The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 14, 1933, Page 3

DALLY WORKER, iW YORK, SATURDAY, J 4 : Page Ture / ARY 14, 1933 (Section One." 5 =< There are three ‘sections to if thie inoue of “The Daily Worker,” including 16 pages in all. ‘See that you get all | |e them. * _| THE DAILY WORKER. Mad, 96.00 yer year Sega Dy a an Sorby Corie S18 00 yer yoo i the Fe Recognition of Soviet Vol. No. 1. SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 1924 odiue SORE A taraa co Price § Cents BANKERS SEEK TO PROP TOTTERING GERMANY |Oil Trust's Open Shop Guilty of Disaster 'U. S. AIDS Here Is “The Daily” In the first iseve of the Weekly Worker, Fob. 2, 1992, we “This, the first edition of The Werksr, is the advance of The Daily Workér.” THREE BANKERS GO TO BERLIN ESSER DEATHFOR 40, A worker reading his fighting paper, the Daily Worker, in his home. The Socialist Press in Service of Capitalism Joins With Boss Publications in Slanderous Attacks Against Soviet Union By H. M. WICKS. t the nine years.of its existence the DAILY WORKER has carried ona. struggle against the trickery and deceptions of the socialist press. In. the course of these nine years there have been times when the anti-working class activity of the Socialist press (which reflects the leadership of the Sotialist Party) was not clearly exposed. For ex- sa aple, during the Passaic strike of 1926 Norman Thomas and other Jeaders of the S. P. were regarded as’ honest, but confused individuals who ‘were actually concerned about defending the interests of the work- ing class, When, during that same period the DAILY WORKER, then being published in Chicago, editor- jally attacked the socialist con- gressman, Victor L. Berger, for his attempts to head off a senatorial investigation of Passaic, Bertram | D. Wolfe as agitprop director of New York disirict of the Workers «Communist) Party wrote a strong protest to us, saying that we ought to encourage Berger, instead of at- tacking him. Thus, even then, three years before their expulsion from our Party as renegades these lead- ers of the Loyestone group opposed @ consistent exposure of the ma- chinations of the Socialist Party Jeaders. BETRAY SACCO-VANZETTI STRUGGLE Again, during the world-wide mass struggles to save Sacco and Vanzetti we only belatedly proved that the Socialist Party leaders and the socialist press, by sowing legal- istic illusions among the masses g@bout the fairness of capitalist courts, were trying to defeat and disintegrate the mass movement, thereby aiding the capitalist ex- ecutioners who were plotting to shoot chained lightning through the tortured bodies of these two working class fighters. ee te \T we failed to see clearly in many instances in the past, and ‘what many do not understand to- @ay is that the Socialist Party lead- ers and the Socialist press are not, @s some would have us believe, “hon- est, but misinformed individuals.” It is not stupidity, or ignorance, or mistakes- and errors that account for the deceptions of the Socialist | press. Everything they do and say, ‘everything these people print is /earefully prepared and is part of definite line: against the working class. Everything they do is for the purpose of deceiving the mass- es, to try to defeat the strug- gles against cap! , to try to help the imperialist ruling class find a capitalist way out of the yerisis. It is this fact that must ‘@lways be kept in mind when deal- ing with the Socialist Party leaders. “Tt, is. from this standpoint that all Commurdsts, all supporters of our ‘Party and of the DAILY WORKER jmiust unmask these leaders and ‘their press before the rank and file ‘workers:who are deceived by them. Wo impute: to these leaders the \lightest honesty of purpose is to ‘aid them in their attempts to con- |eeal ‘their betrayal of the workers. S PRESS CIZES 8. P. ‘Today, more than ever, at a time ‘when the toiling masses are, in ever-larger numbers enlisting in the fight against the hunger and war progranr of Wall Street, the social- ist betrayers are needed to try to gtem this movement. At a time when capitalist stabilization has capitalist press print- “publicity for the So- Party during the past élec- aiding them to in- vote, shows that the knows how useful & vy i é fa the These triumphs have resulted in a great relative increase in the in- fluence of the Soviet Union as com- pared to the capitalist world. It is the job of the capitalist press, and the socialist press to try to conceal from the toiling masses this, the central fact in the align- ment of world forces today. To the socialist press is assigned the job of trying to prejudice the work- ers against the Soviet Union by trying to make it appear that the lot of the Soviet masses is as bad as that of the capitalist world— or even worse. For example, take the current issue of the New Leader (December 31). That vile sheet in the face of all the facts to the con- trary deliberately lies saying: “Conditions in the Soviet Union do not improve and next week the Communist Party and the government will hold sessions to cons‘der the crisis.” Continuing, the article pictures as “the most rigorous extension of iron rule yet known to the So- viet Union” the passport regulations calculated to weed out criminal and parasitic elements who prey upon the workers in the cities. This vici- ous attack is re-echoed in the Mil- waukee Leader of Tuesday, January 3, which says of the Soviet Union: “They believe in maintaining the ‘dictatorship of the proletar- iat’ by means of terror; that is, by killing those who oppose them and thereby terrorizing the rest of the populace into obedience.” Similar quotations appear in the columns of every socialist paper in the world. Such attacks are not only directed against the Soviet Union, to try to defeat the mass movement in defense of the strong hold of the world revolution, but are a direct aid to the capitalist police, armies and courts that are carrying on more violent suppres- sion of the movement of the toiling masses, under the leadership of the Communist Party, against the at- tempts of the capitalists to find a way out of the crisis through in- creased hunger and imperialist war. ‘Thus the increased fascisation of social-democracy. As Comrade Ma~ nuilsky at the 12th Plenum of the E.C.C.I. said regarding the social democracy at the end of capitalist stabilization: “A party which sup- ports capitalism even in the period of the end of capitalist stabilization cannot help becoming more fascist.” S. P. DEFENDS CAPITALISM A reading of the socialist press proves that that Party defends cap- italism in every one of its cam- paigns against the toiling masses. It helps prepare for war and in- tervention against the Soviet Union. It tries to conceal imper- jalist war preparations behind a pacifist smoke-screen of praise for the League of Nations. It tries to split the growing unity of Negro and white workers by denying that the Negroes are specially victimized and denying that in the Black Belt of the South they are an oppressed nation. It tries to disintegrate the mass fight for unemployment and social insurance by supporting such maneuvers as the LaFollette-Cos- tigan Bill and by putting forth fake unemployment insurance proposals of its own. To the degree that capitalism Increases its furious drive against the working class and especially against its vanguard, the Commu- nist Party, to that degree do the socialist leaders search for new slanders, new calumnies, new provo- cations—all with the object of sav- ing capitalism from the sledge- hammer blows of the aroused toil- ing masses. In waging the fight against capitalism in the tenth year of its existence the DAILY WORKER will relentlessly and in detail concentrate heavier fire against the socialist agents of capi- talism in the ranks of the working class. LENIN ON THE INTELLECTUALS 6 most important thing at the present time is to get rid of the prejudice of the bour- geois intellectuals that only special officials, entirely dependent on capital by their whole social post- tion, can carry on the administra- tion of the state.” --From Will the Bolsheviks Re- tain State Power? by Lenin. Lit- fe Lenin Library, Volume 12, . Tafa ais on nos Phe Baty Westen we ola ess ‘Comentiet Paternatlonal ts declaring that the Daily is but “the forerunser of more revolutionary with the comrades of the dailies in other parte of the country.” aces rostwanees enna iA PERN ILL rosin Dy bs the Cestd ban boom ronoed Only’ the momentous developrnants of the net far future will-reveal the tremendoud significance of this present blateric| ‘achievement. ©. fslet este sath ts borat A_aew voice la ralnd, Battling forthe ‘ retell tary bemerm lies ‘Tuck votees; of many Communist Daillea to come! and farmers of Americs, . Not ta Keak amd bebrrl ones? ‘pavian in Czecho-Sloval an SF rar a Caer pat ctu eames 9 Tab ys as well, the Communist message wil nee op dy emoog the merching, militant hosts of the| exploited cities and on the land. ‘The Daily is born! oe ee end call Shc wary £6 severe! ‘The Daily of the whole working cles : The Dally hes reused its eoomian. The labér] °y > Secretary of State Hughes, at Washington, bab andpoblished Searine ences their joy Baily im the United judice Americ reat strug le against the few who ind keep them in submission. bandit rule. We have no fears because we know that the workers’and 7! farmers of the United States will-repidty rally in wupport of ‘The Oaily in increased mimbers. had transl in the subsidized press of a an article ven use to: fear The Daily: They Know it will yaise the ‘rob and plun-| sun the They know The} ily is « challenge to the coftinuance of their ruthless and |." INJURE MANY Som nocketoler Concern Smashed Workas' Organization ‘beer ones PEKIN, T—Evabiohmen af the open shop-ectitinel negligence on the past ef the: company and’ eftcieney santa are given: by the-turvivors as ‘end won ern te ghtien ire a denon Sf te Wr tater Bare a the geferal attaek agriat_ he ata Reggie tar at Ra Rekghe the Corn Pro us WALL STREET DOLLAR PLOT |Grat Fear of Labo’ Growing | Discontent In Europe | il |and'ecing were’ of glass. Tha ex. IN BIG FIGHT ON THE Ml Y TRICT ‘UNITED FARMERS fe ‘Unmasked as eg Russian Recognition Foe While 5 Hughes’ Plot Falls by Wayside bad on Deller whose attitude towarte The first: page of 'the first’issueof the Daily: Worker, Jan. 13, 1924, The cartoon is by Robert Minor. Nine Years of the “Daily Worker’ in the | Dec. Struggles:of American Labor How Far ‘Has: the ‘Daily’ ‘Fulfilled. Tasks Set by Communist International ?, ?| By BILL DUNNE ‘HE first tasue‘ot the Daily Work- _* er, January 13, 1924, published the greetings of the Communist International to the first Commu~ nist daily in the English language. + ‘The message from the Communist International gave the perspective and tasks for the Central Organ of our Party (then called the Workers Party) as. follows: “The issues confronting, the Workers Party and the American workers and farmers are so great that. The Daily Worker mist be- come, a power... It must become the expression of all the oppress- ed workers ahd the rebellious farmers in the country. It must be the leader in the struggle against. American capitalism, which is consolidating its ‘forces for fresh assaults onthe work- ‘ing-class. “The Daily Worker must take-up the struggle inthe trade’ unions. It must fight: against’ the ;open shop drive, which the American employers will soon renew with increased vigor. It must unceas- ingly demand the freedom.of the press, speech and assemblage. It must fight for the protection of the youth of the country and against the exploitation of ‘child labor, which is a disgrace to the American workers. It, must,mo- bilize the-women and:mothers.of |! the working-class’ of.~ America against the shameful:robbery-of their foil and that of ‘their chil- dren. It must conduct an unre- mitting struggle against the cap- italist press, which is a powefful weapon in the hands of the em- ployers. It must expose the sham of the church, which is a tre- mendous ‘force in America. It must unflinchingly raise the flag of the class: struggle on the eco- capitalism.and. the establishment of a Workers and Farmers Gov- ernment in the , United: States. “The Daily Worker must: mo- by’ intervention, American. im ism has turned its face to China, which soon will feel the power of American gold and American ers and farmers’ to prevent this savage act. For in. the | ground stands’ Soviet Russia, which American imperialism-once would ‘attack. att Worker in its first issue emphas- = the struggles confronting its tral Organ and ithe fact that American and.world capitalism; a ponsibilities upon ‘the “Communist Party of the United States, and; all other’ sections. of . the: Communist Psion iy it. would éserve+ no good. purpose ’ to: indulge ‘in self-congratulation merely . be- cause” we have” képt our Central | Organ alive for nine years, altho _this is no mean’ achievement; that “growth: in. its inflyenice has been Sreat; that it serves the Party and the masses better as the “collective organizer”;. that there has been ing’ the:work and’ struggles of the : Party and -the masses. would: not be the correct approach.to the question of the role of the Daily Worker today as “collective. organizer of the cause “new fresh pcs of the workingclass and its allies are challenging the right of capitalism to» live longer at the price of their ‘tnereasing misery, it is cl--- that athievémients of the Daily worker which would have’ been something to.be hailed with the greatest sat- isfaction in 1924 are-entirely in- adequate today. THE. SITUATION IN 1924 In 1924 American capitalism was overcoming a slight slump and pre- paring for the mad rush to the peak of 1929 from. which it crashed into the present crisis. The leadership of the American Federation of La- bor had not yet. completed its full circle. of treachery. It had «just launched its scheme of « class collaboration and “worker-manage- ment-cooperation”—its program for the period of ‘“prosperity.” The jp still had a long grip on the -union membership. “Its pro- gram of betrayal of the unorganized and its-closer linking to the gov- ernment were only beginning to be understood by the masses. It was the era of great labor banks. The A. F. of L. leadership had as yet no need of the complicated dema- gogic maneuvers they are now forced to enter into in the attempt, to retain their influence. ‘The Socialist Party was moribund. It was the*period of experimenta- tion .with Labor Parties, -Farmer- labor Parties and Federated Farmer Labor Parties. S. P. demagogy was relatively poorly organized. IN AGITATION PROPA- GANDA STAGE The work of the Trade Union Unity League (then the Trade Un- ion Educational League) was con- fined mostly to-agitation andt pro- paganda among the members of the American Federation of Labor un- fons and Railway Brotherhoods. The formula of “force the reaction- arl trade union leaders -to. fight for'the interests of the workers” was still being used. The independent leadership of class battles, strikes, etc., by Communists and militant trade unionists was of a very feeble character. The revolutiohary mo- vement led by the Communist Party was largely on a basis of agitation and propaganda—many times of an abstract character. So it was with the Daily Worker —militant, aggressive, speaking always for the working class, ex- posing the guilt of capitalists, their agents and capitalism as a whole—but mainly a paper of agitation and propagands, DAY, our Party’ has organized and led great mass struggles. But that we have failed to lead far greater struggles because of our abstract approach—in the Daily Worker and elsewhere—nq com- rade Will deny. Permanent mass or- ganizational and abstraction are in- compatible. It is not enough to- day to sit back and do a little gloating over successes here and there, important. as many of them are. The crisis does :not wait. Neither do the forward-moving “masses of the working class. Neither does world capitalism and its most powerful section, Am- erica, walt. It prepares to fight for its life—-to fight to exist by j creating conditions of greater ex- ploitation, hunger, lower standards of living everywhere for the masses —and be imperialist war. Capitalism’ declihes and decays but it does not collapse. Its death blow must be given by the working class, headed by its Communist Party. We stand today, therefore, as the Communist International has said, before the task of win- ning the majority of the working class for the forcible overthrow of capitalism. FOR EVERYDAY ECONOMIC INTERESTS OF MASSES We stand today before the task of winning the masses for the vic- torious struggle against the ever- increasing danger of a new world imperialist war, of organizing the mass defense of the Soviet Union, of the Chinese revolution. The Twelfth Plenum of the Ex- ecutive Committee of the Commu- nist International stated in its theses: “The main link which the Com- munist Parties must seize upon in solving this problem, is the struggle for the everyday eco- nomic and political interests of the broad masses, against increas- ing poverty, against oppression, violence and terror... only by relying on the everyday interests of the masses can the Commu- nist, Parties defend and strength- en the position of the working class, and lead it up to ever high- er forms of struggle and to de-. cisive battles for the dictatorship of the proletariat.” It is from this detailed estimate of the Communist tasks that we must make our estimate of how far the Daily Worker has*succeed- ed in carrying through its mission to’ rally the workers and farmers to the struggle for the overthrow of capitalism and the~establishment of a Workers and Farmers Govern- ment in the United States,” as set forth in the greeting of the Com- munist International to the Daily Worker on the occasion of its first issue in 1924. Shee EALISING - the nature of the tasks facing the Party and its Central Organ in this period, the resolution of the Fourteenth Plen- um of the Central Committee in May, 1932, following a detailed ex- | amination’ of the Daily Worker, stated: ‘The Daily, Worker must be made a Communist mass paper through (Continued on Page 6) LENIN’S WRITINGS AND TECHNOCRACY “THE accumulation of capital, accelerating the replacement of workers by machinery, creat- ing wealth at the one pole and poverty at the other gives birth to the so-called ‘reserve army of labor, to a ‘relative overabund~ ance’ of workers or to ‘capitalist overpopulation.’ This assumes the most diversified forms, and gives capital the possibility of expand- ing production at an exceptionally rapid rate. ‘This possibility in conjunction with the enhanced accumulation of capital in the facilities for credit and with the accumulation of capital in the means of production, furnishes, among other things the key to the understanding of the crisis of overproduction that occur period- ically in capitalist countries—first about every ten years, on an aver~ age but subsequently in a more continuous form and with a less definite periodicity.” —From “The Teachings of Karl Marx,” by I. Lenin. Little Lenin Library Volume 1. » Lenin reading the “Pravda”, of the Soviet Union. Outstanding Compiled by ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG oa 16 April 2, 1870—V. I. Ulyanov (Lenin) born in Simbirsk, capital city of province of same name, father, I, N. Ulyanov, was head of the public schools of the province. Simbirsk is now cal- led Ulyanovsk. August, 1879—Enters High School. May 20, 1887—Execution of Alex- | ander, Lenin’s older brother for | participation in the attempt -on the life of Tsar Alexander III June 22, 1887—Graduates from High | school. | Aug. 25, 1887—Mairiculates at Law | School of Kazan University. Vi, 1887—Arrested with 40 other students of Kazan Uni- versity for participation at an illegal meeting. Dec. 19, 1887—Expelled from the university and banished to live in a village with his grand- father. Fall, 1888—Permitted to return to Kazan, though not to the uni- versity, joins Marxist circle and studies “Capital”. Oct. 5, 1888—Refused permission to go abroad to continue studies. Fall, 1889—Continues his theoretical studies of Marxism and lectures to youth circles of Samara to which his family moved. . Pe- titions Ministry of Education for permission to take law ex- amination, which is refused. The minister marked the petition “to enquire from educational and police authorities. He is a bad man.” Nov. 27, 1891—Receives law degree, having passed with honors spe- cial examinations which he was finally allowed to take at St. Petersburg University. 1892—Admitted to the Bar and al- lowed to practice law before the courts of Samara. Continues his Marxist studies and lectures before Marxist circles. 1893—Writes first work, “New Eco- nomic Tendencies in Peasant | | | Life”. Comes to live and prac- tice law in St. Petersburg. De- livers lectures in Social-Demo- cratic circles. 1894—Actively participates in So- cial-Democratic organization. Joins propagandist group. Teaches in workers’ circles. Writes first large work “Who are the ‘Friends of the People’ and “How they Fight the Social- Democrats”, a polemic against the Populists who were attack- ing Marxism. Reads a paper on “Reflection of Marxism in Bour- geois Literature” before a group of leading Marxists in Peters- burg. January, 1895—Leads in prepara~ } tory work for the unification of / Social-Democratic groups of workers into a central organize tion. May-September, 1895—Contributes to collective volume “Materials Characterizing Our Economic Development.” Leaves for Switzerland to establish con- nections with the group “Libera- tion of Toil” (Plekhanov, Axel- rod, etc.). Meets Kautsky in Berlin, Lafargue in Paris, and studies writings in the libraries of those cities. November, 1895—Upon return to Russia, heads central S.-D. or- ganization in Petersburg, leads in the agitation and propaganda among factory workers, writes leaflets, contributes articles and writes pamphlet dealing with fines enforced upon workers. Dec. 20, 1895—Arrested in St. Pe- tersburg. 1896—While in prison keeps in con- tact with S.-D. organization, writes leaflets and articles which are smuggled out and published. Prepared the outline for an ex- tensive study of the develop- ment of capitalism in Russia. Feb. 10, 1897—Exiled by Imperial decree to Siberia for three years. May 20, 1897—Arrived at village Shushenkoye, Yenisey province where he settles to live. Con- tinues contact with S.-D. or- ganizations in Russia and abroad, writes pamphlets, artic- les and works on “Development of Capitalism in Russia.” 1898—While in exile in Siberia, elected editor of official Party organ, “Robotshaya Gazeta” by First Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party. central organ of the Communist Party Events in the Life of V. I. Lenin Leader of World’s Toilers Devoted Lifetime to Fight for Liberation of Masses 1898—N. K. Krupskaya and are married t., 1898—Completes “Devel- Yapitalism in Russia” the “Theory and e of Trade Unionism” by Beatrice Webb. literary activity with leading le in Siberia re~ questions of program. of Party in Russia, and tk ment of a central n abroad. 1900—Ends exilé and re- to European Russia. 1900—Arrested in Peters~ burg, but re ed after ten days. July 29, 1900—Leaves for Germany to begin publication in’ Mimich rst revolutionary Marx- cal publication; “The ut June 3, Dec., 1900—Writes “What Is To Be Done—” July to August, 1903—Participates at Second Congress of Social- Democratic Party held in ‘Brus- s and London where tie_split ‘s and Menshe- 5 with Lenin as leader of the first. Nov. , 19095—Returns to Peters- burg during the first Russian Revolution. May 9, 1907—Goes to London to attend the Fifth Congress of the Party and remains abroad August, 1914—Outbreak of = war finds Lenin in Galicia where he had gone to be nearer to Rus- sia. Arrested and deported to Switzerland. Sept. 5-8, 1915—Actively partici- pates at the Zimmerwald (Switzerland) Conference of in- ternationalist. socialist elements where he leads the left wing. March 15, 1917—News of" tht’ over- throw of the Tsar and the es- tablishment of a provisional gov- ernment in Petrograd reached Lenin in Zurich. March 20-Apri! 8, 1917—Lenin writes “Letters from Afar’’giv- ing his position on the nature of the February Revolution and the tasks before the Russian working class April 16, 1917—Arrives in Petro- grad and is received at the sta- tion by large delegations. of workers and soldiers. April-May, 1917—Attends Bolshe- vik Conference, at whieh his program and policies regarding the Russian Revolution are ac- cepted. July-November, 1917—Lives in-hid- ing, moving from place to place, but keeps in constant touch; with Bolshevik leaders. Writes. for the Party press and to the Cen- tral Committee urging prepar- ation for armed uprising. Nov. 6, 1917—Returns disguised to Smolny Institute, headquarters of the. Bolshevik Party and as- sumes direct leadership of final preparations for armed upris- ing. Noy, 7, 1917—Kerensky government overthrown, and power passes into the hands of the Sowets. Soviet government organized with Lenin as chairman of the Council of People’s Commis- sars. August 30, 1918—Atiempt on his life made by member of the So- cialist-Revolutionary Party while he was leaving a factory meet- ing. The wound inflicted by the revolver shot, although ser- ious, healed and Lenin was able to return to work March 2, 1919—Opens Firsi Con- gress of Communist Interna- tional December 1919—First illness; May 26, 1922— Partial paralytic stroke, November 13, 1922—Recovers: suffi- ciently to be able to»address Fourth Congress of the Com- munist International on, “The New Economic Policy and the Perspectives of the World Revo- lution.” Nov. 20, 1922—Speaks at the} plen- ary session of the Moscow Sov- fet which proves to be hfs last public appearance. ¢ Jan. 21, 1924—V. I. the founder of the first Soviet state and the greatest teacher and leader of the world’s workers since Marx and Engels, died at Gorki, near Moscow. * Based upon material preharea for the Lenin’s Collected Works by the Marx-Epvels-Lenin Insti- tute. oe od ‘ ie } i