The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 4, 1933, Page 8

Page Right Deily.<Norker “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper FOUNDED 1924 Published daily, except Sunday, by the sity o,, Inc., 50 Hast 13th Street,’ New 3 ¥ ‘Telephone: ALgonguin 4 Cable Address: “Daiwork,” New York, N Washington Bureau: F m4. ON ess Building, tan and C, &., Washi t SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1933 ight in s coun- K to Be for we How can we end the insanity o! amidst plen adly been answered. 16 These nts of Russia in 1917, The workers and pe: years ago, faced with the same questions found the answer They gave the answer in the revolutionary overth of c », the smashing c the cap e, the seizure of the factories and the setting up of the p of the working class. le, sacrifice, mil- and sabotage of capitalist e cn stands for all the world to see a prot of advancing socialist construc- tion, In Soviet Union the toil m ave what the work: n Ami a noi rave bread, work, fre DE reg econo- mic security ) ¢ neing Jeyels of daily | The wo! employ its own ism in t solved it. Are ‘ov et Union oduction are dropp worker are wage d The Ameri By the. revolution y the over- } ‘throw of the Wail Si. capit driving the empio ing class can put a stop t Roosevelt gov- es and food sup- ry working class . the w ers can weep starvation forever out of sut food into -e mouths of every power of , by the sia was also con- and they solved it he capitalist bankers, system for the use . speculators front by Capitalist companies. {) governme litia and Deputy Sheriffs + with mai s to rob the small, ruined farmers of the , Street M strangle them w c y have worked. The Wall ed me farmers. The railroads monopoly rates. In 1917 the peasants of Russia faced a similar situation. They solved their problems by uniting with the revolutionary working class of the cities in the struggle to overthrow capitalism. They » drove off the Iandlerds and the mortgage holders. Today, the farmers of Russia are achieving Soci- alist triumphs of collectivization. Their income, their standards of living, their cultural level is rising faster than among any farming class in the world. Is the Roosevelt government getting ready to send the workers of America into another bloody imperialist slaughter in order to protect the profits of Wall Street? | Then the workers can stop this too, by overthrowing ‘Whe Wall Street government of Roosevelt, and putting 4n its place the proletarian dictatorship. Only revo- Tution against capitalism can abolish war. In 1917 “that’s how the Russian workers endea the czar’s im- Perialist war against German imperialism. . .These are the two roads, the road of submission to ‘capitalist exploitation, or the road of revolutionary class | “struggle for the overthrow of capitalism and capital- ~ist-class rule. e.iMhe one leads to starvation and misery, to deeper crisis, to war and fascism. \ ome revolutionary way of the Soviet workers leads mty, to ending all unemployment, hunger and oe crisis forever. We can end the crisis and its “miseries, can end exploitation and wage slavery, by ‘i the revolutionary road, the road pointed by the junist Parties of the world, the road that the Rus- workers showed us sixteen years ago. we “Forward on the road of Proletarian Revolution! After Sixteen Years HING worries the Roosevelt regime more than the Y expectations of a good harvest. The logic of capi- lism is such that the greater the prospects for more the greater the certainty of hunger for the E In the Soviet Union, greater harvest, more produc- of all goods, increased housing facilities, evokes ) greatest joy. Socialist economy means production use, production to improve the conditions of the What cannot be first turned into profit under lism cannot become food and useable goods. he last harvest in the U.S.S.R., one of the most ous in the history of the country (due mainly \ DAILY _WORBERS to the industrial and agrarian advances under the. first Five-Year Plan and the first year of the Second Five-Year Plan) meant a direct improvement in the conditions of the workers, Every year, since the inauguration of the Five-Year Plan, there has been a steady improvement in the con- ditions of the people in the Soviet Union. An index of the improvement in food supplies is ven by the grain loadings for 1932 and 1933. In 3,500 to 4,000 cars of grain were loaded daily dur- the harv In 1933, the figure had Jumped from 8,000 to 9,000 cars daily with some days reaching as high as 12,000. But that is only one g-uge of the improvement of conditions of the masses in the Soviet Union. first of January, 192° to the latter part of t, 386,538 animals were distributed to collective nts for the breeding of huge herds of animals for food Besides, the general improvement the national food At the Amo auto and factory, h serves as as example of what is ppening in thor s of other places, a livestock farm of 11,000 acres was allotted. A truck garden with over 600 acres was put Into service for the factory workers with 5,000 hot house beds. In addition to this, 36 huge houses which accommodate about 5,500 workers and engineers has just been completed, and four more buildings are nearly completion. nt For 1933, under the Second Five-Year Plan, wages are rising, and are scheduled to rise 9 per cent over 1932 OMPARE this to the figures of the National Industrial Council in the United States which show a 7 per cent cut in real wages in the United States for 1933. n the Soviet Union every basis exists for a rapid increase in the standard of living of the masses, the United States every factor is working for a lowering of living standards of the toiling population. ally and culturally, the conditions of life of those ‘living in the land of the victorious proietarian revolution are improving. They have complete social surance, state medical facilities, opportunities for the st educational advances. Illiteracy has been prac- wiped out in the country which under czarism | Was an example of the darkest mass illiteracy. As against the villanous murder of nearly 300 work- in Roosevelt's forced labor camps, and the injury to 000, and the forced detention of normal workers only crime is thet they cannot find work, let us to the testimony of Soviet treatment of crim- inals and degenerates. A delegate of the British Inde- pendent Labor Party and of the Labor Party that visited Moscow in September of this year, after viewing the in- stitution at Lybertsy, declared: er: “Here we saw criminals and waifs, seeming degenerates being turned into good honest workers by reason of humane treatment, education and the realization that the people had faith in their power of reformation, “The workers’ conditions are beyond reproach, and the special children’s quarters are excellent. “Such a place is impossible elsewhere in the world, and will remain so until the proletarian revolution is achieved in other countries.” Such a change in living conditions which the work- ers and peasants in the Soviet Union have achieved in contrast to their conditions under czarism, and the certainty of a rapid improvement of their conditions far beyond the conditions of the workers in the most “advanced” capitalist countries, can bt achieved only by the proletarian revolution and the transformation of society into a Socialist order. Some Plain Speaking ys are we at in the Daily Worker’s $40,000 drive? It is not now sufficient to state that the cam- paign is lagging dangerously. Neither is it sufficient to say that less than $19,- 000 has been raised after almost two full months’ effort. It is necessary poor showing. to fix the responsibility for the . . * ‘OME comrades declare that the fault lies in the office of the Daily Worker itself. They say our appeals have been weak as compared with the past. They state that we have not convinced the workers and the other friends of the paper that we really need the money. True, comrades! We tried to avoid many of our past methods. We tried to avoid the threaten- ing and oftentimes hysterical note that served as the center of past campaigns. We tried to convince rather than frighten. This undoubtedly created the impression—a false impression—that our need for funds was less urgent than in the past. This no doubt weakened the response. But we feel that our present methods are better, and in the long run more effective. This is not the real source of the slow response in the drive, ° y Paes real fault lies in the poor work of the District and section committees of the Party, and of the Party fractions in the mass organizations. More specifically it lies in their failure to really ORGANIZE and DRIVE FORWARD the campaign for funds. Four Districts stand out with relatively good re- sults,—District 1 (Boston) with 82 per cent of its quota; District 12 (Seattle) with 66 per cent; District 3 (Philadelphia) with 60 per cent; Distries 7 (Detroit) with 53 per cent. All other Districts are impermissibly lagging be- hind, many of them far behind. . . But the responsibility for the present extremely dangerous situation rests mainly with two Districts and with the Party fraction in one mass organization, ‘These are: DISTRICT 2 (New York) with a quota of $20,000 (one-half of the total) and returns to date of only abont $8,000. DISTRICT 8 (Chicago) with = quota of 35,000 and returns to date of less than $1,500. The Party fraction in the INTERNATIONAL WORKERS ORDER with a quota of $8,000 and returns to date of about $1,500. These three shirkers have a combined quota of $33,000—a quota fixed by previous agreement in ac- cordance with their membership and influence, they are responsible for the slow response, . * Ww deal with this situation openly and speak bluntly because an immediate change is necessary if the Daily Worker is to live. ‘The leading Party comrades in Districts TWO and EIGHT and in the LEADING FRACTION of the I. W. O., in the spirit of the Open Letter, are respon- sible for the success of the $40,000 drive. We have a right to expect that these comrades will take such measures as are necessary—and at once — to raise their quotas Dew YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1933 eS S. Ball Bearing Workers Hail Opening of 1 Moscc OW Plant Which Ends Soviet Ball Bearing Imports Court Excludes | Dimitroff Again | From Own Trial |Exiled Communists to Be Called for Fire Trial (Special to the Daily Worker) | AT THE GERMAN FRONTIER, | Nov. 3 (Via Zurich, Switzerland). |—Readmitted to today’s reading of | his own trial after having been ex- | cluded for a day, George Dimitroff, | Bulgarian Communist defendant in | the Reichstag fire trial in Berlin was again ordered kept from the | hearing today, this time for three | days. This new effort of the presiding judge to silence the fiery Bulgarian | who has consistently exposed the frame-up character of the evidence came when Dimitroff showed the | prosecutor up as a wilful falsifier. Witnesses from Moscow had just been heard, who testified that Bla~ goi Popoff, another of the Com- | ‘s TWO SYSTEMS! munist defendants, had been in | Moscow at a time when he was alleged to have been in Berlin. Attempting to refute a statement? by Dimitroff, the prosecuting at-| torney sarcastically remarked that | he did not believe Dimitroff when | he said that married women were | allowed to retain their maiden names in the Soviet Union—a uni- |versally known fact of Soviet law. “You still have much to learn,” | was Dimitroff’s answer. | The prosecutor demanded that Dimitroff be punished for this re- mark, and the judge ordered him excluded from his own trial for the next three days. At the opening of today’s ses- sion, the presiding judge announced that a number of witnesses de- manded by the defense would be called, including two Communi deputies, Kasper and Kerf, who are now in concentration camp, Maria Reese, Communist deputy, who tes- | tified at the London hearing, Otto | Kuehne, secretary of the Commu- nist Party, who is also abroad, and others. Asks Evidence on Van der Lubbe Dimitroff demanded that wit- | nessnesses be brought to prove that | Van der Lubbe was not a member or in the service of the Dutch Com- munist Party. The witnesses he asked for were De Visser, of the Dutch Party, and Albada and Wink, Dutch renegades from the Commu- nist Party whose depositions were falsified by Detective Heisig. Mrs. Weiss, a political refugee from Bulgaria in Moscow and her mother, Mrs. Angora, came from Moscow to testify that Popoff was in the Soviet Union at a time when Nazi witnesses had said they had seen him in Berlin. Popoff had further evidence consisting of re- ceipted bills from his boarding house and the university he attend- ed in Moscow. Nazi Witness Falters A man named Mischalsky, owner | of a resturant opposite the Soviet embassy in Berlin, was brought to the stand to testify that he had seen Dimitroff and Vassil Taneff, the other Bulgarian Communist de- fendant, at the Soviet embassy in 1932. Taneff took the stand and declared he was in Bulgaria until October, 1932, and then in Moscow until February of 1933, and de- manded that the court call for his passport and verify the visa stamps. A waiter employed by Mischalski tried to support his employer’s evi- eSure R, The original drawing of the above cartoon| | Gold, ie Luttinger, Ed. Newhouse and Helen will go to the largest $40,000 Daily Worker I win Le EES competi ion contribution ve in helping Burck to the wetibeen Mike Luke to raise $1,000 toward the fund through their departments. U.S. Anti-War League to Send Delegate to Cuba Trade Union Unity League Calls for Support of All Unions for Anti-I Cuban Capitalists Strive to Unite Against Workers BombsExplodeasGrau Confers With Opposition HAVANA, Nov. 3.—The frantic efforts of the Grau San Martin’ government and representatives of | the other reactionary grou Cuba to unite on a policy face of the increasingly militant upsurge of the Cuban masses were punctuated by shots and bomb ex- plosions in Havana today. The government named a com- mission of four to work out a pro- gram of conciliation with the most penehonney, elements of the Cuban eapitalist-landlord groups, who are demanding an_ intensification of Grau’s methods of bloody suppres- sion of the working class. Terroristic reactiona: groups continued their provocations, in- tended to force Grau to make polit- dence, but confused Taneff with Popoff. ical concessions to them, by ex- ploding: bombs in various parts of NEW YORK.—J. B, Matthews, chairman of the American League Against War and Fascism, will go ‘as the League’s member of the American delegation to Cuba which leaves Noy. 9, under the auspices of \the Anti-Imperialist League, it was announced yesterday. The sending of a delegate was de- cided on by the U. S. Congress | Against War, which created the American League Against War and | Fascism to carry on its work. On his return he will go on a na- tional tour, organizing local and re- gional branches of the League and reporting on what he saw in Cuba. The National Executive Bureau of the Trade Union Unity League the city. One person was killed and five injured when a bomb ex- | ploded in a bakery. Another bomb anes one person, mperialist Delegation yesterday appealed to all militant unions throughout the country to help make it possible to include two active members of revolutionary trade unions, George Powers and Henry Shepard, in the delegation to Cuba, by raising funds and sending them to Room 238, 80 E. 11th St., New York. To help cover the expenses of sending Joe Thomas, delegate of the youth section of the Trade Union Unity Council, a Cuban dance will be held tonight at the Anti-Imperial- ist League headquarters, 83 E. 20th St., for which many entertaining features have been arranged. The address was given as 33 E. 10th St. by error in_ yesterday's Daily Worker. Tomorrow is Red Sunday for ob- taining signatures to a petition to President Roosevelt, demanding hands off Cuba. and nullification of the Platt Amendment. By PAUL NOVICK Beware of Araki Talking “Peace”! On October 10 the War Minister of Japan, General Sadao Araki, sum- moned a Far Eastern conference for the purpose of establishing “peace” in the Orient. Whenever a representative of & capitalist government begins to talk “peace,” it is a sure sign that the same government is intensifying its preparations for WAR. An ARAKI calling for “peace” is a distinct sign of the APPROACHING WAR in the Far East. What is the background of Araki’s “peace” talk? Ever since the Japanese militarists began their “undeclared” war on China through the seizure of Muk- den, capital of Manchuria, two years ago, there have been innumerable signs of the preparations of Japan to confiscate the Chinese Eastern Rail- way, Which is half-owned by the Soviet Union, as a prelude to @ mili- tary campaign for the purpose of an- nexing the Soviet Maritime Province and the entire Far Eastern district. ‘The war preparations of Japan in the Far East have beoome particularly visible in recent months through the numerous acts of provocation on the part of the Japanese militarists and the puppet’ Manchurian government against the Soviet Union. So much so, that capitalist writers have been forced to admit the imminence of an anti-Soviet war in the Far East. “New Storm Brewing” “A new storm is brewing in the Far East which may rock the world,” declared the foreign editor of the Scripps-Howard press syndicate, Wil- liam Phillip Simms, in an article on July 13. And it will suffice to men- tion only a few of the provocative acts and of the strategic moves of Japanese militarism since that date to realize that the brewing storm is now approaching the boiling point. 1, On July 27 the press carried dispatches from Harbin announcing the completion by the Japanese gov- ernment of a new strategic line run- ning from Hailun, in Northern Man- choria. to Tahetho. a point on the Ty apan’s Plans for Attack on Soviet Union Now Complete — Provocations Grow Daily Amur River right opposite the im- portant Soviet city of Blagoveschensk. In the language of the capitalist journalists, this line points like a dagger in the direction of the Trans- Siberian Railway, which the Japanese militarists hope to cut immediately upon starting their anti-Soviet drive. 2. In conjunction with this new strategic line it has been revealed that the Japanese militarists have completed four “well-protected routes” for carrying men and am~- munition across Manchuria and Korea to the Soviet Far East: (a) from the port of Seishin, Korea, via Changchung and Harbin to Taheiho; (b) from the port of Fusan, Korea, to Seishin and along the same route; (c) from the same port via the Muk- den line; (d) from Port Arthur, Man- churia, along the South Manchurian line towards Harbin and the new line. With the aid of all these means of communication, Japanese militarism can easily mass an army of one mil- lion soldiers along the Soviet frontier. Secret Japanese Forts 3. Japanese militarism is building, or has already completed, airdromes in Harbin, Tsitsihar, Ninguta and other points in Northern Manchuria. On the Sungari River a river fleet has been established. Forts are be-~ ing built, or have already been com- pleted, along the Chinese Eastern Railway. 4. A most recent provocation is the arrest of Soviet officials of the Chinese Eastern Railway in the be- ginning of the past month. On Oc- tober 11, dispatches told of 300 Soviet employees engaged in the construc- tion of a new railroad at Peianchang, Northern Manchuria, who were dis- charged by Manchukuoan authorities and replaced by Russian White Guardists. These are but a few of the most important acts of provocation and of preparation for war which have com~ pelled the Soviet Vice-Commissar of Foreign Affairs, Sokolnikov, to send his sharp note to Japan, wherein the Tokio Government was told: “Not Manchukuo, which 1s powerless and unable to answer for the events in Manchuria, but the Japanese Gov- ernment, the actual master in Man- churia, must bear the direct respon- sibility of all violations of agree- ments of the Chinese Eastern Rail- way, and also the seizure of the rail- way which is being prepared.” This note was followed by the publication in Moscow of four secret documents showing clearly that the Japanese Government is responsible for the provocations in Manchuria. The secret documents consist of three confidential reports sent by the Japanese General Hisikari, who is the “ambassador” of Japan in Man- churia and Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese army there, to the Min- ister of Foreign Affairs in Tokio, and of.one confidential report of the Jap- anese Consul General Morisima in Harbin to the aforesaid Hisikari. These documents spoke of plans laid out at secret conferences between these and other, Japanese military representatives and officials of the puppet Manchukuoan Government, for raiding residences and clubs of Soviet workers and officials of the Chinese Eastern Railway, for arrest- ing a number of these officials, etc. ‘The plans of these conferences which took place in September were exec- uted during that month and the be- ginning of October. Numerous Soviet officials have been arrested, homes and clubs have been searched, and various other indignities have been committed against U.S.S.R. officials. White Guardists Mobilized The answer of the Japanese Gov- ernment to these revelations (the Soviet Government, according to the Moscow Pravda, is in possession of more documents which it threatens ‘ Brewing Eastern Storm Will Rock the World feo publish) was to mobilize bands of White Guardists under the leadership of the infamous Czarist hooligan, Semenoff, and to intensify prepara~ tions for an attack on the Soviet Mongolian frontier with the aid of the Mongolian “princes.” (The well known Tanaka Memorandum of 1927 points out the strategic importance of attacking the U.S.S.R. through In- ner and Outer Mongolia). But there was another strategic move on the part of the Japanese Government in answer to the pub- lished documents—the “peace” pe ference called by Araki... COMPLETES THE PLAN FOR THE ATTACK! Defend the Soviet Union ‘The coming celebration of the Six- teenth Anniversary of the October Revolution must therefore assume the added importance of mobilizing the workers against the looming attack on the Soviet Union, for the defense of the Soviet Union. ‘The rise of Hitler Fascism, which is openly talking of annexing Soviet Ukraine and is cooperating with the Japanese Government in its war pre- parations, the new huge military budget of the Japanese militarists, who are in complete control of the Government of Japan, and the bloody record of these militarists in Man- churian and in China; the new be- trayal ‘of ‘Chiang “Kai-shek, who made peace with the Japanese ag- gressors in order to be able again to attack the Soviet Districts of China and in order .to -free completely ‘the the attack on the Soviet Union—all this hightens the danger. call must be sounded: Workers! achievements of October! the world —By Burek| hands of. the. Japanese. militarists. for]. . The Soviet Government, through the sixteen years of its existence, has warded off more than one attack with the aid of the workers of the cap- italist countries who came to its de- fense. In the face of the acute danger in the Far East, the clarion To the defense of the To the defense of the First Workers’ and Farmers’ Republic, the fatherland of toilers! USSR Independent But Not Isolated Says Kaganovich ye es Says Soviet Success Cheers Victims p Ti ‘ of Fascism | a By VERN SMITH MOSCOW, Nov. 3. (By Cable The Kaganovich ball bearing plant in Moscow, which has made the whole tractor industry of the Soviet Union independent of foreign ime ports of ball bearings, is now in @ | position te free the whole of the | Soviet motorcar industry from the need of imported ball-bearings as well. ‘The second half of the plant was opened yesterday, in a ceremony ate tended by L. M. Kaganovich, secre- tary of the Moscow district of the Communist Party, after whom the plant is named; by G. K. Ordjoni- kidze, commissar of heavy industry, by the regional and city Soviet lead- ers, by Staffsky and Gladkov, Soviet authors, with Bodrov, director of the plant, in the presidium. The factory paper features greet- ings sent to the workers of the Kaganovich plant by workers of the Tinken Ball Bearing plant in Ame erica, which were transmitted by the Daily Worker. ‘The new addition to the plant adds 2,000 new machines, making a total of 5,000, and brings the staff of workers up te 15,000. It will produce a total of 4,000,000 bearings during the next year. The first section of the plant Was put into operation in March of last year, and turned out a quality of bearings whi- American engineers declared to be higher, due to a more carefn! inspection, than the standard quality of American-made ball bears ings. Thousands of Workers Guesta, ‘The celebration began in the morn- ing with a meeting of the children of the workers in the factory. At three, thousands of shogk brigaders, guests from other factories, inspected the new plant. Afier a banquet 7,000 shockbrigade guests and the best workers of the plant held a meeting which ended up with a concert and a theatrical performance by the lead- ing actors of Moscow. Every new machine bore a red flag, and the grounds of the plant and been landscaped, with rows of fir ttees newly planted. The road to the plant was panned by a triumphal arch representing machines and bearings. The whole plant was turned into a dance hall, and the workers, with un- bounded enthusiasm, danced in all the corridors to the music of: ace cordions and pianos. “Example Encourages Millions Under Fascism.” Kaganovich and Ordjonikidze re- ceived a tremendous ovation when they appeared. “This second half of the plan means our independence from foreign importations, but it does not mean isolation,” Kaganovich de- clared. He expressed the hope that in the future world of socialist countries each country will specialize in its own best products. “But today we are still surrounded by capitalist countries, each competing with each other. While one starves, the other is destroying food. The crisis is pushing each capitalist coun= try to ever greater isolation and arm= aments, “It 1s not enough for us to have political power. We must have the factories and industry which make that power strong. Warning to Enemies of U.S.S.R. “Our example is encouraging -mil- lions who are suffering in the grip of Fascism. Tomorrow they will be victorious, and following the path which we have blazed.” o “The successes of this factory are typical of the whole industry of the Soviett Union,” said Ordena, “In a few days we celebrate the sixe teenth anniversary of the October Revolution. These sixteen years are a whole epoch of a new society, reared by a new kind of man, “We declare to the whole world that we are peacefully working. We give the peasant tractors instead of his wooden plow. But, gentlemen.of the Far East or West, don’t interfere with our peaceful labor, or you ‘will find the whole millions of our people rally as one man, every worker #@ de- fend his factory, every collective far mer to defend his collective.” Mussolini to Hand “ Industrial Control To Big Capitalists ROME, Nov. 3.—Premier Musso- lini today announced a drastic re- organization of the Fascist political system intended to meet the powes crisis and the resistance of the Ii ian workers by handing over control of the national economy to the big- gest industrial. groups. Under this plan which will be in- augurated after Christmas, the F. cist parliament will be dissolved and its functions given over to a body of representatives of 50 “guilds.” British Labor Party: . Gains 261 New Seats ‘LONDON, Novy, 3.—Total gains of British Labor Party candidates in‘the English and Weish municipal elec- tions in which one-third of the coun- cilmen aze voled for, come to.,261 seats, with only 19 seats lost, servatives and independents together lost 208 seats, and Liberals 34, These figures mark the radicalization of‘the British workers, who have followed the radical demagogy of the Labor repreesntatives in their effort to”: ‘find a way out of the crisis, on Reatees Vets zo _—s a