The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 19, 1932, Page 4

Daily. Me rker. Party U.S.A. 18th St., New York City, N. ¥. Telepho! Address and mail checks to the Daily Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co. Inc., daily exexept Sunday, at 50 E. ne ALgonquin 4-7956, Cable “DATWORK.” Worker, 50 E, 13th St., New York, N, ¥. six moi SUBSCRIPTION By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3: Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. RATES: two months, Foreign: one 3 nths, $4.50. In Full Cry With the Pack THIN two weeks we have seen leaders of both the Socialist and stone and Cannon renegades from in their vicious campaign to drive o With one voice these agents of i: ing class shriek that our Communis' a united front of the social-fascist Socialist Labor Parties and the Love- Commu m in aiding the capitalists ur Part: mperialism nks of the work- t Party is composed of hooligans and hoodlums who break up meetings of “working class’ opponents—meaning themselves. Here is the documentary evidence 1—Norman Thomas’ New Lead Tammany police to aid the Social who created outbursts of violence ordered by the Communist In its issue-of Sat The Socialist Labor Pa ernment, but the Communi: islation as the Dies It and associate the Comn the Comm is merely elap-trap —“Mr. @ letter a in the capi lying Soc to break Ben Gitlow, secrete to Ba 4.—Cannon’s publication, “The ed) joins ation that “the py at_meetings, but frequently of the Lov 1, but wh t only encor initiates and organizes tnem.” 2 er i f July 2 appeals to nized hoodlums” ematic campaign num in Moscow.” sheet calls Communists it and action.” nment should recognize s is not suprising, for eir to the old, pernicious anarchist nother issue the sheet refers to Communists as “provoc- tone renegade group, writes is intended for publication which he repeats the ad used hoodlum tactics ized Communists (mean- ” The New York Times of 16th aided Mr. Gitlow spread his slanders by printing the gist of his Militant” of July 16 (the same day the police provocation with the ac- s hooligan disruption of op- This counter-revolutionary journal concludes by the admonition to “put an end to hooliganism and street fighting between workers of different views.” Not I is the provocative the gutter terminol: I not waste wi x the same We s is é g br seven of the Ju ‘s’ meeting, which g) replying in detail to these slanders, not Communists who are breaking up meetings, but Communist meetings b up by police and their agents. 16th issue of the socialist “New Leader” there is a report th ne of the four groups quoted above identical. It is In a story on page jeefully States: Police cooperated with union officials {emphasis D. W.) in keeping out of the armory all persons, except bona-fide paid-up, members of the of police and thugs by is an every simultaneous attack from ccidental. The governmc<nt is and its Party e special role of the Socialist proves that they are <'l ade; the capitalist class. They know nds of tho, t in full ery w openly bet ve th cf workers tt pall upon the police to aid them. they day occurrence: lled by their proper names—police socialists, social-fascists. using violence on an unprecedented scale. the socialist bureaucrats against mill- And yet these people protest the social-fascists and renegades is making a concerted drive against the It Party and its comrades-in-arms, the to cover vp ord assist in this drive. pts at fulfilling their roles as agents how to respond instantly to the de- ‘When they perceive that the capitalist jackal pack h the demand to deprive the Party of the right to exist gin their campaign about hoodlums and hooligans. t our Communist election campaign is attracting masses stimulate fascist attacks against our street meetings and ‘When Such a barrage of les, coutheéd in identical language aims to help the capi ers, to raise doubts in their minds scparate the Party from the masses feel more secure in attacking us. alists in another way—that is by trying to confuse honest work- about the leadership of our Party, to so that the capitalist dictatorship can Such provocations from the camp of the Lovestone and Cannon ren- egades show to what depths these scoundrels have sunk in attacking Com- munism and are a measure of their apostacy. At the same time they be- foul the very name of Communism by posing as “non-recognized Commu- nists"—to use the supid terminoligy of Mr.Gitlow. The struggle for the defense of the rights of the workers must go forward with full strength. Such a struggle includes the unmasking of these labor lieutenants, these runing dogs of capitalism. “New Leader” and Scottsboro ask those workers who still exp: ress some faith in the Socialist Party: Does one help the nine innocent Scottsboro boys or their capitalist hangmen by making the criminal and unfounded charge that the Scotts- boro Case (i. e. the world wide protest against the legal lynching of the boys) has been converted into a “Communist Racket”? An article in the July 16th New Party declares: Leader, official organ of the Socialist “Engdahl and Mrs. Wright are travelling in all the great cities of Eurepe, but he is not telling the European workers how the Scottsboro Case has been converted inte a Communist racket.” Why should the executioners in the state of Alabama stay their bloody hand under the pressure of a meaning of this “socialist” agitation is clear! sneaks in some filthy arguments for Communist “racketeer” protest? The The “honest” New Leader the use of the Southern lynchers. It makes another “clean” united front with the hangmen of the working class! Letters from (By a Worker Correspondent) HAMMOND. Ind., July 17—At a Socialist Party a meeting held re- cently in a litle country schoolhouse here, one of the farmers himself in- vited a Communist Party member and oven obtained permission for him to speak. After three Socialist speakers. had gotten through, our Party speaker Was introduced by the chairman. Im- mediately one of the Socialists got end yelled, “You're a Communist. Get, ‘put of here.” A small riot started, but ‘we did not ins'st and things quieted down for a while. ‘When the Socialists adjourned, one ‘of the men in the audience called out, ‘Now's your chance. Tell us what you've got to say.” So our Communist fandidate for ljeutenant governor questions and explained they wished to know. I passed literature right and left, the leaf- about the Indianapolis Hunger the “Producers News,” the ‘Daily Worker, ’and other literature. ‘I believe the party should arrange hore rural meetings because we find the farmers are even more radicalized than many town workers. ‘PHILA. LITERATURE SALE ' (By a Worker Correspondent) ELPHIA, July 18—I read fe article. “Literature Sales Anal- i ” by James Watson of Philadel- eee in the Daily Worker. He reports the best section in Philadelphia Our Readers | sold less than $30 worth of literature {in three months. Our unit of only 8 active members has sold more than $15 worth of lit- erature during the last three months, and we consider that we are not doing one-fifth of what we can do. We {expect to double sales in the next three months. ROLE OF §S, L. P. (By a Worter Correspondent) ASTORIA, L. I—I have often read jin the Daily of the Socialist Labor Party fakers, but I have had never seen them in action. The other night they held an election campaign meeting at Second and Ditmars in Astoria, Long Island, One speaker said that the unem- ployment insurance demand of the Communist Party was crazy because the government had no money. When someone from the audience asked him about the Mellon income tax refund and the war billion, he said he would answer that later. When we asked him whether the | S.L.P. was supporting the I, Miller and the Five Star shoe strikes in Long Island iCty, he called the police against us. We distributed 150 “Party Plat- forms” and 100 copies of “Fight for Bread” to the workers in the audi- ence, Three young workers asked to come to our next Young Communist League meeting 4 THE CHEER LEADER! a ee - THE COUNTRY f if $5} in SO tt <—t INDEX NUMBERS ADJUSTED FOR SEASONAL VARIATION 1925 ~ 1930= 100 1930 4931 4s £ fears Le ‘ECF WOW OCC JAW FEAWAR APR War Jin JUL AUESEP OCT MOY DUE JAN FEB MAR APR UAV SOTO P22 By N. HONIG | @#PHE situation on the Capitol grounds has been fraught with dangers during the past three days.” These are the words of General Glassford, the slick Washington po- lice chief, in defending himself for using soft-soap tactics towards the bonus marchers camped on the Capitol grounds. Vice-President Curtis, Speaker Garnér and the “whole damn outfit up in them two houses,” as the bonus marchers call the members of Congress, have been scared stiff by the 20,000 veterans assembled here. They were scared so stiff that they wanted to use the ordinary crude tactics of force against the veterans. One day last week they called out the marines. But Glassford, a very clever bird, for the present uses the soft pedal. He's a much smarter servant of the capitalists than those who at- tacked him for using the oily method against the veterans in- stead of the lead method in the present stage. ‘Who are these. men who have cre- ated a situation “fraught with danger” for the capitalist class? The purpose of this article is to give the workers a picture of the men who make up the army of de- termined ex-servicemen who have endured every conceivable hard- ship to come to Washington from every nook and corner of the coun- try, even from as far away as Alaska, in order to fight for some- thing that they are determined to get from a bosses’ government? An Army of Workers, First of all, this is an army of workers and poor farmers, In the ranks of the twenty thousand men encamped in the flats of Ana- costia, in scores of rudely con- structed billets in every part of Washington, on the very grounds of the Capitol, you get a cross- section of the American working class. There are some workers tnder direct fascist control. They are in the minority, by far. They are ex- emplified by the type like the hand- ful from Macon, Ga., or those from Beaumont, Tex., who threw the Ne- groes out of their billets, and who swear they'll stick by Waters, Open-Minded Men. Then there are the open-minded vets, who make up the huge major- ity. The kind who say they'll fol- low any man or group who have a program. The kind who hang out on the Capitol grounds all day and all night, arguing among each other, in little bunches, about this and that member of Congress, about this or that bill in Congress, about this or that “commander,” These are the men who read carefully every bit of Lterature handed out by the members of the Rank and File Committee, or of the Workers’ Ex-Servicemer’s League. ‘They don't join the rank and file group by the hundreds at one time. ‘They come over to the militant pro- gram one at a time, or two or three at a time. They've been fooled by Waters. They've been fooled by Foulkrod, the ex-dick, Right now a lot of them are in the process of being fooled by Robertson of California, They don’t want to be fooled any more, and they think hard before they come over to the Rank and File program, Every single man of them is a scrapper. Every single man of them is ready to make apy Who Are the Bonu Political Parties; Towards the Rank and File Program; Towards Waters, Etc. sacrifice to get the bonus, As a matter of fact, the big ma- jority of the bonus marchers in their arguments among each other talk for the Rank and File pro- gram without realizing it. Take the Oregon bunch. They were the ones that came across the continent with “General” Waters. And now they’ve quit him flat be- cause, as they say, “lying around in Anacostia, like Waters wants us to, won’t get us nowhere.” So they came up to the Capitol grounds to LIEGES, Belgium, ~ cry of the Socialists of Belgium. recently in connection with the strike of the coal miners, which started at Borinage. Wages Cut Since the beginning of the world crisis the owners of the Belgian coal mines have reduced the wages of the workers from 35 to 45 per cent. Re- cently a ne wfive per cent cut was announced in the mines of Bor- be as near Congress as the cops would let them. A few of them af- filiated with the Rank and File Committee. They Hate the Bosses’ Government. What do the veterans camped here think of the U.S. government? Ninety per cent of them hate it, and they say so, if you ask them, right in the midst of the Anacostia terror, right on the Capitol grounds. What do the veterans think of the capitalist political parties? Reformist Tactics in Belgium — Strike Defeated in Lieges _. ..--“The Communists are, of course, terrible monsters. They use brute force and do not give any quarter.” Such is the They talk glibly about “democracy.” It is therefore interesting to relate the following example of socialdemocratic methods which took place here ary worker. They thought that aft- er they dragged him upon the plat- form he would not be in a condition to speak and that the sight of the beaten-up rival would serve to the glory of the socialist democracy and in breaking the strike. 4 Powkerful Speech In the first minute after the sav- inage. The coal miners resisted and | age beating, Lacho was unable to went out on strike. In this move-| speak. ‘The socialists were rejoicing, ment the workers have displayed such] byt Lacho recovered speedily and unity thatthe reformist leaders have| made a powerful speech exposing the set all their forces upon the breaking | reformists ruthlessly. He did not com- of the strike, feverishly mobilizing] plain. He did not weep. He made no strikebreakers, A Protest against the beating. He di- Help Owners In their appeal to the striking min- ers the reformist leaders were shame- lessly urging them to accept the re- duction and to persuade them that they were violating their sacred agreements with the mine owners and that the strike was illegal. They ar- ranged numerous meetings in which they were striving to convince the miners to return to work. One of these meetings took place on June 24th in Vazem. Eight thousand coal miners gathered. To counteract the yellow reformist leaders, the repre- sentatives of the revolutionary: wing spoke, The general attention centered around Lacho, who is very popular with the workers. While the heroes of reformism, Delattre and Master, were preparing the meeting in @ closed hall Lacho started his speech before the assembled miners on the square. Soon he was approached by members of the “Young Socialist Guard.” They invited him to atend the socialist meeting, Lacho agreed. Here is how “Drapeau Rogue,” the Communist organ of Belgium, of June 29th described what followed: rected his entire fire upon the social democratic treachery which is direct- ed against the entire working class. As a result the meeting took quite an unexpected turn, Many of the workers who were favorable toward the reformers were \in the hall, These masses who were deceived by and obedient to the tricky leaders offered no resistance to the attack on Lacho. But from the first words of Lacho’s speech there oc- curred a remarkable change of senti- ment, Vainly one of them, Delatre, at- tempted by means of oratorical tricks arid demagogy to regain the sympathy of the workers. He failed. Alarmed at this, Delattre and his henchmen “kindly proposed” that Lacho leave the meeting through a small back door. Lacho, of course, refused. The murmurs of the miners increased to a shout. Then without losing any time Delettro and his henchmen sneaked out through the back door, where an auto awaited them. And so they escaped the anger of the workers, Cheer Lacho The miners rose to greet Lacho “It was a trap. After Lacho went/ with much gusto. They carried him wth the “Young Socialist Guard” he|on their shoulders. Women and girls was attacked by them with fists and/ showered him with flowers. Some of Clubs, He was surrounded, seized and|the youths from the “Young Social- carried into the hall on the St. Pierre} ist Guard” came to ask forgiveness. square with such speed that the sur-|A procession was formed and march- rounding mass of the miners did noted jubilantly through the city. After grasp what was happening. Once in-|the parade Lacho made another side the hall, Lacho was knocked] speech, concluding with the following down, and the beating continued. words. “I know the men who took His satchel, purse, cane and hat| part in their attack upon me, but I were confiscated. He was dragged by|do not intend to utilize this knowl- his hair. After that he was dragged|edge. But I appeal to the workers upon the platform ina state of ut-|who were misled to recognize their ter exhaustion. class duty and to take\part in the) In beating up;Lecho the struggle against the bosses and. their caleulated to silence this revolution , ‘ IS Gane Fonwane Bue ge LlEve A CHaNGE FoR THE BETTER wit. UNEXPECTEDLY COME AND WE MAY BE ON THE THRESHOLD “ToDAY By BURCK he B.H. SNELL s Marchers? ‘What Is Their Attitude Towards the Capitalist® Well, let’s illustrate. In Anacostia @ contingent from Ambridge, Pa. (steel -workers), have laid out a neat row of figurative graves. In one of them lies Hoover. In another lies Garner. In others lie this or that Congressman or Senator, both Demo- crats and Republicans. Hate Boss Parties, Every vet here hates Hoover and the Republicat Party. Does that mean they have any use for the Democratic Party? It does not. Foulkrod, who urged the veterans to go home and campaign for Franklin D. Roosevelt, was only a day ago hissed and booed off the Capitol grounds by the vets en- camped there. What do they think politically? ‘These men, you must remember, are unemployed workers, who have been starving. A vet from Texas has seen the democratic governor of his state, and the democratic mayor of his city deny him relief. The vets from, say, some town in Pennsylvania, has seen the repub- lican governor of his state and the republican mayor of his city do the same. ‘Talk to almost any of the mem- bers of the Bonus Expeditionary Force and he'll tell you both thes parties are the same, and for the rich, Talk to almost any of the vets here, and you find out he talks the program of the Communist Party —and that’s the last thing in the world he thinks he’s talking. Most of the vets have been re- ceiving tall tales about the “Reds” from the capitalist press and from the little Mussolinis like Waters, Doak Carter, Robertson and Foulk- rod. They’ve been told a “red” or a Communist is a man who carries & good-sized stock of bombs around. on his person, that the “Reds” are in with the Hoover government and against the bonus, etc. But when a veteran opens his mouth to kick about the tyranny of Waters in Anacostia, or about the uselessness of lying in the mud- flats and doing nothing real to get the bonus, he’s called a “red” by the racketeers in command and kicked out of camp. Then he be- gins to wonder. One man from Oklahoma said to me: “I hate the Reds. But, you know, I'd like to see a Bolshevik government in this country.” He thought the Reds wére something terrible, but the Bolsheviks were 0. K. A vet from Kentucky was dis- tributing some Rank and File lit- erature. Some M.P’s caught him and tore the leaflets up. He came back and said:’ “Some of thent damn Reds tore my leaflets up.” Here was a Red who didn’t know what a Red is. Don’t Realize They're Reds. ‘That's the average bonus marcher for you. A Red through starva- tion who doesn’t realize he’s a Red and has been told the Reds are “Rank and file’—the phrase caught on like wildfire. And rank and file action, be- hind a rank and file program is what they’re going to rally behind —despite the Waters’ terror, de- Tor, despite the demagogy of ‘and Mr. Zero, despite of Glassford and despite olliness of Gisestony , a ef SF 4 bo Day Installment Eight Once I came to him in Moscow, He asked, “Have you dined?” “Yes.” “You are not prevaricating?” “There are witnesses, I dined in the Krem- lin dining room.” “I heard that the dinners are not good there.” “Not bad, but could be better.” He immediately asked for details. “Why not good? In what way could they be improved?” He began to mutter angrily, “Why can’t they get an exper’ cook there? People working literally until they faint, they must be fed with good food so that they will eat more. I know there is very little food to be got, and that bad; they must get_a good cook there.” Then he quoted the opinion of some hygien- ist about the part played by season- ing in the processes of eating and digestion. I asked, “How do you find time to think about such things?” He retorted with another question, “About rational feeding?” and by the tone of his voice I understood that my question was out of place. “Ashamed to be Weak” An old acquaintance of mine, P. A. Skorokhodov, another Sormovo worker, a tender-hearted man, com- plained of the painfulness of work in the Tcheka. I said to him, “I think that is not th> right work for you. It isn’t congenial to you.” He agreed sadly, “Absolutely uncon- genial.” But after thinking a little, he said, “But you know Ilyitch too has to stiffe his emotions, and I am ashamed to be so weak.” I knew and still know many work- ers who had to, and have to, grit their teeth hard, and stiffle their emotions, to overcome their organic “social idealism” for the sake of the triumph of the cause they are serving. Did Lenin too have to stifle his emotions? He paid too little attention to himself to talk about himself to others; he, more than anyone, could keep silent about the secret agitation of his soul. Once, however, in Gorky, when he was caressing some children, he said, “These will have happier lives than we had. They will not experi- ence much that we lived by. There will not be so much cruelty in their lives.” Then, looking into the dis- tance, to the hills where the village nestled, he added pensively, “And yet I don’t envy them. Our gener- ation achieved something of amaz- ing significance for history. The cruelty, which the conditions of our life made necessary, will be under- stood and vindicated. Everything will be understood, everything.” He caressed the children with great care, with an especially gentle and tender touch, Regarding Tolstoy Once I came to him and saw “War and Peace” lying on the table. “Yes. Tolstoy. I wanted to read over the scene of the hunt, then remembered that I had to write to a comrade. Absolutely no time for reading. Only last night I man- aged to read your book on Tolstoy.” Smiling and screwing up his eyes, he stretched himself deliciously in his armchair and, lowering his voice, added quickly, “What a Co- lossus, eh? What a marvellously developed brain! Here’s an artist for you, sir. And do you know something still more amazing? You won't find a genuine moujik in lit- erature until this count came on the scene?” Then screwing up his eyes and looking at me, he asked, “Can you put anyone in Europe be- side him?” and replied himself, “No one.” And he rubbed him hands together, laughing contentedly. T-more than once noticed: in him this trait, this pride in Russian literature. Sometimes this feature appeared to me strangely foreign to Lenin's nature, appeared even naive, but I learned to hear in it the echo of his deep-seated, joyful love for his fatherland. In Capri, while watching how the fishermen carefully disentangle the nets, torn and entangled by the sharks, he observed, “Our men work more quickly.” When I cast some doubt on this remark, he said with a touch of vexation, “H’m, h’m, Don't you think you are forgetting Russia, living on this bump?” Interest in Art V. A, Dyesnitsky-Stroyev told me that he was once traveling through Sweden with Lenin in a train, and looking at. a German monograph on Durer, Some Germans, sitting in the same carriage, asked him what the book was. Later it ap- peared that they had never heard of their great artist. This almost roused enthusiasm in Lenin, and twice he said to Dyesnitsky proud- ly, “They don't know their own artists, but we do.” One evening would like to listen to it every day. It is marvellous superhuman music, I always think with pride—perhaps it is naive of me—what marvellous things human beings can do!” Then screwing up his eyes and smiling, he added, rather sadly, “But I can't Usten to music too often. It affects s with Lenin BY MAXIM GORKY " stroke anyone's head—you might; get your hand bitten off. You have| to hit them on the head, wit any mercy, although our ideal -is} not to use force against anyone,| Hm, h’m, our duty is infernally| hard!” . A Letter When he himself was nearly al sick man, quite worn out, he wrote to me on the 9th of August, 1921, A. M! I sent on your letter to L. B,| Kamenev. I am so tired that I am incapable of the slightest work. And you are spitting blood and yeti don’t go away? That really is dis gracefull imprudent. In Europe, in a good sanatorium, you will get well and be able to do something else’ worth while. Really, really. But here you can neither get. well, nor do anything. There is nothing for’ you here but bother, useless bother, Go away and get well. Don’t be ob~ stinate, I implore you! ‘Yours, LENIN. For more than a year, he insisted with astonishing persistence that I should leave Russia. I was amazed that, entirely absorbed in work as he was, he should remember that there was a sick person somewhere in need of rest. He wrote letters like this to different people—scores, probably. Attitude Toward Comrades I have already described his quite exceptional attitude to the comrades, his attention to them, which pene- trated. down even to the smallest: details of. their lives. But in this feature of his I never caught the note of “that self-interested care which a clever master sometimes exhibits towards an honest and ex~ pert workman. This was not the case With Lenin, His was exactly the heartfelt interest of a sincere comrade, the love which exists be- tween equals. I know that it is impossible to consider as Lenin's equals even the greatest people in his party, but he himself didn't seem to realize this, or more prob=- ably, did not want to realize it. He ‘was sometimes sharp with people, when arguing with them, pitilessly ridiculed them, even laughed at them in a venomous fashion. Alt this he did. But how many times, when judging the people whom yes- terday he was criticizing and re- buking, there was clearly evident the note of genuine wonder at. their talents and moral steadfastness;.at their unflagging labor in ~ the abominable conditions of 1918-1921, work amid spies of all countries and parties, amid the plots which swelled like festering sores on the body of the war-exhausted country. ‘They worked without rest, they ate little and badly, they lived amid ceaseless alarms. But Lenin him= self did not seem to feel the hard ness of these conditions, of the un< foreseen dangers of a society which had been shaken to the very foun~ dations by the murderous storms of civil strife. Only once did anything like a complaint escape him, and that was when he was talking with M. F. Andreyeva, in his room. “What else can we do, dear M. F.? ‘We have no alternative but to fight. Do we find it hard? Of course we do! ‘ “You think it is not hard for me? It is, and very hard too. But look at Dzerzhinsky. He is begin- ning to look like nothing on earth. There is nothing to be done about it.” It is better to suffer than to fail.” The only regret he ever ex~ pressed in my presence was, “I am. sorry, deeply sorry, that Martov is not with us. What a splendid com- rade he was, what an absolutely sincere man!” I remember how long and‘heartily he laughed at read- ing Martov's remark somewhere, “There are only two Communists in Russia, Lenin and Kollontay.” He laughed and then sighed, “What a clever woman she is!” It is with genuine respect end wonder that he remarked, after conducting ‘one comrade, an administrator, out-of his study, “Have you known him for long? He would be at the head of the cabinet in any country in Europe.” Rubbing his hands to- gether and smiling, he added, “Europe is poorer than we are in talent.” With Some Scientists . Once I proposed that. we should go together to the Chief Artillery Department to see an apparatus which had been invented by a Bole shevik, an old artillery man, to adjust artillery fire directed against airplanes. “What do I understand about that?’ he said, but he went with me. In a dark room round a table on which stood the apparatus were gathered seven generals with scowle ing faces, gray, bewhiskered olf, men, all scientists. the modest civilian figure plain the construction of the appae ratus. Lenin listened to him for two or three minutes, then said approvingly, “H'm, h'm,” and began, to question the man with as ; | i ai