The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 3, 1932, Page 4

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1932 Page Four Dail orker Central U Porty USA Published by the Compredaily Publishing Co., Inc, daily axexept Sunday, at 88 B ‘York City, ¥. ¥. phone ALgemquin 4-7866, Cable “DAIWURK. 4 mail cheeks te the Daily Worker, 68 K. 13th St, New York, M. ¥. 4 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3.50. excepting Borough ef Manhattan and Bronx, New ¥ o or year, $9; 6 mont rk City. Foreign and months, $8 months, $2; 1 month, %e | i Hoover’s “Selfishness” Roosevelt’s “Idealism” EWTON D. BAKER, Secretary of W in the Wilson Cabinet that led the country into the imperialist war, was chosen by the Democratic campaign managers to de- liver the chief oration in answer to Hoove New York | speech on the preservation of the “American System.” Mr. Baker made the main issue of his speech the, tariff. This is the old stunt which the Democrats and the Republicans have been using for years only to be later substituted by the issue of prohibition. Now that the prohibiti ssue has practically ceased being an issue among the politicians who es are more once more r: there were rences there re rather attempts Re- THE ROTTEN EGG —By Burck By A. B. MAGIL, PREDICTION that the National Socialists (fascists) would lose from one and a half to two million votes and that the Communist Par- ty would make substantial gains in the coming German Reichstag elections Nov. 6 was made by Hugo Graef, Communist Reichstag de- puty and genera] secretary of the International of War’ Veterans and War Victims, in a special inter- view with the Daily Worker. Graef, himself a disabled war veteran, came to this country to attend the National Veterans Rank and File Conference held in Cleve- land. in September. He left a few days ago for Germany, where he will participate actively in the election campaign and will organ- ize the struggles of the ex-service- men of all countries. The interview, in which Graef discussed the political situation in Germany, was as follows: Question: What is the political situation in’ Germany at the. pre- sent time? ELCCTIONS Predicts Red Gains, Big Fascist Loss in the German Elections HUGO GRAEF Communist Reichstag Deputy Tells How United Front Is ' ' Being Built; Urges Solidarity of U. S. Toilers but eventful history of the last Reichstag, parliamentary illusions have been destroyed among thous sands of German workers and @ very favorable situation has been created for the Communist Party, We think that it will be possible to break away from one and a half to two million votes from the Nae zis in the coming elections. Whee ther all these votes will be won for the Communist Party will depend on the Party's election activity, ong its election tactics and its ability!) to achieve in practice the united” front of the toilers. We believip that the Social-Democratic Party will sustain further losses and that the rest of the middle parties wil'’ be wiped out completely. Concern: ing the Nazis one significant thing must be observed: already in the | last elections, despite their big gains, the voting revealed that in the home territory of the Nazis, where the movement had its birth, in the provinces of Bavaria, Pom- mern_and Silesia, the influence of the Nazis has either come to a standstill or has definitely begun to recede. Especially is this true Rae ARE FOCAL POINT of the peasantry, large sections of At the , who is head of Hoover's | ion of charity for the unemployed out of the t say one word about unemployment, federal ployment ins’ This man, who is one of the “success reet attorneys, wants, like Hoover, to make the toiling masses le burden of unemployment. Cleveland, where Baker is a | 0 established the community fund through which their workers to support the uner | 4he Wilson and the Hoover administ tion, Baker de- clares “We substituted for the idealism of Woodrow Wilson for the vision of Woodrow Wilson, who saw the future of mankind and foresaw what then seemed io be a possible thing in a warless world adjusting in- ternational difficulties with peace 274 honor—we substituted for that a doctrine of stark selfishness which cut us off from Europe and started us on a materialistic regime which is still plaguing us and the conse- quences of which we are still suffering from. ployed. | Communists and National Social- ists, losses for the Socialists and the smashing of the middle parties such as the Economic Party, Peo- ple’s Party, etc. But the two ses- sions of the Reichstag that were allowed to be held completely ex- posed the Nazis (National Social- ists). The Nazi speakers had for months been bellowing that what they wanted was to seize power; but when Hindenburg dissolved the Reichstag, they revealed them- selves as consistent defenders of the status quo. This has resulted in a great speeding up of the pro- cess of disintegration within the ward winning the majority of the exists in Germany a strong bureau- cratic apparatus of more than 300,- 000 social-democratic functionaries who hold important posts in the trade unions, in ‘state and muni- cipal governments and in the social services, and use their offices con- stantly against the workers. Thru their influential positions in the workers’ councils in big factories they have succeeded in throwing thousands of revolutionary workers out of their jobs. The organization of the Red uni- ted front: aims to unite employed and unemployed workers, including social-democratic workers. To this whom have become disillusioned ‘THE Communist Party. on the other hand, gives no false pro- mises and creates no illusions. It shows the way out of the crisis for the entire toiling population through the methods of the revo- Jutionary class struggle. And the. Communists are using the coming elections for a mass mobilization of all the toilers for struggle a- gainst the entire system of emer- gency decrees and fascist terror and for a workers’ and peasants’ Soviet Germany, TASKS OF U. S. WORKERS . * . Nazi movement. Serious differ- | end everywhere throughout the Question: What are the tasks of ESE are the words of the Wilson-Baker brand of pacifism, And who os have arisen ape he country committees of struggle are | the American werkers in connec- was it that was re-elected in 1916 on the slogan “he kept us out of | Oomadas-- es ure O OY, TS followers and many detachments of | being created to realize the united | tion with the developments in Ger- war” and i: wiately after election plunged the people of this country X 9 ter in the int of (idealism) Wall Street profits? forced upon the German people the infamous treaty of e heavy burden which they are still paying? Who was to crush the Russian Revolution and to re- as the ruling class? And to what does Mr. : rted us on a materialistic regime—the ill suffer?” Does he not refer to the very | Hoover attributes the present crisis—the Soviet . Wilson and Mr. Baker tried to destroy? Mr. Baker, the ne Secretary of War, is in the name of “idealism,” “pacifism,” and in the name of Woodrow Wilson is laying the ground for the next im- for an armed attack on the Soviet Union. Both Hoover cosevelt, as well as Baker, are the tools of Wall Street. consisted the “libe ’ of Mr. Wilosn at home? Was e espionage acts, in the frame-ups of the Department , carried through under the Wilson appointee, the notorious | 1 Palmer, who hounded many thousands of foreign-born work- in the arrest and imprisonment of Charles E. Ruthenberg, founder of the Communist Party, and others in the home city of Mr. Baker for fighting against the imperialist robber war? Or, perhaps this “liberalism” was best expressed in the use of armed troops against the | steel workers, led by William Z. Fotser, by the Wilson administration in 1919? Mr. Baker concluded his speech by promising to people of the U. S. that if Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected (the same Franklin D. Roosevelt who was assistant to Mr. Baker in the War Department), aswell as John N. Garner (who represents the Negro lynchers of the South), that “th will gather around them in Washington the same brains and characters that were praised in the great days of the Wilson tradition.” Here we already have a promise that should Roosevelt be elected he will | | | | a Pledge to the Capitalists! \‘Timely Topics”: What the S. P. Nominee Really Means By “Workers of the World, Unite!” By BILL DUNNE it. IN line with the Socialist Party policy of a gesture to the work- ing class and a pledge to the capi. talists, Norman Thomas, in his “outline of the Socialist position” in the New Leader of Oct. 15, heads @ program for the world organiza- tion of capitalism with part of the classic revolutionary slogan of working-class solidarity which con- cludes the Communist Manifesto —written by Marx and Engels— the basic document of the program of the proletarian revolution, Thomas says: machinery to deal on a world scale with such matters as the allocation of raw materials, the exchange of goods and the fiscal system.” Thomas, Presidential candidate of the Socialist Party, is not writ- ing about organizing Socialism; he is writing on how to improve capi- talist world organization. When he speaks of “our none too effective machinery for preventing war” he | identifies as one of the procurers for the League of Nations which was not organized to pre- vent war but to prepare and make has fallen off 50 per cehb or more. Thomas wants to restore world “we,” that is, “humanity,” workers and capitalists, “must rap- idly develop machinery ‘to deal on a world scale with such matters as the allocation: of raw materials, etc.” The world trade of capital- ism must be rescued from its pres- ent chaotic state. It must be re- vived. Capitalism must be re- | Yived. It must be made workable. | It must be organized.“ THOMAS’ PURPOSE If workers who have lost faith in capitalism can be made to be- be dissolved and reorganized be- cause of this. . . IN the other hand, the ‘Commun- ist tactics in the Reichstag, when by their motion of no confidence they forced the government to show its hand and dissolve the Réithsteg, has greatly increased the influence of the Communist Patty amohg the workers and the lower sections of the petty-bour- geoisie, The vote on the motion revealed that only the handful of Nationalist deputies supported the ‘Von Papen government and ex- posed the entire class character of the bourgeois dictatorship. When the Nazis subsequently discarded their heroic poses and tamely sub- mitted to ‘the dissolution decree, it revealed to millions of toilers that only the Communists are ready to carry the fight against fascism and hunger to a finish. THE CAUSES OF PARLIAMENTARY CRISIS Question: What are the causes of the parliamentary crisis? Answer: Seven million German oe front in practice. These unite all strata of the toiling population, in- cluding the peasants and the petty- bourgeoisie. The committees of struggle organize meetings and de- monstrations and call unity con- ferences in various cities and dis- tricts. These district conferences often bring together 2,000 or more elected representatives. The com- mittees of struggle also try to win over the proletarian elements among the followers of the Nazis, The success of this work was at- tested by the last united front con- ference in Duesseldorf, where 12 elected delerates of National Sc- cialist organizations declared their readiness to fight in the Red uni- ted front against hunger, fascism and war. In addition, there were 22 other Nazi workers present at the conference. These National So- cialist workers came to our confer- ence in defiance of their leaders because they realized that the Nazi leaders, despite their radical phrases, are for wage-cuts and a- gainst strikes and everywhere, re- present the interests of the cap- italist class. many? Answer: The American bourge- cisie has acquired a dominant po- sition in Germany through its big investments in German industry and its millions of dollars in loans. It is the task of the American workers to establish strong bonds. of solidarity with the German \ workers and together to carry on the struggle against both German and American capitalism. Capital- ism knows no national barriers; therefore the workers must organ- ize on an international scale too for the fight to overthrow capit- alism. The American workers are faced with tremendous tasks. The eco- nomic crisis in the United States, despite all the bourgeois prophets, is increasing, and it is the job of the revolutionary American work- ers to organize all strata of the toiling population—workers, farm- ers, artisans, intellectuals, ruined sections of the petty-bourgeoisie— in the struggle for their immediate burning demands and for the over- throw of the entire capitalist sys- tem. The barriers of race and ; ; lieve that this is possible and will | workers are unemployed. Millions | EnecTION language, which the capitalists ex- bring to life again the Palmers, and the Burnses, who will be used against } ag war upon the colonial peoples, ; a bh the masses. The great brains that Mr. Baker speaks about are the brains | standpoint of ceoremic ines (oe | Weaker capitalist nations—and the | abolish’ the evils of present. day | more are on part time. Large sec- | PERSPECTIVES Blo for sees owe, lke tet of Wall Street. : But already under Hoover we have the brains of Wall | Street as well as Doak. national boundaries that we de- Soviet Union—wars of conquest by the great powers sanctified by | capitalism they naturally will not fight to abolish capitalism. They tions of the peasantry and petty- bourgeoisie are being ruined. In Question: What are the perspec- be broken down. Under the lead- ership of the Communist Party, the n ; . | tives for the next election? d united front of Ni 7 ing makses must rer sacs my a ae spair of any sound peace by some 71 far- | this situation the Von Papen gov: a red united front o! fegro and VERE okey ORES ets at oe a ee Oy, tae oats | version of the ancient formula | general desire for “world peace.’ | ther inte the expltalist camp as | emment believed that through its oninemer: In the last Relenstag | white workers, native and foreign- must repudiate the Thomases and the Hillquits, who are trailing behind | °F Justice between nations.” (Our workers have in Germany, Eng- | New emergency decrees, that 4s, Pe nctotic gen’ | OFM, can and will be established. them with the program of the bosses and their hatred to the Soviet Union. There is only one way through which the masses can express | their own ts in this election campaign. That is through support | of the Communist platform and candidates, by supporting Foster and Ford on November 8. emphasis.) AIMED TO ENSNARE WORKERS This capitalist-reformist formu- lation of the question of imperial- ist contradictions is echoed by the horde of economic advisers of capi- THIS LEAGUE OF NATIONS The League of Nations, which permits war upon the Nicaraguan people; by American imperialism; which permits American and Brit- ish imperialism, through their pup- pet governments in South America, land, ete., to give capitalism longer life at the expense of still worse working-class misery. The proposals of Thomas in this respect differ not one whit from those of the more intelligent capi- through the systematic plundering of the workers and middle strata of the population, it could find a way out of the steadily growing economic crisis. At the same the German bourgeoisie struck out on the international field by raising | talists and their advisers. Com- ister of Defen: | talism attached to the League of | to set the oppresseq peoples of a through the Minister of fense, Th S tt b D 1c] | Nations—but ‘Thomas throws this | half-dozen countries at one an- | Pare for instance, the Thomas | von schleicher, the demand for €. CO RY Oro €c Us won-- out to beguile workers suffering ; other's throats; the League of Na- pak es K.CB, adviser extraor- the rehabilitation of German im- from the robbery and oppression | tions whose Lytton committee has i poked perialism and the raising of the Why the Delay? HE United States Supreme Court heard the case of seven of the nine innocent Negro boys of Scottsboro on October 10th. The attorneys for the International Labor Defense pre- sented the legal position for the Negro and white masses who of capitalism, workers rapidly be- coming disillusined with the “America First” sfogan of the im- perialists. “It is only,” continues Thomas, “when men think in other terms than merely as French, Japanese, British or American that these problems can be solved. Hence, the Socialist insistence on its slo- just condoned Japan’s invasion of Manchuria; which permits the French and Italian imperialism to make war on the African peoples; the League of Nations which per- mits British imperialism to make war on the Indian masses; which rejects and ridicules the disarma- ment proposals of the Soviet Union but encourages the arming of every dinary to British imperialism and author of the book “Recovery:” “This function of specialized vol- untary institutions can be encour- aged both from within and with- out; and they can then play a vital! part in the regulative control of the world’s economic life. .. . They | will require further to be related to each other and also to the cen- army from 100,000 to 400,000 men. In addition, the German bourge- oisie announced new plans for forced labor through the whole- sale militarization of the youth in @ system of nation-wide camps. 'HE emergency decrees have forged new shackles for the’ German masses and resulted in veteran of the international revo- lutionary movement, Clara Zetkin, who opened the Reichstag, and it was the leader of the Communist Reichstag fraction, Torgler, who buried it with the no confidence motion. As a result of the brief, A large vote for the Communist candidates in the coming Amer- ican elections will mark a big step forward toward the establishment of this red united front and to- wards the final~victory of the workers. For a Six-Page Paper and 100,000 Readers of the Daily Worker Editor, Daily Worker, Dear Comrade: Letters from Our Readers sions of it to the Daily, ats ee T this time, especially, when the new, stirring book by Jcun L. Spivak on Negro torture in the South, is appearing serially, can Comrade E. F. and similar workers help—by popularizing the exposure a among his friends, and getting them cae border country against the Soviet | tral guardian of the public inter- | huge profits for the capitalists. Iam a reader of the Daily Work- ; ; an: “Workers of the World, | 7, xan or! to buy the Daily and spread the =}. in hundreds of monster open demonstrations have themselves | Unite!” . Union. est, the government; and this may | There is a law, for example, which | er for the last five years, and I do | word among their friends, time and again stated their decision. In no uncertain terms the masses have declared their verdict of innocence on the Scottsboro boys. Only the verdict passed on the streets of American and European cities by the working class has kept these inno- cent boys alive. Three times the working class has reversed the ruling classes's decision of death in the Scottsboro case. This is another beautiful wave of the hand toward revolutionary workers, But now watch what hap- pens to the slogan of “Workers of | the World, Unite!” as Thomas pro- ceeds to purge it of all revoultion~ ary meaning: “Tt is when some other con- cept of human solidarity in the This, according to Thomas and the Socialist Party, is “our ma- chinery for preventing war.” This is the gang of imperialist bandits that the Socialist Party wants “our” country to join: 7% Point 4 of the Socialist Party platform, under the head of *“In- ternational Relations,” says: “The be suitably arranged through mem- bership of a National Economic Council.” “The National Economic Coun- cil in turn needs, to the extent to which economic life is interna- tional, to be related to similar in- stitutes of other countries, and for this purpose a World Economic provides that every employer is to be given 400 marks in the form of reductions in taxes for every worker he employs. This has re- sulted in a system whereby the em- ployer flres one worker and hires another and keeps this up inde- finitely, each time getting credit for 400 marks in taxes. Through the best I can to influence other workers to read it. But the way it Jooks to me the Party almost ig- nored the circulation of the Daily Worker, It is a shame that the D. W. hasn’t got a circulation of at least 100,000 in the City of New York. It is possible to reach that number if we will know how to ap- Organizationally Comrade E, F, can also do a great deal, just as ev- ery worker can. If he is a member. of an organization he might be‘able to develop a Daily Worker Com- mittee within the organization to help to build up the Daily Worker circulation. Shop workers particu- larly shoul’ make every effort to ; the emergency decrees, the em- | proach the workers. First of all, we | build Daily Worker Committees in £1 8 he | struggle for life and security and | entrance of the United States into Represncralld required, drawing its | lover has been given the right to | must do everything possible to is- | the shops to popularize the Daily HE legal case presented by the International Labor Defense conform- peng Mehonutbast that we have | the World Court.” Point 5 says: | Councils, pages ties with the | “ssolve wage-contracts whenever | sue a six-page Daily, In order to ing in all respects to capitalist rules of leg undeniable manner the criminal nature of the c the Scottsboro boys. The issue of law 1 procedure disclosed in pi activities against and of fact were clear. Long de- the basis for peace.” What has become of the class “The entrance of the United States | into the League of Nations under conditions which will make it an League of Nations as a National Counci) is with its own govern- he pleases and to cut wages to suit himself. In addition, begin- have more general and also interna- tional working class news. and spread it among the shop workers, si ‘The Daily Worker is a major ac- i ‘kingclass, for which it is ne- » fai ‘ | Answer: The Reichstag elections | YO - . the Nazis’ failure to carry out H treating of he, are the focal point of all political | crssary to break the grip of the | their promises. on D, Baker. activity. The last elections of July Rage emotratic Party and the OSES 4 Hay oats 31 resulted in big gains for the rade union .misleaders. There 7 M ents.” Pi ning with the 31st hour of work, In connection with the circulation | tivity, and all who feel as Comrade liberation was unnecessary. struggle implicit a Workers of | effective instrument for world _ spinel ag i be the boss has the right to pay 50 | I have no proposition to make. I | E. F. does, should immediately get | On the 24th of October the Supreme Court adjourne: alde- | the World, Unitet peace and renewed co-operation per cent less than the stipulated | hope that the Party will work out a | on the job of spreading the influ- pre Court adjourned. No formal de. . . . wi th Kit 1 HOMAS, therefore, is voicing ‘ds, if cision had been rendered, but the failure to render a formal decision | vith the working class parties | ‘ i wage, In other words, if a man was in itself a clear-cut decision of a tremendously significant political character. The Supreme Court does not convene again until November 7, but it is clear that it will not render its decision until after the election. There is an interesting parallel in the famous Dred Scott case of 1857 which upheld the institution of slavery. Y reformist trickery it is sub- stituted by the human struggle, the struggle of humanity as a whole against nature,” for life, se- | curity and beauty.” | abroad to the end that the League may be transformed from a League of imperial’st powers to a demo- cratic assemblage, representative of proposals under the slogan of “Workers of the World, Unite,” which are the proposals of the imperialists themselves.” ‘Thus are the perversions of the works 40 hours a week, he gets a wage-cut of 12% per cent. 59% CWT IN SOCIAL WELFARE definite plan in order to reach the great masses of workers with our only daily newspaper in the Eng- lish language. I hope that you will answer me in the Daily Worker. ence and circulation in every way possible. On the question of loud speakers. in the election campaign, in some parts of of New York we have been bie r y Comradely, using them for some time, and as That opinion, given by Judge Mie Satna poy Hie SE Pe Ore, Pat 5 Taney (praised by Hoover in his Baltimore speech on Oct, 31) was act- | SAME THING ee ee dfs See Lmaratltle a co rode aby 2 RR Rimage a oy —E.F, | ¢lection day nears, they are belng ually made before election, but, in the words of one hsitorian “was with- |IN NEW DRESS JOINT 4 and the: first. part of 8 f nde held from publication in order not to increase the excitement of the pres- idential election then pending.” silence of the Supreme Court proclaims: What is this “concept” of hu- manity as a whole except the theory of the identity of interests Point 5 are for the capitalists. The latter part of Point § is writ- ten to delude workers who are made by the Socialist Party to fur- ther the enslavement of the masses by imperialism, such as unemployment insurance, old age, accident, health insurance, etc. by 50 per cent. Nevertheless, the payments of the workers to P. S.—Please tell me also why does not the Party come out with a loudspeaker in the present elec- tion Campaign. used more frequently. FARM LABOR ‘There are approximately 2,000,- against imperialist war. Advocacy * * 000 hired farm workers in the ae ‘ y of capitalist class and working i ; these funds must continue as be- EDITOR’S NOTE U. S. Their work is highly sea- That it recognizes that a decision adverse or favorable before the dress | of the entry of the United States EVICTIONS IN U. 8. ® ph fs a elections would have a definite effect upon them, Cfo pacltee ease hey we ot°8S | into the League of Nations means fore.’ It was the increased resist- | The Daily Worker has set itselt | Sonel. Those counted in govern ‘That it must delay the political conclusion to be drawn from its de- ¢ision until after November 8th. The Supreme Court is part and parcel of the Bosses’ machinery of terror. The Supreme Court is an instrument of the bosses for deepening the the abstract? clearer as we get further into the Socialist Party's position outlined by Thomas: This becomes still | that, like the other parties of the Second International, the Socialist Party of the United States: tries to strengthen imperialism against the * If a worker's family is unable to pay rent, the landlord can legally, after a brief stated period of warn- ing, secure a warrant and get the police to evict the family, Dur- ance of large sections of the popu- lation to these fascist measures which produced serious divisions among the bourgeoisie itself, that ‘was responsible for the parliament- the goal of six pages but its finan- cial situation at present makes this increase impossible. Also, a detailed plan for the ever-widening distribu- ment statistics as wage workers “working on home farms” are usu- ally not paid wages and are not to be reckoned as part of the farm proletariat. Py t tion of the Daily is being worked | “This idea must be carried | Tevolutionary working class and | ing the tirst half of 1930, in New | ary crisis, resulting in the dissolu- | Cot ageamchie, such comrades aa | ‘The average work day for “hired | boss-created hatred between Negro and white workers. over into organization, An in- | ‘he Colonial peoples. It means | york city alone, 72,798 warrants | tion of the Reichstag. pes E, F. can do their share by | men” is 12 hours. Average wages, Negus decision of silence must be a new force cementing the unity of | terdependent. world requires | ‘at the s ihe imperialist eontree | forvevletiori were issued in the city ae becoming shock-brigaders for the | which were given by the govern- | legro and white workers against the oppression and terror of the ruling | world organization, This does ber Nedrd ash hag read urts, rage of JUESTION: How is the united | paily, ment statistics as $47.24 a month j class. ‘The decision of the masses must be the last word in the Scottsboro | not mean an end of ‘nauonat | dictions which weaken the ruling | © ee 2 er arene i Dig Ltn Sg be case. Before this “court of last illusions” the united strength of the working class in mass demonstrations must thunder its contemptuous denunciation. The Scottsboro Boys Shall Not Die! We demand their Immediate Unconditional Release! $ organization or an overpowering world state. It does mean that in addition to our none too ef- fective machinery for preventing war we must rapidly develop class in its struggle against the revolutionary masses and the Soviet Union, World trade is breaking down. every week day. In Baltimore, with one-tenth the population .of New York, 11,735 families were evicted. Unemployed Councils are successfully of In the three years of the crisis it | attempts to evict workers, 4 front of the working masses to combat the savage attacks of the bourgeois dictatorship being organized? Answer: The chief aims of the Communist Party are directed to- b, of the paper in subway seats or giv- ing them to friends but by getting subscriptions, placing the Daily on the newsstands, and by getting those to whom they give the paper, to write ye and $2.84 a day (with board) in 1920 fell by April, 1931, to an average, of $1.33 a day and $25.96 hired by the month. At present time it undoubtedly