The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 25, 1931, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1 WALL ST. PLANS WAR ON SOVIETS--DEFEND THE USSR ® This series of artitles by Max Bedacht is concluded in today’s issue of the Daily Worker. They will immediately reappear in pamph- let form entitled “Soviet ‘Forced Labor.” This will be a 96 page pamphlet and will sell for 5 cents each, By sending a dollar to the Workers Library Pub- lishers, P. O. Box 148, Station D, New York City, you will be able to get 25 of these pamphlets at a reduced price to sell and distribute among your friends. Send in your orders at once in ordet to get this pamphlet right from the press. * * ‘ By MAX BEDACHT. XIl.—tInfluence of Soviet Developments in America. Thé anti-Soviet campaign now in swing in the United States is at the same time an act of war and a preparation for war against the Soviet Union. It intends the support of the présént economie war of American capitalism against the U. S.S. R. It is also.an effort to Manufacture a holy war myth to enable the capitalists to change their economic war into # imilitary one. The capitalists are the natural—class— étiemies of the Soviet Union. They need not agitate themselves against the Soviets. They must agitate the working masses and the poor farmers. If the capitalists would have to agi- tate their own class, they could not operate this campaign with all the phrases they are using now. In that case they would have to speak more openly about the revolutionary in- fluence of Soviet development on “their” workers. They would have to point to the dangers created for the continued exploitation 6f the American workers by the example of socialist construction in the Soviet Union. They would have to ¢all upon the capitalists to unite for the task of keeping their workers down. Such a propaganda, however, is un- necessary. It would be carrying coal to New- Castle. The capitalists are always united in their efforts to keep the workers down. Their problem is to talk the workers into keeping themselves down. The anti-Soviet propaganda therefore, is designed to win the workers for the struggle against the Soviet Union. This aim puts its stamp on every phase of thé anti-Soviet campaign. To the workers the capitalists cannot openly say that they expect them to fight against their own interests. They cannot tell the workers that they want! them to fight for the right and the chance of | the ¢apitalists to coin profits out of their toil. They cannot tell the workers that the in- tended capitalist war against the Soviet Union is a 20th eentury edition of the opium wars of Britain against China. Then the British poison peddlers caused their government to make war on China to foree the Chinese vic- tims of opium to continue buying this dope from the British peddlers. Now the capitalists are intending to make war on the victims of theit own exploitation in order to force them to continue submitting to this exploitation. The capitalists never do their own fighting. Therefore, it is not enough for them to or- ganize the fight against the workers. They must find ways to get the victims of their ex- ploitation to fight against themsélves. This need produces the political anoffaly of a capi- talist in the pose of fighting for the interests of “his” workers. The American capitalists whake believe that they do not agitate and fight against the Soviets because bv caenesi profit interests are at stake. According to their own assertions, the capitalists are pri- marily interested in the fate of the poor work- ers. The capitalist leaders in the European- ization campaign of American workers’ stand- ards thus appear in the role of Americanizers of Russian workers’ standards. However, this contradiction is no contradiction. The Amer- ican capitalists do everything in their power to Europeanize the American workers’ stand- ards—reduce them to the lowest level of Euro- pean standards; they also endeavor to Amer- ieanize Russian workers’ standards—establish exploitatioh of the Russian masses on an American scale and on the basis of European- ized workers’ standards. That is why the leaders in the capitalist wage-cutting cam- paigns in America whine about the danger to the American workers’ standards from the Soviet successes. The campaign against the Soviets and for the mobilization of the American wor for war against the Soviets produces peculiar capi- talist arguments. Typical examples of such arguments are contained in a recent article en- titled, “Russian Workers Under the Iron Heel,’ by a certain Vincent Vocovich. This exemplary champion of the workers’ interests writes that in the Soviet Union “every worker fs insured . receives aid in case of illness, accident, unem- ployment or death. Medical attendance is free.” Not so bad, is it? There is not much anti-Soviet propaganda in that. No; it is the misfortune of anti-Soviet poison peddlers that all the facts speak in favor of the Soviets. Mr. Vocovich is vexed by that. He looks for a way out. He sees a light. He solves his prob- lem by attaching to the above favorable Soviet facts a rotten American conclusion. Says Mr. Votovich: “The doctors and hospitals (in the Soviet Union) are under government control, and so the worker must accept whatever service is given him without being able to choose his own doctor, or his own hospital.” Just think of it, Mr. American worker, when you, or your wife or baby fall sick and the doctor you choose refuses to come, or the hos- pital you choose refuses to accept the patient because yu cannot pay, rejoice anyway; re- joice because you have the right to choose. It is true, of course, that in the Soviet Union you would have a real doctor tend to you or to your aick wife or child, you would gain admis- sion for the patient into a real hospital; but what is all that compared with your inalien- able American right to choose any doctor you please or any hospital you desire even though you can really get neither doctor nor hospital because you cannot pay for them. Mr. Vocovich is not satisfied with using arguments that are an insult to’ the intelli- gence of the American workers. He does not allow the opportunity to pass without also dir- ecting insults against the character of the Russian workers. Declares Mr. Vocovich: “Under these social insurance arrangements (in the Soviet Union) savings are not neces- sary, and the Soviet worker usually wastes his er money on strong drink. Hence wide-spread drunkenness.” The moral of Mr. Vocovich’s story is that the American capitalists are benefactors of the workers, They starve the workers in un- . and the worker or his family | employment; they abandon them to occupa- tional and other diséases; but, in doing this, says Mr. Vocovich, they stimulate the welfare of the workers. The more the capitalists steal from the workers the greater are the benefits accruing to the workers, according to Mr. Vocovich. If the workers would get any more than they absolutely need, they would only dissipate it in bootleg. The only fitting answer to such propaganda is an invitation to Mr: Vocovich to repeat his arguments in a real workers’ meeting. To meét any possiblé fears of Mr. Vocovich such a workers’ meeting could guarantee his right to choose his owh doctor and his own hospital after his speech. With arguments such as produced by Mr. Vocovich American capitalism is trying to arouse the American workers against the So- viet Union. However, all these arguments cannot silence the clear and convincing lan- guage of the naked facts of socialist construc- tion in the Soviet Union. The successes of the Soviet Union in build- ing socialism are not merely a passive exam- ple for the American workers to follow. They are an active and growing influence upon the working conditions in all capitalist countries. The first efforts of the Soviets were directed toward the raising of the unspeakably low living and working standards of the masses established by Czarist Russia to the level of thése standards in capitalist countries. This aim has already been accomplished. The liv- ing standards of the Russian workers today are already ahéad of those standards of the German workers. In the reduction of the hours of labor the Soviet Union has alreacy outdistanced all capitalist countries. Parallel with the growth of the productivity of Soviet industry and agriculture the working and liv- ing standatds of the Russian masses are im- proving. Every economic measure toward the success of the Five Year Plan is a contribu- tion to the improvement of the living and working standards of the Soviet workers. The introduction of piece work recently upon will accelerate still further the improve- ment of htese standards. The piece work system under capitalism is a means of increasing capitalist profits. It is a means of increasing the portion of unpaid labor stolen from the workers by the capital- ists. It also serves incidental purposes. Under capitalism surplus labor (the permanent army of unemployed): is constantly growing. The piecé work systeni supplies capitalism with the means of selective elimination of workers. Thé workers. who because of agé or physical deficiencies, etc., cannot keep up with the speed set by piece work are thrown onto the human refuse heap of capitalism—the perma- nent army of upemployed. Under capitalism piecé work is used to make out of the more skilled workers instruments of greater ex- ploitation of the masses of workers. At the same time with the constant ¢uts in the piece rates and with thé progressive mechanization of production, these skilled workers them- selves are thrown into the full depth of mis- ery of the working class. In the Soviet Union piece work has been in- troduced in order to speed up the improve- | nomic decided | the workers. It has been introduced not ‘in| order to eliminate the weak or the clumsy, but} in order to improve the productivity of strong and weak, of skillful and clumsy in aecordance with their respective capabilities. This mea- sure is a socialist necessity because the fur- ther reduction of working hours depends on the inerease of the productivity of the work-| ers. The further improvement in the stand- ards of living of the Russian toilers depends upon their increased output of labor. Under capitalism any increased output means in- creased profits for the boss and increased un-| employment and general economic insecurity | for the workers. Under the Soviet system in-| creased output means improvement of the eco- security of the workers; it means short- | er hours and a higher standard of living for| all toilers of city and country. | The establishment of the seven-hour day} (six hours for dangerous and unhealthy work) | and the four day work week by the Soviet Union is a powerful deterent to the efforts of | the capitalists the world over to increase, working hours. It is this fact that causes the universal capi talist attack against the Soviet government. | No matter how loud the capitalists protest| their love for the workers in their anti-Soviet| & propaganda, their acts against their own work- ers at home pronounce them demagogues and hypocrites. The uninterrupted improvement of the liv- ing standards of the toiling masses of the So- viet Union is a powerful warning to the capi- talists to go slow in their ever active efforts, « to worsen the living standards of the Amer- ican workers. It is this fact which forces the American capitalists to pose in their anti- Soviet campaign in the impossible role oi friends of labor. But their anti-workers’ deeds speak a more truthful and a more convincing language than their pro-workers’ phrases. Every capitalist act against the American workers is an accusation against the anti- Soviet propaganda of American capital. This accusation thunders.into the faces of these propagandists the unchallengeable truth: are liars.” The Soviet Union with its progress in the} building of socialism is a tower of strength of} § “You | the working masses everywhere. The anti- Soviet propaganda of the capitalists tries to) ‘ persuade the workers to tear down this for-| ?} The anti-Soviet propaganda of the| ™ American capitalists is a holy war myth. With} '‘ tress. this myth the capitalists hope to blind the) workers. They hope to blind them so that! they will be willing to destroy their own! ‘"? stronghold, the Soviet Union. . The eapitalists| Rope to confuse the workers sufficiently so} they will accomplish their desires: to make out of Russia a capitalist prison not only for | the toilers of Russta but for the workers of) the world. | That hope is nm vain. No matter how ioud) the lies of American capitalist propaganda de- mand of the workers: “Destroy the Soviet! Union,” the successes of socialist construction carried through by the Soviets speak still louder. And their language says: “Do as we did—defeat the political rule of the capitalists!) | Establish workers’ rule! Build socialism!” Destroy capitalism! | eH, REM! Page Thre a Sistas [BER NATIONAL TAG DAYS JUNE 26, 27 AND 28! ALL DISTRICTS! MOBILIZE! to) w nt of | si campalsa In view of this, ar- y fornia to th We ie need of raising the Daily Worker as well ax for | Western Worker. Worker and B Workers of ¢ you can raise $3,000 “Western” Tag Day Be’ During the must pure! pts this week E for both papers may at the workers of Ca E il Weatern AW robe! ase boxes immedi- n made that | Weekly Sums to Daily, e just been listening to the kel Matthew Woll, ef » over the radio. So here ts #6 confident | | for yearly subscription to the D. | are . fo counteract this viper’s pol writes N. D., Edgewater, Philadelphin, pledges beginning Jun D. W. Sustat Washington beginning Jaly 1 We know and “lam org respond to the or tion playing no small part defense the nine Negro youths in Alabama,” concludes the letter, Ind have day, three-day slumbe from, but evidentl w DISTRICT t M. Kominsky, Prov. - at meeting Saceo-Vanzetti Br. LLL.D., Bronx serman Bure See. 1, Unit § Perth Amboy Unit N. Bronswiek Unit N. Branswick Unit Let your deeds F. CONTINUED SLUMP THREATENS. ‘DAILY MAKE TAG DAYS COUNT! r period o ers, the Daily Wor ow on the| f, Saturday and make the Taz eo days will of the Daily is . Correction i Mutual should 10 instead y), after a s finally heard this district 15 B, Peterson ester 10.00 { “neck Island ‘otal DISTRICT 6 D. A. Davies, Columbus, Ohio Republick Shop Un., ungstown rpont Har. . Levine .. Makt |. Tanen . Partanen 5. New Castle, Pa: 3.00 2.75 ments in the working and living standards of Sharper Fight Looms Over Hoover Plan; Push Campaign On German Workers z BULLETIN (€able by Inprecofr) BERLIN.~Monday evening the demonstration at Magdeburg against the government emergency decree ended in collisions with the police. The latter fired six shots at the demonstration, killing a worker, Kratise, and wounding Several others, including a girl. ‘The police ordered windows closed after firing into open windows in workers’ streets. Yesterday morning police of Bremen arrested the district séc- retary of the revolutionary trade union movement, Heller. The Communist daily, the Bre- ten Arbeiterzeitung, was prohibit- ed for four weeks. Police today confiscated the A fascist meeting yesterday evening ended in a disturbance. Fascist guards attacked workers end wrecked a hall. Five workers vided and one is not ex- to wicover. Many fascists were also injured. The botirgeois press admits that the attacks were Latest Sofia reports gives the Workers ne cilia man- dates in new Bulgarian par- liament. ‘ Washifigton and Patis show that the blustering proposal of Hoover- Mellon-Morgan to postpone repara- tions and war debt payitents for oné has hit the snag of sharpened conflicts between the imperialist pow- ers. The French government is ré- fusing to support the plan and of- fers @ éontrary proposal ditectly op- 4 to Wall Street ahd London’s fer. There is a head-on collision Between the temporary united trofit of in impesalum, and the a 5. lieten Prefich Hal Communist Press in Germany Is Being Shut Down! Police Kill Workers in Demonstration In discussing the proposals in the French Chamber of Deputies (parlia- ment) several of the deputies bitter- ly assailed the fakery of the United States, showing that by a cheap pro- posal they hope to save their bil- lions invested in Germany and other European countries. The French in- sist on the continuation of the Young Plan yoke, and refuse to postpone thé so-called unconditional payments amounting to $100,000,000. The French bourgeoisie fear their share in the spoils in the last war will go to the United States. Greater opposition is developing, therefore, in Francé agaitist the Hoover proposal, and éxtremé bitterness is expressed in the French capitalist press. At the samé time, even before the official refusal has been sent to ‘Washingtdén from Paris, Hoover has ordered that the French government be informed that ho amendments or reservations to thé proposal will be considered. This Will sharpen thé conflict. Thé French satelites, Such as Belgium, Rumania and Poland have joined in the attack on the plan. Mussolini, likewisé, links post- ponements up with an attack on the Austro-German customs union pro- . Stiinson stated that Wall Street would not tolerate this move. ‘That the action of Hoover in at- tempting to destroy Bolshevism in Germany and to save the heavy in- vestinénts of American capitalism is comparable to & War period was stated yesterday by Senator Pat Harrison, Democrat from Mississippi. He asked Hodvér to call Congress into séssion becatibe these timés are “like those of war.” Stocks Drop Again Meanwhile thé stock market which for & day went up throughout the 6 | World went dowh again when be Burdpe | shatpér conflicts developed over the |-| Hoover Plan. All Hports from the faslc industries show the ctisis _ | Wott In the United Pontes steel dropped to the lowest point of pro- duction in the present crisis last week. Production is now at 35 per cent of capacity compared with over 70 per cent in the crisis year of 1930, and 99 per cent in 1929. Carloadings drop sharply nearly every week, and for the past two weeks have dropped heavily. More workers are being fired in the steel, ¢utomobile, tail- road, building trades and other in- dustries, Charges are already being made that Hoover told many of his close banker associates about his proposed action before he announced it pub- licly, permitting them to reap a rich harvest on the stock market. In Germany, the Bruening govern- ment is using the fakery of the Hoo- ver proposal to increase pressure against the workers. The situation of the German masses is growing worse. ‘The emergency decrees are in full force, cutting down the stand- ard of living of the mass at a fright- ful pace. Bruening is using the Hoo- ver message to keep the masses from fighting by ® lot of promises. In this the social democrats heartily join, pointing to Wall Street as the savior of German capitalism. WIN FIRST STEPS IN FIGHT ON U.M.W.-BOSS SCAB PACT (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ted in using big headlines in an at tempt to stampede the Terminal strikers back to work, saying that all mitiers Will go to work this morning. But this morning’s mass picketing Was a direct answer to this lie, and the miners aré determined to con- tinue the fight, the first round of which they have alreatly won. State troopers and deputies can- vassed the Wildwood section yester- day, stealing from miners’ homes and making arrests. The coroners’ investigation into the murder of Peter Zigaric and the seriotis Wounding of nine others, with an unknown number less sever- ely wotinded, is being héld in secret. . It is now evident why the Pinchot- U. M. W. A.-Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co, conference in Harrisburgh jast week did hot produce an agtee- meiit At that flmé, and does prodtice oné today. At that tinie the neces- sary murdér ae at to use in pel the combined dive of terror and trickery was not completely ready. It is ready now, and on the day of the Wildwood shooting, the U. M. W. and Pittsburgh Terminal announced ® tentative agreement. On the day of the Arnold murder, they an- nouhéed thé térms of the agreement, and ordered the 2,400 Pittsburgh Terminal miners back to work. These thiners do not tecognize this strike breaking agreement, and will meet it tomorrow, When the mites are Supposed to re-open, with mass picketing. The Journal of Com- merce of New York (June 24) ad- mits that Governor Pinchot and the Pittsburgh ‘Termifial wéte preparitig armed guatds for the mine to shoot down pickets. The Journal of Commerce goes on’ to say: “Samuel Pursglove, president of the ‘Teérthinal said the company would ask State policé at all its minés in anticipation of troubie from thiners of the National Miners’ Union. left wing rival of the United Mihé Workers.” TENS OF THOUSANDS OF MINERS READY FOR PITTS- BURGH HUNGER MARCH (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) mittee to organize the unemployed, set up by the Central Rank and File Strike Committee of the National Miners’ Union, issued the following statement on their return from the city county building today: “We have been endeavoring for several days to secure from Chief of Police Peter Walsh @ permit for the hunger march mass meetitig, which 48 advertized to be held in Fast Park, at 1 p. m., Juné 30. “At 12:30 p. m. today we went to Walsh's office in the cotinty building by appointment and were told that the chief was not in, and to return at 3 p.m. _“At 3 p.m. we were told that Chief Walsh was not in and we were unable to make any appointment with him fot tomorrow. We then went to the office of Director of Public Safety James Clark, in the same building, and requested to see him in regard to the Juhe 30 permit. ‘We were told Mr. Clark was not in, and wé weré unable to make any appointment with him for the future. “Throughout the entire district, ineludiig the mine strike area and the steel towns, thousands of work- ers are already arranging to march into Pittsburgh for the Bast Park demonstration, “We have also applied for a pet- mit for these masses of unemployed and striking workers to parade past the county building where their de- mands will be presented.” Woods and Price annotinved fur- ther preparations for the hunger march, The Library section strike com- mittee of thé National Miners’ Union has arrangéd for all strikers of that section, someé 8,000 are expected, to assemble at Curry at 6 &. m. on the morning of June 30. tain ones will have credentials and arm bands to collect funds for strike rélief along the line of march. SPARTAKIADE PROHIBITED IN BERLIN German Workers Repel Police Attack (Cable By Inprécorr) BERLIN, June 22.-The “Socialist” police president, Grzesinski, prohib- ited the ‘International Workers’ Sartakiade, on the ground that it would endanger public order and se- curity. Yesterday, at noon, thous sands of sportsmén demonstrated against this prohibition in Wansee, near Berlin. Speéches were deliv- ered and processions formed: Po- lice attacked with batons, but the workers resisted. Many arrests were made, ‘The police sticceeded in dispersing the demonstration only after large reinforcements were rushed to the spot in trucks. The prohibition of the Spartakiade is causing a furious wave of indignation arid protests througholt Germany: Last night, at Schmockwitz, hear Berlin, a fascist storm detachment attacked a group of workers. ‘The Jatter teceived reinforcements and the fascists were defeated. Four fascists were sent to the hosptial. Did you like the “Soviet Forced Labor’ " seties? Give a few copies té the workers in your shop, fac- toty or mine. It’s only 5 cents per copy, They will march in their pit clothes, and cer-| 1.W.0. Shule 2, Brooklyn German Workmen's Sick & Death Ben. Fund, Br. 59 wel, Bx igh. ton B, Wkrs, Cl, 15.50 | berg, leaving for U.S.S.R,, Sacco- Brooklyn: N. Kasbar 1,00 Tymoft 1.00 Sinkiewich 2.00 Sinkiewich 1.00 » Goods Wir, 1.00 cer, Bronx 1.00 | Hi. Oster, B’klyn J, Harris, ae “Cleveland, Ohio: | x reeman D: 50 | o.W, Nelson, All Nations § Portland, 0 Unemp, Worker, 00) Seattle | M. MeVeal, Spokane 3. ‘Total DISTRICT 13. Stockton ourist Club, Mill Valley: . Kramer . Roebker . Hofmyer . Simon Roedizer Brighton Beach Freihcit Gesangs A aie 550 Workers’ Club 3.00| Ver. Wormal ‘ | Max Erlich 1.00} John Brandt f ties ine | Jos. Mongo 1.00 | D. Kolehmainen CG. Tanass | Col, at banquet : a oe { Com, A. Wets- | a. Ee Todd | Heldet ‘Total 8 DISTRICT 15 PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—The follow- ing is a list of meetings of Trade Union Unity League locals and com- mittees. MEETINGS OF T.U.U.L. LOCALS AND GROUPS. At 929 Arch St. T.ULU.L. City Counell, first Tnes- day in month at 8 p.m. | ‘T.U.0L Bureau, third Tnesday in month at & pam. At 2802 Kensington Ave. Metal Workers Industrial League —Membership meetings, second and fourth Monday in month. Ex- Petitive d, first and third Mon- day in month, Painters and Paperhangers, every League Meetings, Locals and Groups | every day un your job. Thursday at 8 p.m. Shoe Workers Industrial Unton— Martford: *. A. Hethnle al, F.S.U. : | Stamford Nue, , Gutman, Bklyn ino | Hartford Nuc, Tota $152.51 Total DISTRICT 3 DISTRICT 17 Phila, District — 100.00 Ft. Myers, Fla.: District 50.00 | Jerry Culler 4.00 Geo, W. Earnest, Frank Lehti 1.00 Bedford, Pa. 1.50 Total 879.80 =e Parsons, Pa.: DISTRICT § | Total 2.00 J. Duis 1,00 | So. Slav Baro 33.45 DISTRICT 18 of A. Glabieb 3.00 | W. Schroeder 1.50 | ©. H, Chapman, ' J. Krakos 25), Olson 1,00 | “Boise, Idaho 4.00 P. Waska 150], ‘Tierner 1.00 DISTRICT 19 M, Greeneichius 25/1. A. Tabb 1.00} Denver District 4,00 W. Gloubichius 2.00 | A Worker 50 ——— | ©. Conanick,Orient 1,00 | Total all dist. § 573.01 ‘Total 8158.50 | “Belleville, La Prey. recetved 20,851.40 DISTRICT 4 [We de 2.00 Eatin Rus. Mu. Aid Soc, c. 8. 2.00 | Total to date $21,425.40 List of Philadelphia Trade Union Unit ve Headquarters, 929 Arch St. No. 5. Joint Council meets every Mon- day at 1208 Tasker St, at 8 p.m. ‘The Secretariat meets every Sat- urday at 3 p.m. at 929 Arch St. Unemployed Councils meet every ‘Tuesday and Thursday at their va rious Headquarters at 2 p.m. City Committee of Unemployed Councils meets every Thursday at 8 p.m. at 929 Arch St. Italian Bakers Local meets every Saturday at 4 p.m. at 721 Wharton St. Room Use your Red Shock troop List The worker next to you will help save the Daily Worker,