The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 31, 1930, Page 6

- hypocritical statement: e , Published by the Comprodafly Publishing Co., Inc. daily except Sunfay at 26-28 Unton Page Six Square New York City, N.Y Telephone yvesant 402 Gable: “PALWORK al Addr«+* and mail alt checks to the Daily Worker 26-28 nion Seuste Nee oor XN YF Ing WHY WE DEMONSTRATE ON AUGUST FIRST By F. HECKERT 'HE Communist Parties and the revolutionary trade unions are preparing for August ‘st, the international fighting day against war. Why is this necessary? Is there any danger of war? Are not all the leading statesmen of the capitalist countries in favor of peace? But if this is so, why did the German Minis- ter for Defense, Herr Groner, jump up nervous- ly when his colleague, Herr Wirth, declared that the question should be raised, whether, in view of the general need and the economic crisis some saving should be made in the military budget? Why have the government of the French Republic spent 1,500 million gold francs | on concrete works and latest guns on the Alpine | frontier and in Corsica? Why did there take place in England on July 1st great air-man- euvers at which 198 airplanes demonstrated before 300,000 spectators how quickly a rorti- fied pirates’ nest can be destroyed with bombs? Why was a similar demonstration carried out in Italy on an “Arab village” specially erected for the purpose? Perhaps someone will say that it is only a joke when the “Times” reports that in the neighborhood of Peshawar 5,000 heavy bombs were dropped from English aircraft on the native villages, or when the same thing hap- pens in Indo-China or Nicaragua? Perhaps these are only trifling incidents arranged just to amuse the public during the silly season! The newspapers of the 2nd International are full of talk about peace; but it is a well-known fact that in the capitalist States the pacifist talks and assertions of the will to peace on the part of the capitalist statesmen are part and parcel of the war preparations. Some- times, however, the fog lifts, and then we get a glimpse of what is really taking place. At the celebrated Naval Disarmament Conference at London, the Italo-French antagonism was quite plainly revealed. The delegates had hard- ly returned from London, when Mussolini in- terpreted all the peace talk of the Conference in the following words: “Words are very fine, but rifles, machine guns, ships, aircraft and cannons are some- thing still finer; for right without might is an empty word, and Macchiavelli said that the prophets without weapons perish.” Naturally there are people who say, Mus- solini is only a crazy fascist, who takes any | notice of him? But what did the social demo- crat Otto Horsing, the President of the Reichs- banner say, at a demonstration in Magdeburg, | not long after Mussolini had been singing the praises of weapons? “The international labor market, before all the German, will take a decided turn for the better, when Bolshevism is abol- ished. Here lies the root of all the - vil. The people of Russia, numbering hundreds of millions, represent the great mass of buyers which world industry lacks. There- fore, it is the task of all the civilized coun- tries, and not the least of Germany, im- mediately and with all means to create possibilities of work; to revive the home market in order that economy can recover and the finances be restored. it is only thereby that we shall be able to maintain the cultural progress of the 20th century. But cultural progress will not be main- tained so long as Bolshevism withdraws hundreds of million of men from the world market and from world culture.” Does that not plainly indicate the direction in which the war tempest will break loose? We read in the Simon Report that England must firmly retain in its hands the outer de- fense of India against the enemy on the North- ern frontier. Here also the direction is plainly indicated. Or let us take the case of the return of king Carol of Rumania, the man who is in the pay of the French war industry, and who is provided with military ins‘tructors. Or take the case of the fascist upheaval in Finland, which has placed the old enemy of Soviet Rus- sia, Svinhufhud, at the head of the government, while at the same time a furious terror is raging against the Finnish Communists with the object of exterminating them. Or Pilsudski, who does not even permit the Seim to meet, in order that not the slightest light should be shed on the dark doings of his militarists. Are all these merely chance occurrences? The capitalists are prearing to redistribute the world. The colonial peoples and Bolshevik Russia are to be the objects, the bear, so to speak, whose skin is to be divided. But why are the capitalist powers arming against each other? They know that it is one thing to kill the bear, and another thing to divide the booty among themselves. Have not the capitalists had enough of the last war? Does not contain in its womb the proletarian revolution ? Who would deny the dangers it represents to the capitalists? But what othe: way remains open to them? An unprecedented economic crisis is sweeping the capitalist world; it is from that they are seeking a way of escape. The way of escape indicated Horsing, and which all capitalist Powers wv to take, is becoming less unthinkable ever rying out of the Five-Y year. The car- Plan of the Soviet Union will give to this country of the prole- tariat not only a gigantic power, but must inevitably increase the crisis in the capitalist countries. The example of socialist construe- sion is showing to the proletarians and the op- pressed peoples of the world that the capital- ist world order is not the last word of wis- dom. They are beginning to make compari- sons: in tne ¢ uiniculues are increasing; there is growing misery in the col- onies; increased brutality on the part of the oppressors—in the Soviet Union, however, there is to be seen a tremendous development of all the creative forces, increase of the gen- eral well-being. Will not that promote the revolutionary situation? Therefore, the pres- ent crisis does not tend to check the capitalist war policy but is a mobilizing factor, the capitalists fear that they will be too late, and therefore are feverishly arming in spite of all ust Wold the dangers which war brings with it. Many capitalists know too that war is a rvofitahle business = At present capitalist economy is in a rather bad way. The ration- wed Lacwuiies ora the treasuries are low, there is an agrarian is everywhere, the market is too narrow, there are 20 million unemployed, who have to be main- tained instead of their ding surplus value. Would not the 20 million be good cannon- fodder? By employing them on the battlefield would it not be possible to kill two birds with one stone, i. e., to get rid of the surplus mouths and to earn a lot of money at the same time? These are considerations which are engaging the minds of the capitalist statesmen. Did not the German Minister for Justice, Herr sredt say, it would be a good thing if 20 million people were to disappear in Germany over night? But before the new war can be launched the capitalists need money; they must defend with all means their competitive capacity on the world market. Hence the offensive against the working class, the wage cuts, the murderous exploitation in the factories, the unheard of terror. The workers are to be thoroughly cowed; their misery is to be increased to such an extent that they will even be ready for war, no matter against whom. War is to appear to the masses as a way of escape from misery. In the capitalist countries there are millions of unemployed workers receiving no whatever. Millions of other workers are in constant fear that they will be turned out of uit aie Wait ite | Seas aes relief | the rationalized factories to join the army of | starving out-of-works. High prices are squeez- ing the last penny out of the workers. In Germany, workers who leave their work op their own accord are to be deprived of unem- ployment benefit for eight weeks. They are to Central Orga | DEMONSTRATE Worker ‘the-Cdivfrumist Party U.S.A. Sy mat! everywrere: One year SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $6: six months $8; two months $1; excepting Borauah: of Marhattsn. an@ Rronx, New York City, and foreign. which ave* ime gx $a. six mons. $4.50 AGAINST IMPERTALIST WAR PREPARATIONS ON AUGUST FIRST The Pacific Coast on August First By WILLIAM SIMONS. UGUST FIRST, international day of struggle against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union, has extraordinary signifi- cance for the Pacific Coast. In industrial im- portance, the Pacific Coast is behind many other sections of the country, but in its relationship to the war danger it is of the greatest im- portance. The coming attack of the Chinese militarists, backed by imperialist powers, espe- cially the United States of America, against the spreading Soviet movement in China will result in the dispatch of more ships and ma- rines from the Pacific Coast. The increasing preparations of the imperialist powers for at- tack on the U. S. S. R. imply an attack through Siberia as well as through Europe, through forces shfpped out from the western seaports. It is significant that the federal immigration authorities along the Pacific Coast ask all ar- | tested for working-class activity which country be rendered incapable of protesting by means | of strikes against the reduced wages imposed | by the arbitration comissions. To strike agains the arbitration awards or against the tariff treaties, which have been concluded behind the back of the workers, is considered a violation of the law and is to be treated as such. By means of laws for the defense of the Republic, police regulations and fascistization of the State power, the voice of the revolutionary por- tion of the world proletariat is to be silenced. Then the capitalists believe that the time will have come when the battle cry can be sounded: Bolshevism is the root of all evil! Down with Bolshevism, in order that unemployment may disappear from the world market and world culture flourish again. Down with Bolshe- vism in order that Asia may become quiet again. Down with India, down with Arabia, down with Indo-China, down with China. The market must be ours in order that you, the suffering workers, may have work again. The employers’ offensive is therefore closely connected with the war preparations. All revo- lutionary workers must therefore make ready in order, by means of the counter-offensive of the workers, to break the employers’ offensive and to combat the war danger. It is in this sense that the workers of every country must prepare for August ist, International anti- War Day. The Growth ot the Wage-Cutting Campaign By HARRY GANNES \" (iced are the facts about wage cutting? Every worker remembers the “agreement” last November between Green, Hoover and the leading bosses of the country that was blaz- oned across the front page of every capitalist paper about the “no strike and no wage cut” policy? Green spent months trying to make the workers believe it. Very little is said about this now, for it had the desired effect. But a great deal is being done about it—chiefly by the bosses. * “Short Depression” At first. the bosses believing their own pre- dictions that the “depression would be short lived,’ made underhand reductions in pay. But by April, 1930, the first big blow was struck with the aid of the American Federation of Labor, through the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. After a con- ference between the A. F. of L. officials and the steel bosses of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. the wages of puddlers and finishing mill crews were cut 25 cents a ton. This ef- fected 3,500 workers. This fact was reported by the New York Times of April 27th. On JJune 21st, the Chairman Campbell of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. issued this “We are unalterably opposed to any reduction in wages.” This guff was meant to lull the workers to sleep, with the aid of the A. F, of L., in order to counter-act the growing militancy and radi- calization of the workers, Then followed an avalanche of wage slash ing, which is just now geiniag momentum. and is receiving the expert direction of the big bor-es. The National City Bank in its June Bulletin advocated drastic cuts in all building trades workers pay. With its big ramifica- tions in the building industry this will not stop at words but will find its result in the ab- breviated pay envelope of every building trades worker. The cry for wage slashing was taken up full force by the Wall Street sheet, the Journal of Commerce. A Few Cuts Here are just an infinitesimal number of the wage cuts important enough for the financial papers to report. The worker correspondents in the Daily Worker for the past seven months have given hundreds of other instances: On March 31, the Showhegan Spinning Co., with offices in Boston, slashing wages ten per cent. The excuse was that other cuts had been made in Maine “thus saving a labor cost of twenty-two and a half per cent.” In March, after a splendid fight which was betrayed by the Musteite Full Fashioned Hos- ery Workers Union, the Aberle Mill workers were given a steep cut in wages. On April 11th, the Journal of Commerce re porting wholesale wage cuts for office work- ers in brokerage houses, amounting in many instances to °5 per cent. The Bureau of Agricultural Economies, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, on April 1st, said that “Farm wages on April 1 were the lowest for that date “since the Bureau had ben in existence. On April 24th the New York Evening Post rontained this news item: “Recause of the reduction in the price of copner from 18 to 14 cents a pound last week, the Anaconda Conper Co. announced today a reduction of 25 cents a day in they would support in case of a war between the United States and the Soviet Union. The refusal of the government to permit the sale of planes to the Soviet Union by an American company is due to unwillingness to strengthen those against whom U. S. imperialism is pre- paring a war. Guns and Bullets Instead of Bread and Meat. August First finds the conditions of the work- ers on the Pacific Coast worse than before. In the lumber industry, Washington, Oregon and British Columbia mills operated at 55 per uiners’ wages at Butte, Anaconda and Great Falls, effective May 1.” Another 10 per cent On May 26th, the same workers were given an additional wage cut of 10 per cent. Fifteen thousand men were effected. On May 6th the Utah Copper Co. cut wages for its workers 20 to cents a day. Not content with having betrayed the Aberle Mills strike, the Musteite fakers of the Full- Fashioned Hosiery Workers on June 25th pro- posed to the hosiery bosses that all workers’ wages be cut from 25 to 30 per cent. As a sop to the workers a fake unemployment in- surance scheme was squeezed in. But the Journal of Commerce said about this: “The plans for unemployment insurance are only tentative.” Just a slimy trick to cover up the open collaboration with the bosses to effect the wage cut. On July 22nd, the New York Times reported at least four wage cuts in Youngstown, Ohio alone. The news item read: “Several concerns here haye cut salaries for their entire office personel. The Peer- Jess Electric Co. has made a 10 per cent reduction in salaries and wages at its War- ren plant. Yeho and Hooker, lumber deal- ers of Youngstown and Akron, have made a 20 per cent reduction.” Fisher Sloshes Wages There is the reduction of wages in the Fisher Body lant at Flint, Mich., which was followed by the strike of 5,00€ worke -betrayed by the A. F. of L. and its stool-pigeon Comstock. It is not one of the functions of the capi- talist press to report wage cuts. These men- tioned above are mere ripples that we see after the huge waves have past. Yet they are only the beginnipg. As the crisis sharpens the flocd of wage cuts that the bosses have already planned will be let loose on a grand scale. Every worker feel the effect. These widely scattered “-e cuts in various industries sre not isoleted phenomenon, but are part of the inevitable process of the bss to shift ever heavie- burdens of the of the workers onto the bacts of the workers, That they have tha heln of the A. F. of L. officialdom, and the Muste- ite fakers, is as cledr as day. The Hoover. Green phrases about “no wage never was treant to be anything else than propaganda, while the statements about “no strikes” was meant 100 per cent by the A. F. of L. fakers who attended the Hoover con- ference. v The workers must gird themselves against the mounting wage cuts, It is clear that the A. F. of L. and the Musteite fakers are part of the wage entting mechine ef the bosses, Only vrder the leader f the Tyete Union Unity League will the workers be able to put up a determined fight against the ever in- creasing wage cuts. n reductions” | cent capacity during the week ending June 28. The output for the first 26 weeks by 345 mills was 21 per cent below the same period last year. In the oil industry in California, lay-offs are continuing, with many companies shutting down large production fields. In railroad, metal and other industries, increased lay-offs, in many cases down to a skeleton force, and further wage-cuts. Oakland, Calif., and sur- rounding towns can serve as an example. In the Atlas Imperial Diesel Engine Co., 900 were at work four months ago; now only 375 are at work. Piece-work is being introduced through the stop-watch system. Machinists getting from 7 cents to $1 an hour are fired ‘and their places taken by workers for 50 to 60 cents an hour, Apprentices are hired for $8 a week; seventy-five of them being now employed. In the Chevrolet plant (Gener:! Motors), after a ten days’ lay-off, the four-day week is in prac- tice, instead of six, with a reduced day rate in- stead of piece-work. “n the Key Route rail- road skops, more speed-up, turning out one- man operated cars. The westinghouse plant in Emoryville, formerly employing 350 men, laid off 150 last week. For the last two months, the Byron K. Jackson plant has been shut down entirely. The Caterpillar announces the early shutting down of its plant here, only 150 at work out of a normal force of 650. The work- ers in that shop report that one-half of them will be laid off next week, Until the early months of this year, over a period of eighteen months, it was only the $9,000,000 order from the Soviet Union that kept this western plant of the Caterpillar open. The Elmhurst Foun- dry, making castings for the Caterpillar, has shut down completely. The Southern Pacific shops are now working four days a week, in- stead of five. Engineers and firemen are put to cleaning cars. Men are being laid off in the passenger and freight yards as well. Con- tinued wage-cuts and lay-offs are similarly in evidence in other cities and shops along the Pacific Coast, from the Canadian to the Mex- ican borders, from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacifie Ocean. War Plans On Pacific Coast Maturing. August First finds the war preparations of the imperialists along the Pacific Coast ma- turing. The selection of a site for an army dirigible base at either Sunnyvale (near San Franciseo) or at Camp Kearney (neat the Mexican border) is to be made shortly. Plans are being made for the army base in Alameda. The largest army airplane maneuvers ever held before in this country, held at Mathers’ Field, Sacramento, in April, were followed by sim- ilar maneuvers recently in the state of Cali- fornia. ‘The Pacific fleet is to visit Seattle and California ports within two week: The C. M. T. C. and R. O. T.,C. camps are being pushed extensively. A new American Legion Labor Post was recently organized in San Francisco, from emong trade unionists, by. the fakers in the San Francisco labor movement. The drive against the revolutionary move- ment, against the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League, is increasing. The rejection of the appeal in the San Bernardino Red Flag case, the sentence of six leaders of the agricultural workers of Imperial Vailey to up to forty years in jail, the continued refusal of the authorities to release Mooney an! Bil- ; lings, the Centralia prisoners, or the other class-war prisoners in the jails along the Pa- cifie Coast, the declaration of the chief of po- lice of Los Angeles that Communist meetings were banned in Los Angeles, the increase in the number of workers held for deportation— all these factors indicate the increasing fear of the revolutionary movement by the authorities. As further preparation for imperialist war, the capitalists of this state are. intensifying their persecution of workers of colonial origin. The murderous attack on the Filipino ‘agricul- | tural workers in Watsonville, California, by the bosses and the American Legion some months ago is now followed by similar threats in Sebastopol. Congress slashed the quota of Mexican workers who could enter the United States. The authorities have begun a new wave of arrest under deportation charges of workers of colonial origin, particularly of Chi- nese an! Mexicans. Are We Ready? August First finds our Party on the Pacific Coast better equipped to carry on its work, because of our experiences of March 6 and “AUGUST FIRST AND THE SOVIET UNION By EDMUND GRANTZ UGUST Ist is a day of militant proletarian warning, a day of mobilization of the work- ing class forces throughout the world for the resistance against bloody imperialist reaction and war—-especially so the preparation of war against the Soviet Union—the workers’ social- ist fatherland. “The War to End War”—the war of 1914-15 was the result of unrelenting antagonisms in a rotting capitalist system. The capiialist countries with the aid of the social-democrats —the betrayers of labor, spread the illusion among the working masses that the war of 1914-18 would end all wars because it would aid them in overcoming the existing antagon- isms. But, war proved to be a poor medicine. Now, more than ever before, do the work- ers realize the truth of Lenin’s words when, in November, 1914, he wrote: “Imperialism has put the fate of European culture to the hazard; after the present war, if it will not be followed by a series of suc- cessful revolutions, will come other wars. The legend that this is the Jast war is an idle and dangerous fairy-tale, a piece of petty bourgeois mythology.” The war of 1914-18 did not eliminate the danger of new wars. On the contrary, it was increased and intensified. That we clearly see by the number of incessant wars on a smaller scale than the world, war, occuring the post- war epoch, Deepening Crisis, Today, sixteen years after the slaughtering and crippling for life 20 millions of workers the capitalist world has still not recovered from its consequences. These consequences are the expression of a continuous general crisis in capitalism. Amongst the capitalist countries there is a wilder than ever before cut-throat competition in the struggle for new markets to dump their goods. The pressure against the working class is intensified. The brutal application of speed-up; cutting of wages, lengthening of hours; murdering of workers by the bosses’ government and their police is becoming worse from day to day. The crisis is swelling the ranks of the un- employed. Fresh millions of workers are thrown into the streets to starve. But, while the economic crisis is spreading, and deepening all over the world, seeping into the economic life of one country after another —the growth of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics stands clear and solid. This is one of the main facts that incites the imperialists of the world to make war against the work- ers’ fatherland—the U.S.S.R. The rapid strides that the Russian workers and poor peasants are making in accomplish- ing the socialist reconstruction of the Soviet Union through the Five-Year Plan of indus- trialization, the collective farm movement, and reorganization of agriculture at an un- heard of rate—is the second factor that incites the imperialist powers to war against the Soviet Union, é U.S. Imperialism Takes Lead. The Soviet Union is now closed to capitalist exploitation because the workers and poor farmers there are masters of their own destiny. The imperialist powers have no excess to the Soviet markets, therefore, their intrigues and preparation for war against the Soviet Union. That is why they are trying their damndest to hamper the progress of he socialist construc- tion in the workers’ fatherland. American imperialism takes the initiative in all attacks o nthe Soviet Union. Witness the embargo being places on Soviet imports into jy this country such as lumber, coal and matche: The excuse given is that these are produce convict labor! The cunning lies of the cay italist “Free Press!” Where is there a land, a country, toda where the condition of the working class i so much on the upgrade as in the Sovie Union? Where else but in the Soviet Unio have the workers got the 5-day week and th 7-hour day; social insurance, unemployed ir surance—free, really free education for th workers’ children and the rest homes for th workers? Yes, even bourgeois observers are forced t admit the fact that, to their extreme regrei everything is moving, in the Soviet Unior contrary to the predictions made for the las thirteen years. Yes, the Soviet Union is moving forwar while capitalism is rotting. The workers o the entire world see it. That is the reaso why the workers throughout the capitalis world are putting up such stubborn figh against their oppression. But, in order not to let the seeds of revol spread the imperialist powers are determine to destroy the Soviet Union—our socialis fatherland. That is why they are organizin; a social-fascist steel ring around the Sovie Union. That is why they attempt to form a economie blockade and to organize militar: intervention against the U.S.S.R. Refuse to Sell Machinery. Witness the attempt of the American im perialist government to refuse to sell machin ery to the workers’ government. America’ intervention last year in the dispute settlemen between the Chinese military bandits, wh: seizel the Far Eastern R.R. in Siberia and th Soviet Union. Witness the stop put by American imperial ism to the conclusion of a contract betwee: an American aeroplane concern and the Sovie Union while ammunition, guns and aeroplane. are freely sent, “on credit,” to the Chines: butchers who slaughter Chinese workers anc peasants; initiating loans to fascist Polan and Roumania and, to the bloody tyrants rul ing Mexico in the name of American imperial ism. We workers must fight against the wa) preparations of the imperialist powers agains our socialist fatherland. We must be on guarc together with the Red Army of the worker: to repulse the new attempts at blockade, in: terventions and wars against the land of th« proletarian dictatorship. A new war of the imperialist is imminent The Soviet Union—the fortress of the prole: tarian dictatorship is threatened to be at: tached first and foremost by the blood thirsty imperialists. On August Ist the workers of the entire world under the banner and leadership of the Communist Internation and the Communist Parties will organize a militant review of their forces is preparation for the struggle against the coming imperialist slaughter, Rally August Ist. On August Ist, the revolutionary workere will demonstrate against and unmask the hypocrisy of capitalist “peace” which is prep- aration for imperialist wars and, wa ragainst the Soviet Union. The mass demonstrations on August 1st. will prove to the capitalists the readiness of the working masses in their defense of the socialist fatherland—the Soviet Union. August Ist must be the signal for the work- ing masses in a real revolutionary struggle against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union. Appeal ot the Communist Parties of U.S. and Mexico 'ELLOW WORKERS: The Communist Parties of the United States and Mexico, sections of the Communist Inter- national, appeal to all exploited by imperialism and the bourgeoisie of Mexico and the United States to struggle together against their com- mon enemy. The bourgeoisie of the United States has just given orders to adopt the Harris Law which limits the immigration of Mexican work- ers to 1,800 pre annum. For many years the workers of Mexico have gone into the beet and cotton fields of California, Texas, New Mexico, etc, and with their hard labor they changed these fields into fertile soil. The cap- italists and rich farmers have exploited the Mexican workers, making them work like beasts for miserable wages, mistreated and humiliated them. Today, when the crisis has created an army of eight million unemployed, the exploiters and servants of capitalists of the United States approve the Harris Law whcih closes the frontiers to the Mexican work- ers, whose labor they don’t need now. The Communist Parties of Mexico and the United States fight in their respective coun- tries for the betterment of the conditions of the working class and to overthrow the respec- tive exploiting classes and to establish a euv- ernment of the workers, that is, to establish a government such as in the Union of Social- ist Soviet Republics, where the workers and poor peasants excercise power and are the May 1, better equipped because of the diseus- sions and decisions of our Seventh National Party Convention, particularly dealing with the necessity of reaching the factories and rooting the Party inside. In San Francisco speakers’ conferences and the week-end school are serv- ing to make more effective our preparations for August First. August First finds more activities within the armed forces. For May Day, only one leaflet was distribute! to the soldiers in the Presidio and in one National Guard Company. August First alrealy records a special bulletin sent to over a hundred pres- ent in one C, M. T. C. camp. Similar activity is planned for other C, M. T. C, and National Guard Camps. A special August First leaflet will be given out to the armed forces. Our fundamental weatness still remains insuffi- cient contact with the shops, insufficient con- centration -by the street units on a shop in their territory. In the last week before August First meetings will be held at factory gates every day. Alrealy a meeting has taken place on the waterfront and before the Ford plant. August First places upon the Party Distiicts on the Pacific Coast grave responsibili bosses of their own lands and factories. The Communist Parties of Mexico and the United States don’t wage the struggle separately with- in the national boundaries of their respective countries. On the contrary, their struggle is an international one, forming and re-enforcing the most intimate alliance against the bour- geoisie and imperialism and for the victory oi Communism the world over. The United States and Mexico are neighbors and Mexico is subjected to the complete dom- ination of American imperialism which directs and maneuvers the g ernors of Mexico, enfor- cing upon them a policy which best serves the interests of the bandits of Wall Street; the workers of the United States are subjeced to the exploitation and oppression of the same capitalists, industrialists and bankers who ex- ploit the Mexican workers as well. Therefore it is evident that the workers and poor peas- ants of Mexico and the workers of the United States must unite in order to struggle agains their common enemy, against imperialist ban dits, against the bourgeois governments, agains the instruments of capitalism and imperialism, against Hoover and Ortiz Rubio, The eighty million unemployed in the United States and the seven hundred thousand in Mex- ico create the most formidable reyolutinoary ferment, and the greatest threat to the entire system of bourgeois and imperialist banditry, of both countries, as well as of the whole con- tinent which is being daily conquered and dom- inated by the Wall Street dollars. The workers and poor peasants yho still keep their jobs but who suffer the consequences of rationaliza- tion, wage cuts, increasing of working hours, intensification of exnloitation and the general offensive of the possessive class, must fight shoulder to Ppuices, with .e unemployed. The cause of the former is the cause of the latter. It is the mission of the Communist Parties of Be countries to ors end lead the strug- gle. Fellow workers and poor farmers of the Un’. States « “201 Unite in struggle against vationalizati, ., against unemployment, against capitalist exploiation and oppression, against imperialism, against the Harris Law “jainet th imperialist, g-vernment of Hoover and the le: evolutionary government o / "yo. Long ' ¢ the Communist United States and Mexico! Long liv. the Comm * ‘st Inter ational! Lone live the worl” proletarian revolution! wties of the CENTRAL CO...) \PTED, cer" ‘IST PARTY OF THE U.S. A. CE} ‘UL COMLITTER, COMMUNIST PARTY OF MEXICO.