The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 11, 1933, Page 3

j f 4 “Must Build AFL Center “Th of Opposition to Lead Fight Against Betrayers” Weinstock in Interview | Tells of Work in Reformist Unions By CHARLOTTE TODES NEW YORK.—Within the ranks of against the expulsion and anti-strike policies of the A. F. of L. leadership fast developing into an organized nd file movement on @ nation- basis, according to Louis Wein- secretary of the A. F. of L. ittee for Unemployment Insur- and Relief. ‘Organized rank and file groups in the A. F. of L. unions have already waged a sharp fight against the of- ficialdom on the question of unem- ployment insurance and relief for the jobless, as well as for the reduction of ie “A striking example of this was the action of the rank and file of Bakers’ Local 14 of Rochester, which on its own initiative and in the name of the local union circulated a petition to the bakery locals of the whole coun- try demanding that the International Office call a convention to take up the issue of the unemployed workers and to plan a fight against the N. R. A. code and for a shorter hour week in the industry. “Similarly the Philadelphia carpen- ters, were suspended by the Interna- tional Brotherhood, for initiating a referendum yote on unemployment in- wurance, The referendum met with wide response among the workers. “Activity of the A. F. of L, Com- Mittee for Unemployment Insurance which initiated the rank and file movement by its determined fight for unemployment relief and insurance and for the exemption of dues pay- ments for the unemployet has gained the support of 1,200 locals in the country. Three state federations and ® score of central bodies have en- dorsed the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill drawn up by the Com- mittee. The movement has swept the country and wherever the issue hhas been raised it has met with favor- able response among the workers. “The pressure of this movement com- pelled the A. F. of L, convention in 1932 to endorse unemployment in- surance. Weinstock pointed movement cc} centers for organizing the rank and fire in every Jarge city in the country thus laying the basis for building a werful united movement inside the . F. of L. to defeat and clean out the reactionary boss controlled ma- chine. “The movement is now not alone confined to the struggle for the un- employed; it has become broader,” said Weinstock. “It is now the means of organizing a program around all the grievances of the workers in the locals, against the machine's racket- eering practic the lack of ali sem- blance of trade union democracy, the discrimination against Negro workers, high initiation fees and dues and the notorious treacheries against the out that this ded in establishing | workers in holding beck strike action, and aiding the N. R. A. in strike- breaking. “The movement to oust the officials for their racketeering, rism and sellouts has reached a high point in the case of the painters of New York and the New York carpenters and electrical workers, who are or- ganizing a strong movement to clean out the existing nest of corruption. Some real successes have already been registered by the workers in this struggle. The New York painters hhave refused to pay a 50 cent daily tax to the officials which has been used by the officials to support gang- sters to terrorize the membership. Rank and file action in the garment workers’ unions has resulted in sweep- ing out of office a clique of reaction- ary officials and establishing @ left wing administration, in the face of the sharpest obstacles and increasing | | drive toward expulsions.” Miners Fight Officials | That the struggle of the miners al steel workers against the N. R. A. over the heads of the A. F. of L. leaders was another example of the determination of the A. F. of L. rank stressed by Weinstock. ‘Weinstock referred to the recent A. F. of L. convention as an example of how the movement organized nation- ally can bring the voice of the rank and file right into the stronghold of the corrupt machine and expose their treacheries. “Only one rank and file delegate elected as a result of the opposition work brought forward the demands of the workers in the A. F. of L,” said Weinstock. “He forced upon the floor of the convention the program adopted at the rank and file con- vention which was meeting at the same time, which demanded action by the bureaucrats on the issues of un- and file to fight the officialdom, was! employment insurance, exemption of dues payments for the unemployed, the abolition of racketeering, oppo- sition to service of A. F. of L. officials on the strike-breaking N. R. A. boards, equal rights for the Negroes, and anti-fascism. The workers of the whole country saw the A. F. of L. machine reject the demands of the rank and file and oust by force the rank and file delegation when it came to the convention to speak in the name of the workers.” Immediate Tasks “Our immediate tasks in building the opposition movement must be to consolidate the opposition groups now in existence,“ said Weinstock, “to build more such groups and to estab- lish national centers in each trade as @ mean of coordinating our program of struggle.” He pointed especially to the illusions which exist among work- ers in many of the unions that it is Possible to win the struggle against the Officials in the courts, “These courts, which are responsible for issu- ing injunctions to defeat the workers’ struggles and whitewashing gangster- ism and racketeering will not change the situation within the A. F. of L. Tt must be our own organized rank and file action which will clean out the nest of racketeers and gangsters. @ national scale.” We must now intensify the work on| DAILY WORK ze, NEW YORK, MONDAY, D ECEMBER 11, 1933 Page Three Part of the crowd at the ey Shall Not Die!” ‘New York Demon Union Square demonstration Saturday which pledged its determination to carry on an un- ceasing fight for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys. At left, (Daily Worker Staff Photo.) | two Negro boys, carrying placards, declaring, “The Scotts- Boro Shall Not Die.” At right, from the cold, holding aloft a placard. Young Pioneers, fingers numb Prevent Eviction of Striking Shoe Worker PHILADELPHIA.—Under the lead- ership of the Unemployed Councils, | 50 workers gathered at Bonshall an Indiana Ave. on Tuesday, December 5, and prevented the eviction of a striking shoe worker. Although the gathering was small, it displayed such militant character that Constable Gillman, known to be the most notorious eviction constable in Philadelphia, took one glance at the gathering and disapeared. ‘The worker who was to be evicted has been elected as a delegate to the City Convention of the Unemployed Councils, which is to take place on Friday, December 22 at the New Garrick Hall, 507 S. 8th St. 8 p, m. Sullivan Resigns to Undertake NewRacket ALBANY,N.Y.,Dec. 10—John Sul- livan, president of the New York ei Federation of Labor since 1926, a8 a better paying racket as member of the Stete Alcoholic Beveraze Con- trol Board. In his capacity as head of the state A. F. of L., Sullivan has @ record of utter indifference to the interests of the rank and file and complete subservance to Tammany Hall and the employers. Greet the “Daily” on) Its Tenth Anniversary sy 6th! from this position for | 1000 CWA Men Wait 3 Days for Checks PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec. 10—| \Few of Los Ange Men Paid Off LOS ANGELES, Cal—Over 1,000| men were held up at the pay window of the OWA job at the service yard les waiting for their pay checks, which had already been delayed three days. relief for many weeks, Among the paymasters were some recognized as having been among the Politically appointed straw-bosses and foremen who were responsible for driving relief workerg to their death in the Griffith Parl fire of Oct. 3. A spontaneous demonstration began amongst the men, who demanded |their pay. The head paymaster sad, “I am doing you fellows a favor to be staying here after five o'clock, and if you don’t keep quiet, I will take jthe checks home with me,” The meh protested loudly, and jwarned the paymaster not to take the checks away, and he was afraid} to leave. Only a few of the men were paid, and the rest left in a very angry temper, park crew have refused to work until j they got their checks, and Thursday, from points throughout the ood at the paymaster’s win- dow at the Greek Theatre amd re- fused to move until they were paid. Most of them received their checks. in Griffith Park, Wednesday evening, | Many of these men had not received | For the last few days, many of the | 'Ship Crew Endorses MWIU Seamen Code, The crew of the S.S, W. A. Kineny, |many of them members of the Inter- national Seamen’s Union, have sent ja telegram to Mr. Davis, Deputy | Administrator, protesting against the | Board’s recommendations | | National |for a shipping code as a measure not in the interest of seamen. They de- mand the adoption of the Marine | Workers Industrial Union code which was endorsed by 15,000 seamen end presented to the N. R. A, administa- |tor by a mass delegation on Nov. 9. Concentration Camps Set Up in Minnesota MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 10—Con- centration camps at which transient workers will be forced to work with- out wages under Roosevelt’s plan for forced labor are being estab- lished here, with a federal appro- priation of $100,000. The Salvation Army and the Union City Mission are to act as agencies for conscript ing these men. The work, it is an- nounced, will be of the same nature as that of the reforestation camps, in which 300.000 young workers are being forced to work under army | Supervision. } Church Steeple-Collapses, Kills Six STILO, Italy, Dec. 9.—Shaken by here, killing six people, @ storm, a church-steeple collapsed | Hung jar a in Trial» ‘Of Pat Chambers as TULARE, Calif., Dec. 10—A dead- locked jury resulted here in the trial of Pat Chambers, cotton-strike leader, on charges of criminal syn- dicalism. A new trial for, Chambers has been set for Feb, 6. Chamber: is out on $10,000 bail raised by the International Labor Defense, which 4s conducting his defense. His trial was marked by the mili- tant attitude of the four to five hun- | dred workers who daily packed the | courtroom, ‘The charges against Chambers un- der the criminal syndicalism law are more far-reaching than any ever at- tempted before in California, State set out to prove that the cotton strikers sought a wage-ratse, to get! their union organized, and obtain the | right of collective bargaining. Pat! Chambers is charged with criminal Syndicalism for being the leader of a strike called on the basis of these advocating violation of the law be- cause he recommended resistance by strikers to illegal arrests. The aim of the state is clearly to outlaw all strikes in California un- der the C. S. law. The I. L. D. throughout California jrepeal of the criminal syndicalism law, and has collected thousands of signatures to this demand. Strikers Pack Court : The i demands. He is also charged with % t is pushing on its mass campaign for I s Escape from eorgia Jail Five Deaths in Colombian Flood BOGOTA, Ci Five 10-— the Fire Ruins Wealthy American’s English Home WHITCHURCH, Eng. Dec. 9 2 a fire which roared of Leander M Lindbergh’s & Fly Up Amazon | iver ee 9.—Tr t r day from We st Africa, a 2,000 mile | trip. been chosen a by the royal astrologers, auspicious hour | strators Declare vine All Who Oppose ching to Repudiate o Reformist Leaders N.R. wand LLD rge Rejection of Lynch Defense BAL IRE, Md., Dec. 10. —~ A Negro masses and thei: it repudiate the three Negro reformist leaders came out In open de- rs of George Arm- ynch courts of the hich released four of aders of the mob, war od f. Dickerson and James attributed what they as the “disturbances” on nore to the fact that neir utmost to save m legal lynching. They Negroes always got ent by the L. 8. . D. follows, in part gentlemen live on the shore ample opportunity to see spread misery and starya~ ng both white and Negro When they say that the unds in plenty they are ~ ing to hide the fact, of which they ware, that the “plenty” {s ap- ated by the landlords and bank- 's of the shore and that the workers and especially the Negro workers re~ ceive barely enough to maintain a ‘able existence. ‘They conceal these facts because have been bribed with some une from their masters’ table vy. Dickinson, & pastor of one of, \fhe largest Negro congregations on! the shore is treated better by his white rulers and ts better fed and better clothed and better housed than son, a retired school teacher, appar- lently lives on his pension from the | state while most people live on relief funds or starvation wages. 4 Stewart has been honored with # | political job by Governor Ritchie. “In return for these favors these | come forward to exonerate the lynch- ers and to defeat the bill against! lynching and against jim-crowism | which we had forced Delegate Alex~ |ander Goodman to introduce in the legislature yesterday. | “It is however necessary that the repudiation of these mfsleaders be sharp and decisive. The I. L. D, and >| the League of Struggle for Negro! | Rights therefore call on all organiza- | tions to state their position by reso- ‘Iutions to be forwarded to us at 418) | Druid Hill Ave. We call on all or~ the release of the Scottsboro boys and for full social, political and economic lequality for the Negro people.” The “Logic of the Socialist Case Against Capitalism” Is the Logic of Rising F Fascism How the New National Chairm: Chairman of the S. Pp! the Socialist Party, restive under the Attempts to Explain Away the Socialist Party’s Glorifieation of the N. R. A. By SAM DON The old master Hillquit is gone, but his pupils are still with us. ‘The successor of Hillquit, the new National Chairman of the Socialist | Party, made his debut in the De- cember 2nd issue of the “New In an article called “The Logic of the Socialist Case Against Capital- ism,” he makes bold to assert, in this fifth winter of the crisis, that “capi~ talism has failed.” He then jacks up courage not to attack, but to make friendly, constructive criticism of the New Deal and to give the “in- dependent” position of the Socialist 3 Fa Bs xk ae z How does Krzycki perform the con- jortion? Here is sample No. 1: “Now that the first flush of en- N. R. A. Now let us see whether the S. P. was “caught by” the first flush of enthuslasm over the New Deal. If the “true voice of American capital- = was not clearly heard it is also ; due to the Socialist Fascist glorifica- tion of the N. R. A. We shall begin with Krzycki’s pre- decessor, the past master of the than Hillquit. A few months before his death, Hillquit, in a special article for the Socialist Party 1933 N. Y. Election Platform, wrote as follows: “We Socialists cheerfully admit that there are possibilities for good in the New Deal. It gives the work- working’ class betrayals—none other| *¢ growing fascist attacks under the N. R. A., remembering the praises oi their leaders for the N. R. A, are | asking pointed questions, are begin- | ning in ever larger numbers to re- Communist Party. Krzycki and the entire leadership of the Socialist Fas- cist Party, in order to retain their treacherous influences over the work- ers, try to pass over their erstwhile, OPEN support of the N.R.A. This is the meaning of the “neat” sentence that we have quoted from Krzycki’s ice, But it would be the greatest mis- take to believe that the Socialist Party abandoned its fundamental Position of its support to the NRA, andthe New Deal. To be sure, It is now too risky to indulge in “first flushes.” The masses are now more critical. Therefore, Krzycki's attitude toward the N. R. A. is more “critical,” ” But the Is of Roosevelt, who violate the the words of General John- jose who “evade its effective = spond to the united front call of the | called “New Deal.” workers and militant workers vidends. We repeat, extra dividends of $22,000.00! The owners of industry so “effec- tively evaded” the N. R. A. that with the help of the A. F. of L, leaders who were congratulated by Norman Thomas, the open shop became the clause in many a code, and striking miners, steel workers, farmers, were murdered because they fought for the right to organize. The owners of in- dustry so “effectively evaded” the N. R. A, that collective bargaining has become the mailed fist of compulsory arbitration and the outlawing of strikes, Mr, Kraycki does not, of course, “| dare at the present time outright to tell the workers that the N. R. A. “has great possibilities” and that it leads towards “genuine socialism.” He still in a roundabout way tells the workers that if the N. R. A. failed to bring them prosperity, as Roose- velt and Hillquit promised, “to raise wages, reduce working hours and in- crease employment,” it is because the “| “owners of industry” evaded its ef- fective operation, When Krzycki and the Socialist Party say that the owners of industry evaded its (N, R. A.) effective opera- tion, they are trying to put over the idea thet if the N. R. A. raises profits, cuts wages and raises prices, it is all because the workers did not cheerfully House, have in- ts of 453 of the big- Poort oes by no cent. We repeat, four-hundred and take advantage of the N. R, A. The N. R. A. is nothing else but the in- strument of monopoly capitalism, It is the instrument for crushing strug- gles of the workers, their organiza- tions, and outlawing their most ef- fective weapon—the strike weapon. ‘The Socialist Party wants the work- ers to continue to believe that the N. R, A, stands above classes, It wants then to believe in the fiction that the Wall Street Government in Washington, with Roosevelt as its head, will sit in impartial judgement This article by Comrade Sam Don conerstaly shows the support given by the Socialist leaders to Réosevelt in his attacks on the workers’ living standards through the so- This should further conyince Socialist generally of the need for join- ing the Communist Party Which alone fights for the work- ers’ needs and for socialism.—EDITOR. assume this would=be to lose sight of the special role-of the Socialist Party as @ social fascist party. If re- bellious, radicalizeq workers are to be disarmed in the fight against capital- ist fascist-breading measures, then such measures must be presented to them as socialist measures. But, of course, it would be too raw to present such measures as outright socialist ones, We, therefore, see how the Socislist Party, with @ critical atti- tude in words, and with a layer of socialist phrases, commits the most reactionary deeds. And their attitude toward the N. R. A. is @ typical ex- ample of attempting to chain the workers to @ fascist chariot in the name of “genuine socialism,” in the name of “golden opportunities.” Not open fascism, but masked fas- cism, with socialist phrases. This is the reason why we Communists call the leaders of the Socialist Party masked fascists—social fascists. ‘To go back to Mr. Krzycki, example No, 3: “Gerard Swope throws out the whole plan of busitiess fascism, which might have been expected that Pres- ident Roosevelt Would not admit a plan put forward so rawly to bury his own versién of the New Deal.” Here again, Krzycki advances a lit- tle more cautiously than Thomas and Hillquit did when .they visited the White House to congratulate Roose- velt and his New Deal. Swopes ver- sion is business fascism, but Roose- velt has “his” own version of the New Deal. Roosevelt is not as bad as Swope. Here we have the shades of the lesser evil, Hindenburg ‘was not as bad as Hitler, - -~ Roosevelt’s Version And what is Roosevelt’s version of the New Deal? Wherein does it dif- fer from Swope’s business fascism? Does not Roosevelt continue granting high subsidies to the banks, over the “effective operation” of the N. R. A, The Socialist Party tells the workers to embrace the very chains designed to imprison them. Why “Actual” Remarks Tt would be wrong to assume that the Socialist Party cisely in the direction of the busin s| Socialist Party Does Not “Abandon Support of fascism of Swope? And when Krzycki | pictures Roosevelt differing with the | business fascism of Swope, line with the Socialist practice of the lesser evil. It is in line with pre: ing one capitalist representati jbeing a lesser evil in comparison with another capitalist representative, It is all done with the view in mind of disarming the workers before advanc- ing fascism. Ii is couc in mind of not allowing the wo: to see in the capitalist representative in power at the moment the very bearer of fascism. Not a “First Flush” fascism of Swope is for the very ob- vious reason of blinding the workers to the danger of fascism emanating from the present occupant of the White House. Was the Socialist Party’s support for the N.R.A. from the very first, a mere flush on its part? Not at all It was a continuation of its policy of class collaboration, its policy of saving dying capitalism at the ex- pense of the toilers. Krzycki wants us to believe that Thomas and Hill- qué, the two Socialist fair maidens, were seduced by the charms and smiles of Roosevelt’s New Deal. The fact is that the entire second Social- ist International hailed the N.R.A. in the same glowing terms as its Amer- ican section. Vandervelde, the chair- man of the Second Socialist Inter- national, also discovered in the Fa- scist-breeding N.R.A. genuine Social- ism. In speaking of the N.R.A., he said: “That it releases anti-capitalist tendencies.” Brailsford, former leader of the left- wing of the Labor Party, wrote as follows: “Socialism without socialists, the logic of events in America.” The British Labor Party at its re- cent Congress hailed the N.R.A, and went so far as to adopt a resolution in which it declared that it “appreciates the significance of the vigorous ef- forts now being made by President Roosevelt towards the stimulation and | reconstruction of industry by means of the Industrial Recovery Act and| allied legislation.” Only last week, the New York So- cialist “New Leader” carried a well all this part of it is in| with the view ti Krzycki’s attack on the business | | Cree: coy F Party N.R.A., Only Uses More “Critical” Phrases; Fighting N. R. A, to unite with this half the capitalist doctr is merely, as H its treacherous tactic to the policy of the | bourgeoisie and to the growing |calization of the Now it is becoming eve that the N.R.A. ‘back prosperity ;Succeeding in |of monopoly lism, in nC |fascism, the lea ip of the Soci: al- ist Party is adopting a more “critical” attitude towards the N.R.A, Why They Go to the Masses The new National Chairman of the Socialist Party in his article exclaims that “We must go to the masses,” (his emphasis). Why is the Socialist Party and Krzycki, its new leader, so anxious now to go to the masses? Is it really to tell them that “the true voice of American capitalism” is heard through the ballyhoo of the N.R.A.? profits Is it to tell them that the NRA. breeds fascism? Is It to tell the work- in th against | ot His call to go to the masses with their present so-| |called new attitude towards the N.R.A, is nothing but a continuation of their | policies of disarming the workers 3D | ot their struggles, The Dec, 9th issue of the New) Leader, gives us a clear idea what in- strument it will use when it “goes to the masses.” In a leading editorial we read: code it simply means that the conflict between the workers will be fought | out within the code administration.” | It is quite clear that the Social Fa- scist leadership will continue to foist | ¢ the N.R.A, with its compulsory arbi- tration, and no strike edicts, on the rising workers. The workers, accord- ing to the editorial, must confine their struggles with the employers to the strike-breaking machinery of the N.R.A. The class struggle must be confined within the limits of the fa- scist breeding N.R.A, This is the “So- clalism” of the Socialist Party and note for us So Sten rt $ its social fascist leadership! Since the recent convention of the velt, by Johnson, by Perkins, that the workers must not strike, found ed sympathetic response previously in the famous statement of Thomas € | N.R.A. “Where an industry has a § that “this is not the time to strike.” | When Krzycki cries out ‘that the , |Socialists must go to the masses, this is for no other reason than to carry out the no-strike policy of the N.R.A., . {and to lead the strikes only in order to behead them, Why is it that the Communist Party |was the only party which from the very first heard the true voice of the “the voice of American capt- talism?” It is because it is a Party based’ on a revolutionary program, @ Party whose entire policy since its inception is the defense of the in- terests of the workers, the mobilisa- tion of the workers, for struggle against fascism, against capitalism. | We, as Communists, know that the United Front struggles of the work- jers can defeat fascism. We know |that the entire history of the Second International, as shown so clearly in the German situation, is one of pre- paring the way for fascism, We toc say we must go to the masses, but to go to them in order to lead them out of capitalism and not to keep them chained to capitalist exploita- |tion, ‘The road of the American So- German social fascist leaders, the |road towards fascism, line interests of the workers, the road of the revolutionary way out of the crisis, towards a Soviet America, the road which led to the establishment of the Soviet Union as the land of We say to these Socialist who are growing keenly aware of treacheries of the Second tional in Germany, who are iearnteal| from their own bitter experiences with the N.R.A, in the U, 8, that whatever their ties and faith may be with the, Socialist Party, we can unite wi them in the every day struggl against “effective operation” of the N.R.A,, against the rising menace bess fascism. The logic of the Socialist case against fascism, is the inevitable logic towards fascism. The logic of the Communist ~ {against capitalism is the inevital logic of the struggle against for the revolutionary way out of crisis, for the rule of the the dictatorship of the pronase,