The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 13, 1933, Page 4

Te tic th en prodaily Publishing Go. N.Y, Telephone ALg Page Four i ine., quin 4-7956, Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York, N. Yo daily except Sunday, at 50 . Cable “DAIWORK. Yr Langston Hug Tour in Soviet Central Asia By WALT Langston Hug Doe CARMON “Under the So t r have a fuller opp! in where the world thorou im Soviet Ce ited koll ne kK and is own collected ved in a the Negro w United Stat Plans Lectu Hughes ¢ all this going to » Tour in U rom May Day I 1 ited | going on tour I said, | the Uni o tell N s c e I have | groups abou t ©. able y from crea- | dark citi Ur wr nd he adds: “Live | Hughes | in both i from wh on of his tions of Uz Hughes’ He is p issued in Moscow Left to Hughes, American poet Writers’ Federation, a graph taken at the right: Nic eniin writer; ‘man journalist. Photo- lov Kolkhor, in furkmenia Langston | | the comra him. Wit k of poems, also | d, are now on the © preparing a series Izv Some of w being prepared for uppear in “Interna- | . ued in Moscow | French and x Gathers New Literature “It’s surprising,” Hughe rapidly t ture tral Asie Writers Union of hes Reports on|THE BILL PASSES CONGRESS! Dail Yorker’ Porty US.A By Burch Background for the Collapse of Trotskyism in Germany y KARL KREIBICH of the Trotsk, means the group in end of the | last attempt of Trotsky to play a roie | in the labor movement, to open his own shop, so to speas, in the labor movement, which, with the exception of the six years he spent in the Bol- at the side of and mder the immediate influence of in. (1917-1923), was always Trot- sky’s chief occu on. And precisely this time, when his misled follow ad their from him a two-fold jul the jubilee of two of the most beau- tiful periods of his life, when he cherished his boldest dreams. First- ly, the jubille of the year 1913, when he stood at the pinnacle of his hopes of uniting together all the anti-Bolshevist tendencies, frac- tions and groups of the social dem- ocratic movement of Russia under his leadership against the Bolshe- viki, who were headed by Lenin. And secondly, the jubilee of the year 1923, when he commenced his oppositional fractional activity in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, when, as the hear of Lenin, as he believed, he set out to be- WORKERS IN EUROPE HEROICALLY FIGHT AGAINS! CAPITALIST HUNGER, TERROR Demonstrate air Massacre Rumania ‘ Organzing World, Defense of Dutch | Mutineers Dutch C. P. Organizing | United Front BUCHARE iT, This ma AMSTERDAM, Holland, Feb. 20- Md menses by Satine conivittewea ara, Galtia and mii Germany, Seven h tries to organ- agence ed front to protest be- against the 4,000 worke: nurder of Dutch | in the wo fusal of tt s following the| crease in | rent allow so the climax of a y 5 strikes, such as oil y on board the et i i the railway 1” did not represent only the a oe t of the 40,000 soldiers and) ah rcs tantonuieattinis uilors of Indonesi nst 2 wage| Spontaneous Demonstration cut, but is an outgrowth of the en-| Despite the laration of mK nereuse of unemployment | of siege by 1 rnmet t by the Duteh capi- | workers th shou I esia. ‘The attempts of formed spor t c inistration to drive the that were bre c of the towns into the A new wave of x erved to spread revo~ into the interior pected, and perl strikes against thi ‘The social democrat from the housetops ti power- ful revolutionary struggles are the| work of agents provocateurs, con-| céaled behind a Communist mask.| "The social democrats wish by: this| means to shake the confidence of the| shot br: overnment em-| in state enter- r ¢ 50 per cent. creased, and prices j of necessity. To ession, the Dutch 1 Indonesia | , as the crew ¢ pursuit * 240 sail- ip “Java” mutinied. broke out on the in” and “Evertsen,” the admiralty to fleet for the attack on their attitude i 8 r struggles | The fight of the railw he v the “Z Provincen” out of fear © is a revolutionar will} Ov 4 1 tatesot siege was | t | proc. cr the whole island of fate la- vb, 13, the sailors of the aie t. Ib was a courageo quadron were brought} oor: movemer I evolutionary fight cote pintas sgnducted under the leadership of the | kept in quarantir . unists and the Red Trade’ Hven in Holland itsoli, at Opnoxition, » dipilon of Welder. ‘be guards on the | which the workers Thousands in Italian Town Beat Fascist Officials PARIS, Feb. 20—Several thousand unemployed workers demonstrated in Trani (Puglia) a town in Italy, and marched through the streets to the headquarters of the fascist corpora- tions, which they finally stormed and wrecked. The fascist officials saved themselves by flight, but not until a few of them were roughly handled. Afterwards the demonstrating workers again marched through the streets shouting, “Down with the fas- cist unions!” “Give us bread and work!” Collisions occurred with the police and numerous arrests were made. Ten of the arrested workers | are to be 4rought to trial. The Podesta of promised and organized relief work and now several hundred day laborers are being employed. The unemployed workers are jubilant at their victory. Naturally, not a word of this demon- stration appears in the Italian press. /20 French Sailors on! |\Charges of Forming, A Communist Group} PARIS, March 9.— Twenty ap- prentice sailors of the French mili- tary schoolship, Armorique, have been interned in Brest, and are now before a disciplinary commis- sion on charges of membership in a Communist group within the school. The existence of the Communist group among the ap- prentice sailors was announced today by the Ministry of Marine. warships have been reinforced and officers now make their rounds armed with loaded revolvers. The survivors of the “Zeven Pro- vincen” (184 Indonesian and 44 Euro- pian sailors) are being held in prison on the Isle of Onrust while awaiting trial and sentence, In the meantime, the fight is still going on. The repressive measures which are being adopted against the then have been | mutinous sailors, cause fresh demands | | to be added to the old which have) the naval| been put forward by the European Sze, “ 1 Ipdomgesap Trani hurriedly | come the leader of this Party | which up to 1917 he had so in- | exorably fought. We shall not deal here with the ten ars anniversary of Trotsky’s oppo- sitional action in the Party of Lenin, | for this period in Trotsky’s “activ- | ity” is still fresh in memory. On the other hand, the events in the social {democratic movement in Russia round about the year 1913 are little known outside of the Soviet Union. FALSE CLAIM TO “OLD GUARD” RECORD | So fus as the year 1923 comes into question, we would only mention that ‘otsky, in a letter to the Party which was published in the “Pravda” in December, 1923, considered him- self among the “old guard” of the Party, ie., of the Bolshevist Party; | | that is to say, he included himself among the “old Bolsheviki.” Com- | | rade Stalin, four days later gave him | the answer he deserved. The follow- | ing facts, dating back 20 years, make | Trotsky’s pretentious claim appear | particularly amusing. In an article “On the violation of | unity cloaked by a cry about unity,” | Which appeared in May, 1914, Lenin briefly summed up Trotsky’s career. | He wrote: | AN ARDENT MENSHEVIK | AT END OF 1903 “In the years 1901 to 1903, Trotsky | | was an ardent supporter of the Iskra, | and Rjasanov described his role at | the Party Conference in 1903 as ‘Lenin’s cudgel.’ At the end of 1903, Trotsky was an ardent Menshevik, ie. he had gone over from the Iskra supporters to the ‘economists’; he announced: there is a chasm between | the old and the new Iskra. In the | year 1904-5 he turned away from the Mensheviki and adopted a vacillating | attitude, sometimes working together with Martynov (the ‘economists’) and sometimes proclaiming the ultra-Left ‘permanent revolution.” In the year 1906-7 he drew nearer to the Bol- sheviki, and in the spring of 1907 he declared himself in agreement with Rosa, Luxemburg. “In the period of decline, after long non-fractional vacillations, he went. again to the Right, and in August, 1912, joined the bloc of the liquida- tors. Now he turns away from them, but nevertheless repeats, in essence, their miserable thesis. “Such types are characteristic as fragments of historical figures and formations of yesterday, when the proletarian mass movement was still asleep and any little group had suf- | ficient room in order to come forward |} as @ tendency, as a group, as a frac- | tion, in a word, as a ‘power’ which talks about uniting with others.” What were the circumstances in which Lenin so sharply criticised Trotsky? A PERIOD OF DISINTEGRATION After the defeat of the revolution of 1905 there was a period of disinte- gration in the Russian social demo- cratic movement. The Right Wing, | the Mensheviki, developed in liqui- | dators; they wanted to liquidate the | revolutionary slogans of 1905-1906, | and with them also the illegal revo- | luttonary Party. A part of the Bol- Sheviki adopted a conciliatory at- titude towards the liquidators; in addition there occurred in the ranks of the Bolsheviki a Left deviation, that of the “Otsovists,” |‘ who demanded the recall of the social democratic deputies from the Duma, that is to say, the renuncia~ tion of Parliamentary activity. | Outside the Bolsheviki. there were also various other tendencies, above all a tendency among the Menshi- | viki which rejected liquidationism | and in the fight against the lquida- tors approached the Bolsheviki. ‘Trotzky followed his inclination and, 4s one said in the war, bought a gun to make himself indepen- dent. In the autumn of 1908 he obtained control of a paper, the “Pravda,” founded by the Ukrain- | i 1 democratic organization in Lemberg, and which | ‘Trotzky transierred to Vienna, Al- | ready with the third number the “Spilka” was compelled to repudi- ate the paper owing to the protests of the local organizations. This is | not surp: . In June, Th. Dan, t \ the g ' “Golos Soziaidemokrata,” the paper of the liquidators, that the organ- izational propaganda contained in | No. 4 of Trotzky’s “Pravda” was nething else than what his, Dan’s, tendency, advocated. Dan wrote: WELCOMED BY MENSHEVIK LEADER “We can only weicome it when a popular organ, with the reputation of being free from fractionism which the editorial board of the ‘Pravda’ has acquired, and which guards against the tasteless, un- scrupulous imputaticn of ‘liquida- tionism,’ enailes a broad circle of Party comrades to appropriate our organizational views.” In these lines, penned by the leader of the Menshiviki, there is sketched the whole nature of ‘Trotzky at that time, which after the end of his career in the Party of Lenin, again completely revealed itself:.under the cloak of revolu~ tionary phrases and the freedom from fractionism, to carry on Men- shevist, counter-revolutionary poli- tics. Thus Dan, it is true, in his way, confirmed that which Lenin repeatedly wrote about Trotzky. ‘We give a few selections: “Trotzky plagiarises today from the ideological stock-in-trade of one fraction, and tomorrow from that of another fraction, and therefore declares himself to be above both. Trotzky is on no point in agree- ment with the theory of the liquidators and Otsovists; in prac~ tice, however, he is in full agree- ment with the people of the G. S. and Vperjod.”* (“The Historical Meaning of the Inner-Party Strug- gle.” May 12, 1911, vol. XV.) (Editor's Note—Vperjod was the organ of the Otsovists.) “Trotzky deceives the workers.” (This relates to the way in which ‘Trotzky’s “Pravda” wrote; the ar- ticle (of September 14, 1911, vol- ume XV) is entitled: “From the Camp of the Stolypin workers’ ‘party’ and places Trotzky’s ten- dency and those kindred to it on @ level with the ‘workers’ organiza~- tions’ founded by agents of the Tsarist Prime Minister.) “Trotzky has never had any def- inite standpoint and hes none now; with him there were only flights and springs from the Lib- erals to the Marxists and vice versa, fractions of words and fine-sound- ing phrases, which he picked up here and there.” (Collapse of the August Bloc March 28, 1914, Vol. XVII. “LOVES HIGH-SOUNDING AND HOLLOW PHRASES’”—LENIN “Troteky loves high-sounding and hollow phrases, that is known”... “a representative of the worst rem- nants of fractionism.” ‘Trotzky’s phrases are brilliant and ornate but have no content.” “With ‘Trotzky there is no ideological political definiteness, for his patent for freedom of fractioneering means merely complete freedom to change over from one fraction to another and back.” (On the Violation: of Unity Cloaked with a Cry about Unity, Vol. XVIL) (To be Concluded ‘fomorrow) COMMUNIST Acti HE Berlin-Brandenberg district Party Committee of the Com- munist Party of Germany, on Jan- uary 23, issued the following appeal for united front action against the Hitler cut-throat regime of fascist terror, It was addressed to the toiling population of Berlin, to the working men and women of the Social-Democratic Parity, in the Reichsbanner, in the Socialist Youth League, in the Trade Unions. The appeal is of particular inter- est to the workers in the United States, inasmuch as rene~ade ele- ments expelled from the Commu- nist Party for their treachery to the working class are trying to prevent the workers of America from supporting the struggle of the Communist Party of Germany, against which the most murderous blows of Hitlerism are directed. Workers of America must rally to the support of their German fellow workers, against whom has been let loose the most violent terror. Com- munist leaders in particular are the victims of mass arrests and mur- ders. American workers, join in mass demonstrations to protest against the German fascist terror. Send protest telegrams to the German embassy in Washington. The Berlin-Brandenberg district appeal follows: “To the united front of action! Toilers of Berlin, working men and eee Fourth | 2,000 IN ROCHESTER ROCHESTER, N. Y.—About 2,000 Unemployed Council here on March 4th to demonstrate at Washington Square. Though a cold wind was | blowing, the workers responded mili- tantly and roared their approval of the demands presented by speakers of the Unemployed Council, the Workers’ Ex-Servicemens League and the Young Communist League. ees tae: PMA. LOCALS IN MERT DECATUR, Ill. — One thousand five hundred workers paraded thru the streets of Decatur on March 4th, demanding relief and unemployment insurance. The mass meeting held in front of the Salvation Army citadel was attended by approximately 4,000 | Workers. The demonstration included Tnem- ployed Councils, local unions of the P.M.A., large number of members of the U.M.W.A. and the Progressive Workers Union and a number of building trades workers. The demonstration endorsed the State Hunger March to Springfield on April 7th. s e _ THOUSANDS IN DENVER DENVER, Col——Speakers address- ed thousands of workers here through @ microphone on the demands of the unemployed. ae WOODYARD STRIKERS JOIN PORTLAND, Ore.—The unemploy- ed single men now on strike against forced labor at the Portland com- mons woodyard joined the mass dem- onstration of over 2,000 workers. A feature of the meeting were the Speeches of war veterans, and of Alfred Chapman, 91-year old Indian war vet and Oregon pioneer. eit ends DEMAND NEW RELIEF STATION BUFFALO, N. Y. — Five hundred demonstrated at City Hall, and 700 trom the Black Rock section demons- trated in front of the Supervisors House demanding a new relief sta~ tion. 2 WIN MORE RELIEF KENOSHA, Ind. — The Columbus Park demonstration included 500 workers. The Monday morning that followed, workers reported that as a result of the demonstration they re- ceived two eggs each, instead of one as in the past. ° Se 100 MEET IN RICHMOND, IND. RICHMOND, Ind.—Over 100 work- ers were at the demonstration in the Wayne County House, where work- ers told of the way demands for re- lief were being denied, and how members of the Unemployed Council won relief through the bosses’ fear of organized struggle. Two gas shells were shot into the Workers’ Center by the police the morning of the demonstration. em aa NORWOOD, Mass.—Four hundred workers gathered here to demand re- Hef. x | The Unemployed Council’s head- | quarters here are at 1154 Washington St. DEMONSTRATE IN GAS CITY GAS CITY, Ind.—About 100 turned out for the demonstration here. * WIN VICTORY IN DILLONVALE DILLONVALE, O.—A mass mest- ing of over 75 unemployed workers elected a committee of 16 who later appeared before the City Council to demand work. After a bitter fight with the City Council, a motion was passed that work be furnished, with the unemployed council to be in charge of furnishing names for jobs. ‘This is the first victory won by the in Diilonvale. against discrimination in the dis- tribution of Red Cross flour. . UNITED FRONT IN DES MOINES DES MOINES, Ia.—Three hundred workers demonstrated against forced labor and for unemployment insur~ ance, in front of the County Court House, The meeting was conducted by the United Front Committee, in- cluding the Unemployed Leagues, the a J obless F lashes workers responded to the call of the | SUBSCRIPTION BATES S$ months, $2; 1 month, Foreign and By Mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, excepting Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Canada: One year, $9; 6 months, $5; JOIN HANDS IN MASS SELF-DEFENSE, IS CALL T0 GERMAN WORKERS | Berlin-Brandenburg District Party Issues Appeal for United Front | on Against Fascist Terror women in the Party, the Rei ist Youth ic | Democratic press to our fighting pro« 1- | posals is nothing else but a mockery irade | and insult to our common will to unions! | unity. The S. P. G. leader Breit~ Threaten Mass Murders scheid (without doubt in agreement | “Fascist terror is raging in Ger-| with the central committee of the jmany. ‘The bloody horro:s of Po-| Social-Democratic Party) writes ag tempa and Eisleben threaten the lives | follo in bourgeois “Berliner of our class, each one of us. The | Volkszeitung”: gang of exploiters are left absolutely} “This understanding must, it is unmolested, but the impoverished | true, at first set itself aims which pensioners and starving unemployed, | appear relatively modest. I have in proletarians i n ,the factories, pov-| mind in this connection an armistice erty-stricken proletarian mothers, | Or, as it is also called, a nou-ageres~ are the victims of fascist murd is sion pact between the parties . “The junkers and bank magnates,|I fear that for the time being the: | the tribute robbers at home and | ¢xists no common basis for an agree= abroad, the heavy industrialists who | Ment ing p action.” wish to destroy the collective agree-| The workers demand common anti- ments, want to set up their “Third st fighting measures. That is our Empire” on the ruins of the workers’ | united front! a : organizations and demolished trade| Breitscheid, Leipart, Urich and union promises. We are to pay the | Kuenstler declare: One cannot take | cost, we are to bleed, in order that | any positive action; one must keep the rich big capitalist parasites can | still, even when our comrades are maintain their “order” of barbarism red, That is their united and destruction. Parliamentary Social-Democratic ‘Trickery “Do you, workers in the ‘Iron Front,’ believe that this fascist gal- lows system will collapse on account | of its own mismanagment as your leaders tell you? Do you believe that Goehring and his friends are filling | the police apparatus with members ot their party in order to resign in a | parliamentary constitutional way if the Papen - Hitler- Hugenberg front should not obtain 51 per cent of the votes on March 5? The theory that the fascist regime will collapse on account of its own mismanagement is @ weapon against us all. | “Do you, workers in the Iron Front, wish to ‘wait’ longer as your leaders exhort you to? Will you join hands with us in a common fight only when | the brown terror has converted Ger | many of the workers and toiling peas- | ants into a mortuary? | “We Communists appeal to you: Put an end to this sabotage of fight- ing unity by your leaders! We do not demand that you give up the Social Den sbanner, the League, in’ the gression pact” between the and the hat they say. favor of fas- 'y mean, talk about a non- Social-Wemocratic Leaders Expose Aims Social-Democratic Vienna Zeitung,” which sets the the Second International, y lifted the mask: If the Hitler ¢ rniment prohibits the Communist Party of Germany before | the elections, that latter shall under- take to summon their electors to vote {for the Social-Democratic Party. If the Hitler government prohibits the | C. P. of Germany after the electio the Social-Democratic Party ere “Arbeiter tone for has unwitti all weapon in the fight. “Therefore, Hit and Papen, hibit the Communist Party of G: many before the elections. You have no need to fear that the Social- Democratic Party and the A. D. G. B organization to which you belong or abandon your convictions. The only condition of our united front offer to you is: readiness to fight and com- mon action against all attacks of leaders will summon the workers to | fight. Is that the united front w | all of us wo ‘Ss want? | “That is a dirty election maneuver! | Tt is sy on winning seats at fascism! the cost of the fas Plans for United Action t “The Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition, the Unitary Union of the | metal workers and other organiza- | tions, have declared their readiness to enter into negotiations with the A. D. G. B. and the free Metal Work- ers’ Union for the carrying out of Your anti-fascist fighting measures: “1. The above mentioned organi- zations shall through their factory councils convene joint meetings of the workers in the factories and the unemployed; 2. They shall propose to the workers in the first place a 24-hour protest strike, to be followed by demonstrations. 3. They shall propose to the workers the immediate formation of committees of action and mass self-defense bodies for defending the lives and property of the work- ers. 4. They shall summon the work- ers to equip themselves for the fight against any attack by the employ~ ers, for winning back wages and the unemployment benefit of which they have been robbed. # Social-Democrats Sabotage Workers’ Unity The reply of the Social-Democratic trade union leaders and of the Social- “Socialist Leaders Help the Bosses,” Writes Worker I am a sympathiser of the Com-, tion I accidentally bought a copy of volutionary par Smash Fascist Murder Regime! “Working people of Berlin! Anjii- fascists! Workers in the ‘Iron Front"! The fascist counter-revolution is ¢e# livering its blows. It wants to po- hibit the Communist Party of Ger= | many before the election. It is pre- paring for a bloody march on Berlin during the night o f the election! Let us push aside all sabotagers of the fight! Let us remember our gigantic strength! All the wheels stood still when we unitedly ceased work in Eisleben, in Lubeck, in Stass- | furt, in order to bury our dead. “When our hands seize the levers and sound the factory sirens, as a shrill summons, “When we in common form the iron protecting wall of the red mass self-defense, “When the workers of Germany, regardless of all sabotageurs of the anti-fascist fighting unity, preparé for action, \ “Then there will be an end of thé bloody regires of the members of the aristocrats’ club and thelr bands! “Then it will be seen that Germany | is not Italy! “Then the united front of action will win the victory.” munist Party for many reasons, main- ly their determined struggle to over- throw that vicious monster Capi- the “Daily Worker” and comrades let me tell you that the news in this militant paper, helved clarify for me ‘The committee is preparing to fight talism, and its chief by-product War, | the difference of Socialist and Com- secondly for the establishment of the | munisi sincerity to the causes and workers’ government the proletarian | struggles of the working masses in dictato: ship; such as ae ee ae America, witnessing in the Soviet Union where . 160 million workers have freed them- Boolalist Leaders Help Bosses, selves from the shackles of Capi-| I have icarned about the history talist exploitation and persecution. |0f the Second International, the Believe it or not—at the last elec- | betrayers of the workers of the World, tion I voted a straight Socialist ticket, | also the failure of the Socialist Inter stupidly—because I knew that the} national to partake and indorse the Democrats and Republicans were one | World Congress Against War held at big family and crooked, Even Norman | Amsterdam, in August 1932. I see Thomas said so, he also said that | and hear how the Capitalist and the Communists were trouble-makers, | Bourgeois elements are leaning to~ that disturbed me a great deal, for| Wards the €#ialist leaders to help we all know that there is plenty of them from being crushed, trouble on earth, and the newspapers,| JT am now active in a youth elub, movies and radio substantiated these | which is sympathetic towards the charges, even the loyal members of | Communist International. Here I am the Socialist Party repeatedly warned | being developed to my liking and jus about these good-for-nothing|I am gladly throwing away an old | Communists. ideology for the new modern-up-to- Effect of “Daily Worker.” date proletarian ideology. My sincere I was faithful and constant sub-| and best wishes to the finest weapon scriber to the New Leader which I | of the oppressed millions—Yours for now pronounce “Misleader’’ ‘Sd is Revolution. hesitation, A few days after the elec- x o™M 'MARCH ISSUE OF COMMUN'ST DEVOTED /TO 50th ANNIVERSARY OF KARL MARX Speech over the grave of Marx. SOME LESSONS OF THE STRIKE STRUGGLES IN DETROIT—Editorlal MARX, FOUNDER OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNISM AND ORGANIZER OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY—By F. Brown. THE END OF RELATIVE CAPITALIST STABILIZATION AND THR TASKS OF OUR PARTY.—Excerpts from report to the 16th Plenum, Central Committee, C.P.,U.S.A., January 28, 1933, by Earl Browder, ‘THE LIFE AND WORK OF KARL MARX.—By Max Bedacht. MARX ON THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR—Correspondence between Marg and Engels. THE EMERGENCE OF AN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY PROLE- TARIAT—Toward the study of the Application of Marxism-Leninism to the American Class Struggle—By Sam Don MARXISM AND REVISIONISM—By V. 1. Lenin. ‘THE REVISIONISM OF SIDNEY HOOK—Continued—By Warl Browder. THE STRUGGLE OF MARX AND ENGELS AGAINST THE OPPOR-+ ‘TUNISM OF GERMAN SOCIAL DEMOCRACY-—By G. Vastikovsky, ‘THE AMERICAN ECONOMIC ORISIS—By John Irving. ‘ BODE. REVIEWS—New Reforms for O}d--A review by Milton Bowngd: “a \ ‘ \ ))