The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 22, 1931, Page 4

i | { e Four y the Comprodaily New York City, N. Y. Address and mail all checks to the Da ru ephone Algonquin 7956-7. y Worker, 50 Hast 13th Street, ishing Co,, Ine. @ally except Suaday Cable: at ov Yi DALWOR: New York, N. ¥ » v ' Rabbi Waldman and the Pope’s Encyclical today are were called ge of name, i in which co-operation of labor and y to grant labor its share of the benefits of their (the ks for organization of ve peaceful inten- f fascist unions (which h ‘ouble with Musso- But the ma in! of this encylical a kindly hand upon the shoulder of the socialists, at ne warning that a true catho! r easons argues capital; ¢: “rightful workers’) productio the workers, try, of cultural, social’ and political life in the Soviet Union, with the growing pauperization, | misery, adation of the | S arasitical, degen- eracy of the capitalist class in the capitalist countries. He sees that the workers and poor farmers are responding to the policies and slo- gans of the Communist Party in the capitalist and colonial countries. A volcano of revolution is erupting in many countries of Europe and Asia—and therefore the Pope comes to the help of capitalism to stay the disaster to the present system that stares it in the face. The Pope is shrewd: he damns liberalism—and yet he speaks the language of liberalism. This is the maneu of the so-called “left wing” of capitalism, which tries to counteract the grow- which we will late n), and particularly | ing wave of revolution by radical phrases, but to wage war on Communism. counter-revolutionary actions. The Murray But- The reason for this is clear: When Pope lers, Shipsteads, Pinchots, Brookharts, Borahs Leo issued his not ) encyclicgl | are more dangerous to the working class than fifty yea nst the Sec- | Hoover. Mellon, Grundy, or the like. The former organized jist move- since thi The world war int the socialists and the Pope gave when their blessing to the international butchery of vened, the working cla: The Russian Revolution also “happened” Russian Social Democratic Party (Bolsheviki)—now Communist Party—had been a member of the socialist international. but, under the ership of Lenjn, with the aid of some of t ts in the international, had taken a rev position, and formulated & revolutionary policy that led to the Russian Proletarian Revolution. Further revolutions de- 1er countries, but were crushed, with the aid of social democracy. With ups and downs, the revolutionary movement has grown, and today Communist Parties exist in 60 coun- tries of the world. The world economic crisis has caused revolts in many countries—Latin America, Spain and other countries. The Chinese and Indian reyo- lutions, the revolts in Indo-China, the revolu- tionary movements in the countries of Europe, Africa and Asia, have aroused Pope Pius, who is a true opostle of capitalism. In Spain, his “beloved country”; in Italy, where for a long time he has been a “voluntary prisoner,” from which he was released by recognition of the Papal State by Mussolini (which is now in ques- tion), the workers and’ poor peasants have car- ried on a struggle despite the most brutal re- pression; in Germany, where the Pope has many supporters, the catholic workers, forced by the economic crisis, are uniting with the revolution- ary workers under _,srtggle for a Soviet Germany. The Pope's heavenly domain on earth truly fs in danger—for the Communist movement and organization are growing, and threaten to de- stroy the whole system of bigotry and fear known as religion. Churches are being burned 4 ~+down in Italy and Spain .“Death to the Pope,” “death to the traitor,” is being shouted in the streets of Italy; Scottish workers break up cath- olic parade; Mexican workers years ago drove the priests out of the churches (and afterward the United States imperialist tools restored them to position!). The Pope, keenly sensitive to the situation— more so than many 4 capitalist enterpriser— recognizes the danger not only to the church, but to the capitalist system on which it rests. He sees the growing giant in the East—the Soviet Union—which has become a menace to the entire capitalist world. He sees the vast contrast of growing power and prosperity, of the development of tremendous forces of indus- Communist leadership to speak the language of the “liberal,” who sees the many “sores” of the present system, and talks about cures of der ing, and e advantage of their misery to out the possibilities of the which must be “reformed”; they try to bind them to the system. these people ¢ create pipe drei capite and thu rom a share in the profits. This sacred law is violated by an irresponsible wealthy class who, in the excess of the good fortune, deem it a just state of things that they should receive every. | thing and the laborers nothing.” | Proceeding along this line, the Pope declares | that “unless serious attempts be made, with all | energy and without delay to put them into prac- | tice, let nobody persuade himself that the peace | and tranquility of human (capitalist—I, A.) so- | | | ciety can be effectively defended against the forces of revolution. . . . Let employers, there- fore, and employed join in their plans and ef- forts to overcome all difficulties and obstacles, and let them be ‘aided in this wholesome en- deavor by the wise measure of the public au- | thority.” (emphasi: —I.A.) in working- | class language and experience, it denotes: class | collaboration with the aid of the government | conciliation board—if not the military! | | “It is the primary duty of the state and of all good citizens to abolish conflict between and promote harmony between the various ranks of society.” ean and do stand—in word and practice. In | Germany, England, France, the United States— they preach and practice these policies. Nor- man Thomas pleads for more tolerance of the bitter enemies of the working cl Schlesingers, Hillmans, Mustes work wit! government conciliator. Ramsay MacDonald tries to “abolish conflict between classes” in In- dia with guns, in England with the military. In Spain, the socialists in the government shoot down the workers and poor peasants to whom the bourgeois-democratic revolution (the one that has just taken place and with the aid of from the landlords and put it into the hands of the capitalists) was to mean a release from their misery. But it means more struggle against the capitalists and their socialist, an- archist, syndicalist allies. The class struggle is not only here—but is be- coming more acute, owing to the general break- down of capitalism—its inability to grow and develop—and the acute economic crisis, which is driving the workers to revolt and revolution. And no bull of the Pope, socialists and liberals | can abolish it. The Pope repeats the words of Pope Leo about | “one class being forbidden to exclude the other | classes with divergent interests, and thus foster | These are principles on which tke socialists | bosses and accept the intermediation of the | | the workers and peasants has taken power away | “HE'S A Rit ot Manhattan and Bronx, New York Ctiy. SUBSCRIPTION RATER By mai!l everywhere: One year, $6: six months. $3: two months, $1; e¥cepting Boroughs Foreign: one year, ed $8+ six months. $4.50, By BURCK — No STARVATION BHR. DAP UNION Coen ney 97 BUERY ine RECOENTION on. wa "ONE Pune fe OW ERS the Party Life Conducted by the Org. Dept. Central Com- mittee, Communist Party, U. S. A. Trade Union Work and | Party Work | By F. R. (Los Angeles) “7,RADE union work is the most important | work of the party,” but our comrades do not | know it. Certainly if the section cominittee | members were asked point blank if trade union work were not the most important work, they | would say “yes.” But unconsciously even our sec- tion leaders continue in the rut of making “par- ty work” one thing and “trade union work” an- other thing. This is the reason that the Trade Union Unity League, in practice, is still treated | as of secondary importance instead of as of pri- | mary importance. In our section the leaders claim that the | charge of underestimaion of T.U.U.L. work is | not true. “Didn't we assign 60 per cent of the membership to T.U.U.L. work?” they say. They did, but then they immediately and continually assigned the active individuals of this 60 per cent to any and all other work whenever they needed some one. A typical example of one of these active workers assigned to T.U.U.L. work is one: He is organizer of one of the T.U.U.L. groups; he is a member of the special com- mittee on unemployed work; he is Negro direc- tor of his unit—a member of the unit buro; he is an executive of an ILD branch; he is a mem- ber of the Council for the protection of the For- eign Born, and he did active work in the last local election campaign. He is a new party member and very conscientious, so he took 7% The International Workers’ A number of American worker sportsmen, in- ‘cluding one Negro, will be among the 100,000 worker athletes who will compete in various forms of sports in Red Berlin, from July 4 to 12th, at the International Workers Athletic Meet, better known among the militant workers as the Spartakiade. Workers sportsmen from the Soviet Union,Germany, France Czecho-Slovakia, Fascist Finland and Bulgaria, China, Argentina, the United States, and many other countries, will compete under the revolutionary banner of the Red Sports International. Truly an interna- tional gathering of worker sportsmen! At the same time the international splitters of the workingclass, the Socialist are going to hhaye their “Olympiad” in Vienna. Symbolic of the growing unity of the Socialists with blackest reaction all over the world.a number of White Guard Russians from the emigre dregs of Paris, Warsaw and Riga will take part in this ‘socialist’ athletic meet. Workers will understand from ‘this alone that the Vienna meet is an anti-work- ' ingclass gathering. In 1932 at Los Angeles will be held the Olym- pics, the athletic meet of the boss class, an event that will be used to whip up jingoism. It will be an affair into which the bosses will pour millions of dollars. A few stars will stand out, while every effort will be made to cover up the fact that millions of workers in the United States are living under such miserable conditions that not even decent health—much: Jess real physical strength can be attained for the great majority of those who toil. The fact that about 3,500 pampered athletes will take part in the Olympic games while 100,000 workers sportsmen will take part in the mass Spartakiade brings out very clearly the characters of the two meets, At the Spartakiade, sportsmen from the shops, mines and mills, workers of all races, will gather. There, no matter who wins or what country sends the best athletes, the workingclass of the whole world will “win.” For this meet will be more than a sports gathering; it will be a tre- “mendous mass demonstration of the workers "against the danger of « .ew bosses war, a new demonstration of the wi: of the workers to de- fend the Soviet Union, the fatherland of the workers of the world. ‘The worker sportsmen from the capitalist countries will see one group of sportsmen that ‘will stand out above all others. That will be the roup from the Soviet Union (which the Bruen- it, with the support of the Ger- is trying hard to keep away from Athletic Meet in Berlin the Spartakiad). This group will come from the jJand where the health, physical and mental upbuilding of the toiling masses, is the first con- cern of the government. The other athletes— altho excellent sportsmen—will see that they are under a handicap when competing with Soviet athletes. For no matter how well they may have trained, the handicap of the long hours, the speed-up system, wage cuts, lay-offs, unemploy- ment—all of which is the lot of the workers in the capitalist countries—is too much for them | to overcome. They will see that the athletes of the Soviet Union have the advantage of living under a system under which the conditions of the workers are constantly improving. This simple fact will register very sharply with the worker athletes from the capitalist countries and they will undoubtedly return imbued with new understanding of the need for the struggle against capitalism in their own countries. They will come back and struggle in the spirit of the rebel slave, Spartacus, for the overthrow of capi- talism and the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat—the only system under which it is possible for the workers really to mantain their health and develop physically and mentally. ‘The workers of the entire world will have their eyes focused on the Spartakiade! The class conscious workers of the United States should support it to the utmost and should support the workers sports movement in this country that is sending over a delegation to the Spartakiade —the Labor Sports Union of America. A CORRECTION In the otherwise excellent article by Comrade Ganne& in June 11 there is a quite serious error. He states that in the last mayoralty elections the present Mayor Murphy received the support among other elements of the Ku Klux Klan and the Ford interests. As a matter of fact both of these interests supported Bowles in opposition to Murphy, It is true, as stated by Comrade Gannes, that the Ford Motor Co. circulated a petition among their employees for the nomina- tion of Murphy but this was for the avowed purpose of dividing the opposition to Bowles and was so understood by everyone in the shop at the time the petition was circulated. The Ku Klux Klan, again, has always been for Bowles, who is said by some to be a member, against all opposition and, of course against Murphy who is aCatholic, somebody’s suggestion that he be responsible for distribution of the back numbers of the Daily Worker. Another phase of this underestimation of this party work is this: a unit was to be assigned to concentrate on a certain shop, but it was agreed that a shop group would be formed, that a nu- cleus of the party could not be established yet. “Oh, a grievance committee?” said the Section Committee. “Well, that is T.U.U.L. work—the T.U.U.L. will have to be responsible for this.” In other words the work was of too low a level for the party—in other words if a shop nucleus of the party cannot be formed, the party unit should merely continue distributing Daily Work- ers some place in the factory district, and should wait till the T.U.U.L. organizes the shop. How horrible that will sound to the section commit- tee! But it is exactly what happened in prac- tice. The section does not see the grievance committee as the opening wedge of the Party ap- plied by the Party through the units, for estab- lishing the Party organizationally inside the shop. This does not mean the T.U.U.L. does not give guidance in this work: it must, for the next step in this shop is to draw as many of the workers into the T.U.U.L. as possible. But the chief aim of the Party continues to be to estab- lish a shop nucleus of the Party in that shop. What are some of the results of this attitude of the section leaders toward the T.U.U.L.? The T.U.U.L. groups do not grow and remain artifi- cial groupings for NON-PARTY work. Continu- ally one hears the rank and file members of the units say in disgust: “I’m not going to do T.U. ULL. work; I’m going to confine myself to Party work”! # Another reflection is this: when the T.U.U.L. organizer asked the Young Communist League member put in charge of work in a certain fac- tory for a list of her contacts, she refused to give it. This League member is commonly regarded as one of the most advanced politically of the Y.C.L. in the section—yet she regards a request for contacts in the shop of concentration as an infringement by the T.U.U.L. organizer! Con- tacts of the Y.C.L. are private property of the Y.OL! A sharp turn must be made in the attitude toward T.U.U.L. work by the Party members, es- pecially the section functionaries, and an espe- cially sharp turn must be made organizationally in regard to our old friends, careful assignment of individual comrades to their work and check- up. Comrades will be continually assigned to special work, but this special assignment must be planned in advance, and a few comrades should be left free as a sort of shock troops for this special work. (“Revolutionary Competition” by Comrade Amter will appear in tomorrow's Party Life column.) ~~ eet Wisconsin Hunger Marchers Pre- sent Demands to Governor 'HE Wisconsin Hunger Marchers came from | all sections of the state to attend the state | convention at Madison, June 13th, and to pre- sent their demands to the state legislature for immediate relief and unemployment insurance the following day, June 14th, 1931. The Racine marchers, after holding a large open air meeting at Lake Front, began their march Saturday morning in three trucks, en route through Edgerton, Janesville, Stoughton to Madison. The Kenosha workers could not join the Racine marchers because of motor trouble. "Because of mass pressure, the social- ist mayor of Raciné was compelled i6 feed the Hunger Marchers &t the city’s expensé. The cities of Janesville and Stoughton also fed the men. Thousands of workers attended the meét- ings held by the Hunger Marchers in Racine, Janesville, and Stoughton. Many Daily Work- ers were sold and many workets joined the Hunger March. Five workers arrived from Supérior, hitch- hiking, to Madison Saturday night. No meet- ings were held in their towns, which included | Ashland, Wausau, Philips, Merrill, Stevens Point and Portage, although the workers in these cities were ready to give the men a rousing | reception. The Milwaukee Hunger Marchers ‘assembled | at 9 a. m. at the Workers Center, 1207 North 6th Street, for final instructions. One hour later, about 500 workers assembled at Hay- market Square to bid them good luck. Speeches | were made and many workers joined the Un- employed Brinches of Milwaukee. It was rain- ing when th? Milwaukee marchers left for Madison. Arriving in West Allis about 1:30 p. m., the men decided not to hold any open air meeting as scheduled at Central Park due to the rain and the lateness of the march in getting started. The next stop of the marchers was at the city of Waukesha, about 25 miles from Miul- waukee, where they were greeted by a crowd of about 500 workers. The Hunger Marchers marched through the town in a military fashion, to the city park where a meeting was held, where the workers of the city endorsed the march and seven of them joined in the march to Madison. Many Daily Workers and pamph- lets were sold, many leaflets were distributed and the workers of Waukesha contributed _Money to help the marchers on their way. In Oconomowoc, the marchers were expected and were ready to face a harder task, for the mayor informed the committee 4 days previous- ly that no meetings would be allowed. The workers of Oconomowoc, however, forced the city officials to consent to the use of the city park where a splendid meeting was held with 800 workers attending. In Watertown, 45 miles from Milwaukee, the marchers were given a splendid reception by the workers of the city. The whole town was out to greet them and more than two thou- sand workers attended the meetings held in the city park, where donations were made to the marchers and many Daily Workers were bought. In Watertown the city officials were com- pelled to feed the marchers, although they had intended to do otherwise. The chief of police attempted to chase the marchers out of the city as soon as they had eaten their supper but the marchers refused to be intimidated and stayed in the city for the night. Many of the small business men of Watertown were scared silly by the Hunger Marchers, one of them bought himself a gun and plenty of ammuni- tion to be ready in case a revolution started, but the workers of the city wholeheartedly sup- ported the marchers, many of them applying for membership in the Unemployed Councils. In these cities where the marchers passed thru, the press was forced to give accounts. of the march and the meetings that were held, for every worker in the city was aroused and. knew what was taking place anyhow. When the marchers reached Madison late Saturday night they were refused, quarters by the city officials. The mayor of Madison would do nothing to feed or shelter the Hunger Marchers so they slept in private homes and quarters arranged by the workers of the city. The Racine delegation arrived late Saturday night, but the Milwaukee delegation due to their staying in Watertown, did not arrive until Sunday goon. . Sunday night the bulk of the marchers slept. in the tourists camp on the edge of the city, “ne ‘prettier au colty in the epeaian Fait the workers were determined to see the march through to a successful conclusion and made the best of it in the best of spirits. La Follette, the governor of the state, was approached by a delegation of the marchers when the mayor of | the city refused the demands of food and shcl- ter, but La Follette would do nothing to help | these workers and rather than turn over any of the many state buildings that are standing empty at the present time, sentenced them {o sleep on the ground in he park. Sunday afternoon a conyention of the unem- ployed delegates was held at Turner Hall where the demands were drawn up for presentation to the Legislature. Bill Clark was elected chair- man of the convention and Comrade George Brink made the report for the State Committee | of the Unemployed. Ten demands were drawn up at the convention, some of which were as follows: The passage of a state-wide Unemployment Insurance Bill which will pay $15 per week to every unemployed worker with $3 additional for each dependent. The reduction of the state of- ficials’ salaries to the average wage of the Wis- consin workers. The repeal of the criminal anarchy law, riot and vagrancy laws and the abolition of injunctions in labor disputes. No discrimination against workers because of race, creed, sex or nationality. The immediate ap- propriation of 55 million dollars for the 200 thousand unemployed workers of Wisconsin. A delegation of 15 workers were elected with 5 spokesmen to present the demands to the legislature. On Monday when the workers marched to the capital to present the demands | to the Assembly they were told that the Legis- lature would not meet on this day. These as- semblymen were notified beforehand of the coming of the marchers, so this one day vaca- tion is simply nothing else than a refusal on the part of the legislature to listen to the de- mands of the unemployed workers. The delegation then went to the governor, La Follette, who refused to give an answer to the delegation except to say that he would think it over and “perhaps” recommend the demands to the legislature when it convenes after the marchers have left the city. While the delegation was visiting the gover- nor, a mass meeting was held on the steps of the capital building where 1,000 workers roared their approval of the demands, gave donations of food and money to the marchers and signed up for membership in the Unemployed Councils. After the meeting on the steps of the capital the Hunger Marchers paraded around the capi- tal building before mounting the trucks that. were waiting to take them back to their re- spective cities. Huge mass meetings are being planned at Ra- cine and in Milwaukee after the return of the marchers, where reports will be given to the workers on the result of the march and the fu- ture plans of struggle of the Unemployed Coun- cils for relief of the Unemployed. Redfin By JORGE eee In the Technical Sense Technically, the British “Labor” Party is run by “socialists.” But that’s only technically speaking, Actually, they're quite the opposite. This was vouched for, according to an English dispatch Thursday, when the Archbishop of Westminister, Cardinal Bourne, gave the O. K. to the “labor” party run by Ramsay MacDonald, one of the big chiefs of the Second “Socialist” International, and said that any Catholic who wanted to would not hurt the pope’s feelings by joining the “labor” party. shall find some persons therein whose ns are not in accord with the teachings and principles of the Catholic church. I suppose there are some who say that they are socialists in the technical sense.” “The same might be said for the Americar Technically, Norman Thomas is 3 ” about the same as, if we have our history correct, the sister of Louis Bonaparte was “technically” a virgin, while managing ta scandalize the rather hard-to-scandalize French aristocracy. National Security Shaken Things are getting tough when the wife of the president of the National Security League is held up in her own boudoir at 10 a. m. while having her breakfast in bed, and nicked for $150,000 in jewelry “Police Commissione: tied to the scene, the wife of the profes: for “Preparedness” a”: Mulrooney himself hur- ys the N. Y. Times, but ional patriot who stands Security” was not pre- red and far from secure. Indeed, the lady was rather upset for the rest of the day, and the Times, which gloats every time a cop black-jacks a working girl on the picket line, shed the following tears of journalistic compassion “Later in the afternoon, for the first time in her social life, Mrs. Menken was compelled to appear in public without any jeweiry. At a tea which she gave for about 200 socially inent women to help relieve unemp!oy- , She was seen repeatedly to reach for her necklace with which she was accustomed to toy. ‘Oh, I keep forgetting, she said every time.” National Security, it seems, a highly paying business. and one can afford to “give a tea” ta “help relieve unemployment,” but it IS annoy- ing to have to appear in public without $150,000 worth of jewel Oh, but we're s This Boy’s Been Reading But he must have been Dick” instead of Lenin. Or leaflet sent in from Buffalo, signed by the Y.C.L. of that fair city calling all and sundry workers of Buffalo to a meeting of protect against the the fascist brutality which the Youngstown, Ohio, police practiced on the youth and children gathered there to celebrate National Youth Day on May 30. There is no doubt about the brutality, bus the way it was presented to the workers of Buffalo in the leaflet, workers who may certainly be dis- contented and sore at capitalism, but who have not yet been convinced that it is better to dié in the battle against capitalism than_to exist starving and miserable under its rule, sounds as if the Buffalo Y. C. L. was trying to scare workers away from their meeting. There are three paragraphs in the leaflet, each with a big headline. In the first line there is: “Police Slug Youth; © Arrest 75; Shoot Into Crowd”. In the second line; “Murderous Attack.” In the third line: “Born in Workers’ Blood.” Kind of inviting to come in and get slugged, murdered and bathed in blood, eh? Nor do the headlines exaust the superlatives. There -are “tivers of workers’ blood” fairly dripping from every paragraph, blotting out the little mention of the immediate needs of Youngstown workers and totally ignoring any immediate interests of the workers of Buffalo. More, since we are having a Pre-Convention discussion of the Y. C. L., we call attention to the leaflet’s claim that National Youth Day is Anti-War Day, and ask how that happens, when have August First? Maybe, also, while we are on the line, wt should criticise the leaflet for saying that: “The boss class will let nothing stand in their way.” That's a “right” mistake that leads to pess- imism, a near relative to the romanticism which flavors the whole leaflet; a mistake because it depends on us and not on the capitalists as to whether we “stand in their way.” Indeed we think that the Y. C. L, will “stand in their way” whether the capitalists “let” them or not. Anyhow, the revolutionary struggle for power has not arrived in Buffalo, reading “Diamond so we judge from a Block Committees in Chattanooga By J. BARNETT. T the captains’ meeting of the block commit- tees of Chattanooga last week, it was pos- sible to get some idea of the vitality of their organization in this section. At this meeting there were about 24 members present, represent- ing 12 block committees in various parts of the city. This represents about 150 members of block committees, whose influence of course ex- tends to a much wider circle of friends and neighbors. The interest and activity of the members was shown in the reports of their work and problems encountered in it. Also some of them had come long distances from other parts of the city and fare to these impoverished workers is no small item, One member came to ask to be excused because his brothr had died that afternoon and it was necessary for him to make arrangements for the funeral, ‘These Negroes, (they were all colored working men and women) are new and just beginning to learn this kind of class struggle. They told of the problems in connection with breaking down the fear of the law and police among their neighbors. The outspokenness against the preachers was a surprise to me. Of course in the Scottsboro case they haye very good facts with MME (9 exboge mipisters “who ave wouked | against the boys and with the National Associa- tion for the Advancement of Colored People or with the business men of the city. The activity of the block committees is to talk to friends and neighbors explaining the case, to collect funds for the defense of the boys, to sell the Liberator, and in some cases the Labor De- fender and Southern Worker, to distribute leaf- Jets and other literature, to Wuild new block committees, and to arrange local meetings among the neighbors where the case can be dis- ‘( cussed. Literature is distributed and read for the benefit of those who cannot read. One of the members, on her own initiative the following Sunday held a meeting in a church at Bakefield, talked to about 200 Negro workers and distributed the Liberator, the Southern Worker, and leaflets, and took a collection for the defense of the Scottsboro boys. She spoke on the necessity of forming block committees and of selling literature. This group now wants an organizer. a meeting has been arranged, and there is a very good prospect of establishing the work there. ‘The organization of block committees is prov- ing successful here, The vitality of the move- ment, the support of the work and the possibility of spreading it axe clearly evi from the work Be Nea :