The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 1, 1932, Page 4

Porty US.A Co., Inc., daily exexept Sunday, at 50 E./ Cable “DATWORK” sth St., New York, N. ¥. Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Iath St., New York. City, Teleptione, ALronquin 4-7956. Adévese and mail checks to the Daily Worker, 50 E. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 2, GQne year, $6; six. months, 93; famhatten and Bronx,, New! York. City. six months, $4.50. By twe, months, $1; excepting Foreign: one year, $8; it Berburh of A Barrage of Lies IERBERT HOOVER has added insult to murder. blood was still being spilled on the banks of the Potomac, waile the embers of the shelter of the homeless veterans While were still burning, the Hunger President in the White House ga te shoot, club and unarmed, defer arving war veterans, their wives and children, issued a statement gloating over the ements” of Bloody Thursday. The action of the ve in peacefully assem- bling and petitioning for the pay the government owes them ig called by Hoover “overt lawlessness.” Hoover’s order to the army to burn out the’ veterans contained a clause trying to make it appear that Communists are criminals. He said many in the bonus ‘ere not veterans at all, but “Communists and persons with criminal records.” This lie is nailed by even the capi- talist press reports, which reveal that all wounded workers in the Washington hospitals are veterans. To back up the charge that bonus fighters are criminals, the forgery experts of the department of justice and the various police depart- ments are busy faking “records” against John Pace and other rank and file veterans’ leaders. Government by murder is supplemented by lies and forgeries of “police records” as well as forgeries of so-called incriminating documents. This old hoax has been used time without number by agents of the United States government and the stool pigeon brigades in the employ of imperialism. 1 the milie Hoover is branded as a hypocrite when he pretends to shrink from violence and says there “can be no safe harbor in the United States for violence.” This monstrous lie is refuted every day by the very existence of the capitalist government, which is, itself, an instrument maintained for the purpose of imposing terror and violence on the working class; which is the Wall Street way out of the crisis—the way of increased slavery and terror.. The Hoover government and its republican and demo- eratic backers cannot escape their responsibility for the assault on the veterans. The Hoover government, aided by the socialist lackey, Thomas, fought tooth and nail against the bonus. Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corporation found billions for the “relief” of the bankers and industrial- ists, but not one cent for the bonus veterans or the un- employed. Now Hoover has the audacity to come out and state that organized violence and terror against the veterans and workers and farmers is essential to “economic recon- struction.” These words are a threat to the toiling masses. They mean new attacks against the workers who fight for jobs and bread. This second note of Hoover is an added insult to the veterans and to the whole working class. It is a challenge that shall be taken up. There is only one fit reply te such an attack and that is—FIGHT BACK. Close ranks and fight shoulder to shoulder, veterans, ‘unemployed and part-time workers, native-born and foreign-born, Negro and white, against the Hoover hunger and war program. Fight against capitalist terror and for the rights of the workers! Fight for the Bonus and Jobless Insurance! The crime against the veterans of 1917—the heroes of yesterday who are treated as outcasts of today—this Bloody Thursday—must be the signal for determined 2 the growing imperialist war danger. on against ON MALATESTA INRICO MALATESTA, world anarchist leader. pneumonia last Monday. He was 85 years old For the last ten years he did not particip: in any lived in Rome where, his followers claim, he was he! by Mussolini. died in Rome of double struggle. He ld a virtual prisoner In anouncing his death the New York Times stated that in 1921 “the Communists warned Premier Giolitti that if Malatesta were not ar- rested he would be slain by members of their party.” This is an outright lip. Malatesta was a bftter'enemy of the Commumist who however never demanded ‘iits!arrest. Letters from Our Readers USE SYNONYMS Atlantic City, N. J. Dear Comrades: We are faced with a problem of ; Vocabulary in our Party literature | jand especially in the Daily Worker. The use of such terms as Class | HAMMER AND SICKLE | Rochester, N. Y, | Dear Comrades:— signatures recently gained some in- | formation which I believe will be val- uable, While collecting Election Petition [Imperial iayeosapaere Capitalism, The demagogy of the Socialist iperialism, etc., jout any ex-| party and the Socialist Labor Party ‘planation, drives the uninitiated worker further away from us, rather than drawing him closer to the Party and its struggles. I propose that the Daily Worker ,adopt Comrade Hathaway’s method ‘of inserting a synonym or a word of explanation in parenthesis after the obscure word. Translate the word jat once in its first appearance in the article. Comradely, (R. G.) “DAYS WITH LENIN” m Reno, Nev, Dear Comrades:— Haye followed Gorky’s “Days with ‘Lenin” with pure delight. Sorry it nad to end. I do not agree with “And other man has so weil deserved the ternal resemblance of the world.” Indeed there are others, Marx and (Engels, for instance. We cannot iso- late Lenin from these other two. He would permit it, Nor would history it it. I hope we will have more of that kind of writing. i. B. VOTE COMMUNIST FOR: have confused the workers with the result that most of them don’t know the difference between the S. P., S. L. P., and the C. P They believe that all parties represent the workers. A group of workers said to us: “The old parties are no good. We'll show ‘em. We're going to vote for Nor- man Thomas, He’s the one. Sure we will sign your paper.” We explained We were not the Socialist Party but the Communist Party, and our can- didate is W. Z. Foster, but evenly then I know they only dimly under- stood. So I pointed to the Hammer and Sickle, explained its significance and told them to vote only for those candidates whose names were with it. By the interest they sHowed I know this made an impression on their minds. The hammer and sickle should be on all Communist leaflets and espe- cially on all election propaganda, I also found it aided me in obtain- ing signatures if the workers were told that our Party is the same kind of Party as in the Soviet Union, at the same time contrasting living con- ditions of the workers in the two countries, The experiences I have written here occurred in Perry, N. Y. a town of 5,086 population. It has a knit- the government and benks; ex- emption ef peor farmers from taxes, anf ne formal: collve- tion of rents ‘er_ debts, ee a ting mill in which two wage cuts have eotive- “tetttn plaice, ‘Many are unemployed. DAILY WORKER; NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1932 The Work of Trade Union Fractions 'HE whole practice of carrying out the decisions of the VI. Congress | of the C. I. and the decisions of the Plenums of the E. C. C. I. which supplement them confirm the fact that it will be impossible to solve the central task of the moment— | the winning over of the majority of Sey ee -i. the working class in preparation for thé fights for the dictatorship of the proletariat,—unless everyday systematic stubborn and properly organized work is carried on both ih the revolutionary unions, which are under the ideological and or- ganizational influence of the Com- | munist Parties ang in the reformist and other reactionary trade unions. However, this most important sector of the mass work of the Commu- nist Parties still continues to be the weakest one, and this weakness of the work of the Communist Parties in the trade unions is now one of the main hindrances to their further development. In the reso- lution of the second international organizational meeting on the structure and methods of work of Communist fractions inside the trade unions, confirmed by the VI. Enlarged Plenum of the E. C. C. L. the most concrete instructions are given to the Communist fractions in the trade unions on how to build up the work of the Communist Parties in the trade unions. These decisions of the second tional organizational meeting are interna- ‘ THE STEAL! Griideatiads ‘Guetienis Trade Linked De- partments Under Legal and Illegal Conditions still correct on the whole at the present moment, The chances whic have taken place in the general situation in the class struggle of the proletariat and likewise the changes in the organizational structure, the meth- | ods of work and the composition of the leading cadres of the Com- munist Parties and the revolution- ary T. U. movement since the VI Enlarged Plenum of the E. C. 0. L. make it necessary to make some additions and amendments to these decisions. First of all, practice shows that it isno longer advisable | for trade union departments to | exist further in countries with a legal revolutionary trade union movement, ‘The C. P's of France, Germany and Czechoslovakia have already done away with their trade union departments. The Presidium of the z. C. C. L. sanctions these decisions and resolves to alter the directives of the second international organi- zational meeting and to instruct the other Communist Parties in countries with a legal revolutionary T. U. movement to abolish their trade union departments, and in SILENT THE NEW LEADER AND NORMAN THOMAS TRY TO COVER UP STEAL WITH TYPICAL CAPITALIST METHODS the future to. bring about the lead- | ership of the work of the trade | union fractions directly through the | bureau of the corresponding Party committees. For this purpose, 1. when constructing the leading organs (Party Committees, buearu of Party committees), take steps to include in them the leaders of the | chief revolutionary trade union or- ganizations; 2. at meetings of the | Party committee and its bureau, have regular reports made on the | activity of the fractions of the | corresponding trade union organi- | zations to which the influence of the given Party Committee extends. | In connection with these reports of | the Communist fractions, the ques- | tion of trade union work should be | raised and discussed in the Party | Committees; 3. one of the mem- bers of the secretariat (or bureau) | of the Party Committee must be charged with carrying out daily contacts with the fractions of the corresponding trade union organi- zations and preparing to raise the question of the act of these fractions (prelimina: discussion, preparation’ of draft resolutions, etc.) for discussion by the Party 4e} Pal Socialist Party of apeing the worst methods of its big brother parties. speech to try to arrest the leftward swing of the radicalized masses again emphasizes the fact that this Socialist Party, this third party of capitalism, is the most dangerous.enemy-in. the mass fight against the Wall Street hunger and war program, dead about this political rascality. Silence Speaks Louder Than Words ‘The Daily Worker on Wednesday, July 27, published the exposure of the steal of Comrade Foster's speech by the American Freeman, socialist organ in Kansas, On July 28, the Daily Worker showed that the American Freeman is acknowledged by the national Office of the Socialist; Party as an official peper. It placed the question to the workers “can the socialist leaders explain?” Since then Norma nThomas has issued several statements to the capitalist press. On Saturday he spoke at an Ulmer Park meeting. But he had not a word to say of the exposure of this piece of socialist political degeneracy. He preferred, like capitalist statesmen, to try to bury in silence the demagogic trick- ery of the Socialist Party. The New Leader appeared on Friday morning, and again it is as silent as the The socialists think that this wili deceive the workers. ‘The deed and the crayen way in which Thomas and, the New Leader try to cover it up convicts the Its ditsorting of Comrade Foster's Pow OMMunIsT PARTY CALLS, Ul 6 RMERS FOR MUATANT QvOGlES Now AGAINST BOHCER an War's organizations (the Party Commit- tee and its bureau, general meetings and conferences, etc.) In countries: with an illegal re- volutionary trade union movement, instead of having trade union de- | partments under the Party Com- mittees, there must be formed after the example of the C. P. of Poland regularly working gatherings of representatives of the trade union fractions in the leading trade union organs, under the leadership of specially appointed representatives of the corresponding Party Com- mittees of the bureaus of the frac- tions (central district and local) of the revolutionary trade union cen- tres. ‘When liquidating the trade union departments, it is very important that the corresponding Party com~ mittees shall not deal with this matter mechanically. In every con- crete case there must be’ well thought out preparations with a definite principle,-so that as the result of doing away with the trade union department, the contacts of the fractions with the Party Com- mittee will unquestionably be made stronger and so that the Party committee and the whole Party or- ganization should take part as a whole in th esystematic discussion and solution of trade union ques- | tons. (LTO BE CONTINUED) Supports By WILLIAM SCHNEIDERMAN LOYD B, Olson, Farmer-Labor Governor of Minnesota, has is- sued a statement that he will sup- port Franklin D. Roosevelt, De- mocratic candidate for President. This open, brazen support of the Tammany Hall carididate, the Wall prise to the militant owrkers and farmers of Minnesota who have learned of the capitalist role of the Farmer-Labor Party through bitter experience. This is not the first time that the Farmer-Laborites supported the Democratic Party; in his candidacy for Governor, Ol- son obtained support of the Demo- erats in return for the Farmer- Labor support to Democratic can- didates. This horse-trading maneuver re- flects the increasingly difficult posi- tion that the Farmer-Labor Party finds itself in, with thousands of workers and farmers becoming rap- idly disillusioned in the Farmer- Labor administration which has fowtotten all its demogogic election promises of 1930. Governor Olson was elected on the slogan “Strike A Blow At Unemployment,” and farm relief. Today, there are 175 unemployed in the state of Min- nesota, and the state government. has done nothing for unemploy- ment relief. With a surplus of more than 27 million dollars in the state treasury on July Ist, the state gov- ernment has not appropriated one cent for the unemployed. The support unemployment insurance, but the Farmer-Laborites in the State Ligislature and in Congress did not raise a finger to introduce bills for unemployment insurance. The Farmer-Labor Governor makes a big plea for “economy,” but he didn’t believe in economizing when he signed a bill passed by the Re- publican-controlled Legislature ap- propriating $1,550,000 for the Na- tional Guard. The State Rural Credits Bureau, the pet project of the Farmer-La- bor Party for “farm relief,” can today boast that it has foreclosed more than 6,000 farms. The ex- ploited farmers of Minnesota, car- rying a crushing tax burden and mortgages which they cannot meet, are facing foreclosures, sheriffs sales and evictions by the thousands. The Farmer-Labor administration has taken over the role of land- lord and banker, and is efficiently carrying through the program of the capitalist class. And governor Olson, in a speech beforé the Min- nesota Bankers Association, assuerd them that his administration would do nothing to hurt their invest- ments. No wonder it is rumored that bankers contributed to Olson's campaign fund! ‘The record of governor Olson and the Farmer-Labor Mayors of the ‘Twin Cities, Mayor Anderson |of Minneapolis and Mayor Mahoney of St. Paul, shows that the claims of the Farmer-Labor Party that they are for unemployment relief and. against wage-cuts are rank hypocrisy and demogogy. In Min- neapolis, where there are 75,000 unemployed, only 4,500 are on the relief lists, and these receive small grocery orders amounting to a few cents a day. Up to July 8th, they were forced to work for this mis- erable relief, but on that date a magnificent demonstration of thou- sands of workers led by the T 1em- ployed Council forced the City Street lawyer Roosevelt, is no sur-/| because of his lavish promises for Farmer-Labor platform claims to | Roosevelt Council to pass a motion ing forced labor. Evictions are be= ing ordered daily, and they would take place but for the prompt aé= tion of the unemployed council im forcing the city to pay the rent | for those facing evictions. In St. Paul, the Farmer-Labor members of the City Council voted wagecuts for city employees. Gove ernor Olson also ordered wage-cuts for 10,000 state employees. In Mitie ™ neapolis, a strike against a wages cut on the Ford Dam was smashed! by Mayor Anderson’s police who” beat up and jailed pickets and pro= tected scabs. A farmer's road strike on Highway No. 11 against wages cuts met the opposition of Olson and the Farmer-Labor State Sen~ ator Lomen, but was finally wor by the farmers militancy. ‘The Farmer-Labor Party is making new “left” maneuvers in an effort te bolster up its waning influence. The platform adopted at the State Farmer-Labor Party Convention in St. Paul declared for “a new social order,” in an attempt to hide the fact that the Farmer-Labor Party stands for the capitalists social or- der, and fights tooth and nail. against. the only’ anti-capitalisy.. party that fights for a new social order, the Communist Party. An- er-Labor plank for a state income other “left” maneuver is the F-~ tax, “in order to relieve the small home-owner.” This income tax, even if adopted, would not be an additional tax upon wealth in ors | der to furnish funds for social in- | surance and unemployment relief? | it would be a small “replacement” | tax which would proportionately reduce the property taxes of the capitalist class. The vast majority of the workers and farmers have nothing to be taxed, and those that have, are faced with the need for cancellation of delinquent taxes, not mere reduction of taxes, as’ otherwise they are in danger of los- ing their homes and fgrms. The’ Farm-Labor platform, therefore, offers no real solution to the prob- Jems of the workers and poor farm~ ers. It is perfectly consistens {01 Olson to support Roosevelt, just as it is consistent for Senator Ship- stead and Congressman Kvale, also Farmer-Laborites, to support |the policies of- the Hoover Wall Street, administration. ‘The Communist Party is conduct= ing a < tong fight against the bet- rayals of the Farmer-Labor Party. The State Election: platform of the Communist Party demands the pas- sage of a state law for unemploy- ment insurance, providing for a graduated tax on all large incomes and property. The platform de- mands the immediate appropriation » of at least 25 million dollars out. of the surplus in the state treasury, for emergency cash relief to unem= ployed workers and poor farmers. It demands cancellation of all de- linquent taxes on the homes and farms of workers and poor farm= ers, and a stoppage to foreclosures by. State Rural Credits Bureau. { Increasing numbers of workers and farmers are supporting the only anti-capitalist party and its prog- ram, the Communist Party, against the demagogy of the Farmer-La+ borites. Olson’s support of, Roose- velt will only hasten the disfflusion= - ment of the masses in this third party of the capitalist class, the. Farmer-Labor Pafty, and will con<"" vince them that it is in their in- terest to vote Communist on Nove ember 8th. ary policy behind a pretense of radicalism. HERE, PRINT TAIS 5 SPEECH, cen CHANGE THE WORDS PARTY vo ee Quist PAR WHAT FOSTER SAYS OF SOCIALIST. POLITICAL SWINDLE Comrade William Z. Foster, upon receipt of the exposure of the political swindle — of the socialist organ, the American Freeman, of his acceptance speech, wired to. the” Daily Worker from Grand Rapids, Mich., as follows: *‘The.action of the American Mais A edited by E. Haldemann Julius, socialist +, candidate for United States Senator from the state of Kansas, in doctoring my ac-~ veptance speech, is a typical case of social fascist. corruption. necessity of the Socialist Party in face of the awakening masses to hide its reaction- Not content with distorting Marx and En- xels for years, the Socialist Party now descends to thievery and castrating the day to day writings of workers in the revolutionary movement. The DAILY WORKER did ae real-service in stripping the hypocritical mask from the socialist, Haldemann Julius, mete July 30, 1982, It illustrates the great WILLIAM Z. FOSTER, |