The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 3, 1933, Page 4

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German Workers’ United Will Defeat Hitler Not only in Germany, but also the capitalist cla t and farming popt In Germany w brutality and in r @ clear picture of the process by the change from “democratic ist dictatorship, to the open form the bayonet, the bomb, and the ma Pretense of law At the with mona: of Germa: “all classe: italists and w Scheideman, We ITHOUT the volution could not have cial-Democrs basis to the eracy.” When it became to cast aside the democratic mask a the dictators of Germany—again it which made it possible for the G pretended “republic” to the Hitler ¢ The next step of the fying” the masses in burg, as President ing so much as the prole' ing class the republic many million: Social-Demoeratic the ind yossible and ¥ of “republics been di ! » ANY Unite States extent vy", We sec itzlist class accomplishes ree” forms of the capital { dictatorship by means of hine gun unrestrained by the slight rich the n” of capit proletariat “democracy” acy” of the cap ared Ebert, Noske he of democr was onl ruling class to pass over from the tatorship. lic rough the form of “ur i von Hinde: belief that they were being led to Socialism, 1 basis to the ruling class in its basic move toward the open dictatorship General von Hinde placed in power in order to place the noose of dictatorship around the neck of the German working class and peasantry. The cut-throat of the alleys whose name is Adolph Hitler, is, after all, only a tool in the hands of the German ruling cl Field Marshail, President von Hindenburg, the cut-throat of the Kaiser's court, and not Hitler. is the man who ned the decree of death against the German people which has just gone into force. The election of von Hindenburg ¥ ‘The Communist Party of G Second election von Hindenbur Party leaders. But it is the ta present. von Hindenburg as the “h Hindenburg, who signs the decree the German working cl: as “a any wa in effect, the election of Hitler. so declared at the time, when, in his § supported by the Social-Democratic of the German ruling s today to mest” republican! ‘They present von ordering the death of the flower of lover of the people’! The Social- Democratic Party organ, the Vorwaerts, of Berlin, on January 28, spoke of Hitter in the following words: “Dishonorable people want to mislead the venerable President, that honorable man!” Of course this kind of lying is only to help the German capitalist class to complete the transition. cratic Party prefers rule by Hitler erat Noskes and Eberts! But the Ger ers fear above all things Fritz Ebert, Jr., toda} the German Social-Democratic P: execute von Hindenburg’s death ¢ the Social-Democratic workers thousands every day for the class w German Social-Demo- an Social-Demo- Democratic Party lead- ‘evolution. Not that the to rule by j Communist workers in ar ainst the bourgeois dictatorship. ee we 'HE road is cleared, thinks Hit! tler butcher of Kaiser Wilhelm, Field ‘The road is clear, they think, to drow class in their own blood and thus preserve the c: But they are mistaken. The Ge’ now the true lesson of the capitalist their throats by the bayonets of Ni workers are learning that the Soc pave the way for the bloody Hitler Through the united front of the German ma. fights for the ship of the only Party which the capitalist dictatorship—through ers of Germany, the Social-Democr: party workers as well as Communist workers des! von Hindenburg and the capitalist cracy of the exploited masses, the only power the dictatorship of the German working cla , and so thinks the cynical old mass 1 Marshall President von Hindenbure. n the best of the German working pitalist system. which is learning “democra: shoved down ke and Ebert he Social-Democratic -Democratic leaders are those who and the bloody von Hindenburg! es under the leader- j revolution against | will the work- jan workers, non- | yy the power of Hitler, | nd achieve the demo- | e Germany— | rman wor ‘oples the Communist Pai ‘atic workers, Chi dictatorship. The Capitalist Crisis Hits Front|Forward to c what the | also j the Schools (This is the second of a series of articles dealing with the effects of capitalist crisis on the schools) NEW YORK.—By June 12, 1932, the teachers had given over $2,225, 000 for school relief. Over 54,000 chil- dren were fed daily, and some 30,01 pairs of shoes had been given a ‘Toward the end of the year, the sa. ary cut from Albany was seriously contemplated. A short time before the Sum said: “Salary cuts plus relief contributions would be too much itis ‘The conceded by school officials.” treasurer of the fund also stated: “Their contributions amount to a ‘voluntary cut in salaries.” In Janu- ry the salary cut was official. Th substitutes had already suffered a by not being appointed to re jobs, which in the normal course of events would have been done. (A regular appointment carries with it salary increases and vacation money, intead of a day-to-day wage.) Th Regulars recently got another when it was announced that part of their salary would be deducted for any absence. Before from 20 to 60 days a year were allowed with no deduction. Board Tries Coercion jar Naturally, with so many wage cuts, | with families to support, and with} the uncertainty of ving a job| mounting every day, en the more conservative teachers began protest- ing against these “voluntary” con tributions of anywhere from 1 to 5 per cent demanded of them. The Board forgot its own statements and held pep talk after pep talk urging that relief be continued. The super- NOW A “The Working Wo changed into a magazine issue is just off Price is 5 cents. It “Women Fight For Bread ternational Women's Charlotte Todes; Whi Scarf,” by Grace Lumpkin; “Julia Martin,” a.story by Grace Hutchins. ‘The attractive red cover and pho- tograph-of two working women call to others to “Answer the Call For International Women’s Day.” There are five pages of workers : ence, and a story by a Russian housewife who went to work in a factory. All sections «and districts are to order special bundles for Ynternational Women’s Day Write to “The Working M 18th. 8t.. New York os et rut intendent urged that every method short of coercion be used; but Asso- further. He said (Sun, Jan, 2s: “,.. every one can and should give some- thing. The city claims that it can- not make provision for additional ac- tivities unless it raises the needed money by reducing the cost of edu- cation.” If this is not coercion, it is; a twin brother to it. Superintendent} O’Shea revealed much of what's be~-| hind the scenes when he said some) time ago that teachers must contrib-| ute because the Home Relief, though} efficient “still many are not helped.” | Burden Shifted to Workers | What has happened is clear. The} | Board of Education has joined forces] | with the bankers and shifted the| burden of relief onto the poorly paid} workers. The Daily Worker hasj| ceaselessly exposed this game of} are hit Medical authorities are continually | warning of the evil effects of malnu- | trition. In October the papers report- | ed t 20 per cent of our children were underfed. A little later the fig-| ure jumped to 33 per cent; and one wonders how many were left out of these statistics. Health Commissioner ‘Wynne of New York said that “unless | the situation is soon corrected it will | exact its penalty later in increased ; illness and death.” From one genera- | tion to the next the effects of the | Gepression are spreading; and the | only real help—inadequate as it is— has come from fellow-sufferers. Re-| nt, said Dr. O’Ryan, presi- e Board, must not hurt the! of the schools. Tremendous ies, lack of teachers,’no} f city, school condi-| | | tions which encourage sickness: ap- | | parently the existence of these things does not hurt the schools. The teachers have given gener- ously, even though there was no obli- gation on their part to do so. Now, seeing that both city and the state do not raise a finger to lift the bur- | ciate Superintendent Mandel gel shunting responsibility. The condi-} tions in the schools are simply an- other example, demanding attention because children as well as teachers dens from them, and indeed adds new | | ones by drastic cuts, they are slowly | | ew on contributions. It is | not their job, and they should be sup- | ported in their growing fight against | contributic But for this fight, as well as for others which they are con- | ducting for the welfare of the chil- dren, they need the support of the parents. In our final article we will uss the role of the parents in ie | | | the Albany © Conference tarvation. The gering of two and a half million ed has alr been in New York State, and Ss growing. The answer of the boss cl: demands of these orkers and their families for ight to live, for unemployment in surance and relief has been m evictions (301,000 eviction c: a New York City in 19 the stag- er stem, wage slashes and in- creased attacks on the workers. Evéry method is being used by the bosses in the attempt to break he rising militancy and fighting spirit of the workers in the pre ent period of mass unemployment | | | } i reached the numbe the and increasing speed-up. The latest method of attack against un- employed as well as empl workers comes in the form of inction gotten out by a land- lord, which prohibits picketing and other activities in connection with a‘ rent strike in the Bron: The injunction up to the prese: time has been used primarily a weapon in the hands of the bo: ses to cripple stri to hinder or- nization of workers for better try to smash work- to exploitation and Today the landlords ed a | | | | oppression. | are taking over this vicious weapon | of the bosses in order to stem the sweeping movement of rent strikes | practically all of which in New York have ended successfully, with the tenants winning their demands. | Sot an | IN the face of the increasing at- | tacks against the working class, every phase of the struggle against hunger and starvation should be intensified. The Conference of the | Provisional Committee for Labor | Legislation called for March 5, 6 and 7 in Albany, will bring con- | crete proposals on how to relieve | the suffering of the working class | in the present crisis, directly to the | State Legislature. The Albany Conference, repre- senting and getting the backing of thousands and thousands of work- ers in New York State, will draft and adopt real working class bills dealing with unemployment insur- “Gentlemen, This Is First on the Order of Business!” Quizes, UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE chy eue thts All Out March 4tht Lessons of the Detroit. Automobile Strike By ANDREW OVERGAARD HE strike movement of the au- tomobile workers in Detroit, which began in the Briggs Water- loo Plant and ended in the splen- did victories in the Hudson Motor Co., compelled every plant in the city, with the exception of Fords, either to withdraw wage cuts or to increase wages in an effort to pre- vent the spread of the strike move- ment. The strike movement, which was ance, immediate rellef, child labor, | led by the revolutionary Auto e tone. © " . Workers Union, resulted, first, in evictions, foreclosures, wage-cuts, ihe! detent of tha rinuaieenieatiy's diserimiriation against Negroes, | ‘¢ eine. Tae COMDATY § women and young workers, injunc- | tions, etc. One of the bills which has been | presented for adoption at the Al- bany Conference {s the Bill to Abol- | ish Injunctions introduced by the | Anti-Injunction Committee of New | York. | ‘The few so-called anti-injunc- passed up to the present time, in- cluding the Federal Anti-Injunction Bill, which the A. F. of L. leaders | falsely hail as a great achievement for the American working class, | have not stopped injunctions, be- | Cause they give the court the right to grant injunctions if property rights are threatened. Since the courts can easily ‘prove’ the threat to property rights during a strike, they have had no difficulty in grant- ing injunctions. The only bill which will actually abolish injunctions is the bill in- troduced by the Anti-Injunction Committee for adoption at the Al- bany Conference for Labor Legisla- tion. While the most immediate and effective way to smash injunctions | is by mass violation and mass | struggle, nevertheless every effort | must be made through mass pres- | sure to force the New York legis- lJature to adopt the kind of bill this workers’ anti-injunction bill is. General Electric Speeds Work on Orders for Navy (By a Worker Correspondent) | SCHENECTADY, N. Y.—Stock De- partment Building No. 46 of the Gen-) eral Electric Company at Schenec- tady, N. Y. is one department that is working as though there was no cri-| sis. It is running day and night,| five and six days a week, turning out} automatic controls for the big guns on warships. These automatic con-| trols can be operated by radio. { Only the best workers are employed | on this work because it needs abso-} lute acuracy. The company has seen to it that only reliable men are in this department. One of the require-| ments is that every one doing this} work must be a citizen. No one from the other shops in the works is; allowed to enter or to speak to any- one in this department during work~- ing hours. Not all the equipment for the automatic controls, however, | is made in Building No. 46. The production of several parts is scat- tered through the plant. Workers in Building No. 46! The Automatic Controls that you are now producing are to be used against workers of other countries, your own class brothers and against yourselves when you protest against the worsen- ing of your own conditions. As soon) as this order is finished you will find yourselves in the same situation as/| the 18,000 fully unemployed workers and the thousands of other workers slaving on part time work in the G.E. Get together to set up your shop committees and together with all the workers in the G. E. fight for better conditions and against war which the bosses are preparing for us. | Immediate direct federal emer- seney cash relief appropriation of $50 fer cach unemployed worker, man or woman, without diserimi-~ | nation, plus $10 for each dependent in addition to local relief. { A demand of the March 4th | onstratet at ing er wA a cub 20 per cent in n the Waterloo plant, when rr lked out. The Brigg: strike, as well as the rkers Conference on Janu- ary set in motion the move- ment against the attempts of the automobile bosses to further cut down the standards of living of : | the workers, and on the eve of the | tion measures which have been | | conference, attended by nearly 700 delegates elected from various de- partments, including 102 from the Ford company, received a tremend- ous impetus by the report of the settlement of the Motor Products Co. and recognition of the shop committee, with the result that the strike spread immediately into the Briggs Co., Mack Avenue and Hy- land Park plants. The settlement of the Motor Products Co. with the workers re- sulted in almost 100 per cent or- ganization into the Auto Workers Union. Over 1,000 of the 1,500 workers joined the union, includ- eers who were not called trike. In the Briggs Hyland on. | Park, plant the workers won the | demand for increased minimum | wage rates and the abolition of dead time (unpaid time). WIN 10 TO 20 PER CENT WAGE INCREASES ‘The strike of more than 4,000 of the Hudson Motor Car Co.’ ended on Feb, 13, with the following de- mands granted: 1. Increase in wage rates from 10 to 20 per cent. 2, Increase in bonus rates from 10 to 25 per cent. 3. One hour's pay guaranteed if men are called to work and not put to work. - 4, Adequate of relief? workers in production lines. 5. No victimization of workers active in the strike and in the building of the Union. 6. New or improyed twols for workers. 7. No workers to lose job until absent 10 days instead of 5 days as in the past. 8. Improved ventilation, especi- ally in Spraying Department. 9. Physical examinations to be cut: down to a minimum. The workers in the Hudson plant. went back practically 100 per cent organized and pledged themselves to proceed to build the union on the basis of department and shop delegate committees. The winning of the Hudson Strike marked the | 5th victory under the leadership of the Auto Workers Union. The strike which still remains unset- tled is the Briggs Mack Avenue plant, where the agents of the bosses, the 1.W.W., the A. F. of L. and Socialist Party combination were able to oust the Auto Work- ers Union from leadership. SHOWS ECONOMIC GAINS CAN BE WON The defeat of the wage cuts and the winning of substantial in- creases and settlement of many grievances in these plants first of all shows to the workers that it is possible in spite of the economic crisis and mass unemployment, to win economic gains for the work- ers, and at the same time shows that the strike weapon, in spite of the propaganda of the American Federation of Labor fakers, is one of the most important ones for the | working class in its struggle to de- | feat the bosses’ offensive. HE strike movement in Detroit was not only a result of the tremendous dissatisfaction of the workers, but of the conscious and wlch set 4 preparation by, the ! ously began work inside the fac- tories, leading struggles of the workers against everyday griev- ances and applying a definite pro- gram of concentration. The Auto Workers Union has as its main concentration point the Ford fac- tory but was correctly able to strike a blow at the weakest link in the auto industry, the Briggs corporation, which is closely allied with the whole of the Ford produc- tion process. The first few days of the strikes, the bosses were more or less taken by surprise. But as a result of the first two victories and the fear of the spreading of the movement, all of the forces of reaction, all of the allies of the bosses, the paid company agents, Mayor Murphy, the A. F. of L., the Socialist Par- ty, Proletarian Party, I.W.W. lead- ers entered the movement to break the solidarity of the workers and to defeat the leadership of the Auto Workers Union. COMSTOCK RUSHED IN STATE TROOPERS Mr. Comstock, the Governor of Michigan and pal of Roosevelt, was elected on a platform promising abolition of state troopers. But as soon as the strike spread inte the general Briggs organization, ali state troopers were mobilized. This can be very well explained by the fact that the president of the Briggs corporation, Connolly, is also head of the Democratic Par- ty in the State of Michigan and one of the real bosses laying down the law to Comstock. Our Auto Workers Union was not able suf ficiently to expose the relation of Comstock and Connolly and all of the forces of the Republican and Democratic parties. Secondly, Mayor Murphy, who set up a so-called fact finding com- mission to declare the “strike was justified,” at the same time used his eee apparatus to help recruit Scabs. Thirdly, the A. F. of L. attempt- ed, in the beginning of the strike, to split the workers on craft issues, inviting the tool and die makers to organize into the International Association of Machinists, but fail- ed miserably as the workers from experfence have learned that not by craft splitting, but by one solid body uniting all the various cate- gories of workers will they be able to defeat the powerful automobile bosses. The LW.W., while demagogic- ally raising the question of a gen- eral strike, attempted to split the workers by insisting only upon men with badges participating on the picket lines, thus preventing the unemployed from participating in the mass struggle, and in this way also helped the bosses. PRESS RAISED “RED ISSUE” The capitalist press after the first few days of the strike let loose @ veritable barrage of lies and to- gether with the company spies, raised the “red issue,” attempted to disrupt the strike committees, and succeeded in temporarily ex- cluding the Auto Workers Union from the Mack Avenue Plant Com- mittee. This was due to the fail- ure to immediately expose all of these maneuvers and plainly put before the workers our class strug~ gle line against the betraya!s. The agents of the bosses did not dare to atiack the Auto Workers Union, but succeeded in only getting a vote on the basis “that the com- pany would negotiate when the Auto Workers Union and the lead- ers were off the strike committee.” elements in control of the st committee attempted then to crawl back to the company to prove that now they kicked out the “reds,” bus the company, realiz- ing the weakness of the strike re~ sulting from this, refused, of course, to deal with the strike com- mittee. 'HE first lesson to draw from this is that the faiiui> to push for- ward in the beginning of the strike those who actually organized it allowed all kinds of foremen and company agents to become mem- ‘The to settle all conflicts in commit- prevented the thorough exposure of the betrayers. As long as the strike spirit was high, these fakers and company agents did not bring their ideas to the meetings, and our leadership failed also to put the points in conflict into the open, and thus mobilize the masses for our policy. ‘The union leadership did not suf- ficiently understand that it is pre- cisely in the time of a strike when the masses of workers are in mo- tion, that it is necessary to boldly and clearly expose all of the enc- mies of the workers QUESTION OF NEGRO WORKERS ‘The leadership did not sufficient- ly understand the problem of the Negro workers as a major question, which requires special attention. When & motion was brought inte the strike committee to issue a special leaflet to the Negro workers to fight against any attempts to recruit them for scabbing, to ex- pose the Negro reformists, who were actively attempting to recruit Negro workers to break the strike, the company agents were allowed. to vote down the proposals on the excuse “that we are alike, and let us have a general appeal to all the workers.” It must be pointed out, however, that in spite of all these mistakes, the bosses succeed- ed only in recruiting a few Negro workers for scabbing, but the over- whelming majority of the unem~- ployed Negro workers not only re~ fused to scab, but participated mil- itantly in the mass picketing. Spree A. F. of L., which once made a big noise in the Detroit Con- vention about organizing the auto workers, but failed to do anything, is now coming forward proposing to organize the auto workers on an industrial basis, and while so far there is no organization, our union hhas the task of clearly and con- cretely exposing this new maneuver. While the Auto Workers Union has shown splendid leadership, has been able to recruit approximately 3,000 workers, and is still building up stronger and stronger commit- tees inside of the factories, the task of consolidating the factory locals in Hudson Motor Products plant and extending it into every other plant, including Ford’s, is of tre- mendous importance. The development of functioning shop locals and department sub- locals, drawing in of hundreds of new fresh forces into the union, to be accompanied with extensive educational and cultural activities, is a necessary prerequisite for the further growth of the Auto Work- ers Union. CONSCIOUS POLICY OF | EDUCATION NEEDED ‘The union must pursue a consci- ous policy of educating the work- ers and consistently exposing all of the attempts to discredit the class struggle policy by the agents of the bosses and the reformists. It is necessary to also discuss the lessons of the strike movement in all of these locals, showing the workers not only the economic for~ ces, but the role of the political State in its attempt to defeat or- ganization. There is no doubt that the strike movement in Detroit has been a factor in deepening the fi- nancial instability and giving a blow to the whole ruling power of the automobile kings. The whole financial crisis, resulting in stop- ping the banks from making pay- ments, is, no doubt, helping to hasten the discontent and fighting spirit of the masses in Detroit. The Detroit strike movement with its many lessons should particular- ly teach our revolutionary unions that when every member begins systematically and patiently to car- ry on work inside of the factory, taking up the smallest grievance and fighting against all wage cuts, systematically formulating correct demands and preparing for strug- gles. It is possible to win the con- fidence of the masses of workers and lead victorious strike struggles tees instead of before the strikers ; SUBSCRIPTION BATES: By Mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3. excepting Borough of M: Can: By MOE BRAGIN. (CONCLUSION.) By this time the boss had fished | snow, and rain and scabs and po Mary out as the worst ringleader. The girls heard he was going to fire her and her partner. He changed his mind the last moment. He fired another girl. He said she was slow, that the boy working with her had left, and so he didn’t need her plant operating. What the boss was up. to now was get- ting rid of all tiy militant workers one by one. ‘That night the shop nucleus took up the question of the firing and the raise. First thing in the morn- ing they asked why the girl was being fired now, when all the six months she had been working he had never said a word against her work. Just then Mary walked in from the street with her hat and coat on. The girls turned to her. ‘The boss turned purple. He shrieked, “So, that’s your dele- gate?” He yelled for the button- hole maker and machinist, his chief henchman and _ stoolpigeon. He tried to slap Mary. Mary says softly, “I came closer to him daring him to slap me. ‘You got to show that spirit. I took off my hat and coat and made open agitation. The boss jumped on me like a rooster, He grabbed me by the shoulder. He slapped me. I went for the hunchback’s neck,” The designer, another henchman, kept saying, “Shame, shame, fight- ing with an old man.” Little Mary; who does not weigh more than a 100 pounds, became hhysterical. If she could only have gotten hold of his thick neck she wouldn't have become so hysterical. A boss to strike her! “You slave driver, you!” The girls screamed and rushed forward to help her. Suddenly the designer whispered, “Sh, sit down, sit down.” | There stood the riot squad. | The boss’s son, the junior part- ; her, flung a bundle at her. “Finish | this. Then go.” The girls cried, “No, we'll all go | now.” They threw their stuff into the . box. Mary walked up to the cops. “What do you want? You haye no business here. This is between us and the boss. He slapped me.” ‘The cops looked at each other as | if to go. But they had been cal- led by the boss for their special dirty business. They were the lead in the boss club. Mary got her hat and coat. A plainclothes man fol- lowed her. He began shoving her. She shoved back. Then 4 cop and a plainclothes man got hold of her bodily. The girls flew to help her. | One cop grabbed Mary’s sister by | the throat. She fainted. Another | cop threw a girl over a machine. Mary struggled to keep her feet on the ground. “The important thing was to keep my feet on the ground,” Mary says. “I held on to the door as long as I could. I kept fighting to | arouse the girls. The cops threw me downstairs. Wy hand was bleeding. I phonad the union right away. We held a quick meeting downstairs in front of the shop. Workers from the street came | round to listen. A cop tried to ar- rest us. I yelled, ‘We're fighting | for our bread’ He was afraid and | didn’t stop us, | Lunch hour the operators, finish- | ers, cutters and other crafts went | out on strike. The boss said to | the girls it wasn’t his fault the po- lice had come to arrest me. He | would bail me out. not fooled. Immediately we began ) picketing. | girls never in a strike before, pick- eted side by side with the older element, many of whom have been working 17 years and were never in a similar struggle before.” But they were | ‘The young element, | i | ; S months, $2; 1 month, 8, attan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign and One year, 39; 6 months, $5; 7 months, $3, TEN DAYS |ARY continues. “It was 10 days. Just 10 days today. Ten days that shook our world. We hac lice to fight. Our big demands 40 hours, 50 cents a suit, 30 cents a dress, recognition of the union. Well, the cutters began talking what a nice gentleman the bos. was, They tried to demoralize the girls, They said the government doesn’t recognize our union. The: said that we are Communists. They didn’t succeed. We were always o: the alert. Meeting after meeting we exposed them. It was punch ' and give with those scabs anc stools. Most of them are boys whe wanted to make themselves bis with the girls. Now they're lowe: than a cent, There were foer conferenses wit! the boss, At the first he wouldn’: give a cent raise. At the seconc he offered two cents. “Not tha‘ you deserve it,” he hollered. H: threatened to move his shop oui of the city to Yonkers, At the third conference he was so mad he rushed out, slamming the door A racketeer representative of hi talked for him, He said if th: place were not opened tomorrow 2,000 people would be thrown out of work. The girls were terribly frighten- ed. They wanted to take the two cents raise rather than lose their jobs. Mary patiently explained to the girls that the boss was in no position to move his factory. The girls stiffened their resist~ ance, They redoubled their picket- ing. Their defied the police, who arrested five of them for close picketing. They finally closed down completely the whole shop and showroom. Next day the boss call- ed up, He agre.d to settle. |ARY has a copy of Lozovsky's Strike Strategy in her hands, She folds it and makes a small telescope of it as she talks. “So we've won. We've won recognition of our shop committee and the union. Forty-hour week. No dead- time. One dollar increase for the week workers. Three cents increase per garment. No firing at the eoss’s whim, Equal division of work during slack season. Improved san- itary conditions in the toilet, gloves for the markets, etc. Considering the fact that 1t was a backward element, our gains dre tremendous. cutters hadn’t scabbed and hers had been out on the ‘ie and not stayed home, we could have won 100 per cent our demands. “Materially the gains are not so great, But we have freed our- selves. The struggle has brought us closer. The workers are now convinced that a revolutionary union like the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union is a real union of workers. During the strike they got relief and atten- tion every minute of the day. They saw the union using outside sym- pathetic forces like the Unemploy- ed Councils to help with the fight. Now when we explain what com- munists are, they listen. ‘If that is communist, we are all for it’, they cry.” Mary gets up and buttons her coat. She looks up at the picture of Lenin with the crossed sickle and hammer as if sharpening each: other. On the other wall there is @ poster of 2 woman leading, with her powerful legs breaking through her skirt. We pass the bookshop with the slogan: Knowledge Is Power. Workers! Learn To Fight.” On the way through the streets, Mary extends an invitation to a dance and concert, for the bene- fit of the strikers of the Maimon- Sanger shop, to be held Saturday, March 4, at 8 pm. at 269 West 25th Street. She shakes hands. ‘Then she hurries down to catch her train. By LISTON M. OAK. (Managing Editor, “Soviet Russia Today.”) ‘HAT the uninterrupted continu~ ance of the Daily Worker is an absolute necessity is recognized by the Friends of the Soviet Union. It is the one daily English news- paper in America which prints the truth s>out the Soviet Union. We have cur own publication, Soviet Russia Today, but ii only appears once a month. Therefore our ma~ gazine does not have enough space and does not appear often enough to answer all of the lies which are printed in the capitalist press about the First Workers’ Republic. In these days of acute war dan- ger, when the armed invasion of the U.8.S.R. is imminent, the Daily Worker plays a role whose im- portance cannot be overestimated. ‘The winter crop of anti-Soviet slanders has been a bumper crop. VALUABLE KARL MARX PAMPHLET BY BROWDER, BEDACHT AND SAM DON KARL 1883-1933—Pub- lished by Workers Library Pub- lishers, Price 5 cents, In connection with the 50th An- niversary of Karl Marx's death, this little pamphlet, containing a compilation of a series of articles by Comrades Bedacht, Browder and Don, are invaluable to every worker. The first article by Max Bedacht, | Life and Work of Karl Marx, deals in detail with the intense life of Marx as founder of scientific so- cialism, his work as revolutionary organizer, leader and participator in the building of the revolutionary movement and sharp class struggles of that period. The article by Comrade Don, “Communists Only Adherents of the Teachings of Marx,” clearly shows that Marxism-Leninism is ing of the present crisis and de- veloping struggles of the American proletariat. deals with the reviving movement to further distort Marxism to coun-' teract the growing movement to- ward the Communist Party, the the best guide in the understand- | At the same time it © i ‘Daily’ an Absolute Necessity’ ‘The White Guards, working hand in hand with the imperialists, ably served by such anti-Soviet propa- gandists as Dr. Will Durant and Isaac Don Levine, are preparing the way for the long expected attck upon the U.S.S.R. In this situation. we cannot get along without « paper which organizes militant op- position to imperialist war, which exposes the enemies of the Soviet Union, which popularizes the achievements of the Soviet work- ers and peasants and mobilizes American workers in defense and support of Socialist Construction.’ 1B the F.S.U. is a non-party mass organization, a real United. Front of all true friends of the Soviet Union, regardless of poli- tical affiliations, it must be recog- nized that the Daily Worker is the only organ of a political party which takes a consistent and un- equivocal stand in support and de- tense of the Soviet Union. The New Leader, the Forward and other or- gans of the Socialist Party are fil- led with editorials and statements of the Socialist Party leaders, re- flecting the most vicious slanders of White Guard and imperialist enemies of the Soviet Union—be- sides thelr own fantastic inven- tions about “terrorism, starvation, etc.” only adherent of Marx’s revolution- ary teachings in the United Siates. The ensuing article, “All in the Name of Marxism,” takes up in de- tail the present “left” maneuvers of the Socialist Party, its attempts to “reclaim” Marxism, which it had completely outlawed during the period of so-called “prosperity.” “Theory is Our Guide to Action,” by Comrade Browder, and the “Re- lation of Theory to Practice,” by Comrade Don, show the indissoluble inter-connection of revolutionary theory with revolutionary practice. The popular price of 5 cents for this imiportant little pamphlet should be a stimulant for wide sale and distribution, Order your copies immediately from the Workers’ Library Publishers, Box 148, Sta- tion D, New York City, Make this pamphlet available to all Rataataaii | in your locality, : t j