The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 19, 1933, Page 5

CRRA Codes Praised by Socialist Paper Bring Wage | Cuts and Speed-Up to Workers in the Big Factories A Socialist Worker Asks Questions “To the Editor: Having subscribed to the Milwaukee Leader under the assumption that it was a socialist paper, I have been deeply troubled to observe its handling of the NRA events of the last week. It had been my idea that socialists could clearly recognize the NIRA 23 an attempt to stabilize the profit-system and to secure the profits of the owning class by the help of the state which that owning class I had thought that socialists would realize which the workers of the nation receive by such a process would be trols. slight and transitory. I had thought that socialists, seeing the inevitable decay of the capitalist system in its inevitable mad war to squeeze out profits for believing in the social ownership and control of all means of production as the only salvation possible for “the millions who toil in darkness,” would s¢ize the opportunity of the NIRA frenzy for vigorous revelation of its true nature and for emphasizing its es- sential contrast to the socialist program. Do socialists now admit that Roosevelt has found a better cure for our sad world than the one they have been preaching? Are they glad to join in the ballyhoo over the number of merchants and industrialists that acceot the Roosevelt codes—or profess to accept Do they really see Roosevelt as an angel of guidance to the toil- And when the promised salvation proves other attempt at patching up a dying system, how will they explain to the workers they hope to -nlist under the socialist banner that their the capitalists, Was I wrong? them? ing millions? Socialist banner that their socialist the NIRA campaign which for a time they apparently supported? As one who hopes t8 see and assist in the spread “of a cleat-seeing and honest sccialism, I regret deeply that the front pages of the Mil- waukee Leader are such that I should be ashamed to urge any sincerely And I have no answer to make when I am asked, “Why do you socialists propagandize for the New D-*1?” EWART R. KELLOGG, Educational Secretary Dane County, 417 Sterling Court; Modison, Wis. groping worker to read it. Socialist Local; that any benefits «° vain as every program is any more useful than By M. CHILDS HE “Milwaukee Leader” is the offi- cial otgan of the Socialist Party in Wiscensin. _In fact, it is the only Socialist daily paper in the United Stat: Thousands of workers sup- ort it through personal _contribu- tions. Many unions take money out of their treasuries to support it. These Socialist workers ‘contribute to and support the Milwaukee Leader because they assume that it is fight- ing for what they are fighting for— for the destruction of capitalism and the creation of a Socielist world. But these workers have been, and sre becoming, more and more shock- ed by the things that they find in their paper. Lest February, for example, during the Wisconsin milk strike, when the long suffering farmers were fighting heroically on the roads against the thugs and police of the big milk monopolies, the “Milwaukee Leader” blossomed forth with a half page ad- vertisement by the Milk Trust, be- smirching the striking farmers, and praising the glories of capitalism and the benign fule of the Milk Trusts. Of course, many Socialist workers rushed at once to the offices of the Socialist Party in Brisbane Hall violently protesting against this open support of milk scabbing against the suffering farmers. But the Socialist Party officials tried to smooth the matter over by saying, that “while the advertisement may not be in lige with the teachings of Socialism, it was only a ‘paid advertisement’, etc., ete.” Workers Get Wage Cuts Under the Codes This was last February. Since then many things have happened. With the coming of the Roosevelt administration and* the Industrial Recovery (Slavery) Codes, the capi- talist class of America has begun to cut down the living standards of the workers more than ever before. And in Milwaukee the workers have had plenty of proof of it. In the big A. O. Smith plant, the workers have taken a 50 per cent 8 their work time having been cut heut any corresponding increase in wages. In the George Meyer Company the industrial codes brought wage cuts of seven and nine dollars a week. In the Pressed Steel Corporation the codes brought 1a rise of a few cents Ber hour. But the reduction. in amount given to each worker; re- sulted in a wage cut of a dollar and a half a day, And on top of this the company has cut out all pay for “dead work,” as they call it. This. means that all the time that work- ers have to wait “arvuna while machines are not being repaired, their pay is being cut. And in the plants of the Allis Chalmer Company, the NRA codes paved the way for the introduction of the “stagger plun,” all 35 hour shifts being reduced to 25, with a consequent cut in wages. In neafly all the factories, the NRA codes have brought about similar re- sults. At the Fried-Osterman Shop the workers are on strike against the Neédle Trade NRA Code, since it has legalized the wage levels which ré- stilted from the long series of wage cuts, so that now ge workers are expected to accept a pefmanent re- euction of 30 to 4 bed per cent in wages. ‘HAT’S what the. NRA has brought to the workers in Milwaukee. And so it can be imagined what a shock i‘ was to Socialist workers to pick up their papre and find the Leader in full support of the Rated Roosevelt NRA codes, flaunting on the front nage a cartoon showing Roosevelt Eig the masses out of the dark- ness of poverty,” etc. Some rubbed their eyes and said: “Maybe this is an accident. We will “weit until tomorrow and see what the Leader has to say.” But the next day brought another cartoon, showing a beneficent Uncle Sam driv- ing out the Company unions with a gun labeled NRA. The workers were astonished, for ‘halmers “ of this very day the Allis C! Corporation organized a company nttion under NRA codes, and another rompany, the Falk Company flatly al to permit the workers to or- “ haa ep union under the 3At8,, OF t their own representa- ryes tn the shops. The workers knew from their own “perience that this was the case in many other factories where the Com- panies bluntly forpade the organiza- tion of any workers unions. The Socialist workers were even more astonished when they discov- ered that the “Milwaukee Leader” fell in with the obviously drummed- | up publicity of General Johnson by running big headlines about the re- turn of prosperity, ete., éte., and by proudly flying a blue eagle flag. wiithen Josue: HIS policy of the Socialist Party and the Milwaukee Leader opened the eyes of many workers and mem- bers of the Socialist Party who every- where expressed their indignation and resentment. This soon found open expression. On Aug. 8, the following letter to the editor was printed in the Leader: “To the Editor: “May I ask if my inference (based on the appearance of recent issues of the paper) is correct, namely, that the Milwaukee Leader is now an organ of the Democratic Party? Very truly yours, ROSS STAGNER, Department of Psychology, Uni- versity of Wisconsin, Madison. And the very next day an active member of the Socialist Party, and an officer of one of the locals, sent in the significant letter which we print above. What was the reply of the Leader to these? In the editorial of August 8 the Leader, in a very arrogant tone, stated: “We give Franklin Roosevelt credit for the ability to move along when pushed.” and furthermore: “At present, the recovery progtam is clearly and openly intended to stabilize capitalism. But one thing leads to another. No one can tell where it will land. It may land in Fascism. It may land in Socialism. We shali do our durndest to sce that it lands in Socialism.” With no intentions of exposing this slavery act, or of showing up ¢he war preparation of American impefialism, the Socialist Party and the Milwau- kee Leader are doing everything pos- sible to chain the working class to the chariot of Wall Street. It is no} wonder that the Socialist workers are asking Whether the Socialist Party has merged With the Democratic Party. “Are we to give up the strug- gle for Socialism?” the workers per- sist in asking. The Leader, in an editorial, replies: Why worry about fighting for Socialism when: “The gtowing of the new social society out of the old has begun. The NIRA is the first positive evi- dence of it. Aiid socially conscious beings, especially socialists, must recognize that historical fact even | though it was brought about by an alien hand.” Ve #6 the workers and members of the Socialist Party can see for themselves. When the capitalist class puts into effect the NRA codes to increase its profits by increasing the flare od of capital, wheh the capitalist class, through the Roose- velt inistration with its cunningly false about a “New Deal,” levels all wages to starvation levels and through the N. R. A. codes introduces the infamous Hoover “stagger sys- tem,” whereby the starvation of the workers is spread among the entire! working class. Then the Milwaukee Leader, supposedly founded on the Marxian principles of class struggle, and supposedly fighting for Social- ism, co-operates with the capitalist class in putting over this capitalist Program in the nafne of Socialism! In their everyday exne*ishc- workers feel the ruthless capitalist exploitation that the N. R. A, codes are intended to mask. And yet their paper bagi them not to struggle, not to resist this capitalist exploitation, but A srgieae ip ri rade dence of the new society”! Isn’t it sled that this is playing right into the hahds of the Roosevelt: administration and the capitalist class? Isn’t it clear that this is giving valuable aid to the employers in ae over their wage-cutting pro- gram ‘While the Wall Street bankers and the big industrialists make every ef- —--——@ | benches, ee eee res ped J DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1933 Socialist “Milwaukee Leader” Sells N. R. A. Slavery Codes As “Socialism” FOR MILLIONS WHO TOILED IN DARKNESS _| 14,223 Worker More .Than Million) New Jobs Opened] Sila |swoboda Wins in Fight +" “m° ‘PUBI 'C WORKS jr |OVERSUBSCRIBE | Carioant of Socialist Paper Glorify Roosevelt Industry Slave Codes ington’ grows greater every day, that now Wall Street and the White | House are completely fused, of the workers by pretending that all) this is leading toward Socialism. Milwaukee Leader are doing now with the NRA codes, the German Socialist Party also did—with the results that | every worker can see. the workers, while the power of the | Wall Street financial oligarchy over | cialism” the very acts of the German| have shown us the way. the Federel government at Wash-| government which were intended to| | fraud to speak ef “Socialism” when sO | strencthen the capitalist rule. The above cartoons are a reproduction of some of the cartoons that have been printed in the Milwaukee Leader, leading daily socialist newspaper in this country. There, too, they described as “So- In 1917 Mayor Hoan fell in with | the Preparedness Parade. He is now preparing to play the same part Socialism can only be established when the working class has ‘seized the politica! State power and the | means of production in its hands. ;In the Soviet Union, the workers, It is a | the power of the canitalist class over the means of production and the the| the imperialist war plans of Wall| power of the government gets tighter | Leader tries to smother the struggles | Street, and marched at the head of | and more centralized. It is more cor- | What the Socialist Party and the | again. | rect to say that the NRA codes are | evidence of growing Fascism in the| |AUnited States. The wey the NRA codes are being used to break strikes | is pretty sure evidence of it. | If the working class is to be vic- | torious against the capitalist class, | the misléaders and betrayers of labor must be exposed. And the Socialist Party has thrown all its energy into shackling the Roossvelt, capitalist pregram on the workers. O: united struggles of the wor defeat the NRA codes Roosevelt war program. The Milwaukee Leader cannot be can and the Page Five | Why Do S.P. Leaders Fear | All Communist Criticism? By EARL BROWDER. want to speak a few plain words) vho belong to or follow | y and cal- two weeks later led upon all their associated organi- withdraw. They ion was caused them by the Did your lead facts to every speech | and’ manife: mass dem vhich they in ‘O strations, with the police, and also among the | , armed forces. In some cases, the | Socialist Party members also brave- Jly enter into the struggle against | war, together with their Commu | comrade: it in doing this, of August 1 alist Party at that ther organiza- r against war. leaders do- the fight that they tions to fight t Are the Sociali: ling any act w Ik r? It is clear Sh now and s to the ef- And active in ere not, then a f W even when thi danger, they something to mak ays The Comm t constantly compelled to call attention to the fact that the actions of tt wail abou’ ary to expose the r ers” who are We have ty preparations of or U. S. Congress Against War not in good faith help build the Congress, but only in | | order to sabotage i ers” the | N! considered in any stnse a working- | 2 class paper fighting against capital- ism and the cap‘talist way out of the crisis. The workers now have p-cof of that. By NATHANIEL WEL BUCHWALD (Daily Worker Correspondent) Tn the summer Moscow is a charm- ing city. Its many boulevards, well kept and fitted out with kiosks and are good to look at and comfortable to rest on. Its several Parks of Culture and Rest combine fetching landscape with an amazing jMent, recreation and relaxation. The winding fiver, the ntfmerous local parks, the busy squares interrupted by patches of verdure and the al- most rural appearance of some of the outskirts combine to give the city a light and chatm all its own. The crowds in the streets, parks and on the boulevards have also taken on a summer appearance. Gone is the grimness of the felt boots, the earlapped fur hats, the be- wildering assortment of winter- clothes and the almost grotesque ap- pearance of men and women whose several layers of coats and shawls ahd sweaters nearly doubled their natural size, Women’s” summer apparel has a wide ‘range of styles and combina- tions of lor, creating the impres- sion of & Well-dressed city. Unlike the bourgeois metropolis, you don’t find here the contrasts between well- dressed “ladies and gentlemen” and ie Shabby garb of the poor, between he fashion plates of Park Avenue and the rags of the slum Sections. If there 4s a contrast it is one of taste or custom but not of social status. The erstwhile rustic elements may still cling to some of their pea- sant ways of dressing while the city workers and employees maintain the traditions and the fashions of city folk. But all can afford to dress well, since there 1s no unemployment and no need to save for the prover- bial rainy day. Nice Things To Wear Your correspondent is in a posi- tion to report to you the cheerful fact that socialist industry in the Soviet Union already can afford to supply the workers with almost enough nice things to wear. The acute shortage of manufactured goods is gone and the almost limitless and constantly rising demand for such goods has been met to a very im- pressive degree. To return to the summet in Mos- cow. The Parks of Culture and Rest are probably the most outstanding feature of the cjty’s recreation faci+ lities. So much has been written abroad about the Central Park of Culture and Rest (now bearing the name of Gorky) that one might take it to be the only recreation place of its kind in Moscow. As a matter ‘of fact, the Gorky Park is only the best and most elaborate of a half dozen or so parks of culture and rest, each with its peculiarities, with its advantages of landscape, natural facilities and location. The Sokolniki Park is certainly as fort to bolster their shaken rule over beautiful as the Central park, if not variety of establishments for amuse- |} in the} Moscow Workers Enjoy Summer in the Parks eae more so. The park of the Central Red Army House also combines pleasant natural features and large dimensions with many accomodations similar to the ones in the Gorky Park. The Ermitazh is a small park, but exquisite in its artificial beauty and containing all the essential equipment and amusement features of the larger park. Park Without Equal But the Central rtsorky) Park is leader of them all, It is a most striking establishthent, without its equal anywhere. It combines the best of sport facilities with the at- tractions of Amefican amusement parks plus a cluster of theatres and concert places, plus libraries, scienti- fic laboratories, exhibitions, museums, and what not. Its typical Soviet character is fur- ther emphasized by two One-Day Rest Home’. where workers may spend their weekly holiday alone or with their families, for a very mod- erate sum, and by another One-Day Rest Home for ‘“Udarniks” (shock- brigaders), There is a special “children’s town” in the park, where every facility for sport, play, fun and rest is afforded for the workers’ children. If par- ents wish to be unencumbered by their kids, they may “park” them for the day in a special pavilion where the youngsters are sure to be enter- tained to their heart's content. For people who like to spend their free day lolling around, there are ham- mocks in a shady and quiet section of the park, while those who are given to athletics may spend their surplus energy in rowing (on the Moscow River edging the park), play- ing tennis, Russian athletic games. Lovers of | thrills may go to the zoo or be shaken up by a ride in something Tesembling the Coney Island “Whip,” or swing in a Carriage of a ferris | wheel, or see themselves ridiculously | Cistorted in the curved mirrors of | the “Chamber of Fun,” while chess | fiends are always sure to find sev- eral hundred congenial companions in the chess pavillion, and amateur chemisté have a laboratory fitted out for them where they can carry out various experiments. Thousands Visit Parks The House of Defense contains items of interest of one kind, while the branch of the Museum of Revo-| lution is filled with objects depicting and illustrating the victories and set- | backs of the Russian masses in, the struggle for emancipation from | Czarism and capitalism. On Free Days (every sixth day is “Free Day,” but it js a different day of the month for various institutions), when the weather is good, the Gorky Park is visited by as many as a hun- Enjoying Summer Sports Girls in the Soviet Union enjoying the facilities of an athletic field near a factory in Moscow, volley ball and various | \ teen |rusning from on? dred and fifty thousand people, with | tens of thousands spending their day off in the smaller parks. In the eve- ning one may have one’s choice of entertainment in the Dramatic The- atre, the Operetta, the open-air vaudeville theatre, the cinema or the | concert place Promenading Is Popular But the most popular form of re reation and relaxation is—just pr enading. The Russian tradition of promenades has survived all the | changes and upheavals of the past fif. years, its slow and _ stately rhythm and tempo furnishing Siete contrast to the fa: é thing in o “walk. S, mzans Taking a walk in the U. with no particular and no particular rea ing. The Russian promenade is a ceremonial, a collective function, as it weve. Is is always one-way traffic and always at the slow pace of a processional. On the same alley one procession moves one wey while on} visy. moves in a counter stream. Outings to the Country. The parks, boulevards and play- grounds within the city do not by Within a Half hour to an hour's rid? | in any direction from the center you will find delightful country places | with fatilities for bathing, rowing) and picnicking. Tens of thousands of Moscow's population avail them- selves of such outings—traveline by trolley, bus, railway or river boat. Group outings arranged by organize- tions for their members are quite common, Discussions of special sub- jects general'v enter in the program of the dey which {s, however. devoted mainly to recreation and amusement. Dotting the vacation areas around Moscow are many Rest Homes where workers spend their summer vacation (from two to four weeks, free of charge and with full pay). In the vicinity you will find snecial rest homes for children and Pioneer Gamrs. As likely as not, a Red Arm; Camy will be situated within wa! ing distance from a Rest Home of a Pioneer Camp, and the splendid so- cial relationship and intercourse be- tween the “military” and the “civi- lian” summer places are in them- selves a source of admiration and inspiration. Workers Can Afford to Play With the rigors of the winter gone and with material conditions of life constantly improving; with no worry of the morrow and with a bright fu- ture beaconing to all the toilers and builders of Socialism, proletarian point to another} any means exhaust the recreation | | facilities of the Moscow workers.! d not | expect to bee roperty bu’ | which they cannot deny, they wrote jin black and e that it did not jmake any diff whether the | Communists crits d the 8. P, er that under any ci y nronosed to b: ‘ont against wer. MAN THOMAS ve Eviction Fie ht in Columbia Results | in the Arrest ef 200 | the opposite side Another proc: ssion | | COLUMBUS, O.—The | anti-eviction d2monstreto: |what was undoubtedly the | angie group arrest in the his:o lumbus. The demons Unsmployed yed Coun: | tront of the en Rich St eg F t jon the street. As fast as the bailif moved it in | result this mass arrest to: free days and its hours of leiswe | Women ave mindful of their appear- ence both in point of dress and cos- |metic auxiliaries. Men don white | | trousers and dark coats, or wear long linen embroidered blouses over tho There is mass promenading, fun, eat- making and the rest of it. | Bolshevist Moscow, its full share of the lighter pleasures. of living But what distinguishes Moscow in this respect from capital- | ist cities is the fact that all the | to the masses of toilers, while in the countries the other side of the U. S. S. R. bordets, people who do the worlds work are rated as the “lower driven to despair—to the glory of capitalist “civilization.” ing “to break up the work- | | ing of ice cream at any of the nu-| merous I » Grinking of swest waters, chatter and laughter, music | as you see, has , | normal pleasures of life are available | class’ and are starved, harrassed and | the | say | pacifists, s think | zations without any political tend<« | weeks later the N.E.C, had author. ized a subcommittee, ome of the | membe! ts of which was among the | writers of this letter, to announce | that they had broken away from the e ter the} m ‘y Vee ea ee |U. 8. Congress Against, War. snd then about | Is it not clear that these “leaders” are not honest with the sincere soci- alist workers who wish to fight against war? Is it not clear clear that the Communist criticisms were not |“slanders” at all, but a correct and | timely warning to you workers not to be misled by them? } Is it not clear that you, who | honestly want to join a united mass fight against war, should join hands with the 50 organizations which have called the U. S. Corigress Against War to meet in New York City on | Sept. 1, 2, 3, 4, at the Central Opera | House? | These organizations are not Com- ist organizations, except for @ MORRIS HILLQUIT They include all sorts of ns, some of them largely in character, some of ther and many workers’ organi« Many sections of the Socialist | “neces |Party have protested against the as- tion of their N.E.C. in breaking tip united front. Thus even the Stalls | Executive Committee of the 8. P. of st | Connecticut, ord Ww eg the NEC. |in the coming U. S. Congr condemned the action Workers in the Socialist Party! We Communists want to establish a munists. But | brotherly unity with you and all other sincere fighters against war ess Against We publicly oeikinioe your lead- use they prevent this unity, ers | just as in 1914 and 1917, (when the founders of the Communist Party | were still inside of the S. P., and the furniture out the demon- | | | trousers and girded by broad belts. | ¢g.6g f. ath St. | to | “St. Louis Resolution” was adopted against the war) many of the lead- | ers of the S. P. prevented the strug- gle against war, and became the lpers of the war makers, of their Wi seh ayn in But the most ing is that they are now p you out of the united struggle against the war preparations |of the Roosevelt government which is spending more money than ever be fore on preparations for war. It reason we call upon you ith us over.the heads of who betray the struggle! danger of war is very immedi- ate and great! War may break out at almost any time! Can we allow anything to stand in the way of | uniting all possible forces to stop this to hinder its coming, to mobilize s resistance to it?-Oan-we al- any “leaders” to. quibble about | personal “dignity” and fine feelings, which may be disturbed by Communist criticism, as any sensible obstacle to unity? Of course not. The quickest and most sure way to eliminate all ques- tion of criticisms is for everyone to get into the movement to do effective work a great mass participa- If the leaders of the 8. P. would do this, they would not be afvaid of Communist criticisms, be- nm ell sich criticisms would them but only the Com- | their uit, Oneal, Lee, Altman and who made the decision to 2 the Congress Against War, @ hurt by the criticisms precisely were true, be- ant to see a suc- ress Against War. | rs in the S, P, have dif- . You really want to war, and to join-hands rs of the same-convic- Jhat you must do, therefore, is to action for yourselves, ches, in your-city com- fra- your unions, clubs, -and@ Sanizations, along the line taken by the Connecticut Commitiee of the Socialist Protest against the breaking of the ©f | united front by the N.B.O. of the So- list Porty. Elect delegates to take nert in she U. S. Congress Against | Wer in New York City, Sept. 1, 2, 3 n the united front of t imperialist war! Russian Art Shop Peasants’ Handicrafts 100 East 14th St, N.Y. C. U.S.8.Ry (Russia) ettes, Smocks, Toys ‘ex Woodearvii Lacquered Work ALGONQUIN 40094 Imports fro: 2, Candy, Ci Shawls, Phone Manhattan Lycos Hall Vor Mass Meetings, Entertainments Balls, Weddings AIRY, LARGE Meetiag Rooms and Hall To Hire Suitable for Meetings, Lectures and Dances in the Czechoslovak Workers House, Ine. 347.E. 72d St. New York Telephone: RHinelander 5097 — Pe hese