The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 20, 1933, Page 6

PORTO entero: 3 Page Six “America’s Only Working Claes Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1984 Published Gaity, except Sunday, by the Comprodaiiy Pubrivnins @., Inc., 50 Bast 18th Street, New York, B. ¥. Telephone: Algonguin ¢-7956. Onble Address: *Datwork,” New Yoru, F. % | Washington Bureau: Room 984, Mationsl Pree Swhding, I4th and G, St., Washington, D.C. Subscription Rates: | DAILY WORKER, phasis to the proof already presented by the “Daily Worker” that they are in league with the Ku Klux Klan and other terrorist groups in preparing a bloody pogrom against the boys and their defenders. wea is behind this hideous conspiracy against the lives of these innocent boys and their defenders? The Alabama lynch lords, although in full control of the machinery of capitalist justice, are in deadly fear that the world-wide defense, which four times wrested the Scottsboro boys from their bloody hands, will ultimately defeat the plans of the lynch courts. The lynch lords have seen the toiling masses of the whole world rallying to the defense of the Scottsboro Boys and of the oppressed Negro People. They have seen NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1933 Soviet Strengthened By U.S. Recognition Cite Gain for U.SS.R. Peace Policy; See Japan Curbed | ‘World Press Sees! “THE STATE IS READY, YOUR HONOR.” Attorney General THOS. E. KNIGHT —By Burek Capitalist Press | | | ‘Daily’ Buro Shows | Says 3rd International }| Not Mentioned in | Document & LONDON, Ni 19.—A: {Continued from Page 1) y . # rn , Nov, 19.—American rec-| | i By Mail: (ousept Manhattan and Bronz), = veer, (800 | the masses indignantly reject the original Scottsboro ognition of the Soviet Union was| Bee rear 6 months, $8.50; 3 months, $2.00: hb 1 : | 7 Manhattan, Bromx, Forsign and ds: % year, 9.00; | lynch verdicts, sentencing eight of the boys to burn in | hailed as a realistic action and an | viet representative in Washington, 6 months, $8.00; 3 months 93.00. | the eleciric chair. They have seen the innocence of | outstanding achievemen’ of the | sat smiling happily. By Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, % conte | the boys proved in the Decatur trial, at which Ruby | Roosevelt regime by the London MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1993 Recognition of the U.S.S. R. and American Tooiling Masses, (Continued from Page 1) Petialism. It is part of M, and the reverse site of the medal. We can see now in the tremendous and wholehearted approval among the vast majority of the American peopie for the recognition of the U. 8. 8S. R. that the ftascist-minded leaders of the American Federation of Labor clearly do not speak for the millions of their Members with regard to their attitude towards the Soviet Union. Victorious U. S. S. R. Peace Policy iT IS clear to these most blinded by their hatred of the victorious proletarian revolution that recognition of the Soviet Union is being greeted with the pro- foundest sympathy and deepest enthusiasm among the rank and file of the A. F. of L., as it it among all the toiiers in the United States. ‘The day after recognition was extended, on the oc- casion of Roosevelt’s speech in Savannah, Georgia, the greatest and most prolonged applause was given to the mention of the fact of Soviet recognition. For these reasons it becomes the tasks of all of the enemies of the Soviet Union to hide the basic facts Jeading to recognition with a barrage of misrepresenta- tion and lies. They do not want to admit the weaknesses of Amer- lean capitalism that moved it to grant recognition. They do not want the workers to continue their sympathy for the Soviet Union to the extent where they become fully conscious of the contrast of the failure of the capitalist way out of the crisis and follow the revolutionary way » as exemplified by the living example of the Soviet jon. Press Hides Reasons for Recognition. | te ‘his moment of one of the greatest triumphs of the victorious, proletarian revolution, the American italist press goes to extreme lengths to hide its verful significance, e reversal of the traditional and vaunted policy of United States, the corroding advance of the economic crisis in the capitalist lands, are so obvious sses could not be deluded with the cries of socialism. ater the fact of the radicalization of the sses in all capitalist countries, the Amer- italist press tries to read into the recognition ions meanings that do not exist there. The same conditions contained in the letters exchanged between Mexim Litvinoff, for the Soviet Union, and President Roosevelt for the United States, underlie the establish- mient of relations between other capitalist countries and have been the routine conditions for the past ten years. HE success of recognition, which the workers through- Bates fearlessly retracted her original testimony against the boys. They have heard the angry thunder of protest which swept over the world when the grinning all-white jury returned last Palm Sunday a death verdict against Haywood Patterson. And for what purpose? To teach the Negro masses, who are becoming increasingly more militant, a bloody lesson. To fling the charred bodies of nine innocent boys and their defenders into the face of the Negro People and the white workers rallying to their defense! In the words of those who are organizing a massacre of the boys and their defenders, the Negro masses are “becoming cocky and too damned uppity!” ‘The Negro masses, assured of the support of broad strata of the white toilers, mobilized against the lynchers by the Communist Party and the Interna- tional Labor Defense, are more and more resisting the attacks of the white ruling class and the devastating effects of the crisis. They are fighting back against starvation and misery, against the lynch wave now raging throughout the country! This struggle is tak- ing the form, not only of spontaneous resistance, but of an organized fight for Negro liberation. In the heart of the Alabama terror, over 500 Negro share croppers have offanized into the Share Croppers Union, and twice, with arms in their hands, defended their union against the armed attacks of the landlords and their sheriffs. The white and Negro masses must intensify the fight against lynching, whether legal or extra-legal; for the safe and unconditional release of the Scottsboro Boys. Defend the Scottsboro Boys and the Negro Masses! Demand full protection for the Scottsboro Boys and their attorneys. Deluge President Roosevelt, Governor B. M. Miller, Montgomery, Ala., and Judge W. W. Callahan, Deca- tur, Ala., with protests against the lynch conspiracy! McLevy Sees Roosevelt = McLEVY, newly elected Socialist Mayor of Bridgeport, returned yesterday from his first con- tact with the capitalist magnificence of the White House, where he heard Roosevelt at the conference of ‘Mayors on the latest Government plan to take 4,000,000 off the relief lists and put them to work on forced labor projects. And the new Socialist Mayor is beside himself with joy and admiration at the cunning and loyal tool of Wall Street, who now sits in the White House, Listen to McLevy in his latest statement on Roosevelt: “I think the pian is the best piece of relief work the Roosevelt administration has produced... Roosevelt possesses courage and intelligence to try anew path. This is a splendid thing. He is ener- getically and resourcefully trying to lead us out of the depression. He commands our interest and admiration, I am following his whole program with sympathy. The nation has for long needed some one to take it out of the old and senseless paths.” press. The Sunday Times considers it the week's biggest. news, and de- clares “the political significance of looked by those who. have interests in the Far East.” Commenting on the economic espects. of recognition, the Sunday Times adds: “The N. R. A, organization faces a dire need of expansion of consump- tion to take the goods of producers under the new codes. The agrec- ment therefore sutts both parties.” French Se* Soviet Diplomacy Victorious PARIS, Nov. 19.—Eduoard Herriot, former Premier and recently re- turned from the Soviet Union, de- clares in an article in last evening’s “L'Information” that France cannot afford to ignore this latest develop- states. “He points out that Poland, “one of Russia’s. closest neighbors, enjoys most harmonious relations with the Soviets.” “Le Temps,” semi-official organ, declares: . “Soviet Russia now definitely en- ters the society of world powers that the other powers are capital- ist countries” =. , Japanese Spokesman Says Japan Must for Worst” TOKYO, Noy. 19—The Foreign Of- fice spokesman, commenting on United States recognition of the So- viet Union, declared that Japan must be prepared to meet concerted action by the United States, Soviet Russia and China. The Nippon Dempo Agency quoted the spokesman as interpreting Amer- ica’s resumption of tormal relations with Russia as aimed at restraining Japan’s Far Eastefn policy. He ex- pressed fear that the United States was seeking to stiffen China against Japan's encroachments and demands. There can be na. change in Japanese policy, he said, and Japan must therefore prepate for thé worst. A section of the Japanese bourgeoisie is reported in the press as weteaee “dreams” of Japanese militarists. eee Rome Sees Curb On Japan ROME, Nov. 19.—The Italian press | interprets the U. "5. ‘action as “re- | moving the peril of war in the Far East for the present” and as possibly weakening the League of Nations through the divorcing of the “dis- ence. - : The “Giornaléd'Ttalia” of Rome | the development will not be over-| ment which, he points out, greatly | strengthens the Soviet Union’s policy | of peageful relations with other} and appears to ignore that fact | armament” problem. from its influ-| 4 | | | | ing with a bid of $16.49. Helping the Daily Worker through bidding for the original drawing of Burck’s cartoons: | Unit 12, Section 2, District 2, wins yesterday's draw- Drawing to be presented te Pan-Syrian Club, which is to hold a party at which the drawing will be auctioned off for the Daily Worker. Other bids: Unit 411, Sec. 5, $3. Total to date, $184.62. Nazis Employ New Tactics to Speed (Continued from Page 1) vict them not as the incendiaries of the Reichstag building but as Com- munists whose lives and activities endanger the existence of the terror- istic Fascist state. Defendants Face Death. On Thursday the trial may end ab- ruptly. Dimitroff, Torgler, Popoff and Taneff are now facing death sentence and sudden execution. Dimitroff, at the last Berlin hear- ing, pointed out that according to the indictment the Nazi witness, Grothe, did not even mention Kempner and Singer, Communists, whom Grothe had falsely quoted, until he himself was suspected of participation in the The prosecution refused to permit Dimitroff to question the witness, Dimitroff thereupon moved for a Defendants’ Death ‘Against White By JEROME ARNOLD | NEW YORK. — Swinging clubs, | blackjacks and fists, the New York police united with several thousand Ukrainian white guards Saturday to leave a trail of blood and beatings in the wake of their parade against the Soviet Union, The counter-dem- onstration called by the Friends of the Soviet Union, who have in the past organized many a fight for rec- ognition, was brutally broken up by |the police with the encouragement of the white guards. About eight workers were arrested, the exact number is not known, Many workers were beaten, some so badly that they had to be sent to the hospital for treatment. Time and again police charged the workers, in- dividually and in small groups, who lined the sidewalks along University Pl. and Lexington Ave., slugging, slashing away with their clubs and ‘Many Were Beaten Protesting Guard Parade to counteract their anti-Soviet slo- gans was ruthlessly broken up by po- lice with the incitement and encour- agement of the white guards, The workers, however, marched forward on the sidewalks shouting their slo- gans in defense of the Soviet Union and booing and hissing the paraders. Many times along the line of march, from Washington Sq. to the Central Opera House on 67th St., police charred on the workers, pur- uing them down side streets and into stores. Mounted cops, singling out one or two workers, forced them against a wall where several piainclothesmen rushed forward to finish the job with a beating. At the 54th St. night court, where three workers were taken for trial, police failed to make out a case against them, Edith Segal, the red dancer, and Davia Grotto, were ac- quitted in a very short time. Manual Riviera, .a Spanish worker, was found guilty of hissing and booing, Wear Red Tie There was a buzz of comment en | the Commissar’s red tie as he en- | tered. He §miled amusedly when his | Wife's father’s former status as a Washington wondent was re- called by way of introducing him. | Then he read @ speech, in heavily- accented, precise English, dotted with the broad “a”’s common to those who learn the language in England, The Communist International “How does your agreement with President Roosevelf on propaganda | affect the Third International?” was | the first question. | “The Third International is not | mentioned in this (the recognition) document,” Litvinoff smiled, appa- rently ready for the. question. Then | he -adde ‘ou must not read more |into the document than was in- | tended.” “; | His directness, his warmth and | humor) won immediate response. And his tact so impressed the press | that-even the Nazi, intimating that | he was hedging, smirked afterward: | “He's been taking lessons in answer- ing questions from President Roose- | Veltcr | °“In’the matter of claims waived | by Russia, does that reference to | Siberia include the Archangel expe- dition?” was the second question. | And Litvinoff answered briefly: “No, | Archangel is separate.” | “Will you ararnge for commercial | eredits to Russia before you go?” | “I personally have nothing to do with that.” “Then how will it be handled?” “Through the Amtorg.” hat do you want to buy from us?” several asked at once. “A good many things’—Litvinotf | began to enumerate—“we want to buy | machinery, electrical equipment, met- als, “cotton —— “And wheat?” came an interjec- tion. “Wheat!” Litvinoff exclaimed, per- plexed, then amused. “No, no wheat. We'd Jike to sell you some wheat!” “will a mixed claims commission be set up to handle claims?” “TI don’t think it will be necessary.” “Do you know of anybody in Rus- sia who is disseminating propaganda against this country?” one persisted. “I wish I knew,” Litvinoff joked. “T wish you would give me the names and addresses of such-——” Then from a balcony at the back of the hall a man called down, “Would a Protestant church in America be able to establish branch in Russia?” “There are 40,000 churches in the Union"—and scores of pencils were hastily employed by much-surprised reporters—‘and in Moscow alone there are several hundred.” “Are they well attended?” most clearly expresses this viewpoint, eS 5 1, | fists. And then the workers Were ar-| put received a suspended sentence. Again Litvinoff couldn't resist a out the world will celebrate and greet as a harb- The Roosevelt “relief” plan will drive 2,000,000 | declaring that the increased prestige Senna examination of . Grothe's | rested—charged Ne assault They were defended by Lawyers Tau-| jest He laughed, “I don't know-— Inger of greater advances for the workers of the Soviet | families off the present relief lists. The Socialist Soviet diplomacy-after America’s |" and sisgrderiy:condiich, Union, and the revolutionary proletariat throughout the world, was made possible by the stalwart and bril- iiant leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Party of Lenin and Stalin, a section of the Communist International. Revolutionary Way Out of Crisis. Communist Party of the U. S. A., section of nme it International, points out that the only Mayor McLevy admires Roosevelt for his “intelligence”. The Roosevelt “relief” plan will herd 4,000,000 job- less workers into forced labor camps at coclie wages (little more than $1 a day). McLevy is impressed with Roosevelt's “resourcefulness”. The Roosevelt relief plan ignores the rest of the 13,000,000 jobless workers. McLevy admires Roosevelt for taking us out of “the old senseless paths”. gnition will Havé a powerful in- fluence toward a solution of the dis- armament problem and will con- tribute toward stabilization of polit- ical and economic ‘conditions for peace in the Far East. The “Tribuna” of Rome makes recognition the occasion for a tirade against the League of Nations. As | empty institution known by the “T Betray No Party Members.” The Communist, Singer, was the next witness. Singer was brought in under custody. He told the court that he was formerly a student of national economy and now is a chauffeurs He said he knows Grothe, but denied his acquaintance at the police inquiry, thinking that Grothe was a Com- | | The white guards, the United! Ukrainian Society, massed at 10 a.m, Saturday at Washington Sq. The white guard parade started up University Pl. with hundreds of po- |lice flanking the marchers on all sides. The F.S.U. demonstration, | Which attempted to fall in behind br, Horowitz and Kuntz of th In- ternational Labor Defense. The other workers arrested, among whom are Dolia Mishane, George Mitchell, Wayne Helin, Leon Zar- tarin, and John Henchuk, have not yet come up for trial. 30,000CheerRemark T've never been in one.” “Will you go to the Old Russian Embassy?” “I go to Moscow,” he smiled hap- pily. Many pressed forward to shake | hands at the close. His audience ap- | plauded loud and long. continuing | as they left to express pleasant sur- munist Party member, and “I betray | | | prise at the toppling of prejudices guerantee of pes abolition of capitalism. Its | The Roosevelt “relief” plan is calculated to conceal Roce Bos Ae ee ae bad no Party members.” wedike *febutit thn “dauvers con 400 | which many had harbored for years, main tark is { of capitalism in the Unite b i , : »| He said the utterance attributed t ; ta ‘ ti Chited | Dip Toot Dias te Petite Wicks, agree d hae been | 8° Paper questions the advisability | yim by Grothe svous the Reichstag | Meets, Of fuse fo the Relehstag for b Roosevelt on in. ae The Ge Papeete m rast ay ca | oitanty a era ee promos ond has. Deen | of continuing wane (aston dt) Hat | Aenea weal gor g aera te ene 3 a Ae a ad ‘Fran t in ‘ 06 OF oe SHiSis OF American capitalism, | dominantly a war preparations program, with only participated in a secret. meeting j ce an ry y for the Soviet Union, gives the y of the U.S.A. the widest possibilities d winning the American toiling masses | ‘Y way out of the cris he Communist Party basing itself on the prin- will more determinedly | o win the American workers for the | out of the crisis, for the emulation | | | » Section of i 2 and its revolutionary victories. Now, as before, the only guarantee against the war moves, which thus far haye been titiven back by the tremendous strengthening of the ecenomic, dinlomatic and military position of the Soviet Union, lies in the mobilization of the widest movement for the defense of the Soviet Union among the oppressed masses in all lands and for the final overthrow of the capitalist war monger: Lynch Murder Lies in Wait. INLY quick and decisive action by the toiling masses, black and white, can defeat the ghastly conspiracy of Alabama officials to turn the Scottsboro boys and their attorneys over to a lynch mob on the eve of | the new trials, scheduled to take place in Decatur, Ala, Noy. 27. Pfesident Roosevelt, Gov. B. M. Miller, Montgomery, Ala,, and Judge W. W. Callahan, Decatur, Ala, must be flooded with vigorous protest wires, demanding the safety of the Scottsboro boys and their defenders. The Public Inquiry and Anti-Lynching Conference in Baltimore this Saturday and Sunday must be made a tremendous success in mobilizing the 15 per cént of the $3,300,000,000 set aside for relief. McLevy thinks that is “splendid”. The Roosevelt program is a slap in the face at the working class demand for Unemployment Insurance at full wages, to be paid for by the employers and the Government. Roosevelt’s pro- gram is the Wall Street program, which per- mits the capitalist class to ayoid any responsibility or expense in the care of the 17,000,000 jobless workers. The Roosevelt program is like the Hitler program of forced labor camps. It is the program of the capitalist class, which places the burden of relieving the misery of the jobless workers upon the backs of the workers themselves, letting the capitalist rolers get away with their profits mn- diminished. ea oe IS a fact that McLevy was helped into office by the workers, who believed his promises of Unem- ployment Insurance, who believed that the plank for Unemployment Insurance in the Socialist Platform meant something. But the Roosevelt relief program, which McLevy thinks is so “splendid”, and which he follows with such “sympathy”, is nothing but the most embittered, reactionary, vicious, attack on the very principle of Unemployment Insurance! Listen to Roosevelt’s latest statement, as he announced his new forced labor camps: “When a man or woman goes on a dole, some- thing happens to them mentally, an@ the quicker they are taken off the dole, the better it is for them during the rest of their lives.” In these words, Roosevelt lays down again the cynical answer of Wall Street to the working class demand for Unemployment Insurance, to be paid for by the employers and the Government. And the name of the League of Nations.” Pat cee Berlin Sees Loss Of Trade | BERLIN, Nov. 19.—News of Amer- | ican recognition of the Soviet Union | | is interpreted in Nazi circles as a blow to Germany's trade with the U.S. 5. R, Reports are current that the Nazi chiefs will abandon their openly pro- vocative attitude towards the Soviet Union in an effort to overcome the | difficulties of their own creation. | = aivbie Tsarist Leader Hits Recognition | SAINT BRIAC, France, Nov. 19.— Grand Duke Cyril, leader of the tsar- | ist white guards, received the news | of recognition with undisguised chag- rin. He expressed the opinion that the United States is “courting dis- aster” in extending recognition to the proletarian dictatorship which has successfully defied all the efforts of the white guardists to re-establish the | tsarist regime oyer the emancipated toilers of the Soviet Union, rising was a lie, He declard that he found it remarkable that Grothe was still at liberty, if he formerly was a leader of the Red Front. Grothe Entangles Himself. Grothe was then recalled and en- tangled himself in a net of contradic- tions in his efforts to describe the Communist Party viewpoint on terror. He stated suddenly that he had to admit Singer was right on one point: the Communist leaders advised against terror, Singer stated that his Communist Party unit never men- tioned the fire until after the events, and then condemned it as a provo- cation agains the Communist Party or an act of insan‘+. Kempner, r’ vi the Nazis said they were holding in “preventive custody,” was brought into court and took the witness stand. Kempner Discredits Grothe. Kempner declared that Grothe, the Nazi witness, lied yesterday when stating that Kemoner was the source of his information about .the Com- munist Party, especially the non- tee “ April 18 is. untrue, since Kempner was | arrested on April 8. Kempner stated that he left the Communist Party at the beginning of 1932, and hasn't | seen Grothe since. He said he does | not know Popoff. Kempner was confronted with van der Lubbe and Popoff. None of them recognized the others. | - Grothe was then re-examined and | was confused by Singer's clear refuta- tion of his statements of yesterday, | and he attempted to cover his con- tradictions by @ lengthy discourse, Grothe Was Police Informer. Contradicting his previous state- ments, Grothe declared that the mysterious meeting with Kempner, Singer and others was. held in the “ise of a certain Barz. The witness Barz declared he knows nothing of such meetings. After other witnesses testified that Grothe never occupied an coffe: in Soviet Recognition SAVANNAH, Ga., Noy, 19.—A crowd | of 30,000 at the Savannaly Stadium | last night cheered President Roose- | velt’s reference to recognition of the | Soviet Union. Roosevelt, speaking here on his way to Warm Spring, Ga.; characterized the resumption of normal relations with the Soviet Union as greatly strengthening “the prospects of peace over all the world.” He paid a tribute to the peace policy of the Soviet Union and attempted to exploit Amer- ican recognition of the Soviet Union to bolster up his pretense that the Washington government was similarly peacefully inclined, declaring: “Russia and the United States be- ing in character and practice essen- tially pacific, a common interest in the Red Aid, the nroceedings were adjourned to next Thursday in Leip- zig. i the rights of peaceable nations gives us a commion cause in their main- tenance.” y Clash at Geneva on Re-Arming of Nazis | GENEVA, Noy. 19.—A_ sharp rift | developed here between France and | Great: Britain in the preliminary | discussions yesterday for the re- convening of the Arms Conference on the question of Nazi re-arming. The British delegation Proposed to the French Foreign Minister, Paul. Boneour, that Germany be invited to reconsider her withdrawal from tie League of Nations on the basis of @ revision of former arms arrange- ments. The British imperialists, primarily | interested in strengt hening the anti- | Soviet war front, favor a greater erming of Geran fascism. The | French tmyerialists, who feel this | the same time is a threat aga’ them, strongly oppose it. | Bs MILTON HOWARD One burning fact is being zealously kept a secret by the capitalist press from the workers of America—during the last three months, ever since the July peak, business and production have been dropping faster than at Production Now Back at the Hoover 1932 Crisis Lev TON # t Roosevelt Government, In.Fifth-Year of Crisis, Sets Record for Speed of Decline As NRA Intensifies Crisis the glut of unsaleable goods that has) b closed the factories—are now. greater ginning to find reflection in the, statistics of bankruptcy, the index for | ders as the lewest in the hielory of showed the backlog of unfiled or- ing werk and reduce eae | iY the heavy industi which showed the greatest spurt! | employment during the Summer, | dronpin: ‘or W Distorts Litvinoff than ever. The Wall Street Journai! which rose 1.9 during the last four | the steel indusiry. niasses and all sincere infellectuals against this hideous any other period of the crisis, conspiracy. ‘The “Daily Worker” has presented irrefutable proof of the Scottsboro conspiracy. This proof includes over 500 ‘sworn affidavits of Negro and white residents of Morgan County, Ala. The capitalist press, both South and North, admit that the stage is set for one of the bloodiest massacres in the violent history of capitalist persecution and oppression of the Negro People. The Birmingham “Age-Herald” describes the situation In and around Decatur as “tense and explosive.” In the face of these admissions, what is the attitude of the Alabama officials? From Governor Miller down, they refuse to afford any protection to the Scottsboro boys and the International Labor Defense attorneys, Samuel Leibowitz, Joseph Brodsky and General George W. Chamlee. Even the pretense of calling out the militia to “protect” the boys and their defenders is to be dispensed with. The Alabama officials afe follow- ing the murderous example of Gov. Ritchie of Mary- jand, who threw George Armwood to the Eastern Shore lynchers, refusing to order his removal from Princess Anne, or to send troops to protect him in the face of universal knowledge that a lynch mob was gathering to murder him. The attitude of these officials gives sinister om- Socialist McLevy, fervently and with “sympathy” en- dorses this starvation, capitalist program; this vicious attack on the very idea of Unemployment Insurance! Ce ee ee phnaede workers, particularly you of Bridgeport, you who voted for McLevy sincerely believing that. he stood for a fight against the Roosevelt N.R.A. exploitation antl wage slavery! Is it not clear that McLevy is breaking all his promises? Is it not clear that by his support of the Roosevelt forced labor camps, he is helping the capitalists to break the fight for Unemployment Insurance, which he ‘pretends to support? How can one sincerely fight for Unemploy- ment Insurance, and st the same time find Roosevelt's attack on it so “splendid”? MecLevy will try to carry through the capitalist program under the cover of radical, “Socialist” phrases. But his actions will be no different from that of the other two capitalist partie’, the Republican and Democrat. id ¥ Only the united actions of the Bridgeport workers themselves can successfully carry through the fight for more relief, against the forced labor camps, and for Unemployment Insurance! Behind the “Socialist” phrases of McLevy you will find the actions of a capitalist supporter. At the present rate of downward plunge, the Roosevelt gayernment will teach the lowest point of the Hoover 1932 level within the next few weeks, * More than 75 per cent of the Roosevelt Summer inflationary spurt has been wiped out by this record- breaking drop in business. ‘The New | York Times business index is now at 72, compared with 100 three months ago. And it is dropping fast, in an almost vertical descent. The absolute low of the Hoover govern- ment was slightly above 60. Such is the state of affairs, after six months of the Roosevelt program to end the crisis, - It is significant that. American capitalism enters the fifth year of the crisis, with production-headed toward new lows. The conclusion is inescapable— the Roosevelt N.R.A. program has not only failed to solve the crisis. It has made it worse, causing ever greater misery, Piled up stocks—the surest sign of the march of the crisis, since it is of Commerce cannot conceal worry: “Even manufacturers and whole- salers, who handled these orders are only now beginning to realize what tremendous inventories have been built up. It is trae of lapse organizations, It applies equally to thous-nds of small stores, which borrowed from source ... to finance advance pur- chases.” On top of these huge inventorie:, retail sales haya not even shown the usual Autumn increase. Department store sales are running 10 per cent | whose 24 hour schedules were boom- | jing in all the headlines of the | behind Jast year. Retail greceries report the same, Retail auto sales are lagging far behind production. After six months of Roosevelt in- flationary pumping, bullying and ballyhoo, the American bourgeoisie stares at the spectacle of new enor- gous mountains of “surplus” goods, which the exploited and plundered masses cannot buy. Bankruptcy Rises © Tt is this stocking up of goods by merchants unable either to pay for them, or sell them, that is already every — available — its | weeks, and will certainly rise higher | ;as the Winter progresses. | Naturally, the larger | failures’ of the smailer fry, ‘too, the Roosevelt government monopoly | are fast eating up tne stecl bee’ it Here, | But even their secrecy ceal the fact the duction faces the fifth yer of the is| crisis, with no backlog to- prevent it | | tightening the grip of monopoly capi- | from crashing to a nev cr‘sis low! al, Production Valls Steel, auto; of], textile, building, are | all dropping like lead. | Steel mills are smouldering et about 25 per cent of capacity. Six- teen weeks ago, they were at 62 per |cent. The index of auto production, Roosevelt publicity machine, has dropped 75 per cent, from 20 to 20, within the space of three months. “She government is afraid to count. the nuinber of closed textile factor- jes. This was recently admitted by the Wall Strest Journal. The gigantic Steel Trust has de- | cided not to make public the amount. of back orders on its books. From now on this information will be secret. ‘That is because the last report Growing Financial Crisis The financial crisis is growing. Roosevelt's inflation has cracked the | credit cf United States bonds, which, |fer the firet time in a long’ while, | are showing marked wealn | ping from one to th:-2 points. This | brings another bank crisis closer, 25 bank investments drop in. value. Unemployment Spreads the crisis having the effect of in- creasing joblessness and reducing wages to an unheard of degree. Tho latest. figures for New York State are | typical. Instead of the usual sea- ; Sonal increase for October, employ- ment showed a declining tendency, with jobs figuring only nine points above last year, And payrolls dropped sharply, in- dicating that the N.R.A. has the ef- Upon the workers the advance of | dnty that tha army emaing, with every ing th? Hoover figure, els promises: ig to be fraudu- to-Rave | lehe~ Riing Class Struggles Under such ¢emditions, the Roose- | velt government is using the NRA. weoteS "as one of ii the wage levels tion levels. , With the come ance cf the Roosevelt gov- %, Azhis to protect its profits atthe expense of the workers, and the entire toiling population. The | State power, with all its armed forces, is bing mobilized to break the back of the working class resistance to starvation. Bub the sivike wave has reached | uip¥ecedsnicd proportion ‘The La- bor Devertmeni renorts moze strikes | thansat any period in the history of this. country. ~The advancing crisis raises the prospect of rising class battles, as the masses organize for resistance and. counter-attack. weapons to break |