The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 9, 1931, Page 4

f Published by the Page Focr } SE bunt * Address and mil al. ~ WHITE CHAUVINISM IN — Comr Street WASHINGTON, D.C. imination m under- ~) who tive con- egro y and the ng Communi. loped and ading in oth: in Chicago. ndly nfortable (for “Communi Bolshevil:s) to point to the units which, for w Y reason, are weak and lack accomplishments, and co them. Those comrades who in the heat of passion say that “nothing was done in Negro work in Washington” are badly exaggerating. Some has been done, but the recults are far too The failure to push this work can be today in the fact that only two Negro mem- bers remain in the Communist Party and an- other two in the Young Communist League. White Chauvinism Rampant. Another result of the failure to push our Ne- gro work is that white chauvinism is again show- ing its obnoxious head in the auxiliary organiza- tions and, to our great shame, even in the Com- munist Party and the Young Communist League. A few of the unfortunately many proofs of this will suffice. It is a matter of established fact that the In- ternational Workers’ 0: the Co-operative, Camp Nitgedaiget, the Mothers’ League, etc., are rampant with white chauvinism. Very few Ne- gro workers are coming to the camp, because, until lately, the tacit policy was to keep Negro workers out of the camp, Even Party members dared to defend this vi i “purely business” rea: fow Negro workers who do visit the camp are made to feel out of place, are snubbed by the petty-bourgeois elements, The Party fraction in the Co-ope ain to al e has beén instructed time and an ideok st these al ) been done etreat on Negro Question. this white chauvin- 1 about two months ago, sed a decision that at a he I. W. O. Youth Branch ade to get Negro workers ce of Negro workers, upporting this opportunist Ata ¥. 0. L nee, when Party this decision, the League e matter lightly. Only when eprese ned those re- nsible with expulsion did several members of the League get u 1 state that they “believe” nt rtunist nifestation of g dance of to be r acc decision, mee! spo the de Ww r Several openly stated that they anted to avoid the issue.” Others brazenly de ed “it would break the I. W. O. to invite Neg Proof that they are still taking n is seen in the fact that a condemning the Executive Committee of Young Communist League for its action ha: yet been sent to the Com- ion of the Y, C. L. m as to why this has comrades reply, “We are : is that they will ng” until they land outside movement. h this outbreak of chauvin- significant to note that been discontinued —the ex being that no hall for the purpose can be obiained. Leading Committees Evade Issue. Cases of individual chauvinism are necessal frequent where chauvinism has official endorse- ment. Scme time ago at an International Labor Defense dance a young Negro worker compli- mented a L: on her looks and got the ance, “Don’t speak of that— e dancing with you for only one purpose!” ism in t the inte This comrade later denied that she made this | statement. However, member stcod away months, the Y. C. L. ed that she does not like to sit next to Negroes in a street car. The matter was brought to the attention of the E. C. of the Y. C. L—with the greatest difficulty. One meeting of the E. C. was cut short in the midst ing discussion on this case. At the in the absence of the comrade tring the charre and of the Pariy repre- entative, the qu decided in 15 min- utes of “deliberation.” The ‘illiant” decision was that the guilty comrade be instructed to de- on the Negro question and to inten- sify ities in this field! ing the guilty comrade was excitedly defended of the E. C. with statements such we join the League old feelings don’t result, the Neg-o the movement for as a ‘om pear, . . . We cannot control our aver- sions. . . . We should not condemn her too Severe! . It is a result of the schools, etc. It cannot be helped.” Similar anti-working- class opinions were expressed by a Party func- tionary. These facts (and they could be multiplied en-fold!) prove the necessity of the sharpest struggle against white chauvinism and all its opportunist defenders in the revolutionary movement in Washington, D. C. The burning ou® of white chauvinism is an absolute prerequi- site to real mass work by the Party and the Young Communist League among the Negro and white workers of Washington. Every sin- cere, honest comrade must at once take up this struggle against white cauvinism and its de- fenders and apologists, ruthlessly exposing these wherever they show themselves and supporting the sharpest disciplinary measures, up to expul- sion, against those elements who resist the Com- munist line on the Negro question. New York, N. ¥. A few weeks ago, another member of | At the meet- | “White Man’s (Prem the “Southern Worker”) The program of the Black Judases has lly DuBois, The Crisis, been put down in black and white b: Ww riting in the September issue of al organ of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloyed People. It is ait official statement of policy, expressing in words what has so plentifully been expressed in deeds by the Black Judases in the Scottsboro case, the Camp Hill, Ala., events and in the Chicago evic- tion massacre, It is a very carefully worded statement by a master of demagogy, contradicting itself a dozen times, yet its basic conclusion stands out clearly. Itis primarily directed against the Communists, to whom increasing masses of Negro toilers are looking for leadership, and yet just because of the tremendous Communist influence among the Negroes, DuBois is forced to concede certain points, only to contradict them again later, He concedes that: “The importance of the Russian Revolution cannot be gafnsaid.” Only to con- tradict this important concession by stating that the Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union “leaves him (the Negro) just where he was be- fore the Russian Revolution,” denying the tre- of this historic eve ution to the N hand to those he got N.A. a moment when nip of the American Ne- been goo hes been n y or egely dominate al or yet { the large donations received bosses to enable the N.A.A. of betrayal. And later had seid barely a helf- in 20 sirtements m<) violence,” k Ju , “and would listen ce in the long run.” On the other hand, eccording to this collector of 30 Pieces of silver, the white workers are the Ne- &ro's enemies, their lynchers and torturers, The 4 Commvr-tists are c , he says, young jackasses leading the “ignorant Negro masses” to suicide, to the lynch rope and murderous posses, The white worker is to blame for the persecution of the Negroes, the white bosses and landowners are the Negroes friends. And then we read further on: “The foundation of its present world wide power (power of the ruling class.—Ed.) is the slavery and semi- slavery of the colored world, including the Am- erican Negroes. Until the colored man, yellow, red, brown and black, becomes free, articulate, intelligent and the receiver of a decent income white capital will use the profit derived from his degradation to keep white labor in chains.” But how is this freedom to be obtained—by cooperation with the white ruling class against the white workers, answers DuBois, and not by a fighting solidarity of Negro and white work- ers against their common enemy, the white boss and landowning class. As DuBois and his’ N.A. A.C.P. cronies have shown in deeds, their am- bition is to further split up the working class, strengthen the color line among the workers, for which task they are gratefully supported in dol- lars by the white ruling class, This new talk of DuBois—altho making an attempt to con- fuse the Negro workers by empty radical phra- ses thrown in here and there—is the same old boss talk: “The poor whites are your enemies, we, the bosses, are your friends. Be a white man’s nigger.” DuBois, Pickens have become “ cei White and others of their ilk e men’s niggers,” have re- a degree more of freedom and much com- fort for tt s, but at a price—the betrayal at 50 Bast DALWORK,.” Daily, Yorker’ By mat SUBSCRIPTION RATES: everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; iattan and Bronx New York City. Woreign: one year. $ excepting Boroughs six months, $4.50, Party U.S.A. “3 THE ANGELS THEY FLY HIGH George CY By BURCK % } V, News Item:— King George donates 50,000 pounds from his Privy Purse to aid in crisis. | “huti-Soviet Lies and the Five- Year Plan” Reviewed by A. PRINTZ IN this period when world imperialism, with American imperialism at its head, is openly preparing a new world war and military inter- vention against the Soviet Union; at a time when the economic war against our Socialist fatherland -is fast becoming an armed attack against the Soviet Union, the above pamphlet along with others recently published by the Communist Party of the United States through | the Workers Library Publishers, are of particular importance to the broad masses of workers and are invaluable for organizing and mobilizing the workers for revolutionary action. These pamphlets bring out in the clearest and most emphatic fashion that the new world war now being prepared by imperialism and its faith- ful henchmen, social fascism, is too near a pos- sibility to permit of vague discussion and aim- less deliberation; that imperialism waits but for an opportune moment to set into motion the wat machinery for an armed attack against the Soviet Union; hence the immediate need for | an organized opposition on the part of the | working class against imperialist war, for the | defense of the Soviet Union, and for turning the war against class brothers into one against the class enemy. In simple understandable words, in popular style Comrade Bedacht tells of the feverish im- Perialist war preparations and of the particular role of Uncle Sam in his “holy” Crusade against the Soviet Union. The brochure is a clear and convincing answer to all capitalist lies about the Soviet Union. The author simply takes the reader by the hand, leads him through the whole repulsive swamp of capitalism's biased phantastic and systematically planned lies, shows him their oricin and purpose and gives the reader a clear-cut Marxian answer to the entire fascist and social-fascist barrage of lies. Comrade Bedacht poses both systems, the ca- pitalist and Socialist —one azainst the other— and gives the reader a thorov analysis of both in such a fashion that the wnole capitalist cam- paign of lies against the Soviet Union reveals itself in all its ugliness. With facts and figures, the author brings to us the colossal, unheard of growth of industrial- ization in the various branches of national eco- nomy, the sweep and tempo of Socialist con- struction and the .extraordinary rise’ in the workers’ standard of living, the increase and up- hill march of domestic consumption and the growth of the purchasing power. id When we see the Socialist system in its growth and expansion contrasted with the decaying, rotting capitalist system, based on exploitation and robbery, we understand the reason for this gigantic industry of lies that has grown to such immense proportions in this period of deepen- ing capitalist crisis. It becomes clear that it is not merely lie-fabricating, but war fabrica- tion, aimed with all their strength against the Soviet Union, This brochure. must become an effective weapon in our campaign to shatter the deadly barrage of lies and insinuations against our So- cialist fatherland, Every worker should read this pamphlet in order to acquaint himself with the facts of Socialist construction and with the plans and lies of the capitalists and their “so- cialist” friends. The reader should particularly realize from this pamphlet that the problem now is not so much the recognition of the Soy- jet Union as the defense of the Soviet Union. and selling out of the masses of Negro toilers, by helping to strengthen the bonds. of wege slavery and peonage on white and Negro alike by intensifying race prejudice, by strengthenirz the color line among the working class. As tools cf the white ruling class they have viciously fought every effort of the white and black toil- ers to unite and fight as one against slavery and starvation and oppression. Against this pol! of rarx betrayal, as for- mulated and polished up by DuBois there stands the militant and faitnful leadership of the Ccm- munist’ Party, b: on the solidarity of ell workers of all races and nationalities in the Struggle against all bosses and their hangers-on —a struggle which will find its victory in the overthrow of the capitalist system and in the building of Socialism, 4. Uncaver 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 constantiy expose the miserable treatment of families of the unemployed by the city governments and charity institutions, Wa must uncover all cases of starvation, u.- 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 unemploy ~ e. Gor S. C—The Southern District of the International Labor Defense has issued a | statement denouncing the kidnapping and brutal beating of Clara Holden, organizer of the Na- tional Textile Workers Union of Greenville S. C. The statement declares: “While on her way to a meeting of textile workers, Clara Holden, organizer of the National Textile Workers Union of Greenville, S. C., was kidnapped by five well dressed men, taken in a ear to Saluda Dam about six miles outside of Groenville and there savagely beaten with a leather strap, “Ihe kidnappers made threats to Clara Hol- @™, saying they would kill her if she remained in Greenville. They made it plain that the rea- son for this attack upon her was because she was an organizer of mill workers. “This is the fourth time attempts have been made to terrorize organizers of the National Textile Workers Union by the Ku Klux Klan and mill bosses. Each time the attackers, although they had the open endorsement of the Green- ville Police Department, failed in their attempt to render the mill workers helpless by driving the union organizer out of town. The last attack by the five well dressed men is without doubt an expression of direct action by the mill owners, especially the owners of Brandon and Judson mills, whose employees very recently have re- ceived wage cuts. “The Greenville city government and police department in its actions shows its full hearted agreement with the’ terrorization of the mill workers and organizers and proves how utterly the police department is the tool of the mill owners to force the mill workers to receive wage Southern Ruling Class “Chivalry” cut after wage cut and to finally reduce the mill workers to a state of starvation, right on the job. “The International Labor Defense with head- quarters at 30 S. College St. in Charlotte, de- mands that the mill workers of Greenville have the right to organize and fight against the star- vation policy of the mill owners. “We place the responsibility for the attack of Clara Holden, Tuesday night and the three pre- vious ones upon the heads of the Greenville po- lice department, the mayor of Greenville and the governor of South Carolina, and further hold them responsible for the lives and safety of the textile organizers. The very fact that the Ku Klux Klan openly made three attacks and the mill owners showed no fear when they attacked Clara Holden proves conclusively the control the mill owners have over the entire city government of Greenville. That this kidnapping follows closely upon the heels of wage cuts given the workers in the Judson and Brandon mills, and that Holden was on her way to a meeting of these workers, also proves the role the Judson and Brandon mill owners have in these latest outrages perpetuated against the workers of Greenville. “The International Labor Defense demands the immediate arrest of the owners of the Jud- son and Brandon mills in connection with Hol- den’s kidnapping. We also demand the imme- diate liquidation of the mill owners’ bootlicking organization, the Ku Klux Klan. *The International Labor Defense pledges its utmost support to the National Textile Workers Union and the mill workers of Greenville in their fight against wage cuts, stretchout and further acts of terror made upon the workers at the instigation of the mill owners.” By M. L, ‘THER proof that the capitalists are at- tempting to hide their haste in preparing for war by attacking the Soviet Union as a mil- itary menace, is contained in an article by Wy- the Williams in the Saturday Evening Post for September 5. He says: “The new rulers (of the Soviet Union) now have embarked upon a line of war preparation more gigantic than any in history.” At the present time when the im- perlalist governments are travelling at express train speed towards another war, they single out the USSR as the sole menace to “peace.” This is to cover up their preparaitons, Williams + writes also that “recently and al- most continuously, high officers of the armies of Rumania, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Es- tonia have exchanged visits and held long coun- cils as to the best form of joint defense against Red attack. So far no national agreements have been made openly, but merely the military have estimated the joint strength of the fairly large but technically problematical forces of Rumania and Poland, and of the small but exceedingly competent armies of the Baltic states, officered by ex-Czarists, who are the bitterest opponents of the Bolshevik regime.” “These commanders believe that the frist attack in the west will ’ be against Poland and Rumania,” Here the USSR is being represented as the one who is going to attack these states. As the writer says, “the active Soviet. army on this date is the largest in the world. According to its propaganda department, it is already cap- able of an offensive against any trained army in Europe.” “The Soviets general plan is to delay action by armed force until the ground for revolt within other nations has been well prepared.” The Balkan States surround the U. S.S.R. and they are the spearhead of French imperialism and capitalism in general aimed at the heart of the Soviet Union. In the New York Times of January 8 there appeared a cable from Bucharest to the efvect that the Ruma- nian-Polish defense alliance agzinst Germany and Russia will be renewed only as it affects th Russian frontier. “The new treaty... in con- tradiction to the old one, which also applied to ~ be compared to that. Provoking the War on the USSR the German-Polish frontier . . . will be purely a defensive alliance against Russia.” In the Herald-Tribune of January 2 appeared a cable from Paris to the effect that 100,000 Russian White guards were ready to attack the Soviet. Union. “Half of the army lives in the Balkan countries and the rest in France and Germany.” “Their officers and the general staff are graduates of a White Russian “West Point” in Paris which offers a course in modern and technical warfare.” General Miller, com- mander of the armies of White guard Russians is quoted as saying: “We are ready to wage war, and we await only a suitable international situ- ation and finances which will surely come from one of the powers (read France) desirous of seeing Bolshevism crushed and Russia returned to its people.” ' “We get frequent reports on the Red army of Russia, ...” So here you have it quite openly, French imperialism is fostering and feeding a White Russian army and financing armament purchases by its Balkan military satelites and all to wage war on the USSR. The Washington Post says editorially (August 16), “Roumania has recently obtained a loan of $50,000,000 from France, conditioned upon the expenditure of the entire sum in France for military equipment.” Returning to the article in the Saturday Even-* ing Post we read as follows: “In considering an invasion of Russia, the three vital areas are Moscow, the capital and tail center, the Donetz-Kharkoy-Kursk area of coal and iron mining and allied industries, and the Transcaucasus area, with its oil wells.” All this is not mere talk, it is serious prepar- ation for war against the Soviet Union, All the peace conferences and pacts are a smoke-screen to veil these plans directed agianst the Soviet Union. ‘The peace conferences prior to the world war were hypocrisy and falsehoods, they were the prelude to the world holocaust which came soon after. Today, the period in Which we live may Today is the prelude to another war; we are on the threshold of an imperialist war against the workers fatherland, the USSR. t (Hillquit and Thomas Apologize for MacDonald By HARRY GANNES, Hee had the Cazarist oi] scandal beer, shoved into a welcome (for the socialists) background, than Morris Hillquit, erstwhile legal defender of the white guards and champion of the sanctity of the capitalist law of property, hastily joined the Reverend Norman ‘Thomas (who feared his godly vestments might be soiled) with the touch of oil) in the defense of their “socialist” comrades in Britain who are embar- rassingly and inextricably tangled up with the British bankers in an open attack on the work- ing class. Here is the problem with which the American socialists are faced. In Britain a socialist gove ernment corhes to power after promising the workers “socialism in our time,” inereased un- employment insurance payments, increased wages, cuts in armaments, and so on. After a long period of decreased wages, de- crease in unemployment insurance payments, in- creased armaments, and’ increased terror for the colonial masses in India, China and Africa, the “socialist” government comes to an abrupt end by the merging of its outstanding Iradership with the open spokesmen of the imperialists in the Conservative and Liberal parties. And all this when the socialists throughout the world were proclaiming the “superiority” of “socialist” govefnment over the Soviet Union in advancing the interest of the working class. The workers everywhere under capitalist rule, whether under the guise of a socialist coalition (Germany and England), or a Republican rule asin the United States, found their conditions growing worse all the time. Wage cuts increased, unemployment was growing, and the terror of the capitalists against the workers was widening. Now the bubble has burst. Hillquit, Norman Thomas, and the “militants” in the socialist ,varty, whether they are under Lovestone's aegis & Stanley’s, must “explain” to the workers. They must tell them why they should follow “social- ists” and not Communists since the unanswera= ble facts show that socialists betray the work- ers in a crisis and Communists demonstrate that they lead in wiping out capitalism and building the foundations of sociclism, not in words but in deeds. What Lee Proposed. Algernon Lee, one of the American socialist party delegates to the last Congress of the Sec- ond International in Vienna, fearing sometime ago that some such thing would happen, ad- vised his comrades to lay off. Lee, who believes that, ‘as. it is, the Socialists have everywhere a hard enough task fooling the workers, thinks the task is made no easier wh2n a socialist min- ister is caught kissing 4 king's hand fervently— if Socialists in other countries sq:avk too loudly about it. So Lee declared: “Really, we American social'sts have neitixer achieve@ so much nor dared and endured so much for the cause that we should assume guardianship over the socialist moratity of our comrades in the Old World. In other words, who is Hillquit (oily sinner that he is), or Thomas (close crony of Mayor Murphy of starvation fame in Detroit) that they should cast stones at such sterling men as Mac- Donald, Thomas and Snowden. But. socialist necessity knows no morality. It is not so much a “guardianship over” the “comrades of *e old World” as the pressing need of fooling the work- ers at home. How does Hillquit do it? Just as you would expect a socialist lawyer to act under the cir- cumstances. He lies outright. There is hardly an instance in the recent period of wholesale lying of the socialist party to exceed Hillquit’s attempted defense of the “opposition” in the Labor Party in order to clear the skirts of Socialism. Hillquit tries to say that the program ad- vanced by the late Labor cabinet belonged in reality to the capitalist class and not to the Labor government. Here is the documentary evidence. In the August 29 issue of the New Leader, Hillquit writes: “The spokesmen for the possessing classes proposed to meet haif of the requisite sum (of the $600,000,000 deficit) by increased taxation and the other half by economies in expendi tures, which include a reduction of salaries and wages of government employes and of the ben- efits paid to the unemployed.” This was not the program of the “possessing classes.” It was the program of the Labor Party, both MacDonald’s and the present “opposition”. Here is the proof of this fact printed on the first page of the British Daily Herald on August 22, 1931, now official organ of the “opposition”, and it appears in heavy italic type so there won't be any misunderstanding about it: “The Conservatives are demanding that 75 per cent of the budget deficit shall be met by economies and only 25 per cent by new taxa- tion, (that, Mr. Hillquit is the program of the Possessing class—H. G,), as against the 50 per cent economies and 50 per cent taxation pro- posed by the (Labor) government.” So Hillquit in his defense has the Labor gov- ernment fighting against its own unanimous Policy, Norman Thomas, ‘skilled in doping up unpal- atable facts so that they are no longer fecog- nizable, does the task in his own novel way; that is, by not mentioning the unpleasant things, and in the socialist fashion pointing to the “pie- in-the-sky.” “The silver lining to the cloud,” preaches the Reverend Thomas,—“and it is a very genuine silver lining” (so is the pie-in-the- sky!)—“is that now we can hope to have asain @ more aggressive socialist party in Britain.” Did MacDonald lack aggressiveness? Mor2 were jailed and murdered-under his regime in India than under the Conservative Churchill. Never mind, says Thomas, le) us look to the Messiah Henderson, he will build socialism on England's fair shores. But Thomas forgets to say anything about Henderson—Henderson th2 Labor Minister who told the British workers to shoot down German workers in the last World War for the “national interest”, Henderson who voted to execute the Irish revolutionists and so- -clalists, Henderson who plotted war against the Soviet Union—and last, but not least, Hender- son who favors fully the program of the P Donald government but knows it can best be carried out by keeping the Labor Party within bounds. . The attempted defense by the American so- clalists of the British Labor government is a self-defense, an appeal to the American workers to follow the betravers hera a]