The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 25, 1931, Page 4

Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Inc Page Four “VILNIS” REN one Algonquin 7956-7. TAINS A COM- MUNIST PAPER mong the Li ica. The ne agents of the capita nks of the workers therefore the Communist influence. Lil revolutionary instigators of the Ki rebellion raised the slogan: “Soviets Wi Communist Part hese enemies of the w in the ranks of the Li ers raise the slogan “A Communist out a Communist Party.” False arguments of all sorts were raised dem- agogically—legalistic, financial, personal But the political issue was carefully concealed. Lately also those jackals of the battlefields of the class struggle, the Lovestoneiies, tered the field. They watch for of the working class and for movement in the ranks of the wor hope that these movements may replenish the rapidly depleting ran! Pursui they circulated the lying statements of position in the ranks of the Lithu jan we ers, added some lies. of their own and pre- pared for some anti-Communist maneuvers Yet the ranks of the Lithuanian workers have en- rank and file misled by demagogy their confidence in nd in the Communist y realized that the springing from personal grievances, but the Communist Party and onal, they deserted the They refused to enter a zainst ¢ Intern lict led to an at- ents to wrest from rol and direction ation in Brooklyn. isively defeated was repeated in Chicago in Publishing Company. In the recent ’ meeting in the Vilnis, terrific ef- e made to defeat the influence of the Every conceivable petty shopkeepers’ ed to mobilize “property rights” political principles. Every enemy of was mobilized. sers were victorious. But the revo- he Con in the pub- even before When Pruseika, ne opposition, intro- speech with a pro-Party acknowledged the defeat of his nst the Party. 463. present 41 organiza- ‘a as chair- ed the report of the tors majority and ac- rt of the Communist » two shareholders. openly dared i But they left before the The meeting also passed de- demanding of the newly-elected ctors to follow the political guid- he Communist Party and to maintain is in the ranks of the revolutionary pres: routing of the opposition was so thorough t even its organizers and leaders did not re any more in the end to vote against the which endorsed the revolutionary s of the Vilnis and which elected a revo- ry board of directors. This “submission” lieutenants was hypocrisy ice combined. with of es en. ions workers will not be misled by this. nsolidate the ranks of the Lithu- r organizations behind the Party and the yoice of the revolutionary s who had been temporarily mis- leave their misleaders and will help of Vilnis an ever-stronger bulwark the enemies of the working class and ever more efficient leader in the struggle against capitalism. “Fighting” Imperialism Behind By HARRY GANNES. EHIND doors closed to workers a conglomera- tion of liberals, sky pilots, pacifists, Muste- ites, betrayers of the 9 Negro youths in Scotts- boro, together with such renegades from Com- munism as Bert Miller, will meet on June 5th at the New School for Social Research to build up a new organization to aid the bosses to befuddle the workers. Invitations are being sent out on the station- ery of the American Civil Liberties Union under the name of “Conference for Joint Action.” “Joint action” for what? The letter says such matters as “peace,” “civil liberty,” “rights of aliens,” “minority races,” “repression,” “imper- ialism and militarism” will be discussed. ‘The purpose is to establish a milk-and-water liberal federation that will attempt to fool the workers into believing that the liberals are against imperialism and war; for the defense of the rights of Negroes, against repression and for the protection of foreign born. Why this sudden interest in so wide a range of subjects among the usually slow-moving self- satisfied liberals? And what is the cause for such great secrecy? The letter inviting the carefully picked liberals and social-fascists in- sists that: “The sessions are to be open only to delegates from organizations and individuals who register in advance.” Whom do they fear? Certainly not the capi- talist authorities who heartily approve of mis- leading the workers, of confusing the masses on the real struggle against imperialism. The Musteite fakers with their liberal angels want to keep the revolutionary workers from know- ing the extent of their betrayals. Why talk about “minority races and against repression?” Who is carrying on a nation-wide fight on every front for Negro rights? Is it the Civil Liberties Union, or the National Associa- tion for the Advancement of Colored People, both of whom sign the call for this, “Confer- ence for Joint Action?” No! It is the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the Interna- tional Labor Defense. It is the revolutionary workers who are rushing into the breech on the capitalist terror front. The American Civil Liberties Union is domi- nated by Roger Baldwin, recently expelled from the Anti-Imperialist League for his pro-Gan- dhist and pro-imperialist support. At a meeting of the national executive com- mittee of the Anti-Imperialist League Baldwin said; “I supported Gandhi until he betrayed the revolution. Now I am against him.” i: Baldwin supports every bourgeois nationalist A Correction In the statement of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, published in Saturday's Daily Worker, entitled “For a United Struggle to Save Nine Scottsboro Boys,” a printer’s error oceurred. A quotation from a statement by the N. A. A.C. P. was printed as “The N. A. A.C, P. has already instructed its lawyers and co-opera- ted as far as possible .. .” etc. ‘The correct text as given to us by the League of Struggle for Negro Rights reads: “The N. A. A. C. P. has already instructed its lawyers to co-oper- ate as far ar possible...” ete. Fattor. or, Closed Doors faker (up to the point of betrayal). Then, to maintain his reputation as an “anti-imperialist” switches in ne to ward off the full force of his betrayal. For this reason Baldwin was ex- pelled m the Anti-Imperialist League. He replied by saying he would rally the liberals into a new organization to compete with the Anit-Imperialist League. Baldwin and his fellow liberals who are be- coming so “extremely militant” in view of the constant decline of the stock market, are ob- jectively among the best supporters of Amer- ican imperialism. Baldwin's purpose is to or- ganize a group of liberals, socialists and others who will act as a counter-force to the grow- ing leadership of the workers and peasants in the struggle against imperialism in the colonies. ‘The Conference for Joint Action will support the Gandhiites in all colonial countries, strengthening the imperialist front against the masses of workers and peasants. Not content with this form of aid to capi- talism in its dire moments, these liberals are putting up a buffer organization to the real united front of Negro and white against lynch- ing. It is no accident at all that at this mo- ment, when the Scottsboro United Front Con- ferences are spreading throughout the country, under the leadership of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, that the liberals of the League for Industrial Democracy, the Civil Lib- erties Union, and the NAACP meet behind closed doors—not to fight lynching but to put up a bulwark against those who are carrying on the struggles against lynching and for Ne- gro rights. The main point of discussion will be “peace.” The liberals love to wallow in phrases about “peace.” It behind the mask of “peace and disarmament” that Hoover prepares the work- ers for slaughter. It is under the slogan of “peace” that MacDonald slaughters the Indian masses, carries on the maneuvers in behalf of British imperialism, and for war on the Soviet Union. ‘The closer war comes, the louder the tiberals shout “peace” to keep back the militancy of the workers, Much in the style of Baldwin's shouting for Gandhi “until Gandhi betrayed the revolution,” so the liberals shout for peace— until war comes, and then they stab the work- ers in the back. The liberal petty-bourgeoisie who during the present crisis are rapidly drifting into the fas- cist camp, through their schemes for “planning capitalism,” are joining the ranks of Ham Fish and the red-baiters, but under different colors, Fish comes out openly and rants against the Reds. But Baldwin and his crew do it under a pale pink flag. Under the guise of “peace,” “against repression,” “in behalf of workers, aliens and minority races,” they carry on an attack against the revolutionary workers, against the Anti-Imperialist League (which Fish attacks); against the International Labor De- fense (which is attacked by all agents of the white terror); against the League of Struggle for Negro Rights (which is anathema to the Southern ruling class), Baldwin is “uniting” the Whberals and social- fascists against the revolutionary, working i feat — faily except Sund. Cable: Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York. N, ¥. HELP NEEDED! By mall everywhere of Manhattan and | < sursceIPriON RATES: One year, $6; six months. $3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs New York Cty, Foreign: one year, $8+ six months. N $4.50. By BURCK Benefit Society Con wvenes By MAX BEDACHT. 'N a few days the International Workers will have its national conyention. This pro- letarian mutual benefit society has established itself firmly in its one year of existence. It 2 Bow fairly on the way to become what it nagfe implies—International in composition and international in ideology, proletarian in com- position and proletarian in aim. A real international proletarian mutual bene- fit organization is an absolute necessity in the United States. The capitalist interests of the United States have steadfastly defeated every effort to establish social insurance. While it is necessary that the workers continue and in- crease their struggle for the establishment of social insurance, they are also forced to create through mutual support that indispensable help which the capitalist state refuses them. The capitalist class exploits this. circumstance for itself. Proletarian mutual benefit societies should really be momuments of shame to capi- talism which denies support to workers in need although its whole system depends upon these very workers. Proletarian mutual benefit so- cieties should also be organizations which or- surance. Finally, proletarian mutual benefit so- cieties by their very necessity of existence, should demonstrate and fill the need for united prole- tarian action. The existing mutual benefit societies unfor~ tunately, with the exception of the Interna- tional Workers Order of course, present an en- tirely different picture. In these organizations capitalist leadership succeeded in covering with mantles of patriotism and of mysticism the obvious purposes of proletarian mutual support the workers. cieties, though overwhelmingly proletarian in com- position, are not monuments of shame to capi- talism, but towers of it strength. Though built on the need for mutual support because of the refusal of support by the capitalist state, the bourgeois leadership makes these organizations supporters of the capitalist state. The various mutual benefit societies composed of foreign born workers of specific nationalities, are made by their bourgeois leaders into auxiliaries of their fascist or semi-fascist home governments. Instead of defending the interests of its mem- bers, these members are misused to follow the dictates of their respective national embassies or consulates. The American mutual benefit societies, such as the Eagles, Elks, Odd Fellows, are hothouses of democratic illusions and are incubators of patriotic poison. In these organ- izations the bosses and the upper strata of the working class rub shoulders and feed the illu- sion of equality, with the help of mystic rituals and other poisonous nonsense the proletarian membership of these organizations ‘is blinded to the fact that after all they are forced to spend their money through these organizations because the capitalist state refuses them help in case of sickness or death, that is just when they or their families need it most. ‘The International Workers Order rejects all mystic nonsense and combats all patriotic poison. It bases itself openly on the necessity of the working class to band together for mutual help and for united struggle for social insurance, It proclaims openly that the purpose of its organization is not to bring all the South Slavic or the Negroes or the Finnish or the Jewish workers into one organization to feed nationalism, but to bring all workers irrespective of nationality and color together to feed their stomachs in time of need and to fight together for their interests. The International Workers Order aims to build up a proletarian mutual benefit society in which all workers, white and black, native or foreign born pool their strength for mutual support as well as for united defense of their interests, At the same time the International Workers Order recognizes the language difficulties of foreign born workers and the necessity to make possible for every worker intimate participation in the life of the order. For this reason its organizational structure provides for language groupings with foreign language correspondence, agitational material and even language organs and the utmost language autonomy compatible with the necessary 0 an tional centralization. ganize and support the struggle for social in- | in the face of the capitalist efforts to starve Most existing mutual benefit so- | Proletarian Mutu: ‘Right Way and Wrong Told in Reports trom Council onpay "2 two reports on activities councils and bran ches. . Report blanks were sent to all unemployed councils and branches by the TUUL national office requesting a report on activities. Mon- day morning's mail brought the first two re- mail brought of the first unemployed morning's Question How many dues paying members in your unemployed branch? How many members admitted organized? How many members attended your largest membership meeting? How many members attend now? How many mambership meetings dd you hold each week? How many propag&nda meetings hold each week? Has your branch investigated workers’ neighborhoods to ascertain starvation con- ditions? since you do you Did your branch carry on struggles for food for starving families? | Did your branch assist starving families directly? Haye you a large strong committee every meeting of your city government? Have you carried on any major struggle against city government lately? at Additional comment by Council are growing rapidly because we are taking up things that interest the workers. We have an executive committee of 14. Our young members aged 15 to 20 years, had a very successful party the other night. Comrade Klein comes here from Kansas City and teachers us in a class. Geo. Papcun helps us very much. We are be- hind in winning Negro and foreign born work- ers but we are correcting this. We are going out into the country May 18 to speak to farm- ers. We are organizing a baseball team. We are beginning the work of organizing, metal, railroad, food and laundry workers into unions, who belong to our branch, many of whom are employed. We have 40 per cent women in our branch.’ They take militant part in our ac- tivities. We had 75 children in our May Day parade and 125 stayed out of school. We take up problems of the employed workers. We forced a building contractor to give a five cent increase in wages and to reduce hours from ten to eight. i Additional ¢gsment by Tacoma: Workers will not atten@ meetings and carry on the work. Though this is most highly industrialized town in Northwest, we haye very few class conscious workers. Our branch members migratory and are leaving town for summer. Little chance of doing work now until cold weather comes again, Had no TUUL members until yester- day when we organized a carpenters’ group. Plenty of poverty exists and we have more un- employed here than last winter when we had about 10,000. Since May 1, a pulp mill, a saw mill and the Milwaukee railroad shops laid off another 1,000 workers. I am alone in the work here. Our Comment: Possibilities for work among the unemployed are seemingly much more ad- vantageous in Tacoma than in Council Bluffs. Yet in Council Bluffs we have a mass move- ment, and in Tacoma activities are going to be suspended for the summer. Tacoma makes the error of basing its movement upon itinerary workers, instead of upon workers and families living in Tacoma, Council Bluffs receives aid from its district headquarters, Tacoma does not, Comrade Klein, in going from\Kansas City to Council Bluffs, travels six times the distance between Seattle, district headquarters in Wash- Workers Order must bring it one step nearer its goal. In the selection of its leadership as well as in ecisions about its policies, it must “Iuffs: We Blufts and Tacoma ots, from two western cities, Council Bluffs, owa and Tacoma, Wash. Because the two ports indicate opposite poles, life, growth, ac- vity, mass movement in Council Bluffs, and <sintegration, inactivity, pessimism in Tacoma, 2 publish these reports as valuable material r Sur unemployment movement. Answer by Answer by Counce’, Bluffs Tacoma About 350 14 500 250 225 35, 225, None last meeting. One One One None We carry on investi- gations thru whole Did not carry on this city. kind of work. An attempt was made Yes, Feb: 10, May 1, but workers lacked May 18. enthusiasm. Our members would We did in some cases. not undertake this. No. None since March 6, 1931 . Not. yet, but we will. Yes. Way Is | Batcfaute | By JORGE cece The Class Role of Mosquitoes Concerning the noisy Mrs. G us, through the latest Trotsky or urday Evening Post,” to “See Russia Jaughing,” Comrade Zell writes thet— “In the great forward surge of humanity (the Soviet advance to socialism), Mrs. Grady is just about as annoying and as inconsequential as a mosquito buzzing about the head of a scientist at the critical moment of his most important | experiment.” Well, comrade, she is an insect, all right. then mosquito ccording not only buzz, but also bite. get the idea that the Soviet merely for “a joke about Stalin ers, and foreign ones, also, make Stalin every d: and nobody cares. Give the G. P. U. credit for having the on her and her side-kick, who was call: for \ “American coal operators to organize nst Soviet, dumping” before he was ten minutes over | the Soviet border on the way out Even the article she wrote in the “Saturday | Evening Post” had far more serious things in it against the Soviet Union than the joke about Stalin. For instance, she said that she went to the laundry there, but found that the laundry workers were on the Five-Day Week and that the place was closed, it being one of the days off. : Now anyone who knows beans about the Five- Day Week knows that it is in uced along i with the “continuous work week”; that is, one- fifth of the workers are off each day, but the work goes on every day, with four-fifths of the working force always on the job. It is plain that Mrs. Grady was merely and not joking about it, either. However, even the joke she told, about an tm- aginary peasant who saved Stalin from drown- ing, and when he found out who he was asked only that Stalin not tell anybody that he, the peasant, had saved him—this joke is an old one. Indeed we had used that? same joke on Mus solini a week or so before Mrs. Grady’s article appeared, Some Esperanto entht had sent it to us, translated from an Esperanto paper. We did not know that it was an old joke, sprung on successive famous men for unnumbered cen- we doubt that the Soviet Govern- such measures as deportation against people because they tell jokes that are too old. | No, it was no joke that got Mrs. Grady in- | vited out of the Soviet Union. There was a | counter-revolutionary rat in the Grady family, and maybe a couple of rats. Something more than a mosquito. iy, who asked the “Sat- and die But to our experience, And nobody should gave her the air Russian work- | jokes about goods lying, | | | The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain's story about the Prince and the Pauper has nothing on that of the American swindler, John Factor, who cleaned up a cool $7,000,000 from ambitious Britishers who thought that the Prince of Wales was an en- dorsement of the worthless stock Factor was selling them. Factor, once a barber, left the honest toil of trimming whiskers, and, after varidus.-shady operations, landed in Europe, more particularly he landed at Deauville, France, where the Ca- sino was running full blast. He said that on August 16th, last year, he won $650,000 playing chemin de fer, a game with a French name that means “railroad.” The Prince of Wales came around and Factor struck up an ac- quaintance. He says: : “I talked with him for some time. He asked how I won the $650,000 and I told him in detail the plays I had made. When we got up from the table he took me out to the bar and bought me a drink.” So it seems that gullible British bourgeois who think their prince is the soul of righteousness, heard that he was pally with Factor, and so bought Factor’s stock. Kinda’ funny, eh! Incidentally, we note that when this $7,000,000 swindler was pinched in Chicago, at the demand of the angry British, his defense attorneys were | ington, and Tacoma. Yet Comrade Klein has a study class in Council Bluffs, but no leading comrade goes from Seattle to Tacoma to or- ganize a class. In regard to activities and de- velopment of initiative by the employed and unemployed workers, the two reports speak for themselves. Every comrade active in our move- ment can draw his own lessons. ALFRED WAGENKNECHT, Secretary, TUUL Committee for Work Among the Unemployed. Uncover Starvation and Misery The capitalist press, the agents of the ruling class, has been publishing less and less news about unemployment. It hides the starvation of the unemployed workers’ families. We must constantly expose the miserable treatment of families of the unemployed by the city governments and charity institutions. We must uncover all cases of starvation, un- dernourishment, sickness, We must pub-. lish these cases in our press, in the Daily Worker, in Labor Unity, tell them at all workers’ meetings. Un- employed Councils should publish bulletins to inform all workers of the starvation and misery of the unemployed. Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party U. S. A. P. O. Box 87 Station D. New York City. Please send me more information on the Cum- munist Party. Name . seeeceececesansecevesees Address seeeeseeee CIty .scccccceeccsccccseseeess BtAte ssseseeeees Occupation «. . Age seneee partners of U. S. Senator Glenn. Funny, too, isn't it, that such attorneys never rush forward to defend “reds” or strikers! A Useless Life Logically Ended Ralph Barton, an artist whose “work” was especially well paid because it didn’t mean a darn thing, committed suicide the other day. Here is what he said about it: “I have run from wife to wife, from house to house and from country to country in a ridiculous effort to escape myself. I did it (killed himself—Jorge) because I am fed up with inventing devices for getting through 24 hours every day and bridging over a fev months periodically with some beautiful, ar+ tificial interest, such as a new gal who aw noyed me to the point where I forgot my own troubles.” Such is the reason that a princely paid artist prostitute for capitalist journals gives for doing the dutch. He had no purpose in Iffe, so it was quite logical that he should stop living. A revolutionary artist, one which is devoted to the world-wide movement of struggle and emancipation of the working class, never has _ to worry how he is to manage to occupy the 24 hours, to “escape from himself” as an unbear- able companion. If one wants to know why Barton killed himself, just look at Barton's work, look at the pictures he drew. @ fay ve Pi The Statue of Deportation. Dear Jorge;—Upon a recent visit to the so- called “Statue of Liberty” I noticed a con- temptible demagogic inscription on one of the pillars of this great mute edifice, typical of U. S. capitalist hypocrisy. It reads as follows: “Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she With silent lips, “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, ‘The wretched refuse of your teeming shore © Send there, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift the lamp beside the Golden Door.” She “lifts her lamp,” these days, to show the way out, as per order of Secretary Doak. In- deed, there ought to be an “Exit” sign on her upraised mitt. But while we're being poctic this evening we are reminded of another ome by someone whose name we don't recall, It said “They were wist men who have set, you.