The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 11, 1933, Page 2

ee Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1938 || AH Units of Section 4 are ~ NOTICE! BARRICADES IN BERLIN Seu sion of INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS, 36! Fourth BY KLAMUS MEDMRANTE ILLUSTRATED BY WALTER QUIRT Avemee, New York City. All Werbors are urged to read this beok and spread it among their friends. THE STORY 8O FAR: — The workers in the proletarian Wedding district in Berlin are preparing to demonstrate May Day, 1929, despite the fact that all demonstrations have been banned by the socialist police chief, Zoergiebel. Kurt Zimmerman, a cement heaver, is a member of the 145th street unit of the Communist Party, which is making preparations for the May Day demonstration. He has a wife, Anna, and a little son. * 2 . ths before a certain Pe-|at once stopped talking, for there ad opened an ice bar.| was nothing to be heard. Petrowski hite-washed room, on one | sppeared in his soiled w! jacket. hich was the small counter | When he saw Anna, a friendly grin e ice containers. In front of | appeared on his pock-marked face. to meet in the Finnish Hal, | \15 West 126th Street, to- night at 8 p.m. | | The National Coinmittee of the | | Young Communist ieague addressed | |a call for united action, to the work- ing, farming ‘and student youth of America, to the National Committees of the Young Peoples Socialist Leagus, League for Industrial Democracy and National Student League and to the local workingclass youth organiza- |tions, Negro and white. It says, in part, “During the four years of economic crisis, the entire |generation of toiling youth has been | practically pauperized The wheels of |industry are almost at a standstill. |The youth who once were drawn into industry as a source of cheap labor are being discarded and adults work jat youths’ wages. Over 5,000,000 jyouth are jobless. Every year thou- All members of the Inter- national Labor Defense are called to the District I.L.D. Office, 799 Broady 200m 338, at 4:30 Wednesday af- ternoon. All mass organiza- tions are to call at 3 p.m. to- day at the same address for leaflets on the Scottsboro demonstration in Union Square tomorrow. Clerical workers and all others stood four little round which worked imme- the window. On the ice machine diately behind wooden fly was a t joard disc of about on it in blue, a beautiful spiral. When the wheel turned round looked ly whirling funnel. The children, who in the first week pressed their noses flat against the window pane, became quite giddy as they looked into the ever-quickening whirlpool. nirs painted red. The | mann; glad to see you in my shop; | piece of furniture in | times are bad, aren't they electrically driven | down over the counter towards the wheel towards the street | have?” eter with painted| jy, though his hard gutturals be- | trayed him as a foreigner. as if the spiral were trans-|1y, taling no notice of his disagree- formed into an ever-Geepening, mad-| able friendliness. She was annoyed | Waste of money! At the back the room was parti- | tioned off by a whitewashed wooden | eating the wafer in damp weather. « wall. Behind this wall the owner Petrowski slept and lived. %% was a little unusual for such a small tradesman to have a telephone installed a few days after his arrival. > ‘was never used by his customers. ver had to telephone, went to the Red Nightingale. Business in the shop was bad from the first. Petrowski placed bright paper flowers on his tables and took trouble to make his shop as nice and comfortable as possible. Yet the} children who now and then came to} Perhaps | boy with an exaggerated politeness. | | | | are appealed to for assistance at |the Harlem Section headquarters, | “Good afternoon, Mrs, Zimmer- | jsands of students graduate into ” He bent Socialist League starvation. There is no work. There; is no system of unemployed relief for the youth to ward off the pangs of| hunger. Almost a million youths have left home and wander through- out the country in a vain search for jobs, or food and shelter. “The condition of the employed youth is hardly different. Wages of even those youth who work the full week are way below the level that is required to live decently. The plight of the Negro youth and those who| work part time is even worse. “The right to receive a ‘free educa~ tion,’ won years ago is being trampled on. City and state governments fol- low a ‘retrenchment’ policy that closes Gown schools, especially in the farm- ing regions and schools where Negro 79 West 13ist Street today at any time. | little boy. | “Well, little man — what will = MEET SUNDAY 10 DEMAND USSR. haps the man was a relative of the | iceman on Sunday afternoon visit.| The Patriotic Order of Women of The boy might | Philadelphia issued the slogan, “War even cateh a cold in his inside from | Against Recognition of the Soviet Union”. This is a new addition to| Petrowski handed the wafer to the | the ranks of the enemies against the Soviet Union, who set themselves the Petrowski spoke German excellent- “A penny water,” Anna said sharp- The following is the statement (im part) of the Needle Trades Workers Indestrial Union detega- tion: « The General Executive Board of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers meeting at the Hotel Dun- | can in New Haven rejected the de- Apna paid quickly and took Fritz | tas . ‘i | mand of the delegation of the Needle into the street, sucking at his wafer, |the Guin Beeans Pian EGERE Ce EEACO Woea ete a eats ris | greater duty upon workers and ali| Which included Ben Gold, Louls Hy- friends of the Soviet Union to rally | ™4" and Joseph Boruchowite to pre- | behind the recognition campaign and sent proposals for joint action in the |try to counteract the vicious anti-| Struggle for improving the conditions | Soviet activity now disseminated in| Of the workers in the garment indus- |such a thoroughly organized manner| ‘TY. The G.E.B. refused to hear the |by all the enemies of the working! ‘delegation. | class. | “The recent strikes of the cloak- mn ‘ Pare kers and dressmakers failed to The mass meeting for recognition me arranged by the Friends of the Sov-|Prn@ about any improvements for NEEDLE TRADES INDUSTRIAL UNION PROPOSES UNITY higher wages, shorter hours, um week work and jobber responsib’ for the conditions in the shops. “2. Joint preparations for such a united cloakmakers’ sirike in Ni York for week work, guaranteed mil imum wage scales, unemploymen’ surance, jobber responsibility, en- | forcement of the 40-hour, 5-day week “3. Joint preparations for a united New York City, for minimum wage scale, unemployment insurance, job- ber responsibility and other agreed upon demands. “4. A joint campaign in the unor- ganized centers of Connecticut, New and other agreed upon demands. | general strike in the dress trade in| Jersey, etc., against sweat shop con- | youth predominate. The teaching staffs are cut. Schools are over- crowded. Students go to school lack- | ing proper food and clothing. | | “The Roosevelt Government, in the | |spirit of ‘economy,’ appropriated | |$280,000,000 for war preparations. It | suggests using additional hundreds of millions for building a larger navy.| It passed the bill to herd a quarter of | a million of unemployed into labor regiments, where they can be turned into an available war reserve. Mili- t s are injected in the schor in the sports organizations, | ete. (C. M. T. C., R. O. T. C.).” | “The Alabama lynch courts have own a verdict to murder young Haywood Patterson. |the first of the nine Scottsh y |to be retried. This lynch verdict fo'-| |lows after a complete collapse of the | frame-up charges during the trial. | boys | They intend now to murder not oni; | Patterson but all of the nine boys. | T is a part of the terror against | the working class in every capitalist | country. It is expressed interna-| tionally most sharply in the fascist attacks now talking place in Ger many.” In face of these events and in the interest of united action, the Young Communist League proposes a pro- | gram of action on the basis of spe- cific demands for the youth, together with general demands for the whole working class, as follows: “1, For the right of all unemployed youth and graduating students to ceive unemployment relief, regardless of sex or color. Against all forced la- bor and military schemes to herd un- | employed youth into camps (‘civilian’ {conservation corps, etc.). | “2. Against wage cuts, for increased | ri |wages to meet ing prices, for shorter hours of w without reduc-~ | tion in pay, for a minimum wage for | | ell young workers, full and part time | | workers; against chiid labor and state | | maintenance of those now employed. | enn | Young Communist League Proposes United What Roosevelt’s Fiont Action to Young People’s New Deal Means To the Farmers! By H. PURO ‘The ending of capitalist stabilise- tion finds American farmers breaking | their backs under the immense deht | load of $12,000,000,000. In addition to this huge debt, the taxes of farmers) italiem, and the lasi named is ons who recently made a visit to the So- viet Union in order to study how to apply the experiences of Socialist Ag- riculture to the “planned” capitalist agriculture in America), have worked | 000,000 ix have risen since 1914 over 20 percent,| their heads off, to present Roose- while the prices of farm products| Velt's “new deal” for farmers, ave gone down to 49 per cent, This| It is evident, that in spite of the ormous burden of the American mass struggles, in spite of the fact rmers has become so much more) that the endurance of large masses apossible for them to endure, be-| of American farmers begins to be at ause their income has been reduced | 9n cnd, the Jorge bulk of them still from. $17,000,000,600 in 1919 to $5,000,-| have many illusions about the prom- 3 of President Roosevelt. As Roosevelt’s farm program be- | upon little more than 40 per cent of buy a penny or a twopenny wafer | preferred to eat it in the street. Only very rarely did someone sit down in- | aide. Later, since the weather was | too cold for the ice business, he tried | his luck with cheap potato puffs. But | in vain. There must have been some- thing that prevented the people from feeling really at home in Petrowski's. A STRANGE SITUATION The whole thing was particularly | eurfoms when one considered the} habits of the people of the alley. | ‘The bad, overcrowded dweilings were | no agreemble places to stay in during | re the daytime, especially for the young | Overjoyed at this unexpected gift. | people who were often onty lodgers. | Looking back she saw the iceman be- Moreover, coal costs money, which | hind the curtain of the door watch- | was badly needed for food. There | ing her. | | | | ... ® certain Petrowski had opened an ice bar. | Ford, head of the Workers’ Ex-Serv- wexe a number of small shaps in the | aliey with a table and a few chairs Tear the stove. In Krueckmaxe’s cigarette shop — he was called that on account of his woodem leg—a number of young workens always gathered. They smoked, talked and discussed. Above all, it was nice and warm, a better place to stay in than a cold, narrow tenement. Again, the many cafes in this alley took the Place of a sitting-room, or even of family life for . And s cafe's for drinking in—what else? On pay day drunkards were sometimes to be seen in the alley. It was not by chance that the drunkards were nearly alwsys those whose misery was greatest. But at Petrowski’s—and this was certainly odei—the red chairs remain- | | | “Idiotic business,” murmured Anna, | “the devil take it—there’s something | wrong with that fellow.” SHE MEETS A COMRADE But what? He was not looking | after her because she was a pretty | woman. He wanted to see where she | was going. Why had the man be- | hind the screen not stirred while she was in the shop, why had they speaking at once? She was puzzled. If only Kurt were here! On the other side of the street she saw Paul Werner, who also belonged to the street unit. “Paul! wait a minute,” she called | to him and crossed the road. Paul | lived in the same house as the ice | fellow and might know how to deal with this matter. “Good evening, Anna, Kurt come back?” he asked and shook hands in a friendly manner. He liked the | tidy young woman. “No, Paul, but I want to tell you somie political matter a something.” She was reassured as speak about was the rei exile. Nothing more was out of him. The black, pock-marked fellow was not liked by the for some reason or other @me cowlé have given. ANE. it ert Marner did not Me simple inhabit: Petrowski was a foreigner ing to do with it. The Mitja, 2t number one, ‘wf the whole alley, (arcely speak a word of correct (Man. But there was a difference. THE WELL-DRESSED MAN gee 5 i Z i ' a u : L i BOUT six o'clock one evening, Anna was standing with her little | son on the street outside the front door. It was terribie how dirty the alley looked even on Sunday. The side-streets of the workers’ quarters ‘Were only cleaned once every few days. Foreigners and visitors never came here, so what did it matter? ‘The children were playing street- football with a leather case filled with rags. A tall well-dressed man came along. He avoided the women chat- ting outside the doorway by making @ small circuit towards the roadway, and care! scrutinized the house- numbers. en he slipped into the ice shop. Anna had just noticed the man. She did not know him, he did not belong to the alley. She had noticed that he was looking closely at the numbers and ended in Petrowski’s shop. He looked like a tax collector, she thought. While Anna was gossiping with the other women, she suddenly remem-~- bered that it could not have been a tax collector after all. Today was Sunday. She became interested. Here was something abnormal. The man did not live here, what did he want in the shop, which even the residents scarcely ever patronized? Perhaps she would not have taken any notice at all of the man if it had not been for Petrowski, for whom Anna had an especial antipathy. She looked undecidedly towards the ice shop. ‘The devil—it’s worth it! e “Come, little ‘un, you oan have a wafer since it’s Sunday!” Full of enthusiasm the little chap dragged his mother towards the shop. IN THE SHOP Inside the shop the first thing Anna noticed was that the stranger was not to be seen. He was there- soon as she saw that Paul had be- come serious and listened attentively. After she had finished, he looked at her thoughtfully for a moment. “Well, Anna, you can be sure that’s a dick! We've suspected for a long time that that fellow Petrowski did not move into this street just by ac- cident.” He thought for a moment. | “Listen, Anna, you walk here for @ while with your little boy, in case he is still watching. Afterwards, when he can't see you, go in the house from the other side.” Paul did not hesitate. Here was | cause enough to investigate the mat- ter. Hell! That's all that’s missing— a police spy in the middle of the alley equipped with telephone, and | | iet_ Union, for Sunday, April 16th, at) 2 P. M.,, at Webster Hall, 119 E. 11th! Street, should rally many thousands |of workers and other friends of the Soviet Union to demonstrate the great | number of friends who demand that | the United States recognize the Sov-| iet government, | Some of the speakers at this mass| meeting are Prof. H. W. L. Dana,| Malcolm Cowley, associate editor of| “The New Republic” and James W.| icemen’s League. Others will be an-| nounced later. | All workers, working class organi-| zations and all friends of the Soviet} Union are urged by the F. 8. U. to make it their business not only to attend this mass meeting, but also to mobilize everybody they come in con- tact with, bring them to this meeting) and turn it into a tremendous demon- | stration for the recognition of the Soviet Union. Stage and Screen “TRE 3-PENNY OPERA” OPENS AT EMPIRE THEATRE THURSDAY “The 3-Penny Opera,” adapted by Gif- ford Cochran and Jerrold Krimsky from Bert Brecht’s German play, “Die Dreigro: chenoper,” which is based on John Gi satirical work, “The Beggar's Opera,” wi open Thursday night at the Empire Thea- tre. The work has an entirely new score by the German composer, Kurt Weill. The cast includes Robert Chisholm, Steffi Duna, Rex Weber, Josephine Huston and Rex| Byans, ‘W. Somerset Maugham’s new play, “For | Services Rendered,” will be presented by | Sam H. Harris Wednesdey night at the/| Booth Theatre. The chief players are Fay Bainter, Elizabeth Ridson, Jane Wyatt, Jean Adair and Lillian Kemble Cooper. “Strange Gods", by Jessica Wallach, will open Saturday night at the Ritz Theatre, presented by Sam Wallach. Vera Allen, Blaine Cordner, Mary Horne and Richard Ewell head t! ast. “autumn Crocus,” starring Francis Led-| erer and Dorothy Gish, will be transferred this evening from the Morosco to the 46th Street Theatre. “SOVIETS ON PARADE” AT ACME THEATRE ‘The New Russia—born out of the flames of revolution and civil war—a young giant of 160,000,000 toiling people—the most talked of country on the face of the earth —striving to achieve centuries in five years—creating new forms of life, new ideas, a new culture. In “Soviets on Parade,” which opens at | the Acme Theatre today, see the masses of the Soviet Union flocking over the bridge in the early dawn breaking on Moscow, | hurrying to the famous Red Square. The | cupolas of Old Moscow, the Mother-City, | mingle with new slim’ white skyscrapers rising thirty stories in the dawn. Here is the workers. Following every strike the conditions grew worse, still, These strikes as well as the daily exper- jiences have proven that the policy of collaboration with the bosses and industrial stabilization schemes—a policy pursued by your G.E.B,—has served to wipe out every vestige of union conditions and to open the field for the re-establishment of sweat shops throughout the industry. “The jobbers and bosses generally have taken full advantage of the di- vision in the ranks of the workers. ‘The ladies garment workers have paid a bloody price for the disunity in their ranks. “The Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union ever since its forma- tion has waged a systematic and stubborn fight against every attack of the bosses on the workers’ condi- tions. We have recognized at all times the imperative necessity of uniting the workers in struggle against their common enemy, and our union has made repeated efforts towards this direction. “Our union has also time and again proposed to the leaders of the International Ladies Garment Work- ers Union to join with us in common effort to bring about united resist- ance of the workers. Before the dress strike of 1932 in New York, ovr union called upon your Joint Board for a united strike. The Joint Board, however, rejected our proposal. Again during the fall season of 1932, we proposed to your local executives and the dress joint board s joint drive for better conditions in the dress trade. But again our proposal was rejected. “In spite of these refusals, how- ever, fully conscious of the vital necessity for united struggle in face of the vicious attacks on the work- ers’ conditions, the General Execu- tive Board of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union calls upon you to join with us in an effort to weld together the workers’ ranks in the struggle for better conditions. “Our General Executive Board therefore proposes a conference with the representatives designated by your General Executive Board to con- sider proposals for bringing about united struggles of cloakmakers, dressmakers and other needle trades workers for agreed upon demands, and to consider the means of realiz- ing one class struggle union on the basis of such united struggles. “As the basis for such a confer- ence, the General Executive Board of the Needle Trades Workers In- | 4 Bea and means of carrying out the agreed governors’ commissions, for so-ca! 1 “3. Against imperiaitst war, for tne withdrawal of Japanese forces fr ina, for the defense of the Chinese ‘ople, for the stopping of arms ship- | |ments to Japan and Latin America, | \against imperialist attacks upon the | Soviet Union, against military train- | ing in the schools in the form of P. O. T. C., etc, Against the terror and anti- mitic campaign of German fascism, | ditions. “5, Calling of vonferenccs of joint | shops representatives for the purpose of working out demands and way: upon program of action. “Our General Executive Board is confident that the mass of cloakmak- ers, dressmakers and all other needle trades workers will greet with en- thusiasm, efforts to bring abcui unity | ond for the release of Thaelmann ana on a basis of struggle against the | all imprisoned anti-fascist forces; for bosses. Our proposals for united ac- | the release of the Scottsboro boys and tion when realized will unquestion- | Tom Mooney, and all political pris- | ably call for the numerous reserves | Ohers; against lynchings and persecu- | of militant and courageous fighters | tion of the Negro masses, in the ranks of the needle trades| “5. Against local, state and federal workers, Such united aciion will be | “retrenchmenis” in the educational looked upon by the workers as a | and recrectional budgets, especially in | guarantee thet their united sirikes| the farming communities; against will be waged in their interests, and | Overcrowded schools; for free food, | clothing and school supplies, For a/ will imbue them with a determination that will result in the victory of the workers,” General Executive Board of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. Lonis Hyman, chairman. Ben Gold, secretary. WESL EXPELS 3 DISRUPTORS NEW YORK.—Post 165, Workers Ex-Servicemen's League announces that it has expelled three shady characters from its ranks, Charles Jaeger and his wife Gertrude, and George Sinclair, alias George Mount, George Tex and Two-Gun Tex. Jaeger and Sinclair were expelled for refusing to return funds collected by them in the name of the organiza- fight against Negro discrimination in) the schools; for full academic free- | | dom in the schools. | | The statement continues: “Uniil now some organizations, par- ticularly the Young Peoples’ Socialist | League have opposed united action on | the grounds that the Communists re- | serve the right to criticize their actions. The Young Communist | League, in making this proposal for | unity states emphatically that it wel. comes all sincere efforts at unit; | In the event that agreements are| | reached around a fighting program, | we will withhold ail attacks upon any | | organizations that loyally carry out) | the fighting program that is agree upon. At the same time, the Y. C. L. | must state that in cese any organiza- | | tion or its representatives break the | | agreement reached, or fails to carry it| | out in practice, the sharpest, open, | | criticism must be launched, with the} aim of rousing the resentment of tion. Mrs. Jaeger acted as secretary| the youth against such acts which of the post for some time, but he-| hinder effective struggle and which cause of her opposition to the mil-| can only be compared to the acts of well-placed for street observation. | the Kremlin, where the Czar and his fam- The damn skunk! He worked him- | Jy an now come the leaders of contem- } Porary ussia. They gather in the Red self into a fury before having the | Souare, Masses of civilians, the workers of slightest proof. The otherwise kindly | factory and Isnd crowd the square. Regi- | dustrial Union proposes the follow- | all cities against wage cuts, discrim- |ination against Negro workers, for Paul Werner—he was the treasurer | of the local—would have liked best | to drag the two men into the streets, | shouting: “Come and look all of you | people—these here are police spies— stoolpigeons—who have been set for us, in this street... penny-traitors— who have been set for us, in this street... just look at their mugs... that’s what the swine looks like, a member of our class too, but willing to sell his neighbors into prison for the measly sum of 15 cents!” Then he would like to bash their two spies’ faces into pulp. But keep calm, keep calm, Paul. Put your temper into cold storage and keep it dry. First think how to get at them. (To Be Continued) NEEDLEWORKERS APPRECIATE THE LITTLE WATCH REPAIR SHOP ‘$17 SIXTH AVENUE, AT 28TH STREET SPLENDID LARGE Hall and Meeting Rooms Perfect for BALLS, DANCES, LECTURES, MEETINGS, Ete. IN THE New ESTONIAN WORKERS HOME 97-29 W.115th St., N.Y.C. Phone UNiverstty 4-0165 ments pass by; the famous horsemen of Budenny; the military strength of the n Republic; troops, with level ranks of onets; tanks crunching the ground; swa: of planes in precise formations drone ove: head. Then the ranks of shock-brigade each with their own flags of honor. T! young Communist youth, and the young! Pioneers cheering. Maxim Gorky, famous writer, smiles, waves his hand, cheers. Voroshilov, Commander of Army and Navy, reads the’ pledge of loyalty to the new| Tecruits to the Red Army, “Soviets On Parade” is a film pulsing with the new vital life of this vast country. A mass Pageant of the forces contained in one- sixth of the earth's surface, A picture that brings as no other picture has done an authentic portrayal of Modern Russia, “KING KONG” NOW SHOWING AT THE CAMEO “King Kong,” RKO-Radio’s thrilling film, is now showing at the Cameo Theatre after establishing records at Radio City, “King Kong” was produced by Merlan C. Cooper and Ernest B. Shoedsack from an idea Priginally suggested by the late Edgar Wal- ace. BROOKLYN WHAT'S ON REGISTER NOW! This is the lest week for registration for the Spring Term of the Workers’ School. Register in Reom 301, 35 E. 12th St. CONCERT AND DANCE WILL BE GIVEN BY SACCO-VANZETTI BR. LL.D. for the Weinstein Defense on Saturday, April 18, at 130¢ Southern Blvd., near Freeman 8t. Bronx, LECTURE TONIGHT—FELIX MORROW, CONTRIBUTOR TO THE HIS @ o'clock, April 11. Very interesting. important, Attend the lectur ANNOUNCEMENT Dr. Louis L. Schwartz SURGEON DENTIST Announces The removal of his off to larger arters at 1 Union Square (8th Floor) Suite 903 ‘Tel. ALgonquin 4-096 Very For Brownsville Proletarians SOKAL CAFETERIA 1689 PITKIN AVENUE | PURITY SUTTER Vegeterian and Dairy Restaurance 589 BUTTER AVE. (Cor. George) B’kiyn QuaLiry [AVALON Cafeteria OPEN ea Looe GH aie DEWEY 9-9512 “RENDEZVOUS” DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 Bristol Street (Bet. Pitkin & Gutter Aves.) B’kirn PHONE: SICKENS °-8012 Office Hours: 8-16 A.M., , 6-3 PM, latern’] Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT itant W.ES.L. program and her out- spoken patriotic tendencies, was re- moved. She kept the books of the post and refused to return them. Descriptions of these three people follow: Charles Jaeger: about 5 feet 8, black hair, dark complexion, about 4 years old, weighs about 170 pounds. Slovenly dressed, usually wears an army shirt without any tie. Has in his possession a Post 165 col- lection box and credential, signed by its organizer, J. Jacobowitz, and by & notary, but lacking the post seal. Jaeger: about 5 feet 6, round face, broad nose, black hair, dark complexion, close to 40 years old, weighs about 140 pounds. Good speaker, very organizational, great defender of American flag. Has discharge papers from Gas Defense Corps, U. 8. Army. George Sinclair: about 5 feet 72, slim, reddish brown hair, light com- Plexion, sometimes with a mustache, sometimes without, about 24 years old, weighs about 135 pounds, Never produced discharge papers. Hangs around various workers’ organiza- tions and pretends to be connected with them. Also has a Post 165 col- Jaeger’s. All veteran and workers’ organiza- MASSBS, | tions are warned against these three individuals. GIBSON INVITED TO MASS MEET OF E.W.B. WORKERS TONIGHT NEW YORK.—Mr. Gibson, Kidde, Houston and Randell have been in- vited to the meeting called by the City Committee of Emergency Work Bureau Workers to be held tonight at the Washington Irving High School, 16th Street and Irving Place at 7:30 p.m. BRONX Mott Haven 9-8749 DR. JULIUS JAFFE Surgeon Dentist 401 EAST 140th ST (Cor. Willis Ave.) BT lection box and credential similar a | strikebreakers.” | “We call upon all youth, organized | and unorganized, to unite everywhere ‘in. the fight against hunger, fascism jand war. We urge an immediate con- ference to organize one united May| Day this year. We propose to organ- ize on the occasion of the Third Na- tional Youth Day, May 30, a huge | youth mobilization against imperial- ist war. | “There must, however, be no wait- | ing for outcomes of negotiations. The needs of the youth require immediate action. The Young Communist | League urges its local organizations | to intensify the activity to forge a united front movement for struggle of all toiling youth.” | The National Committee of the | Young Communist League invites all young workers and students, and es- pecially the youth in the organiza- tions to whom the proposals for united action are addressed, to ex- press their opinions on the proposals. dividual capitalist exploits 1. farm: thru mort- gages and usury, the capital- ist class exploits the peasant class thru State taxation.” It is necessary, however, to unde: and thet not ALL farmers suff alike, This huge debt burden rests the American farmers. It means that it is the small and medium farmers who suffer the most. Effect of Price Fall As long as farmers were able to pay gins to take shape in the form of legislative proposals to the Congress, it becomes clear that his “New Deal” is essentially the same as Hoover's | farm program. It differs only in the form and working. Roosevelt's farm program consists of: 1) the taking out of production of some 50,000,000 acres of farm land and levying a so-called processing (which is nothing but a sales tax) for the agriculturel products, to be paid by the consuming masses a means for raising prices for thos> | big farmers who make contracts with | government committees to reduce their acreages; 2, as to the re! their se tributes to the bank- " ers and in: in the! ancing of mortgages, Roosevelt pro- form of and the! peses to take over by the government ever-higher taxes to the capitalist) state, everything went all right, but) when farm prices began to sink con-| tinually, farmers were no longer abie| to meet their mortgage, amortization paymenis, interest, and taxes. When/| this happened, the bankers, insurance | companies and other mortgage hold-| ers, together with the capitalist state, | began ruthless foreclosure sales, 59 that in 1932 these foreclosures reach- ed to the amount of 4’.7 per 1,000) farms, | Being no longer able to pay the} annual tribute of $900,000,000 interest | and in addition, $777,000,000 (these figures are given by the Secretary of Agriculture, Wallace himself) in the form of property taxes for the cap- italist state, and faced with want and misery, hundreds of thousands of American farmers were ready to de-| fend themselves and their families by mags actions, against the foreclosures. | And so, during the last six months gigantic struggles have taken place in the American countryside under the leadership of the United Farmers League and militant rank and file Committees of Action. Rise of Mass Struggles These struggles began to take place when the country was in the midst of the presidential election campaign. Millions of farmers voted for Rocse- velt, believing and hoping for his promised “new deal” for farmers. They have not been able to wait | any longer, and now, tens of thous- ands of those who voted for Roose- | velt, have been engaging in this tre- mendovs wave of struggles. Never in the history of America has there been such a militant upsurge in the coun- tryside. Fail to Stop Movement Naturally these determined strug- | gles of American farmer take the bourgeoisie by complete surprise. Fa- mous “penny sales,” thru which farm- ers begin to liquidate their mortgages, compelled mortgage owners and the government to do something in order to save their investment. Thus the insurance companies, who own 23 per cent of the farm mortgages, be- gan by declaring a temporary mora- torium. This was followed by declara- tions of governors and legislatures of some states of partial halt on mort- gage sales. The purpose of this partial mora- torium was two-fold: 1) to save the investments of mortgage owners; 2) to halt the gigantic mass struggle of farmers. Simultaneously with this partial moratorium, the propaganda for maintaining the illusions for Roose- yelt’s promises was strengthened by the bourgeoisie thru the press, the radio, etc, When Roosevelt took over the administration his first concern was the bankers. He refused to see | delegations of unemployed, oppressed | Negroes and the toiling farmers. He was “too busy” aiding the bankers. Roosevelt Miusions But, to be sure, he has not forgotten farmers. He has appointed a mil- Honaire agricultural publisher, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., as the head of*the consolidated farm bureaus and farm | credit facilities; and another rich) publisher of farm papers, Arthur Wal- | Jace, as his secretary of Agriculture. | Together with Morgenthau and Wal- lace, professors Tugwell and Ezekiel, (the first named has for years been singing songs of high praise for the “endless prosperity” of American cap- | AMUSE MENTS | MADISON SQ. GARDEN | RiNGuMS BARN SUNDAYS i: us This Year Celebrating The Great | RRINGLING BROTHERS’ GOLDEN JUBILEE — | with 1000 AMAZING NEW World-Wide | FEATURES...including THE DURBAR, | Most Sublime ‘SPECTACLE of All Ages BEATTY Battling 40 New LIONS and TIGERS 600 Arenic Stars—100 Clowns—700 Horses 50 Elephants — 1009 Menagerie Animals — | RxKo DAYTON 98-4000 INTERVALE 8@ FIFTH AVENUE Meving & Storage Co., Inc. BRONX, N.T. ‘902 WESTOHESTER AVE. a ). BACKER ‘cameo King Kong’ B'way & 42 St. 9 A.M. tolP. M., 2e | TONAY AND ALT. 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Wed., Thurs, and Sat., 2:30 | er demands of the toiling farmers, the soca a aes Party wants to get the exploited Chitra gale ie Ha Opening Thursday Night | termers to understand that’ thelr Jehn Krinsky & G will present The Con! Ce The 3-Penny Opera. A Satiric Comedy ‘with Music by Kurt Weill and Bert Brecht EMPIZE THEATRE—Sroadway & 40th St. Tickets from 50¢ up. Now on sale #K0 JEFFERSON 4% §. #|NOW ‘KING OF THE JUNGLE’ with BUSTZR CRABBE and FRANCES DRE Added Feature: “GIRL MISSING” with BEN LYON and MARY BRIAN | aimed at committee thru the Reconsruction Finance Corporation, about $2,000,- 000,000 worth out of $12,000,000,- 000 of farmers debis, thereby r lieving the bankers, insurance con panies and other mortgage holders about worrying about their invest- ments. Only the complete cancellation of all farm debis can meet the situa- tion. Aids Exploiters of Farmers As both of the Roosevelt legislative proposals are framed, it is very clear that Roosevelt's farm program is helping the mortgage own- | ers, marketing trusts and the big | farmers. Small and medium farmers | have no acreages enough to reduce, | therefore, they cannot be benefited by | higher prices. Secondly, as far as | refinancing their mortgages and hopes for getting production credits | goes, the small and middle germers do not come into the category as de- | fined by Secretary of Agriculture | Wallace, as he says that refinancing | will be done on terms “consistent with | the debt carrying capacity of mort- | gaged farms.” In other words, only | those who can offer “sound security’ will be able to get their mortgages refinanced. | “New Deal” Against Farmers Roosevelt's farm program is direct- ed to create a strong kulak class in | the farm communities at the expense | of the workers, exploited farmers and the consuming masses generally. This | Kulak class is also to be the political bulwark in the villages against the workers and toiling farmers. It is clear, therefore, that Roose- velt’s “New Deal” means to drive out | from farms hundreds of thousands of | small and average producers. This | will be done by ruthless methods of | foreclosures. For these hundreds of | thousands of ruined small and me- | dium farmers, the capitalist system has become, as Marx very significant- ly said: “a vampire which sucks the blood and marrow from the peasants | little farms.” The land ownership (which is only nominal for them) has become to them “nothing more than the warrant for distraints and foreed sales. The great bulk of the exploited farmers will not be helped by Roose- velt’s price fixing and refinancing “hemes. They must break their backs sad starve their families in order to be able to pay colossal tributes to the mortgage owners, high taxes for the capitalist government, and they will be continually robbed by the trusts and marketing companies. If they cannot carry on their backs these parasite exploiters, they will be driven out of their farms. Already, during the course of big militant mass struggles, tens of thou- sands of toiling farmers, who voted for Roosevelt, have got rid of their illusions about his promises and have become conscious of their organized power. They have also seen that the | Communist Party is the only trusted | leader of all the toilers, But hundreds of thousands of exploited farmers still do not see that their leaders, Milo Reno, Tabell, Simpson, O'Neil, etc., are the tools of Roosevelt cape italist government, bankers, insurance companies, trusts and all other ex- ploiters and oppressors of the toiling farmers and workers. Unite Against Exploiters It is the task of the Communist Party, revolutionary workers and mil- itant organizations of working farm- | ers, to expose these illusions and to rally ALL toiling farmers to the com- mon ‘fight with the revolutionary workers against the capitalist ex- | ploiters and their government. | The militant farmers should con- centrate their struggles for the fol- | lowing main demands: 1, Emergency relief for all dis- tressed farmers without restriction by the government and bankers; 2. No foreclosures—cancellation of all debts of the small and middle farmers; 3. Exemption of impoverished farm- ers from taxes, and no forced cole lection of rents and debts; 4. Higher prices for farmers’ pro- ducts from marl | factured and household goods. Woile the Communist Party giver struggle for the immediate and par- tial demands must be directed more and more againsi the capitalist sys- tem as a whole, because the libera- tion of the toiling farmers under the | frame-work of the capitalist system, is impossible. Lenin pointed this out, | very clearly, when he said: “Small farmers can liberate themseives from the oppression of capital only by joining with the eal arenes and support- struggle for - ialist society,” ba, pak } ¥ |