The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 10, 1931, Page 8

wa i s f e ’. 5 . at 50 Rast 7 SURSCKUTIUN RATER Page Eight perans “sud mall all checks to the Dally Worker, £0.fes 13th Street New Fork, 6. ¥. c " P USA of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign: One year, $8; six months $450 By BURCK i conditeaionmniemnineiandemneanay “ 7 ‘i m9 9 mee : | “POLICE CLUBS WON’T STOP Us! serves ore s SUPPORT THE NICA A iw, 24 A bg WORKERS AND PEASANTS By ALBERT MOREAU. (Secretary Anti-Imperialist League.) THREE years of active marine occupation and military control of the elections in Nicaragua, repeated abuses of the American marines and the virtual military dictatorship of the Puppet Moncada Gove! ent of Nicaragua and the in- tolerable conditions of the poor peasants, are the main causes for the renewed offensive of the ‘Army of Liberation now in a gu war- fare against the foreign invaders, leading up to he killing of 8 marines and the Wounding of more. American imperialists, in order to cover up their greedy and rapacious desi’ s for the com- plete svhiuention of Nicaragua, have mobilized their press ‘or war against “banditry” in Nueva Segovia. An undeniable fact is that the poor, downtrodden peasants in that region and in fact, throughout Nicaragua, are swelling the ranks of the revolutionists in a desperate fight against the invaders and the Moncada regime The most vivid indication of the imp 1 regime of terror installed by the American g ernment wl has comp'*te control anc sup vision of the National Guard, is the result of the last elections which took place in Nicaragua in September of 1930. No more than 40 per cent of the electorate appeared before the polls to cast their votes. A more important event that clearly demonstrates the great discontent of the oppressed masses against the “national” gov- ernment and the demagogues of the Pan-Amer- ican Federation of Labor, is the withdrawal ot the Nicaraguan Federation of Labor from mem- bership in the Pan-American Federation of Labor last August and its affiliation to the revo- lutionary Latin Labor. The revolutionary recrudescence of the masses in Nicaragua is now shown by the at- tempt of the peasants and workers to blend to- gether, in spite of the fascist terror, in a joint struggle against imperialism and the feudal land- lords. The present revolt of the peasants and tenant farmers against the enormous taxes im- posed upon them by the big landlords who con- stantly cail i American coni~~led Na- tional Guard to stifle any discontent, has taken its highest expression in their joining the Army 1 the | th American Confederation of | of Lit in an attempt to put an e~~ to r unbearable conditions of ruin, misery and starv-* The pec.” of Nicaragua are now fighting for land, against the exaction of tribute by the big coffee growers, against the exploitation, of the United Fruit Co. that owns rich lands, against their government which is, selling out. the coun- try to United States bankers and against Amer- ican marive rule. In this desperate struggle, the imperialists of the United States recruit the support of many demagogues, charlatans, and “caudillos” who speculate with Wall Street with the blood shed by the people of Nicaragua. Dr, Zepeda, the announced official representative of Sandino and Jose Constantino Gonzales, self- styled secretary to Sandino, are now “appealing” to Senator King for the withdrawal of Amer- ican marines, assuring him that “Sandino would down arms and our country would be com- pletely pacified if the marines are withdrawn.” In the first place, Senator King is no more in- terested in the withdrawal of marines from Nica- than he is for the independence of. Haiti n he so demagogically tries to fool the masses as a “sponsor” of their .inde- ence. These Latin American lackeys of im- ism do not and cannot speak for the op- pressed people of Nicaragua. In spite of the fact that the Army of Liberation has no pro- gram for a solution of the land question and the ousting of foreign robbers (we have in the past again and again pointed out the danger in the lack of such a program), the people re- sort to the armed struggle in which they find an effective means to curb the power of their exploiters, national and foreign. All true anti- imperialists, particularly the Communist parties, must give full support to this struggle in which the peasants fight for their national liberation. In spite of the basic shortcomings, particularly, the tendency to compromise with imperialism, Yankee or British, by Sandino himself, the sup- port given to the present struggle is a support against imperialism and its national tools. How- ever, we are confident that the discontent of the workers as expressed in the severance of the Nicaraguan Federation of Labor from the Pan- American Federation of Labor, will crystallize it- self into a class conscious movement that will lead the future struggles of the peasants for a revolutionary struggle for national liberation. ‘What Are the Starving Farmers to Do? By HARRISON GEORGE. ‘OMPETITION between experts in hypocrisy marks the response of capitalist politicians | | to the demand for bread backed up by guns | {g the hands of Arkansas farmers. Both republicans ahd démocrats united, in si- lence, to vote for thé addition ot $15,000,000 to the so-called drought relief bill, fully conscious that it would be eliminated the next hour, as they had eliminated it three weeks before. Why the silence now, on a question which three weeks ago brought the noisy wrath of Hoover and Uyde? Why, if not the armed mass action ot starving farmers had forced a temporary retreat? Meanwhile this hypocritical action of the White House took place, the governor of Ark- ansas, Harvey Parnell, was wiring eastern papers saying that “no rioting or violence has taken Place.” He admits that on Jan. 3, however, “several cundred farmers requested and deinand- ed food.” Merely a polite “request,” with “guns rents, mortgages and interest, taxes, railroads, | monopolies which buy your produce and sell-you things. That ‘s why we say Senator Caraway is a hypocrite, because he talks as though you suf- | fer only: from weather, when the truth is that the drouth would not have hurt you if-it had not been that the capitalist class, of which he is a part, robs you every day in every way. Senator Robinson comes from the Arkansas couniy where the starving farmers demanded food with arms, and got it; Robinson ¢omes from Arkansas, the State whose people are “not able to pay their taxes” and which cannot feed its own people, according to Congressman Parks. bulging from their pockets,” to quote capitalist | press reports! But Governor Parnell goes further: “The peo- ple of Arkansas and the Red Cross are taking care of the situation in a satisfactory manner. Conditions, though not good, are not alarming.” It seems to take a great deal to alarm Goy- error Parnell. But unfortunately for him, his more adept demagogic friends in the U. S. Con- gress flatly contradict him. Senator Caraway of. Arkansas, anxious to make political capital of Hoover’s hypocrisy to conceal his own, re- tuted Governor Parnell by saying: “The Red Cross said yesterday that it now is feeding 100,000 persons in Arkansas. It ex- pects by the first of next month to be feeding 250,000. But even when it feeds those, it won't be feeding half of those actually destitute now.” Representative Parks, o nthe floor of the Low- er House. meanwhile was refuting Governor Par- nell, declaring that the Red Cross had not only failed to feed the starving, but is “not tryin, to do it.” Adding that the state government of Arkansas was bankrupt: “Our people Are not able to pay their taxes and keep up the State ‘With such confession of hypocrisy and bank- ruptey, what are the starving masses of poor farmers and share-croppers of not only «.rkansas, but other sections, though especially the South, to do? Firstly, they must realize. that only the Eng- Jand, Arkansas action forced the capitalist gov- ernment t. make even the gesture of giving them relief it formerly denied; and that continued, better organized and more widespread action is necessary it they expect to get anything more than hot air and sympathy from Washington. ‘To organize, form Committees of Action locally vy township or vounty, Decide your demands by* majority vote in mass meeting, for an in- crease in relief if inadequate, for relief if there is none, for your own committee control of/it in- ! sad of the Red Cross. Unite all poor and « “ing without regard to race or color. pread your ideas, your form of organization and action as widely as possible, to other town- shins, to other counties. Only thus will you gain strength to stand successfully against opposition, which may even mean martial law, because the government is against you, no matter what boss politicians ‘say. Secondly, unite your fight with the fight of the city workers for Unemployment Insurance. Write to the United Farmers League, New York Mills, Minnesvta, for its program and its proposai that in the shape of full cash compensa- paid for crops lost wholly or in raised from taxes on bankers, the farm produce gamblers who g that the drought is not the suffer; that you are robbed by But Senator Robinson actively supported the London Naval Treaty, which meant spending $1,000,000,000 for more warships for the United States! Demand all war funds be used to feed and house the starving workers of the cities and | starving farmers of the country! Unite—to stop paying rent! Refuse to pay mortgages or ‘in- terest on taxes! And all together prevent any seizure for taxes, and evictions from your homes! a Fourthly, remember that only action counts, and that in such action you will be opposed. by all capitalist politicians, even ‘those pretending to be you~ friends; that. only in the Communists and other really militant workers of the cities will you find a loyal support and brotherly as- sistance. JAMES REINTZ (RENTZ) EXPOSED ASASPY re Philadelphia district. organization of» the Communist Party, after a»careful check-up and investigation, has ‘established that James Reintz (Rentz), whose picture appears’ Heréwith, was acting as a company spy during the 1919 steel strike in Bethlehem, Pa., and that his recent © actions and-behavior have been those of a double- dealer and imposter. ~ In the steel mills’ he % worked as an inspector, moving from one depart-' ment to another and causing the discharge of a number, of workers Then he moved to Balti- more, Md., and claims to ~ Rave been an insurance agent. * . In Philadelphia he posed as an engineer work- ing on a night shift, but was found.to be going home when he said.that he was going to work, and that in doing this he was using a zig-zag course to cover up his tracks, When pressed with questions as to his move- ments and sources of income, he threatened to call the police and tried to leave the room; he also tried to conceal a’note book, in which he had listed a great number of leading members of the Communist Party, of the Young Commu- nist League, and of the revolutionary trade unions. It appears that since his exposure he has left Philadelphia, and his present whereabouts are not known. He speaks many languages, includ- ing Polish, Ukrainian, Russian and German. All workers’ organizations are warned against this man. Party papers please republish, Central Control Commission, Communist Party of the U. 8.. A. ae = — Awe U.S. S. R.— Revolutionary Father- land of the World Proletariat By G. T. GRINKO People’s Commissar of Finance, U. 8. S. R. | XIX, | program of socialist reconstruction in the | U..S. S. R. is carried out in the midst of | struggle against the Right opportunist elements. And it is in this‘same struggle that the Five- Year Plan has been drawn up and is being suc- cessfully carried into execution; that the vic- | torlous socialist offensive against the remnants of capitalism has been developed; and that the | extirpation of the very roots of capitalism is taking place. The actual course of development has exposed the capitulating character of the Right opportunist deviation and smashed its prophecies, If any danger threatened the worker-peasant bloc of the U.S. S. R. it came not ftom the economic policy adopted by the All-Union Communist Party, but from the sys- tem of economic misconceptions of Right Wing Year Plan is accomplished is not the weakening o the rl :-pe. blo: -the alliar-~ between the proletarian masses and the masses of poor and mid. sury—but ios ~ strer .th- ening. In fact, it is moving into a higher stage, based on the socialist reconstruction of agricul- ture and the entire mode of village life—a re- construction which is carried to realization on the foundation of the successful industrializa- tion of the country and the strengthening of the class "position and leadership of the proletariat, Int $ ot “ie unchallenged facts of, the successful socialist construction, the Right op- portunist oppe-‘tion has been broken up and its jJeaders “ave -~vitulated. (See the declar-‘ion signed ... us trin and Tomsky in No- vember, 1929.) . The U. S. S. R. has long since become the recognized socialist fatherland of the revolution- ary proletariat of the entire world and of the hundreds of millions of oppressed peoples in the colonies, To be for or against the U. S, S. R. signifies, so far as the revolutionary movement of the international proletariat is concerned, to be for or against the proletarian revolution, for , Judgment of the public opinion of the interna- | tional proletariat for more than one year now | the farthest corner of the world and attracted opportunists. What is taking place as the Five- | or against the interests of the working class. It is on this line that the division of political forces In the international political arena is tak- ing place. Proletarian organizations in every nook and corner of the world control the course Of socialist development and socialist construc- tion in the U. S. S. R. Here lies the immense significance of the numerous labor delegations continually visiting the Soviet Union, who so carefully and with such zeal study the actual course of this socialist development. Socialist construction in the U. S. S. R. is taking place under the ceaseless control and continually grow- ing sympathies of the international proletariat. ‘The Five Year Plan and the program of so- cialist development have been submitted to the During this time news of the Plan has reached the greatest attention in literally all its parts. | It has opened new vistas and hopes for the for- | eign friends of the U. S. S. R. Its explicitly so- cialist program was a blow to the capitalist | world. Unlike capitalism, torn by its endless contradictions and now in its decline, there arises on the boundless territory of the Soviet Union a new socialist regime created by the forces of a people 150 million strong. pam ik From The Five Year Plan of the Soviet Union, by G. T. Grinko, one of the original collaborators on the Five-Year Plan of So- cialist industrialization, a complete account of the Plan, containing the first two years of its operation and a political estimate of its place in world economy. By ‘special arrangement with Interna- tional Publishers this $. book FREE WITH THE DAILY \.ORKER FOR ONE YEAR( $8 in Manhattan and the Bronx, $6 outside New York. Rush your subscription to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St. New York. Mention this offer. Smash the Enemy Breastworks! By B. D. .MIS. K order to. perpetrate their system of robbery | * and exploitation of the Negro magses, the white ruling class has spread its poisonous fangs of aatred among the sections of the white laboring class. This breastwork of defense which keeps the Negro and white workers divided, rendering organization more difficult, contributes to the deepening of social antagonisms. Likewise it prevents a unified attack against the boss class by the masses of’ workers to better their living conditions. _ ‘The revolutionary trade unions must recognize the necessity of winning the majority of the working class to fight for better economic condi- tions. -To win the confidence of the Negro work- ers for participation in the struggle, to smash white superiority complex and 100 per cent Yankee arrogance, is a cardinai task of the trade unions. Io achieve this end we must ever be on the alert to destroy the bulwark of white chauvinism, and’ all manifestations of passivity and, resistance to demonosotrate to the Negro workers the correctness of our program of struggle. Recently in the Needle Trades Union in Phila- delphia, the comrades had an opportunity to prove to the Negro workers the correctness ot the union iine towards all workers. But they did not avail themselves of this convenient occasion. At a.dance given by the custom tailor group, several Negro workers attempted to buy tickets to the affair, but were persuaded not to go into the hall as their presence might bring objection from some attending the dance, Betause one of the Negroes did not evidence a spirit te fight and test the attitude of the Yankee arrogants, the comrade offered this as an excuse to not waging a desperate fight immediately. The or- ganizer c* the union took the floor and made a speech, failing to mention the exclusion of the Negroes, but merely explaining the program of the irade Union Unity Leagué on the Negro question, This he thought to be sufficient and would vreak down the opposition. But the Ne- gro workers who remained at the door were not brought ia until the talk was over. Fear of trouble between white workers, poisoned by boss ideology, and Negro workers, would break up the dance was the pretext given preventing drastic action. : Such methods will not destroy white chauvin- ism, but contribute to the support of prolonging the iight and more firmly entrench the capital- ist class in its position to separate the workers and exact. huge profits from their labor. The comrades en mass should have torn the throats of the white chauvinists by ushering in the Ne- gro workers, " With the white comrades in the front a vitriolic attack should nave been launch- ed against these elements in speeches that were delivered. And, yes, in case oof a fight the task of the white comrades should have been to have stood by the side ot the Negroes and to have fought bitterly for the complete rout of the one hundred per cent Americans. Passivity and re- juctance to carry out at once such a reyolution- ary program can not be tolerated in our unions, The white comrades must assume the lecdership ‘The unwilligness to enter the hall on the part. | The National and Colonial Theses Are Now Available The National Colonial Theses Are Now Available— The great work of Lenin and other Bolshevik jeaders on the National and Colonial questions -which was crystallized in the theses adopted by the 11 Congress of the Communist International has not recently been avaiable in English. In order to meet this need the COMMUNIST in its January number which .s ow off the press has reprinted the theses so that all who are interested will have an opportunity to secure these historic documents. As the revolutionary wave develops in the Latin American colonies and semi-colonial countries, in China, India, and other parts of tne world, these questions become of greater and greater | significance to every worker, and especially those are brutal, oppressing the colonial peoples, Lenin long fought the Second International with its opportunistic betrayal of subject people, and its cooperation in keeping them under the | lash of imperialism. Even in our own Party, the overwhelming importance ot the revolution- ary movements in these countries has been seri- ously underestimated. The analysis of the II Congress clarifies and gives these movements their proper emphasis, The January issue of the COMMUNIST also contains a discussion of Lenin's contribution to the Nationa. and Colonial Oppressed, by Harrison George. Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party U.S A. 43 East 125th Street, New York City. Please send me more information on the Cum- munist Party. Name Peeeeeeenes City ..... seeesecereeeeveres.. State ..., Occupation . Age ...... -Mail this to the Central Office, Communist Party, 43 East 125th St., New York, N.Y. WANTED: Thousands of work- ers to: collect signatures for Unemployment Insurance. Collect on streets, at shops and in: neighborhoods of the Negro workers is permissible because the white workers have not shown them that they (the white workers) will sight for the rights of the Negroes and will not desert them in times of a crisis, \ The revolutionary trade union will not tol- erate passivity and resistance to demonstrations that will go a long way toward winning the con- fidence of the Negro workers. Much less will expressions of white chauvinism be permitted. A campaign must pe immediately started in the union in Philadelphia to destroy root and branch all elements and resemblances of white chauvin- ism. The District Control Commission has taken a definite step in the direction to smash the breastworrs of white chauvinism of the enemy by sharply condemning the incorrect methods of fight of the comrades. The breastworks of the enemy must be smashed. It can be done in America just as it was done in the Soviet Union | child finally burst out: By JORGE The League For What-Is-Its The delightful dunces who flutter around flame of social fascism as represented — hy. ie Rev. Muste, the Rev. Norman fhomas and their League for Industrial Democracy (LID, presumes ably to cover-up bad smelling matter), give. us, every once in a while, something to chuckle over. We forebore, a little before Christmas, to come ment on the letter sent out then by the LID, with a “Christmas suggestion” that it would be nice, in fact nothing could be nicer, than to present a friend with a membership card in the LID. It is apparently unnecessary that, ur friend believe in what passes for LID prineipies, if any. Just present him or her with what the high-brows call a “fait accompli,” with a, meme bership. To us, such a gift, especially for Christmas, seems just as welcome as a chunk-of ice down our shirt collar in that season. A few days after Christmas, on Dec. 29, to bé precise, the LID held its “Winter Conference”.at the Union Theological Seminary, That’s perfect for a beginning. Apparently one of those chaps who got a membership in his sock from. Old Santa Thomas, drifted around from Amherst College, where he is “Professor of Economj¢s’=» nothing less. oo As *" professors of economics are not,;Upe posed to know anything about that subject, in fact such knowledge is a positive bar te,get- ting a position on what is described, ironically, as “the faculty,” and as the League for Indus trial Democracy specially attracts those who know nothing about either industry or demoe cracy, the gentleman in question, Professor Cole ston E. Warne, was pushed to the top,..so. to speak, by gravitation as a perfect example of the LID, In fact he delivered the leading lecture, nature ally on a subject for which he is particularly unfitted, namely, “remedies for unemployment.” On this, with much wagging of ears about the wretched planning which characterizes American industry,” the professor got off the following jewel of “industrial « »mocratic” propagandat»*) Hes sted,” says the N. Y. Times in review, “that the wealthy might stimulate business:-by more extravagance, and take 1 lesson fromothe Romans in luxury.” We might. comment a lot on that, but: we'll let ou roll your own, i CN tc Te Another Einstein Discovered We are all breathless about it—this discovery of a guy who can substitute for Einstein in case the old guy kicks off. We are indebted to a contributor to a bourgeois paper for the dis- covery, which is a bit general, but locates Ein stein’s double - (scientifically speaking) as the principal of a suburban school near Knoxville, Tenn. MA It seems that in his school, a teacher explained in class one day that the earth was rounds: ‘The next day a child appeared and said: oe “My maw says fur me tuh git my books and come on home.” oS erode “Why is that?” asked tHe teacher. Butcthe child was timid. Being coaxed to speak up, the “My maw says you ain't fitten to be no teacher. } You tells us the world’s round and my maw says, hits flat, fur the Bible says an angel stoodiat each corner, and how kin they stand thar ef hit's round?” - The teacher, rather up-against-it, went to the ! principal when the child left, and after ‘stat who are exploited by the same imperialists who | ¢ na the case, asked what to do. Here we watit to | interject that only one that is capable of tak- | ing Einstein’s place in “science” could have con= ceived the answer which came. It was: “Teach it round to them who wants it and flat to them whe wants it flat!” 9 A Slight Mistake" The ali-powerful if noi all-wise Businesd-Office walks in with a letter from India. Yes, sir, Not! from Ghandi, but from another faker, who sign. himself. the Principal of the Old Indian Medical College at Barnala, Patiala State, “Registered by the Government of India,” if you please, And what does this Honorable Gentleman want, but that we rur an ad for his pills,anagic« ally compotinded “for impotency and geheral: de- “bility.” We>suggested that the following reply. be sent: ee ORS: “Dear Siri—¥our add it not acceptablesta: the Daily Worker, No. doubt, being so far away, you did not Know that’ the Daily Worker and the Communist Party of which it is the offigial or- gan, has long been rid of Messrs. Lovestone and Gitlow. In view of their present political il- ness, they, of course, may be interested, in. your, pills. We therefore suggest that you address the. “Revolutionary, Age,” OL Gory. | Bete qecbe| California Cabbage “The American farmer has ne.er askedce! ghar, \ ity,” wrote..the Los Angeles Times editor. op « Dec. 20, 1950, gnd a reader sent the clipping to the Daily Worker, just in time tay, along with the story of how the Arkansas farm- ers not only “asked,” but demanded. of and editors. grow. in. the same row in rite ere | Rectification Wes: he other day, we wrote some. coi about Southern papers, comparing.a couple of hog-wash Baptist sheets to the Southern Worker, one comrade came in, telling us he wwa moved to. fears,.almost, and started reae his jeans for cash to send that a the Southern Worker, to aid in the. } when he noticzd trat, we, gosh hang mentioned that. it was published in Bi but failed, failed utterly, to say Just. dress, We now officially rectify our omission, hy sate ing that the Southern Worker's address i i 1813, Birmingham, Alabama, Now, boys, when we see the complaining rade next time, we'll expect him to, loney order receipt made out to that, yu dress, en The sathe cothrade said that other, remarked that when we spoke of ‘the Farmers League, and its fighting United Farmer,” we also didn’t give: of an address that just: New York N nesota, _ 4 ace : Well, in that case, it might be quite enough, since reports are, that New York Mills, nesota, is not quite so complica‘ ’ \d New York. But if you want to be it sure Of it, address the League or the paper at Box 278, New York Mills, Minnesota, And be sure you don’t call it New York City, or it might. aye Us for slander, libel or something, ca