The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 28, 1932, Page 1

WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Dail Central rT aie Norker LY. Ai SRfumiet Party U.S.A. apc of the Communist ae aaah IN TWO SECTIONS (SECTION 1) Sen Emtered as accond-class miter at at New York, N. Y.. ander the act of Mi Otfice 3, 1877 NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, ; Cc cr ITY “EDI he Vol. IX. No. 101 COMMUNISTS PROPOSE PLATFORM AGAINST HUNGER, IMPERIALIST WAR; WM. Z. FOSTER FOR iar. spi J. W. FORD, VICE-PRESIDENT The Next Socialist Betrayal-- Coalition with Hitler! A UNITED PRESS dispatch from Berlin on April 25th quotes Severing, Social-Democratic Minister of the Interior for Prussia, as favoring a coalition government of fascists, Centrists and Social-Democrats. The theory behind this is an extension of the “lesser evil” theory under which the support of Hindenberg as the savior of the republic and democracy was organized. Severing is quoted as saying that the entry of the Hitlerites into the Prussian cabinet would serve to curb them and tone down their nbn- parliamentary assaults on the republic by virtue of the ersponsibility placed upon them through such a measure. ‘The German Socialist leaders, therefore, are now preparing the next step for a further onslaught on the living standards of the German work- ing class and peasantry, for a further extension against the working class of fascist methods disguised by some vestiges of parliamentary procedure. This step follows inevitably from the role of the German social- democracy in the bloody suppression of the revolution of 1918, the murder of Liebknecht and Wuxemburg, and the continued support of the German capitalist class and the international exploiters of the German masses. It follows from their support of the “Americanization”: of German industry, through wage-cutting and speed-up. It follows from their support of the Hindenberg-Bruening govern- ment, the reduetion of unemployment insurance and municipal services and the placing of the burden of the crisis on the German masses. It follows inevitably from their support of Hindenberg and the con- stant concessions tp the German capitalist class and the Hitlerites. It is of the greatest importance for American workers to note the sup- port of this policy by American socialist party leaders. Writing in the New Leader of April 23, Norman Thomas justified the anti-working-class coali- tion policy of the German socialists. He said: “So great is the danger of Hitler’s crazy, swashbuckling, anti-Semitic ‘national socialism’ . . . that, strongly as I feel impelled to condemn the principle of national coalition government in which socialists are partners, 1 think the German social-democracy are justified in coalition in this emergency.” There is not the slightest doubt that Norman Thomas and his social- ist party fololwers will-find a formula by which to justify the projected coalition with fascism in the Prussian government. This will mean a coaliiton government of Social-Democrats, fascists and Centrists in the German national government. It means that the German Social-Democ- racy, as we have pointed out from the beginning, has capitulated to fascism and is trying to drag the masses of Social-Democratic workers in Germany along with it into the fascist camp. It means another decisive phase in the betrayal of the German masses by the Social-Democratic leaders. But the Communist Party of Germany and the German working class will have the last word, It was possible for the socialist leaders to rally workers for supoprt of Hindenbur when the question was put as the re- public versus a fascist dictatorship in spite of the continuous assaults upon wages and social standards of the German masses carried through by the coalition government. But is is a different matter when the so- cialist leaders openly advocate entry into a government which will be dominated by the Hitlerites but which, nevertheless. could live only by socialist support. We can expect to see, as the fascist-socialist coalition proceeds, a new and rapid swing of socialist workers to the Communist Party of Germany, which points out to the German masses the revolutionary way out of the ctisis—the overthrow of German capitalism, the repudiation of all war debts and reparations and the establishment of a Soviet Germany. President Green Does His Bit for Hunger. Hoover ‘HE explanation of teh new drive begun by William Green and the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor against the Jocal unions—some three hundred in all—that have endorsed unemploy- ment’ insurance and demand a referendum throughout the American Federation of Labor unions on this question, is found in the fact that it is part of the sharpening offensive of the government and the employ- ers against both the unemployed and employed workers. Green has sent a letter to all central bodies and local unions de- nouncing the committee of rank and file members of local unions who have sponsored the referendum as a means of furtherin the struggle for unemployment insurance at the expense of the employers and the gov~ ernment and to establish in a decisive manner the fact that the repudia- tion of unemployment insurance by the Vancouver convention of the American Federation of Labor last October did not represent the senti- ment of the big majority of members of A. F. of L. unions. Green does not discuss this fundamental issue in his letter. He simply denounces.the movement as “Communistic” and attempts to. utilize arbitrarily the authority of the Executive Council to force the withdrawal of the support for unemployment insurance and the demand for a referendum. This latest move of Green, taken in connection with the rauid in- crease in unemployment, the decline in production and the terrible hard- ships the unemployed are forced te endure, shows clearly the difference between the public demagogic utterances of A. F. of L. leaders like Green and Woll and their actual deeds, which are always in support of the poli- cies of the employers and their government. On April 26th Green issued in Washington a public statement in which ‘he said: “Never before in the five years of our reports has unemployment increased in April, not even in the two depression years just passed. ‘This new rise is of the greatest significance. We cannot count on any improvement from industrial gain in the near future, but we may be faced with a growing unemployment problem. Obviously we have failed to turn the tide toward economic recovery. . . . It is no longer possible “to meet unemployment by relief measures alone. Already cities are re- portin the faiure of funds. Several report funds already out, others expect their relief may not last until May, June and August; very few have enough for the full year.” (Our emphasis.) The facts are far worse than Green pictures them in this statement. Gut his most recent act shows him and the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor as an integral part of the starvation and suppression machinery of Wall Street-Hoover government. He fights, not against the employers and their government responsible for the in- describable misery of millions of American workers and their dependents, but against those militant workers who try to organize the working class for unemployment insurance and immediate cash relief, against those workers who have adopted the fight for the only possible means to pre- * yent more and more of the crisis burden being placed upon the working- class population. _ “It is necessary to make these facts clear to teh entire membership of the American Federation of Labor unions and on this basis to strengthen a hundredfold the struggle for unemployment insurance within the Amer- ican Federation of Labor and the indispensable phase of this struggle— the exposure of Green and Woll and other reactionary leaders of the American Federation of Labor as the most dangerous enemies of the working class within our ranks. , ‘The New York American Federation of Labor Trade Union Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Relief is not a Communist organiza- tion, but it must and will receive all possible support from the Communist Party and its members FIND YOUR ORGANIZATION HERE FOR THE MAY par PARADE Bice aul 45 AVENVE ly F LETH ale 12. Sect /2 STREET = sects3 Final March Route of May Day Parade, Sun. Monster Nominating Convention Called for May 28th in Chicago to Decide on Final Plattorm and Party Candidates I central Committee Plenum Adopts Basic Res- Proposed Candidates for President and Vice-President WM. Z. FOSTER . FORD JAMES W April 16th aad 19th. olutions on Tasks of Party and Lessons of Strike Struggle Add Four Negroes to Centra! Committee, Nom- inate Negro Worker for Vice-President Announcing the adoption of the National Election Platform of the Communist Party and its candidates, William Z. Foster for president ;and James W. Ford for Vice-President, proposed to the National Nominating Conven- tion called to meet in Chicago on May 28h and 29th, the Capitol Committee of the Communist Party of U.S.A. yesterday issued for publiea- tion the decisions of its 14th Plenum which met Lo be Placing as its central task the “struggle ASSEMBLY POINTS: organized into 14 sections, ber of your Section of the parade. The United Front May Day Arrangements Committee announces final arrangements for the May Day parade. be FROM UNION SQUARE along 4th Avenue to 14th Street; East along 14th Street to Avenue A; South along Avenue A to Houston St. From Houston to Ridge and Montgomery, South to East Broadway, West along East Broadway to Rutgers Square. Section 1—15th Street East of Union Square, facing the square, 2.—16th Street, East of Union Square, facing the Square. 3.—Iith Street, East of 4th Avenue, facing the Square, * 4.—18th Street, East of 4th Avenue, facing Fourth Ave. 5.—19th Street, East of 4th Avenue, facing Fourth Ave, 6—19th Street West of Broadway, facing Broadway. 7.—18th Street, West of Broadway, facing Broadway. 8—l7th Street West of Broadway, facing Union Square. 9—16th Street West of Broadway, facing Union Square. 10.—15th Street, West of Broadway, facing Union Square. 11.—13th Street West of University Place, facing University Place. 12.—12th Street West of University Place, facing University Place. 13.—l2th Street East of Broadway, facing Broadway. 14.—13th Street East of Broadway, facing Broadway. AFFILIATIONS: — All members of the Communist Party will march with their respective mass organizations. All organizations are asked to find their Section number below. Then turn to the table above, locate the num- The march route will The parade itself is The street next to the number of Washington Sources Admit Japan Plans Anti-Soviet War Suppression of News Fails to Conceal Details of War Preparations (Special to Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., April 27—The rap- viet Union by Japan is confirmed by informa- idly increasing danger of an attack on the So-; against the new imperialist war and above all to work most devotedly and courageously to mobilize the working class in defense of the Soviet Union,” the Plenum declared that “only by the ability to rally and organize the masses to struggle for their immediate demands and against the war aa as the most outstahding menace for the workingclass, can the Party ,come before the magses,and must come before them, as their | revolutionary vanguard—the*most conscious, most devoted and bestorganized elements among them.” Four new Negro members were added to the Central Committee as a practical measure to strengthen the Party’s } work generally and especially the winning of the masses for the gle for Negro ri rights. Another Negro comrade was tion pouring in from a variety of sources. In spite of the suppression of news of spe-| cific details of war preparations by the newspapers, as well as| by the Department of State, official Washington admits in| private that it is sitting on a powder keg of impending war. While certain Congressmen in interviews comment on/ Soviet recognition, the administration continues its policy of | SET UP MACHINE GUNS IN 80ded to~ the Political Buro. STOCKYARDS. The proposed nomination of CHICAGO, Ill.—I was talking to aj James W. Ford, a Negro com- friend b? ibis who works in the|rade,‘as the Party’s candidate | stockyards here’ in Chicago. He |¢,.. said that since the ieee March fot vice promdent A another |step inthe same direction. the bosses set up five machine guns Reporting to the Plenum on encouraging Japan for its coming attack, | in his deaprtment of the plant. |behalf of the Political Buro, your Section is your assemble point. Make sure your membership gathers at your assembly point at 11 a.m. sharp. All organizations should take careful notice of the formation of organizations in the parade. The order outlined above will have to be lived up very strict- ly, All Workers Theatre groups, ‘choruses, dance groups, etc., will march in the section assigned to the Workers Cultural Federation, ex- cept the groups of the W.LR., which will march with the W.LR. All organizations are further reminded to have their membership turn out immediately after the parade to the Bronx Coliseum, where Comrade Foster will be the only speaker at the celebration for which an extraordinary program has been prepared. Call Workers to Rally to Protest Meet at Irving Plaza All workers are urged to make Irving Plaza protest meeting tomor- row night a mass demonstration against police ‘brutality and frome- up. We must do all i nour power to block all attempts of Tammany Hall to make another frame-up like March 6th when they sent* Foster, Amter, Raymond and Minor to jail. All organizations holding affairs or meetings oh Friday night are asked to adjourn early so as to be able to participate: i nthis demonstration. Geroge Powers, Secretary of the Building Construction Workers Lea- gue, who was brutally attacked and arrested by the Tammany police last ‘Thursday at City Hall Demonstration has been released on $3,500 bail. Dave Jones and Ferrera are still held on $5,000 and $7,500 bail respectively. The meeting in Irving Plaza to- morrow night will be a mass protest | demonstration against the police brutality last Thursday at City Hall and for the release of the comrades still held in jail. George Powers will speak at this meeting besides I, Amter, District organizer of the Communist Party of New York, who served 6 months on Welfare Island for leading the March 6th, 1930 demonstration of the unemployed. Carl Winter, secretary of the Unemployed Councils will be chairman of the meeting. . “Forward” Refuses to Announce Hunger Parade In an interview with the labor ed- itor of the Socialist “Forward” yes- terday, a delegation, representing thousands of the East Sids Unem- ployed Workers, was told that the “Forward” would refuse to give any publicity to the Hunger Parade and Demonstration scheduled for Thurs- day, April 28, This faker refuses to admit that hundreds of families were given re- lief by the Home Relief Buros be- cause of the militant demonstrations Jed by the Unemployed Councils, that thousands of evictions were prevent- ed by the militant struggle and lead- ership of the Unemployed Councils. Even the “New York World Tele- gram” was forced to admit yester- day that in the Bronx alone nearly 10,000 tenants are now taking part in a rent strike that has forced the bosses to lower the rents. Comrade Samburg was sentenced to fifteen days in Welfare Island! workhouse. The vicious Magistrate, William C. Dodge, said he was sorry he could not sentence Comrade Sam- burg to one hundred lashes, as that was the only way to handle radicals. Workers! Join the united protest! Demonstrate against police brutality and Socialist fakers! Demand imme- diate cash relief! Mobilize at 7th Street and Avenue ‘A’ at 6 p, Thursday, April 28, Among themselves administration Officials recognize that war is at hand, They say that they are “afraid that war between Japan and the US.S.R, is inevitable” What they do not say is that the role of the United States, especially Hoover and the State Department is consciously to encourage Japan. In order’ not to “strain relations with Japan”—that is, not to endan- ger these plans of aggression — the Department, of State prefers not to Tecognize Japan's aggressive attitude toward the U.S.S.R. The speech of the Japanese Min- ister of War, Araki, which included an open challenge to the USS. and many other provocative notes of the Japanese have been deliberately concealed. Shipments of arms to Japan con- tinue, in spite of, newspaper publicity and in spite of falsely reassuring pa- cifist protest. , It is known that on February 11 an order of the State Departrnent, stop- ped a House Committee Hearing on the proposed bill to prevent ship- ments of arms to belligerants. The fear was, not that this bill would be passed, but that publicity would be given to’shipments of war material. ‘Two days later the Washington Daily News reported that four boats clear- ed Hopewell, Va., for the Far East with a consignment for the Atmos- pheric Nitrogen Company, which is owned by the U. S. Steel Corp. and the Gulf and Texas Oil Company and controlled by Mellon interests. After long delay the hearing was finally held, but the usual public re- port was not printed. Chairman Linthigum gave the excuse that the subject was not sufficiently import- ant. i The open anti-Soviet clique in the Administratibn has become even more aggressive. Heading this clique in its encouragement of war between » Japan and the U.S.S.R. is Hoover. Under the cover of ideological indig- nation against the heresy of Com- munism, he carries out the orders of the munition makers and the inter- national usurers, Morgan & Company. Under his orders these positions di- rectly concerned with Russian rela- tions have been filled with men m,| known to be bitter opponents of the Soviet regime, ’ William Green Attacks | A.F.L. Workers Demanding | Unemployment Insurance William Green, acting for the executive council of the Am- | erican Federation of Labor, has launched a new drive against the hundreds of thousands of unemployed members of the af- was passed by without comment —| | filiated local unions. | sent-to all central labor bodies | tee for Unemployment Insuran | demand for a every one of the several hundr and local unions warning them ce Relief. Striking N.Y. “NEW YORK.—The striking long- shoremen of the Morgan, Clyde-Mal- lory and Savannah lines, who have been out over’a week fighting a ten per cent wage cut, were overpoyed yesterday following the arrival of the Workers Internaticnal Relief com- missary truck in front of the West Street docks. For the last three days the WIR has been supplying strike relief to the striking dockers. Over 500 sand- wiches and several gallons of good coffee was given to the dockers yés- terday by workers from the WIR. Reinforced by the steaming coffee, the longshoremen pledged in a deter- mined manner that they would stay out until they had foreed the bosses to take back the wage cut. Joseph P. Ryan, noorious for his sellouts on the waterfront, continued throughout the day his. old line of telling the dockers that the strike “is in the bag” and tha miliant picket- ing is not necessary. The Marine Workers Indusrial. Union organizers, however, were on the waterfront dur- ing the day and the strikers listened Longshoremen made by these organizers for mass picketing and rank and file control of the strike. The three shipping companies and eight railroad lines still remath ham- pered despite the fact that the com- panies have been successful in put- ting scabs to work at various points. It is reported that Ryan is prepar- ing for a secret conference with the shipowners as part of his attempt to sell the strike out the same as he betrayed the recent Boston strike. The Marine Workers Industrial Union urges the strikers to set up rank and file control at once through an elect- ea rank and file strike committee. Only in this manner can the dockers guard themselves against a sellout and make the struggle victorious. The Workers Internationa] Relief reports that the commissary truck will be on the docks today with re- lief for the strikers. The Marine Workers Industrial Union urges all the striking dockers to rally at Union Square May Day and mareh with the | Hugh Frayne, national organizer for the A. F. of L., has been instructed to carry the fight ogainst the rank and file| referendum on unemployment insurance into| ed local unions and the central | bodies which have endorsed the proposal of the New York! ‘CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) W.1.R. Brings Relief to the with approbation to the suegestions marine workers section of the great parade, Comrade Weinstone declared: “Comrades, we have marked a rise in the fighting spirit of the American working class, in the readiness of the workers to strug- gle against the capitalist offensive, in the wi¢e-spread radicalization of the working clxss. The question which we must ask at this Plen- um is: How have we attempted and what have we fone to lead the mass struggles azainst the capital ist offensive? How have we util- . *, + - | ized the y favorable 5s - The drive has begun with a letter signed by Green. and o; very. favorable“ posstbal ties for the growth of the Party and change its position with rela~ to have nothing to do with the New York A. F. of L- Commit-| tion to the” masses? “En the peried since the 13th Plenum~we have indesd carried thru anumber of important mass acteions (Natioaln Hunger March, Ford March, Scoiteboro campaign, Kentucky, Needle Tratics and other strikes, campaign for Unemploye ment insurance, etc. We have widened the circle of sympathizers and supporters of the Communist Party. But have we changed es- sentially our position in relation to the masses. Have we overcome the isolation trom the broad mas- ses of workers? Have we pene= trated the factories, effected an essential cheange with respect to the revolutionary unions—with our unemployed councils? Have we to any appreciable extent developed -the mass organizations around the Party, changed our bad sccial com- Position, widened our press? The answer of the C. C. resolution is NO “This is the situation at this time of the 14th Plenum, notwith- standig sunccess, which we can rer cord. This was the situation at the 13th Plenum, notwithstanding the advances which we made and recorded then, “ts “At the time of the 13th Plenum we stated that the first beginings of a decisive turn in Bolshevik mass work was begun. This was not & correct estimation, The resolu- tio nof the Central Committee dée- clares that we fundamentally still ~ remain within the same groove and have not changed the ystem and methods of work. What is the key to our weakness? That we (Continued on next page, first Se at column.) ape