The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 23, 1933, Page 8

i ¢ Page Fight Published by the Comprodaily Publishing 18th St., New York City, N. ¥. Telephone Address and mail chacks to the Daily W daily except Sunday, at 50 E. Cable “DAIWORK.” New York, N. ¥- ©o. ALgonquin 4 lorker, 50 E, 13th St., Inc., Dail Party US.A. a SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Mail everywhere: One year, $6; six excepting Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Canada: One year, $9; months, $3.50; $ months, $2; 1 month, 750, Foreign and 6 months, $5; 3 months, $3. SEPTEMBER 28, 1938 Support Struggle: we Cuban Masses! Demand “Hands Off Cuba” popidl Him “w alk the Plank”! —By Michael Gold EDITOR'S NOTE: The follow- ing column of Comrade Mike Gold , in reply to a criticism by a reader fo a previous column on national | | RED MILITIA IS ORGANIZED BY STRIKERS San Martin. yovern- ment Bares Its Teeth to Workers nil ‘ities is printed in full. How- | - sales ee aonber of points raised in | (Special Correspondence to the sy require an answer Daily Worker) This answer will HAVANA (By Mail).—The Grau appear in an early issue of The | San Martin government is showing | Daily Worker. its teeth, Unable to stop the strug-| . gles of the su workers and to get | On Monday, September 11th, Ij them to give up the sugar plantations| wrote a column dealing mostly with] they have seized, it sent a whole} Ireland and the Irish workers. There | trainload of soldiers and_ student quite a bi Jim Larkin. In ec p of this literary hu column a certain 2 I am re- it the is ation ma ade e oreti September ssion to a rac a pecul gives twist character. Oppressed races become sensitive in a way that others can mever understand. . They develop rp ni , as do all hunted and can quickly smell oI members of the Ejrecito Caribe, The army troops have been surrounding the plantations. The| Communist Party and the Confed-| eracion Nacional Obrera are calling} for determined resistance and are ap-| pealing to the soldiers not to fire | against their fellow workers. On September 11 a general strike | was called for five hours in honor} of a worker killed at the Cristo mine. | About 10,000 workers attended the| funeral. Soldiers sent a wreath and| fraternized with the workers and On September 12 the workers took | over the sugar central Mabay. The | management, fearing destruction. of | property, gave out $350 worth of food to the strikers. On the 14th the strikers chose delegates jg divide the lands, also deciding to turn part over | “« ne! i | to the soldiers. They decided to or-| deal with ge a ‘they del ae ganize a Soviet of workers and peas-| and ov ert. The best ef§y is to| ants and soldiers delegatés. At a} be casual and matter-of-fact. If you| great mass meeting three soldiers | have any race feeling in you, study| Spoke in favor of support of the) it, elim: , fight it, Then when| workers’ struggle. The management you are cured, be.casual and human.| fled. The rural police guards the/ Tb really isn’t easy. I know I get sore| Officers. However, there is a large whenever I hear anybody say, ‘Some | of my best friends are Jews.’ Why| sore I really don’t know. But) s of patronage. No race ‘| dividuals wants that. Bet- persecution, frank and | r, something that can be fought | in the open.” 13 Deviations. | re exactly 13 sentences in| raph. Count them, | e of them are short, contain only four or five words. | ¢ my anonymous censor makes al kable statement: “Each sen-} xe, if carefully analyzed, contains} deviations from the Communist/ s ee of the hints % of that—13 sentences, and| therefore, deviations. They don’t} appear on the surface, of course.| You have to be a Sherlock Holmes, | 13 and use the scalpel and microscope | to di + the hidden deviation in| such a s for instance, “I| get sore whenever I hear anybody best friends are) It has to be} some of But my t's thene. there. Comrade Anon wants it to be| there. Negation of the Role. | You also have to be a Sherlock | Holmes, somebody even more ex-| traordi to deduce from the above little 13-sentence paragraph the following enormous conclusion: | “This leads t | role of the C 2 | leader of all oppressed peoples,” Comrade ion bases this serious charge upon one sentence, “op-| pressed races. become sensitive in a way that others can never under- stand.” Now, if you will r ad the para- that I am tice h, with the Jews graph you will speaking of the and Negross t n in, as illustra- tions. I am speaking of myself. I am a Jew, and I think I understand | some of the Jewish race-sensitivity. T have often noticed how many traits in ‘common all oppressed races dis: | on number of armed workers who smash the doors of the storehouses when| the sergeant in charge refuses to} yield the keys. The strikers are di- viding up the sheep, cows, etc. In the plantations Tacajo and Ba- guanos the strike began on the 29th} | and ended on September 6th, win- ning all demands. In the whole re- gion there is a Red militia. On the roads between centrals there are pa-/ trols of the Red Militia which allows | no one to pass without permission | of the strike committee. The central Tacajo was seized by| the workers, and turned into the| headquarters of the Red Guards. In Banos 5,000 sugar workers from the | plantations Boston and Preston held @ mass meeting and decided to open| their headquarters in the centrals. | The bourgeois opposition tried to or. ganize a counter demonstration but a contingent of armed workers put | them to flight. In Banos, in a suburb called Ama- rillo (Yellow), live Americans, all em- ployees of the United Fruit Co. This section was seized by the workers who placed Red Guards everywhere. They called out on strike all cooks, househelp, etc. On September 3, a Soviet was es- tablished in Banos. All taxes were} abolished but 10 per cent tax was hed to help the strikers. perhaps, but real. Being casual, comradely and hu- man, not becoming self-conscious in dealings with other races, is a very nec! y accomplishment for a Communist in America. It is an art that has to be studied and learned; and it can’t be met by a lot of me-| + anical phraseology. To say I am a white chauvinist for dl malicious object I can’t understand. I don’t need Comrade Anon to tell | me to “become a fighter for Negro rights.” It is more than ten years | since I wre the first revolu- | onary poems in defense of the Ne-| play. I tried to indicate this, and I| gro worse: © written a play did it as a Jew talking of the Irish/on this theme, and many _ short and Negroe stories. I worked with Claude McKay | But with some amazing sleight-of- de hand, Comr out as the » tion on the tor-of Anon has made me le of a major devia-| ‘o problem, the nega- the Party. | Of cor uld have been a littiz m careful and said, “op- | pressed races become sensitive in a way that other races find it ead " J failed slightly in| of my verbiage; and| h leaps upon my unim- | ake and with his micro- | s a rhetorical slip into the red slev portant mis scope if r denial of the role of the nist Party. Really, this kind erable in any sort of ual and Human. seemed to infuriate Comrade ‘as my advice that one study ill the race-prejudice in one’s then try to be casual and hu- relations with that race. that I was talking of the “, with my own Jewish race-feel- used as a psychological yard- Tt is there in the paragraph, | resin for anyone to see. But Anon) cts this statement, also. ~ am deviating, he says, in advo- © ‘ng “like Socialists and Commun- ict renegades that it is not necessary to fight against the oppression of Mogroes.” Tot me patiently explain again: 1 was talking of all races. In this mired up country the race problem is a major one in the labor move- ment. All the races are at each other's throats, and the bosses fan the flames, The Irish in America are discriminated against; the Jews, the Swedes, the Japanese. Everyone in America is tainted by wee-preju- dices at one time or another. And in the Communist movement there are traces of it, too. It has created a certain amount of self-consciousness in the relations between the racial units of the Party. have heard anti-semitic sentiments a well-known Communist, for ance. ‘They were unconscious, for several years as co-editor of the Liberator, and we dealt with the Ne-| gro problem before the Party had] |fully awoke to it. I don’t need Comrade Anon to tell) me to “jump at the throat of those | | who discriminate against Negroes.” What throats has he, an anonymous hero, jumped at? And, of course, the Party is the | leader of the oppressed races. course, one must fight bitterly in defense of the Negro worker—to the uttermost limit, But only a conscious slanderer could find a basis in my paragraph | for anything to the contrary. Being Personal. I may be too “personal and sub- | jective’ as Comrade Anon charges, | but it is better to be that way openly, than to disguise one’s per- sonal malice in the form of an “ob- jective” heresy-hunt like Comrade Anon’s. I am attempting a humor- | ous and literary column in the Daily | Worker. Some people think it should | be written in the style of the sterile | | pedants, the comma-hunters and in- |grown cultists, whose dead hand has jpeen so dangerous to the movement. I am trying to write simply. I am |trying to be “human and casual,” so that some outsiders may be per- suaded that Communism isn’t the exclusive property of a little cult speaking a peculiar jargon. IT am sure to make many minor} deviations, but they are not worth an |@nonymous theorist’s study. Let him study the new attitude in the Soviet Union toward literary men; they are not watched like prisoners for devia- tions, but are given some creative w) freedom. As long as their funda- mental loyalty is sound, they are trusted. But, Comrade Anon doesn’t | trust me; his letter is not a comrade- ly disagreement but the spiteful at- tack of a foe. Why it was printed with an edi- torial note of approval, is also an- other of theses deep mysteries, I will never understand 4 i | to place orders immediately for the ee ec a Senna canine memmeEte Fiat iAe £ oe —By ie ck SOVIET UNION ep the following declaration to the Jap- »— anese ambassador in Moscow: | “According to reliable information received by the Soviet government, the Manchukuo authorities, under in- | structions from the Japanese gov- |ernment, propose the nearest days, unilaterally, to carry out the various changes in the management of the Chinese Eastern Railway, completely | breaking the established order, par- ticularly proposing by this course the violation of the rights of the Soviet manager, placing the latter practi- cally under the dependence of a Manchukuoan assistant. “The Manchukuo authorities, un- der the instructions of the Japanese government, also outline various po- lice measures against Soviet em- ployees of the Chinese Eastern Rail- way. “The Soviet government has em- powered me to give its warning that the carrying out of these or similar | measures at Harbin, violating the | existing status of the railway by es- | tablished agreements, shall be re- garded by the Soviet government as a fact contradictory to the obliga- | tions undertaken by the Tokio and} Mukden governments and qualified | as an unpardonable attempt of seizure Soviet Purchases of| Copper, Cotton, Held ‘Back Pending Credit. Immediate e Placing of | Orders .Await Gov't Action on Credits NEW YORK, Sept. 22.— Al- though the Soviet Union is ready purchase of $20,000,000 worth of copper, the present negotiations between American and Soviet rep- resentatives may fall through be- cause of lack of credit facilities, it was reported today. The Reconstruction Finance Cor- poration is negotiating credits for Soviet purchases, it was reported, but the copper producers are not| satisfied with the present arrange-| ments. | Soviet proposals for the imme- diate purchase of 500,000 bales of cotton are also being held up be- cause of inadequate government credit faciliti The extension of normal com- mercial eredit by the Government o float Soviet purchases would enable many American manufac- turers to sell their present stock of “surplus” goods, with the conse- quent employment of American workers, it was pointed out. Tries Suicide by Hunger to Give Family Insurance DETROIT, Mich.—With relief denied him and his family by the city and with no chance of finding any work, Walter Sleda, 26 years old, decided to go on a hunger strike. He decided to starve to death so that his wife and two little babies could collect the $2,000 insurance on him. “I can’t support my wife and children properly, and since I can’t I'm better off dead. At least my wife®- will have the money from my insur- ance,” the worker remarked when taken to Receiving Hospital. “I’m tired of tramping the streets looking for a job,” he continued. “For the last four months I’ve been going from one automobile factory to an- other looking for work, and I can’t find any.” Sleda had worked in Ford’s River Rouge plant from 1926 until 1929. Then together with tens of thousands of other auto workers he was thrown out of a job. In search of a means to make a living for himself and family, he found a job on a farm in Sanilac County near Sandusky, Mich. But even this job is now gone and the family has been without any means for over four months, Sold Furniture to Feed Family ‘All I could do was bring my family back to Detroit,” he said. “My par- ents live on a farm near Bad Axe, but they are poor themselves, and can’t help me support my family. “T sold our furniture and our auto- mobile,” he explained, “and we lived on that money for awhile, but it is all gone now. I don’t care what hap- pens. I don’t want to go on as J am} now, just existing. My wife and chil- dren might as well have the benefit of my $2,000 insurance policy.” - Sleda’s wife, Stella, is 24. Their children are Robert, two years. old, and Richard, seven months. The fam- ily was living with Joseph Koperski at 17,203 Eureka Ave. Koperski him- Self has three children and is de-| pendent on welfare. He has shared his welfare order with the Sleda fam- ily. Forceful Feeding When Sleda was on the fast for nearly a week, the doctor was called and he was taken to the hospital. There the doctors gained a “victory.” Sleda was forcibly fed by injections of egg nog as well as saline and glu- cose solutions. The forcible feeding will make it possible for Sleda to re- cover. ‘The young auto worker will then be released from the hospital to return to his wife and children and starve together with them. Cent Slash in Vet Veterans With a Cut of $36,600,000 WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—As a re- sult of economies instituted in the Veterans Administration of the Roosevelt government, war veterans will have their insurance policy divi- dends slashed 53 per cent, Aboué 613,000 veterans are affected by the order. $3,600,000. The United States Army has just been granted $54,000,000 for equip- ment in addition to the regular Army budget appropriation of $295,900,000. Mayors’ Conference Faces Relief Problem CHICAGO, ILL., Sept. 22.—Mayors of 180 cities are meeting here to dis- cuss the acute relief situation fac- ing their municipalities this winter. Two Federal officials, Harry Hop- kins, Federal Relief Administrator, and Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of In- terior and Public Works Administra- tor, will address the mayors tomor- row. Who Set Fire to the Reichstag Building? 1 “Nazis Led Picked Band of Storm Troopers) Thru Tunnel from Goering’s House” The first article of this series, published yesterday, outlined the political background im Germany on the eve of the fire and showed how the Reichstag fire was the signal for an unprecedented reign of Fascist terror. Today's article! describes the actual burning of the Reichstag. —Editorial Note. . « * By ROBERT HAMILTON The question, “Who Burned the Reichstag?” now up for a highly one- sided examination before the Leipzig Supreme Court as part of the Nazi's carefully-laid plans for sending Ernst Torgler’ and the three Bulgarian Communists to the headman’s block, | is the core of the entire Reichstag fire frame-up. The cable dispatches from a thot- oughly sifted corps of correspondents in the Leipzig courtroom will give us | only what Nazi Prosecutor Werner and Chief Judge Buenger want the rest of the world to believe. It is all the more necessary, therefore, to | disclose what the investigations of the International Committee for the Vic- | tims of Hitler Fascism and the testi- mony of the London inquiry by the commission of noted international | jurists have brought out regarding | the fire. How the Reichstag is Built The Reichstag building, which took | ten years, 1884-1894 to build, is one of the biggest edifices in Berlin, with | a frontage of 450 fect, culminating in| a dome rising nearly 270 feet above | the ground. The Reichstag chamber | proper is in the center, directly un-| der the dome, with hundreds of) rooms, corridors and auxiliary halls| on all sides. There are five portals or entrance floors, only one of which was open to the general public. Passes were required for entrance to the building, and a twenty-four hour guard was kept at this portal, A subterranean tunnel leads from the Reichstag basement to the offi- cial residence of Captain Goering, Nazi ‘penne of the Reichstag, across the street from the building. This tunnel carries the heating pipes to Goering’s residence from the Reich- stag main heating plant. The Reichstag is such a huge building that hundreds of pounds of inflammable material had to be smuggled into the building, together with hundreds of gallons of gasoline, to set it on fire effectively. How did all that material get into the building. It could hardly have gotten past the watchmen at the only two open portals. The official Nazi ver- sions of the fire, two days later, ex- plained the police failure to capture anyone besides Van der Lubbe at the | scene of the fire, by declaring that. “the other criminals may have been able to escape through the uncer- ground passage which connecis the Reichstag building with the building of the Reichstag’s Speaker.” In other words, the Nazis’ own first version of the fire, (later revised as too compromising) was that the in- cendiaries escaped to the residence of Capt. Goering, head of the Prus- sian Police, Prime Minister of Prus- sia, and one of the chiefs of the Storm Troopers. But Gcering has| a special storm troop of his own,) Detachment G, while his house is Diagram shows passageway between the Reichstag building and the home of the Nazi leader, Herman Goering. TI-~ existence of this pas- sageway supports strongly the charge that the Nazis themselves are responsible for the Reichstag fire last February. (Diacram is from “The Brown Book of Hitler Terror.”) constantly guarded by a special staff guard of thirty troopers. How could | Communist, incendiaries haye es- | thirty armed Nazis? The Gang Enters Thrgugh the Tunnel The truth is that, as the famous Oberfohren Memorandum points out, Lieutenant Heines, Silesian Storm) Troop Leader, Reichstag Deputy and | Chief of Police of Breslau, | picked band of storm troopers through | the tunnel from Goering’s house, where they hed stored the inflamma- ble materials, into the Reichsteg through the tunnel, eaca man carry- ing part of the load into the build- ine. Wan der Lubbe was pari of this | group, and wes taken along to be ihe so-called “Communist” firebrend. | Ee was left behind in the building | as “evidens=” that the Commun’ were the incendiaries when Hein gang escaped through the tunnel again, + Only leading Nazis could have en tered Gcer'ng’s house without at- treop gucrds. build the Nazi incpector of the building. have taken seme time. and the Reichstag was in flames. the Reichstag Fire. Gov't Orders 50 Per ‘InsurancePayments Will Affect 613,000. They will lose about | coped from a residence guarded by) led a, traciing. the suspicion of the storm) @nce in the Reichstag | ¢ there was no danger of dis- covery by the watchmen, for these had been sent home for tho dev by} ¥ istr’buting the incendiary metevlal and pouring gasoline over it must Then the! torch was applied’ at various points Monday—How the Nazis planned Emergency Relief Stops Orders for 40,000 Families’ Doomed to Starvation; Urge Campaign for Jobless Insurance NEW YORK.—Food and clothing dis~ tributed to the unemployed by the Emergency Unemployment Relief Committee to an average of 40,000 families a week was stopped yester- day. Coming on top of the wholesale relief cuts and evictions instituted by the city through the Home Relief Bureaus and the culmination of the Gibson committee, which has also distributed relief, this will add tre- mendously to the misery of the mil- lion and a half jobless in this city. ‘The emergency committee was the recipient of “surplus” government wheat which was later turned into flour. Part of the wheat was bar- ; tered for other staple food articles j and distributed among the jobless. In the beginning of the month pre- dictions were alreaay forthcoming that the committee will exhaust its reserves in a few weeks. Yet no mea- sures were taken by Mayor O’Brien and the city officials to continue re- lief, ‘The Unemployed Councils continu- ally demanded that the city take | steps to assure that no family shall remain without relief. It proposed to | the municipal assembly a Worke: Relief Ordinance beatae mini- mum maintainance allowante” to all jobless, This ordinance would make it mandatory for the city to assure “$7 per- week in casn for each unem- ployed worker and $5 for each de- pendent” with a graduated reduction tor smaller children. The ordinance 1s conditional pend- ing the adoption of federal unem- | ployment insurance, The precarious condition of the unemployed with the | constant menace that even the starv- ation relief will stop, makes it nezss- ‘sary to develop a wide movement to |force the government to adopt un- | employment insurance. L. A. Hunger March te Be Held Oct. 2 for Jobless Insurance | LOS ANGELES, Calif., Sept. 22— Sunny Califomnia, playground for the rich end lend of starvetion for | the un will [hunger march on Osi eecision was reached at a cen! ing 60.457 workers, vos atended by 233 delegates from | 143. organizations. f | state unemployment insurance and) gave its encorsement to the Federal | Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, A telesram supporting the Cuban | Comrade Hamilton's serics of articles on the Reichstaz fire is teri-! conta‘ned in the “Brown Beok on the Re'chstzg Fire and Hitler Terror,” pubtiched by the Internationz! Committce for the Victims of Hitler Fascism, and upon information gathered from German refugees in several cap- itals of Europe. workers in their struxg’e againct | lutions deviandin Tom Mooney, S militant unemp! } here. Fifty sdollars was col:ected imme- diately to print leaflets for the coun- ty hunger march. A good representation of Mexican workers at the conference assured a large number of these oppressed workers as participants in the march. ed workers in jail Will “fake Demand | The conference, cvatted a bill for) imperialism was aoe Also Teso- et CHARGES JAPAN SEEKS TO SEIZE CHINESE EASTERN R. R. Issues Sharp Note Accusing Japanese of Using Puppet Rulers in Manchukuo By VERN SMITH. (Special Cable to the Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, Sept. 22.—Charging that the Japanese government, through | its puppet rulers in Manchuokuo was attempting to seize the Chinese Eastern Railway, the Soviet Government today issued a sharp note to the Tokio | authorities and the Japanese ambassador in Moscow. | The Soviet Vice-Commissar of Foreign Affairs, Sokolnikov, today made ee ee of the railway. “The Soviet government is of the opinion that the direct responsibility of these violations $ills on the Jap- anese government, “Not Manchukuo, which !s power Jess and unable to answer for the j events in Manchuria, but the Jap- anese government, the actual master in Manchuria, must bear the direct responsibility of all violations of agreements of the Chinese Eastern Railway, and also the seizure of the railway which is being prepared.” The Soviet ambassador in Japan, ‘Tmurenev, was instructed to make the same statement to, the Japanese government at Tokio, 2A Lae New York RED PRESS BAZAAR —FOR— @ Daily Worker @ Morning Freiheit ® Young Worker . 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