The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 24, 1933, Page 4

Cubtisked by the Conprodaily Publishing © ath St, New York City, N.Y. Telephone Al Address ond mail ehecks to the Daily Worker, Ane., daily creeps Sanday, ot os 8 quin 4-7956, Cable “DAIWORK.” 50 E. 13th St., New York, N. ¥. Page Four —S——— = WORLD PROTEST RISES Poxs.tn AGAINST NAZI MURDERS Militant Trade Unions|2 Communists Killed;} of 3 Fascist Nations|Kill Jew E ight, Call Europe Congress |DumpBody atCemetary | COPENHAGEN, 7 i nee Mail).—The revoluti ion organizations of | By| Mar. 11 nary While Americn newspapers yes ed the murderous terror was slackening, the fol- important European co Fascist rule—Italy, G Poland—have sent ot Ruropean Fighti Fascism. by the Congress: How is the Fascist regime of blood and the offensive of capital best combatted? Invitations have been sent to all local trade unions, local organizations of the Socialist and Communist Par- ties, workers’ sport clubs, factory del. egates, intel joyed or- ganizations odies, Cultural Organizations Protest NEW YORK—Twenty o1 tions representing 2 met at the John Re day to organize a tee. ot a Struggle German Conrad Komorowski was retary and the centra was adopted: Fight single p) Against Fasc Electrical Workers Score Terror SCHENECTADY, N. Y.. Mar. 23. Workers assembled at @ mass meet- ing in Labor Temple here ci d@emned the barbarous attacks against the Communists and Jewish Masses by the fascists throughout Germany. A resolution demanding the immediate release of Thaelmann and Torgler as well as cessation of all murderous attacks was sent to the German Embassy and a copy to the secretary of state in Washington. Working Women. NEW YORK.—In a resolution de- manding an “end to the German government's terror and murder drive against the German workers,” Coun- cil 45 of the United Council of Working Class Women which was sent to Chancellor Hitler, it cludes with a “pledge of solidarity and support to the German working dass.” Erie Meeting. ERIE, Pa., Mar. 23—Over four hundred at a meeting in Red Men's Hall sent a protest to the German Embassy in Washington demanding immediate release of Thaelmann and ‘Torgler leaders of the Germ Com- munist Party and pledging “to car- Ty on this struggle by mobilizing the people of Erle until Hitler fascism is defeated in Germany.” And from Boston. BOSTON, Mass,, March 23.—Reso- lutions against fascist terror in Ger- r| yesterday of | 1 Kill One Jew Per Night. | trial Rhineland city, “while attempt- | | ing to escape,” according to the. ver- | sion issued by the police. | Hugenberg’s “Lokal Anzeiger” re- ports that Klaasen and de Longeville | were shot by members of the Nazi polige force, who were gua m together with many | | | Beaten te Death. KOENIGSBERG, East Prussia, | Mar. Max Neumann, Jewish | owner of a small store here, died injuries received when. he was atrociously beaten by a gang of Nazis several days ago. LONDON, Mar. 22.—-Berlin reports tw the London press state that the body of a murdered German Jew! has been dropped in front of the en- trance gate to the Weissensee Jew- | hb. Cemetery in Eastern Berlin every night for the past three weeks. These murders are apparently part of a systematic terror campaign, singe the cemetary gatekeeper was awakened during the first night and on opening his door stumbled over a@ corpse lying in the glare of auto headlights. Nazi storm troopers in the car ordered, “Bury him. We've given him a free funeral so far.” The bodies thrown in front of the ary are mutilated beyond rec- many and one demanding the release of the Scottsboro Boys were passed at a meeting celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the death of Marx held at the Dudley Opera House which was attended by four hundred workers. The meeting was under the auspices of the Communist Party, International Labor Defense and the Workers School | PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Mar. 23—A group of young Federal employees joined the increasing number pro- testing against the terror now raging throughout Germany. The resolu- tion protests “the killings, jailing, and maltreatment directed especially against the Jews and the worktg people.” Consistent Policy of Rich Jews Anti-Hitler Protest “American Hebrew’ on Feb. 3, Be No Mass Meetings, No Protest,” When Hitler ment yesterday stating that: “We know what the German Fatherland means to us. immemorial our religion has iaught “We appeal to our brethren: Do not lose your loyalty and faith; preserve your pride and strength! Loyalty to the state which i This is not the first time that Jewish mazses to submit quietly to persecution and torture. The history of Polish and Rumanian pogroms rons protest action by Jewish religious leaders. How perfectly this paraliebs th: rich Jews of America Rabbi Stephen Wise’s protest action ag: is not a new development. American Jewish bourgeois leaders have been consistently planning their sabotage of all rages for months BULLETIN, BERLIN, March 23.—The German CouncH of Rabbis issued a state- nciting to the murder of Jews all over Germany; to a fatherland where Jews are “dirty swine!” Nazi anti-Jewish atrocities in Germany to Hinder | Q “Pleads There | Takes Power Sinee time us loyalty to the state. Remain true to your fathers!” Se’ ish rabbis have caHed upon the is replete with the sabotage of vig- c call for passive inaction by the efforts to silence all energetic mass action against Nazi out- | dismissetl at once. . . | Oh, that’s. all nonsense. . . . BY BURCK Hehe | NEWS ITEM.—Gustay Noske, socialist leader of Germany who murdered Karl Liebanecht amd Rom Luxembarsg, offered his services to the Hitler regime. He was rejected. on the grownds that the present sita- ation made his services no longer desirable. THE EARTH IS OURS Three New Pamphlets on Socialist Construction By MOE BRAGIN On the Steppes of the Ukraine and the Caucasus by P. Vaillant-Cou- turier. Collective Farm “red” by Budoxia Pazukhina. Workday lercies by Farmers. Collective en ‘These pamphlets are three windows jooking out on the full blaze of the greatest achievements yet recorded in history. They open up to the most tremendous changes ever compressed into 15 years. P. Valliant-Couturier writes with fire and understanding of the vic- torious march of the Russian masses under the banner of Marxism~ Leninism, Skillfully he spikes and lies broadcast by the capitalists and their willing hands, the Socialist leaders. In one of the most interesting of his sketches he describes a meeting with some French engineers hired by the Soviets to prospect for oil. These French engineers are all reservists and “patriots” in their own country. Yet this is what one of them says: “The Russian workers have 2 pas- sion for everything that smacks of culture and progress. We never have any complaints to make. . . The workers don’t let anybody walk all over them. An American engineer, who was too hasty with them, was Forced labor! One night our auto had @ breakdown way in Chechene County. It was bitter cold. The nearest village was 30 kilometers away. What happened? One of the workers went off on foot | to look for help. The others, shiver- ing with cold, all gathered close around me to keep me warm... . It is by no means necessary to have known prewar Russia in order to measure what the Soviets have done!” This French writer, Vaillant-Cou- turier, seems to have been every- where. He visits a Soviet newspaer. He writes about it. “It’s one doc- trine: Leninism. It’s one plan: The Five Year Plan Plan. It’s one staff: The working class.” Women Equals of Men He is the guest of sailors on board a Red gunboat. He listens to a meeting in a Tartar village and finds how even the old people have spat out the poison of the old religion and the women have shed their veils to become the equals of the men. He passes through the great Grozny oil fields snd goes among the Cau- An editorial in the American Hebrew, lead-{casian mountaineers and the Gypsy ry : - collective farmers. He talks to Greg~ ing organ of the Wise. Deutsch and Lipsky clique, as long AZO} So var olal Heres tat Pow Su . as February 3rd, “pleads that there be no mass meeting, NO| the most active of collectivists. protest, igresponsible ments in Germany ar no spee awaited vigilantly and studied calmly ch-making, and while develop-! How eloquent are the figures that cover his pages. Here is an oil worker, Ivan Kuchkin, who remem- we hope that nothing will be attempted under the present emo-j bers when the workers siaved 16 tional stress and anxiety.” (Ou The editorial also says tator is taken off the street; s yr emphasis.) { urrounded with a group of men; who will chain him down to national sanity.” | Kidnappings, mutilations, murders—this is the “national hours, made six rubles a week, and lived in sordid barracks, 60 workers that Hitler “the irresponsible agi-/in a-room. Now Ivan carns 128 rubles a month, works seven hours a@ day, and lives in a flat of three rooms and bath. In the Azerbaijan Oil Works more than 15,000,000 tons of oil are being sanity” predicted by the American Hebrew. The Centralverein' produced. ‘Ninety per cent of the der Deutschen Juden, leading in Germany, stated after Hitler’s rise to the Chancellorship: ed that n “We are convin f Any att constitutional rights. with our most determined opposition. *We calmly wait’.” No mention of the fact th organization of bourgeois Jews empt to the contrary will meet Our slogan today is: at the fight against anti-Semit- ism cannot be divorced from the struggle of the Germe\ mas- ses for social emancipation from capitalist rule, that the mil- lionfold mass of the German working-class is the most power- ful weapon against Nazi anti-Jewish persecution. Why? aré an integral part of the cg car at the merest suggestion ¢ vhich the only way to sm country in the world that has secution is the Soviet Union, Because the upper class Jews all over the world apitalist class, and shiver with| f mass against fascism, ash anti-Semitism, The only| finally crushed anti-Jewish per where the battle against anti- works are electricified. In America tonly 42 per cent are electricified. There are. 58,000 workers. Of these one will dare to infringe upon our | 18,000 study to increase their skill. Education has been compuisory. And 81,000,000 rubles are being spent on schools. “This Is Only the Beginning’ This is only the beginning, states a former bricklayer, President of the People’s Commissars. On the collec- tive farm in the Black Earth region are collective farmers who had to go begging before the Revolution. These farmers get 1,200 pounds of wheat and 300 rubles. Their neighbors, in- dividual farmers, are lucky to make a hundred rubles. “Ninetp-five per cent of the farms in the North Caucesus are collectives. I have seen collcetiyization with my own eyes,” cries Vailant-Couturiei 'YPICAL of the hundreds of thous- sands of peasant women who are Semitian is an inseparable part of the gemeral struggle for the| transforming Russia ints the fort- ustabliehm ant of seriediom, country in the world is Dunka Parukhina, Denke differs trom mort of them only in that she has be- come class-conscious a little earlier. “Trud” is sufficient proof that such women are not only among Russia's best workers but also among Russia’s grea} new writers and poets. Married at the age of 16, widow of| & shoemaker killed during the Re- volution, forced to sell her son to a kulak because of poverty, Dunka relates the beautiful story of collec- tivization in her one-horse village. She shows how the Party spurs a group of five widows to start the bollective. How confused and fearful the women are at first. How the kulaks curse, call them whores, and threaten to kill them. Unforgettable is the scene where the poor widows tramp through snow and mud with axes, shovels and ropes day and night to get their “dear little tractor” When they finally see it, one of them clings to the wheels, weeping tears of joy. themselves black and blue. “But that’s all right,” says Dunka. “Flesh is not like a sarafan. The spots dis- appear by themselves.” Speaks at Gathering The women get a threshing ma- chine. They help the poor peasants. They earn 700 measures of oats and turn it in to the credit society, ac- cording to the government’s regula~ tions. More peasants join the col- lective. egate to the district conference of poor peasants. For the first time in her life she speaks before gathering. The poor peasants listen to her, their faces shining. She decomes a member of the Party. She spends a whole winter laboriously learning to read and write. Now the raise a howl that the government is nationalizing women and that the antichrist is coming. They are finally crushed. The whole village joins the collective. UNKA shows how the most op- pressed section of the Russian masses, the farm woman, is rising to her full stature in the land ruled by the workers and peasants. “Heroic Workadays” continues this most dramatic of all stories. These sketches, written by the workers themselves, reveal what heroes they are. Here is Prostova, the girl shock~ brigadier, who outplows all the men on the collective. For being the best all round farm hand, she is awarded the higest mark of distinction, the Order of Lenin, and is sent to school to study. Head of Pig Farm On another farm other stout- hearted girls. Throughout the entire sowing campaign for eleven days at a stretch they do not leave the field once. For days they go without sleeping. And here is Vasya, her body almost broken because of thirty years of drudgery in Czarist days as a farmhand and a housemaid. Now she is one of the most successful pig- breeders In the world and head of They work | They send Dunka as del-| | a comnered kulaks| the pig farm in the best collective in | White Russia, | Werat is true of the women holds true of the men. We learn the story of the ragged Kazak shepherds exert- ing superhuman efforts herding cattle | through a terrific snowstorm, all for |the state farm. Not a single cow | lost. | We meet Agankin, séventeen years old, formerly & homeless lad, now hero of the best shockbrigade on the jiarm. Thousands of such homeless boys at present are the governors of the Soviei machine. But in rich’ America more than two hundred | thousand of such boys have no homes. j and are scattered about like loose Tusty screws. The Story of the Lamp. One of the best of these “Heroic Workadays” stories is The Lamp. It tells how Kolka, the tractor driver, |Snatches a lamp from under the bed of a peasant becayse his has been broken by the wind. He must have a lamp on his tractor to finish his night plowing. Kolka is brought up on |charges of stealing before the com- |mune. The commune decides that | Kolka took the lamp “to execute our | general plan, the State Plan. He did wrorg but for our cause. Ownership is sumething just like a flea ona dog. It won't leave you alone. We must fight against it. We are com- munards.” | ‘The owner of the lamp is ashamed of his complaint. He brings the lamp to the general storeroom. “Take it. It may be of use here. With me it’s been lying idle for a year.” ane Maar E pamphlets show the tremen- dous accomplishments at the end of the first Five Year Plan. What will they be with the end of the second Plan! They prove once and Tor all that only in a collective so- ciety can the worker get real freedom and the individual develop to his full strength. They shove the stupid lie down the throat of Norman Thomas | who only a short time ago cried out in the Nation that we can no longer expect anything from Soviet Russia. For every emergency that has faced Russia has been met squarely and successfully. The strengthening of the Machine Tractor Stations and the sending of 50,000 Communists will liquidate the last kulaks and bring within a year 100 per cent collecti- vization. On the other hand, what is the situation in the U. S.? Roosevelt makes his Secretary of Agriculture farm dictator. Through the domestic | allotmnt plan he is building a billion dollar sales tax on the workers. All this challenges the world pro- letariat to protect with its united streneth the remarkable achieve~ ments of the Soviet Union, The boarhogs of world imperialism must | be kept from uprooting what is most | Precious for us. For these Soviet men and women are showing us the way out. If we follow, there can be only The earth is ours. one result. Thus announces .a cable from the Soviet Union, which iw printed: the Daily Worker correspondent te in today’s ieome, © Abore ts shown how the workers of « collective furw in tke Ukenias _ ane petting owt veming machinery aed giving M om encty qpeteg tent. 4 LESORIPTION BATES: By Mell svecywhese: Ome your, $6; slx months, $5.54; 5 months, 9%; 1 month, Ws, excepting Borough hattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreten and Canada: One year, 38; 6 months, $5; T months, $3. 'AMERICAN SPECIALISTS IN U. S. S. R. SCORE SLANDERS OF TRADE RIVALSt |Say British Firms Try, Through Lies About Bankruptcy of Soviet \ | Declare Foreigners in U.S. 8. R. Are Given Full Rights and Need Ne Fake “Protection,” London Reports Ultimatum | JAPAN MANDATE STRIFE. CENTER Japan Keeps Islands Germany Wants Back TOKYO, Mar. 23.—The Japanese Navy Ministry today issued a pamph~ Jet officially demanding the annexa- tion of the mandated islands in the Pacific, and “inflexibly refusing” to surrender these former German col- onies, GENEVA, Mar. 23—-The United States has told the League that it “would be greatly concerned” if Ja- pan tries to keep her mandated is- Jands in the Pacific Ocean, directly on the route from San Francis to the Philippines, when she resigns from the League of Nations. Parallel with this announced de- termination of Japan, Berlin reports that Germany will demand the re- turn of the islands, German colonial domain before the war. A conference of the major Allied Powers is likely to be convened when Japan resigns, to reconcile the con- flicting imperialist claims of Japan, Germany, and the United States. Youngstown Steel Workers Protest Nazi Murders, March 25 YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, March 22.— The Communist Party of Youngs- town, Ohio, in response to the appeal of the Communist International, called for & mass united front pro- test denionstration on Saturday, March %, ab 3 pm. at Watt and Federal Street. All labor organiza- tions in the city are urged to unite in protest against the Nasi-butchers of Hitler carrying on a reign of terror, murder and torture of the German workers. A protest will be telegraphed to the German embassy. 700 Polish Miners in Hunger Strike Win a| Concession, and Eat WARSAW, March 23.—The 1700 miners who have been on a hunger strike since last Saturday at the Klimintow mines, which they occu- Pied, have accepted food after forc- ing the government to investigate their demands. The strike started when the com- pany announced the flooding of two shafts thereby throwing these men out of work. The miners were determined rath- er to die underground than die of starvation with their families for lack of any. income. ‘Other miners sent to'convince them to leave the |pit have joined in sympathy with’the strikers. They hhave refused to leave the mines but have sent their elected committee to present demands to the gover.- ment officials in Warsaw. BUILD the working class paper for the working class into = powerfal weapon against the ruling capitalist | | Hitler- Hindenburg regime. BULLETIN specialists are unsafe there are U. 8. FIGHTS BAN ON SALE OF ARMS! Munitions Go to Both Sides in S. America | GENEVA, March 23.—Sharp ex- changes between Hugh Wilson, rep- Tesenting the United States, and Sir Eric Drummond, the British secre- tary general of the League of Na- tians, occurred here today over the question of an arms embargo against Peru, unless the Peruvian govern- ment agrees to carry out the League Council’s recommendations to with- draw from territory seized by Colom- bia. U. 8. Backs Colombia War, Wilson tried to forestall action by stating that the United States could not act until Congress gave power to the President. Although the United States is known to have taken an aggressive part in fomenting the ac- tion of Colombia, and although the Colombian government is subservient to Wall Street, it is known that American arms and munition manu- facturers sell war materials to both countries. The United States doesn’t want an embargo on South American countries becouse it would interfere with its support of various puppet states which it uses to provoke war against those couniries still friendly to its imperialist rival, England. WORKERS! Answer the call of the International Red Aid. Organize United Front actions against the bloody Organize protest demonstra- tions. Raise the question of the fight against Fascism in your organizations, shops, neighborhoods. Rush pro- test resohitions to the Ger- man Embassy in Washing- ton. Rush protest cables to the German Government in Berlin. Demand the release of Ernst Thaelmann and other Communist leaders, as well as the thousands of workers thrown into Fascist dungeons and submitted to the most hideous tortures and ifl treatment. Demand a halt to the imprisonment and terrorizing of leading intellectuals in Germany. Demand a stop to the anti- semitic pogroms of the Hit- ler regime. Stalin Smashes Nationality; Only MOSCOW, March 23.—Joseph V. Stalin in reply to a request by the New York, Tribune dent, correspon Ralph that “there is not the slightest ground” for fears which have been expressed as bo the safety of American citivens prises or any other citizens. As part of the imoerialist war provocation against the Seviet Union stories have been spread that for- © ~ eigners visiting or working in the Soviet Union are in danger. This agitation has been carried out on « wide #eale lately by British agents, many of them employed by such rabid anti-Soviet exploiters as Sir Henri Deterding of the Dutch Shell oil trust. Letter Follows British Arrests. ‘The letter of Barnes to Stalin fol- lowed the arrests by the Ogpu (state political administration) of British employees of Méetropolitan-Vickers whom, investigations revealed, were involved in s plot to try to wreck big electrical power plants in the Soviet Union. The reply of Stalin to Bar- nes’ letter follows: Moscow, March 20, 1933. j because of his nationality. especially true im the case of the te specialists “Americans Fleeing” Sabotagers Prosecuted Without Regard to Slander About the Guilty Suffer W. Barnes, stated categorically working on Soviet construction enter- | but as persons who, according to the affirmation of the investigating au- thorities, have violated the law of the U.S. S.R. Is it not true that Rus- sians are also being prosecuted? TI cannot see what connection this case could have with American citizens, “At your service, J. STALIN.” Stalin’s Speech on Farm Collectives in USSR — Saturday! Joseph Stalin’s now-famous speech, delivered in Moscow on February 19 on the last day of the Congress of the Collective Farm Shock-Brigades, will appear in full the rising revolt of the farmers, the speech by Stalin disc‘t::ing the progress of collectivization in the Soviet Union should be read with great interest by Daily Work- tain other vital material, includ- special farmery ing erticles and ence, interests with an eye to getting Soviet contracts for them- selves, or are inspired by a general desire to harm Socialist construction, it was stated by. € LONDON, March 23.—It is reporied that the British Cabinet has instructed Sir Esmond Ovey, Ambaasa- ~ dor in Moscow, to demand, in the form of an ultimatum. that the Soviet Government release, without trial, the fowr English engineers held there on sabotage charges. It is stated that the Cabinet is considering breaking off diplomatic relations if the Soviet Government does not yield to the British demand. —e * * * By N. BUCHWALD (Daily Worker Correspondent) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., March 22 (By Radiogram). -= Slanders against the Soviet Union and charges that American being made by certain British American engineers and speci- alists interviewed by your cor- Tespondent. (Editor’s Note: The most vicious Anti-Soviet groups in America piek up and use these slanders withont ex- plaining their origin. Amevican specialists and tech- nicians expressed contempt for the vile insinustions being spread by British imperialism concerning the arrest and forthcoming trial of engi- neers charged with acts of sabotage, who include British engineers in the employ of Metropolitan Vickers. Pretend to “Protect” Americans. Not content with mobilizing the entire press in Britain and diplomatic channels for an attempt, contrary to all international usage, to place these accused British subjects beyond the jurisdiction of Soviet justice, even though the charges of serious crimes are made partly on the basis of state- ments by British subjects themselves, Britist imperialism now pretends also to “protect” American specialists and technicians from “persecutions” of foreigners in the US.S.R. American workers and specialists in the U.S.8.R. do not need the “pro- tection” of British imperialism, they made clear in reply to questions by your correspondents. Only the busi- ness rivalry of British firms prompts the British press to attempt to pre- vent the re-establishment of rela- tions between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A., they also pointed out. The Trath Comes Out. Ass leading American engineer told your correspondent: “When our firm negotiated its present contract with Soviet officials, ‘we received quite “friendly” informa- tion from a certain foreign firm about the “unreliabifity” of the Soviet Union meeting its credit obligations, and about the alleged mistreatment of foreign workers and specialists in the U.S.S.R, At the same time we learned from absolutely reliable sources that this very firm was try- ing to get the very same Soviet con- tracts for which we were bidding. T wonder if the present campaign in the British press does not pursue # similar aim.” Have Equal Political Richta An American electrician was eren more emphatic, saying: “This noise in the British prees about “protecting” foreigners in the USSR. is all a lot of humbug. Speaking for myself and many other American workers, we need no “pro- tection” here. No other country treats foreigners as well or as gen- erously as the Soviet Union, We have equal political rights, we can vote, and we can be candidates for the highest administrative office. “Soviet workers and officials ap- preciate our skill, and are quite wil- ling to learn from us all the good points we can teach them. On the other hand, we learn a lot from Sov- jet workers, especially their collective spirit and enthusiasm of ‘shock bri- gading’. The resumption of official relations between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. would greatly improve American business relations with the Soviet Union, and British capitalists know it and don’t like it.” Contempt for Dangers, Every American worker and speci~ alist approached by our correspond- ent had only contempt for such deeds of sabotage as are charged against the accused British engineers. Employees of Metropolitan Vickers are detained not as foreigners, but because they are accused, together with Soviet citizens, of grave crimes The accused will have every chance to defend themselves at a public trial. “The reason British reactionaries make such a howl’, declared an American expert, “may be due te their fear that the truth will come out in @ public trial. This talk about persecuting foreigners in the U.S.8.R. is the bunk. It can mislead only gut- lible uninformed people abroad. “American specialists and workers are not at all interested in playing the vame of British anti-Soviet circles. I believe neither American workers | | and specialists nor American business | men are inclined to become the cats paw of British or any other anti-Sov- jet circles that seek either a personal business advantage or injury to the Soviet Union or both.” Swedish Socialists Cut Sailors Pay and Youth Lead Protests STOCKHOLM, March 11 (By Mail) —The Swedish Young Conaznurist League has organized a widespread protest movement among the sailors of the Swedish navy against the So- cialist Government's plan to cut down the men’s pay. Sailors have held several protest meetings Xarlexrons and Stockholm new bases and sent Wrwhert venobetions (we the @overumepy, rah 4 ¢ = os SSS