The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 7, 1933, Page 6

“America’s Only Ww ciag Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1984 Published daity, except su Od., Inc., 50 Bast 13th Publishing hington Bureau 24th and F. St., Washingto: Subscription Ratex By Mail 36.00 6 months, Manhattan, 6 months, Ry Carrier except Ma $3.50; 3 mo Bronx $5.00; 3 Weekly, $2.00. Another Swift I ynch “ erdict as erdict was Now the young ¢ has been sen- tenced to die. The testimor pletely’ the and the other witne s, t crude contradicti h tween almost eve ‘ord of the prc case, the naked, f y evident | b all this made Alabama no with the lynch re united— gangs of the pla fhat the limp, chan t cent Negro boys must be s into the faces of the Negro people &nd the toiling masses of the world as the grim sym- bol of their 1 authority IN LITTLE plan to Pleciric ch: with the t Alabama rulers gro boys to the Now, nothing stands in ceution of th that. has kept t in Paint Rock. of world protest! y of the swift ex- the same power i they were seized years ago, the might the The ruling clas. ca, part and parcel of of the the whole Jynch m: South, part and Parcel of the whol incitation and Jim Crow » system of oppression ag: he Negro people, is now Attempting to play a disorganize this Sole, effective defense, of the s ro boys The eapitalist press the minds of the masses the is-now hopeless to e fourts, and that, fait “fastice” of the Un ing to pour into Jious poison that it of the Alabama be placed in the s Suprefme Court nov The capitalist pres: too crude lynch sa t bama Court, and too fearful of justifying these obvious frame<up 1 5 in the face of the world pro- test and indignation of the masses, now attempts to Greate the fatal illusion th: ma is an “excep- jon,” that the Supreme Court will be “fairer.” of Ala- h yerdict Against this damnable ¥, against this at- tempi to di the ra the Scottsboro boys’ Protectors, wi fight with the greatest fury and Vigilance, ea eu aoe h part of the whole organizes and Negro people & these capitalist judges roar of world protest, ! That is the only and fear! ; ew Tt is this hug orld protest that alone saved Tom Mooney. It alone can the Scottsboro boys from execution. Nothing else can. All other ideas about | the “fairness” of the Supreme Court e only one Purpose—to put 2 b pres mass anger at the death ve permit them to go through unhindered Tt is upon the Banization that fi | °Of the lynchers, | Wetitlessly fought for their lives falls to stir the masses of Ameri - thstant action! Intern st wrest i the boys from the hands jon that has so re- the responsibility a and the world to | Sot ELD. must galvanize the masses, Negro and white, into fury against these hideous murder verdicts. =. Unceasingly, it must hammer home that the most 3 le legal defense in the world is futile without the of the oppressed millions! Behind its legal Gefense it must organize the real power of the de- fense—the articulate anger of the masses! The lynch challenge of the Southern masters can ) answered only by the rising up of an enormous Il of mass anger, mass determination to step be- n the Scottsboro boys and the lynch executioners. 7 The country must rock with the activity of the 6 in every factory, in every trade ynion, in every street, neighborhood, and home, the workers of t@ must resolve that the lynchers will not mas- e- the innocent Negro Scottsboro boys, that the challenge of the capitalist rulers will be an- 1S the Communist Party, the revolutionary van- rd of the toiling masses, that must immediately the lever to set these waves of mass anger motion. section, unit and fraction, must leap to ac- D tiene’ the protest against the Iynch verdicts. every Party member rests the direct respon- y for immediately responding with the maximum to the life and death task of saving the Scotts- boys! The Party must go everywhere among the with the burning call for organized protest the lynch verdicts! Preece ee millions upon millions, must be organized by and its fractions into the greatest United army of the toiling masses, regardless of po- affiliation, creed or connection, united for the free the innocent Scottsboro boys from the Tuling class masters call for the blood of the oro boys. They are unleashing savage, bloody against the oppressed, starving Negro masses, whole toiling population. boro is their bestial challenge. We cannnot ational Labor Defense, the or- | | | | | | | ting up a sham skirmish In Washington, “demanding” | representation on the N.R.A. The Ultimate Aim of the SAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1933 Whom Do They Serve? ee national officials of the American Federation of Labor, In order to try to maintain leadership over 4 growingly discontented rank and file, have been stir- . code authorities. maintain a pretense of distinction of the leadership from the N.R.A. ‘They attempt to A. F. of L apparatus, Tho workers in s factory on strike might as well demand representation on a committee of the scabs, The proposal of General Johnson to place John N.R.A. coal code “authority” is no The American Federation of | officials from the start have been staunch sup- of N.R.A., an integral and important part S apparatus. L, Lewis on the risk to the employers. La porte: bor the William Green said when the N.R.A. was first put into operation, “this law should do much toward put- ting business back on a constructive basis.” He said that “labor is anxious to co-operate with industry” in the carrying trough of the N.R.A. Lewis, who sold out the bituminous coal strike, is already a member the National Bituminous Coal Industry Board. Edward McGrady, long an A. F. of L, misleader, is assistant secretary of labor and a leading figure in put- ting across the N.R.A. All of the A..F. of 1. officials without exception indorse the N.R.A. “In fact the-strike of the soft coal miners of Pennyslvania was not only a strike against the steel trust, against the anti-union provisions of the N.R.A. coal code, but again the strike- breaking dictates of Lewis as well. of . . . HE N.R.A. is the governmental apparatus of. finance capital, set up by the employers in order to save the capitalist system from the present crisis, by a wage cutting, unemployment, speed up, strikebreaking drive against the workers. The N.R.A. apparatus is the government apparatus through whose force and power finance capital breaks strikes. The N.R.A. has cut wages; it has speeded up the workers; it has attempted to outlaw strikes; it is trying to destroy all militant action of the workers, led by the really militant unions controlled by the workers themselves. In carrying through this attack on the workers, the prosperous and highly paid labor lieutenants of the employers in the ranks of the workers, the A. F. of L. officials, are essential. They are now carrying through their traditional role of co-operation with finance capital and its government, the role played by Gompers during the world war. Gompers, the father of the class collaborators, acted then on the War Industries Board of President Wilson. Together with his colleagues, the Wolls, the Greens, etc., Gom- pers sold Liberty Bonds, and aided in the mobilization of the A. F. of L. unions to make cannon fodder of the workers and win markets for the bankers, Gompers and his A. F. of L. aids then, as now, de- feated and broke strikes, declared it “unpatriotic” to fight for higher wages, and outlawed strikes, through compulsory “arbitration” schemes, and government de- crees, and the use of troops and terror. Gompers was the leading strikebreaker of his day. « « . DAY, Green, Woll, et al, are carrying through the same strikebreaking program. Their propaganda among the A. F. of L. workers against the right to strike, identical with that of Johnson and Roosevelt, exposes these men for what they are. The right to strike has been fought for by the workers of the United States for years in many bitterly fought struggles. The United States Government, the gov- ernment of finance capital, has declared strikes out- lawed. They send out the Lewis’s, the McGrady's to propagate the idea of “industrial peace,” and to carry through the program of outlawing strikes for finance capital. Lewis, The attacks of the employing class on the workers have increased. Finance capital makes more and more open use of the government apparatus (of which the N.R.A. is a part), in these fascist attacks on the work- ers. The increase of fascist tendencies in the United States, is accompanied by more and more reliance on the social-fascist A. F. of L. leaders to carry through these strikebreaking attacks—dictatorial outlawing of strikes, increased terror against the workers, intensi- fied wage cutting and speed-up drive, mass unemploy- ment, F THE strikebreaker Lewis is made a member of the code authority, it will be because he is needed in that position by the employers. If these A. F. of bL. officials are given N.R.A. jobs, it will be to create the illusion that the N.R.A. gives “representation” to the workers, The workers inside the A. F. of L. must demand that their officials withdraw from the strikebreaking and wage cutting N.R.A. apparatus, from the commit- tees of the employing class. We must through rank and file organization inside the A. F. of L., carry on the struggle for the daily demands and needs of the workers inside the shop, and inside the A. F. of L. unions. The worke§s can gain something but not by co-operation with the bosses; only through the policy of fighting against the employers for our demands, the policy of class struggle. Communist International-- World Communism “The ultimate aim of the Communist International is to replace world capitalist economy by a world system of Communism. Communist society, the basis for which has been prepared by the whole course of historical developments, is mankind's only way out, for it alone can abolish the contradictions of the capitalist system which threaten to degrade. and destroy the human race. “Communist society will abolish the class division of society, 1. ¢., simultaneously with the abolition of anarchy of production, it will abolish all forces of ex- ploitetion:: and oppression of man by man. Soctety will no longer ‘consist of antagonistic classes in conflict with each other, but will represent a united commonwealth of labor, For the first time in its history mankind will take its fate into its own hands. Instead of destroy- ing unnumerable human lives and incalculable wealth in struggles between classes and nations, mankind will ‘Italy Threatens to Quit League; Issues Ultimatum: iF rench Press Scouts | Fiction of “Peace” Talk in Paris ROME, Des, 6.—Italy repeated its threat to bolt the League of Nations | today when the “Fascist Council, in its annual meeting, | sued an ultimatum to the to “reorganize within the shortest possible time” or face Italian emu- is- lation of the example of Japan andj; | Germany in leaving the League. The fascist demands include al | change in the League’s constitution, now based on the Versailles System, and changes in its methods and ob- jectives. Italy is said to favor in- | viting the Soviet Union to join the | League as well as to make it possi- le for Japan and Germany return. PARIS, Dec. son, ament” day with Joseph Paul-Boncour, French Foreign Minister, on Ll | possibility of future “disarmament” | negotiations. The attempt to keep up the fic- | tion of “disarmament” received a! general horse-laugh from the French press. Pertinax declared the talk had as much relatioi to the present state of affairs as “that of two ghosts in paradise discussing | Referring | arma- | imperialist | “era | “The the battle of Actium.” to the increasingly frantic ment race among. the powers, he declared that the of disarmament”” is finished. period of rearmameént has already begun.” LL.D. and Filipinos Demand Amnesty for Jailed Workers To Hold Conference Dee. 17 in- Brooklyn NEW YORK.—The » demand for amnesty for all working class poli- tical prisoners in‘the Philippines will be raised at a conference of dele- gates from organizations called by the Filipino Anti-Impérialist League and the Internatiorial Labor Defense, to be held at 132 Myrtle Ave., Brook- lyn, at 11 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 17. Meanwhile, legal steps are being sought by the IL.D, to force the docketing of the cases of the Filipino leaders sentenced to long penai terms, in the U. S. Supreme Court. The cases were not docketed in the nor- mal procedure because of the failure of the clerk of the court in the Phil- ippines to forward the record of the case. From Manila has come word that the struggle is being sharpened through the activities of Jacinto Man- ahan, one of the original defendants, who has bought his-freedom by be~ traying the Filipino -toilers, and is now acting as a police spy and en- gineering the arrest-of other workers’ leaders on framed charges of “theft of large cattle.” A wide attendance from Filipino and American organizations is ex- pected at the conference. Grand | League | to! 6.—Arthur Hender- | presdent of the dead “disarm- | Confereice, had a talk to- | | | . ef SEAS (( original drawings of Burck’s South Siavick Werkers’ Ci THE SCALES OF BOSS JUSTICE FOR Helping the Daily Worker et mnie for the i i. a $455.09. » Pa., wins | NEGROES —By Gropper yesterday's drawing with a bid of $10. Total to date KatayamaMemorial | Meeting Sunday NEW YORK.—The New York Dis- trict, Communist Party, and the| Japanese Workers’ Club, and many workers and workers’ organizations will meet at the New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave., this Sun- day at 7 p.m., to honor memory of Sen Katayama, shevik leader and organizer, who died in Moscow over a month ago. Katayama, who at his death was a member and leader of the Com- munist International, was one of the founders of the American Commu-| nist Party and was the founder of the Japanese Communist Party. Cuban Peasant Sends Dollar for Support of ‘Daily’ By a Cuban Peasant Correspondent LA MAYA, Oriente, Cuba. —I am sending you $1 for a sub- scription to the Daily Worker. I cannot send more now because E earn only 60 cents a day. The “Daily” is the only work- ing paper which arrives in this mountain village, and 1 translate some to the other workers with a dictionary. Now we have the coffee crop. The salary is 5 cents per loto (a joto is 5 gallons). Nobody re- members making more than 6 or 7 lotos n 12° hours. Cuba Delegates Report Dec. 17th NEW YORK.—The Anti-Imperial- ist League delegation to Cuba is ex~ pected to return here Sunday, Dec. 17,, and will report on the results of their investigation in Cuba at a mass meeting held the same evening at the New Star Casino, 107th St. The delegation, consisting of Harry Gannes of the Anti-Impertalist League; Henry Sheppard of the Trade Union Unity Council; J. Matthews of the American League Against War and Fascism; Alfred Runge of the Workers’ Ex-Service- men’s League and Walter Relis of the National Student League, is now vis- iting various cities in the interior Urugua ryanW orkers Protest Against | U.S. imperialists / Hold Officials, Delay State Banquet.to Secretary Hull MONTEVID: Communist Uruguay, Dec. 6.— s last night held jCarlos ¥ ruguayan chiéf of |protocol, a prisoner for two and a half hours in protest against the im- ; of the Pan-American e now in session in “this med interference in Cuba. land other shboring countries, and |the open fraternization of the Uru- uayan bourgeois-landiord govern- nt with the imperialist enemies of tciling masses in the United the South American and nquet tendered to U. of State Hull. One of Yere- guay’s dutics was to seat the guests according to their proper ptecedence, No other offiical dared to undertake this “delicate procedure,” and the guests were forced to cool their heels until his release. Yesterday's session of the confer- ence marked witha notable sim- mering down of the drive against the United States, fora moratorium on governmental debts- owed American bankers, withdrawal of U. 8: finance control over Haiti and against armed intervention in Cuba. “The dominant position of the UxHited Statés"At the jconference has been greatly-“tinder- |mined by the conference's invitation to Spain and Portugal to afterid as ies,” and by its: deci- {sion favoring League of* Nations jplan for “peace” in the Chaco war as against th the United States plan, South China in | Financial Panic as New War Begins Japan Reported to Be Seeking Anti-Red Base in Fukien SHANGHAI, Dec. 6—The*finan- cial panic in Canton, South China, was further aggravated today as a result of the opening of hostflities against the Nanking regime and the heavy financial exactions of the miitarists. Twelve banks — closed their doors during the day. A-sim- ilar situation exists in Fukien prov- ince, the headquarters of the ~pres- ent movement against Nanking. ‘The Nanking Government is simi- larly failed with a severe finencial crisis in its attempts to raise funds for the new campaign in addition to the loans received from the im- peralists for Nanking’s chronic war against the Chinése Soviet Republic. Twelve cigarette factories closed down today in this city in protest |against a 50 per cent increase in cigarette taxes. Foreign observers believe that the Fukien province rebellion is being financed by the Japanese imper- B.| ialists, who are reported to be seek- ing a base in South China. for direct armed intervention agaitst the powerful Chinese Soviet Republic, whose heroic Red Armies have re- peatedly emerged victorious in the struggles with Nanking troops. A Victory of the USSR--A Victory of the World Revolution LEADING EDIT EDITORIAL BY INTERNATION AL PRESS CORRESPONDENCE. “ON SOVIET RECOGNITION (The following isthe leading editorial in the latest issue of the International Press Correspondence, Vol. 13, No. 51, November 24, 1933. —Editor’s Note.) Mess “On the Sixteenth Anniversary of the October. Revolution we have more right than ever to say that in the present relation of forces the balance is shifting more and more in favor of Socialism as against capicalism.” (Molotov). ate The last attack of the Ku-Klux- Klan, the American Legion and the leaders of the Ametican Federation of Labor, with Mr.-Green at their head, has failed, although it had the support of the most reactionary ele- ments of world imperialism and fas- cism. On November 17 the Govern- ment of the United States granted de jure recognition to the Soviet Union. The significance of this event can be fully appreciated only in its relations to the present world situation. End of Stabilization With the end of the relative stabili- zation and the beginning of a new revolutionary advance, an advance which has been furthered by the suc- cesses obtained in the Sdviet Union in the building up of Socialism, the representatives of monopoly capital have resorted to fascism to an un- paralleled degree in order to hold down the workers with a bloody civil war and to find a solution of the world crisis if in no other fashton than by a war to be carried on above all against the Soviet. Union, the bul- wark of the world ‘reyolution. Let us recall the first days of spring this year. The world hourgeoisie waz making tentative efforts to find a so- lution of the crisis with peaceful means. The final’ preparations for the world economic conference were being made in London. The new Roosevelt era in the> United States was being ushered in.with drums and trumpets as a solution of the -crisis on the basis of anti-Marxist socialism. But the chief trump of capitalism in its fight against the crisis, or rather the series of crises,.was bloody fas- cism, the prospect of war. The vic- tory of Hitlerisni inh’ Germany was) beginning to have foreign political devote all its energy to the struggle against the forces of nature, to the development and strengthening of its own collective might.” From the Program of the Communist International, results. making new bated Mee Mier, Europe; it was advan ve in Austria. The negotiations for the conclusion of the Four-Power Pact, for the anti-Bolshevik concentration, began. MacDonald and Sir John Simon made their bow to Mussolini. The Japanese. provocations in Man- churia took on a more and more sys- tematized character. The notorious Araki Memorandum became known. After a severe winter and the vic- torious struggle against acts of sabot- age, the Soviet Union was proceed- ing to consolidate its collective agri- culture when in the spring it was faced with the British embargo. The British Ambassador left Moscow and rumors that diplomatic relations would be broken off were in the air. Soviet Union Firm But the Soviet Union refused to permit any intimidation. It refused to give way to Great Britain. The oviet Union answered the threats of Japanese imperialism by sending its Eastern frontiers, And then the change came. Whilst the World Eco- nomic Conference was betraying its impotence to find a way out-of the crisis, Soviet diplomacy succeeded in concluding a whole series of clearly defined pacts of non-aggression which deprived Japan and Hitler Germany of’ the hope, that in an attack on the frontiers of the Soviet Union they would be able to count immediately on allies. And af the same time the first workers’ and peasants’ State was achieving great victories on the home front both in, industry and agricul- ture, particularly in the latter. How- ever, the danger in the Far East re- mained extremely acute, particularly as the United States still remained in the open anti-Soviet front. In the meantime the Four-Power Pact was splendidly equipped troops to protect Watered down and finally broken even Hails Recognition National... socialism was|- Mikhail Kalinin, President of the Council of People’s Commissars of ' the Soviet Union, surrounded by correspondents of the world press at the conclusion of his radio-address, formal diplomatic relations between the day after the of the United States and before it was finally confirmed. Hit- ler fascism was compelled to expose itself in the eyes of the masses and solemnly swore off “the second revo- lution.” Its social attraction weak~ ened also internationally. On the foreign political field it was com~- pletely isolated just at a time when the Soviet Union was breaking down the last great obstacle to normal re- Jations everywhere and securing the recognition of the United States. ‘We expressed our opinion of Amer- erican recognition in these columns four weeks ago when Roosevelt ap- proached the Soviet Union with a view to opening up negotiations. We wrote:— “This step is in fact of enormous importance, but only because it has been taken after the proletarian State, in spite of all capitalist forces, has maintained itself vic- toriously for sixteen years, and with the completion of the Five-Year Plan and the collectivization of agriculture, Soviet Russia, regarded even from the economic standpoint, from being the most backward country, has become one of the most advanced countries in the world, and at the same time has succeeded in developing and ~quip- ping a powerful Red Army, =o that it can now rely upon a powerful military force. In ‘these circum~- stances the juridical term ‘recogni~ tion’ acquires a further importance. The Soviet Power has been able to command respect.”, (“International Press Correspondence,” No. 4%, 27- 10-33.) . Fighting Spirit! The effects ‘of this recognition will be felt above all within the Soviet Union itself because it will greatly increase the courage and confidence of the workers and peasanis and de- liver the death-blow to the inner counter-revolution. Recognition will, however, also have its effects on the Situation in the Far East, although it must not be hastily assumed that Japan will now abandon its warlike intentions. On the contrary, Japan might come to the conclusion that now is the last opportunity to meas- ure weapons with the Soviet Union with any chance of success and take the opportunity, In any case, the situation of thé Soviet Union today is quite different from what it was six montis ago, The effect of American recognition will. be very considereble the whole East .nd above USSR. | ait in the Ohinese Soviet districts and in the oppressed colonial countries in which the spirit ‘of rebellion steadily growing. ‘The consolidation of the Soviet Union- will also give a new impetus to the fighiing spirit of the international proletariat and de- liver a new blow at the Second In- ternationai, which was the Jeading element in the campaign of. incite~ ment against the Soviet War Comes Closer - However, all this does not.mean that we are now entering into an idyllic era. Quite the contrary. The fifth winter of the world edehomic crisis in the capitalist countries will put all its predecessors into the shade for severity. Particularly in the coun- tries of open fascism, suchas Italy and Germany, anew: and unparal- leled intensification -of the crisis is threatening, and the* same is true of the fascist countries-in the Balkaris. The temporary recovery in Great Britain as a resultvof the depreciation of the pound, new tariff impositions and the increase of production in the war industries issapproaching its end. ‘The depreciation of the dollar and the increased competition “of: Caner American goods threaten to stop it conclusively, ‘The Roosevelt ‘experiment in the United States has So shaken the American economic system that even dumping cannot help it now. Ac- companying the declitie is the rapid intensification pa, all im- perialist contradit ie sailles system has been snare foundations. A re-division ‘of “the world amongst the imperialist or ers is looming up in the 6 with it the fiext world war, the extent to which the capitalist coun- tries in general and the coun~ tries in particular are com to abandon their social de! pd are Soi tae ee “ay magogy. In is way the oatren of war is being accelerated. war comes there is the terrible danger that despite recognition and despite pacts of non-aggression it will be conducted against the Soviet Union. For this reason it is of tremendous importance that the Soviet Union and with it the exploited-and masses of all countries have been tering into new and. decisive strug- gles, Precisely this is the real sig- nificance of the victory of the Soviet Union in securing American recogni- tion—the victor is the — heart of the world revolution, ~ * strengthened in this way before en-| oot ste