The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 18, 1933, Page 1

EMERGENCY COMMITTEE TELLS WHY FULL $35,000 IS NEEDED COMRADES: | To operate the “Daily” from Jan. 14 up to at least|the paper clear of all deficit. The $20,000 raised so| Readers, this is your job. Money is needed im May 1 requires an additional $18,000 to pay the regular |far has been spent as follows: mediately to keep the “Daily” going. Broaden the HE EMERGENCY COMM!ITTEE TO SAVE THE DAILY WORKER once again must lay before you the detailed facts that show how the money contributed so far in the financial weekly deficit for 15 weeks. Moreover, $2,000 is needed to repair the “Daily’s” press, which is in such condi- tion that it may collapse at any moment. It is clear that $35,000 is the minimum required to put the paper | jon its feet. drive. Put collection lists into action among new groups of people. Arrange more affairs and house parties The Daily Worker must live. We know you will not fail. Printing and press work, $6,200; paper, $3,39! | notes, $1,200; telephone and telegr aph, $500; rent, $90 mailing and mailers’ salaries, $1,900; gas and electri-| city for plant, $800; postage, $400; wages, $3,000; un- drive has been spent. It is necessary for every| ‘ ashed checks banks y ° 50. 1 MERGENCY COMMITTEE OF THE CENT. I ihe Sone “ anes a critical state |C@8hed checks on banks not yet open, $850. Total,,) EMERGENCY COMI ITTEE OF THE CENTRAL Se 4 ak why hi full $35,000 must be raised if right he eae gl saps peinersn oad $19,142. COMMITTEE TO SAVE THE DAILY WORKER the “Daily” i 2 : i 2 The Daily Wokieis uate al Bieta ote Vee ac has been contributed than the amount needed to place | All this represents payments on past and current ROBERT MINOR deficit of over $1,200. When the drive was started IMPORTANT! deficit. it hfe Jan. 14, there was an accumulated deficit of $16,000. Daily Worker banquet tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. RE these financial crises inevitable? No! If the * A gbos ATHAWAY The drive had to be launched because the people whom we owed this money to refused to supply us any longer with paper, press work, composition, ete., unless this deficit was wiped out. at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. Michael Gold, chairman. Speakers: M. J. Olgin, C. A. Hathaway, Richard B. Moore, Carl Brodsky, I. Amter. Enter- tainment program by John Reed Club and others. $35,000 is raised, we will be in a position to im- prove the “Daily” and increase its circulation, thus wiping out the weekly deficit and making unneces-| sary future financial campaigns. Call On Your Shopmates! Explain the what Worker to them Daily stands for. Then tell them how great a crisis threat- ens its life. Your shopmates and neigh- bors will tribute! Vol. X, No. 66 HOUSE RUSHES THRU VET CUTS Call Veterans to Fight, Cuts, Demand Bonus WASHINGTON, Mai House yesterday rushed thre bankers’ bill, with amendments, and wages of gOv- employes by $50,000,000. N. ¥. Democrats Support Cut Whereas the vote in the Hous the original bill Saturday w to 138, most of these 138 gaye up the pretense of opp cuts, and the final vote Among those who on President’s signature to become law.| ! Vets Bitterly Resentful Great tidal waves of anger are sweeping the veterans of the coun-| try at. this -vicious~abtesk on, their living standards by the Wall Streat- Roosevelt government. Members of posts of the American Legion, Veterans of For etc, are urged to form ranh committees of action to 07 gether with the Veterans N: Liaison Committee and the Wo: Ex-Servicemen’s League a bro: united front movement to compel the withdrawal of the cuts and immedi- ate payment of the bonus. VOTE HUGE ARMS; TALK ‘PEACE’ Roosevelt for Navy | Air Force Second to None BULLETIN LONDON, March 17.—The Brit- ish House of Commons voted an appropriation. of 53,570,000 pounds (about $185,880,000) for new war- ship construction. This represents an increase of 3,093,700 pounds over 1932, Debate was limited so as not to embarrass Prime Minis- ter MacDonald, whe on the same day was presenting a new formula fot “peace” at Geneva, Ct an The British Prime Minister, Ram- say MacDonald, offered a new for- mula for “arms reduction” at Gen- eva yesterday. Put forward with the usual pretense that the imperialists ave seeking peace, despite their fran- ue arming and the developing war situation in Europe and the Far East, the British plen seeks: Rearm Germany. 1, The “arms reduction’ for- mula calls for the doubling of the military forces allowed the conquered German nation under the terms of the Versailles Treaty. For British “Balance of Power.” 2. To re-establish the British “balance of power” in Europe at the} expense of the present hegemony of French imperialism over capitalist Europe, The “arms reduction” plan seeks to give Italy the right to con- struct another 26,500-ton capital ship “to offset the new French battleship 3. The mobilization of the whole imperialist world for an anti-Soviet drive in the effort to evade the con- sequences of the fiercely raging im- perialist antagonisms and trade, tar- iff and currency wars by diverting the impending world war into anti- Soviet channels. Under the plan proposed by the social-imperialist, MacDonald, France and her allies would have 1,075,000 military effectives, as against 670,000 for Italy and her allies in the rival European imperialist camp. Roosevelt In Sham Move. Similar hypocritical “peace” ges- tures were made by President Roo: yelt who, while proclaiming his “in- terest” in maintaining peace, used the developing war situation in Eu- rope as justification of his huge naval construction plans, The same papers which reported these “peace” discussions carried the news of “a vast Ce Ral of new construction for jhe Navy's air forces, to make that ym the most powerful in the world.” surely con- Daily,.. Central he —I e-Cominynist Party U.S.A. Six '(Section of the Communist International) orker Received yesterday $464.43 Total to date $20,031.64 Rush Tag Day money and all other funds to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 18th St., New York City. More House Parties! Workers’ Clubs, sympathetic organ- izations, Communist Party units, individ- ual workers: arrange hundreds of house parties and affairs to save the Daily Worker! Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Act of March 8, 1879. under the PBB 2. New York, N. ¥., NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1933 CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Cannon Fodder “EY Pes These young Peruvi forced into the undeclared im- perialist war with Colombia. They re shown drilling for battle. REMAIN CLOSED | Small Deposi sitor's Poverty NEW YORK, March 17.—At the week of operation g law, the vasi ma- jority of the banks throughout the country are not opened for carrying on full banking business. Withdraw- als are still restricted from those banks now opened. According to a number of nation-wide surveys there are still 1,292 ks in the federal reserve system that are not open at all. There are 3,937 banks not mem- bers of the federal system that re- main closed. Many of them will never open, and the depositors will not get anything, even in depreciated currency. Middle West Hard Hit. The middle-west section of the country is hardest hit—thousands of banks in the small one-industry towns remaining closed. In Illinois | only 221 out of the 365 banks in the federal reserve system are opened for deposits and limited withdrawals, many of these under conservators— receivers. Of other banks numbering 684, only 115 are opened for limited transactions. In Iowa only 90 of the 190 federal reserve banks are opened. Of the 626 other banks, only 140 are opened, In many of these towns all industry is closed down and when the liquida- tion of the banks results in their going into the hands of the big bank- ers, the property of the industries will also go to the big bankers Depositors Face Destitution. The plight of many depositors, especially elderly people, who saved money all their lives so they might in their old age, is appaling. Many banks that are closed held trust funds, local pension and insurance funds. The big Harriman National Bank of New York City, which is now closed because it is bankrupt, hold more than $600,000 of the fire, department pension funds. and orphans of firemen bear the loss. SEAMEN IGNORE BANK ‘HOLIDAY’ Threaten Strike to Get Their Pay NEW YORK.—Following the vic- tory of the crew of the S. S. Belgen- land, in smashing the shipping bosses plea that they can’t pay wages be- cause of the Roosevelt bank “holi- day,” the crew of the S. S. Munargo, Munson Line, forced a payday for all due them, ‘The Munson Line regularly tries to keep from paying wages and used the bank holiday as an added excuse. The crew of the Munargo were sent ashore with no money on Tuesday, and Wednesday the ship group and the Marine Workers Industrial Union reached the men with the leaflet an- nouncing the 100 per cent victory of the Belgenland crew and called on them to act. At the ship yesterday morning, the company paid off im- mediately to avert a strike, Recently the crew ‘of the S. 5S, Munmystic of this same line struck and forced pay- ment of three months back wages, | Face haye something to keep them going} Widows) i Communist Int’l Calls for United Fight Against Hunger and Fascist Terror We are publishing in full the Manifesto issued by the | Executive Committee of the Communist International pro- posing to labor organizations and Social Democratic parties to join in a united front against hunger and the capitalist offensive: *. . . TO THE WORKERS OF ALL COUNTRIES! The crisis continues. Unemployment is increasing without interruption. Hunger and misery are seizing ever-fresh sections of the workers. The capitalist offen- sive is assnming ever-sharper forms. The bourgeoisie are prepazing to launch a campaign against all the political and economic achievements of the working-class. Fascist reaction is seizing one country after another. __ The establishment of the open Fascist dictatorship in Germany has inexorably confronted millions of workers of all countries with the question of the imperative need for organizing the united front of struggle against the Fascist offensive of the bourgeoisie, and above all, against the German bourgeoisie who, step by step, are robbing the working-class of all economic and’ political achieve- ments and attempting to crush the workers’ movement with the most brutal method of terror. The main obstacle to the formation of the united front of struggle of the Communist and Social-Demo- cratic workers was and is the policy conducted by the Social-Democratic Parties, who have exposed the in- ternational proletariat to the blows of the class enemy. This policy of class collaboration with the bourgeoisie, known as the so-called policy of the “lesser evil,” has led, in practice, to the triumph of Fascist reaction in Germany. The Communist International and the Communist Parties of all countries have repeatedly declared their readiness to join in a common fight along with the Social- Democratic workers against the capitalist offensive, against political reaction and civil war. The Communist Parties were the organizers of the common fight of the Communist, Social-Democratic and non-Party workers, in spite of the leaders of the Social-Democratic Parties, who systematically disrupted the united front of the working masses, On July 20 last year, the Communist Pariy of Ger- many, after the Prussian Social-Democratic Government had been driven out by Papen, proposed to the Social- Democratic Party and the German General Federation of Trade Unions the organization of a common strike against Fascism. But- the Social-Democratic Party and the A.D.G.B., with the approval of the whole of the Second International, described the proposal to organize a com- mon strike as a provocation. The Communist Party of Germany repeated its pro- posal of common action at the moment when Hitler seized power, it called upon the Central Committee of the Social- Democratic Party and the Executive Committee of the Ger- man General Federation of Trade Unions to organize the resistance to Fascism, but again met with a refusal. Nay, more, when in November last year the Berlin traffic workers unanimously went on strike against a wage reduction, the Social-Democratic Party sabotaged the united front struggle. The whole practice of the Interna- tional Labor Movement is full of similar examples. The Bureau of the Labor and Socialist Irternational published on February 19 last, a declaration on the readi- ness of the Social-Democratic Parties affiliated to this International to form a united front with the Communists in order to fight against the Fascist reaction in Ger- many. This declaration stands in sharp contradiction to the whole of the previous actions of the L.S. I. and Social- Democratic Parties. The whole policy and activity of the L.S.I., hitherto, justifies the Communist International and the Communist Parties putting no faith in the sincerity of the declaration of the Bureau of the L.S.I. which makes its proposal.at a moment when in a number of countries and before all in Germany, the working masses are taking into their own hands the organizing of the united front. In spite of this, however, the Executive Committee of the Communist International, in view of Fascism which is unchaining all the forces of world reaction against “ Offers Socialist Parties, Trade Unions, etc. Unity On Basis of Energetic Program of Struggle On Basis of Agreed Program of Struggle Will Refrain from Atiacking Those Organizations Really Living Up to Unity Agreement; Those who Violate Agreement Will Be Exposed as Strikebreakers, Disruptors of United Action MHE Secretariat of the Central Committee of the C. P. U.S. A. fully agrees with the Manifesto of the Execu- tive Committee of the Communist International for achieving the unity of the workers in the struggle against the capitalist offensive and fascism. The Political Buro of the Party will, during the next few days, make public concrete proposals for the reali- zation of such united action of all workers. These proposals will be made specifically to the Socialist Party, the Conference for Progressive Labor Ac- tion and the American Federation of Labor on the carrying on of united struggle against Roosevelt's economy and inflation program, against wage cuts, for increased wages and relief to meet higher prices, for federal social insurance, against police terror in strikes, against injunctions and deportations, for stopping of shipment of muni- tions to Japan, for mass protests against German fascism, for release of Thaelman, Torgler and all other im- prisoned victims of the Hitler regime, and for mass solidarity with the German workers. the working-class of Germany, calls upon all Communist Parties to make yet another attempt to set up the. united front of struggle with the Social-Democratic workers through the medium of the Social-Democratic Parties. The E.C.C.I. makes this attempt in the firm con- yiction that the united front of the working-class on the basis of the class struggle will be able to repel the offensive of capital and Fascism, and to accelerate to an extraordinary degree the inevitable end of all capitalist exploitation, Owing to the peculiarity of the conditions, as well as the differences in the concrete fighting tasks confront- ing the working-class in the various countries, an agree- ment between the Communist and Social-Democratic Par- ties for definite actions against the bourgeoisie can be carried out most successfully within the confines of each individual country. The Executive.Committee of the Com- munist Intemational recommends the Communist Parties of the various countries to approach the Central Com- mittees of the Social-Democratic Parties belonging to the Labor and Socialist International with proposals regarding joint actions against Fascism and against the capitalist offensive. Nevertheless, the negotiations between the. parties concluding such an agreement must be based on the most elementary pre-requisites for the common fight. Without a concrete programme of action against the bourgeoisie, any agreement between the parties would be directed against the interests of the working- class. The Executive Committee of the Communist Inter- national therefore proposes the following points as a basis of such an agreement :— (a) The Communists and Social-Democrats com- mence at once to organize and carry out defensive action against the attacks of Fascism and reaction on the political, trade union, co-operative and other workers’ organizations, on the workers’ Press, on the freedom of meetings, demonstrations and _ strikes. They shall organize common defense against the arm- ed attacks of the Fascist bands by carrying out mass protests, street demonstrations and political mass strikes. They shall proceed to organize committees of action in the work-shops and factories, the Labor Exchanges and the workers’ quarters, as well as organize. self-defense groups. (b) Communists and Social-Democrats shall com- mence at once to organize the protest of the workers with the aid of meetings, demonstrations and strikes against any wage reductions, against worsening of working conditions, against attacks on social insur- ance, against the cutting down of unemployment benefit, against dismissals from the factoviow - (c) In the adoption and practical carrying out of these two conditions, the Executive Committee of the Communist International considers it possible to re- commend the Communist Parties during the time of common fight against capital and Fascism to refrain from making attacks on Social-Democratic organiza- tions. The most ruthless fight must be conducted against all those who violate the conditions of the agreement in carrying out the united front, as against strike breakers who disrupt the united front of the workers, These conditions which are put forward for accept- ance by the Labor and Socialist International apply also to those parties which, like the Independent Labor Party for example, have proposed to the Comintern the or- ganization of the united front of struggle. The Executive Committee of the Communist Inter- national which makes these proposals before the inter- national working-class, calls upon all Communist Parties, and in the first place upon the Communist Party of Ger- many, immediately and without waiting for the results of negotiations and agreements with the Social-Demo- cracy with regard to a common fight, to proceed to or- ganize joint fighting committees with Social-Democratie workers and with workers of all other persuasions. The Communists have proved, through their long years of struggle, that they stand, and will stand, not in words but in deeds, in the front ranks of the fight for the united front in class actions against the bourgeoisie. The Executive Committee of the Communist Inter- national firmly believes that the Social-Democratic and non-Party workers, regardless of what attitude the Social- Democratic leaders adopt in setting up the united front, will overcome all obstacles and, together with the Com- munists, set up the united front, not in words, but in deeds. Precisely at the present moment, when German Fas- cism has organized a monstrous provocation, in setting fire to the Reichstag, forging documents about an alleged Communist insurrection, etc., in order to crush the work- ers’ movement in Germany, every worker must recognize his class duty in the fight against the capitalist offensive and Fascist reaction. Down with the Fascist reaction and the terror against the working class! For the united front of struggle of the prole- tariat! Proletarians of all countries, unite tor the fight against the capitalist offensive and capitalism! EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST INTBRNATIONAL..