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

h Address and ma New Vage Four by the Com Publishing Co., inc, daily Y. ‘Telephone ALgonaui 56, cept’ Sunday, 7 Cable all checks to the Datly Worker, 50 East 13th Street, New York, No X. 7 2 60 Bast “DALWORK” “seBBCRIPTION RATES: By mafl everywhere: One yoar, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; e¢ Manbettan and Bronx, New York City. THE MEANING OE THE WAR }?#3@e sencer snraxs IN MANCHURIA By M. E. IN REA, editor, of the Far writes in his magazine of 2 must enforce her sov- and its border regions and duty to a neighbor, or invite { the law of self defense (!) on onger power (meaning Japan. vital interests are placed in | refusal to shoulder the burden | GRORGE BRO? 3 : in China or that “ Mongolian arious peoples and ¢ as China, belor There is a into as | Europe. Until the | truth and are ‘will- by a mutual recog- independence there can Rea, Far Eastern Re- why on the on the other, | Rea and the imper- | afraid of the | s. Mongolia is a | The Soviet Union is an in- | | | | | | Let Mr. Rea s’ apprehensions ‘The Soviet philosophy has permeated all of Mongolia is now a part of the Soviet system. Chinese Turkestan is wholly dependent upon the Soviet for tts economic \ existence. Communist propaganda is under- | z the allegiance of the people to their | | bse Masses Central Asta. min Chinese overlords and with the strengthening of Soviet trade ties this region . . . will slip automatically inte the Soviet system. China’s inability te assert Her authority over these dis- tant border provinces ... is paying the way for the triumph of Communism.” (Rea, are worried by the fact that diy helpless to protect her her neutrality or dis- ons to Japan against the the direction of Urga” (meaning Rea, F. E. B., Oct., 1931 tions to Japan against > What mean? Let Rea explain. “To ask get out of Manchuria is to ask her to ‘China will lose Manchuria.” y treaty relations with Japan and r powers, Manchuria will be saved from the (fi Japanese imperialism.— L), r capital and development and created into trong buffer state between Yapan and the Soviet or between the Soviet and fi Rea, F. E. R., Aug.) This rein- the Evening Post’s Paris correspon- menace from the 8. U.) Discharge her ol the menace from the direction of Urg: doe: this e a few weeks ago (Nov. 21) that the smn nations, behind their League nd under their diplomatic camouflage, ant Japan installed upon the Asiatic i a dependable sector of a protective ring around Soviet Russia.” According to Rea, “intervention, by recogti~- { the realities may be the only way left from splitting up into a jet republics tied to Mos- The battle ground of x the control of Asia and the yee in China. Communism 1 its own weapons.” China the inter-pfovincial jealousies and too bit! sure unity under ome nt e creation of at least danger be averted.” rialist intervention and tion c | with t | in a war over Manchuria. . . partitioning of China to smash the revelutionmy movement. To the imperialists the “recognition of realities is not intervention.” (Rea, Aug., 1931.) Rea says that “China has meekly ac- cepted Russia’s aggression, recognized the ac- complished fact and resists every effort of Japan to defend herself from the menace from the direction of Urga.” (sic.) The imperialists who have parcelled out Chins, who have plundered and exploited the Chinese masses, hypocritically talk about China’s ‘‘sove ereignty.” These are the same liars who. are supposed to respect the territorial integrity of China under the nine-power treaty. They are afraid of the growing might of the Chinese Red Army. The Chinese revolution might interfere ir plans to redivide China and make war on the Soviet Union. China must “enforce her sovereignty” by smashing the Chinese Red Army for imperialism. American Press Views ‘The imperialist. powers stand behind Japan in Manchuria for setting up = base for an attack on the Soviet Union. Here is a quotation from an American newspaper, the Charleston Post, S. C., which writes in an editorial Nov. 19 as follows: “The principal danger of such a con- flagration (Russo-Japanese war—M. ©.) would lie in the temptation of the capitalistic nations seizing the opportunity presented by = desperate engagement of the Russians with the Japanese to endeavor s restoration in Russia, if not of the tmperial dynasty, at least of a capitalist regime, a war | against Communism, in short, snch as the Bol- sheviki are constantly predicting the capitalistic governments are plotting and to the engagement in which there is constant propaganda in all the capitalist nations.” “But it is not inconceivable that they (west- ern nations—M. 1.) might by thelr fears of Communism, be moved, at first secretly and afterwards openly, to applaud and to encourage and finally to support Japan in = deadly thrast at the Red role of Russia.” ‘The imperialists entertain the hope of making fabulous profits from this war. The French capi- talists hope to get back control of the Chinese Eastern R. R. from such a war of intervention. As the Magazine of Wall Street puts it: “A war in Asia involving Russia might be the signal for an assault by Poland and Roumania upon the Soviets and the French war machine might roll | into action. In such an event the millionaire boom would be repeated in the U. S.” (Nov. 14th). And as the organ of the French General Staff says, backing Japanese imperialism, “One must not forget that the Chinese Eastern Rail- way was built with French capitelL” (Revus Francaise Militaire, quoted in Inprecort, N6. 67.) Japan is the watch-dog for world imperialism against the Soviet Union. “Has Japan the Hght to defend herself,” asks Rea. Well; “what is just and good for Great Britain iA India, in Egypt and in Mesopotaniia; for France in Alt geria and Morocco; for Italy in the Mediterran- ean and for the U. 8. in thé Carribean, must also be just and good for Japan if Manchuria. And with much greater reason.” (Hmphasis— Rea.) “The menace of Russia is drawing closér and closer to Japan and unless she moves quickly to protect herself, neither the League, the World Court, the Kellogg Pact, the Four or Nine Power Treaties can ward off the inevitable clash. For, make no mistake about this. Russia is at war with all the world. The war has begun through the Five Year Plan and the economie attack. When the time is propitious, the great Red Army will move and its objective will be China. A special Far Eastern army has been created to take care of the Chinese situation.” (Rea, F. FE. R., Oct., 1931.) Social-Patriotism Again to the By FRED BASSETT. MILWAUKEE, Wis—During the last World Wy the social-patriots of the Socialist Party beli:ayed the workers into the slaughter as their 2nd International brethren did all over the verld. Now wtih the approach of a new world fmperialist war, the Milwaukee Socialists pre- pare to repeat their betrayal of 1914-18. Re- ®wed strength of social~patriotic propaganda in the Socialist Party organs, particularly the “So- Gialicst Campaigner,” indicates first, the renewed War manufactures activity in Milwaukee’s heavy industries; second, the eagerness of the “Social- ists” to take up their traitorous role in the war Preparetions, anc in the coming war. There have been many instanees of this social- patriotism in recent issues of the “Socialist Cam- ‘paigner.” We quote from Nov. 28 issue. On hhe.front page, the leading article is headed: “Wealth Sent to Europe Taken From the Peo- ple.”. The article says: ‘In last week’s issue, we showed that capitalism is taking billions of dol- Jars from the United States and throwing it into "The December Issue of “The Communits” Now on Sale CONTENTS WALL STREET AND THE ORGANIZATION OF THE ANTI-SOVIET FRONT . By Harry Gannes. THE PARTY ANNIVERSARY IN THE LIGHT OF OUR PRESENT TASKS ...........4 oer By Alex Bittelman. THE MEANING OF THE WAGE CUTTING OFFENSIVE By Joseph Zac! BUILDING THE REVOLUTIONARY TRADE IDION MOVEMENT (2003.5 cskcrsssatioosiae By S. Wiiner. RESOLUTION OF THE PRAGUE ENCE ON THE PLOYMENT DILETTANTISM IN STRIKES . By Wm. 2. Foster. " RELATIONS OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND ECONOMICS UNDER Ge AND IN THE SOVIET UNION . whee By Prof. M. Rubinstein. THESIS ON THE AGRARIAN QUESTION ... Adopted by the Setond Congress of the Communist International. Send orders and subscriptions to Workers Library Publishers, P. O. Box 148, Sta. D, New York City. 25 cents per copy. Beginning with the January issue the price will be reduced to CONFER- QUESTION OF UNEM- 20 cents. Subscriptions now taken at the new rate of $2 per year or $1 for ax menthe. Front Europe.” Why are the “Socialists” in an uproar about this? The same “Socialists” who during the post-war German inflation period called on Mil- waukee workers to “get rich by buying German marks” and investing in German bonds, thus causing workers to lose their life savings? “And we showed that of all this wealth which the capitalists take from our country and sink in Europe, they ,will get back very: little.” Later down: “The Socialists warned (in 1918—F.B.) that the money never could be collected.” The article goes on to paint the woes of United States capitalism. It asks, “Then What's Wrong With ‘This Country?” and answers: “The one govern- ment (ours) which made it possible to add all these ‘billions of dollars to the open market values’ had to see that its efforts helped every- body but itself.” What do the “Socialists” want to do about the sufferings of U. S. capitalists? ‘Europe War Mad” shrieks a sub-headline. “The people of Europe are suffering from their war. madness.” “®urope is now war mad.” U.S. capitalists have invested a lot of money in Europe and can’t get it beck? “Our Country Is Hsmstrung,” ahieks another sub-head. “Uncle Sam cannot tackle colossal projects that should be done to employ our millions of jobless.” The “Socialists” are sorry Hoover's “Public Works Program” can't work out! And they are sorry the forced labor they put through in Milwaukee is not spread to the whole country! but insidiously, under cover of eadiece phrases, The conclusion of the article would please the Ku Klux Klan or American Legion. “Again we. Socialists are warning America: Build our own country and let Europe build for itself!” No wonder the fascist city mananger of Kenosha said of the “Socialist” program: “That's the Amer- ican plan of remedying the evils we face!” Mayor Hoan, chairman of the Counetl of De- fense in 1918, had his s4visory council recom- mend spproprietion of $15,000 for the Spanish War Veterans’ encampment in 1932! But the Hunger Marchers from the West are turned down by this “Soclalist” mayor, and’ have to find their own beds! “ The Communist “Party -wiit mobilise the Mil- waukee workers, through day to day struggles at the relief stations and factories, to the complete” exposure of these social-patriot traitors, and their program of forcing starvation, wage cuts, and imperialist war upon the workers under rover of “revolutionary” elk, | —By GROPPER. Véreign: ‘one year, $$; six months, $4.50. Railroad Workers! Organize to Strike Against (Béitérial Notei—On Dee, 3-8, 1,500 local railroad chairmen were scheduled to meet in Chitags t discuss a 10 per cent proposed wage-cut. The National Railroad Industrial League bas issned the following. call to all railroad workers to prepare for a strike strug- gle against wage-cuts. A Rank and File Con- fetenes of the Chicdgo Switching District has beta called for Sunday, Dec 13, at the Peo- Ple’s Anditoriam, 2437 West Chicago Ave., at 10 a m All local railroad lodges are urged to send delegates, The demands.of the Na- tional Industrial League are; _-Againsi. any form of wage-cuts, for the immediate. estab~ ishment in all departments of the 6-hour day with 8 hours’ pay, 30 days’ pay for the 26-day month, and no reduction in mileage earnings; for unemployment insurance and immediate winter relief for the men laid off; old age retirement, socident, sickness and dis- ability insurance, to be paid by industry and the government. Abolition of the speed-up system—improvement of working conditions.) eat ee ROTHER UNIONISTS! ‘The great railroad corporations of thy try are now taking steps to put into effect the Jong threatened wage-cut. In line with the U.S. Steel Corporation and other big industrial com- binations, they propose a 10 per cent reduction in wages, when we are already suffering from greatly reduced earnings, part-time work, .speed- up, layoffs and mass unemployment. The com- edy of demanding a 15 per cent freight rate in- crease from the I. C. C. has been gone through with, the companies never intending that their request would be granted. Now comes their real aim which is to beat down our wages and living standards. Announcement of a general cut coy- ering the entire industry may be looked for daily. Union Officials Secretly Agree to Cut Wages. ‘The grand lodge officials of the Brotherhoods and A. F. of L. railway organizations are actively co-operating with the companies in putting over wage-cut, is their hypocritical talk about “sta- bilization of employment” and getting the un- employed railroad workers back on the trains A Double Wage Cut. In train and yard service the union officials are now enforcing the 26-day montli and reduc- tion in mileage, which has meant a 15 per cent reduction in average earnings and has not re- sulted in increasing employment. On the con- example: men in yard service now getting $6.62. per 8-hour of the 6-hour day 5-day week will bring wages down to $4.47 per 6-hour day and $22.36 Bs B-day week, ‘Wage-cute plus the stagger REE 9 of favorable working conditions, rules and sched- ules, part-time jobs, periodical lay-offs, the apreading of misery and starvation emnditions coun=~ , & 10 per cent reduction on top. the Wage-Cut! over the entiré body of railroad labot, in ordér | to add millions 16 the profits of the railroad bond and stockholders, this is the union lead- ers’ program for Solving the railroad unemploy- ment situation. For railroad labor it theans the slashing of our living standards to the bone and going back to wages and working conditions prevailing 30 years ago, Refuse to Arbitrate Beware of Fake Strike Votes. Various methods are being used by the com- panies to put across the wage-cut: the making of 10 per cent “reductions” in the’ $50,000 per year salaries of presidents and other high-paid officials, the deliberate “passing of dividends,” and poverty pleas, is the companies first maneu- ver in order to bring pressure to bear upon the workers to acept a “voluntary” cut. Failing in this they will use the mediation and arbitration machinery of the Watson-Parker Railway La~ bor Act. This will place the wage dispute in the hands of government courts and arbitra- tion boards under the control of the railroad corporations. If need=be, the union leaders will at first make a pretense of opposing direct cuts, taking fake strike votes to mislead the workers, then refer the whole question to the Watson- Parker arbitration proceedings, where the wage~ cuts can be put through to the satisfaction of the companies. If allowed by the rank and file, this procedure means surrender to the com- panies and that wage-cuts are certain. What Must Be Done Organize United Front Committees to Fight the Wage Cut. In the fight against wage-cuts the first step is to vote down wage-cuts in the local lodges. Repudiate the wage-cutting negotiations be- tween the union leaders and companies. Form minority groups, committees to fight the wage- cut, and set up a united front of the rank and file against this sell-out of the grand lodge of- ficials. In every local lodge of the twenty-one differ- ent railroad unions and in every yard, shop, roundhouse, office and terminal in the country, organize local rank and file united front com- mittees against the wage-cut. These commit- tees must include all workers at each point—or- ganized and unorganized, employed and unem- Ployed, Negro and white. The aim of the united front committees is to bring about complete unity of action between all sections of workers in the industry. It is of the utmost importance to draw the’ more than half million extra-board, part-time and unemployed railroad ‘workers into the fight against wage-cuts and for unemploy- ment relief, side by side with the men on the Job. The success and welfare of both employed and unemp loyed is bound up in same struggle. To permit the com] arate one section from the other to the defeat of both, and scabbery and strikebreak- the fight at each point against wage-cuts and for better working conditions, These conferences must be organized on the basis of rank and file delegates elected from the local lodges of the Brotherhoods and A. F. of L. railway organiza- tions (or from minority groups and committees within the old unions. when they refuse to act), local leagues of the National Railroad Industrial League, also delegates from the unemployed ratl- Yoad workers\and the unorganized shops, yards, roundhouses and other places of employment, in order to completely unify our ranks at each point and enable us to conduct a joint fight in | defense of our common interests. At the earliest possible date a national rank and. file. united front’ conference. must-be ‘eon vened with delegates representing all classes of “railroad workers and all sections of the" country 3 to unite our forces nationally. Prepare to Strike Against the Wage Cut! ‘There ix ene way, and ope way only, tn whicy _System! we can defeat the program of thé companies and grand lodge officials and that ts to strike where any attempt is made to enforeé the wage-cut, The tank and file .ratlroad-workers must take immediate steps to mobilize. their entiré forces fo this end. .We must refuse to arbitrate. We must understand that only by strike action can the wage-cut be defeated. Therefore, thé 1,500,009 workers in the railroad industry, employed and unemployed, organized 2nd unorganized, Negro and white, must set up a nation-wide united front and prepare to strike against. this wage- cut... Unity of action, must be brought about..| among the entire body of railnoed workers, from the section hand to the .engineer. If we or- ganize and fight in this manner we don’t have to take a cut. Smash the Wage Cut Conspiracy. Railroad men! Unite to smash the conspiracy: of the grand lodge officials, companies, and Hoover-Doak government, to reduce our living Standards. through wage-cuts and the stagger ‘To “voluntarily” accept this’ wage-cut, means, as it did in 19221-22, that another cut will immediately follow. Refuse to accept a “voluntary” or any other kind of a wage-cut! Against the wage-cutting “shorter-workday” pro- gram of the officials, fight for the immediate establishment of the 6-hour day in all depart- ments with no reduction in weekly earnings. ‘This is the only practical way of putting the unemployed railroad men back to work. The Time for Action has Come. ‘Today railroad labor stands at the cross-roads. It is either a fight to maintain present wages and improved standards or be driven down to a job must take the situation into their own hands. The wage-cutting program of the grand lodge fakers must be defeated, This can be done by rejecting arbitration and properly organizing our forces on a local and national scale to strike where attempts are made to put through the wage-cut, ‘Vote Down the Wage Cuts in Your Local Lodges. The fight against this wage-cut will be the biggest and most important struggle in the his- tory of the railroad workers. Everywhere the rank and file is ready to fight. What must be done is to organize them and give them proper See to it that the question of the wage-cut is brought before the next meeting of your lodge and voted down! Also thaf this united front Program {s favorably acted upon. Discuss with your fellow-workers on the job. Order supply of this leaflet and see that every man in your locality gets one. Call mass TEELEFE rei day, & a By Jones Not “The King’s Irish” & : ‘We missed it ourselves, that offer the mayor@ assistant made, but we got a letter about it, of * Tether a copy of s letter sent to Mr. Charles ~ Kerrigan, Assistant to the Mayor, City Hall, New York, reading in part: “In this morning’s Herald-Tribune I read that you have offered to persoanlly pay the fares of ten Communists to the workingmen’s republic, This inspires me to make one of those ‘ofers’ myself. I offer to turn over my next installmeny of the soldier ‘bonus’ to a fund for the purpose of shipping back to Ireland all the vice-squad cops that have not yet gone to Sing Sing. I am not a member of the Communist Party, bub simply 3 man born In Ireland and keenly resent ful of what has been done to thé name of Ireland by those unspeakable beasts of the vies squad.—B. NEAL, Long Island City, N. Y.” One of the most inexpensive examples of gens erosity is that“‘offer” of Mr. Kerrigan. Every! Tamany crok has a “tin box” which is miracs ulously kept filled to the brim with crinkly papew money from a whole series of blind aunts who perish one after the other and “leave an estate” to the Irish cop after.he gets a line on th spake easies and brothels along his beat. So it costs Mr. Kerigan nothing to offer to be generous and even reckless in his expenses. And it gives such a nice air of wishing to “rid the city of onde~ srables.” Over in Ireland, the rebels against British rubs used to call the traitors “ihe King’s Irish.” And Neal is one who wished to make that distinetion. Ce! he More “Protection” Needed ‘The Buffalo, N. Y. “Courier-Express of Nov. 38, carries an interesting item about the fund raising campaign of the Jewish charities. For one thing, © it was remarkable by the fact that a speaker for | the Jewish charities at one of those inevitable “luncheons” the bosses have when they talk about “giving” the jobless a sandwich by forcing ) an employed worker-to “share”—was = Catholic | priest, the Rev. John C. Carr. } The priest sounded 2 note of warning thet tha =| rich must “hang together or hang sepaartely” i as Benjamin Franklin put it, He said: “The rich and wealthy should subscribe to these charity drives. They are not only being altrustic, but also protecting themselves.” How supremely unselfish it is to he “altrustic” | and at the same time ‘protect yourself”! Only = Catholic priest could think that up. And how clear an admission that the rich give to “charity” when they do—only out of fear that don’t give | up part of the wealth they have sweated out Let the bosses hear you tell ’em that, they Hetd-lots more “‘protection’ In the form of taxes & furnish Dpembteriient sarereet Does the YCL Believe in God3 | It seems so. Firstly, a big part of them seer i to think that the Young Worker, the “official” | (O, how official!) organ of the League, exists by act. of God, and that League members have noth- ing particular to ‘do about it. Tt-i8 like those | air ferns that flourish on absolutely nothing but, the wire by which they are suspended. Of course not all the Youth have that notion, but enough to bother the business manager, ~ ‘Then this business manager happened to say that publication expenses would be reduced by the Young Worker getting the use of the Daily ~ Worker press. So three-fourths of the Youth | who had been plugging to keep the Young Work- | er appearing, threw their hats in the air and uttered loud whoops of joy: “Hurray! We don’t have to gather nickels any more! The Daily Worker will support the Young Worker!” The Daily Worker, in this role, plays the part of God, who provides @ rain of manna to the children of Israel. Only, unfor- tunately, the Daily Worker is short of manna itself. Yet right here in New York some young comrades were seen giving Young Workers away wholesale, right off the press, and when aske@ why, replied: “The Daily is supporting us now!” ‘Then, on top of all this, and in spite of Come || rade Stalin’s demand that real Bolsheviks not only learn to keep accounts but maintain the | strictest financial responsibility, reports trickle in to the National Office that some Y.C.Lers * are trying Tammany Hall stunts with funds col- lected for the Young Worker. No doubt they “needed” such funds, but right there is where responsibility should count. But it didn’t. Instead, the notion that God will take care of the Young Worker is followed in practice, and the Business Manager is urging « us to introduce some of these comrades per= sonally and by name to the crocodile, and rumor has it that the Y. C. L. Control Commission is sharpening up the axe. Dozens and hundreds of ‘young workers are | of the workers, the workers may take it all. | 1 | | 4 and these fine kids must see that irresponsible functionaries are relieved of their religious belief that God will take care of the Young Worker. eh SL working their head off for the. Young Worker, | | They'll Be Back:—I think Red Pepper and the other children have arrived in the U.S.S.R., so why don’t you tell us what happened to them,” long, with Red Pepper, John Henry and Bilt / oboe Miocene ite rebe nd { aL A Lowly Disctpie;—But an ambitious one, & t | the Rev. Vincent J. Steffan, who “served 12 years in San Quention, California, where he: was con- verted to Christianity,” according to the Phila- Iphia Bulletin of Dec, 3. The reverend crook falcata a minister in the Presbyteriar ureh; ‘spoke to the “Business Men's Couneil of 2 Pocket, Testament League” in Philadelphia, d declared: “I hope Tom Mooney will rot in .” Pretty swell follower of the meek and lowly Nayarenet, eh? He ought to geb a bishopris fos E