The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 5, 1933, Page 6

Published by the Comprodatiy Publishing Oe.. Inc. dulty except Sunday, at M0 8. 1oth Bt., New York City, NW. ¥. Telephone ALge: Attdrees and mat! checks to the Daily Werker, 5¢ E. 18th St., New York, N. ¥. nin 4-756. Cable “DATWORK.” ‘Det Canada: SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3.50; 3 months, 32; } month, %, ATIGUST 5, 1938 excepting Borough ef Manhatian and Bronx, New York City. Foreign and One year, $9; 6 months, $5; 8 months, 38, “The working class will be in a position to fulfill its role as the most decisive class in the struggle against finance capital, as the leader of the toiling masses, only if it is headed by a Communist Party which is closely bound up with the decisive strata of the workers.”-- From The Open Letter WARRANT OUT FOR DYING EX-SERVICEMAN, VICTIM. OF AUGUST 1 SLUGGING LL.D. Leads Mass Protest—5,000 Demonstrate in Cleveland—1,000 in Youngstown— Morganstown Speaker Jailed WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—Near death in Gallinger Municipal hospital | from a slugging received for distributing anti-war leaflets in Arlington | cemetery on the morning of August 1, William Hockstra, ex-serviceman, is faced with a warrant of arrest for assault. The International Labor Defense investigation of the police station blotter shows t s a erintendent of the c first ine , Federal Sts. | Neer | | tended to swear out UB 5 Sip tnt este St | the arrest of Edward Beaver, the| GREENSBURG, Pa.—Well over 800| “IT IS HARD TO FIND EVIDENCE OF SPYING IN THE STEEL INDUSTRY” — Miss Perkins by Limbach Socialist Party Withdraws from — Anti-War Body Robert Minor Exposes Reasons for Sudden Attack on U. S.Congress by S. P. Executive Committee Men NEW YORK.—At last night's meeting of the agreements C3eaunities for the United States Congress Against War, the official representatives of the Socialist Party’s National Committee, Edward Levinson and Julius Gerber, announced the withdrawal of the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party from the Anti-War Congress. | = “= -Sadequate opportunity to take the is- | |sue up, the two members of the ‘FRANCE CHARGES |‘Socialist Committee empowered to }aect for the N.E.C. submitted a doc- guard who slugged him, but decided| employed and unemployed workers, to ask for the arrest of Hockstra instead when he found out that he was dangerously injured Mass indoor and outdoor meetings of protest have been called by the ILD for tomorrow at the Tenants and Unemployed League headquarters. Intense indignation has been aroused among the workers of Washington Not only did the cemetery authori- | ties attempt to whitewash Beaver by| calling for the arrest of Hockstra in- stead of him; they have also forced employees at the cemetery to sign davits that Hockstra» struck| International Labor Defense} has eye-witnesses to prove that it) was Beaver who struck. The I. L. D.) has sent a delegation to the District Attorney demanding Beaver’s arrest. | The Arlington officials sent Hock- stra to hospital without saying what had happened, and he was treated for sunstroke for 24 hours before Dr.) Kerr, a private physician, made an) examination and found that he had a fractured skull and concussion of the| ain. He is not expected to live. | Hockstra was a member of the| Unemployed Council, and of the So- cfalist. Party | was one of many Washington | workers who distributed leaflets call- | ing for an August 1st anti-war dem-| onstration despite the fact that the Police had refused a permit. The permit was granted at the last | minute, and several hundred Negro) | and National Guardsmen swarming | ried through an enthusiastic anti- including many young workers, took part in an anti-war demonstration in Greensburg on July 31, under the auspices of the Unemployed Council and the Communist Party of West- moreland County. Greensburg is in| the heart of the coal strike area, with | more mines coming out every day, over the whole field. cae ear Speaker Arrested MORGANTOWN, W. Va.—Despite the arrest of John Keith, Y. C. L. speaker, workers of Morgantown car- war rally on August 1. A delegation from the demonstration forced the} sheriff to release Keith almost im-| mediately. PERKINS Pee Ww N. Y. FINANCIER VISITS HITLER Bank Director Meets 74 ANTI-HITLER STRIKERS JAILED; SEVEN ACQUITTED Aetion ‘Against Nazis’ | Accession Brings | Prison Terms STUTTGART, Aug. 4.—Seventy- | With Dictator BERCHTESGADEN, Bavaria, Aug. 4.—Sosthenes Behn, a director of the National City Bank of New York, has had a meeting here with Adolf Hitler, who is taking # vacation on | | | Red Flag Flies Over Bulgarians at Fair Anti-Fascist Leaflets Fly as Nationalists Cele-| brate at “Century of Progress” | CHICAGO, Awg. 3.—As the Bulgarian national anthem began to re- sound in the Hall of Science of the “Century of Progress” fair on Bul- garian Day, an immense red flag with the slogan “Long Live Soviet Bul- | garia” was unfurled above the -speakers’ stand, and thousands of leaflets | 10,000 DROWN IN CHINESE FLOODS 200 Villages Destroyed As Dykes Break SHANGHAI, Aug. 4. — Dispatches | from Sian, capital of Shensi Prov- ince report that 10,000 have been drowned and a like number“ made homeless by floods along the Chang GERMAN ARMING ON LARGE SCALE Workers Also Report Widespread War Preparations LONDON, Aug. 4.—The French government is preparing to present | to the League of Nations a complete brief to prove that Germany is sec- tetly manufacturing arms on a large scale, according to the London | “Daily Herald.” | Among the charges France will |make is that Premier Hermann Goe- ting of Prussia gave $12,500,000 to a Bavarian motor factory to manu- facture airplane engines. Another factory was subsidized to construct wells in which engines can be sec- retly stored. | Several chemical firms are con- structing laboratories for. the man> ufacture of poison gas, and arma-, ment factories in two countries ad- jacent to Germany are building heavy guns for Germany, according to this report. ©) e. BERLIN, August 4.—Workers’ | correspondence from German fac- {ument attacking the Congress and urging other organizations to stay away. The ostensible reason given |for their. withdrawal was the crit- icism levelled at the Socialist lead- | failure against to carry on a_ struggle war and specifically for demonstrations on August 1st. Robert Minor, Communist Party representative to the Arrangements Committee, pointed out that the real reasons for the breaking of the | united front were not honestly given in the S. P. leader’s statement. ecutive Committee of the N. Y, lo- cal of the Socialist Party which urged withdrawal from the Congress on July 22 because the Second In- ternational had instructed all So- cialists to boycott such Congresses Against War. This letter signed by eBla Low, Algernon Lee and Jack Altman, for the Socialist Party also stated that “regardless of whether the conditions laid down for the united front were fulfilled or not we urge immediate withdrawal from the Congress.” It was also pointed out that up to. date not one single copy of the call to the Anto-War Congress had been sent out by the National Of- fice of the Socialist Party and noth- ing had been done in New York City by the Socialist local to support the Congress. and white workers demonstrated a|four of the 81 Mossingen workers stone’s throw from the Capitol. Many|on trial for taking part in the gen- the Salzberg. Henry Mann, resident vice-presi- attacking fascism rained from the highest towers of the exhibition. River, in North Central China. Dikes near San Yuan, north of | tories give precise details of Ger- many’s war preparations. of Donald Henderson, Secretary government employes took part in the | demonstration. The militancy of the workers prevented the police from earrying through several attempts to disturb the meeting. Rik wae CLEVELAND, 0. — Following 2/ “New Deal” parade sponsored by Mayor Miller and the Chamber of| Commerce to ballyhoo the National} Recovery Act, attended by about) 5,000, plus the police and fire depart- ments, 1,500 workers of Cleveland held their own parade and anti-war demonstration. In sharp contrast to the ballyhoo parade of the bosses, the three col- umns of the workers’ parade, in which many Negroes took part,| showed a high enthusiasm, despite | the fact that rain began to fall just | before the demonstration began. Speakers exposed the N. R. A. which | had been touted so highly a short time before by the mayor and the chamber of commerce. YOUNGSTOWN, O.—Close to 1,000 steel workers took part in the Au-| gust First demonstration at Wall and! dent for. Germany of the New York |bank, accompanied him. No an- nouncement was made as to the result of the conversations between the New York financier and the fas- cist dictator. eral strike against Hitler’s acces- sion to power on January 31 were sentenced to imprisonment for three months to a year. Seven were ac- quitted. They had organized a general po- litical strike and demonstration at the call of the Communist Party on | the day after Hitler became chan-| cellor. The Social Democratic lead- | ers rejected the invitation of the| Communists to take part in a na-| UNIT GO) RE tional strike protest against Fas-| |Regiment Hoists Red Flag in 2 Towns SHANGHAI, Aug. 4—A regiment of troops in the Shensi province mutinied yesterday and hoisted the red flag over the towns of Yaohsien and Sansui, against sharp resistance cism. British Vickers Agent! Expelled from Turkey ISTABUL, Turkey, Aug. Antone days after his return to Turkey from London, A. V. Lander, agent | Which resulted in many deaths, of Vickers-Armstrong, Ltd., in Tur-| They started out for the Soviet key, has been expelled from the! territory of Szechwan province, pur- country. sued by five regiments of regulars. |French Teachers to Strike Against Plan to Slash Their Pay PARIS, Aug. 4—In a hall draped with red flags, the teachers of ‘the French secondary schools meeting in @ national congress, decided to carry out a half-hour protest strike on the day that parliament meets. Militant action prevented the pro- posed cuts in teachers’ pay at the last session, but the new budget now being prepared for October provides for cuts up to 15 per cent. Declaring that the interests of schol teachers were identical with those of the working class, the teach- ers demanded reduction of military expenditures to meet the school bud- get, and pledged themselves to fight against the Daladier government. So ‘well was the job carried out by the Chicago workers that it was im- possible to stop the demonstration. As soon as the leaflets began to fly, other workers passed through the audience handing out more leaflets. So frightened were the Bulgarian nationalists who were conducting the event that they did not dare mount to the balcony and untie the red flag. They sent up two. boys, but the workers recaptured the flag at once, Two of the workers who had thrown leaflets from the tower were arrested, ‘but they were later re- leased. Week Under the leadership of the Bul- garian Bureau of the Communist Party, a mass meeting was held the same evening in the Greek Workers Club, at which two of the sympathiz- ers who had participated in the anti- Fascist demonstration joined the Party. Sian collapsed. Two hundred vil- lages were destroyed. ‘Build 2 Armories With Relief Funds (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—Under the guise of public works two armories are now being built in the borough of Queens. A National Guard Armory is -being built in Jamaica and an armory for the Naval Militia in. Whitestone, LI. _ The Whitestone armory is being built wholly out of relief funds, the work being done by relief workers. While the skilled mechanics work at union wages, they are allowed by the relief funds. Engineers and architects, also hired through the re- lief, must work the ‘full month to receive their eighty dollars, Tanks are being manufactured by the Vogtlandische Maschinenfabrik in Halle; Vomag~in Plauen, Saxony; Lincke Hoffman Works in Breslau; Daimlerenz in Mannheim. Airplane motors are being manu- factured in the BMW Works in Ba- varia, and by the Siemens works. ufacturing a special carburetor for pursuit planes and has added 80 men for this work. The Berlin Schwartzkopff Works is manufacturing 12 c.m. shells and the Deutsche Werke in Spandau is manufacturing munitions. High explosives are being manu- factured by the Piesteritz Chemical Works, near Wittenberg, were 4,000 workers are employed, Poison gas is being manufactured in the Von Heyden chemical works in Radebeul, near Dresden, in the Billwaerder works in Hamburg, -in the Schering Kahlbaum factory in Billbrook in the Gehe & Co. works in Dresden, and in a number of the large plants of the Dye Trust. The SUM factory in Berlin is man-" ‘}the Arrangements Committee, re- ported that in many cities through- out the country Socialist branches ‘were cooperating in support of the Anti-War Congress, though in Washington, Philadelphia, and oth- ers, local Socialist leaders had re- fused to act pending information from their National Office. The Arrangements Committee un- animously adopted a resolution urg- ing all supporters of the Congress, and capeciatly Socialists throughout the country to redouble their efforts in support of the Congress and for the election of delegates. Japanese Firm Claims Islands France Seized TOKIO, Aug. 3—Japanese .capl- talists have demanded that the gov- ernment file claims with the French government over France's recent seizure of seven groups of islands in the South China Sea, between French Indo-China and the Philip- pine Islands, What Can We Do on the Occasion of the Anniversary of the Communist Party? Open Letter Shows Way to Overcome Weakness and’ Firmly Establish Party Among Workers in Decisive Industries By JAOK STACHEL. N September first, the Party will begin its fifteenth year of existence and activity. This is an important event. It is a victory for our Party and the entire working class. During these years our Party went through many trials and hardships. Its very existence was threat- ened by the enemies both from without and also from within—foreign elements that made their influence felt in the life and work of the Party. During these years our Party went through a period of illegality from which it emerged only because it became better rooted among the mas- ses. Our Party cleansed itself of the opportunist Loreite, Lovestoneite and Cannon-Trotskyite elements. Our Party has despite its numerical and political weaknesses already won the right to call itself the vanguard not only because of the fact that it stands on the line of the world vanguard —the Communist International—but also because of its leadership of the struggles of the oppressed toiling masses. WE ARE ABLE TO GROW INTO A MASS PARTY. Our Party jp still isolated from the large masses of the American dines. Wepecially is our Party still weak among the workers in the basic industries, among the native workers. Our Party is becoming fully conscious of this situation and is taking steps to solve its problems. ‘This becomes a very immediate and pressing task in the light of the | developing objective situation, and at the same time this objective situ- creates the most favorable conditions for our Party becoming really rooted in the basic industries, It was with this purpose the recent Extraordinary Party Conference discussed these addressed an open letter to the Party. But our Party has confidence in the ability of the membership and the support of the class in overcoming these weaknesses, and bullding and strength- only party of the working class, and ts not afraid to expose weaknesses before the masses. _ PARTY HISTORY. ‘The Party fully shares the confidence expressed by the General Secre- of our Party, Comrade Browder, who in his report to the Party Con- : it “Has the Party the necessary forces within ttself to establish contacts with the masses and transform itself into a Bolshevik mass Party? Of course, we can do it. With all its weaknesses we have a Party which is proletarian in composition, which is composed of the most loyal, devoted, energetic and enthusiastic elements, who are realy the vanguard of the American proletariat.” ‘ ~ Bi ‘The Open Letter to the membership laid down very definite tasks that we must all bend our energies to carry thus in the coming months. We shall try to involve not only the entire Party but the working class generally in the carrying through of these tasks. We shall continue to expose our weaknesses openly before the workers. We shall also report every step forward that we make. In the carrying through of these tasks we shall on the one hand do this with pride in the fact that our Party is now entering the fifteenth year of its existence. But at the same time we shall be fully conscious of the age of our Party and try to turn the dissatisfaction we all feel because of the slow progress we are making, into an enthusiastic carrying through of our ‘tasks. And in this connection it is necessary for us to acquaint the membership of our Party, the majority of whom have not gone through the fifteen years of experience of our Party, with the history of our Party. We must also bring the history and traditions of our Party to the non-party masses. , We gain strength and confidence in our ability to solve the difficult problems of our Party at presént in the study of the struggles and ex- periences of our Party. .As a result of this study, we shall hold on to the best established traditions of our Party, the loyalty of our member- ship and the cadres to the Comintern, and at the same time root out all the sectarian social democratic remnants that still press down upon us. SOME] PRELIMINARY BUT BURNING TASKS. In this short article we donot wish to take up the numerous prob- lems that were raised in the Open Letter. This will be done in separate articles that will appear, by the various leading comrades, by the rank and file members and by workers who are also invited to participate in the discussions of these problems. Here we wish to raise some things which can be done IMMEDIATELY and which will be the best way in which to celebrate the Party anniversary both on the part of the membership of the Party, and the non-Party workers who are close to our Party and who follow its work. ‘We would propose that we undertake in the next few weeks to achieve the following: 1. Bring every Party member who is working in the industries, em- ployed or unemployed, into the trade unions. 2. To increase the membership of the ‘Party by immediately bringing in those sympathizers who for one reason or another have thus far not been brought into the Party. To increase the circulation of the Daily Worker. ‘Fo raise contributions to the Party Fund so that our Party, which is on the one hand faced with increasing tasks and on the other hand birt decreasing income, will not be hampered in the carrying through While these are not the fundamental tasks that are raised in the 3. 4 work—the leadership of the economic str Cea struggles and the building of the EVERY MEMBER OF THE PARTY INTO THE TRADE UNIONS. Perhaps not more.than 40 percent of the membership of thy is at present in the trade unions, either TUL. or AF. of L. a aad beni brea ot even of this number only a portion are actually activities to the building of trade union oppositions. : ne pings ee coneee It should be c:car to every Party member that without involving the entire, membership of the Party.in the work of the trade sear ie will not be able to take full advantage of the present rising struggles of the workers, to lead these struggles, to raise them to a higher level, to de- feat the strike-breaking activity ofthe reformist leaders, to defeat the Roosevelt slavery program, to strengthen our unions. -All Party organi- zations, and all Party members if they took this question up with: the necessary seriousness could by the time of the Anniversary of the Party, at least double the number of Party members now in ,the trade unions, PARTY RECRUITMENT Our Party membership, at present, is around twenty thousand. But aside from our fundamental task of making contacts with and winning the most advanced workers in the most decisive industries for the Party, there are tens of thousands of workers in ‘our trade unions, fraternal organizations, readers of our press, unemployed organizations, who are ready to become members of our Party. They remain out- side because we do not approach them. In some cases we have even created the impression among them, that they are not wanted. In other cases we have allowed false conceptions to prevail as to who can be a member of the Party and what is expected from a Party member. Our Party and these workers can best honor the Party on the occasion of its anniversary, by bringing these workers into our Party. If each nucleus in every factory, if each unit in every neighborhood and especially each fraction in the trade uaions, the unemployed coun- cils, and the workers fraternal organizations, were but to give little attention to this task, we could with ease DOUBLE THE MEMBER- SHIP OF OUR PARTY. What do we find in any of the unions affiliated with the TU.UL? Only a small percentage of the workers belong to: the Party. These workers as a rule came to the Party without any assistance of the Party comrades who are active in the trade unions. The Party Committees should at once take steps to organize the meetings of the fractions tc take up this question and to arrange for meetings at which leading comrades of the unions and the Party Committees should appear and frankly take up with these workers their membership in the Party. CIRCULATION OF THE DAILY WORKER The circulation of the Dally Worker is not much larger than the Tells Need of All Party Members Joining Trade Unions to Lead Every Day Struggles of. Workers; Urges Building Daily Worker ey membership ofthe Party. This {s something which should shame every one of us. Can this be changed? Cértainly. ‘We do not deny that the Daily Worker can and must. be improved in its contents. But aside from this, the Daily Worker today is a paper that we can be proud to bring to~the workers. And furthermore, the very improvement of the contents of the Daily Worker cannot be ace ecmplished without simultaneously increasing its circulation among the various decisive strata of the working class. Without creating a spirit of love and devotion to the Daily Worker we will not pay the ne@s- sary attention to its contents. aa Steps are now being taken not -only to improve the ‘contents of the paper, but also to change to 6 pages daily and 8 pages on Saturday. There are also plans for the building of the circulation, We are for this purpose organizing the DAILY’ WORKER VOLUNTEERS so that we'can create a body of builders for the Daily Worker. In celebrating the anniversary of the Party we can do a great deal in taking up the building of the circulation of the Daily Worker—the central organ of the Communist Party. We must all’bear in mind that only by doubling the circulation will we be able to Stand the increasing cost of the 6 and 8 page paper. » \ sit PARTY FUND 0 The Party has seldom appealed ‘to the workers for financial support, except on special occasion, as for instance, the election campaign. The Party tried to live within its meatis,"and to make ends meet thru the membership dues and other small ‘donations from sympathizers and sympsthetic organizations. But atprésent, our dues income js decreas- ing because of mass unemployment. and part time work. Secondly, many of the previous donations-are. also decreasing in number and in amounts. But at the same time.thé Party is called upon to_assist its weaker organizations in the South, in the mining feld, ete, ~ The Party at the present time is making efforts to penetrate among the steel workers, marine workers.and other basic industries and where some assistance must be given to the young struggling organizations. And finally, we are about to reorganize the dues system whereby the greater portion of the funds will remain with the lower party organiza- tions. This is necessary in order to develop more initiative from below, to build on a more solid foundation. Because of these factors, the Party in reaching out for financial support has only one recourse—to go to. the working class. In connection with the Party Anniversary we are organizing meetings and special collections for the Party. We hope that the workers will give their suppor* ' e . is to ir a Without giving the Arrangements Committee advance notice and ers in the Daily Worker for their - their refusal to cooperate in the ° Minor then read a letter by the Ex- |