The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 26, 1932, Page 4

Page Four Dail DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK ‘Refuting Some Yorker Slanders Made Pablished by the Comprodaily Publishing Co,, Inc., daily except Sunday, at 58 K. DAY, DECEMBER 26, 1932 “Only Hoan Can Make A Tree!” Socialist Worker Raps The Reply to Wholesale sth St., New York City, N. Y. Telephone ALgonquin 4-7956, Cable “DATWORK.” Agdress and mail checks to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York, N. ¥. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3. exeepting Borovgh of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Canada: One year, 39: 6 months, 35; Foreign $_months, $3 How S.P. Leaders Stand on Unity to Fight War HE Daily Worker has repeatedly stated that the leaders of the Second International, including the leaders of the American Socialist Party, follow a program not of fighting Against I.L.D. W. L. PATTERSON. (From January “Labor Defender”) E swiftly spreading influence of the International Labor Defense through its splendid leadership in the struggle for the Scottsboro boys, Tom Mooney, Imperial Valle; Opeck, Orloff and all class war pris- oners grows simultaneously with the increasing militancy of the workers throughout America. These facts force the ruling clas to call more insistently upon its agencies within the working class for sup- port, A flood of scurrilous lies—jets | from every anti-working class news paper including the I.W.W., the So- tena uy NSWERING an editorial in the New Leader, Socialist organ, which charged that the World Congress Against, War was a “Com- munist maneuver,” Joseph G. Roth, Socialist Party member and delegate to the World Congress, in a statement sent the New Leader, which was just returned unpub- lished after ten weeks’ delay, repu- diates the charge and calls upon all “sincere opponents of war to combine and struggle against the common enemy.” Roth’s statement S.P.on Amsterdam Meet Scores Charge That Anti-War Congress Was “Communist Maneuver” munist domination. If the Com- mittee which chose the speakers had been narrow partisan Com- munists, none but Communists would have been permited to speak. Many Socialists spoke» at the Congress from Germany, France, Switzerland and _ Italy. Patel, the passive xesistey from India, sentimental pacifists from various countries, and an Esperan- tist addressed the delegates. The charge of unfairness in this res- pect is absolutely unfounded. x 5 i ; ialist, Muste, the NAACP, it : against war, but of assisting in its preparation. Many | Soros 8 api clearer | tole ts #2 Pest: TROTERNS ES, TRIED 4 P : | past activities of the ILD. Their | “Permit me to comment upon | TO DISRUPT Socialist workers deny this. Some admit that the European attack upon its methods in the | 7 A di | : an article which appeared in the sigven: & timber of; Ceblanettal leaders of the Second International are guilty of collaborating with their | Scottsboro case having failed, they | ‘New. Header, “Sept. 24, entitled | ere’ seated and given an OpAORe bourgeois gov bu most vehemently that the policy | Now seek hysterically for some oth- | “Anti-War Congress Described as | tunity to e: ae ate Vise of the Am is ame as that of their fellow leaders in | €f issue on which they may serve | ee? Europe What i. ae of the ond I ational with their masters. ‘Their line now is that the ILD has been collecting money for the Usual Communist Maneuver.’ As the article was unsigned by a con- tributor, I assume that it is of edi- spite of the fact that they came ‘there fox disruptive purposes, Having been present at every ses- eeard to) What was their policy during the world war | defense of miners, (Harlan, Ky.) | Dee eat pie Etta tre sion, I failed to observe that any- bourgeois cabinets, slared for a civil truce (a suspension of the | Whieh “it has not remitted” and | organ of the Socialist Party of | one Was forced to leave the plat- apianeiciiuelntvs: Gents cyeviastedia ites tecnsiamereinie cn a ~. | the ILD is “an organization con- | America, one, would naturally re- orm sbetone.: $5y, 5 DBA aaa esr plone ser nr Tasted), Vey became servants ofthe Hour’ | toned by tilayes abd srackoteers.” | gard ifs statements as authorita. | Peking. The Trotskyite referred ger ot ‘ rat vie i ce sful prosecution of the imperialist | CLW.W. Workers Defense, October tive exaresstons tof the Barty to may have been interrupted by bes Rachie aerccpteahtc They still follow the policy of parti- | 1932) ‘Then, the. I.W.W.. paper, v. | some individual delegates, but no hia pelea dae The Socialist members of the Reich- | the “Industrial Worker,” October FILLED WITH | curtailment was noticeable. As to stag in Germany, voted for the appropriations for German cruisers. The | 4 1992 writes, “The ILD was the | DEBS’ SPIRIT interruptions, the Trotskyites were Socialist leaders participate in mt proceedings of th ere een ee nce mark and never having belonged The representatives of the lat- talist. agency. t ‘ ipa in of Nations. The Sociana | than Stand trial on the murder Ronee er sae _| to ang other than the Socialist | ter group were very active, both at ist eI ne ; e League Nations ‘he Socialist charge.” W. B. Jones, who has never | ——— SRN? = Party, and being still imbued with the New York Conference and the leaders pass resolutions of “solidarity” with the Soviet Union in case of an attack” (as at Zurich, oh May 19, 1932); their. propaganda to the effect that “Soviet Russia is inciting to war” (Vandervelde) ; that “Soviet Russia is almost as much to blame as Jap- anese militarism” (Renaudel). but they continue 'HE leaders of the Second International remain today what they were in 1914—agents of imperialism for preparing and carrying through war. And when we say leaders, we mean the leaders. With the rank and file members of the Socialist Party, we stand ready to unite at any time in militant action against imperialist war. The Amsterdam World Congress Against Imperialist War revealed spoken with an ILD representative concerning our policies, and whose ideas are gleaned only from the I W.W., is supposed to have written in the I.W.W. Workers Defense November 1932, “It was this bunch of Communist rascals that caused my conviction.’ The Socialist “New Leader” and the “Labor Age” of the Rev. A. J. Muste haye grabbed these morsels as a scavenger would carrion. The Developing Struggles in the West Indies the spirit of Eugene V. Debs, I find myseli considerably out of har- mony with the views expressed in said article, the greatest part of which is composed of quotations from a report circulated by a cer- tain Adolph Sturmthal, through the press service of the Labor and the Socialist International, and the balance of editorial approval of Mr. Sturmthal’s statements. It was not stated that Mr. Sturmthal World Congress; outside, distri- buting literature and inside intro- ducing counter-resolutions, which advocated abandoning the Con- gress and subsituting a future one, excluding non-partisan intelectuals and including the Second Inter- national. “There seems to be a growing bond of sympathy between the Trotskyites and some _ Socialist leaders. ‘Whey evitiently have once more the stand of the Socialist leaders. They warned Socialists |THE FACTS . (By a Colonial Worker) (ey ® here; and is further aggravated by | was present at the Congress, and I | something in common. Is it the not to attend. But 291 members of the Second International did attend. Now, what are the facts? In | jure desperate efforts. of | World Fight the WS: the’ steady return of the impover- | am not certain whether he secured | destruction of the Soviet Union? These delegates adopted, in addition to the Congress Manifesto, a special | July, 1931 the ILD called for the f gj 7 ished emigrants. | We have every reason to believe resolution of their own, a fighting resolution aga for the defense of the Russian Revolution and against of the bourgeois governments. The rank and file of the Socialist Parties, particularly in France, are rallying to the Amsterdam manifesto and the anti-war movement. And this, despite the campaign of terrorization by the leaders of the Socialist Party of France against those who were delegates to the historic Amsterdam World Congress Against War. And what about the leaders of the Socialist Party of America, Norman Thomas,’ the Hillquits and the O’Neals? imperialist wai, national defense What was their stand the’ formation of a Harlan Miners De- fense Committee to include pris- oners, local miners, representation from the American Civil Liberties Union, General Defense Committee of the I.W.W. (hereafter referred to as the G.D.C.) and the Interna- tional Labor Defense. The I.W.W. | sabotaged; the Defense Committee did ‘not materialize. In August, seeking to escape from the crisis, is strikingly man- ifested in the intensified robbery and ruination of the West Indian masses by British, American and French capitalism. In Porto Rico, the poor natives, artisan as well as agricultural workers have been reduced to abject misery by the rule of the National Imperialism, British, French Imperialisms officials, priests etc., all members of the white ruling class. With, the exception of the police and the But the government makes no effort to relieve the distress of the masses. Thousands of pounds in fat salaries are paid to the white princes of the Island yearly; but the hungry unemployed are not given a care, Over 17,000 pounds in pensions were distributed last his information from hearsay or from his own imagination. “Having served as a delegate from the ‘Friends of the Soviet Union of Ithaca, N. Y., to the New York Conference and being sub- sequently elected to represent that Conference at the World Congress Against War, I had an opportunity year. to fat-bellied ex-officials, to make some observations which that the intellectual sponsors of this United Front Against War are friends of the Soviet Union, while the leaders of the Secend International and the Trotskyites are not. There is a reason for this auperent be saceettren. “Sturmthal’s statements are those A % ape? Sf 7 is vith | of narrow partisan who on Amsterdam? Before Amsterdam, they printed the stock phrase of | 1931, when the cases were coming | City Bank of New York, While the } small shop-keepers, the bulk of the | many of whom still draw big sal- | paca s eh hae easete ae copes Gene Ot hither the leadership of the Second International, that Amsterdam was a “crea- | up for trial Richard Dowling, a cost, of living is not far below that all-colored population work as | aries in other positions. The big | = sf i pee a . ive | isle’ anorote ke. he conmiaese te tion” of Moscow. After the Congress, they printed that stupid article | well-known Louisiana labor lawyer, | in the States, the average wages agricultural laborers, city workers, | churches are subsidised to the tune | po a ee o rr nue to the should stop. breathing, in ofdar. 16 by Sturmthal, sent out from the office of the Second International, to | at the request of the ILD, offered | of the Porto Rican is $1.50 a day, | artisans or government petty clerks. of $70,000 a year. The Governor | Sher rab ie. paiseoihtd anne avoid inhaling some of the atmos- the effect that Amsterdam was only a mass meeting, that the manifesto | hig services for the defense of the | for the artisan, and about 50 cents t 3 Robertson who draws a salary of | Yer! PUP Oe ater ace | qiaeehc, highs ana. GAS er aiid ae J é Sangin ; 1 Vantin: The majority of the toiléts work | 449 @ day with home, land and | bases this assertion, unless he | Phere \ Y Pp centained no call to action, that the Congress was called to “destroy the miners. The G.D.C. maneuvered | for the agricultural laborer. Need- di the iantations a y ae | would 0 vthi { “hich | been exhaled by a Communist. In Second International,” and that it was a “Communist maneuver.” so that his offer was rejected. On | less to say, the Island is in the fast | 904 live: om the sugar. p other privileges has just deifvered | wo call anything in which | The Daily Worker has printed a wealth of material on the Amsterdam Congress, including the Manifesto, which disprove the wild charges of the Adiers, the Vanderveldes, the Bauers, and the other leaders of the Second International. They are indignant, these agents of imperialism, that the Socialist delegates to Amsterdam did not defend the record of their international leaders. But how could they? The socialist delegates to Amsterdam came to fight against imperialist war; how could they defend the socialist leaders who are helping bring on imperialist war? HE Daily Worker prints today a letter sent to the “New Leader,” socialist organ, by J. G. Roth, a member of the Tompkins County Socialist Party Local, with headquarters in Ithaca, New York. Comrade Roth was a delegate to Amsterdam. After seeing the article by Sturmthal in the “New Leader.” he wrote an answer to it, based on his personal ob- servations at the Congress, denying that it a Communist maneuver,’ indicating that Amsterdam was a unity sincere anti-war forces of varying political beliefs. Roth's letter on Oct. 1. It was returned unprinted on Dec. 12. Why of was written did the New Leader refuse to Sept. 8, 1931 Herbert Mahler, I.w.W. | representative said, “There was no | possibility for making any arrange- | ments for a joint defense in the | murder trials.” Later another at- | tempt made by the American Civil | Liberties Union to form a united | defense fell through solely because | of the attitude of the I.W.W. Even | the ACLU officials attest to these | facts. | The ILD is an organization of | class struggle. It has always ad- vocated legal action as a support to mass pressure. The G.D.C. pur- sues a policy of legalism denying the necessity of mass protest. It continues to speak of the framed- up victims not as class war pris- grip of that scourge of the Impe- rialist and Colonial world—unem- ployment; and that fully 50 per cent of the toiling people are now totaNy out of work. “HOOVER'S POORHOUSES In St. Thomas and St. Croix “Hoover's Poorhouses,” the masses are actually starving to death; their already starvation standard further lowered by the imposition of the prohibition law which des- troyed the Bay Rum industry, and by. the transformation of their Is- lands into naval bases. In the British colonies of St. Kitts, Antigua, St. Vincent etc., the misery of under-nourishment and half-nakedness is simply appalling. owned by the rich gods of the Is- lands, or absentee landlords. The average wage is 24 cents a day for @ man and 15 cents: for a woman worker. Boys and girls from nine to fifteen years of age get. 6 cents a day for 9 hours work, and are whipped to boot for not doing enough work, During the crop or reaping season, wages are a trifle higher, but due to the mechaniza- tion and speed-up in the industry, this period is of very short dura- tion. Besides sugar, there are no in- dustries to speak of in the Island; thanks to the policy of the imperi- alist exploiters who export their surplus capital to Canada, Austra- himsélf an address to the legis- lJature, in which he made no mention whatever of the unem- ployment situation’. THE RISING STRUGGLES So the masses are beginning to struggle. During the past few years, many attempts have been made to raise the toilers’ standard of living, but this development has been re- tarded by the middle-class leader- ship and governmental repression on one hand, and the absence of revolutionary leadership on the other. The dock strike of 1926, which broke out against. the advice of the leaders, and the heroic Communists are interested a ‘Com- munist maneuver.’ “Upon the initative of Romain Rolland, the famous French au- thor, the Congress was sponsored by intellectuals from many countries, including Albert Einstein of Ger- many, Betrand Russel of England, Upton Sinclair of the U. S. A, Henri Barbusse of France, Madam Sun Yat Sen of China, Sen Kata- yama of Japan, Karl Kraus of Austria, Michael Karolyi of Hun- gary, Maxim Gorki of the U. S. S. R., and many others. I do not know that any of these are Com- tion of Maxim Gorki. doubt, They, no are friends of the Soviet munists, with the possible excep- | spite of this opposition of their own leadership, 291 members of the So- | cialist Party were seated as delegates. } Sincere opponents of war combine and struggle against the common enemy, and ask no questions about party affiliation. “*Maneuver’? Nonsense! “Inasmuch as you could not afford space to publish a pro-Soviet re- solution adopted by our local several months ago, I have little hope that you will publish this’ The abiicas commaitien for | World Congress Against War, | Room 1811, 104 Fifth Avenue, | New York invites other rank and | file members of the Socialist | Party to write, giving their views | | } | print the letter from a rank and file socialist, who was a delegate to cm i a i Ps lia and New Zealand, while sittin struggles of the agricultural work- Union, but that does not constit te | ity ont a sila si sathcy te Be ee oners which they are, but as “mur- | Conditions in the French Islands i v ng |S Pct it that t ui on the necessity for united front fainsterdam? Because the “New Leader’ and the leadership of the Social: | der. defendants.” Tt cooperated with | of St. Martins, Martinique and | firmly, on..feudal relationships in ore at Sedgepond, | Mss veats. i |p Comunale.” action against war. The Com- “Shale lia eal nite abana a her te rent ne bran mane eGo ‘gainst | the attorney of the United Mine | Guadeloupe are not as yet quite as | Barbados. There are three small | whicl ‘workers: were, Sentenced to ty mittee announces that a meeting | Sia ree is why a as cae ES are cerns & bod Be | Workers, Ex-Senator J. M. Robert- | bad, but the effect of the deepening foundries which furnish repairs to Hopilacrupant at bate peal ae 4“) UNZENBERG was’ -an_ out- against the South American wars TEHOUaL divnn a. resolution te endorse the Amaterdam Congises Mantteste, | S00) e I:0%. leader in’ Kentucky | crisis-in'Prance {e fapidly reaching, ie AUGAs, UUs Aud-abips, fondest |) CAR ie eae ee ete anes standing figure, but not a | will be held in New York at Irv and this in spite of the fact that down to these colonies, onally, a few coopershops, a. sea- current of rebellion surging through dominating one. The commitiees ing Plaza, 15th Street and Irving What do the rank’and file socialist workers, those who are opposed | four of the miners it was “defend- As an example of the super-ex- |. Sonal cotton: factory, soil works of | the minds of the toilers. » were elected democratically and | Place on Thursday evening,Janu- to imperialist war and desire an effective v y of all sincere anti-war | ing» were Negroes. ploitation and robbery of the Colo- | 4M irrepressible nature and a. bis- Like the masses inthe other | there was no indication of Com- ary 12, what do they say about this recent New Leader” in The G.D.C. assumed full respon- | nial masses, we should consider | cuit factory. These concerns employ Islands, the Barbadian worker is | refusing to print the letter of Roth? V ay about Amsterdam, sibility for handling the cases of | the Island of Barbados, which is | in the aggregate less than a thou- struggling against terrific odds. aes Tee m: se about its Manifesto, about the fighting anti-v ar resolution by the soci- these framed-up miners. There | one of Britain’s “best governed” | sand workers who get an average With a political understanding alist. del who took The Daily already printed | were life sentences for W. B. Jones, | and most profitable West Indian | Wage of 3 shilltmys or 60 cents a | warped by the conscious policy of Letters rom Cus Roddie all of files of the Daily lted by Wm. Hightower, Wm. Hudson, Elzie | possessions. Here “is an island of | day. Others are engaged as long- British imperialism, the treachery any 0 desifes to do sc correspondence Phillips, Chester Poore, and others, | 166 square miles, about 200 miles off | shoremen ahd porters making an | of the ‘middle class elements who | from Socialist workers on the subject of Amsterdam, on the subject of Long jail terms for othe Ex- the northeast coast of South Am- average of about 36 cents a day, play with and utilize the masses | Workers Should Have ‘There were C. P. members in the the united front against imperialist war. Senator Robertson was in the fore- | erica, which serves as the first port their standards being constantly in order to win. concessions for | audience ne many members of * front of the W..B. Jones trial, yet | of call for hundreds of British | Teduced by the labor-displacing in- | themselves, the government ter- | Insisted On. Right to | ster Ervine onganisicns ee (HE Communist Party is ev ady to unite with’ those who really | Jones said, “Comunist rascals | ships sailing down the coast, and | NOvations:of the employers. ror of suppression, deportation 'M ke S tsbo Plea| pias Heacees paletge red pee a desire to fight against imperialist war. That is why Communists took | caused his convietion.” It was the | Port of last call for these commer- | UNEMPLOYMENT GROWING and censorship which isolates them ake cotts! sboro Flea) | called 1 he attention of tiie atialade part in the Anisterdam Congress, that is why they mobilized the toiling | policy of the G.D.C. which was car- | cial carriers returning to England Bs 5 ft ® : from all gutside happenings of ee ede eben Cea ay masses in support of the Congress. and that is why after Amsterdam, in | ried out in these trials. No mass | laden with the plunder of the | , Unemployment, which hes always: | ‘interest, and the total absence’ of a : Bronx, N, ¥. fucaee Tis pee aE aimee af the various countries, the Communists are cooperating in the building up | action was permitted. How then | South American toilers, a e Barbadian worker has, | labor organ to mould and reflect | Editor, the Daily Worker, at the lives of nine Negro boys of a powerful anti-war front The attitude of the leaders of the Socialist International and of the Socialist Party of the United States regarding the Amsterdam World Congress and the movement originated by Amsterdam brands them as ers, merchants, high’ goyernment' | rhousands of city workers assemble pase iid Ser ery Bene posed the role of the Socialist Par- | Praesens eokda ae portlet } enemies of the working class and agents of the capitalist class. The | not a part of the defense. The LENE in groups daily on the pie: d H Say cere DE Our 1 groups daily on the piers an moying fe -d. Under the im- | ty towards the Soviet Union. A i tion. They could id. } Communist Party of America calls on all rank and file members of the | ILD has never once issued an ap- | 1931. On November and December | other places, discussing the . ever ving. forward. Under the im. lallstc pacifist and excreverand, | Wi08 organization. They could stam Sociglist. Party to follow the example of the Tompkins County Local of peal for funds in the name of the | 1931, Chester Poore, Jim Reynolds, is pelling influence of:ever-increasing | £9! “ee erand, | up and disagree with a pacifist | the Sccialist Party, which by resolution voted for a united front against can the ILD be held responsible? oe 8 | | "THE ILD has collected no money | for these “murder” cases. It was workers whom the G.D.C. was “de- 'HE ‘population numbers 175,000. Of this number 15,000 are plant- Ganzie Danks, Elzie Phillips, and under the intensifying of the gen- eral crisis and the huge. price, re- duction for. raw material, now reached tremendous proportions. worsening situation of hunger which threatens to. devour them. their struggles and aspirations; all tend to retard the advance of the masses. and a rapidly developing Dear Comrade: In the Daily Worker, issue of Noy, 23rd, I read in the Workers Correspondence, how a worker ex- Tucker C. Smith, delivered a were at stake. This had no effect on Mr. Land, of course not—he is | @ socialist. speaker and so ably defend the i 1 v1 = ing.” i ; i f the necessity of | Speech in the Bronx Free Fellow- | Soviet Union, where were their war. Give full support to the American Committee for the Struggle | fending.” The ILD is defending | others whose cases the G.D.C. was | the emaciated faces of the workin; consciousness! c ; i é Againtt) War. " Spread rhe Manifesto of Amsterdam. Greet the South | Many miners against the charge of | handling, together with depend- | people and their wire-legged. chil Hoviencotines dencrabnia titi ihe mae wieskaes that oven | pean dittand: ties the. fone American Anti-War Congress to be held in Montevideo, Uruguay, on | criminal syndicalism and appeals | ents, received relief from the ILD: | aren bear loud testimony to the | steeste and ts’ wert Ano min, | now it would be better that the So- | plasiny Go unis deceate Pate - Bee bs 10¢5 Dat a CORREA eKE ing sot, of back in Heoruaee Mah ‘Apel May, Tavages of hunger. : the needed assistanc> of the more | Viet Union would disarm, and aiso he was forcibly led out to the back 9 numbers of the Labor Defender | August and September, 1932. (No The general suffering. of the | experienced class—brothers in the | that no armed struggle is justified | of the hall, did any of them even Murder of Miner: EATH on a wholesale scale, as this is written, appears to have been added to the horrors of mass unemployment, poverty, hunger and slow starvation which are the benefits of American capitalist civilization handed out to the coal miners of Iilinois. 54 miners are entombed. ‘There is little hope of their lives Even from the carefully worded~ news stories of the capitalist press correspondents it is clea¥ that Murder is the word which describes the would have brought out these facts to anyone honestly interested. The November, 1931 Labor De- tender published a financial statement, verified by a certi- fied public accountant, of what it has collected for the Harlan | defense. $981 were received— $2,572 expended. In addition the ILD paid out $609 for the relief ot the Kentucky prisoners and their dependants, At the Kentucky Miners Relief and Defense Conference, held at the Labor Temple, Dec. 1, 1932, | it was admitted that the G.D.C. had collected ten thousand dollars j prisoner anywhere received relief in January, June and July, 1932, because of lack of finances.). ANTE, 2 ‘HE I.W.W., the Socialist “New Leader” and the Muste “Labor Age” have carefully chosen this per- iod for their attacks upon the ILD. It is at this time in particular when the ILD is rousing the American working class, black and white, for a united fight against the ae terror. Compare these vile attacks” with ‘Tom Mooney’s words about the ILD, In his letter of October 5th, addressed to the 5th National Con- toilers becomes more unbearable as the help which the natives formerly received from relatives .in. the United States is now cut off, due to the. crisis and unemployment imperialist countries, they. will, in the near future, forge to the front in headlong struggle against the entire system of Imperialism and Colonial Robbery, PARTY LIFE Recommends A. “Press Week” ‘By. CHARLES BLANK HE Central Committee of the Communist Party has called upon every lect en and every the workers of the localities. ‘They came to listen to the latest news, which was read: aloud, and also to take part in lengthy dis- neither the American Revolution of 1776 or the Russian Revolution. Now this correspondent has lots of admiration for the workers in the audience who stood up to disagree with the speaker and ably pointed out how this capitalist system is the cause of all wars, and only with the coming of a Communist society would war and exploitation of man by man be end2d—that part is all night, And now about this worker who came in ‘with credentials from the International Labor Defense and asked Mr. Land the Reverand, for permission to get the floor for a turn around to see whether he would just be thrown out or allowed to keep his seat? And when an- other member of 'the ILD who was present in the audience called one of these orators out in the lobby to get a collection, would he and the rest of them help? He an- swered her, that it is not advisable and we will,antagonize the audi-~ ence, These are the very words of the Socialist Party, when we hold mass demonstration we “antagonize the public.” Now what I want to know is what are you.comrades doing in that 3 church—are you helping Mr. Land manner in which these workers met their deaths. up to January, 1932 for the defense td f the ILD held in Cleve- | individual sympathetic cussions on important topics. If | couple of minutes to speak and | swell his audience into this chi Old and rotten timbering, fires in many of the old workings, bulk- | of the.Kentucky miners. ‘This sum | Jouuis Getoner. be atates in part: | foward the Meld move- | Systematically arranged Daily | make a collection for the Scotts- | or giving him financial aid pee] headed off but constantly giving out carbon monoxide gas, dusty work~ ings, blocked exits—no systematic inspection. Complete and brazen violation of the state mining laws—all under the pretext of “putting men to work.” They will not need work any more. This is one of the ways capitalism “solves” the question of un- employment—by the destruction of workers, SE has not been accounted for in an itemized statement becanse “lack of facilities at that time” made th.s impossible, it was stated there. The so-called “Workers Defense,” October, 1932 alleges that the ILD “Js endeavoring to steal more funds “I have no hesitancy in stating very frankly that the ILD has re- sponded to my appeal in a most active and aggressive manner and is carrying on a very militant cam- paign on a national scale and is now about to embark upon an in- ment to begin a drive for increas- ing the circulation of the Daily ‘Worker. So far the Drive has not been sufficiently developed. Why? Be- cause Daily Worker Circulation Drives are as yet considered of Worker group readings would be carried on, the Drive would be greatly stimulated. ‘The modern method I would sug- gest to be—to designate a Press Week. In that week, the “press” shall boro boys’ defense as that day was Oct. 2nd tag-day. Of course Mr. Land refused on same pretense or other, but at the same time he told the audience who this workei\ was sent by and what he wanted. you have to pay for your admission to get in, or is it both? Tf it's to listen to a good lecture— then there are far better and more educational lectures given by @ Worker's Club right across the street. that: eriminal- carelessness amount! to than will be donated for the de- | ternational campaign for the free- . How can | he the central theme in articles, Comradely P ej rarer consi the Talaaatat ‘What is to be done? as fense of the Kentucky miners.” | dom of myself and all other labor | we really develop the Drive? discussions and lectures. ‘Exhibi- | the Daily Worker. hayes) a ae Tf ig in this same area of basic industry and destitution that troops, | (Sherwood Anderson is chairman | and political prisoners.” And fur- | | Tn order to develop the Drive | tions of the progress of the revolu- Such hearings can also be ar- Todarad nts and the whole machinery of government have | Of the Prisoners Relief Fund, Ed- | ther; “The mass campaign of the and attain the desired results we tionary press in all its phases could | ranged in factory regions and in THE NEW SLAVE TRADERS: riwa ebtiieed aget mond Wilson, Treasurer, Roger | TLD. in the Scottsboro case is an | must get out of the narrow limits | be arranged. The ‘of the | trade union locals jon concrete : been mobilized against the miners—to force them to accept lower wages and the same uncontrolled robbery which. caused the wholesale murder. There is blood on every pound of coal—the blood of murdered work~- ers. © The cause of coal mine explosions are known—-and preventable. But prevention costs money. Under capitalism, especially now, with 16,000,000 jobless, workers are. cheaper. Baldwin, Henry Hunt and others are members, ‘The only collection is the General Prisoners Relief Campaign for Political Prisoners, Relief has been continually sent by the ILD to the Kentucky miners, epoch in the class struggle in America. The effectiveness of the position taken by the LL.D. has been clearly demonstrated in their fight. Only because of the militant tactics of the 1.L.D. are the Scotts- in which the past drives were con- fined and bring it on new soil. ‘What methods could we apply in order to make the Drive a mass movement? Two methods could be used to progress Daily Worker as the Central Organ, the language press, trace |union organs, the various mass organiza- tion publications, wall newspapers, shop papers, leaflet make-ups, etc. In the Press Week hearings should prove to the workers that the capi- talist press is an instrument of oppression, and the Daily Worker, together with other organs of the revolutionary movement, are |the ENGLISHTOWN, N. J. — chamber of commerce is urging tory owners to build in this town. I have been told that firms are of~ fered a site free for a certain length of time. One thing I found out: the ‘The Illinois catastrophe is another step in the drive of the bosses, | whose cases the G.D.C. handled. | boro boys alive today.” this end—a primitive and a modern | be arranged in workingelass neigh- | instruments of struggle for the in- per pa crenata they are the bankers and their government against the American working class. | Money orders had nm sent to The masses of toilers supporting | one. borhoods and mass organizations | terests of the workers. 5 aad Maoh Tt must be met as such, The answer to the wholesale murder of our Hightower, Jones, Reynolds, Shed- | the LL.D. in its militant campaigns ‘The primitive method 1s familiar | based on issues immediately affect- by a broad campaign, aut ‘This consists of farmers’ children class brothers in Tlinois can be made powerful and purposeful only by » united fighting front of miners throughout the coalfields—unity of the rank and file regardless of union affiliation, color or creed—unity for (ruggle against the murderous offensive of the coal owners and their rovernment 4 Asal lah " ’ rick, Datcher on September 17, 1931, and receipt signed by them; to most of them again on Sept, 24; to Burnett, Reynolds, Dratcher and i others again on October 6 and 21, | to free the Scottsboro boys Tom |. Mooney, the ‘Tampa, Fla., militants | | and all class war prisoners wil give . their answer by increasing ten-fold. theix militant support of the TLD, to advanced workers who lived in small localities in European coun- tries. ‘Those who rece: metro- politan newspapers their’ homesa-neal ngjnt-of assembjs for ing the particular locality or or- ganization. who are forced to seek work in