The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 23, 1932, Page 6

| DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1932 by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Inc., daily excxept Sunday, at 60 B. City, N. ¥. Telephone ALgonquin 4-7956. “DATWORK.” checks to the Dally Worker, 50 E. 18th St., York, N. ¥. e SUBSCRIPTION BATES: jerywhere: One year, $6 months, $3; two months, 61; of Manhattan and New York City. six months, exceptizg Foreign: one yeer, 68; Veterans--Stand Your Ground 2s gi ren the order to clear the ex-servicemen order has been handed down to Gen- its execution is set for August 4th. The se of the interests of Wall Street, who shelter, and are demanding the payment tment are to evacuate according to the or= t marks the anniversary of the out- heroes” of yesterday are capitalism’s The “ ‘strugel le is encouraging the oppressed toilers nce brands American Democracy as the ndustrialist lords that ruthlessly assault upon them the burdens of the crisis to break the spirit of the veterans and disintegrate of the stiff fight put up by the militant rank and file, ng to the weapon of force in order to accomplish are not to be intimidated by this latest threat. Their mough to continue their fight and win. If they will themselves of the reactionary Waters leadership, id file committee that will carry out militant ac- ly t orces of the veterans in the cities throughout the land, t with the unemployed, their struggle will be crowned eviction must be met with mass determination to hold class of the whole country must stage huge demonstra- the Bonus Marchers at the mass demonstrations on tional Fighting Day Against Imperialist War, fight to Fighters must be an outstanding rallying point. The Socialists and Theodore Dreiser socialists” do not like Theodore Dreiser’s endorsement of the st Party will surprise nobody. They disliked his statement few weeks ago even before the appearance of his latest declar- They will like less the latter which appeared in the Daily Worker 16th, ‘They will dislike it particularly because Dreiser speaks of to carry Rees the American capitalist program.” f the “Socialists” are provoked by Dreiser’s stand, their attack on the Communist Party, attempted in the issue of the New ly 9th, will hardly hurt Theodore Dreiser. The “socialists” not ratlical enough. His statement, they say, might easily have a spokesman for various farmer-labor groups in the West.” many other cases, the “Socialists” try hard to camouflage ‘S as revolutionists. They need this camouflage very badly to up their reformist program and their total support of the capitalist But this will not change the fact that Theodore Dreiser, who is Communist, has boldly taken his stand with the revolutionary ‘d bearers. over System What was meant to be the greatest blow directed by the New Leader at Theodore Dreiser is their assertion that while Dreiser was an “eminent novelist was an “amateur in politics.” In the opinion of the “socialists” men 1 their own specialty cannot take the time to inform themselve fundamentals of economics and social science.” Here the “Socialists” expose themselves in their pristine beauty. It all depends, they say, whether a man has acquainted himself with the tals of economics.” ‘These “Socialists” say in so many words: men, stick to your pens. Leave politics and economics to such Leader, showed his superlative economic wisdom when, League for Industrial Democracy, he made the fol- und observation regarding the success of capitalism is over- Said Lee, by way of correcting Marx and Engels: T do not think that either Marx or Engels clearly foresaw that a organized capitalism could tame the devil of overproduction.” —(Socialism of Our Times, p. 311). ‘Ahly hig ossible that Dreiser is not a student of Marxian has the good instinct to avoid such “Marxism” as that , the “s‘ocialists” tell-him that has given his én- n squads that assault Socialist meetings and then y’ when they get the same treatment from police It sounds ‘ any of the intellectuals supporting the Communist Party. For one thing ti ‘strong” but it will hardly influence Theodore Dreiser or hooligan squads” are nothing new. It is only another version ngsters’—an expression perennially used by the “so- ir masters that they are with them in the campaign econd placé, the workers well remember the assaults upon tings made by Socialists in Detroit and in Brownsville tly and the fight our comrades had to endure to repel the laught. In the third place workers will laugh at the “So- the Communists of whining for Democracy. The Com- don’t whine for anything, Messrs. “Socialists.” Least of all do ine for democracy in the class struggle. They know that they can f ht back the capitalist terror only by organizing a broad, militant united front against the bosses and their agents, including you, advocates of democracy. In the fourth place, we leave the police departments en- tirely for your protection and enjoyment as veritable instruments of cap- italist democracy Ce ee Back of the whole attack on Theodore Dreiser is the “socialist” con- sciousness of the fact that the intellectuals in increasing numbers are turning their attention to Marxism-Leninism generally and to the Com- munist Party in particular. The crisis of world capitalism, the crisis of American capitalism, the bursting of the legend of unbroken prosperity, the bankruptcy of capitalist leadership, the attempt of the capitalists to shift the burden of the crisis onto the masses of toilers, the glorious suc- cesses of the Five-Year Plan in the USSR, and the growing militancy of the masses of toilers in the U.S.A. under the leadership of the Commun- ist Party—all this has created a ferment in the ranks of the intellectuals. Many are paying more and more attention to the Communist Party and others are ready to support the struggles of the workers led by the Com- munist Party if not to identify themselves wholly with the latter. Many of the intellectuals carry with them much of the baggage of capitalism, which they will have to unload in the course of the struggle. But the proletariat welcomes all honest intellectuals courageous enough to travel the road of working class struggle. The Socialist Party is losing its attractiveness for the intellectuals at the present juncture. They do not see much difference between the “socialists” and the Democrats, between the “socialists” and the Liberals. Witness the League for Independent Political Action endorsing the so- cialist presidential candidate. Witness the sponsor of the Dies Bill making it clear that the socialists are “acceptable” because “respectable.” In increasing numbers honest intellectuals are moving towards the workingclass, vacillating, halting but nevertheless in the direction of Communism, The Socialist Party may be sore and it may vent its dis- ‘may on Theodore Dreiser. This is only a beginning, Messrs. Socialists, SMASH THE DANGER OF THE IMPERIA LIST WAR! By BURCK Growing Terror in Germany The following article is of spe- cial interest in view of the sharp- ened terror against the working class and the development of a more open fascist dictatorship in Germany. The formation of the Red United Front of workers of various political opinions to beat back this fascist terror gives the lead to the workers of the U.S.A. to close their ranks against the growing fascist attacks in this country.—(Editor’s Note.) oer te By L. STEINEMANN BERLIN.— The new emergency orders issued by the Papen-Schlei- cher government, which is sup- ported by Hitler, are at present coming into force. June 29, the day on which disablement benefit is paid out, witnessed the most heartrending scenes of misery and despair, Persons in receipt of dis- ablement benefit are paid six marks a month less than hitherto; a mark of 25 cents) the pensions of the widows have been reduced by five marks, and the orphans by four marks. The 8th of July will see the introduction of the oc- cupation tax, which means a new wage cut of 144 per cent and more. On July 16, the salt tax will come into operation, which is to bring in 60 million marks a year and will increase the price of salt by 6 pfen- nigs a pound. At the end of July there comes into force the mon- strous cut in unemployment bene- fit, which reduces the already ex- ceedingly low rates of unemploy- ment benefit by a further 10, 15, and 25 per cent and which is bound to result in increased and fearful impoverishment of the working masses. On August 1 there follows the reduction of war pen- sions. MISERY GROWING ‘The misery and poverty of the masses are increasing. On the day disablement benefit was reduced there took place in Berlin alone two suicides of disabled persons whom hunger had driven to de- spair. It is not unseldom now that workers or proletarian women faint from hunger on the streets, The next few weeks, in which the econ- omy measures under the emergen- cy orders come into effect, will wit- ness a further increase of this ter- ible misery of the masses. Out of the millions squeezed out of the impoverished workers and the poorest of the poor, new sub- ventions are to be granted to the big capitalists. Millions are to be expended on the Reichswehr and the navy. In the budget, which is now dictated by the emergency or- ders, the expenditure on the Reichswehr and Navy is fixed at not much less than 750 million marks. Intensified repressive measures are being carried out in order to hold down the exploited masses of workers. Freedom of demonstration is granted practically only to the Nazis. Von Papen has caused the “Vorwaerts” to be prohibited for. -five days; a measure which is in- tended in the first place to intimi- date the social democratic workers, and which signatizes @ fresh series of actions on the part of Papen and Hitler against the revolutionary workers’ organizations, against the Communist press and against the C. P, of Germany. In addition to the intensification of the antagonisms between the classes, there is also to be observed @ considerable increase of the an- Rank and File Anti-Fascist Action Gaining Ground as Struggles Sharpen tagonisms within the bourgeoisie. Relations between the Reichs gov- ernment and the South German State governments have become considerable strained— which fact in turn is an expression of the con- flict of interests between the South German industrialists and big agrarians on the one side and the ‘West German industrialists and the East Elbian junkers on the other side. HITLER BACKS PAPEN The Papen dictatorship has the full support of Hitler. The Nazi Party is attempting to deny this fact. It was confirmed, however, by a circular sent out by the Her- ren Club, to which von Gayl, the Minister of the Interior and other ministers belong, as well as by an accompanying letter from the chairman of the Herren Club von Gleichen. In this accompanying letter, dated June 6, it is stated: “The new Cabinet is not only tol- erated by the Nazis, but has also ‘the express approval of the leader. “The new Cabinet is not a tran- sition Cabinet, as the press falsely reports, but it will be confirmed as it is by the new Reichstag, at least by its prospective strongest party (this means the Nazis—B, S.). In return, the Federated states will be left over to the Nazis, and there. exist also agreements regarding Prussia, that is, regarding the ap- pointment of a tried and proved man as Prime Minister or Reichs Commissioner, further re-organiza- tion of the inner administration with the active collaboration of the national socialist forces.” SUPPORT VERSAILLES TREATY It is thus proved again that Hit- ler is responsible for the emergency orders and also for the agreements concluded by Papen at Lausanne. The “Voelkische Beobachter”, the chief organ of the Nazis, of July 3 and 4, praises Papen to the skies and approves of his consent to the maintenance of tribute payments under the Versailles Treaty, by seeking to make them palatable to the working people’ as the “lesser evil”. The national socialist party, in whose system of deception the sham fight “against Versailles” plays the chief role, thereby ex- poses itself more drastically than hitherto as the party of the Ver- sailles enslavement. ‘The national socialist party is endeavoring by systematically or- ganized murder attacks by itse storm detachments, to divert the attention of its followers from the fact that it supports von Papen’s emergency decrees and von Papen’s. policy at Lausanne, and at the same time to intimidate the work- ers in order to facilitate the car- rying out of the emergency orders. The Berlin “Angriff” of July 22 openly called for murder. It wrote: “After the police organs have failed in every respect, the Wedding Storm Detachments will from to- day make use of their legal right of self-defense.” That is plain euogh, MURDER—TERRORISM GROWS ‘There has been a tremendous in- crease in the murder terror of the storm detachments in the last few days, Not a day passes without workers being murdered, mostly in the most cowardly and brutal man- ner. In the 24 hours from 30th dune to 1st of July, six workers were killed by Nazi storm troops. In the night of July 2, the Nazis carried out a bloody action in. Ber- lin; they raced at breakneck pace on motor cycles through several working class quarters, stopped suddenly at workers’ clubs and premises, opend a rapid fire upon the workers present and then rode off again. In this fashion they at- tacked several taverns in which the workers had their club rooms, killed one young worker, wounded four workers and seriously wound- ed two working women. In ell parts of the Reich it has come ih the last few days to colli- sions, as for instance in Essen, in Graefentonna near Gotha, in Groeplingen near Bremen, where the workers erected barricades and drove back the Nazis who tried to’ carry out a “punitive expedition.” SABOTAGE UNITED FRONT ' The leaders of the social demo- cratic party and of the Reichs- banner systematically sabotage united action by the workers against the fascists, The central committee of the social democratic party published a nopen letter on the front page of the “Vorwaerts” opposing the proletarian united front. Nevetheless, the, .antifascist ac- tion is gaining ground. It is grad- ually seizing the factories. Thus the workers at the Kabelwerk- Oberspree in Berlin, on June 30, when the Nazis tried to commence their terrorist actions in front of the. factory, instead of going to work, remained at the » factory gates. It came to collisions in which the Nazis made the acquaintance of hard proletarian fists, and in spite o fthe intervention of the po- lice, who arrested the red shop steward, had to abandon the field. How the First World War Was Prepared PEACE TALK AS A CLOAK FOR Wave PREPARATIONS Documents from the Period Preceding the First Imperialist World War While talkin gpeace, and con- tinually assuring the people that there was not the slightest possibil- ity of war, the Austrian government in 1912 was frantically bringing to completion all its military plant for war. The Hapsburg monarchy, which was conspiring to start war against Serbia’ and ‘also against Italy, wes posing as the defender of peace in * Central Europe and in the Balkan States. Below we see reports from docu- ments of that day showing the con- trast between how the d'plomats talked and how they acted, Viewing these devstopments, Len- in, with that deep penetration into the motives of the capitalists, kept the Bolsheviks and the workers that could be reached by the Bol- shevik press informed of the mean- ing of every development and at the same time waged a determined fight against reactionary and: op- Portun‘st tendencies among those who aspired to leadeship of the. masses, In this connection, what Lenin had to say those days about Trot- sky’s deceptive use of revolutionary phrases shows a reyealing light upon the present course of Trotsky and his supporters who are today playing an even more openly re- actionary part in helping the capi- talists conceal the real nature of the imperialist war that has now already begun in the Far East. Austria Mobilizes for Inter- vertion in the Balkan War Vienna, end of October, 19:2. The Austrian government ‘demanded from Parliament extraordinary credits for armament purposes, which credits were at once granted. All troops in Bosnia ang Herce- govina were mobilized. More than 100,000 m2n were concentrated in Sarajevo, Gravosa, etc. (French pregg reports.) i ee 6 Warships are Dispatched Vienna, Nov. 4. The first squad- ron will proceed to the Levant to protect Austrian-Hungarien | sub- jects. (W.T.B.) Rome, Nov. 2. Italy is repre- sented in the Egean Sea by the first division of the second squad- ren, (W.T.B.) ; Lenin: Europe and the Balkan War The question of the Balkan war and of the relations of Europe to it is the most burning question in. present-day politics. It is im- portant for the whole democracy in general and the working class in particular te understand what are othe’ class interests, “motivating, one or the other party. : The policy of the Octobtists, of the nationalists, of the ‘non-party Pickens Again Aids the Lynchers By CYRIL BRIGGS Villiam Pickens, Field Secretary of the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People, declares in a syndicated article that the Scottsboro fight ghas just begun.” And Pickens leaves no doubt as to which side of this: historic battie he and his organization are on. At this critical stage in the fight for the Scottsboro boys, Pickens a- gain joins with the white ruling class lynebers in viciously attacking the Mass defense which alone has so far stopped the bloody hands of the Ala- bama lynch courts. Enraged by Growing Unity of Black and White Mr, Pickens and his white masters are devoured by a consuming rage at the spectacle of white and Negro workers joining together in angry, thunderous protests against the lynch verdicts, of the challenge of these workers to the bloody lynch courts. All over the country, the ruling class has tried to crush this mass defense movement. They have hurled their police in brutal attacks on protest de- monstrations. They have used their courts to hand out savage jail sen- tences to white and Negro workers protesting the lynch verdicts. The ‘Wall Street Government, through its diplomatic agents abroad, have in- spired police attacks in Germany, France, England and other countries againtt the world-wide Scottsboro defense movement. The Hoover Hunger and War Government has attempted to disrupt the European tour of Mrs. Ada Wright, mothers of two of the Scottsboro boys. Mr. Pickens, together ‘ith Walter White, Dr. DuBois, and the leaders of the Socialist Party, support these brutal attacks on the mass defense fight. They do everything to disrupt it. The Socialist Party slanderously attacks as a “Communist racket” the world-wide mass fight to free the Scottsboro boys and smash the hide- ous national oppression of the Ne- gto masses. Pickens attacks as “a lot of ignorant nuts in Detroit, Chi- cago and Moscow,” the millions of white and Negro workers who are angrily protesting against the lynch verdicts. What is this but open and traitorous support for the. lynch courts, for the frightful lynch ver- dicits against these innocent Negro children? Mass Fight Stopped Executions What is the significance of this new barrage of attacks on the Scotts- boro mass defewse? Let us review briefly the victorie:s so far achieved in the fight to free the boys. Mass pressure exerted by millions of work- ers throughout the world three times forced the Alabama lynch courts to retreat on the dates they had set for the légal massacre of ‘these bovs. Mass pressure again forced the U. S. lynch verdicts. The case is now be- fore that court, which has set Oc- tober 10 for the hearing. The Baltimore Afro-American, which is not a Communist paper, ad- mits in the following sentence the tremendous effectiveness of this world-wide mass pressure: “The Scottsboro Case is no longer the private affair of an ignorant community of prejudiced whites. in a little Alabama town as it’ would have been had not the LL.D. step- ped in, but it-is-now an interna- tional issue.” Of course, it is not a question. of “an ignorant community .of preju- diced whites.” The Scottsbora frame- up and lynch verdicts are part of a conscious policy of the capitalist rul- ers of. this country for the suppres- sion of the Negro masses and the perpetuation of their hideous op- pression and robbery. Mr. Pickens wants to-return the Scottshoro case to the'status of “the private affair” of the capitalist oppressors and their courts. He snarls against the efforts of the Communists to “try the cases on, the hustings”—meaning the tac- tic of mass protests, of mass défense, of breaking through the legality of the lynch courts, of rousing the white and Negro masses to angry protests against the frightful attempt to legally massacre these jnnocent boys, as hundreds of Negro workers have been legally lynched in the past. Defends Lynchers—Attacks Com- munists Pickens moreover claims that the activities of Communists in exposing the vicious Scottsboro frame-up and the national oppression of the Ne- groes has resulted . in’ “unfortunate and. prejudicial sentiment that has been stirred up in Alabama against the boys.” ‘This. is tantamount -to saying there was no prejudice against the boys before the Communists en- tered the case, that the lynch sen- tences: of ‘the’ original: trials‘in ‘the town of Scottsboro, Ala., were arrived at without prejudice—although it is a omatter ‘of record that the boys were rushed to trial without being permitted to communicate with their .| parents or to‘ secure legal defense, Supreme Court to agree to review the: that the trials were deliberately set for Horse Swapping Day to attract a ctowd to Scottsboro, that the first of ‘the lynch verdicts was greeted with cheers and’'a ‘brass band cele- bration by a mob which surrounded the court house howling for the death of the boys, that the brass band was. furnished by local mill bosses who, with the bourgeois press, helped. to whip up lynch sentiment against ‘the boys: From Pickens’ statement it might well be assumed thatthe. scores of Negro workers lynched annually..in Alabama are lynched—without prejudice, That the frightful national oppréssion | and landlord robbery of these masses is carried on—without prejudice, Workers, Must Build. Mass Fight The aid given the Alabama lynehers by the N.A.A.C.P. could not. prevent the tremendous vic- tories, won so far. by the working- class in the Scottsboro case. But these victories, great as they ate, are partial victories.’ The boys are still in danger of legai lynching. The mass fight is’ more ‘than ever’ necessary. And herein ‘lies the / sinister significance of the attack by Pickens on tze mass fight. The N. A. A.C. P. assistant. hangmen of the Negro masses can still ren- der valuable-aid to the Alabama lynchers, And this is precisely what Pickens, Walter White, Dr. DuBois and the others are about. ‘The: workers ‘must answer these at- tempts to disrupt the mass defense with ,2 .more. energetic building: of the mass fight: which alone can free the boys. The defense of the Scotts- boro boys is part of | the fight against “patriots” from the v Vremja” ‘to the “Russkoye Slovo,” is clear and simple. Incitement against Austria, incitement to war against “Austria, outcry over the “Slav tasks” of Russia—all this a transparent endezvcr to diver tention from Rus: and fo grad a piece of T: Support of reaction at home and imper‘alist colonial robbery abroad —thatvis the ees2nce of this crude “patriotic,” “Slay” policy. The policy of the Cadets is more subtle ~and diplomatically embel- lished; but at bottom their policy 1s likewise the reactionary big Power policy of imper‘alism. It is specially important to realize this, as the Liberals cunningly conceal their views behind democratically- sounding phrases. The “democracy in general and the” workers in particular are agairst any “protection” of the Slays by foxes and wolves; they are for the complete right of the peoples to self-determination, for complete democracy, for the eman- cipation of the Slavs from all “pro- tection” by the big Powers. The. Liberals and the nationalists are disputing about the methods of plundering and subjugeting the Balkan peoples by the bourgeoisie of Europe. Only the workers are conducting a policy «f real democ- racy—for freefiom of democracy in general-.and without restriction againstvany “protectorate, against any ‘robbery and any intervention. (Lenin: “The fox in the Henrocs‘” “Pravda,” Oct. 31, 1912.) The Fight of the Bolsheviki Against the August Bloc The-revolutionar upsurge of the labor “movement in Russia devel- opéd ‘ore and more. In the first fivemonths of 1912, more than half a million Russian workers participated in strikes, Mutinies ef soldiers and sailors in Turkes- tan, in the Baltic Fleet and in the Black ‘Sea Fleet were on the or- der of.the day, The Bolsheviki worked successfully in rebuilding the Party which had been shatter- ed by: Czarism in the previous years. Against the Party, which was consolidating itself, there united the. various. anti-party tendencies of the Russian social democracy, the Liquidators, Otsovists, etc., in a block which after the conference of\the-liquidators in August 1912 was called the “August Bloc”. At the head of this bloc was Trotsky, who cloaked_the opportunist policy of this bloc by sham revolutionary phrases. Lenin Against the Liquidators and Against Trotzky In-an- article which was printed ,in the “Sozialdemokrat’” of Novem- ber 18, 1912, Lenin dealt with the most important differences of prin- ciple:+ ‘The upsurge of the mass fight begun. The revolutionary social Gemocrats are endeavoring to ex- tend and strengthen it by helping it to evelop still further until it hes reached the stage of revolu- ten. The. élection platform of the Party issued by the Central Com- mittee. was drawn up before the events..in April and May. The eventsconfirmed the correctness of the platform. The platform is per- meated with one idea; criticism of the hopélessness, of the utopianism of constitutional reforms in pres- ent-day Russia; propaganda of the revolution . < . Consider the platform of the liquidators! Its liquidatory char- acter ¢s carefully concealed by Trotzky’s revolutionary. phrases. This concealment can for a time deceive naive and inexperienced people; and even appear as a re- conciliatioin of the liquidators with the Party. But the slightest scru- tiny will rapidly do away with this self-deception. The ‘platform of the liquidators was written after the May strikes “attempt at revolt in the How does it estimate these strikes and. the attempt at revolt? “Economic boom” ... “by the growth of its stzike moveinent the proletariat showed the approach ‘of a new social upsurge.”... “The powerful April movement of the proletariat, with the demand for freedom. of combination”,—that is all thatthe liquidators write in thelr platform regarding the strikes in April and May. But.this is not true! This is an outrageous distortion of the facts. There is lacking here the chief thing, namely the revolu- tionary. character of the political ich aim not at winning of constitutional reforms, but at “the overthrow of the gov- ernment, j. e. the revolution. ESR NE t+ rl SIRES REPRE TRE A ET imperiafistwar. ‘Fhe increasing te?- ror against the Negro masses, the foreign born and the working-class generally is part of the bosses pre- parations for war. This terror aims to crush ‘the resistance of the toile ing masses to the Hunger and War program=cf the bosses. Workers! Answer’the ‘terror, answer {he crim- inal drive for war with tremendous |anti.war..demonstrations ‘on August First)" | | f f ih 7 /