The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 24, 1931, Page 6

Published by Page Six ° St, New Yo the Compro: rk ( > ep and mail all che Publ Worke cks to the Daily t Sunday Cable h Street, New York, N. ¥ at 50 £ “DAIWORK SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Ly mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, §3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign: one year, ng, $8; six months, $4.50, PREPARE FOR THE GENERAL COUNCIL MEETING OF THE R. LL. U. DEC. Ist all Sections of the Red International of Labor Unions, fo. all the Organs of the Revolutionary Trade Union Press. Dear Comrades, eady know, the session of the Cen- 1 Council of the R.I.L.U. will take place on per 1. The agenda is as follows: te of the R.LL.U. Sections, and the part they play in the economic struggles and in the organization of the unemployed move- ment. Reporter: Comrade Losovsky. Co-re- porter: France, England, America and India. 2—On the work and the problems of the In- ternational Committees in the various indus- tries (Intercoms). Reporter: Comrade Nieder- kirehner. 2) The Sections of the R.I.L.U. and their trade union press are faced in all countries with the task of the energetic and basic preparation for the session of the Central Council. The whole of the trade union press must now be mobilized for the preparation of the session and must consider this preparation as its storm task. It would be advisable to arrange in the press a regular col- umn under the title “To the Session of the Central Council.” Why the Gap? 3). The study and the appraisement of the ex- periences of the great economic struggles since the Fifth Congress, the great gap between t objectively favorable position and the or; tional weakness of the revolutionary uni the Red Trade Union Opposition in reformist 1)As you damental examination of the tactics of the rev- olutionary unions and opposition groups in the most important strike struggles of the country, how far the directives of the Fifth Congress on the leadership of the economic struggles have been rightly carried out. Special attention should be paid to the experiences of the application of the revolutionary united front tactics. The state of our organization should be closely investi- gated with special consideration of manifesta- tions of fluctuations. The reasons for the weak- nesses in our work in the hostile and, before all, in the reformist trade unions. The weak spots in the work among the unemployed should be uncovered and also the positive achievements of our work should be shown, special care being taken in both these points. Investigation should also be made in the work of the Intercoms, the international preparation and leadership of the struggles, the connections between the revolu- tionary unions and industrial groups with the Intercoms. The press of the industrial groups must devote special attention to these quotations. Attention In Press. 6) The whole of the trade union and factory press has to devote the greatest attention to the organization of the struggle against the prepara- tions for an imperialist war and intervention in connection with the work in the- factories and the work of the Intercoms. 7 What is demanded from the press is not simply to place on record facts of positive or in the domain of the work and of the revolutionary unions, but the main thing is that the causes of these successes “OUR TWO GREAT DEMOCRACIES TOGETHER MUST RESTORE CALM AND EQUALIBRIUM.” —LAVAL By Burck. America First! Lest some of you can yet. sorepe=-endugh together to pay the landlord, think. that this is just “too wonderful” @ country,-cast your glim- mers on the following: re “BLUEFIELD, W. Va, Oct. 1¢ (Associated Press).—Homes for five children ‘Yanging in age from one to ten years, whose-abode for several months has been a cave inthe Mills of McDowell County, are sought by W. T. Farley, probation officer. “Farley said the family consisted. of the aiother and five children. The father. “2 Sei serally is dead.” Nice place, eh, for the wealthiest: “country on earth to house a mother and fiye children? And the only “solution” the probation’ ‘officer can think of is to split up the family_among some other folks—that is, the children. . What is to be done with the mother lord knows. Probably she'll be sent to jail. Then the defenders of capitaltsm tat about Communism “destroying the fanifly” and “alien- ating children from parents”! It's entirely un- necessary for us to do it, Capitalism is. doing it. AND HOW! s ie yay Ah! Avice Soviet “Crisis”! From the United Press of Oct, 17, we learn that the citizenry of Moscow are again'’“in arms” . . . Yes, that’s what the headline’says in the Cleveland “Plain Dealer.” It “deals” "emi pl Now what is the oppressed populace of Mos- cow “in arms” about? We look! We Tead! And we are flabbergasted! .. . In Moscow there is a shortage ot vinegar! And unions, the quite insufficient work in the re- or failings should be shown and also the ways also “pepper is scarce”! formist and hostile unions, the inadequacy and | and means whereby the failings are to be obvi- Ye gods! Do Bolsheviks live on vinieg and weakness of the work among the unemployed, | ated in future and how the experiences of the pepper? Or do they use these priceless ti as the internationalization of the struggle; these sre the most important questions which will be placed in the centre of the deliberations. 4) It is necessary that the trade union press and the whole of the factory press, should, un- der the leadership of the sections of the R.T.U.O., carry on a wide discussion in which the worker correspondents from the factories and labor ex- changes should be strongly drawn in. achievements may be taken advantage of in fu- ture struggles. 8) A reading of the issues of the trade union papers and journals during the last months shows that the press has not yet so far been mo- bilized for the preparations of the Session. This circumstance compels the Secretariat of the | R.LL.U. to remind the revolutionary trade union organizations of the necessity te place at once By HARRISON GEORGE. | the deed in his own 1 é UcH, néme. As “engineer” he reported that seasoning for other more. noutishing foods? There is’ not a word about these other foods, meat, vegetables, or anything like that! Now, unemployed American _workers, ee | you rise in revolt if you had. beef-steak the pepper? Or salads without vests? © oh, you say have NO beefsteak and NO sala Well, learn something from the Russian work- ers: Make a revolution and get your, “beefsteak Concrete Sucka: the trade union press end the factary pavers/in' | RESIDENT Herbert Clark Hoover and Premier Pierre it was cheaper to kill miners at $30 a head (which he called | and salads, and tifen we won't kick a Bit if you Ii will be found advisable that the main points | the service of the preparations of the session and | Laval are discussing “things” in SECRET. “adequate compensation” to the relatives) than buy timber | rise :“in arms” for the pepper aiid Vinegar! of the ssions should be worked out by the also to draw the worker correspondents in the | Laval says he is a “messenger of peace.” But, why to make the miners safe. Ce Sait central leadership of the R.T.U.O. and with it entirely concrete tasks should be -placed. before. factories, especially in the larger ones, and in the most important branches of industry, into does peace need to be discussed SECRETLY? Hoover declares that he, too, is “working” for ‘peace As president of the American capitalist government, Hoover maintains bitter hostility to the Soviet Union, against It’s a Hard Life the unions, the industrial groups, and the fac- the participation in the discussions on the vari- = é 4 ¢: 1 foriés, and ‘ iiariely, "that" coriérete “questions | cus questions standing before the session. | and disarmament.” But why discuss such things which the Russo-Asiatic Corporation, of which he was an pas i eccioakecomapen te us with: mourn ould be formulated for the. answer, of which 9) The leading organs are responsible for the | SECRETLY? official, has a “claim” for $200,000,000; filed with the Brit- “yep, Krock, old boy. It’s » ‘tard tite, ” @ Workers should be mobilized. quickest expansion in the campaign of prepara- | Let us look over these silk-hatted “peace” makers. Who ish courts from Hoover’s office in London. mused. “Take this passage from the: pages as a 5) ‘Phe following points of view are @écisive in | tion for the session. is Laval and what force for “peace” does he represent? Who As an “angel of peace” Hoover has kept marines in | Y.C.L. membership book: § the discussions: to investigate, by way of a fun- | (Signed) Secretariat of the R. I. L. U. is Hi “ od * Ni mi is Hoover, and how “peaceful” is the United States? icaragua killing workers and. peasants. He keeps more ‘Without revolutionary theory wtevetution- Pierre Laval, says the N. Y. Times of Oct. 18, is “a prac- marines in Haiti. He upholds the tyrant Machado in Cuba | 277 movement is impossible’. “This stying of Bone Lenin forms the basis of the Y.C.L.’s work. The Rank and File ot the A. F. L. Want Unemployment Insurance DEMONSTRATION called by A. F. of L. “left” leaders in Minneapolis Sunday, October 18 was turned into a demonstration against the whole A. F. of L. officialdom and their policy of betrayal by the militant rank-and-file work- rs. 1,500 workers took part in a parade called by the Building Trades Council, but there was mo doubt that the workers did not come there because of any faith in the leadership of the A. F. of L.,, but to demand militant struggle for unemployment insurance, and for the release of Mooney and other class-war prisoners. Fully a whundred banners in the parade carrie@ by rank- @md-file workers denounced the policy of betray- als. of the A. F. of L., called for strikes against wege-cuts, mass resistance against evictions, and ether militant slogans, ‘Three thousand workers at the Municipal Au- ‘@rortum following the parade listened to the mpeech of Walter Frank, head of the Building Wrades Council, who outdid all his past dema- (g@@eie performances. Under « continuous fire of heckling from workers in the audience who failed te be impressed by his revolutionary phrases, Prenk claimed to be « supporter of the Com- The Meaning of Fraternization i By V. I. LENIN | (Written in 1917.) % a capitalists either poke fun at fraterniza- tion, or wrathfully attack it with lies and salumny, reducing it all to “deception” prac- ticed by the Germans upon the Russians; they ‘threaten—through their generals and officers —to punish severely all those guilty of frater- nization. From the point of view of safeguarding the ‘*=e > property right” of capital and profits, {his.>°"cy of the capitalists is quite sound: ivgcd. in order that the proletarian Socialist , tion be crushed at its very inception, it eseary to regard fraternization in the | | light in which the capitalists regard it. The class-conscious workers and the vast | masses of semi-proletarians and poor peas- ants who. guided by the true instinct of op- | prtsted clesses, follow in the step of class- eorscious workers, regard fraternization with {ie deepest sympathy. It is obvious that this rosd leads not to the capitalist government, rot to harmony with them, but, on the con- . it leads avainst them. Tt is obvious that ‘Mis tord develons. strengthens, consolidates ‘in cfecling of brotherly confidence among | the ferkers of various countries. It is ob- <2 that this road js heginning to undermine | the Be tiabie discipline of the barrack pris- | ho decintine requiring the absolute sub- +n of soldiers to “their” officers and to th ts (for offic and t cither members ofthe eapits list c’ass or d : of its in- exests). It is obvious that fvaternization is th revolu ‘onary initiative of the m the mind, the courage of the oppressed es, that it is, in other words one of the lin’s im the chain of steps leading towards the Soeialist proletarian revolution. | that it is the awakening of the con tieasilthietilescbatacintaaticeel | | | | | | munist Party, the Unemployed Councils, and the International Labor Defense, and copied all the militant slogans of struggle of the Com- | munists, which he knew to be popular among the workers. He grudgingly admitted, when pressed by questioners from the floor, that the Trade Union Unity League was the only trade union organization which organized the workers to strike against wage-cuts, but failed to explain how such a “reyolutionist” as he claimed to be could reconcile his speeches with his role in keeping the workers tied to the A. F. of L. strike- breaking machine, Following Frank’s speech, Nels Kjar demanded | the floor for the Minneapolis Unemployed Coun- cil, and the chairman, sensing the sympathies of the audience, granted him the floor to speak while the chairman fidgeted nervously. Comrade Kjar warned the workers against revolutionary | speeches that were only empty phrases without action to back them up. He pointed out the role of the Unemployed Councils in organizing the struggle for unemployment relief and social insurance, a role which forced the leaders of the | Building Trades Council to issue an empty “en- dorsement” of the Unemployed Councils. He pointed out, amidst great applause, that there were no Communists outside the ranks of the Communist Party. Also that it was the Inter- national Labor Defense which was leading the fight for the release of all class-war prisoners, including Mooney, and that the Franks were a little bit late in acknowledging this fact. He pointed out that the defense of the Soviet Union did not depend on the speeches of Walter Frank, but upon the mass action of the workers them- selves. Kjar then presented a resolution in the name of the Unemployed Council, condemning the Vancouver convention of the A. F. of L. for op- posing unemployment insurance, endorsing the program of struggle of the Unemployed Councils, calling for support to the City Hunger March on November 20, and the National Hunger March to Washington on December 7, and call- ing for recognition and defense of the Soviet Union. The resolution was greeted with enthu- siasm by the audience, and was unanimously adopted. A resolution was also adopted calling for the release of Mooney and all class-war prisoners, and endorsing the Mooney-Harlan Defense Con- ference October 30 called by the International Labor Defense. Thousands of leaflets were distributed in the Auditorium by the Communist Party, and Com- munist literature was eagerly bought by the workers who ignored the literature of the A. F. of I, In the evening, three neighborhood mass ral- lies at 7 o'clock were held by the Communist. Party, with about 1,500 attending, in spite of the fact that many of .the workers had been meeting till 6 o'clock and hardly had time to go home. Dozens of workers joined the Commun- ist ty and the Unemployed Council, includ- ing many rank-and-file A. F. of L. members. The headqu' s of the Communist Party is receiving applications for membership every day on the backs of the leaflets distributed by the Par T e October 18 ‘ation and meetin; she clearly that the influence of the A. F. of L, “left” leaders among the workers is rapid- ly being replaced by the leadership of the Com- demo! munist Party and by such mass organizations as the Unemployed Covneil, the Trade Union Unity League, and the International Labor De- fense, tical fixer,’ who has risen to power by exceptional art in hypocrisy; “an intermediate man, who belongs to the Left, but is willling to work with the Right. He can still be claimed as the representative of democracy, but. he is per- fectly willing to let the oligarchic forces have a fairly free He has mastered the art of hypocrisy in one of its best schools, that is to say, he was once identified with the rein.” “socialist” party of France. Laval, says the Times, “cannot avoid speaking in the name of that France which is the creation of a little oligarchy of military men, financiers, manufacturers, politicians and possibly priests whose policy and ambition are now one of the deepest causes of Europe’s uneasiness.” Look, workers, at French | Indo-China, a French colony of 20,000,000 people. i Laval and Hoover are talking about China, see what “peace” Laval’s France brought to Indo-China, as told in the N. Y. And not only in Europe. Sun of Oct. 22: “More than 700 Annamites, Tonkinese and Cambodians have been executed by French authorities during the last | Guillotining in the public squares of the two capitals began about a year ago. An American traveller witnessed fourteen Indo-Chinese youths finished off in this | The executioner’s knife was displayed in a con- | spicuous location in the crowded native district, and after- wards the heads were exhibited as a warning to the pop- . thirty months. manner. ulance.” This, workers, is the France which is talking “peace.” but which ‘has for years financed spies and sabotage within | Soviet borders, and plotted with czarist officers for war and intervention against the Soviet Union! senger of peace’? RIDICULOUS! And who is Hoover? A “Quaker president” who prefers | to look over Latin America from a warship! A stock swindler | by profession, who with British partners bulldozed the Chi- nese out of vastly rich mines in Chili Province in 1900 and then got his partners where their hair was short by getting hed U. S. gunboats Hoover has use whose greatest pleasure is the murder of workers. He has supported Chiang Kai-shek in China in butchering litexally hundreds of thousands of workers and peasants. He has firing upon the Chinese Red Army. He has kept the Philippine nation subjected as a colony and persecuted Filipino working class leaders. d financial pressure to cut down unem- ployed benefits in Germany and England. But there’s no system of wage cuts! Since the jobless millions need to ge abroad to demonstrate! strikers in the Pennsylvania and Kentucky mines?. Hoover “peace” means WAR ON WORKERS as well as WAR ON THE WORKERS’ SOVIET REPUBLIC! War on the workears by wage cuts! By the “stagger” for the Army and Navy! ers die everyday of starvation, Hoover refusés even a cent What of the murdered ! War on the workers by refusal to feed with the billion dollar fund appropriated While a thousand American work- to feed them rather than tax the rich who own, the gov- ernment! don’t! These silk-h: ers will even plot talk SECRETLY! why they encircle th Is Laval a “mes- districts! No, indeed, Lav: but WAR! Now, workers. do you imagine for a moment that Laval and Hoover are talking about “peace”? No, of course you atted bandits and irternational plunder- war against each other. Even thongh they solemnly “agree.” Imperialist France and imperialist America are not talk- ing “peace,” but IMPERIALIST WAR! That’s why they War on the Soviet Union and an attemnt to seize its territory, divide it among the imonerialist. wolves! y That is e Soviet from Manchuria to Firland! War to re-divide Chira and other actual colonies, sch as Indiz! War on the Chinese masses and their growing Soviet War on the German masses if they turn to Com- munism rather than endure endless slavery to the bankers! WAR ON THE WORKERS OF THE WHOL” * WOPTD! al and Hoover are NOT talking “peace,” Slave Labor~Imagined and Real | Conditions of Australian Aborigines, STAND UP—members of the Australian capitalist class, instruct your lickspittles— “Labor” politicians, newspaper writers, priests and parsons—to stand also while we indict. you as murderers, slave cwners| slave drivers and race exterminators. Stand up, you hypo- erites who lyingly screech about slave labor in the timber camps of the Workers’ Fatherland while you carry on a vigorous policy of driv- ing the Australian Aborigines to work on forced indentures, robbing them even of the meagre amounts to which they are entitled under your scabby indentures; you, who use chains, whips and guns in order to get cheap labor, dare td slander the Soviet Union? Be- fore the working class of the whole world we indict you. INE; of the worst examples of forced and slave labor in the world exists in Australia. Aboriginal workers, denied even the meagre con- ditions of “freedom” that the white workers have, live in hourly and daily terror of not only themselves being forced to sign indentures to toil for practically no wazes—but a special o ganization of crawlers and bloodhounds «the Abovigines Protection Board) has been set vv by the capitalist class to kidnap aboriginal chil- dren and force these mites to slave for capi- talism. In pursuance of the capitalists’ policy of ex- terminating the aboriginal race entirely, origin- ally ¢arried out by “abo hunts” which were bet- ter “fun” than Kangaroo hunts, poisoning water- | tions.” | | | Jt holes, doping food with strychanine and other gentle British methods; today the sexes are being segregated with the aid of the christian dope peddlers and police through “Mi:sion Sta- The women of the aboriginal race are re- cruited through these cheap labor compounds and sent into the towns and station homosteads as domestics, while the male aborigines are kept employed miles away from the female specie. ‘This present method is a little slower than the murder campaigns of the past, but is actually more certain—it is racial extermination, Education Denied. Aboriginal intellectuals—and there are such despite “benevolent” capitalism's refusal to al- low the aborigines the same opportunities for schooling and training as other races in -Aus- tralia, are not allowed to accept positions in their professions—and in the case of school teachers who pass all the necessary examinations they prohibited from teaching even children of their own race where other school and train- ing facilities are denied them, L Aborigines Must Keep Off Politics. Political freedom is denied the aborigines— ad woe betide him who is caught tating an ec- ve port in pol! Tv s (carried into ef- fect) to take ay their children and Lire then out as slave resis on feke charges with tie sentences being commuted to several years hard labor at about 4 pounds to 10 pounds per year for some ¢ us exploite*—-or some other form of terror is adopted to prevent any poli- tical activity on behalf of the aboriginal race. Scullin’s Man Hunts, Man hunts are still carried out in various | parts of Australia, particularly In that portion coming di-cctly under the control of the Fedral “Labor” Government, headed by the “Labor” Party F.emier, Scullin. Troopers are sent into the Northern Territory to arrest tribesmen who are alleged to have speeded cattle. The unfor- tunate aborigines are brourht to “justice” and condemned to work on stations, etc. ‘There they are “civilize.” taught how to dink poiconous rum, smoke tcbaecco. encouraged in sexual excesces—diseesed. ard then they are fit | nrev for the Mission Stations end the Aborii Protection Boards. The’: capital’sm’s insat‘able greed is temporarily setisfied and the capitalit class, its lick-spittles, thugs, gunmen, dope ped- diers. kidnappers of children (A.P.B.) and ex- terminators of the Aboriginal race do their bit— collectively. And the ruling class of Australia dares to ta’k of slave labor in the Soviet Union! —H. J. M. CORRECTION In the October 20 issue of the Daily Worker, in a box under the hevdline “Bourgeoisie In- capable to manage their own so¢lal produc- tive forces,” the concluding sentence should have read as fo'lows: “The bourgecisie are con- victed (and not “convinced”—Ed.) of incapa- city further to manage their own social pro- ductive forces:”, (From the concluding chapter of Enge!’s ‘Socialism Utopian and Scientific’.)" Vote Commun’st for Free Un- employment Insurance Equal to Full Wages to Be Paid By the Government | him quickly, so we left the letter, Maintaining a Mving connection r ‘prac- tice and theory...intended to nequaint the boned youth with the theory ‘of <Commun- oe that soynds O.K.; don’t. it, rock? But what was our experience with that létter, a YC Ler wrote us from Brooklyn? , He wanted to at- tend the Workers School. Class ‘in*gournalism given only on Wednesday nights. ‘Fhat’s the Um meeting night. Promised to- ‘do League work all other six nights. Unit: wouldn't let him be excused to go to classes.- Backed. up. by Party Rev. who made irrelevant. retererice to our noble self, “Well, Krock, he eppealed to tis: “And ina hurry, ’cause he wanted to miss no class. What could we do? We took his letter to. the Y.C.L. National Office and one of the Biz Shots there showed signs of sympathy. Was going to write Now, “Krock, they're yood lads in the N.O. and each one, in- dividually esked, wou'd thoroughly” approve of letting the Brooklyn boy go to school. a fact they did. “But once let oll these symipéatiics se"Ihds go into a huddle o%ficially ard they aie pata- lysed. They did thét, tco. and: heir” héarts hardened like Pherach’s. The “satredfornules must be upheld. ‘The Distriet The Section informed, The U' merits of ecch czse carefvliv the boy was in the right. B: “So everything sionped on the boy will b2 adviscd eivhtaen moj™s he can’t 70 to last year’s Wi sensible ain’t it, Krock? But that’ “ru! common senr> gets in the way of “ful much wors? for Common se7s2.- Se psePey “Then we beard of another yotth; # a Run: fer stud, Atked to jcin a .~"¢*, hh? wovld b> avowed to study week. Unit work all the rest, wos horrified tcld him eo, get his theovetien] edveation lire _ reading the Sat. Fve. Post, the LaborDete-d-r, Havelock Ellis ard al offical re*ONitioeee Ne h- int doing! Ard may gawdham4zey “But hee, K-cel. ve come th wHOiA e-se we Icarned of. A YCler want fe™to the Workers School. The fchcol is*abrdtes'*~ 0° rupting the. Lesvue ard ourht to. be ab ‘T turned him down’ ceid a Leaf tiinetionaz7, envy or the “I”, ‘And sup- sion. Aw, he's a awelinend a hor, ord ¥ » to b? on tho Ax’ the District has ceen_ the ‘Sehool ta hem to It him study.’ #ornamee. mend ‘the “nett tant boot: is its Fitth Co every member must work to re 3 fime- Uonary.’ And tere a guy ts june & all over Las cause he does that. ¥ “Whetta yuh goin’ to do, the YCI? But it expects the tee to have common sense, Andg:the\ I0#.0. pects th? District to have common sense, fer the Divtrict the Se¢tion and the Sestion the Unit. But whatta y'do when Ink 86 uncommon: 28 common sense? Reorult : mbers and then-expe] ‘em at the first time they show suspicious sims of wanting to slydy fons “any‘of these lads could havesimpiy been absent. About 30 per cent of theitambers .us- ually are, and robody pays any-attestion. But becnit2 they wore loyal, respected ele ard asked—they get the dirty end “o5 “Ho. hum I-oek, old Ieather-faeoy there's no anneal, Prt there’s one settlement. and new mer hors stttte such differences dn and berdrts, They cetfle It ‘with tyelfeetiods od nin raid about the Russian so'dierssivoting for peace’. They simply leave the LeasuecNo jaw compels ‘em to belon7.. So Pbrpiewcinchhe be a lot of theoretically trained cee side, and none inside.” ees ‘The crocodile scratched its a u canny agility and a hind Jeg, yawned=pensively im agreement: “Yep, - a hard ee, 4 i i i i = ere co