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Iighiing Words T', FIGHTING WORDS iighiing words t', FIGHTING WORDS HGHTING WORDS • Selections from twenty-five years of The Daily Worker New Century Publishers • New York • 1949 Copyright by NEW CENTURY PUBLISHERS, 832 Broadway, New York 3, New York FBINTED m V.8.A. CONTENTS PREFACE xi REMEMBER WHEN? EVENTS THAT MADE HISTORY. 1924 to 1949 THE DEATH OF V. I. LENIN 3 Mourners Pass Bier of V. I. Lenin 3 'Gene Debs Pays Glowing Tribute 4 SACCO AND VAN2ETTI 4 Boston Prepares for a Lynching, by Michael Gold 4 Sacco and Vanzetti Murdered 6 THE GREAT DEPRESSION 8 A Signal of Coming Struggle, Editorial 8 Jobless Demand Relief 10 The Hunger March 11 Hoover Ignores Hunger Marchers 13 Police Gas Bonus March 15 THE SCOTTSBORO CASE 17 Ruby Bates Denies Rape 17 "Why I Fled Prison," by Haywood Patterson 19 HERNDON GETS 20 YEARS ON CHAIN GANG, by R. H. Hart 20 THE REICHSTAG FIRE FRAME-UP 21 DinutroflF Shatters Frame^Up. ■.. ."7.~ 21 Unmasked by Dimitroff 22 SIT DOWNI by George Morris 23 SPAIN IN ARMS 26 In Madrid, by Robert Minor 26 Crossing the Ebro, by Joseph North 27 V THE MUNICH BETRAYAL 30 The Betrayal, Editorial by Harry Cannes 30 Three Years After, Editorial 32 TOM MOONEY S3 Tom Mooney Freed, by Al Richmond 33 The Most Celebrated Case of All Time, by Robert Minor 34 NAZIS INVADE U.S.S.R 37 Peqale Rally to Stalin 88 PEARL HARBOR, Editorial 40 STALINGRAD, by Veteran Commander 42 D-DAY 44 Rendezvous in Berlin, by Ilya Ehrenburg 45 I THE COMMUNIST PARTY 46 Foster Calls for Return to Party 47 Parley Reestablishes Party 47 Dreiser Joins the Communist Party 48 LYNCH TERROR NORTH AND SOUTH 50 Taps in Freeport, by Harry Raymond 50 Columbia, Tennessee, by Harry Raymond 52 FIGHTING JIM GROW IN SPORTS 54 Paige Asks Chance for Negro Stars, by Lester Rodney 55 "Robinson's a Dodger," the Guy Said, by Bill Mardo 56 GAMBLING WITH MINERS' LIVES, by Ruby Cooper 57 THE MARSHALL PLAN 59 The Ruhr—Can Liberals Support Revival of Reich Trusts? by Milton Howard,. 59 The Billion-Dollar Empire Scheme for Europe, by James S. AUen. 61 How the Bank President Wanted to Help Astoria's Uncle,- by Rob F. HaU.... 62 "PETE" CACCHIONE AS I KNEW HIM, by Councilman Benjamin J. Daois:-... 66 vi THE TAFT-HARTLEY LAW. 68 The Pattern for Disruption, hy George Morris 68 Communists Fight for Democracy, by Md Fiske 72 NEGRO MOTHER OF 12 FACES ELECTRIC CHAIR, by Harry Raymond 73 PACKINCHOUSE BURIES A STRIKE VICTIM, by Ruby Cooper 75 AN UN-AMERICAN COMMITTEE 76 Did *Un-Americans" Thomas, Mundt, and Ranldn Aid Axis Propaganda? by Art Shidds 77 The Statement the Un-Americans Feared, by Eugene Dennis 78 Abe Lincoln Grilled, by Rob F. HaU 81 A Hunger Striker's Day, by Joseph North 84 The Editor Testifies, by John Gates 86 Foreign Ideas, by Gerhart Eisler 90 A NEW PARTY IS FOUNDED 92 30,000 Cheer Wallace's Call to Vote Peace, by Rob F, HaU 92 Operation Georgia, by Irene PauU 94 ISRAEL 97 A New Nation, Editorid 97 Partisan in Israel, by A. B. Magil 99 THE MURDER OF WILLIAM MILTON, by Art Shields 99 THE ASSAULT ON BOB THOMPSON, by Robert Friedman 101 INDICTMENT OF THE TWELVE 102 The Plot to Outlaw the Communist Party, by WiUiam Z. Foster 103 Trial of the Tjsrelve Apostles,-by-George Bernard Shaw 105 CHINA WINS FREEDOM 105 Two People's Generals, by James Wong 106 WOBTB REPEATING, PIECES—MOSTLY RECENT—BY OTO WRITERS $35 A HEAD, by BiUy AUen H8 vii AL HITS 6 OUT OF 7 114 "I SAW LIFE IN THE BLACK BELT'-CLOSEUP OF A DIXIE PLANTATION, by Ahner Berry 115 18 COUPLES QUIETLY, by Bernard Burton. 117 UNLAMENTED MUSSOLINI, by Councilman Peter V. Cacchione 120 ARE RICH KIDS MORE INTELLIGENT? by Dyson Carter 121 WHOM THE GODS WOULD DESTROY, by Howard Fast 124 THE HASHMALL CASE, by Elmer O. Fehlhaber 126 GIANT LOCOMOTIVE PLANT SHUDDERS TO STOP, by Ben Field 128 LIFE OF THE PARTY, by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn 130 It Is Not a Crime to Be Foreign Bom 130 A City That Died 132 WHY LET THE KIDS SWELTER IN THE CITIES? by William Z. Foster 134 LINCOLN STEFFENS-MUCKRAKER, by Sender Garlin 137 HE WAS A MAN, by Mike Gold 138 HELL IN A DRUGSTORE, by Mike Gold 140 NEGRO NAVAL HERO, by Eugene Gordon 143 WILL 1920 BE REPEATED? by Max Gordon 145 HOW FASCISM STEALS INTO A NATION'S SOUL, by Milton Howard 147 IF THERE WERE NO MOSCOW, WOULD THERE BE COMMUNISM? by Milton Howard 149 50 WOMEN, by Claudia Jones 151 I GOT ENOUGH-I CAN'T STAND NO MORE, by John Hudson Jones 153 A SOVIET STEEL WORKER, by Sergei Koumakoff 155 THE TRUTH ABOUT SOVIET DEMOCRACY, by Adam Lapin 158 PALE CHILDREN, by Meridel Le Sueur 100 LOW-SEAM MINE, by Walter Lowenfels 162 vlil A MEAN WOMAN, by Beth McHenry 163 AH, THOSE FIGHT MANAGERS, by BiU Mardo 164 WHEN THE BOSS QUOTES SCRIPTURE, by George Marion 166 POINT OF ORDER, by Alan Max 168 A Solution to the Housing Problem 168 How to Spot a Communist 169 Price Probe 171 THE STRANGE CASE OF CASPER BLODGETT, A Story by Alan Max 172 ASBESTOS HEIR, by Louise Mitchell 178 EVERY MINUTE COUNTS, by George Morris 179 BANKERS' CONVENTION, by John F. Norman 181 WHO ARE THE COMMUNISTS?, by Joseph North 184 AN INTERVIEW WITH GEORGE DIMITROFF, by John Pittman 188 THE NEGRO IN FILMS, by David Platt 191 THE MUGGITY WUMPUS, by Mike Quin 192 GOLDEN TRUMPETS OF YAP YAP, by Mike Quin 194 LEGION'S DARLING, by Harry Raymond 196 TWO MINUTES, by Lester Rodney 198 SELECTIONS FROM BROADWAY BEAT, by Barnard Rubin 199 VICTORY FEAST, by Art Shields 203 A TROTSKYTTE'S SLUMMING TRIP, by Samud SiUen 205 THE ADVENTURES OF RICHARD, by Michad'SHHgd. 207 The Kids Take a Beachhead 207 Baby-Sitters ; 208 The Bottle Business 209 WE PHONE MR. ATTLEE, by Arnold Sroog 211 BLOOD BANK PROFITEERS, by Arnold Sroog 212 ix THE TEXAS BLAST TELLS TRUTHS ABOUT AMERICA, by Joseph Starobin 214 EUROPEAN LABOR CONFIDENT, by Joseph Starobin 217 "SCOOPS;" by Lincoln Sirens 218 A NEGRO SCIENTIST AND THOMAS JEFFERSON, by Peter Stone 219 MME. CHIANG-CHEESECAKE AND CORRUPTION, by Ilona Rdf Sues 221 THE ALIEN PLATYPUS, by Olioe Sutton 224 A CHRISTMAS STORY, by Herb Tank 225 AND SATYRS SHALL DANCE THERE (Isaiah: 13), A Story by Spike Tarr.. 226 TEN TINSLEY SAYS 233 ABC Lesson for Victor 233 How Anyone Can Be a Capitalist ' 234 Care and Feeding of Capitalism 236 MESSAGE FROM LONDON, by Eliot White 237 LIFE BEGINS AT 2 TIMES 40, by Art Young 238 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Vital departments of the Daily Worker, such as news editing, copy- reading, are, of course, not represented by individuals' name in diis book. These include on our present staff Howard Boldt, Eric Bert, Joseph Clark, Gerald Cook, Ben Levine, David Carpenter, John Hess, Lee Coller, and staff photographer, Peter Aprievsky. The invaluable work of the business and circulation staff, headed by our general manager, Joseph Roberts, likewise does not show up in the pages of this book. Special acknowledgment is made here to the work of our editorial- assistant, Leonora Dorhnan, in helping put this book together, z PREFACE It began in Chicago in January, 1924. The Communist men and women of the 1920's decided that they would start a daily newspaper based on a truth which could never be found in any other daily paper. That truth is that die American people do not own their own country. They do not own its factories, mines, railroads and banks. And since they don't own their own country's factories it follows from this that the American people are not yet truly free. In short, they decided in January, 1924, to carry on the cause of Socialism in the United States, the movement which advocates the social ownership of our economic machinery. For one hundred years, the men and women of labor tried in vain to start their own daily Socialist newspaper. Their efforts prepared the way for us. We became a success. But not in the Horatio Alger tradition. We have stayed up in the front lines for a quarter of a century when all the logic of bookkeeping, costs, and monopoly control said it couldn't be done. We won our place as a voice, a spokesman and guide of the common people. What we achieved would have been impossible witii- out the support of the Commimist Party. The wit who said of us that we have been "more Red than read" missed the mark. He forgot that the same could be said of the gospels of early Christian Commimism. But these gospels changed the world. The fight for Socialism is changing om world as inexorably as the sun rises. One has but to look at the Soviet Union and the new democracies. For twenty-five years we have been unique among daily news papers in our belief, based on the philosophy of scientific socialism, that the American people must themselves become the new owners of the nation's industries, banks, mines and railroads. This belief has made us the most truthful—in fact, the only basically truthful—daily paper in our country.* The 1,785 daily newspapers who are our competitors pretend that they are "free." "They are "free" to do anything they like—except one thing. Th^e is not a single editor, writer, reporter, or {^umnist in.Aese papers who is free to say that the Americaai'pMpie are being plunder^ and exploited by a handful of private owners, and that, therefore, the entire nation, led by the work ing ola8s,-should own the industries under a new.
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