The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 21, 1932, Page 4

- Page Four _ DAILY WORKER NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1932 yorker Dail Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Inc., daily exexept Sunday, at 50 E. 15th St., New York City, N. ¥. Telephone ALgonquin 4-7956, Cable “DAIWORK.” Address and mail checks to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St,, New York, N. X- SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; excepting Berough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign: one year, $8; six months About Use of Individual Medel Tactics it by the Daily Worker to its readers “What War Campaign of the White Guards 2 non-Party correspondent writes us: ndividual terror because it leads | By mail everywhere $4.50. agains ethod: good en is eviden ‘espondent y much aroused by the bloody acts of nerate Czarist tools. But we must reject his proposal not merely leads nowhere” but because it leads definitely to the disrup- a mass movement, because individual terror disorganizes the work- because it the weapon which agent-provocateurs use to dis- movement of the proletariat, and because it is the method ion “why must the Social Demo- Lenin in answering the ques t sive war on the Socialist Revolu- e Bolsheviks) declare deci stated n eloquent affirmations and pledges cannot refute the fact that terror as applied and advocated by the Socialist Revolutionaries to- y, has no connection to work among the masses, for the masses and with the ma: , that the terrorist attacks organized by the Socialist Revo- lutionary Party divert our, numerically extremeiy weak groups, from their Gifficult task, which is far from being accomplished, of organizing a revo- lutjenary workers’ party, that the terror of the Socialist Revolutionaries is in fact nothing but a duel which the experience of history has com- pletely condemned.” It is just because there is a need for building up a broad mass move- ment on the basis of the united front against the capitalist offensive and the war makers, that the warning issued by Lenin must be taken to heart. And furthermore because large bodies of workers as shown in the march of the ex-ser men, are awakening to a struggle against the capitalist atta that we must insist that the policy of mass action, demonstra- r Th tions, marches, sirikes, strikes combined with demonstrations, and: a variety of other forms which the masses are working out, must persistently applied in order to raise the movement to higher levels and to turn the defensive actions of the working class into a coun- ter-offensive. The policy of individual terror is intended to divert and disperse these actions of the mass The weapon of mass struggle against these Czarist tools, of isolating and exposing them, of arousing the masses against them and of driving them out, is an important part of the struggle against the imperialist war and for defense of the Soviet Union. ‘Che development of mass action for the stoppage of the shipment of arms is a proletarian answer to the efforts of the White Guards. In this direction the blows of the Party and of all revclutionary workers must be directed, and not the least con- cession must be made to tactics being “suggested, whispered” and spread on the fringe and at time even within the ranks of the Party by paid agents of the capitalists in order to divert our movement and stem the organization of the united front struggle. The High Wage Theory of the A. F. of L. IT is no longer necessary to reveal to the workers the demagogy of the Republican Pariy platform which “dedicated” this party of the capital- ist class to the theory of high wages. The Hoover government similarly “dedicated” itself to this theoty at the otitset of the crisis. But theory is one thing and practice another. Hoover announced two months after the crisis began that capital will not dismiss the workers, and in return for this favor that workers would not strike for higher wages. In prac- tice the capitalists threw millions upon the scrap heap while wages were slashed from 25 to 50 per cent. But in reality there has been no theory of high wages among the capitalists. At all times the capitalist class drove down the wages of the workers to the lowest possible point. During the post-war period, when the theory of high wages was supposed to operate, so conservative an economist as Professor Faulkner has been compelled to admit that the relative wages of the workers have not risen while we must add that the exploitation of the workers due to rationalization has multiplied many times. In fact, in the post war period, when capitalism had been accumulat- ing “huge fortunes, the conditions of the working class have been steadily worsened. The theory of high wages which has been propagated by the apolozists of capitalism, and particularly by the labor bureaucrats and the socialists, has been a cover to conceal the growing misery of the Working class. Like another theory that “labor is not a commodity,” this theory ‘has'been used only to subject the workers to new attacks. The “theory,” decreed in the offices of the labor officials and enacted into a law by Congress, that “labor is not a commodity,” has not for a single moment done away with the fact that the workers are compelled to sell their labor power on the market to the employers and that lacking a buyer at the present time millions are condemned to starvation. But the real service which the labor bureaucrats are carrying through Zor the capitalist class by their demagogy. about high -wages and the shorter work day, is glaringly revealed in the issue now being discussed in Congress of what form the wage-cuts of federal employees are to take in order to balance the budget. Hoover has advccated that the federal employees receive a furlough of four weeks without pay and he has fallen back upon the labor bureaucrats for support for his position. This measure of Hoover's not only reduces the wages of these workers, but also is a speed-up measure for all federal employees. With the help of the A. F. of L. officials, Hoover is carrying through a double attack upon this body of workers. The A. F. of L. officialdom, with their higher wage theories and shorter work day, are thus performing their special task in-the division of labor which they have with the Hoover government in carrying through the offensive against the working class. The “progressives” in Congress, who also pose as “friends of labor,” are likewise doing their work in the interests of big capital. In the de- bate around the question of the wage-cut for the federal employees, these “progressives” come forward with an apparent compromise of a two weeks’ furlough and thus subscribe to the plan to balance the budget at the expense of the workers. While putting up a sham opposition they will in the end, as they did in the sales tax question in essence, adopt the position of the administration. Their opposition in this case only amounts to putting a “progressive” stamp on the policy of Wall Street at the same time as they attempt by their sham opposition to stem any real struggle against the capitalist offensive. The fight against the capitalist class cannot be effective unless a resolute struggle is made against the A. F. ‘of L. bureaucrats and the progressives, against those who are posing as ispokesmen and friends of the workers, but who are in reality their worst ‘and most dangerous enemies, + Whom the Capitalists Protect K HIS great ‘speeches in the early days of the socialist movement, * Bugene V. Debs would often say with the greatest severity that if ever the day arrived that he was praised by the capitalist class, he would ‘chingly inquire into what is wrong with him that he should deserve friendly words from the exploiters. This was the spirit of an uncompro- paising revolutionist, the spirit of an inveterate enemy of the capitalist system, Today the Socialist Party has come into favor with the capitalists. ‘They are being built up as reserve for the capitalist class to fall back upon when the two open capitalist parties no longer are able to hold the support of the masses. Even such an outright counter-revolutionist as Hamilton Fish could praise Norman Thomas, and the Socialist Party Ws a party of law and order., It is not surprising therefore that we find jhe reactionary Congressman Stafford saying in Congress in the Dies ill debate, which is aimed at persecutiop of the foreign-born workers, Yhat “the would not like to see a law passed that would give the right to “«nigration officials to deport soc jlists.” ‘The master eclaes knows its flunkies—the Socialist Party leaders. } r a ad 7 | “WE'LL STAY HERE *TILL 1945 IF NECESSARY”— pare the Youth jor War By J. ADAMS. 'HIS SUMMER the Us S. War Department is | again preparing to train more than 50,000 young workers to be used as cannon fodder in the coming imperialist wer. In more than 50 Citizens Military Training Camps, these young workers are going to be given the basic and ad- vanced training necessary to make soldiers out of them, These young workers, many of them unem- ployed, have\ been fooled into coming to the C. M. T. C. by vivid promises of a month’s vacation at no cost to them. In the lying propaganda of the U. S. War Department, the C. M. T. C. has been. pictured as the ideal place for young work- ers to spénd their vacation, as the place where sports activities predominate, where everyone can have a good time, and where the military pro- gram is limited to, “a few hours of drill and Citizenship Training.” What is the C. M. T. C.? Let us see what. this really means. From the very first moment that the young workers enter camp he begins to be imbued with the spirit | of militarism and patriotism. The entire pro- gram of the thirty days of camp is so arranged that the. young worker gets a thorough and sys- tematic grounding in the elements of soldiering. Throughout the camp period he is being accus- tomed to army, life, to living in a tent, to army food, to respond unquestioningly to the orders of officers, At the same time the young worker is drilled in maneuvers and combat tactics, he is taught first-aid, and he learns how to shoot with rifle, automatic, machine gun, howitzer, and trench mortar. Thus, at the end of this summer's C. M. T. C. there will be another 50,000 young workers already trained, to be used immediately for the bosses’ war. ‘We see therefore that the purpose of the Citi- zens Military Training Camps is far from being @ vacation resort for young workers. Instead it is one of the agencies of the capitalist gov- ernment of the U. S. for militarizing the youth, for preparing hundreds of thousands of young workers to be immediately ready and trained to be sent to the front line and slaughtered to | defend the interests of capitalism. Supporters of the C. M. T. C. The C. M. T. C. is actively supported and en- dorsed by some of the biggest companies and bosses in the country. hey realize that it is in their interest that these camps are being run. Some of these companies, like the Western Elec- tric, the Edison, and the Lackawanna R. R. lad the way in inducing young workers to go to the c. M. T. C. by giving them a month's vacation (only two weeks of which is with pay). Many other big bosses allow their workers to go to camp for a month, without any pay. Anti-Workingclass Propaganda. In return, the War Department promises these bosses that the employees they send to the C. M. T. C. will come back much more willing and docile than they were. This is accomplished by @ program-of consistent anti-workingclass and, especially, anti-Communist propaganda. Every day the young workers in camp are sub- jected to’an hour’s so-called “citizenship” lec- ture where the worst lies about the Communist movement, the Soviet Union, the trade unions, strikes, and the workingclass in general, are handed out. The main theme of this propa- ganda is, “to beware of the reds”, and “only by co-operating with the boss can the worker be benefited.” It is no wonder that the bosses support and endorse the C. M. T. C. when such anti-working- class propaganda is instilled into the minds of the young workers. The Duty of Young Workers. Despite the fact that the C. M. T. C, is openly run for the benefit of the capitalist class, the Young Communist League takes an active part in fighting this anti-workingclass propaganda in the camps, The Young Communist League calls on all. young workers who go to the C. M. T. C. to realize that they are part of the work- ingclass and that they must fight on the side of the workers against their bosses. It calls on the young workers to refute the lies of the cap= italist. government’s*lying War Department. The Young Communist League calls on the young workers in the C. M, T. C. to organize, The following article gives a detailed pic- ture of the conditions of the workers, em- ployed and unemployed, in Knoxville, Tenn, They show also the part played by the vari- ous enemies of the workers. Actual starva- tion is shown to exist among great numbers of workers and the beggarly wages paid to those still employed show that the employers have taken full advantage of the overstocked labor market. around which struggles are taking place are shown to be those arising directly out of the drive against their present pauper standard of living. The Daily Worker will welcome more detailed studies of workers’ conditions in this the third year of the crisis in other typical industrial centers—North and South. Ed. Note. Le tad By H.'s, Part 1 Knez , Tennessee, has a population of a little over 100,000. Qne-fourth of this number are starving. And they are starving fast. They are the unemployed workers, their wives and their children. Fifteen hundred families have just been cut off from all relief. All unmarried men and women are cut off en- tirely. All couples without children are cut off. No new “cases” will be taken on. The City Council, the Associated Charities and the press admit 3,000 unemployed families— or about 15,000 persons. Twenty-five thousand would be more like it. For these 25,000 starving men, women and children, a total of $7,000 has just been appropriated by the City Council. Admit Starvation Rations. This $7,000 will have to last until next Janu- ery, Councilman Cochrum admitting “The city has no chance of getting any more money to aid the unemployed until January.” According to the press: “The Associated Charities will have to find some means of raising money or close its doors late in June.” The Council members admit that the present starvation rations of the jobless hungry has been costing $3,000 a week, Councilman Karns being forced to admit: “The unemployed are already living on half rations.” On their own estimates, the $7,000 will last only two weeks. Councilman Blane cynically and cold-bloodedly states: “If we can feed the people only two weeks longer we might as well let them die now and not prolong the agony.” The only ones to get “relif” at all are men with large families, Those with 5 or 6 to sup- port get one day’s work every two weeks; those with over 6 in the family, get one day's work out of every ten days. The men work 8 and 10 hours a day, sometimes in ditches 15 fe2t deep, full of water, doing work for the city. Some of this work consists in pulling plows, like mules, on the city farm. For this city work. they get not cash, but groceries, from the Associated Charities. Gyping On Groceries. The workers would like to know what became | of the $120,000 raised for the Asociated Chari- ties for relief, last fall, and why, when they work for the city, they don’t get paid by the city in cash, ‘ The groceries, which are generally short- weighted, given for a day’s work, are supposed to be worth $2; actually, they are worth $1 to $1.25, as several private and chain store grocers have stated to individuals and in the press. So families of 10 are trying to keep alive on $1 worth of groceries every 10 days; ‘or 10 cents a day for 10 people, or 1 cent a day per person. to join the League, to fight ageinst, the boszes, The Young Communist League calls on. the young workers in the C. M. T. C. to. organize, to join the League, to fight against the bosses, The Young Communist League tells these young workers to learn whatever is to be learned in the C, M. T. C. and to use that knowledge not in a capitalist war against the Soviet Union, but in the workers’ struggle against the capital- ist cla The demands of the workers | General Waters How the Bosses Pree THE STRUGGLE AGAINST STARVATION IN KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE And if a woman is sick, of a child dying, they are forced to eat the canned salmon or rotten | potatoes given them by the Associated Chari- ties, . $6 Per Month. Besides the “unemployed,” the A. C. also lists the “unemployable.” These . families, according to Louisé Bignall, head of the Associated Chari- ties, “are given_an average of $6 per mont The ‘hospitals are-full of workers dying of star- yation, Mothers taking their ailing infants to Clinics are told: “Your baby is starving.” 50 Per Cent More Jobless—Less Relief. The other “relief” agency in Knoxville is the Red Cross. Today's paper states “234 men and women all day yesterday trudged to the Red Cross offices, only to be told there was no flour left for them.” The papers also state that “many churches are disbanding their agencies for aid- ing the jobless.” All relief from all sources is being drastically slashed while the starving army of the unemployed grows daily. The Associated Charities head admits that there are 50 per cent. more unemployed this year than at this same time last year, and more this month than ‘last. When unemployed workers can’t pay their rent for their miserable shacks, the landlords either throw them out or don’t pay the water bill. The water is turned off and.the workers are forced to move. In many instances, when the workers have no place to go, or can’t raise money to move, their health and that of their neighbors is en- dangered by the foul air, Huge Official Salaries, The unemployed workers of Knoxville are starving. While they are growing more emaci- ated, thinner and weaker, the bellies and purses of the City Fathers and government grafters are growing heavier. Court clerks get $6,000 a year; Judges get $5,000; tax collectors make $5,000. The Sheriff gets $7,500 a year. Magistrates gst a rake-off of thousands of dol- lars in graft by persuading defendants to “sub- mit and pay the costs.” Wages of all workers, however, are being slashed. While the County Highway Commission super- intendent pulls down his $5,000 a year, “as a closed session of the Commission, it was decided to cut wages of the employees to effect a saving.” Laborers get a double cut as they are forced to work 10 hours instead of 8, Other city employees are not exempt. “Most of the $1,500 reduction in the Safety Dept.,” says Councilman Joe Vasey, “will be borne by the firemen.” Wage Cuts for Underpaia Workers. Since April 15 all city employees have been Setting half pay. A 25 per cent cut of salaries of all teachers is announced. Teachers now: in many scheo!s have to pay for janitor seryice out of their wages. Negro teachers get only $900 a year wages in elementary and $1,212.50 in high seheels. White teachers, who are also greatly underpaid, but who have fewer children in'their rooms, and. generally ‘an easier job, get $1,197.50 a year for elementary, atid $1,631.58 for ‘high scheol. . Employees and faculty of the University , of Tennessee have just got a $5 cut, the second * in a short period. Not Less Than 15 Cents Per Hour. But the greatest burden of the crisis is put on the backs of the unskilled and semi-skilled work- ers, A 50 per cent cut was put over at the Ap- palachian Mills, a corporation worth ‘nearly $2,000,000, slashing wages down to 80 and 90 cents a day. Workers at the Brookside Mill recently got a 10 per cent cut—a mill listed as carrying insurance of $5,500,000. Workers of the Knox- ville Trunk and Manufacturing Co. are being paid in trunks, instead of wages. At a recent meeting of contractors it was decided “to pay Jabor not Icss than 15 cents 22 hour.” Sell the workers our pamph'et, “Unemp'oy- REPUBLICAN PARTY’S WORDS AND DEEDS Masses Will Force Bosses to Feed Hungry By B. K. GEBERT 'HE Republican Party National Convention, just ended in Chi- cago, is characterized by one of the capitalist writers in the following way: “... and not a word to indi- cate an appreciation of the fact that at THIS HOUR TEN MIL- LION BREAD WINNERS OF THE NATION ARE WALKING THE STREETS WHILE THEIR DEPENDENTS SUFFER.” This capitalist writer did not dis- cover. America in making this | Siatement. The Republican Party's | concern was to add new burdens on | the toiling masses of the nation. In the words of the kesnote speech of the convention by Senator L. J. Dickinson of Iowa: | “President Hoover is concerned | with HOW to maintais social or- der.” Indeed, this is the main and only concern of the Republican Party— to maintain the social order of ex- Ploitation, hunget and war—to maintain capitalism and it would be wrong to think that the Repub- lican Party could even concern it- self for a moment about the needs of the toiling masses of the nation. Nevertheless, the Republican Party demagogically attempts to fool the masses that itis concerned about them. In Kansas City in 1928, in which the “great engineer,” Hoo- ver, was nominated, the platform | declared: | “The Republican Party pledges | itself. to continue its effort to maintain this present manner of living and high wage scale.” It rep- resented this platform of 1928 in the platform of 1932: “We believe in the principle of h’gh wages.” But what are the facts in the matter? The wages of the workers | of the United States have been cut 50 per cent in the last two and one-half years. According to the figures of a capitalist statistician, published in “Business Wee's,” it is shown that wages of the workers in this country have declined 49.31 per-cent. There are 15,000,000 un- employed and the National plat- form of 1932 definitely declares against any relief whatsoever for the unemployed. “The Republican Party en- dorses this record and*policy and is opposed to the federal govern- ment going directly into the field of private chari'y and dircot rélief to the individuals.” The platform carries the policy of the Hoover and Wall Street gov- ernment. No relief of any kind to unemployed, and, above all, no un- employment and social insurance at the expense of the bosses and gov- ernment. It officially declares that the unemployed toiling masses ar2 to starve to death. 50 85% The Negro Question. 'HE Republican national plat- form of 1928 promises the Negro masses the following: “We renew our recommenda- tion that Congress enact, at the earliest pessible date, a federal anti-lynching law so the full in- fluence of the federal govern- ment may be welded to extermin- ate this hideous crime.” And what are the facts? In the year of 1931, 79 Negroe workers and poor farmers have been lynched and not a single lyncher was con- victed. The lynching of the Ne- groes has become a national sport of the “lily whites.” In the 1932 | platform, the Republicans went | even further. They prociaim the following: “Our Party stands and pledves to maintain equal opportunity and rights for the Negro citizens.” And, in line with this policy, the Republican Negro delegation from | South Carolina was unseated, and in line with this policy, Negro dele- gates were segregated and Jim- Crowed. They were put in the | ‘Vincennes Hotel, at Vincennes and | 22nd Sts., in the Chicago black belt, ‘The Communist Party orvanized a demonstration ageinst this Jim- Crowing of the Negro delegatzs. The demonstration was led by a | Stockyards Negro worker, McDon- ald, Communist Party candidat for Governor of the state of Illi- nois, and Comrade Poindexter, an- other Communist Party candidate for Congressman in the Second Congressional District. So, further quoting the platform of the Republican Party on the Negro question, it says: “We do not propose to depart from the tradition nor to altsr the ‘spirit of that pledge.” ‘The pledge of the Sepublican Party 1s to maintain the system of lynchings of Negro masses and put- ting up on2 or two Negro politi- cians to second the nomination of Hoover for President will not. change the situation. The Negro masses are aware of their Repub- lican “friends.” ‘Ths + the farmers, in tie platform of ment Relief and Social Insurance,’ in our May First campaign to mobilize them fer our pro- grem. Two cent pamphiet, “Poverty Midst Riches—Why?”"—a issued by the National will convince ‘any worker gle, Five. cent pasiyniok yee ‘Cannel nemployed cils, it his path | is strug- 1928, the Republicans state: “The Republican Party p!edzes itself to development and enact- ment of measures which will place the agricultural interests of Amer- jea on the basis of economic | iezn veterans in Wash! jatiacked a equality with other industries to cess. And the farmers do have Hoover! | “prosperity,” just as much as the) industrial workers in the cities.’ Hundreds of thousands lost thei. farms to the mortgage bankers, They are driven away from the farms, their farms being sold for unpaid taxes. Misery and starvae, tion prevails among the farmers as! much, if not more, as among ane industrial wankers: War a “Rights.” | © the ex-servicemen, the Repube lican Party answered very defo initely: “No bonus.” It is satisfied in the platform with general phrases praising “Those who have faiths fully served their flag.” ‘The Republican Party platform | of 1932 at the same time very def- initely states its objective: feverish war preparations. It declares: “Armaments are relative and therefore flexible and subject. to change as necessity demands. We believe that in time of war every material resouree in tne nation should bear its preper- tionate share of the burdens oc- casioned by the public emergency and that it is the DUTY OF THE GOVERNMENT TO PERFECT PLANS IN TIME OF PEACE WHEREBY ITS OBJECTIVE MAY BE ATTAINED IN WAR.” ‘The platform also speaks of that “freedom of speech, press and as- semblage are fundamental prin- ciples on which our government rests. Thes2 vital principles should be preserved and protected.” ¥ The workers of Chicago, Detroit, Pennsylvania, Ohio, California, Kentucky and everywhere know how much freedom they have of assemblage and speech. Theve is freedom of speech and ¢gsembleg> for parasites. There is freedom | for the working class. These are some of the points in the 1932 platform of the Repub- lican Party and recollcciiens ef the platform of 1928. Demagogie words ot the Republican Party cannos and will not overshadow their desds. The deeds of the Repub- lican Party are against the toiling masses, workers, Negroes and poor | farmers. ef The Republican Party standard- bearer, Herbert Hoover, was nom- inated by J. L. Scott of Les An- geles, a fellow, who, using the words of a capitalist writer, is “a brilliant lawyer and hes been highly honored by the Pope. He is a Knight Commander of St. Gregory,” who ended his speech with the following statement: “And I give you as your candi- date our great, glorious Califor- nian, Herbert Hoover.” Herbert Hoover and the Repub- lican Party represent’ hunger and war against the toiling masses of this country, the colonial masses of Latin America, China and against the workers’ fatherland, the Sovict Union. aii-gar eae Rally to Communist Platform. 'O conclude the characterization of the Republican Party Con- vention, one cannot end it without quoting some remarks of the capi- talist papers as to the convention itself. The Chicago Tribuné says that. only one-fifth of the seats of the Chicago Stadium, which seats 25,000 was occupied when the con- vention opened. “Another capitalist writer speaks as follows: “The convention of the great historic party was opened with numerous patches of vacant seats in the hall and utter absence of any spontaneous enthusiasm welling up from hearts cast down,” Floyd Gibbons of the Chicago American writes: “There was neither food nor words for the hun- gry of America in its proceed'ngs | at the National Convention of the | Republican Party.” And he is wor- ried that “Suppose Moscow tomor- row broadcast to the world the in- — tention er the effort of the Soviet Union to send food supplies and general relief to the starving Amer. ce There is no need for t! age Union to send food supplies to thé starving, toiling masses of the U.S, We have more food than we can use in this country. The masses | this country, under the le if of the Communist Party will force’ the bosses to feed the hungry, be-. cause they will rally around» platform of the Communist and its six planks and above all, for. unemployment and social insurat at the expense of the bosses government. And the : power of the working class can open. the warehouses and a huge the Communist Party for Foster and Ford, will be against capitalism and for food for the hungry masses, pacabesilbe ME Os. ERECT BARRICADES IN ZURICH PARIS, June 20—One was end. fifty wounded when the police ~ rally of unemployed workers end arrested fifty of them, a special dispatch from Zurich, Switzerland states. ee The workers defended ‘themselves and fought the police, Barieades were erected in several parts of Zurich, The unemployed — hie raided several food shana. the - patch says, en Ne