are few patches from one of the
editorials of this hero of fascsm, using his own
syntax capitals, and punctuation. Read it, and
If you must vomit, please don't do it on the
carpet -.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
Capital Letters and All
BY RICHARD WASHBURN CHILD


Noted author and former Ambassador to Italy
"A group of professors have written a ROUND
ROBIN"
Professors round robins begin an ornthological
sequence which in the last twenty years has led
to ROUND CUCKOos and ROUND DoDoEs.
This time the round cuckoo is addressed to the
Mccormack Dicksten Committee and complains be-
cause the Hearst newspapers are EXPOSING TIE
PROGRESS OF COMMUNISM IN CERTAIN COL
LEGES AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS
And the reason for complaint given by the pro-
fessors is that the Hearst papers are TELLING THE
TRUTH!
The position of the perplexed professors is that
telling the truth may result in suppression of Amer
lean free speech!
The logic of this is ridiculous that it reflects
upon the ability of these sign-here PROFESSIONAL
petitioners to pass an examination in elementary
logic.
Do they expect certain professors to be RED and
at the same time ask that freedom of speech about
their REDNESS be suppressed?
Do they want free press to SUPPRESS FACTS?
The Hearst papers have not preached suppress
sion of freedom of speech.
They have not preached suppression of TRUTH
They for several kinds of FREEDOM
One essential FREEDOM which even a Red pro-
fessor cannot deny is the
Freedom of parents NOT to send boys and girls
to places where all the parental training of years
In respect for our Government, family life and
our religious beliefs, will be-ROTTENIzED"
There it iS-Rottenized
GO THERE it is for the record rottenized Mr.
Child doing his act for Dirty Willie 1t does
SMELL doesn't it? Mark the logic by which the pro-
fessors protest against Naz assaults on their free
dom is turned into argument for Mr. Hearst
Clever, Mr.. Child! But very rotten have met
more honorable than you on the breadlnes
and finer aristocrats of the spirit than ever you
we're or could be in sweatshops, focsle, and coal
mines
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
Pimping for Judas

As I REMEMBER It, Mr. Child was furnishing
n advice to Mussolini even before that cunning
Judas had betrayed the Italian masses. Mr.. Child
was close to the Leader, and worshipped him with
an almost girlsh awe.
remember many articles that the AM
bassador wrote in the Sat. Eve Post about that
time gushing over Mussolini, recountng how mar
velously the trains now ran on time in Italy and
the Reds all butchered off nicely or in jail
Mr. Child liked every bit of it. The time wasn't
ripe to preach fascism for America and after ALL
he was diplomat but it was difficult for him to
restrain his joy in the new gospel of fascism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
Story of EdWard Denny

EDWARD DENNY, one of the Port
~ land criminal syndicalism de-
PENDANTS, although recent recruit
to the revolutionary movement, is
by no means unfamiliar with past
applications of militant strategy on
the part of American labor. A sur
veyor by trade, Denny, who was ar
rested with three other defendants
at the now historic protest meeting
July 81, 1884, against the terror
launched against the West Coast
strikers, while acting as chairman
of the aSsemblage had taken part
in at least three significant labor
struggles prior to his affiliation
with the leftward movement in 1893.
A refugee of the San Francisco
earthquake, Denny, at an early age
was given taste of the bitterness
of the struggle American workmen
are compelled to wage in order to
maintain livelihood in rapidly
decreasing labor market.
Organized Strike
While employed by the Durham
Duplex Razor Company, he helped
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11

provided, and against the peace and
dignity Of the State of Oregon, =
in order words, criminal syndical-
ism.
The case was railroaded through,
with jury composed primarily of
owners of large farms, and wives
of merchants. The prosecutor spent
an hour and a half in presenting
his case. He simply presented two
police officers to testify to the se:z-
ure of the literature, and hurriedly
read through few passages from it..
The court was packed with workers
and farmers who had lead these
pamphlets themselves, and saw the
clear frsme-up character of the
case.
But the mass movement was not
sufficient to force the jury of picked
reactionaries to set Pugh free. He
was sentenced to five years impris-
onment in Oregon Penitentiary-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
Questions
and
Answers

This department appears daily on the feature
page All questions should be addressed to "Ques-
tions and Answers" o Daily Worker 50 East
18th Street, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
How TO Be An Ambassador

TIE good and great President Harding, who died
of overeating crabs, also a famous lover of
camembert, it seems for he made Richard Wash
burn Child the American Ambassador to Fascist
italy.
How the other literary limburgers on the Satu
day Evening Post ground their teeth with envy.
happened to know one who terrific souse
and foul-mouthed lecher and who also wrote little
tender stories of pure young love for the Post
This man, lying in gutter and raving at the moon
managed to say, one night, before the cop dragged
him off, 81 am mental prostitute, gentlemen, but
I am also patriot so why the hell did they break
my heart and make Richard Washburn Child the
Ambassador to Italy? He can't write, gentlemen,
never, never"
No, writing is only an incident in such career;
graceful way of marking time until the big moment
comes. And it came for Dicke, as the boys called
Mr.. Child
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-11
Change
the
World!
By MICHAEL GOLD

DIRTY Willie Hearst is busy as a rat in
u a corncrib. He has begun campaign
to make America Nazi land. Dirty Willie
was once charged with inspiring the as
sassination of President Mckinley. Today
Dirty Willie is laying the train for bigger and
better crimes-for the mass murder of every liberal
Jew, Negro Japanese, Socialist, Communist, and
all the rest of the population earning less than
$4,000 year.
notice that one of Hearst's trained hound-dogs
in this work is none other than Richard Washburn
Child The Hearst papers syndicate a red-baiting
article by Child every day, and under the by-line
tell us who he is. Mr.. Child children, is "a noted
author and former u S. Ambassador to Italy"
1t happens that years ago, I heard this Mr..
Child speak to a students literary group at Harvard
College Mr.. Child is a distinguished" alumnus
of that most aristocratic of American universities.
He surely had on most distinguished appearance
that afternoon I remember, and impressed us all
enormously.
One could easily see that Mr. Child came from
an old and distinguished American family. His
hair was parted in the middle and he wore wing
collar and bow necktie. He had perfectly creased
pants Let me confess it now this man made me
feel inferior and melancholy If it took all this
fine heredty and skillfu tailoring to become a
writer, then I was permanently out
Later I discovered that Mr.. Child wrote regu-
larry in the Saturday Evening Post, and began
to follow his short stories there. What real joy
they brought what medicine for my humility For
discovered I didn't need to envy the wonderful
and hawless aristocrat; why this Mr.. Child, under
the glorious facade, was only another bowl of stale
tripe-a manufacturer Of hack romances for the
pup-magazine market Hooray!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-05
Adams
Will Talk on
South America

A talk in French on South
America and the South Americans"
IS to be given by Howard w. Adams,
Rio de Janeiro, and formerly of
Indianapolis, before the meeting of
the Alliance Franchise at 8 Thurs
day night at the Washington.
Mr.. Adams will be a special guest
at dinner preceding the talk.
This is Mr.. Adams first visit to
the United States since he became
counsel, six years ago, for the EN-
pregaS Electricas BrasileiraS, a COM
pany engaged in the operation Of
public utilities in cities of Brazil.
Mr.. Adams was one of the foun-
ders and first president of the AL
lance Francaise of Indianapolis,
and he also was active in the Span
lsh Club Of indianapolis. He was
for a time president of the Portu-
guese Club of Washington, and vice
president of Lies Precieuses Ridi-
cules," a French organization Of
that city. While serving in Paris
at the American Embassy, he was
member of the "Cercle Interallie."
Since Mr.. Adams has been in Rio
de Janeiro he has been a member
and director of the Rio de Janeiro
Athletic Club, a British organiza-
ton in that city; a member of the
Club Germania of Sac Paulo, Bra
I'll, I'll Circulo Italiano" and the
German Club of Rio de Janeiro.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-05
Women Who
Slump Can't
Be Beautiful
Posture Plays Important
Part in Reaction to
Appearance.
BY ALICIA HART

The woman who slumps forward,
or, worse yet, forces her shoulders
backward until she has an exag-
gerated hollow in the middle of her
spinal column simply can't be truly
beautiful. Shiny hair, clear skin
and sparkling eyes are important, of
course, but never for minute lose
sight of the fact that your posture
has a great deal to do with the i'm
preston you make on others.
You should practice posture .exer-
cises to correct round shoulders,
protruding stomach, often caused
by a hollow in the back, and a
sagging chin. Lie fiat on the floor
with knees drawn up and weight
of the legs on balls of the feet.
Lift the tip of your spinal column
upward from the floor, meanwhile
making the rest of the backbone fit
snugly against the hard surface.
Keep shoulders and neck perfectly
fiat. Breathe deeply, drawing
stomach in and up. This, of course,
helps you to get your backbone fat.
When you stand, you should
maintain the position you were in
on the floor. Stomach should be
drawn in, shoulders square, and the
spine tilted forward so hips do not
stick out.
Whenever you walk, stand, dance
or sit, imagine that the top of your
head is being pulled straight up
ward by heavy cord suspended
from the ceiling. Make believe that
the cord lifts not only your head
but your entire body.
When you sit in chair, see that
the center of your back and the
lower end of your spine are fiat
against the chair. Don't press
shoulders against it. incidentally,
legs look much more graceful when
crossed above-not below-the knee.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-05

of hearts and the king of spades;
so South laid down the ace of
hearts and then played his last dia-
niond.
If West should ruff with the
king Of hearts, he would be obliged
either to lead away from his king
of spades, or to lead a club and give
South ruff and a discard.
His only chance was to let declar-
er run the remaining diamonds and
hope for an extra trick at the end.
This, however, would require three
discards and would present a fur
ther dilemma.
If West should discard all his
clubs. he would be the victim of an
easy end-play in spades, while if
he discarded a spade, the king of
spades would fall.
Nevertheless, West was not caught
off guard, and when the diamond
was played he Immediately let go
Of the eight of spades.
On the remaining diamonds West
played the deuce and ten of clubs,
keeping the seven spot, for he knew
that would be the most difficult card
for South to locate.
Declarer had no way to count
down either the spades or the clubs.
The last club might very we'll be in
the East hand, and Vests discard
ing certainly looked as though he
had either the jack or ten of spades
with his king.
Therefore, declarer threw West in
with the king of hearts, fully ex-
pecting a spade lead which would
make his contract.
Imagine his chagrin when he
found the king Of spades was alone,
and West laid down club for the
setting trick.
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