The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 29, 1933, Page 1

} Is the Daily Worker on Sale at Your Union Meeting? Your Club Headquarters? Vol. X, No. 181 oo ily Central (Section of the Communist International) orker Party U.S.A. All Out to the “Daily” Picnic at Pleasant Bay Park on Sunday, July 30! ‘THE WEATHER—Today, fair; moderate temper- ature; fresh west winds, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1933 Mf (Six Pages) CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents Li SF apan Prepare For War; Demonstrate August Ist! How Can We Secure The Enlarged ‘Daily’? By EARL BROWDER EVERAL workers have asked me the question “How is it that the Daily Worker is able to go to six pages duily and eight pages on Saturday? Has the paper solved its fi- nancial crisis?” The answer is no, the Daily Worker is in the same fi- nancial difficulties that it has been ever since it started. It is also true that the enlarged paper will increase our deficit. The fact of the matter is that the Daily Worker Manage- ment Committee, after long and careful discussion, came to the conclusion that it will be easier to meet the increased deficit, if we will make a decisive improvement in the paper. We judged that the readers of the Daily Worker will be much more enthusiastic in their support, both in getting be- hind the drive for a greatly increased circulation and later on in the financial drive which will inevitably take place before long, if the paper becomes so clearly an improved and better paper in every respect that everybody recognizes this fact. But in order to make this decisive improvement and arouse the mass enthusiasm for the paper, it is absolutely necessary to increase its size. So we “speculated” on the improved support which you, the readers of the Daily Worker, will give te our paper in order to justify this bold step in increasing the number of pages. x * * ' HETHER we made a correct decision or not will be proved by how you, the readers of the Daily Worker, respond to this move. If you really extend the Daily Worker circulation, say, for example, by doubling it in the course of the next three months, this will meet our problems even better than before and prove that our decision was correct. If however, we continue to drift along in the same old way, we will be in a deeper financial crisis and will have to go back to four pages with a bigger debt on our shoulders. Readers of the Daily Worker, it is up to you to decide whether we shall have six pages: daily and eight pages on Saturday. Our experiment can only continue on the basis of your proving in action that it was correct. We, will do our part in the “Daily”, by really making it a paper that you can be proud to circulate. You must do your part by giving us a mass circulation. Discontent, Dissension, Alarm LARM is gripping the bosses as they observe the growing discontent of the workers, especially the rising symptoms of strike struggles in the basic industries. They fear that Roosevelt's program of attack against the whole working class may be smashed by the bitterest struggle ever carried on by the American working class. They know that the series of strikes that have broken ‘out in textile, and especially in coal, and the struggles in dozens of steel centres, are merely the smoke indicating a smoldering volcano. » “Discontent among the workers themselves is growing”, cries the New York “Sun” in a specially featured article. “An atmosphere of growing dissension and suspicion in the relations of employers and employees is spreading throughout the country .. .” “There is a very grave danger that before the final chapter of the new planned economy (more accurately, planned attack on the workers) is written we shall have labor disturbances of a kind and degree never bofore experienced,” says the Annalist, the leading economic organ of the American exploiters. * * * T is why the threats of Roosevelt were so sharp against the work- ing class in his recent radio speech. No wonder Roosevelt told the workers to accept starvation with “no aggression, no cavil and no questioning.” ‘ But still, King Canute Roosevelt, is unable to bid the rising tide of strikes to stand back. He threatens the whole force of the government against strikes, thinly veiling his iron fist behind a velvet glove of demagogic promises. . . . iN this’ situation, there are hasty conferences between Gerieral John- son, and the scraping Mr. Green. Big bellied corporation managers, cor:pany union advocates, rub elbows with Mr, Green, and Green comes out with the statement that the A. F. of L. will organize “plant” unions— thinly ‘disguised company unions with the dues going to the A. F. of L. officials, and the strike-breaking experience of the A. F. of L. officials going to the bosses. Deals are being made to stop strikes by all means in the basic in- dustries. Even if it is necessary to lead them, the A. F. of L. is attempt- ing to penetrate the basic industries to smash the strikes, and the grow- ing demand for organization—real trade union organization—on the part of the workers. The A. F. of L. is in the basic industries, in some instances with the direct support of the bosses, in others trying by all means to head off independent struggle and organization by the workers. But in whatever manner it is there, the A. F. of L. is a factor in the basic industries that must be taken into account in every struggle to root the revolutionary trade unions in these industries, In every struggle we must expose the role of the A. F. of L., increase our activity in steel, auto, rubber, lumber, coal. The revolutionary trade unions under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League must recognize the danger of the A, F. of L., its determination, by hook or crook, by every support of the bosses, to prevent the struggles of the workers developing into an effective fight for higher wages, developing into the formation of real, struggle unions, Our answer must be the most energetic, the greatest determined day- -by-day struggle for penetrating the basic industries, going into every mill, taking part in all the struggles of the workers, leading tiem. We must convince and urge the workers to form struggle committees, drawing up demands. We must discuss these demands with the ers, expose the A. F. of L., and by action and through united front les, showing the workers that only the revolutionary trade unions can defeat the bosses’ program and establish real fighting unions that can win for the workers. COME TO THE “DAILY” PICNIC IN PLEASANT BAY PARK SUNDAY! Nazis Prepare to Kill Red Leaders; Say Taneff LL.D. Urges Cables, | Demonstrations of Protest NEW YORK, July 28—Re-| |vealing the Nazi preparations| to murder the Communist lead-| ers in prison, a cable from the) International Labor Defense in New York today says: “Magistrate Vogt told lawyer Detscheff that Ta- neff tried suicide. Visit re- fused. Urgent mass pro- test.” Vassil Taneff is the Bulgarian Communist leader who, with Ernst Torgler, leader of the Communist Reichstag fraction, George Dimitroff and Blagoi Popoff, Bulgarian Com- munist leaders, is held for trial on a charge of setting fire to the Reich- Stag. Vogt is the magistrate in charge of the “investigation.” This statement by a Nazi magis- trate is an official admission that | the Fascists are preparing the| ground for announcing that the Communist leaders have “commit- ted suicide,” as they have already done with so many other working class fighters whom they murdered in_jail. This cable emphasizes once again the immense danger of death for these Communist leaders and for Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the Ger- man) Communist Party, who is held for trial on the charge of high treason. The I. L. D. immediately cabled to President Paul von Hindenburg: “Protest attempt to drive Taneff to suicide. Demand cessation of tor- tures, and permission for visits by relatives and friends.” The Workers’ International Relief also cabled an immediate protest to Hindenburg. The I. L. D. urged all organiza- tions to cable protests at once, and to intensify the drive for defense and relief funds, and for anti-Fascist protests, which begins in New York on Monday, and in other parts of the country, will be from Aug. 7 to 14.| All Out to “Daily” Picnic at Pleasant Bay Park Tomorrow From early morning till late at | night workers will flock to Pleas- | ant Bay Park to take part in the | many events and festivities at | the Daily Worker picnic. Games of all kinds will be play- ed. The Chicago World Fair satire, arranged by the Workers Theatre, is all ready. A free trip to the Soviet Union awaits a for- tunate New York worker. The way to get there: Take the Lexington Avenue subway to 125th Street, change for Pelham Park- way train and get off at Zarega Avenue. From Zarega Ave. busses will take you to the picnic. “Attempted Suicide” German Communist Leaders Tortured VASSIL TANEFF ERNST THAELMANN LEHMAN URGES REPORT BARUCH N.Y.LAWS TO AID GOING TO VISIT SLAVE CODE ACT MAXIM LITVINOV Wipe Out Labor Laws U. P. Says Paving Way That Hinder Action | For Soviet Recog- of Slave Codes nition by U. 8S. ALBANY, N. Y., July 28—Aiding| NEW YORK.—United Press cables | work for women and children. War Plots Increase; the Roosevelt slavery code program, Governor Lehman of New York pro- posed to the extraordinary session of the legislature, now on, that a state law be passed doing away with anti~ trust measures to help the formation of bigger trusts. All corporation laws are to be mod- ified to help carry out the trust ideas of the “National Industrial Recovery Act®’ To help the bosses establish slave codes all state labor laws are to be done away with where they in- terfere with the codes adopted by President Roosevelt, In order to make this sound agree- able to the workers, the proposed “recovery” law advocated by Gov- ernor Lehman says that no labor law shall be ©>t aside if the code tends to lower present standards. In Massachusetts similar action by Governor Ely resulted in the doing away with the law prohibiting ote n= der the slavery code women and chil- dren can work on night shifts. ‘The same end will be achieved by Governor Lehman’s state “recovery” act, only in a more drastic manner, as it applies to all of the labor legis- lation in existence in the state. Don’t forget~the Daily Worker Picnic at Pleasant Bay Park on July 30. Be there with all your friends! Central Committee of Communist Party Mani- festo Calls On Workers to Mobilize for Defense of U.S..SR. To all Workers, Negro and White, To the Laboring Farmers, To all War Veterans. tT second imperialist world war is coming! Every capitalist nation 1s preparing for war more rapidly than in the spring of 1914! ‘The war drums are beating louder! While diplomats rush from one “djs- armament” conference to another— all armaments are growing! As Au- gust First approaches—the nineteenth anniversary of the beginning of the world war—we find all capitalist gov- ernments using each so-called “peace” conference only as a giant “poker game” in which to play for military and naval advantages and for alli- ances in the war for which all of them are planning. Roosevelt Government Rapidly Prepares for War. The Roosevelt government, in the interest of the biggest finance capi- talists of Wall Street, is aggressive- ly driving towards war. The $3,300,- 000,000 appropriated for the public works program under the Industrial Recovery Act, is in reality a means through which to carry through the most intensive war program. Behind the screen of “disarmament” and peace talks, the Roosevelt admin- istration has orderd the expenditure of $238,000,000 for 32 new war ves- sels, Secretary of the Navy Swanson proposes an additional $77,000,000 to get the entire war fleet “ready for any emergency”. New millions are being spent for war airplanes. Muscle Shoals, world’s greatest explosive factory, is being opened up. All this in addition to $600,000,000 formerly appropriated by Congress for the ar- my and navy. Under the guise of “unemployment relief” Roosevelt has recruited 250,000 young men of mil- itary age, conforming generally to the army tests and now being trained by army officers in the “forestry camps”. The Industrial Recovery Act is a huge scheme for placing complete control of the country in the hands of the biggest bankers and trust heads, the destruction of the rights of the working class, lowering of the standards of living to the starvation level, outlawing of real trade unions in favor of company unions control- led by employers, and militarization of labor—all of which are part and parcel of the frenzied preparations for war of the American capitalist class. Why These Preparations for War? Because the strongest powers of the capitalist world are seeking to from Paris declare that Bernard Baruch, close confidant of Presiident Rooseyelt,.and during Roosevelt's va- the United States,” is on his way to Vichy near Royat, where Maxim M. Litvinov, Soviet Commissar of For- eign Affairs is staying. ‘The purpose of Baruch’s visit to matic recognition of the U. 8. S. R. by the United States, says the United | Press. The United. Press says: “In view of indications at Wash- ington that recognition probably will be accorded eventually it is believed that the United States is eager to hasten such action because both Great Britain and France are nego- tiating commercial treaties with the Soviet. Such treaties might put American trade at a disadvantage.” 2700 Workers Strike In 4 Glass Plants in Pa. WASHINGTON, Pa, July 28,— Two thousand seven hundred workers are on strike here at four glass plants demanding a 30 per cent increase in wages. cation called “unofficial President. of | 40 Litvinov is to pave the way for diplo- ; Italian Warship Grabs Three Aegean Islands! Belonging to Greece | ATHENS, Greece, July 28—An Italian torpedo destroyer seized | four islands belonging to Greece in the Aegean Sea, the prefect of the | Cyclades Islands reported today. The Italian warship landed a | force of men on the islands of Cy- naros, Mavria, Garos and Dyadi, hoisting the Italian flag and setting up.a radio station, claiming ‘the islands for Italy. permission to the destroyer to enter Greek waters for charting and sounding operations, JOBLESS COUNCIL DELEGATION MEET GOV. LEHMAN “Public Sentiment” Is Basis for Hearing, Says Lehman NEW YORK.—Richard Sullivan, organizer of the Unemployed Coun- cils, and Emanuel Levin of the Work- ers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League asked yesterday afternoon of Governor Lehman that the Unemployed Coun- cils and affiliated organizations be allowed to present demands of the jobless before the special ‘session of the legislature. ‘The governor's sec- retary, Joseph J. Canavan, was also present. Faced with a direct question whether a workers’ committee will be given a hearing before the legisla- ture, the governor replied to the con- trary. He mentioned, however, that any group may be given a hearing before a legislative committee if it is backed by “public sentiment.” The indignation of J. Canavan, the governor’s secretary, that so far have been received de- Mmanding a hearing for the Unem- ployed Councils, indicates the “public sentiment” which Lehman will get. Canavan said that the protests were received from all parts of the state and from various. organizations. The Unemployed Councils and af- filiated organizations are electing} delegates which will go to Albany in| about ten days. In Schenectady a/ delegation has already been elected. | A continuation of “public sentiment” | from all parts of the state will force | a hearing for the committee. Groups of workers in every assembly district, as well as organizations, should wire | direct to the assemblyman of their} district, demanding a hearing be-| fore the legislature of the workers’) delegation. | Big Munitions Order The Greek government had given | JAPAN BUILDS LINE TO SIBERIAN BORDER: U. S. BUYS CHINESE NAVAL BASE Workers Rally Aug. 1 Against Imperialist War; Against Fascism; For Unemployment In- surance; For Defense of the U.S.S.R. | NEW YORK.—Military railroads leading to the border of the Soviet Union, especially near Blagoveshchensk are being constructed by the Japanese in Manchukuo, declare New York | Times wireless dispatches from Harbin, Manchukuo, dated | July 27. “Reports of secret construction by Manchukuo and Japan of a railway of tremendous strategic importance in relation to the Russian Maritime Province were confirmed for the first time today by this correspondent.” © This line is being built to run WOMEN ¢ Al I ED . |from Harbin, on the Chinese Eastern Railway, through Si- T0 AUGUST IST |nanchien to the North, right |up to the town of Taheiho, on A TI W AR MEETS the Amur River, which divides N = | Manchukuo from the Union of wew-vbRe otis (Cents ates | Socialist Soviet Republics. utive Committee of the United| The greatest secrecy has sur- Council of Working Class Women |Trounded this war move of Japanese yesterday issued a call to all work- | imperialism. ing class women to come out on Connected with other military the streets August 1 in protest | moves, such as the completion of the against war and hunger, and for) Kirin-Seishin railway branch, which defense of the Soviet Union. |gives the Japanese a shorter and The Council pointed out that not | quicker route for troop movements only will women suffer privations|from Japan to Manchukuo and di- | and the loss of husbands, sons, and | rectly to the Soviet border, the build- | brothers, but that thousands of|ing of the railway to the Soviet | portant role in the next war, work- | ing in munition factories, and that | thousands of them are now being trained to usé rifles in schools and Patriotic organizations. Working class women of New York will meet at 7th Street and Avenue A at 3 p.m. August 1, and march to Union Square. The Anti-Imperialist League calls on its members not only to take part in the August 1 demonstration, but also to meet in front of the Cuban Consulate at 17 Battery Place at 1 p.m., to protest against the Machado reign of terror in Cuba, and to send a delegate to see the Cuban consul, Section 7 of the Communist Party is mobilizing the Porto Rican and Cuban workers of Red Hood district to take part in the demonstration in front of the Cu- ban consulate. In preparation for this demonstration they will hold a demonstration in front of Bor- ough Hall, Brooklyn, at 1i am. PHILADELPHIA, July 28—Under | the pretext of giving jobs, the Public | thousands of collars for a order of ammunition. designated for public works for war! today. The Harlem veterans will hold a Works Administration has agreed to! special demonstration, in prepara- | Japanese give the Philadelphia Arsenal tens of | tion for August 1 today at 8 pm.| United States navy has agreed with special | at Fifth Avenue and 125th Street, | the Chinese naval authorities of Fu~ at which a demand will be made | ‘The arsenal has been working on | for the freedom of Willie Peterson, | 1, 1934, two submarines, six airplanes | part time, but it is now to be worked | disabled Negro war veteran, framed- | and fifteen anti-aircraft guns with on a full-time basis, using money | up and sentenced to death in Ala-| 5,000 rounds of ammunition in ex- bama, find their way out of the present eco- nomic crisis by a new redivision of the world among themselves. Such a redivision of the world markets can be accomplished only through an armed conflict—through War. The entire world, with the excep- tion of the Soviet Union—the land ruled by the workers—is in the deep- est, the longest lasting economic crisis in all its history. The crisis has brought unemployment to the staggering figure of 17,000,000 in the v United States alone. Why is unem- ployment increasing, misery and pov- erty growing in the richest country in the world? Because the factories, mines and mills and other means of production are in the hands of a par- asite capitalist class, and the workers and farmers do not receive enough wages or earnings to buy back the products of their labor. Therefore factories are shut down, workers starve by millions, bankers and in- surance companies foreclose on farms and the farmers who make the food | them will be used to play an im- | border shows the rapid move to war | against the Soviet Union. | on every front, Japanese imperial- ism is preparing for war against the Soviet Union. | In Chahar province, the Japanese, | through their puppet General Feng | Yu Hsiang, are moving closer to |Inner and Outer Mongolia, in order to give Japan a pretext for concen- trating tens of thousands of troops |and hundreds of military bombing | planes for a dash to the Peoples Re- | public of Outer Mongolia, near the | Soviet border. | U.S. Guns, Submarines Are Price of Navy Base TOKIO, July 28—That United | States naval authorities have made | & deal for the purchase of naval sta- tions in Fukien Province, South China, is reported in all. morning | newspapers here today. “Reports reaching certain quarters in Tokio strongly indicate,” say the newspapers, “that the kien Province to deliver before Jan. ' change for Tungshan.” All Out Aug. Ist Against Imperialist War! Every Capitalist Nation Is Preparing For War More Rapidly Than In The Spring of 1914 Before Last World War must go hungry and shelterless; Ne- groes are persecuted, men, women and children are lynched and framed up in order to terrorize and quiet their protests; ex-servicemen who fought in the trenches “for their country” are shot down in Washington for de- manding their back pay as soldiers. Capitalism’s Way Out. But capitalism knows no other way cut—and by its very nature cannot seek any other way out—than: To reduce wages to the starva- tion level. To refuse unemployment relief and social insurance to 17,000,000 starving workers and millions of impoverished farmers. To seize the land of the farm- ers, to rob, lynch, frame up and terrorize Negroes. To steal the back pay of the ex- soldiers, so that bankers will not have to pay heavy taxes. To let mutlti-millionaires stop paying all income tax. To pay out billions of dollars of public funds to bolster up the banks and speculation adventures of the big bank leaders. To heap up taxes upon the shoul- ders of the poor and to relieve the rich of a large part of their taxes. To militarize young unemployed workers in “forestry camps” at $1 per day wage and WAR! The Clash for Markets, At every point in the struggle for markets, America comes into clash with other imperialist powers, espec- ially England. The struggle between the giant Anglo-Saxon imperialist powers is generating war. Already the titanic battle between these two countries for markets is flaming in actual military warfare in South America. The wars between Bolivia and Paraguay, between Colombia and Peru have behind them the fierce and bitter conflict between Great Britain and the United States. The World Economic Conference at London has not solved the bitter con- flicts in the camp of imperialism. Tt has brought out more sharply than since 1914 the acute struggle between the two great imperialist antagonists —Great Britain and the United States—over war debts, over tariffs, currency—the weapons of economia warfare in securing a monopolist po- sition in the fast shrinking market of a declining capitalist world. It is precisely this struggle between the dollar and the pound—England and America—which wrecked the Lon- don Economic Conference and brought the capitalist world nearer (Continued on Page Three) \ won 4 4 \