The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 18, 1930, Page 1

WAR FIGHT THE LENIN MEMORIAL EDITION Entered as se Published daily ex Company. Inc. Vol. VL, N 271 nprodaily Publishing ¥P~ 4, York City, N NEW YORK, Lenin, who founded the Communist Party in the old Russian Empire and led the greatest of revolutions—Lenin, founder of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics and builder of the Communist Interna- tional—died on January 21, 1924. The day after Lenin’s death, January 22, was fixed as Lenin Mem- orial Day. January 22, anniver of “Bloody Sunday”’—the day upon which, in 1905, the Czar of all Russias secured a “vi¢tory” by shooting down workers at the Winter Palace—is also the day of memory of the greatest destroyer of Czarism and of capitalism. Leninism—the theory and practice of the proletarian world revolu- tion—is not a “Russian” affair—it is the revolotionary theory and practice of the conscious working class of the entire world. “Leninism is the Marxism of the epoch of imperialism and of the proletarian revolution. To be more precise: Leninism is the theory and the tactic of the proletarian revolution in general, and the theory and the tactic of the dictatorship of the proletariat in particular.”—Stalin. . Im no country in the world are the teachings of Lenin more appli- cable to the every-day needs and the ultimate aims of the working class than the United States of America. Today the United States is in the grip of a terrific economic crisis which is growing worse every day. More than five million workers are shivering on the streets without a means of livelihood, and this enor- mous army is being increased by between two hundred and three hun- dred thousand per month. The economic cr is not simply American. The whole capitalist system of the world is in a period of sharpening contradictions. The boasted stabilization of capitalism in all countries is being shattered. if In all great capitalist countries, there is a rising tide of class strug- gle. In Germany, Poland, France, England, Czecho-Slovakia, South America—and certainly in the United States—the collision of class against class becomes more and more visible. An immediate revolution- ary situation in India threatens to pull out the corner-stone of the Brit- ish colonial empire, while the Chinese proletarian revolution is rapidly reviving. For the very reason of the growing militancy and strength of the working class and colonial rebellion against imperialism, the cap- italist political system is tightening its machinery of repression and discarding more or less completely the mask of pretense of capitalist “democracy.” The whole capitalist world presents today a scene of anarchy, developing, where not complete, fascist terr The capitalist ruling classes are fully aware that there can not be any attempt at solution except by the violence of class war and international war. The capitalist class of this and all other countries seeks to solve its economic crisis by throwing the burden and cost upon the working class. Each seeks to find a solution by rushing more rap- idly into imperialist warfare of each great imperialist power to con- quer the world market as against the others. Throughout the whole world there is only one inhabited country which does not feel the shock of the crisis of world capitalism. Thi: one country is the Union of Socailist Soviet Republics. There a new form of ‘sociéty is being constructed on the ruins of capitalism with a rapidity and a success that astonished the world. During the dark days of slow, painful advance, Lenin made the prediction: “Then a moment will come when the movement will rush forward with a speed such as we today can not imagine in ovr rosiest dreams.” This moment has come. While capitalist production sinks toward chaos and ruin and into world war in the effort to save itself, the social- ist planned industry of the Soviet Republic increases at a rate that has never been seen in any country in the world at any time. It has been decided to increase production in the planned industries 2114 per cent in the year gone by. But at the end of the year this enormous gain has been more than accomplished—with an increase of nearly 24 per cent, whilst the increase of production of machinery, etc., was about 30 per cent. In the year that is just dawning there will be an increase in the production of planned industry by 33 per cent, while the pro- duction of machinery, etc., will increase by 45 per cent. And all of this at a moment when United States production in basic branches declines at about the same rate (in recent months) as Soviet economy advances! The contrast between the capitalist system of slavery and exploita- tion, but supposed “efficiency”—and, on the other hand, the planned national economy of Socialism—is in itself a resounding message to the working class of the world. Capitalist ruin and unemployment, with nereasing iron dictatorship against the working class, compared to this, give to the workers the living illustration of Lenin’s words: “The deliverance of the oppressed class is impossible without a forcible revolution, and also without the destruction of the State machine which has been created by the ruling class.” The working class can not but learn the lessons of Leninism thru its experiences guided by the Communist World Party founded by Lenin. The basis for the treacherous socialist parties—which are agencies of the capitalist system, supporting capitalist “democrac: (that is capitalist dictatorship) in the ranks of the working class—i being destroyed. To the extent that the revolutionary Party of the working class grows strong, the yellow “socialist” parties base them- selves more and more on the petty-bourgois class and more and more take on the qualities of fascism. In this period of sharpening class struggles, the World Party of Lenin is being strengthened by the throwing off of the corrupted petty- dourgeois elements which adhered to the Party during more “peaceful” times. In a whole series of countries, yellow renegades, such as the Lovestone group in the United States, are exposed as nothing more than enemies of the working class, who have no place in the revolu- tionary Party. Freed from such burdens, the revolutionary Party of the workers leaps forward to new recruiting of thousands of workers who learn to know the Party in the class struggle. The Union of Socialist Soviet Republics alone has struck the path away from capitalist anarchy, slavery and economic collapse. But the tremendously successful construction of socialist economy of the Soviet Union, built by the hands of the free Russian workers by their strength, has no guaranty against this imperialist intervention, which aims to destroy the socialist fatherland of the workers of the world. More shan once the Red Army of workers and peasants has prevented this destruction. But the final guarantee must be offered by the working class of the whole world! A revolutionary war for their own liberation is the only war in which the working class and oppressed peoples of the world have an interest to fight for. In the impending imperialist war, the course of every class-conscious worker must be to defeat his “own” imperialist government, to transform the imperialist war into civil war for the overthrow of capitalism and establishment of the Workers Government. Not even in the smallest struggle for wage demands or other petty gains, do the workers find any but the Communist Party as their cham- pion. Only the Communist Party can and does dare to fight for the organization of the Negro workers and for political and social equality of the Negro masses. Only the Communist Party organizes the unor- ganized and supports the new revolutionary unions and the Trade Union Unity League! and Cee Lenin Memorial Day finds the working class of the entire world in an upward surge of militancy. At the same time it shows the great- est possibility and greatest need for the most rapid building of the strength, the discipline and the influence of the Party of Lenin. The Communist Party of the United States is holding giant Memorial Meetings in every city in this country. At these demonstrations the greatest effort will be made to bring many thousands of workers into the ranks of the Communist Party. Workers, join the Party of Lenin today! It is the Party of the leadership of our class. It will lead the workers of the whole world with a sure revolutionary hand through class struggle to victory and freedom from capitalist exnloite’'on and slevery, Worters! Follow Lenin! Tet @ J WHERE THEY SHOT DOWN KATOVIS! Come in Masses Today At 6 P. M. to Protest | Firing on Workers | Communists Call on All Socialist Lawyer Got. Murder Injunction | As Steve Katovis lies probably dying in Lincoln Hospital, shot \through the body by a Tammany | policeman at Millers Market, Thurs- day, the Communist Party calls the |workers of New York to come in s to the spot of the murder- ous assault and demonstrate against this slaughter of strikers. In doing so, it denounces also the socialist | party, which acted in the Miller |Market strike as part of the mur- der machinery. “Down with the brutal police ter- ror against strikers!” says the call of the Communist Party, “Defend your right to organize, strike and picket for higher wages, less hours | and for better conditions, against Continued on Page Seven ter a( the Post Office at New York, N. Y., ATURDAY, JA f March 3, WORKERS! FOLLOW LENIN! JOIN THE Lenin, Revolutionary Leader D E M ON VY. I. Lenin UARY 18, 1930 PREPARATIONS AT THE NAVAL CONFERENCE! COME TO THE LENIN MEET, JAN. 22 | FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents MADISON SQUARE GARDEN LENIN MEMORIAL MEET TO MOBILIZE FOR STRUGGLE Intensify Party Recruiting Drive; Fight Wage Cuts and Unemployment Fight the War Danger! 25,000 Attendance _ Expected At Memorial Demonstration MEETING SPEEDS NTWIU CAMPAIGN Strike Grows in Shops; This year the mass demonstratior at the Leiin Meme Wednesday, 7 Madison Square and Eighth Ave., ing point for an for membership in the Membershi Recruiting Campaign, for struggl against the in.perialist war dange 50th St will be the rally intensified driv: © UT 2 Wistar, {and vrer:ployment. Local 43 Wins Victory “With macs unemployment grow LS 9 Gm ing by lea, and bounds in the pres As an immediate result of the|ent crisis, and wage cuts, heing successful mass organization meet- ing held in Cooper Union the even- ing before, a new impetus has been given the drive of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union to mobil- spread broadcast by the bo: , the Lenin Memorial meeting will crys talize the mobilization of the work ers for struggle under the leader- ize all dress-shop workers for the intensified struggle which comes im- mediately to win union conditions. The union offices were crowded is yesterday with shop meetings, electing shop delegates. SHOE UNION AT | LENIN MEETING Let Injunction Papers! Lie on Meeting Floor | The Independent Shoe Workers | Union reports that the demonstra- tion which was scheduled for today | at Brooklyn Borough Hall is post. |/t% tS oe poned until next week, and instead | tion of the country. the shoe workers are mobilizing to | In one month the department of attend the Lenin Memorial meeting |!abor revealed hundreds of thou- in mass. The militant shoe workers | Sands thrown on the streets. | will take a prominent place at this | Federal Reserve Bank of Penn | meeting. |vania now says that the joble: Injunction on the Floor. Pennsylvania and nearby state: | At the Thursday meeting police creased pronouncedly in Decembe: and detectives under the leadership | 1930, over 1927, 1928 and 1929. of Isenberg, lawyer for the Metro-| In their diplomatic way they re- Continued on Page Seven |port wage cuts. The tide of unemployment rises higher and higher. Without excep- tion, capitalist sources report—un- ing mass unemployment in every sec- The | “Wage disburse-~ PENNSYLVANIA JOBLESS (aston-Mincola-shitrin UP; WAGES CUT; CRISIS trvine Plaza Tomorrow WORSE, FIGURES SHOW ments also declined from November | neola case to be called at any time, | to December,” says the bank. The Department of Commerce, in | willingly, in a lying fashion—grow- | its latest statement (week ended Saturday, January 18), reports a| jsharpening of the agrarian and in- | oners, dustrial crisis. “Receipts of wheat and cotton for the latest available week were lower than for the corresponding week of 192! (Just how serious this slump is will be shown by the index figures below). Cattle re- They say: | ceipts and receipts of hogs were also lower than a year ago. The Continued on Page Seven Monday the industrial union calls all workers to come to its office at 131 West 28th St. in the morning for picketing. There are a number of strikes going on, and yesterday and the day before several victories | With Shifrin having | were won. These strikes will be | stinibely’ <t spread through the trade without Hees Sen ee a rel |regard to the ILL.G.W. fake strike. pont oe ier aber Or eer “| Monday night all women needle | trades workers are to meet to pre- and the Gastonia appeal in process, | pare for the women’s Eastern Con- New York workers are intensifying | ference te Les es nag ir fi » thes a = vin Hat Strike. their fight for these class-war pris-| 74 | ag, Win Hat S aoe and will send delegates to) otte gt, fired a member of Local Mineola conference | 43, N.T.W.I.U., Eva Friedman, and m., in Irving Plaza. | refused to meet the shop chairman , the Mineola strikes and|and committee to settle prices. A some of the Gastonia defendants | strike was called, and picketing be- will attend the conference being |gan yesterday morning. Later in called by the New York district of |the day the boss yielded and the the International Labor Defense. strike was won. While the chair- man and committee were meeting the boss to arrange settlement, they discovered that Local 24 of the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Work- |Defense Conference in the case, | Gastoni, A defense banquet Thursday in| | the Co-operative Restaurant was at- | \tended by more than 250 workers | | | Stalin’s life and many years of | work are indissolubly bound up with all the most important stages of the {struggle of the working class in | Russia and the Soviet Union during the past 13 years, and with the his- tory of the Leninist Bolshevist Party, the history of that Party among whose leaders Comrade Sta- lin rose to the first place after the death of Lenin. As early as the years before the revolution of 1905-06, and during the revolution itself, Stalin stood in the foremost ranks of the champions of Bolshevism in Transcaucasia. Here began his long years of inex- lorable struggles against Menshev- ism, whose stronghold was at that \time Gee -gia. Here, in the atmos- phere of inextricably confused na- tional rela‘ions, and of acutest na-! tional struggle artificially stirred up by Tzarism and the bourgeoisie for the better suppression of the labor | and revolutionary movement, Stalin succeeded Lenin as the greatest the- loretician of the national question jand of the national, policy of the | Party. | For the Party organization the | | victory of reaction signified a severe | test. It had to be rebuilt in the) midst of a situation characterized | by the rule of unbridled reaction and | led by the apathy of the masses. Menshevism had developed into open liquidation; it issued the slo- |gan of renunciation of the revolu- |tionary struggle and disolution of |the illegal revolutionary organiza- | tions. The ranks of the Bolshevik Party cadres thinned. Some aban- | doned the work altogether, others | succumbed to the liquidatory and semi-liquidatory trends. | It was precisely during this period |of unfettered Tsarist reaction, of | life and death struggle between Bol- shevism and the liquidators, of fierce | struggle on two fronts (against the conciliators and Otsovists) with Bol- shevism itself, that Comrade Stalin | ~e one of the closest and truest | UNDER THE BANNER OF LENIN Leading Article in Pravda, Moscow, December 21, 1929 ed STALIN ers, A.F.L., had even that early called him up and told him he shouldn’t settle with Local 43, as it did not belong to the A.F.L. Pre- sumably Local 24 had followed its usual tactics of offering to supply seabs and gorill jof Lenin's co-workers in the incom- parably difficult work of restoring | and more firmly establishing the old illegal organization. After the first | MES MARCH | ) jsuecessful steps had been taken after | mi the convocation of the Prague con- | ference of 2, dissolving the last organizatory connection with the}. , ‘o i Menshe at the commencement | Council of ae a ae ey of revolutionary upsurge, Stalin be- | Trade Union Unity League, the con- | vention originally set to take place came a member of the Central Com- | a mittee of the Party, and on January 25-26 has been post- ae ee ae to March 1-2, Irving Plaza of the first leaders of the legal Bol- | Poned shevist ‘Pravda” and of the social | Hall. The movement for 1,000 dele- j democratic fraction in the fourth |S@tes developed in a direction for |national Duma. Arrest, and several | Which the machinery was not pre- years of banishment to one of the | pared. It is necessary to mobilize |remotest regions of Siberia, inter-| big representation from these jrupted the vital and practical la- | Sources. a ad earn makes |bors of Comrade Stalin just at the | this possible. “It also better enables | moment when the Party stood in| militant trade union | movement to lurgent need of his capabilities, al-|make good the quota it set for itself ready remarkable at that time, as a|0f at least 300 delegates. ; distinguished politician and organ-| The statement issued reads in |izer from the Lenin school. part: : | But when Lenin returned to Rus-| “In order to rally the growing | sia at the beginning of April, 1917,|a™my of unemployed workers to jafter the February revolution, and | Struggle, in order to throw thou- published his famous theses on the | Sands of Negro workers, young and |evolution of the bourgeois-democra- | Woman workers into the new revolu- By decision of the Administrative | tic revolution into the socialist, and on the struggle for the Soviet Re- public, he found in Comrade Stalin a staunch sharer of his convictions and a close collaborator. In the company with Lenin, Com- rade Stalin fought against the va- cillating opportunist elements in | tionary trade union center, to con- | centrate on large plants of the basic | industries in New Jersey and to |help the convention during the strike of the dye and silk wo.nes.. < Pat- erson, to develcp the struggle of the food, shoe, metal and needle work- ,ers, the Local Council of the T. U. the Party, both at the Petrograd and | U. L. finds it necessary to postpone ship of the Communist Party. The Needle Trades workers o. New York are organizing to marct en masse to the Lenin |meetixz on Wednesday evening January 2° at 7 y. m.,, at Madisor | Square Garden, 50th St. and Eighth | Ave., said Rose Wortis, well-know1 Continued on Page Seven NMU ORGANIZER _ SENT TO PEORIA 1,100 Defy Fakers and | Strike in 4 Mines PEORIA, Ill., Jan, 17.—Freeman Thompson, National Miners Union | organizer an? leader of the strike in the Taylorville region, where it | was most successful, is in Peoria today, at '' 2 cail of strikers in four mines of t € nt Coal Co. The United Mine Workers of America are thre=tening to import scabs and Memoria jar trying to frighten the 1,100 ;men back to the pits. | Many f those arrested in the jstrike » far in other parts of the |state sr coming to trl soon. At- jtorneys Bentall and Koenig of |the Internai:unal Labor Defense are jh- “ing all these cases. | Charlies Mammon, member of the National Miners Union, and dele- | gate to the Fourth General Conven tion of ‘se I-*-rnational Labor De- fense was arrested 17 times in one j day, anc bailed out each time by the LL.D. “he s | | ste is trying to make Henry Corbishley, sec~etary of the Illinois | District, N.M.U., promise he will i take no * er part i> the strike. He refus to promise, although such an attitude subjects him to a year -ntence, through revoking is parole in the 7>‘gle> frame up. ‘GERMANY NEARS - FASCIST TERROR (Wireless by Inprecorr.) BERLIN, Jan. 17.— Yesterday | evening, the Prussian minister of the interior, the “socialist” Grzesin- ski, issued a general prohibition of open-air meetings and demonstra- | tions, “aneously _ instructing the police to break up such meetings | with all nm -ans. of a committee of the !Prussian Diet, Grzesinski declared that t’e suppression of the Commu- {nist Party was com~~ when the law | gave * cicat basis. The present law was ifficie’*. therefore, the new “republican defense” law would jbe rushed through. At 4 a. m. today the offices of the national conferences in April, | 1917, and during the whole period | preceding October. | Shoulder to shoulder with Lenin, |or acting under his direet instruc | | tions, he unwearingly accomplished | an enormous amount of daily work | |in the leading Party and Soviet or- | ganizations. And when, after the |July days, the enraged imperialist | pack, aided by the Menshevists and | social revolutionists, threw itself | upon the Bolshevist Party, forcing | Comrade Lenin to withdraw into | Continued on Page Seven the convention, r z | the official organ of the Communist “Organize shop committees! Elect | party, the “Rote Fahne,” was sur- delegates to the convention! Make | pounded by police and today’s issue this a mass convention of struggle | confiscated without written author- for higher wages, shorter hours, in- | ity, The greater part of the edition surance against unemployment, acci-| y how. or, already sent out. the militant trade union movement to| The Communist arty is appealing the speed-up, rationalization and the to the workers to organize an ener- war danger. \: | getic protest campaign against the Begin election of delegates at | social-fascist terror. Tonight at 10 once! o'clock large indoor mass meetings ; jare organized. The police threaten Workers! 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