The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 23, 1933, Page 1

| | | | } | \ Have You “We of the I. W. call. We-must ans We must answer it at once. $ “Comrades of the I, W. once “Save the Daily” Committees. yourself a task commensurate with your maximum capacity. work like blazes, ta fulfill this task. “INTERNATIONAL WORKERS Answered? O. must answer this wer it 100 per cent. 0., form at Set And then work— ORDER” “Vol. X, No. 19 a: mdvclass matier at the Post Office at , ander the Act ef Mareb S, 187%, (Section of the Communist International ) NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1933 Mr. and Mrs. cently mar the $35,000 drive Yorker. “CITY EDITION Donate Wedding Gift JD ied, turned over to the Daily Worker a wedding gift of §. tributions from your friends, to of New York, re- Get con- collect in save the Daily Price 3 Cents 65 ORGANIZATIONS MAP PLAN FOR ALBANY CONFERENCE STRIKERS IN JAPAN SCORE U.S. SCHEMES Demonstrate ate U: Consulate and Home of Singer Bosses \SWER WAR MONGERS Washington | Trying to. Make Use of Strike (CABLE BY INPRECORR) BERLIN, Jan. 22.-The fate of Huan Ping, chairman of the All- China Trade Union Federation, is still unknown. The Chinese section of the League of Human Rights has called ypon the Nanking Kuo- mintang regime to reveal his whereabouts and to place him before a normal court on whatever dharges are to be made against him, Kinchow dispatches report that the Japanese have begun an attack on the volunteer forces in the fron- tier region between Mukden and Jehol Proyinee, preparatory for a farther big drive into Jehol. Jap- anese cavalry, infantry and planes are operating in the attack. The Japanese Rengo News Agen- ey reports that the Japanese War Office is discussing measures for “complete pacification” by summer. Well-informed circles assure that the big offensive will begin before the thaw, otherwise the heayy Jap- anese tanks and artillery will be difficult of transportation. Striking Japanese workers of the U..8, Singer Sewing Machine Com- | pany’s plant. in Yokohama yesterday cagried ,out militant . fee i meagan in protest inst the intervention of the Wall Street governmént in the strike strug- gle in this and other Japanese cities egeinst a 10 per cent wage cut ordered by-the Singer Company. The strikers also demonstrated before the hotel housing officials of the Singer Com- pany. Japanese police viciously attacked the demonstration, arresting 150 strike leaders,. The workers answered this attack with a huge protest demon- stration in a public park near the Consulate building. The strike has effectually closed down all of the Japanese plants of the Singer company. This is the same company which has carried out a cot sistent {wage |cutting! policy jin its plants in the state of New. Jersey. Pelligrini-Genduso Strike Victory Leads to Bakers’ Union Drive ‘NEW YORK. —On J Jan. 20 the work- ers of Pellegrini and Genduso Bak- ery, 257 bo 19 St., together with the Bakery Workers Industrial Union committee : “it to the bosses of this shop and prec?ted their demands: . recognition of the union and the shop’ committee. 2, eight hours work. 3. increase in wages. After two hours of conference the realized that the workers were ed to strike immediately for ir rights and therefore. capitulated tosthe union’s demands. ithout a strike the following was : the elght hour day, whereas! ares ‘the demands were granted the es slaved ten, eleven and twelve hours a day; an increase of wages of $12 weekly over the former $32 per week maximum; and a recognition of the union and shop committee, which will insyre these demands be- Ing carried out. ‘The workers have proved that such avyietory can be won even in this period of crisis as long as they are on a’ militant basis. The unfon's organizational drive among the bakery workers is continuing with great, success. It invites all unor- ganized bakers to hesitate no longer, pat to get in contact with the Bakery Workers Indijstrial Union, 232 W. 22 St, New York City. The union pledges all help to fight the unbear- able conditiotis in the bakery: shops. NEW YORK. — Four men were drowned. when: the British freighter Exeter City went down in a storm ht. The MASS. MEETING AT “Indoor mass meeting to demand more relief, Mecting to be held today, at 2:30 pm. at Public School 230, Albemarle and Dahill Road, Roroagh Park. oe of * | through OF U. ea DEPOSITORS MEET TUESDAY Bank of U. S. meet at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, at a committee to Broderick and to register for the | lief and introduced forced labor for Call on Workers to Oppose All Imperialist Wars NEW YORK—The conference held | Friday of representatives of the Anti- oer as League, the Trade Union | Unity uncil, the International! | Workers « Order d the Jewish Work- Jers Clubs decided on a campaign all workers’ organizations {against imperialist war, and issued | the following appeal to the member- ship of all the organizations repre-| sented at the conference, and to| others: | Fight Imperialist War. |_ “Comrades: Imperialist War is on! | |In China, Japanese Imperialism carrying on its bloody war against the Chinese masses. For mvwnths| | Japanese troops haye been invading | | China, bringing devastation and ruin |to millions of Chinese workers and | peasants, In this war Japanese Im- {perialism is receiving the support of | American, British and other Imperi-| Jalists, despite the rivalries existing | | between these states. “In South America, Bolivia and | Paraguay are engaged in war which | has already cost the lives of thousands }of workers and peasants. This war lis threatening to engulf the whole | South American continent, as ex- | amplified by the war threats and pri |parations between Colombia and | | Peru, Argentine, Brazil, Equador and others. This war was instigated by American and British Imperialism {and was readily resorted to by the | bourgeois landlord governments of [Bolivia and Paraguay—as a way out stands in greater need of ternational Labor Defense. its growing needs and its in of working-class America, It mob- ilizes greater forces for the Inter- national Labor Defense. There is no other daily paper in | the English language that can do this. There is no other paper that would. The Daily Worker press of the working class. The In- ternational Labor Defense is a de- fender of the working class. HE Daily Worker faces another financial crisis. Every member of the International Labor Defense, eyery friend of the International Labor Defense must be rallied to the support of the Daily Worker. The Scottsboro boys must not die! It was the Daily Worker that initiated the of International struggle any de- fense fight ever reached. On every side the Daily Worker struck at the is the | Scottsboro Defense | and carrjed it to the highest level | the Daily Worker than the In- It carries a daily message of the growing activities of the International Labor Defense, creasing tasks to every corner @ — | foes of these innocent Negro boys, rallied tens of thousands to their defense and helped win a new trial for them. Angelo Herndon must not be sent | to certain death on the chain gang! The Daily Worker is leading the fight on the slave-code by which this Negro organizer of the strug- gles of the Negro and white toilers was sentenced; the Daily Worker is indispensable in the fight to free him. For the struggle for freedem of Tom Mooney, the Tampa prison- ers, the Alabama sharecroppers, Edith Berkman and other political deportees, THE DAILY WORKER MUST BE SAVED! etre 'HE Daily Worker is a mass of- | ganizer of defense as well as of- | fense. It is a mass Spitgtor and HERE is no mass organization of class struggle which | propagandist for our defense or- ganization. Every successful de- fense struggle brings renewed strength to those hard-pressed fighters on other fronts. One day's suspension of the Daily can mean the difference between imprison- ment or freedom. Dou’'t let the Daily Worker stop for a day. Members of the Inter- national Labor Defense, whether you are Republican, Democrat, So- eialist. or Communist, the Daily Worker speaks for you. It fights for you, it. blazons your defe: against capijalist atiacks to ev world. It is the press of political prisoner, your press. and the press of your friends. Nickels and dimes, quarters and dollars must pour in for the support of the Dally. Worker. Comrades of the Labor Defense—help save the wo! ers’ dally press. INCREASF ITS CIRCULATION. TO BUILD THE DAILY WORKER IS TO BUILD THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR | DEFENSE. BUILD THE INTER- NATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE IN | THE SERUGE TO SAVE THE ‘DAILY’ INDISPENSABLE IN BIG DEFENSE BATTLES, SAYS I. L. D. IN RINGING CALL International | DAILY WORKER. A LABOR SE William L. Patterson, National Secretary. ATURDAY'S receipts took a tumble—only $51.81 came in against $538.78 on Friday. Yester- day's and today’s totals will appear | in tomorrow's issue. The total | since the drive started Jan. 14 is | $1,036.71. This is the sum we | should be getting every day if the Daily Worker is to sur Many distriets have failed to | show any real action whatsoever. | District 8 (Chicago), for example, | with the second largest quota, has | sent in only $2 so far. Can the Chieago workers do without the Daily Worker? Broaden the drive!. er, every reader, every member of a mass organization, every friend of the werking class should jo'n the army that fights for the life of the | “Daily.” Contribute, collect, rush Hi every cent at once to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York | City. | of the cl . | “In this war Imperialism is <iso out to crush the militant struggle of | the colonial masses for complete in- dependence. A ruthless reign of ter- | vor is launched against the working | class organizations, Their leaders and active members are being jailed and persecuted, in the attempt to | crush the growing Anti-. rialist. | movement. Menaces Soviet Union. t “Each day brings us closer te a new | Imperialist worid war, and to the} danger of an attack against the Sov- | iet Union: “Today the American workers find | themselves in the severest c: history. In the richest cou the world millions of workers are unemployed, starving to death. Those workers still in the shops and factor- ies have their wages cut constantly, hours lengthened, and ¥enerally their | standard of living lowered. The work- ers are carrying on militant struggles against the offensive of the bosses. against the intensified terror and per- | secution growing out of these strug- | gles. Imperialism knows only one way out of the crisis—War! War | which will profit the hosses at the expense of the masses. “We must carry on an intensive campaign against this war—now! We must not wait until war is declared! Workers in shops, factories, neigh- borhoods, must be aroused to the danger of a new world slaughter. Every effort must be made to reach workers in munition factories, in transportation, to make them aware of the new blood bath being prepared by the Imperialists. Simultaneously with the fight against wage-cuts, | speed up, unemployment; with the; organization of trade unions, we must | form anti-war committees to spread and popularize the Anti-war cam- paign, to stop the manufacture and shipment of munitions and other war materials. | Discuss and Act. “Comrades: when this call reaches your trade union, club or branch, see that you have a thorough discussion | on it until every member will realize | the importance of the anti-war cam- | paign. We enclose herewith recom- mendations for the formation of anti- war committees, and proposals for their — activiti ‘These proposals should be gone over carefully by the membership so that they can be ap- plied to the particular situation in the particular shop, factory, organi- zation and neighborhood. “Fight against imperialist war! “Organize anti-war committees! “Stop manufacture and shipment of munitions and other war materials! | A detailed plan of campaign was drawn up by the conference, which will be published in full in the Daily Worker in a few days. Lists for the collection of signatures greeting the Qatin-American Anti-War Congress to be held in Montevideo Feb. 28, are printed, and can be secured from the Anti-Imperialist League, 799 Broad- way, room 536. HOME RELIEF BURO « * FUR BOSSES HAVE TO ASK SESSION WITH N. T. W. 1. U. Dressntakers’ Sh o p Conferenece Issues Challenge to ILGW NEW YORK. — The biggest fur bosses’ association, the Associated Fur Manufacturers has been forced, by Workers Industrial Union strength, to invite it to a conference on a con- tract. The Fur Trade Board of the union met Saturday and elected a confer- ence committee. The conference will take place Tuesday. Dressmakers Confer, The shop conference of dressinakers met Saturday, with over 300 delegates in Irving Plaza. Hall, and dealt with the situation in the industry. It issued a challenge to the Inter- national Ladies Garment Workers in these terms: “If you actually have no connections with the Metropolitan racketeers, as you say, you shculd come to a joint conference cf the Unity Committee and Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union to plan joint action against racketeering.” The conference Saturday decided that if the lockout by the Metro- politan spreads, it will cail a mass meeting to take strike action. MILWAUKEE S. P. BACKS JINGOES |To Vote Big Fund for Militarist Display MILWAUKEE, -Wis. Jan. 20.— Mayor Hoan, socialist mayor of this city, and his fellow-socialists in the common council are giving their sup-, port to the militarist exhibition that, will take place when the Veterans of Foreign Wars hold their national encampment here Aug. 26 to Sept. 1. A formal invitation to President- elect Roosevelt has been extended by the encampment committee, and ac- cording to the Milwaukee Jornal of Jan, 17, “the invitation will be back- ed by further invitations from Gov. Schmedeman, Congressmen-e lect Faymond J. Cannon and Thomas O'Malley of the Milwaukee districts; United States Senators Robert M. La Follette and F. Ryan Duffy, and Mayor Hoan.” The common council finance com- mittee has recommended the ap- propriation of $10,000 for the V.F.W. encampment. Undoubtedly this pro- posal will be unanimously passed by the common council, composed of nearly half socialists, since this is in line with last summer's unanimous vote on giving county employes an extra two weeks’ vacation “to attend military training camps” and with the recent unanimous yote supporting the Hearst “Buy American” cam- paign. While the socialists, who always pretend to be pacifists, are preparing ‘to vote $10,000 for this militaristic display, they have put through wage- cuts for city workers, cut down re- ‘the unemployed, the growth of the Needle ‘Trades| [Election Watchers, Please Report At Once! Important! NEW YORK.—All acting as Com- munist. Election Watchers in the last election in the Zwelfth and Seventeenth election districts of the Second Assembly District report to Leeds, in the Commanist District office, Fifth floor of 50 13 St. at once. Very important! ; Members ef Section 1 especially | take notice! CITY HEADS PUT. ‘OVER PAY RAISES FOR THEMSELVES 61 Grab Wage Boosts While They Attack Workers’ Salaries NEW YORK—The_ fat boys made sure to get theirs. While they were slashing the wages of the city work- ers, with a special attack on the teachers, and with mass dismissals and wage reductions for hospital workers, 61 big city officials sneaked over wage increases for themselves, it was revealed Saturday. when the’ city budget was brought out in the | open in the New York Board of Alder- | men. Charles L. Kohler, budget director, grabbed $1,040 a year extra for him- self. The police commissioner, Mulrooney, of course, gets his pay raised for. his special aid in attacking workers who figlit wage cuts and cuts in relief. Another little present in the form of a wage raise was slipped over to Deputy Controller Frank J: Prial, no | over recently the steal of overtime | pay from the city mechanics. And Commissioner of Public Wel- fare Taylor, who sees to it that the relief for the. unemployed is kept down, also gets a boost in wages, Workers whose denlands for relief are met by the ‘answer that the city has no money should remember that the big politicians are able to find thousands of dollars extra for’ their own pocketbooks in the city budget. Stonemasons Picket Rockefeller Job for Its Discrimination NEW YORK—Enraged by the be- trayal of their officials over the de- mand for equal division of work, around 200 rank-and-file members of the stone masons local 78, took matters into their own hands and marched to the Rockefeller job at 210 Street, West Side to demon- strate for their demands. © The delegate of the union, Mr. Mazola had been instructed by the membership to make such provisions appear at the office on the day tle provisions were to be put into ef- fect. The union machine, until now, has been giving all available work to @ privileged group within the union, The next step of the rank-and-file will be to prepare steps for ting: the treacherous union offi doubt for his good work in putting | with the bosses, But he failed to! v r lem. Hospital, where. Negro patients are butchered and Negro doctors and nurses diseriminated against. whitewashers publish in the Febru- .ary issue of their magazine, “The Crisis,” a complete. exoneration of | Dr. Wright and call this tool of the Tammany bosses “a passionate, un- Hommapeennlaing,. eptspoken believer in ney and recognition regardless of color”! cial stand of the Nv A. A. C. P., W. E. B. DuBois, the editor, excuses the ousting of Negro doctors with the following lying attack on their capa- bilities: ‘Im every community like Harlem } there-ere old and well-known physi- cians af wide influence but who are | ‘behind in the latest technique; haye In this same article, giving the offi- | N.A.A.C.P. Whitewashes Harlem Hospital Charge At the same time the N. A. A.C. P.! ceaped to study and learn, and are not amenable to modern hospiital | discipline.” | The only truth in this statement | is that the physicians “are not amen- able” to Tammany Hall and N. A. A, C, P. “diselpline”! ‘AlN this reeks of the type of “im- partial” and “secret” investigation | tne N. A. A.C, P. is preparing. | }One week after the’ Daily Worker on January 13 exposed the silence of the N. A. A.C. P. on the horrible | conditions in Harlem Hospital, this boss-controlled organization swung into action to “secretly” smother the charges against the hospital, to save its. own face and that of Tammany Hall. _.. “Hush-Hush” On January 19 the .N, A. A.C. P. sent a letter with a notation “Keep | this confidential,” and signed. by | Walter White, to several of the Negro | | doctors who were fired or forced to | resign. Copies were also. sent to the | Reverend of the Abyssinian Church, Adam C. Powell, who had called for an. “inyestigation” from his pulpit, and to the three foremost Tammany- and Republican ~controlled Negro papers, the New York Age, the Am- sterdam News and the Chicago De~ fender. The first. paragraph of the letter reads: “The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has secured the conseht of a dis- tinguished group of medical experts and laymen: to. make an impartial and scientific investigation of Har- lem - Hospital, to di ne _ the character and extent of opportu- nity afforded to the colored phy- sicians and by the Har- lem Hospital, the quality of work done by them as members of the staff, and to inquire into the charges Which have been made during the recent months against the hospital. As one of those who have mace such charges, we are asking that you cooperate with us in expediting the inyestigation by supplying this office immediately vith a written statement of the specific charges against the hospi- tal which you made, together with any additional material which you wish to submit.” (Our emphasis.— Ed.) ‘The N. A. A. C. P. didn’t bother to take into Conalderation the Wishes | new Chief Executive for the | attacks upon the workers in the ef- | the employed and unemployed. | continue to lead in further dema- | | gogic maneuvers, schemes and plans. | ‘ | “Secret Investigation” by "by Group of Enemies of Negros, Heywood Broun on “Committee,” Mass Protest Thursday at St. Lukes’ | By DAN DAVIS | NEW YORK.—Caesar inyestigates Caesar! | National Agsociation for the Advancement of Colored People has “picked” i Rae ‘Committee,’ composet™ of all the enemies of the Negro people it could iediy muster, for a “SECRET INVESTIGATION” of Dr. Louis Wright, member of its awn. board of directors, and his co- Toemensites Dr. Jobe 2 F Connors, both dictators of the Har-e——- COUNCILS CALL. DAY OF STRUGGLE The Tammany-controiled FOR INSURANCE Demonstrations S et for March 4th for National Demands | NEW YORK, Jan inanguration day, will be marked by | great mass struggles for immediate | unemployment relief and for unem- | ployment insurance throughout the | United States. An announcement of this is contained in the release for publication of the program, objects 22.—March 4, | and directives of the National Com- mittee of Unemployed Councils, from | their office at 80 E. 11th St., this city. In every’city and town in the) United States the call is issued for mass demonstrations on the day when Roosevelt is inaugurated. The fol- lowing is the full statement of the committee: Program, Objects and Directives on the March 4th Campaign March 4, Roosevelt the day when Franklin vill be inaugurated as the Wall St will also mark the end Government, | of three months since the demands af the unemployed were presented to Congress by the National Hunger | March. During the period since the election, Roosevelt, and his fellow- | democrats in control.of Congress and | of- most state and city administra- tions, have given ample evidence that | despite their demagogic pre-election promises, they intend to carry for- ward the Wall Street hunger pro- | gram with the same disregard for the | misery of the masses that was shown by the Hoover Republican adminis- tration. The brutal treatment of the Na- tional Hunger March while on the road and in Washington; the failure to take up and act on the demands presented to Congress; the police at- tack upon workers who came to a conference of Congressional leaders who met with Roosevelt at his home: the program for wage-cuts, sales tax and increased taxation on small in- comes, which was announced follow- ing this conference; are only a few of the more outstanding actions that show clearly that the Roosevelt ad- ministration intends to sharpen the fort to impose greater burdens upon At the same time, Roosevelt will | The La Follette-Costigan “relief” bill and the Black bill for a 30-hour | week are typical of the measures that are being ae and publicized | cconmmypn on rac rwo, | wonTuuED ON PAGE TERM ' Wie sign,’ with Lhe | Every work- | | This committee, pi \P | throughout the countr: | ‘Trades 90 DELEGATES MEET AT CALL OF AFL. COMM. ON JOBLESS INSURANCE Elect Executive Conintiice. to Sbcops State Wide Sess Will Send Out 30,000 Invitations; Da » to-27: All Groups Invited Febri NEW YORK— Rallyin & uary Ibany, February Conferene unions and 32 frs including | groups, s came to h of the rank for Une yment Insurance and other demands of the workers Expect 1,500 in Albany credential stock com- ations come ck up to preser dele of the st 500 arts for ¢ to ba the fight entation to tt The preliminary day constituted itself asa committee to carry on for the state Conferenee in d an executive cor t and co-ordinate the wo with the help of th and el orgar 30 thousand other organiz: for it 25 to and tions in the state Conference. Call for Unity The preliminary Conference was opened by the Chairman of the A. of L. mmittee, Bordman, who appealed for the utmost unity of all the delegates and organizations in | the ht for immediate relief, the bill st injunctions and other labor legislation Bordman exposed the legislation posed by Goy. Lehman as directly mental to the interests of the and pointed out that, if put would mean legalization of system in this Get works through, the share-the-work state. In answer to Green’s accusations that the A. F. of L. Committee is not connected with the official A. F. of L., Bordman declared that the Com- mittee was a vital part of the mem- bership, having the support of 80 locals in New York some 1,000 Bordman then revived the ns for the agenda, nominations for permanent chaii man of the Conference. Gubernick, delegate from an 8. P. local, was elected. After the election of the pro- | Resolutions Committee of five, whieh included Rose Wertis, of the Needle Workers Industrial Union, Weinstock Printers Local 499; Moore, Negro delegate from Carpen- ters 257; Baskoff, of Carpenters 2717, and Nessin of the Trade Union Unity Council, the conferen: with the dis on from the floor M ‘ike: eynote 1€ sented, will under- | end opened | on on Labor Leg in all of the A. F. of L. Committee 90 delegates, representative of preliminary conference at Irvi and pledged unreserved support, financially, to the State-wide * | Conference whi meet in mittee | the Albany | lation » Set for response for Uner 65 organizations, ng to the united front ployment met Plaza afternoor organizationally and both and file united | ; Me re, delegates Conference Ignores Them The Conference as a whole paic ‘CONTID CHREE Widespread rent strikes in New York show the rising istance to explcitation The Albany conference will consider a bill against evie- tions of unemployed workers. Meanwhile, call all your neighbors to picket in ma es against evictions and for lower rents. See news ef t strikes, and directions for picketing on Page 2 of this issue of The Daily Worker. STRIKERS SMASH MOTOR PRODUCTS proceeded | 15 P.C. PAY CUT DETROIT, Mich. Jan. 22.—1,090 strikers of the Motor Products Cor- poration, Detroit, have won the fol- lowing demands according to a port made at a conference of the. .Auto Workers Union: 1—Withdrawal of 15 crease in pay. 2—Workers are to be pali for full time while in factory—whether or not there is work to go around. 3—ANl strikers are to be paid for time they lost while striking. 4—A ‘s are to be taken back without discrimination, 5—The shop committee is to be officially recognized by the bosses. This report was the climax of the Auto Workert Conference which was attended by 565 delegates. There were 102 delegates from the Ferd plant. The workers of the Cadillac, Plymouth and Fisher Body factories were well represent+ ed. too. General workers erganiza- tions sent some 240 shasta boc per cert de- Masses of USSR Honor Lenin; Gird for 2nd Plan “izvestia” Stresses Soviet Peace Policy; New Grain Tax Advantages Shown by “Pravda” EDITOR’S NOTE.—In Saturday's New York T’mes, Walter Duranty stated that the wheat tax would be “one quarter of the yield” on good land, The highest tax is about three bushels on the best land, which will yield 20 to 30 bushels per acre--a tax not of one fourth but of one tenth to one sixth. Duranty translates “half ceniner” (50 pounds) regularly as “bushels” (60 pounds) when discussing the tax. By N. BUCHWALD (European Correspondent, Worker.) MOSCOW, Jan, 22 (by radio) —The ninth arniversary of the death of Lenin was observed throughout the Soviet Union at numerous mass meetings of workers and_ peasants. The principal meeting in Moscow was held in the Bolshoi Theatre. The building was fivtingly decorated; out- side was a series of red flags trimmed with black, is tie a huge elec- Daily 1924-1933.” Inside the great auditorium was decked with red streamers bearing striking memorable quotations from Lenin and Stalin. On the stage was a marble bust of Lenin, set against a background of red flags and revo- lutionary banners, with an impres- sive military guard of honor in the rear. On the stage were seated nu- merous representatives of the gov- ernment, the Communist Party, the Red Army, the trade unions, shock brigade workers, etc., etc. The audience rose in a-big ovation on the appearance of the Soviet leaders, Stalin, general secretary of the Communist Party: Mol ’ chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars; Kaganovitch, of the Po- litical Bureau of the Party; Kalinin, chairman of the Central Executive Vo- and Committee of the Soviet Union; roshiloy, Commissar others, The meeting was called to order by for War, —