The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 25, 1932, Page 4

New Yerk ty, Address mail checks 5: two months, $1; eneepting Ferwiga: ome year, 98; 75 _cents per month. i | | | Pubtisi 1th St, The Revolutionary Fight for “Food, Clothing and Shelter” N September 10 Comrade William Z. Foster, Communist candidate for president, said in his Chicago speech: Mass support to the Communist candidates means mass support to the united struggles of the working class! Workers, toilers and impoverished masses! Make the program of united struggle your pro- gram. Misery multiplies. Throw aside the differences that keep you di- vided. Bring all your forces into play. Form your committees of struggle. Not a single man, woman or child must be without decent food, eloth- ing and shelter this coming winter. Organize the mass struggles against the capitalist program of misery and hunger! The following is from the statement of the National Committee of the Unemployed Councils adopted by the En- larged Session held in Chicago, Oct. 11- Only the determined and united struggle of the masses who suffer from and are threatened by the effects of the prolonged crisis ean save the millions who face slow starvation, exposures and premature death during the coming winter. The purpose of the Unemployed Councils’ program is to stimulate, develop, organize and lead these essential struggles to the end that: NOT ONE UNEMPLOYED WORKER OR HIS FAMILY SHALL BE WITHOUT DECENT HOUSING, FOOD AND CLOTHING, ERE is a call to Unity and Action, arising out of the most vital needs of the masses buffeted, bruised and beaten down in the maelstrom of the capitalist crisis, which is part of the fabric out of which revolutionary history in America is being woven. The Communist Party endorses this program of unity and action and is throwing in all possible forces to m t effective. The Communist Party stands in the forefront of this struggle Tt is a challenge in the name of the 15-16,000,000 unempl yed workers in the United States condemned by capitalism and its rulers to continual hunger, exposure, disease and lingering death, issued by the organized sec- tion of the unemployed m sh winter relief and unem- ense of the government and ployment insurance for the employers. To the Republican and Democratic Parties, to the two-party system of Wall Street Government whose leaders are united in the most ruthless drive ever launched in the United States against against the very lives and liberties of thp Amer the living standards, an working class, this demand for decent food, clothing and ter for every unemployed worker and his dependents, backed by mass organization, means the need for strengthening the machinery of suppression at all points— with special attacks on the Communists. To the agents of Wall Street capi! executive council of the American Federation of Lat posing as lead- ers of labor, this deman+, which is being raised by workers in every industrial center from coasi to coast, me: that they must get busy with more fulsome praise of the two-pa: system of American capital- ism—and denounce the Communist Party alism holding positions in the T= Socialist Party sees in this demand and in the united front struggles for putting it into effect a threat to American capiatlism of whose machinery it is part and will at once begin to work out new formulas for confusing and weakening these struggles, new schemes for splitting the ranks of the advancing masses—and will again denounce the Com- munist Party, In this way the political unity of the capitalists and their parties will be established in the battle to maintain and perpetuate the Wall Street program of wage cuts, mass unemployment and mass hunger. HAT are the forces upon whom the millions of unemployed workers and the Unemployed Councils, the Communist Party, can count upon for the united front against the capitalist offensive and reaction? First, the millions of part-time workers whose wages have been slashed jose income, reduced again and again by ger system and share- vork-plan, face the demand of the bankers, employers and the gov- ernment that they support the unemployed millions from their pauper wages, More than 85 per cent of the entire working class is employed part time. | Second, the doubly oppressed Negro masses, millions of whom are | already in the ranks of the unemployc ed and discriminated against in the distribution of stingy charity st to be evicted and the last to be housed and fed. Third, the growing army of b toil has enriched the usurers of Ws it out except unity in struggle with the worl the Communist Party. i ruined farmers whose unpaid and for whom there is no way ‘king class under the banner of PAL... Fourth, sections of technical and intellectuals whose income and occupation 1b -year capitalist crisis and | who are ¢ Fifth already on a mass | scale Here ar¢ , mass struggle is no longer a matt moving into action. Minneapolis and St. Paul, S burgh and Philadelphia, Baltim to the growing unity and will to ing response to the call for uni Chicago on September 10. Cleve necisco olk am—all testify le of all oppressed, to the increas- ed action issued by Comrade Foster in HE main task of the National Commitiee of the Unemployed Councils and of the revolutionary unions of the Trade Union Unity League is the unification of these immense forces into a nation-wide fighting front, If this unity in struggle is secured as the battle for every urgent need and every daily demand of the masses proce e demand that “not one unemployed worker or his family shall be without decent food, clothing and housing this winter” will be wrested from thi italist class. The basis of capitalist rule rests in its y to feed, clothe and Shelter the working class, through the wage system, at the level dic- tated by the historical and social development of a given country. Millions of the decisive sections of the working class, and their dependents, are now forced to demand and fight for the right to live. | ‘This strikes at the very foundations of the capitalist order. It presages | the rise of wide mass revolutionary struggles in the United States—the | richest country in the world and the foremost imperialist power | 'HE demand for cash winter relief and federal unemployment insurance raised by the Unemployed Councils, the call for the united front of the working class and its allies, issued by Comrade Foster, and the nation-wide | organization of mass struggle for “decent housing, food and clothing” for | every unemployed worker, the march of 3,000 delegates to Washington and the holding of a workers’ conference, are therefore revolutionary develop- ments of the greatest significance as the working class faces the fourth winter of the worst crisis in the history of capitalism, Support the mass struggle against the capitalist offensive, organized and led by the Unemployed Councils and the Communist Party. Vote Communist! Fight for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government—the revo- lutionary way out of the crisis and horrors of capitalism. How the Socialists Supported Imperialist War of 1914-18 ‘The Daily Worker has been publishing excerpts from articles and speeches of leaders of the Second (Socialist) International in support of the imperialist war of 1914-18, In a recent issue, the Daily Worker published sections of a speech delivered in the House of Representa- tives on May 1, 1918, by Meyer London, justifying the support of the war on the part of the European Socialist leaders. The following is from a speech by Kate Richards O'Hare, formerly international secretary of the Socialist Party of the U. S. It is taken from “Socialism and the World War”, by A. W. Humphrey, p. 30. “THEY TELL YOU THAT WE ARE OPPOSING ENLIST- MENT. THIS IS NOT TR PLEASE UNDERSTAND ME NOW AND DO NOT MISQUOTE WHAT I SAY. IF ANY YOUNG MAN FEELS THAT IT IS HIS DUTY TO ENLIST, THEN WITH ALL MAY ENRICH THE BATTLEFIELDS OF FRANCE, RUT THAT MY HEART T SAY—"GO AND GOD BLESS YOU. YOUR BLOOD | ie BE FOR THE Besm”’ ¢ “A The Porto Rican Socialist Party Betrays the Masses The Activities of Santiago Iglesias, Wall Street Lackey; Workers, Slaving 12-14 Hours Daily for 30 Cents, Desert S. P. and Form Communist Groups : —For the Kellogg Peace Pact and Profits!” Now 1Oak, TUasn. fs —By Burck a. Morgan By ALBERTO SANCHEZ OT only in the United States | and in other imperialist coun- tries have the Socialist Party lead- ers betrayed the workers and sold | themselves body and soul to the master class, In Porto Rico, too, with an influential Socialist Party, its leadership is the outstanding supporter and spokesman of Yan- kee imperialism. In-the 1924 Elec- tion Platform of the Socialist Par- ty which was also used during the election of 1928, the head ‘of the party in Porto Rico, Santiago Tzle- sias Pantin betrayed the aspira- tions of the masses and twisted the for their emancipation | ee imperialism with this | statement: “We favor the annexa- | tion of the island to the United States and we are against a coio- | nial status.” What does this mean? Only Mr. Iglesias knows, since he knows how to deceive the workers in the interests of the American bosses provided the imperialists slip a reasonable amount into the pocket of this great “emancipator”. HOOVER’S WAGE CUTTING POLICY ENFORCED The living standard of the Porto Rican masses is one of the lowest in the whole Caribbean Region. In a territory of 3,435 square miles is a population of more than a mil- lion and a half. The only major industry is the manufacture of su- gar cane. Tobacco is second in im- portance. The population as a whole is literally starving to death. Eight hundred thousand are in oi —o Santiago Iglesias, from the A, F. of L., yearly Santiago Iglesias, from Attorney Boli Santiago Iglesias, as a senator ..... S. Iglesias, Jr., as engineer, muni Daughter of Senator Iglesias . Daughter of Senator Iglesias . Daughter of Senator Iglesias . Daughter of Senator Iglesias . Daughter of Senator Iglesias . Daughter of Senator Iglesias . So-in-law of Senator Iglesias A brother of the Senator's son-' A nephew of Iglesias’ wife . Clotilde Bocanegra, another wife’s niece A relative of Iglesias’ wife Manuel Iglesias, of the same family Dominga Bocanegro, from the wife's family Fernando Bocancgra, from the wife's family Rosa Bocane-::., from the wife’s family ... Susano Bocanegra (sub-director, Bureau of Prisons) David Iglesias, from his own family How the Bolsheviks Utilized Parliament in Workers’ Interest Ho’. the Bolshevik deputies in the Jast of the Tsar’s Dumas made use of the parliament to lead and organize the workers, although the Party itself was underground, is told by a former Bolshevik Deputy, A. Badeyey, in “The Bolsheviks In the Tsarist Duma,” just published by International Publishers, 381 Fourth Ave, New York. ‘These detailed reminiscences give desperate need. If we take a look at the cane sugar field, we can see thousands of workers (peons) slay- ing for 12 and 14 hours for 30 to 40 cents a day. Yet we fail to see the “tremendous fight of the So- cialist Party to better the condi- tions of the workers,” as Mr. Igle- sias-has announced. On_ the .con- trary, when the agricultural work= ers go on strike—spontaneous ones, at that, the Socialist leader, Mr. Prudencio Rivera Martinez, head of the Commission of Conciliation and Arbitration, is sent to betray the workers, as happened last year in the strike of 15,000 sugar cane cutters, and in many other in- stances, oe te Fo the Socialist leadership in Porto Rico, the Socialist Party is just a racket to feed the family. The political background of the party is one of looking for a “mo- dus vivendi” (compromise for time being) at any cost. The whole po- litical party of the island is just the same, but the case of Mr. Igle- sias shows up this racket. Iglesias, well-trained, first by Gompers and then by Green of the A. F. of L. and by the leaders of the Second International, follows the motto: “My family first, then my labor lieutenants.” This is seen in the following list of Mr. Iglesias’ rela- tives on the government payroll (the people's money) — drawing $48,462 a year. This list is from “El Diluvio”, a bourgeois magazine published at San Juan, Porto Rico, issue of July 23, 1932, page 5: -law Brother-in-law of Senator Iglesias . os . Brother-in-law of Senator Iglesias (Marshall, Court of Aguadilla) Juan G, Iglesias (employed at the House of Representatives .. an invaluable lesson in the use of congress and legislatures by Com- munists to reach the masses of the workers with their program. When ‘war was declared Badeyey and the four other Bolshevik deputics used the Duma rostrum to call upon the workers to “turn the im war into @ civil, war.” For this they ‘were arre! end exdled to. “feet” that the strike. A few days ago we read some statements by Mr. Rafael Martinez Nadal, arch lackey of Yankee im- perialism, and head of the Union Republicans, about Mr. Iglesias. Mr. Nadal stated that Mr. Iglesias “was well known at the Metropolis (Washington—Ed. Note.) and that. he-ismet-awRed;.as shown by the defended American policy in. the Island.” We know all this very well, as well as the fact that Mr. Iglesias is a good tool in the hands of Mr. Green, himself a lackey of Wall Street imperialism. But Mr. Iglesias is not going to fool the workers in Porto Rico much longer. This is shown by the recent tenant strike of Miramar, Ponce. There, more than 1,500 workers went on strike, refusing to pay rent. They demanded free rent for the unemployed, and a 50 per cent reduction for those still work- ing, with cancellation of the previ- ous debts. Immediately the Com- mission of Conciliation and Arbi- tration sent a committee to the scene. They called mass meetings. The workers attended, but not to agree with the proposals of the committee, because they knew from previous experiences that the com- mittee came to support the land- lords and break the rent strike, The speeches of these bosses’ agents were booed by the workers, where- upon the landlords used the police to terrorize the workers and smash MASSES LEAVING THE S. P. As a result of this and other sim- ilar incidents the masses are leay- ing the ranks of the Socialist Par- ty. They are becoming more radi- calized, and more and more con- vinced that the influence of Mr. Iglesias must be smashed. Isolated groups of workers who call them- selves Communists are being organ- ized in different cities of the Is- land. A centralized organization | and a proper leadership of these Sroups will soon rally the sincere rank and file workers of the So- cialist Party into the ranks of the advance guard of the workers, thus smashing Mr. Iglesias’ clique in the government, exposing all political parties: Nationalist, Republican, Allanza and Liberal, as agents and tools of Yankee imperialism. This advance guard will be the Commu- nist Party of Porto Rico. With ac- tive support from the American working class the revolutionary struggle of the Porto Rican workers will move rapidly forward. This new popular edition (272 pages, well bound, printed on durable paper, selling for $1) should be turned to good use in the elec- tion cam;s'gn as well as in the 15th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution, The book may be ob- The New Series of Hostile Acts Against the U.S.S.R. By BILL DUNNE Communist Party Calls for Fight Against Imperialist War { ‘HE imperialist drive against the Soviet Union has broken out of the bounds of diplomatic confer- ences of foreign officials and ap- pears now in a number of concrete hostile acts serving two purposes: One, to weaken the Soviet Union economically, to cut off trade rela- tions and thus hamper the devel- opment of the Second Five-Year Plan and the expansion of indus- try. Two, to speed up and strength- en the military preparations direct- ed against the Soviet Union. Both of these objectives are of course interrelated, and acts which on the surface affect only Soviet trade have direct political con- sequences. Organization of the mass strug- gle against imperialist war is a vital necessity. The most important of the recent hostile measures is the breaking off of trade relations with the Soviet Union by the National government of Great Britain headed by Mac- Donald. The trade agreement has been terminated. BASIS FOR ACTION ‘This is the first fruit of the Ot- tawa inner-empire agreements. It is made under pressure from Cana- da and the Bennett government in insisting on this in return for con- cessions from Great Britain is un- doubtedly influenceq by pressure from the American state depart- ment, in spite of the fact that the Mellon Aluminum, Inc., operating in Canada, has entered into a mil- lion-dollar ofl deal with. the Soviet Union. Great Britain has nothing to gain economically from break- “ ing off trade relations with the So- viet Union. Empire preference for wheat, lumber, dairy products, oil, etc., will raise the cost of living for the entire British working popula- tion, and add large numbers to the three million unemployed. 1 7. ene y het high tariff and inner-empire preference policy of the Mac- Donald-Tory government has al- ready. caused dissension in the cab- inet. Three Liberal Party minist~~ have resigned, stating: “Whether we shall be able to enter into any more satisfactory agreement (with the Soviet Union) is necessarily un- certain. If not, a further blow will have been struck at our export trade, with a further increase in the number of unemployed.” ‘The termination of the trade ag- reement by the MacDonald-Tory government is seen, therefore, to be a definite political act motivated by the desire to take a more leading part in the imperialist offensive against the Soviet Union, THE JAPAN U.S.S.R. NEGOTIATIONS Simultaneously, the négotiations between the Soviet government and Japan for a non-aggression pact have come to a halt, according to reports by American press corres- pondents. The New York Herald Tribune's Tokio correspondent, quotes an editorial from the Japan “Times” which declares that a re- prochment with the Soviet Union would facilitate the infiltration of Communist propaganda into Japan, while a mutual non-agression pact would weaken Japan's defense while permitting Russia to increase her military strength: “Once the pact Was signed, says the editorial, Japan would pay less attention to her military establishment, while the Soviet would continue to press for- ward with the five-year plan and would concentrate on military de- velopment.” From this it is to be seen that it 1s the industrialization of the Soviet Unien under Socialist con- Struction which Japan, like all other capitalist nations, is opposed to. Its fears of “infiltration of Communist propaganda into Japan” as @ result of a non-agression pact, smack strangely of the anti-Soviet utterances of Matthew Woll and his fellow members of the executive coluncil of the American Federation of Labor. Since 1928 more than 10,000 Com- munists have been imprisoned in Japan. One-hundred and nine-one have been sentence to death or life imprisonment. It is obvious, there- fore, that Communist activity is not dependent upon non-agression, pacts with the Soviet Union, eat ar Y Lire Tokio correspondent states further that “simultaneously have come indications of a friend- lier attitude here toward the Euro- pean powers and the United States ... The Japanese newspapers which until recently were attacking Amer- ica at every opportunity are adopt- ing a more friendly attitude.” This “more friendly attitude” co- incides with the official visit of General MacArthur, chief of staff of the United States army, to Rum- ania to witness the army maneuy- ers of this outpost of anti-Soviet miltarism, and to inspect the armed forces of the rest of the bordi states. : af MacARTHUR’S “VISIT” ‘The Daily Worker on October 1 published a comment of “Bohemi: @ daily paper in Prague, Ozecho- Slovakia, where munition factories are working overtime on munitions for Japan, I is worthwhile to again quote part of this comment: “The commander-in-chief of the United States army can learn all there is to know on the Dnes- ter front, . (Rumanian-Soviet boundry), thus fulfiling the orders he got from W: 3 to study the conditions in the border states _ around Russia in order to pro- vide the basis for establishment of an anti Soviet front in Europe by America. For it is no longer @ secret that this is why MacAr- thur was sent to the Continent.” No further explaination in this connection is needed. Tm line with the wapid éevelop- ment of this series of tile acts and Japan, France is making great efforts to draw Spain into the anti- Soviet front. © cece UNITED PRESS dispatch from Paris of Oct. 16, relates that Premier Herriot is to go to Madrid. Speaking to a meeting of the pro- vincial Press Association “he warn- ed of grave international events that are impending.” ‘The purpose of Herriot’s mission to Madrid is said to be to obtain the use of the Spanish Island of Minorca in the Mediterranean as & French naval base, "in the event and to work out an ag- reement for the French financing the Spanish: railways in return for permission to transport French African troops through Spain, “in the event of war.” Since France heads the anti- Soviet military alliance of Rum- ania, Poland, Czecho-slovakia, etc., such maneuvers can have but one major purpose—to consolidate the military lines of communication across Europe and into Africa for imperialist war on the Soviet Union. The Socialists will say, of course, that these French maneuvers are directeq only against Germany and thus try to obscure the growing sharpness of the imperialist drive against the Soviet Union. But even though France contemplates milit- ary action against Germany she need not to call on her African mil- itary reserves against a rival who under the Versailles treaty has been rendered unable to make effective military resistance to the huge armed forces and armaments of France. No, the French imperialist ma- neuvers are directed against the Soviet Union and the French work- ing class which will resist heroically all attempts to use it in war on the fatherland of the world’s working The “Daily” In a Negro Neighborhood By C. MARK, E set up a unit of 15 comrades, 12 Negroes and two whites. Of these, nine attended the first meet- ing. We finally decided upon a block of almost entirely Negroes for territorial concentration and a large baking plant for shop con- centration. The first week was given over to the sale of the DailyWorker. There were 60 families in the block. We ordered 60 Daily Workers. Forty- nine families were Negroes; 11 were whites, four of whom owned their own homes. Each day comrades visited the families in the block, patiently ex- plaining the differences between the workers’ press and ‘party and the bosses’ press and. parties. For three days we delivered about 50 papers. With each family we spent five or ten minutes showing the workers the need for the Daily Worker. We offered the Daily for 15 cents a week. HOW WE WORKED In that concentration we won 12 customers for a week’s subscription One comrade was then assigned to deliver the papers and build the route. Four comrades who lived in the block were assigned to visit spe- cific families at least twice during the next week. In that week we gained 18 additional subscribers. We asked each subscriber to get at least one more reader. Here {s a problem that we met successfully. Awoman came to the door. The Toom was dark. “What do you want?” She half closed the door. “Good evening. We'd like you to read the only daily working class paper in the United States. It is the Daily Worker. It reports and guildes the struggles which means so much to us as workers. It ex- plains events from the workers’ point of view instead of from the rich man’s standpoint.” She said simply, “I don’t want a paper. I have no light. No money. How much is it?” “Then you are just the one-who needs the Daily. Don’t worry about the three cents. Just read it and tell me about it tomorrow!” She took it and reported that she enjoyed reading it. Another: A woman met me at the door, T was delivering for the route and her name and address was turned over to me. She handed me four copies of the Daily. I was dumb- founded. “Yes Madam,” I asked, “Didn't you like the paper?” ‘Oh, I like the paper all right but nobody in this house is working and ain’t no need of running up bills I can’t pay. I sure need relief for there’s three families living here and none of us is working and’ I've been down to that ‘Relief” about three or four times.” I pointed out to her that the Daily Worker shows the workers just what they must do to force the Relief Buro to give relief to the un- employed. She is still taking the paper and says that she will go to the Relief Bureau with us any time. MUST INTEREST THE YOUTH Another: ‘There are large numbers of youth in the territory. Some reported to me that they couldn't find the Daily Worker interesting. ‘This is one shortcoming the Daily must correct. It must carry more news about the young workers. ‘These experiences prové that the welcome the’ Negro workers do Daily Worker, and can he won as class, We have listed here only the acts and utterances of official repre- sentatives of imperialist powers. It would be an incomplete picture, however, of the sharpening drive against the Soviet Union if we did not likewise list the contribution to the new phase of the offensive made made by Socialist Party propagande ists. Officially the Socialist Party is for recognition of the Soviet Un- ion by the United States. Actually, its propaganda never miss an op- portunity to defame the Soviet government and its leadership, the Communist Party. SOCIALISTS IN FORE OF IMPERIALIST FRONT Writing in “The American So- cialist Quarterly”—A Socialist Jouw nal of Opinion,, David P. Berenberg. instructor in “Marxism” at the Rand School, says in the course of a review of Comrade Foster's book “Towards Soviet America;” “He says much about prepar- ations for war in every country in the world. Russia, however, is not preparing for war. No—Rus- sia is preparing for—defense. To assert that Russia is simply an- other imperialist power fishing in the troubled waters of Man- churia and Mongolia would be treason to the Comintern, That the youth in Russia is being sub- jected to military training more rigid than anywhere else but Italy, is ignored. But we are told (page 53) that ‘When the cap- italists to save their bankrupt sys- tem, launched their armed attack into the USSR, to destroy its new Socialism (s they must be taught a revolutionary leSson from which their system of rob- bery and misery will never re- cover.’ On Page 327, Mr. Foster finds its necessary to say that “Once the power of the bourgeoi- | sie broken internationally— there will be no place for the present narrow patriotism. The bigoted national chauvinism that serves so well the capitalist war : makes ‘The usual Sop to peace! } There are no Chauvinists in the world today like the Russians, . ‘My country right or wrong’ is’ in comparison with the Russian slogan ‘Stalin right or wrong’ the essence of liberalism.” Surely the Socialist Party anf its leaders have earned the imprpy me ant place they occupy in the im perialist front against the Soviet Union! The sheets of the degener+ ate Russian white guard group have turned out nothing lower tha: this—anq here we have the actual substance of the hatred of the pro+ letarian revolution and Socialist construction behind the demagogir vaporings of Norman Thomas about recognition of the Soviet Union. Re aes INALLY, climaxing the drive against the Soviet Union, Herbert Hoover, quite fittingly, as spokes- man for the foremost imperialism, has taken the initiative in the field of anti-Soviet and anti-revolution- ary agitation. In his Cleveland speech he injected a new note by blaming the Soviet Union and the rising revolutionary movements in the colonial and semi-colonial coun- tries for the horrors of the world economic crisis and particularly for for the mass misery in thé United States. ‘Trying to kill two birds with one stone and use the anti-Soviet issue against his Democratic Party rivals Hoover spoke of “the effect upon us of the revolution among the 300,000,000 people in China (there are 440,000,000—B. D.) or the agit- ation among the 300,000,000 people in India (there are 330,000,000—B. D.) or the Bolshevist revolution among the 160,000,000 people in Russia. They have ignored the ef- fect of Russia’s dumping into the world the commodities taken from its necessitous people...” IMPERIALIST “VIEW” OF CRISIS In other words, the proletarian revolution and the building of So- cialism in the Soviet Union, the revolts of the oppressed peoples in China and India against imperial- ism are responsible for the mass unemployment and mass sufferings which American imperialism-is in- flicting upon the working class at home and the peoples in its colonies and protectorates. Therefore, if you want to end the crisis and res- tore prosperity, make war upon and destroy the Soviet Union; make war upon and crush the Chinese Tevolution and stamp out the revo- lutionary mass movement in India. This is the American imperialist way out of the crisis. This is the key to its policy in the Far East and Europe. \ Pa ae 'HE facts here cited are sufficient to show that the danger of act- ual blockade and invasion of the Soviet Union has increased rapidly in the recent period. The facts are sufficient to show that out of the welter of inner-imperialist antagon= isms emerges the main line of im- perialist_ policy—destruction of the Soviet Union and the of those colonial revolutions against imperialism which are inspired and strengthened by the fact of the existence and achievements of the proletarian dictatorship by the fact Y atten the revolution freed all peoples oppressed under czarism and cap- italism. In the light of .the facts cited here the organization of the mass defense of the Soviet Union and the Chinese people against imperi- alist aggression appears in its cor= rect relation to the struggle against the whole capitalist offensive—as a central task that must be carried out day by day in every phase of the fight for unemployment relief and insurance, against wage cuts, for the liberation of the Negro masses, against the increasing sup: pression and terror of American imperialist government and its allies —the Socialist Party and the offie cialdom of the American | ——. | |