The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 29, 1932, Page 9

ae eee nA aan Pave Nevet -1896 arious towns Strikes have out; in Yaroslavl, Taikovo )-Viznesensk, Belostok, Vilna, Kiey, Moscow and other The: majority of the strikes succéssfully for the workers en tinsueccessful strikes are pparently unsuccessful. In they: frighten the bosses ter- ause' them great losses, and 1em -to grant concessions for a new strike. The factory ors also begin_to get busy tice the beams in the capi- eyes; They are behind untu fas are opened by the workers a strike. When in fact do story” inspectors notice mis- menagement in the factories of such influential personages as Mr. Torn- ton or the stockholders of the. Put- ilov factory? In St. Petersburg, too, we have made trouble for the bosses. The strike of the weavers at Tornton’s factories, of the workers at the shoe factory, the agitation among the workers at the Kenig and Varonin factories, and among the dock work- ers, and finally the recent. disturb- ances in Sestroretsk have proven that we have ceased to be submissive martyrs, and have taken,up the struggle. As is well known, the workers from many factories and shops have ‘brganized the “Union of Struggle for the. Emancipation of BY V. I. LENIN the Working Class,’ with the ~aim of exposing all‘abuses, of eradicating mismanagement; of fighting against the insolent oppressions of our con- scienceless exploiters, and of achiev- jing full liberation from their power. The “Union” distributes leaflets, at the sight of which the bosses and their faithful lackeys tremble in |their boots: It is not the leaflets themselves which frighten them, but the possibility of our united resist- ance, of an exhibition of our mighty power, which we have shown them more than once. We workers of St. Petersburg, members of the “Union” invite the rest of our fellow workers to join our “Union” and to further the great cause of uniting the work- ay’? Or are they merely the - of a decoy to the square of ion? a s take the Soviet Union. The on this question has raged the ranks of the party tor + two years, Workers have disgusted with the vicious made by the socialists on S.S.R. And scores of intel- y have began to feel the ray. So Thomas writes in the eader of March 5: “I can from personal experience to sorbing and entirely reason- terest in Russia all over the . I can also testify to the iat we have done ourselves arm by what has looked like ; and indiscriminate criti- ' Russia, (My emphasis, J.L.) ecause there are things in that need to be criticized for id of workers everywhere—as ; @ great deal of praise—we to be extremely careful to riticism sound and convinc- Sriticize the USSR—but be that it is so worded that rkers will believe you and ie to have faith in the par- e of the “lefts”, Alfred Ba- ewis, recently wrote: “We change our attitude towards Russia because our critical e builds a breach between certain liberal groups:” t have they done about the unemployed’t because of every issue of the New Lead- ringing wet with tears? n the police on Marth 6, 1930, 1 shambles of Union Sq. the t “Forward” wrote that tivose demonstration cheered the the young girls flirted with, andsome mounties on their 1 horses, until the Commu- ION nists provoked a bloodbath. The same up to March 7, Detroit’s Bloody Monday, This time the anger of the work- ers was too great for such filth to be written, Now the “number of Communists in the demonstration was insignificant, and their influ- ence still smaller (!)” Now “nerv- ous police provoked the action”. And the demonstration -led by Communists, in which three Com- munists were killed by a henchman of a mayor elected with the enthu- siastic support of Norman Thomas and his party, proved that “the time is. coming nearer when eyer larger and larger sections of the working masses will seek their pathfinder and leaders among the socialists.” No condemnation of Mayor Mur- phy who was responsible. But a falsified interview with the mother of Joe Bussel, a ¥.C.L. member who was killed, which stated that “up to four weeks ago Joe was 2a good boy,” then he turned red, But Joe had been a Pioneer, a member ot the League for two years. Anything to discredit the unemployed organ- ization. Now after two and a half years of terrific crisis Thomas and the socialists see the. Unemployed Councils leading struggles, see the workers fighting militantly, so they declare for. unemployed organiza- tion, Organization “which will put an end to irresponsible actions”, to militant defense by the workers against police attacks. To halt the Unemployed Councils. In Wisconsin the _ socialists fought a bill introduced by Pro- gressives providing for 20 million dollars for the unemployed and substituted one for nine million be- cause “it. takes too much money SQUARE away trom Milwaukee”, And the re- eent support of Morgan’s Block- Aid plan which was a prelude to the shutting off of all relief by the city Home Relief Buros by Thom- as is uite fresh in the memory of all May i is the “International Day of Struggle Against Hunger and War”. On this day we can ask the party whose leader Hilquit accept- eq the job of defending the Czarist exploiters of the oil fields of Rus- sia against the Soviet workers, what single action it has under- taken during the past year to fight hunger and war? Did they not praise only recenily the Japanese section of the Second International; the party which has now formed an open fascist party? A _ party which is strictly legal proving that it has not opposed ‘the war on the Chinese masses. Has the Socialist Party repudiated the leader of the Second International, Vandervelde, who says that his organization is unable to do‘anything against. war? Did not Norman Thomas _ write that the Soviet Union has a secret agreement with Japan to divide up China at the very time when Ja- pan is marching ever closer to the Soviet border? On ‘April 30 (on May 1 the repre- sentatives of God rest) the social- ists will be on Union Sq. Through- out the year the socialists will shout and declaim about “Union Sq.”, but will they be there to de- fend and fight for the rights of the workers? Will they be in “Ken- ‘tucky and fighting for Negro rights in Lynehiand? The record of hbe- trayal established by the Socialist parties of Germany (which killed 33 workers for celebrating May 1, 1929, in Berlin), England, France, Russia and the United States is the answer. ers for’a struggle tor their own 'm- terests. It is high time for.us Rus- sian workers to al: the chains with which the capitalists e1d the Government have bound us in order to keep us in subjection. It is hign time for us to join the struggle or our brothers, the workers in other lands, to stand with them under the common flag upon which is inscrib- ed: Workers of the World, Unite! In France, Great Britain, G and other countries, where i ers have already united in strong unions and have won many rights, they have established the 19th of April (the First of May abr< fore the October Revolution the Russian calendar vas 13 days be- hind the West-Europ2an) as a ge- eral Labor holiday. Forsaking the stuify factories, they mach in solid ranks, with bands and banners along the main streets of the towns; showing the bosses the whole might of their growing power, they gather ‘in ; nerous large meetings, where speeches delivered recounting the vi over the bosses in the prec year, and indicating the plans for struggle in the future. Through fear of a strike, not a single factory owner fines the workers for absence from work on this day. On this day the workers also remind the bosses of their chief demand: the eight hour working day—8 hours work, 8 hours sleep, and 8 hours rest. This is what the workers of other countries are now demanding There was a time, and not so jong ago, when they, like we now, did not have the right to make known their needs. They, too, were crushed by want and lacked unity just as we now. But they, by stubborn struggle and heavy sacrifices, have won for themselves the right to dis- cuss together the problems of the workers’ cause. We send our best wishes to our brothers in other lands that their struggle should quickly lead them to the desired victory, to the time when there shall be neither masters nor slaves, neither workers nor capitalists, but all will work and all alike enjoy life. Comrades! If we will energeticaily and wholeheartedly strive to unite, the time will not be far distant when we, having joined our forces in solid ranks, will be able openly to unite in this common struggle of the work ers of all lands, without distinction of race or creed, against the caui- talists of the whole world, And our sinewy arm will be lifted on high and the infamous chains of bondage will far usunder. The workers J! Russia, will arise, and the capitalists and the Government, which always zealously serves and aids the capi- talists, will be stricken with terror! April 10, 1896. —Union ot Struggle for the Eman- cipation of the Werking Class. ——@ “| DUE ™ CRISIS |. . Are REVVER wie SHUT DOWN UN THE FURTHER not