The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 8, 1931, Page 4

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Working Women and Youth in the Coming War ‘The imperialist war makers attach tremendous im- Portance to the working class youth and the working women as cannon fodder and industrial conscripts in the coming imperialist war and military intervention in the Soviet Union, In the late imperialist war, the mobilization of outh for the slaughter on the battlefields, and the practical conscription of the work- ing women for the war industries, had proved decisive tor the outcome of the w: The youth of the working class and of the farmers is the first to be sent on the firing line. It makes the bulk of the conscript armies. It does the major fighting and leaves on the battlefields most of the victims in dead and wounded. More, perhaps, than anything else, the capitalist class needs the toiling youth for the coming war and military intervention. The working women are most essential for imperial- ism as industrial conscripts to replace the men in the war and other industries. The working women are expected td bear the main burden of the “home front This was the case in the imperialist war of 1914-1918. It will be even more so in the coming war It is the boast the militarists that in the coming wer there will be no neutrals and no non-combatants. What they mean by that the battlefield will be all over, and everybody will be in it. Men and women, old and young, civilians as well as soldiers. The whole idea of civilians and non-combatants seems to disap- pear from the plans of the War Department for the coming war. Why? Because it will be a mechanized war, a war of machines and tanks, air-planes and poison gas. One of the foremost German militarists and war experts General von Seeckt, expresses himself as follows: foresee that military strategy in the future will consist in the use of small armies, highly trained and extremely mobile, which will be backed up by the air forces and by the development of THE LARGE SCALE OFFENSIVE AND DEFENSIVE FORCES OF THE COUNTRY.” (Our emphasis). The “home front” was decisive in the late war. It will be MOST decisive in the coming war. The ob- jective of each General Staff will be to crush and destroy the enemy's population at home. to break the production of munitions and supply of food, thus de- feating the opposing armies in the field. That is why the bombardment of cities and villages, with poison gas and other bombs, from the air and otherwise, figures sO prominently in the imperialist preparations for the coming war The working women will therefore be in the coming imperialist war just as much as their menfolk ‘They will be in it as industrial conscripts and also as cannon fodder, as the objects of destruction by the armed forces of the “enemy” imperialist power. Militarizing the Youth for War and Intervention ‘The military and war machine of the United States government is growing by leaps and bounds. It is de- voting much of its attention to the job of militarizing the youth. This cons! in poisoning the minds of the youth with imperialistic and militaristic ideas, which goes hand in hand with military training and regi- mentation, aiming to build up a submissive body of youth ready to be slaughtered in the coming imper- jalist war. It begins with the public schools. There the organizers it is This is the tenth article in Comrade Bittelman’s series on the war danger and how to fight Make August 1 a day of mighty demonstration against it. Read and spread these articles! imperialist war and intervention! & ra o of capitalist education are trying to corrupt the minds of the working class children with respect and fear for the existing capitalist institutions. The children are terrorized into participating in various “flag salutations” and military drills. “Love of Country,” “patriotism,” ‘readiness to sacrifice one’s life for one’s country”— servility to capitalism and acceptance of imperialist war—these are the ideas forced into the minds of the working class children in the public schools. Every sign of critical attitude by the children to this imperialist propagands. is pun:shed. Children ask ques- tions. They ask: Whose country shall they love—the country of the capitalisis or the country of the work- ers Why should they iove, end be ready to sacrifice their lives for a country that dcoms 13 million workers to unemployment, that lets millions of workers and farmers die of starvation, that persecutes and deports foreign-born workers because they are fighting capital- exploitation, that lynches and oppresses the Ne- groes? Such and similar questions are answered by the school authorities with more terror and persecu- tion. Children are “educated” to hate workers’ strikes against the bosses and to distrust class struggle unions. Especially are the capitalists trying to utilize the schools to incite the childrn against the Soviet Union. All the “horrible” tales invented by the capitalist lie fac- teries are served out to the children. to poison their minds and to make them willing tools in the hands of those who are preparing the military intervention against the Soviet Union. This is followed up with a system of military training of the youth in the high schools, colleges, Citizens’ Mili- tary Training Camps, etc. Federal expenditures on mili- tary training in civil schools alone have increased fif- ten fold from 1914 to 1928. The War Department is continually spreading out it activities for the militariza- tion of the youth in the schools and outside of them. Also remember the intensive militaristic and imperial- istie corruption of the minds of the youth through the movies,” church, newspapers, and radio broadcasting. What is the purpose of all this at the present time? It is preparation for the coming imperialist war. It is mobilization for the military intervention against the Soviet Union which is now being organized by the Hoo- ver government and the capitalist class of the United States. Women and Youth in the Soviet Union The Workers’ Revolution in Russia, in November, 1917, has brought about a complete and radical change in the position of the toiling women and youth. It not only abolished the condition of semi-slavery, ignorance and subordination in which the old system kept the toiling women and youth, but it transformed them into free and creative human beings that are playing a tre- mendous role in the building of the socialist society. There was a time—and not so very long ago—when the tale of “nationalized women” was the most popular ist slander of the imperialists and interventionists against the Soviet Union. The capitalists expected that with this wild and ridiculous lie they would be able to stop the growing sympathy of the working women in the United States for the country which is ruled by the workers and peasants. At the present time, the imperialist organizers of military intervention against the Soviet Union speak no longer of “nationalized women.” Everybody knows it to be a vicious and hypocritical lie of the capitalists. Moreover, the toiling women in the capitalist countries know that one of the “legitimate” institutions of capi- talism is prostitution. It is the capitalist system and capitalist exploitation, crisis and chronic unemployment, inadequate wages for the necessities of life, that are driving thousands upon thousands of working women * to sell themselves into prostitution. This curse is just as much a part of the capitalist system as is the special exploitation and oppression of women and children. But the imperialists and interventionists are still talk- ing about the “destruction of the family” in the Soviet Union. This is the same sort of hypocritical lie as was the tale of nationalized women. The hypocricy of the capitalists knows no bounds. Who is it, if not capital- ism, that is breaking up, demoralizing and destroying the working class families? Low wages are driving into the factories not only the wives and youth of the workers but also the children. Child labor is a capi- talist institution. .Long hours and speed up leave the workers with no leisure and ability to enjoy even in the most elementary way family life and association. It is the capitalist system that is destroying the fam- ilies of the working class. Socialism, which is built in the Soviet Union, is mak- ing an end to prostitution. It is doing so by raising the standard of living of the toiling women, by opening to them all avenues to economic and cultural activity on an equal footing with their menfolk. Equal pay for equal work, for which the toiling women in the United States, must still struggle very bitterly, is an established principle in the Soviet Union for women and youth. Capitalist morality in the United States is corrupt and desperate to the core. The sexual and family life of our ruling class is an orgy of debauchery. Yet this same corrupt and degenerate ruling class sets itself up as a supervisor of the “morals” of the working class. It persecutes and drives to death working class mothers of “illegitimate” children, at the same time refusing to assume the slightest responsibility for pro- tecting the motherhood of working women. It is totally different in the Soviet Union. It is, of course, free from the hypocritical capitalist institution of “legitimate” and “illegitimate” children. The So- cialist Society, through its government, assumes full responsibility for the protection of the motherhood of its toiling women. The State maintains at full pay every toiling woman for the necessary period of time prior and subsequent to childbirth. It provides nurses, children’s homes and kindergartens for the babies of the working women. Even the enemies of the Soviet Union are forced to admit that extraordinary great ef- forts are made in the country which is building So- cialism for the development and .upbringing of the children, The youth of the working class in the Soviet Union is developed and brought up as should be the next gen- eration of the builders of Socialism. This is funda- mentally different from the position of the working cla&s youth in the United States or in any other capi- talst country. Here the working class youth is treated from the point of view of cheaper labor, labor that can be made to produce bigger profits for the capitalists than the adult and older workers. Here the working class youth is being treated as “good” cannon fodder for imperialist wars, as so many millions of prospective conscripts to be sacrificed on the battlefields to secure for the capitalists new colonies to exploit, to enable the American ruling class to beat its imperialist rivals and to become the master of the world. In the Soviet Union, the toiling youth is participat- ing actéyely in the economic, political and cultural life of the socialist country, on an equal footing with the adult workers. The working youth in the Soviet Union does not have to fight for equal pay for equal work. It has that and much more than that. All opportunities available for education are at the disposal of the toil- ing youth. The Soviet government is mobilizing tre- mendous resources to train and educate the toiling youth in such a way that it will be able to continue the work of the older generation of building and perfecting the socialist society. Fight against military intervention in the Soviet Union. The example of the Soviet Union is catching to the toiling masses of the capitalist and colonial countries Ever larger numbers of working women and youth in the United States are coming over to the side of the Soviet Union as the country of the liberation of the toiling masses. Ever larger numbers are coming to follow the leadership of the Communist Party of the United States, and of the Trade Union Unity League, in the struggle against capitalist exploitation and for a Soviet government in the United States. The capitalists of the United States are seeking to overthrow the rule of the workers and peasants in the Soviet. The Hoover government and the capitalist class are now trying to organize for this purpose military intervention in the Soviet Union. Already the American capitalist class is waging economic warfare against the Soviet Union by urging the boycott of Soviet exports and the stoppage of the imports of machinery into the Soviet Union. This economic war is a preparation to armed war, to military intervention. Stimson and Mel- lon are now abroad to bring together the European cap- italist powers for this anti-Soviet program. Hoover's new plan to allow its European debtors to suspend the payment of war-debts for one year is designed to pre- vent the workers’ revolution in Germany and to save the investments of the American bankers. But above all this is intended as a bribe to the imperialist rivals of the U. S. to join the American capitalists in the war against the Soviet Union. Fight the imperialists that are preparing military in- tervention in the Soviet Union. ARTICLE I The doctrine of “exceptionalism” for Southern Milinois and for the anthracite—the two districts where the UMWA still has the check-off and fhominal agreements—is being shattered by the crisis which finds probably its most severe ex- pression in the coal industry. It was only yes- terday that Western Pennsylvania was con- sidered an “exception” but today the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph (Hearst) confesses the bank- tuptcy of the UMWA (as a fighting union) and admits the rapid growth both of the National Miners Union and the influence of the Trade Union Unity League as well as the increasing strength of the Communist Party. It said editorially in its issue for July 1: “Striking coal miners affiliated with the rad- feal National Miners Union gave a demonstra- ticn in Pittsburgh yesterday. From all points of the compass they flocked to the city and _ paraded through some of the downtown streets.” * “They demonstrated that the National Min- @rs Union, though only two years old, is a power that must be reckoned with in the soft coal industry.” “They demonstrated that the miners of West- ern Pennsylvania no longer look askance at Com- “They demonstrated that Made desperate by suffering.” “What a change five years have wrought!” “Five years ago such a parade would have been inconceivable. The United Mine Workers was in the saddle then. And the United Mine Work- @fs was adamant in its opposition to Commun- ism, as it still is.” “Preachers of Bolshevism had no appreciable following in the mining camps of Western Pennsylvania five years ago.” “The miners had no use then for the things for. which the National Miners Union, the Trade ion Unity League and W. Z. Foster stand. would have no use for them now if they destitution.” The Sun-Telegraph could have added to the Tast sentence “and the continual betrayals by the UMWA officialdom.” And it is however, they have been _ huge section of the working class under the Pressure of the crisis could be improved in for- Mulation, it is true that conditions in the coal fields have produced a mass revolt and the Com- | munist Party and the National Miners Union of ‘the TUUL as the only leadership. What the pS "Sun-Telegraph is begging for is a few temporary conclusions for strikebreaking purposes only! _, Marxists do not quarrel that bad economic _ eonditions produce militant strikes led by revo- hs lutionary unions, that slave and starvation con- ditions produce Communists, although the apol- ogists for capitalism always think that this is damning indictment. It is precisely because the future of capitalism is bound up with the ‘present crisis, it is precisely because capitalism “now needs to solve the crisis by forcing miners © and other workers to new low levels of living, it ‘while the admission of the radicalization of a | ‘Starvation, Stabilization, and the Lesson ot Illinois is precisely because such heroic struggles as that of the miners places great obstacles in the way of the capitalists and their government solving the deepening crisis at the expense of the masses, and stimulates the struggle of our | class against the capitalist offensive on the whole front, that this strike is of such great importance. Such struggles are and can be led only by re- volutionists and revolutionary unions. In these struggles the working class learns fast how to fight its enemies, in these struggles the red unions grow, the strength of the Communist Party increases, thousands of workers learn that there is no way out except by revolution- ary struggle—and thus the very life of capital- ism is threatened. It is for these reasons that such frantic ef- forts are being made to maintain the UMWA in Illincis, to revive it in Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. It is for this reason that such strenuous efforts are being made by Lewis of the UMWA, Doak, secretary of labor, the steel trust senator J. J. Davis, by the social- ist party leaders an,d by Hoover himself, to unite the capitalist forces in the industry. Under the guise of “curing a sick industry,” under the pretense of “abolishing cut-throat competition” which is blamed for the starvation and slave conditions forced on the miners and their families, all the agents of reaction are try- ing to find ways and means of “stabilizing” the industry by establishing the UMWA as the fas- cist slavedriver for the coal operators, working with their blessing and under the auspices of. Wall Street government. The industry is to be stabilized by deporta- tions, wholesale jailings, tear bombs, mass shoot- ings, clubbings and murder. With agreements secured and sanctified by these methods it is hoped that the UMW officials will be able to stem the revolt, break the strike and thereafter enforce silent slavery. But the strike in the Orient mines of 2,200 members of the UMWA is evidence that even in its strongholds the UMWA can no longer con- trol miners though backed by the state and fed- eral governments, The Orient strike is evidence that only militant unionism can force conces- sions from the coal operators, it is evidence that the UMWA signs agreements to guarantee scab- conditions, that where it “cooperates” with the coal barons, as in Illinois, it condemns miners to starvation. The struggle against such forms of stabiliza- tion of the coal industry is only beginning. The struggle will have its ups and downs but it will continue with the National Miners Union through its fighting program and militant mine committees forcing better conditions from the coal operators with the center of the whole struggle the defeat and ousting from the indus- try of the UMWA strikebreaking machine. The joint meeting with the Central Rank and File Strike Committee of the National Miners Peace Pacts—Signs of Slaughter FOR THE IMPERIALIST WAR “... Lord Haldane advocated the development | of a full international “Sittlichkeit” or ethical habit among nations as well as within na- tions. He recognized that its development was | more hopeful in the case of nations with some | special relations than within a mere aggregate of nations. In this connection he said that recent events in Europe and the way in which the great powers had worked together to pre- serve the peace of Europe as if forming one community pointed to the ethical possibilities of the group system as deserving of close study by both statesmen and students.” —N. Y. Times, Sept. 2, 1913, Ciera FOR THE ATTACK ON THE SOVIET UNION “To be frank with you, it is my opinion that so long as the world is what it is, there is no cure for war. I feel that the best we can do at present is to come to such understandings with those groups nearest to us that we may say, ‘as between us we will not wage war.’ “I can not underweand why some nations are so fearful of conferences and consultative pacts. These agencies belong to the present age and and are the best means we can take sometimes to settle many problems which appear almost insolvable. Consultation does not necessarily inyolve commitment. “Therefore parity brings an entirely new note into our national life. It means that no longer eas we hold rightly to neutrality, if neutrality might demand a joint neutrality, if it became necessary by so doing to maintain the peace of the world; or joint action if necessary to preserve our Western civilization. (Admiral Pratt before the Conference on Cause and Cure | 18 selfish and unjust, on the other hand, it | of War, Jan. 21, 1931.) -Workers! Join the Party of. Your Class! Communist Party 0. 8. A P. O, Box 87 Station D. New York City. Please send me more information on the Cum- munist Party. Name . Address City . OCCUPALION , ..0s.-.cserecsecenecsoes AGN poe. -Mail this to the Central Office, Communist Party, P. O. Box 87 Station D. New York City. ++ Btate ....cseceee Union on July 15-16, which will be attended by hundreds of delegates from all coal fields, and where a program of unity and action against the Lewis-Hoover-Doak program of stabilization at the expense of the miners will be worked out, will be a historic meeting of mine workers of the greatest significance for all workers, and will be an important step in the strengthening and spreading of the fight against starvation. The march of the miners is only beginning! A Few Pages from J. P. Morgan’s War Note Book By HARRY GANNES Ho” the imperialist masters are preparing now for war, under the leadership of the foremost Wall Street imperialist bankers, such as Morgan & Company, J. D. Rockefeller, and Andrew W. Mellon, who is now in France forging the anti- Soviet war front can be clearly understood by looking back to see how these same bankers plunged the masses into the last world war for the profit of the financial lords. We see Mellon now in Paris negotiating the “Hoover Plan” of war debts, a plan openly ad- mitted to be a bulwark against Communism. Senator Royal @ Copeland of New York and Ambassador Tage in Paris, as well as dozens of other leading imperialists have openly declared that war is being prepared against the Soviet Union. The workers can see the capitalist press filled with war propaganda, the New York Even- ing Post with the hysterical articles of Knicker- bocker against the Soviet Union is a good ex- ample but neither an exception nor accident. The capitalists deliberately direct the propagan- da in the press for war. How this was done was told by Congressman Callaway on February 9, 1917, and his statement appears on pages 2947- 2948 of the Congressional Record. Callaway pointed out: “In March, 1915, the J. P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and power interests, and their subsidiary organizations got together 12 men high in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and a sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press of the United States. “These 12 men worked the problem out by selecting 179 newspapers, and then began by an elimination process to retain those necessary for the purpose of controlling the general policy of the daily press throughout the country...... an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding ques- tions of preparedness, militarism, financial poli- cies and other things of national and interna- tional nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers.” Todag the capitalist press is more highly con- solidate@, and much more closely linked up with finance capital than it was even at that time. It is much easier for Morgan, Hoover Rockefel- ler and other bankers interested in preparing war to put their immediate plans into effect through the daily capitalist press than ever be- fore. This accounts for the practically uniform policy towards Hoover's war debt plan, an open bid for anti-Soviet war front under the leader- ship of Wall Street. ‘The war propaganda in the capitalist press is not haphazard or accidental. It is directed for a purpose and is controlled by the leading imper- ialist bankers, The History of the United States entry into the last World War shows this defin- itely. The American imperialists entered the war to get their full share of the spoils. They even went to the extent of preventing a peace settlement because they had not reaped thir full* harvst of profits. The story of J. P. Morgan’s part in blocking any peace settlement by offering the support of American imperialism in order to save the heavy investments of the House of Morgan on the side of the allies in the last world war is told by a high French official M. Gabriel Hanoteaux, formerly minister of Foreign Affairs for France, in his History of the War of 1914, volume No. 107, page 54, states that France was ready to make peace in the latter part of 1914, but that it was dissuaded from doing so by three American bankers and capitalist politicians, namely, Rob- ert Bacon, of the House of Morgan, fiscal agent for the British government; Myron T. Herrick, who later was made U. S. ambassador to France and much fawned upon by the French imper- ialists for his work; and William G. Sharp. These men declared to French officials that they would organize a special propaganda in the United States which would assure America’s entry into the war. ‘These facts and many more showing the wide network of war propaganda of the imperialists throughout the last World War were brought out in a speech made by Congressman M. A. Mich- telson on May 26th, 1921 because Michaelson felt. that American imperialism had not gotten enough of the spoils out of the last war and therefore was tricked. What he meant is that the Petty-bourgeoisie did not share sufficiently in the booty of Morgan, Mellon, Rockefeller, Hoover and Company, and therefore spouted their fake pacifism to befuddle the workers to the present war preparations. The present-day capitalist press reeks with war propaganda in subtle form. War expendi- tures are greater than ever. War maneuvres go on every day. In Arkansas a military training camp, shut since the close of the last World War, has just been reopened for the training of farm boys for war. Billions are being spent for war. The Navy Department is coming be- fore the next Congress with bills for hundreds of millions in adition to the $450,000,000 just spent for naval war armaments. The capitalist press which lies about condi- tions of the American workers, 10,000,000 of whom right now face starvation in the ranks of the unemployed, just as glibbly lies about the war preparations. Billions are being spent for war; nullions for war propoganda—to plunge the Amercan work- ers into war. Demand these funds be turned over to the unemployed immediately for relief! Expose the war propaganda of the bosses and expose the source of this propaganda! All out on August 1st! Demonstrate against the im- perialist war preparations! One way of defending the Soviet Union is to spread among the workers “Soviet ‘Forced Labor,’” by Max Bedacht, 10 cents Per copy. ‘Ask Me, I Don’t Know Fi The capitalist press, including the N. Y. Timea, keeps insisting that there is “forced” labor in the Soviet Union. But the Times of July % pib-> lishes a wireless dispatch from Moscow begins ning: j “MOSCOW, July 2A new problem cone fronts the Soviet—how to tempt farm worke ers to the cities to work in factories.” We thought that Messrs. Wales, Knickerbocke er, Norman Thomas and Woll-Fish had “proven” that the Soviet “tempts” nobody, but puts them. in chains and forces them to go anywhere it or- ders and work. Prom ovr sources we know that the wicked Soviet “compels” them to accept wages, social insurance, the Seven-Hour Day! Now it appears that it is “tempting” them to work! Then again: In the N. Y. Times of July 8, Henry Wales tells of the starvation of the peas ants, He says: : “In the Ukraine and North Caucasus 1 yistte ed dozens of collective farms and saw the ier= | rible conditions existing there... . I visited with these peasants, and noted thelr apathy, their listlessness, brought on partly through | mainutrition, lack of adequate food ... with i their wives and gaunt. pale, yellowish, listless. children, they lie on their piles of rags and straw in their huts and wait for the ned, whatever it may be.” But, dang it all, two days earlier, in the Times of July 3, mentioned above, is the article con- tinuing the story about “tempting” farm workers to come to the city, we found the following: “The collective farms have absorbed the surplus agricultural labor and supplied the farmers with food so that they have almost lost the stimulus to make the track to the city.” It seems mighty hard for the Soviet to Please the capitalist correspondents. Mr. Wales says the farmers are all starvin® to death and are too weak to move, so the Five Year Plan ts a “failure.” Another correspondent says that the farmers are so chuck full of food they can’t move, so the factories are short of workers and therefore the Five Year Plan is imperiled! What would you do if you were a Soviet offi. cial and a capitalist journalist applied for a visa and said he wanted to look around the country and send out the “truth”? ..¢ We thought so! A v It Does Seem Queer + A comrade named Zogorac, of New writes English with difficulty but with earnestness, tells us that on June 21' ths i 4 slav Workers’ Club had a pienio, Wwhich 6 course is all right. bs Picnics, however, he thinks should have more than one aim, as we are inclined to agree, And at this one, he says, there were many, symm ers present and everybody had a 4 The Party members, he says, were busy Cm food and drink, which might be all right, too, bras comrade complains id nothing else: ‘ “Not a speaker; not a word about Scottsboro case; nor about miners’ strike— the bourgeois press and their les about the Sov- jet Union, neither anything for the Daily Worker or the Radnik (the South-Slavic Communist i That's too bad, if true, and perhaps the com- rades concerned will tell us if the fraction did anything more than roast lamb and watt on the table, wate By eee a ' ‘ Jersey Makes Ready “ Hoover isn’t the only government authority rushing war preparations. From N. J. C. of Jere sey City we get a clipping of the “Jersey Ob- server” of June 26, saying that all honorably dis- charged veterans of any old war who are now on the police force, be listed, and the list sent te the state capital at Trenton. Of course Hoover may have given Jersey the hint. The clipping says that “no reason could be learned locally for the request.” Naturally if the government is preparing for war, it can’t come out and say so while Hoover is spreading “peace talk” all over the map. Any such a mistake would at once arouse the masses to protest before war could be declared “out of a clear sky.” But take our warning, work- ers, that all these things mean war is preparing. And let the war markers know that you won't stand for it by coming out in demonstration on Anti-War Day, August First, bringing your fele low workers with you. , . . ia ‘ * i 1 A Pittsburgh Monument ~ “Dear Red Sparks:—Do you remember the statuue of Armstrong, organizer of the Amal- gamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers in West Park, Pittsburgh? In the old days, all workers’ parades march right to the foot of that statue to demonstrate there and talk about Armstrong and the uunion. ! “When 20,000 militant miners and steel work- ers, bringing the demands of the strikers and unemployed alike, marched to West Park in a mighty demonstration—the kind Pittsburgh hasn’t seen in a long time—nobody paid any attention at all to old Tom Armstrong, And the old association doesn’t mean anything to the steel workers, except to a little gang of old cronies who talk about the ‘days long ago, when’ + ++ and maybe swap stories with the Bosses,” —B. RR. Well, this is quite natural. Communist des monstrations in New York don’t mobilize around the Statue of Liberty, There isn’t any liberty for the New York masses (or those elsewhere under capitalism), And since the “union” of the » A, A. LS. & W., don’t exist for the steel worke ers they naturally pay no attention to Tom Arm- strong. And we will bet that the little gang our comrade mentions have also forgotten Arme strong. But all the traditions of class struggle that cling around Armstrong belong to the revolute: tionary trade union movement of- today, Trade Union Unity League, and when ita othe ated section which takes in the steel ‘workers, the Metal Workers Industrial League, gets these workers into motion, it has the right to any tradition of militancy that belongs to Armstrong, ASH THE WAR FRONT AGAINST THE SOVIETS! Workers’ Republic. funds for war, but the bosses refuse one cent for relief! Eunds be turned over for immediate unemployment relief, ———>>_;_—> DEMONSTRATE AUGUST 1! Hoover and Mellon plan war against the Mellon’s police shoot miners in Pennsylvania! Plenty of i | ’ ‘