The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 9, 1932, Page 4

Page Four " we DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1932 AFL. BUROCRATS TREMBLE! BEFORE THE SPECTRE OF COMMUNISM By a Worker Correspondent AMERICAN UNION LABOR AGAINST COMMUNISM. Com. munists Take Advantage of Despair of Labor on Account of No Work to Gain Recruits, EVEN THE MOST MODEST AND TIMID of apologists for SOVIET RUSSIA cannot and will not deny the fact that they aim at Control of The n Labor Move can do Russian workers i ng of a Workers’ Farme! Government d plaster it with the “Made In The U. S. But when these mise: islead- ers of the labor the Communists the American la for once they are right. But they conveniently | forget to add “by the rank and file.” | And it is the growing revolutionary ns of honest | for working | rank and file , but also of government, that e lackeys of capi- rotten capitalist gov- ich they stand, into | of history. ner, the Sool utual tolerance, | “Trade unionists, befare of wolves in sheeps’ clothing and protect your union.’ These pictures are a good answer to the lying hypocrisy of that arch-demagogue, Mayor Murphy of LEFT: Jobless Detroit workers, Detroit. unable to pay rent, have dug holes in the lakefront to protect themselves from the biting wind. RIGHT: A “spacious mansion” built by an unemployed Detroit auto worker who was not content with the holes pictured on the left. | For protesting against hunger and living conditions like these, Henry Ford and Mayor Murphy killed four workers and wounded 50 | others on March 7th when 5,000 unemployed, in a Hunger March on Ford’s Dearborn plant, demanded work or jobless insurance. aes SLANDERERS EXPOSED | where the workers decide to go the estimate of the factory management. on the question of the reductions of cost one better by setting the figure | from 21 per cent to 24 per cent. When business accounting was in- of “going back to was heard more loudly ies ” say wreckers they hamstring and | By B. ROOT {at the point of production. The wages (increase of 4.1 per cent over |A funny sort of “State Capitalism” For the | practical work has enabled us to|unions are the means of controlling { 1931). 2,500,000 rubles for new hous- | the wad more clearly understand socialist con- | the carrying out as well as the shap- | ing for the workers} 73,672,000 rubles } avert the | struction and the relations of the | ing of the plan itself. for new buildings and machinery and file action, | cs a | i Asmat m_ to. oblivion. |Party and the Soviet organs to the Take the Amo for an example. | (Socialist accumulation). Besides this tf sis masses of workers in the Soviet 5 name, te eed ut. | & Whole list of items, including mil- - Swallowing | Union. We are now better armed | =VetY worker was involved in out- | tions of rubles for childrens’ creches, ie we Be wage- | to effectively smash to atoms the | lining its 1932 plan of 256,000,000) dining rooms, etc. The carrying out eroded : tise der ers in the U W. A, ourgeoisie and their | rubles of gross production, A glance|of this plan is controlled by the | ” nized and disheartened by.| ‘landers of the bourgeoiste m | capitalism’ the betrayals of their official leader- | | ship, the ‘kers in the other unions who have been sold out by their | rotten leaders again and again—now | know where to find the “wolves in | sheep’s clothing.” The sharpening | capitalist crisis, the tens of millions of unemplpoyed and their suffering | dependents, the wage-cuts, the worsening of conditions, the murders of peaceable workers, the oncoming | imperialist war—these things have cleared their vision. To them, Com- | nism no longer a bugaboo; it is ; a promise! And one that will be} kept! Students and the Class Struggle | | Portant branches of industry were | |managed by the government for | By MAX WEISS The recent trip of the student del gation to Kentucky and the one day | protest strike of Columbia stu- dents, both under the leadership of the National Student League, are in- | dicative of the extreme sharpening of the crisis. Under its shattering impact, re-} sulting in. the impoverishment and increasing insecurity of large sections | of.the petit-bourgeoisie, and as a di-| Tect reflection of the mass upheavals | of the working class, the petit-bour- | geoisie is beginning to move from out | its former orbit of smug complacen- | cy. A large sector of the petit-bour- | geois intellectuals is trying to break | away from the undisputed control of the big finance capitalists. ‘This movement finds its reflection | in the colleges and universities, par-| ticularly in view of the considerable | number of working class students who | act as a leavening force. The two mass actions of the stu- dents, under militant leadership, rep- resent what will undoubtedly become | increasingly frequent as the crisis sharpens and directs its blows at the whole petit-bourgeois “liberal” intel- legentzia. The first large scale crack has been made in the shell of “neu- tral, non-class” idiocy within which the student body has been kept for decades. The expulsion of Reed Harris and the answering strike is not only im- Portant as an indication of the radi- calization of the students but also as ® forecast of the sweeping academic reaction will increase in the ortion as the militancy of ts rises. It is additional evidence that “‘aca- | demic freedom” has always been a sham wherever the sacred interests of capitalist society are involved and that the capitalists in the schools, es elsewhere, are proceeding more ruthlessly than ever against any as- wertion of even the feeblest protest | the liberals, | Socialists now,” | shown the Wall St. fangs that lurk against the capitalist system. | The consciously cultivated myth of Nicholas “Miraculous” Butler, president of Columbia Univer- sity, has been completely shattered. This professional “pacifist”, who a ar ago declared that “We are all has once again behind the gracious smile of the col- | lege president. In the case of President Butler, as in no other, can the direct hookup between the capitalist educational system and Wall St. be seen. Himself @ member of the New York Chamber of Commerce, a director in the New York Life Insurance Company, and high in the councils of state of the Republican Party, Butler typifies the abject servility with which the ad- | ministrators of “impartial, non-class education” obey the dictates of the financial plutocracy. Although the students -are begin- ning to move and to assert them- selves, the very class nature of the mass of students precludes all possi- bility of their playing an independent. role. The students are not an inde- pendent class or a homogeneous unit. They are preponderantly a petit- bourgeois group and as such are characterized by the lack of a con- sistent class policy. Only by allying themselves with and placing themselves under the leadership of the only consistent rev- olutionary class, the working class, and by participating in all of its struggles can they achieve their aims: | ‘That the revolutionary path is not the only direction of possible student development is made amply evident, for example by the role now played by the German students. The attempt of the Columbia athletes to break the strike is also sufficient to: indi- cate the fascist nucleus which already exists in the colleges in the form of professionalized “amateur” athletic bodies and the Reserve Officers | periods of economic crisis. Numerous | | State capitalism yet could be seen | social fascist lackeys, Among these slanders is the oft- | repeated cry that the Soviet Union | is going back to “Capitalism” or that the Soviet system of economy is} | “State Capitalism.” How shall we {annihilate these assertions? First | the question of “State Capitalism. us analyze in brief what it means. “State monopoly is never any- thing else than a means of guaran- teeing the income of millionaires who are on the point of going bankrupt in one branch of indus- try or another.” (Lenin in “Im- perialism,” page 39.) | Such cases occur mostly during | examples could be found to illus- |} trate this. But the best example of during the last world war when in @ number of countries the most im- efficiency’s sake. With the concentration of capital into trusts and monopolies, the rela- tions of the state to industry become ever more close. The United States, with its tax refunds to the big cor- porations, its Secretary of the Treas- ury, Andrew Mellon, offers an excel- lent. illustration of this. But the more .the state becomes identical with capitalism, the greater becomes the: concentration of wealth in the hands of a few share or bond-holders, and the deeper becomes the misery and impoverishment of the toiling masses. Anarchy in production, crises.continue to reign in full force. What do we find in the Soviet Union? The means of production owned and controlled by the work- ing masses, managed for their benefit by their soviet organs. These organs as well as the party which leads them are a part and parcel of the workers themselves, reaching into every nook and corner of factories, mines and kolkhozes, with its millions of rep- resentaitves and members. Produc- tion is planned to satisfy the needs of the masses and insure a constant improvement in their living and working conditions. This planning of production and consumption, based on the estimates of the experts in the economic organs of the Soviet Union, is worked out in detail and often improved upon by the workers Training Corps. All the energy of the radicalized students of America must be turned into the fight against the fascization of the capitalist system, against the reflection of that process in the schools by the ever more complete suppression of all militant student movements, and above all against the growing danger of a new imperialist war on the Soviet Union, the actual beginnings of which have already been made by robber Japanese impe- rialism. at the details of the plan will give | an idea what sort of “State Capital- ism” this is. 13,000,000 rubles for | workers’ committees, such as business | accounting brigades, housing com- mittees, production conferences, etc. The Struggle Against the Olympic Games By 1. AMTER The working class must neglect NO front of the class struggle. The bosses don’t. They are active in a thousand ways, working to win the workers and the working youth over to their side, to divide and demoral- ize the workers, They are using today the 10th Oly- piad. Games, the biggest part of which are to be held in Los Angeles this summer, as just such an instru- ment. The bosses are using these games to distract the attention of the workers from their misery, hunger, wage cutS—the attacks on workers’ rights, and the preparations for war on the Soviet Union. the sport pages scream, supremacy’ is threatened in the mile run!” Or it is the half-mile, or some- thing else. But the entire to-do about the Olympic games is neces- sary to distract the attention of the masses of sport-following workers in the United States from their own immediate job of fighting the robber war now going on in China, fighting for unemployment insurance and fighting against wage cuts, This entire fuss about the Olympic games is necessary in orrder to tie the American workers closer to the bosses’ sport organizations, led: in | most cases by army officers, Not only are the Olympic games being used to distract the attention of the workers from their own imme- diate problems, but the games are also being used to whip up a 1917 patriotism. The sport pages of the capitalist press fairly reek with the vilest chauvinism. “We Americans must conquer the aliens!” the papers shout. The Soviet Union is being boy- cotted by the Olympics Committee. Negroes are discriminated .against A handful of corrupt “stars” take part in the games. The state gov- ernment of California has appro- priated a million dollars for the games—but gives no semoeraane relief. relief. .Chief of War Staff, General Douglas McArthur (who only recent- ly returned from an inspection trip of the fortifications and armed of the Baltic states ringing the Soviet Union) devotets much of his time and attention to the American Olym- pics Committee, in which he is a leading figure. On top of all this, the Olympic games are being held in “Look!” | “ ‘American | which has held Tom Mooney impris- , oned for sixteen years on the foulest frame-up known to Americal labor history. In a word, the Olympic games show all the characteristics of bosses’ sports generally. They “faithfully reflect the policies of the Hoover govern- Against these Olympic games every worker—and not only the worker sportsmen—must fight! In th e past many revolutionary workers —and | Communist Party members, too— | have merely tipped their hat to the workers’ sports movement in this country and to the necessity of build- ing it—and some revolutionists even consider sports as having nothing to do with the working class movement. These comrades should watch care- fully the actions of the German Com- munist Party and its relations with the workers’ sport movement. They would change their minds very quickly. The militant workers must give their heartiest support to the Coun- ter Olympic Campaign. Shop teams can be built. Individual workers in your shop who are athletically in- clined may be brought closer to our movement through handing them an entry blank to the various open Counter-Olympic meets in the city— and bringing them to the meet Teams can be built, particulari® among the youth, in shops, unions, language and-fraternal organizations, thus strengthening the particular organization at the same time. Workers must support the Counter- Olympic Campaign to the best of their ability. The Labor Sports Union, the militant workers’ organization on the field of sports, must be built at a much faster pace than heretofore. All workers’ organizations should send delegates to the united front Counter-Olympic Conference to be held in New York Saturday after- noon, April 23rd, at the Finnish Pro- gressive Hall, 15 West 126th Street, at 3 p.m. Workers should try, par- ticularly, to get workers and organi- zations to this conference who are connected with shop teams, Y. M. C. As, etc. Support the Counter-Olympic Cam- paign! Build a powerful workers’ sport movement in the Onited States! The struggle against the Los Angeles Olympics is one front in the struggle the state of California, the state | against war! ment” (resolution of the Cleveland | National Conference, Labor Sports | Union). j than ever from the mouths of the | social-fascists. What then is busi- | ness accounting? Simply a method of enabling the workers to eliminate waste more effectively in order to more quickly increase their socialist accumulation as well as the portion |for immediate consumption. In one | department in the Amo business ac- counting methods resulted in a de- crease in the cost of production of 7 per cent. During the same period of time (one month) wages in the department had risen 7 per cent also. It will not surpriseanyone therefore that the initiative to organize busi- ness accounting brigades is so great among the workers, During our twenty days in the Amo five brigades adopted the business accounting sys- tem in one department alone. Hundredsof examples could be given, in more detail, each o* which, by itself, could smash the lies of the enemies of the Soviet Union. The above is only to show how we must put into service the knowledge and experience we have gained in order | to win the masss in capitalist coun-. tries for the defense of the Soviet | Union and for the revolutionary way out of the crisis—the proletarian rev- elution. SOVIET INV FREEING THE FOREIGN By TOM BARTER Outstanding among the many in- ventions which are rapidly making the Soviet Union independent from of automatic air brakes for locomo- tives, railway cars, etc. invented by Matrossav, a Russian engineer, work- ing in the Tamosnoy Zavod—a fac- systems of the Soviet Union with air | Compressors and brakes, The factory up to recently manu- factured the Westinghouse system of air brake and payed thousands upon thousands of gold rubles to the above mentioned concern for the use of its patent. Comrade Matrossav took upon himself to free the Soviet gov- ernment from this technical subjec- | tion to the Westinghouse Co. and | save the Soviet Union enormous year- [y, expenditures, He was successful. | The factory is now preparing 150 the factory itself which will place in Berlin next summer. The management of the factory is confi- dent that the invention is going to i be recognized as the best air brake in the world so far. It is an outstand- deyelopment of the USSR. to discus the technical differences between the Matrossav, the Westing- house and other air brakes This part does not interest the American work- ing class which is now suffering the pains of hunger as a result of the crisis of capitalism. We leave the dis- cussion of the point to technicians and in the rest of the article we dis- cuss the cry of the capitalists and their agents that the socialist system of production kills the incentive to learn, to work hard and invent new things. Now that one-sixth of the globe is emancipated from capitalism and the workers and peasants who live in it are building socialism by prac- tice are demonstrating the truth. Now that the two systems, capitalism and socialism, exist side by side we see that while under capitalism most of the important discoveries of sci- ence and inventions are being sup- pressed in order not to disturb the vested interests of capitalist firms, in the Soviet Union, onthe other hand, scientific research and inven- tion is assuming mass proportions. Lenin predicted this in an article entitled “How to Organize Socialist Competition”, when he said: “So- | HOW THE BOSSES REWARD WAR VETERANS This World War veteran, Wilbur C. MacKenzie, is now working for 35 cents an hour cleaning guns for the Los Angeles cops. In the “war to end war,” to “save democracy and civilization” from the “barbaric lun,” this worker was an ace aviator. : Workers and farmers, do not be fooled again. Another imperial- ist war will mean for the toiling masses a repetition of the horrors of the last war, a repetition of the slaughter and maiming of tens of millions of toilers, while the capitalists pile up huge war-time profits. capitalist imports is the new system | tory—and supplies the entire railway | | sets of Matrossov's air brakes for an| international. exhibition initiated by | take | ing example of the growing technical | The purpose of this article is not; ENTORS ARE USSR. FROM IMPORTS cialism does not only not eliminate competition, but on the ¢ Ys gives above all an oS te apply it on a r | a gentine mass mov inelude the real majority of toilers in such work, where they can. de- velop their abilities and discover the talents which are an untouched | serevoir of strength in the people, and which were crushed and ope pressed and suppressed in thou- sands and millions of cases under capitalism.” | And we might as well let Karl Marx state the reason why in the capitalist countries the application of science and invention is being sup- d. Answering a statement of Stuart Mill, to the effect that “it is roubtful whether the mechan- ical inventions so far made have rene dered labor easier even for a single ‘human being”, Marx answers this in the following manner: “Neither is this the purpose of machinery used in a capitalist manner. In common with all other methods of development in produt- tivity of labor, their purpose is to cheapen the price of commodities, to shorten that part of the work- ing day which the worker uses for himself, and thus to lengthen the other part of the day which he gives gratuitously to the capitalist. Machines are a means for the pro- duction of surplus value.” Under capitalism science and in- vention is promoted only if the ap- plication of its increases the profits of the capitalists. When the capi- talists can get labor power cheaper than machinery they suppress in- ventions and science. In the Soviet Union the workers themselves sug- gest improvements and invent new machines because through new and more efficient machinery they light- en their own burden and get more of the necessities of life. In the factory above mentioned— Tarmosnoy Zavoda—another impor tant invention has been produced which frees the Soviet Union from the importation of tin for the pro- duction of alloy. An engineer of this factory has discovered ingredients which are plentiful in the Soviet Union, less costly than tin and at the same time they improve the quality of the alloy produced. This is only one factory, and we have spoken only of the two main inventions. It is also interesting to know that there has been hundreds of suggestions for rationalization of production made by the workers at the machines and at the benches. Outside of this factory in all other industries we find new and impor- tan tinventions produced every day. For example, at the recent All« Union Inventors Congress the repre sentatives of the Leningrad Institute of Inventors reported that in that city in 1929-30 inventors saved the country 102 millions of rubles, .as compared with 100 millions which they had undertaken to save. One hundred and fifty thousand sugges- tions were received by the institute coming from workers in the shops. Representatives from other centers reported similar achievements differs ing only in quantity. The chief slo- gan of the Congress was to “free the Soviet Union from foreign import entirely.” At the sixteenth Communist Party Conference Comrade Stalin stated that the U.S.S.R. possesses every- thing but rubber. So now the workers of the Kauchuk factory in Moscow are presenting to the Frunze Party Conference a banner made out of Soviet synthetic rubber. Socialism is not killing the incen- tive of learning and inventing but it is a stimulus to that incentive, and the Soviet inventors are freeing the Soviet Union from technical depend- ence on the capitalist world and fore eign import. On May Ist the Japanese workers demonstrate against the Japanese imperialist war-makers! On May Ist out into the streets against the American imperialist war-makers! Support the heroic struggle of the Japanese workers! |