The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 30, 1932, Page 4

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1932 > Daily, 2Worker’ Central Party a 35 Published by the Comprodally Publishing Co., Inc., daily excxept Sunday. at 50 E. 13th St., New York City, N. Y. Telephone ALgonquin 4-7056, Cable “DAIWORK. Address and mail checks to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St, New York, N. ¥. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. six months, $4.50. two months, $1; exeepting Foreign: one year, $8; Tke Democrats ‘Explain’ It All! HE speech of Senator Walsh at the Democratic Convention is a mix- ture of impudence, demagogy and admission of the complete bank- ruptey of the capitalist system. Admitting the bankruptcy of the capitalist system ‘and warning of revolution, Walsh attempts to deceive the masses anew. He wants the toiling masses to believe that their frightful suffering comes from the fact one party of capitalism and not another is in power, that with a ocratic administration everything would be rosy, starvation and lation of wealth and its concentra- k of the $87,000,000,000 of ” He has already an- wealth is concentrated toilers to believe that this gi- fact that the Republican wing of cap- cover up the fact that the Demo- supported the tariff rob- consumption, and helped jeliberately designed to throw the full the American workers and poor bution of the amazing accu hands.” He Amer dist swe! in a few hand gant 3 italism is in cont crats are also in co: bery, and the new taxes on necessit put through speed up schemes— mh burdens of the c: on the backs of farmers. i Walsh speaks of “destitution in appalling magnitude,” of the “univer- sal bankruptcy” of capitalism which “in the view of many, impends.” He admits that in the face of appalling destitution the stores and ware® jhouses are glutted with “the essential elements of food and clothing.” But what have the Democrats done to change these conditions? v In India, there is a class of fakirs who profit by the exposure of their wounds. The capitalist politicians of the Democratis Party are now try- ing to exploit for their own benefit the wounds of capitalism. At one time they boasted of their t “capitalist prosperity”’—a presperity in which the toiling masses never shared. They tried to show that workers were traveling over the country in automobiles. They boasted that cap- italism provided one auto to every five workers Today they conveniently forget all these lies. In India fakirs are known as such. This group call themselves states- men. The higher the civilization the more rotten the hypocrisy and the baseness of the system What art the facts? The capitalists have been accumulating huge fortunes at the expense of the growing misery and impoverishment of the workers and poor farmers. The American Government, whether in the hands of the Republicans or the Democrats, have not only protected but promoted this gigantic exploitation and robbery of the toiling masses. It js this accumulation of great fortunes by the few while condemning the ever greater masses to a state of wage slavery with, unprecedented poverty that dooms the capitalist system. Indeed, Walsh is correct when he <+-tes that “out of such conditions, as history teaches, revolutionary move- ments arise and flourish.” And, indeed, the American proletariat is learn- ing this lesson. ? It will be the fashion in this election campaign to talk “radical” in the further effort to deceive the masses and as a cover for more brutal deeds. That will be done by the Democrats, the Republicans, and es- pecially by the Socialists. But the times call for action and Commun- ists must give the lead in the election campaign. The platform planks of the Communist Party are not election promises, but a call for action, a.call for the working class way out of the crisis through revolutionary action as against the capitalist way out by further piling the burdens of the crisis on the backs of the masses. The Dawes Grab Tt” $80,000,000 grab by General Dawes from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to save his bank shows to what length the capitalists are going in order to hold their system together. Dawes was until recently head of the corporation and resigned so as to get this huge fund with- out arousing condemnation. Dawes and the big bankers, like the insur- ance and railroad magnates, are carrying through cold blooded raids on the public treasury. More than a billion dollars has already been given them in subsidies and Mr. Hoover promises further billions. Never was the domination of the government by big capital as clear as today. American capitalism in its youthful days gobbled up the natural re- sources of the country and plundered the government treasury with im- punity. The fathers and forefathers of the present generation of cap- ftalist lords could not have built up their huge fortunes without fraud and outright robbery. Present day capitalism writhing in the deadly grips of the economic crisis are engaging in even larger theft. These events show the foulness and degeneracy of the capitalist system, a sys- tem doomed to destruction. ‘The Finance Corporation is not assisting the small banks in which are found the few pennies of the workers and toiling masses. Thesé are daily going to the wall. Nothwithstanding the heroic measures of Hoover, however, the crisis is spreading and financial panic is growing, engulfing even those “rocks of Gibraltar” of which American capitalism felt so proud. The world is wreaking havoc with the capitalist system. ‘The Hoover government is salvaging the bankrupt capitalist firms at the expense of the great masses of workers.. The workers will pay for these’ raids by increased taxes, higher tariffs, increasing living costs through inflation and by still further wage cuts. At the same time while billions go to the bankers, the unemployed are left penniless and starving. ‘The slogan of the Hoover government and its republican and democratic supporters is “Billions to the bankers and not a cent to the unemployed.” The situation demands that this slogan be reversed. “Not a cent to the vankers, immediate relief and unemployment insurance to the jobless’— his must be the cry of the working class to the arrogant and plunderous Vall Street government. The Greens and Wolls of the A. F. of L. and the. Socialists will at- xmpt to make demagogic capital out of these steals. It has become the thion with them to “wail and threaten” that if these conditions con- aue, frightful things will happen. But these people are only playing th words in order to prevent real deeds of struggle against this plunder. ‘The workers can place no faith in these reactionary tools. They must wtganize their strength and form a united front to put an end to the ” subsidies to the bankers and demand immediate relief and insurance. Not @ cent to the bankers, all funds to the hungry and starving! written on - the banner of working class united front struggle. fi He wants the de: I to the i 5 Letters from Our Readers — a New York. 4 Comrades: unit met in a house near Sec- ond Ave. There has been a great deal of “talk” of less inner meetings and fore mass work—also in view of tiem concentration due to election, neetings to take place without the and participation of Com~- one or two comrades from my unit | there, despite the fact that it took place a few buildings away from this meeting. At any rate we certainly convinced the workers there that Communists are militant in exposing the fake misleaders. And while the Socialist was speaking I walked amidst the crowd collecting money in the box for the Communist Party Election Campaign, and this met with good response, At the end of the meeting the So- cialists were mad, we had obviously spoiled their meeting. I heard some of them talking, “All right, we know them, Next week we will come much better prepared and we will certainly give it to them!” ‘This means that some sympathizers passing next Tuesday may get the worst of it, while we Bolsheviks are of the foreign accents i came detained at 2 meeting, ete. I noticed only —Worker. n my unit that a Socialist ting would take place on the cor- er and that we ought to finish our nts very quickly and leave meeting. This was merely ‘g@ cynical retort from a mem- e Unit Buro “yes, go and ask Despite my appeal the 80,000,000 BONES FROM ¥ ¢ a eee 1 y Na Yo NOTE FOR FUTURE HISTORL! Reconstruction Finance Corp. June 6, commenting on funds” available. nt —Dawes resigns as head of “inadequate On June 27, he saves his own bank in Chicago by GOV’T CUPBOARD! ~~ Hell-n-maria Py V resi a! By BURCK” obtaining $80,000,000 from the federal finance corporation through a “loan” undoubtedly previously arranged for. The Miners Are on the March Again By TOM JOHNSON IGHTEEN hundred sriking min- ers are fighting with their backs to the wall in Eastern Ohio. ‘Thou- sands moré in the Hocking Valley and Cambridge sections are on strike with them. They have been out since March in answer to a general wage cut of 25 per cent. ‘The strike developed under Uni- ted Mine Workers of America lead- ership. But now, after almost 3 months of bitter struggle, the po- licy of the National Miners Union in Ohio is bearing fruit. The min- ets afé generally repudiating the treacherous leadership of the U. M. W. A. Hundreds of them are joining the National Miners Union. Six new locals have been organized in the past couple of weeks. And while hundreds at present are ac- tually joining the N. M. U., thou- sands more are voting to continue the struggle under the general leadership and guidance of our re- volutionary union. Through a cor- rect application of the united front tactic the strike in the Amstradam and the important’Lafferty section is almost entirely under our guid- ance. Rank and File United Front Strike Committee are ‘rapidly tak- ing the leadership out of the hands of the U. M. W. A. scab-herding officials, Fight Wage Cut. In West Virginia over 3,000 half- starved serfs of the great Consoli- dation Coal Corporation have downed their tools last week in pro- test against a wage cut which brought the tonnage rate to the Labor Spies in Textile Mills EPORTS from Greenville, S. C., says the Labor Research Asso- ciation, reveal the Pacific Mills hiring operatives of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, one of the leading labor spy agencies of the country. The Pacific Mills is one of the outstanding company union advocates in the textile in- dustry. Apparently it feels that the Pinkerton rats, at $15 a day, are necessary to supplement other items on its “personnel relations” program. Pinkerton stool-pigeons have also been found operating in recent months in the plants of the Dun- ean Mills, Greenville; Lowe Mfg. Co., Huntsville, Ala.; Anchor Duck Mills, Rome, Ga.; Langley Mills, Langley, S. C.; American Bemberg Corp, and American Glanzstoff Corp., Elizabethton, Tenn.; Atlanta Woolen Mills, Atlanta, Ga.; West Boylston Mfg. Co, Montgomery, Ala., and Peerless Woolen Mills, Rossville, Ga. For a list of com- panies in the textile and other fields which have used labor spies in recent years see Spying on La- bor, No. 17 in the International Pamphlet series. The corruption of the capitalist parties and their alliance with the underworld is driving the workers to seek other channels of political expression than these old parties. “Graft and Gang%ters,” by Harry Gannes, 10 cents, exposes the en- tire filthy picture, and shows the workers the only way out—by fol- lowing the leadership of the only working-class Party, the Commun- iat Party, oh 5 Fw. Rank and File Strike Committees Take Over Leadership level of the famous “out -scab the scabs” scale of the U. M. W. A. in West Virginia, 2242 cents a ton. Here too the National Miners Un- ion is fighting tooth and nail to unite the ranks of the strikers so- lidly against the coal operators and their agents, the U. M. W. A. lead~ ers, in the fight against starvation. In Western Pennsylvania the Na- tional Miners Union is leading the Walnut Hill and Fancy Hill strikes with every prospect of an. early victory in this latest strike agaist @ wage cut. The fighting spirit of the Ter- minal miners will be further de- monstrated when they strike July ist against the will of théir Offi- cials and under the leadership of the National Miners Union. Strike Area Grows. The growing militancy of thé locked out Illinois miners in the struggle against both the operat- ors and the U. M. W. A. misleaders completes the picture—Mass strikes in almost every important mining field in America. The National Miners Union leading many of these struggles is daily winning more influence over the strikers, daily Training of Rank and File Members for.Leadership By A, MARKOFF. ‘HE CENTRAL COMMMITTEE of our Party has taken seri- ously the problem of broadening the leadership of our Party and the Revolutionary unions. The draw- ing in of more workers from the shops and factories into leading committees of the Party and revo- lutionary unions does not mean the mere placing their names on the committees. These members must be trained in the practical and theoretical work in order to develop them into actual leaders of the movement. It is with that aim in view that the Central Committee adopted a plan for a series of training schools to be conducted in various parts of the country. Of this series the Central Training School conducted. at the present time in N. Y. is the third in the line, since the begin- ning of 1932. The Midwestern Regional School held in Detroit during December 1931 and January 1932, gave posi- tive results. Many of the students ate now serving in the capacity of section organizers either for the Party or the unions. The Miners and Metal Workers School, H beri SECOND full time training school, since the beginning of the year was the school held in Pittsburgh from May 9th to June 12th. Of the 31 students at least 23 were coal miners, one ‘metal miner and four metal workers. There were eight miners from Ken- tucky coming directly from tre field of recent struggles, Most of them were of the native American element with a good percep.age of Negro workers; the a*sthracite, Western and Central Peansylvania. West Virigina and Odo were well represented. The average age was much below thirty. ‘The Pittsburgh school . demon- strated beyond doubt that the Par- ty is able to lay the basis for a good revolutionary Communist training in a short period of four to five weeks, The political level of the comrades when they came to school was quite low. Many of them had been in the Party a very short time, A real change took place during the few weeks of school. The comrades received an elementary grounding in the theory and practice of Leninism, ‘ Having been with the students at the opening of the school and the last week of the school we were in @ position to register the degree of development of the students. The degree of political develop- ment of the comrades was shown not only in their ability to discuss problem: intelligently, but also in the fact that many of them have learned the meaning of bolshevism, have succeeded in overcoming many weaknesses, were able to re- act to Party discipline in a consci- ous bolshevik manner. The com- rades also demonstrated an en- thusiasm, eagerness to work which comes usually from a clear under- standing of the movement and its problems, ‘The success of the school is due to a great extent to the close guid- ance given by the Central Com- mittee of the Party, to the fact that a comrade was placed there by the Central Committee to be fully in charge of the school. This school as well as the other full time train- ing schools of the Party proved that it is essential to have a com- rade entirely in charge of the school, Curriculum, CURRICULUM of the Pitts- burg school consisted of two main subjects, namely: Principles of the Class Struggle and Trade Union Strategy and Tactics, " In addition special lectures on the Negro question, youth, Revo- lutionary Parliamentarism, Social- ist Construction in the Soviet Union, etc. were given. This school was conducted on a plan similar to the one used in the National Train- ing School of 1931, and the Detroit school, Two conferences and two study group periods per day with time for meals, rest, recreation, ete. A more detailed descripition of the program will be given in Article. ‘The importance of the Miners and Metal Workets School lies in the very aim of the school. The aim was to train leading cadres for the National Miners Union and the Metal Workers League. The N. M. U. and the M. W. L, should have been the very backbone of the school, Both of the organi- zations however failed in this task. In the Trade Union course where the greatest emphasis was to be daid on the recent struggles of the ee another uniting more of them around its program of mass struggle. And yet the Red organizations of: the America’. working class seem wholly asleep to this situation. The Workers International Re- lief. is, I understand, conducting @ national campaign for the Ohio- West Vitginia-Pennsylvania -strik- ers. Today a: total of not over $100 has gone into’ Ohio. Not a penny’s worth of relief has gone into West Virginia’ and Pennsyl- vania. __ Comrades, workers, this must be changed!" Miners, tens of thou- sands of them, are fighting and fighting like hell, many of,them under revolutionary _ leadership. They are living on stale bread and black coffee. They are cooking up grass in a desperate effort to keep alive and keep striking.. We must help! All of us. Rush funds and food to the workers International Relief, Room 414, 611 Penn Ave. Pittsburgh, Pa. miners, the guidance of the lead- ing members of the N. M. U. was lacking. This ,is unpardonable. The guidance of the trade union course should have been consider- ed one fo the most important tasks of the N.M.U. Instead the N.M. U, as well as the M.W.L. took a passive attitude towards the school. We must register this as a short- coming and in our opinion due to an underestimation of theoretical training of workers for the revo- lutionary movement, and the train- ing of cadres, Further Development, 'E TRAINING of workers does not end with the completion of a training course. The school can give them a basis for further dev- elopment; the further development must tare place in the practical work under the guidance of a lead- ing comrade. It depends also whether the comrade is placed in @ position commensurable with his or her abilities. Many of our com- rades when placed in difficult situ- ation without guidance become dis- couraged and, as already hap- pened, we lose the comrade from the Party. The assignment of comrades for work must be con- sidered very careful. It is at all times advisable to place a comrade who completed a course, as an as- sistant toa leading comrade, at least for a while, Due to the scarcity of forces in our ranks we are often compélled to place com- rades immediately in responsible posts. In such cases constant guidance is essential. d ‘The Central Training School. Central Training School of the Party which opened June 20th is to last six weeks. Although originally scheduled, for twenty- five to thirty students, the number is forty-one. It is too early at this time to make an analysis and eva- luation of the school, but judging from the composition of the stu- dent ‘body and the plans prepared for the.schoo}, work, we can.predict a sueeessfil termination” of the | course which will give positive re- sults to our movement. ‘This impoftant work of the Cen- tral Committee of the Party should be made known to a!l the members of the Party, The districts in turn MASTER ARE IN WOLVES A TRAP Capitalists Smash Machines to Avoid the Upkeep By M. ROSENTHAL THIN the last few weeks there have been occurrences in Massachusetts which are utterly unprecedented in the history of the capitalist regime. We have heard of groups of workers destroy- ing machines and even whole fac- tories in the years when the indus- trial revolution was taking place in America and England—destroying them because they at onc realized what would happen to them when the machine took the place of the hand and one worker could do what ten had done before. We have heard of angry workers sab- otaging mill and shop machinery in order to carry out and win strikes. But never before have we heard of employers destroying themselves to save themselves—smashing their own machinery so as to keep them- selves from greater losses. Machines Stood Idle. IN the mills of New Bedford, of Bristol, of Lawrence, hundreds of machines stood idle while workers died from exposure in the streets. Perhaps it may be thought that these mills were not an expense to the owners, that they were merely “frozen assets.” But, in reality, there was a high cost of upkeep in these buildings. “The “poor, starving employers,” who formerly had made 50 per cent profit on their stock and were now only making 20 per cent, besides being terribly irritated and perhaps the least bit scareq by frequent strikes of audacious workers who actually dared to try to tell the boss what sort of wage he was to give, were forced to pay high taxes, insurance and rent for these factories which were to them useless. Under these conditions what did the owners do? Did they say to the workers, “Here, workers, are textile mills that aren’t running. In our ware- houses are bolts upon bolts, and yards upon yards of cloth which will never, so far as we can see, be of use again. You are shivering— take the cloth. You are jobless— go into the mills and work. Once you have used up all that over- produced supply in the warehouses, you will be able to get a normal wage again, and everything will be O.K.?” Why didn’t the bosses say that, since the workers had time and again demanded in demon- strations that this be done. But thé employers knew that this ¢loth represented to the mprofit; And al- though some of these emloyers had a suspicion that the time of profit-making would never co. again, they clutched at the ho, that this supply represented. Secretly Smashing Machines, 1O, instead of giving relief to t+ workers, the employers decia! that it would be cheaper to do away with the expensive but use~ Jess machinery altogether. A few workers, sent into the factories with sledge-hammers soon made short work of the business. Every day spindles and looms are being secretly smashed in the mills. In the Bristol Mills, 1,800 looms and 70,000 spindles; in the Pierce fac- tory, 3,400 spindles and 600 looms and in the Soule mill 1,900 spindles and ‘600 looms haye been smashed. When a wolf is caught in a trap it will chew off its foot in order to get free and limp away on three legs; but now it will do the master= wolves no good to try this trick They are caught by all four fee’ and around the head, too. Pe haps they will make some little murmur about how they are doing this to give some unemployed workers a job—smashing up ma- chinery. But the workers will not be fooled any more. They cannot help but see that the capitalist is cutting out his own heart to save his money. Five Year Plans. the Soviet Union the first Five- Year Plan has just been com- _Pleted. By the end of another five years, altogether in ten years, the Soviets will have accomplished an industrial revolution which it took American capitalism 150 years to effect, and they will have done this without all those accompaniments of capitalism, wage-cuts, periodical depressions, dirt and slums, swel- tering East Sides in all big cities with their suicide and crime. But here in America we find a new type of Five-Year Plan begin- ning, a Five-Year Plan in reverse, a plan whereby machines are smashed instead of built, a plan of mental degeneration rather than of cultural development. This is the capitalist way out of the crisis. The more unemployed there are, the more can the boss intimidate his wage slaves by threats of firing them and giving the jobs to others, who will work at lower wages. This is the continuance of the old policy of wagecut and speed-up. This may be the boss way out of the crisis, but the workers know a bet- ter way—the way of struggle lead- ing to the overthrow of this de- caying system. Immediate Tasks in the Metal Mining By W. MORGAN WITH the closing of operations in practically all of the mining towns of Minnesota and Michigan the Communist Party and the Na- tional Miners’ Union find them- selves faced with a situation that requires immediate atention and action. The fact that the mine barons were able to put across a second wage-cut and mass lay-offs within a period of eight menths without any serious struggle «° the miners taking place shows that the Party 2nd the N. M. U. had not carried on the proper preparatory work. Practically all of our work has been the making of decisions, put- ting the plan of wor, on paper. then keeping this a secret of a few leading comrades in a very sec- tarian and bureaucratic way. Only one of the Sub-Districts, Iron River, has carried on some activity during the second offensive of the bosses, but here also we can observe some organizational weakness. "Increase Jobless Activity. With thousands of unemployed miners and other workers in our district, the Party and the N.M.U. have some immediate tasks on hand. If we are to keep labor f: k- evs and political demagogs from winning these masses of -workers through their demagogy, we must increase our activity among the unemployed and part-time workers. The comrades in each locality must take the initiative in this work. Do not wait until the comrades from the District come around or we will lose some valuable time. ‘The Party and N.M.U, must im- mediately plan out the following tasks: 1, Prepare for and make an in- vestigation and registration of workers in all locations and neigh- borhoods. 2. Hold mass meetings in these territories, 3. Begin prep- arations for the United Front Con- District ference in each Sub-District. 4. Start to prepare Miners’ Hun ger Marches. Send in the dates and what help you will need, All meetings and investigation work must be utilized to obtain ore ganizational results—members for the Unemployed Councils, Purther- more, immediate relief, the endorse- ment of the Unemployment and Social Insurance Sill at the exe pense of the state and the employ- ers and other local demands must be presented to the local relief agents and county ocmmissioners by committees elected by the work- ers. Resolutions protesting against the Dies Bill and demanding the release of/the Scdttsboro boys, Tom Mooney, Edith Berkman and others that are being held for deportation because of their activities in behalf of the workers, should be pres2nied, Popularize Election Platform, In regards to the election cam- paign, we must utilize the sity and bring forth tne candida. t the Communist Party ‘n our every- day work. Also popularize the siz points of the national platform, Raise the slogan—Vote Communist in the fall elections! Collect sig natures to get the Communist Party on the ballot. Let's g0, comrades—take the ine itiative and you will be surprised at the results that will be obtained, Send in your reports on the active ity regularly. Unemployment and Social Insure ance is the central siogan of the Communist Party election cam- paign. Read a clear exposure of all the schemes of the capitalists and social demagogues to introde wee unen:sloyment insurence af | the expense of the workers thense selves in “Why Unempleyment In- surance” (3 conts), issued by the New York Rank and File A. F. of L. Committee for Unemployment Insurance. 7 July Issue of the “Communist” ‘This is a special anti-war issue and contains the following: 1. Concretize and Strengthen the Anti-War Struggle—Editorial. 2. Plece the Party on a War Foot- ing, by Earl Browder, 3. Contradictions Among the Im- perialists and Confiicts on the Pacific Coast, by N. Terenteyev. 4, Yankee Imperialist Intervention by V. I. Lenin. 6, Will Imperialist War Bring Back Prosperity? by Robert W. Dunn. 7. The Philippine Islands in the War Area, by William Simons. _ 8. The Revolutionary Example of the Japanese Toilers. A letter | from Tokio. 9, The Economic Crisis Grinds On by John, 10, The Struggle 111, Book. Berk