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

Page Four 13th St, Poblished by the Comprodaily Pubiishing Ca, Inc, daily except Sunday, at 60 East New York City, N. Y. ‘AdGress and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 50 East 18th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone ALgonquin 4-7958, Cable “DAIWORK." Dail rker’ Pusat Party USA. SUBSCRIPTION RAT! By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City, Foreign: one year, $8; siz months, $4.50. WHY ARE NOT THE MURDERERS OF PRESIDENT DOUMER ARRESTED? | The Daily Worker publishes herewith the leading article of the Isvestia, organ of the Soviet Government, published on May 23. Conclusion) April 29, 1932, the “Vozrozhd nee of terror rror which might Union, and fighting , the most nant ern’s sh0ts have been heard, and they will be repeated...Stern’s shots are by no are only the means the end, they Th beginning.” Self-Sacrificing” Terrorist In of “Dni Kerensky pursues his train of thought stil ME we have a fied case- of a volun- tary sacrificing ist act in the interests of the defense of the rights of the people. has not died vain. Stern is not alone. sacrificial e of individ: has been lit...” The * which is edited by Filosov, 2 which in Poland, writes in its number of At necessary to point out the important circumstance that the whole emigration from the mensheviks to the monarchists appreciate the heroism of Stern, and realize the real significance of his action. The whole emigra- tion real the sienificance of the sacrifice made by Stern, a wrthy son cf Russia. “Stern wished to make clear with the shots, he fired at a fireigner, that those foreigners who support the enemies of the Russian people will in the future be threatened no longer with the suppressed, but the open hatred of free Russian. The whole White-Guardist emigration has united in praising the terrorist act carried out by Stern and in appealing for the assassination of foreign statesmen. The White-Guardist emi- gration is united from the reactionary Black Hundred groups to the so-called “Left-wing Pub- lic Opinion of the Emigration,” represented by Kerensky, Argunov and their friends. The “Socialist Messenger” joins in the ne chorus and the tone of its article is in no way different from the tone of the articles which have appeared in the “Vozrozhdenie,” “Dni,” “Posledni Novosti” and other White-Guardist journals. The whole of the White-Guardist press has appealed daily for terrorist acts against the lives of foreign statesmen. . These open appeals for terrorism, whose in- stigators would, under normal circumstances, be flung into prison immediately as candidates for deportation to the French penal settlement in Cayenne, are published with impunity, although no one any longer doubts their direct connec- tion with the subsequent assassination af the President of the French Republic. TRese facts can be testified without undue effort, without resorting to the aids of anthro- Ppometry, dactyloscopy, anthropology, medicine and chemistry, as used by the French police, with the result that they are “searching un- Successfully for the threads of the crime.” Before Assassinati°n It is sufficient to read the appeal published in Gorguloff's organ, “Nabat,” almost imme- ‘diately prior to the assassination of the Presi- dent of the French Republic: “France, which has recognized the Soviets, is ,@radually coming to the conclusion that its jprevious policy on the Russian question must be altered. However, the hesitation of the French Government to take decisive steps on the Rus- sian question, a hesitation caused by tactical or diplomatic considerations, is becoming quite un- jderstandable. The Prime Minister, Tardieu, has | paign struggle. French Police Knew White Guard Plans to Assassinate Diplomats as Signal for War Against the Soviet Union declared the Communist question is a world question. “The policy of France during the past 10 years was conducted under the wise leadership of. Poincare. However, the achievements of the French people will always be threatened by the danger of war so long as the Russian question is not settled. “There is a smell of powder in the air. The Russian people is very well: aware that France is the centre of Europe, that the tone of Eu- r°pean politics listened for by all countries is determined by France. eyes of the Russian people are, therefore, ed towards France. We cannot refrain ioning the leading newspapers of ‘YEcho de Paris” and “La Liberte,” peal to the French people in the Press and at meetings to take the path of justice in ssian question. “We believe in the great spirit of the French ople. France has the floor!” necessary to add anything further to ons? “Why does France hesitate? nee not declare war on the Soviet ask the white, pink and green emi-: hysterically, The semi-official organ of the “Military Alli- | ance,” the “Vozrozhdenie,” and also the “Pos- ledni Novosti,” the “Molva,” “Dni,” in short, the whole of the White-Guardist Press, which is upported by influential circles in France, Po- nd and other countries, provides the most im- tient war-monger with a direct answer: “Don’t shoot at Bolshevik sparrows. Attack the Bolsheviks from the rear, It is more favor- able for us, in every respect more favorable, to change our target and aim at foreigners... A shot at a well-known foreigner can cause the Bolsheviks great and serious unpleasantness and even political complications, cause Europe, which is not accustomed to think much about Russian affairs, to think deeply...” “France is the centre of Europ,” seconds the “Nabat.” “It depends on France whether there is to be war or peace.” But according to the opinion of the White- Guardists, France hesitated, and therefore Gor- guloff took up his revolver. He is well aware of his “target.” act. His aim is to “attack the Bolsheviks from Win the Masses Such a shot would | His aim is to compel France to | the rear” by murdering the President of the French Republic. On May 7 Doumer was as- sassinated. President Doumer was the victim of the strug- gle of those dark forces and involved influences which are doing their best to drive the French Republic to war with the Soviet Union. The direct instigators and organizers of the number were the White Guardists, the Mil- itary Alliance, and the newspaper Vozrozh- denie.” This fact is no longer a secret to anyone, and it is certainly no secret to the French authorities, and above all, not to the au- thorities conducting the investigation. Frencht public opinion should have raised the question clearly and un- ambiguously, and declared: It is not necessary to go far in order to seek the threads of the crime and its instigators and organizers. They are perfectly visible and they act quite openly on the territory of the Ffench Republic. Criminal Machinations It should declared once and for all that an end must be made of the criminal machina- tions of the Russian White Guardists, and, above all, of their military organization, which inspires the terrorists and supplies them, and which daily commits new acts of provocation with a view to undermining the peace of the world. The question must be raised: Why are not | the murderers, the instigators and organizers of the assassination of President Doumer ar- rested? Why is General Miller and his satellite Semenov, the editor of the “Vozrozhdenie,” still at liberty? Why is Kerensky, and the editor of the “Molva,” Filosov, not arrested? Why are the instigators and accomplices of the criminal white guard machinations, the prop= agandists of the terror, the inspirers and ac- | complices of Gorguloff and all future Gorgu- | lofsf not only at liberty in Paris, but permitted | to assist the authorities who are conducting the “investigation,” to stamp the white guardist as- | sassin who murdered the President of the French | Republic in order to provoke war against the Soviet Union as a “Bolshevik?” The fact that no attempt is being made to punish them shows clearly who is behind the white guards, and who is holding the bomb which is to explode and plunge humanity into a historical catastrophe. No other conclusion is possible. World public opinion must be per- fectly clear on this point, for the Six Com- O The White Guard General Miller munist Election Demands By H. SHEPARD x Ee election campaign offers a great possibil- ity for our Party to develop struggles of the broad masses of American workers and farmers. With the deepening of the economic crisis, the American ruling class is becoming more vicious in their attacks upon the masses (Scottsboro, Camp Hill, Harlan miners, Dearborn, Mich., Chicago, Cleveland.) Every militant working-class struggle for re- against wage-cuts, for unemployment in- ince, is met by the most bloody police brut- ality. Deportation of foreign-born workers, lynchings nd frame-ups of Negroes, is the order of the day. Yet with all of these burning issues con- fronting the American workers, both black and white, we are not reacting as a real Bolshevik Party should. Show It Now The Bolshevik determination of every Com- munist must be proven in the election cam- Around the six main demands of our Party, hundreds of thousands of Negro and white workers must be drawn into struggle against the Hoover-Wall Street government. We must clearly expose to the Negro and white workers, the true role of the Republican and Democratic parties, together with their al- lies, the Socialist Party and the American Fed- eration of Labor Jeadership. We must point out to the workers that only | because of the struggles led by the Communist Party of the United States, in the form of hunger marches, etc., have the bosses even ad- mitted that there is a crisis in the United States. Only by these struggles have the bosses been forced to give even the present meager hand- outs to a small section of the unemployed mil- lions, While starvation, unemployment, wage-cuts are taking place daily, while disease and death, due to malnutrition, is the lot of millions of Negro and white workers, the Republican and | Democratic parties are handing over billions of dollars to the bankers of Wall Street. At the same time we see such demagogs as Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, “speaking” of unem- ployment insurance, LaFollette about “farm re- lief,” Now Senators Joseph T. Robinson and Robert F. Wagner are staging a fake fight over the question of “federal aid” for the unemployed workers. We as Communists, as Bolshevik leaders of the American working-class, must utilize every is- sue raised by these enemies of the workers— to draw the toiling masses into struggle for real working-class demands. The six points of our election platform must be made the property of every worker and poor farmer in the United States. Every shop, every factory and mass organiza- tion of workers must be won to the support of our Party. The “Forward” Discovers a “Socialist” Government editors of the Jewish socialist organ, the New York Forward pick up the news of the day and read: “A socialist government formed in Chile” Their pulse‘ quickens, their hearts beat fast In the land of the Guggenheim trust, a “so- cialist government has been formed,” they pro- claim in chorus. In their great joy at this sud- den news, what do these heroes of the lying pen care about what Marx wrote “that we must not judge a man or a movement by what it says of itself.” Marx after all was only an old- fashioned foreigner and never even received naturalization papers from the United States government. Davila, the new head of the gov- ernment says he is a socialist. The bourgeois press reports that he learned all about social- *ism in the United States. Is not this sufficient? The editors read the news further, “Davila will Socialize industries, establishing it after the fas~ cist pattern.” ‘Well think our editors, there is “ nothing strange here. Why shouldn't Davila do some experimenting with “socialism”? After all, they chuckle, fascism has some good points — supervision of industry by government. Isn't this, after all, something like “socialism”? And again think these practical men of Rutgers Square, “half a loaf is surely better than none at all and half a socialist government with fas- cist elements is surely better than no socia government.” And what is more, say these cialists.” Why should not the young Chilean government learn a thing or two from the Ger- man socialists. If the “advanced” socialists of can be in alliance with the monarch- 4s 4 | tunes of the rich.” ist Hindenburg, why can’t the Davila govern- ment contain generals and other such respect- able people? Indeed! Again they read, “Davile will not disturb the interests of the imperialists or touch the for- Ah, a socialist after our own heart sigh the editors of the Forwards. Why should socialists confiscate the industries? That's the trick of the Bolsheviks. Did we not just adopt a plank at our convention that we socialists would not confiscate tHe industries. — There's a man for you—-this Davila! They read further. “Davila has established martial law.” Ah, here indeed is the evidence that disproves our doubts. A government of law and order—that is a government of socialism! Did not our comrade Severing in Germany, in accordance with Kautsky’s latest teachings, es- tablish law and order in Prussia? Was it not, even necessary to use the police and gangsters against the needle trades workers of the civil- ized city of New York for “their best interests”? Why not then establish socialism by means of law and order in such a barbarous country as Chile? After all, say they, we are not anarch- ists! The editors are overwhelmed with joy. “A socialist government in Chile’—Happy and blessed be the Second International. The sun never sets on the world of “socialism,” The “Forward” editors now rush fo print, splash the front page of their paper with the great news, “a socialist government in Chile.” The Forward has discovered new comrades in | the land of Yankee Imperialism. A social-fascist hand goes out to new comrades, the fascists Davila and Co. Textile Profits and Dividends GING the importance of longer hours of work for cotton workers to bring larger prof- its to capitalists the editor of the “American Wool and Cotton Reporter” tells of “one of the fine goods mills in Maine (last year) made about $200,000 on less than 100,000 spindles. Another state of Maine fine goods mill with less than 100,000 spindles had a similarly successful year. It actually increased its working capital by about $125,000 during the 12 months.” Among the textile mills paying dividends May 1 were the Adams-Millis Corp., Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Co., Elm City Cotton Mills, Esmond Mills, Federal Knitting Co., Gotham Silk Hosi- ery, Hillside Cotton Mills, Hope Webbing Co., Jantzen Knitting Mills, Luther Manufacturing Co., Manchester Cotton Mills, United Piece Dye Works, Unity Cotton Mills. Some other profit-makers, even during the crisis are: Industrial Raypn Corp., Cleveland, Ohio, for the first quarter of 1932, reports profit of $177,- 650 after depreciation, taxes and interest; this compares with $13,364 in the first quarter of 1931, Botany Worsted Mills, Passaic, as a result of extensive rationalization and receipt of orders from the War Department, made profit of $96,862 in the first quarter of 1932. Collins & Aikmen Corp.—pile fabries—had in 1931 net profit after charges and taxes amount- ing to $1,365,089, compared with, a net of $323,151 in 1930. Mock, Judson, Voehringer Co. (knitting), Greensoboro, N. C., and Long Island City— earnings, 1931, $208,702 after depreciation and taxes, “TAKE A LETTER, CASSIDY” “My Dear Friends: I have neither time no‘ cluding yours—DANIEL W. HOAN.” Toward Revolutionary Mass Work ( EL W, HOAN MAYOR or “Pan! £, WISCONSIN inclination THE crime of isolation. Isolation, commonly speak- ing, is staying away from the workers and feil- ing to organize them dnd letting them starve to death without a struggle to eat and live. And, when we, the leaders of the workers, is- late ourselves from the workers, we make our- selves criminals of isolation and are at the same time pussy-footing the class struggle. Isolation ard Pussy-Footery Exposed ‘Here in Birmingham we had the opportunity again to criticize ourselves severely in our fail- ure ‘to work among thé workers exploited by the Red Cross. Several hundred white and Ne- gro workers are working on Red Cross jobs for small and measly amounts of food in place of pay. These workers are given the “blue tickets” instead of the original “white slips.” With the “white slips” the workers can get their groceries where they choose, but with the “blue slips” they can get their groceries only from the Red Cross stores— supply houses from which they receive whatever rotten stuff the Red Cross bosses choose to give them. The Negro workers are working under armed foremen and superintendents, are cursed and ordered around as if they were dogs. The white workers are driven in the heat, bellowed at by the overbearing foremen. They are also receiy- ing their “blue tickets” with which they cash in and get their canned goods and other refused goods just as the Negroes get. The groceries obtained won’t last a week. These workers are indignant at these condi- tions. The indignation of these workers was expressed a few weeks ago when a group of Ne- gro workers who were receiving their groceries from one of the down-town supply stores, be- came mad at the clerk, when he threw their food to them and abused them. When the Ne- gro workers threw the stuff back at him, and started raising hell, and dared the Red Cross to cut their groceries off, the “riot squad” was immediately called but the workers raised hell right on. No arrests were made. The cops tried to be “nice,” White and Negro Workers Fight Together Shortly after that, a group of white workers beat up a foreman, and at the same time white and Negro workers are whispering to one an- other about getting together and march on the Red Cross and City Hall—the white workers are expressing their regret for not marching with the Negroes to the City Hall on May 13: Now, we will view the ugly face of isolation and opportunism. Previous to the date on which the Negro work- ers threatened to fight in the supply store, we had not made one single step toward organiz- ing the Red Cross workers by electing special committees to organize Red Cross workers Grievance Committees—-we underestimated the importance of preparing these workers for a strike. In fact, we did not see them in pars ticular, but after the workers attracted our at- tention to the fact that they were not satis- fied with their conditions on the jobs and at- tempted to develop some kind of struggle de- spite our remote distance from them, at last we elected committees to go on the jobs and speak to the workers, find out what their griev-» ances are, and to organize them to put up a fight for what they wanted. As a result, we were able to hold a mass meeting at which ap- proximately 250 white and Negro workers were present—Red Cross workers were the majority. But can we say, that we ourselves took the initiative to organize and lead these workers: No. Not by a long shot. Then why did we move to action? Because we were forced to. We were so “self-initiated.” We were sitting —— Durham Wosiery Mills, North Carolina, re- ported net earnings, 1931, of $74,504 and voted special dividend of 50¢ a share on the 6 per cent preferred stock. Dover Mills Co., Shelby, N. C., recently de- clared a 6 per cent dividend on common ‘and 4 per cent semi-annual dividend on, preferred., IF we say we are the leaders of the workers , and yet stay away from them, we commit the Sitting in a Sectarian Chamber Y¥.C.Ler (Birmingham) Will Philadelphia Explain? 7s following is an excerpt from a recent letter from the Philadelphia District: “No definite steps, as yet have been taken in con- nection with the shipment of ammunition because of the weak organizational situation and the reorganization taking place now, and . also the events preceding and following May Ist.” “ “However, right after the Plenum we intend to take all the necessary steps to carry: this« through.” ‘The comrades in Philadelphia, according to this letter, were so busy with reorganization, etc., that they could not take any stetps in | | connection with the shipment of ammuni- tion. Evidently the “war danger is only acute in resolutions,” so that we can afford to wait | a couple of days and weeks before some defi- nite steps are taken in the struggle against imperialist war... The above quoted sentences are in many respects the clearest expression of the deadly internal routine, the sectarianism which pre- vents the development of genuine mass work. It shows also that in practice how seriously the war danger is under-estimated. The lessons are so obvious that we will not comment any further, but merely to remind the comrades of a few sentences of the Plenum resolution, which states: “The bureaucratic methods of work which are expressed in the circular letter method of leadership, and in an excessive number of paid functionaries at the head of the Party and the auxiliary organizations paralyzes the work of the lower Party organizations and side-tracks them from genuine mass work onto inner Party and routine work, and hinders the development of cadres and the initiative of lower organizations. ‘in a little sectarian chamber behind the wall of isolation and while we were thus so fixed, the workers themselves got in front of us. The best way to overcome these shortcomings and weaknesses, is to mix with the masses of workers and find out what they need and want and help them get it, and the way to do that is to break down the wall of isolation, and, the way to break it down, is to break it down. For Mass Defense By L. R- (Philadelphia, Pa.) Ww who are responsible for bringing workers to demonstrations have not completed our task when the workers assemble, We, who have brought them must do all that we possibly can to protect them. If we do not organize defense corps are we protecting thes>’workers? We are to blame if militant workers are not given leadership. If these workers are thrust before plain clothes gangsters and uniformed gun thugs we are ne- glectfully heedless of workers’ lives. Such ne- glect must be eliminated. How can we call our- selves Bolsheviks? How can we call ourselves Jeaders of the working class when we bring workers to a battlefield and give them no gen- eralship? (Not capitalist generalship, in which we do all the talking and the raw recruits do all the fighting). I do not mean to say that every Communist yan away without defending himself. ‘The fact that ten or more cops went to the hospital proves that we fought back. But the fighting | was not concentrated, and those comrades who fought were helpless because the d we Was v there, Tt DID MELT AWAY because IT WAS NOT THERE IN.AN ORGANIZED manner, due to LACK OF TRAINING. DISCUSSION not | The present form of defense is a joke and exists only on paper. A few days before a dem~ onstration a few. are notified that they are on OF 14TH’ PLENUM | f the defens2 corps, and that is what we call de- fense. Over a month has passed since the workers of Philadelphia were savagely clubbed by the police on April 30 and the only thing that we have accomplished is to send out a call for vol- unteers. No one can fight for us, we must fight for outselves. We need more FIGHTERS, NOT MARTYRS. Unless we eliminate this suicidal planlessness, this anarchy caused by 4 hopeful fatalism or adventurism our demonstrations will be murderously smashed. Let us organize a de- fense that is at least worthy of the paper on which it is written. Mass self-defense—against police provocations —must be the line and keynote of our defense. The police terror and brutality must be defeated by proletarian self-discipline. The Result of Formalism By 8. MIROKOVICH (Akron, Ohio), UR activities must teach us lessons: either how not to.do things or how to do things. In this town we had a May Day’ occurrence that must teach us a lesson. Here is an ex- ample of lack of personal contact. Ten or more Party members, the entire Party unit, in a proletarian section of the city, gath- ered with one sympathizer at one place, which was decided on as a point of concentration of” this unit, to march to another main point to meet other marchers. This unit met at this point with the number and marched more than ten blocks with the same number: all Party members with one sympathizer, a Negro worker, The-unit organizer said that the point of gath- ering was announced at open-air meetings called for preparation for May Day and that he per- sonally called upon Negro workers to come. A Well, even if this was done, there is something basically wrong with these Party members. Ten Party members got only one worker to march on May Day! It is possible that some of the work. ers from this section came directly to the cen- tral demonstration. But this is not enough, This unit should have had at least a number of non-Party workers, ratlied through personal con- tact, march to the demonstration. Here the purely formal approach to workers is clear. Party members consider their duty is to spread leaflets and nothing else. Why should not we learn {to talk to workers and personally invite them? And talk to them not only once! And not only talk, but talk in the way that workers will understand that the Communist program is their program, that demonstration is necessary as part of the struggle for the need of workers! ———“—SXSXSXSXS—S: June Issue of “The Communist” CONTENTS The Imperialist Offensive and the Fourteenth Plenum of the Central Committee. The Struggle for the Majority of the Working Class and Our Mass Work. By O, Kuusinen. Some Elementary Phases of the Work In the Reformist Trade Unions. By Wm, Z. Foster., Fascism, Social Democracy and Communism. By W. Knorin. Lessons of Two Recent Strikes, In the Light of the E.C.C.I. Resolution on “Lessons of Strike Struggles In U.S.A.” By Jack Stachel, The War Offensive—Tightening the Capital- ist Dictatorship In the United States. By, Bill Dunne, The Second Five-Year Plan, J. Olgin. Marxism and the National Problem. By J. . Stalin, , Lenin On Literature. 1 Be By Moissaye en eeseeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEet