The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 11, 1932, Page 4

PARTY | BuffaloWhite |Chauvinist to LIFE | CAPITALIST DEMOCRACY WRITES | —By Burck | | Against Imperialist War; Call to Socialist Workers z = Dail orker Central Porty USA. Published by the C edally Pubuts ba Oc, Tne., anily axerept Senday, 0 BL 18th 8t., New York City. . ¥ one ALgonquin 4-7968. Cable “DATWORK.” Ad@vess and mall cheeks te the Dafly Worker, © K. 18h St, New York, M. ¥. 4 “Against war budgets, a vote By WILLIAM SIMONS, | U panies and other corporations. ruptey F of 80 cents a week per head on which to stock-watered corporation, bonuses to its executives, and after cutting wages and laying off half its workers, is rewarded with a title to new wealth. dating loan by this all-powerful government corporatoin—the R. F. C. workers back on their jobs. “bumped off” from their jobs. help bankers—preferably ‘big ones—and their clients. one of the agencies through which inflation—increasing the prices of | workers’ food, clothing and necessities—is being brought about. pumping of billions into the bankrupt concerns does not alleviate the esto but only drags it out, and makes the lot of the workers more in- tolerable. SUBSCRIPTION BATES: ul everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3: Borough ot Manhattan ron, New York City. mm 75 cents per m six months, $4.50. Canada, 4% per year The Bankers’ Pork Barrel VER a billion dollars to banks, railroads, mortgage com- This is the huge dole that the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, described as “the most powerful peacetime agency ever created by any } government,” in its reports for the first seven months ot operation. During seven months of this year, when total interest and dividend payments to the principal American corpora- tions amounted to over $4,615,000,000, the U. S. Treasury was handing this same class over a billion dollars in credit subsidy to save certain banks and corporations from bank- and collapse. While the total wage payments to workers have dropped from 60 to 70 per cent below the 1929 level, the Hoover hun- ger government, with full Democratic support, leaves the workers with- out any support or subsidy. fellow workers through the stagger system. tunate they can half alive by a me! Workers are expected to be helped by their Or, if they are still less for- t from garbage cans or starve altogether unless kept pittance from charity. At the same time the Wall Street banks and their affiliates and re- Jated corporations in all parts of the country make connection with this source of public funds—the R. F. C into their coffers. It obligingly pumps millions in cash The R. F. C. is bi-partisan. Its chairman is an anti- labor Democrat, Atlee Pomerene of Ohio. * ° . WORKER without a job, with a sick wife and hungry children, is “in- vestigated, ad, if he is very lucky, g in New York City, the sum “subsist.” But a million dollar voting $75,000 Ralaries and $100,000 after It is given an accommo- This is the “eqtal opportunity” enjoyed by the “favored” and the poor under capitalism, a system supported wholeheartedly by the Hoover- Democratic coalition Congress that passed the law creating the R. F. C. Who are the beneficiaries of these enormous government handouts? The Hoover administration. and these who have benefited have fought tooth and nail to stop any publication of the names of the corporations that have received these floods of credit. have so far been made public. to show the character of the institutions that have been feeding at the trough while the masses are starving. So only afew of the names But the little that we know is sufficient For the first seven months the loans made include those to 4,324 banks and trust companies; 391 receivers and liquidators of closed banks; 79 insurance companies; 68 mortgage-loan companies; 43 railroads and 6 receivers of railroads, not including several to various credit corporations, building and loan associations and similar private corporations. HE partial list published of individual corporations receiving aid from this government agency includes scores of the biggest banks, trust com- - panies and railroads operated from Wall Street, with millionaires and leading bankers on their boards of directors. been made public already because the Interstate Commerce Commission must first pass on their loans. labor corporations as New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, Central Railroad of New Jersey, Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, Pennsyl- | yania Railroad, Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste Marie Railway Co., Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad, Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway, Baltimore & Ohio, Lehigh Valley, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, Cincinnati Union Ter- minal, Western Pacific Railroad, St. Louis, San Francisco Railway, Chi- cago, North Shore &.Milwaukee, Erie Railroad, Main Central, Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway, Central of Georgia, Sothern Railway, Nickel Plate. The list of railroads has The list of railroads includes such anti- All of these companies have been laying off workers, “staggering” those kept on the pay roll and joining in the concerteq move for an- other 10 per cent slash in rialroad wages. The record of the loans directly to the banks is even more scandalous. The banks that have been squeezing the blood out of the farmers and foreclosing on the mortgages of petty property owners and workers are the very ones that have been, without the promise of any more lenient policies, pulling large chunks of credit out of the R. F. C. The Morgan banks are reported to be the chief beneficiaries of the R. F. C. loans to date, and the bopds issued by Morgan are regarded as the most acceptable collateral for loans from this government pork barrel. {he New York Central secured money to pay off notes to Morgan and ther banking houses. railroads. Similar pro-Morgan loans have been made to other In the case of the Missouri Pacific loan, involving $12,800,000, the deal Was so raw that the Interstate Commerce Commission approved it only with “reluctance,” to “bail out” the banks. stating that it was against the use of government funds the money to Morgan and Kuhn Loeb & Co. * JANKER CHARLES G. DAWES, who had fleeced over 4,000 depositors in the notorious Lorimer Bank scandal some years ago, was the first head of the R. F. C. While he was in this position, however, his own | bank, the Central Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago started to founder, and cried for cash. in the vicinity of Chicago to go on the rocks without his aid, he immedi- ately came to the rescue of his own. his bank in Chicago received a R. F. C. loan of $85,000,000! Although Dawes had allowed 40 or more smaller banks He resigned and a few days later The Hoover administration talks glibly of the “constructive nature” of these loans and their alleged effect on the welfare of the workers, etc. | But the loans to the railroads, for example, have resulted in putting no In fact tens of thousands more have been | The R. F. C, is thus only an agency to The The huge credits from the Reconstruction Finance’ Corporation are only part of the relief to capital that has been poured out since the crisis began. ter descri| to their clas In her pamphlet, “Wall Street,” just issued, Anna Roches- s the enormous tax refunds made by the Mellons and Mills sums amounting since 1922 to over $3,000,000,000. Other government ncies, such as the Tariff Commission, the National Credit Corp., are likewise engaged in helping the plutecrats at the expense of the masses. ORKERS—stop the subsidies to the bankers! Build up the united front for relief and Unemployment Insurance, which are central de- mands of the Communist election campaign. Vote Communist! of the U S. The October “Commun'st” RTICLES of the wi of “THE COMMUN —Jjust off In the issue is included 1,—Bolshevik Fire Against Opportunism (Editorial) 2.—The Increasing Radicalization of the Masses and the Election Issues, by Clarence Hatha 3.--The Warren Strike, by Jack Stachel, 4.—The Sharpening Capitalist Offensive, the Rising Vide of Mass Struggles and the Next Tasks of the Party. (Resolution of the 15th Plenum of the Central Committee, CPUSA) 5.—Causes and Meaning of the Farmers’ Strike and Our Tasks as Communists, by Harrison George. 6.—Ta of the United Front. (Leading article in the July 15 issue of “THE BOLSHEVIK.” %7.—For a Strict Leninist Analysis of the Negro Question, by B. D, Amis. 8—On the International Character of the October Revolution by J, Stalin, 9.—The Fourth Winter of. Unemployment is upon us. (A Review of the American Economic Crisis as of September, 1932. By John Irving. Get the October issue of the magazine from the Workers’ Bookshop vital character are found in the October issue T,” theoretical organ of the Communist Party | the city.” | surance if paid to the workers by But just the same it authorized handing over | It is, furthermore, | | Face Workers By ETHEL STEVE HE Communist Party of Buffalo has decided to organize a mass trial against one of its members charged with white chauvinism. The workers at this trial will de- cide whether James Moorehouse has a place in the revolutionary movement. Because of the impor- tance of purging our ranks of the upholders of the ideology of the master class, and the methods to be pursued in this cleansing pro- cess, we wish to relate the experi+ ences of this case. SOCIALIST PARTY POISON James Moorehouse was connected with the revolutionary movement in England. When he came to Buffalo about nine years ago, he immediately got hooked up with “Rev. Hahn's church because, ac- cording to him, he “could not find the Communist Party” and that Rev. Hahn (the demagogic “left” Socialist of Buffalo) was “as good a Communist as can be found in Only about a year ago Moorehouse joined our Party. How- ever, with him he brought not only such corrupt Socialist Party theo- ties such as “unemployment in- the government will weaken the revolutionary movement; the work- ers should be starved more, such an insurance will take their incen- tive away, etc.” He also carted over the ideology of the slave mar- ket, white chauvinism, with which he was soaked through and through and which he refused to discard after joining our Party. After some time Moorehouse be- came the secretary of the Work- ers’ International Relief. This or- ganization is functioning in the heart of the Negro territory. Un- der his “leadership” not one Negro could find room in this organiza- tion in spite of the fact that he claims to have built up the W.LR. to a membership of about 90. . * ot IOOREHOUSE was for some time in charge of the Workers’ Cen- ter, Which is also located in the Negro section of Buffalo. Before opening the center, he found Ne- groes to clean the place, repair it, Tun errands, etc.; at the grand opening he found Negroes to cook the banquet food, wash the dishes, work all evening in the kitchen. But: “I heard a Negro quartette ask Moorehouse to be placed on the program to sing; he refused and said that the program is filled,’ according to charges pre- sented tby Comrade G. G. of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. From a similar statement pre- sented by R. “The W. I. R. had a picnic in Humboldt Park, There was one group of Pioneers that was entirely left out. There were mostly Negro kids who came out éatly in the morning and waited in the Workers’ Center to be taken to the grounds. They came again in the afternoon and told me that there was no room for them. Not a single Negro child was at this picnic, but plenty of white kids.” INSULTED NEGRO WORKERS From a statement by J: “The W. I. R. was putting on an old plantation sketch. Morehouse was | in charge of this play. During one rehearsal some of us got off to the side to do a little slide and stage tricks. At this time Moorehouse turned to us and said: ‘We don’t want any burlesque here. This is a dramatic show. If you want bur- Jesque get the hell out of here and stay out.’ This was said to me, to D. B. and another Negro. D. B. got out and stayed out of this place ever since.” : | Hii ana 5 F space would allow many more such instances of suspicion, mis- trust, discrimination, abuse and concealed white chauvinism on the part of the Moorehouse could be | cited. When he was called before | the Secretariat of our Party about | 6 months ago and told that a mass trial would be organized against him, he categorically refused to at- tend it, stating he is being “framed up,” ete, etc. The position of the majority of the Secretariat at that time was “to discuss this matter further with him; without Moore- hhouse’s presence the t#ial will be ‘@ fiasco.” Such a mistaken position on the part of our Party helped Moorehouse cover up his white chauvinism still more, and reduced the struggle against white chauv- inism to a struggle against the in- dividual Moorehouse, thus failing to grasp that Moorehoyse is only one with these corrupt and incor~ rigible ideas, and whether he ap- pears at the trial or not, the ques- tion systematically and persistently fighting against white chauvinism must be placed on the agenda be- fore the entire revolutionary move- ment and made known to the broad masses, NO ROOM FOR SUCH ELEMENTS When a worker displays white chauvinist tendencies, is willing to recognize them when his. attention is called, and takes steps to correct himself, the Party must aid him in this direction, but when a mem- ber takes a definite white chauvin- ist position and defends it, he has Ro room in our Party, because he defends the ideas of the ruling class. In the last statement issued by Moorehouse to the Secretariat, he @ vicious and typical so- cial-démocratic attack upon the Party leadership, but not a word about his atitude towards the Ne- groes, It is no accident that Ne- groes will not join the W. I. R., or come to the Center when such in- dividuals are around, Negroes will not join our movement when our actions differ from our speeches and written word. Moorehouse, and thru him, white chauvinism will be tried before the workers on Oct, 22, at the Workers Center, 476 William Street. Remove one white chauy- peter “........and hereafter all those elegible to vote in the state of Florida can vote only for those candidates whom we may wish to put on the ballot.” TOWARDS THE 15TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION Some New Products of the Anti- Soviet Lie Factories U.S. 8. R. Progress Contrasted With Capitalist Crisis Brings Flood of Lies; Yarns in London “Express” Typical of Bourgeois Press Thruout the World (The following article, although referring to the British capitalist press, and particularly to the London “Daily Express” neverthe- less applies with equal point to the numerous newspapers and magazines in the U. S. who car- ry on a continuous campaign of lying misrepresentation against the Soviet Union and its tre- mendous achievements. Editor’s Note.) e (ek cc By L, MOSKWIN. HE HISTORIAN to whom. will fall the somewhat. unsavory task | of diving into the filth which the press has poured out for the. last 15 years against the Soviet Union, | will have to record that in the last year or so, in the years of the de- | cisive successes of socialist con- | struction, it has become more and more difficult for the bourg-ois press to spread their lying reports about the Soviet Union. With inward rage, or with feigned astonishment, a certain part of the bourgeois press even if with re- servations, admit one success after the other of the Soviet Union. The reports of thousands of foreign- ers, tourists, workers’ delegations, intellectuals, ete., who have visited the Soviet Union, the reports of the many foreign workers and’spe~ , cialists who are directly taking part in socialist construction; and final-- ly, the increasing spread of faith- ful description of actual conditions in the Soviet Union—all this re- stricts the freedom of movement of. the capitalist papers and pro- duces a peculiar crisis in a branch of capitalist production, in the fa- brication of anti-Soviet lies. PROBLEM OF BOSS PRESS. ‘The problem now engaging the capitalist newspapers is how, in the new situation, to serve up their ly- ing reports. That is the one ques- tion that interests them. They could, of course, continue to pub- lish sensational telegrams from their notorious “own correspond- ent in Riga” or place the columns of their papers at the disposal of white guardist press hacks and ad- venturers from the circles of the emigres, but the press products of this sort are finding less accept- ance. Sensations from “Riga” are frequently exposed on the follow- ing day as canards which specu- late on the credulity of the read- ers. It is really hard to report a “revolt in Moscow” if on the fol- lowing day the press which really hhas its own correspondent in Mos- cow, publishes telegrams which deny the Riga report and categori- cally declare that today there is no other country or city in the whole world in which greater or- der and security prevails than in | Say the . bourgeois | good, we will send our own corres- pondent to Moscow and instruct | repeatedly compelled to publish tel- egrams of this character. “Riga” has lost its interest for the news- paper reader. Even those circles which. would be only too glad to read something in the newspapers regarding the overthrow of the Soviet government, are unable to swallow such stories. Si erchee In - England, however, there has been found a paper which has. at- tempted a new trick. The readers do. not want to hear anything more from “Riga”. They no longer be- lieve what the reporter in “Riga” writes about conditions in Moscow, editors, very him to write as he were in “Riga.” This paper, this jewel in the crown of Lord Beaverbrook, the newspaper king, is the “Daily Ex- press,” which has a mass circula- tion. Two circumstances induced Lord Beaverbrook’s hirelings to at- tempt a nevy trick: (1) the neces- sity to increase the anti-Soviet campaign ‘in connection with the protest which the English press, (including very influential organs,) has raised against the tendencies of some British circles to establish closer contact between Great Britain and the Dominions, especi- sly with Canada, at the cost of the trade with the Soviet Union, and (2) to fulfill the demand of Mr. Bennett, the Canadian Prime Mi- nister, that the imports of the Soviet Union to England be re- - | stricted, even at the risk of Eng- land losing Soviet orders and un- employment increasing in England as @ result. Further, there is the necessity of obliterating the favor- able impression which the articles and declarations of English politic- ians and journalists on the impres- sions of their visits to the Soviet Union has made on the English public. This applies especially to the articles of 15 English journa- lists and representatives of various well-known bourgeois and labor papers. “MEET MISS CLYMAN.” The “Daily Express” correspond- ent in Moscow Miss Rhea L. Cly- man was commissioned some time ago to supply Lord Beaverbrook’s press with the desired material. Miss Clyman eagerly seized on this chance of rendering the desired service to her employer. “Red Troops Fire on Starving Mob”, “Hunger Riots in Rusgia”, Under the above headlines there’ appeared in the “Daily Express” of September 9 a canard from Mos- com. Just listen to this: “Ivanovo - Vosnessensk, the northern textile centre of Soviet looting by hordes of hungry work- ers. These starvation outbreaks, re- vealed to Moscow today by eye- witness’ accounts filtering in de- spite a rigid censorship, are gen- erally believed to be the prelude to the worst riots and pillaging raids which Russia has known since the days of Red revolt and wholesale starvation shortly after the end of the war... “Impelled by hunger bands of workmen stormed and looted the Government store houses. “Troops of the Red Army and the G.P.U. (secret police), were summoned, and finally after re- peatedly firing into the mobs, succeeded jn quelling the rioting crowds,” o) Sexe ‘HIS BASE invention is not the first of the series of reports in the Riga style. A few days previ- ously, in the “Daily Express” of Sept. 5, there appeared with splash headlines on the front page the following report from Miss Cly- man: “The approach of the worst winter in Russia since the great famine ten years ago was her- alded today by two drastic de- crees jssued by the Soviet Goy- ernment. “The first orders a reduction by approximately 50 per cent of the present food rations of Russians and foreigners working in Rus- sia... The hundreds of foreign specialists employed on the Five. Year Plan . . . will find living desperately difficult this winter.” SENSATIONAL LIES. But Miss Clyman has won the special favor of the newspaper king not by means of these short re- ports, but a series of articles in the | “Daily Express” from August 29 to September 2—a series of articles which the editor in the issue of August 29, announced on the front page in the following sensational manner: “The Russia Nobody Knows”, “The Town of the Living Dead!” The town whose name no men or woman dare even whisper; {o which many go but from which few return; where none is ever heard to laugh; such is the hid- den town of Kem, far up in the North of Russia, Its dread se- crets have now been penetrated by a woman correspondent of the ‘Daily Express’—the first Briton to set foot inside the notorious prison stronghold of the Soviet since the British troops withdrew in 1929—are revealed in an en- thralling new series which begins Delegate of the Anti-Imperialist League of the Amsterdam World Congress Against War 'OCIALIST workers, why not unite our forces in a common struggle against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union? True, your leaders are opposed to it, but should that stop the necessary uni- fication of all proletarian forces for an effective struggle against imper- jalist war? The World Congress Against Im- perialist War was held at Amster- dam, Holland, August 27-29. The leaders of Second International and of the Socialist Party of America declared their opposition to this Congress. They, called upon all So- cialists to boycott the Congress preparations and the Congress it- self, on the ground that it was only a “Communist maneuver”; that Romain Rolland, Henri Bar- busse, Theodore Drieser and scores of other internationally known men and women were mere puppets in a Communist Punch and Judy show. ‘The New Leader echoed the state- ment of the leaders of the Second International. The New York local of the Socialist Party issued a sim- ilar “warning” in the New Leader. Socialist Workers Came But 291 workers, members of the Second International, came>as del- egates to Amsterdam, despite the order of Fritz Adler of Austria, Vandervelde of Belgium and -Leon Blum of France. Were these dele- gates “maneuvered” by the “wicked Communists”? Were they fooled by them into doing something they did not want to do, something not in their interests, something not in the interest of the working class? In an article in “Le Populaire,” French Socialist paper, Renaudel, one of the leaders of the Socialist Party of France, “pitied” the poor socialists who took part in the Am- sterdam Congress. But the Social- ist Party of France has not stopped with mere pity. Recognizing the growing influence of these socialist delegates among their fellow social- ists who elected them, the Socialist Party leaders are taking steps to expel these revolutionary workers from the Socialist Party of France. Expulsion—for what? For having taken part in the Amsterdam Con- gress, for having dared to unite with Communist workers, with non- party workers, with intellectuals. FIT COMPANY FOR REVOLUTIONARY WORKERS Was attendance at the Congress a crime? There were 2,195 dele- gates at the Congress, of whom 1,861 were workers, including Belgian striking miners, Lancashire textile strikers, revolutionary sailors from the Italian navy, the leader of the British naval mutiny at Invergor- don, workers from the colonies. And several hundred intellectuals, some of the best known in the world, among them Henri Barbusse and Anderson Nexo. Many Com- munists, including those who stood out against the last imperialist war in 1914, the Japanese veteran, Sen Katayama, and the dynamic Willi Muenzenberg. Should any revolu- tionary Socialist worker be ashamed to be in this gathering? Sa ae But the Adlers.and Vanderveldes know well that they cannot defend their position before any gathering of revolutionary workers. They can- not defend their action of 1914, when they made common cause with their national bourgeoisie, nor can they defend their present ac- tton, which is a duplication of 191¢. The Fritz Adlers, the Vanderveldes, the Hillquits and the Thomases, do not wish to see the masses rallied for a revolutionary struggle against imperialist war, and for the defense of the Soviet Union. Their propa- ganda is aimed to keep the masses from being united, to prevent that crystallization of workers’ unity which alone can effectively put an end to war. The Socialist delegates to Amster- dam are threatened with expulsion, because they did not defend the Socialist leaders from attack. What does the Congress manifesto say about these leaders? attitude adopted by the leaders of the Socialist International towards the present Congress confirms the impression that they still maintain the same position they held in 1914.” Could the Socialist worker delegates deny this? Is this not true? Is it not proved by the de- cisions of the congresses of the Second International and of the Amsterdam International Federa- tion of Trade Unions? Is it not proved by the day-to-day actions of the Socialist leaders’ re wee OCIALIST: Workers: Your leaders, local national and international, are continuing, efter the Amsterdam Congress, to attack it through the columns of the New Leader, official S, P. organ. The Congress manifesto indicates the result of the three days’ delibera- tions. The pledge contained in the manifesto indicates clearly the na- ture of the Congress, Can you sub- scribe to this pledge, Socialist work- ers—the pledge taken voluntarily by the 2,195 delegates? - WILL YOU NOT TAKE THIS PLEDGE? “We pledge that we will never allow the formidable unity which has been established here among the exploited and victimized masses to be broken up. “We pledge to fight with all our force and with all the stand: “Against armaments, against quence against) governments ruling us. “Against jingoism, nationalist chauvinism, and , the po- “The hostile - for which is a dishonor and @ crime. i “Against the loans and taxes — that rob the masses in order to increase armaments. “Against the campaign of ine citement and slander aimed at the Soviet Union, the country of socialist construction which we will not allow to be touched. “Against the dismemberment of China, of which each imperial ist power covets a portion. “Against the exploitation, op- pression, and massacre of the colonial peoples. “For the support of the nas tional minorities and the peo= ples fighting for their national and social independence. For the effective support of the Japanese workers who have raised the standard of struggle against their own imperialist government, “All the burdens of war, ag well as all the burdens of armed peace and of war preparations, are laid on the shoulders of the working class, whose vanguard is formed by the armament and transport workers, The working class must therefore immediately organize and be on its guard. “We pledge to fight with all our power against the gathering disaster.” Do you not support this pledge to fight against imperialist war? On whose side are you? With the Socialist leaders who help carry through the imperialist war pro. gram, or with the 30,000,000 work. ers, whose representatives at Ame sterdam took this pledge? SOCIALIST DELEGATES ADOPT SPECIAL RESOLUTION But the Socialist worker delegates did more at Amsterdam. They adopted a special resolution of their own, and they created an Interna- tional Bureau of nine to organize the rankand-file Socialists for stug- gle against imperialist war. Are you not in agreement with this re. solution? } “We, 291 members of the Sec. ond International, delegates from various organizations to the Am= sterdam Congress held at Am-~ Sterdam, August 27-29, regret the absence of the leaders of the So- cialist International from this hictoric International event. We deeide to work zealously within ow respective organizations to win them over for a united front against war and for the defense of the Russian Revolution. We consider that war will be made impossible only through the over- throw of capitalism. We reject every idea of national defense under a capitalit regime. In case | the united efforts of the prolet- | ariat against imperialist war do not succeed in preventing it, we pledge to do everything in our Power to transform it into a class war, for the seizure of power by the workers and peasants, We | furthermore express our deter- | mination to work ceaselessly for — the liberation of oppressed pes. | ples,” * * * net resolution, when read by Nicole of Switzerland, editor of the Socialist daily in Geneva, “Tra- vail,” approved not only by the 291 members of the Second Inter- national, but by 24 independent So= cialists as well, was greeted warmly by the Congress. What do you think of this re- solution socialist workers? Do you not agree with it? Then why do your Hillquits and Thomases re- main silent about this resolution? Why do they fail to publish the pledge taken by the Congress? Why do they still sing their monotonous refrain of “Communist maneuver”? It is not to keep you from learning the truth about the Congress? Is it not to cover up their betrayal of the workers’ struggle against im- perialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union? The~ Socialist delegates joined hands at the Congress with Com- munists, with non-party workers, with intellectuals, in this broad Movement against imperialist war. They were received by the rest of the delegates as comrades-in-arms, They expressed their views freely from the platform. FRENCH WORKERS CLAMOR FOR UNITY At the monster turnout on Sept. 2, to’ hear the Amsterdam report, at the Salle Bullier in Paris, Poupy of the French Socialist Party de- clared that Socialists as well as others had full opportunity to pre- sent their point of view, nor were they the victims of any maneuver, “All the speeches, as well as the discussions in the committees,” he said, “have been actuated by the Same desire for struggle against war, in an atmosphere of mutual loyal and fraternal understanding.” Joe*Roth, an old timer in the Socialist Party of America, a mem= ber of Local Ithaca, New York, was a delegate to Amsterdam, elected by the August 8th Anti-War Conference held in New York City, Speaking at the Webster Hall meete ing in New York City on September 1th, Comrade Roth expressed him. self in terms similar to those of Poupy. Socialist workers: The 291 So- cialist delegates, members of the Second International, rank-and-file workers present at Amsterdam, ap. peal to you to join with them, and all sincere forces in the struggle against imperialist war, They ask you to endorse the Congress Mane ifesto, just as they did. They ask you to endose the special resolution adopted by them. They ask you to support every day the campaign against war carried on by the International Committee for the Struggle War and its American Committee at 104 Fifth Avenue, New York, ‘They ask you to win over your ha a local union for this struge gle, A e/g He! Anti-Imperialist League of the United States extends its hand of solidarity to the Socialist works ers, for joint action against imperle alist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union, on the basis Russia, suffered its leads to imperialist war and jongress in your city, or order direct from THE COMMUNIST, P. O..Box 48, Sta- | inist and fifty new workers will | the Soviet Union and its capital. | tism a resaemte from ‘sort on Page ‘Seven Ome voke cial wer against the mosses silat resolution adopted. { tion D, New York City. Single copies 20 Cents;-for a year $2.50. join our ranks. The foreign press has recently been troops, after an orgy of riots and (TO BE CONTINUED.) of the working class. delegates. =¢ .. ous { | sas 4