The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 26, 1932, Page 3

a mise FR My ESET CIEE REL ERI ELEC: mee HE ROR ONC SEES AE RTE OF 5 YR. PLAN INUSS.R. Advancement Offers Contrast to Decline in Capitalist Countries (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE} Today's “Sa Industrialisaziu,” enum- erating Ural activities, states: “A new Socialist Ural is being born. The Ural proletariat aided by the proletariat of the entire Soviet Union under the leadership of the Commu- nist Party will create a New Ural. Great historic work is being done. In the process of carrying out this work difficulties are, of coursé, unavoidable. Our task is to learn from these diffi- culties and to mobilize all efforts tu overcome them with a minimum loss of energy.” The railroad, steel, coal and pig- fron industries are still grappling with difficulties of growth, but forging ahead slowly without, however, keep- ing apace with the growing demands. ‘These industries are suffering from labor fluctuation, housing difficulties and mainly from the slow process of Putting into effect Stalin's six slogans. The tremendous seasonal building activities have created a shortage in steel for the tractor and auto plants, temporarily hampering production. The new Soviet plants for high grade steel are still unable to satisfy the huge demands. Hitherto such steel ‘was wholly imported. The new Yaroslawl factory for the Production of artificial rubber is gain- ing strength and by 1983 the Soviet Union will be independent from for- eign rubber. Near Complete Literacy. ‘The Gosplan Conference for cul- tural upbuilding which has just Closed, shows that the Soviet Union is nearing complete literacy, consid- ering the cultural backwardness in- herited from the Tsarist regimé. The Soviet Union now has first place in the publication of books and the number of students in higher édu- cational institutions. The cuvural Five-Year Plan has been oveér-ful- filled four times. Newspaper circula- tion has grown to thirty-eight mil- lion copies daily as compared with nine million in 1927. Paper and paper machine industries are still un- able to supply enough paper for the growing demands. There are also difficulties in getting cadres for the work, Four hundred thousand new teach- ers are needed for the second Five- ‘Year Plan. There is everywhere a éftinendous communal building going on. Some sections of Moscow have changed be- yond recognition. The housing prob- Jem is, however, still very acute on account of the enormous influx from the villages and towns. The air of confidence here is in sharp contrast to the air of despera- tion outside the borders of the Soviet Union. Everybody here realizes that the present difficulties are merely the results of the unheard of growth of industry and agriculture on a Social- ist basis. FIRST ‘RED’ MEET IN ARKANSAS CITY Communist Program Is Told by Slinger ROGERS, Ark., July 25.—For the first time in the history of Arkansas a Communist meetit.¢ was held in the state. More thari 200 workers gathered at Prisco Park here to listen to Dan Slinger explain the aims and pro- gram of the Communist Party in the present election campaign. Rogers is primarily a farming com- munity. The city government 1s bankrupt, and the local merchants are squeezing the workers and farm- ers. Two of the three banks in the town failed within the past year. The starving workers here are be- ing denied relief by the local Cham- ther of Commores, A Mr. Walker, ‘who receives $200 a month to safe- fuverd the interests of the metchants, told the county relief agent at Ben- tonvillé that the workers of Rogert were not in need of the twe car loads ef flour that had been assigned them, . When the flour failed to arrive, the mayor, under pressure of tite w 18, went to Bentonville to {1 bieete and was told that the “head man of Rogers” nad reported that tne people did not need the flour. ‘The mayor demanded that this flour he sent at once. It will be stored Im end distributed fro a the City Hall 1" order to prevent the Rogers mer- tert: from hindering this bit of re- S from reaching the starving orkers, tent Munger ira and Anti-War Pronurton, . Y,, July 25— ye Communist Patty and the Bing- fampton Unemployed Council will old a joint Hunger March and Anti- ‘ar meeting at the Court House are cn August 1. The méeéting “L protest against the starvation {1 eants diet which the City Man- ‘or is trying to put over on the un- t-vsloyed workers cf Bimghampton, rd will register the iron resistance f the working-class to the criminal tar plans of the imperialists and for (ilitant defense of the Chinese teople and the Soviet Union. } (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) the German bourgeoisie did not suc- Germany's “war guilt.” On the con- trary, the Lausanne treaty uncovered the antagonisms within the bourg-| jeolsie even more sharply. The fact is that German capitalism, the Prav- da Writer says, has no economic or Social reserves for the various bour- geois elements. Even the masses un- der the influence of the fascists could not be satisfied by promis2s of the restoration of the monarchy. This has resulted, on the one hand, of more bourgeois elements going fascist and on the other hand in the deep- ening of the antagonisms within the bourgeoisie, as witnessed by che cp- pésition of Bavaria, by the statement of the Krupp group that it will sup- port Von Papen inasinuth as he will put through a program of industrial- | ists, and also by the unfriendly wel- come by the nationalists toward the Lausanne treaty signed at the behest of industrialist groups. All this has left only one part for Von Papen, namely, a sharpened fight against the Communist Party. But, declares the Pravda writer: Revolutionary ‘Traditions “The German proletariat has tra- ditions of seventy years. After the war creaicd the Communist Party, it combined revolutionary tactics with real mass organization. How- ever, due to the growth of national- ist and chauvinist war, the Commu- nist Party nas not yet succeeded in mobilizing around itself a majority of the working class in one revolu- tionary iront. The social-democracy is still effective in keeping away the | {working class from the big revolu- tionary bettles.” Reviewing the role of the social-| democracy, which recently called for; the support of Hindenburg (who has | now sitashed the Weine. constitu- tion), the Pravda writer pvints’ out that the great masses of the Gerinan workers are now 4disillusionc.l with “democratic” methods—a hastening the united front ‘or revo- luvionary action under Communist leadership, Red United Front tion,” Knorin writes, “will be growing faster these days.” Already, the ar- ticle says, the social-democratic work- ers are uniting with the Communists to fignt off the fasc‘sts ad social~ Gemezratic police, as in Hamburg. “With the aid of the Reichswehr,” fascist overthrowal of Prussia, been declared.” The social-democrats, Ssvering and Grveschinsky did all in their power to crush the Communist Party, the article continues, but apparently Von Papen found others still more useful fo rthis purpose. Constitution Bankrupt Krorin says that the Weiner con- ‘stitution is bankrupt, and the situa- tion is sharpening. “The occurrences of the coming’ days depends upon! revolution or whethe tthe bourgeoisie, by comenting the fascist dictatorship and tetror, will succeed in holding off the growth of the pre-conditions re- quired for a revoltitionary crisis for some time, But in-a country, where the absolute majoriuy of the popua- tion ate workers—where the prole- tariat has a great deal of Marxist traditions and traditions of revolu- tionary battles—in 4 country where the Communist Patty is finally a mass party—it is impossible to rule by terror for a long time, The German working class, says the Pravda writer, has succeeded in overthrowing, through mass action, more than one government, Concluding, Knorin says: ceed in wiping out reparations or | getting moral satisfaction concerning | t situation | ternational | Which has created the conditions for | of catastrophic developments. The bourgeoisie is itsalf sharpening the situation and hastening decisive class battles, The development of the sit- uation in Germany and the sharpen- ing of the entire international situa- tion is bringing about a catastrophic development of all Europe. “The Communist Party of Germany is confronted with a difficult and responsible task. It depends primar- ily upon the working class, upon the faithfulness and consciousness of the organization of the German Commu- nists, upon the strength of their con- nection with the masses and upon their ability to utilize decisive battles ot the German proletariat and the entire revolutionary experience of in- ternational labor--as te who will be victorious in tho oa ketene 3 batties, MINERS STORM INDIANA JAIL Free Strikers; Closes Hoosier Mine (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) warning the membership against militant action, Suttle, secretary of the district, sent out a circular letter to all members of the union, “warn- ing them against the damage this would do thé cause.” He means militant picketing. Lark and Timko, agents of the dis- trict and international officialdom, are urging the miners to adopt a policy of “passive resistance” pat- terned after, as they say, the policy of Ghandi in India, Lark and ‘Timko | are against mass picketing. They | | pretend to be for it under the pres-/ sure of the militant miners. Lark | advocated the $4 scale long before it | was agreed to by the distfict offi- cials. Timko and Lark refused the floor to a representative of the In- Labor Defense, which supports the strikers, but invited Whitlock, prosecuting attorney of Vigo County, to speak at the same mass meeting, Whitlock urges the issuance of in- “The forces of German Revolu-| junctions to curb mass picketing, is responsible for the jailing of miners and has organized a reign of terror against the unemployed in W. Terre Haute, who some time ago took food out of a chain store to feed their starving families. Timko and Lark tried to keep the mtiners from pick- Von Papen has carried through the | eting the Vermillon mine, which is An | operating under federal receivership, essentially fascist dictatorship has| Rumors have it that they madé a deal with Whitlock to do their best | tq keep the miners away from the Vermillon mine. Rank and File Calls for Action The rank and file opposition urged the miners to picket and close the Vermillon mine, in spite of Timko and Lark. This was done and the Vermillon mine was closed. Lark is going around making statements to the effect that Tash and Roberts of- fered him $90 to work on the “ground the U.M.W.A.’ This is his cheap way of trying to discredit the N.M.U. beforehand, Must Draw In Strip Miners, The N.M.U, urges the miners to set up rank and file committees to take charge of the strike and take it out of the hands of those who advo- cate the $4 scale. The N.M.U. urges the miners to continue to mass picket, making the strike statewide in ef- fect, including the drawing in of the strip miners, The minérs of Indiana have so far defeated the operators and the officialdom of their union to put a wage-cut into effect. The main task of the Indiana miners must be the defeat of the ‘wage-cut and the winning of unem- Germany has entered upon a road’ ployment. rellet from the county 4 Tanks were a comparatively new slaughter-dev ice during the imperialist war of 1914-18, yet they suc- ceeded in killing thousands of men. Today, 14 years a fter, they are among the most highly developed of the armaments being stored up for the next imperialist w ar. PRAVDA ANALYZES GERMAN SITUATION Yon Pappen Terror Strengthened j“orces of Civil War in Germany, Says W. Knorin in Pravda fourths of it, SDAY, JULY 26, 193% 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TU: AY, 5 NEW VICTORIES BOSSES POLISH ’EM UP; WORKERS, FIGHT IMPERIALIST WAR AUGUST Ist!|LITVINOFF HITS This machine-gun manned motorcycle is the latest contribution of the War Department “Isn't she a beatuy?” they proudly exclaim as t hey exhibit it, war armaments. Here’s the latest thing in plane bombs. The camera lens ewas un- able to catch the full height of the bomb; picture shows only three- The war depariment of the U. 8. boasts that the present type of anti-aiferaft gun, of which this is an exantple, is eight times as effective as the weapons used during the imperialist war. ‘10,000 STRIKERS Defy Bayonets of Troops MEXICO CITY, June 2%5.—Defying the organized terror of the Mexican Government and its troops, 10,000 street car and railway workers, with thelr wives and children, paraded through the main streets, of the city today. They marched through a huge force of soldiers, mobilized by the government and posted every ten feet with fixed bayonets, The demonstration was a protest against the treacherous strike-break- ing activities of the Mexi¢an Govern. ment, puppet of Wall Street. The street car strikers and the strikers of the Southern Pacific Railroad of Mexico were last week induced to re- turn to work, pending arbitration of their demands. The reformist lead- ers in both unions helped in the be- trayal of the struggles. The National Board of Arbitration and Conciliation has, as was expected, delayed its de- cision In the hope of disrupting the whether Germany will go towards| floor of the N.M.U. and help break solidarity and fighting spirit of the workers in preparation for a decision favoring the bosses, Banner carried by the demonstra- tors atta hed Javied Sanchez Mesor- ada, the managing director of ihe National Railways of Mexico. The demonstrators shouted “Down with roe aes and “Death to Mejor- ada! governments. The miners of Indi- vation. They must be warned against the efforts of the officialdom of their union to sidetrack them. Unity with the Illinois miners must be estab- lished and the struggle against: the pay cut in both states must be or- ganized on a joint basis; MARCH IN MEXICO, ana are on the march against star-/ WORKERS TRIED FOR COPS ATTACK Prove Police Planned Raid LOS ANGELES, Calif—That the! police raid on the Unemployed) Council representatives in the wel- fare office on June 3 was deliber- ately planned in advance by police and welfare workers was certified | unflinchingly by the unconflicting| testimony of defense witnesses inthe boys’ trial here, Four of the defendants took the stand, telling a story of heroic re-| taliation on the brutal attack planned to prevent the hungry from protest- ing their condition, They related how, their clothes soaked with their own blood, they still carried on the fight for the starving people they had come to/| help by showing themselves at the window to the public cramming thd! streets below and telling them that they had come for food and rectived a beating. Blood from the heads of Russel Dell and James Dickson had dropped and stained the sides of the bia ing, it was stated. Their stories were corroborated in the main by the testimonies drawn from the prosecution witnesses, More evidence of court partiality was shown by the fact that the rec- ords of the Welfare Bureau denied the International Labor Defense at- torney, Leo Gallagher, earlier in the trial, were brought in by Prosecutor Johnstone today, JOBLESS WORKER KILLED ON FREIGHT, CLEVELAND, July 25. — A middle- aged worker, James Flatley of Newark, N. J., unemployed for two years, was killed here when he slip- ped from the top of a fast moving it car as freigh la’ bd fi to imperialist | THUGS MOP Bullies Cow Victims of ridge, By MAX PINCUS (By a Workre Correspondent) WOODRIDGE, N. Y, July 21—I am an unemployed worker and came to look for a job hefe. I stayed at Elkins’ Employment Agency. I came here on June 7 with $40, most of which I have already spent for food and sleeping quarters at Elkins’. The agencies here carry on a hotel racket, the agency business being only & sideshow to lure workers to hang around. This is what happened to me in this agency: Hit By Bully On July 15 I was put into the same room with a man who was hired to| drive Elkins’ car. I was sitting on my bed that night when this man walked in. He asks me in a loud voice, “Whose clothes are these, any- WORKERS STORM, FEDERAL JOB 11 Jailed Demanding Work in Sioux City SIOUX CITY, July 25.—Hundreds of unemployed workers stormed the new post office construction job here demanding jobs and set up a picket line which stopped all trucks from coming or going to the job for sey- eral hours, During the first picket demonstra- tion the fire department and police were called who turned the fire hose on the workers. Six workers were ar- rested, among them George Wickey, m@mber of the Young Communist League. Continues Two Days t The demonstrations for jobs con-/ tinued for tWo days, despite police | orders to ban all demonstrations and | |parades. The workers are planning | | to carry on the fight until they are) either given jobs or relief. During the second day of the dem- |onstrations five more workers were | \ arrested, making 11 altogether. Henry Nicholas, leader of the Unemployed | Council, was arrested while speaking to the workers, Lillian Roberts, who | took his place when the cops pulled him down; J. T. Brown, seeretary | Of the Unemployed Council, and three more workers were taken to jail by | the police. Threat to Call Troops All police reserves in the city were called out and the night shift re- mained on duty all day. Reports in the local press say that the governor will call the National Guards against the workers, This sight of hungry workers fight- ing for jobs has put fear into the hearts Of the bosses here. The Unemployed Council is calling la protest meeting at the court house to demand the release of all the workers who were jailed. When the firemen turned the hose on the workers a small boy, son. of one of the workers who happened to be sitting on top of a shed, was knocked off the shed by firemen and it has been reported that he has a broken arm, broken in two places. An elderly lady who was passing by was knocked down and severely injured, the local press did not carry @ line about this working class boy and woman who were injured by these thugs of the boss class, August First In Richmond. RIOHMOND, Va. July 2—The local Unemployed Council is mob- ilizing its membership for the anti- war demonstration on August First, International Fighting Day Against Imperialist War. It is expected that fully 4,000 workers and farmers will demonstrate here in protest against the present robber war on China, the vicious local police terror and un- sneakable starvation conditions, AGENCY ROBS WORKERS Page Three IMPERIALISTS Makes Exposure 16) Sham “Arms Cut” POLICE PLAN M anoeuvers (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE/ present form it must be rejected.” | Litvinoff pointed out that as a practical compromise the Soviet delegation was prepared to agree to! one-third reduction of armaments) as a first stage in disarmament. At the same time it can under no cir- cumstances agree to exemption from reduction as separate parts the armed forces destined for po-/ lice and colonial service, The So-) viet State, declared Litvinoff, can-| not join in a document which fer-| mally sanctions methods for the realization of imperialist and col-' onial policy against the struggle of the masses in the imperialist coun- tries and in the colonies. In addition, Litvinoff propose tha | complete abolition and prohibition of | War aviation, tanks and heavy artil4 jlery with calibre exceeding 100 mil. limeters. Proposing these amends ments, Litvinoff declared “the Soviet delegation is fully aware that : jamendments will hardly be adopte unanimously or even by majorit; UP AFTER Hotel Racket in Wood- N. Y. show?” I replied I did not know. In the same tone he continued, “I don’t want any bums hanging around here.’ I replied, "The man had no place to sleep and came here to change.” Then he shouted, “Don’t get so tough, or I'll knock you cold,” and | with that he socked me in the eye.| In & daze I instinctively grabbed a) chair and defended myself, but just} then Mr, Elkin‘ and his present) chauffeur walked in, grabbed me,| twisted my arms back and threw me to the floor. Judge and Bully Confer I was taken along with this bully to testify before Judge Langer. A doctor who was there dressed my Wound and said I had been hit by al | blunt instrument. The judge asked the bully, “Do you |plead guilty or not guilty.” Then |the judge and the bully conferred| {in a low voice, the bully said “guilty,” | and the judge said, “Five dollars | fine.” Now this bully walks about town j and keeps on threatening workers. Be An Anti-War Correspondent To all worker correspondents of the United States: To all readers: Congress has just appropriated | $726,000,000 more for armaments. War preparations are made in se- crecy, We must pierce through this secrecy, now, before all preparations have been completed. Worker correspondents therefore | play an especially important role in the fight against imperialist war. Worker correspondents, all work-| ers who are in a position to get the smallest bit of information on the manufacture of war supplies, the Spreading of war propaganda: Be the sentinels of the workers’ anti- war front. Watch the ammunition plants, the textile plants, the steel] plants, the waterfront, the bosses’ | propaganda agencies. In 1915 the A. B. Kirschbaum Co. | © {Philadelphia filled an order for 1,500,000 British uniforms. Some) time ago the War Department sent specifications to all textile and eloth- | ing plants for use on demand. Has any demand been made recently? Send in your reports to warn other workers through the pages of the/ Daily Worker. Be a worker anti-war | correspondent. Twin City Meet Wed. to Aid Bonus March MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 25.— Al Johnson, member of the Minne- sota contingent of the Bonus Army in Washington, is now organizing the veterans of Minneapolis and St. Paul to support the bonus army with supplies and with additional forces. A bonus meeting under the auspices of the B. E. F, will be held in Loring Park at the bandstand on Wednes- day, 7:30 p.'m., July 27th, All vet- erans are invited to attend. A permit | hes been obtained for the meeting | from the Park Board. A bonus head- quarters will be opened in Minne- apolis soon, 1.W.O. In Campaign PHILADELPHIA, July 25. — All branches of the International Work- ers Order in this city will participate in the anti-war demonstrations on August First. Bungalows and Rooms to Rent for Summer Season Several very nice reoms and bungalows if Fent for the summer Beant. fel form in Bastern fishin gonable rates. Coninaniente, with with Tom Jessor, April Farm, Coopersburg, Pa. vote. If, nevertheless, it insists ot |@ vote on these amendments it does so on the basis of its profound cons viction that even unsuccessful inter< | national conferences are of great im+ |Portance and give much instructive and useful material. . . . Naturally the Soviet delegation is in the first place anxious that the position of the Soviet Government on the ques4 tion of disarmament be absolutely Clear to all nations and that it be freed from the responsibility of the negative or insufficient results of this conference, It hopes that ¥ has at-| tained this aim because it has never, failed to declare and in any case de clates now once again, that it favors, the most far-reaching measures for: disarmament up to complete univer- sal disarmament. If out of practical) considerations it proposes measures |or agrees with measures for partial) disarmament, it never departed from! its fundamental proposal for com-' plete universal disarmament, which) it still considers the best method, against war and the utmost guar- antee of universal peace. Litvinoff further declared that this, guarantee is imperatively dictated by the present peculiarities of interna- tional life which is still menaced by; international armed Clashes. The! conference convened in February; when almost all types of armaments were in action committing their ‘de- struction of human lives. If the thun-' der of guns and falling bombs has now quieted somewhat it doesn’t mean that the danged indicated by, them has been removed. The stub-! born resistance which even the pro-| posals on minimum measures of dis- armament meet at the conference shows that the governments in spite of the pacifist agreement on the ‘re- jection’ of war as a means of na- tional policy, the governments still prefer to be fully armed when speak- jing even on peace and international solidarity. The policy for the conclusion of pacts of non-aggression between | states is carried on by the Soviet Government still meets with obstacles on the part of other governments, | Under such circumstances one can- not speak of real political disarm- ament, and the Soviet Government sees no ground for weakening its Propaganda for universal peace thru complete universal disarmament. The Soviet proposal for complete disarmament has been rejected, in fact, as very “impractical,” despite {th efact that the conference didn’t |deal with this proposal. Ten years of preparatory work and six months of the existing conference, | Sufficiently ang convincingly prove the impracticability of the other pro- posals moved in opposition to the Soviet proposal. Careful study of the work of the conference and its technical commissions must convince any unkiased persons that it is much easier to abolish this or that type of | Weapon than to establish its charac- teristic and limit its size. Consider- ation of comparative safety of viola- tion, the established relativity and violation in the interests of separate countries are the more vivid the more we deviate from the course of complete abolition of this or that weapon. The method of objective propor. tional reduction was recommended by the Soviet delegation to the Prepara- tory Commission, and to the present conference in the proposals of the American Government which five other countries poined in. The Soviet Government learns with satisfaction from the numerous let- ters and resoltitions of various na- tional and international organizas tions that its position finds recogni- tion. The delegation, however, counts not only on recognition but on active support for its position. The Soviet delegation firmly clings to its posi- tion in all further stages of the work of the conferences, It will continue an irreconciliable struggle against war an din the interest of real uni« versal peace, Why this “horror” at the brutal- ity of Florida prison camps, when the prison camps in every state