The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 1, 1933, Page 4

Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co. 13th St., New York City, N. ¥. Tel Address and mail checks to the Daily Worker, Page Four Inc. phone ALgonquin 4 daily except Sunéay, at 0 B 7956. Cable “DATWORK.” 50 KE. 18th St, New York, N, ¥, By Mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3.50; 3 months, $2; 1 month, Te, excepting Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: AUGUST 1, 1938 ew York City. Foreign and $8. 3,000 VOLUNTEERS START | WEEK’S DRIVE FOR HELP TO VICTIMS OF FASCISM Intense Campaign “Needed as Nazi Terror \ Grows, Death Looms for Thaeimann, Torgler, and Other Leaders NEW YORK.—Three hundred and seventy-five organi- zations started out yesterday to carry through an intensive week of protest, defense, and relief for the victims of German Spanish City Paralyzed | By Anti-Fascist Strike PALENCIA, Spain, July 31.—In Protest against the growth of Fascism in this region, the workers | of this city have called a general strike which completely paralyzed business. PRUSSIA ORDERS NAZI CRIMINALS TO BE SET FREE Sympathizers Get Off As Death Is Decreed By Limbach IF anes Committee Pledges Support to Anti-War Congress 90 Organizations, Con Communist, Socialist, Liberal Aid in Preparations NEW YORK.—The promise of several truck-loads of “dirt farmer? | delegates to the coming American Congress against War, to be held in New, | York September 1-4, has been received from the Farmers’ National Com mittee of Action which is supporting the congress. The statement of the Committee, printed in the Farmers’ National fascism. ceived their materials and collection © out on the to meetings stree and throughout New York sted In The anti-fascist drive has enli: the broadest international front addition to he American intellectuals, language orgs in New York has joined in the pe uaels, y-five units of the Commu nist y, 40 branches of the Inter- national Workers Order, many In- ternational Labor Defense branches. 25 Jewish Workers’ Clubs, dozens of workers clubs, the Women’s Councils, dozens of German organizations, and Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Lithuanian Czechoslovakian Finnish, Jugoslav- | jan, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Gr Latin-American and other organiza | tions are at work. | Every anti-war meeting and dem- onstration is also being made into a | rally against fascism. The International Labor Defense yesterday issued a call to its entire | membership to take part in the drive. The Harlem, Bronx, Queens, Browns- | ville, West End sections have already responded. The New York Committee to Aid | the Victims of German Fascism is=\ sued another call today to all work. ets and organizations who have not | already begun the campaign to come | to its headquarters, 75 Fifth Avenue, | Room 5, for boxes, leaflets, buttons, | and other materials. | All anti-fascist week committees of mass organizations and Communist Party units were urged yesterday to | come to the committee offices at 4:30 | today for important work in connec- | tion with the August Ist demonstra- | tion. Every day the danger of murder of | the leaders of the German workers, | Ernst Thaelmann, Ernst Torgler, and organiza- and of Dimitroff, Popoff, Taneff, and hundreds of other Communists in Nazi jails becomes more acute. Tens | of thousands have been tortured, im- | prisoned, exiled, made destitute by the Nazi terror. An uncounted num- | ber have been murdered. The task of supplying relief aca defense for the victims of German | fascism is a gigantic task, which de- | mands all the forces of the interna- | tional working class to meet. | Nazis Parade 300 Jews, With Blows and Insults | | of the two lines, instead of the de- NUREMBERG, Germany, July 31.| —Three hundred Jews arrested in a Nazi round-up on the charge that} they had been meeting secretly, were paraded through the streets of Nu- remburg with blows, abuses and in-| sults by a heavy guard of Storm before being taken to jail. cal newspapers are daily whipping up anti-Semitic sentiment, one having carried yesterday an edi- torial on the suicide of a persecuted Jew, hailing his action and express- ing the hope that all other Jews will follow his example. NAZIS TRUSTIFY yesterday afternoon 3,000 worker volunteers had re- HITLER: OFFICIALS CUT RELIEF TO PAY WALL ST. BANKS Betray All Promises to “Fight Yoke of For- | eign Capital” BERLIN, July 31—Despite the fervent promises of the Nazis to rid Germa of the “yoke of foreign capital,” the State of Prussia has just sent an announcement to the Wall Stret holders of the 6% per cent’ bonds which soon fall due, that | Prussia will make every effort to pay | at least half of the interest due. The payments will be made in American | | dollars. Meanwhile, Hitler's officials in the | Wall Street investors and bank ments in full. If they cannot suc- | ceeded in doing that, they will try|P to pay half in dollars and half in| German credits to be deposited for | the Wall Street investors in German | banks. In order to make possible these payments which run into millions of dollars, the Prussian Government is | destroying the whole system of So-| cial Insurance for the workers, in-| cluding unemployment benefits, sick | and accident benefits, etc. In this way, the Hitler officials are breaking one by one their demo- | gogic promises to “fight the bankers.” BIG SHIP LINES | Allow Free. Hand to Chain Stores BERLIN, July 31—The reorganiza- tion of the Hamburg-American and North German Lloyd Lines, in ac- cordance with Nazi principles, has resulted in much closer integration centralization which Hitler prom- ised in order to win the support of small businessmen who were being ruined by the trend toward monopoly | of Germany’s leading industries. This is one more proof that the| Nazi regime is wholly at the service of Germany's biggest capitalists. | All Nazi commissars have been withdrawn from the one-price and chain stores, which had been the special targets of Nazi attacks before Hitler came to power. | grants | for Poland and Germany alike.” | river traffic treaty, regulating the } For Workers BERLIN, July 31—A_ sweeping amnesty for all Nazi criminals and for all businessmen who violated the, laws “under pressure of economic circumstances” before January 30, when Adolf Hitler came to power, is ordered in a letter sent by Her- mann Goering, Premier of Prussia, to Hans Kerrl, Nazi Minister of Justice. As a complement to the savage sen- | tences, including the death plenalty | for any act in opposition to the Fas- | cist state, which were recently de-| creed, the Nazis have decided to set | free all criminals sympathetic to their | aims, by pardoning those already in| prison, and quashing the proceedings against those now awaiting trial. At the same time the law per-/| mitting the citizenship of all immi- from Eastern Europe since | November, 1919, was published. Only those who served in the Germany army, or distinguishd themselves Pe| “patriotic acts” since, are exempt. No reason need be given by the au- thorities for depriving any citizen of his citizenship. Although the failure to report to| | Prussian government declare to the|the government on all property and/ used their last reserves of energy to who | assets owned abroad by Germans is} hurl stools and water pitchers; con- holds the bonds that they will make | supposed to be punishable by death, | valescents grappled with nurses and every effort to meet the bond pay- | reports indicate that very few cap-| internes at the Callao Hospital here italists are taking the trouble to com- | ply with the law. In order to make | it easier for the capitalists, the gov- | ernment has decreed a general am- nesty for all who have so far failed to make reports, and the final date of reports is set forward again to Au- gust 31. Serious losses to German business | from the anti-Nazi boycott in Mexico is revealed by an official protest which the German government has lodged with the Mexican government. Nazi National Hero Revealed As Traitor VIENA, July. 31. — Albert Leo Schlageter, Nazi hero the anniversary of whose execution by the French in the Ruhr in 1923 was made a na- tional day of Nazi celebration this week betrayed his Berlin employers | and his 12 subordinates when ar- rested for sabotage by the French, acording to an account in the “Ar- beiter Zeiting” here yesterday. The newspaper quotes his state-/| ment to the French court, as fol- | lows: “I went in for this work be- cause I had lost a lot of money in business. My work had nothing more to do with patriotism than had my activities in Danzig, where I worked Soviet, Poland, Sign River Traffic Treaty MOSCOW, July 31—The Soviet Union ard Poland have signed a transit of goods on the Dneister, | Pina and other rivers which run through both countries. This treaty will promote trade relations between the two countries. | Paris today, which said that France | LIMA, swung Peru, their crutches; July 31.—Cripples dying men today so that Eudocio Ravinez, noted Communist leader, and Elias Urteaga, a worker, could make their) escape from the detention ward. The break, which was made pos- sible by this demonstration of work- ing ‘class solidarity, occurred while Ravinez and Urteaga, who had been suffering from tonsilitis, were being taken from their cells to the clinic for treatment. Ravinez was one of the leaders of 3,000 Peruvian workers arrested when the war over Letitia broke out, be- France Had U. S. Aid In Island Seizure NEW YOR, July 31.—France seized seven groups of islands in the China sea last week with the approval of the American State Department, in order to forestall Japanese occupa- tion, according to official French sources: quoted: in dispatches from | had secretly consulted the United) | State sin advance. While Japan is preparing to make | a protest, the Nanking government of China, at the insistence of the Can- ton authorities, is sending. a gunboat to investigate, claiming that the is- lands are long-establihed sChinee territor, according to word from Shanghai. In Washington, State Department authorities claimed ignorance of the whole incident. . SOVIET BUILDS FREIGHT SHIPS LEINGRAD, July 31—The Soviet shipyards have completed and launched ‘five Diesel-motored cargo ships in the past five months, rang- ing from 3,500 to 10,000 tons displace- ment. Eight others are under con- struction. ripples, Invalids, Arrange ‘Peruvian Red Leaders’ Escape cause of their anti-war agitation. | They were first sent unarmed to the front, but later transferred to the “El Fronton” dungeons, which are below water level. Here he led a hunger strike of all 3,000 against the | conditions in the prison. Later, when he was taken to hos- pital, he: was given poison, but was} saved by a nurse who, without know- | ing why he was poisoned, noticed the | symptoms and gave him an emetic. Paraguay Says Chaco Mediation Will Fail) GENEVA, July. 31.—The Paraguay- an government, which cabled to the League of Nations its rejection of the League commission to mediate) in its war with Bolivia over Gran Chaco, in favor of a commission | formed by Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru, has also cabled saying that all efforts at conciliation of the war- ring countries .is bound to fail. At gives ‘as its reason that General Hans Kundt, Gérman-born chief of staff of the Bolivian army, has seiz- ed control of the Boliyian army and | arrogated to himself supreme powers. Paraguay at the same time charg-| ed that General Kundt was prepar- ing to use poison gas in the Para- | guay-Bolivian war. Establish Martial Law SANTIAGO DE CUBA, July 31.— Martial law has been established in this city for the purpose of crush- ing’ Communist workers and school | teachers who yesterday engaged in a ‘great united front demonstration, demanding that the teachers be | given almost a year’s unvaid wages Police who attempted to beat up the demonstrators were disarmed. It was not until regular troops were called from the Moncada barracks that the workers and teachers were dispersed, after many had been wounded and scores arrested. | | nese Questions| and Answers QUESTION: What is the posi- tion of the Communist Party on a boycott of German goods in this country? ANSWER: The boycott of German goods grew out of the mass resent- ment of the Jewish people outside of Germany, and was an unorganized response to fascist attacks on Jews. At first the big Jewish business men fought it, and later gave qualified/ support to the movement, so long as it did not lead to more violent forms of struggle against fascism. ” The Communist Party does not in- itiate the boycott as a struggle against German fascism. The boycott is not | the basic means of struggling against | fascism, though it has its value when it springs from the masses and as- sumes mass proportions. Very often, reformists and some of the Jewish business leaders, propose the boycott in order to lessen other and more effective means of struggling, involv- ing mass organization and the strug- gle of the workers transcending race lines We do not oppose the boycott. Neither do we take the initiative in furthering it. We stress the need for a united front of all elements fight-| ing fascism, through mass pressure, demonstrations, meetings, resolutions and other actions to fight against fascism. If the boycott assumes mass proportions we will support it, point-| ing out its limitations, and attempting to organize the anti-fascist sentiment | that is expressed in the boycott into) more powerful forms of struggle and organization. In China, when the masses took up a nationwide boycott against Japa- goods, the Communist Party | supported the boycott, but proposed | more revolutionary means for resist- | ance to Japanese imperialism. They) called for the arming of the entire population and the declaration of a peoples’ revolutionary war. So far as * SYRIA | French government has ~~~—=® Weekly, in endorsing the congress, FRENCH APPOINT BUTCHER ‘TO RULE MOROCCO | era Tribes Make War Against French Domination PARIS, Suly. 31.— Preparing to | crush the uprisings of the Moroceoan | | tribes who in the past months have | | increased their armed struggles French domination, the appointed Auguste @Henry Ponsot, Resident- General of Morrocco to succeed Lu- cien Saint. agains3 says in part: “We take this action, because we ‘vealize that the greed of Wall Street | for profits is fast driving this coun- try into an imperialist war as eae and as destructive as the world war. We know that the United States government while declaring its ‘peaceful intentions’ prepares for | war . | “We know further that these wars | cannot be prevented merely by us as | individuals, objecting to them. They |can be prevented only by the or- ganized and united might of the majority of workers and farmers in this country.” This statement of the farmers is | signed by Lem Harris, executive sec- yetary of the Farmers’ National Com- Mittee for Action. The committee has joined with | fifty other organizations in endorsing | this congress. Donald Henderson, | the fight against French imperialism. | labor, Ponsot, who is younger than the | secretary of the arrangements com- retiring Resident-General, has had| mittee for the congress reports that lon gexperience directing the bom-| the widest united front in the his- bardment of native tribes in Syria to | tory of the American labor movement insure French oppression, {bas been set up to support the con- Moroccan tribes around Rabat and | gress. Casablanca have been increasing} Communists, socialists, liberals and their struggles, rallying new forces to | pacifists from groups representing unemployed, veteran, Negro Authorities here admit that the |and farmers’ groups, have endorsed anti-imperialist wars are growing | the congress and are active in prep- and it is not easy for the French*to | aration for it. The Purposes of the Congress. put them down. The Arabs from the tribes of the Haddidon and Ait Mvg- | krane have sworn to fight to the last | man to end French domination. They are holding the high valleys situated at an altitude of about 10,000 feet, | notably those of the Melloui River | and the Tilmi. The French are building special military roads in order to defeat the uprising and to prevent it from spreading to all of Morocco. French Financiers to Invest Biilion Frances to Exploit Manchukuo TOKYO, July 31—French finan- | ciers are preparing to invest a bil- lion francs (curently $53,000,000) \in | the exploitation of Manchukuo, it was anounced here today by the newly-formed Franco-Japanese As- sociation, a group composed of the Paris National Asociation for Econ- omic Expansion and of Japanese financiers. The Tokyo press is hailing this announcement as further proof of French approval of Japan’s occupa- ion of Manchukuo, although the French government is covering up its interest by not recognizing the Japanese-controlled pullet govern- ment of Manchukuo, the workers to form their own com- mittees to see,it was carried out and to seize Japanese gi them among the une! iployed. When | the boycott began to lead to violent struggles, reformists who had sup- ported it, and in some places initiated the boycott is concerned, they urged | it, quickly dropped the boycott. and distribute | The American Congress Against War will be a mass congress of dele- gates from workers’ organizations and | especially from the basic sections of American industry; from the farms end from the Civil Conservation | Camps. Donald Henderson, who is also | executive secretary of the American Committee for the Struggle Against War, points out three concrete ob- Jectives of this congress. First, must be the forwarding of the broadest possible unity in the |struggle against war. The united front that has been established in the preparation for the congress must | be continued and strengthened in the day to day struggles after the congress. The congress has as its sécond task |the establishing of. a mass base of support among the workers and farmers for the program laid down at the Amsterdam Congress Against War, held last year. Most important of all must be the active work of the delegates attend- ing the congress to work out and car- ry out a program of every day re- lentless struggle against war prep- arations, a struggle centered in the basic war and transport industries of the country. The present indications are that hundreds of delegates of different political beliefs will be present fram |many sections of the country pre- ; pared to face the problems of the | fight against the growing war prep- arations of the imperialists. Go to see every subscriber when his subscription expires to get his re- newal, SOCIALIST PARTY TELLS WORKERS NOT TO Meee ROOSEVELT’S SLAVERY ACT No Matter What the Risks or Dangers, They | Say the Workers Should Do Nothing | To Prevent Rooseyvelt’s Plan IO better example of ho how the sociatis | | | $ adapt their policies to suit the needs of the financial oligarchy in striving to get out of the crisis by a sharp offensive against the workers can be seen than in the Socialist Party’s support of the National Industrial “Recovery” Act. When rationalization, speed-up, first began in the post war period, the socialists urged the workers to support it, showing it led (if properly Managed) to “industrial democracy”. crisis they say leads to “industrial democracy”. | | | Now the Roosevelt way out of thé Every move that drives | workers into starvation is supported by the socialists, | The “critical” attitude of the socialists to the slavery act is so thin it cannot even hide their strikebreaking tactics, their appeals to the workers not to struggle against the bosses or against the A. F. of L. strike- dreaking policies. For example, take the following quotation from a Special article on the industrial recovery act appearing in the latest issue of the socialist “New Leader”, July 29, by Joseph E. Cohen. | “Whatever risk is run in banking too much upon this effort to place industry upon an even foundation (through the NIRA), | much more danger lies in trying to hamper its tryout.” HILLQUIT Fermi Drum Up War Spirit Saying “Our Country Will Lead the World;” Capitalism Is No More An Exploiter, Says New Leader called laissez-faire, what the forgotten Hoover called Rugged In- dividualism, and what Donald R. Richberg called Gold-plated Anarchy, is a system as extinct as the Roman Empire.” By this one paragraph, in one the workers that capitalism has changed its whole basis. exploiting system that it used to be. It has reformed into. the grabbing, a beautiful thing. Anarchy will be wiped out. Unemployment doesn’t exist any longer. past. full swoop the socialists seek to tell It is no longer Crises are a thing of the Roosevelt has transformed capitalism into an orderly thing, that holds boundless blessings for the workers. What should the workers do about it? Be quiet and let Roose- velt continue to shackle his chains around their necks. ‘The same editorial says: “The rules of the unions are being changed to meet present co. itions. The army of labor is on the march!” . * * | as A. F. of L. has changed its policy to conform to the company union , idea to help the bosses in the basic industries, and the socialists call ‘labor on the march!” Yes, “labor is on the march”, wagon, shackled to the slavery code, this the slave conditions that the bosses are @rying to impose. but not behind the boi abigern= f It is on the march struggling “Labor is on ES, say, the socialists, there are dangers in the Roosevelt program. But it is more dangerous to oppose it. It is more dangerous to strike for higher wages, or ‘struggle for unemployment insurance. It is better to try out Roosevelt's brand of starvation, it is better to permit the big trusts to shackle the workers through slavery codes and company unions. Compare this socialists’ appeal to the workers to refrain from strugg- ling with the following from Roosevelt's radio speech: “While we are making this great common effort, there should be no discord and dispute, This Is no time to cavil or to question the standard set by this universal agreement. It is time for pa- tience and understanding and cooperation . . .no aggression is now necessary .. .” This threat against struggles by the workers, this iron fist behind the demagogic promises, the socialists support by appealing to the work- ers to risk starvation in order not “to hamper its tryout’. Certainly, Roosevelt could ask no ged from his a a in the Socialist Party. T to the socialist history of supporting the war plans of the ex- ploiters—war against the workers as well as an imperialist war or an attack on the Soviet Union—the American socialists are now preparing fo support the Roosevelt war program by praising the aims of the Na- tional Industrial Recovery Act. “Heeding the letter and spirit of the act we shall enjoy the near- _ est approach yet made in any country to have industry serve the nation.” ,. You would expect General Johnson to say this, or Secretary of the Navy Swanson, with $300,000,000 at his disposal for warship building, 4 | Or perhaps, William F. Green of ay ‘American Federation of Labor would be expected to say it. * * * (oO. This and much more is said by the socialists. The particular quo- tation given above comes from the above mentioned article in the Socialist New Leader of July 29th, by Joseph E. Cohen, entitled: “If we heed the spirit of NIRA we approach a real solution.” Roosevelt in his radio speech threatening the workers if they strike is not more gushing about what the workers may expect from General Johnson, Gerard Swope, of the General Electric (Morgan-controlled) and the other administrators of the act. “The National Industrial Recovery Act,” says this socialist, “may be cited as tending to A comatinytbeny of industrial democracy.” ITH the capitalists admitting that the act follows fascist forms, with David Lawrence of the New York Sun, saying it will lead the gov- ernment to breaking strikes by providing scabs to concerns who are under the code, and by using every agency of the government to prevent and stop struggles for higher wages, it is left to the socialists to tell the workers they are getting “industrial democracy.” Not content with this, the socialists support the avowed war program of Roosevelt, actually gloat about the national chauvinism he is insti- gating through his wartime propaganda machinery. “This, in fact, is what our country is doing again to lead the world.” “Our country’—the country of 17,000,000 starving unemployed, the country of the gredtest war preparations since the last world war, country of murderous attacks against the workers—‘Our country” is’ “to lead the , sem ones is the language of Wall Street in preparing for colonial plunder. It is the language of the socialists who supported the masters in the last world ‘war. “It is the language that every supporter of the slave- holders uses to arouse the workers under the guise of patriotism to be slaughtered for the bloodsuckers. ‘What better support could Roosevelt expect from the socialists for his program of the great, offensive against the workers than such war Propaganda? © But the socialists go still further. Mr. Cohen says: “As the fight against the depression is won, as economic chaos is made to yield ground to order, as industrial democracy is achieved, as unknown factors in national problems become known, nearer grows the certainty that international aqcord and enduring better- ment will be secured.” The socialists promise a capitalism without crisis, without chaos, a capitalism of order, ready to meet its competitors in war, and enduring unshakably. . 'S rotten propaganda that fits in perfectly with the war preparations of Wall Street is not an isolated instance in socialist appeals to the workers, From the very beginning the socialists have told the workers there are golden opportunities in the slavery act for the workers. In a front page editorial of the same issue of the New Leader there is the following paragraph: AG reek Moat Semmes haunt The system of un- bridled competition, of Every Man for Himself and the Devil Take the Hindmost, can never return. What the classical economists the march”, as in Pennsylvania, against the wishes of Roosevelt, the A. F. of L. and the socialists. “Join your unions, and build thom up!” they urge. “Do not permit yourselves to be divided on any issuc!” No matter if the bosses slash wages and the ‘A. F. of L. supporta them, “do not permit yourselves to ke divided on any issue!” ‘When the A. F. of L, leadership accepts a slave code, when they connive with the bosses to smash strikes, the socialists do not want the workers to divide with their leaders, but to present a sclid neck to the Roosevelt yoke. No matter how sharp the attacks of the bosses, don’t resist, don’t form your own struggle committees, don’t form united fronts of struggle around concrete, burning demands, affecting the workers’ life. On the eve of a new imperialist war, the Socialist Party of the United States is doing all it can to help the bosses by drumming up a chauvinist spirit behind the Roosevelt slave and war program. It calls on the workers to submit to the A. F. of L. scab policy of A. F. of L.-label company unions. It agrees with Roosevelt that there is a “new order”, and that the workers should not struggle to upset it. The value of the socialists’ propaganda to the capitalists is that 1% attempts to lead the militant minded workers into the swamp of the Roosevelt program. Many honest workers may be fooled by the soci alist arguments, and it is against this danger that we must direct our - efforts. At every opportunity the real purpose of the socialists support ta Roosevelt should be pointed out. Against the socialist and A, F. of L. “critical policy” of support, we should put forward the program of straggle, of united front against the wage slashing and starvation pro- gram of Roosevelt, and develop the struggle which Roosevelt and the socie alists seek, do avoid so that capitalism may benefit at the expense of the workers.