The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 7, 1933, Page 4

a aa lem woe Tags RE Ree rm Page Four Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co 18th St., New York City, N.Y Address and mail checks to the Daily Worker Telephone ALgonquin 4-7956. Ine, daily exeept Sunésy, at 50 B. Cable “DAIWORK.” , 50 E, 13th St., New York, N. ¥. Leaflets on Sight Fascists Devise New Terror Method -Plan to Build War Base in East Prussia — Powers to Pro test Rearming | | BERLIN, Ang. 6.—Made desperate by the constantly increased circu- | jation of Communist newspapers, mag: Goering of Prussia has ordered the police of Berlin to shoot literature dis- tributors on sight. Several distributors were arreste following day “in an unguarded moment he jump- ed out of a window.” Comnuunists Storm Troopers e'eshed in Dort: nd, where a Nazi was wounded in the arm. In retali- State police arrested ation ving in the neighborhood held ennounced they 1 be 0: woul tages. police announced that i d to get the distributors of Bt and Communist par would seize hostages from among the workers in the neighborhood Mass raids, in which whole city locks were surrounded, have been tried out in Nuremberg and other Democratic azines, and leaflets, Premier Hermann d Friday night. One was dead the The police said thate- - 'ANTI-FASCIST TAG DAYS PLANNED IN MANY U. S. CITIES Today Is ‘Last Day of | Week’s Drive In New York j NEW YORK tions for ictims of cial tag-days mse and relief scism have Labor for | fense , Buffalo, and one of the Social) and Milwav ed t Democrats who abjectly voted to sup-| day by the na office of the or- port Hitler at the last session of anization. Reichstag, has been put in the con- centration camp at Bresicu | This camp is commanded by the| notorious murderer, Edmund Heines,| who was once sentenced to 15 years| for killing two suspected traitor) members of the “Black Reichswehr,” the one-time illegal secret German} army. To Make East Prussia War Base KOENIGSBERG, Aug. 6.—In pre- paration for Germany’s coming at- tack cn the Soviet Union, East Prus-| sia is to be indusirialized, and 1,-| 500,000 Germans brought there from other sections to colonize it. | The Nazis have announced a broad plan of combining industry with ag-| Ticulture in this easternmost section of Germany, which is cut off from the body of the country by the Polish| corridor, and is an agricultural re-} gion of big Junker estates. It has a| population of only 2,000,000. The} Nazis propose to increase the popula- tion by 75 per cent, and to root new industries here. Rearming To Be Protested LONDON, Aug. 6. — Following a Joint protest by the British, French and Italian ambassadors against the continued propagenda raids of the Nazis over Austria, Great Britain and France are preparing a joint protest over Germany's secret re- arming in violation of the Versailles treaty. Broad hints are being made in| London that the governments will) consider the reapplication of “sanc- tions,” that is to say, punitive meas- ures Communists Raided in Brazil; 20 Are Taken RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 6.—Police in Sao Paulo province raided all Communist headquarters, arresting twenty. Some of the arrested are to be deported, the others have been rushed to the Brazilian penal colony on Procos Island. SPARKS FROM Reno, Nevada, comes the great news that all gambling joints have joined in with Roose- Velt’s news industry codes. And it works out there in the same way it works anywhere else. Says the press despatch: “Hourly wages were increased, but the total monthly Wage of each employee will be less.” All that is needed to make the picture complete is a statement from Norman Thomas and the New Lead- er hailing the acceptance of the “planning principle’ by the gambl- ing joints as a “step toward so- cialism.” JT will be remembered that Engels in a famous passage in. “So- clalism Utopian and Scientific” rips that kind of Socialists to pieces, sug- gesting that they might look upon the system of mfnicipally operated brothels as Socialism. We wonder if Norman Thomas has ever read that passage. It fits him so nicely. The gambling joints and the “New Deal” .. . there are some neat cracks buried away in the putting together of these words. ‘How about some contributions. . . some copy puns... on the subject? * : . And to demonstrate the basic blood kinship between “our” govern- | ment and the Fascist’ rule in Ger- Many, comes the news that Hitler has legalized gambling houses as part of his employment. program, . 8 8 So both governments seem to have similar notions of getting out of the crisis. And why shouldn’t they? They are both capitalist govern- ments, aren't they? Crea Ry | “Planned economy” in gambling joints. Ah! Capitalist culture! The “brain trust!” [AVE you noticed how remarkably Similar is the Blue Eagle to the imperial eagle of Germany? Bee And the slogan of the bosses, “We Do Our Part” undoubtedly means icago will conduct its tag days August 6 to 13, and special actions are planned for the coal-mining districts of Southern Illinois. Milwaukee has involved Jewish, German, and South Slav organiza tions, as well as the John Reed Club | and LL.D. branches, in special tag-} SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3.50; $ months, $2; 1 month, 75e, ATJGUST 7, 1933 excepting Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. ’. Cana Foreign and : One year, $9; 6 months, $5; 3 months, $3. | QUICK MORRIS—THE FLIT! Nazis Ordered to e Shoot Reds With |* | days set for August 12 and 13. Buffalo will conduct a special drive for funds for relief and defens | August 14 to 21, to be combined wi ERE are set down for the benefit of my fellow-workers my reasons for. joining the Communist Party. | “Reading Open Letter Brings Me Into C.P. Ranks,” Writes Seaman Upon Leaving Socialist Party MANY KILLED nme AUG. 1 IN CUBA IS DAY OF REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE; ‘OR WOUNDED Broad Masses Demonstrate with Greater Mili- tancy than Ever Before; Resist Gunfire and Gangster Attacks HAVANA.—August First was celebrated by the Cuban working class and the whole poor population in more cities tha ever before. demonstrated under the leade and the Confederacion Naciona Norfolk Workers Force Hearing On War Preparations Anti-War Delegation to Expose NRA, De- mand Relief URFOLK, Va., Aug. 6.—Wide in- rest has been aroused among work- e in Norfolk in a hearing next Tuesday before Mayor Glover, at which a delegation elected at the August 1 anti-war demonstration will present the demands of the Nor- folk workers for relief and against war. Thousands of w: Coming from the demonstration, the delegation forced the mayor to hear their demands that the city protest against the war preparations of the Roosevelt government, endorse the Workers Unemployment Insur- EUROPE, REPORTS' | tional Wheat Conference by Henry | Morgenthau, | actions including visits by specially-| elected delegations to the German! consulate. NEW YORK.—Today is the last day of the Anti-Fascist Defense and Relief Week for the defense of poli-j tical prisoners, victims and refugees! of the Hi fascist regime, called by the N. ¥. Committee to Aid| Victims of German Fascism. WAR IMMINENT IN WHEAT DELEGATE “Masses “Want Peace, Leaders, War’— Morgenthau NEW YORK, Aug. 6.—That ;is imminent in Europe is the report | brought back from the _ Interna- former United States |ambassador to Turkey, and close | adviser of President Roosevelt. | The wheat conference failed be- cause all European countries a producing wheat in great quantiti often subsidizing the uneconomic production of wheat, to create a war war | During the last presidential campaign I was engaged in active organizational work, stumping and building locals, for the Socialist Party. I never for a moment doubted the correct- ness of the Party line and tactical outlook. I was convinced that in America the only means effective in the emancipation of the working class were what we pleased to call “Consti- tutional’. The “Organized Struggle” policy of the Communists seemed to me, influenced as I was by S. P. ideology, to be ut- terly inapplicable to the American class struggle. In January of this year I came in contact with the work of the Waterfront Unemployed Council and for the first time had a real opportunity to watch the tactics of the Communist comrades in actual practice. The basic ideology, the planning and the unity of struggle put forth in all their work convinced me of their effectiveness. The results were added proof of their correctness. Only through the persistent, organized efforts of the Unemployed Council were the Y.M.C.A. parasites compelled to keep the Jane Street Mission for Unemployed seamen open. Only through the Communistic tactics and struggles was re- lief given to the men. During the winter months the “Y” was forced to give one and two meals on alternate days and eventu- ally two meals every day. Despite numerous threats to close the place, Jane Street still remains open because every such | threat was the occasion for further organized struggle on the part of the Unemployed Council in which the Communist com- rades were the most active. Their leadership furnished the impetus and pointed out the only effective means to the sea- men, reserve, the New York Times quotes | him as saying. He said the shadow | |of war and the fear of every other country hung over all the delegates EADING of Open Letter Brings Me Into the Communist Ranks! A couple of weeks ago a copy of the “Daily Worker” strayed into my hands and I happened across the section con- taining the Open Letter to C. P. members. A careful reading of it forced many new conclusions uvon me. Foremost among those was the fact that any Party, which could so, honestly re- view its own tactical history, recounting its own shortcomings | and omissions, must indeed be the one party, the most valuable | to the working class. Instead of running away from the facts | they courageously faced them and in open self-criticism pointed | out where amends must be made, where missed opportunity | for further struggle for the working class must in future be| taken advantage of. The Open Letter further pointed out where the main base for struggle for proletarian victory lay—among the basie’ industries. In the ranks of the miners, marine workers, rail- road workers, steel and textile workers, must the basis be laid} and struggle developed if the American working class is to be- head the bloody monster of fascism as exemplified in the Roosevelt Slavery program which ir so effectively aided by the treachery of the A. F. of L. and socialist leadership. | A study of that part of the Open Letter entitled, “ The} immediate tasks of the Party” forced me to the admission that only by the carrying out of the eight points contained therein under Communist Party leadership and in direct line with C. P. policy could the American working class be organized into one solid, indefeatable proletariat to advance to its own liberation. To my comrades in the S. P. I recommend a reading of | the Open Letter in order that they might see clearly the mal- icious bourgois influences that dominate the S. P. leadership. As class-conscious workers they will realize as I did that only | through effective organization and leadership from below, in) the ranks of the C, P. the true proletarian vanguard, will their efforts be effective. —W. ¥. DONLON. to the conference. “while the masses wish for peace! and long for it, the leaters of the countries have no honest wish for | \peace,” the Times quotes him as| | saying. | “He spoke of the fallacy of ex-, |pecting continued peace on the! |ground that ‘no nation can afford | to go to war in these times,’ and said that all a nation needs to do, as demonstrated in 1914 and later, ! is to declare martial law and seize | everything,” says the Times. “Conditions are similar to those, of 1913. Europe is arming, Europe is , Japan Has Plan to Train Officer Reserve TOKIO, Aug. 6—To create a larger reserve of trained officers for the army, the Japanese War Office has introduced a new scheme, by which 6,000 men will be chosen from among new recruits and given intensive training. The best 3,500 will be qualified as reserve officers after 5 months. This system offers an in- distrustful, and above all the inter- | nal affairs are such that to quiet the people at. home they have to| privates an opportunity for quick ad- yancement, while creating a new have a struggle. France is ready for war.” supply of officers making a rapid expansion of the army possible, ducement for recruitment, by giving; British Air Bombs Raze Hindu Village SIMLA, India, Aug. 6—The whole | village of Kathai, on the northwest- ern frontier, has been razed by Brit- ish air bombs, nc: a single building being left standing. The villagers, Bajauri tribesmen, were attacked by the British in two air raids after they had refused to give Wy .Yhree agitators wanted by th for their opposition to the ‘king of Afghanistan. The inhabitants escaped before the bombs fell. ance bill and a Workers Relief Or- dinance drafted by the Unemployed Councils. Mayor Glover declared that the United States was farther away from war than ever, and that the National Recovery Act is a blessing for all work: The delegation demanded and obtained a hearing next Tues-} day at which to prove their conten- tions. At this hearing they will show that the only “public works” expenditure of the government is the order for $238,000,000 in warships, which is ac- companied by a of navy yard workers from six days’ pay to five, They will point out that while the N.R.A. is supposed to guarantee the right of collective bargaining, Roose- velt, with the assistance of the A.F.L, misleaders, has ordered a cessation of all workers’ struggles, and set up an arbitration board composed of big capitalists and a few labor “colla- borators,” whose decisions will be en- forced by the armed forces of the government. They will show that, just as the! government is doing in the ship- yards, all employers are introducing further labor-saving machinery and speeding up the work, to get the same amount of production out of the workers on shorter hours. By increasing production without in- creasing the workers’ buying power, this is leading\to new unemployment through the increased production of goods which the workers cannot buy. The “blanket code,” moreover, leaves existing union agreements un- changed, while reducing hours. Since almost all union agreements are on the basis of wages per hour, this also makes a direct wage-cut. ‘They will demonstrate that the whole Roosevelt program is aimed to prepare the country for war while at the same time attempting to stop all workers’ struggles for their stand- orkers, peasants and student: rshin of the Communist Party 1 Obrero de Cuba and under thr ~—w slogans of strugyie against imperial- ist war, defense of the Soviet Un- ion, and of the fight for increased wages and better working conditions. Information so far available indi- sates three killed and more than twenty wounded. The August First demonstration in Havana here came at a time of the general bus workers’ strike which was already going on over one week, and has now spread into a general strike. The main slogans of the demonstration here were against t. war and for the support. strike. Over 1,000 workers assembled at Aguila St. and bearing banners and slogans marched down towards the U. S. embassy. When the mass of workers reached the corner of Aguila and Neptune Sts. the owners of a scab barbershop and a large group of government gun- men opened fire. One Killed, Dozen Wounded Over a dozen iell wounded by, gun fire. Among them was a Young Pioneer only 16 years old. Caliz Al- fonso Camatho, a barber, was shot through the forehead and killed in- stantly. Marcillo Manduley Murillo, recently released from prison after two years, and the leader of the Comite Pro Reorganizacion del Ala Izquierda, the revolutionary student organization, was shot repeatedly through the stomach and at the iime of this writing, is dying. The police immediately broke up the crowd which resisted valiantly. | A tremendous mass demonstration ; took place in Santiago de Cuba on August First. Parading through the streets the workers were not molest- ed by the police which were afraid to act because of the large num- bers. However the Porra was mo- bilized and attacked the workers. A girl clothing worker, 17 years of age,. and a member of the Young Com- |munist League, wes shot through the jugular vein and died on the spot. The enraged crowd attacked a Porrista named Martinez and left him for dead. Latest reports indi- cate that he is dying in the hos- pital. March Despite Shois After this shooting, the crowd, re- sisting the efforts of the police to !break up the demonstration, con- tinued marching through the city, The military supervisor, Captain ,Larrubia, had distributed rifles and machine guns to tne police and the official gunmen. The workers’ organ- izations are planning a tremendous protest funeral demonstration. Angel Larramendi, the local lead- er of the Comite Pro Reorganizacion! del Ala Izquierda, was arrested Au~ gust 2. A large demonstration was broken up by the police at Camaguey. The whole city population is reported to } be out in the streets protesting against police terror, A worker named Acesta was dangerously wounded. Seven others were wound- ed, and sent to the hospitals. After the breaking up of the teachers’. demonstration by the po- lice in Santa Clara, the soldiers were called in to patrol the city. In spite of the terror instituted a number of large demonstrations were “Blue Shirt” Fascist Group Set Up In China SHANGHAI, Aug. 6.—Headed by high military commanders of Kian- gsu, Kiangsi, and Hupeh provinces,’ a well-paid Ohinese Fascist organi- zation, known as the “Blue Shirts,” -has been created in South China. It aims at a military dictatorship of China. Tis agents are Ireland .Strikes at New. Fascist Group DUBLIN, Aug. 6—A heavy guard | has been posted around all govern- ment buildings, including Leinster House, where the Dail Eireann meets, and the government has ordered the | surrender of all licensed firearms in| the Free State. The order resulted in a sharp de-/ ards of living, limiting their rights, organized. The whole city population is supporting the slogans of the Party and the Anti-Imperialist League, the fight against terror and against the attack against the school teachers. A large demonstration took place tariffs. jin Fomttente, Police bullets wounded The. order was said to be aimed'two workers, The windows of the at the newly-formed National Guard,! large stores were smashed by the a blue-shirtea organization which workers. aims at a military dictatorship of a! All stores were closed in Morone. Fascist kind. Premier Eamonn de, The police did not dare to attack Valera indicated that he would at-|the workers, who held a large dem- d, except for a few of the lowest-/ paid workers it introduces a sweep-| ing wage-cut, both directly and through higher prices, actively raising bate in the Dell, in which opposition | recruits in all large centers of South members charged the government, China, paying 30 Chinese dollars a was attempting to divert attention month to members. It has been re- from the economic situation, and to ceiving large sums of money from conceal the breakdown of secret capitalists in Shanghai and Hankow.| négotiations with Great Britain over tempt to break up the National onstration. Guard, recently formed out of the Army Comrades Association, | Five hundred workers took part but in the demonstration at Planates. would allow the other independent | Police were not able to disperse the Irish armed force, the Republican Army, to continue its activities, | Spanish Press In New York Says Armed Inter- | vention is Near; Machado Hanging On to His Regime Despite Maneuvers By WILLIAM SIMONS «— A PRENSA,” New York Spanish daily, in a dispatch from Wash- ington of July 28th, headlines: “If Machado Does Not Resign, the United States Will Intervene.” “La Informacion,” the other New York Spanish daily, headlines on Aug. 3rd: “Washington Wants Machado to Resign.” The political situation in Cuba is becoming more acute, par- ticularly because of the strikes and demonstrations which are now sweeping that sugared isle. Military intervention in Cuba by American Imperialism becomes an imminent possibility. Military intervention will come, if the Roosevelt administration cannot achieve by threats of intervention its aim of unifying the native bourgeois- landlor& groups. President Roose- velt would rather avoid sending mar- ines to Cuba, at a time when Wall Street seeks trade pacts with the countries of South America and of the Carribbean, where Anglo-Am- erican rivalry is becoming sharper. But Roosevelt is determined to make Cuba safe for American property, by “We Do Our Part—of the working. class.” >. achieving unity among thg native * bourgeois landlord groups, in an at- tempt to prevent any armed move- ment by followers of the bourgeois opposition, and to stifle the growing anti-imperialist movement led by the Communist Party and the National Workers Confederation of Cuba. Cia 5 Machado Throws a Monkey Wrench |ACHADO has thrown a monkey wrench into thé “mediation” proceedings with his declaration to the Cuban Congress that Welles was merely acting as an indivdual, and not as a representative of the Am- erican government, adding: “If this were not so, then either he (Welles) would not be doing it, or I would not be the President of the Republic.” Machado’s tactic has been to go along with the “mediation,” so as to get the opposition supporters to abendon their open fight against him, | e, then delegates, from the “mediation,” stating that the Liberal Party del- egates represented the Government. In his speech to the Cuban Con- tion, which claims that they were assured (evidently by Welles) that Machado would leave the presidency at an early date. The ois op- | position were given to- understand | that law and order would be es- | tablished (amnesty, abolition of mar- tial law, constitutional reform), that Machado would soon resign, and that the elections in 1934 would take place under someone acceptable to the bourgeois opposition, The bourgeois opposition leaders, who had been depending on Amer- ican Imperialism to kick out Ma- chado and put them in his place, called off the terrorist acts by the A. B. C. (a terrorist group which has since put forward a demagogic, reformist program). Some leaders of armed bands (Coronel Blas Ser- nandez, self-styled Sandino of Cuba, and the American adventurer, Cor- onel Charles Muecke) have surren- dered. This A. B. C. group in Cuba should not be confused with the A. B. C. group of South American | posit countries, initials representing Ar- gentine, Brazil and Chile, which have withdrew the government | been involved for years in so-called mediation proceedings between other warring countries of South America. With or Without Machado? Does American Imperialism seek gress, Machado announced also that | unity of the bourgeois landlord groups be intended to remain in office as president until 1935, This came as a on the basis of Machado's being re-elected in 1935? No. While Ma- bombshell to the bourgeois opposi- ' chado has been a faithful servant of i Wall Street, paying interest reg- | ularly on Wall Street loans, and working hand in glove with Amer- | iccm Imperialism’s war plans against the Soviet Union and for imperialist war, yet Machado hes otirred up too much hostility among the toiling masses of Cuba, This endangers Am- erican property in Cuba. No. Amer- ican Imperialism will not put Ma- chado into office again. But ‘will Machado stay in office until the end of his term in 1935? Machado announced to the Cuban Congress that he would. The man who violated the Constitution of Cuba by re-electing himself for a second term of six years ending in 1935, the magn who has maintained himself in power against the popular will by blood and iron, will move heaven and earth to remain in power until 1935. But whether he will or not depends on coming events in Cuba. Any election, under Machado's influence, will be a farce, The bourgeois op- ition will undoubtedly insist that Machado resign, before the elections of 1934, American Imperialism would prefer to let Machado serve out his term, since this removes the danger of any opposition from Machado and his army followers. But pressure from the masses, growing strikes and demonstrations may force American Imperialism to compel Machado to resign, even before the election pe- riod. This may mean military force, Will Wall Street Send Marines Against the Cuban Workers ? ° Communist Party of Cuba Only Party Carrying 6n Campaign Against Welles and Wall St. Intervention in Any Form if Machado retains control of the} army which has upheld him for eight years. Machado has b2en a servant of American Imperialism, but he is also a dictator with eight years of unbridled power behind him, who still féels powerful.encugh to sup- press the popular uprising against him. Mechado may not give up power without a fight. Cruisers Are Being Sent Military intervention is close’ at hand. Already on July 27th, a spe- cial dispatch to “La Prensa” from Havana stated: “It is maintained in official marine circles that the Min- istry of War has been informed of the early visit to Havana of three American cruisers, and has been re- quested to indicate where these cruisers should dock.” This reported sending of American cruisers to Cuba is another step in the intervention program of the Roosevelt Wall Street Administration. The so-called me- diation of Ambassador Welles was really the first intervention step. Cuban Masses in Action American jalism fears action by the Cuban masses. Doctor Guil- lJermo Belt, in the name of the Welles “mediation” committee issued a declaration on August 2, calling for “the immediate stopping of all demonstrations or public meetings which might create disturbances en- dangering the success of the media- tion proceedings,” The increased taxes on necessities and the general worsening of con- ditions of the toiling masses have resulted in strikes among the bus workers and among cigarette workers in the Gener factory in Havana, The bus strike in Havana is extending into a general strike. A broad anti- imperialist movement could like a tropical hurricane sweep away all the nice plans of Welles and Roose- velt. The creation of such a move- ment is the task which the Com- munist Party of Cuba has set for itself. ‘i And we can help in this’ Cuban Week (August 23 to 29) is over, But the need of giving active and effec- tive support to the revolutionary movement is now greater than ever. Ev Communist, every anti-im- jaMst should raise in his shop, trade union and mass organization the question of further support to the revolutionary movement. ‘crowd. The workers decided to sup- port the bus workers’ strike and interrupted all automobile traffic with Santa Clara. Sugar Workers March | More than 600 workers met in the | Park directly in front of the po- {lice headquarters in Guanabacoa, One of the most significant deme onstrations ever held in Cuba, took place in Cespedes on August First. More than 500 workers’ from the sugar mills in Cespedes and Ese trella marched all the way to the town of Florida and passing through” the towns and villages were able to pull out on strike the workers in tha” cigar and other factories. a groups of guerillas which have this . neighborhood as their center of ops — erations sent delegates to the United | Front August First Conference and _ acted as self-defense groups effece tively preventing the soldiers and — the police from attacking the worke ers: Norwegian Police Fail to Suppress Anti-Fascist Acts OSLO, Aug. 6—The whole police force of Trondhjem was called out to | protect 400 German Nazis from y anti-Fascist agitation of the Nor, | wegian workers. An immense anti-Fascist slo; painted on the dock, could not be ‘ moved, and the police brought a line 4 of motor cars and parked them i front of the sign to conceal it, They also had to send out wagon loads of | sand to cover up indelible antisFas- cist slogans painted on the streets. Th Nazis were accompanied by an ima lice escort on their tour, so practically went about