Page Six n 4ILY WORKER, NEW YORK. MONDAY, JULY 29, 1929 COURT IS CALLED” JBailyfHHI “THE l By Jacob Burck Central Organ of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. CEMENT KWK; Translated by A. S. Arthur and C. Ashleigh Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Inc.,. Dally, except All Rights Reserved,—lnternational Publishers, N. F. Sunday, at 26-28 Union Square, New York City, N. I, Telephone Stuyvesant 16U6-7-&. Cable: “DAIWOKK." SUBSCRIPTION KATKS: • Ry Mali On New York only): SS.ee & year 54.50 six months 52.50 three months Gleb Chumalv, Red Army Commissar, returns to his home on the By Mail (outside of New York): Sea Civil works, lie# & year 50. 50 six months 52.00 three months Black after the Wars to find the great cement where Address and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 26-tfß Union Square. he had formerly worked, in ruins and the of the town disorganized. New York. N. Y. life Under the direction of Gleb and with the support of Badin, chair- man of the District Executive of the Soviet, a man of commanding per- U. S. War Propaganda Against Soviet Union. sonality, the reconstruction of the factory is stared. One of the most faithful Communist Party workers is Serge, a different young intel- it is not a mere coincidence that in the army maneuvers lectual. taking place in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, the Polia Mckhova, secretary of the women’s section of the Party, is defending forces should be called “blue” and the attacking greatly downcast by the difficulties attendant upon the introduction of forces designated as “red.” It is deliberate and part of the the New Economic Policy. '* ÜBkbE. ' malignant agitation and war preparation against the Soviet • • • - ¦• • * jg-Fu ii lyi'jlijll Hr Union on the part of the imperialists of the world. man- /n\ m The IN pain and terror, Polia went to the Party Committee, all the time euvers coincide almost exactly with the anti-Soviet serial * ' j| 1 Jr* -L 1 WWjTjT ißf pursued by this trembling hoarse voice, amidst the groans and the running in one of the cheap magazines of the country and stinking bodies and the pitiable squeals of the babies. entitled “The Red Napoleon.” The story is filled with all the “Hunger! Hunger!” atrocity yarns gleaned from the lie factory of the staffs of And afterwards, every day, one saw these famished peasants, whole Wsa sheep-like the imperialist armies in the last war and describes the 1 families or individuals, with faces, coarse clothes and bast 11' Jr evacuation and bombardment of New York and other cities. wJrjjfk M I *!'•¦ *?'*'i:j&l|i yjw shoes, leading or carrying children, and groaning in their weak stam- In the “war game” conducted by the army the invaders Mr'/ 1 mering voices through the streets:

. . Brothers! us! landed on the Atlantic Coast, pushed forward to Rancocas “Help the starving. . Help Hunger!” At night Polia was tormented nightmare and could Creek where they encountered a “defensive” force of 200,- by not sleep , for hours. And at these times she heard that which she also heard 000. In a fierce engagement on a 40-mile front the “United during the day, distinctly, irritatingly, tormentingly: the string or- States center" was badly crippled. Mt. Holly and Camp Dix chestra playing, distant and appealing; the dice rattling; and under fell into the hands of the “reds.” Trenton was annihilated by the window in the street, dull voices complaining, crying:

. fit . . ¦ . ...” high explosives from bombing planes. New York and Phila- "I “Help. . Brothers. . Starving. delphia were exposed to attack with the invading forces She would spring from her bed and rush barefooted and with beating half attack each city. heart to the window and look out into the night. Silence, dark- dividing into two parts—one to But ness, solitude. She listened and then again returned to the warm finally, under the leadership of Brig-General Cornelius Van- closeness of her bed. She would fall asleep. Then wake again from derbilt, in charge Os the 154th Brigade of the New York some strange disquieting shock. Agaih the distant violins, the rattling National Guard, the ‘destruction of New York City was of the dice, laughter—and the heart-breaking entreaty and the crying of babies. averted. * * * according Major One of the “lessons” derived, to General AN one of those sultry sleepless nights there happened that which she Richard Hanson Ely, is the necessity for a “defense” corps had long been expecting as inevitable. of 200,000 in the second corps area, over which hp has com- Somewhere in the corridor a door opened, releasing a din of mand. voices and laughter. The voices resounded down the corridor, mingling Thus in preparation for imperialist war the jingoes try in with indistinct shouts. the most elaborate fashion to create the illusion of an im- Again the door opened suddenly and the uproar arose; then the a voices and steps passed out into the quietness of the night. Far away pending war of defense against “red” forces. Nor is it acci- there was a melodious tinkling and phantom violins played softly in dental that these maneuvers take place simultaneously with Chemical Warfare, the Chemical Kings the night. She understood: it was only the sad vibration of the tele- the drive against the Soviet Union by the Chinese imperialist phone wires outside her window.

...... hirelings. “Brothers. . Have pity. Help. Hunger!” Certainly the bellowings of the jingoes cannot be har- and Their Social-Democratic Tools She could not sleep. monized with the dirty sermonizing of Secretary of State The songs of the working masses. Masses passing in whirlpool Bv the Chemical International Propaganda Committee of the Red International of they proclaimed the Kel- Workers Labor Unions. and torrent, red faces, red flags, the Red Guard in a glittering rain of Stimson and President Hoover when • bayonets. . . Comrade Lenin on the Red Square in Moscow. . . . logg pact as the pacifist achievement of the ages. paci- pelled the Allies feverishly to de- ] Can plants normally and legally ] not new 7 nitrogen producing plants From far one could see his teeth glisten, his chin protruded, and he fist gestures are calculated only to conceal the actual moves 1. Fifteen Years Ago, and Today. !¦ ! velop their ‘national” industries used for the production of chemical being built in greater number from flung out his arms—calling on the people—with the fingers apart; how toward imperialist war against the Soviet Union. In preparations for International, l manufacturing dyes. In the U. S. A., \ products be rapidly reorganized for year to year and where the mili- under his cap his face was set. It seemed he was laughing. Nothing | in Britain and’in France huge works the manufacture of poison gases? estimates do provide for memory these But while these ambitious war preparations are going Red Day the Communist Parties and tary not remained in the except beckoning hands, the white sprang up, literally over night, for ! (2) How long would such reorgani- huge subsidies to the nitrogen indus- glimmer of his teeth his lined cheeks. long ago! Like a that will be called upon to the Revolutionary Trade Union 1 and How on the working class of America Movement have given particular at- the purpose of supplying the imper- zation take? (3") Are there any try. This applies equally to Britain dream, like vague images of early childhood. The northeast wind

gases . . . . . bear the brunt of the war, the working class that is being in- tention to the section of the prole- ialist armies with poison of means capable of preventing the use and France as well as their agents was sweeping the dust along the streets. . Dust and ashes. creasingly exploited and facing wage-cuts, the speed-up, the tariat employed in the chemical in- jhomej origin. According to incom- of factories producing chemical in the East, Poland, Cxecho-Slova- Why was there no dust before, why are the burning days and nights plete dyes lengthening of hours and the consequent creation of a perma- dustry. At this time there can be j data, the manufacture of products for the manufacture of kia, Finland, and other countries (as now choked with ashes? no doubt whatever as to the role jwas more than quadrupled in the U. poison gases? This last question witness the construction of new In Serge’s room there was also silence, hardly stirred the army unemployed, organize a by nent of must counter-offensive the chemical industry of the capital- S. A. in the period from 1914 to smacks of a fiendish glee and has ! plants in Chorzew in Poland; the rustling of paper. From time to time there were steps as of one who great against the war mongers. The first mobilization of ist countries is playing in the pres- jj 1925; while much the same develop- more than a pinch of satire behind I construction of plants in Cxecho-Slo- j paced his room in thought. Good Serge; he too was not sleeping. He working class forces against imperialist war and in defense ! I ent feverish race in armaments. | J ment took place in Britain; output it. Os course, only simpletons could vakia and the other countries). measured his sleeplessness by the number of pages read. Chemical warfare will undoubtedly | doubling in France. | expect anything like an open and interesting of the workers’ and peasants’ government of the Soviet Union On this head it is to * * * be the fundamental form The production of artificial silk true answer to any of these ques- willtake place on August Ist. That day must’ be the begin- of fight- read what Alfred Mond, the King ing in the coming imperialist war. has developed by leaps and bounds. tions from an institution created by of Britain’s chemical industry, has OOMEONE knocked at the door gently—she did not know who. ning of an extensive drive to organize the unorganized work- The gas attacks we have all heard ; 1 In the> U. S. A. “rayon” production the imperialists themselves, but ! to say regarding the plant being ” “Who is there?” (from what replies are given are worth ers in the war industries, the steel mills, the mines, the jof which occurred at Ypres on the I j has increased 48 times 700 built in Billingham. He says: In a Badin’s voice; and by its sound it seemed that he was smiling. Western front and on the Skerne- to 33,500 tons), from 1923 to 1927; noting. Imperialism’s experts (which j very short time we have rapidly growing chemical industry, the transport workers on created not “Polia, little Polia, are you asleep? Dress and come out for a witz Italy 116 times (from 150 to j included Frossard, himself Director only plants land and sea. In this connection the Cleveland conference of sector on the Eastern front in jin but an entire factory have work to do.” 1915, subsequent develop- tons); in Germany the in- ; of the Kuhlmann Concern, the big- j moment —we some Trade Educational League to be held August 31 and the 117,500 town under the skilful direction of the Union ment of chemical warfare from 1915 ; crease was only from 3,500 to 18,- gest French chemical combine), were ' Colonel Pollit. We have, as far as “I can’t, Badin. Wait till tomorrow.” for the purpose of creating a trade union center to coordinate to 1918 will appear but a mere piti- 1000 tons; in Britain from 3,000 to : compelled to admit that: (1) fac- explosives are concerned, safeguard- “Impossible, Polia. Get up and come out.” “normally legally the work of the left forces is on the order of the day. ful rehearsal compared with what 117,30’0j tons); in France from 1,500 tories and used” ed Britain against the terrible dan- His voice became obstinately insistent. The latch clicked and the the production chemical prod- 7 The answer to the war maneuvers is: Fbrward! To imperialism is getting ready to letj(tons to 11,000 tons. I for of 1 ger to which she was exposed in j door opened. A dim light shone in from the empty corridor. What loose That is how the chief branches ' nets can be adapted for the manu-1 to August Ist, and the fight against imperialist war and the ! in the coming war. the last war, and forever enabled j was this? How did it happen that she had forgotten lock the door But what, strictly speaking, was in the chemical industry have devel- facture of poison gases IMMEDI-! her to maintain her position on the j that night? Then she saw Badin. He looked unusual: half of him speedily”; defense of the Soviet Union! I the chemical industry at that time, oped. The figures given are quite j ATELY or “more or less fields of battle. was white, half black. anyone and (2) that it is impossible “to Down with the imperialist war mongers! ; the source from which the means sufficient to enable to real- “Well, it’s better like this. You are a little bit difficult.” ize the COLOSSAL POTENTIALI- j prevent the production of poison 4. Women’s Dyes Become Poison ! were drawn for the mass destruc- He shut the door and turned the key. Again the walls disappeared TIES IN THE PRODUCTION OF j gases being manufactured at the Gases. tion of these thousands of men? In in the darkness which had become limitless. And in this dense un- 1913 Germany CHEMICALS FOR WAR USE in- | prebent time by the chemical indus- produced 121,000 tons Coming now to the manufacture bearable shadow, he moved towards her—inescapable, inevitable. of nitrogen, the basic product neces- herent in the chemical industry to- I try.” Responsibility for “Riots” at Union Square of dyes, one may well ask where the She held her hands in breathless, and whispered un- sary for explo- day. These figures give us a plain out terror, the manufacture of 3. From Nitrogen to Explosive. production of the thousands of tons comprehendingly. and Astor Place. Germany’s output represent- and direct answer as to what “op- sixes. 1 of innocent dyes and kindred sub- : “What do you want, What do you want?” ed nearly per cent erations,” to use Ludendorf’s phrase, Where, in modern capitalist chem- Badin? 16 of the world’s ( stances in such wide use in peace even lower hands. frightful In a stupid, vicious article in Saturday’s New York production. humanity is preparing to undergo plants, produc- i She had not time to her With his It is true that during | ; ical does “peaceful” j time finish and where the produc- Evening Post, a certain who calls himself Cedric the itself j 15 years after the beginning of the , tion stop and where begins the pro- weight he fell on to the bed, pressing her to the pillows. scribbler war German imperialism 1 tion of deadly gases begins. Worth tries to slander the Soviet Union by charging that rapidly’ built huge works for ! last imperialist war, all these prep- ; duction of the most terrible means “Be quiet, little Polia. ... Be quiet, quiet. ...” th^! During the war the big German manufacture of nitrogen (Leuna arations being carried on under the of chemical destruction that Science ! She was suffocated intolerable weight of per- organized rioting by the representatives of the Soviet em- combine for the production of dyes beneath the this Works), but the output of even innocent screen of “peace time” j knows ? spiring flesh and the dizzy odor of alcohol. She did not resist, crushed bassy in Peking evoked the infamous raid in 1927. in Lewerkusen was adapted those war days cannot be compared chemical production. j The fact cannot be disputed, for to the in the shadows; she could not resist: how could she when this was mass production of trinitrololuol, the It is useless here to again expose the fact that the Peking in any way with the production of instance, that the German Leuna Ni- inevitable and unalterable? j 2. What the League Specialists Ad- base for the production of explo- raid was a part of the general imperialist campaign of pro- post-war years and especially of the ; trogen Combine with its to * • * mit; In 24 sives. TNT, as trinitrotoluol is pop- present moment. In 1925 Germany’s Hours.* ; 25,000 workers or the big British vocation against the workers’ and peasants’ republics of the j ' ularly called, is botained as a result OHE did not notice when Badin went away. The dark gulf seemed output of nitrogen had climbed up to In what measure are the different ’ nitrogen combine being built in Bil- ** Soviet Union. The forgeries, the crude lies accompanying j of the treatment of toluol with ni- to be revolving, groaning, and filled with sparks. far 600,000 tons, and. in it is «ex- lingham WILL BE TRANSFORM- Somewhere j 1929 branches of the chemical industry away, a great Yes, that raid are too well known to need recounting. ED, THE DAY AFTER WAR IS trogen acid. In peace time toluol is crowd howled and roared like thunder. this was ! pected to reach 900,000 tons.* It adapted to the change oven, to the This was neither rain nor Most amusing, though, is the attempt of the Post’s staff ; DECLARED, GIGANTIC indispensable for the manufacture the north-east wind. thunder; it was the has long been known that the Leuna production of the means of chemical INTO dry WORKS FOR THE PRODUCTION \of various kinds of dyes. Carbolic north-east wind. Now the sky was and transparent, decked with writer to draw an analogy between the Peking raid and recent Works alone will be able to throw warfare? Ol the total chemical in- stars in dazzling clusters. acid, benzol and other substances colored , City. ; nearly half a million tons of nitro- dustry 99 per cent of the plants OF EXPLOSIVES AND PROBA- local mass demonstrations in New’ York Here is one serve for the production of dyes Had Badin been there or not? Perhaps this was the usual night- gen upon the market in the have been adapted to these ends. I BUY FOR THE MANUFACTURE Mr. gems of wisdom: immedi- and at the same time furnish the mare. Everyone knows that nightmares seem as real as life. Isn’t of Worth’s ate future. This is under These are the the OF CERTAIN POISON GASES AS “normal” actual facts of necessary basis for the production that why they are so dreadful and disturb the soul? Had Badin been “There were riots in Peking, well organized riots, such as conditions and no doubt without any case and WELL. The manufacture of nitro- cannot be doubted in the of such poison gases as chlorpicrine there—or not? those that took place at Union Square on the day of the police particular straining of the machin- slightest. The chemical industry gen from the atmosphere by em- and other gases. Aniline dyes, which lay parade or the small demonstration before the Chinese consulate ery of production, and without any ' may be transferred to war produc- ploying the Haber-Bosch method or She motionless on the couch, all naked and crushed. Her are widely used, are so produced was like bundle above in Astor Place the other day. They were not spontaneous dis- great call for nitrogen from the tion within anything from 12 to the electric arc method opens what chemise pressed a damp her breasts and smelt i 24 that without any great changes the of another odor orders, but carefully led uprisings.” military machine. The dye indus- hours, at most a few days, and in are truly boundless possibilities for of sweat and nauseating which she had never known process of manufacture can be al- before. For a long time she could not sense own body, as though try is the source for the production l very rare cases a few weeks. In the imperialists in the way of man- her In his efforts to villifythe Soviet Union the Post writer ufacturing tered to turn out such poison gases she were only a head with no body. Everywhere was void and infinity: of asphyxiating and poison gases. . its time what is known as the War ammonia (nitrogen plus makes ridiculous. He blames the Soviet embassy for production as dyphenilchlorasene. the black gulf. Only her head lived, swimming in the unendurable himself Up to the war it was Germany like- Commission of the League of Na- hydrogen). The mass of key darkness. And out in the darkness was this crashing thunder and the the Chinese demonstrations and risings which he calls “riots.” wise who held the absolute monop- • tions gave extensive answer to ammonia, in turn, furnishes the An innocent substance like chlor- an howling of the storm. was so peaceful: nothing But is no embassy in the United States. Whom oly in this industry. The war im- the following three questions: (1) for the solution of a most important ine which used to be produced at It nice and and there Soviet time existed any longer, and time had ceased. does blame for the New York “riots”? problem: that of obtaining ammoniac ftie simply from evaporated then he acid (by acidizing ammonia), in salts is now produced from caustic She heard Serge’s step approach her door and then stop. Why There is only one comparison made by the Post that is huge quantities. Ammoniac acid is soda. At the same time chlorine did Serge approach her door? Polia heard the steps and her heart accurate —that is the charge that Communist risings and more or less prominent people, among them the daughter of a essential for the production of ex- has now become the basis for the beat quickly; suddenly her blood began to rush through the veins and demonstrations are carefully led. The fact that they occur in former governor of the state, were taken in the police raid. plosives and various proisonous production of a huge number of poi- she was convulsed with wild cramps. Her body hurt dully. Badin! products. asphyxiating gases countries without Soviet embassies is alone evidence of the The capitalist That is the evolution that son and all used Yes, his door was in her wall, by her head. He had come and gone. press, that as a general policy, applauds has been taken in the production of in the 1914-18 war. From chlorine Now there was no terror—there was nothing. And deep down in her fact that Soviet ambassadors are not the organizers of such every attack on the workers, waxed indignant that the the most terrible chemical means of I combinations there is obtained that heart there was a trembling and a shuddering, and her throat was demonstrations. daughter of a governor should be thrown into jail.The, super- warfare that can be produced in ni- most terrible of gases known as clutched by hot pain. But then capitalist newspapers are not expected to tell intendent of police, Mills,tried to cover his by placing trogen manufacturing plants. This yph rite (dichlordiaethylgulftie), (To Be Continued.) retread change over requires no special sup- whiqh possesses no smell and can the truth about the Soviet Union. It is their job to aid the the blame on subordinates, claiming they had exceeded their plementary expenditure on the re- deal death to living beings or create imperialist war-mongers in the drive against thd Soviet authority. This is nothing more than plain hypocricy. Mills, equipment of machinery, installa- runnign sores on the flesh which that terrible compound nitro-glycer- poses have not been studied in full. Union. himself, over a period of years, has persistently subjected to tion, etc., with the introduction of take a long time to heal, besides ine? Just as successfully can cer- On the one hand, this Industry The masses of New York and of every other important arrest and imprisonment working class speakers for holding I methods for obtaining artificial ni- which it can produce temporary eals, by undergoing a special pro- opens up the greatest possibilities in center in the United States will reply to suchjies by partici- meetings without a permit. Had it not been for the presence trogen, the dependents of the im- blindness and produce a number of cess of fermentation, be made into the way of supplying the imperialist pating in the worldwide strikes and demonstrations on perialists upon Chilean salpetre difficultcomplications in the human a means of producing alcohol and armies on a mass scale with a cheap in the audience of people of the upper strata of Philadelphia which was, prior to the war, the organism that only pass several hydrogen in huge quantities, the textile material. On the other hand, August Ist against imperialist war and for the defense of the • society the workers present would have been kept in jail and main raw material for the produc- days later. , latter chemical, as we have already there is no doubt whatever that th« Soviet Union. Mills would have commended his underlings for their acts as tion of ftitrogen. Britain, France, Cellulose factories have a direct said, being most important for the production of viscose, acetate, an> he usually does. i Germany, and other countries have connection in regard to the produc- production of ammonia. other silks opens up enormous possf * by this means completely freed tion of nitro-cellulose, the most im- We have already dealt with the bilities for the production of dynw 1 This case serves to emphasize the necessity of working themselves from the need for im- portant constituent part in the pro- extensive potentialities of the mite. Smash the Police Permit System! this class organizations waging a fight to abolish the system of j porting salpetre and thus from duction of explosives. Without alco- chemical industry in regard to the —OSCAR, Secretary, Inter- / dependents upon the U. S. imperial- hol it is to conceive of of artificial oil, Ever since the world war there has been maintained in police censorship of meetings. This policy of pleading with impossible production lignite national Chemical Work- f ists who hold the chief mines in the development of the explosives (produced at the Leuna Works and era’ Committee for many the United States a system of police censor- such people as Superintendent or any Propa- cities in of Police Mills other Chile. industry. And do the millions of elsewhere), with the military im- ganda and Action. ship of meetings. Philadelphia is one of the worst examples such official for a permit to hold a meeting In a hall, or any- In peace time the nitrogen industry consumers of sugar know that the portance of the rubber industry, the of this sort of thing. Friday evening’s police raid on a meet- where else for that matter, must be abandoned, and a deter- ! is the almost sole supplier of arti- sugar industry using beet as raw production of cinematographic film *The statistical data given here 1 ing of the Workers’ International Relief in that