The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 5, 1933, Page 4

1 Published by the Compredafty Pubtehing Address and mail cheeks to the Daily 3th St., New York City, N. Y. Telephon , ine. onqnin 4-7956. er, 50 E ty exeopt Bundsy, at 2B. Cable “DAIWORK.” 18th St., New York, N.Y. ~ JMPERIALISM SUBJECTS LARGE MASSES OF THE PROLETARIAT OF ALL COUNTRIES--FROM THE CENTERS OF CAPITALIST MIGHT 10 THE MOST REMOTE orker’ Porty USA. By Mail everywhere: Canada CORNERS OF THE COLONIAL WORLD—TO THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE FINANCE CAPITALIST PLUTOCRACY— Sidelights on |sPar the Economic Conference By PETER The World Economic Conference BOLM is meeting 12 at London on June ‘Fhe plan at present is that the conference should last for about six weeks, though a French diplomat has been quoted as saying that after the first few sessions the conference should be Me. Since 1 world trade has falle roughly from 50 to 12 billion dollars. ‘All the great powers with the excep- tion of France and Germany haye gone off the gold standard, and are competing with each ott in a race} to depreciate their currencies. Tariff barriers have never been so high, and they are today re-inforced by such dewices as special anti-dumping Jaws, quota laws, partial or complete embargos, and surtaxes directed against imports from countries that have cheapened their money. Forty five million workers are unemployed throughout the capitalist world. Yi in spite of this, in every count there exist huge piled up stocks of commodities, especially of raw pro- ducts and food-stuffs, which are de- scribed as unsaleable surpluses. Agri- culture, in every capitalist country, is in a state of bankruptcy. Indus- trial plants are doing well if they ean operate on a fifty per cent c pacity basis. The financial crisis h brought down counties banks in ru: Finally, this general picture contr with that in the Soviet Union, where we find new victories for collective agriculture, new advances in Social- ist industrial construction, and no unemployment The London Conference Against U.S.S.R. So world capitalism is meeting in the conference in London Is it meet- ing in order to contrive a solution to the problems that confront it? Is it even capable of doing such a thing? Of course not. It is meeting in order more efficiently to carry on its main fight against the socialist economy of the Soviet Union, and to carry on the internal struggles between the National capitalisms that exist with- in world capitalism. Any hope, among the themselves, of finding a ‘solution’ to the crisis, does not exist, even to- yy. two weeks before the conference Cordell Hull, leader of the delegation, said yesterday that he expected “broad agreements in principle rather than specific treaties” to come out of the confer- ence. French official circles h heen more outspokeniy pessimi Temps wrote yesterday that is nothing that permits that the war debt: capitali. . Le here the belief question will be solved in good ti renc abilization i by England and the United the French have expressed the view that it would be a waste of timé for them to send a delegation to London af all Some idea of powers do expect of the gonference may be from re- cent speeches, such as Neville C berlain’s speech before the Ei House of Comm on Satur Chamberlain, who is the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and who spea with the full authority of the lish cabinet, called for an ecor “Holy War” on the Soviet Referring to the trial of the Bri engineers, and to the anti-Soviet em- argo put into force by the Engli government, he threatened the w ing of “onflinching economic war. Apart from the basic conflict be- tween the socialist and capitalist economic areas of the world, which constitutes the stron: bond be- tween the capitalist powers, conflicts are also furiously raging between the eapitalisis themselves Anglo-American Antagonisms across the Atlantic tter economic wa w Ditalist to he ¢ fare” that exists today. Chamberlain Was threatening economic war n only against the Soviet Union, b also against the capitalist rivals of British imperialism which the most important is without doubt the United States e French news- papers have made repeated references to th ruggle between the pound and the dollar’ which as they sa is rendering the conf nt even before it, meet Trade War Preparat’ons The preparations for the confer- ence resemble nothing so much as the preparations for major war. Ame iea’s aggressive move against England in leaving the gold standard, was immediately answered by Great Britain with retaliatory currency and trade measures. Roosevelt's tariff truce, designed to forestall any econ- omic action on the part of the rivals of American imperialism did not have the desired effect. On the contrary. the signing of the tariff truce turned out to be the signing of a declaration of trade war, as is shown by the innumerable separate economic treai- igs recently signed by the powers in| Preparation for the World Economic} Conference. | England already is saying that if| no general agreement will be found possible by the London conference,| then all the same some agreement will) be discoverable for the British Em-/| pire group and its “affiliates” such as/| Argentina, Portugal, Scandinavia,| ete. | America already is saying that she is taking two schemes with her to London, one, a scheme for general inflation, for the acceptance by the world of a “cheap” American dollar, for the withdrawal of quota e@ainst American exports and for a helicy of American eapital export This is the scheme she will present at the conference, but she will also] Mie swith har ag. brent ap. alter: | i | est amo allowed to go home to Geneva and n by between 65 and 75 per cent— t n of unrestricted economic natior which will be the com- of ation of a measure economic autarchy” with the pus forward of the most aggressive economic ac- tion in the international field. The British Empire group of na- tions is holding a series of prepara- tory meetings at London before the general conference met Entente countries have just conclud- ed a regional economic meet, at which lans were laid for joint action at ondon. France, as an anti-English ove friendship” for the Soviet Union The conflicts brought to a head by the Arms conference, and by the Four Power Pact negotiations, are all being carried over to the London conference. The Excluded Debt Question What are some of the problems around which the inter-capitalist an- tagonisms will take concrete form » the London Conference? With cha:- acteristic hypocrisy, the main ques- tion is one that has been “officially excluded” from the scope of the con- ference. This is the debt problem The United States is owed some $17,- 000,000,000 by the European states. France has repudiated her part of the debt. In England the movement for repudiation is. growing hourly. The Daily Mail writes: “There can, of course, be no question of a pay- ment in full by this country .. .” The Daily Express writes: “The end of this game of blind man’s bluff fs that, in eleven days time we shall enter into a talk with sixty-odd nations with neither an idea nor an atmos- phere, There is bring reality into those discussions. It is to say, frankly and now, NO DEBT PAYMENT.” Thus, the 17 billion dollar debt owed the United States, which one might have thought | set_@ hold ds of America,| Protection of Women and Children a Weapon in the k The Little} Ks| HE capitalist. press is now making desperate attempts to white-wash the eager government officials who were standing under the Morgan banquet table with their mouths wide open, waiting for the golden drops to fall into their parched throats. One paper runs a big headline “M’ADOO LOSER IN 3 MORGAN DEALS’ And on the same page a news story reads “M’Adoo makes a profit of $4,900 on Morgan Alleghany deal And he “lost” money because he was too greedy to grab the fat profit that hé had right in his hand, He waited for more OOSEVELT himself was a bond peddler to suckers who were wil- ling to get stuck. And Roosevelt's business in selling German marks would certainly qualify for a leading position in the money-changers club. we. fe We notice that they are showing | pictures of Morgans’ son who got | out of Harvard in 1914. | That would just about make him | the draft 1917, | | eligible for law of | when the U. S. herded thousands of is vociferously proclaiming its | only one way to, Vome workers into the army and shipped them off to be murdered on the bat- | tlefields. | Cag nT | And they were being slaughtered | to protect the profits of the Morgans. | But little Junius Morgan didn’t go to war. Oh, no! He had to stay home to learn the banking business —how to grind profits from the backs of the workers. A Seog Wee comrade from Rochester has sent us the literature which some pro- fessional “Red-baiter” is handing out in that city. The vile stuff is writ- ten by a Mrs. Ashcraft. Judging from the contents of her pamphlet, her name must have been changed from Mrs. Ashcan. She has a mind like a garbage dump, | Cerys To her, Socialism, the rule of the | workers, means nothing byt the na-| tionalization of women. | Of all the stale and disgusting lies, | this one is the most nauseating. | . * If ever there was a country where m and children lived in free- dom, health and happiness, it is the workers’ fatherland, the Soviet Union. | eo eee We recommend that our readers | of the book called “The is becoming at the same time ajin the Scviet Union”, by Alice Win- weapon against America in the hands of her debtors. factors in the conference. Linked With Arms Dispute Another factor which, also exclud- ed from the discussions, will play a large role in. determining. them, is the arms question. America, at did her best to keep the Arms conference alive during that time when the London conf In this s the arms question occupy n the haggli ng where the real wor ference will be done Germany's intention to proclaim a suspension of all foreign debt pay- ments, will add another first-class problem to the conference agenda. Germany has also in the last few days embarked vigorously on a policy of inflation, thus further aggravat- ing the disturbed rency situation of the capitalist world. The instability of world currencies, the international tariff situation, and aggravated cases of inter-capitalist competition, of which the present Anglo-American conflict is a classic example, will help to fill out the bill of fare. To suppose that any solution could arise out of the Economic conference would be absurd. like other con ely bring out in clearer and more licit form, the antagonisms that t in the capitalist world, and con- firm the pronouncement of the XII Plenum of the Executive Committee would ‘be unsucces: sitting but © was This conference, | ces before it, will} of the Comintern that we have now| seen the end of the period of rela- tive stability of capitalism INTERNATIONAL STAGE OLYMPIAD ENDS IN MOSCOW Workers’ Theatres of Nine Countries Represented By N. BUCHWALD (Special Correspondent of the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, June 4—The Interna- tional Revolutionary Theatre Olym- piad. concluded here the day before yesterday, aroused tremendous inter- ig Soviet workers and leaders in literature and the theatre. The competing groups included Mongo- lian, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Ger- man, French, Swiss, Czechoslovakian and English workers’ theatres. The huge music hall where the Olympiad was held, was crowded at every per- formance, with the Soviet press giv- ing much space to the event. Politicad Effectiveness of Revolu- nary Theatre This review of the revolutionary theatres displayed the effectiveness of political propaganda through the theatre medium, but it also revealed certain weaknesses of the Agi theatre which must be elimir@ted. In a statement addressed to Stalin the participants in the Olympiad ex- pressed their enthusiasm for } prop’ throw Field. Here is the plain and This excluded sub-| unvarnished truth about the life of ject will be one of the dominating| working class mothers in the Soviet | Union. The position of women in the Sov- iet Union ie more secure, more civi- | lized in the world. than in any country HE “grand and glorious” Chicago Fair is making sure that they won't miss a nickel of income from people who come to gape at a “cen- tury of progress”. The philanthropic managers of the fair are charging fees for the use of the toilets. Making them _ self-liquidating projects. FORT IN CHACO CAPTURED. SAYS PARAGUAY ARMY Argentina Maintains Blockade; Refuses | to Stop Chaco War | BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, June| 4.—Dispatches from Asuncion, capital | of Paraguay, claim that the Para-| guayan forces have finally captured | Fort Herrera (Fernandez) in the) Gran Chaco region after a 20-day of-| fensive and are pursuing the retreat- | ing Bolivian troops. La Paz, Bolivian | capital reports that Paraguyan planes| bombed the Platanillos-Herrera road, | but makes no mention of the Para-| guayan advance. At the same time Argentina pro- tested to Bolivia against damage done to private Argentine business inter- ests inthe Bolivian bombing of Puerto Cascada, Paraguay, This pro- test, following on the heels of the complete blockade of the Argentine- | Bolivian frontier to war supplies shipments, marks a sharper tone in relations between the two nations. | The effort launched by the pro- Bolivian Washington Commission of Neutrals—the United States, Uru- guay, Mexico, Colombia and Cuba— to get the support of the A, B. C— Peru bloc, consisting of Argentina, Brazil, Ohile and Peru, in mediating the ,Chaco war have broken down completely, Now that Paraguay is on the offensive, the pro-British A. B. C.| —Peru group wants no interference, just as the Commission of Neutrals was inactive as long as Bolivia was making progress. in glowing terms, saying: “We saw with our own eyes the fatherland of the proletariat, really free, a really splendid country, growing in strength, cYeating an unprecedented growth of proletarian and all human culture. We will devote all our strength, all the power of our art, to the cause of | turning the whole world into a Union | of Soviet Republics.” As the International Olympiad con- | cludes, the ten-day festival of the! Soviet theatre begins with the finest, examples of Soviet theatrical art pre- sented to an audience largely son- fo oom of tourists who have some Soviet Union and its Socialist reality |hene egneointty for ties ocasion. SUSPEND CLUB I PAPER, STUDENTS, AT CITY COLLEGE N.S. L. Leads Fight to Oust “Umbrella”. | Robinson | NEW YORK.—The unprecedented | suppression of all sembiance of stu- | dent’s rights at the College of the) City of New York has culminated in} the stispension and threat of expul-/| sion of 12 students; the suspension | of three college clubs; the eae | | tion of many more students for sus- pension; the expulsion of the editors | of the “Campus,” college publication, land the revoking of that paper's! charter. | ‘These moves were taken after stu-| dents of the school demonstrated | against the college support of the. mi- litary machine through the R. O. T. C. (Reserve Officers Training Corps) and after President Robinson, dropping his former composure, at- tacked students with umbrella, valiantly displaying his heroism to the D. A. R, members present. Try to Build Fascist Gang Major Holton, an officer in the R.} O. T. C. and instructor in the Hy-| giene Department, has called for the organization of a fascist gang to era-| dicate the radical element in City) College. In a bulletin issued by the National | Student League which has lead the fight against the R. O. T. C. and for academic freedom, it was pointed out that Dr. Robinson deliberately mis- | represented the facts in a statement | to the capitalist press. In several in- stances there is evidence that the | newspapers changed their stories be- tween editions after hearing from President Robinson. Notable among these is ‘the World-Telegram, the lib- eral newspaper and Pulitzer Prize winner. Paper Suppressed The four editors of the City Col- lege Campus were expelled and the charter of the paper revoked obsten- sibly for the publishing of an obscene “April Fool Issue.” The circumstances of the expulsion are such that there is no doubt that it was because of their activities against the R. O. T. C., dubbing May 29, “Jingo Day.” and advocating ~a counter-demonsfration | and because they supported the radi-} cal element in the recent elections, The election of the left wing ticket] by a two to one majority and the tremendous student resentment) manifest over recent evenis is suf-| ficient proof that the college admin- istration will have to eradicate the} left wing students or change its en- tire policy. 2,000 Demonstrate About 2.000 students attended a demonstration last Thursday and ex- pressed sincere sympathy with the tight for the students. Friday night the evening session called a protest meeting and 500 students attended despite administration attempts . to block the meeting. The L, I. D. hes been assuming its typical role in this struggle. The president of the Stu- dent Forum, official chapter of the League for Industrial Democracy al- though present at the demonstration last Monday, when questioned about his participation in the struggle, said that he was simply a “bystander.” The result was the Student Forum was suspended anyhow and their op- portunist policy netted them nothing. The Social Problems Club, official chapter of the N. 8. L. admitted its part in the active organization and leadership of the demonstration and as ® result was suspended. The Lib- eral Club, of the Evening Session was suspended for “past activity” and “anticipated support of the suspended students’ !'! ! The move to oust Robinson is gain- ing momentum daily since student opinion is overwhelmingly for the penalized students. The ig very important at this point because DEMANDS OF NATIONAL } STUDENTS LEAGUE The reinstatement of the 12 sus- pended students. The reinstatement of the _sus- | pended clubs. j | The reinstatement of the 4 ex- | | pelled “campus” editors. | The reinstatement of the “Cam- | pus” charter. | The abclition of the R.0.T.C. | | in the college. | | | The vusting of President Rob- inson. EXPULSION FIGHT IS SABOTAGED B TEACHERS’ HEAD Linville, of Teachers’ Union, Local 5, Votes Against Struggle NEW YORK.—Immediate in defense of Isidore Begun and Mrs. Williana Burroughs, the teacher who were suspended from the New York City school system, was post- poned for a week at a meeting of the new Delegate Assembly of the Teach- ers Union, Local 5, of the A. F. of T.| A vote to take action at this meet- ing on Mr. Blumberg, expelled teach- er, resulted in a tie. Dr. Linville, the president of the union, cast the de- ciding vote against doing so. | Active in Scottsboro Defense The suspension of Mr. Begun and Mrs. Williana Burroughs, Negro teacher who has been active in Har- Jem in the fight to. save the Scotts- | boro boys, was ordered by the Board of Education following their vigor- | ous defense of Blumberg at the open hearing on May 24. At this meeting, Dr. Ryan, president of the board and big real estate man,, tried to stop all protest against the frame-up of | Blumberg by calling two emergency police trucks to the scene. Before the opening of the meeting, armed piain clothes men and a detachment of police under a sergeant had been planted in the Board room. At the | storm of protest that arose from the 400 teachers and parents who were angered by Ryan's suppression of Mrs. Burroughs when she courag- eously attempted to heit the rail- roading of Blumberg’s expuision. the | extra police who had been waiting | outside were called in. Try to Crush Resistance All three teachers haye been ac- tive in the leadership of the fight against wage-cuts, and for. betier school conditions. This is the opening of a campaign | of the Board of Education to stamp | out all resistance among the teach- | ers to the coming attacks on the wel- | fare of the children as well as the lowering “Of the living conditions of teachers. Transfers of teachers, sus- pensions and expulsions from the system are the ways in which the | Board of Education is carrying out | the orders of the bankers who are | squeeging the city for more and more | profits at whe expense of the chil- | dren and the employces of the city. TORONTO.—A_ resolution calling attention to the inhuman treatment received by Tim Buck and his com-. rades in Kingston, and demanding a stop to the frame-up on Buck is being circulated throughout the country by the Toronto Mass Conference to Stop the Frame-up on Tim Buck. Major Holton will have great diffi- culty in organizing his Fascist gang- sters, ‘ ij Calls Meeting oe ‘The Nacional Student League called | City College students to attend a meeting at the N. S. L. headquarters Sunday night to discuss plans for future action and to consider the pos- | sibility of a strike. The situation in 80 - manall - thet: - it - hes - - Seplted Thursday » ¥: * we ay Ra Stenaietaaeea agi Ameer mete x of puppet Chinese Governor of Hopei Province admitted that one of Fengs subord- REBEL FORCES SEIZE BIG TOWN IN MANCHURIA ‘Renewed | Fighting Near Peiping and Tientsin SHANGHAI, June 4. — A detach- ment of 500 guerilla fighters, known! jas the “Red Spears,” | town of Tungfeng, Manchuria, anni- hilated Manchvkuo defense troops and seized supplies, according to dis- satches from Mukden. stormed the Japanese regular troops had to be summoned to re-take the town and succeeded in driving off the insur- gent band only after fierce and pro- longed fighting. | divisions. are | North China to Manchuria to fight | the renewed wave of anti-Japanese| Several Japanese being recalled from rebel activity. Dispatches from Tientsin relate action | that a large body of pro-Japan Chin- ese troops fired at Chinese. outposts yesterday near Lutai, 35 miles north Feng-Yu- | Tientsin. General Hsiang is organizing .his Japanese regime at Kalgan and the inate generals has captured Kuyuan, ORMORIPTION RATES: One year, $6; and-Bronx, New York City. One year, $0; 6 months, $5; 7 mths, 38, -—From the Program of the six months, $5.50; 2 months, #2: 1 month, Se, JUNE 5, 1088 Foreign and Communist International. The Gena Proletarian Press Continues Under Condition of Illegality | How the Communists of Germany Prepared to Get Cut Papers In the Face of Terror Situation By FRITZ HECKERT. In a picture painted by the great | French artist Daumier, the bourgeois | press is portrayed as a_ prostitute | whom anybody can buy for money. | If we examine the bourgeois press of | our time we see that the actual facts are fully in accordance with the pic- ture drawn by the gifted French art- ist. The bourgeois press of Germany has sunk so low and engages in glor- ifying the fascist regime to such an extent, that Hitler ‘and Goebbels rightly fear that the disgust of the readers might put a premature end to the useful work which this press is rendering in the service of fas- \cism. For this reason they have ar- | ranged for one or two newspapers to | make “opposition”. Hitlers seizure of power coincided | with the ruthless persecution of the proletarian press in Germany. A few weeks before the official appointment of Hitler as Reich Chancellor, the whole of the Communist Press was suppressed, the Communist printing works closed and confiscated. | The prohibition of our press left |the way open for fascist lies and | slanders, which carried the poison of | demagogy into the ranks of the toil- ers. Our Party was, however (this | must be admitted) already sufficient- jly prepared in order to replace the legal press by a feirly strong illegal press, which could explain to the | working population the meaning of | events and help the Party to fight | | under the new conditions. | The Tilegal “Rote Fahne.” It was only after the fire in the | Reichstag, when the first illegal num- ber of the “Rote Fahne” appeared, that every revolutionary worker fully |realized what he had lost by the prohibition of the legal “Rote Fahne”. The distribution of 300,000 copies of the illegal “Rote Fahne”, although it means imprisonment for anybody | found in possession of a copy, best shows the importance which the Ger- man workers attach to their revolu- tionary press. In spite of its numerous short- comings, the Communist press has done much in the last fourteen years jof its existence to propagate Com~ munist ideas, to consolidate the Party organizationally, and to in- crease and lead the class struggle of the proictariat. All this is especi- ally true of the “Rote Fahne”, the central organ of the Communist, Party of Germany. the oldest Com- | munist newspaper in Germany. Right | from the first day of its existence the | “Rote Fahne” was the object of the | most bitter hatred of all counter- | revolutionary elements. No matter what government was in power, the “Rote Fahne” was always the first | to be persecuted by continual prohi- | bitions and confiscations. For as re- gards the suppression of our organ, of Noske, and Severing Rise of Ulegal Communist Papers. 5 The constant persecution of tha legal daily papers soon compelled the German Communists to issue a num- ber of illegal papers, which circulated in the periods of suppression of the legal papers. A few weeks after the founding of the “Rote Fahne” there arose alongside of it the illegal cen- tral “Rote Sturmfahne.” (Red Storm Flag.) In addition to this there ap- peared, under various names, small courageous papers which carried the idea of Communism into the ranks of the working people. In time newspapers in the different works and factories, as well as the so-called “street cell newspapers’, also began to appear. All these pap- ers were published directly either by the Party Committee or Trade Union Committee or other revolutionary mass organizations. Many German workers have in this way got an in- sight into the running of a newspaper. In the majority of cases the illegal factory newspapers were produced by the workers themselves. Whilst in every period since the November revolution the Communist press in all its forms was subjected to the sharpest persecution, the so- cial-democratic papers and the trade union papers connected with them enjoyed unrestricted freedom. The social democratic press did every- thing that lay in its power in order to frustrate the united front of the working class and to disorganize the fight against fascism. Even after the seizure of power by the national socialists and after the development of the fascist terror, the social-dem~ ocratic papers advocated reconcili- ation with the government which had let loose this terror, In fact, the venality of the German social- democracy knows no bounds. Tasks of the Communist Press. Speaking of the tasks of the press, both legal and illegal, Lenin de- scribed their role as being educators and organizers of the masses for the class struggle, and specially empha- sized the importance of the worker- correspondents’ movement. The cor- rectness of Lenin's views can be seen today in Germany, where, thanks to the powerful worker-correspondents’ movement, the Party still, possesses , the main staff of editors and con- | tributors to the illegal press. And, | Germany dozens of papers which mect the heavy demands which are placed upon the proletarian press. Our Russian comrades have had great experience, especially in issu- | ing illegal papers. The Soviet press, the powerful worker-correspondents’ movement in the Soviet Union, will furnish the best example of how the victory of the proletarian revolution ‘Hitler has only continued the policy and Communism must be achieved. The 1 nternational Work ers Order trom Its First to Its Second Convention By R. SALTZMAN The second convention of the In- ternational Workers’ Order will open on June 17, 1933, That will conclude two years since our first convention was held. During these two years ovr organization has acquired defi- nite shape and character. In fra-| ternal movements, as well as in the, Labor Movement in general, its role has been cast. Our first convention of two years ago wrote an important chapter in) the history of our organization.) That convention was held but one year after the International Workers’ Order was established. Its task was | to sum up the results of the long) the Workmen's Workmen's Struggle waged in Ci and Independent Circle, forces. hat task was suct accomplished by our first “conyortion Our Position on the Eve of Our Second Conyent'on At the organizing conference, held | at the end of March, 1981, we started with a membership of approximately, 5,000. At the first convention of the | International Workers’ Order, which | opened on May 29, 1931, our mem- bership registered over 11,000. On the 17th of June, 1933, when our sec- ond convention will tac place. our ranks will number more than 28,000 members. That means that since; May, 1931, our membership will have tripled. Had we succeeded. in con- cluding the process of amalgamating the Russian Sick Benefit Society with the I, W. O., we should be arriving at our convention with a membership of nearly 34,000, Even if we discount the more than 10,000 members of the Hungarian and Slovak Sections that amalgamated with us, we. can still count on a net growth of nearly 7,000 members since our last convention. It must be re- membered that during the past two years we were forced to suspend 6,744 members (ineluding between 1,000 and 1,500 members who left for the Soviet Union), so that from the date of our) first convention until today we actu- | ally enlisted 14,000 new members. These are telling figures, indicating | the actity of our orga: tion. They The activities against pogroms and also em) the jes and, fascism in faire have saa sat before us, | our Order is place 6 "Pence, a, our ongentevtien! foreprctané when. teense wed | has grown in the past two years, so that it is in a position to fulfill its fraternal obligations to the member- ship in a more adequate manner than the old fraternal orders. At our first convention, the entire capital af our organization amounted to $51,571.43. Today, our organization possesses a capital of neatly $500,000. Naturally, this sum includes the capital trans- ferred to the organization by the Hungarian and Slovak sections. Our Role in the Labor Movement The role played by our orrganiza- tion in the labor movement undoubt- edly has been one of the main facte™" in its growth. Two years ago, we were compelled repeatedly to remind our membership that the growth of. our organization depended entirely upon the connection of its activities with | the camvaigns of the general labor movement. Now, two years later, it “| can be readily scon that this line has | justified itself. Every phase of our activities for the past two years has emphasized the importance of that stand. In this article it will not be possible to give a detailed analysis of the part played by the I. W. O. in the cam- paigns and struggles of the workers in the United States. One point, how- ever, must be stressed. Our varttcina- tion in the general activities of the labor movement has increased in pro- portion to the growth of our organi- cation, It Js sufficient to point to the | part played by the I. W, O. in the campaign against pogroms and Tas- cisnt in Germany. A large number of city and district committees through- out the country have carried forward the slogans of the National Executive Committee and have developed an ex- tensive movement for a United Front action. In this campaign, our organi- zation has acted with a speed and effectiveness which contrasted sharp- ly with the period when considerable sections of our membership main- tained that our organization devote itself mainly to fraternal probiems, thet we would be unable to place our- selves in the vanguard of the move- ment and that our organization could, at best, be only an auxiliary and fol- low others. able to develop a United Front action when the interests of the working class of the country require it. The International Character of Our Organization One of the most important chapters written by the I, W. O. into the his- tory of the fraternal movement in general and of our organization in particular, is the fact that we have succeedéd, during the past two years, in transforming our organization into an International Workers Order, in the true sense of the word. ‘wwe years ago, at our first conven- liou we were mainly an organization of Jewish workers. We counted in our ranks a few English and Italian | branches, merely as a decoration. | There were a few branches in other languages. and the beginning of a youth section, At the coming conven- tion our Jewish section will occupy an | impoviant place, it is true (it has | grown from 10,000 to 13,000 members), } but it will constitute a migority mem~ | bership of our organize‘fon. We now have the Hungarian and Slovak sec~ tions, numbering 5,000 members each, There is a Ukrainian section in our organization of over 1,000 members, which is expected to reach the con- vention with its ranks swelled to about 1,500, There is an Italian sec~ tion with 6,000 members. We suc cceded in building up a Polish soction which already has a membership of 490, a Rumanian section with 300 members, two Spanish branches, and a branch each of Greek, Lettish, Macedonian, German ‘and Czecho- Slovak. Each of these single branches has begun a campaign to organize re- spective language sections in the I. We can point with pride to our youth section, which has reached a membership of more tha 1,100, and to the recently organized children’s sec- tion, which contemplates arriving at our convention one thousand simong. Our English section, which is still quite wesk, has a membership of more than 500. These figures, comprising the mem- | bership of our organization, fully jus- | tify our claim that the International | Workers’ Order is the only fraternal organization in the United ‘States built on real intermational limes, | | — _ MAMI SDSS Ac PA SAIS AGEL NEES SRO PA A tle ——————— thanks to them, we have in Hitler- ~ A Ane A a RRS i?