The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 21, 1933, Page 6

See » relation of the Soviet Government to the Communist Page Six walLY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1933 lo Daily, Worker “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 Published daity, except Sunday, by the ©o., Inc., 50 Bast 18th Street, New Yo Telephone: ALgonquin 4-7956. Jomprodelly Pwblisning . ¥. Cable Address: “Daiwork,” New York, N. ¥. Washington Bureau: Room 954, Notional Press Building, 14th and G. %., Washington, D. ©. Subscription Rates: By Mav pt Me year, $6.00 € moras, $3.50; 3 ths, $2.00; ts, iaphattan, Bronx, Foreign and Canadas: year, 98.00. 6 s, $5.00; 3 months $3.00? By Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, 75 cents, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1933 c Soviet Recognition and the Capitalist Press ontinued from Page 1) of ruling class all over the humb the resistance of the oppressed ma: slavery world in their efforts to es to their In Soviet Gove of the capi liberty will not do. “democracies” where the gove be free from religious bias, the State power has myriads | of ix le connections with the organizations of the | church, as a | weapon for res ation. | The only “persecution” against religion that took place | was again: s who under the cloak of re- | ligion orga otted counter: lutionary ac- tions against the Soviet Union. | | - | sae SOVIET UNION guarantees religious liberty to | all individuals. But it makes not the slightest | | pretense that it encourages organized religion. It makes not the slightest pretense of concealing that it has, and will continue to, vigorously combat religion, | not through that forceful suppression and cruelty that has so characterized the history of organized religions ’m the history of 1) western world, but through the irresistable weapons of education, scientific enlighten- ment, arf through the abolition of those social roots of hunger, misery, suffering and insecurity in which religion grows. There is more than historic irony in the fact that the President of the United States should show such concern over religious liberty in the Soviet Union, while this country is so remarkable for the bigotry and in- tolerance of its religious groups. The fundamentalism the Tenn e legislature, which prohibits teaching ition in the schools, the anti-catholic hatred m of the Ku Klux Klan, the century-old ce of the catholic church, the w.il- e-spread anti-semitism throughout the rrence in which avowed atheists are he highest seats of learning, all make lous liberty exceedingly | The editorial in all the Scripps-Howard papers | cannot help but admit: | “The guarantees given by Russia for religious | freedom and legal justice to Americans in Russia are | not new. Such rights of aliens haye long been pro- | tseted by Russian laws or treaties.” QUESTION of “propaganda,” the capitalist ried to look particularly triumphant in ending that here the Soviet Govern- rendered on one of its most vital ey point with pride to the “victory” of get- ff to agree to the four articles on “prop- N THE ? U xr the deception with which the rying to blind the American masses which forced the government to recogni- | tion, every le one of these articles, in some form or other, has been part of the niimerous recognition pacts that the Soviet Government has signed during the last ten years with the leading powers of Europe. to the cri: Far from being the “concessions” forced from a reluctant Soviet Government, the Soviet Government Was willing and offered to sign such articles with all capitalist countries. The editorial in the World-Yelegram on the pact states this obvious fact: “The pledge which Russia now gives to refrain from propaganda is the same pledge she has been | willing to give for several years... Those Americans who have been under the misapprehension that Rus- | sia has been subsidizing subversive propaganda in this country will doubtless think that is an im- portant victory for us. But the fact seems to be that there are more Americans trying to overthrow the Soviet Government than there are Russians who are attempting to destroy the United States Govern- ment...” The question of Soviet Government “propaganda” has been from the beginning the favorite bogey of capitalist governments with which to incite interven- tion and war against the Soviet Union ,or to break off relations with it. REMAINED for the representative of the “Social- ist” Jewish Daily Forward to set the tone for the attempted baiting of Litvinoff on the question/of the Parties and the Third International, by saying: “Isn't true that the Communist Party of the United States insists in speaking in the name of Mos- cow?” Tt was then that Litvinoff drove him back into Silence and humiliation by giving the sharp, un- mistakeable reply: “I must profess ignorance... The Communist Party of Russia does not concern America, and the Communist Party of the United States does not con- But the New York ‘Pimes deliberately twisted this to read: “The Communist Party of Russia is not concerned with the Communist Party of the United States, and the Communist Party of the United States is | not concerned with the Communist Party of Russia.” What was the purpose behind the question of the “Socialist” journalist? What was the purpose behind the deliberate distortion of the New York Times? The “Socialist” journalist, following the lead of the Socialist officials tried to intimdte that the recogni- tion of the Soviet Union means the breakdown of the Communist International as a revolutionary organiza- tion. He tried to intimate that the Soviet Government and the International are one and the same. The capitalist Times tries to deceive the masses by intimating that the recognition means the breakdown of the revolutionary internationalism of the various Communist Parties of the world. It tries to break down the solidarity of the workers of the world. Both of these “triumphs”—the “Socialist” and the capitalist—will be of small comfort to them \ { ieee JN REPLY to the Forward representative, Litvinoff gave the sharpest reply: “THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL IS NOT MEN- TIONED IN THE DOCUMENT. YOU MUST NOT READ INTO IT MORE THAN WAS INTENDED.” This is absolutely true. The capitalist press knows it, Roosevelt knows, and the capitalist class knows it. They know that the Third International is composed of Communist Parties over which the Soviet Govern- ment has no jurisdiction. They know that every attempt to claim that article 4 of the Litvinoff pact applies to the Communist In- ternational will meet with defeat. Just as every at- tempt of the British government, for example, to do that failed. The Communist International, the vanguard of the revol ary proletariat of all countries, has behind it the growing support of millions of oppressed masses in all capitalist and colonial countries, and will grow in power and force. The Communist Party in! every capitalist coun- try is native to its soil, growing out of the class struggie in its own country, representing the consci- ous organization of the vanguard in that country in the struggle for the overthrow of its own capitalism. These Parties, under the slogan of “Workers of the World Unite,” adhere unyieldingly to the Communist International, leader in the revolutionary struggles ainst world capitalism. It is only necessary to quote from the yesterday’s of the London Times to see that the most re- ary of capitalist papers are fully aware of the nce between the Communist International and | the Soviet government: “Roosevelt probably attaches importance to it (Le. article 4.—Ed.) only as helping to make his recog- nition of the Soviet government more palatable .. .” It is because the wonderful victories of the Soviet Union are showing the working class of the world that the Socialist system of economy, built up and asivanc- ing under the leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, is building a richer, better life for the toiling masses, it is because the example of the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism, that the capital- ist press and the Socialist leaders strive so desper- ately to foment hatred against the Communist Parties. But the working class of the world is thrilled and inspired by the victories of the U. S. S. R. under the leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and this brings them closer and closer to the leader- ship of the Communist Parties in their own coun- tries. The venom and slander of the Socialist leaders and capitalist press cannot stem this. The working class of the world, under the leadership of the Communist Party, shows the toiling masses that the way to end the oppression and exploitation of wage slavery, the way to abolish unemployment and hunger, is the way of the establishment of the Proletarian Dictatorship. $50,000,000 “For Repairs” N the day Roosevelt announced he would return Wall Street's Ambassador Welles to Cuba, Secretary of the Navy Swanson put in a request for more sailors, marines and: money for the navy, The more the Roosevelt regime talks about peace, the faster it builds its armed forces for war. Secretary | of the Navy Swanson, with the blue prints and sched- | ules of huge naval arms building safely in his desk, follows a shrewd policy in obtaining funds for this purpose. The object is not to expose too definitely the purposes of the IT.R.A. public works’ fund of $3,300,- 000,000. He waits for the news of his $300,000,000 contribu- tion for war purposes to quiet down. Then he springs & new one. Now he asks for an additional $50,000,000 “for repairs.” With the rapid building of new war vessels, the Secretary of the Navy argues, there must be an in- crease in sailors and marines. He does not, of course, mention the plans of Roosevelt and Welles for armed intervention in Cuba, if the counter-reyolutionary plots fail to achieve their aim. The preparations for imperialist war is the touch- stone of the real aims of the Roosevelt regime, Around this point all of the bankers, industrialists, coupon-clippers, have no difference. issue, Roosevelt's protection of colonial plunder and preparations for the seizure of new markets and new colonies, there is unanimity in the ranks of the Amer- ican exploiters. Increase in armaments is intimately connected with every one of Roosevelt's moves. Roosevelt’s financial policy has sharpened bitterly the conflict between the United States and Great Britain, as well as with France. In Latin America there is the sharpest anta- gonism over control of markets, and spheres of invest- ment, Secretary of State Hull is on his way to Mon- tevideo to talk trade and markets, but Secretary of the Navy Swanson remains at home to build the navy for war to win these markets, * . . pee bets can shout his head off about jobs on public works’ projects, but the funds flow steadily for war purposes. From the very start of the N.R.A., the Roosevelt regime has been consciously and consistently prepar- ing for war. Now with the N.R.A. deepening the crisis of American capitalism the war danger becomes more imminent. ‘The greatest task of the class-consclous workers in fighting against war preparations is to point out and fight against the war policy of Roosevelt, garnished with peace phrases, At the expense of starving millions of workers, the Roosevelt regime readily finds inexhaustible funds for armaments, We must demand these funds for unemployment insurance, Daily and incessantly we must expose to the widest section of the workers how the Roosevelt regime pre- pares for war and why it does so. We must build the anti-war front of all workers through their daily struggles—for higher wages, for right of union organi- zation, for unemployment insurance, and against all the war and Fascist measures of the Roosevelt regime, J. Louis Engdahl NOVEMBER 22 is the first anniversary of the death of J. Louis Engdahl, National Secretary of the I.L.D. Comrade Engdahl gave his life in the world-wide fight for the Scottsboro boys and the national liberation of the oppressed Negro People, Today, the lynch lords of Alabama are threatening a bloody massacre of the Scottsboro boys, the Inter- national Labor Defense attorneys, and of the toiling Negro masses of Alabama moving forward in struggle against their oppressors, The best tribute—the only fitting tribute—to the memory of this self-sacrificing revolutionary leader, is vigorous whole-hearted support for the cause in which he died, the fight to save the Scottsboro boys and unshackle the chains of the Negro masses and the entire working class. This must be the spirit of the Engdah! Memorial meeting in New Irving Plaza Hall this Wednesday night, and of other meetings throughout the country. Forward in the struggle in which Engdahi gave his life! Build the International Labor Defense ag an: answer to the increasingly brutal attacks on the toil- ing masses, black arian On this central | Italy Threatens to ‘Quit League;French | Mass Resentment High At Soaring Costs | of Foodstuffs | PARIS, Noy. 20—The rift between } | France and her allies in the last/ | World War developed further today | | with a threat by Italy to quit the! | League of Nations unless France | consents to a four-power conference jin Rome at which Germany would} | be represented. This development sig- | nalizes Italian support for the Brit- |ish proposal, rejected by France, for |a greater re-arming of the German} Nazis, primarily directed against the Soviet Union, but opposed by the French imperialists as a potential threat against them. Cabinet Faces Crisis’ Recognizing the Soviet Union! The international difficulties of French imperialism are further aug- | mented by a new Cabinet crisis, | | which. threatens the early overthrow | of the new ministry headed by Pre-| |mier Sarraut. The Sarraut Cabinet | | is expected to fall this week as a |result of its failure to balance the | budget or to solve any of the burn-| | ing problems of the deepening crisis. | The resentment of the workers and Ppetty-bourgeois masses is mounting as the price of foodstuffs continue to soar as a result of the protective pol- | icy of the government on meats, | cheese, fruits, vegetables, etc. Eggs} are now selling at 78 cents a dozen retail, while butter averagés 78 cents @ pound, The internal situation is made graver by the pressure of Brit- ish imperialism for preferential du- | ties and the battle between the dol- | lar and the franc. 3,000 Nazi Pastors in Revolt on Dogma Wide Split in Nazi “Church Front” BERLIN, Nov. 20.—Revolt flared up Sunday within the united front of organized religfon with the Nazi but- chers, with over 3,000 Protestant pas- tors denouncing from their pulpits the Nazi program for the elimination of the Old Testament (history of the Jews) from the bible, to be replaced with “Germanic traditions,” The in- 4 surgent pastors demanded the re- moval of all those clergymen who have applauded the Nazi “German Church” program. In a sensational statement express- ing solidarity with the Protestant in- surgents, the Roman Catholic leaders attacked the Nazi church program, despite the recent Nazi concordat with the Pope. The rift between the Nazi government and the Catholics was sharpened recently by a reference to the Catholics as “black moles” by Gen. Goering, Prussian premier. While embattled in defense of dogma, the leaders of the insurgent church movement made it quite clear that they would still support the bloody excesses of the Nazi dictator- ship against the revolutionary Ger- man workers. Dr. Mueller (not to be confused with Dr. Ludwig Muller, the Reichbishop) one of the leaders of the insurgents, preached Sunday from the text “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's,” and de- manded “loyalty to the fatherland | and obedience toward the civil au- | thorities.” French Munitions Industry y Flourishing PARIS, Nov. 20.—The vast extent of the imperialist. war preparations is graphically shown in the annual statement of Schneider & Co., the great French armament firm, issued today, showing a huge profit of 25,- | 390,000 francs for the year ending in April, 1933, The flourishing condition of the armament industry is in sharp con- trast to other capitalist industries which, despite the lies of “recovery” and “returning prosperity” coupled with increasing attacks on the wages of workers still in the factories, are showing a constantly diminishing profit, Helping the Daily Worker through bidding for the | original drawing of Burck’s cartoons: Unit 5, Sect. 2, of New York, i) wins yesterday's Ni drawing with a bid of $18.68. Other bids, Jamestown Women’s Club, $15; Chicago Workers’ School, $4.70, Total to date, $223. —By Burck | Bullitt, New Envoy to Moscow, Has Long Record of Friendship for USSR Visited Russia in 1919,’ Urged Steps Toward Understanding By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—William Christian Bullitt, acepted by Moscow as the first American Ambassador to the Soviet Union, is perhaps the most outspokenly sympathetic bour- geois who could be chosen, It was Bullitt who urged the Allies to call the Bolsheviks to Paris to ne- gotiate peace in 1918—Bullitt who talked with Lenin in the hope that intervention wiuld be avoided—Bul- litt who later spread the whole malo- dorous story of the peace conference upon the official records of the United States, He was married for some years te Anna Moen Louise Bryant, the widow of John Reed, the American who wrote “Ten Days That Shook the World” and whose ashes lie in the wall. And yet bourgeois Bullitt has al- ways been and remains to this day. His friends here characterize him, “A tired radical, a liberal who thor- oughly approves of Bolshevism—for the Russians.” Now 42 Years Old It's no accident that Bullitt’s uncle has characterized the recognition of the Soviet Union as “a disgrace,” for the family is old: and aristocratic. Bullitt was born in Philadelphia just 42 yedrs ago. Educated at Yale, he went to work on the Philadalphia Ledger, and quickly became assistant, ‘Ledger, and quickly becaine assistant editor, then a correspondent abroad and in Washington, He was the last American envoy to leave the U. S. 8. R. after official relations were broken off with the fall of Kerensky. For Woodrow Wil- son took Bullitt to the Paris Peace Conference, and sent him thence to Russia. Before this, Bullitt had been @ special adviser in the State De- partment. He was just 27 when Wil- son and Lloyd George, in Paris, scoffed at his suggestion of calling the Bolsheviks, but agreed instead to U. S. Ambassador , oo WILLIAM C,. BULLITT. send him to Moscow. With him went Lincoln Steffens, who describes their experience in his autobiography. They went to seek “some understanding,” Steffens writes. They rode from Petrograd to Moscow with Tchicherin, Commissar for Foreign Affairs, and Maxim Lit- vinoff, then Assistant Commissar. “Bullitt and Tchicherin and Lit- vinoff, with Lenin nearby, negotiated daily, keeping office hours,” Steffens writes. “It was a new culture, an economic, scientific, not a moral cul- ture (which they saw), and the Rus- sians we were conversing with, the heads of the Soviet Government, were talking out of a new philosophy. Bullitt steered his way through an agreement with Lenin and Tchiche-~ rin. “The seven points of Lloyd George’s memorandum (given to Bullitt in Paris) were accepted with slight verbal modifications. Feeling that he had what we came for, a basis upon which the Allies could treat with Russia, Bullitt decided to hurry back to Paris. Our journey home was a course of intellectual digestion: We were all enjoying a mental revo- lution which corresponded somewhat ‘Radek Praises Him in Article Published in “Pravda” with the Russian Revolution ( ¢ gave us the sense of looking ahem’ | ROOSEVELT BACKS DEEDS OF WELLES Flouts Cuban People’s Demands Wall Street } Agent Be Ousted — | WARM SPRINGS, Ga., Nov. 20.—), Against the demands of the Cuban, people that U. S. Ambassador Welles be withdrawn, President Roosevelt de- clared that he would retain his: posts Welles has been implicated in plot- ting the return of Machado forces to. control the Cuban government, ~H¢? backed the armed uprising recently’ against the Grau San Martin regin? resulting in the death of 150 peoy and wounding over 200, Welles su ported the abortive uprising of ta» Machado army officers at the Na-= tional Hotel in Havana. From the very day he left New York for Havana, when he stopped. ai the Chase National Bank offices~ire the Wall Street district, until he fléus here to confer with Roosevli, he ha: been plotting either an armed up: rising by the capitalist -landlor¢ groups formerly backing Machado; | armed intervention by Americar battleships and marines, i Welles’ hostiilty to the San Grav: Martin regime grew out of its inabi-, lity to crush the revolutionary ad- vances of the workers and peasants Roosevelt ignored a letter sent him by President Grau of Cuba, de-’ manding the recall of Welles. Ir fact, a so-called spokesman here de- clared no such word was ever re- ceived from Cuba. As a matter of fact, the cry for the ousting of Weller from Cuba as a tool of Yankee im- Pperialism has not only been univer- sally heard among the masses but found its way into the leading news. Papers supporting the Grau regime On the day Roosevelt denied re- ceiving such a letter, Tom Pettey” ‘New York Herald-Tribune corespond ent in Havana, cabled his newspaper stating that President Grau had re- quested Welles withdrawal in a per- sonal letter to Rooseevit. ] Rooseevit's confirmation of Welles deeds in Cuba, wherein he specifically declared he had followed all his acti, and approved of them, exposes Roose: velt’s imperialist policy. Roosevelt’s new deal for Cub: Bullitt is said to have proposed im-|means the organization of the coun- mediate recognition. But again Or- lando and Clemenceau and Lloyd George flatly repudiated the, Bullitt mission. Bullitt resigned and retired to private life—after attending a meeting at which a group of Ameri- can liberals protested the peace that was being made. Steffens at that meeting counselled them that “either they and we all should labor to change the foundation of society, as the Russians were doing, or go along with the resultant civilization we were part of.” Back in America, Bullitt continued to speak for recognition, immediate and unqualified. He became man- aging editor of Famous Players Lasky Movies. In 1926 he wrote a novel of Washington intrigue, “It’s Not Done.” When he was employed once more by the State Department, some months ago, observers generally sensed a move toward recognition. Six months ago he conferred with Litvinoff at the London Economic Conference, * . . Praised In Soviet Press MOSCOW.—William CC, Bullitt, American envoy to the U. S. 8. R, was praised here by Karl Radek, noted Soviet publicist, in an article which appeared in Pravda, official organ of the Communist Party of the USS. R. He quotes Bullitt as having said, in 1919 (when the American envoy visited the Soviet Union), that “What I saw with my eyes was very bad. What I saw with my heart was very good.” Again in 1932, when Bullitt re- turned to the U. S. S. R., Radek re- calls that he asked hin, “Do your eyes still see nothing good?” Bul- litt’s reply, according to Radek, was: ter-revolutionary forces for armed saults against the Cuban people. a openly the policy of supporting t-\« very “money changers” of Wall Stree in Cuba that Roosevelt makes a pre- tense of opposing in the Unitec States. : In this concrete instance, Roose. velt’s backing for Morgan, Rockefelle, and other imperialist bankers goes t( | the extent of organized military at tacks and mobilization of 33 battle! ships for immediate dispatch to Cuba for armed intervention. ? Bloody Clashes In Spanish Balloting MADRID, Nov. 20.—Incomplete my * turns of yesterday's balloting ~ deputies to the Spanish Cortes fy dicate a crushing defeat for the “le, _ republican government with its thre: Socialist Ministers, The Socialis’ Party suffered tremendous losses The “middle” parties were crushed while a reactionary coalition reaped a@ vast majority of the 473 seats } The balloting was marked with bloody clashes throughout Spain anc open electioneering by priests for thi reactionary coalition. In Seville Communist workers clashed witt’ Catholics several times. Laborers ir’ Gullardo attacked a priest who wa: electioneering after the polls hac’ opened, Workingclass women in thi Cuatro Caminos district of Mad beat a reactionary who was votes, and burned his ai Madrid workers pummelled a shouting “Viva Fascismo.” ~ “Destruction stalks in all the world. You (the U. S. 8. R.) are the only country which is marching forward.” work on Tour, a Year Ago Tomorrow By ROSE DE SANTES. The coming battle for the Scotts- boro boys coincides roughly with the anniversary of the death of our leading fighter for them, our late Comrade J. Louis Engdahl. This recalls the vast importance of the Engdahl-Wright European tour, for it was precisely this tour, which Comrade Engdahl organized and di- rected, bringing the message of Scottsboro to workers throughout the world, which forced the granting of a new trial by the U. 8, Su- preme Court, were travelling both day and night, Death Caused by Over-]| hour’s sleep each night; that they |penmark: and after meetings and big dem- onstrations—no matter how late— Wrote Many Articles Toward the middle of July—they had been on tour just about ten weeks—Comrade hal al- the Scottsboro message was received in Germany, Austria, 5 ’ Comrade J. Louis Engdahl Died Fighting Scottsboro Battle Engdahl and Mrs. Wright in France _| land, Great tialdeeys Norway, into new activities. Aided World Congress It is now a matter of record how he and Ada Wright had been hound- ed and persecuted, jailed and deport- ed, during their European tour. Nev- ertheless, he ploughed right into an over-abundance of work again in the Soviet Union, helping in the prepara- tions for the November "th celebra- tion and, immediately after, preparing for the World Congress of the Inter- national Red Aid, which started ‘Thursday, November 10th. In addi- tion to the activity of the Congress— writing articles, manifestos, resolu- tlons—he worked each night after Congress had adjourned, and again early in the morning, on a Scottsboro pamphlet and a‘ biography of Ada Wright. Even on Sunday, November 13th, although already ill, he re- mained at work the entire day and evening. Monday he was too weak to get out of bed, and when Ada said she was going to get a doctor for him, he replied: “Don’t bother, Ada, it’s only a cold; let the doctor take care of the other comrades.” (There were Switzerland, France, Belgium, Hol- 200 delegates housed at the same hotel—Hotel Mayak—and several of them were ill), Comrade Wright did get the doctor, however, but his strong sick before—had now 4 Hoven plete physical wreck under j- rific with no power of resist- Mrs. Wright Ill Right here I must mention Ada's devotion, for, although very The “left” government is now: Bed ing the reactionaries to their position and has placed : guards on the. public buildings: E et Untiring Labor of ILD, Leader Helped Rouse World Protest hospital two days later, on Wed day. Ada was herself taken to hospital the following day, where si remained for 12 days. On Sunday, November 20th, the before Comrade Engdahl died, Com; rade Sonia Kaross visited him in th hospital. He said among other ge; in referring to his illness: “I e only now what a strain this ti been. Constant travelling and paring the tour, being hounded, get: ting deported, then one or the : of us getting arrested and for the other to continue the Ada getting i]; constant irregularit of living; not enough sleep; all thi. has weakened my constitution. Ife very tired and weak, and don’t be! when he was needed most. But he is not dead to the comrades knew him; he remains a living an shining example of unstinted loyalty. and devotion to workers thro the world. It now becomes the of every class conscious worker an particularly every LL.D, hamart honor his memory by enrol carry on the work for which he his life. ‘We must act immediately to the Scottsboro boys from the best lynch gangs now being organized’ f Decatur. Every minue, every must be spent in rushing protest, unselfish alt ill herself, she refused to leave Com- | full grams to Governor Miller, de