The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 14, 1931, Page 4

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The following is the thrid a series of articles {compiled by the Social and Economic Depart- ment of the Red International of Labor Un- ions) which give in clear outline, the forecast of what war will bring, the conditions that will ensue and the historic developments that will mark the transformation of the capitalist war into civil war, developments in which every worker will find it necessary to act as an agent of that transformation, Let all understand, then, that the developments which are today but forecasts, will tomorrow be grim realities —which must be faced—Editor. Despite the seeming ‘plan and system’ Z contradictions during the list ified war wit multiplied and inte lightning rapidity in, so to speak, geometric: progression, The most important tas tionary labor movement war is to defeat its ‘ow The peculiar features of the military tus during fui i open up ma) least. interruy war machine, the st in the foregoing being especi which may well bring the entire appa a standstill. The yery development of the reyolu- wing each imperialist erialists acing appar- ing of the mentioned ist contradictions will trom day to loosen the whole structure, and the purposeful action of the organized revolut vanguard therefore prove the final and last blow to a tot- tering system. Of course, it would be absurd to unde: difficulties, to close out eyes to the o! How formidable they really are is already clear today. From the moment war is declared the entire industry and the whole economic life of the imperialist countries will be militarized and subordinated to the military dictatorship. All the peace-offerings of capital, all the cant about ‘democracy’, all their prating about the ‘freedom’ of the press and the right to combine will be swept aside, AU agitation against war, every at- tempt to resist it, will be firmly and ruthlessly suppressed with all the brutality habitual to cap- italism. With the declaration of war the revolutionary legal press will be shut down; the legal apparatus of the revolutionary parties will be smashed. A great espionage system will be established at the enterprises and in the working class districts. Every economic strike, every attempt of the workers to struggle for tl minimum demands will be considered ‘treason’. In this connection the imperialists will act deliberately, consi ly, and from their own point of view, c In view of the foregoing characteristics of war economy, every economic movement of the work- ers irrespective of the wishes or desires of the participants, will become a political fight under- mining the very basis of the imperialist war machine te the cles, Prepare Ideology For War But the imperialist war apparatus will not only make use of Tepressions, “Froni the very com- mencement of hostilities everything that will mould the ideology of the population at large vill be set_into motion; definite steps will be int is the fact that the atic parties and the reformist un- take up their place in this apparatus, m the kbone of the agitation and pro- a that will be undertaken; in a word, they will form the “political department” of the bourgeois war offices. They will leave no stone ed to urge and maintain the “civil peace” their bourgeoisie and mobilize all the forces the workers to fling back the “treacherous enemy.” ‘They reforr of will place the entire apparatus of the labor movement (which in some coun- is pretty extensive) and all their experi- in befogging and diverting the workers at he disposal of the General Staffs and the Ad- miniStrative bodies of the country mobilized for war. One of the most important tasks that these es of imperialist war will charge them with be to struggle against the revolutionary movement, against any sign of protest of tisfaction springing up among the working masses, ence cen Class Struggle Sharpens ‘om all these serious difficulties S, the development of objective con- make inevitable an intensification on of the class struggle. already pointed out there can be no As we apid conclusion to the wars of the future. the forces of the warring groups be al, every effort would be made to mobilize ke advantage of all poss(bilities and re- and the great leading trusts be directly rested in prolonging the war, it will lead to complete exhaustion, The new possibilities of striking at the vital | centres of the enemy with the help of aviation and chemistry will not change this position of things as many military experts contend, but will only make the stru more bitter than ever. Besides, this will be a war that will embrace in actual fact the whole world, a war in which there will not be—and cannot be—any neutral countries, As gels wrote in 1887: “No war is now pos- sible for Prussia~-Germany other than a world war. And this would be a world conflagration. on an unprecedented scale. Between 8 and 9 million soldiers will be set at each other's throats and will devour Europe as no swarm of locusts could. ‘The devastation caused by the Thirty Year's War—but now compressed within a period of two or three years involving the entire con- tinent — with hunger, epidemics and the utter debasement of the troops and the peoples, caused by the general poverty and the complete break- down of our artificial system of trade, industry and credit will end in general bankruptcy; the old governments will come toppling down and all their political wisdom will notgavail them; it will be such a crash that dozens of crowns will roll in the gutter and no one will be found to pick them up.” (To be continued) Unemployment “Relief” and Its Sources By LABOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATION. we all the private charity ballyhoo has blown over and all the current “dri are ended it will be found that p: te charity agen- cies, community chests and Hoover's emergency committees e contributed about 20 per cent or less of the amounts expended for relief this winter. Last April a report by Glenn Steel of the U. S. Children’s Bureau showed that in 75 cities ex- amined, the governmental budgets had covered 72 per cent of all relief expendi- tures. And a Russell Sage Foundation study of 434 public and private relief agencies in 81 large cities showed that in the month of August, 1931, 77 per cent of the total amount expended— $10,139,000-—came from public agencies and only 23 peg cent from private charity ‘The percentage coming from municipal and county treasuries will be even larger this winter, cue to the relatively r contributions from the rich whose dividends and profits have fallen during the past few months The burden, then, of unemployment relief— such as it is—falls on local taxation. This is not taxation on incomes and inheritances. It is not taxation of the rich. It is based marily on veal estate and is thus a tax that is passed on to the consumer. In other words, the working class, including those who trade at the poorest stores and live in the darkest tenements, pay the bills. This is the type of taxation that delights the Hoovers, the Mellons and the other repre- sentatives of Wall Street who fight every form of federal unemployment insurance. ‘To throw the burden of unemployment relief on “local responsibility” is thus to shift it from the rich, the big incomes, those whose tribute pours in from industries scattered all over the country and the world. The big bankers and the capitalists are not touched by these local taxes. Hence they fight for this form of relief and against national taxation to provide national unemployment insurance for the workers re- gardiess of where they work or live. And the bankers are loyally supported in their fight After remembering the fact that only about 20 per cent of all the current unemployment 1 comes from th funds, let us note the still more important fact that a large part of these “voluntary” contributions come from the work who have still either full or part-time employment. Witness in the papers the long lists of compan'2s that have given several thousand dollars to a drive—that is the employees of the company have given it because they had to, to hold their jobs. “Hundreds of scantily paid wage earners,” says a Federated Press correspondent in St. Louis, “were not aware that they had | donated to last year’s drive until they drew their pay and found a sum arbitrarily confiscatd from their wages, an enclosed note explaining: ‘Dona- tion to the Community Fund, $.....’ ’ Others who declined lost their jobs.” These workers re- ceived what amounted to a wage cut when they were thus docked a certain percentage of their wages for the banker-operated charity drive. The ‘New York bankers’ committee admits that approximately 172,000 wage-earners contributed to the emergency employment committee last year.” And the employers expect that they will be able to compel a much larger number of workers to come across this year. They an- nounced on November 10, that 77 per cent of | the “contributors” so far this year were wage- | earners. Scores of open shop concerns such as the Standard Oil are on the lists of those given in the press as following this practice of making empleyees give as a group. They are companies that hay ent hundreds of thousands of dollars in breaking strikes, hiring stool pigeons, and otherwise intimidating workers when they even | talked of unionism. The employers of the anti- against the working class by the officials of the | American Federation of Labor. President Green of that organization sits on the national Hoo- ver “Hunger Committee” and endorses the Hoo- ver policies of sparing the rich and soaking the poor. So much for the methods used by the Hoovers, the Giffords and the Greens to guard the in- comes of the 13 per cent of the population in the United States which owns 90 per cent of the wealth of the country, especialiy of the 1 per cent that owns at least 60 per cent of the country’s wealth, How about these private relief drives in which prominent capitalists, who have thrown tens of thousands of workers out of their plants, get their pictures in the press for now throwing a few thousand dollars into the private charity | ers’) falth in Americ: union Insul utilities in the Chicago district, for example, are being forced to pledge a day's pay @ month for a period of six months making a total of $300,000 thus cut from their wages dur- ing this period. "And these contributions, docked from the pay envelopes of the “staggered” and ill-paid work- ers, literally go to help save the capitalist systera. For as Al Smith puts it: “How long can we (the capitalists) expect their (the unemployed work- an institutions to survive?” Doljars in the charity pot are intended to re- build this faith! Note also Calvin Coolidge’s letter to the Gifford committee on the preserva- tion of “our form of society” and the statement of the printing employers section of the Emer- | gency Unemployment Relief Committee, “With- | out Work we will have anarchy.” And note finally pot? The money the most “generous” of them | give 1s but.a tiny fraction of the wages lost by the fired or “staggered” workers. It is esti- mated conservatively by the New York State Labor Department that $1,500,000,000 has been lost by the workers of this state alone since the {all of 1929, ' 5 4 wee a the words of the Secretary of the Interior, Ray Wilbur, speaking at a big dinner opening the present relief campaign in Baltimore: “What I have heard and seen in the Jast-few- weeks-makes me fear for the stability of our society if this carapaign fails.’ Contributions to all these gency appeals alvo help the employers to escape unemployment insurance. Scores of speakers at banauets in recent weeks have voiced the senti- ment of Will Hays, millionaire movie dictator, when he “warned that unless this aid is volun- tarily extended by the citizens that a system like the British dole inevitably would result.” Every dollar given to help these private chari- ties is @ dollar saved for the rich who should ty and emer- repent abate. ee you from the Red Menace!” “Be Quiet!—Can’t you see we’re saving By BURCK California Indians Are Starving, Hun- dreds Dying of Disease By ANNE ALDEN. TROM time to time excerpts from some reports 1 are seen about California Indians, but very vague. The ruling class and the yellow capital- ist sheets Which serve them are mum on this. Exploitation, white man’s (rulers) greed and terror are killing off 20,000 Indians in the state. Never ‘such discrimination and terror raged as ily living in Oakland dump told of hardship and suffering in Lake County, Yolo County, and other bordering counties. Discrimination against Indains is very marked here. At labor camps and employment places the Indians dare not even enter. In Yolo beet fields Filipinos end Indians were run out this | past season with threats of 100 percenters, who worked up mobs of white workers against them— themselves (the white workers) getting a wage cut of from 15 to 331-3 per cent. This resulted, that the only means of livelihood was picking of wild berries and angling—and then only spar- ringly as they were driven off everywhere. Hun- dreds of families are living on roots and grasses. Many dying from starvation and diseases it brings. especially the children are hit. They are dying like flies. “No burial ceremonies for us— just bury anywhere in the fields. This horror and star n is making us nomands again. Hundre“s tramping the fields and valleys in search of icod. My family and I find ourselves in Oakland no better off. We are reminded of our inferiority” by a police threat to move on | or be put at a chain gang.” State Director of Health Admits Dire Need. To substantiate this statement Dr. Giles Por- ter, state director of health, has sent a report to O. Lipps, supervisor of the Sacramento Indian Agency as follows: “Plight of hundreds of Cali- fornia Indians found living in the squalor of un- sanitary settlements are tragic. “Conditions are deplorable in many districts. In one little settlement near Clear Lake I en- countered a tribe of Pomo Indians living on the rocks like primitive Mexicans in filth. The rocky ground could not be cultivated and the bucks were compelled to go a distance of 80 miles to find occasional work. “There was an old man called Chief Mateo who fell and broke his hip a year ago and he was still lying on a bed of boards suffering from the fracture attended only by his 60-year-old daughter. ‘Tuberculosis and trachoma is taking 8. big toll of these peoples all through the state.” Another report, is given by Miss Mossbacher, social worker of Berkeley. “The housing condi- tions of the Inc:ans are deplorable, health con- ditions are poor and school attendance ir- regular. “Most of the Indian ranchers (those few that are called so) are located so far from the public schools and the roads are so bad that it is im- possible for the children to attend.” Further glaring truth of suffering of Indians is shown in baby deaths in the state. Statistics show that 63.1 deaths per thousand births was California toll in 1930; of this, ac- cording to classification by races Indians top all with a death rate of 140.1 per thousand, with Mexicans following with 135.1 and Negroes next 74.4. while the white race was 46.3. All these facts prove how discrimination with a view of exploiting more these peoples is car- ried on in the Golden state. Hundreds of children of these families together with other children of the workers will never re- cover from the blight put upon them by this starvation program of the Hoover government. The only time the workers will put an end to discrimination and starvation is when they seize the power of the state and establish workers’ and farmers’ government. Let's organize under the banner of the Communist Party, which is the vanguard of the workers. b2 taxed on their incomes end inheritances to provide both immediate relief and unemploy- ment insurance for the jobless workers. Every employed worker, therefore, should boy- cott the charity drives now in progress. To really help the unemployed give your support to the hunger march, sending funds to the Workers International Relief, 799 Broadway, New York City. Workers Organizations Denounce the Butcher Fascist, Dino Grandi INO Grandi, Foreign Minister of Italy, is on his way to the United States to have a secret meeting with President Hoover. Foreign Min- ister Grandi is the right hand of Mussolini, the head of the fascist government of Italy that for the’last nine years has exiled thousands of anti- fascist workers, imprisoned hundreds of prole- tarian fighters among whom are Gransci, Ter- racini and other Communist leaders, has mur- dered Michele Della Maggiore, Wladimiro Gorann and Michele Schirru, has ordered the murder of Matteotti, Gaston Sozi, Carlo Riva and many others in a desperate effort to save capitalism from the menace of the proletarian revolution. Grandi is the representative of the murderous government of Italy which has brought about the most ruthless terror, the cutting of wages over and over again, the reduction of living standards, the increase of working hours while children are starving. But the workers are be- ginning to struggle. The 2,000,000 unemployed are beginning to fight for “work and bread” and against evictions, The employed workers are starting to fight for wage increases and for a reduction of the working hours. The poor pea- sants are struggling against the heavy yoke of the big financiers and bankers as well as against the agents of the State. Led by the Communist Party the workers are beginning to fight for their immediate needs and for the overthrow of capitalism. Not even with the help of the fas- cist terror can it prevent the workers from struggling and from attempting to open a breach in the fascist “legal status.” The only way out of economic crisis for Italian capitalism is through the destruction of the first Proletarian Republic, the Soviet Union, where there is no crisis. Nat- urally, Italian imperialism, correctly defined “beggar imperialism,” cannot play an independ- ent role. It must play a secondary one. In the regrouping of the imperialist powers which is now taking place in the face of the war which is actually going on in Manchuria, the role of the Italian imperialism is subordinated to the role of United States capitalism. ‘The meeting of Foreign Minister Dino Grandi with President Hoover is therefore part of the war preparations against the Soviet Union for an economic blockade to smash the Five-Year Plan and for financial assistance by the United States bankers for intensifying the fascist ter- ror against the workers and poor peasants as part of the preparations. The openly fascist “Il Nuovo Mondo,” sold by the socialists and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union to the fascisti, Mr. Muste, the leaders of the socialist party, the corrupt “busi- ness” radical Carlo Tresca, the fat bellied social- fascist officials of the Amalgamated and Inter- national who combine with police, bosses and un- derworld in order to force wage cuts upon the workers and break strikes, set up one unholy. united front, in order to fool the Italian masses, in order to prevent any real militant demonstra- tion upon the arrival of Grandi. “These elements wear the false mask of anti-fascism, while in reality they prepare the ground for fascism in the United States as they did in Italy, ‘The workers of New York must protest ener- getically against this new “diplomatic visit” which will not fail to mark another step in the direction of”open imperialist war. Workers of New York! Participate in the big mass demon- stration that will take place on Monday, No- vember 16, at 9 a.m., at Pier 95, Hudson River, ‘W. 55th Street. Protest against. the secret war meeting of Grandi with Hoover and against the secret Hoover-Laval war pact! Protest against the financial support that Am- erican caplialism has given and will give to Fas- cist imperialism! Do not fail to “greet” the representative of the murderous fascist gevernment as an enemy of the Itallan workers—as your enemy! Fight against fascist terror! Demand the abolition of the Special Tribunal and the unconditional release of all political pris- oners! Fight for immediate relief to the unemployed workers! . All war funds for the unemployed! Support the struggles of the Italian workers against fagtism! Fight against imperialist war and for detense of the Soviet Union! UNITED FRONT COMMITTEE, Communist Party of U.S.A, Young Com- munist League, International Labor Defense, Anti-Fascist League, Anti-Imperialist League, Trade Union Unity League, Unemployed Councils, Council for the Protection of For- eign Born, League of Struggle for Negro Rights, Workers Ex-Servicemen's League. WHAT'S WRONG, ROXY? C. ASHLEIGH. It appears that the great Roxy has been here and has left—deteated. In the October 12th issue of Moscow News, he is reported to have siated that “the surging life of Moscow's streets could never be caught by any lens.” Practicaily, it is added, “fhe greatest picture in the world today—and we can’t get it!” Thus, it is reported, spokeé Samuel L. Rothafel, New York theatrical manager who, accompainea by various si:ge and technical experts, has spent two days in Moscow. But I don't feel quite satistied with his ex- planation. Why colild the life of Moscow’s streets never be caught by lens? Why can't they get the greatest picture in the world today? To advance technical reasons is, quite frankly, all poppy cock. There’s no reason in the world why any decent lens should balk at foscussing the pregnant turmoil of Moscow's streets. What about the early picture, “The Man with a Movie=Camera”? It’s pretty old now, and it could have been better; but it did show Mos- cow is good nourishment for the traveling box. And, most of us remember “Berlin,” where a realy first rate cameraman showed what he could do with that city. Why couldn't it be done with Moscow? What is there so intriniscally and mys- teriously impossible, Mr. Rothafel, that the city simply cannot be filmed? Of course Moscow can be filmed. And we hope it soon will be. Now, it is a transit stage—the new city is emerging, casting aside thé husk of scaffolding. Old buildings are falling to make room for new. “Moscow in Transition’—there’s a good i'tle for whoever decides to do the job. It might be worth while preserving the record of the Moscow of today, for so soon it is going to be edged aside by the Moscow of tomorrow. «The surging life—.” Is that what's wrong? Do the Moscow crowds move too fast for the camera’s eye to catch them? We know they don’t. We have seen pictures of New York and we know that New York workers move about just as fast on the boss's business as the Moscow ones do on their own. Is the tempo of Moscow street lite really too fast for the camera? The camera which can seize the flash of a flying-fish flight, can follow the athlete’s vaulting leap, can con-- tain an army in battle or a caterpillar’s crawl on the stem of a plant? Is it that there are too many people on Mos- cow's street, Roxy? Or do they move too fast? Surely, surely, there are bright lads in Hollywood who can hadle all that? Or do the lads and girls in Moscow walk too upright? Heads in the air and chests out? Grin- ning freely and shouting companionably Work- ers who walk like kings? Electrifying the streets with their warm mass energy? Older people who have known slavery and have smashed it? Younger ones who have never known it Thou- sands and thousands, not an idler among them, walking along to work, from work, to and from pleasure, having a good time, working for them- selves, playing for themselves, kissing nobody's coat-tail—FREE! Is that something that can’t be filmed? What's wrong with the lens that can’t catch that? Well, well, maybe it’s not the camera’s fault, after all. Nor the camera-man’s if he were al- lowed to go ahead. Roxy says, however, that its just can’t be caught. So I suppose we'll have to do it ourseives. ——$$——— By Jones No Room, That’s All Some German speaking comrade-writes in ask~ ing why the Daily Worker didn’t say more about the case of Ludwig Lore, editor of the “New Yorker Volkszeitung” who went south with num- erous and considerable funds entrusted to him as Official of the “Socialist Relief Society.” “Are we sheltering Lore?” he asks. Hardly, We had a long article; still have it. But there were such a lot of more important things, more alive than Lore, that we just left it out. Also, the Communist paper “Der Arbeiter” dealt with it completely, and German speaking workers should look to “Der Arbeiter” as the voice of the Party in matters especially interesting them. We understand that Lore made a specialty of getting away with inheritances, quite a priest- ly trick, though the only god we recall him acknowledging was Leon Trotsky. * Just A “Human” From Worcester, Massachusetts, “A Human” writes in, saying he is “not pro or anti-Commu- nist—it is an unknown quantity te me. But I am very deeply anxious to help somebody have a wonderful Xmas to look back on.” So he wants to know what we suggest he should do about it, Also, it would appear that some Worcester comrades have cast a cold and fishy eye at this “Human,” because he complains: ‘ “Why is it that you fellows regard with sus- Picion a well-dressed fellow who is not a Com- munist, but who would help tremendously an unfortunate individual of the workers. I know I feel human misery keenly, yet, unless I belong to the Party, unless I’ wear seedy pants, Is will be a person to supect. Whq Darned if we know. We have déne our bit trying to sw your folks that they should go a bit dee::r than clothes in estimating what their attitude should be toward someone who comes around and wants to be friendly. Some of the worst spies we ever saw were regular dirty bums, and others went all the way up the scale of dress. Of course, great masses ot workers are poorly dressed by necessity. But though we respect the revolutionary worker no matter how ragged he may be, we certainly intend that the workers shall dress better under Commnism than they are able to do under capitalism. We lead strikes for better wages right now for that end, too, But about this wish of “A Human’ 'to give some individual a great Xmas. We would be stumped to make any nomination, in the first place. And while we don't wish to curdie the miik of human kindness, we must observe that this feeling of personal patronage is derived, quite naturally and in this case unconsciously, of course, from the “charity” impluse of the master class that salves its conscience (and protects its property) by favors to knee-crooking members: of the slave class. To revolutionary workers this charity is replu- sive because it is given as trom master to slave, and not in the comradely solidarity of their own class. We do not ascribe quite this attitude to this comrade “Human,” of course, as his letter generally makes clear that he has some sociai feeling and COLLECTIVE sympathy—which is something. @ But while he is waiting for Xmas and, we hope, learning a bit about Communism, we suggest, since he speas of Harlan, that he might con- tribute, not to charity, but to the soup kitchen of Harlan's women and.children of the fighting miners. And anything he may send through us to that end, will be placed right in the hands of the miners intact. Sila rae Mother Is Ali Wet ‘The YCL, and long may its banner wave, has issued a “handbook.” An intcresting and, we hope, an authoritative book. In it we find: “Applicanis’ pledge: (Extract) To further do all in your power to learn and become a cone scious leader amongst young workers.” However, if you want to go to the Workers School, you better forget this part. Then there are some other juicy chunks: “It, is necessary to be flexible with ney and undeveloped members, upon whom strict disci- pline cannot be forced... . In the League, every member accepts discipline volun- tarily because he is convinced, while in the s32p it is foreed on him.” However, we are reminded by the tollowi1g letter of a YCLer who wanted to learn journ=}- ism in the Workers School, ‘given only on tre unit meeting night, promised to work all other six nights for the unit if he could “learn and become a conscious leader” in this field, but got turned down at first, Then we tried.... but here is his letter: “I thank you for interceding in my behalf in the question of going to school Wednesday nights. However, I'm sorry I bothered you, for I'm afraid that even your typewriter proved iin- potent when pitted against District forme:sm. ‘The official decree is—“Attend unit mectinct.’ Well, I guess Mother Knows Best.” Of course, we could hesitate to guarantee that this particular comrade would make an ex- cellent Communist journalist, but we doubt that those who denied him the chance to try, had any substantial evidence to the contrary. Well, “Discipline begins where conviction ends,” but it’s the conviction of the crocodile that this sort of stiff-necked business injures the League however much it may save the faces of the functionaries who might suffer the loss of a bit of worse-than-useless vanity. There are not three League members who can write worth cold hot dogs. The Daily Worker has broken its neck trying to develop volunteer Communist journalists, The League is the most promising source, but that promise is not lived up to. If the League can afford to be smugly sate isfied in flying in the face of the Party and the League general policy of developing new cadres, merely to confirm the formal authority of rigid rules and the present none-too-trained cadres, then our guess is that Mother is all wet. vo Why Play Hookie?: From the “little Red Schoolhouse” started by the Trade Union Unity Council of New York? It started out a month ago with about 36 pupils, but it dropped to half that. We asked why, and were otld that, of the unions which were asked to ELECT students from membership meetings, the Shoe Workers Officials said that the workers “didn’t want to go”; the Food Workers officials APPOINTED students, and only the Marine Workers union membership elected them. Elected students at- tend, appointed students play hookle. wn anernatacascamemomariracers a rs }