The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 11, 1933, Page 6

etme / DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER II, 1933 ‘U.S. Intervention Policies Attacked at Montevideo Meet | Cubans Seek to Revise | Platt Amendment to | Const Page Six mit Party USA. | TODAY'S: Coolie Works Administration! i et ~ SPREADS ALL OVER SPAIN Workers and Peasants Resist Drive for | Fascism & | MADRID, Dec. 10—The armed ree jsistance of Spanish workers and Se ci ¢ ®elephone Gable Address Str * Rooseve “Dalwor! Washington Bure ifn st titution | MONTEVIDEO, Dec. 10.—A |attack on armed intervention by anes rialism in neighboring ci tries nilds Pub- made In the sub-committee of | y of the coun~ |the international Jaw commission of another form of [the Pan-American Gonference today. and lation The sub-committee considered a pro- peasants against the threat of a fas- SS topes thei: howe wan |Ject for non-intervention in the af- cist dictatorship continued to gain ee peal wegen Oe : ". |fairs of other nations, and will pre- | | headway today, despite the most bru- the powerful masters of finance I : |sent the project to the full commis- | re behind Rooseveit’s inflation | {sion | The Cuban delegation, it is under- stood, received the full support of the | |sub-coxmittee on a proposal for the | revision of the Platt Amendment. to} the Cuban Constitution, forced on the | ;Cuban people by the U. S. govern-/ jment to “legalize” its right to vie-; |lently interfere in Cuban affairs. The United States delegation at- |tempied to maintain its dominant in- jfluence over the conference with a tement today, that the United States would not* tolerate any close |association by the conference with the| |League of Nations. ‘.1e statement is ‘a continuation of B.S. opposition to} la proposal made.in_ the conference | |to invite the League of Nations to! an observer touits sessions ts of the left-republican , with its three Socialist drown the movemerit in at the fraud and hich marked the the Spanish Cor- the reactionary coalition So here we have finance capital, Wall Street monopoly, industrial capital, merchant capital, all in favor of Roosevelt's inflation poli confirm completely made issue of the Daily Worker by Milton charact f the “opposition” of "s inflation program rs and peasants through- sprang to arms last iy night as the new Cortes was by the government protection of a “state of alarm,” de- creed against the toiling masses. The Spanish Com1 Party received 00,000 votes, according to the gov~ rmment count, showing a large in- rease in the Communist vote. 42 Killed, Hundreds Wounded. | Forty-two persons were killed yes< ° | terday and hundreds wounded in fierce battles between government |forees. and workers and peasants |who took up arms to defend them- ; Selves agi he fascist reaction, for = |Which the Socialist Ministers and deputies in the Cortes paved the way } | by their savage assaults on the revo- lutionary workers and their organi- gations and the imprisonment of thousands of working class and peas- ant leaders. A general revolutionary strike has .. | been called for tomorrow. The strike of transportation workers, now in its third week, took on additional im- Three U S Worker 2" with many more workers com- oe We |ing out on strike. Workers in Tar- jragonza, Reus and Manresa in north- S$ into a cocked hat the Cough- t over inflation. Both the cheap office boys hired ers to put on a little circus ert their attention from the funda- battleship: taken from (reneral Give War Talk to N.Y. 3 National Guard | (By a Worker Correspondent) | NEW YORK.—On Monday, Dec. 4,/ I attended a review of the 212th) | Coast Artillery Regiment by the Ma- | | jor General, Wm. N. Haskell (com- |manding N. Y¥. National Guard).| s been a G of opinion among magnates, particularly among the c Morgan and the investment like Kuhn, Loch & Co., on the precise point to stop the *-flation process. r mn of the Wall Street industrialists i yesterday at the National Association of Manu- gives us an insight as to just what the argu- among the Wall Street capitalists is really about. tion approves Roosevelt's inflation up to now, but 4s fearful that it may‘ruff out of control, and re, it urges Roosevelt to establish some stabilized the dollar—but at a reduced gold basis! They rely warn Roosevelt to stop the inflationary plunge in the next 5,000 mor And th hem that Jack London Club, Newark, N. J., wins yesterday's drawing with a bid of $8.50. Total to date, $506.64. T the gh bidding for the original drawings of Burck’s cartoor: esol ference whi —— Eee Rens acento ig tons Illegal ‘Rote Fahne’ Hits ing toward w Roosevelt of permits | While I wasn’t very much impressed i | D | t R t | eastern E t. F . y | pain are already answering at Mont t B 1 elf they consider “wise!” |by Colonel Wnt. Ottman’s oratory, | , ‘ e ega es CUUL Me cris can. With the masses tp A . "his iy leven though he is vice-president of es 1 fi fe by making it clear that American imps This support of inflation in one form or another | hoe! 4 8 tremendous upsurge throughout Pee ee : sphiets #3 ha peas |the U. S. Printing and L'thovraph 9 Spain, the Eexecutive Committee of ism is determined to maintain its domination | * | I of the whole tribe of so-called “Tory” op- |Co, and executive’ of 12 other large SS eC. rom the Socialist Party, in an emergency ae this Conference end the Latin ni ponents of the “liberal’ Roosevelt. From Professor | printing companies,.I listened care-| meeting: yesterday, declared against s there ts that the ~ Ameri tension of the League,” and to Britain and France. And will not unde: alteratio to the Italy France and y Arthur Henderson, isarmament Conference at eva, who said three days ago: “Our recent experiences at Geneva and my conversations with the delegations from many countries have convinced me that the international situation is at th leader of Ge: moment more grave than it has been for several years.” diplomatic tensions ns the war pr nd night. Roose- e billion dollars for war building, a peace-time record. } HIS places upon the Cor all mass org: of immediately work. inist Part the y and responsibilit rengthening our anti-war Let it not be forgotten for one moment that the Soviet Union alone firmly and un- equivocally stands for peace. The recent recognition by the United States, though a signal victory of the peace policy of the U.S.S.R. and its Socialist triumphs in con- struction, does not remove the fundamental antagonism between the crowing power of the Socialist world and the declining capi- talist world. The advance of the world capitalist erisis inexorably aggravates this basic an- tagonism and strengthens the drive toward ‘imperialist intervention against the U. S. 8. R. The U. S. Committee Against War and Fascism must renew the vigorous efforts that marked its beginnings at the historic Anti-War Congress recently held at New York City. 'PHE Resolution on the “Struggle Against Imperialist War” passed at the 6th World Congress of the Communist International must become the property of the whole Party. It must be studied and its contents mastered, : and put into action. “All important questions of foreign policy, of armaments, of the introduction of new | eo | fact in its original and inimitable fashion, | ample, ‘all Street banker Warburg, they ail upport of Roosevelt's fundamental Wall Street monopoly profit at the S, through some form of monetary nflation. and how to twist it that the inflationary Enife should be driven, ve not the slightest disagreement. The support Morgan, the support of the Wall Street industrialists the National Manufacturers, the support of the eet banks, and the merchants, leaves no doubt | about that This open support of the Roosevelt inflationary drive against the masses by the most powerful sections of Wall dispose of the illusion that Roosevelt, through inflation, is supporting the “forgotten man” against the explol~ tation of the Wail Street rul Class Struggle and N.R.A. said that the socialist party does not believe the class struggle? One editorial in the De- 9th issue of the Socialist “New Leader” proves justly slandered and maligned they have been on his important question. It is true that the class struggle disappeared from list program during the period of “prosperity.” can now say that with the huge strike wave, 1e corroding capitalist crisis and the sharpening along the line that the socialist opportune enough to grasp the fact that there is a class struggle? Furthermore, the socialist party has grasped this For ex- the “New Leader” declares: ‘The N.R.A, does not mean sweet harmony between the owner of capital and the seller of labor power.” ‘S true that some of the consistent readers of the “New Leader” may have gotten the idea that the N.R.A, meant a new era of capitalism in which class collaboration and “sweet harmony” between the classes would be the rule. But here we present the evidence that the socialist party vigorously polemizes against this idea. The class struggle does exist, insists the “New Leader.” But where? In the shops, the mines, on the strike front, in the countryside, on the breadlines? No. The N.R.A., according to the “New Leader” has reated a peculiar class struggle all of its own. The “New Leader” describes it as follows: “Where an industry has a code, it simply means that the conflict will be fought out within the code | administration.” Mr. Green, smoking a fat cigar, jovially betraying the workers in his negotiations with General Johnson, is the “New Leader’s” idea of the class struggle. Surely the Socialist Party has been unjustly slan- dered, “Defeat of One’s ‘Own’ Gov’t in Imperialist War” The following are excerpts from Lenin’s writings on the last Imperialist War. The sections quoted are from the book “Socialism and War,” written in 1915. With imperialist war close at hand, the study of Lenin’s teachings on war is the duty of every worker, Me eT, an advocates of victory of ‘one’s own’ government in the present war, as well as the advocates of the slogan “Neither victory nor defeat,” proceed equally from the standpoint of social-chauvinism, A revolu- tionary class in a reactionary war cannot help wishing the defeat of its government, it cannot fail to see the | connection between the government's miltary reverses and the increased opportunity for overthrowing it. Only a bourgeois who believes that the war started by Street finance and industrial capital should | jhight after the review, “He's got a) | of his, nor are we going to shoot at the Committee to Aid Victims to-day struggle led by the Communist Socialists is increasing. countries also the anti-fascist workers fully to what General: Haskell had to | say. In a brief speech the general urged the men to become. good soldiers, to; thoroughly mastef.fthe guns and) trucks, and to be ready to serve their | country at a moment’s notice. In} | times as these, he said, you can never tell when you will be called upon to} defend New York City. | ‘This is significant. With the be | attendance in years, the young work- | ers in the guard ate being quickly; | whipped into ready, efficient cannon- fodder for the next-imperialist war, and for police duty in case of struggle. “I don’t want you'to let me down,” | pleaded the big mbeK-a-muck, “when I call upon you.” Tiils ought to make the boys think. “The general doesn’t | like to mince words. When he makes | speeches such as the one on Monday | night, he’s got something in his} sleeve. As he looked the boys over he must have thought”how easy it! would be to kill-this bunch off in the next war, But the men think differently! They are doing some thinking, too. And, as two of them said to me that good case. We ain't going to no war other workers in the streets!” | Anti-Fascist. Meeting LAKEWOOD, NW. J—A meeting of of Hitlerism wil be held tonight, 8 p. m., at Clifton Ave, Grade School. ‘she Committee mects every night at Wolpin’s Hall, Fourth Street. Unfang Dhtober Sonbeenumimer Reihetagsiranbycoses Preis 18 Mo. Die Rote Fahne Senfraforgan der Tommuniftiféyen Partel Deutfilands (Sektion der Tommuniftifdyerr ‘Snternationale) a Genoff! Leter! Dugende ous Deinem Reidisausgade Genoflel Lefer! Denke dere Acantentres aden neues in Wegrindet vom atta Matte Sea MBaewepa eaten ‘die Udreffen De freumbe und Der on i < Elmitrbenuftiesmetdee' meres | Lesen = Welfergeben! | prim nine, O18 fie weir ex Deine Uebeitsdovegen, Maske Herunter von ben Leigaiger Suftiguerbregern! Micher mit bem Raffenproseh der fafdifiifdien Rapitelshnedte gegen bie Revolution! Mls de Sitter, assets ard Gi Seljstng terten, lichen: he R& tl Sranp ‘bx. internalteneten vesttorh ween NEW YORK.—A special Reiths- tag Fire number of the “Rote Fahne,” illegal central organ of the Communist Party of Germany, is- sued in October, has just been re~ ceived in New York. The “Rote Fahne” is an page paper printed in tiny eight- pe on india paper to facilitate illegal dis- bution. Tha above, reads in part: leadng article reproduced “OFF WITH THE MASKS OF THE JUDICIAL CRIME IN LEIP- ZIG! “DOWN WITH THE CLASS TRIAL ORGANIZED BY THE FPASCIST SERVANTS OF CAPI- TAL AGAINST THE REVOLU- TION! “When Hitler, Goebbels and Goe- ring applied the torch to the cul, unb.es Tat nae, beh wit Sie’ cingtze siitte Sarto! wart ab wir bee ste im mittbe. x ier ationoliss eiptigee Reichstag, they did not dream that this spark would start the world blaze of international proletarian solidarity. In every country, in ev- ery continent, proletarian interna- tionalism is growing into an ava- lanche against the Brown Plague and the judicial criminals of Leip- zig. The world proletariat’s move- mént ‘of solidarity with Germany's fighting anti-fascists is flaming proof that internationalism—which the fascist bandits claimed was dead—is alive—alive more vigor- ously than ever. The Second (So- cialist) International has landed for all time to come in the cesspool of collaboration with the bourgeoisie. But the Communist International, resolute and strong, holds aloft the banner of working-class world soli- darity.” Will Speak Thursday} Night in Webster Hall YORK.—Three American NEW | workers, who spent seven weeks in the Soviet Union, as delegates from the Friends of the Soviet Union, guests of the Soviet Trade Unions, will return to the United States on board the Berengaria this Wednesday. and ‘They are scheduled to speak for the Friends of the Soviet Union at a |meeting already arranged for them on the 14th of December in Webster Hali, on East 11th Street, between Broadway and 3rd Avenue. Hays Jones, of New York, and rep- resentative of the Marine Workers Industrial Union; Tom Austin, a tool and dye maker from Minneapolis, and John Garhety, worker from Vallojo, California, are the three delegates. a Navy Yard ‘The delegation left New York on October 24th to attend the November qth celebration in Moscow. They toured through many important cities and industrial centers of the Soviet Union, and are scheduled to speak on what they saw in all the import- ant cities of the United States. The National Committee of the Friends of the Soviet Union an- nounced yesterday that the delegates will also be present at their first na- tional convention to be held in New York on January 26th, 27th and 28th, to which Maxim Gorky, world-famed revolutionary writer has been invited. The Communist Position on Boycott Adopt Paper Resolu- | tions; the Boycott Is S. P. Deception The following article by Comrade Bela Kun is of spécial importance to the American workers. The recent convention of the Amcrican Fed- eration of Labor adopted a resolu- tion to boycott German goods as the method of struggle of the American workers 3; German Fascism. The attitude of the leadership of the American Federation of Labor and the American 8. P. on the struggle against Fascism is part of the same treacherons line as that of the entire Second So- calst Internatenal, Comrade Bela Kun gives the Communist position on the boycott movement and pre- sents the working class revolution- ary methods of struggle against German Fascism and the Fascism of their own bourgeoisie, ' ~—EDITOR’S NOTE. 0 eae By BELA KUN Member of the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist International In Germany the determined day- Party of Germany against the execu- tioners’ government of the National- In. other are rallying to the support of the heroic struggle of the German toilers. ® tions on the boycott of goods of Ger- man origin, as they now desire it to appear as if they want to struggle against Fascism, while their demand to boycott this meichandise is merely dictated in reality, by the desire to protect the industries of their re- spective fatherlands against foreign competition. For this reason the resolutions of the reformist trade union centres and social-fascist par- ties proclaiming 2 boycott of German merchandise on the basis of the reso- lutions of the-Amsterdam and the Second International, are now in- creasing in number. Paper Resolutions Against Fascism. Still greater, however, than the number of these paper resolutions not obliging anybody to any struggle against Fascism, is the increase of cases where revolutionary workers, in countries governed by Sodlal-Demo- cratic ministers, receive severe pun~ ishment because they refuse to load and unload German ships sailing un- der the murderous swastika, In Denmark where a so-called Labor government is administering the affairs of the bourgeoisie, in Spain where Social-Democratic mi- nisters played a leading role in the government, such cases are no longer rarities. In Sweden where a Social-Demo- cratic minister regulates the produc- tion and traffic in arms, immense shipments of arms and ammunition are sent to Germany, and simultane~ ously prosecutions are instituded against revolutionary workers for in- sulting the “honor” of the leaders of coming from Fascist Germany, on thet basis of resolutions of the Amsterdam and the Second International. On the other hand, sharp repressions are undertaken by the leaders of those parties and trade unions which be- long to these Internationals, against the revolutionary workers who fight against German Fascism and their agents, not in words but in deeds. Social-Fascist Governments Punish Workers Who Fight Hitler, This apparent contradiction, be- tween the Social-Fascist boycott reso~ lution against German Fascism, and social-fascist punitive measures against the anti-fascist workers, re~ solves itself as soon as the real reasons of both these Social-Democratic measures are revealed in their inner- connection. Why punish the work- ers who boycott the swastika ships in Denmark, who go out on strike when called upon to load or unload such freighters? Simply because the Danish Social- Democratic government, as the ad- ministrator of the Danish bourgeoisie has issued a general ban on strikes for the protection of its own capital- ism, just as the Fascist governments do. In Spain the Republican potentates, among whom the Social-Democratic ministers but a few days ago played a leading role, likewise declared every strike illegal and punishable if not sanctioned by the public authorities. All these directly Social-Democratic measures (or measures supported by Campaign Simultaneous Struggle Against One’s Own and German Fascism bourgeois order in their own country. ‘This is the reason the Social-Dem- ccratic parties and the reformist trade unions do not seriously think of tak~ ing steps which alone could guarantee the consistent execution of their own decisions on the merchandise boy~ cott. In other words, they do not even think of a transport workers’ strike. ‘There isn’t a single case on record where the reformist trade unions or the Social-Democratic parties even made an attempt to put up a picket line of workers to check up and carry out the boycott of German merchan- dise. the freedom of capitalist trade in one's own country, and would there~ fore be intolerable to one’s own bour- geoisie. They therefore commenced the merchandise boycott at the point where the betrayers of the national revolutionary struggle in China, the Kuomintang leaders, ended the boy- cott of Japanese merchandis —that is, with the betrayal of the cousistent boycott. Merchandise Boycott of Fascism A Deception. ‘The revolutionary workers must see clearly that the merchandise boycott of German Fascism is a deception, if isolated from the general anti-fascist the Social-Democrats) against the | struggle, if conducted without @ trans- working class alm to protect the én- | portation boycott. It cannot lead to For this might interfere with | gravh supporting the movement while at the {same time pretending “neutrality” In the struggle now raging between the masses and the bourgeois state, de- | claring its decision to “remain on the alert,” but to make no move “for the present.” Movement Spreading. ‘The uprising which began m the northeastern provinces has spread te practically every corner of Spain. In every place it quickly took on the form of an attack on churches and conyents as the masses expressed their indignation against these cen- ters of the reaction and the support by the priests and nuns of the reac- tionary parties in the Cortes elec- tions. _Six churches were fired in Granada, where workers also seized the town hall and destroyed the offi- cial archives. At Albazin, s convent was fired. At Saragossa, the St. Nicholas Church was destroyed by the angry workers, who engaged the troops in sharp skirmishes through- out yesterday. A fire engine attempt- ing. to save the church was burned by the workers, who fiercely defended themselves against army tanks which jopened machine gun fire on large crowds of workers cheering the burn- ing of the church. Two civil guards were killed and four others wounded in fighting in Barcelona and its suburbs. Workers in that city occupied the Catholic Club and set up barricades of seized automobiles in the main streets. A general strike has been called im Barcelona. Sharp Fighting in Capital. Sharp fighting also occurred in Madrid, the capital, and in scores of villages around the capital. Two civil guards were shot at Alcaniz. Heavily armed troops are patrolling the city, but the government is alarmed at the growing rumors of revolt among the rank and file of the army, whose sympathies are reported to be with the workers and peasants. ‘ Heavy fighting occurred yesterday in the city of Logrono, where the mil~ itaney of the workers so demoralized the police that they began firing on everybody who appeared on tho streets, wounding many reactionaries as well as workers. ‘Workers, barri- cading themselves in their homes, are harassing the police forces. casualties were reported during the day at Haro, near Logrono. In doz~ ens of nearby villages, the peasante have proclaimed local Soviets. Two civil guards were shot at Alza- sar, near Valencia. A total of 16 killed is reported from the village. Five trains were held up during the day by peasants who removed sec- tions of the tracks and cut the tele- ‘The insurrectionary movement spread during the day to the prove inces of Huesca and Teruel. Birmingham Police Get Big Tear Gas Gun department here. P Br ‘The tear-gas gun, with plenty of ammunition, is being held rye with the rest of the very full ar- senal of the police department, in be against I | i terests of thei’ own bourgeoisie as well! the goal falsely pictured by the re- as the bourgeois power and order of | formist trade union leaders and the society. Violations of these ordinances |leaders of the Social-Democratic to maintain law and order are pun- | parties—it cannot: achieve a weaken- |} ished in the interest of thelr own |ing of German Fascism. The revo-~ bourgeoisie. lutionary workers must know that the Likewise the declaration of a boy- |reformist trade unions and the Social- cott of German ise on the | Democratic parties are not seriously- part of the Social-Democratic lead- | minded even with this merchandise ers and the reformist trade unions is | boycott. They do not want to mob-~ to serve the interests of their own | ilize the masses out the boy- bourgeoisie, of the protection of their | cott, because bilizati own capitalism, whose capacity to compete they seek to promote. boycott of German merchandise 1s | workers, sanctioned, inasmuch as this boycott | will take is of advantage to the domestic allies | which can of the Social-Democrats and of the | Fascism. leaders of the Pilaf trade unions, | themselves to the German Fascist bands of assas- sins. In Czechoslovakia where the Social- Democratic Minister of Justice, Mciss~ ner, safeguards the legal rights of capital through his jailers, German anti-fascist fugitives are deported across the border to Hitler-Germany. The same is done in Holland where the Social-Democratic Party notes the benevolent services of the Dutch gov- ernment to Hitler without any protest. In Belgium the Soctal-Democratic Mayor of Antwerp, Huysmans, crushed the strike of the dockers di- rected against the swastika ships. In all these countries the police re- sort to arms against the workers who desire and wage a real struggle against German Fascism. In France, Spain, tn Belgium, in Sweden, in Denmark and in Holland, Communist and -Social-Democratic workers are boycotting the ships sail~ ing under the swastika, flag. ‘The revolutionary. workers oppose the detested agents of the Hitler gov- ernment, and driye them away. The struggle against one’s own fascism grows in every land. The workers, led by the Communist Parties, fight against Fascism and the Second and the bacco International, whose German ions-paved the way for Hitler. pe ee ‘These Internationals which have suuperted every stepof German So- cial-Democracy and-of the reformist trade unions agains} the proletarian revolution, against the governments will necessarily end as a war between | governments, and who wishes it to be so, finds ‘ridicu- | lous’ or ‘absurd’ the idea that the Socialists of all the belligerent countries should express their wish that all ‘their’ governments be defeated. On the contrary, such expression would coincide with the hidden | thoughts of every class-conscious worker, and would lie along the line of our activity, which tends to turn | the imperialist war into civil war. “An earnest anti-war propaganda by a section of the English, German and Russian Socialists would undoubtedly ‘weaken the military strength’ of the respective governments, but such propaganda would be to the credit of the Socialists. The Socialists must explain to the masses that there is no salvation for them outside of a revolutionary overthrow of ‘their’ governments and that the difficulties of those govern- ments in the present war must be taken advantage of | for Just this purpose."—LENIN, ‘| i i “Weapons of war must be brought before the -masses of the workers and utilized for the _ Organization of revolutionary mass action.” ‘This is a basic directive of the resolution. In the light of this, every war move of ¢ sevelt, every appropriation for war prep- Fe ations, all the political antagonisms and diplomatic war intrigues of the imperialist wers, particularly the Roosevelt govern- it, must be explained to the workers by e Party. Must immediately become the is for the increasing of our organized muggle against the imperialist war prepara- | of the Roosevelt government. Against alist war! Defend the Soviet Union!